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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -36 +1 +1
Contract jobs citing Degree 80 143 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.44% 8.52% 7.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.61% 34.71% 37.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 96 102
10th Percentile £369 £341 £313
25th Percentile £413 £458 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -1.55% -5.83%
75th Percentile £658 £709 £650
90th Percentile £766 £825 £786
Central London median daily rate £501 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.00% -2.22% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £19.99 - -
25th Percentile £24.13 £27.39 -
Median hourly rate £32.07 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.91% +4.26% -48.08%
75th Percentile £42.63 £28.91 -
90th Percentile £48.35 - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £28.15 £34.75
% change year-on-year +13.91% -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 588 412 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.30% 24.55% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 277 285
10th Percentile £413 £375 £385
25th Percentile £463 £459 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £533
% change year-on-year - +3.24% -6.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.62 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £26.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £45.33 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% +117.75% -59.58%
75th Percentile £58.58 £72.81 £24.20
90th Percentile £69.70 £89.13 £25.88
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £28.61 £23.91
% change year-on-year +12.08% +19.67% -53.58%

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 May 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 25 May 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 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.25%) Appian
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (7.50%) MS Visio
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Actimize
2 1 (1.25%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.25%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.25%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) Azure
2 9 (11.25%) AWS
3 8 (10.00%) GCP
3 8 (10.00%) GitHub
3 8 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.00%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.75%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.75%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.75%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.50%) Collibra
7 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.50%) Figma
7 2 (2.50%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.25%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) IPsec
2 1 (1.25%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.25%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.25%) Network Security
2 1 (1.25%) SSL
2 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.25%) VPN
2 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) NoSQL
1 6 (7.50%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.50%) Power BI
2 4 (5.00%) Metadata
2 4 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.75%) DB2
3 3 (3.75%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.75%) Tableau
4 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.50%) Metadata Repository
4 2 (2.50%) MySQL
4 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.25%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.25%) OLAP
5 1 (1.25%) Oracle OLAP
5 1 (1.25%) Power Query
5 1 (1.25%) PowerCenter
5 1 (1.25%) QlikView
5 1 (1.25%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (12.50%) JIRA
2 6 (7.50%) Git
3 2 (2.50%) ERwin
3 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.50%) Zephyr
4 1 (1.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.25%) GitLab
4 1 (1.25%) MLflow
4 1 (1.25%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (43.75%) Finance
2 33 (41.25%) Social Skills
3 16 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.75%) Banking
5 7 (8.75%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.50%) Marketing
7 5 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.75%) Front Office
8 3 (3.75%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.75%) Legal
8 3 (3.75%) Retail
9 2 (2.50%) Advertising
9 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.25%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.25%) Automotive
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) Analyst
2 11 (13.75%) Senior
3 7 (8.75%) Architect
4 6 (7.50%) Business Analyst
4 6 (7.50%) Consultant
5 5 (6.25%) IT Analyst
5 5 (6.25%) Lead
6 4 (5.00%) Developer
6 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 4 (5.00%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (5.00%) Senior Manager
6 4 (5.00%) SOX Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (3.75%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.75%) Data Scientist
7 3 (3.75%) Security Specialist
7 3 (3.75%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.50%) Content Manager
8 2 (2.50%) Junior Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.75%) PyTorch
2 6 (7.50%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.25%) React
4 4 (5.00%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.75%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.75%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.75%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.75%) jQuery
5 3 (3.75%) Keras
5 3 (3.75%) Node.js
5 3 (3.75%) Spring
6 1 (1.25%) .NET
6 1 (1.25%) ADO
6 1 (1.25%) Kafka
6 1 (1.25%) Murex MxML
6 1 (1.25%) RESTful
6 1 (1.25%) Spring Boot
6 1 (1.25%) STL
6 1 (1.25%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 4 (5.00%) Management Information System
1 4 (5.00%) PMI
2 3 (3.75%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.75%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.75%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.50%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.50%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.50%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.25%) BYOD
4 1 (1.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.25%) FMCG
4 1 (1.25%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.25%) Windows
2 7 (8.75%) Linux
3 3 (3.75%) Android
3 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
3 3 (3.75%) Unix
3 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) VMS
4 1 (1.25%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) Computer Science
2 22 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (25.00%) Agile
4 18 (22.50%) AI
5 16 (20.00%) Analytics
6 15 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (15.00%) Change Management
7 12 (15.00%) Cybersecurity
7 12 (15.00%) Risk Management
8 11 (13.75%) Decision-Making
8 11 (13.75%) DevOps
8 11 (13.75%) Validation
9 9 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 9 (11.25%) Data Modelling
9 9 (11.25%) Machine Learning
9 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (10.00%) Migration
10 8 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 21 (26.25%) SQL
2 17 (21.25%) Python
3 8 (10.00%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) C++
5 3 (3.75%) C#
5 3 (3.75%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) Korn
7 1 (1.25%) VB
7 1 (1.25%) X++
Qualifications
1 17 (21.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 13 (16.25%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.50%) CISSP
4 8 (10.00%) CRISC
4 8 (10.00%) PhD
5 7 (8.75%) Security Cleared
6 6 (7.50%) CISM
6 6 (7.50%) PMI Certification
7 5 (6.25%) CISA
7 5 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (6.25%) SC Cleared
8 4 (5.00%) CBAP
9 2 (2.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.50%) CASP
9 2 (2.50%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.50%) GSEC
9 2 (2.50%) ISACA
9 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.75%) NIST
3 6 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (6.25%) QA
5 4 (5.00%) COBIT
5 4 (5.00%) GDPR
5 4 (5.00%) ITGC
5 4 (5.00%) PMO
5 4 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.50%) GRC
6 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (2.50%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.25%) DICOM
7 1 (1.25%) HL7
7 1 (1.25%) MiFID
7 1 (1.25%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.25%) P3O
7 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.25%) Firmware
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) vSphere
3 1 (1.25%) XenApp
3 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (8.75%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.75%) Ansible
3 2 (2.50%) Terraform
4 1 (1.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.25%) Control-M
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.25%) Packer
4 1 (1.25%) SCCM
4 1 (1.25%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 20 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Databricks
2 3 (3.75%) Google
2 3 (3.75%) Informatica
2 3 (3.75%) Oracle
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco
3 2 (2.50%) Murex
3 2 (2.50%) SAP
3 2 (2.50%) Splunk
3 2 (2.50%) VMware
3 2 (2.50%) YouTube
4 1 (1.25%) Charles River
4 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.25%) Forcepoint
4 1 (1.25%) HP
4 1 (1.25%) IBM
4 1 (1.25%) Juniper
4 1 (1.25%) PTC
4 1 (1.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.25%) Siemens