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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -3 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,021 1,353 1,573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.59% 8.31% 7.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.88% 33.99% 31.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 830 1,062
10th Percentile £325 £312 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £689 £688
90th Percentile £800 £838 £836
England median daily rate £500 £510 £530
% change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 39 25
10th Percentile £13.10 £18.00 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.24 £25.08 £19.50
Median hourly rate £27.83 £35.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.50% +29.63% -38.29%
75th Percentile £63.00 £51.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.13 £59.60 £70.20
England median hourly rate £38.50 £57.35 £49.14
% change year-on-year -32.87% +16.71% +9.20%

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 3,535 3,980 5,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.29% 24.43% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,382 2,603 3,451
10th Percentile £355 £350 £355
25th Percentile £438 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £653 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £763 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 56 87
10th Percentile £18.87 £18.00 £19.06
25th Percentile - £22.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.90 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.54% -39.08% +21.20%
75th Percentile £37.81 £53.75 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.50 £78.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -7 159 £525 -7.89% 495
West London -4 32 £405 -14.84% 75
South London +7 26 £625 +21.95% 25
East London -8 9 £600 +26.32% 50
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 62 (6.07%) Confluence
2 47 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.53%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.27%) nginx
6 11 (1.08%) IIS
7 9 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
8 8 (0.78%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) Luigi
10 4 (0.39%) Apache
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
10 4 (0.39%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.29%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.29%) SAS
11 3 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 2 (0.20%) GemFire
12 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle Coherence
12 2 (0.20%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 100 (9.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 99 (9.70%) Microsoft Office
3 58 (5.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (4.90%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (3.13%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.49%) Trello
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.20%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.098%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.098%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.098%) Final Cut Pro
9 1 (0.098%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.098%) InVision
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.098%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.098%) Revit
9 1 (0.098%) Sketch
9 1 (0.098%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 22 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.18%) FLEXCUBE
2 12 (1.18%) Oracle EBS
3 11 (1.08%) Oracle BPM
3 11 (1.08%) Oracle EBS R12
4 10 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 10 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
5 9 (0.88%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 9 (0.88%) Oracle Financials
5 9 (0.88%) Oracle General Ledger
5 9 (0.88%) Oracle Payables
6 8 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
7 7 (0.69%) Endur
8 6 (0.59%) SAP EWM
8 6 (0.59%) SAP WM
9 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
10 3 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
10 3 (0.29%) Shopify
11 2 (0.20%) SAP PLM
11 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 218 (21.35%) Azure
2 148 (14.50%) AWS
3 61 (5.97%) Power Platform
4 52 (5.09%) Microsoft 365
5 47 (4.60%) GitHub
6 45 (4.41%) SaaS
7 44 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
7 44 (4.31%) GCP
8 31 (3.04%) Entra ID
9 23 (2.25%) Amazon S3
10 19 (1.86%) GitHub Actions
