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

6 months to
6 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -32 -7 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 83 141 174
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.50% 8.30% 8.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 13.65% 34.64% 39.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 93 109
10th Percentile £353 £352 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -12.61% +2.22% -6.33%
75th Percentile £664 £725 £650
90th Percentile £776 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £520 £550 £553
% change year-on-year -5.45% -0.45% -7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £21.37 - -
25th Percentile £27.58 £27.39 -
Median hourly rate £41.75 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.32% +4.26% -48.08%
75th Percentile £55.37 £28.91 -
90th Percentile £61.15 - -
Central London median hourly rate £51.44 £28.15 £34.75
% change year-on-year +82.74% -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 608 407 442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.64% 23.97% 20.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 273 284
10th Percentile £413 £380 £382
25th Percentile £463 £463 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £534
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +3.00% -7.93%
75th Percentile £638 £678 £650
90th Percentile £734 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.27% -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £34.16 -
25th Percentile £24.16 £44.32 £20.22
Median hourly rate £41.75 £62.50 £20.91
Median % change year-on-year -33.20% +198.94% -42.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £81.88 £22.88
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £25.35
Central London median hourly rate £52.22 £29.07 £21.00
% change year-on-year +79.64% +38.43% -41.83%

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 June 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 June 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 (4.82%) Confluence
2 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) Appian
3 1 (1.20%) IIS
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.02%) MS Visio
3 4 (4.82%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.20%) Actimize
1 1 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.20%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Azure
2 12 (14.46%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) GCP
4 8 (9.64%) GitHub
4 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (4.82%) GitHub Copilot
5 4 (4.82%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.61%) Azure AKS
6 3 (3.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (3.61%) OpenShift
6 3 (3.61%) PaaS
6 3 (3.61%) Snowflake
7 2 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.41%) Figma
7 2 (2.41%) IaaS
8 1 (1.20%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.20%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.20%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.23%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) VPN
3 2 (2.41%) DHCP
3 2 (2.41%) DNS
3 2 (2.41%) SMTP
4 1 (1.20%) Internet
4 1 (1.20%) Intranet
4 1 (1.20%) IPsec
4 1 (1.20%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.20%) NetScaler
4 1 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (1.20%) NGFW
4 1 (1.20%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.20%) SSL
4 1 (1.20%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.20%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) NoSQL
1 6 (7.23%) PostgreSQL
1 6 (7.23%) Power BI
2 5 (6.02%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.82%) Metadata
3 4 (4.82%) Tableau
4 3 (3.61%) Db2
4 3 (3.61%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.61%) Relational Database
5 2 (2.41%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (2.41%) Big Data
5 2 (2.41%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.41%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (2.41%) Metadata Repository
5 2 (2.41%) MySQL
6 1 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.20%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.20%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.20%) Power Query
6 1 (1.20%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 11 (13.25%) JIRA
2 5 (6.02%) Git
3 3 (3.61%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.41%) ERwin
4 2 (2.41%) Zephyr
5 1 (1.20%) Artifactory
5 1 (1.20%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.20%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.20%) GitLab
5 1 (1.20%) MLflow
5 1 (1.20%) SonarQube
5 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.20%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (42.17%) Finance
2 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
3 18 (21.69%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (20.48%) Banking
5 7 (8.43%) Marketing
6 6 (7.23%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (7.23%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.82%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.61%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.61%) Legal
8 3 (3.61%) Retail
9 2 (2.41%) Advertising
9 2 (2.41%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.41%) Front Office
9 2 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.20%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.20%) Automotive
10 1 (1.20%) Law
10 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (20.48%) Analyst
2 10 (12.05%) Senior
3 8 (9.64%) Architect
4 7 (8.43%) Developer
5 6 (7.23%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) IT Analyst
