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 5 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 22
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 905 918 1,399
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 7.59% 8.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.40% 29.44% 33.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 577 837
10th Percentile £285 £341 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +5.77% -9.57%
75th Percentile £673 £738 £653
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 24 79
10th Percentile £16.28 £11.96 £15.19
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.12
Median hourly rate £32.07 £29.88 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -12.72% +25.61%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.06 £45.63
90th Percentile £65.20 £68.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.62% +31.25% -17.09%

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 5,202 3,118 4,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.19% 25.77% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,718 2,084 2,815
10th Percentile £371 £358 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +0.18% -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 62 114
10th Percentile £19.22 £20.02 £14.60
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.28 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +94.48% +12.00% -49.50%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.19 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.53
England median hourly rate £50.74 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +56.13% -18.75% -27.27%

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 5 June 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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -25 96 £520 -5.45% 264
West London -13 39 £372 -8.14% 49
South London -6 15 £215 -65.64% 21
East London -4 9 £568 +36.69% 43
North London -1 1 - - 7
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 46 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.20%) Confluence
4 22 (2.43%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.99%) IIS
7 5 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) Camunda
9 3 (0.33%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 88 (9.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (6.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (3.98%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (3.09%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.55%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.44%) HFM
4 4 (0.44%) Magento
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.33%) Shopify
5 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.22%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
6 2 (0.22%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 238 (26.30%) Azure
2 144 (15.91%) AWS
3 87 (9.61%) Microsoft 365
4 60 (6.63%) Power Platform
5 55 (6.08%) GCP
6 49 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 38 (4.20%) SaaS
8 32 (3.54%) GitHub
9 31 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.54%) Snowflake
11 18 (1.99%) PaaS
12 16 (1.77%) Serverless
13 15 (1.66%) IaaS
14 14 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.55%) Microsoft Purview
15 13 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.44%) Dynamics 365
15 13 (1.44%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (1.22%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (1.22%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.43%) Firewall
2 19 (2.10%) Network Security
3 14 (1.55%) VPN
4 13 (1.44%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.44%) WAN
5 10 (1.10%) LAN
6 9 (0.99%) BGP
6 9 (0.99%) VoIP
7 8 (0.88%) DNS
7 8 (0.88%) VXLAN
8 7 (0.77%) 3GPP
8 7 (0.77%) DMZ
9 6 (0.66%) DHCP
9 6 (0.66%) NetScaler
9 6 (0.66%) OSPF
10 5 (0.55%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.55%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.44%) HTTP
11 4 (0.44%) Internet
11 4 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.75%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.41%) Power BI
3 27 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (2.65%) Tableau
5 19 (2.10%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.99%) MongoDB
6 18 (1.99%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.88%) Big Data
8 12 (1.33%) Metadata
9 11 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.88%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.88%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.88%) Redis
12 7 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.66%) Power Query
14 5 (0.55%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 63 (6.96%) JIRA
2 58 (6.41%) Git
3 20 (2.21%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.44%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.33%) GitLab
5 12 (1.33%) MLflow
6 10 (1.10%) Selenium
7 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.77%) Subversion
8 6 (0.66%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.66%) Gradle
8 6 (0.66%) Maven
8 6 (0.66%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.55%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.44%) ERwin
10 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 425 (46.96%) Social Skills
2 389 (42.98%) Finance
3 191 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (14.48%) Banking
5 59 (6.52%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (6.41%) Marketing
7 55 (6.08%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (5.52%) Legal
9 48 (5.30%) Public Sector
10 37 (4.09%) Front Office
11 34 (3.76%) Investment Banking
11 34 (3.76%) Retail
12 26 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (2.43%) Law
14 21 (2.32%) Telecoms
15 20 (2.21%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.88%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.77%) Manufacturing
18 13 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (14.25%) Senior
