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 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 20
Rank change year-on-year -20 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 941 1,042 1,393
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.76% 7.69% 8.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.19% 30.03% 34.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 663 885
10th Percentile £263 £331 £303
25th Percentile £401 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £753 £813 £808
England median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% -4.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 53
10th Percentile £17.24 £11.96 £18.60
25th Percentile £26.25 £20.24 £25.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.32 £35.71
Median % change year-on-year +14.96% -12.31% +9.24%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £68.13 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £42.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +10.59% -19.05% -3.55%

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 5,473 3,470 4,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.67% 25.60% 23.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,943 2,354 2,785
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £772
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 82 82
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.82 £17.90
25th Percentile £26.06 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £44.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.70 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +113.27% -41.12% -23.76%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 -42 95 £502 -10.84% 243
West London -3 46 £300 -25.83% 45
South London -12 13 £202 -66.27% 13
East London -1 9 £585 +6.36% 24
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 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 37 (3.93%) Confluence
3 30 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.81%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.17%) IIS
7 9 (0.96%) Apache
8 6 (0.64%) Camunda
8 6 (0.64%) CMS
8 6 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.43%) Appian
10 3 (0.32%) Moodle
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (7.65%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (5.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (2.66%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.53%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Magento
2 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.64%) HFM
4 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.32%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.21%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 247 (26.25%) Azure
2 148 (15.73%) AWS
3 74 (7.86%) Power Platform
4 72 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
5 64 (6.80%) GCP
6 59 (6.27%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (3.93%) GitHub
9 33 (3.51%) SaaS
10 28 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.13%) Serverless
12 17 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (1.38%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.38%) Figma
13 13 (1.38%) PaaS
14 12 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 12 (1.28%) IaaS
15 11 (1.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.25%) Firewall
2 23 (2.44%) Network Security
3 21 (2.23%) VPN
4 19 (2.02%) TCP/IP
5 16 (1.70%) DNS
6 11 (1.17%) DHCP
6 11 (1.17%) WAN
7 9 (0.96%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.85%) BGP
8 8 (0.85%) Internet
8 8 (0.85%) LAN
8 8 (0.85%) VoIP
9 7 (0.74%) 5G
9 7 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
10 6 (0.64%) DMZ
10 6 (0.64%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.64%) VXLAN
11 5 (0.53%) OSPF
11 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.48%) Power BI
2 45 (4.78%) SQL Server
3 27 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.76%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.44%) Tableau
6 22 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 21 (2.23%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.70%) Metadata
9 15 (1.59%) Big Data
10 10 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.96%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.74%) Power Query
14 6 (0.64%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.53%) KDB
15 5 (0.53%) Redis
15 5 (0.53%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (7.76%) JIRA
2 66 (7.01%) Git
3 28 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.59%) GitLab
5 13 (1.38%) MLflow
6 11 (1.17%) Selenium
6 11 (1.17%) Subversion
7 9 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.74%) Gradle
8 7 (0.74%) Maven
9 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.64%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.53%) JUnit
10 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
12 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 422 (44.85%) Social Skills
2 401 (42.61%) Finance
3 215 (22.85%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (14.24%) Banking
5 69 (7.33%) Marketing
6 59 (6.27%) Legal
7 58 (6.16%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (5.31%) Public Sector
9 48 (5.10%) Retail
10 45 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
11 34 (3.61%) Front Office
12 29 (3.08%) Investment Banking
13 27 (2.87%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.87%) Law
14 26 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
15 25 (2.66%) Telecoms
16 24 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (1.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 133 (14.13%) Analyst
2 128 (13.60%) Senior
3 104 (11.05%) Developer
4 81 (8.61%) Architect
5 79 (8.40%) Business Analyst
6 78 (8.29%) Lead
7 65 (6.91%) Project Manager
8 41 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.93%) Senior Manager
10 28 (2.98%) Consultant
10 28 (2.98%) Data Scientist
11 27 (2.87%) Software Engineer
12 23 (2.44%) Data Engineer
