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 1 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 148 179 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.35% 8.36% 7.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 29.66% 32.31% 36.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 110 110 117
10th Percentile £312 £297 £282
25th Percentile £420 £459 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +1.14% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £814 £776 £884
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £25.83 - -
25th Percentile £25.94 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 £27.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -62.76% +38.10%
75th Percentile £28.94 - £73.75
90th Percentile £29.28 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £27.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +0.93% -62.76% +38.10%

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 499 554 540
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 28.16% 25.88% 20.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 323 329
10th Percentile £343 £335 £347
25th Percentile £425 £457 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.23%
75th Percentile £663 £647 £688
90th Percentile £738 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £20.55 £21.25 £18.28
25th Percentile £25.75 £23.25 £18.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £45.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -34.92% -9.48%
75th Percentile £29.50 £92.44 £74.69
90th Percentile £51.14 £112.00 £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £42.49
% change year-on-year -7.56% -29.98% -15.87%

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

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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

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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 1 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

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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
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 11 (7.43%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.41%) Confluence
3 5 (3.38%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.68%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.68%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.68%) Luigi
Applications
1 17 (11.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (9.46%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (7.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (6.08%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (6.08%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.68%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.68%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.70%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.03%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.35%) HFM
4 1 (0.68%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.68%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.68%) SAP MDG
4 1 (0.68%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.68%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.68%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 39 (26.35%) Azure
2 17 (11.49%) AWS
3 14 (9.46%) Power Platform
4 12 (8.11%) GCP
4 12 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.73%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.70%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.03%) Figma
7 3 (2.03%) Google Gemini
7 3 (2.03%) PaaS
7 3 (2.03%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.35%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.35%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.35%) Miro
8 2 (1.35%) SaaS
8 2 (1.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.41%) Firewall
2 5 (3.38%) LAN
2 5 (3.38%) WAN
3 3 (2.03%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.03%) Network Security
3 3 (2.03%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (2.03%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.35%) DHCP
4 2 (1.35%) DNS
4 2 (1.35%) Internet
4 2 (1.35%) Modbus
4 2 (1.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.35%) VPN
5 1 (0.68%) BGP
5 1 (0.68%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.68%) Intranet
5 1 (0.68%) MPLS
5 1 (0.68%) OSPF
5 1 (0.68%) SSH
5 1 (0.68%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.76%) Power BI
2 5 (3.38%) Star Schema
3 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.70%) Hadoop
3 4 (2.70%) KDB
4 3 (2.03%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.03%) Kdb+
4 3 (2.03%) Tableau
5 2 (1.35%) Big Data
5 2 (1.35%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.35%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.35%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.68%) Metadata
6 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.68%) Pinecone
6 1 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.68%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.68%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.68%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (10.81%) JIRA
2 5 (3.38%) Git
3 3 (2.03%) Selenium
4 2 (1.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.35%) GitLab
4 2 (1.35%) MLflow
4 2 (1.35%) Postman
4 2 (1.35%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.68%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.68%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.68%) Gradle
5 1 (0.68%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.68%) QUnit
General
1 87 (58.78%) Finance
2 66 (44.59%) Social Skills
3 36 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.19%) Banking
5 15 (10.14%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (9.46%) Front Office
7 11 (7.43%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (6.08%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (5.41%) Back Office
