Degree Contracts in Central London

Academic Degree
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing Degree 187 276 294
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 7.64% 7.15% 6.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.96% 36.08% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 139 198
10th Percentile £263 £325 £400
25th Percentile £406 £478 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £625 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.64% -
75th Percentile £663 £770 £619
90th Percentile £778 £958 £708
London median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 15
10th Percentile £29.85 £26.70 £19.10
25th Percentile £34.13 £41.84 £31.13
Median hourly rate £42.50 £52.00 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.27% +14.29% +127.50%
75th Percentile £58.75 £61.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £67.75 £74.75 £64.15
London median hourly rate £33.87 £32.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.83% -8.57% -2.99%

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 506 765 859
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 20.66% 19.82% 18.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 453 565
10th Percentile £367 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +6.54%
75th Percentile £644 £700 £638
90th Percentile £775 £820 £725
London median daily rate £540 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -5.88% +4.32% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 17
10th Percentile £19.96 £18.06 £19.40
25th Percentile £20.22 £20.22 £36.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £51.50 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.57% +13.19% +127.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £66.75 £71.75 £68.15
London median hourly rate £26.00 £45.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -42.54% +1.69% +21.92%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Central London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Central London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Central London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Central London

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Central London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Central London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
City of London +1 172 £565 -9.60% 196
West End of London +1 2 - - 23
Camden - 1 - - 17
Degree
London

