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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 24 19
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 972 1,004 1,449
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.06% 7.69% 7.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.54% 30.35% 32.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 601 642 877
10th Percentile £313 £319 £278
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -9.54%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 27 73
10th Percentile £21.88 £27.57 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.31 £34.00 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.54 £43.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +21.13% +8.91%
75th Percentile £57.06 £59.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.63 £65.25 £74.75
England median hourly rate £44.48 £52.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year -15.28% +37.70% -15.28%

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 4,733 3,308 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.51% 25.34% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,369 2,181 2,941
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 64 130
10th Percentile £20.34 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.75 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +14.43% -20.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.60 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.91% +31.25% -19.80%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -8 137 £540 +0.93% 326
West London -4 31 £359 -8.40% 72
South London -3 22 £500 -31.03% 32
East London +1 6 £585 +23.16% 61
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 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.01%) Confluence
3 32 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (2.98%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.51%) CMS
7 5 (0.51%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.21%) Drupal
9 2 (0.21%) IIS
9 2 (0.21%) SAS
10 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.10%) Apache
10 1 (0.10%) Luigi
10 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 104 (10.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (7.41%) Microsoft Office
3 64 (6.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 50 (5.14%) Microsoft Project
5 38 (3.91%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.51%) Trello
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.21%) InVision
8 2 (0.21%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.10%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.72%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.72%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.41%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.31%) Shopify
6 3 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 259 (26.65%) Azure
2 118 (12.14%) AWS
3 103 (10.60%) Microsoft 365
4 77 (7.92%) Power Platform
5 73 (7.51%) SaaS
6 65 (6.69%) GCP
7 55 (5.66%) Entra ID
8 41 (4.22%) GitHub
9 38 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.26%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (2.16%) Dynamics 365
12 20 (2.06%) PaaS
12 20 (2.06%) Serverless
12 20 (2.06%) Snowflake
13 19 (1.95%) IaaS
14 16 (1.65%) Power Automate
15 15 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (1.54%) OCI
16 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.29%) Firewall
2 16 (1.65%) Network Security
3 14 (1.44%) LAN
4 13 (1.34%) VPN
5 12 (1.23%) WAN
6 10 (1.03%) HTTP
7 8 (0.82%) DNS
7 8 (0.82%) NetScaler
8 7 (0.72%) DHCP
8 7 (0.72%) SSL
8 7 (0.72%) VoIP
9 5 (0.51%) CTI
9 5 (0.51%) Structured Cabling
9 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
9 5 (0.51%) Wi-Fi
10 4 (0.41%) BGP
10 4 (0.41%) IPv4
10 4 (0.41%) Wireless
11 3 (0.31%) 3GPP
11 3 (0.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (6.07%) Power BI
2 44 (4.53%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.98%) PostgreSQL
3 29 (2.98%) Tableau
4 23 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.75%) Big Data
5 17 (1.75%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.65%) NoSQL
7 13 (1.34%) Relational Database
8 11 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (1.03%) MySQL
10 9 (0.93%) Metadata
11 8 (0.82%) BigQuery
11 8 (0.82%) Data Lake
12 7 (0.72%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.62%) Redis
14 5 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.51%) DB2
14 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.51%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 77 (7.92%) JIRA
2 55 (5.66%) Git
3 19 (1.95%) Visual Studio
4 17 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.93%) Selenium
6 8 (0.82%) MLflow
7 7 (0.72%) Bitbucket
7 7 (0.72%) GitLab
8 6 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.51%) Postman
9 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.41%) ERwin
11 3 (0.31%) Hardhat
11 3 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
11 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.31%) Toad
11 3 (0.31%) Vite
12 2 (0.21%) Appium
General
1 455 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 418 (43.00%) Finance
3 227 (23.35%) Analytical Skills
4 147 (15.12%) Banking
5 62 (6.38%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.86%) Presentation Skills
7 53 (5.45%) Marketing
8 46 (4.73%) Front Office
9 38 (3.91%) Legal
10 36 (3.70%) Investment Banking
11 32 (3.29%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.88%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.78%) Retail
14 22 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
15 21 (2.16%) Manufacturing
16 20 (2.06%) Law
16 20 (2.06%) Pharmaceutical
17 19 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 18 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 132 (13.58%) Senior
2 127 (13.07%) Analyst
3 115 (11.83%) Developer
4 86 (8.85%) Business Analyst
5 74 (7.61%) Lead
6 70 (7.20%) Architect
6 70 (7.20%) Project Manager
7 52 (5.35%) Consultant
