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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 980 1,042 1,350
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.89% 7.85% 8.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.45% 29.94% 33.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 646 847
10th Percentile £258 £325 £313
25th Percentile £408 £415 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +3.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £654 £689 £675
90th Percentile £767 £800 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 26 43
10th Percentile £19.03 £13.10 £18.13
25th Percentile £26.69 £20.24 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.25 £27.33 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +47.30% -25.14% +8.96%
75th Percentile £75.31 £63.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £87.38 £68.13 £57.50
England median hourly rate £39.11 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -4.61% -28.51% +20.74%

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 5,617 3,480 3,995
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.04% 26.21% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,038 2,345 2,684
10th Percentile £374 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.22 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -8.36%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 £535 -2.73% 398
West London -10 42 £226 -44.25% 258
East London +5 10 £445 -25.83% 27
South London -27 8 £414 -31.08% 29
North London - 4 £550 - 9
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 52 (5.31%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.08%) Confluence
3 23 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.04%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.12%) Apache
6 11 (1.12%) IIS
7 7 (0.71%) Camunda
8 6 (0.61%) CMS
9 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.41%) Appian
9 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.31%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 101 (10.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (6.53%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
4 48 (4.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (2.14%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.31%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.71%) HFM
3 7 (0.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.51%) Aladdin
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.31%) Actimize
6 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.20%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 244 (24.90%) Azure
2 147 (15.00%) AWS
3 74 (7.55%) GCP
3 74 (7.55%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
5 53 (5.41%) Entra ID
6 51 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
7 43 (4.39%) GitHub
8 33 (3.37%) SaaS
9 27 (2.76%) Snowflake
10 26 (2.65%) Serverless
11 23 (2.35%) Dynamics 365
12 16 (1.63%) Microsoft Copilot
12 16 (1.63%) OpenShift
13 15 (1.53%) Anthropic Claude
13 15 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.43%) Amazon S3
14 14 (1.43%) AWS Lambda
14 14 (1.43%) IaaS
14 14 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.49%) Firewall
2 28 (2.86%) DNS
3 25 (2.55%) Network Security
3 25 (2.55%) VPN
4 23 (2.35%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.04%) DHCP
6 15 (1.53%) 3GPP
7 14 (1.43%) 5G
8 13 (1.33%) Internet
8 13 (1.33%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (1.33%) WAN
9 11 (1.12%) LAN
10 9 (0.92%) BGP
11 8 (0.82%) Wireless
12 7 (0.71%) VoIP
12 7 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.61%) MPLS
13 6 (0.61%) OSPF
13 6 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.41%) Power BI
2 52 (5.31%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.65%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.55%) Relational Database
6 24 (2.45%) NoSQL
7 22 (2.24%) Tableau
8 18 (1.84%) Metadata
9 17 (1.73%) Big Data
10 15 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 14 (1.43%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
13 11 (1.12%) Data Lake
14 10 (1.02%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.71%) MySQL
15 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.61%) Delta Lake
16 6 (0.61%) Neo4j
16 6 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 75 (7.65%) JIRA
2 70 (7.14%) Git
3 34 (3.47%) Jenkins
4 22 (2.24%) GitLab
5 14 (1.43%) Selenium
6 12 (1.22%) Maven
7 11 (1.12%) Gradle
7 11 (1.12%) SonarQube
7 11 (1.12%) Subversion
8 10 (1.02%) JUnit
8 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 7 (0.71%) MLflow
10 6 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.51%) Mockito
11 5 (0.51%) Zephyr
12 4 (0.41%) Bitbucket Server
12 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
12 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 469 (47.86%) Social Skills
2 426 (43.47%) Finance
3 243 (24.80%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (15.31%) Banking
5 68 (6.94%) Marketing
6 63 (6.43%) Legal
7 61 (6.22%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (4.80%) Public Sector
9 45 (4.59%) Retail
10 43 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
11 42 (4.29%) Front Office
12 39 (3.98%) Investment Banking
13 38 (3.88%) Telecoms
14 33 (3.37%) Financial Institution
15 29 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
16 28 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 27 (2.76%) Documentation Skills
18 24 (2.45%) Law
19 19 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
20 14 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (16.63%) Analyst
2 118 (12.04%) Senior
3 109 (11.12%) Developer
4 97 (9.90%) Business Analyst
5 85 (8.67%) Lead
6 81 (8.27%) Architect
7 56 (5.71%) Project Manager
8 38 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.37%) Support Engineer
