Degree Contract Job Trends in London

Academic Degree
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 24 23
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,013 1,198 1,378
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.04% 8.13% 7.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 24.46% 31.35% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 635 733 883
10th Percentile £339 £320 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £816 £873 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 34 29
10th Percentile £23.26 £18.25 £17.99
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.78 £19.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £40.46 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.30% +1.14% -1.23%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £67.25 £72.15
England median hourly rate £38.50 £42.69 £46.39
% change year-on-year -9.81% -7.98% +3.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,141 3,821 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.76% 25.92% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,886 2,409 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £658
90th Percentile £750 £774 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 91
10th Percentile £20.74 £21.13 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +5.88%
75th Percentile £63.14 £60.19 £65.43
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Degree job vacancy trend in London

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the London region over the 6 months to 31 December 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -3 148 £525 - 456
South London +5 33 £500 -23.08% 18
West London -6 29 £208 -44.67% 46
East London -13 4 £748 +40.71% 51
Degree
England

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 60 (5.92%) Confluence
2 43 (4.24%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.76%) Apache Spark
4 25 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.18%) nginx
6 11 (1.09%) IIS
7 6 (0.59%) CMS
7 6 (0.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 5 (0.49%) Ethereum
9 4 (0.39%) Luigi
10 3 (0.30%) Apache
10 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.30%) SAS
10 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.099%) Anypoint
12 1 (0.099%) Appian
12 1 (0.099%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.099%) NetWeaver
Applications
1 116 (11.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 86 (8.49%) Microsoft Office
3 70 (6.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 55 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (3.55%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.99%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.69%) Trello
8 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.099%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.099%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.099%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.099%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.099%) Revit
Business Applications
1 16 (1.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
4 8 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
5 7 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
5 7 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
6 6 (0.59%) Oracle Assets
6 6 (0.59%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 6 (0.59%) Oracle Financials
6 6 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
6 6 (0.59%) SAP EWM
6 6 (0.59%) SAP WM
7 5 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.49%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 5 (0.49%) Workday HCM
8 4 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.30%) Endur
9 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.30%) Shopify
9 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 252 (24.88%) Azure
2 126 (12.44%) AWS
3 94 (9.28%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (6.91%) Power Platform
5 61 (6.02%) GCP
5 61 (6.02%) SaaS
6 54 (5.33%) GitHub
7 48 (4.74%) Entra ID
8 44 (4.34%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (2.47%) Amazon ECS
10 23 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
11 22 (2.17%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.07%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (1.97%) Serverless
14 19 (1.88%) IaaS
14 19 (1.88%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.68%) PaaS
16 15 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 15 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
16 15 (1.48%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.54%) Firewall
2 30 (2.96%) DNS
3 24 (2.37%) HTTP
4 22 (2.17%) VPN
5 18 (1.78%) Network Security
6 17 (1.68%) LAN
7 14 (1.38%) DHCP
7 14 (1.38%) WAN
8 13 (1.28%) SMTP
8 13 (1.28%) SSH
8 13 (1.28%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.99%) FTP
9 10 (0.99%) IMAP
9 10 (0.99%) OpenLDAP
10 6 (0.59%) VoIP
11 5 (0.49%) CTI
11 5 (0.49%) NetScaler
11 5 (0.49%) SSL
12 4 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
12 4 (0.39%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.33%) Power BI
2 47 (4.64%) SQL Server
3 34 (3.36%) Tableau
4 31 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.67%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (1.78%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.58%) Big Data
9 14 (1.38%) NoSQL
10 11 (1.09%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.09%) MySQL
10 11 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.99%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.89%) BigQuery
12 9 (0.89%) Metadata
13 6 (0.59%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.49%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.49%) Pinecone
14 5 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 111 (10.96%) JIRA
2 55 (5.43%) Git
3 30 (2.96%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.48%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.18%) Selenium
6 11 (1.09%) Vagrant
7 10 (0.99%) Postman
8 9 (0.89%) Cucumber
8 9 (0.89%) Cypress.io
8 9 (0.89%) GitLab
9 7 (0.69%) JUnit
10 6 (0.59%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.59%) SpecFlow
10 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.49%) Appium
11 5 (0.49%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (0.49%) XCUITest
12 4 (0.39%) SonarQube
General
1 489 (48.27%) Social Skills
2 452 (44.62%) Finance
3 228 (22.51%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (16.88%) Banking
5 66 (6.52%) Public Sector
6 63 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
7 51 (5.03%) Marketing
8 49 (4.84%) Front Office
9 48 (4.74%) Investment Banking
10 36 (3.55%) Legal
