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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 941 1,045 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.73% 7.71% 8.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.09% 30.10% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 515 667 895
10th Percentile £263 £331 £303
25th Percentile £403 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £758 £813 £813
England median daily rate £500 £500 £502
% change year-on-year - -0.30% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 58
10th Percentile £17.24 £11.96 £18.13
25th Percentile £26.25 £20.24 £24.39
Median hourly rate £36.00 £31.32 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +14.96% -12.05% +9.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.19 £43.75
90th Percentile £73.25 £68.13 £68.75
England median hourly rate £45.25 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year +6.47% -10.53% -5.00%

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 5,506 3,472 4,086
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.68% 25.60% 23.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,973 2,360 2,819
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.28% -2.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 81 92
10th Percentile £19.48 £18.82 £16.31
25th Percentile £26.19 £25.04 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.49
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -5.04% -50.95%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £68.68
England median hourly rate £54.00 £26.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +103.77% -38.37% -22.17%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -38 94 £503 -8.64% 137
West London -4 45 £300 -25.83% 37
South London -12 13 £202 -66.27% 14
East London 0 9 £585 +6.36% 25
North London - 4 £550 - 4
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 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.83%) Confluence
3 31 (3.29%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.91%) Apache Spark
5 16 (1.70%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.17%) IIS
7 9 (0.96%) Apache
8 6 (0.64%) Camunda
8 6 (0.64%) CMS
8 6 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
9 4 (0.43%) Appian
10 3 (0.32%) Moodle
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
12 1 (0.11%) SAS
12 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 89 (9.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (5.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 46 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
5 25 (2.66%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.06%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.53%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.43%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.85%) Magento
2 7 (0.74%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.53%) HFM
4 3 (0.32%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.21%) Actimize
5 2 (0.21%) Changepoint
5 2 (0.21%) Fidessa
5 2 (0.21%) IntelliMatch
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.21%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.21%) Shopify
5 2 (0.21%) SimCorp Dimension
5 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
5 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 247 (26.25%) Azure
2 150 (15.94%) AWS
3 74 (7.86%) Power Platform
4 72 (7.65%) Microsoft 365
5 62 (6.59%) GCP
6 57 (6.06%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.68%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (3.93%) GitHub
9 34 (3.61%) SaaS
10 27 (2.87%) Snowflake
11 21 (2.23%) Serverless
12 17 (1.81%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.49%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.38%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
14 13 (1.38%) Figma
14 13 (1.38%) PaaS
15 12 (1.28%) IaaS
16 11 (1.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.04%) Firewall
2 23 (2.44%) Network Security
3 20 (2.13%) VPN
4 18 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 15 (1.59%) DNS
6 12 (1.28%) WAN
7 10 (1.06%) DHCP
8 9 (0.96%) 3GPP
8 9 (0.96%) LAN
8 9 (0.96%) VoIP
9 8 (0.85%) BGP
9 8 (0.85%) Internet
10 7 (0.74%) 5G
10 7 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
11 6 (0.64%) DMZ
11 6 (0.64%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.64%) VXLAN
12 5 (0.53%) OSPF
12 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.48%) Power BI
2 46 (4.89%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.44%) MongoDB
5 23 (2.44%) Tableau
6 22 (2.34%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.34%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.81%) Metadata
8 16 (1.70%) Big Data
9 10 (1.06%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.06%) Data Lake
10 9 (0.96%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 8 (0.85%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.74%) Power Query
13 6 (0.64%) Neo4j
13 6 (0.64%) Redis
14 5 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.53%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 72 (7.65%) JIRA
2 67 (7.12%) Git
3 28 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.59%) GitLab
5 13 (1.38%) MLflow
6 11 (1.17%) Selenium
6 11 (1.17%) Subversion
7 10 (1.06%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.74%) Gradle
8 7 (0.74%) Maven
9 6 (0.64%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.64%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.53%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.53%) JUnit
10 5 (0.53%) REST Assured
10 5 (0.53%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.43%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.43%) Vite
12 3 (0.32%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.32%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 425 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 402 (42.72%) Finance
3 215 (22.85%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (14.24%) Banking
5 69 (7.33%) Marketing
6 59 (6.27%) Organisational Skills
7 58 (6.16%) Legal
8 49 (5.21%) Public Sector
8 49 (5.21%) Retail
9 47 (4.99%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (3.72%) Front Office
11 29 (3.08%) Investment Banking
12 28 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.87%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.87%) Law
14 25 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
14 25 (2.66%) Telecoms
