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 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 24 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 127 163 179
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 6.97% 7.89% 7.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.10% 30.47% 35.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 103 104
10th Percentile £314 £260 £275
25th Percentile £419 £458 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £563 £555
Median % change year-on-year -6.22% +1.35% -7.50%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £739
90th Percentile £859 £825 £875
Central London median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £25.83 - -
25th Percentile £25.94 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £27.25 - £72.50
75th Percentile £28.94 - £73.75
90th Percentile £29.28 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £72.50
% change year-on-year - - +33.03%

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 506 535 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.76% 25.90% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 319 315
10th Percentile £350 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -4.68%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £752 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £20.55 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £25.75 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.94% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £50.80 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.99 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -64.03% +20.42% +39.53%

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

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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

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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 21 December 2025.

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

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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 8 (6.30%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.72%) Confluence
3 2 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.79%) Ethereum
4 1 (0.79%) Hyperledger
4 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 15 (11.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (7.87%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (7.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (6.30%) MS Visio
4 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.79%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.79%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 2 (1.57%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.79%) HFM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP MDG
2 1 (0.79%) SAP PLM
2 1 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.79%) SAP VC
2 1 (0.79%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.62%) Azure
2 14 (11.02%) Power Platform
3 13 (10.24%) AWS
4 10 (7.87%) GCP
5 9 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (5.51%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (3.94%) Entra ID
8 4 (3.15%) Power Automate
9 3 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (2.36%) Figma
9 3 (2.36%) Google Gemini
9 3 (2.36%) PowerApps
10 2 (1.57%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (1.57%) ChatGPT
10 2 (1.57%) GitHub
10 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (1.57%) Miro
10 2 (1.57%) SaaS
10 2 (1.57%) Snowflake
11 1 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.30%) Firewall
2 4 (3.15%) LAN
2 4 (3.15%) WAN
3 3 (2.36%) Intrusion Detection
3 3 (2.36%) Network Security
3 3 (2.36%) Structured Cabling
3 3 (2.36%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.57%) DHCP
4 2 (1.57%) DNS
4 2 (1.57%) Modbus
4 2 (1.57%) VPN
5 1 (0.79%) BGP
5 1 (0.79%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.79%) Internet
5 1 (0.79%) MPLS
5 1 (0.79%) OSPF
5 1 (0.79%) Softphone
5 1 (0.79%) SSL
5 1 (0.79%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.79%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (7.87%) Power BI
2 4 (3.15%) KDB
3 3 (2.36%) Kdb+
3 3 (2.36%) Star Schema
3 3 (2.36%) Tableau
4 2 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.79%) Big Data
5 1 (0.79%) Metadata
5 1 (0.79%) Pinecone
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 14 (11.02%) JIRA
2 5 (3.94%) Git
3 3 (2.36%) Selenium
4 2 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (1.57%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.57%) GitLab
4 2 (1.57%) Postman
4 2 (1.57%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (0.79%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.79%) Gradle
5 1 (0.79%) Hardhat
5 1 (0.79%) MLflow
5 1 (0.79%) QUnit
5 1 (0.79%) SonarQube
General
1 67 (52.76%) Finance
2 58 (45.67%) Social Skills
3 29 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (14.96%) Banking
5 12 (9.45%) Front Office
6 10 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (7.09%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (6.30%) Back Office
8 8 (6.30%) Financial Institution
8 8 (6.30%) Telecoms
9 7 (5.51%) Investment Banking
9 7 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (4.72%) Legal
