Degree Contracts in Central London

Academic Degree
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 18 25
Rank change year-on-year -5 +7 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Degree 170 211 273
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.55% 9.14% 7.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 33.60% 38.57% 38.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 133 162
10th Percentile £311 £303 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £750
90th Percentile £763 £789 £900
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £26.41 - -
25th Percentile £27.39 - £16.61
Median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.70% +56.52% -63.20%
75th Percentile - - £17.89
90th Percentile £45.09 - -
London median hourly rate £26.50 £36.00 £31.50
% change year-on-year -26.39% +14.29% -30.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 506 547 712
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.45% 23.69% 20.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 343 437
10th Percentile £313 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £678
90th Percentile £746 £767 £820
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 4 3
10th Percentile £25.04 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +43.67% +33.33% -64.36%
75th Percentile £57.96 £27.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £65.57 - £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -45.45% +22.22%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Central London over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Central London

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Central London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Central London over the 6 months to 27 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Central London

Degree
DemandTrendContract 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 27 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -9 154 £563 -2.17% 531
West End of London +3 6 £450 +11.80% 21
City of Westminster - 3 £450 - 7
Kensington and Chelsea - 2 - - 2
Southwark - 1 £450 - 4
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 14 (8.24%) SharePoint
2 13 (7.65%) Apache Spark
3 7 (4.12%) Confluence
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Luigi
6 1 (0.59%) Drupal
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 24 (14.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 22 (12.94%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (7.06%) Microsoft Project
4 11 (6.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (4.12%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.18%) Trello
7 1 (0.59%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (1.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.76%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.18%) HFM
3 2 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.18%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.18%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.18%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.59%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.94%) Azure
2 16 (9.41%) AWS
3 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 13 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.12%) Entra ID
5 7 (4.12%) GCP
6 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.35%) PaaS
7 3 (1.76%) OCI
7 3 (1.76%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.18%) Figma
8 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.18%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.29%) Firewall
2 4 (2.35%) Network Security
3 3 (1.76%) DNS
3 3 (1.76%) Intranet
3 3 (1.76%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (1.76%) VPN
3 3 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.18%) LAN
4 2 (1.18%) Modbus
4 2 (1.18%) WAN
4 2 (1.18%) Wireless
5 1 (0.59%) DHCP
5 1 (0.59%) HTTP
5 1 (0.59%) IPsec
5 1 (0.59%) iSCSI
5 1 (0.59%) NAS
5 1 (0.59%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.59%) Softphone
5 1 (0.59%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.59%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.06%) Hadoop
2 11 (6.47%) Power BI
3 8 (4.71%) Apache Hive
3 8 (4.71%) SQL Server
4 6 (3.53%) Star Schema
5 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.76%) Big Data
6 3 (1.76%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.76%) KDB
6 3 (1.76%) MySQL
6 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.76%) Tableau
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.59%) DB2
8 1 (0.59%) MS Access
8 1 (0.59%) Pentaho
8 1 (0.59%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 14 (8.24%) JIRA
2 3 (1.76%) Git
2 3 (1.76%) MLflow
3 2 (1.18%) Selenium
4 1 (0.59%) Artifactory
4 1 (0.59%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.59%) Fiddler
4 1 (0.59%) GitLab
4 1 (0.59%) Gradle
4 1 (0.59%) JMeter
4 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
4 1 (0.59%) QUnit
4 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 105 (61.76%) Finance
2 77 (45.29%) Social Skills
3 51 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.88%) Banking
5 17 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.65%) Financial Institution
7 10 (5.88%) Front Office
8 9 (5.29%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (5.29%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (4.71%) Back Office
9 8 (4.71%) Marketing
9 8 (4.71%) Public Sector
10 7 (4.12%) Legal
11 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.35%) Advertising
12 4 (2.35%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.18%) International Banking