8 31 (3.19%) Software Engineer
9 30 (3.09%) Data Scientist
9 30 (3.09%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.67%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (2.16%) Data Engineer
11 21 (2.16%) Senior Manager
11 21 (2.16%) Senior Software Engineer
11 21 (2.16%) Technical Support
12 20 (2.06%) Senior Business Analyst
13 19 (1.95%) C# Developer
13 19 (1.95%) Delivery Manager
13 19 (1.95%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (4.84%) .NET
2 34 (3.50%) React
3 28 (2.88%) REST
4 25 (2.57%) HTML
5 24 (2.47%) Middleware
5 24 (2.47%) PyTorch
6 23 (2.37%) RESTful
7 21 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
7 21 (2.16%) TensorFlow
8 19 (1.95%) Kafka
9 18 (1.85%) CSS
9 18 (1.85%) Pandas
10 17 (1.75%) Node.js
10 17 (1.75%) OAuth
10 17 (1.75%) XML
11 16 (1.65%) .NET Framework
12 15 (1.54%) JSON
12 15 (1.54%) LangChain
12 15 (1.54%) NumPy
13 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 61 (6.28%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 51 (5.25%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.73%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.32%) Derivative
6 37 (3.81%) Algorithms
7 33 (3.40%) Virtual Team
8 31 (3.19%) Distributed Systems
8 31 (3.19%) Equities
9 30 (3.09%) Data Centre
10 28 (2.88%) Analytical Mindset
10 28 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
10 28 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
11 23 (2.37%) Life Science
12 22 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (2.26%) Fixed Income
13 21 (2.16%) PMI
14 20 (2.06%) Equity Derivative
14 20 (2.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.19%) Windows
2 52 (5.35%) Linux
3 37 (3.81%) Unix
4 32 (3.29%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.85%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.13%) Android
7 9 (0.93%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.82%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.72%) Mac OS
10 6 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
11 5 (0.51%) VMS
12 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 359 (36.93%) Computer Science
2 317 (32.61%) Agile
3 278 (28.60%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (19.03%) AI
5 170 (17.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 153 (15.74%) Analytics
6 153 (15.74%) DevOps
7 146 (15.02%) Risk Management
8 130 (13.37%) Project Management
9 128 (13.17%) CI/CD
10 117 (12.04%) Decision-Making
11 106 (10.91%) Roadmaps
12 104 (10.70%) Continuous Improvement
13 103 (10.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 102 (10.49%) Change Management
15 99 (10.19%) Machine Learning
15 99 (10.19%) Migration
15 99 (10.19%) Project Delivery
16 90 (9.26%) Software Engineering
17 88 (9.05%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 216 (22.22%) Python
2 177 (18.21%) SQL
3 78 (8.02%) Java
4 66 (6.79%) PowerShell
5 55 (5.66%) C++
6 52 (5.35%) C#
7 49 (5.04%) JavaScript
8 30 (3.09%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.75%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.75%) R
10 14 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.23%) Bash
12 7 (0.72%) Bicep
12 7 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.62%) Go
13 6 (0.62%) Rust
13 6 (0.62%) Scala
14 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.51%) Perl
14 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 241 (24.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 177 (18.21%) Master's Degree
3 86 (8.85%) Security Cleared
4 69 (7.10%) PMI Certification
5 64 (6.58%) SC Cleared
6 57 (5.86%) PMP
7 52 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (4.73%) PhD
9 43 (4.42%) CISSP
10 36 (3.70%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.67%) CISM
12 25 (2.57%) CBAP
13 22 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (2.06%) IIBA
15 19 (1.95%) Numerate Degree
16 16 (1.65%) MBA
17 15 (1.54%) MCSE
18 14 (1.44%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (1.44%) CRISC
19 13 (1.34%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.33%) QA
2 56 (5.76%) GDPR
3 40 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (3.91%) PMO
5 34 (3.50%) NIST
6 32 (3.29%) Data Quality
7 22 (2.26%) SLA
8 20 (2.06%) PCI DSS
9 19 (1.95%) Accessibility
10 15 (1.54%) GRC
11 10 (1.03%) IFRS
11 10 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.93%) IFRS 17
13 8 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.82%) COBIT
13 8 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
13 8 (0.82%) WCAG
14 7 (0.72%) SOC 2
15 6 (0.62%) Basel III
15 6 (0.62%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 75 (7.72%) Active Directory
2 68 (7.00%) Docker
3 10 (1.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.51%) XenApp
5 5 (0.51%) XenDesktop
6 4 (0.41%) Firmware
7 2 (0.21%) HDFS
7 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.10%) PowerHA
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (5.35%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (4.42%) Terraform
4 24 (2.47%) SCCM
5 11 (1.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 10 (1.03%) Ansible
7 9 (0.93%) Grafana
8 6 (0.62%) SCOM
9 5 (0.51%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.31%) Argo
10 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.31%) Puppet
11 2 (0.21%) Control-M
11 2 (0.21%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.10%) CloudHub
12 1 (0.10%) Kibana
Vendors
1 235 (24.18%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.72%) Oracle
3 44 (4.53%) Google
4 36 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.40%) SAP
6 32 (3.29%) Databricks
7 23 (2.37%) Cisco
7 23 (2.37%) Citrix
8 21 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.44%) Informatica
9 14 (1.44%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.23%) Software AG
11 11 (1.13%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.13%) VMware
12 10 (1.03%) Murex
12 10 (1.03%) Splunk
13 9 (0.93%) Juniper
14 8 (0.82%) Adobe
15 7 (0.72%) Charles River
15 7 (0.72%) Remedy