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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -15 -5 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 920 931 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.92% 7.61% 8.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.50% 29.59% 34.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 581 858
10th Percentile £285 £340 £300
25th Percentile £410 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £550 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.59% +7.06% -9.07%
75th Percentile £664 £738 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 78
10th Percentile £16.16 £11.96 £15.07
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.05
Median hourly rate £30.03 £29.88 £34.87
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -14.31% +32.82%
75th Percentile £55.44 £63.06 £46.56
90th Percentile £64.38 £68.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -18.83%

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 5,257 3,146 4,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.12% 25.73% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,765 2,100 2,844
10th Percentile £367 £357 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.43% +0.43% -7.08%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 63 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £20.05 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £28.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.71% +13.64% -51.46%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £48.61 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.57% -18.75% -27.27%

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 June 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 June 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 June 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 -27 97 £520 -5.45% 207
West London -7 41 £368 -8.98% 41
South London -5 14 £215 -65.64% 18
East London -4 9 £568 +36.69% 36
North London +2 2 £550 +33.33% 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 48 (5.22%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.15%) Confluence
4 21 (2.28%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.52%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.87%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.43%) Appian
8 4 (0.43%) Camunda
9 3 (0.33%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
Applications
1 90 (9.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (8.04%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (6.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (4.13%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.54%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.87%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.43%) HFM
5 4 (0.43%) Magento
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.33%) Shopify
6 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.22%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 242 (26.30%) Azure
2 145 (15.76%) AWS
3 88 (9.57%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 57 (6.20%) GCP
6 49 (5.33%) Entra ID
7 38 (4.13%) SaaS
8 32 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 32 (3.48%) GitHub
9 24 (2.61%) Snowflake
10 18 (1.96%) PaaS
10 18 (1.96%) Serverless
11 15 (1.63%) Dynamics 365
11 15 (1.63%) IaaS
12 14 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 14 (1.52%) AWS Lambda
12 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
13 13 (1.41%) GitHub Actions
14 12 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.30%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.37%) Firewall
2 19 (2.07%) Network Security
3 14 (1.52%) VPN
4 13 (1.41%) TCP/IP
4 13 (1.41%) WAN
5 10 (1.09%) LAN
6 9 (0.98%) BGP
6 9 (0.98%) VoIP
7 8 (0.87%) DNS
7 8 (0.87%) VXLAN
8 7 (0.76%) 3GPP
8 7 (0.76%) DMZ
9 6 (0.65%) DHCP
9 6 (0.65%) NetScaler
9 6 (0.65%) OSPF
10 5 (0.54%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.54%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.43%) HTTP
11 4 (0.43%) Internet
11 4 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.87%) Power BI
2 51 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.15%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.72%) Tableau
6 19 (2.07%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.96%) Big Data
7 18 (1.96%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.85%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.30%) Metadata
9 12 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 9 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
10 9 (0.98%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.98%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.87%) Redis
12 7 (0.76%) Elasticsearch
13 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.65%) Power Query
14 5 (0.54%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 63 (6.85%) JIRA
2 59 (6.41%) Git
3 21 (2.28%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.41%) GitLab
6 12 (1.30%) MLflow
7 10 (1.09%) Selenium
8 7 (0.76%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.76%) Subversion
9 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.65%) Gradle
9 6 (0.65%) Maven
10 5 (0.54%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.43%) ERwin
11 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.33%) Toad
12 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 429 (46.63%) Social Skills
2 392 (42.61%) Finance
3 195 (21.20%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (14.35%) Banking
5 61 (6.63%) Presentation Skills
6 60 (6.52%) Marketing
7 56 (6.09%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (5.76%) Legal
9 51 (5.54%) Public Sector
10 35 (3.80%) Front Office
10 35 (3.80%) Retail
11 33 (3.59%) Investment Banking
12 26 (2.83%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.50%) Law
14 21 (2.28%) Financial Institution
14 21 (2.28%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 18 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
17 15 (1.63%) Manufacturing
18 14 (1.52%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (14.24%) Analyst
2 130 (14.13%) Senior
3 108 (11.74%) Developer
4 83 (9.02%) Lead
