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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 17 20
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing Degree 170 193 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 9.35% 9.05% 8.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.03% 41.24% 39.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 122 161
10th Percentile £352 £313 £325
25th Percentile £475 £425 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £564 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -6.04% +9.09%
75th Percentile £700 £672 £765
90th Percentile £784 £787 £950
Central London median daily rate £575 £563 £593
% change year-on-year +2.22% -5.06% +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £25.91 - £26.70
25th Percentile £26.16 - £41.84
Median hourly rate £27.33 £27.00 £52.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.20% -48.08% +19.54%
75th Percentile £28.50 - £61.25
90th Percentile £28.74 - £74.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £27.00 £52.00
% change year-on-year +27.70% -48.08% +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 447 468 716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.59% 21.94% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 301 297 422
10th Percentile £359 £384 £400
25th Percentile £463 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £552 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £21.41 - £17.31
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £45.33 £21.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +115.83% -41.83% -17.01%
75th Percentile £65.12 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £82.79 - £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%

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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

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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

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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 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

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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

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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 13 (7.65%) Apache Spark
2 10 (5.88%) SharePoint
3 7 (4.12%) Confluence
4 4 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (1.18%) Luigi
6 1 (0.59%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.59%) Drupal
6 1 (0.59%) IIS
6 1 (0.59%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (12.94%) Microsoft Excel
2 19 (11.18%) Microsoft Project
3 17 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
4 13 (7.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (4.12%) MS Visio
6 4 (2.35%) Trello
7 1 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (2.35%) Salesforce CRM
2 4 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (1.76%) SAP MDG
3 3 (1.76%) Workday HCM
4 2 (1.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (1.18%) SAP PLM
4 2 (1.18%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.59%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.59%) Bloomberg AIM
5 1 (0.59%) HFM
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.59%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.59%) Orchestrade
5 1 (0.59%) SAP MDG-S
Cloud Services
1 42 (24.71%) Azure
2 16 (9.41%) AWS
3 14 (8.24%) Power Platform
4 10 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.12%) GCP
6 5 (2.94%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (2.35%) PaaS
8 3 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.76%) OCI
8 3 (1.76%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 2 (1.18%) Azure Machine Learning
9 2 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.18%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.18%) SaaS
10 1 (0.59%) IaaS
10 1 (0.59%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.88%) Firewall
2 6 (3.53%) Network Security
2 6 (3.53%) VPN
3 4 (2.35%) DNS
4 3 (1.76%) HTTP
4 3 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.18%) LAN
5 2 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.18%) WAN
6 1 (0.59%) BGP
6 1 (0.59%) DHCP
6 1 (0.59%) Internet
6 1 (0.59%) Intranet
6 1 (0.59%) IP Telephony
6 1 (0.59%) IPsec
6 1 (0.59%) MPLS
6 1 (0.59%) OSPF
6 1 (0.59%) SAN
6 1 (0.59%) SSL
6 1 (0.59%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.06%) Hadoop
2 11 (6.47%) Power BI
2 11 (6.47%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.71%) Apache Hive
4 7 (4.12%) Tableau
5 4 (2.35%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (2.35%) NoSQL
5 4 (2.35%) Star Schema
6 3 (1.76%) Big Data
6 3 (1.76%) MySQL
6 3 (1.76%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.18%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.18%) Spark SQL
7 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 2 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.59%) DB2
8 1 (0.59%) MS Access
8 1 (0.59%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 19 (11.18%) JIRA
2 4 (2.35%) Git
3 3 (1.76%) MLflow
4 2 (1.18%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.59%) Fiddler
5 1 (0.59%) Gradle
5 1 (0.59%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.59%) JMeter
5 1 (0.59%) LoadRunner
5 1 (0.59%) Maven
5 1 (0.59%) Selenium
5 1 (0.59%) TeamCity
5 1 (0.59%) Zephyr
General
1 106 (62.35%) Finance
2 74 (43.53%) Social Skills
3 44 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (15.88%) Banking
5 16 (9.41%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (7.65%) Financial Institution
6 13 (7.65%) Front Office
7 10 (5.88%) Public Sector
8 7 (4.12%) Legal
8 7 (4.12%) Marketing
9 6 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.94%) Back Office
10 5 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (2.35%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.76%) Advertising