9 8 (5.41%) Financial Institution
9 8 (5.41%) Telecoms
10 7 (4.73%) Legal
10 7 (4.73%) Marketing
11 6 (4.05%) Public Sector
12 5 (3.38%) Investment Banking
12 5 (3.38%) Pharmaceutical
13 4 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (2.70%) Manufacturing
14 3 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (2.03%) Law
Job Titles
1 30 (20.27%) Analyst
2 21 (14.19%) Business Analyst
3 18 (12.16%) Senior
4 14 (9.46%) Developer
5 10 (6.76%) Data Engineer
5 10 (6.76%) Project Manager
6 9 (6.08%) Architect
6 9 (6.08%) Lead
7 7 (4.73%) Data Scientist
7 7 (4.73%) IT Manager
7 7 (4.73%) Support Engineer
8 6 (4.05%) Consultant
8 6 (4.05%) IT Project Manager
9 5 (3.38%) Financial Analyst
9 5 (3.38%) Security Engineer
10 4 (2.70%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Senior Business Analyst
10 4 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
10 4 (2.70%) Technical Analyst
11 3 (2.03%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.08%) .NET
2 5 (3.38%) CSS
2 5 (3.38%) HTML
3 4 (2.70%) XML
4 3 (2.03%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.03%) NumPy
4 3 (2.03%) PySpark
4 3 (2.03%) RESTful
4 3 (2.03%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.03%) Web Services
5 2 (1.35%) Kafka
5 2 (1.35%) LangChain
5 2 (1.35%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.35%) Pandas
5 2 (1.35%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.35%) React
5 2 (1.35%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.35%) Spring
6 1 (0.68%) Swing
6 1 (0.68%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.49%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.76%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.08%) Onboarding
4 8 (5.41%) Algorithms
5 7 (4.73%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.05%) Fixed Income
6 6 (4.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.38%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.38%) Derivative
7 5 (3.38%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.38%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.03%) Hedge funds
9 3 (2.03%) Life Science
9 3 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.35%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.35%) SCADA
10 2 (1.35%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.11%) Windows
2 7 (4.73%) Linux
3 6 (4.05%) Unix
4 3 (2.03%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.35%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.68%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.68%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (41.22%) Computer Science
2 48 (32.43%) Agile
3 45 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (19.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (17.57%) Scrum
6 24 (16.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 22 (14.86%) Analytics
7 22 (14.86%) Project Management
8 21 (14.19%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (13.51%) AI
10 19 (12.84%) Data Science
10 19 (12.84%) Project Delivery
11 18 (12.16%) DevOps
11 18 (12.16%) Risk Management
12 16 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (10.81%) SDLC
13 15 (10.14%) Change Management
13 15 (10.14%) Data Analysis
13 15 (10.14%) ITIL
13 15 (10.14%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 32 (21.62%) Python
2 22 (14.86%) SQL
3 12 (8.11%) Java
4 9 (6.08%) C#
5 8 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.38%) C++
7 4 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 3 (2.03%) R
9 2 (1.35%) Go
9 2 (1.35%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.68%) ABAP
10 1 (0.68%) Apex Code
10 1 (0.68%) F#
10 1 (0.68%) Korn
10 1 (0.68%) Scala
10 1 (0.68%) Solidity
10 1 (0.68%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.68%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.68%) VBA
10 1 (0.68%) VC++
Qualifications
1 33 (22.30%) Computer Science Degree
2 18 (12.16%) Master's Degree
3 8 (5.41%) CBAP
4 7 (4.73%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (4.73%) Security Cleared
5 6 (4.05%) PMI Certification
6 5 (3.38%) CCNA
6 5 (3.38%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.38%) PMP
6 5 (3.38%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.70%) PhD
8 3 (2.03%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.03%) CCNP
8 3 (2.03%) CISSP
8 3 (2.03%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.35%) ACCA
9 2 (1.35%) CIMA
9 2 (1.35%) ISEB
9 2 (1.35%) MCSA
9 2 (1.35%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.41%) Data Quality
1 8 (5.41%) GDPR
2 6 (4.05%) COBIT
2 6 (4.05%) PMO
2 6 (4.05%) QA
3 5 (3.38%) NIST
4 3 (2.03%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (2.03%) SLA
5 2 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.68%) EMIR
6 1 (0.68%) GRC
6 1 (0.68%) IFRS
6 1 (0.68%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.68%) MiFID
6 1 (0.68%) PSD2
6 1 (0.68%) SEPA
6 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (5.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.35%) Docker
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.68%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (2.70%) Kubernetes
1 4 (2.70%) Terraform
2 3 (2.03%) Ansible
2 3 (2.03%) SCCM
3 2 (1.35%) Grafana
3 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.68%) Packer
4 1 (0.68%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.68%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 40 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 9 (6.08%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.73%) SAP
4 6 (4.05%) Salesforce
5 5 (3.38%) Cisco
5 5 (3.38%) Oracle
5 5 (3.38%) Workday
6 4 (2.70%) Databricks
6 4 (2.70%) Google
7 3 (2.03%) Arista
7 3 (2.03%) Citrix
7 3 (2.03%) Foundry
7 3 (2.03%) Hyperion
7 3 (2.03%) VMware
8 2 (1.35%) Palantir
8 2 (1.35%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.35%) Rockwell
8 2 (1.35%) Tagetik
8 2 (1.35%) Tenable
8 2 (1.35%) UiPath