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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 973 1,061 1,352
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.85% 7.91% 8.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.41% 30.07% 34.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 669 852
10th Percentile £254 £331 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £651 £700 £675
90th Percentile £770 £813 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 28 45
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £18.88
25th Percentile £26.25 £18.74 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -27.40% +24.79%
75th Percentile £78.75 £63.06 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.50 £67.88 £63.80
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -1.86% -25.89% +15.69%

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 5,588 3,528 3,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.83% 26.32% 24.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,024 2,373 2,706
10th Percentile £373 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £737 £750 £773
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 88 71
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.57 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.81 £25.12 £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -16.17% -45.45%
75th Percentile £73.00 £40.31 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +108.75% -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 21 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 21 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 21 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 78 £530 -3.64% 230
West London -9 45 £226 -44.26% 72
East London +5 12 £568 -5.42% 32
South London -17 8 £215 -64.21% 14
North London - 4 £550 - 6
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 (5.24%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.91%) Confluence
3 28 (2.88%) 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%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (9.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.89%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (5.04%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (4.73%) 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 (0.92%) 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%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.21%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 248 (25.49%) Azure
2 146 (15.01%) AWS
3 72 (7.40%) GCP
4 70 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (7.19%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.06%) Entra ID
6 48 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (3.70%) GitHub
8 33 (3.39%) SaaS
9 26 (2.67%) Snowflake
10 22 (2.26%) Serverless
11 21 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 15 (1.54%) IaaS
13 14 (1.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.44%) PaaS
14 13 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (1.34%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.34%) OpenShift
15 12 (1.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.52%) Firewall
2 27 (2.77%) Network Security
2 27 (2.77%) VPN
3 24 (2.47%) DNS
4 22 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 18 (1.85%) DHCP
6 14 (1.44%) WAN
7 12 (1.23%) 3GPP
7 12 (1.23%) Internet
8 11 (1.13%) LAN
9 10 (1.03%) 5G
9 10 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
10 9 (0.92%) BGP
11 8 (0.82%) VoIP
11 8 (0.82%) VXLAN
11 8 (0.82%) Wireless
12 7 (0.72%) SAN
13 6 (0.62%) DMZ
13 6 (0.62%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.45%) Power BI
2 47 (4.83%) SQL Server
3 32 (3.29%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.47%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
7 21 (2.16%) Tableau
8 18 (1.85%) Metadata
9 16 (1.64%) Big Data
10 14 (1.44%) MongoDB
10 14 (1.44%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.34%) Data Lake
12 10 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
12 10 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 9 (0.92%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.62%) Neo4j
14 6 (0.62%) Power Query
14 6 (0.62%) Redis
15 5 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (7.61%) JIRA
2 64 (6.58%) Git
3 29 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.75%) GitLab
5 15 (1.54%) 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
10 6 (0.62%) JUnit
10 6 (0.62%) MLflow
10 6 (0.62%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
12 4 (0.41%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.31%) eggPlant
13 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 460 (47.28%) Social Skills
2 414 (42.55%) Finance
3 239 (24.56%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (14.49%) Banking
5 66 (6.78%) Marketing
6 65 (6.68%) Legal
7 60 (6.17%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (4.73%) Retail
9 43 (4.42%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (4.11%) Front Office
10 40 (4.11%) Public Sector
11 35 (3.60%) Telecoms
12 34 (3.49%) Investment Banking
13 32 (3.29%) Financial Institution
14 28 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 27 (2.77%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (2.77%) Law
16 23 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
17 20 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
18 13 (1.34%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 150 (15.42%) Analyst
2 122 (12.54%) Senior
3 106 (10.89%) Developer
4 90 (9.25%) Business Analyst
5 84 (8.63%) Lead
6 76 (7.81%) Architect
7 56 (5.76%) Project Manager
8 36 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.29%) Senior Manager
