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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 946 1,025 1,456
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.87% 7.72% 8.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.54% 29.93% 35.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 530 650 892
10th Percentile £250 £331 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -6.25%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £762 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 72
10th Percentile £16.40 £11.96 £15.70
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.81
Median hourly rate £33.53 £34.48 £34.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -0.42% +6.54%
75th Percentile £57.81 £63.00 £44.69
90th Percentile £74.63 £68.25 £74.38
England median hourly rate £45.50 £43.25 £41.50
% change year-on-year +5.20% +4.22% -16.28%

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 5,392 3,425 4,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.76% 25.78% 23.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,886 2,305 2,859
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £726 £750 £774
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.32% -2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 77 107
10th Percentile £19.19 £18.48 £14.96
25th Percentile £25.94 £25.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.19 £50.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.34 £68.30
England median hourly rate £53.90 £28.18 £42.50
% change year-on-year +91.27% -33.69% -22.73%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -32 97 £501 -12.96% 300
West London -8 46 £313 -22.31% 54
South London -4 12 £190 -69.60% 13
East London -2 9 £585 +21.22% 44
North London +2 2 £550 +33.33% 12
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 50 (5.29%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.81%) Confluence
3 31 (3.28%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (2.01%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.16%) IIS
7 7 (0.74%) Apache
8 6 (0.63%) CMS
9 5 (0.53%) Camunda
9 5 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.42%) Appian
11 3 (0.32%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.11%) Drupal
13 1 (0.11%) SAS
13 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 86 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (7.82%) Microsoft Office
3 54 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
5 31 (3.28%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.74%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.53%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 6 (0.63%) Magento
2 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.42%) HFM
5 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.32%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.21%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.21%) Shopify
6 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 252 (26.64%) Azure
2 153 (16.17%) AWS
3 76 (8.03%) Microsoft 365
4 71 (7.51%) Power Platform
5 65 (6.87%) GCP
6 53 (5.60%) Entra ID
7 43 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (4.02%) GitHub
9 36 (3.81%) SaaS
10 28 (2.96%) Snowflake
11 21 (2.22%) Serverless
12 16 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (1.59%) PaaS
14 14 (1.48%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.48%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.37%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.37%) Figma
15 13 (1.37%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 37 (3.91%) Firewall
2 23 (2.43%) Network Security
3 19 (2.01%) VPN
4 18 (1.90%) TCP/IP
5 14 (1.48%) DNS
5 14 (1.48%) WAN
6 11 (1.16%) LAN
7 9 (0.95%) BGP
7 9 (0.95%) DHCP
7 9 (0.95%) VoIP
8 8 (0.85%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.85%) Internet
9 7 (0.74%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.63%) 5G
10 6 (0.63%) DMZ
10 6 (0.63%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.63%) OSPF
10 6 (0.63%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.53%) Unified Communications
11 5 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.24%) Power BI
2 48 (5.07%) SQL Server
3 32 (3.38%) PostgreSQL
4 29 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.54%) Tableau
6 23 (2.43%) MongoDB
7 22 (2.33%) NoSQL
7 22 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 19 (2.01%) Metadata
9 16 (1.69%) Big Data
10 10 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.06%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.95%) Oracle Database
11 9 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 8 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (0.74%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.74%) MySQL
13 7 (0.74%) Power Query
14 6 (0.63%) Redis
Development Applications
1 68 (7.19%) JIRA
2 67 (7.08%) Git
3 25 (2.64%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.48%) GitLab
5 13 (1.37%) MLflow
6 11 (1.16%) Selenium
6 11 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 9 (0.95%) Subversion
8 6 (0.63%) Gradle
8 6 (0.63%) Maven
8 6 (0.63%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.53%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.53%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.42%) ERwin
10 4 (0.42%) JUnit
10 4 (0.42%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.42%) Vite
11 3 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 425 (44.93%) Social Skills
2 399 (42.18%) Finance
3 213 (22.52%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (13.95%) Banking
5 70 (7.40%) Marketing
6 61 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (6.03%) Legal
8 54 (5.71%) Presentation Skills
9 48 (5.07%) Public Sector
10 46 (4.86%) Retail
11 39 (4.12%) Front Office
12 30 (3.17%) Investment Banking
13 25 (2.64%) Financial Institution
13 25 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
14 24 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
14 24 (2.54%) Law
15 22 (2.33%) Telecoms
