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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -25 -1 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 99 146 171
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.41% 8.24% 7.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.42% 33.41% 37.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 98 104
10th Percentile £363 £350 £271
25th Percentile £413 £459 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £556 £565
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% -1.55% -9.60%
75th Percentile £656 £703 £688
90th Percentile £771 £823 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £544 £563
% change year-on-year -8.13% -3.24% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £31.43
25th Percentile £24.18 £27.39 £38.06
Median hourly rate £30.03 £28.15 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% -43.42% -5.24%
75th Percentile £37.86 £28.91 £62.06
90th Percentile £46.44 - £69.08
Central London median hourly rate £26.74 £28.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year -5.03% -33.76% -19.05%

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 603 437 457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.85% 24.68% 20.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 295 299
10th Percentile £384 £400 £369
25th Percentile £453 £460 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% -7.39%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £771 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £548 £525
% change year-on-year -4.20% +4.38% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 5
10th Percentile £18.71 £23.62 £19.45
25th Percentile £24.16 £26.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £30.03 £45.33 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -33.74% +117.75% -59.97%
75th Percentile £55.37 £72.81 £27.00
90th Percentile £68.53 £89.13 £55.05
Central London median hourly rate £26.89 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -7.52% +7.67% -48.08%

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 23 April 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 23 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 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.01%) Appian
3 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.06%) MS Visio
3 5 (5.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Actimize
1 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
1 1 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.01%) Veritas eDiscovery
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.24%) Azure
2 14 (14.14%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.12%) GCP
4 10 (10.10%) AWS
5 8 (8.08%) GitHub
6 6 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.03%) Azure AKS
8 3 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.03%) Google Gemini
8 3 (3.03%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.02%) ChatGPT
9 2 (2.02%) Collibra
9 2 (2.02%) Figma
9 2 (2.02%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.01%) Dagster
10 1 (1.01%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 1 (1.01%) IPsec
2 1 (1.01%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.01%) LAN
2 1 (1.01%) NetScaler
2 1 (1.01%) Network Security
2 1 (1.01%) SSL
2 1 (1.01%) Structured Cabling
2 1 (1.01%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.01%) VPN
2 1 (1.01%) WAN
2 1 (1.01%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) Power BI
2 6 (6.06%) NoSQL
2 6 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (4.04%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.04%) Tableau
4 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (3.03%) DB2
4 3 (3.03%) Metadata
4 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
5 2 (2.02%) MySQL
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.01%) KDB
6 1 (1.01%) Kdb+
6 1 (1.01%) OLAP
6 1 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) JIRA
2 6 (6.06%) Git
3 2 (2.02%) ERwin
3 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.01%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.01%) MLflow
4 1 (1.01%) Postman
4 1 (1.01%) Selenium
4 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
4 1 (1.01%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (41.41%) Finance
3 21 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (18.18%) Banking
5 8 (8.08%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.07%) Front Office
6 7 (7.07%) Investment Banking
6 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.06%) Marketing
8 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (4.04%) Back Office
9 4 (4.04%) Legal
10 3 (3.03%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.03%) Retail
11 2 (2.02%) Advertising
11 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (19.19%) Analyst
2 12 (12.12%) Senior
3 8 (8.08%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.08%) Consultant
4 7 (7.07%) Developer
5 6 (6.06%) Architect
5 6 (6.06%) Data Scientist
5 6 (6.06%) Lead
6 5 (5.05%) IT Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (5.05%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.04%) Risk Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.04%) SOX Analyst
7 4 (4.04%) Support Engineer
8 3 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Specialist
8 3 (3.03%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.03%) Security Specialist
8 3 (3.03%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.08%) PyTorch
2 7 (7.07%) TensorFlow
3 5 (5.05%) React
4 4 (4.04%) Hugging Face
5 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.03%) Backbone.js
5 3 (3.03%) Bootstrap
5 3 (3.03%) Ember.js
5 3 (3.03%) jQuery
5 3 (3.03%) Keras
5 3 (3.03%) Node.js
5 3 (3.03%) Spring
6 2 (2.02%) .NET
6 2 (2.02%) LangChain
7 1 (1.01%) Altair
7 1 (1.01%) FastAPI
7 1 (1.01%) Google JAX
7 1 (1.01%) JAX
7 1 (1.01%) LangGraph
7 1 (1.01%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
2 3 (3.03%) AI Agents
2 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
2 3 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (3.03%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.03%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.03%) PMI
2 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (2.02%) Equities
3 2 (2.02%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.02%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.02%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.02%) Synthetic Data
3 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.01%) FMCG
4 1 (1.01%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (1.01%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Linux
3 4 (4.04%) Unix
3 4 (4.04%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.03%) Android
4 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.01%) VMS
5 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (37.37%) Computer Science
2 30 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (25.25%) Agile
3 25 (25.25%) AI
4 20 (20.20%) Analytics
5 15 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (14.14%) Change Management
6 14 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (14.14%) Data Science
6 14 (14.14%) Risk Management
7 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (12.12%) DevOps
9 11 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 11 (11.11%) Decision-Making
9 11 (11.11%) Machine Learning
10 10 (10.10%) Software Engineering
10 10 (10.10%) Validation
10 10 (10.10%) Workshop Facilitation
11 9 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (9.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) Python
1 23 (23.23%) SQL
2 9 (9.09%) Java
3 5 (5.05%) C#
4 4 (4.04%) C++
5 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.01%) Korn
7 1 (1.01%) R
7 1 (1.01%) VB
7 1 (1.01%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.01%) X++
Qualifications
1 22 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 14 (14.14%) Master's Degree
3 10 (10.10%) CISSP
4 8 (8.08%) CRISC
4 8 (8.08%) Security Cleared
5 7 (7.07%) PhD
6 6 (6.06%) CISM
6 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
7 5 (5.05%) CISA
7 5 (5.05%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (4.04%) PMI Certification
9 3 (3.03%) CBAP
9 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
9 3 (3.03%) GIAC
9 3 (3.03%) ISACA
9 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (2.02%) CASP
10 2 (2.02%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.07%) NIST
3 6 (6.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (5.05%) GDPR
5 4 (4.04%) COBIT
5 4 (4.04%) ITGC
5 4 (4.04%) PMO
5 4 (4.04%) QA
5 4 (4.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.02%) GRC
6 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
6 2 (2.02%) SLA
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.01%) HIPAA
7 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.01%) Solvency II
7 1 (1.01%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.02%) Docker
3 1 (1.01%) Firmware
3 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.01%) vSphere
3 1 (1.01%) XenApp
3 1 (1.01%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 5 (5.05%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Ansible
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (1.01%) Packer
3 1 (1.01%) SCCM
3 1 (1.01%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 20 (20.20%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.06%) Google
3 4 (4.04%) SAP
4 3 (3.03%) Cisco
4 3 (3.03%) Databricks
4 3 (3.03%) Informatica
4 3 (3.03%) Oracle
5 2 (2.02%) Murex
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) VMware
5 2 (2.02%) YouTube
6 1 (1.01%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.01%) Citrix
6 1 (1.01%) EMC
6 1 (1.01%) ForeScout
6 1 (1.01%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.01%) HP
6 1 (1.01%) Planview
6 1 (1.01%) UiPath
6 1 (1.01%) Zscaler