Degree Contracts in the City of London

Academic Degree
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 22 34
Rank change year-on-year +2 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing Degree 168 267 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 7.73% 7.39% 6.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.01% 37.98% 33.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 104 137 175
10th Percentile £297 £325 £422
25th Percentile £411 £475 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £666 £750 £625
90th Percentile £784 £980 £725
Central London median daily rate £563 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -6.25% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 14
10th Percentile - £26.70 £18.95
25th Percentile - £41.84 £28.56
Median hourly rate £27.00 £52.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% +16.85% +64.81%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £57.00
90th Percentile - £74.75 £64.55
Central London median hourly rate £34.75 £52.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.17% +16.85% +111.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 442 703 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.34% 19.47% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 291 410 526
10th Percentile £375 £374 £364
25th Percentile £452 £475 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +4.55% +5.52%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £644
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
Central London median daily rate £525 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -6.67% +2.27% +6.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 17
10th Percentile - £18.06 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £36.25
Median hourly rate £20.82 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -59.58% +13.19% +75.00%
75th Percentile £24.20 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £25.88 £71.75 £68.15
Central London median hourly rate £25.99 £51.50 £45.50
% change year-on-year -49.54% +13.19% +127.50%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 17 (10.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.79%) Confluence
4 1 (0.60%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.60%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Project
3 11 (6.55%) MS Visio
4 4 (2.38%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe After Effects
5 1 (0.60%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.60%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.60%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (4.76%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.79%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.60%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.60%) Primavera
5 1 (0.60%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.60%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 48 (28.57%) Azure
2 19 (11.31%) Power Platform
3 18 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (7.14%) AWS
5 12 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 8 (4.76%) GCP
6 8 (4.76%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (4.76%) Power Automate
7 5 (2.98%) GitHub
7 5 (2.98%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.38%) WhatsApp
9 3 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (1.19%) Google Analytics
10 2 (1.19%) SaaS
10 2 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.95%) Firewall
2 5 (2.98%) Network Security
3 4 (2.38%) LAN
3 4 (2.38%) WAN
4 3 (1.79%) H.323
5 2 (1.19%) DNS
5 2 (1.19%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.19%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.19%) WebEx
5 2 (1.19%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.60%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.60%) DHCP
6 1 (0.60%) Multicast
6 1 (0.60%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.60%) Skype
6 1 (0.60%) SSL
6 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.60%) VLAN
6 1 (0.60%) VoIP
6 1 (0.60%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (8.33%) Power BI
1 14 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (6.55%) Data Lake
3 8 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (2.38%) MySQL
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle Database
5 3 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.19%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.19%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.19%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.19%) Tableau
7 1 (0.60%) Apache Cassandra
7 1 (0.60%) Big Data
7 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.60%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.60%) DB2
7 1 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.60%) MariaDB
7 1 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 8 (4.76%) Git
1 8 (4.76%) JIRA
2 4 (2.38%) GitLab
3 3 (1.79%) Visual Studio
4 2 (1.19%) CircleCI
4 2 (1.19%) ERwin
4 2 (1.19%) Gradle
4 2 (1.19%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.19%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (0.60%) Android Studio
5 1 (0.60%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.60%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.60%) CMake
5 1 (0.60%) Darcs
5 1 (0.60%) Jaeger
5 1 (0.60%) Moq
5 1 (0.60%) Postman
5 1 (0.60%) SoapUI
5 1 (0.60%) Travis CI
5 1 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 84 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 71 (42.26%) Finance
3 36 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.10%) Banking
5 18 (10.71%) Legal
6 17 (10.12%) Public Sector
7 11 (6.55%) Retail
8 9 (5.36%) General Ledger
9 6 (3.57%) Front Office
10 5 (2.98%) Marketing
10 5 (2.98%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (2.38%) Local Government
12 3 (1.79%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.19%) Advertising
13 2 (1.19%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.19%) Law
13 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
