Degree Contracts in London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 24 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Academic Degree England / London
Location	3 months to 24 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	42	44	34
Rank change year-on-year	+2	-10
Contract jobs citing Degree	1014	1068	1139
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	4.96%	4.93%	4.87%
As % of the Qualifications category	29.93%	29.11%	31.30%
Number of daily rates quoted	656	728	709
Median daily rate	£469	£450	£450
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.16%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£310	£285	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£625
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	22	27	25
Median hourly rate	£23.99	£20.00	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+19.95%	-11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.45	£14.55	£11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£49.25	£32.79	£37.43
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.00	£36.00	£33.00
% change year-on-year	-11.11%	+9.09%

Degree is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies advertised in London.

Academic & Professional Certification London
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	3388	3669	3639
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	16.57%	16.93%	15.55%
Number of daily rates quoted	2216	2547	2335
Median daily rate	£475	£454	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.68%	+6.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£300	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£610	£625	£593
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	74	44	94
Median hourly rate	£19.50	£19.00	£24.37
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.63%	-22.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.25	£14.02	£15.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£32.00	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.21	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+9.25%	+25.22%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing Degree as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing Degree in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing Degree in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree in London.

Contractor hourly rate trend for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing Degree in London over the 3 months to 24 June 2017.

Contractor 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 3 months to 24 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-2	145	£500	+11.11%	175
Brentford	-	5	£425	-	1
Docklands, London	0	3	£313	-27.32%
Croydon	-9	3	£400	-7.62%	5
South Croydon	-	3	-	-
Canary Wharf	-	3	£185	-
Harrow	+6	2	-	-
West End of London	+8	1	£575	+35.29%	25
Heathrow	+4	1	£363	-17.14%
Bromley	+4	1	-	-
Chiswick	+2	1	£300	-
Greenford	0	1	£344	+41.85%
Osterley	-7	1	£480	-6.79%
Orpington	-	1	-	-
Degree England

Degree
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 24 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing Degree also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for Degree.

1	701 (33.60%)	Finance
2	679 (32.55%)	Computer Science
3	654 (31.35%)	Agile Software Development
4	456 (21.86%)	SQL
5	442 (21.19%)	Analytical Skills
6	408 (19.56%)	Java
7	374 (17.93%)	Computer Science Degree
8	329 (15.77%)	Banking
9	281 (13.47%)	Project Management
10	280 (13.42%)	Microsoft
11	279 (13.37%)	Analytics
12	255 (12.22%)	JavaScript
13	251 (12.03%)	Python
14	250 (11.98%)	HTML
15	249 (11.94%)	Mathematics

16	232 (11.12%)	Scrum
17	219 (10.50%)	Linux
18	212 (10.16%)	CSS
19	203 (9.73%)	SQL Server
19	203 (9.73%)	Business Intelligence
20	186 (8.92%)	User Experience
21	183 (8.77%)	TDD
22	181 (8.68%)	C#
23	175 (8.39%)	Windows
23	175 (8.39%)	Microsoft Excel
24	174 (8.34%)	Oracle
25	166 (7.96%)	PRINCE2
26	165 (7.91%)	ITIL
27	164 (7.86%)	Stakeholder Management
27	164 (7.86%)	Marketing

Degree
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	58 (2.78%)	Confluence
2	57 (2.73%)	Apache
3	53 (2.54%)	SAS
3	53 (2.54%)	SharePoint
4	48 (2.30%)	Apache Spark
5	40 (1.92%)	CMS
6	39 (1.87%)	Tomcat
7	36 (1.73%)	JBoss
8	33 (1.58%)	WebSphere
9	21 (1.01%)	WebLogic
10	19 (0.91%)	Elasticsearch
10	19 (0.91%)	IIS
11	17 (0.81%)	Apache Pig
12	15 (0.72%)	MS Exchange
12	15 (0.72%)	Oracle Coherence
13	12 (0.58%)	GlassFish
13	12 (0.58%)	OpenStack
13	12 (0.58%)	Skype for Business
14	11 (0.53%)	SharePoint 2013
15	10 (0.48%)	nginx

Applications
1	175 (8.39%)	Microsoft Excel
2	144 (6.90%)	Microsoft Office
3	79 (3.79%)	MS Visio
4	56 (2.68%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
5	51 (2.44%)	Microsoft Project
6	37 (1.77%)	Photoshop
7	23 (1.10%)	Adobe Illustrator
8	22 (1.05%)	SPSS
9	19 (0.91%)	OmniGraffle
10	9 (0.43%)	Spreadsheet
11	8 (0.38%)	Adobe Creative Suite
11	8 (0.38%)	Stata
12	7 (0.34%)	InVision
13	5 (0.24%)	Pixate
14	3 (0.14%)	Adobe After Effects
14	3 (0.14%)	EViews
14	3 (0.14%)	Fireworks
15	2 (0.096%)	InDesign
15	2 (0.096%)	SmartSuite
16	1 (0.048%)	Adobe Premiere