16 20 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.37%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 133 (14.06%) Analyst
2 123 (13.00%) Senior
3 106 (11.21%) Developer
4 84 (8.88%) Business Analyst
5 83 (8.77%) Architect
6 77 (8.14%) Lead
7 61 (6.45%) Project Manager
8 44 (4.65%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.59%) Senior Manager
10 30 (3.17%) Consultant
11 28 (2.96%) Data Scientist
12 25 (2.64%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.54%) C# Developer
13 24 (2.54%) Data Engineer
14 22 (2.33%) Support Engineer
15 19 (2.01%) Java Developer
16 18 (1.90%) Senior Project Manager
17 17 (1.80%) Junior
18 16 (1.69%) IT Manager
18 16 (1.69%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.92%) .NET
2 49 (5.18%) REST
3 34 (3.59%) React
4 29 (3.07%) .NET Framework
5 23 (2.43%) Kafka
6 22 (2.33%) RESTful
7 20 (2.11%) HTML
8 19 (2.01%) Pandas
8 19 (2.01%) PySpark
9 17 (1.80%) Spring
10 16 (1.69%) AngularJS
10 16 (1.69%) Middleware
11 14 (1.48%) Spring Boot
11 14 (1.48%) XML
12 13 (1.37%) Web Services
13 12 (1.27%) Oracle Fusion
13 12 (1.27%) PyTorch
14 11 (1.16%) Node.js
14 11 (1.16%) OAuth
14 11 (1.16%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.45%) Onboarding
2 52 (5.50%) Management Information System
3 46 (4.86%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (4.23%) Product Ownership
6 32 (3.38%) Algorithms
7 29 (3.07%) Virtual Team
8 28 (2.96%) Data Centre
8 28 (2.96%) Derivative
9 25 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
9 25 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (2.43%) Fixed Income
11 17 (1.80%) Analytical Mindset
11 17 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.80%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.80%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.69%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.69%) Equities
13 15 (1.59%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 115 (12.16%) Windows
2 52 (5.50%) Linux
3 25 (2.64%) Unix
4 24 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 19 (2.01%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.69%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.06%) Android
9 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 4 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) VMS
12 2 (0.21%) CentOS
12 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (35.20%) Computer Science
2 279 (29.49%) Agile
3 254 (26.85%) Problem-Solving
4 205 (21.67%) AI
5 171 (18.08%) Analytics
6 158 (16.70%) Stakeholder Management
7 151 (15.96%) DevOps
8 138 (14.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 132 (13.95%) CI/CD
10 112 (11.84%) Project Management
11 105 (11.10%) Decision-Making
12 99 (10.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 95 (10.04%) Migration
14 93 (9.83%) Software Engineering
15 92 (9.73%) Risk Management
16 90 (9.51%) Roadmaps
17 86 (9.09%) Scrum
18 83 (8.77%) ITIL
19 82 (8.67%) Validation
20 81 (8.56%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 200 (21.14%) Python
2 196 (20.72%) SQL
3 85 (8.99%) Java
4 65 (6.87%) C#
5 48 (5.07%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.12%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.85%) C++
8 21 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.90%) R
10 15 (1.59%) PL/SQL
11 11 (1.16%) Bash
11 11 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.95%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.74%) Bicep
13 7 (0.74%) C
13 7 (0.74%) Scala
13 7 (0.74%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.53%) VBA
15 4 (0.42%) Kusto Query Language
16 3 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 222 (23.47%) Computer Science Degree
2 127 (13.42%) Master's Degree
3 76 (8.03%) Security Cleared
4 60 (6.34%) SC Cleared
5 53 (5.60%) CISSP
5 53 (5.60%) PMI Certification
6 45 (4.76%) PMP
7 35 (3.70%) PhD
8 32 (3.38%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (2.85%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.75%) CISA
12 24 (2.54%) CISM
13 20 (2.11%) MBA
14 16 (1.69%) CRISC
15 15 (1.59%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.48%) DV Cleared
16 14 (1.48%) IIBA
17 13 (1.37%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.51%) QA
2 60 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.86%) PMO
4 43 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (4.12%) NIST
6 38 (4.02%) GDPR
7 23 (2.43%) SLA
8 21 (2.22%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.90%) PCI DSS
10 17 (1.80%) GRC
10 17 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.95%) COBIT
12 8 (0.85%) IFRS
13 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.63%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.63%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.42%) ITGC
15 4 (0.42%) MiFID
15 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 61 (6.45%) Docker
3 17 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.85%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.63%) Firmware
6 5 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.21%) XenApp
9 2 (0.21%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) IAG
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (4.65%) Terraform
4 26 (2.75%) Ansible
5 15 (1.59%) SCCM
6 14 (1.48%) Grafana
7 12 (1.27%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.53%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.42%) 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%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 226 (23.89%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.51%) Oracle
3 47 (4.97%) Google
4 40 (4.23%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.07%) Citrix
6 25 (2.64%) Cisco
7 24 (2.54%) Databricks
7 24 (2.54%) SAP
8 20 (2.11%) Salesforce
9 19 (2.01%) Adobe
9 19 (2.01%) VMware
10 16 (1.69%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.48%) Bloomberg
11 14 (1.48%) Murex
12 12 (1.27%) Splunk
13 11 (1.16%) Apple
13 11 (1.16%) Juniper
14 10 (1.06%) HP
14 10 (1.06%) OpenAI
15 8 (0.85%) Samsung