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

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 118 140 159
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.24% 7.58% 6.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.09% 29.41% 33.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 92
10th Percentile £323 £298 £251
25th Percentile £414 £457 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.41% -3.18% -12.70%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £851 £803 £835
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -8.41%
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 - - +68.60%

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 511 476 476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.04% 25.77% 19.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 276 312
10th Percentile £371 £356 £334
25th Percentile £426 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -11.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 4
10th Percentile £20.65 £24.78 £19.32
25th Percentile £25.77 £28.94 £19.90
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £46.66
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% +54.85% +13.11%
75th Percentile £52.16 £112.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £59.86 - £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £25.62 £72.25 £42.49
% change year-on-year -64.54% +70.06% +2.99%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 5 (4.24%) Confluence
1 5 (4.24%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.85%) Ethereum
3 1 (0.85%) Hyperledger
3 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (12.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (9.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (8.47%) MS Visio
4 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Project
5 4 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Aladdin
1 1 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.85%) HFM
1 1 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (0.85%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (0.85%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 30 (25.42%) Azure
2 14 (11.86%) Power Platform
3 13 (11.02%) AWS
4 12 (10.17%) GCP
5 8 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.93%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.39%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.39%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.54%) Figma
8 3 (2.54%) Google Gemini
8 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.69%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.69%) Collibra
9 2 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.69%) GitHub
9 2 (1.69%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.69%) SaaS
9 2 (1.69%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.54%) LAN
2 3 (2.54%) Network Security
2 3 (2.54%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.54%) WAN
3 2 (1.69%) Modbus
4 1 (0.85%) DHCP
4 1 (0.85%) DNS
4 1 (0.85%) HTTPS
4 1 (0.85%) Internet
4 1 (0.85%) Softphone
4 1 (0.85%) SSL
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.85%) VLAN
4 1 (0.85%) VPN
4 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.32%) Power BI
2 4 (3.39%) Tableau
3 3 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.54%) KDB
3 3 (2.54%) Kdb+
3 3 (2.54%) Metadata
3 3 (2.54%) Star Schema
4 2 (1.69%) MySQL
4 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.85%) Big Data
5 1 (0.85%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.85%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.85%) OLAP
5 1 (0.85%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (0.85%) PowerCenter
5 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 15 (12.71%) JIRA
2 5 (4.24%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) Selenium
4 2 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.69%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.69%) ERwin
4 2 (1.69%) GitLab
4 2 (1.69%) Postman
4 2 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.85%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.85%) MLflow
5 1 (0.85%) QUnit
5 1 (0.85%) SonarQube
General
1 53 (44.92%) Finance
2 52 (44.07%) Social Skills
3 22 (18.64%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.10%) Banking
5 12 (10.17%) Presentation Skills
6 11 (9.32%) Front Office
7 9 (7.63%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (6.78%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.93%) Investment Banking
9 7 (5.93%) Legal
9 7 (5.93%) Telecoms
10 6 (5.08%) Back Office
10 6 (5.08%) Organisational Skills
11 4 (3.39%) Financial Institution
11 4 (3.39%) Law
11 4 (3.39%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.39%) Marketing
11 4 (3.39%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (2.54%) Retail
13 2 (1.69%) French Language
Job Titles
1 23 (19.49%) Analyst
2 19 (16.10%) Senior
3 17 (14.41%) Business Analyst
4 11 (9.32%) Developer
5 9 (7.63%) Lead
6 7 (5.93%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.08%) Consultant
7 6 (5.08%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.08%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Architect
