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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 932 984 1,433
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.86% 7.73% 8.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.54% 29.82% 34.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 624 865
10th Percentile £263 £332 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -6.46%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 74
10th Percentile £16.40 £11.96 £15.97
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.44
Median hourly rate £33.53 £34.48 £34.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -0.06% +17.95%
75th Percentile £57.81 £63.06 £46.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.38 £73.13
England median hourly rate £50.72 £47.81 £42.00
% change year-on-year +6.10% +13.82% -12.04%

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 5,313 3,300 4,125
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.72% 25.91% 23.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,839 2,216 2,825
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £774
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 73 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.15 £15.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.66 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.11%
75th Percentile £75.87 £52.16 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.11 £68.15
England median hourly rate £53.00 £29.27 £42.50
% change year-on-year +81.07% -31.13% -22.73%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -37 97 £501 -12.96% 120
West London -8 45 £325 -19.20% 49
South London -4 13 £202 -67.62% 11
East London -1 10 £568 +17.60% 28
North London +2 2 £550 +33.33% 10
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 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 33 (3.54%) Confluence
2 33 (3.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 19 (2.04%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
5 11 (1.18%) IIS
6 6 (0.64%) Apache
6 6 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
7 5 (0.54%) Camunda
8 4 (0.43%) Appian
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) Moodle
10 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
11 1 (0.11%) Ethereum
11 1 (0.11%) WebSphere
Applications
1 86 (9.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
3 55 (5.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 42 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.90%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.64%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.54%) UserZoom
8 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
2 5 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.54%) Magento
2 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.43%) HFM
3 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
4 3 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
4 3 (0.32%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle General Ledger
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
4 3 (0.32%) Veritas eDiscovery
5 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
5 2 (0.21%) Shopify
5 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 246 (26.39%) Azure
2 153 (16.42%) AWS
3 80 (8.58%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (7.08%) Power Platform
5 64 (6.87%) GCP
6 55 (5.90%) Entra ID
7 40 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (3.86%) SaaS
9 35 (3.76%) GitHub
10 26 (2.79%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.15%) Serverless
12 16 (1.72%) PaaS
13 15 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
14 14 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.39%) Amazon S3
15 13 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.39%) Microsoft Purview
16 12 (1.29%) IaaS
16 12 (1.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 36 (3.86%) Firewall
2 22 (2.36%) Network Security
3 18 (1.93%) VPN
4 17 (1.82%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.39%) WAN
6 12 (1.29%) DNS
7 10 (1.07%) LAN
8 9 (0.97%) 3GPP
8 9 (0.97%) BGP
8 9 (0.97%) DHCP
8 9 (0.97%) VoIP
9 7 (0.75%) DMZ
9 7 (0.75%) Internet
9 7 (0.75%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.64%) 5G
10 6 (0.64%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.64%) OSPF
10 6 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.54%) Software-Defined Networking
11 5 (0.54%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.01%) Power BI
2 51 (5.47%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (3.00%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.68%) Tableau
6 22 (2.36%) MongoDB
7 21 (2.25%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.25%) Relational Database
8 17 (1.82%) Big Data
9 16 (1.72%) Metadata
10 11 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.07%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 9 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.86%) Hadoop
14 7 (0.75%) Redis
15 6 (0.64%) Neo4j
15 6 (0.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 70 (7.51%) JIRA
2 63 (6.76%) Git
3 23 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.50%) GitLab
5 13 (1.39%) MLflow
6 12 (1.29%) Visual Studio
7 11 (1.18%) Selenium
8 8 (0.86%) Subversion
9 6 (0.64%) Maven
9 6 (0.64%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.54%) Gradle
10 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.54%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.43%) ERwin
11 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.43%) Vite
12 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 424 (45.49%) Social Skills
2 393 (42.17%) Finance
3 206 (22.10%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (14.59%) Banking
5 67 (7.19%) Marketing
6 59 (6.33%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
8 56 (6.01%) Legal
9 49 (5.26%) Public Sector
10 42 (4.51%) Retail
11 39 (4.18%) Front Office
12 31 (3.33%) Investment Banking
13 24 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.47%) Documentation Skills
14 23 (2.47%) Financial Institution
14 23 (2.47%) Law
14 23 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 21 (2.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.39%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 131 (14.06%) Analyst
2 125 (13.41%) Senior
3 106 (11.37%) Developer
4 82 (8.80%) Architect
