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 18 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 111 152 157
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.33% 8.53% 6.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 19.20% 32.34% 35.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 102 95
10th Percentile £368 £363 £255
25th Percentile £420 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £565 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +0.44% -10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £726 £697
90th Percentile £839 £825 £795
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £19.08 - -
25th Percentile £21.87 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £40.83 - £73.75
90th Percentile £47.63 - -
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 578 470 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.78% 26.37% 18.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 295 296
10th Percentile £382 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £675
90th Percentile £738 £771 £777
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £537
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.28% -6.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
10th Percentile £21.50 £24.78 £19.19
25th Percentile £25.95 £28.94 £19.58
Median hourly rate £39.72 £72.25 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -45.02% +247.11% -59.58%
75th Percentile £61.79 £112.00 £47.58
90th Percentile £70.88 - £63.28
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £32.50 £33.74
% change year-on-year -20.71% -3.66% -34.50%

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 18 March 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 18 March 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 5 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.70%) Confluence
3 1 (0.90%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.90%) Appian
3 1 (0.90%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.90%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 10 (9.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 9 (8.11%) MS Visio
3 7 (6.31%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.90%) Actimize
1 1 (0.90%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.90%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 31 (27.93%) Azure
2 15 (13.51%) GCP
3 14 (12.61%) AWS
4 13 (11.71%) Power Platform
5 9 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.21%) GitHub
7 5 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (3.60%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (2.70%) Azure AKS
9 3 (2.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (2.70%) Google Gemini
9 3 (2.70%) Snowflake
10 2 (1.80%) ChatGPT
10 2 (1.80%) Cloudflare
10 2 (1.80%) Collibra
10 2 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.80%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.80%) Figma
10 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.80%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) Firewall
2 3 (2.70%) LAN
2 3 (2.70%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.70%) WAN
3 2 (1.80%) Network Security
3 2 (1.80%) SSL
4 1 (0.90%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.90%) Internet
4 1 (0.90%) IPsec
4 1 (0.90%) iSCSI
4 1 (0.90%) NetScaler
4 1 (0.90%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.90%) VLAN
4 1 (0.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.90%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.11%) Power BI
2 6 (5.41%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.41%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.60%) Tableau
4 3 (2.70%) DB2
4 3 (2.70%) Metadata
4 3 (2.70%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) SQL Server
5 2 (1.80%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.80%) KDB
5 2 (1.80%) Kdb+
5 2 (1.80%) MySQL
6 1 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.90%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.90%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.90%) OLAP
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.90%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.90%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.90%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 13 (11.71%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) Git
3 2 (1.80%) Bitbucket
3 2 (1.80%) Cucumber
3 2 (1.80%) ERwin
3 2 (1.80%) Jenkins
3 2 (1.80%) Postman
3 2 (1.80%) Selenium
3 2 (1.80%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.90%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.90%) GitLab
4 1 (0.90%) Hardhat
4 1 (0.90%) MLflow
4 1 (0.90%) SonarQube
General
1 48 (43.24%) Finance
1 48 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (18.02%) Banking
4 11 (9.91%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (9.01%) Front Office
6 9 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.11%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.21%) Investment Banking
8 6 (5.41%) Legal
9 5 (4.50%) Back Office
9 5 (4.50%) Marketing
10 4 (3.60%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.60%) Telecoms
11 3 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (2.70%) Law
11 3 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.70%) Retail
12 2 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 19 (17.12%) Analyst
