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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 25 17
Rank change year-on-year -36 -8 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 79 157 196
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.30% 8.40% 9.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 12.95% 34.13% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 104 125
10th Percentile £278 £352 £355
25th Percentile £413 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £575 £578
Median % change year-on-year -12.78% -0.43% +3.82%
75th Percentile £641 £693 £713
90th Percentile £722 £797 £808
Central London median daily rate £519 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -9.78% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £33.43 £25.91 -
25th Percentile £37.02 £26.16 -
Median hourly rate £46.03 £27.33 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.46% +1.20% -48.57%
75th Percentile £57.02 £28.50 -
90th Percentile £61.81 £28.74 -
Central London median hourly rate £53.00 £34.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year +53.71% +27.70% -48.57%

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 610 460 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.46% 24.63% 23.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 314 312
10th Percentile £408 £341 £405
25th Percentile £463 £462 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £542 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £642 £675 £675
90th Percentile £734 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 4
10th Percentile £19.42 £22.28 £20.31
25th Percentile £21.88 £26.00 £20.43
Median hourly rate £31.03 £28.15 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +17.29% -31.91%
75th Percentile £57.02 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £27.00
% change year-on-year +33.86% +17.69% -23.40%

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 August 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 6 August 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 5 (6.33%) Confluence
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (5.06%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.53%) IIS
4 1 (1.27%) Appian
4 1 (1.27%) CMS
Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (5.06%) MS Visio
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (1.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 1 (1.27%) Chatbot
6 1 (1.27%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (1.27%) Actimize
1 1 (1.27%) CA PPM
1 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.27%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 21 (26.58%) Azure
2 10 (12.66%) AWS
3 9 (11.39%) Power Platform
4 8 (10.13%) GCP
4 8 (10.13%) GitHub
4 8 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.06%) OpenShift
7 3 (3.80%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.80%) Entra ID
7 3 (3.80%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.80%) IaaS
7 3 (3.80%) PaaS
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (2.53%) Cloudflare
8 2 (2.53%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.53%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) Firewall
2 6 (7.59%) DNS
2 6 (7.59%) VPN
3 5 (6.33%) DHCP
4 3 (3.80%) SMTP
5 2 (2.53%) Internet
5 2 (2.53%) Intranet
5 2 (2.53%) LAN
5 2 (2.53%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.53%) WAN
6 1 (1.27%) BGP
6 1 (1.27%) IPsec
6 1 (1.27%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.27%) MPLS
6 1 (1.27%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.27%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) OSPF
6 1 (1.27%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.27%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.27%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.86%) NoSQL
1 7 (8.86%) Power BI
2 5 (6.33%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.06%) MongoDB
3 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
3 4 (5.06%) Tableau
4 3 (3.80%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (3.80%) Big Data
4 3 (3.80%) Db2
4 3 (3.80%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.53%) Data Mining
5 2 (2.53%) Metadata
5 2 (2.53%) Oracle Database
5 2 (2.53%) RDBMS
5 2 (2.53%) SQLPlus
6 1 (1.27%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (1.27%) MySQL
6 1 (1.27%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.27%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (11.39%) JIRA
2 6 (7.59%) Git
3 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.80%) Zephyr
5 2 (2.53%) Artifactory
5 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.53%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.27%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.27%) GitLab
6 1 (1.27%) Jasmine
6 1 (1.27%) JUnit
6 1 (1.27%) Karma Test Runner
6 1 (1.27%) Selenium
6 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio
General
1 32 (40.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (39.24%) Finance
3 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (20.25%) Banking
5 8 (10.13%) Marketing
6 4 (5.06%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.80%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.53%) Advertising
8 2 (2.53%) Front Office
8 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Legal
8 2 (2.53%) Retail
9 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.27%) Automotive
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (12.66%) Analyst
2 9 (11.39%) Developer
3 8 (10.13%) Senior
4 7 (8.86%) Architect
5 5 (6.33%) IT Analyst