5 81 (8.69%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.69%) Lead
6 58 (6.22%) Project Manager
7 44 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
8 30 (3.22%) Consultant
8 30 (3.22%) Senior Manager
9 28 (3.00%) Data Scientist
10 25 (2.68%) C# Developer
11 23 (2.47%) Data Engineer
11 23 (2.47%) Software Engineer
12 21 (2.25%) Senior Analyst
13 19 (2.04%) Support Engineer
14 17 (1.82%) Java Developer
14 17 (1.82%) Security Engineer
14 17 (1.82%) Senior Business Analyst
14 17 (1.82%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.90%) .NET
2 48 (5.15%) REST
3 35 (3.76%) React
4 30 (3.22%) .NET Framework
5 23 (2.47%) Kafka
6 20 (2.15%) RESTful
7 19 (2.04%) HTML
7 19 (2.04%) Pandas
7 19 (2.04%) PySpark
8 18 (1.93%) Middleware
9 16 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (1.61%) AngularJS
10 15 (1.61%) Spring
11 13 (1.39%) Web Services
12 12 (1.29%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.29%) Spring Boot
13 11 (1.18%) Node.js
13 11 (1.18%) NumPy
13 11 (1.18%) OAuth
13 11 (1.18%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.22%) Onboarding
2 54 (5.79%) Management Information System
3 45 (4.83%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.72%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (4.29%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.22%) Virtual Team
7 29 (3.11%) Algorithms
7 29 (3.11%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.90%) Derivative
9 26 (2.79%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (2.47%) Fixed Income
10 23 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 17 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.82%) Equities
11 17 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
12 16 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.72%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.72%) Security Posture
13 15 (1.61%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 116 (12.45%) Windows
2 54 (5.79%) Linux
3 26 (2.79%) Unix
4 25 (2.68%) Windows Server
5 20 (2.15%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.61%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.07%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.97%) Android
9 8 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) VMS
12 2 (0.21%) CentOS
12 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 324 (34.76%) Computer Science
2 279 (29.94%) Agile
3 247 (26.50%) Problem-Solving
4 198 (21.24%) AI
5 163 (17.49%) Analytics
6 153 (16.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 152 (16.31%) DevOps
8 134 (14.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 130 (13.95%) CI/CD
10 112 (12.02%) Project Management
11 106 (11.37%) Decision-Making
12 97 (10.41%) Migration
13 93 (9.98%) Risk Management
14 91 (9.76%) Software Engineering
15 90 (9.66%) Roadmaps
16 88 (9.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 85 (9.12%) Project Delivery
18 83 (8.91%) Scrum
19 81 (8.69%) Change Management
20 80 (8.58%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 196 (21.03%) Python
2 189 (20.28%) SQL
3 81 (8.69%) Java
4 66 (7.08%) C#
5 52 (5.58%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.40%) JavaScript
7 25 (2.68%) C++
8 20 (2.15%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.72%) PL/SQL
9 16 (1.72%) R
10 12 (1.29%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.18%) Bash
12 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.75%) Bicep
13 7 (0.75%) C
13 7 (0.75%) Scala
14 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.54%) VBA
16 3 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 216 (23.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 127 (13.63%) Master's Degree
3 78 (8.37%) Security Cleared
4 60 (6.44%) SC Cleared
5 57 (6.12%) PMI Certification
6 52 (5.58%) CISSP
7 45 (4.83%) PMP
8 34 (3.65%) PhD
9 32 (3.43%) Azure Certification
10 30 (3.22%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (2.58%) CISA
12 24 (2.58%) CISM
13 19 (2.04%) MBA
14 18 (1.93%) CBAP
15 17 (1.82%) CRISC
16 16 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.61%) AWS Certification
18 14 (1.50%) IIBA
19 13 (1.39%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.62%) QA
2 56 (6.01%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.72%) PMO
4 43 (4.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (4.29%) GDPR
6 39 (4.18%) NIST
7 23 (2.47%) SLA
8 20 (2.15%) Accessibility
9 18 (1.93%) PCI DSS
9 18 (1.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (1.82%) GRC
11 9 (0.97%) COBIT
11 9 (0.97%) IFRS
12 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.43%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.43%) ITGC
14 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 71 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 60 (6.44%) Docker
3 15 (1.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.97%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.64%) Firmware
6 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.43%) Terminal Services
8 3 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
8 3 (0.32%) XenApp
8 3 (0.32%) XenDesktop
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) IAG
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (6.55%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (4.72%) Terraform
4 26 (2.79%) Ansible
5 17 (1.82%) SCCM
6 14 (1.50%) Grafana
7 13 (1.39%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.64%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.54%) HP ALM
10 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.43%) vMotion
11 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.32%) Control-M
11 3 (0.32%) Nagios
11 3 (0.32%) Packer
11 3 (0.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.32%) SCVMM
11 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.32%) WSUS
12 2 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 221 (23.71%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.05%) Oracle
3 43 (4.61%) Google
4 41 (4.40%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.54%) Citrix
6 24 (2.58%) SAP
7 23 (2.47%) Cisco
8 21 (2.25%) Databricks
9 20 (2.15%) Salesforce
10 17 (1.82%) VMware
11 16 (1.72%) Adobe
11 16 (1.72%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.61%) Bloomberg
13 13 (1.39%) Murex
14 11 (1.18%) Apple
14 11 (1.18%) Juniper
14 11 (1.18%) Splunk
15 10 (1.07%) HP
15 10 (1.07%) Informatica
15 10 (1.07%) OpenAI