14 2 (1.18%) Law
14 2 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (22.94%) Analyst
2 25 (14.71%) Business Analyst
3 20 (11.76%) Developer
3 20 (11.76%) Senior
4 12 (7.06%) Architect
5 10 (5.88%) Data Engineer
6 9 (5.29%) Project Manager
7 8 (4.71%) Software Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) Data Scientist
8 5 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
8 5 (2.94%) Lead
8 5 (2.94%) Operations Manager
8 5 (2.94%) Security Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
8 5 (2.94%) Software Developer
8 5 (2.94%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (2.35%) Business Manager
9 4 (2.35%) Designer
9 4 (2.35%) Gen AI Specialist
9 4 (2.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.29%) CSS
2 8 (4.71%) HTML
2 8 (4.71%) PySpark
3 7 (4.12%) TensorFlow
4 5 (2.94%) Web Services
4 5 (2.94%) XML
5 4 (2.35%) .NET
5 4 (2.35%) OAuth
5 4 (2.35%) Pandas
6 3 (1.76%) Kafka
6 3 (1.76%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.76%) NumPy
6 3 (1.76%) OpenID
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.76%) REST
6 3 (1.76%) RESTful
6 3 (1.76%) SAML
6 3 (1.76%) Spring
6 3 (1.76%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 17 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 9 (5.29%) Algorithms
4 8 (4.71%) Distributed Computing
4 8 (4.71%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.12%) Credit Risk
6 6 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 6 (3.53%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
8 4 (2.35%) Fixed Income
8 4 (2.35%) PMI
9 3 (1.76%) Derivative
9 3 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.76%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.76%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.76%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 17 (10.00%) Linux
2 10 (5.88%) Windows
3 8 (4.71%) Unix
4 2 (1.18%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.59%) Android
5 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.59%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.59%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (40.59%) Computer Science
2 54 (31.76%) Agile
3 53 (31.18%) Problem-Solving
4 33 (19.41%) Project Management
5 26 (15.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (12.94%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (12.35%) Analytics
7 21 (12.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 20 (11.76%) ITIL
8 20 (11.76%) Project Delivery
9 18 (10.59%) Data Modelling
9 18 (10.59%) DevOps
9 18 (10.59%) Risk Management
9 18 (10.59%) Scrum
9 18 (10.59%) Software Engineering
10 17 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 17 (10.00%) Data Science
11 16 (9.41%) Data Analysis
11 16 (9.41%) Machine Learning
11 16 (9.41%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 35 (20.59%) Python
2 32 (18.82%) SQL
3 16 (9.41%) Java
4 10 (5.88%) C++
4 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.71%) C#
6 4 (2.35%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.76%) Apex Code
7 3 (1.76%) Go
7 3 (1.76%) R
7 3 (1.76%) Scala
7 3 (1.76%) VBA
8 2 (1.18%) ABAP
9 1 (0.59%) Bash
9 1 (0.59%) F#
9 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.59%) RPG
9 1 (0.59%) RPG IV
9 1 (0.59%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.59%) VC++
Qualifications
1 40 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 16 (9.41%) Security Cleared
4 15 (8.82%) SC Cleared
5 10 (5.88%) PhD
6 9 (5.29%) PMI Certification
7 7 (4.12%) CBAP
7 7 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (3.53%) CCNA
8 6 (3.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (3.53%) PMP
9 5 (2.94%) Azure Certification
10 4 (2.35%) CCNP
11 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
11 3 (1.76%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (1.76%) MCSE
11 3 (1.76%) OCP
11 3 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
12 2 (1.18%) ISTQB
12 2 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
1 8 (4.71%) PMO
2 7 (4.12%) NIST
2 7 (4.12%) QA
3 6 (3.53%) COBIT
4 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 4 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 4 (2.35%) GDPR
6 3 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.18%) EMIR
7 2 (1.18%) GAAP
7 2 (1.18%) IFRS
7 2 (1.18%) SLA
8 1 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.59%) GRC
8 1 (0.59%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.59%) MiFID
8 1 (0.59%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.59%) SEPA
System Software
1 10 (5.88%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.35%) Docker
3 2 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.59%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (3.53%) Terraform
2 5 (2.94%) Kubernetes
3 4 (2.35%) Ansible
4 3 (1.76%) Grafana
5 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.18%) SCCM
6 1 (0.59%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.59%) Kubeflow
6 1 (0.59%) Podman
6 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.59%) Puppet
6 1 (0.59%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 45 (26.47%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.06%) Oracle
2 12 (7.06%) Salesforce
3 9 (5.29%) ServiceNow
4 6 (3.53%) Databricks
4 6 (3.53%) SAP
5 5 (2.94%) Cisco
6 4 (2.35%) Google
7 3 (1.76%) Adobe
7 3 (1.76%) Citrix
7 3 (1.76%) HP
7 3 (1.76%) Hyperion
7 3 (1.76%) Workday
8 2 (1.18%) Juniper
8 2 (1.18%) Palantir
8 2 (1.18%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.18%) Polycom
8 2 (1.18%) Rockwell
8 2 (1.18%) Tagetik
8 2 (1.18%) Tenable