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

6 months to
29 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 970 999 1,357
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.80% 7.52% 8.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 16.92% 28.53% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 601 829
10th Percentile £263 £325 £312
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £661 £694 £688
90th Percentile £761 £788 £850
England median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 41
10th Percentile £19.03 £14.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £27.56 £20.24 £25.99
Median hourly rate £51.50 £27.83 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +85.09% -25.80% +38.89%
75th Percentile £78.75 £56.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £86.13 £65.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +14.49% -39.84% +18.79%

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 5,733 3,502 3,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.35% 26.38% 24.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,152 2,361 2,563
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £440 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £727 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 61
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £25.81 - £24.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.10% -21.08%
75th Percentile £78.75 £34.48 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £63.43 £71.25
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -1.24%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 -41 86 £540 +2.86% 547
West London -14 42 £226 -44.26% 198
East London +5 11 £190 -68.33% 39
South London -29 4 £420 -32.80% 24
North London - 4 £550 - 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 50 (5.15%) Confluence
2 48 (4.95%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.06%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.34%) IIS
6 11 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (1.03%) Apache
8 9 (0.93%) Camunda
9 7 (0.72%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 7 (0.72%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.31%) Appian
11 3 (0.31%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) CICS
12 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.21%) nginx
12 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 100 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (5.15%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (4.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.96%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.31%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Revit
11 1 (0.10%) Simulink
11 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.72%) HFM
4 6 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.52%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.31%) Changepoint
7 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.21%) Endur
8 2 (0.21%) Primavera
8 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 234 (24.12%) Azure
2 142 (14.64%) AWS
3 80 (8.25%) GCP
4 78 (8.04%) Power Platform
5 65 (6.70%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (5.57%) Entra ID
7 53 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (4.54%) GitHub
9 35 (3.61%) SaaS
10 25 (2.58%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (2.58%) Serverless
11 23 (2.37%) Snowflake
12 21 (2.16%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (1.75%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.75%) OpenShift
15 15 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.55%) IaaS
16 14 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.44%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.02%) Firewall
2 27 (2.78%) DNS
3 25 (2.58%) Network Security
4 20 (2.06%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.06%) VPN
5 18 (1.86%) DHCP
6 17 (1.75%) 3GPP
6 17 (1.75%) 5G
7 15 (1.55%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (1.34%) Internet
9 11 (1.13%) LAN
9 11 (1.13%) WAN
10 8 (0.82%) VoIP
10 8 (0.82%) Wireless
11 6 (0.62%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.62%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.62%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.52%) tcpdump
12 5 (0.52%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.77%) Power BI
2 51 (5.26%) SQL Server
3 33 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (3.30%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.47%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.27%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.06%) Tableau
8 19 (1.96%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.65%) Big Data
9 16 (1.65%) Metadata
10 14 (1.44%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.34%) MySQL
12 12 (1.24%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.82%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.72%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.62%) Neo4j
15 6 (0.62%) Redis
Development Applications
1 79 (8.14%) JIRA
2 77 (7.94%) Git
3 38 (3.92%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.89%) GitLab
5 17 (1.75%) Gradle
5 17 (1.75%) Maven
6 15 (1.55%) JUnit
7 14 (1.44%) Selenium
8 13 (1.34%) SonarQube
9 10 (1.03%) Mockito
9 10 (1.03%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.82%) Subversion
11 6 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.62%) MLflow
11 6 (0.62%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.52%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
13 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 464 (47.84%) Social Skills
2 436 (44.95%) Finance
3 247 (25.46%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (15.77%) Banking
5 64 (6.60%) Marketing
5 64 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
6 61 (6.29%) Legal
7 54 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 45 (4.64%) Influencing Skills
8 45 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 41 (4.23%) Retail
10 40 (4.12%) Telecoms
11 34 (3.51%) Front Office
12 33 (3.40%) Documentation Skills
12 33 (3.40%) Investment Banking
13 32 (3.30%) Financial Institution
13 32 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 25 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
15 24 (2.47%) Law
16 17 (1.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (16.39%) Analyst