11 17 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
13 15 (1.47%) PowerApps
14 14 (1.37%) PaaS
15 13 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
16 12 (1.18%) AWS KMS
16 12 (1.18%) Miro
17 11 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 49 (4.80%) Firewall
2 34 (3.33%) DNS
3 27 (2.64%) VPN
4 23 (2.25%) HTTP
5 22 (2.15%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.67%) Network Security
7 16 (1.57%) WAN
8 14 (1.37%) SMTP
9 13 (1.27%) SSH
10 12 (1.18%) DHCP
10 12 (1.18%) LAN
11 10 (0.98%) FTP
11 10 (0.98%) IMAP
11 10 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
12 9 (0.88%) BGP
12 9 (0.88%) Internet
12 9 (0.88%) OSPF
12 9 (0.88%) Wireless
13 8 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.69%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.90%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.80%) Power BI
3 43 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.04%) Tableau
5 27 (2.64%) Data Warehouse
6 26 (2.55%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
7 18 (1.76%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.57%) Hadoop
9 15 (1.47%) Big Data
10 13 (1.27%) Redis
11 12 (1.18%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.18%) Metadata
12 11 (1.08%) MySQL
13 10 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.98%) MongoDB
14 8 (0.78%) Oracle Database
14 8 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.78%) Star Schema
15 7 (0.69%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 111 (10.87%) JIRA
2 46 (4.51%) Git
3 43 (4.21%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.08%) GitLab
4 11 (1.08%) MLflow
4 11 (1.08%) Postman
4 11 (1.08%) Selenium
4 11 (1.08%) Vagrant
5 10 (0.98%) JUnit
5 10 (0.98%) SpecFlow
6 8 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 7 (0.69%) Appium
7 7 (0.69%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.59%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.39%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.39%) Charles Proxy
9 4 (0.39%) Gradle
9 4 (0.39%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.39%) Katalon Studio
General
1 532 (52.11%) Social Skills
2 492 (48.19%) Finance
3 262 (25.66%) Analytical Skills
4 185 (18.12%) Banking
5 72 (7.05%) Presentation Skills
6 63 (6.17%) Marketing
7 56 (5.48%) Public Sector
8 51 (5.00%) Investment Banking
9 50 (4.90%) Front Office
10 39 (3.82%) Influencing Skills
11 38 (3.72%) Legal
12 35 (3.43%) Telecoms
13 33 (3.23%) Financial Institution
13 33 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
14 30 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 28 (2.74%) Back Office
16 25 (2.45%) Retail
17 19 (1.86%) Manufacturing
18 18 (1.76%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.76%) Military
Job Titles
1 160 (15.67%) Developer
2 155 (15.18%) Analyst
3 139 (13.61%) Senior
4 102 (9.99%) Business Analyst
5 68 (6.66%) Project Manager
6 64 (6.27%) Lead
7 61 (5.97%) Architect
8 42 (4.11%) Consultant
9 36 (3.53%) Software Engineer
10 29 (2.84%) Java Developer
11 27 (2.64%) Senior Developer
12 26 (2.55%) Data Scientist
13 24 (2.35%) Data Engineer
14 21 (2.06%) AWS Engineer
14 21 (2.06%) Data Analyst
15 20 (1.96%) IT Manager
15 20 (1.96%) Solutions Architect
16 19 (1.86%) Machine Learning Engineer
16 19 (1.86%) Senior Manager
17 17 (1.67%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (4.80%) .NET
2 43 (4.21%) REST
3 39 (3.82%) Kafka
4 38 (3.72%) HTML
5 30 (2.94%) CSS
6 29 (2.84%) RESTful
7 28 (2.74%) Web Services
8 26 (2.55%) Middleware
9 24 (2.35%) AngularJS
10 21 (2.06%) React
11 19 (1.86%) XML
12 16 (1.57%) Pandas
12 16 (1.57%) SOAP
12 16 (1.57%) TensorFlow
13 14 (1.37%) Node.js
13 14 (1.37%) PyTorch
14 13 (1.27%) .NET Framework
14 13 (1.27%) ActiveMQ
14 13 (1.27%) Entity Framework
14 13 (1.27%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 80 (7.84%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 37 (3.62%) Derivative
4 34 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 33 (3.23%) Algorithms
6 26 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.35%) Onboarding
8 23 (2.25%) Distributed Systems
9 22 (2.15%) Data Structures
9 22 (2.15%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.96%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.96%) Fixed Income
10 20 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 19 (1.86%) Security Posture
12 18 (1.76%) Equities
13 17 (1.67%) Data Centre
13 17 (1.67%) PMI
14 16 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.57%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 80 (7.84%) Linux
