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

6 months to
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 926 972 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.24% 7.74% 8.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.26% 30.30% 33.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 625 853
10th Percentile £304 £339 £292
25th Percentile £410 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £520 £512
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.49% -5.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 74
10th Percentile £19.72 £11.96 £14.60
25th Percentile £27.13 £20.24 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.50 £33.87
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +19.59% +5.83%
75th Percentile £50.96 £58.75 £46.56
90th Percentile £63.70 £65.80 £74.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% +35.00% -11.11%

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 5,072 3,208 4,291
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.72% 25.54% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 2,170 2,900
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £432 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -5.88%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £753 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 61 113
10th Percentile £20.82 £20.00 £14.49
25th Percentile £25.36 £22.27 £20.50
Median hourly rate £53.00 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +76.67% +15.38% -42.54%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £69.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £46.90 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.28% +17.25% -23.51%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -17 116 £500 -9.09% 199
West London -13 32 £368 -7.96% 40
South London -2 22 £450 -25.00% 8
East London -2 8 £568 +17.60% 38
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 42 (4.54%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.46%) Confluence
4 25 (2.70%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.19%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.32%) CMS
7 3 (0.32%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) Moodle
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.32%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Apache
8 2 (0.22%) Appian
8 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 93 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (7.88%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (6.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (3.56%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.43%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.22%) InVision
7 2 (0.22%) Sketch
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.86%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.43%) Shopify
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 254 (27.43%) Azure
2 120 (12.96%) AWS
3 98 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (7.88%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.37%) SaaS
6 53 (5.72%) GCP
7 47 (5.08%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (3.46%) GitHub
10 22 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (2.27%) Snowflake
12 19 (2.05%) Serverless
13 18 (1.94%) Microsoft Purview
13 18 (1.94%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.84%) Azure Data Factory
14 17 (1.84%) PaaS
15 16 (1.73%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (1.62%) IaaS
17 14 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
17 14 (1.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.35%) Firewall
2 14 (1.51%) VPN
3 13 (1.40%) Network Security
4 11 (1.19%) LAN
4 11 (1.19%) WAN
5 10 (1.08%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.97%) HTTP
7 8 (0.86%) BGP
7 8 (0.86%) DNS
7 8 (0.86%) NetScaler
7 8 (0.86%) VoIP
8 7 (0.76%) DHCP
8 7 (0.76%) DMZ
8 7 (0.76%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.65%) 3GPP
10 5 (0.54%) CTI
10 5 (0.54%) IPv4
10 5 (0.54%) OSPF
11 4 (0.43%) SSL
12 3 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.05%) Power BI
2 47 (5.08%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.70%) Tableau
6 19 (2.05%) Big Data
6 19 (2.05%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.73%) MongoDB
8 15 (1.62%) Relational Database
9 13 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.19%) Metadata
11 8 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.76%) Hadoop
12 7 (0.76%) Power Query
12 7 (0.76%) Redis
13 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.54%) KDB
14 5 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 72 (7.78%) JIRA
2 56 (6.05%) Git
3 19 (2.05%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.84%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.30%) MLflow
6 11 (1.19%) Selenium
7 9 (0.97%) GitLab
8 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.54%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.43%) ERwin
10 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.43%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
11 3 (0.32%) Toad
11 3 (0.32%) Vite
12 2 (0.22%) NUnit
General
1 439 (47.41%) Social Skills
2 383 (41.36%) Finance
3 210 (22.68%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (15.87%) Banking
5 55 (5.94%) Marketing
5 55 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
5 55 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 41 (4.43%) Front Office
7 38 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
8 34 (3.67%) Investment Banking
8 34 (3.67%) Legal
9 30 (3.24%) Retail
10 27 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
11 23 (2.48%) Telecoms
12 21 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (2.27%) Financial Institution
12 21 (2.27%) Law
13 19 (2.05%) Manufacturing
14 15 (1.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 10 (1.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 123 (13.28%) Analyst
2 121 (13.07%) Senior
3 105 (11.34%) Developer
4 78 (8.42%) Business Analyst
5 76 (8.21%) Architect
6 72 (7.78%) Lead
7 60 (6.48%) Project Manager
8 40 (4.32%) Consultant
9 35 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
10 33 (3.56%) Data Scientist
