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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 901 969 1,405
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.99% 7.84% 8.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.74% 30.35% 33.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 623 841
10th Percentile £300 £340 £300
25th Percentile £412 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £656 £738 £675
90th Percentile £785 £848 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 23 78
10th Percentile £18.85 £11.96 £15.07
25th Percentile £24.45 £20.24 £21.05
Median hourly rate £33.53 £31.35 £33.87
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -7.44% +41.06%
75th Percentile £53.06 £60.88 £46.56
90th Percentile £65.38 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £59.31 £54.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +8.82% +36.25% -11.11%

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 5,080 3,193 4,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.14% 25.85% 23.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,638 2,144 2,814
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £446 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -1.40% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 60 108
10th Percentile £22.48 £19.20 £14.19
25th Percentile £28.00 £24.06 £19.98
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.60 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +92.31% +14.40% -40.83%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.63 £68.23
England median hourly rate £47.52 £37.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +28.43% -7.50% -24.42%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 -24 103 £500 -8.92% 142
West London -17 36 £372 -7.10% 50
South London -4 17 £332 -44.61% 17
East London -6 9 £568 +36.69% 32
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 43 (4.77%) SharePoint
2 34 (3.77%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.22%) Confluence
4 23 (2.55%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.67%) IIS
7 5 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 4 (0.44%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.33%) Appian
9 3 (0.33%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) Camunda
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%) SAS
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 96 (10.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (8.32%) Microsoft Office
3 60 (6.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (3.22%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.33%) Trello
7 3 (0.33%) UserZoom
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) InVision
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.89%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.55%) Shopify
6 4 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.44%) Magento
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.33%) HFM
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 238 (26.42%) Azure
2 133 (14.76%) AWS
3 85 (9.43%) Microsoft 365
4 63 (6.99%) Power Platform
5 49 (5.44%) GCP
6 43 (4.77%) SaaS
7 42 (4.66%) Entra ID
8 30 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (3.11%) GitHub
10 22 (2.44%) Snowflake
11 16 (1.78%) Dynamics 365
11 16 (1.78%) Serverless
12 15 (1.66%) PaaS
13 14 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (1.44%) IaaS
14 13 (1.44%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
16 11 (1.22%) GitHub Actions
16 11 (1.22%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 23 (2.55%) Firewall
2 16 (1.78%) Network Security
3 12 (1.33%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.33%) VPN
4 11 (1.22%) WAN
5 10 (1.11%) LAN
6 9 (1.00%) BGP
7 7 (0.78%) DMZ
7 7 (0.78%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.67%) 3GPP
8 6 (0.67%) DNS
8 6 (0.67%) NetScaler
8 6 (0.67%) OSPF
8 6 (0.67%) VoIP
9 5 (0.55%) HTTP
9 5 (0.55%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.44%) DHCP
10 4 (0.44%) HTTPS
10 4 (0.44%) SSL
10 4 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.66%) Power BI
2 46 (5.11%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.22%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.66%) Tableau
6 20 (2.22%) NoSQL
7 19 (2.11%) Big Data
8 17 (1.89%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.66%) Relational Database
10 12 (1.33%) Metadata
10 12 (1.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (1.00%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (0.89%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.78%) Power Query
13 7 (0.78%) Redis
14 6 (0.67%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.67%) Oracle Database
15 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.55%) KDB
Development Applications
1 67 (7.44%) JIRA
2 58 (6.44%) Git
3 21 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.89%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.33%) MLflow
6 11 (1.22%) GitLab
7 10 (1.11%) Selenium
8 7 (0.78%) Subversion
9 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.67%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.55%) Gradle
10 5 (0.55%) Maven