9 32 (3.29%) Support Engineer
10 25 (2.57%) Consultant
11 24 (2.47%) Software Engineer
12 22 (2.26%) Financial Analyst
12 22 (2.26%) Senior Developer
13 21 (2.16%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.16%) Data Scientist
13 21 (2.16%) IT Analyst
14 20 (2.06%) C# Developer
14 20 (2.06%) Desktop Engineer
14 20 (2.06%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.96%) REST
2 57 (5.86%) .NET
3 51 (5.24%) Terraform
4 32 (3.29%) Kafka
5 27 (2.77%) .NET Framework
6 26 (2.67%) React
7 20 (2.06%) RESTful
8 19 (1.95%) HTML
9 18 (1.85%) XML
10 17 (1.75%) Spring
11 16 (1.64%) Pandas
11 16 (1.64%) Spring Boot
12 15 (1.54%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.54%) PySpark
13 14 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
13 14 (1.44%) Web Services
14 13 (1.34%) JSON
14 13 (1.34%) Middleware
15 12 (1.23%) PyTorch
16 11 (1.13%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.99%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 51 (5.24%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.42%) Algorithms
6 38 (3.91%) Self-Motivation
7 33 (3.39%) Data Structures
8 30 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (2.77%) Data Centre
10 27 (2.77%) Derivative
11 21 (2.16%) AI Agents
12 20 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.06%) Fixed Income
13 19 (1.95%) Equities
13 19 (1.95%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.85%) Social Media
14 18 (1.85%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.64%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 117 (12.02%) Windows
2 62 (6.37%) Linux
3 22 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.85%) 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 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 354 (36.38%) Computer Science
2 268 (27.54%) Agile
3 267 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
4 207 (21.27%) AI
5 196 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 156 (16.03%) Analytics
7 153 (15.72%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (15.42%) DevOps
9 133 (13.67%) CI/CD
10 122 (12.54%) Project Management
11 120 (12.33%) Software Engineering
12 106 (10.89%) Migration
13 103 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 101 (10.38%) Decision-Making
15 97 (9.97%) Scrum
16 93 (9.56%) User Acceptance Testing
17 89 (9.15%) Change Management
18 88 (9.04%) Mathematics
19 86 (8.84%) Project Delivery
19 86 (8.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 200 (20.55%) Python
2 194 (19.94%) SQL
3 91 (9.35%) Java
4 67 (6.89%) C#
5 63 (6.47%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.73%) JavaScript
7 33 (3.39%) C++
8 23 (2.36%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.95%) Bash
10 17 (1.75%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.75%) R
11 10 (1.03%) Bicep
12 9 (0.92%) C
13 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.72%) Scala
15 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.51%) VBA
16 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
16 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 232 (23.84%) Computer Science Degree
2 112 (11.51%) Master's Degree
3 88 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 66 (6.78%) PMI Certification
4 66 (6.78%) SC Cleared
5 56 (5.76%) PMP
6 41 (4.21%) CISSP
7 37 (3.80%) PhD
8 31 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (2.98%) Azure Certification
10 23 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
10 23 (2.36%) MBA
11 20 (2.06%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.85%) CISA
13 16 (1.64%) CISM
13 16 (1.64%) ISTQB
14 15 (1.54%) AWS Certification
15 13 (1.34%) CCNP
16 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (1.03%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.19%) QA
2 63 (6.47%) Data Quality
3 40 (4.11%) PMO
4 33 (3.39%) NIST
5 31 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 21 (2.16%) GDPR
7 20 (2.06%) SLA
8 19 (1.95%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (1.13%) GRC
11 9 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.92%) COBIT
12 8 (0.82%) IFRS
13 7 (0.72%) P3O
13 7 (0.72%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.41%) ITGC
15 4 (0.41%) MiFID
16 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
17 2 (0.21%) NIST 800
System Software
1 81 (8.32%) Active Directory
2 56 (5.76%) Docker
3 22 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.72%) Firmware
4 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.62%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
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 53 (5.45%) Kubernetes
2 47 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (2.88%) Ansible
4 18 (1.85%) SCCM
5 16 (1.64%) Grafana
6 14 (1.44%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.62%) Control-M
8 5 (0.51%) HP ALM
8 5 (0.51%) Puppet
9 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.41%) vMotion
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.31%) Nagios
10 3 (0.31%) Packer
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.31%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.10%) Kibana
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 245 (25.18%) Microsoft
2 83 (8.53%) Oracle
3 50 (5.14%) Google
4 46 (4.73%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.39%) SAP
6 29 (2.98%) VMware
7 28 (2.88%) Cisco
8 24 (2.47%) Adobe
8 24 (2.47%) Citrix
8 24 (2.47%) Salesforce
9 21 (2.16%) Databricks
10 15 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.44%) Apple
11 14 (1.44%) Splunk
12 13 (1.34%) OpenAI
13 11 (1.13%) CyberArk
13 11 (1.13%) HP
13 11 (1.13%) Murex
14 10 (1.03%) IBM
14 10 (1.03%) Juniper