11 26 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
12 25 (2.70%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.27%) C# Developer
13 21 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
13 21 (2.27%) Software Engineer
14 19 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
14 19 (2.05%) Technical Support
15 18 (1.94%) Senior Manager
16 16 (1.73%) Security Engineer
16 16 (1.73%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.29%) .NET
2 32 (3.46%) REST
3 30 (3.24%) React
4 26 (2.81%) Middleware
5 25 (2.70%) Pandas
6 23 (2.48%) PyTorch
6 23 (2.48%) RESTful
7 22 (2.38%) .NET Framework
7 22 (2.38%) HTML
7 22 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
8 21 (2.27%) Kafka
9 18 (1.94%) NumPy
9 18 (1.94%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.51%) Node.js
10 14 (1.51%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.40%) PySpark
11 13 (1.40%) XML
12 12 (1.30%) LangChain
12 12 (1.30%) OAuth
13 11 (1.19%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.26%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.83%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.64%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.64%) Product Ownership
4 35 (3.78%) Virtual Team
5 32 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
6 31 (3.35%) Derivative
7 29 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.02%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.81%) Self-Motivation
10 25 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
11 23 (2.48%) Equities
12 21 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (2.27%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (2.27%) PMI
13 18 (1.94%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.94%) Fixed Income
14 17 (1.84%) Equity Derivative
15 16 (1.73%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.73%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.26%) Windows
2 50 (5.40%) Linux
3 34 (3.67%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.38%) Unix
5 15 (1.62%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.08%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.86%) Android
9 6 (0.65%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.43%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 340 (36.72%) Computer Science
2 278 (30.02%) Agile
3 249 (26.89%) Problem-Solving
4 181 (19.55%) AI
5 152 (16.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 150 (16.20%) Analytics
7 148 (15.98%) DevOps
8 130 (14.04%) Project Management
9 124 (13.39%) CI/CD
10 119 (12.85%) Continuous Improvement
11 114 (12.31%) Risk Management
12 113 (12.20%) Decision-Making
13 108 (11.66%) Roadmaps
14 101 (10.91%) Migration
15 92 (9.94%) Change Management
16 90 (9.72%) Project Delivery
17 85 (9.18%) Business Intelligence
18 83 (8.96%) Software Engineering
19 79 (8.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 78 (8.42%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 195 (21.06%) Python
2 166 (17.93%) SQL
3 70 (7.56%) Java
4 60 (6.48%) C#
5 54 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 42 (4.54%) C++
7 33 (3.56%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.70%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.05%) R
10 15 (1.62%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.51%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.97%) Bash
13 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.76%) Scala
15 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.54%) C
16 5 (0.54%) Go
16 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 242 (26.13%) Computer Science Degree
2 148 (15.98%) Master's Degree
3 85 (9.18%) Security Cleared
4 64 (6.91%) SC Cleared
5 61 (6.59%) PMI Certification
6 48 (5.18%) PMP
7 47 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 40 (4.32%) CISSP
9 39 (4.21%) PhD
10 34 (3.67%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.48%) CBAP
12 20 (2.16%) CISM
13 19 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.94%) CRISC
15 17 (1.84%) IIBA
15 17 (1.84%) MBA
16 16 (1.73%) CISA
17 15 (1.62%) AWS Certification
17 15 (1.62%) MCSE
17 15 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (9.18%) QA
2 45 (4.86%) GDPR
3 41 (4.43%) Data Quality
4 39 (4.21%) PMO
5 38 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (4.00%) NIST
7 28 (3.02%) SLA
8 15 (1.62%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.51%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (1.40%) GRC
11 10 (1.08%) COBIT
11 10 (1.08%) IFRS
12 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.86%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.65%) WCAG
14 5 (0.54%) Basel III
14 5 (0.54%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 65 (7.02%) Active Directory
2 55 (5.94%) Docker
3 11 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.65%) Firmware
7 5 (0.54%) XenApp
7 5 (0.54%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) IAG
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (5.08%) Kubernetes
1 47 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 38 (4.10%) Terraform
3 23 (2.48%) SCCM
4 18 (1.94%) Ansible
5 16 (1.73%) Grafana
6 11 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 10 (1.08%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.54%) SCOM
8 5 (0.54%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.43%) Control-M
9 4 (0.43%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.32%) Puppet
10 3 (0.32%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.11%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.11%) Kibana
12 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 231 (24.95%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.56%) Oracle
3 41 (4.43%) Google
4 31 (3.35%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.24%) Databricks
5 30 (3.24%) SAP
6 29 (3.13%) Citrix
7 20 (2.16%) Salesforce
8 19 (2.05%) Cisco
9 13 (1.40%) Informatica
9 13 (1.40%) VMware
10 12 (1.30%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.30%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.30%) Software AG
11 11 (1.19%) Adobe
12 10 (1.08%) Juniper
12 10 (1.08%) Splunk
13 9 (0.97%) Murex
14 8 (0.86%) Apple
14 8 (0.86%) Charles River