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 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 972 1,061 1,343
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.84% 7.82% 8.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.43% 29.81% 34.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 666 845
10th Percentile £263 £331 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £703 £688
90th Percentile £763 £806 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 43
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £18.60
25th Percentile £28.00 £18.74 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -27.40% +15.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.06 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.75 £67.88 £65.90
England median hourly rate £45.50 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +7.06% -25.89% +15.20%

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 5,578 3,559 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 26.24% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,019 2,392 2,684
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £529 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.07% -1.63% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 89 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.65 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.44 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.60
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +114.71% -47.05% -13.64%

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 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 2026.

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 17 August 2026. 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 -45 82 £536 -4.67% 219
West London -7 44 £233 -42.33% 71
East London +2 11 £550 -8.33% 31
South London -15 9 £332 -44.61% 19
North London - 4 £550 - 5
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 51 (5.25%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.01%) Confluence
3 29 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.13%) Apache
6 11 (1.13%) IIS
7 6 (0.62%) CMS
7 6 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.51%) Camunda
9 4 (0.41%) Appian
10 3 (0.31%) Moodle
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) Drupal
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 91 (9.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.79%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (4.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.06%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.72%) HFM
4 6 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.31%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.21%) Changepoint
8 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.21%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.21%) Shopify
8 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 249 (25.62%) Azure
2 145 (14.92%) AWS
3 73 (7.51%) GCP
3 73 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (7.41%) Power Platform
5 62 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 45 (4.63%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.70%) GitHub
8 35 (3.60%) SaaS
9 27 (2.78%) Snowflake
10 21 (2.16%) Serverless
11 20 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.54%) IaaS
13 14 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (1.44%) PaaS
14 13 (1.34%) OneDrive
15 12 (1.23%) Datadog
15 12 (1.23%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.53%) Firewall
2 27 (2.78%) Network Security
2 27 (2.78%) VPN
3 24 (2.47%) DNS
4 22 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.85%) DHCP
6 13 (1.34%) WAN
7 12 (1.23%) Internet
8 10 (1.03%) 3GPP
8 10 (1.03%) LAN
9 9 (0.93%) BGP
10 8 (0.82%) 5G
10 8 (0.82%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.82%) VoIP
10 8 (0.82%) Wireless
11 7 (0.72%) SAN
11 7 (0.72%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (0.62%) DMZ
12 6 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.66%) Power BI
2 45 (4.63%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.37%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.26%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.26%) Tableau
6 21 (2.16%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.75%) Metadata
8 16 (1.65%) Big Data
9 14 (1.44%) MongoDB
10 13 (1.34%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.23%) Oracle Database
12 10 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.93%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.72%) Power Query
15 6 (0.62%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
16 5 (0.51%) Redis
16 5 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (7.41%) JIRA
2 63 (6.48%) Git
3 27 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.65%) GitLab
5 12 (1.23%) Selenium
6 11 (1.13%) Subversion
7 10 (1.03%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.72%) Gradle
9 7 (0.72%) Maven
9 7 (0.72%) MLflow
10 6 (0.62%) JUnit
10 6 (0.62%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
12 4 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.31%) HP UFT
13 3 (0.31%) LoadRunner
13 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 454 (46.71%) Social Skills
2 403 (41.46%) Finance
3 236 (24.28%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (13.89%) Banking
5 68 (7.00%) Marketing
6 65 (6.69%) Legal
7 60 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (4.84%) Retail
9 45 (4.63%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (4.32%) Public Sector
11 40 (4.12%) Front Office
12 34 (3.50%) Investment Banking
13 32 (3.29%) Telecoms
14 31 (3.19%) Financial Institution
15 27 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
16 26 (2.67%) Law
17 21 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
19 12 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 146 (15.02%) Analyst
2 123 (12.65%) Senior
3 105 (10.80%) Developer
4 89 (9.16%) Business Analyst
5 83 (8.54%) Lead
6 74 (7.61%) Architect
7 62 (6.38%) Project Manager
8 35 (3.60%) Senior Manager