2 14 (12.61%) Senior
3 11 (9.91%) Business Analyst
3 11 (9.91%) Lead
4 9 (8.11%) Developer
5 8 (7.21%) Consultant
5 8 (7.21%) Project Manager
6 7 (6.31%) Architect
7 6 (5.41%) Data Scientist
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (4.50%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (3.60%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.60%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Senior Manager
9 4 (3.60%) Support Engineer
9 4 (3.60%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Data Analyst
10 3 (2.70%) Senior Project Manager
10 3 (2.70%) Technical Support
10 3 (2.70%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.21%) PyTorch
1 8 (7.21%) TensorFlow
2 6 (5.41%) React
3 5 (4.50%) .NET
4 4 (3.60%) Hugging Face
5 3 (2.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.70%) Backbone.js
5 3 (2.70%) Bootstrap
5 3 (2.70%) Ember.js
5 3 (2.70%) jQuery
5 3 (2.70%) Keras
5 3 (2.70%) LangChain
5 3 (2.70%) Node.js
5 3 (2.70%) Spring
6 2 (1.80%) LangGraph
7 1 (0.90%) Faiss
7 1 (0.90%) FastAPI
7 1 (0.90%) Google JAX
7 1 (0.90%) JAX
7 1 (0.90%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.31%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.41%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.41%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
3 5 (4.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.60%) Fixed Income
5 3 (2.70%) Algorithms
5 3 (2.70%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (2.70%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.70%) Equities
5 3 (2.70%) PMI
5 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.80%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.80%) BYOD
6 2 (1.80%) Derivative
6 2 (1.80%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.80%) Synthetic Data
6 2 (1.80%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.01%) Windows
2 5 (4.50%) Linux
3 4 (3.60%) Unix
4 3 (2.70%) Android
4 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.90%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.90%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.64%) Computer Science
2 33 (29.73%) Agile
2 33 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (23.42%) AI
4 19 (17.12%) Analytics
4 19 (17.12%) DevOps
5 18 (16.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (15.32%) Risk Management
7 16 (14.41%) Change Management
7 16 (14.41%) Data Science
7 16 (14.41%) Scrum
8 15 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.61%) User Acceptance Testing
10 13 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (11.71%) SDLC
11 12 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.81%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.81%) Machine Learning
11 12 (10.81%) Validation
12 11 (9.91%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.32%) Python
2 24 (21.62%) SQL
3 14 (12.61%) Java
4 5 (4.50%) C#
4 5 (4.50%) C++
5 4 (3.60%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
6 3 (2.70%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.80%) Korn
7 2 (1.80%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.90%) R
8 1 (0.90%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 29 (26.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (15.32%) Master's Degree
3 9 (8.11%) CISSP
3 9 (8.11%) Security Cleared
4 8 (7.21%) SC Cleared
5 7 (6.31%) CISM
5 7 (6.31%) PhD
6 6 (5.41%) PMI Certification
7 5 (4.50%) CBAP
7 5 (4.50%) CRISC
8 4 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.70%) DV Cleared
9 3 (2.70%) GIAC
9 3 (2.70%) ISACA
9 3 (2.70%) ISEB
9 3 (2.70%) PMP
10 2 (1.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (1.80%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.80%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (7.21%) Data Quality
2 7 (6.31%) PMO
2 7 (6.31%) QA
3 6 (5.41%) GDPR
4 5 (4.50%) NIST
5 3 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.70%) GRC
5 3 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (1.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.90%) COBIT
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.90%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.90%) ITGC
7 1 (0.90%) MiFID
7 1 (0.90%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.90%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.60%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.70%) Docker
3 1 (0.90%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.90%) XenApp
3 1 (0.90%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.70%) Terraform
3 2 (1.80%) Ansible
3 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.80%) SCCM
4 1 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.90%) Control-M
4 1 (0.90%) Packer
4 1 (0.90%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 24 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.41%) Google
2 6 (5.41%) SAP
3 5 (4.50%) Cisco
3 5 (4.50%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.60%) Oracle
5 3 (2.70%) Arista
5 3 (2.70%) Databricks
6 2 (1.80%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.80%) CheckPoint
6 2 (1.80%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.80%) Infoblox
6 2 (1.80%) Informatica
6 2 (1.80%) Murex
6 2 (1.80%) Palo Alto
6 2 (1.80%) Planview
6 2 (1.80%) UiPath
6 2 (1.80%) VMware
6 2 (1.80%) YouTube
7 1 (0.90%) Trend Micro