10 6 (4.72%) Marketing
10 6 (4.72%) Public Sector
11 5 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (3.15%) Law
12 4 (3.15%) Manufacturing
13 2 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (19.69%) Analyst
2 18 (14.17%) Business Analyst
3 17 (13.39%) Senior
4 14 (11.02%) Developer
5 9 (7.09%) Lead
5 9 (7.09%) Project Manager
6 8 (6.30%) Consultant
7 6 (4.72%) Architect
7 6 (4.72%) Support Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) Data Engineer
8 5 (3.94%) IT Manager
8 5 (3.94%) IT Project Manager
8 5 (3.94%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.15%) Data Scientist
9 4 (3.15%) Senior Business Analyst
9 4 (3.15%) Technical Analyst
10 3 (2.36%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (2.36%) Designer
10 3 (2.36%) Senior Developer
10 3 (2.36%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) .NET
2 4 (3.15%) PyTorch
2 4 (3.15%) TensorFlow
2 4 (3.15%) XML
3 3 (2.36%) CSS
3 3 (2.36%) HTML
3 3 (2.36%) LangChain
4 2 (1.57%) Kafka
4 2 (1.57%) LangGraph
4 2 (1.57%) React
4 2 (1.57%) Spring
5 1 (0.79%) Altair
5 1 (0.79%) Faiss
5 1 (0.79%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.79%) Playwright
5 1 (0.79%) Smart Contracts
5 1 (0.79%) Truffle
5 1 (0.79%) web3js
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 8 (6.30%) Onboarding
3 7 (5.51%) Algorithms
3 7 (5.51%) Data Centre
3 7 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.72%) Data Structures
4 6 (4.72%) Fixed Income
4 6 (4.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (3.94%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.36%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (2.36%) Derivative
6 3 (2.36%) Hedge funds
6 3 (2.36%) Life Science
6 3 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (1.57%) Equities
7 2 (1.57%) PMI
7 2 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.57%) SCADA
7 2 (1.57%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.45%) Windows
2 7 (5.51%) Unix
3 6 (4.72%) Linux
4 4 (3.15%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.79%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.79%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (40.16%) Computer Science
2 41 (32.28%) Agile
3 40 (31.50%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (20.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (16.54%) Scrum
6 20 (15.75%) Analytics
6 20 (15.75%) User Acceptance Testing
7 19 (14.96%) AI
7 19 (14.96%) Project Management
8 18 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (13.39%) DevOps
10 15 (11.81%) Data Science
10 15 (11.81%) Risk Management
11 14 (11.02%) Change Management
11 14 (11.02%) Software Engineering
12 13 (10.24%) Continuous Improvement
12 13 (10.24%) SDLC
13 12 (9.45%) Business Intelligence
13 12 (9.45%) Project Delivery
13 12 (9.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.11%) Python
2 19 (14.96%) SQL
3 13 (10.24%) Java
4 11 (8.66%) C#
5 7 (5.51%) C++
5 7 (5.51%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.15%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.57%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.57%) VB.NET
8 1 (0.79%) ABAP
8 1 (0.79%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.79%) F#
8 1 (0.79%) Go
8 1 (0.79%) Korn
8 1 (0.79%) R
8 1 (0.79%) Solidity
8 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
8 1 (0.79%) VC++
Qualifications
1 33 (25.98%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (12.60%) Master's Degree
3 9 (7.09%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.51%) SC Cleared
5 6 (4.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (3.94%) CBAP
6 5 (3.94%) CCNA
6 5 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (3.94%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.15%) PMP
8 3 (2.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.36%) CCNP
8 3 (2.36%) CISSP
8 3 (2.36%) GIAC
8 3 (2.36%) ISACA
8 3 (2.36%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.57%) CFA
9 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.57%) IIBA
9 2 (1.57%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.51%) QA
2 6 (4.72%) Data Quality
2 6 (4.72%) GDPR
3 5 (3.94%) PMO
4 4 (3.15%) NIST
5 3 (2.36%) Accessibility
5 3 (2.36%) COBIT
5 3 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.36%) SLA
6 2 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.79%) DICOM
7 1 (0.79%) EMIR
7 1 (0.79%) GRC
7 1 (0.79%) HL7
7 1 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.79%) PSD2
7 1 (0.79%) SEPA
7 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (1.57%) Ansible
1 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.57%) SCCM
1 2 (1.57%) Terraform
2 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.79%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.79%) Packer
2 1 (0.79%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 34 (26.77%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.51%) SAP
3 6 (4.72%) Oracle
3 6 (4.72%) ServiceNow
4 5 (3.94%) Cisco
5 4 (3.15%) Google
5 4 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.36%) Arista
6 3 (2.36%) VMware
6 3 (2.36%) Workday
7 2 (1.57%) Adobe
7 2 (1.57%) Atlassian
7 2 (1.57%) Citrix
7 2 (1.57%) Databricks
7 2 (1.57%) Hyperion
7 2 (1.57%) Palo Alto
7 2 (1.57%) Rockwell
7 2 (1.57%) Tenable
7 2 (1.57%) UiPath
8 1 (0.79%) Polycom