11 34 (3.36%) Financial Institution
12 31 (3.06%) Influencing Skills
13 29 (2.86%) Manufacturing
13 29 (2.86%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.76%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (2.57%) Organisational Skills
16 22 (2.17%) Back Office
16 22 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 20 (1.97%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 141 (13.92%) Analyst
2 129 (12.73%) Developer
2 129 (12.73%) Senior
3 94 (9.28%) Business Analyst
4 78 (7.70%) Project Manager
5 68 (6.71%) Architect
5 68 (6.71%) Lead
6 50 (4.94%) Consultant
7 37 (3.65%) Software Engineer
8 27 (2.67%) Senior Developer
9 25 (2.47%) Data Scientist
10 23 (2.27%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
12 19 (1.88%) C# Developer
12 19 (1.88%) C++ Software Engineer
12 19 (1.88%) IT Manager
12 19 (1.88%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (1.88%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
13 18 (1.78%) Senior Analyst
13 18 (1.78%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.53%) .NET
2 36 (3.55%) REST
3 28 (2.76%) HTML
4 27 (2.67%) RESTful
5 26 (2.57%) Kafka
6 25 (2.47%) XML
7 23 (2.27%) Middleware
7 23 (2.27%) React
8 22 (2.17%) CSS
9 20 (1.97%) LangChain
10 19 (1.88%) JSON
10 19 (1.88%) OAuth
10 19 (1.88%) PyTorch
11 17 (1.68%) AngularJS
11 17 (1.68%) Node.js
11 17 (1.68%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.48%) .NET Framework
12 15 (1.48%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.48%) Pandas
12 15 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.01%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.24%) Derivative
5 38 (3.75%) Onboarding
6 36 (3.55%) Algorithms
7 31 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (2.96%) Equities
9 27 (2.67%) Data Centre
9 27 (2.67%) Life Science
10 24 (2.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (2.37%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.27%) Fixed Income
11 23 (2.27%) PMI
12 21 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
12 21 (2.07%) Replication
12 21 (2.07%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.78%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 96 (9.48%) Windows
2 78 (7.70%) Linux
3 43 (4.24%) Unix
4 30 (2.96%) Windows Server
5 19 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.48%) Android
7 14 (1.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 13 (1.28%) Ubuntu
8 13 (1.28%) VMS
9 12 (1.18%) Apple iOS
10 11 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.99%) Amazon Linux
12 8 (0.79%) Mac OS
13 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 410 (40.47%) Computer Science
2 358 (35.34%) Agile
3 307 (30.31%) Problem-Solving
4 164 (16.19%) Stakeholder Management
5 157 (15.50%) Project Management
6 156 (15.40%) DevOps
7 140 (13.82%) AI
8 136 (13.43%) Risk Management
9 128 (12.64%) Analytics
10 124 (12.24%) CI/CD
11 122 (12.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 118 (11.65%) Change Management
13 114 (11.25%) Decision-Making
14 106 (10.46%) Software Engineering
15 101 (9.97%) Roadmaps
16 99 (9.77%) Migration
16 99 (9.77%) Scrum
17 97 (9.58%) Machine Learning
18 93 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
18 93 (9.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 217 (21.42%) Python
2 190 (18.76%) SQL
3 83 (8.19%) Java
4 73 (7.21%) PowerShell
5 63 (6.22%) C++
6 60 (5.92%) C#
7 59 (5.82%) JavaScript
8 34 (3.36%) TypeScript
9 20 (1.97%) R
10 17 (1.68%) Bash
11 15 (1.48%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.28%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.18%) Groovy
14 11 (1.09%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.09%) Kusto Query Language
15 9 (0.89%) Ruby
16 8 (0.79%) Bicep
16 8 (0.79%) Perl
17 7 (0.69%) Go
18 5 (0.49%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 267 (26.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 167 (16.49%) Master's Degree
3 102 (10.07%) Security Cleared
4 85 (8.39%) PMI Certification
5 72 (7.11%) PMP
5 72 (7.11%) SC Cleared
6 46 (4.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 42 (4.15%) Azure Certification
8 41 (4.05%) CISSP
9 39 (3.85%) PhD
10 26 (2.57%) CISM
11 24 (2.37%) AWS Certification
12 22 (2.17%) CBAP
13 19 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
15 16 (1.58%) MBA
16 12 (1.18%) CISA
16 12 (1.18%) MCP
16 12 (1.18%) MCSE
17 11 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.40%) QA
2 54 (5.33%) GDPR
3 36 (3.55%) Data Quality
4 33 (3.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.47%) NIST
6 23 (2.27%) PMO
7 20 (1.97%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.97%) SLA
8 13 (1.28%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 9 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
10 9 (0.89%) GRC
11 8 (0.79%) IFRS
12 7 (0.69%) Basel III
12 7 (0.69%) COBIT
12 7 (0.69%) IFRS 9
12 7 (0.69%) WCAG
13 6 (0.59%) IFRS 17
14 5 (0.49%) MiFID
15 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
System Software
1 76 (7.50%) Docker
2 61 (6.02%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.99%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.99%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.99%) Postfix
3 10 (0.99%) Squid
4 7 (0.69%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.59%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.39%) XenApp
8 3 (0.30%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.30%) XenDesktop
9 1 (0.099%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.099%) HDFS
9 1 (0.099%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 58 (5.73%) Terraform
2 48 (4.74%) Kubernetes
3 28 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.97%) Grafana
5 19 (1.88%) SCCM
6 13 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.09%) Ansible
8 10 (0.99%) Nessus
8 10 (0.99%) Proxmox
9 8 (0.79%) SCOM
10 7 (0.69%) CSIRT
11 5 (0.49%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 4 (0.39%) Puppet
12 4 (0.39%) QRadar
13 3 (0.30%) Argo
13 3 (0.30%) Functional Safety
13 3 (0.30%) SCVMM
13 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
14 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 210 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 68 (6.71%) Oracle
3 49 (4.84%) Google
4 47 (4.64%) SAP
5 42 (4.15%) ServiceNow
6 33 (3.26%) Salesforce
7 28 (2.76%) Databricks
8 18 (1.78%) Citrix
8 18 (1.78%) Splunk
9 17 (1.68%) Cisco
10 15 (1.48%) Workday
11 11 (1.09%) IBM
11 11 (1.09%) Informatica
11 11 (1.09%) VMware
12 10 (0.99%) Adobe
12 10 (0.99%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (0.89%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.89%) Remedy
14 8 (0.79%) Palo Alto
15 7 (0.69%) OpenAI