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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -36 -5 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 78 136 171
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.34% 8.09% 7.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.00% 34.00% 39.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 92 106
10th Percentile £350 £351 £313
25th Percentile £413 £462 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +2.22% -6.29%
75th Percentile £669 £728 £647
90th Percentile £783 £825 £781
Central London median daily rate £503 £553 £556
% change year-on-year -9.05% -0.67% -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 600 400 436
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.66% 23.78% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 272 282
10th Percentile £413 £400 £382
25th Percentile £463 £463 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £554 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +2.98% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £650
90th Percentile £738 £774 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -2.27% +3.24% -7.35%
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% -42.34%
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% -33.78%

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 3 June 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 3 June 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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Appian
2 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.41%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Actimize
1 1 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.28%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.28%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.36%) Azure
2 10 (12.82%) AWS
3 8 (10.26%) GCP
3 8 (10.26%) GitHub
3 8 (10.26%) Power Platform
4 4 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.13%) GitHub Copilot
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (3.85%) Azure AKS
5 3 (3.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 3 (3.85%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.56%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.56%) Figma
7 1 (1.28%) Alation
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.28%) ChatGPT
7 1 (1.28%) Collibra
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.13%) Firewall
2 1 (1.28%) IPsec
2 1 (1.28%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.28%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.28%) Network Security
2 1 (1.28%) NGFW
2 1 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.28%) SSL
2 1 (1.28%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.28%) VPN
2 1 (1.28%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.69%) NoSQL
1 6 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.69%) Power BI
2 4 (5.13%) Metadata
2 4 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Tableau
3 3 (3.85%) DB2
3 3 (3.85%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.56%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (2.56%) MySQL
4 2 (2.56%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.28%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.28%) Data Mart
5 1 (1.28%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.28%) Power Query
5 1 (1.28%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 11 (14.10%) JIRA
2 5 (6.41%) Git
3 2 (2.56%) ERwin
3 2 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.56%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.28%) GitLab
4 1 (1.28%) MLflow
4 1 (1.28%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.28%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (42.31%) Finance
2 31 (39.74%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (19.23%) Banking
5 7 (8.97%) Marketing
6 6 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.85%) Legal
9 2 (2.56%) Advertising
9 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.56%) Front Office
9 2 (2.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.56%) Retail
10 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.28%) Automotive
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 17 (21.79%) Analyst
2 10 (12.82%) Senior
3 8 (10.26%) Architect
4 6 (7.69%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Developer
5 5 (6.41%) IT Analyst
5 5 (6.41%) Lead
6 4 (5.13%) SOX Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Consultant
7 3 (3.85%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (3.85%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.85%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.85%) Risk Analyst
7 3 (3.85%) Security Specialist
8 2 (2.56%) Data Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Junior Technical Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Report Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Analyst
8 2 (2.56%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) PyTorch
2 6 (7.69%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.41%) React
4 4 (5.13%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.85%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.85%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.85%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.85%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.85%) jQuery
5 3 (3.85%) Keras
5 3 (3.85%) Node.js
5 3 (3.85%) Spring
6 2 (2.56%) .NET
7 1 (1.28%) ADO
7 1 (1.28%) Kafka
7 1 (1.28%) Murex MxML
7 1 (1.28%) RESTful
7 1 (1.28%) STL
7 1 (1.28%) Web Services
7 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.13%) PMI
2 3 (3.85%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.85%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.56%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.56%) Equities
3 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.56%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.28%) Blog
4 1 (1.28%) CMDB
4 1 (1.28%) Derivative
4 1 (1.28%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (1.28%) FMCG
4 1 (1.28%) Life Science
4 1 (1.28%) Social Media
4 1 (1.28%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Linux
1 7 (8.97%) Windows
2 3 (3.85%) Android
2 3 (3.85%) Apple iOS
2 3 (3.85%) Unix
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.28%) VMS
4 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.74%) Computer Science
2 20 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (24.36%) AI
4 17 (21.79%) Agile
5 15 (19.23%) Analytics
5 15 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (14.10%) Change Management
7 10 (12.82%) Cybersecurity
7 10 (12.82%) Machine Learning
7 10 (12.82%) Validation
8 9 (11.54%) Business Intelligence
8 9 (11.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.54%) Decision-Making
8 9 (11.54%) Risk Management
9 8 (10.26%) Data Management
9 8 (10.26%) Data Modelling
9 8 (10.26%) DevOps
9 8 (10.26%) Migration
9 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (8.97%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 22 (28.21%) SQL
2 18 (23.08%) Python
3 8 (10.26%) Java
4 5 (6.41%) C++
5 4 (5.13%) C#
5 4 (5.13%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.28%) Korn
7 1 (1.28%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.28%) VB
7 1 (1.28%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (20.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (14.10%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.82%) CISSP
4 8 (10.26%) CRISC
4 8 (10.26%) PhD
5 6 (7.69%) CISM
5 6 (7.69%) PMI Certification
5 6 (7.69%) Security Cleared
6 5 (6.41%) CISA
6 5 (6.41%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.41%) SC Cleared
7 4 (5.13%) CBAP
8 2 (2.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 2 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.56%) CASP
8 2 (2.56%) CCNP
8 2 (2.56%) GSEC
8 2 (2.56%) MBA
8 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.97%) NIST
3 6 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.41%) QA
5 4 (5.13%) COBIT
5 4 (5.13%) GDPR
5 4 (5.13%) ITGC
5 4 (5.13%) PMO
5 4 (5.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.56%) GRC
6 2 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (2.56%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.28%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.28%) MiFID
7 1 (1.28%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.28%) P3O
7 1 (1.28%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.28%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (3.85%) Docker
2 2 (2.56%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.28%) Firmware
3 1 (1.28%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.28%) vSphere
3 1 (1.28%) XenApp
3 1 (1.28%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.56%) Ansible
2 2 (2.56%) SCCM
3 1 (1.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.28%) Control-M
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.28%) SCVMM
3 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (24.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.13%) Google
2 4 (5.13%) Oracle
3 3 (3.85%) Databricks
3 3 (3.85%) Informatica
3 3 (3.85%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.56%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.56%) Cisco
4 2 (2.56%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.56%) IBM
4 2 (2.56%) Murex
4 2 (2.56%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.56%) Splunk
4 2 (2.56%) YouTube
5 1 (1.28%) Charles River
5 1 (1.28%) Forcepoint
5 1 (1.28%) Nexthink
5 1 (1.28%) PTC
5 1 (1.28%) VMware