Degree Contracts 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 13 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 25
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 144 167 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.31% 7.66% 7.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 34.12% 38.04% 37.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 101 139
10th Percentile £358 £263 £325
25th Percentile £463 £406 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £601
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -6.33% +7.23%
75th Percentile £704 £650 £750
90th Percentile £824 £788 £978
Central London median daily rate £549 £556 £600
% change year-on-year -1.26% -7.29% +9.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £26.70
25th Percentile £27.39 - £41.84
Median hourly rate £28.15 £27.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.26% -48.08% +19.54%
75th Percentile £28.91 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £74.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £34.75 £52.00
% change year-on-year -18.99% -33.17% +19.54%

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 422 439 719
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.35% 20.14% 20.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 287 414
10th Percentile £405 £367 £366
25th Percentile £461 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.45%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £713
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £559
% change year-on-year +4.76% -6.04% +1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +15.73%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.61 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +10.10% -49.54% +15.73%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Degree in the City of London

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 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the City of London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the City of London region over the 6 months to 13 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Degree
Central London

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 8 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 7 (4.86%) Apache Spark
3 6 (4.17%) Confluence
4 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.69%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.69%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.69%) IIS
5 1 (0.69%) Luigi
5 1 (0.69%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (15.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (11.11%) Microsoft Project
3 14 (9.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (3.47%) MS Visio
5 3 (2.08%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.39%) Salesforce CRM
3 2 (1.39%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.39%) SAP MDG-S
4 1 (0.69%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.69%) Orchestrade
Cloud Services
1 33 (22.92%) Azure
2 17 (11.81%) Power Platform
3 14 (9.72%) AWS
4 8 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.86%) GCP
6 4 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (2.78%) Entra ID
6 4 (2.78%) PowerApps
7 3 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (2.08%) OCI
7 3 (2.08%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.39%) GitHub
8 2 (1.39%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.69%) Amazon SQS
9 1 (0.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.69%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 11 (7.64%) Firewall
2 7 (4.86%) Network Security
3 6 (4.17%) VPN
4 4 (2.78%) DNS
5 3 (2.08%) HTTP
5 3 (2.08%) Wireless
6 2 (1.39%) DHCP
6 2 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.69%) BIG-IP
7 1 (0.69%) Internet
7 1 (0.69%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.69%) IPsec
7 1 (0.69%) iSCSI
7 1 (0.69%) LAN
7 1 (0.69%) MPLS
7 1 (0.69%) NAS
7 1 (0.69%) SSL
7 1 (0.69%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.69%) VLAN
7 1 (0.69%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.64%) Power BI
1 11 (7.64%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.56%) Tableau
3 7 (4.86%) Hadoop
4 5 (3.47%) Apache Hive
5 3 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (2.08%) MySQL
5 3 (2.08%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.39%) Big Data
6 2 (1.39%) DB2
6 2 (1.39%) SAP HANA
6 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.69%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.69%) KDB
7 1 (0.69%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.69%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.69%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.69%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 18 (12.50%) JIRA
2 5 (3.47%) Git
3 3 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.39%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.39%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.69%) JMeter
5 1 (0.69%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.69%) Maven
5 1 (0.69%) Selenium
5 1 (0.69%) TeamCity
General
1 74 (51.39%) Finance
2 60 (41.67%) Social Skills
3 38 (26.39%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (19.44%) Banking
5 14 (9.72%) Financial Institution
6 12 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 11 (7.64%) Front Office
8 8 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (4.17%) Investment Banking
9 6 (4.17%) Legal
10 5 (3.47%) Back Office
10 5 (3.47%) Marketing
11 4 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (2.08%) Advertising
12 3 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (2.08%) Retail
13 2 (1.39%) French Language
13 2 (1.39%) Military
13 2 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 29 (20.14%) Analyst
2 22 (15.28%) Developer