13 2 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (16.07%) Analyst
2 23 (13.69%) Developer
3 21 (12.50%) Consultant
4 19 (11.31%) Architect
5 17 (10.12%) Microsoft Consultant
6 13 (7.74%) Project Manager
7 12 (7.14%) Business Analyst
8 10 (5.95%) Senior
9 9 (5.36%) Great Plains Consultant
10 7 (4.17%) C# Developer
11 6 (3.57%) Data Analyst
12 5 (2.98%) Lead
12 5 (2.98%) Microsoft 365 Architect
13 4 (2.38%) .NET Developer
13 4 (2.38%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 4 (2.38%) C# .NET Developer
13 4 (2.38%) Full Stack Developer
13 4 (2.38%) Insurance Business Analyst
13 4 (2.38%) Software Engineer
13 4 (2.38%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.36%) .NET
1 9 (5.36%) React
2 8 (4.76%) CSS
3 6 (3.57%) HTML
4 5 (2.98%) REST
5 4 (2.38%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.38%) jQuery
5 4 (2.38%) XML
6 3 (1.79%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.79%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.79%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (1.79%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.79%) JSON
6 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.79%) Web Services
7 2 (1.19%) Android Jetpack
7 2 (1.19%) Nuxt
7 2 (1.19%) RAML
7 2 (1.19%) Svelte
7 2 (1.19%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.93%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.55%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.98%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.98%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.79%) Blackberry
6 3 (1.79%) Market Risk
7 2 (1.19%) Derivative
7 2 (1.19%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.19%) Equities
7 2 (1.19%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.19%) IVR
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.19%) PKI
7 2 (1.19%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.33%) Windows
2 8 (4.76%) Linux
3 4 (2.38%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.79%) Android
5 2 (1.19%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.19%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.19%) Solaris
5 2 (1.19%) Unix
5 2 (1.19%) VMS
6 1 (0.60%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (44.05%) Computer Science
2 46 (27.38%) Agile
3 44 (26.19%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (19.64%) Project Management
5 23 (13.69%) DevOps
6 22 (13.10%) ITIL
7 19 (11.31%) PRINCE2
8 18 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (10.71%) Software Engineering
9 17 (10.12%) Migration
10 14 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (7.74%) Data Analysis
11 13 (7.74%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (7.74%) Use Case
12 12 (7.14%) Change Management
12 12 (7.14%) Test Scripting
13 11 (6.55%) Project Delivery
13 11 (6.55%) Requirements Gathering
13 11 (6.55%) Scrum
14 10 (5.95%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 36 (21.43%) SQL
2 15 (8.93%) Java
2 15 (8.93%) Python
3 13 (7.74%) C#
3 13 (7.74%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.55%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.98%) C++
6 3 (1.79%) Kotlin
6 3 (1.79%) PL/SQL
6 3 (1.79%) Scala
6 3 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.19%) Bash
7 2 (1.19%) C
7 2 (1.19%) Go
7 2 (1.19%) Rust
7 2 (1.19%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Perl
8 1 (0.60%) Ruby
8 1 (0.60%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.60%) XPath
Qualifications
1 53 (31.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 12 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 6 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (3.57%) SC Cleared
6 5 (2.98%) CISSP
6 5 (2.98%) PMI Certification
6 5 (2.98%) PMP
7 4 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 4 (2.38%) CCNA
8 3 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.79%) PhD
9 2 (1.19%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.19%) ACCA
9 2 (1.19%) CIMA
9 2 (1.19%) CISM
9 2 (1.19%) GCIA
9 2 (1.19%) GIAC
9 2 (1.19%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.55%) QA
2 9 (5.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 5 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (2.98%) NIST
3 5 (2.98%) PMO
4 4 (2.38%) SLA
5 3 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.19%) Data Quality
6 2 (1.19%) ISO 22301
6 2 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.19%) NCSC
7 1 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.60%) COBIT
7 1 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.60%) GDPR
7 1 (0.60%) GxP
7 1 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.60%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.60%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (3.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.38%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.79%) Docker
4 2 (1.19%) KVM
4 2 (1.19%) XenApp
5 1 (0.60%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (4.76%) PingFederate
2 5 (2.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.79%) Terraform
4 2 (1.19%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.19%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.19%) Grafana
4 2 (1.19%) Nessus
4 2 (1.19%) QRadar
5 1 (0.60%) Ansible
5 1 (0.60%) Kibana
5 1 (0.60%) logstash
5 1 (0.60%) Nagios
5 1 (0.60%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.60%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.60%) Puppet
5 1 (0.60%) SCCM
5 1 (0.60%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 67 (39.88%) Microsoft
2 19 (11.31%) Oracle
3 11 (6.55%) Cisco
4 9 (5.36%) Citrix
5 8 (4.76%) ServiceNow
6 6 (3.57%) Google
6 6 (3.57%) VMware
7 5 (2.98%) SAP
8 3 (1.79%) Adobe
8 3 (1.79%) Bloomberg
8 3 (1.79%) Databricks
8 3 (1.79%) iManage
8 3 (1.79%) Proofpoint
8 3 (1.79%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.79%) Symantec
8 3 (1.79%) Tandberg
9 2 (1.19%) Arista
9 2 (1.19%) BeyondTrust
9 2 (1.19%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (1.19%) Sparx