Business Applications
1	17 (0.81%)	Dynamics AX
1	17 (0.81%)	Eloqua
1	17 (0.81%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	15 (0.72%)	ION MarketView
3	12 (0.58%)	Dynamics CRM
4	10 (0.48%)	Dynamics NAV
5	9 (0.43%)	FastStats
6	6 (0.29%)	CA PPM
6	6 (0.29%)	Oracle BPM
7	5 (0.24%)	iTrent
7	5 (0.24%)	NetSuite
7	5 (0.24%)	Oracle Receivables
7	5 (0.24%)	Payment Gateway
8	4 (0.19%)	Oracle Payables
8	4 (0.19%)	Remedy ITSM
8	4 (0.19%)	RMDS
9	3 (0.14%)	Actimize
9	3 (0.14%)	Dynamics GP
9	3 (0.14%)	Dynamics SL
9	3 (0.14%)	Global One

Cloud Services
1	82 (3.93%)	Amazon AWS
2	71 (3.40%)	Microsoft Azure
3	49 (2.35%)	Office 365
4	37 (1.77%)	SaaS
5	32 (1.53%)	GitHub
6	26 (1.25%)	PaaS
7	21 (1.01%)	Cloud Computing
8	17 (0.81%)	Heroku
9	11 (0.53%)	IaaS
10	10 (0.48%)	Amazon EC2
10	10 (0.48%)	OpenShift
11	9 (0.43%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
12	8 (0.38%)	Google Analytics
13	7 (0.34%)	Mimecast
14	6 (0.29%)	G Suite
14	6 (0.29%)	Salesforce Service Cloud
15	5 (0.24%)	Amazon EMR
15	5 (0.24%)	BlueKai
15	5 (0.24%)	Google Cloud Platform
16	4 (0.19%)	Adobe Analytics

Communications & Networking
1	98 (4.70%)	Internet
2	74 (3.55%)	Firewall
3	34 (1.63%)	TCP/IP
4	33 (1.58%)	VPN
5	29 (1.39%)	SSL
6	27 (1.29%)	DNS
7	25 (1.20%)	HTTP
7	25 (1.20%)	Network Security
7	25 (1.20%)	Wireless
8	18 (0.86%)	LAN
9	16 (0.77%)	Intrusion Detection
10	13 (0.62%)	LDAP
10	13 (0.62%)	Wi-Fi
11	12 (0.58%)	Intranet
11	12 (0.58%)	Kerberos
11	12 (0.58%)	WAN
12	11 (0.53%)	DHCP
12	11 (0.53%)	SAN
13	10 (0.48%)	Wireshark
14	9 (0.43%)	SNMP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	203 (9.73%)	SQL Server
2	111 (5.32%)	Relational Database
3	103 (4.94%)	Big Data
4	96 (4.60%)	Data Warehouse
5	95 (4.55%)	Hadoop
6	79 (3.79%)	NoSQL
7	56 (2.68%)	MySQL
8	55 (2.64%)	SQL Server Integration Services
9	42 (2.01%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
10	41 (1.97%)	Apache Hive
11	39 (1.87%)	MongoDB
12	36 (1.73%)	QlikView
13	34 (1.63%)	Apache Cassandra
14	29 (1.39%)	PostgreSQL
14	29 (1.39%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
15	28 (1.34%)	RDBMS
15	28 (1.34%)	SQL Server 2012
16	27 (1.29%)	Power BI
17	21 (1.01%)	Data Mining
18	19 (0.91%)	DB2

Development Applications
1	157 (7.53%)	Git (software)
2	126 (6.04%)	JIRA
3	113 (5.42%)	Jenkins
4	63 (3.02%)	Maven
5	57 (2.73%)	Subversion
6	46 (2.21%)	TeamCity
7	40 (1.92%)	Team Foundation Server
8	32 (1.53%)	JUnit
9	29 (1.39%)	Cucumber
10	27 (1.29%)	Selenium
11	24 (1.15%)	Visual Studio
11	24 (1.15%)	webpack
12	23 (1.10%)	Bitbucket
13	22 (1.05%)	gulp
13	22 (1.05%)	Jasmine
14	21 (1.01%)	Axure RP
15	19 (0.91%)	Gradle
16	18 (0.86%)	Eclipse
16	18 (0.86%)	Grunt
17	16 (0.77%)	Mockito

