Degree Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Academic Degree
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 26 16
Rank change year-on-year -36 -10 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 82 152 198
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.59% 8.47% 9.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.87% 34.08% 38.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 96 126
10th Percentile £244 £314 £334
25th Percentile £416 £455 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.78% -2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £678 £675 £700
90th Percentile £743 £764 £801
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.73% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £33.43 £25.91 -
25th Percentile £37.02 £26.16 -
Median hourly rate £46.03 £27.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.46% +1.20% +56.52%
75th Percentile £57.02 £28.50 -
90th Percentile £61.81 £28.74 -
Central London median hourly rate £53.00 £34.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +53.71% +27.70% +56.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 591 446 510
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.89% 24.86% 24.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 299 315
10th Percentile £408 £337 £385
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% +0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £668 £654
90th Percentile £734 £750 £766
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 4
10th Percentile £19.40 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £19.50 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +17.29% +33.33%
75th Percentile £33.10 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £52.24 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £34.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year -7.00% +43.67% +33.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Degree job vacancy trend in the City of London

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Degree

Degree
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 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.54%) Confluence
2 6 (7.32%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (6.10%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.44%) CMS
4 2 (2.44%) IIS
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (1.22%) Appian
5 1 (1.22%) MQSeries
5 1 (1.22%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 10 (12.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (4.88%) MS Visio
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (1.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (1.22%) Chatbot
5 1 (1.22%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.22%) Actimize
2 1 (1.22%) CA PPM
2 1 (1.22%) Monis
2 1 (1.22%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 20 (24.39%) Azure
2 11 (13.41%) Power Platform
3 10 (12.20%) AWS
3 10 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (9.76%) GCP
5 5 (6.10%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (6.10%) GitHub
5 5 (6.10%) OpenShift
6 4 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.66%) IaaS
7 3 (3.66%) OneDrive
7 3 (3.66%) PaaS
7 3 (3.66%) PowerApps
7 3 (3.66%) SaaS
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.44%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.44%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.98%) Firewall
2 6 (7.32%) DNS
2 6 (7.32%) VPN
3 5 (6.10%) DHCP
4 3 (3.66%) SMTP
5 2 (2.44%) Internet
5 2 (2.44%) Intranet
5 2 (2.44%) LAN
5 2 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.44%) WAN
6 1 (1.22%) BGP
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.22%) DKIM
6 1 (1.22%) DMARC
6 1 (1.22%) MPLS
6 1 (1.22%) Network Security
6 1 (1.22%) OSPF
6 1 (1.22%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (1.22%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.98%) Power BI
2 6 (7.32%) Tableau
3 5 (6.10%) SQL Server
4 4 (4.88%) Big Data
4 4 (4.88%) Oracle Database
5 3 (3.66%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.66%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (3.66%) NoSQL
5 3 (3.66%) Relational Database
6 2 (2.44%) Data Mining
6 2 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (2.44%) Metadata
6 2 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (2.44%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.44%) SQLPlus
7 1 (1.22%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.22%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.22%) Metadata Repository
7 1 (1.22%) Power Query
7 1 (1.22%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 9 (10.98%) JIRA
2 4 (4.88%) Git
2 4 (4.88%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.66%) Zephyr
4 2 (2.44%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.44%) Selenium
4 2 (2.44%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.22%) Appium
5 1 (1.22%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.22%) eggPlant
5 1 (1.22%) GitLab
5 1 (1.22%) HP UFT
5 1 (1.22%) Jasmine
5 1 (1.22%) JMeter
5 1 (1.22%) JUnit
5 1 (1.22%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (1.22%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.22%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.22%) Visual Studio
General
1 39 (47.56%) Social Skills
2 37 (45.12%) Finance
3 21 (25.61%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (23.17%) Banking
5 8 (9.76%) Marketing
6 6 (7.32%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
9 3 (3.66%) Front Office
9 3 (3.66%) Manufacturing
9 3 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.44%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.44%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.44%) Legal
