Degree Contracts in London

Academic Degree
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 28 40
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 -13
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,400 1,741 2,320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 8.04% 6.77% 6.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.20% 30.98% 34.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 840 1,146 1,507
10th Percentile £300 £325 £359
25th Percentile £400 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £680
90th Percentile £800 £875 £800
England median daily rate £500 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 38 93
10th Percentile £14.96 £18.39 £24.85
25th Percentile £20.98 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £33.50 £24.01 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.54% -31.41% -4.11%
75th Percentile £43.75 £46.94 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £66.50 £67.15
England median hourly rate £40.00 £45.00 £36.83
% change year-on-year -11.11% +22.18% +0.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,093 5,619 6,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.51% 21.86% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,780 3,817 4,628
10th Percentile £325 £363 £369
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +5.77%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 84 152
10th Percentile £14.21 £19.58 £24.77
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.15 £87.50 £66.57
England median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.58% +10.28%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in London

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the London region over the 6 months to 22 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +4 180 £563 -6.25% 229
West London +17 44 £475 -15.93% 154
East London +9 35 £450 -6.74% 69
South London +2 14 £400 -21.95% 77
North London -5 1 £273 -42.53% 26
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 56 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 34 (2.43%) Confluence
3 31 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.86%) CMS
5 10 (0.71%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.43%) ArcGIS
8 5 (0.36%) Apache
8 5 (0.36%) IIS
8 5 (0.36%) SAS
9 4 (0.29%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.21%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.21%) Gunicorn
10 3 (0.21%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2010
11 2 (0.14%) IBM Domino
11 2 (0.14%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 130 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 126 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
3 79 (5.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 53 (3.79%) MS Visio
5 30 (2.14%) Microsoft Project
6 29 (2.07%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
8 9 (0.64%) Photoshop
9 8 (0.57%) AutoCAD
9 8 (0.57%) Sketch
10 7 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 7 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
11 6 (0.43%) Revit
12 5 (0.36%) Adobe Premiere
12 5 (0.36%) InDesign
13 3 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
13 3 (0.21%) Adobe XD
13 3 (0.21%) Windchill
14 2 (0.14%) InVision
14 2 (0.14%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 18 (1.29%) Dynamics AX
2 14 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 13 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
4 9 (0.64%) Dynamics GP
5 8 (0.57%) ION MarketView
6 7 (0.50%) Endur
6 7 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 7 (0.50%) Teamcenter
7 6 (0.43%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.36%) Loan IQ
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Financials
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle General Ledger
8 5 (0.36%) Oracle Payables
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS R12
9 4 (0.29%) Oracle Receivables
9 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.21%) ENOVIA
10 3 (0.21%) OpenText VIM for SAP
10 3 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
10 3 (0.21%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 287 (20.50%) Azure
2 151 (10.79%) AWS
3 96 (6.86%) Microsoft 365
4 85 (6.07%) GCP
5 80 (5.71%) Power Platform
6 72 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
8 41 (2.93%) SaaS
9 39 (2.79%) PowerApps
10 37 (2.64%) GitHub
11 31 (2.21%) Serverless
