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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -19 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 984 1,022 1,332
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.84% 7.61% 8.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.17% 28.91% 33.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 526 617 814
10th Percentile £263 £329 £312
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £700 £675
90th Percentile £763 £800 £821
England median daily rate £510 £500 £507
% change year-on-year +2.00% -1.38% -4.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 39
10th Percentile £19.03 £12.87 £18.00
25th Percentile £27.13 £20.24 £25.08
Median hourly rate £44.50 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.82% -21.43% +29.63%
75th Percentile £78.75 £63.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £68.25 £59.60
England median hourly rate £39.11 £37.98 £57.35
% change year-on-year +2.98% -33.78% +19.13%

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 5,732 3,535 3,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.18% 26.32% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,117 2,380 2,571
10th Percentile £371 £354 £350
25th Percentile £456 £435 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £645 £653 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £760
England median daily rate £526 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 81 57
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.03
25th Percentile £25.24 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -22.11% -40.20%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £98.38 £65.00 £66.20
England median hourly rate £52.83 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +110.07% -53.43% -0.81%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -45 87 £536 +2.14% 555
West London -15 40 £226 -44.26% 215
East London +4 10 £445 -25.83% 43
South London -27 5 £190 -69.60% 48
North London - 4 £550 - 5
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 51 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 43 (4.37%) Confluence
3 22 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (2.13%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.22%) IIS
6 11 (1.12%) Apache
6 11 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
7 8 (0.81%) Camunda
8 6 (0.61%) CMS
9 5 (0.51%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.30%) Appian
11 3 (0.30%) Moodle
12 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.20%) nginx
12 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
Applications
1 97 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.30%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.20%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Revit
11 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.81%) Magento
3 7 (0.71%) HFM
4 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.30%) Changepoint
7 3 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
8 2 (0.20%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.20%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 238 (24.19%) Azure
2 140 (14.23%) AWS
3 76 (7.72%) GCP
4 75 (7.62%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 48 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 42 (4.27%) GitHub
9 38 (3.86%) SaaS
10 24 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
10 24 (2.44%) Serverless
11 21 (2.13%) Snowflake
12 18 (1.83%) Anthropic Claude
12 18 (1.83%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (1.83%) OpenShift
13 15 (1.52%) IaaS
13 15 (1.52%) OneDrive
14 13 (1.32%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.32%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.37%) Firewall
2 29 (2.95%) DNS
3 25 (2.54%) TCP/IP
4 24 (2.44%) Network Security
4 24 (2.44%) VPN
5 19 (1.93%) DHCP
6 17 (1.73%) 3GPP
6 17 (1.73%) 5G
7 15 (1.52%) Radio Access Network
8 14 (1.42%) Internet
9 13 (1.32%) WAN
10 12 (1.22%) LAN
11 8 (0.81%) Wireless
12 7 (0.71%) BGP
12 7 (0.71%) VoIP
12 7 (0.71%) VXLAN
13 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
14 5 (0.51%) MPLS
14 5 (0.51%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.49%) Power BI
2 53 (5.39%) SQL Server
3 32 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
4 30 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (2.54%) Relational Database
6 24 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 19 (1.93%) Tableau
8 18 (1.83%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.63%) Big Data
9 16 (1.63%) Metadata
10 14 (1.42%) Oracle Database
11 12 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.12%) Data Lake
12 11 (1.12%) MySQL
13 10 (1.02%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.71%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.61%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.61%) Neo4j
15 6 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (7.93%) JIRA
2 74 (7.52%) Git
3 37 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 27 (2.74%) GitLab
5 17 (1.73%) Maven
6 16 (1.63%) Gradle
7 14 (1.42%) Selenium
8 13 (1.32%) JUnit
8 13 (1.32%) SonarQube
9 11 (1.12%) Subversion
10 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio
11 8 (0.81%) Mockito
12 6 (0.61%) MLflow
12 6 (0.61%) REST Assured
13 5 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
13 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
14 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
14 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
14 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 473 (48.07%) Social Skills
2 439 (44.61%) Finance
3 243 (24.70%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (15.75%) Banking
5 65 (6.61%) Organisational Skills
6 64 (6.50%) Marketing
7 61 (6.20%) Legal
8 52 (5.28%) Public Sector
9 45 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
10 41 (4.17%) Retail
11 39 (3.96%) Influencing Skills
11 39 (3.96%) Telecoms
12 37 (3.76%) Front Office
13 35 (3.56%) Investment Banking
14 32 (3.25%) Financial Institution
15 31 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 29 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
17 24 (2.44%) Law