10 30 (3.06%) Senior Manager
11 26 (2.65%) Consultant
12 25 (2.55%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.45%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.35%) Senior Developer
15 22 (2.24%) Java Developer
16 21 (2.14%) Data Engineer
16 21 (2.14%) Data Scientist
16 21 (2.14%) IT Analyst
17 20 (2.04%) Desktop Support
18 19 (1.94%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.92%) .NET
2 57 (5.82%) REST
3 56 (5.71%) Terraform
4 37 (3.78%) Kafka
5 29 (2.96%) HTML
6 28 (2.86%) .NET Framework
6 28 (2.86%) React
7 23 (2.35%) Spring
8 22 (2.24%) Spring Boot
9 21 (2.14%) CSS
9 21 (2.14%) RESTful
9 21 (2.14%) XML
10 18 (1.84%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
11 16 (1.63%) Pandas
12 15 (1.53%) LangChain
12 15 (1.53%) PySpark
12 15 (1.53%) Web Services
13 14 (1.43%) JSON
13 14 (1.43%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.04%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.12%) Management Information System
3 53 (5.41%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.39%) Algorithms
5 42 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.67%) Self-Motivation
7 35 (3.57%) Data Structures
8 30 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (2.76%) Derivative
11 26 (2.65%) AI Agents
12 24 (2.45%) Data Centre
13 21 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (2.04%) Equities
14 20 (2.04%) Fixed Income
15 18 (1.84%) Social Media
16 17 (1.73%) Hedge funds
17 16 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
18 15 (1.53%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 114 (11.63%) Windows
2 63 (6.43%) Linux
3 24 (2.45%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.04%) Unix
5 18 (1.84%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.63%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.43%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.82%) Android
8 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.41%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (37.14%) Computer Science
2 285 (29.08%) Agile
3 272 (27.76%) Problem-Solving
4 217 (22.14%) AI
5 206 (21.02%) Stakeholder Management
6 164 (16.73%) Analytics
7 160 (16.33%) DevOps
8 155 (15.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 149 (15.20%) CI/CD
10 125 (12.76%) Software Engineering
11 121 (12.35%) Project Management
12 108 (11.02%) Decision-Making
13 105 (10.71%) Migration
14 104 (10.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 103 (10.51%) Scrum
16 94 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
17 91 (9.29%) Change Management
17 91 (9.29%) Risk Management
18 88 (8.98%) Project Delivery
19 86 (8.78%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 208 (21.22%) Python
2 200 (20.41%) SQL
3 90 (9.18%) Java
4 69 (7.04%) C#
5 63 (6.43%) PowerShell
6 57 (5.82%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.27%) C++
8 28 (2.86%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.24%) Bash
10 18 (1.84%) R
11 17 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.02%) Bicep
12 10 (1.02%) Scala
13 9 (0.92%) C
13 9 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.82%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.51%) VBA
16 5 (0.51%) X++
17 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 241 (24.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 113 (11.53%) Master's Degree
3 97 (9.90%) Security Cleared
4 71 (7.24%) SC Cleared
5 66 (6.73%) PMI Certification
6 56 (5.71%) PMP
7 40 (4.08%) CISSP
8 38 (3.88%) PhD
9 31 (3.16%) Azure Certification
10 29 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (2.24%) MBA
13 21 (2.14%) DV Cleared
14 19 (1.94%) CISA
15 17 (1.73%) CISM
16 15 (1.53%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.53%) ISTQB
17 13 (1.33%) CCNP
18 12 (1.22%) ACCA
18 12 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.35%) QA
2 66 (6.73%) Data Quality
3 35 (3.57%) PMO
4 30 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 29 (2.96%) NIST
6 20 (2.04%) GDPR
7 18 (1.84%) Accessibility
8 17 (1.73%) SLA
9 15 (1.53%) GRC
9 15 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 10 (1.02%) IFRS
11 9 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.92%) COBIT
12 7 (0.71%) P3O
12 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.41%) ITGC
15 4 (0.41%) MiFID
16 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 76 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 63 (6.43%) Docker
3 24 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.41%) vSphere
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.20%) Squid
10 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.10%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.10%) Postfix
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (5.92%) Kubernetes
2 41 (4.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (2.86%) Ansible
4 17 (1.73%) Grafana
5 15 (1.53%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.53%) SCCM
6 6 (0.61%) Control-M
6 6 (0.61%) Puppet
7 4 (0.41%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
7 4 (0.41%) vMotion
8 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.31%) Nagios
8 3 (0.31%) Packer
8 3 (0.31%) WSUS
9 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.10%) QRadar
10 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 241 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 87 (8.88%) Oracle
3 50 (5.10%) Google
4 47 (4.80%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.47%) SAP
6 32 (3.27%) VMware
7 28 (2.86%) Adobe
8 25 (2.55%) Cisco
8 25 (2.55%) Salesforce
9 24 (2.45%) Citrix
10 22 (2.24%) Databricks
11 18 (1.84%) OpenAI
12 15 (1.53%) IBM
13 13 (1.33%) Apple
14 12 (1.22%) Palo Alto
14 12 (1.22%) Splunk
15 11 (1.12%) Murex
16 10 (1.02%) Samsung
17 9 (0.92%) CyberArk
17 9 (0.92%) HP