15 24 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.70%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (1.49%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 131 (13.92%) Analyst
2 127 (13.50%) Senior
3 107 (11.37%) Developer
4 82 (8.71%) Architect
5 79 (8.40%) Business Analyst
5 79 (8.40%) Lead
6 66 (7.01%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.46%) Solutions Architect
8 37 (3.93%) Senior Manager
9 28 (2.98%) Consultant
9 28 (2.98%) Data Scientist
10 27 (2.87%) Software Engineer
11 24 (2.55%) Support Engineer
12 23 (2.44%) Data Engineer
13 22 (2.34%) C# Developer
14 20 (2.13%) Junior
14 20 (2.13%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (2.02%) Java Developer
16 17 (1.81%) Desktop Engineer
16 17 (1.81%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.74%) .NET
2 50 (5.31%) REST
3 35 (3.72%) React
4 28 (2.98%) .NET Framework
5 26 (2.76%) Kafka
6 22 (2.34%) RESTful
7 19 (2.02%) HTML
8 17 (1.81%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.81%) Pandas
8 17 (1.81%) PySpark
8 17 (1.81%) PyTorch
8 17 (1.81%) Spring
9 16 (1.70%) XML
10 15 (1.59%) Middleware
10 15 (1.59%) Spring Boot
11 12 (1.28%) Web Services
12 11 (1.17%) CSS
12 11 (1.17%) Node.js
12 11 (1.17%) NumPy
12 11 (1.17%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 64 (6.80%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.63%) Management Information System
3 49 (5.21%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.78%) Self-Motivation
5 41 (4.36%) Product Ownership
6 31 (3.29%) Algorithms
6 31 (3.29%) Virtual Team
7 27 (2.87%) Derivative
8 26 (2.76%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (2.55%) Distributed Systems
11 23 (2.44%) Fixed Income
12 18 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
12 18 (1.91%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.81%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.81%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.70%) Social Media
15 15 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
15 15 (1.59%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 111 (11.80%) Windows
2 53 (5.63%) Linux
3 25 (2.66%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.34%) Unix
5 18 (1.91%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.59%) Mac OS
7 12 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.06%) Android
9 8 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.43%) VMS
11 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.21%) CentOS
12 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (35.39%) Computer Science
2 277 (29.44%) Agile
3 250 (26.57%) Problem-Solving
4 199 (21.15%) AI
5 167 (17.75%) Analytics
6 164 (17.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 152 (16.15%) DevOps
8 139 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 131 (13.92%) CI/CD
10 120 (12.75%) Project Management
11 105 (11.16%) Decision-Making
12 103 (10.95%) Software Engineering
13 101 (10.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 100 (10.63%) Migration
15 92 (9.78%) Roadmaps
16 90 (9.56%) Risk Management
17 89 (9.46%) Scrum
18 84 (8.93%) Project Delivery
19 83 (8.82%) Change Management
20 80 (8.50%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 198 (21.04%) Python
2 189 (20.09%) SQL
3 83 (8.82%) Java
4 63 (6.70%) C#
5 49 (5.21%) PowerShell
6 38 (4.04%) JavaScript
7 28 (2.98%) C++
8 23 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.02%) R
10 14 (1.49%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.38%) Bash
12 10 (1.06%) T-SQL
13 9 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 8 (0.85%) Bicep
15 7 (0.74%) C
16 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.53%) Scala
17 5 (0.53%) VBA
18 3 (0.32%) Go
18 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 218 (23.17%) Computer Science Degree
2 131 (13.92%) Master's Degree
3 72 (7.65%) Security Cleared
4 57 (6.06%) PMI Certification
5 56 (5.95%) SC Cleared
6 50 (5.31%) CISSP
7 48 (5.10%) PMP
8 34 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 34 (3.61%) PhD
9 29 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
10 24 (2.55%) CISA
10 24 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.44%) MBA
12 22 (2.34%) CISM
13 16 (1.70%) AWS Certification
13 16 (1.70%) BPSS Clearance
13 16 (1.70%) DV Cleared
14 13 (1.38%) CRISC
15 12 (1.28%) ISTQB
16 11 (1.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.33%) QA
2 58 (6.16%) Data Quality
3 48 (5.10%) PMO
4 39 (4.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 35 (3.72%) NIST
6 33 (3.51%) GDPR
7 21 (2.23%) Accessibility
8 20 (2.13%) SLA
9 15 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.49%) GRC
10 14 (1.49%) PCI DSS
11 7 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.74%) COBIT
11 7 (0.74%) IFRS
12 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.64%) P3O
12 6 (0.64%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 4 (0.43%) ITGC
14 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (7.76%) Active Directory
2 59 (6.27%) Docker
3 18 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.74%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.64%) Firmware
6 5 (0.53%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.43%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
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
10 1 (0.11%) XenApp
10 1 (0.11%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (6.38%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.46%) Terraform
3 41 (4.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (2.66%) Ansible
5 15 (1.59%) SCCM
6 14 (1.49%) Grafana
7 12 (1.28%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.53%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.43%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.43%) vMotion
10 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.32%) Nagios
10 3 (0.32%) Packer
10 3 (0.32%) Puppet
10 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.32%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) Control-M
11 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
Vendors
1 233 (24.76%) Microsoft
2 69 (7.33%) Oracle
3 47 (4.99%) Google
4 40 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 27 (2.87%) Citrix
5 27 (2.87%) SAP
6 25 (2.66%) Cisco
7 23 (2.44%) Databricks
7 23 (2.44%) VMware
8 20 (2.13%) Adobe
8 20 (2.13%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.49%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.38%) Bloomberg
11 11 (1.17%) Apple
11 11 (1.17%) Murex
11 11 (1.17%) Splunk
12 10 (1.06%) HP
12 10 (1.06%) Juniper
12 10 (1.06%) OpenAI
13 9 (0.96%) CyberArk