12 23 (2.44%) Support Engineer
13 21 (2.23%) C# Developer
14 20 (2.13%) Junior
14 20 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (2.02%) Java Developer
16 18 (1.91%) IT Analyst
17 17 (1.81%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (5.63%) .NET
2 50 (5.31%) REST
3 33 (3.51%) React
4 27 (2.87%) .NET Framework
5 26 (2.76%) Kafka
6 20 (2.13%) RESTful
7 18 (1.91%) HTML
8 17 (1.81%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.81%) Pandas
8 17 (1.81%) PySpark
8 17 (1.81%) PyTorch
8 17 (1.81%) Spring
9 16 (1.70%) XML
10 15 (1.59%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.49%) Middleware
12 13 (1.38%) JSON
13 12 (1.28%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (1.28%) Web Services
14 11 (1.17%) CSS
14 11 (1.17%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.91%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 50 (5.31%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
5 43 (4.57%) Product Ownership
6 34 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 31 (3.29%) Virtual Team
8 26 (2.76%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.76%) Derivative
9 25 (2.66%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (2.44%) Fixed Income
11 18 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 18 (1.91%) Data Structures
11 18 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.81%) AI Agents
12 17 (1.81%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.70%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.70%) Social Media
14 15 (1.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 113 (12.01%) Windows
2 55 (5.84%) Linux
3 25 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.23%) Unix
5 17 (1.81%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 12 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.06%) Android
9 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.53%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.43%) VMS
12 2 (0.21%) CentOS
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 332 (35.28%) Computer Science
2 276 (29.33%) Agile
3 252 (26.78%) Problem-Solving
4 202 (21.47%) AI
5 168 (17.85%) Analytics
6 166 (17.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 151 (16.05%) DevOps
8 137 (14.56%) Continuous Improvement
9 134 (14.24%) CI/CD
10 120 (12.75%) Project Management
11 104 (11.05%) Decision-Making
12 101 (10.73%) Software Engineering
12 101 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 99 (10.52%) Migration
14 91 (9.67%) Risk Management
14 91 (9.67%) Roadmaps
15 90 (9.56%) Scrum
16 83 (8.82%) Project Delivery
17 82 (8.71%) ITIL
18 81 (8.61%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 199 (21.15%) Python
2 187 (19.87%) SQL
3 83 (8.82%) Java
4 62 (6.59%) C#
5 50 (5.31%) PowerShell
6 36 (3.83%) JavaScript
7 28 (2.98%) C++
8 23 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.02%) R
10 15 (1.59%) Bash
11 13 (1.38%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.96%) Bicep
12 9 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 9 (0.96%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.74%) C
14 5 (0.53%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.53%) VBA
15 4 (0.43%) Scala
16 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
17 2 (0.21%) Go
Qualifications
1 214 (22.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 128 (13.60%) Master's Degree
3 73 (7.76%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.06%) PMI Certification
5 56 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 50 (5.31%) CISSP
7 48 (5.10%) PMP
8 37 (3.93%) PhD
9 33 (3.51%) Azure Certification
10 28 (2.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 24 (2.55%) CISA
11 24 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (2.44%) MBA
13 22 (2.34%) CISM
14 17 (1.81%) DV Cleared
15 16 (1.70%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.49%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (1.38%) CRISC
18 12 (1.28%) ISTQB
19 11 (1.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.44%) QA
2 58 (6.16%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.10%) PMO
4 39 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (3.72%) NIST
6 33 (3.51%) GDPR
7 21 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 20 (2.13%) SLA
9 15 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.49%) GRC
10 14 (1.49%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.74%) COBIT
11 7 (0.74%) IFRS
12 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.64%) P3O
12 6 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.43%) ITGC
14 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 75 (7.97%) Active Directory
2 58 (6.16%) Docker
3 18 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.64%) Firmware
6 5 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.43%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) IAG
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (6.27%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (4.46%) Terraform
4 26 (2.76%) Ansible
5 16 (1.70%) SCCM
6 14 (1.49%) Grafana
7 12 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.53%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.43%) vMotion
10 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.32%) Nagios
10 3 (0.32%) Packer
10 3 (0.32%) Puppet
10 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.32%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) Control-M
11 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 233 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.44%) Oracle
3 49 (5.21%) Google
4 40 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.08%) SAP
6 26 (2.76%) Cisco
6 26 (2.76%) Citrix
7 24 (2.55%) VMware
8 23 (2.44%) Databricks
9 20 (2.13%) Adobe
9 20 (2.13%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.49%) Palo Alto
11 13 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 13 (1.38%) OpenAI
12 11 (1.17%) Apple
12 11 (1.17%) Murex
12 11 (1.17%) Splunk
13 10 (1.06%) CyberArk
13 10 (1.06%) HP
13 10 (1.06%) Juniper