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 31 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -35 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 81 137 170
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.47% 8.07% 7.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.55% 34.08% 38.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 92 106
10th Percentile £355 £358 £313
25th Percentile £416 £463 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +2.22% -6.33%
75th Percentile £660 £728 £647
90th Percentile £770 £825 £781
Central London median daily rate £501 £565 £556
% change year-on-year -11.42% +1.57% -7.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £21.37 - -
25th Percentile £27.58 £27.39 -
Median hourly rate £41.75 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.32% +4.26% -48.08%
75th Percentile £55.37 £28.91 -
90th Percentile £61.15 - -
Central London median hourly rate £41.75 £28.15 £34.75
% change year-on-year +48.32% -18.99% -33.17%

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 598 402 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.60% 23.67% 20.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 273 283
10th Percentile £413 £404 £382
25th Percentile £463 £463 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £555 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +3.26% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £738 £773 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.29% -7.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 3
10th Percentile £18.71 £34.16 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £44.32 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +200.26% -59.58%
75th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £24.20
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £25.88
Central London median hourly rate £41.75 £29.07 £23.91
% change year-on-year +43.63% +21.59% -53.58%

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 4 (4.94%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Appian
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.23%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.41%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.23%) Actimize
1 1 (1.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.23%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.23%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.46%) Azure
2 11 (13.58%) AWS
3 8 (9.88%) GCP
3 8 (9.88%) GitHub
3 8 (9.88%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.94%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.94%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.70%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.70%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.70%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.47%) Collibra
6 2 (2.47%) Figma
7 1 (1.23%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.23%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.23%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.23%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.23%) IBM Cloud
7 1 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.94%) Firewall
2 1 (1.23%) IPsec
2 1 (1.23%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.23%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.23%) Network Security
2 1 (1.23%) NGFW
2 1 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.23%) SSL
2 1 (1.23%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.23%) VPN
2 1 (1.23%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.41%) NoSQL
1 6 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.41%) Power BI
2 5 (6.17%) Metadata
3 4 (4.94%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.94%) Tableau
4 3 (3.70%) DB2
4 3 (3.70%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.47%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (2.47%) MySQL
5 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.23%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.23%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.23%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.23%) OLAP
6 1 (1.23%) Power Query
6 1 (1.23%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.23%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 10 (12.35%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Git
3 2 (2.47%) ERwin
3 2 (2.47%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.47%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.23%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.23%) GitLab
4 1 (1.23%) MLflow
4 1 (1.23%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 34 (41.98%) Finance
2 30 (37.04%) Social Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (19.75%) Banking
4 7 (8.64%) Marketing
5 6 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.94%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.70%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.70%) Legal
8 2 (2.47%) Advertising
8 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.47%) Front Office
8 2 (2.47%) Retail
9 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.23%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.23%) International Banking
9 1 (1.23%) Mandarin Language
9 1 (1.23%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 19 (23.46%) Analyst
2 10 (12.35%) Senior
3 8 (9.88%) Architect
4 6 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Consultant
5 5 (6.17%) Developer
5 5 (6.17%) IT Analyst
5 5 (6.17%) Lead
6 4 (4.94%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) SOX Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (3.70%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.70%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.70%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.70%) Security Specialist
8 2 (2.47%) Content Manager
8 2 (2.47%) IT Risk Analyst
8 2 (2.47%) Junior Architect
8 2 (2.47%) Senior Banking Business Analyst
8 2 (2.47%) Senior Content Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) PyTorch
2 6 (7.41%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.17%) React
4 4 (4.94%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.70%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.70%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.70%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.70%) jQuery
5 3 (3.70%) Keras
5 3 (3.70%) Node.js
5 3 (3.70%) Spring
6 2 (2.47%) .NET
7 1 (1.23%) ADO
7 1 (1.23%) Kafka
7 1 (1.23%) Murex MxML
7 1 (1.23%) RESTful
7 1 (1.23%) STL
7 1 (1.23%) Web Services
7 1 (1.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.94%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.94%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.94%) PMI
2 3 (3.70%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.70%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.47%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.47%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.47%) Equities
3 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.47%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.47%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.23%) BYOD
4 1 (1.23%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.23%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.88%) Windows
2 7 (8.64%) Linux
3 3 (3.70%) Android
3 3 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.70%) Unix
3 3 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.23%) VMS
4 1 (1.23%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.23%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.27%) Computer Science
2 20 (24.69%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (23.46%) AI
4 18 (22.22%) Analytics
5 17 (20.99%) Agile
6 15 (18.52%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
8 11 (13.58%) Change Management
8 11 (13.58%) Risk Management
9 10 (12.35%) Decision-Making
9 10 (12.35%) Machine Learning
9 10 (12.35%) Validation
10 9 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (11.11%) Data Management
10 9 (11.11%) Data Modelling
10 9 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.88%) Data Governance
11 8 (9.88%) DevOps
11 8 (9.88%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 23 (28.40%) SQL
2 18 (22.22%) Python
3 8 (9.88%) Java
4 5 (6.17%) C++
5 4 (4.94%) C#
5 4 (4.94%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.23%) Korn
7 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.23%) VB
7 1 (1.23%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (19.75%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (14.81%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.35%) CISSP
4 8 (9.88%) CRISC
4 8 (9.88%) PhD
4 8 (9.88%) Security Cleared
5 7 (8.64%) SC Cleared
6 6 (7.41%) CISM
6 6 (7.41%) PMI Certification
7 5 (6.17%) CISA
7 5 (6.17%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.94%) CBAP
9 2 (2.47%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.47%) CASP
9 2 (2.47%) CCNP
9 2 (2.47%) ISACA
9 2 (2.47%) MCSE
9 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.47%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.64%) NIST
3 6 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.17%) QA
5 4 (4.94%) COBIT
5 4 (4.94%) GDPR
5 4 (4.94%) ITGC
5 4 (4.94%) PMO
5 4 (4.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.47%) GRC
6 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (2.47%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.23%) DICOM
7 1 (1.23%) HL7
7 1 (1.23%) MiFID
7 1 (1.23%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.23%) SLA
7 1 (1.23%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (3.70%) Docker
2 2 (2.47%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.23%) Firmware
3 1 (1.23%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.23%) vSphere
3 1 (1.23%) XenApp
3 1 (1.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (8.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.47%) Ansible
2 2 (2.47%) SCCM
3 1 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.23%) Control-M
3 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.23%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Oracle
3 3 (3.70%) Databricks
3 3 (3.70%) Google
3 3 (3.70%) Informatica
3 3 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.47%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.47%) Cisco
4 2 (2.47%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.47%) IBM
4 2 (2.47%) Murex
4 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.47%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.47%) Splunk
4 2 (2.47%) YouTube
5 1 (1.23%) Charles River
5 1 (1.23%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.23%) Nexthink
5 1 (1.23%) PTC
5 1 (1.23%) VMware