8 35 (3.60%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.29%) Support Engineer
10 27 (2.78%) Consultant
11 24 (2.47%) Software Engineer
12 22 (2.26%) Data Scientist
13 21 (2.16%) C# Developer
13 21 (2.16%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.16%) Desktop Engineer
13 21 (2.16%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (2.16%) IT Analyst
13 21 (2.16%) Senior Developer
14 20 (2.06%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.66%) .NET
1 55 (5.66%) REST
2 32 (3.29%) Kafka
3 26 (2.67%) React
4 25 (2.57%) .NET Framework
5 20 (2.06%) RESTful
6 18 (1.85%) HTML
7 17 (1.75%) Spring
7 17 (1.75%) XML
8 16 (1.65%) Spring Boot
9 15 (1.54%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.44%) Pandas
10 14 (1.44%) PySpark
11 13 (1.34%) JSON
11 13 (1.34%) Web Services
12 12 (1.23%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.13%) LangChain
13 11 (1.13%) Middleware
14 10 (1.03%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.79%) Onboarding
2 59 (6.07%) Management Information System
3 51 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.63%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.32%) Algorithms
6 39 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
7 32 (3.29%) Data Structures
8 30 (3.09%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.88%) Data Centre
9 28 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (2.78%) Derivative
11 23 (2.37%) Virtual Team
12 22 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (2.16%) AI Agents
14 20 (2.06%) Fixed Income
15 19 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
16 18 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.85%) Equities
17 17 (1.75%) Hedge funds
17 17 (1.75%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 117 (12.04%) Windows
2 59 (6.07%) Linux
3 22 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.16%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.75%) Unix
6 15 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.82%) Android
8 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) CentOS
10 2 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (36.32%) Computer Science
2 269 (27.67%) Agile
3 268 (27.57%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (21.19%) AI
5 190 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
6 160 (16.46%) Analytics
7 150 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (15.33%) DevOps
9 130 (13.37%) CI/CD
10 121 (12.45%) Project Management
11 114 (11.73%) Software Engineering
12 107 (11.01%) Migration
13 101 (10.39%) Decision-Making
14 99 (10.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 95 (9.77%) Scrum
16 88 (9.05%) Change Management
16 88 (9.05%) Project Delivery
17 87 (8.95%) Risk Management
18 86 (8.85%) ITIL
18 86 (8.85%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 199 (20.47%) Python
2 189 (19.44%) SQL
3 90 (9.26%) Java
4 66 (6.79%) C#
5 64 (6.58%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.73%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.29%) C++
8 23 (2.37%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.85%) R
10 17 (1.75%) Bash
10 17 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.93%) Bicep
12 8 (0.82%) C
12 8 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.51%) VBA
15 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 230 (23.66%) Computer Science Degree
2 112 (11.52%) Master's Degree
3 88 (9.05%) Security Cleared
4 66 (6.79%) PMI Certification
4 66 (6.79%) SC Cleared
5 56 (5.76%) PMP
6 47 (4.84%) CISSP
7 36 (3.70%) PhD
8 34 (3.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 31 (3.19%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.57%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.37%) MBA
12 22 (2.26%) CISA
13 20 (2.06%) CISM
13 20 (2.06%) DV Cleared
14 15 (1.54%) AWS Certification
14 15 (1.54%) ISTQB
15 12 (1.23%) CCNP
16 11 (1.13%) IIBA
17 10 (1.03%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.89%) QA
2 59 (6.07%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.22%) PMO
4 37 (3.81%) NIST
5 34 (3.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 23 (2.37%) GDPR
7 20 (2.06%) SLA
8 19 (1.95%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.23%) GRC
11 10 (1.03%) COBIT
12 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.72%) IFRS
14 7 (0.72%) P3O
15 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.41%) ITGC
16 4 (0.41%) MiFID
16 4 (0.41%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 82 (8.44%) Active Directory
2 55 (5.66%) Docker
3 22 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.72%) Firmware
4 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
4 7 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.62%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.41%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Squid
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.04%) Terraform
3 48 (4.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.88%) Ansible
5 19 (1.95%) SCCM
6 14 (1.44%) Grafana
7 13 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.62%) Control-M
9 5 (0.51%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.51%) Puppet
10 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.41%) vMotion
11 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.31%) Nagios
11 3 (0.31%) Packer
11 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.31%) WSUS
12 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
13 1 (0.10%) CASB
13 1 (0.10%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 250 (25.72%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.02%) Oracle
3 52 (5.35%) Google
4 48 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.40%) SAP
6 29 (2.98%) VMware
7 28 (2.88%) Cisco
8 25 (2.57%) Citrix
9 24 (2.47%) Adobe
10 23 (2.37%) Databricks
10 23 (2.37%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.54%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.44%) Apple
13 13 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.34%) Splunk
14 11 (1.13%) HP
14 11 (1.13%) Murex
15 10 (1.03%) Bloomberg
15 10 (1.03%) IBM
15 10 (1.03%) Juniper