6 5 (6.02%) Lead
7 4 (4.82%) Data Scientist
7 4 (4.82%) SOX Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (3.61%) Consultant
8 3 (3.61%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (3.61%) Junior
8 3 (3.61%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.61%) Risk Analyst
8 3 (3.61%) Security Specialist
9 2 (2.41%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 2 (2.41%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 2 (2.41%) Java Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) PyTorch
2 6 (7.23%) TensorFlow
3 5 (6.02%) React
4 4 (4.82%) .NET
4 4 (4.82%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.61%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.61%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.61%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.61%) jQuery
5 3 (3.61%) Keras
5 3 (3.61%) Node.js
5 3 (3.61%) Spring
6 2 (2.41%) Web Services
6 2 (2.41%) XML
7 1 (1.20%) ADO
7 1 (1.20%) ADO.NET
7 1 (1.20%) ASP.NET
7 1 (1.20%) XSL
7 1 (1.20%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.82%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.82%) Data Centre
1 4 (4.82%) Management Information System
1 4 (4.82%) PMI
2 3 (3.61%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.61%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (3.61%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.61%) Onboarding
3 2 (2.41%) Clustering
3 2 (2.41%) Equities
3 2 (2.41%) PKI
3 2 (2.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.41%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.20%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.20%) BYOD
4 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.20%) FMCG
4 1 (1.20%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.20%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.25%) Linux
2 9 (10.84%) Windows
3 5 (6.02%) Unix
4 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 3 (3.61%) Android
5 3 (3.61%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.20%) VMS
6 1 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (38.55%) Computer Science
2 22 (26.51%) AI
3 20 (24.10%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (21.69%) Agile
5 15 (18.07%) Analytics
5 15 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (15.66%) Machine Learning
7 11 (13.25%) Change Management
7 11 (13.25%) DevOps
7 11 (13.25%) Risk Management
8 10 (12.05%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (12.05%) Decision-Making
8 10 (12.05%) Validation
9 9 (10.84%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (10.84%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (9.64%) Data Management
10 8 (9.64%) Data Modelling
10 8 (9.64%) Data Science
10 8 (9.64%) Migration
10 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 24 (28.92%) SQL
2 21 (25.30%) Python
3 8 (9.64%) Java
4 6 (7.23%) C#
5 5 (6.02%) C++
6 4 (4.82%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.61%) PowerShell
7 3 (3.61%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.41%) PL/SQL
9 1 (1.20%) C
9 1 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.20%) Korn
9 1 (1.20%) ProC
9 1 (1.20%) VB
9 1 (1.20%) X++
Qualifications
1 16 (19.28%) Computer Science Degree
2 11 (13.25%) Master's Degree
3 10 (12.05%) CISSP
4 8 (9.64%) CRISC
4 8 (9.64%) PhD
4 8 (9.64%) Security Cleared
5 6 (7.23%) CISM
5 6 (7.23%) PMI Certification
6 5 (6.02%) CISA
6 5 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.82%) CBAP
8 3 (3.61%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.41%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.41%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.41%) CASP
9 2 (2.41%) CCNP
9 2 (2.41%) MBA
9 2 (2.41%) MCSE
9 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.05%) Data Quality
2 7 (8.43%) NIST
2 7 (8.43%) QA
3 6 (7.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (4.82%) COBIT
4 4 (4.82%) GDPR
4 4 (4.82%) ITGC
4 4 (4.82%) PMO
4 4 (4.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.41%) GRC
5 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 2 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.20%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.20%) NIST 800
6 1 (1.20%) P3O
6 1 (1.20%) SLA
6 1 (1.20%) Solvency II
6 1 (1.20%) UCITS
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) Docker
2 4 (4.82%) Active Directory
3 3 (3.61%) Hyper-V
3 3 (3.61%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.41%) BitLocker
4 2 (2.41%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (2.41%) Terminal Services
5 1 (1.20%) Firmware
5 1 (1.20%) vSphere
5 1 (1.20%) XenApp
5 1 (1.20%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.82%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Nagios
3 2 (2.41%) Puppet
3 2 (2.41%) SCCM
3 2 (2.41%) vCenter Server
3 2 (2.41%) vMotion
4 1 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.20%) Control-M
4 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.20%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.20%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (26.51%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.23%) Google
2 6 (7.23%) Oracle
3 3 (3.61%) Citrix
3 3 (3.61%) Databricks
3 3 (3.61%) HP
3 3 (3.61%) Informatica
3 3 (3.61%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.61%) VMware
4 2 (2.41%) CheckPoint
4 2 (2.41%) Cisco
4 2 (2.41%) Fortinet
4 2 (2.41%) IBM
4 2 (2.41%) Murex
4 2 (2.41%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.41%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.41%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.41%) Splunk
4 2 (2.41%) Symantec
4 2 (2.41%) YouTube