8 5 (4.24%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.24%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.39%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.39%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (3.39%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.54%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (2.54%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.54%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.54%) Technical Support
10 3 (2.54%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.08%) .NET
2 5 (4.24%) PyTorch
2 5 (4.24%) TensorFlow
3 3 (2.54%) LangChain
3 3 (2.54%) React
4 2 (1.69%) CSS
4 2 (1.69%) HTML
4 2 (1.69%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.69%) Node.js
4 2 (1.69%) XML
5 1 (0.85%) Altair
5 1 (0.85%) Faiss
5 1 (0.85%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.85%) Google JAX
5 1 (0.85%) Hugging Face
5 1 (0.85%) JAX
5 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.85%) Playwright
5 1 (0.85%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.85%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.32%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.78%) Management Information System
3 7 (5.93%) Data Centre
4 6 (5.08%) Algorithms
4 6 (5.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (5.08%) Onboarding
5 5 (4.24%) Fixed Income
5 5 (4.24%) Security Posture
6 4 (3.39%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.39%) PMI
6 4 (3.39%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.54%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (2.54%) Life Science
8 2 (1.69%) BYOD
8 2 (1.69%) Derivative
8 2 (1.69%) Equities
8 2 (1.69%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.69%) SCADA
8 2 (1.69%) Social Media
8 2 (1.69%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.32%) Windows
2 5 (4.24%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.39%) Unix
4 3 (2.54%) Linux
5 1 (0.85%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (38.14%) Computer Science
2 40 (33.90%) Agile
3 38 (32.20%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (16.95%) AI
4 20 (16.95%) Scrum
5 19 (16.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (16.10%) User Acceptance Testing
6 18 (15.25%) Analytics
7 16 (13.56%) Risk Management
8 15 (12.71%) Change Management
8 15 (12.71%) DevOps
9 14 (11.86%) Data Science
9 14 (11.86%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (11.86%) Workshop Facilitation
10 13 (11.02%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (11.02%) Cybersecurity
10 13 (11.02%) SDLC
11 12 (10.17%) Business Intelligence
11 12 (10.17%) Project Management
12 11 (9.32%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 24 (20.34%) Python
2 18 (15.25%) SQL
3 11 (9.32%) Java
4 8 (6.78%) C#
5 6 (5.08%) C++
6 5 (4.24%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.24%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.54%) TypeScript
8 2 (1.69%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.85%) F#
9 1 (0.85%) Korn
9 1 (0.85%) R
9 1 (0.85%) Solidity
9 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.85%) VBA
9 1 (0.85%) VC++
Qualifications
1 31 (26.27%) Computer Science Degree
2 21 (17.80%) Master's Degree
3 9 (7.63%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 7 (5.93%) CBAP
5 7 (5.93%) PMI Certification
6 6 (5.08%) CISSP
6 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (3.39%) CCNA
7 4 (3.39%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.39%) CISM
8 3 (2.54%) CRISC
8 3 (2.54%) GIAC
8 3 (2.54%) IIBA
8 3 (2.54%) ISACA
8 3 (2.54%) ISEB
8 3 (2.54%) MBA
8 3 (2.54%) PhD
8 3 (2.54%) PMP
8 3 (2.54%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.93%) Data Quality
1 7 (5.93%) GDPR
1 7 (5.93%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) PMO
3 3 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.54%) GRC
3 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.69%) NIST
4 2 (1.69%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.69%) SLA
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) DICOM
5 1 (0.85%) EMIR
5 1 (0.85%) HIPAA
5 1 (0.85%) HL7
5 1 (0.85%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (0.85%) PSD2
5 1 (0.85%) SEPA
System Software
1 8 (6.78%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.69%) Docker
2 2 (1.69%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.85%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.69%) Ansible
2 2 (1.69%) SCCM
2 2 (1.69%) Terraform
3 1 (0.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.85%) Packer
3 1 (0.85%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 30 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.08%) Oracle
2 6 (5.08%) SAP
3 5 (4.24%) Google
4 4 (3.39%) Cisco
4 4 (3.39%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.54%) Arista
6 2 (1.69%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.69%) Databricks
6 2 (1.69%) Informatica
6 2 (1.69%) Planview
6 2 (1.69%) Rockwell
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.69%) Tenable
6 2 (1.69%) UiPath
6 2 (1.69%) VMware
6 2 (1.69%) Workday
7 1 (0.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (0.85%) Fortinet
7 1 (0.85%) Murex