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 9 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.60%) Confluence
4 1 (0.53%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (0.53%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 20 (10.70%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 13 (6.95%) Microsoft Project
4 12 (6.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 11 (5.88%) MS Visio
6 4 (2.14%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.53%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.53%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (4.81%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (4.28%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.60%) Teamcenter
4 2 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.07%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.07%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.07%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.53%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.53%) Distributed Ledger
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle 11i
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.53%) Primavera
5 1 (0.53%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.53%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.53%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 51 (27.27%) Azure
2 22 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 19 (10.16%) Power Platform
4 14 (7.49%) AWS
4 14 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
5 12 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
5 12 (6.42%) PowerApps
6 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Purview
6 8 (4.28%) Power Automate
7 7 (3.74%) GCP
8 6 (3.21%) OneDrive
8 6 (3.21%) WhatsApp
9 5 (2.67%) GitHub
10 3 (1.60%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (1.60%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.60%) SaaS
10 3 (1.60%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (1.07%) Mimecast
11 2 (1.07%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.35%) Firewall
2 5 (2.67%) Network Security
3 4 (2.14%) LAN
3 4 (2.14%) WAN
4 3 (1.60%) H.323
5 2 (1.07%) DNS
5 2 (1.07%) SD-WAN
5 2 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.07%) VPN
5 2 (1.07%) WebEx
5 2 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.53%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (0.53%) DHCP
6 1 (0.53%) Multicast
6 1 (0.53%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.53%) Skype
6 1 (0.53%) SSL
6 1 (0.53%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.53%) VLAN
6 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 14 (7.49%) Power BI
3 11 (5.88%) Data Lake
4 9 (4.81%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.14%) MySQL
5 4 (2.14%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.60%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.60%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.07%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.07%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.07%) Tableau
8 1 (0.53%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.53%) Big Data
8 1 (0.53%) CouchDB
8 1 (0.53%) DB2
8 1 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.53%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.53%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.53%) Redis
Development Applications
1 11 (5.88%) JIRA
2 8 (4.28%) Git
3 5 (2.67%) GitLab
4 3 (1.60%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.60%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.07%) CircleCI
5 2 (1.07%) ERwin
5 2 (1.07%) Gradle
5 2 (1.07%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (0.53%) Android Studio
6 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.53%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.53%) CMake
6 1 (0.53%) Darcs
6 1 (0.53%) Jaeger
6 1 (0.53%) MSTest
6 1 (0.53%) Postman
6 1 (0.53%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.53%) Travis CI
6 1 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 98 (52.41%) Social Skills
2 82 (43.85%) Finance
3 36 (19.25%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.83%) Banking
5 21 (11.23%) Legal
6 17 (9.09%) Public Sector
7 13 (6.95%) Retail
8 11 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (4.81%) General Ledger
10 7 (3.74%) Front Office
10 7 (3.74%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (3.21%) Law
12 5 (2.67%) Marketing
13 4 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (2.14%) Investment Banking
13 4 (2.14%) Local Government
14 3 (1.60%) Financial Institution
15 2 (1.07%) Advertising
15 2 (1.07%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (1.07%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (16.58%) Analyst
2 26 (13.90%) Consultant
3 25 (13.37%) Developer
4 21 (11.23%) Architect
5 17 (9.09%) Microsoft Consultant
6 13 (6.95%) Business Analyst
6 13 (6.95%) Project Manager
7 11 (5.88%) Senior
8 9 (4.81%) Great Plains Consultant
9 7 (3.74%) C# Developer
10 6 (3.21%) Data Analyst
10 6 (3.21%) Solutions Architect
11 5 (2.67%) Lead
11 5 (2.67%) Microsoft 365 Architect
11 5 (2.67%) Support Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) .NET Developer
12 4 (2.14%) Audio Visual Engineer
12 4 (2.14%) C# .NET Developer
12 4 (2.14%) Full Stack Developer
12 4 (2.14%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.88%) React
2 9 (4.81%) .NET
3 8 (4.28%) CSS
4 6 (3.21%) HTML
4 6 (3.21%) REST
5 4 (2.14%) ASP.NET
5 4 (2.14%) jQuery
5 4 (2.14%) XML
6 3 (1.60%) .NET Framework
6 3 (1.60%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.60%) ASP.NET Core
6 3 (1.60%) HTML5 Canvas
6 3 (1.60%) JSON
6 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Graph
6 3 (1.60%) Next.js
6 3 (1.60%) NumPy
6 3 (1.60%) Pandas
6 3 (1.60%) Web Services
7 2 (1.07%) Nuxt
7 2 (1.07%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 11 (5.88%) Data Structures
3 9 (4.81%) Product Ownership
4 5 (2.67%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.67%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.14%) Video Conferencing
6 3 (1.60%) Blackberry
6 3 (1.60%) Derivative
6 3 (1.60%) Equities
6 3 (1.60%) Market Risk
6 3 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
7 2 (1.07%) Fixed Income
7 2 (1.07%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.07%) IoT
7 2 (1.07%) PKI
7 2 (1.07%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.56%) Windows
2 8 (4.28%) Linux
3 5 (2.67%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.60%) Android
5 2 (1.07%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.07%) Oracle Linux
5 2 (1.07%) Solaris
5 2 (1.07%) Unix
5 2 (1.07%) VMS
6 1 (0.53%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (42.25%) Computer Science
2 48 (25.67%) Agile
3 46 (24.60%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (20.86%) Project Management
5 23 (12.30%) DevOps
6 21 (11.23%) ITIL
6 21 (11.23%) Software Engineering
7 19 (10.16%) PRINCE2
8 18 (9.63%) Business Intelligence
8 18 (9.63%) Migration
9 14 (7.49%) Data Analysis
9 14 (7.49%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (6.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (6.42%) Test Scripting
12 11 (5.88%) Change Management
12 11 (5.88%) Process Improvement
12 11 (5.88%) Project Delivery
12 11 (5.88%) Requirements Gathering
12 11 (5.88%) Scrum
12 11 (5.88%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 37 (19.79%) SQL
2 17 (9.09%) Python
3 16 (8.56%) Java
4 13 (6.95%) C#
4 13 (6.95%) JavaScript
4 13 (6.95%) PowerShell
5 6 (3.21%) TypeScript
6 5 (2.67%) C++
7 3 (1.60%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.60%) PL/SQL
7 3 (1.60%) Scala
8 2 (1.07%) Bash
8 2 (1.07%) C
8 2 (1.07%) Go
8 2 (1.07%) Rust
8 2 (1.07%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.53%) Clojure
9 1 (0.53%) Perl
9 1 (0.53%) Ruby
9 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 57 (30.48%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (6.95%) Master's Degree
2 13 (6.95%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.42%) ITIL Certification
4 10 (5.35%) SC Cleared
5 7 (3.74%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (3.21%) ACCA
7 5 (2.67%) CCNA
7 5 (2.67%) CISSP
7 5 (2.67%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.67%) PMP
8 4 (2.14%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (1.60%) PhD
10 2 (1.07%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.07%) CIMA
10 2 (1.07%) CISM
10 2 (1.07%) GCIA
10 2 (1.07%) GCIH
10 2 (1.07%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.88%) QA
2 9 (4.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 7 (3.74%) PMO
4 5 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.67%) NIST
4 5 (2.67%) SLA
5 4 (2.14%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.60%) Data Quality
7 2 (1.07%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.07%) GDPR
7 2 (1.07%) ISO 22301
7 2 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (1.07%) NCSC
8 1 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.53%) COBIT
8 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
System Software
1 7 (3.74%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (1.60%) Docker
5 2 (1.07%) KVM
5 2 (1.07%) XenApp
6 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (4.28%) PingFederate
2 5 (2.67%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.60%) Terraform
4 2 (1.07%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.07%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.07%) Grafana
4 2 (1.07%) Nessus
4 2 (1.07%) QRadar
5 1 (0.53%) Ansible
5 1 (0.53%) Kibana
5 1 (0.53%) logstash
5 1 (0.53%) Nagios
5 1 (0.53%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.53%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.53%) Puppet
5 1 (0.53%) SCCM
5 1 (0.53%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 70 (37.43%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.83%) Oracle
3 13 (6.95%) Cisco
4 9 (4.81%) Citrix
4 9 (4.81%) ServiceNow
5 6 (3.21%) Google
5 6 (3.21%) VMware
6 4 (2.14%) SAP
7 3 (1.60%) Adobe
7 3 (1.60%) Bloomberg
7 3 (1.60%) Databricks
7 3 (1.60%) iManage
7 3 (1.60%) Proofpoint
7 3 (1.60%) Refinitiv
7 3 (1.60%) Symantec
7 3 (1.60%) Tandberg
8 2 (1.07%) Arista
8 2 (1.07%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.07%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (1.07%) Sparx