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

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 25 29
Rank change year-on-year -7 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 112 136 160
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.09% 7.18% 6.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.92% 28.10% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 84 92
10th Percentile £319 £326 £292
25th Percentile £413 £462 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -5.38% -3.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £706
90th Percentile £851 £818 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £18.16 - -
25th Percentile £19.55 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £22.62 - £72.50
75th Percentile £26.43 - £73.75
90th Percentile £28.27 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +53.44%

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 511 484 482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.79% 25.55% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 278 312
10th Percentile £363 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £458 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £536 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.50% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £679
90th Percentile £738 £759 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £20.65 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £25.77 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.94% -0.34% +70.59%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £50.80 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -64.54% +20.42% +41.18%

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

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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 18 January 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
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 6 (5.36%) Confluence
1 6 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.89%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.89%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (13.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (8.04%) MS Visio
4 7 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
5 5 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.89%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.89%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.89%) HFM
1 1 (0.89%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.89%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 27 (24.11%) Azure
2 14 (12.50%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.82%) AWS
4 10 (8.93%) GCP
5 8 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.57%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.57%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.68%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.79%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.79%) Figma
9 2 (1.79%) GitHub
9 2 (1.79%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.79%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.79%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.89%) Akamai
10 1 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.89%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.25%) Firewall
2 3 (2.68%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.68%) LAN
2 3 (2.68%) Network Security
2 3 (2.68%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.68%) WAN
3 2 (1.79%) Modbus
4 1 (0.89%) DHCP
4 1 (0.89%) DNS
4 1 (0.89%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.89%) Internet
4 1 (0.89%) Softphone
4 1 (0.89%) SSH
4 1 (0.89%) SSL
4 1 (0.89%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.89%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.89%) VLAN
4 1 (0.89%) VPN
4 1 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.89%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.82%) Power BI
2 4 (3.57%) Tableau
3 3 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.68%) KDB
3 3 (2.68%) Kdb+
3 3 (2.68%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.79%) Metadata
5 1 (0.89%) Big Data
5 1 (0.89%) MySQL
5 1 (0.89%) OLAP
5 1 (0.89%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.89%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.89%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.89%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (13.39%) JIRA
2 5 (4.46%) Git
3 3 (2.68%) Selenium
4 2 (1.79%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.79%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.79%) GitLab
4 2 (1.79%) Postman
4 2 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.89%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.89%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.89%) ERwin
5 1 (0.89%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.89%) QUnit
5 1 (0.89%) SonarQube
General
1 51 (45.54%) Social Skills
2 48 (42.86%) Finance
3 22 (19.64%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (16.07%) Banking
5 11 (9.82%) Front Office
5 11 (9.82%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (8.04%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (7.14%) Back Office
8 7 (6.25%) Investment Banking
8 7 (6.25%) Legal
8 7 (6.25%) Telecoms
9 6 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (5.36%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.57%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.57%) Law
10 4 (3.57%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.57%) Marketing
10 4 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.79%) French Language
11 2 (1.79%) Retail
Job Titles
1 25 (22.32%) Analyst
2 18 (16.07%) Business Analyst
2 18 (16.07%) Senior
3 10 (8.93%) Developer
4 9 (8.04%) Lead
5 7 (6.25%) Project Manager
6 6 (5.36%) Consultant
6 6 (5.36%) Senior Business Analyst
6 6 (5.36%) Support Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Security Engineer
7 5 (4.46%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (3.57%) Architect
8 4 (3.57%) IT Manager
8 4 (3.57%) IT Project Manager
8 4 (3.57%) Technical Analyst
9 3 (2.68%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (2.68%) Senior Developer
9 3 (2.68%) Senior Manager
9 3 (2.68%) Technical Support
9 3 (2.68%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.36%) .NET
2 4 (3.57%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.57%) TensorFlow
2 4 (3.57%) XML
3 3 (2.68%) LangChain
4 2 (1.79%) CSS
4 2 (1.79%) HTML
4 2 (1.79%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.79%) React
5 1 (0.89%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.89%) HTML5
5 1 (0.89%) jQuery
5 1 (0.89%) Kafka
5 1 (0.89%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.89%) OAuth
5 1 (0.89%) OpenID
5 1 (0.89%) SAML
5 1 (0.89%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.89%) Swing
5 1 (0.89%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.82%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.36%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.46%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.46%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.57%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.57%) PMI
6 4 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.68%) Life Science
8 2 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.79%) BYOD
8 2 (1.79%) Derivative
8 2 (1.79%) Equities
8 2 (1.79%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.79%) SCADA
8 2 (1.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.71%) Windows
2 5 (4.46%) Unix
2 5 (4.46%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.68%) Linux
4 1 (0.89%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.07%) Computer Science
2 39 (34.82%) Agile
3 38 (33.93%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (16.96%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (16.07%) Scrum
5 18 (16.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (15.18%) AI
6 17 (15.18%) Analytics
7 16 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 15 (13.39%) Change Management
8 15 (13.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (12.50%) Data Science
9 14 (12.50%) DevOps
10 13 (11.61%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (11.61%) Project Management
10 13 (11.61%) Workshop Facilitation
11 12 (10.71%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.71%) SDLC
12 11 (9.82%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.75%) Python
2 17 (15.18%) SQL
3 10 (8.93%) Java
4 8 (7.14%) C#
5 6 (5.36%) C++
6 5 (4.46%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.79%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.89%) F#
8 1 (0.89%) Korn
8 1 (0.89%) R
8 1 (0.89%) Solidity
8 1 (0.89%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.89%) VBA
8 1 (0.89%) VC++
Qualifications
1 33 (29.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (15.18%) Master's Degree
3 8 (7.14%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.25%) CBAP
4 7 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.36%) CISSP
5 6 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.36%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.57%) CCNA
6 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.57%) CISM
7 3 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.68%) CRISC
7 3 (2.68%) GIAC
7 3 (2.68%) IIBA
7 3 (2.68%) ISACA
7 3 (2.68%) ISEB
7 3 (2.68%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.79%) CASP
8 2 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.25%) QA
2 6 (5.36%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.46%) GDPR
3 5 (4.46%) PMO
4 3 (2.68%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.68%) GRC
4 3 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.79%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.79%) SLA
6 1 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.89%) DICOM
6 1 (0.89%) EMIR
6 1 (0.89%) HL7
6 1 (0.89%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.89%) MiFID
6 1 (0.89%) NIST
6 1 (0.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.89%) SEPA
6 1 (0.89%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.79%) Docker
2 2 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.89%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.79%) Ansible
2 2 (1.79%) SCCM
2 2 (1.79%) Terraform
3 1 (0.89%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.89%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.89%) Packer
3 1 (0.89%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 29 (25.89%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.36%) Oracle
3 5 (4.46%) Google
3 5 (4.46%) SAP
4 4 (3.57%) Cisco
4 4 (3.57%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.68%) Arista
6 2 (1.79%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.79%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.79%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.79%) Tenable
6 2 (1.79%) UiPath
6 2 (1.79%) VMware
6 2 (1.79%) Workday
7 1 (0.89%) Ariba
7 1 (0.89%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.89%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.89%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.89%) IBM
7 1 (0.89%) Planview