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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 24 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 114 148 163
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.23% 7.58% 6.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 22.80% 29.31% 33.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 94 92
10th Percentile £321 £278 £271
25th Percentile £419 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £676 £686 £738
90th Percentile £875 £815 £873
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £560
% change year-on-year - -6.25% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £72.50
75th Percentile £29.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +33.03%

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 500 505 490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.32% 25.87% 20.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 383 296 312
10th Percentile £358 £343 £326
25th Percentile £425 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £680
90th Percentile £738 £747 £787
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £26.30 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £47.25 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £57.90 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.49 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.34% +20.42% +39.53%

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

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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 5 January 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

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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 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.39%) Confluence
3 2 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.88%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.88%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (12.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (8.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (7.89%) Microsoft Office
4 8 (7.02%) MS Visio
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Project
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 26 (22.81%) Azure
2 13 (11.40%) Power Platform
3 11 (9.65%) AWS
4 9 (7.89%) GCP
5 8 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.51%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.51%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.63%) Figma
8 3 (2.63%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (1.75%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (1.75%) GitHub
9 2 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (1.75%) Miro
9 2 (1.75%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.75%) Snowflake
10 1 (0.88%) Akamai
10 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.14%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (2.63%) LAN
2 3 (2.63%) Network Security
2 3 (2.63%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (2.63%) WAN
3 2 (1.75%) 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 10 (8.77%) Power BI
2 4 (3.51%) KDB
3 3 (2.63%) Kdb+
3 3 (2.63%) Star Schema
3 3 (2.63%) Tableau
4 2 (1.75%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.88%) Big Data
5 1 (0.88%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.88%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.88%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (12.28%) JIRA
2 5 (4.39%) Git
3 3 (2.63%) Selenium
4 2 (1.75%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.75%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.75%) GitLab
4 2 (1.75%) Postman
4 2 (1.75%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.88%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.88%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.88%) QUnit
5 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
General
1 54 (47.37%) Finance
2 51 (44.74%) Social Skills
3 25 (21.93%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (18.42%) Banking
5 12 (10.53%) Front Office
6 10 (8.77%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (7.89%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (7.02%) Back Office
9 7 (6.14%) Financial Institution
9 7 (6.14%) Investment Banking
9 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
10 6 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (5.26%) Public Sector
11 5 (4.39%) Legal
12 4 (3.51%) Law
12 4 (3.51%) Manufacturing
12 4 (3.51%) Marketing
12 4 (3.51%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (1.75%) French Language
Job Titles
1 25 (21.93%) Analyst
2 19 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 18 (15.79%) Senior
4 12 (10.53%) Developer
5 9 (7.89%) Lead
6 7 (6.14%) Project Manager
7 6 (5.26%) Consultant
7 6 (5.26%) Senior Business Analyst
7 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Architect
8 5 (4.39%) Security Engineer
8 5 (4.39%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.51%) IT Manager
9 4 (3.51%) IT Project Manager
9 4 (3.51%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.63%) 2nd Line Support
10 3 (2.63%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.63%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.63%) Technical Support
10 3 (2.63%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) .NET
2 4 (3.51%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.51%) TensorFlow
2 4 (3.51%) XML
3 3 (2.63%) CSS
3 3 (2.63%) HTML
3 3 (2.63%) LangChain
4 2 (1.75%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.75%) React
5 1 (0.88%) Altair
5 1 (0.88%) Faiss
5 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.88%) jQuery
5 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth
5 1 (0.88%) Playwright
5 1 (0.88%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.88%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.88%) Truffle
5 1 (0.88%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) Product Ownership
2 7 (6.14%) Algorithms
2 7 (6.14%) Data Centre
2 7 (6.14%) Management Information System
2 7 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.26%) Fixed Income
3 6 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (4.39%) Data Structures
4 5 (4.39%) Security Posture
5 4 (3.51%) PMI
6 3 (2.63%) Life Science
6 3 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.75%) AI Agents
7 2 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.75%) Distributed Computing
7 2 (1.75%) Insider Threat
7 2 (1.75%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.75%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.75%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.53%) Windows
2 5 (4.39%) Unix
2 5 (4.39%) Windows Server
3 4 (3.51%) Linux
4 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (38.60%) Computer Science
2 39 (34.21%) Agile
3 35 (30.70%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (20.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 19 (16.67%) Analytics
5 19 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 18 (15.79%) AI
6 18 (15.79%) Scrum
7 17 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 15 (13.16%) Change Management
8 15 (13.16%) Project Management
9 14 (12.28%) DevOps
10 13 (11.40%) Data Science
10 13 (11.40%) Risk Management
11 12 (10.53%) Business Analysis
11 12 (10.53%) Workshop Facilitation
12 11 (9.65%) Business Intelligence
12 11 (9.65%) SDLC
12 11 (9.65%) Software Engineering
12 11 (9.65%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 20 (17.54%) Python
2 16 (14.04%) SQL
3 11 (9.65%) Java
4 8 (7.02%) C#
5 6 (5.26%) C++
5 6 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 5 (4.39%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.75%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.75%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.88%) Apex Code
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 (27.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 17 (14.91%) Master's Degree
3 9 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 7 (6.14%) CBAP
4 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.26%) PMI Certification
6 4 (3.51%) CCNA
6 4 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.63%) CISSP
7 3 (2.63%) GIAC
7 3 (2.63%) ISACA
7 3 (2.63%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.75%) DV Cleared
8 2 (1.75%) IIBA
8 2 (1.75%) ISEB
8 2 (1.75%) MCSA
8 2 (1.75%) MCSE
8 2 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.14%) QA
2 5 (4.39%) Data Quality
2 5 (4.39%) GDPR
2 5 (4.39%) PMO
3 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.63%) NIST
4 2 (1.75%) COBIT
4 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (1.75%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.75%) SLA
5 1 (0.88%) DICOM
5 1 (0.88%) EMIR
5 1 (0.88%) GRC
5 1 (0.88%) HL7
5 1 (0.88%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.88%) MiFID
5 1 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.88%) SEPA
5 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.75%) Docker
2 2 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.88%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (1.75%) Ansible
2 2 (1.75%) SCCM
2 2 (1.75%) 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 (25.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.39%) Oracle
2 5 (4.39%) SAP
3 4 (3.51%) Cisco
3 4 (3.51%) Google
3 4 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.63%) Arista
4 3 (2.63%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.75%) Adobe
5 2 (1.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (1.75%) Rockwell
5 2 (1.75%) Tenable
5 2 (1.75%) UiPath
5 2 (1.75%) VMware
5 2 (1.75%) Workday
6 1 (0.88%) F5
6 1 (0.88%) Foundry
6 1 (0.88%) Infoblox
6 1 (0.88%) Polycom
6 1 (0.88%) Xceptor