2 65 (6.37%) Windows
3 31 (3.04%) Unix
4 17 (1.67%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.47%) Windows Server
6 14 (1.37%) Android
7 10 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
7 10 (0.98%) Ubuntu
7 10 (0.98%) VMS
8 8 (0.78%) Mac OS
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.20%) AIX
9 2 (0.20%) SUSE
10 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.098%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (44.07%) Computer Science
2 359 (35.16%) Agile
3 332 (32.52%) Problem-Solving
4 193 (18.90%) Project Management
5 150 (14.69%) DevOps
6 132 (12.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 119 (11.66%) Analytics
8 112 (10.97%) CI/CD
9 111 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 105 (10.28%) Change Management
11 100 (9.79%) Scrum
12 96 (9.40%) Risk Management
13 95 (9.30%) Decision-Making
13 95 (9.30%) Migration
13 95 (9.30%) Roadmaps
14 92 (9.01%) Software Engineering
15 90 (8.81%) Mathematics
16 87 (8.52%) Artificial Intelligence
17 81 (7.93%) Data Analysis
18 79 (7.74%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 231 (22.62%) Python
2 213 (20.86%) SQL
3 131 (12.83%) Java
4 66 (6.46%) JavaScript
5 57 (5.58%) C++
6 48 (4.70%) C#
7 45 (4.41%) PowerShell
8 27 (2.64%) R
9 23 (2.25%) TypeScript
10 17 (1.67%) Bash
11 15 (1.47%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.18%) Groovy
12 12 (1.18%) Ruby
13 11 (1.08%) Perl
13 11 (1.08%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.88%) Kotlin
15 8 (0.78%) C
15 8 (0.78%) Go
16 7 (0.69%) PHP
16 7 (0.69%) VBA
Qualifications
1 269 (26.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 140 (13.71%) Master's Degree
3 88 (8.62%) PMI Certification
4 77 (7.54%) Security Cleared
5 75 (7.35%) PMP
6 59 (5.78%) SC Cleared
7 40 (3.92%) PhD
8 38 (3.72%) Azure Certification
8 38 (3.72%) CISSP
9 34 (3.33%) AWS Certification
10 30 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (2.55%) CISM
11 26 (2.55%) Numerate Degree
12 22 (2.15%) CBAP
13 21 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
14 14 (1.37%) CCNA
14 14 (1.37%) CISA
15 12 (1.18%) CCNP
16 11 (1.08%) CRISC
17 10 (0.98%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (4.51%) Data Quality
1 46 (4.51%) QA
2 35 (3.43%) GDPR
3 27 (2.64%) Accessibility
3 27 (2.64%) NIST
4 24 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.25%) PMO
6 19 (1.86%) SLA
7 11 (1.08%) COBIT
8 9 (0.88%) WCAG
9 8 (0.78%) GRC
9 8 (0.78%) PCI DSS
10 7 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.59%) Basel III
11 6 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 6 (0.59%) SEPA
12 5 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 4 (0.39%) IFRS
13 4 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 59 (5.78%) Docker
2 42 (4.11%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.98%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.98%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.98%) Postfix
3 10 (0.98%) Squid
4 5 (0.49%) VMware Infrastructure
5 4 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.29%) Firmware
7 2 (0.20%) GridGain
7 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.20%) iptables
7 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.098%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.098%) HDFS
8 1 (0.098%) OpenAM
8 1 (0.098%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.098%) vSphere
8 1 (0.098%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 55 (5.39%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.80%) Terraform
3 19 (1.86%) Ansible
3 19 (1.86%) Grafana
4 13 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (1.27%) Prometheus
5 10 (0.98%) Nessus
5 10 (0.98%) Proxmox
6 7 (0.69%) SCCM
7 6 (0.59%) CSIRT
7 6 (0.59%) QRadar
7 6 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.39%) Puppet
9 3 (0.29%) Functional Safety
9 3 (0.29%) Kubeflow
9 3 (0.29%) SCOM
10 2 (0.20%) Argo
10 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.20%) SELinux
Vendors
1 183 (17.92%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.76%) Oracle
3 57 (5.58%) SAP
4 45 (4.41%) Salesforce
5 43 (4.21%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.72%) Google
7 24 (2.35%) Cisco
8 23 (2.25%) Databricks
9 17 (1.67%) Splunk
10 15 (1.47%) Adobe
10 15 (1.47%) Workday
11 14 (1.37%) IBM
12 13 (1.27%) Fortinet
13 10 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (0.88%) Murex
15 8 (0.78%) Apple
15 8 (0.78%) Citrix
15 8 (0.78%) Informatica
15 8 (0.78%) ION Trading
15 8 (0.78%) VMware