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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -23 -1 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 98 143 168
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.42% 8.18% 7.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.50% 32.50% 37.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 98 102
10th Percentile £363 £350 £265
25th Percentile £413 £459 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -2.65% -9.60%
75th Percentile £662 £700 £688
90th Percentile £828 £814 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £535 £565
% change year-on-year -6.54% -5.31% -9.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £31.43
25th Percentile £24.18 - £38.06
Median hourly rate £30.03 - £49.75
75th Percentile £37.86 - £62.06
90th Percentile £46.44 - £69.08
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £42.50
% change year-on-year - - -18.27%

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 594 440 453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.78% 25.16% 20.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 294 297
10th Percentile £383 £383 £367
25th Percentile £450 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £663
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% -5.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 5
10th Percentile £18.71 £29.85 £19.45
25th Percentile £24.16 £41.63 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -51.95% +200.26% -54.75%
75th Percentile £55.37 £81.88 £27.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £55.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £45.79 £27.00
% change year-on-year -43.72% +69.57% -41.30%

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

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 (3.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.04%) Confluence
3 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.02%) Appian
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.12%) MS Visio
3 5 (5.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Actimize
1 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.02%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 25 (25.51%) Azure
2 13 (13.27%) GCP
2 13 (13.27%) Power Platform
3 11 (11.22%) AWS
4 8 (8.16%) GitHub
5 6 (6.12%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.10%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (4.08%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.06%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.06%) Google Gemini
9 2 (2.04%) ChatGPT
9 2 (2.04%) Collibra
9 2 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (2.04%) Figma
9 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (1.02%) Cloudflare
10 1 (1.02%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) Firewall
2 2 (2.04%) Network Security
3 1 (1.02%) IPsec
3 1 (1.02%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.02%) LAN
3 1 (1.02%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.02%) SSL
3 1 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.02%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.02%) VPN
3 1 (1.02%) WAN
3 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.18%) Power BI
2 6 (6.12%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.06%) DB2
4 3 (3.06%) Metadata
4 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.06%) Tableau
5 2 (2.04%) MySQL
5 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.02%) Data Mart
6 1 (1.02%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.02%) KDB
6 1 (1.02%) OLAP
6 1 (1.02%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (1.02%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.02%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (1.02%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 9 (9.18%) JIRA
2 6 (6.12%) Git
3 2 (2.04%) ERwin
3 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.02%) MLflow
4 1 (1.02%) Postman
4 1 (1.02%) Selenium
4 1 (1.02%) SonarQube
General
1 42 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 39 (39.80%) Finance
3 21 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.37%) Banking
5 9 (9.18%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.14%) Front Office
6 7 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.14%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (5.10%) Marketing
8 4 (4.08%) Back Office
8 4 (4.08%) Legal
9 3 (3.06%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.06%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (3.06%) Retail
10 2 (2.04%) Advertising
10 2 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (18.37%) Analyst
2 12 (12.24%) Senior
3 9 (9.18%) Consultant
4 8 (8.16%) Business Analyst
5 7 (7.14%) Lead
6 6 (6.12%) Architect
6 6 (6.12%) Data Scientist
6 6 (6.12%) Developer
7 5 (5.10%) IT Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.08%) Risk Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.08%) SOX Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.06%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (3.06%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.06%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (3.06%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.16%) PyTorch
2 7 (7.14%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.10%) React
4 4 (4.08%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.06%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.06%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.06%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.06%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.06%) jQuery
5 3 (3.06%) Keras
5 3 (3.06%) Node.js
5 3 (3.06%) Spring
6 2 (2.04%) .NET
6 2 (2.04%) LangChain
7 1 (1.02%) Altair
7 1 (1.02%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.02%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.02%) JAX
7 1 (1.02%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.02%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) Cloud Native
1 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.06%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.06%) PMI
2 3 (3.06%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.04%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.04%) Equities
3 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.04%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.04%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.04%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.02%) BYOD
4 1 (1.02%) FMCG
4 1 (1.02%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.20%) Windows
2 5 (5.10%) Linux
3 4 (4.08%) Unix
4 3 (3.06%) Android
4 3 (3.06%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.02%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.76%) Computer Science
2 31 (31.63%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (24.49%) Agile
3 24 (24.49%) AI
4 19 (19.39%) Analytics
5 15 (15.31%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (14.29%) Change Management
6 14 (14.29%) Data Science
6 14 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 14 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (13.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (12.24%) DevOps
9 11 (11.22%) Decision-Making
9 11 (11.22%) Machine Learning
9 11 (11.22%) Validation
10 10 (10.20%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (10.20%) Software Engineering
10 10 (10.20%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) Python
1 22 (22.45%) SQL
2 9 (9.18%) Java
3 4 (4.08%) C#
3 4 (4.08%) C++
4 3 (3.06%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.06%) TypeScript
5 2 (2.04%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.02%) Korn
6 1 (1.02%) R
6 1 (1.02%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 23 (23.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 15 (15.31%) Master's Degree
3 11 (11.22%) CISSP
4 8 (8.16%) CRISC
5 7 (7.14%) CISM
5 7 (7.14%) PhD
5 7 (7.14%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.12%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.10%) CISA
8 4 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.08%) PMI Certification
9 3 (3.06%) CBAP
9 3 (3.06%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.06%) GIAC
9 3 (3.06%) ISACA
9 3 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.04%) CASP
10 2 (2.04%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.18%) Data Quality
2 8 (8.16%) NIST
3 7 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (6.12%) GDPR
5 4 (4.08%) COBIT
5 4 (4.08%) ITGC
5 4 (4.08%) PMO
5 4 (4.08%) QA
5 4 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 3 (3.06%) PCI DSS
7 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
7 2 (2.04%) GRC
7 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 2 (2.04%) SLA
8 1 (1.02%) DICOM
8 1 (1.02%) EU AI Act
8 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
8 1 (1.02%) HL7
8 1 (1.02%) MiFID
8 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.04%) Docker
3 1 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.02%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.02%) XenApp
3 1 (1.02%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.10%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.04%) SCCM
2 2 (2.04%) Terraform
3 1 (1.02%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) Control-M
3 1 (1.02%) Packer
3 1 (1.02%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 20 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) Google
3 4 (4.08%) SAP
4 3 (3.06%) Cisco
4 3 (3.06%) Databricks
4 3 (3.06%) Informatica
4 3 (3.06%) Oracle
4 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.04%) Murex
5 2 (2.04%) YouTube
6 1 (1.02%) Charles River
6 1 (1.02%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.02%) Citrix
6 1 (1.02%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.02%) HP
6 1 (1.02%) IBM
6 1 (1.02%) Juniper
6 1 (1.02%) UiPath
6 1 (1.02%) VMware
6 1 (1.02%) Zscaler