10 2 (2.44%) Military
10 2 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (2.44%) Retail
10 2 (2.44%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (15.85%) Analyst
2 9 (10.98%) Developer
3 8 (9.76%) Architect
3 8 (9.76%) Lead
4 7 (8.54%) Senior
5 6 (7.32%) IT Analyst
6 4 (4.88%) C# Developer
6 4 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (4.88%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.88%) SOX Analyst
7 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Support
7 3 (3.66%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.66%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.66%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (12.20%) .NET
2 6 (7.32%) XML
3 5 (6.10%) Web Services
4 4 (4.88%) HTML
4 4 (4.88%) REST
4 4 (4.88%) SOAP
4 4 (4.88%) Terraform
5 3 (3.66%) .NET Core
5 3 (3.66%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.66%) CSS
5 3 (3.66%) RESTful
5 3 (3.66%) Spring
5 3 (3.66%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.44%) ADO.NET
6 2 (2.44%) Ajax
6 2 (2.44%) ASP.NET
6 2 (2.44%) FastAPI
6 2 (2.44%) Playwright
6 2 (2.44%) XSL
6 2 (2.44%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.10%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.88%) Life Science
3 4 (4.88%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (3.66%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.66%) Clustering
4 3 (3.66%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.66%) Equities
4 3 (3.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.66%) PKI
5 2 (2.44%) CMDB
5 2 (2.44%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.44%) PMI
5 2 (2.44%) Replication
5 2 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.22%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.22%) Genomics
6 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (14.63%) Linux
2 9 (10.98%) Windows
3 8 (9.76%) Unix
4 5 (6.10%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (1.22%) VMS
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.22%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (37.80%) Computer Science
2 23 (28.05%) Agile
3 20 (24.39%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (23.17%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (20.73%) AI
6 16 (19.51%) DevOps
7 14 (17.07%) Scrum
8 13 (15.85%) Project Management
9 11 (13.41%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (13.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (12.20%) Machine Learning
10 10 (12.20%) PRINCE2
11 9 (10.98%) Analytics
11 9 (10.98%) CI/CD
11 9 (10.98%) Decision-Making
11 9 (10.98%) Risk Management
12 8 (9.76%) Continuous Improvement
13 7 (8.54%) Migration
13 7 (8.54%) SDLC
13 7 (8.54%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 22 (26.83%) Python
2 18 (21.95%) SQL
3 9 (10.98%) C#
4 7 (8.54%) Java
4 7 (8.54%) JavaScript
5 6 (7.32%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.10%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.66%) C++
7 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.44%) C
8 2 (2.44%) ProC
8 2 (2.44%) R
9 1 (1.22%) COBOL
9 1 (1.22%) CQL
9 1 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.22%) RPG
9 1 (1.22%) VB
9 1 (1.22%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.22%) VBA
9 1 (1.22%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (17.07%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (13.41%) PMI Certification
3 10 (12.20%) PMP
4 9 (10.98%) Security Cleared
5 7 (8.54%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.88%) CISA
6 4 (4.88%) CISSP
6 4 (4.88%) CRISC
7 3 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (3.66%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (2.44%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.44%) CAPM
8 2 (2.44%) CCNA
8 2 (2.44%) CCNP
8 2 (2.44%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.44%) PhD
8 2 (2.44%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.63%) QA
2 9 (10.98%) Data Quality
3 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (6.10%) PMO
4 4 (4.88%) COBIT
4 4 (4.88%) ITGC
4 4 (4.88%) NIST
4 4 (4.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.44%) GDPR
5 2 (2.44%) P3O
6 1 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 19770
6 1 (1.22%) MiFID
6 1 (1.22%) PSD2
6 1 (1.22%) SEPA
6 1 (1.22%) SLA
6 1 (1.22%) UCITS
System Software
1 10 (12.20%) Docker
2 7 (8.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (6.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (3.66%) BitLocker
5 3 (3.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.66%) Microsoft App-V
5 3 (3.66%) Terminal Services
6 2 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (1.22%) Firmware
7 1 (1.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (10.98%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.10%) Ansible
2 5 (6.10%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.66%) Nagios
3 3 (3.66%) Puppet
3 3 (3.66%) vCenter Server
3 3 (3.66%) vMotion
4 1 (1.22%) Control-M
4 1 (1.22%) HP Fortify
4 1 (1.22%) PingFederate
4 1 (1.22%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (30.49%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.85%) Oracle
3 8 (9.76%) Google
4 6 (7.32%) SAP
4 6 (7.32%) VMware
5 5 (6.10%) IBM
5 5 (6.10%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.10%) Sitecore
6 4 (4.88%) Citrix
6 4 (4.88%) HP
7 3 (3.66%) Adobe
7 3 (3.66%) Symantec
8 2 (2.44%) Apple
8 2 (2.44%) Cisco
8 2 (2.44%) JD Edwards
8 2 (2.44%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.44%) Salesforce
9 1 (1.22%) FactSet
9 1 (1.22%) MuleSoft
9 1 (1.22%) PagerDuty