18 22 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (1.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 158 (16.06%) Analyst
2 120 (12.20%) Senior
3 112 (11.38%) Developer
4 94 (9.55%) Business Analyst
5 88 (8.94%) Lead
6 80 (8.13%) Architect
7 62 (6.30%) Project Manager
8 39 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.35%) Support Engineer
10 29 (2.95%) Consultant
10 29 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 27 (2.74%) Software Engineer
12 26 (2.64%) Java Developer
13 25 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.34%) Senior Developer
15 22 (2.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 22 (2.24%) Data Engineer
15 22 (2.24%) IT Analyst
16 21 (2.13%) Data Scientist
17 20 (2.03%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (6.30%) REST
2 60 (6.10%) .NET
3 56 (5.69%) Terraform
4 42 (4.27%) Kafka
5 35 (3.56%) HTML
6 32 (3.25%) React
7 29 (2.95%) .NET Framework
8 27 (2.74%) Spring Boot
9 26 (2.64%) CSS
10 25 (2.54%) Spring
11 24 (2.44%) RESTful
12 22 (2.24%) XML
13 19 (1.93%) Web Services
14 18 (1.83%) AngularJS
15 17 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
16 16 (1.63%) LangChain
16 16 (1.63%) SOAP
17 15 (1.52%) Middleware
18 14 (1.42%) JSON
18 14 (1.42%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 54 (5.49%) Product Ownership
4 50 (5.08%) Cloud Native
5 46 (4.67%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 34 (3.46%) Self-Motivation
8 29 (2.95%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.74%) AI Agents
10 26 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 24 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (2.34%) Derivative
13 19 (1.93%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.83%) Equities
14 18 (1.83%) Social Media
15 17 (1.73%) Fixed Income
15 17 (1.73%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.63%) Hedge funds
17 15 (1.52%) Graphic Design
17 15 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.69%) Windows
2 66 (6.71%) Linux
3 25 (2.54%) Unix
4 23 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.81%) Android
8 8 (0.81%) 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%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.38%) Computer Science
2 294 (29.88%) Agile
3 265 (26.93%) Problem-Solving
4 228 (23.17%) Stakeholder Management
5 219 (22.26%) AI
6 166 (16.87%) Analytics
7 158 (16.06%) DevOps
8 150 (15.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 148 (15.04%) CI/CD
10 127 (12.91%) Project Management
10 127 (12.91%) Software Engineering
11 114 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 112 (11.38%) Decision-Making
12 112 (11.38%) Scrum
13 100 (10.16%) Migration
13 100 (10.16%) User Acceptance Testing
14 98 (9.96%) Change Management
15 94 (9.55%) Risk Management
15 94 (9.55%) Validation
16 93 (9.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 204 (20.73%) Python
2 201 (20.43%) SQL
3 94 (9.55%) Java
4 71 (7.22%) C#
5 65 (6.61%) JavaScript
6 61 (6.20%) PowerShell
7 32 (3.25%) C++
8 30 (3.05%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.34%) Bash
10 18 (1.83%) R
11 17 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 12 (1.22%) Scala
12 12 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 10 (1.02%) Bicep
14 9 (0.91%) C
14 9 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.51%) VBA
15 5 (0.51%) X++
16 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 230 (23.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 111 (11.28%) Master's Degree
3 103 (10.47%) Security Cleared
4 79 (8.03%) PMI Certification
5 76 (7.72%) SC Cleared
6 69 (7.01%) PMP
7 40 (4.07%) PhD
8 36 (3.66%) CISSP
9 28 (2.85%) Azure Certification
9 28 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
10 22 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (2.13%) DV Cleared
12 19 (1.93%) MBA
13 16 (1.63%) CISA
13 16 (1.63%) CISM
14 15 (1.52%) TOGAF Certification
15 14 (1.42%) ACCA
15 14 (1.42%) ISTQB
16 13 (1.32%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.32%) CIMA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (7.83%) QA
2 71 (7.22%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.86%) PMO
4 26 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 23 (2.34%) NIST
6 18 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.83%) GDPR
7 15 (1.52%) GRC
7 15 (1.52%) SLA
8 14 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.22%) IFRS
10 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
10 8 (0.81%) COBIT
10 8 (0.81%) P3O
11 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.61%) Basel III
12 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.30%) ITGC
14 3 (0.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (7.62%) Active Directory
2 66 (6.71%) Docker
3 23 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.51%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.41%) vSphere
7 3 (0.30%) Firmware
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.20%) Squid
9 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.10%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) Postfix
9 1 (0.10%) RACF
9 1 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (5.79%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 27 (2.74%) Ansible
4 17 (1.73%) Grafana
5 15 (1.52%) Prometheus
5 15 (1.52%) SCCM
6 6 (0.61%) Puppet
7 5 (0.51%) Control-M
7 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.30%) HP ALM
8 3 (0.30%) Nagios
8 3 (0.30%) Packer
8 3 (0.30%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.30%) vMotion
8 3 (0.30%) WSUS
9 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.10%) QRadar
10 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
10 1 (0.10%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 238 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.15%) Oracle
3 50 (5.08%) ServiceNow
4 47 (4.78%) Google
5 37 (3.76%) SAP
6 31 (3.15%) VMware
7 27 (2.74%) Adobe
8 25 (2.54%) Cisco
9 22 (2.24%) Citrix
9 22 (2.24%) Databricks
10 21 (2.13%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.03%) OpenAI
12 17 (1.73%) IBM
13 13 (1.32%) Apple
13 13 (1.32%) Splunk
14 12 (1.22%) Palo Alto
15 10 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 10 (1.02%) UiPath
16 9 (0.91%) Murex
16 9 (0.91%) Samsung