3 21 (14.58%) Business Analyst
4 16 (11.11%) Senior
5 15 (10.42%) Project Manager
6 11 (7.64%) Architect
7 6 (4.17%) Lead
7 6 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (2.78%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (2.78%) C# Developer
8 4 (2.78%) Consultant
8 4 (2.78%) Data Business Analyst
8 4 (2.78%) Security Architect
8 4 (2.78%) Senior Developer
8 4 (2.78%) Software Engineer
9 3 (2.08%) Administrator
9 3 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (2.08%) Security Engineer
9 3 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
9 3 (2.08%) Software Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.17%) PySpark
2 5 (3.47%) OAuth
2 5 (3.47%) REST
2 5 (3.47%) TensorFlow
3 4 (2.78%) CSS
4 3 (2.08%) HTML
4 3 (2.08%) NumPy
4 3 (2.08%) OpenID
4 3 (2.08%) Pandas
4 3 (2.08%) SAML
4 3 (2.08%) SOAP
4 3 (2.08%) XML
5 2 (1.39%) Dask
5 2 (1.39%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.39%) JSON
5 2 (1.39%) LangChain
5 2 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.39%) React
5 2 (1.39%) Visualforce
5 2 (1.39%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 9 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.47%) Credit Risk
4 5 (3.47%) Fixed Income
4 5 (3.47%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.47%) PMI
4 5 (3.47%) Reference Data
5 4 (2.78%) Algorithms
5 4 (2.78%) Distributed Computing
5 4 (2.78%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.08%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.08%) Market Risk
6 3 (2.08%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.39%) Clustering
7 2 (1.39%) e-Learning
7 2 (1.39%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.39%) Learning Management System
7 2 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.03%) Linux
2 11 (7.64%) Windows
3 5 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.08%) Unix
5 2 (1.39%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.39%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.69%) Android
6 1 (0.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 47 (32.64%) Agile
2 47 (32.64%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (24.31%) Project Management
4 21 (14.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (13.19%) Analytics
5 19 (13.19%) DevOps
6 16 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 14 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence
7 14 (9.72%) Software Engineering
7 14 (9.72%) User Acceptance Testing
8 13 (9.03%) Data Analysis
8 13 (9.03%) Decision-Making
8 13 (9.03%) Risk Management
9 12 (8.33%) Business Analysis
9 12 (8.33%) Change Management
9 12 (8.33%) ITIL
9 12 (8.33%) Mathematics
9 12 (8.33%) PRINCE2
10 11 (7.64%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 30 (20.83%) Python
2 24 (16.67%) SQL
3 17 (11.81%) Java
4 7 (4.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.17%) C#
5 6 (4.17%) C++
6 5 (3.47%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.08%) Bash
8 2 (1.39%) Apex Code
8 2 (1.39%) R
8 2 (1.39%) RPG
8 2 (1.39%) RPG IV
8 2 (1.39%) Scala
9 1 (0.69%) Bicep
9 1 (0.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.69%) Go
9 1 (0.69%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.69%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.69%) VBA
9 1 (0.69%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (23.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (14.58%) Master's Degree
3 18 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 18 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 17 (11.81%) SC Cleared
5 13 (9.03%) PMP
6 8 (5.56%) Azure Certification
7 7 (4.86%) PhD
8 5 (3.47%) CBAP
8 5 (3.47%) CCNP
8 5 (3.47%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (2.78%) AWS Certification
9 4 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.08%) CFA
10 3 (2.08%) MBA
10 3 (2.08%) OCP
10 3 (2.08%) Oracle Certification
10 3 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (1.39%) EnCE
11 2 (1.39%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.56%) PMO
1 8 (5.56%) QA
2 7 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 5 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.47%) MiFID
3 5 (3.47%) NIST
4 4 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (2.08%) EMIR
5 3 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.39%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 17025
7 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.69%) GRC
7 1 (0.69%) SLA
7 1 (0.69%) UCITS
System Software
1 12 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.08%) Docker
2 3 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.39%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.69%) Lustre
4 1 (0.69%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.69%) XenApp
4 1 (0.69%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (4.86%) Terraform
2 5 (3.47%) Kubernetes
3 3 (2.08%) Ansible
3 3 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.39%) EnCase
4 2 (1.39%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.39%) FTK
4 2 (1.39%) Podman
4 2 (1.39%) SCCM
5 1 (0.69%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.69%) Grafana
5 1 (0.69%) Karpenter
5 1 (0.69%) OPNET
5 1 (0.69%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.69%) Puppet
5 1 (0.69%) SCOrch
5 1 (0.69%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.64%) Oracle
2 11 (7.64%) SAP
3 9 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 5 (3.47%) Fortinet
4 5 (3.47%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.78%) Databricks
5 4 (2.78%) Google
6 3 (2.08%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.08%) Cisco
6 3 (2.08%) Citrix
6 3 (2.08%) F5
6 3 (2.08%) IBM
6 3 (2.08%) VMware
7 2 (1.39%) Atempo
7 2 (1.39%) BiZZdesign
7 2 (1.39%) Forcepoint
7 2 (1.39%) HP
7 2 (1.39%) Infoblox
7 2 (1.39%) Mellanox