12 30 (2.14%) Power Automate
13 27 (1.93%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.71%) Cloud Computing
15 21 (1.50%) PaaS
16 19 (1.36%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.36%) Figma
17 17 (1.21%) IaaS
18 16 (1.14%) Amazon S3
18 16 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 45 (3.21%) Firewall
2 30 (2.14%) WAN
3 25 (1.79%) LAN
4 23 (1.64%) Network Security
5 22 (1.57%) VPN
6 21 (1.50%) DNS
7 20 (1.43%) Internet
8 14 (1.00%) VoIP
9 13 (0.93%) SD-WAN
9 13 (0.93%) TCP/IP
10 11 (0.79%) FIX Connectivity
11 10 (0.71%) DHCP
12 9 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
13 7 (0.50%) OSPF
13 7 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
14 6 (0.43%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (0.43%) HTTP
14 6 (0.43%) NAS
14 6 (0.43%) Skype
14 6 (0.43%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (6.64%) SQL Server
2 66 (4.71%) Power BI
3 38 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
4 37 (2.64%) Relational Database
5 34 (2.43%) Big Data
5 34 (2.43%) Data Lake
5 34 (2.43%) PostgreSQL
6 30 (2.14%) NoSQL
6 30 (2.14%) Tableau
7 19 (1.36%) MySQL
8 18 (1.29%) BigQuery
9 15 (1.07%) MongoDB
10 12 (0.86%) GIS
11 11 (0.79%) Data Mining
11 11 (0.79%) Hadoop
11 11 (0.79%) Metadata
11 11 (0.79%) RDBMS
12 10 (0.71%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.57%) Couchbase
13 8 (0.57%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 86 (6.14%) JIRA
2 77 (5.50%) Git
3 39 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.64%) GitLab
5 18 (1.29%) TeamCity
6 17 (1.21%) Visual Studio
7 14 (1.00%) Gradle
8 12 (0.86%) Bitbucket
8 12 (0.86%) webpack
9 8 (0.57%) Selenium
10 7 (0.50%) ERwin
10 7 (0.50%) JUnit
10 7 (0.50%) Maven
10 7 (0.50%) Postman
11 6 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 6 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.36%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 5 (0.36%) MLflow
12 5 (0.36%) MSI
12 5 (0.36%) WiX
General
1 708 (50.57%) Social Skills
2 447 (31.93%) Finance
3 324 (23.14%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (9.57%) Banking
5 111 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 99 (7.07%) Marketing
7 89 (6.36%) Front Office
8 66 (4.71%) Retail
9 62 (4.43%) Presentation Skills
10 47 (3.36%) Legal
11 43 (3.07%) Telecoms
12 38 (2.71%) Investment Banking
13 36 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
15 25 (1.79%) Manufacturing
16 24 (1.71%) Advertising
17 22 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
17 22 (1.57%) Financial Institution
17 22 (1.57%) General Ledger
18 19 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 224 (16.00%) Developer
2 174 (12.43%) Analyst
3 139 (9.93%) Senior
4 115 (8.21%) Consultant
5 114 (8.14%) Architect
6 99 (7.07%) Business Analyst
7 73 (5.21%) Lead
8 62 (4.43%) Project Manager
9 44 (3.14%) Software Engineer
10 39 (2.79%) Java Developer
11 36 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (2.36%) Microsoft Consultant
13 30 (2.14%) Software Developer
14 29 (2.07%) Senior Analyst
14 29 (2.07%) Senior Developer
15 27 (1.93%) DevOps Engineer
15 27 (1.93%) Full Stack Developer
15 27 (1.93%) Support Engineer
16 26 (1.86%) Designer
17 24 (1.71%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 71 (5.07%) .NET
2 65 (4.64%) HTML
3 64 (4.57%) REST
4 59 (4.21%) React
5 57 (4.07%) CSS
6 38 (2.71%) AngularJS
7 35 (2.50%) XML
8 31 (2.21%) Kafka
9 26 (1.86%) RESTful
10 24 (1.71%) JSON
10 24 (1.71%) Spring
10 24 (1.71%) Web Services
11 20 (1.43%) ASP.NET
12 17 (1.21%) Node.js
12 17 (1.21%) NumPy
13 16 (1.14%) Pandas
14 15 (1.07%) .NET Framework
15 13 (0.93%) FIX Protocol
15 13 (0.93%) jQuery
15 13 (0.93%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 111 (7.93%) Management Information System
2 61 (4.36%) Algorithms
3 59 (4.21%) Derivative
4 57 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 46 (3.29%) Data Structures
6 42 (3.00%) Fixed Income
6 42 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 35 (2.50%) Data Centre
8 34 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
9 30 (2.14%) Virtual Team
10 26 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 24 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
12 21 (1.50%) Equities
12 21 (1.50%) Onboarding
13 20 (1.43%) Social Media
13 20 (1.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 17 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (1.14%) CMDB
