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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -24 -4 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 93 147 168
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.04% 8.37% 7.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.50% 34.19% 37.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 98 104
10th Percentile £359 £359 £297
25th Percentile £413 £463 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £569 £565
Median % change year-on-year -12.09% +0.66% -5.83%
75th Percentile £658 £720 £666
90th Percentile £803 £823 £784
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -9.09% -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 £28.77 £28.15 £34.75
% change year-on-year +2.19% -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 600 430 443
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.09% 24.47% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 438 286 292
10th Percentile £401 £402 £376
25th Percentile £458 £458 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.53% -7.61%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -6.67%
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 £28.92 £29.07 £25.99
% change year-on-year -0.52% +11.87% -49.54%

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 6 May 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 6 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 3 (3.23%) Confluence
2 2 (2.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.08%) Appian
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (8.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.45%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Actimize
1 1 (1.08%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.08%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.81%) Azure
2 12 (12.90%) Power Platform
3 11 (11.83%) GCP
4 9 (9.68%) AWS
5 8 (8.60%) GitHub
6 6 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (4.30%) GitHub Copilot
9 3 (3.23%) Azure AKS
9 3 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 3 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.23%) Google Gemini
9 3 (3.23%) Power Automate
9 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (2.15%) ChatGPT
10 2 (2.15%) Collibra
10 2 (2.15%) Figma
10 2 (2.15%) PowerApps
11 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) IPsec
2 1 (1.08%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.08%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) SSL
2 1 (1.08%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.08%) VPN
2 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.53%) Power BI
2 6 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.30%) Metadata
3 4 (4.30%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.23%) DB2
4 3 (3.23%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.23%) Tableau
5 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.15%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (2.15%) MySQL
5 2 (2.15%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.08%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.08%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.08%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.08%) Power Query
6 1 (1.08%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.08%) Semantic Layer
6 1 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.08%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (9.68%) JIRA
2 6 (6.45%) Git
3 2 (2.15%) ERwin
3 2 (2.15%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.08%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.08%) GitLab
4 1 (1.08%) MLflow
4 1 (1.08%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.08%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.08%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (44.09%) Social Skills
2 37 (39.78%) Finance
3 19 (20.43%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.13%) Banking
5 8 (8.60%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.45%) Marketing
8 5 (5.38%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.23%) Front Office
9 3 (3.23%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.23%) Legal
9 3 (3.23%) Retail
10 2 (2.15%) Advertising
10 2 (2.15%) Back Office
10 2 (2.15%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (2.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.08%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 17 (18.28%) Analyst
2 11 (11.83%) Senior
3 8 (8.60%) Consultant
4 7 (7.53%) Lead
5 6 (6.45%) Architect
5 6 (6.45%) Business Analyst
5 6 (6.45%) Data Scientist
5 6 (6.45%) Developer
6 4 (4.30%) IT Analyst
6 4 (4.30%) Risk Analyst
6 4 (4.30%) Senior Manager
6 4 (4.30%) SOX Analyst
6 4 (4.30%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.23%) Cybersecurity Specialist
7 3 (3.23%) Data Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (3.23%) Senior Project Manager
7 3 (3.23%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.60%) PyTorch
2 7 (7.53%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.38%) React
4 4 (4.30%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.23%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.23%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.23%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.23%) jQuery
5 3 (3.23%) Keras
5 3 (3.23%) Node.js
5 3 (3.23%) Spring
6 2 (2.15%) LangChain
7 1 (1.08%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.08%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.08%) JAX
7 1 (1.08%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.08%) Playwright
7 1 (1.08%) RESTful
7 1 (1.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.30%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.30%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.30%) Onboarding
1 4 (4.30%) PMI
2 3 (3.23%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.23%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.23%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.15%) Equities
3 2 (2.15%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (2.15%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.15%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.15%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.08%) Genomics
4 1 (1.08%) Life Science
4 1 (1.08%) PACS
4 1 (1.08%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.75%) Windows
2 6 (6.45%) Linux
3 4 (4.30%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.23%) Android
4 3 (3.23%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.15%) Unix
6 1 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.08%) VMS
6 1 (1.08%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (36.56%) Computer Science
2 27 (29.03%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (26.88%) AI
4 21 (22.58%) Agile
5 18 (19.35%) Analytics
6 14 (15.05%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (15.05%) Risk Management
6 14 (15.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (12.90%) Data Science
8 11 (11.83%) Change Management
8 11 (11.83%) Decision-Making
8 11 (11.83%) DevOps
8 11 (11.83%) Machine Learning
9 10 (10.75%) Software Engineering
9 10 (10.75%) Validation
10 9 (9.68%) Business Intelligence
10 9 (9.68%) Data Modelling
10 9 (9.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.60%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 23 (24.73%) Python
2 21 (22.58%) SQL
3 8 (8.60%) Java
4 4 (4.30%) C#
4 4 (4.30%) C++
5 3 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.23%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.15%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.08%) Korn
7 1 (1.08%) R
7 1 (1.08%) VB
7 1 (1.08%) X++
Qualifications
1 20 (21.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (16.13%) Master's Degree
3 10 (10.75%) CISSP
4 8 (8.60%) CRISC
4 8 (8.60%) Security Cleared
5 7 (7.53%) PhD
6 6 (6.45%) CISM
6 6 (6.45%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.38%) CISA
7 5 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (5.38%) PMI Certification
8 4 (4.30%) CBAP
9 3 (3.23%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.23%) GIAC
9 3 (3.23%) ISACA
9 3 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.15%) CCNA
10 2 (2.15%) GSEC
10 2 (2.15%) MBA
10 2 (2.15%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.53%) NIST
3 6 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.38%) GDPR
5 4 (4.30%) COBIT
5 4 (4.30%) ITGC
5 4 (4.30%) PMO
5 4 (4.30%) QA
5 4 (4.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.15%) GRC
6 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (2.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.15%) SLA
7 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.08%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.08%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.08%) P3O
7 1 (1.08%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.08%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (3.23%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.15%) Docker
3 1 (1.08%) Firmware
3 1 (1.08%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.08%) vSphere
3 1 (1.08%) XenApp
3 1 (1.08%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.23%) Ansible
3 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.15%) Terraform
4 1 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.08%) Control-M
4 1 (1.08%) Packer
4 1 (1.08%) SCCM
4 1 (1.08%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 20 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.45%) Google
3 4 (4.30%) SAP
4 3 (3.23%) Databricks
4 3 (3.23%) Informatica
4 3 (3.23%) Oracle
5 2 (2.15%) Cisco
5 2 (2.15%) Murex
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
5 2 (2.15%) VMware
5 2 (2.15%) YouTube
6 1 (1.08%) Charles River
6 1 (1.08%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.08%) Citrix
6 1 (1.08%) EMC
6 1 (1.08%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.08%) HP
6 1 (1.08%) IBM
6 1 (1.08%) Juniper
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow