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 17 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 25
Rank change year-on-year -2 +3 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 143 177 207
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 8.22% 8.41% 7.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.36% 32.90% 37.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 110 127
10th Percentile £307 £296 £301
25th Percentile £433 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.77% +2.73% -6.58%
75th Percentile £675 £697 £744
90th Percentile £775 £776 £884
Central London median daily rate £550 £530 £550
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% -5.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £25.83 - -
25th Percentile £25.94 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 £27.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.93% -62.76% +43.56%
75th Percentile £28.94 - £73.75
90th Percentile £29.28 - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £27.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +0.93% -62.76% +43.56%

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 471 538 559
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.08% 25.57% 20.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 353 316 343
10th Percentile £325 £350 £353
25th Percentile £425 £461 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £570
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% -0.87%
75th Percentile £664 £650 £695
90th Percentile £738 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £528 £533 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 4
10th Percentile £20.55 £23.10 £18.28
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £18.70
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £45.72
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -28.91% +5.72%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £74.69
90th Percentile £51.14 - £76.38
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £42.49
% change year-on-year -15.38% -23.50% -1.75%

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 17 November 2025.

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
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 12 (8.39%) SharePoint
2 8 (5.59%) Confluence
3 6 (4.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.70%) Drupal
5 1 (0.70%) Ethereum
5 1 (0.70%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.70%) Luigi
Applications
1 18 (12.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (9.79%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 11 (7.69%) Microsoft Project
4 9 (6.29%) MS Visio
5 2 (1.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.70%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (0.70%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (2.80%) Salesforce CRM
2 3 (2.10%) Workday HCM
3 2 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.40%) HFM
3 2 (1.40%) SAP MDG
3 2 (1.40%) SAP PLM
3 2 (1.40%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.40%) SAP VC
4 1 (0.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 39 (27.27%) Azure
2 18 (12.59%) AWS
3 14 (9.79%) Power Platform
4 13 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (8.39%) GCP
6 6 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (4.20%) Entra ID
7 3 (2.10%) Figma
7 3 (2.10%) Google Gemini
7 3 (2.10%) PaaS
7 3 (2.10%) Power Automate
7 3 (2.10%) PowerApps
8 2 (1.40%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (1.40%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.40%) SaaS
8 2 (1.40%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.59%) Firewall
2 5 (3.50%) LAN
2 5 (3.50%) WAN
3 4 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (2.10%) DNS
4 3 (2.10%) Intrusion Detection
4 3 (2.10%) Network Security
4 3 (2.10%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (1.40%) DHCP
5 2 (1.40%) Internet
5 2 (1.40%) Modbus
5 2 (1.40%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.40%) VPN
6 1 (0.70%) BGP
6 1 (0.70%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.70%) Intranet
6 1 (0.70%) MPLS
6 1 (0.70%) OSPF
6 1 (0.70%) SAN
6 1 (0.70%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.99%) Power BI
2 5 (3.50%) Hadoop
2 5 (3.50%) Star Schema
3 4 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.80%) KDB
4 3 (2.10%) Apache Hive
4 3 (2.10%) Kdb+
4 3 (2.10%) Tableau
5 2 (1.40%) Big Data
5 2 (1.40%) Data Lake
5 2 (1.40%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.40%) Spark SQL
6 1 (0.70%) Metadata
6 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.70%) Pentaho
6 1 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.70%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.70%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (0.70%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.70%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 18 (12.59%) JIRA
2 4 (2.80%) Git
3 3 (2.10%) MLflow
3 3 (2.10%) Selenium
4 2 (1.40%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.40%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.40%) GitLab
4 2 (1.40%) Postman
4 2 (1.40%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.70%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.70%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.70%) Gradle
5 1 (0.70%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.70%) QUnit
General
1 82 (57.34%) Finance
2 62 (43.36%) Social Skills
3 36 (25.17%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (14.69%) Banking
5 14 (9.79%) Front Office
6 13 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (6.99%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (5.59%) Telecoms
9 7 (4.90%) Financial Institution
9 7 (4.90%) Legal