12 3 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.76%) Telecoms
13 2 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (21.18%) Analyst
2 22 (12.94%) Developer
3 20 (11.76%) Business Analyst
4 17 (10.00%) Senior
5 16 (9.41%) Project Manager
6 12 (7.06%) Architect
7 10 (5.88%) Data Engineer
8 7 (4.12%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (3.53%) Consultant
9 6 (3.53%) Data Scientist
9 6 (3.53%) Software Engineer
10 5 (2.94%) Financial Analyst
10 5 (2.94%) Lead
10 5 (2.94%) Programme Manager
10 5 (2.94%) Systems Analyst
11 4 (2.35%) C# Developer
11 4 (2.35%) Data Analyst
11 4 (2.35%) Gen AI Specialist
11 4 (2.35%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.71%) PySpark
2 7 (4.12%) CSS
2 7 (4.12%) TensorFlow
3 6 (3.53%) HTML
4 5 (2.94%) Pandas
4 5 (2.94%) REST
4 5 (2.94%) Web Services
5 4 (2.35%) .NET
5 4 (2.35%) NumPy
6 3 (1.76%) Kafka
6 3 (1.76%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (1.76%) OAuth
6 3 (1.76%) OpenID
6 3 (1.76%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.76%) RESTful
6 3 (1.76%) SAML
7 2 (1.18%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (1.18%) Flask
7 2 (1.18%) scikit-learn
7 2 (1.18%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.82%) Management Information System
2 11 (6.47%) Product Ownership
3 8 (4.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 7 (4.12%) Credit Risk
4 7 (4.12%) Distributed Computing
4 7 (4.12%) Onboarding
5 6 (3.53%) Algorithms
6 4 (2.35%) Data Centre
6 4 (2.35%) Data Structures
6 4 (2.35%) Derivative
6 4 (2.35%) Market Risk
6 4 (2.35%) Reference Data
6 4 (2.35%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (1.76%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.76%) PMI
8 2 (1.18%) Clustering
8 2 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (1.18%) e-Learning
8 2 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.82%) Linux
2 10 (5.88%) Windows
3 5 (2.94%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.35%) Unix
5 2 (1.18%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.59%) Android
6 1 (0.59%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.59%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.59%) VMS
6 1 (0.59%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (37.65%) Computer Science
2 55 (32.35%) Agile
3 50 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (24.12%) Project Management
5 25 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (13.53%) Project Delivery
7 21 (12.35%) Analytics
7 21 (12.35%) User Acceptance Testing
8 20 (11.76%) Scrum
9 19 (11.18%) Data Modelling
9 19 (11.18%) DevOps
9 19 (11.18%) ITIL
9 19 (11.18%) Risk Management
10 18 (10.59%) Business Intelligence
10 18 (10.59%) Mathematics
10 18 (10.59%) Software Engineering
11 17 (10.00%) Data Analysis
11 17 (10.00%) Data Science
11 17 (10.00%) Machine Learning
12 15 (8.82%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 39 (22.94%) Python
2 35 (20.59%) SQL
3 21 (12.35%) Java
4 10 (5.88%) JavaScript
5 8 (4.71%) C#
6 7 (4.12%) C++
7 3 (1.76%) Bash
7 3 (1.76%) Go
7 3 (1.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (1.76%) R
7 3 (1.76%) Scala
8 2 (1.18%) ABAP
8 2 (1.18%) Apex Code
9 1 (0.59%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.59%) RPG
9 1 (0.59%) RPG IV
9 1 (0.59%) VBA
9 1 (0.59%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 34 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 19 (11.18%) Master's Degree
2 19 (11.18%) Security Cleared
3 18 (10.59%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.82%) PMI Certification
5 13 (7.65%) PMP
6 11 (6.47%) PhD
7 8 (4.71%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.53%) CBAP
8 6 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (2.94%) CCNP
9 5 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (1.76%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.76%) ITIL Certification
10 3 (1.76%) OCP
10 3 (1.76%) Oracle Certification
11 2 (1.18%) ACCA
11 2 (1.18%) CCNA
11 2 (1.18%) MCSE
11 2 (1.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (5.88%) QA
2 9 (5.29%) PMO
3 8 (4.71%) Data Quality
4 7 (4.12%) NIST
5 5 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (2.35%) COBIT
6 4 (2.35%) MiFID
7 3 (1.76%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.76%) GDPR
7 3 (1.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 3 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (1.18%) EMIR
8 2 (1.18%) GAAP
8 2 (1.18%) IFRS
8 2 (1.18%) SLA
9 1 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.59%) GRC
9 1 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 17025
9 1 (0.59%) UCITS
9 1 (0.59%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (5.29%) Active Directory
2 4 (2.35%) Docker
3 3 (1.76%) Virtual Desktop
3 3 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.59%) BitLocker
4 1 (0.59%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (0.59%) XenApp
4 1 (0.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.94%) Terraform
3 3 (1.76%) Ansible
3 3 (1.76%) Grafana
4 2 (1.18%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.18%) SCCM
5 1 (0.59%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.59%) EnCase
5 1 (0.59%) FTK
5 1 (0.59%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.59%) Kubeflow
5 1 (0.59%) Podman
5 1 (0.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.59%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.59%) Puppet
5 1 (0.59%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 13 (7.65%) Oracle
3 11 (6.47%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.88%) Salesforce
4 10 (5.88%) SAP
5 7 (4.12%) Databricks
6 5 (2.94%) Fortinet
7 4 (2.35%) Cisco
7 4 (2.35%) VMware
7 4 (2.35%) Workday
8 3 (1.76%) Citrix
8 3 (1.76%) HP
9 2 (1.18%) Atempo
9 2 (1.18%) Bloomberg
9 2 (1.18%) F5
9 2 (1.18%) Foundry
9 2 (1.18%) Google
9 2 (1.18%) Hyperion
9 2 (1.18%) Juniper
9 2 (1.18%) Palantir