5 80 (8.70%) Architect
5 80 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 60 (6.52%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.57%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (3.15%) Data Scientist
9 27 (2.93%) Senior Analyst
9 27 (2.93%) Software Engineer
10 25 (2.72%) Consultant
10 25 (2.72%) Senior Manager
11 23 (2.50%) Data Engineer
12 22 (2.39%) C# Developer
12 22 (2.39%) Senior Business Analyst
13 20 (2.17%) Delivery Manager
14 19 (2.07%) Senior Developer
15 17 (1.85%) Data Analyst
15 17 (1.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.33%) .NET
2 44 (4.78%) REST
3 35 (3.80%) React
4 27 (2.93%) .NET Framework
5 23 (2.50%) Kafka
5 23 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
6 21 (2.28%) Middleware
6 21 (2.28%) RESTful
7 19 (2.07%) HTML
7 19 (2.07%) Pandas
8 17 (1.85%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.63%) AngularJS
9 15 (1.63%) PySpark
10 14 (1.52%) Spring
11 13 (1.41%) Node.js
11 13 (1.41%) TensorFlow
12 12 (1.30%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.30%) Web Services
12 12 (1.30%) XML
13 11 (1.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.87%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.76%) Management Information System
3 43 (4.67%) Cloud Native
4 41 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 39 (4.24%) Self-Motivation
6 32 (3.48%) Algorithms
6 32 (3.48%) Virtual Team
7 30 (3.26%) Derivative
8 29 (3.15%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (3.04%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.39%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (2.39%) Fixed Income
11 19 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 18 (1.96%) Equities
12 18 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.96%) PMI
13 17 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
14 16 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
15 14 (1.52%) Data Structures
15 14 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 108 (11.74%) Windows
2 53 (5.76%) Linux
3 27 (2.93%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.72%) Unix
5 19 (2.07%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.09%) Android
7 10 (1.09%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.33%) VMS
11 1 (0.11%) CentOS
11 1 (0.11%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (35.43%) Computer Science
2 267 (29.02%) Agile
3 239 (25.98%) Problem-Solving
4 187 (20.33%) AI
5 149 (16.20%) Analytics
6 146 (15.87%) DevOps
7 136 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (13.15%) CI/CD
10 115 (12.50%) Project Management
11 111 (12.07%) Decision-Making
12 103 (11.20%) Migration
13 96 (10.43%) Risk Management
13 96 (10.43%) Roadmaps
14 94 (10.22%) Software Engineering
15 91 (9.89%) Project Delivery
16 82 (8.91%) Change Management
17 81 (8.80%) Scrum
18 77 (8.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 75 (8.15%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 193 (20.98%) Python
2 182 (19.78%) SQL
3 87 (9.46%) Java
4 62 (6.74%) C#
5 53 (5.76%) PowerShell
6 40 (4.35%) JavaScript
7 37 (4.02%) C++
8 21 (2.28%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.85%) R
10 15 (1.63%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.30%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.09%) Bash
13 8 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.76%) C
15 6 (0.65%) Scala
15 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.54%) Bicep
16 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.43%) Go
18 3 (0.33%) Rust
Qualifications
1 217 (23.59%) Computer Science Degree
2 126 (13.70%) Master's Degree
3 86 (9.35%) Security Cleared
4 65 (7.07%) SC Cleared
5 57 (6.20%) PMI Certification
6 50 (5.43%) CISSP
7 45 (4.89%) PMP
8 36 (3.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (3.70%) Azure Certification
10 33 (3.59%) PhD
11 25 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (2.72%) CISM
12 22 (2.39%) CBAP
13 20 (2.17%) CISA
14 18 (1.96%) CRISC
14 18 (1.96%) MBA
15 17 (1.85%) IIBA
16 16 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.63%) AWS Certification
18 12 (1.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.83%) QA
2 51 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.57%) GDPR
4 42 (4.57%) PMO
5 38 (4.13%) NIST
6 24 (2.61%) SLA
7 18 (1.96%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.85%) PCI DSS
9 15 (1.63%) GRC
10 10 (1.09%) COBIT
10 10 (1.09%) IFRS
11 8 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.54%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.43%) ITGC
14 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 65 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 54 (5.87%) Docker
3 11 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.98%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.65%) Firmware
6 4 (0.43%) BitLocker
6 4 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.43%) XenApp
6 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.33%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.11%) HDFS
8 1 (0.11%) IAG
8 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.11%) Squid
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (6.09%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (4.46%) Terraform
4 22 (2.39%) Ansible
5 18 (1.96%) SCCM
6 14 (1.52%) Grafana
7 13 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.43%) Control-M
9 4 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.43%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.33%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.33%) vMotion
10 3 (0.33%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Packer
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 224 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.59%) Oracle
3 38 (4.13%) Google
4 32 (3.48%) Citrix
4 32 (3.48%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.72%) SAP
6 23 (2.50%) Databricks
7 22 (2.39%) Cisco
8 18 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.52%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.30%) Adobe
10 12 (1.30%) Bloomberg
10 12 (1.30%) Informatica
10 12 (1.30%) VMware
11 11 (1.20%) Juniper
11 11 (1.20%) Murex
12 10 (1.09%) Splunk
13 9 (0.98%) Apple
13 9 (0.98%) HP
13 9 (0.98%) Software AG