10 6 (4.20%) Back Office
10 6 (4.20%) Investment Banking
10 6 (4.20%) Marketing
11 5 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (3.50%) Public Sector
12 4 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (2.80%) Law
12 4 (2.80%) Manufacturing
13 3 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (20.28%) Analyst
2 20 (13.99%) Business Analyst
3 17 (11.89%) Senior
4 14 (9.79%) Developer
5 11 (7.69%) Data Engineer
5 11 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 9 (6.29%) Architect
7 8 (5.59%) Lead
8 7 (4.90%) Data Scientist
9 6 (4.20%) Consultant
9 6 (4.20%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.50%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (3.50%) IT Project Manager
10 5 (3.50%) Security Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.80%) Support Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Technical Analyst
12 3 (2.10%) Senior Business Analyst
12 3 (2.10%) Software Engineer
12 3 (2.10%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.29%) .NET
2 6 (4.20%) CSS
2 6 (4.20%) HTML
3 4 (2.80%) XML
4 3 (2.10%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (2.10%) Pandas
4 3 (2.10%) PySpark
4 3 (2.10%) RESTful
4 3 (2.10%) TensorFlow
4 3 (2.10%) Web Services
5 2 (1.40%) jQuery
5 2 (1.40%) Kafka
5 2 (1.40%) LangChain
5 2 (1.40%) LangGraph
5 2 (1.40%) NumPy
5 2 (1.40%) PyTorch
5 2 (1.40%) React
5 2 (1.40%) scikit-learn
5 2 (1.40%) Spring
6 1 (0.70%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.89%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.99%) Management Information System
3 9 (6.29%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.59%) Onboarding
5 7 (4.90%) Data Centre
6 6 (4.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (3.50%) Data Structures
7 5 (3.50%) Derivative
7 5 (3.50%) Distributed Computing
7 5 (3.50%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.50%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.80%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (2.10%) Life Science
9 3 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.40%) Credit Risk
10 2 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (1.40%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.40%) SCADA
10 2 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 2 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.99%) Windows
2 7 (4.90%) Linux
3 6 (4.20%) Unix
4 2 (1.40%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.40%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.70%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.70%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (44.06%) Computer Science
2 48 (33.57%) Agile
3 43 (30.07%) Problem-Solving
4 29 (20.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 26 (18.18%) Scrum
6 25 (17.48%) User Acceptance Testing
7 24 (16.78%) Project Management
8 22 (15.38%) Analytics
9 21 (14.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (13.99%) Project Delivery
11 18 (12.59%) AI
11 18 (12.59%) Data Science
12 17 (11.89%) SDLC
13 16 (11.19%) Business Intelligence
13 16 (11.19%) Change Management
13 16 (11.19%) DevOps
13 16 (11.19%) ITIL
13 16 (11.19%) Risk Management
14 15 (10.49%) Mathematics
15 14 (9.79%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 31 (21.68%) Python
2 23 (16.08%) SQL
3 13 (9.09%) Java
4 9 (6.29%) JavaScript
5 8 (5.59%) C#
6 4 (2.80%) C++
7 3 (2.10%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.10%) R
8 2 (1.40%) ABAP
8 2 (1.40%) Go
8 2 (1.40%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.70%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.70%) F#
9 1 (0.70%) Korn
9 1 (0.70%) Scala
9 1 (0.70%) Solidity
9 1 (0.70%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.70%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.70%) VBA
9 1 (0.70%) VC++
Qualifications
1 32 (22.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (9.79%) Master's Degree
3 9 (6.29%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.59%) CBAP
4 8 (5.59%) SC Cleared
5 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (4.90%) PMI Certification
6 6 (4.20%) PMP
7 5 (3.50%) CCNA
7 5 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.50%) PhD
8 3 (2.10%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.10%) CCNP
8 3 (2.10%) CISSP
8 3 (2.10%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.40%) ACCA
9 2 (1.40%) ISEB
9 2 (1.40%) MCSA
9 2 (1.40%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) Data Quality
2 7 (4.90%) GDPR
2 7 (4.90%) QA
3 6 (4.20%) COBIT
3 6 (4.20%) PMO
4 5 (3.50%) NIST
5 3 (2.10%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.40%) SLA
6 2 (1.40%) WCAG
7 1 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.70%) GAAP
7 1 (0.70%) GRC
7 1 (0.70%) IFRS
7 1 (0.70%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.70%) PSD2
7 1 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (4.90%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 4 (2.80%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.10%) SCCM
2 3 (2.10%) Terraform
3 2 (1.40%) Ansible
3 2 (1.40%) Grafana
4 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.70%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.70%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.70%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 41 (28.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (6.99%) ServiceNow
3 7 (4.90%) Cisco
4 6 (4.20%) Salesforce
4 6 (4.20%) SAP
5 5 (3.50%) Oracle
5 5 (3.50%) Workday
6 4 (2.80%) Databricks
7 3 (2.10%) Arista
7 3 (2.10%) Citrix
7 3 (2.10%) Foundry
7 3 (2.10%) Google
7 3 (2.10%) Hyperion
8 2 (1.40%) Adobe
8 2 (1.40%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.40%) Palantir
8 2 (1.40%) Palo Alto
8 2 (1.40%) Polycom
8 2 (1.40%) Tagetik
8 2 (1.40%) VMware