6 4 (5.06%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (5.06%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.06%) Data Scientist
6 4 (5.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (5.06%) Junior
6 4 (5.06%) Lead
6 4 (5.06%) SOX Analyst
7 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.80%) Consultant
7 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support
7 3 (3.80%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
7 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.80%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.86%) .NET
2 4 (5.06%) AngularJS
2 4 (5.06%) PyTorch
2 4 (5.06%) React
2 4 (5.06%) Spring
2 4 (5.06%) Web Services
2 4 (5.06%) XML
3 3 (3.80%) Backbone.js
3 3 (3.80%) Bootstrap
3 3 (3.80%) Ember.js
3 3 (3.80%) Hugging Face
3 3 (3.80%) jQuery
3 3 (3.80%) Keras
3 3 (3.80%) REST
3 3 (3.80%) TensorFlow
4 2 (2.53%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.53%) .NET Framework
4 2 (2.53%) Ajax
4 2 (2.53%) Playwright
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.33%) Cloud Native
1 5 (6.33%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.33%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.80%) Algorithms
3 3 (3.80%) Clustering
3 3 (3.80%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.80%) Equities
3 3 (3.80%) PKI
3 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.53%) PMI
4 2 (2.53%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.27%) AS400
5 1 (1.27%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.27%) Fixed Income
5 1 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Replication
5 1 (1.27%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) Linux
2 11 (13.92%) Windows
3 7 (8.86%) Unix
4 4 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.80%) Android
5 3 (3.80%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (2.53%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.27%) VMS
7 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.97%) Computer Science
2 21 (26.58%) AI
3 17 (21.52%) Agile
3 17 (21.52%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (20.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (18.99%) Analytics
6 14 (17.72%) DevOps
7 12 (15.19%) Machine Learning
8 10 (12.66%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
9 9 (11.39%) Scrum
10 8 (10.13%) Change Management
10 8 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.13%) Performance Tuning
10 8 (10.13%) PRINCE2
10 8 (10.13%) Project Management
10 8 (10.13%) SDLC
10 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.86%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.85%) SQL
2 20 (25.32%) Python
3 7 (8.86%) C#
4 6 (7.59%) Java
5 5 (6.33%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
6 4 (5.06%) PL/SQL
7 3 (3.80%) C++
8 2 (2.53%) C
8 2 (2.53%) ProC
8 2 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.27%) COBOL
9 1 (1.27%) CQL
9 1 (1.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.27%) Korn
9 1 (1.27%) RPG
9 1 (1.27%) VB
9 1 (1.27%) VBA
9 1 (1.27%) X++
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (8.86%) CISSP
2 7 (8.86%) Security Cleared
3 6 (7.59%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (7.59%) PhD
4 5 (6.33%) CISA
4 5 (6.33%) CRISC
4 5 (6.33%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.06%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.80%) CCNP
6 3 (3.80%) CISM
6 3 (3.80%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.80%) PMP
6 3 (3.80%) SC Cleared
7 2 (2.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (2.53%) CCNA
7 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.27%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.92%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (7.59%) NIST
3 5 (6.33%) Data Quality
4 4 (5.06%) COBIT
4 4 (5.06%) ITGC
4 4 (5.06%) PMO
4 4 (5.06%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.53%) GDPR
5 2 (2.53%) P3O
5 2 (2.53%) PCI DSS
5 2 (2.53%) SLA
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.27%) EU AI Act
6 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 1 (1.27%) MiFID
6 1 (1.27%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.27%) UCITS
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Docker
2 7 (8.86%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.06%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.06%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (3.80%) BitLocker
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (3.80%) Terminal Services
5 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (1.27%) Firmware
6 1 (1.27%) vSphere
6 1 (1.27%) XenApp
6 1 (1.27%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 12 (15.19%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.33%) Ansible
3 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.80%) Nagios
4 3 (3.80%) Puppet
4 3 (3.80%) vCenter Server
4 3 (3.80%) vMotion
5 2 (2.53%) SCCM
5 2 (2.53%) Terraform
6 1 (1.27%) Control-M
6 1 (1.27%) PingFederate
6 1 (1.27%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 25 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.86%) Oracle
3 6 (7.59%) Google
4 5 (6.33%) Citrix
4 5 (6.33%) HP
4 5 (6.33%) Sitecore
4 5 (6.33%) VMware
5 4 (5.06%) IBM
5 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.80%) Cisco
6 3 (3.80%) Palo Alto
6 3 (3.80%) Symantec
7 2 (2.53%) CheckPoint
7 2 (2.53%) Forcepoint
7 2 (2.53%) ForeScout
7 2 (2.53%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.53%) Juniper
7 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.53%) Splunk
7 2 (2.53%) YouTube