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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -23 +1 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 99 138 166
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.51% 7.94% 7.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.78% 31.51% 36.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 95 101
10th Percentile £363 £343 £263
25th Percentile £413 £458 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £565
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -0.44% -11.02%
75th Percentile £675 £721 £674
90th Percentile £852 £825 £788
Central London median daily rate £500 £549 £563
% change year-on-year -8.80% -2.49% -10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £20.01 - -
25th Percentile £24.18 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £30.03 - £72.50
75th Percentile £37.86 - £73.75
90th Percentile £46.44 - -
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 - £57.50
% change year-on-year - - +9.52%

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 590 438 458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.89% 25.19% 20.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 292 300
10th Percentile £384 £375 £363
25th Percentile £450 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £670 £663
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £530
% change year-on-year -2.55% +1.65% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £29.85 £19.32
25th Percentile £24.16 £41.63 £19.90
Median hourly rate £30.03 £62.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -51.95% +200.26% -59.58%
75th Percentile £55.37 £81.88 £34.49
90th Percentile £68.53 £92.75 £58.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £45.79 £24.97
% change year-on-year -43.72% +83.36% -51.51%

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 5 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

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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 5 April 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

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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 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 7 (7.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (6.06%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Project
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 28 (28.28%) Azure
2 14 (14.14%) GCP
3 13 (13.13%) AWS
3 13 (13.13%) Power Platform
4 8 (8.08%) GitHub
5 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.04%) GitHub Copilot
6 4 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.04%) Snowflake
7 3 (3.03%) Azure AKS
7 3 (3.03%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.03%) Google Gemini
8 2 (2.02%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.02%) Collibra
8 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.02%) Figma
8 2 (2.02%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (1.01%) Cloud Run
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.04%) Firewall
2 2 (2.02%) Network Security
3 1 (1.01%) IPsec
3 1 (1.01%) iSCSI
3 1 (1.01%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) NetScaler
3 1 (1.01%) SSL
3 1 (1.01%) Structured Cabling
3 1 (1.01%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
3 1 (1.01%) WAN
3 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%) KDB
5 2 (2.02%) Kdb+
5 2 (2.02%) MySQL
5 2 (2.02%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.01%) Big Data
6 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
6 1 (1.01%) DynamoDB
6 1 (1.01%) OLAP
6 1 (1.01%) PowerCenter
6 1 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
1 8 (8.08%) JIRA
2 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.02%) Cucumber
2 2 (2.02%) ERwin
2 2 (2.02%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.02%) Postman
2 2 (2.02%) Selenium
3 1 (1.01%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.01%) MLflow
3 1 (1.01%) SonarQube
General
1 43 (43.43%) Social Skills
2 40 (40.40%) Finance
3 21 (21.21%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (19.19%) Banking
5 9 (9.09%) Front Office
5 9 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (8.08%) Investment Banking
7 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.05%) Back Office
8 5 (5.05%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (5.05%) Marketing
9 4 (4.04%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.04%) Legal
10 3 (3.03%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (3.03%) Retail
11 2 (2.02%) Advertising
11 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
11 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (1.01%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 18 (18.18%) Analyst
2 13 (13.13%) Senior
3 9 (9.09%) Consultant
4 8 (8.08%) Business Analyst
4 8 (8.08%) Lead
5 7 (7.07%) Developer
6 6 (6.06%) Architect
6 6 (6.06%) Data Scientist
7 5 (5.05%) Project Manager
7 5 (5.05%) Senior Analyst
7 5 (5.05%) Senior Business Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) IT Analyst
8 4 (4.04%) Senior Manager
8 4 (4.04%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Cybersecurity Specialist
9 3 (3.03%) Data Analyst
9 3 (3.03%) Senior Project Manager
9 3 (3.03%) SOX Analyst
9 3 (3.03%) Technical Support
9 3 (3.03%) Technical Support 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%) .NET
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%) 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 5 (5.05%) Cloud Native
2 4 (4.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 4 (4.04%) Management Information System
2 4 (4.04%) Onboarding
2 4 (4.04%) PMI
3 3 (3.03%) Data Structures
3 3 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.03%) Equities
3 3 (3.03%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.03%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.02%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
4 2 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.02%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.02%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.02%) Synthetic Data
4 2 (2.02%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.01%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Linux
3 4 (4.04%) Unix
4 3 (3.03%) Android
4 3 (3.03%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.03%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.01%) Windows 10
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.01%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.39%) Computer Science
2 33 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (25.25%) Agile
3 25 (25.25%) AI
4 20 (20.20%) Analytics
5 15 (15.15%) Data Science
5 15 (15.15%) DevOps
5 15 (15.15%) Risk Management
6 14 (14.14%) Change Management
6 14 (14.14%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 13 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (12.12%) Machine Learning
8 12 (12.12%) Validation
9 11 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (10.10%) CI/CD
10 10 (10.10%) Decision-Making
11 9 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (9.09%) Generative AI
11 9 (9.09%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 24 (24.24%) Python
2 23 (23.23%) SQL
3 11 (11.11%) Java
4 5 (5.05%) C#
4 5 (5.05%) C++
5 3 (3.03%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.03%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.02%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.02%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.01%) Korn
7 1 (1.01%) R
Qualifications
1 25 (25.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 16 (16.16%) Master's Degree
3 10 (10.10%) CISSP
4 7 (7.07%) CISM
4 7 (7.07%) CRISC
4 7 (7.07%) PhD
4 7 (7.07%) Security Cleared
5 6 (6.06%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.05%) PMI Certification
7 4 (4.04%) CISA
7 4 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (3.03%) CBAP
8 3 (3.03%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.03%) GIAC
8 3 (3.03%) ISACA
8 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.02%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.02%) CASP
9 2 (2.02%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.09%) Data Quality
2 7 (7.07%) NIST
3 5 (5.05%) GDPR
3 5 (5.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.05%) QA
4 4 (4.04%) PMO
5 3 (3.03%) COBIT
5 3 (3.03%) ITGC
5 3 (3.03%) PCI DSS
5 3 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.02%) GRC
6 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 42001
6 2 (2.02%) MiFID
6 2 (2.02%) SLA
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (1.01%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (1.01%) EU AI Act
7 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
7 1 (1.01%) UCITS
System Software
1 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
1 3 (3.03%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.01%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.01%) XenApp
2 1 (1.01%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.02%) SCCM
2 2 (2.02%) Terraform
3 1 (1.01%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) Control-M
3 1 (1.01%) Packer
3 1 (1.01%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 21 (21.21%) 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
4 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.02%) Murex
5 2 (2.02%) UiPath
5 2 (2.02%) YouTube
6 1 (1.01%) Charles River
6 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.01%) Citrix
6 1 (1.01%) Forcepoint
6 1 (1.01%) HP
6 1 (1.01%) IBM
6 1 (1.01%) Juniper
6 1 (1.01%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.01%) VMware