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 12 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -22 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 97 144 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.40% 8.25% 7.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.30% 32.58% 36.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 99 102
10th Percentile £363 £353 £263
25th Percentile £413 £460 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £662 £702 £681
90th Percentile £828 £823 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £538 £563
% change year-on-year -6.98% -4.44% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £20.01 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £30.03 - £72.50
75th Percentile £37.86 - £73.75
90th Percentile £46.44 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

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 595 442 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.01% 25.32% 20.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 296 300
10th Percentile £383 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £657
90th Percentile £738 £764 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £536 £530
% change year-on-year -2.10% +1.18% -6.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £29.85 £19.32
25th Percentile £24.16 £41.63 £19.90
Median hourly rate £30.03 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -51.95% +200.26% -59.58%
75th Percentile £55.37 £81.88 £34.49
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £58.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £45.79 £24.97
% change year-on-year -43.72% +83.36% -51.51%

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

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 12 April 2026.

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
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 12 April 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 3 (3.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) Appian
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.19%) MS Visio
3 5 (5.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Actimize
1 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.03%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.80%) Azure
2 13 (13.40%) GCP
2 13 (13.40%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.37%) AWS
4 7 (7.22%) GitHub
5 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.12%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.12%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.09%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.09%) Google Gemini
8 2 (2.06%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.06%) Collibra
8 2 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.03%) Amazon Bedrock
9 1 (1.03%) Dagster
9 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.03%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) Firewall
2 2 (2.06%) Network Security
3 1 (1.03%) IPsec
3 1 (1.03%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.03%) LAN
3 1 (1.03%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.03%) SSL
3 1 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.03%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.03%) VPN
3 1 (1.03%) WAN
3 1 (1.03%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.28%) Power BI
2 6 (6.19%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.19%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.12%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.09%) DB2
4 3 (3.09%) Metadata
4 3 (3.09%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.09%) Tableau
5 2 (2.06%) KDB
5 2 (2.06%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.06%) MySQL
5 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.03%) Big Data
6 1 (1.03%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.03%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.03%) OLAP
6 1 (1.03%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (9.28%) JIRA
2 6 (6.19%) Git
3 2 (2.06%) ERwin
3 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.03%) MLflow
4 1 (1.03%) Postman
4 1 (1.03%) Selenium
4 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (44.33%) Social Skills
2 39 (40.21%) Finance
3 22 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.56%) Banking
5 9 (9.28%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (8.25%) Front Office
7 7 (7.22%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (5.15%) Marketing
9 4 (4.12%) Back Office
9 4 (4.12%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.12%) Legal
10 3 (3.09%) Retail
11 2 (2.06%) Advertising
11 2 (2.06%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (18.56%) Analyst
2 13 (13.40%) Senior
3 9 (9.28%) Consultant
4 8 (8.25%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.22%) Developer
5 7 (7.22%) Lead
6 6 (6.19%) Architect
6 6 (6.19%) Data Scientist
7 5 (5.15%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.15%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.12%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.12%) SOX Analyst
8 4 (4.12%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.09%) Security Specialist
9 3 (3.09%) Technical Engineer
9 3 (3.09%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.25%) PyTorch
2 7 (7.22%) TensorFlow
3 4 (4.12%) Hugging Face
3 4 (4.12%) React
4 3 (3.09%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.09%) Backbone.js
4 3 (3.09%) Bootstrap
4 3 (3.09%) Ember.js
4 3 (3.09%) jQuery
4 3 (3.09%) Keras
4 3 (3.09%) Node.js
4 3 (3.09%) Spring
5 2 (2.06%) .NET
5 2 (2.06%) LangChain
6 1 (1.03%) Altair
6 1 (1.03%) Google JAX
6 1 (1.03%) JAX
6 1 (1.03%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.03%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.03%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.12%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (4.12%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.09%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.09%) Equities
2 3 (3.09%) Fixed Income
2 3 (3.09%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.09%) PMI
2 3 (3.09%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.06%) AI Agents
3 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.06%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.06%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.03%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.03%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.31%) Windows
2 5 (5.15%) Linux
3 4 (4.12%) Unix
4 3 (3.09%) Android
4 3 (3.09%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.03%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.03%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (39.18%) Computer Science
2 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (23.71%) Agile
3 23 (23.71%) AI
4 20 (20.62%) Analytics
5 15 (15.46%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (15.46%) Risk Management
6 14 (14.43%) Change Management
6 14 (14.43%) Data Science
6 14 (14.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (12.37%) DevOps
7 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (11.34%) Decision-Making
8 11 (11.34%) Validation
9 10 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (10.31%) Machine Learning
9 10 (10.31%) Workshop Facilitation
10 9 (9.28%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (9.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 9 (9.28%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.68%) Python
1 22 (22.68%) SQL
2 10 (10.31%) Java
3 5 (5.15%) C++
4 4 (4.12%) C#
5 2 (2.06%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.06%) PowerShell
5 2 (2.06%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.03%) Korn
6 1 (1.03%) R
6 1 (1.03%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 24 (24.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (16.49%) Master's Degree
3 11 (11.34%) CISSP
4 8 (8.25%) CRISC
5 7 (7.22%) CISM
5 7 (7.22%) PhD
5 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.15%) CISA
8 4 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.12%) PMI Certification
9 3 (3.09%) CBAP
9 3 (3.09%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.09%) GIAC
9 3 (3.09%) ISACA
9 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.06%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.06%) GSEC
10 2 (2.06%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.28%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.25%) NIST
3 6 (6.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.15%) GDPR
5 4 (4.12%) COBIT
5 4 (4.12%) ITGC
5 4 (4.12%) PMO
5 4 (4.12%) QA
5 4 (4.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.06%) GRC
7 2 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (2.06%) SLA
8 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (1.03%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.03%) NIST 800
8 1 (1.03%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.06%) Docker
3 1 (1.03%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.03%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.03%) XenApp
3 1 (1.03%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.06%) SCCM
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) Control-M
3 1 (1.03%) Packer
3 1 (1.03%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 20 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.15%) Google
3 4 (4.12%) SAP
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
4 3 (3.09%) Databricks
4 3 (3.09%) Informatica
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle
4 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.06%) Murex
5 2 (2.06%) YouTube
6 1 (1.03%) Charles River
6 1 (1.03%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.03%) Citrix
6 1 (1.03%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.03%) Hotjar
6 1 (1.03%) HP
6 1 (1.03%) IBM
6 1 (1.03%) Juniper
6 1 (1.03%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.03%) VMware