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

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 23 28
Rank change year-on-year -6 +5 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 113 140 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.02% 7.42% 6.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 21.94% 28.69% 33.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 90 99
10th Percentile £324 £298 £263
25th Percentile £416 £460 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -1.50% -12.00%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £697
90th Percentile £851 £803 £850
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.37%
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 - £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 515 488 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.45% 25.87% 20.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 389 286 327
10th Percentile £363 £373 £336
25th Percentile £425 £458 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £764 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £540
% change year-on-year - -2.78% -10.00%
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 £28.00 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -0.34% +72.62%
75th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £59.86 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -64.54% +20.42% +42.86%

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 25 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
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 25 January 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 6 (5.31%) Confluence
1 6 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.77%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.88%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.88%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (13.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (7.96%) MS Visio
4 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Project
5 5 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.88%) HFM
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 28 (24.78%) Azure
2 14 (12.39%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.73%) AWS
4 10 (8.85%) GCP
5 8 (7.08%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.54%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.54%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.65%) Figma
8 3 (2.65%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.77%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.77%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.77%) Collibra
9 2 (1.77%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.77%) GitHub
9 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.77%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.77%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.88%) Akamai
10 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.19%) Firewall
2 3 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.65%) LAN
2 3 (2.65%) Network Security
2 3 (2.65%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.65%) WAN
3 2 (1.77%) Modbus
4 1 (0.88%) DHCP
4 1 (0.88%) DNS
4 1 (0.88%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.88%) Internet
4 1 (0.88%) Softphone
4 1 (0.88%) SSH
4 1 (0.88%) SSL
4 1 (0.88%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.88%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.88%) VLAN
4 1 (0.88%) VPN
4 1 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.73%) Power BI
2 4 (3.54%) Tableau
3 3 (2.65%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.65%) KDB
3 3 (2.65%) Kdb+
3 3 (2.65%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.77%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) MySQL
5 1 (0.88%) OLAP
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 16 (14.16%) JIRA
2 5 (4.42%) Git
3 3 (2.65%) Selenium
4 2 (1.77%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.77%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.77%) GitLab
4 2 (1.77%) Postman
4 2 (1.77%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.88%) ERwin
5 1 (0.88%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.88%) QUnit
5 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (46.02%) Social Skills
2 49 (43.36%) Finance
3 21 (18.58%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (14.16%) Banking
5 12 (10.62%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (9.73%) Front Office
7 9 (7.96%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (6.19%) Investment Banking
8 7 (6.19%) Legal
8 7 (6.19%) Telecoms
9 6 (5.31%) Back Office
9 6 (5.31%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (5.31%) Public Sector
10 4 (3.54%) Financial Institution
10 4 (3.54%) Law
10 4 (3.54%) Manufacturing
10 4 (3.54%) Marketing
10 4 (3.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.65%) Retail
12 2 (1.77%) French Language
Job Titles
1 23 (20.35%) Analyst
2 18 (15.93%) Senior
3 16 (14.16%) Business Analyst
4 10 (8.85%) Developer
5 9 (7.96%) Lead
6 7 (6.19%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.31%) Consultant
7 6 (5.31%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.31%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.42%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.54%) Architect
9 4 (3.54%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.54%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (3.54%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.65%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (2.65%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.65%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.65%) Technical Support
10 3 (2.65%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.31%) .NET
2 4 (3.54%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.54%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.65%) LangChain
4 2 (1.77%) CSS
4 2 (1.77%) HTML
4 2 (1.77%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.77%) React
4 2 (1.77%) XML
5 1 (0.88%) FIX Protocol
5 1 (0.88%) HTML5
5 1 (0.88%) Kafka
5 1 (0.88%) Murex MxML
5 1 (0.88%) Node.js
5 1 (0.88%) NumPy
5 1 (0.88%) OpenID
5 1 (0.88%) SAML
5 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.88%) Swing
5 1 (0.88%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.73%) Product Ownership
2 8 (7.08%) Management Information System
3 7 (6.19%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.31%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.31%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.42%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.42%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.54%) PMI
6 4 (3.54%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.65%) Life Science
8 2 (1.77%) BYOD
8 2 (1.77%) Derivative
8 2 (1.77%) Equities
8 2 (1.77%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.77%) SCADA
8 2 (1.77%) Social Media
8 2 (1.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.62%) Windows
2 5 (4.42%) Unix
2 5 (4.42%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.65%) Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (39.82%) Computer Science
2 38 (33.63%) Agile
3 37 (32.74%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (16.81%) Scrum
4 19 (16.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 19 (16.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 18 (15.93%) AI
5 18 (15.93%) Analytics
6 16 (14.16%) Change Management
6 16 (14.16%) Risk Management
7 15 (13.27%) DevOps
7 15 (13.27%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (12.39%) Data Science
9 13 (11.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (11.50%) Project Management
9 13 (11.50%) Workshop Facilitation
10 12 (10.62%) Business Intelligence
10 12 (10.62%) SDLC
11 11 (9.73%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.58%) Python
2 17 (15.04%) SQL
3 10 (8.85%) Java
4 8 (7.08%) C#
5 6 (5.31%) C++
6 5 (4.42%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.42%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.77%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.77%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.88%) F#
8 1 (0.88%) Korn
8 1 (0.88%) R
8 1 (0.88%) Solidity
8 1 (0.88%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.88%) VBA
8 1 (0.88%) VC++
Qualifications
1 31 (27.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (16.81%) Master's Degree
3 8 (7.08%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.19%) CBAP
4 7 (6.19%) PMI Certification
4 7 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.31%) CISSP
5 6 (5.31%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (3.54%) CCNA
6 4 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.54%) CISM
7 3 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.65%) CRISC
7 3 (2.65%) GIAC
7 3 (2.65%) IIBA
7 3 (2.65%) ISACA
7 3 (2.65%) ISEB
7 3 (2.65%) MBA
7 3 (2.65%) PMP
7 3 (2.65%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.19%) QA
2 6 (5.31%) Data Quality
2 6 (5.31%) GDPR
2 6 (5.31%) PMO
3 3 (2.65%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.65%) GRC
3 3 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.77%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.77%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) DICOM
5 1 (0.88%) EMIR
5 1 (0.88%) HL7
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) NIST
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.77%) Docker
2 2 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.77%) Ansible
2 2 (1.77%) SCCM
2 2 (1.77%) Terraform
3 1 (0.88%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.88%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.88%) Packer
3 1 (0.88%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 29 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.31%) Oracle
3 5 (4.42%) Google
3 5 (4.42%) SAP
4 4 (3.54%) Cisco
4 4 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.65%) Arista
6 2 (1.77%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.77%) Planview
6 2 (1.77%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.77%) Tenable
6 2 (1.77%) UiPath
6 2 (1.77%) VMware
6 2 (1.77%) Workday
7 1 (0.88%) Ariba
7 1 (0.88%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.88%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.88%) Hyperion
7 1 (0.88%) Informatica