General
1	701 (33.60%)	Finance
2	329 (15.77%)	Banking
3	164 (7.86%)	Marketing
4	135 (6.47%)	Front Office
5	131 (6.28%)	Investment Banking
6	112 (5.37%)	Retail
7	111 (5.32%)	Legal
8	82 (3.93%)	Telecoms
9	42 (2.01%)	Back Office
10	40 (1.92%)	Financial Institution
11	38 (1.82%)	Law
12	33 (1.58%)	Electronics
13	30 (1.44%)	Advertising
14	26 (1.25%)	Retail Banking
15	25 (1.20%)	Games
15	25 (1.20%)	Publishing
16	22 (1.05%)	Billing
16	22 (1.05%)	French Language
17	20 (0.96%)	Manufacturing
18	15 (0.72%)	Spanish Language

Job Titles
1	591 (28.33%)	Developer
2	417 (19.99%)	Analyst
3	175 (8.39%)	Business Analyst
4	134 (6.42%)	Java Developer
5	110 (5.27%)	Architect
6	106 (5.08%)	Project Manager
7	87 (4.17%)	Senior Developer
8	85 (4.07%)	Designer
9	83 (3.98%)	Consultant
10	69 (3.31%)	C# Developer
11	66 (3.16%)	Data Analyst
12	65 (3.12%)	User Researcher
13	63 (3.02%)	Junior
14	48 (2.30%)	Data Scientist
15	45 (2.16%)	C++ Developer
16	43 (2.06%)	Front End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
16	43 (2.06%)	Security Analyst
17	37 (1.77%)	.NET Developer
18	34 (1.63%)	JavaScript Developer
19	33 (1.58%)	SQL Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	250 (11.98%)	HTML
2	212 (10.16%)	CSS
3	147 (7.05%)	HTML5
4	119 (5.70%)	AngularJS
5	112 (5.37%)	.NET
6	105 (5.03%)	Node.js
7	101 (4.84%)	Web Services
8	99 (4.75%)	CSS3
8	99 (4.75%)	Spring
9	95 (4.55%)	REST
9	95 (4.55%)	XML
10	71 (3.40%)	JSON
11	70 (3.36%)	RESTful
12	65 (3.12%)	jQuery
13	64 (3.07%)	SOAP
14	52 (2.49%)	React
15	42 (2.01%)	Hibernate
16	37 (1.77%)	Sass
17	34 (1.63%)	FIX Protocol
17	34 (1.63%)	WPF

Miscellaneous
1	679 (32.55%)	Computer Science
2	442 (21.19%)	Analytical Skills
3	186 (8.92%)	User Experience
4	135 (6.47%)	Management Information System
5	128 (6.14%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
6	83 (3.98%)	Derivative
7	64 (3.07%)	Fixed Income
8	60 (2.88%)	Equities
9	57 (2.73%)	PMI
10	52 (2.49%)	Algorithms
11	47 (2.25%)	Greenfield Project
12	43 (2.06%)	Data Structures
12	43 (2.06%)	Fintech
12	43 (2.06%)	Mobile App
13	42 (2.01%)	Data Centre
14	37 (1.77%)	Virtual Team
15	36 (1.73%)	Credit Risk
16	33 (1.58%)	Enterprise Software
17	27 (1.29%)	Market Risk
18	24 (1.15%)	Data Protection Act

Operating Systems
1	219 (10.50%)	Linux
2	175 (8.39%)	Windows
3	143 (6.86%)	Unix
4	55 (2.64%)	Apple iOS
5	47 (2.25%)	Windows Server
6	38 (1.82%)	Android
7	31 (1.49%)	CentOS
8	28 (1.34%)	Windows Server 2012
9	27 (1.29%)	Windows Server 2008
10	23 (1.10%)	Windows 7
11	17 (0.81%)	Mac OS X
11	17 (0.81%)	Windows 10
12	16 (0.77%)	Solaris
13	15 (0.72%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	10 (0.48%)	Ubuntu
15	8 (0.38%)	AIX
16	6 (0.29%)	Windows 8
17	5 (0.24%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17	5 (0.24%)	VMS
18	3 (0.14%)	Mac OS

Processes & Methodologies
1	654 (31.35%)	Agile Software Development
2	281 (13.47%)	Project Management
3	279 (13.37%)	Analytics
4	249 (11.94%)	Mathematics
5	232 (11.12%)	Scrum
6	203 (9.73%)	Business Intelligence
7	183 (8.77%)	TDD
8	166 (7.96%)	PRINCE2
9	165 (7.91%)	ITIL
10	164 (7.86%)	Stakeholder Management
11	144 (6.90%)	OO
12	132 (6.33%)	SDLC
13	129 (6.18%)	Test Automation
14	126 (6.04%)	DevOps
15	118 (5.66%)	Continuous Integration
16	115 (5.51%)	Change Management
17	113 (5.42%)	Risk Management
18	111 (5.32%)	Data Modelling
18	111 (5.32%)	Open Source
18	111 (5.32%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	456 (21.86%)	SQL
2	408 (19.56%)	Java
3	255 (12.22%)	JavaScript
4	251 (12.03%)	Python
5	181 (8.68%)	C#
6	148 (7.09%)	C++
7	110 (5.27%)	R
8	86 (4.12%)	C
9	69 (3.31%)	VBA
10	62 (2.97%)	Shell Script
11	61 (2.92%)	Scala
12	54 (2.59%)	Perl
13	52 (2.49%)	Ruby
14	46 (2.21%)	Bash Shell
15	39 (1.87%)	T-SQL
16	36 (1.73%)	PowerShell
17	25 (1.20%)	PHP
18	24 (1.15%)	Apex Code
19	23 (1.10%)	PL/SQL
20	17 (0.81%)	MATLAB