2 119 (12.27%) Senior
3 110 (11.34%) Developer
4 99 (10.21%) Business Analyst
5 85 (8.76%) Lead
6 73 (7.53%) Architect
7 59 (6.08%) Project Manager
8 35 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.30%) Support Engineer
10 31 (3.20%) Consultant
11 27 (2.78%) Senior Manager
11 27 (2.78%) Software Engineer
12 25 (2.58%) Financial Analyst
13 24 (2.47%) Java Developer
14 22 (2.27%) Senior Developer
15 21 (2.16%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 21 (2.16%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.06%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.06%) Desktop Support
16 20 (2.06%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.08%) .NET
1 59 (6.08%) REST
2 56 (5.77%) Terraform
3 43 (4.43%) Kafka
4 35 (3.61%) HTML
5 32 (3.30%) React
6 28 (2.89%) CSS
7 27 (2.78%) .NET Framework
8 26 (2.68%) Spring Boot
9 24 (2.47%) Spring
10 23 (2.37%) XML
11 21 (2.16%) RESTful
12 18 (1.86%) AngularJS
12 18 (1.86%) SOAP
13 17 (1.75%) LangChain
13 17 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
13 17 (1.75%) Web Services
14 16 (1.65%) Middleware
15 15 (1.55%) JSON
15 15 (1.55%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.32%) Onboarding
2 59 (6.08%) Management Information System
3 55 (5.67%) Product Ownership
4 49 (5.05%) Cloud Native
5 44 (4.54%) Algorithms
6 35 (3.61%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (3.51%) Data Structures
8 29 (2.99%) AI Agents
9 26 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.27%) Derivative
12 20 (2.06%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.86%) Equities
14 17 (1.75%) PMI
15 16 (1.65%) Fixed Income
15 16 (1.65%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.65%) Life Science
15 16 (1.65%) Social Media
15 16 (1.65%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (11.55%) Windows
2 65 (6.70%) Linux
3 29 (2.99%) Unix
4 24 (2.47%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.86%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.55%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.62%) Android
10 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
12 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.21%) zOS
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.10%) CentOS
13 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (35.98%) Computer Science
2 297 (30.62%) Agile
3 266 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
4 244 (25.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 222 (22.89%) AI
6 167 (17.22%) Analytics
7 158 (16.29%) DevOps
8 153 (15.77%) CI/CD
9 152 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 126 (12.99%) Software Engineering
11 125 (12.89%) Project Management
12 112 (11.55%) Scrum
13 109 (11.24%) Decision-Making
13 109 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 102 (10.52%) Risk Management
14 102 (10.52%) User Acceptance Testing
15 101 (10.41%) Migration
16 100 (10.31%) Change Management
17 96 (9.90%) Validation
18 94 (9.69%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 202 (20.82%) SQL
2 197 (20.31%) Python
3 89 (9.18%) Java
4 69 (7.11%) C#
5 64 (6.60%) JavaScript
6 58 (5.98%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.09%) TypeScript
8 29 (2.99%) C++
9 25 (2.58%) Bash
10 18 (1.86%) R
11 17 (1.75%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.34%) Scala
13 12 (1.24%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.13%) Bicep
15 9 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.82%) C
17 5 (0.52%) COBOL
17 5 (0.52%) VBA
17 5 (0.52%) X++
18 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 225 (23.20%) Computer Science Degree
2 109 (11.24%) Master's Degree
3 104 (10.72%) Security Cleared
4 82 (8.45%) PMI Certification
5 77 (7.94%) SC Cleared
6 70 (7.22%) PMP
7 38 (3.92%) PhD
8 36 (3.71%) CISSP
9 26 (2.68%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.47%) Microsoft Certification
11 22 (2.27%) DV Cleared
12 18 (1.86%) CISM
13 16 (1.65%) MBA
14 14 (1.44%) ACCA
14 14 (1.44%) CIMA
14 14 (1.44%) CISA
15 13 (1.34%) CCNP
15 13 (1.34%) ISTQB
15 13 (1.34%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.84%) QA
2 75 (7.73%) Data Quality
3 37 (3.81%) PMO
4 25 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.37%) NIST
6 20 (2.06%) GDPR
7 18 (1.86%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.55%) GRC
9 14 (1.44%) SLA
10 12 (1.24%) IFRS
10 12 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.82%) P3O
11 8 (0.82%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.72%) Basel III
12 7 (0.72%) COBIT
13 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.31%) MiFID
15 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 73 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 67 (6.91%) Docker
3 23 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.52%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.41%) vSphere
7 3 (0.31%) Firmware
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.31%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.21%) RACF
8 2 (0.21%) Squid
8 2 (0.21%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.10%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) Postfix
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (5.88%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (2.58%) Ansible
4 15 (1.55%) Grafana
5 14 (1.44%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.34%) SCCM
7 6 (0.62%) Control-M
7 6 (0.62%) Puppet
8 5 (0.52%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.31%) Nagios
9 3 (0.31%) Packer
9 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.31%) vMotion
10 2 (0.21%) CASB
10 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.10%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.10%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.10%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 237 (24.43%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.28%) Oracle
3 52 (5.36%) Google
4 48 (4.95%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.71%) SAP
6 30 (3.09%) VMware
7 27 (2.78%) Adobe
8 25 (2.58%) Cisco
8 25 (2.58%) Databricks
9 24 (2.47%) OpenAI
10 22 (2.27%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.06%) Citrix
11 20 (2.06%) IBM
12 13 (1.34%) Apple
12 13 (1.34%) Splunk
13 12 (1.24%) UiPath
14 11 (1.13%) Murex
14 11 (1.13%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.93%) CyberArk
15 9 (0.93%) Progress