16 15 (1.07%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 114 (8.14%) Windows
2 60 (4.29%) Linux
3 41 (2.93%) Unix
4 32 (2.29%) Android
5 25 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 24 (1.71%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.57%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.50%) Mac OS
9 7 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
10 6 (0.43%) Solaris
10 6 (0.43%) VMS
11 5 (0.36%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2019
14 2 (0.14%) zOS
15 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 604 (43.14%) Computer Science
2 385 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 377 (26.93%) Agile
4 211 (15.07%) Project Management
5 168 (12.00%) DevOps
6 157 (11.21%) Software Engineering
7 144 (10.29%) Analytics
8 118 (8.43%) CI/CD
9 106 (7.57%) Business Intelligence
10 105 (7.50%) Mathematics
11 100 (7.14%) Data Modelling
11 100 (7.14%) Migration
12 97 (6.93%) Stakeholder Management
13 95 (6.79%) Decision-Making
14 93 (6.64%) Data Analysis
15 91 (6.50%) Risk Management
15 91 (6.50%) Scrum
16 85 (6.07%) Data Science
17 84 (6.00%) Machine Learning
18 82 (5.86%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 287 (20.50%) SQL
2 243 (17.36%) Python
3 151 (10.79%) Java
4 130 (9.29%) JavaScript
5 124 (8.86%) C#
6 66 (4.71%) C++
7 60 (4.29%) PowerShell
8 47 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 31 (2.21%) Bash
10 22 (1.57%) VBA
11 20 (1.43%) R
12 17 (1.21%) Go
12 17 (1.21%) Rust
12 17 (1.21%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.14%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.14%) Perl
13 16 (1.14%) Scala
14 15 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 13 (0.93%) PL/SQL
16 12 (0.86%) C
Qualifications
1 408 (29.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 202 (14.43%) Master's Degree
3 98 (7.00%) Security Cleared
4 80 (5.71%) SC Cleared
5 44 (3.14%) PhD
5 44 (3.14%) PMI Certification
6 41 (2.93%) CISSP
7 38 (2.71%) Numerate Degree
7 38 (2.71%) PMP
8 36 (2.57%) Azure Certification
8 36 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
9 29 (2.07%) Microsoft Certification
10 23 (1.64%) ITIL Certification
11 22 (1.57%) CISM
12 20 (1.43%) MBA
13 17 (1.21%) CCNA
14 15 (1.07%) CCNP
15 14 (1.00%) DV Cleared
16 13 (0.93%) CEH
17 12 (0.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (6.71%) QA
2 55 (3.93%) Data Quality
3 31 (2.21%) PMO
4 26 (1.86%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.50%) PCI DSS
6 20 (1.43%) SLA
7 19 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 16 (1.14%) GDPR
8 16 (1.14%) NIST
9 13 (0.93%) MiFID
10 11 (0.79%) Dodd-Frank
11 9 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 7 (0.50%) EMIR
13 7 (0.50%) P3O
14 6 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.36%) COBIT
15 5 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (4.57%) Active Directory
2 48 (3.43%) Docker
3 23 (1.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.50%) Firmware
5 7 (0.50%) KVM
6 6 (0.43%) VMware NSX
6 6 (0.43%) vSphere
7 4 (0.29%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.29%) vCloud
8 3 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.14%) XenApp
10 1 (0.071%) HDFS
10 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.071%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 59 (4.21%) Kubernetes
1 59 (4.21%) Terraform
2 29 (2.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 21 (1.50%) SCCM
4 18 (1.29%) Ansible
5 12 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
6 11 (0.79%) PingFederate
7 8 (0.57%) Grafana
8 6 (0.43%) Nessus
8 6 (0.43%) Prometheus
9 4 (0.29%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.21%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.21%) Nagios
10 3 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.21%) Puppet
10 3 (0.21%) QRadar
10 3 (0.21%) SCOM
10 3 (0.21%) WSUS
11 2 (0.14%) SCOrch
11 2 (0.14%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 316 (22.57%) Microsoft
2 105 (7.50%) Oracle
3 63 (4.50%) Google
4 62 (4.43%) SAP
5 51 (3.64%) Cisco
6 44 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 34 (2.43%) Salesforce
8 30 (2.14%) Adobe
9 29 (2.07%) VMware
10 26 (1.86%) Databricks
11 21 (1.50%) Bloomberg
12 20 (1.43%) Citrix
13 18 (1.29%) ION Trading
14 16 (1.14%) PayPal
15 14 (1.00%) CA
16 13 (0.93%) IBM
17 12 (0.86%) Splunk
18 11 (0.79%) MarketAxess
18 11 (0.79%) Okta
18 11 (0.79%) Tradeweb