Qualifications
1	374 (17.93%)	Computer Science Degree
2	158 (7.57%)	Master's Degree
3	96 (4.60%)	Security Cleared
4	88 (4.22%)	Numerate Degree
5	87 (4.17%)	PMI Certification
6	71 (3.40%)	CISSP
7	70 (3.36%)	SC Cleared
8	66 (3.16%)	PMP
9	50 (2.40%)	CISM
10	43 (2.06%)	Microsoft Certification
11	39 (1.87%)	ISEB
12	32 (1.53%)	Cisco Certification
13	30 (1.44%)	PhD
14	24 (1.15%)	CISA
15	22 (1.05%)	ITIL Certification
15	22 (1.05%)	MBA
15	22 (1.05%)	SANS
16	20 (0.96%)	Postgraduate
17	17 (0.81%)	(ISC)2 CCSP
17	17 (0.81%)	CCSP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	139 (6.66%)	QA
2	56 (2.68%)	Data Quality
3	51 (2.44%)	MiFID
4	46 (2.21%)	PCI DSS
5	45 (2.16%)	PMO
6	37 (1.77%)	GDPR
7	33 (1.58%)	ISO/IEC 27001
8	19 (0.91%)	EMIR
9	17 (0.81%)	SLA
10	13 (0.62%)	COBIT
11	9 (0.43%)	Dodd-Frank
12	8 (0.38%)	FATCA
12	8 (0.38%)	IFRS
12	8 (0.38%)	JSP 440
13	7 (0.34%)	IFRS 9
13	7 (0.34%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
14	6 (0.29%)	P3O
15	5 (0.24%)	EFQM
16	4 (0.19%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16	4 (0.19%)	ISO/IEC 27005

System Software
1	42 (2.01%)	Active Directory
2	38 (1.82%)	Docker
2	38 (1.82%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	13 (0.62%)	Hyper-V
4	12 (0.58%)	VMware ESXi
5	11 (0.53%)	HDFS
6	10 (0.48%)	Virtual Machines
6	10 (0.48%)	vSphere
7	8 (0.38%)	XenApp
8	7 (0.34%)	Apache Flume
8	7 (0.34%)	vCloud
9	6 (0.29%)	KVM
10	4 (0.19%)	Apache ZooKeeper
10	4 (0.19%)	Firmware
10	4 (0.19%)	Microsoft App-V
11	3 (0.14%)	iptables
11	3 (0.14%)	NFS
12	2 (0.096%)	Oracle RAC
12	2 (0.096%)	Virtual Servers
12	2 (0.096%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	44 (2.11%)	Puppet
2	40 (1.92%)	Opscode Chef
3	28 (1.34%)	Ansible
4	16 (0.77%)	SCCM
5	14 (0.67%)	Nagios
6	12 (0.58%)	Kibana
7	11 (0.53%)	Graphite
7	11 (0.53%)	Kubernetes
8	10 (0.48%)	logstash
9	8 (0.38%)	BladeLogic
9	8 (0.38%)	Mesos
9	8 (0.38%)	Oozie
10	7 (0.34%)	Control-M
10	7 (0.34%)	HockeyApp
10	7 (0.34%)	Salt
11	6 (0.29%)	HP Quality Center
11	6 (0.29%)	SCOM
11	6 (0.29%)	ZABBIX
12	5 (0.24%)	Terraform
12	5 (0.24%)	vRealize

Vendors
1	280 (13.42%)	Microsoft
2	174 (8.34%)	Oracle
3	65 (3.12%)	Sybase
4	56 (2.68%)	Tableau
5	54 (2.59%)	Salesforce.com
6	53 (2.54%)	SAP
7	47 (2.25%)	VMware
8	44 (2.11%)	Red Hat
9	39 (1.87%)	Adobe
9	39 (1.87%)	Cisco
10	37 (1.77%)	HP
11	29 (1.39%)	IBM
11	29 (1.39%)	Splunk
12	25 (1.20%)	Bloomberg
13	23 (1.10%)	Atlassian
13	23 (1.10%)	Google
14	20 (0.96%)	Apple
14	20 (0.96%)	Informatica
14	20 (0.96%)	ServiceNow
15	17 (0.81%)	TIBCO