2 127 (14.03%) Analyst
3 107 (11.82%) Developer
4 82 (9.06%) Lead
5 80 (8.84%) Architect
6 76 (8.40%) Business Analyst
7 59 (6.52%) Project Manager
8 42 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.98%) Data Scientist
10 26 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
11 25 (2.76%) Consultant
11 25 (2.76%) Software Engineer
12 23 (2.54%) C# Developer
12 23 (2.54%) Data Engineer
12 23 (2.54%) Senior Manager
13 21 (2.32%) Senior Business Analyst
14 20 (2.21%) Delivery Manager
15 19 (2.10%) Senior Developer
16 17 (1.88%) Java Developer
16 17 (1.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.52%) .NET
2 44 (4.86%) REST
3 33 (3.65%) React
4 27 (2.98%) .NET Framework
5 24 (2.65%) Kafka
6 22 (2.43%) Oracle Fusion
6 22 (2.43%) RESTful
7 21 (2.32%) Middleware
8 19 (2.10%) HTML
8 19 (2.10%) Pandas
9 17 (1.88%) PyTorch
10 15 (1.66%) PySpark
11 14 (1.55%) AngularJS
11 14 (1.55%) Spring
12 13 (1.44%) Node.js
12 13 (1.44%) TensorFlow
13 12 (1.33%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.33%) XML
14 11 (1.22%) CSS
14 11 (1.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.86%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.75%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.75%) Cloud Native
4 41 (4.53%) Product Ownership
5 38 (4.20%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.54%) Virtual Team
7 31 (3.43%) Derivative
8 30 (3.31%) Algorithms
9 29 (3.20%) Distributed Systems
10 28 (3.09%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (2.43%) Fixed Income
12 19 (2.10%) Equities
12 19 (2.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 19 (2.10%) Legacy Systems
12 19 (2.10%) PMI
13 17 (1.88%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.55%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 108 (11.93%) Windows
2 53 (5.86%) Linux
3 28 (3.09%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.76%) Unix
5 19 (2.10%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.10%) Android
7 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.33%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (35.80%) Computer Science
2 264 (29.17%) Agile
3 235 (25.97%) Problem-Solving
4 179 (19.78%) AI
5 144 (15.91%) Analytics
6 143 (15.80%) DevOps
7 135 (14.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 124 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 120 (13.26%) CI/CD
10 115 (12.71%) Project Management
11 105 (11.60%) Decision-Making
12 101 (11.16%) Migration
13 95 (10.50%) Risk Management
14 94 (10.39%) Roadmaps
15 92 (10.17%) Software Engineering
16 89 (9.83%) Project Delivery
17 82 (9.06%) Change Management
18 81 (8.95%) Scrum
19 76 (8.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 73 (8.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 191 (21.10%) Python
2 178 (19.67%) SQL
3 86 (9.50%) Java
4 61 (6.74%) C#
5 54 (5.97%) PowerShell
6 38 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 37 (4.09%) C++
8 18 (1.99%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.77%) R
10 15 (1.66%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.33%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.99%) Bash
13 8 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.77%) C
15 6 (0.66%) Scala
15 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.55%) Bicep
16 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.44%) Go
17 4 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 215 (23.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 127 (14.03%) Master's Degree
3 83 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 63 (6.96%) SC Cleared
5 57 (6.30%) PMI Certification
6 49 (5.41%) CISSP
7 45 (4.97%) PMP
8 36 (3.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (3.76%) Azure Certification
9 34 (3.76%) PhD
10 25 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (2.76%) CISM
11 22 (2.43%) CBAP
12 19 (2.10%) CISA
13 18 (1.99%) CRISC
13 18 (1.99%) MBA
14 17 (1.88%) IIBA
15 15 (1.66%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.55%) AWS Certification
17 12 (1.33%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.96%) QA
2 49 (5.41%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.64%) GDPR
5 40 (4.42%) PMO
6 38 (4.20%) NIST
7 24 (2.65%) SLA
8 18 (1.99%) Accessibility
8 18 (1.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.88%) PCI DSS
10 15 (1.66%) GRC
11 10 (1.10%) COBIT
11 10 (1.10%) IFRS
12 8 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.55%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.55%) IFRS 17
15 4 (0.44%) ITGC
15 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 64 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.86%) Docker
3 11 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.99%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.66%) Firmware
6 4 (0.44%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.44%) XenApp
6 4 (0.44%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.33%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.11%) Squid
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (6.19%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (4.20%) Terraform
4 21 (2.32%) Ansible
5 18 (1.99%) SCCM
6 14 (1.55%) Grafana
7 12 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.44%) Control-M
9 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.44%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.33%) vMotion
10 3 (0.33%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 222 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.40%) Oracle
3 37 (4.09%) Google
4 32 (3.54%) Citrix
4 32 (3.54%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.65%) SAP
6 23 (2.54%) Databricks
7 22 (2.43%) Cisco
8 17 (1.88%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.33%) Adobe
10 12 (1.33%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.33%) Informatica
10 12 (1.33%) VMware
11 11 (1.22%) Juniper
11 11 (1.22%) Murex
12 10 (1.10%) Splunk
13 9 (0.99%) Apple
13 9 (0.99%) HP
13 9 (0.99%) Software AG