10 5 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.55%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.44%) ERwin
11 4 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.33%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.33%) Toad
12 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 425 (47.17%) Social Skills
2 383 (42.51%) Finance
3 195 (21.64%) Analytical Skills
4 132 (14.65%) Banking
5 57 (6.33%) Presentation Skills
6 56 (6.22%) Marketing
7 48 (5.33%) Public Sector
8 46 (5.11%) Organisational Skills
9 42 (4.66%) Legal
10 40 (4.44%) Front Office
11 34 (3.77%) Retail
12 32 (3.55%) Investment Banking
13 28 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.22%) Law
14 20 (2.22%) Telecoms
15 18 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
16 17 (1.89%) Financial Institution
17 14 (1.55%) Manufacturing
18 13 (1.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 132 (14.65%) Senior
2 123 (13.65%) Analyst
3 106 (11.76%) Developer
4 80 (8.88%) Lead
5 77 (8.55%) Architect
6 75 (8.32%) Business Analyst
7 61 (6.77%) Project Manager
8 40 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
9 30 (3.33%) Consultant
10 29 (3.22%) Data Scientist
11 26 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (2.66%) Data Engineer
12 24 (2.66%) Software Engineer
13 23 (2.55%) Senior Manager
14 22 (2.44%) C# Developer
15 20 (2.22%) Delivery Manager
15 20 (2.22%) Senior Business Analyst
16 19 (2.11%) Senior Developer
17 17 (1.89%) Java Developer
17 17 (1.89%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.11%) .NET
2 38 (4.22%) REST
3 30 (3.33%) React
4 26 (2.89%) Oracle Fusion
5 25 (2.77%) Middleware
6 24 (2.66%) Pandas
7 23 (2.55%) .NET Framework
7 23 (2.55%) RESTful
8 22 (2.44%) Kafka
9 20 (2.22%) PyTorch
10 19 (2.11%) HTML
11 16 (1.78%) NumPy
12 15 (1.66%) TensorFlow
13 14 (1.55%) PySpark
13 14 (1.55%) Spring
14 13 (1.44%) AngularJS
14 13 (1.44%) scikit-learn
15 12 (1.33%) Node.js
15 12 (1.33%) XML
16 11 (1.22%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.88%) Management Information System
1 53 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 43 (4.77%) Product Ownership
3 41 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 34 (3.77%) Virtual Team
5 33 (3.66%) Derivative
6 31 (3.44%) Algorithms
6 31 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (3.22%) Self-Motivation
8 24 (2.66%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.66%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (2.44%) Equities
10 20 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
10 20 (2.22%) Fixed Income
11 19 (2.11%) PMI
12 18 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 18 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
13 17 (1.89%) Equity Derivative
14 16 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.99%) Windows
2 53 (5.88%) Linux
3 29 (3.22%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.77%) Unix
5 16 (1.78%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.00%) Android
7 9 (1.00%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 7 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.44%) VMS
11 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (35.85%) Computer Science
2 277 (30.74%) Agile
3 238 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
4 173 (19.20%) AI
5 145 (16.09%) Analytics
6 142 (15.76%) DevOps
7 136 (15.09%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (13.98%) Project Management
9 121 (13.43%) CI/CD
9 121 (13.43%) Continuous Improvement
10 112 (12.43%) Decision-Making
11 104 (11.54%) Risk Management
12 102 (11.32%) Migration
13 97 (10.77%) Roadmaps
14 87 (9.66%) Project Delivery
15 86 (9.54%) Software Engineering
16 84 (9.32%) Change Management
17 81 (8.99%) Scrum
18 79 (8.77%) Mathematics
19 78 (8.66%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 190 (21.09%) Python
2 176 (19.53%) SQL
3 78 (8.66%) Java
4 60 (6.66%) C#
5 47 (5.22%) PowerShell
6 44 (4.88%) C++
7 32 (3.55%) JavaScript
8 20 (2.22%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.89%) R
10 13 (1.44%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.44%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.89%) Bash
11 8 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.67%) C
12 6 (0.67%) Scala
12 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.55%) Rust
14 4 (0.44%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
15 3 (0.33%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 216 (23.97%) Computer Science Degree
2 137 (15.21%) Master's Degree
3 85 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 66 (7.33%) SC Cleared
5 58 (6.44%) PMI Certification
6 46 (5.11%) PMP
7 43 (4.77%) CISSP
8 39 (4.33%) PhD
9 35 (3.88%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (3.66%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.55%) CISM
12 22 (2.44%) CBAP
12 22 (2.44%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (2.00%) CRISC
13 18 (2.00%) MBA
14 17 (1.89%) IIBA
15 16 (1.78%) BPSS Clearance
15 16 (1.78%) CISA
16 14 (1.55%) AWS Certification
17 13 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.66%) QA
2 50 (5.55%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.66%) GDPR
5 39 (4.33%) PMO
6 38 (4.22%) NIST
7 27 (3.00%) SLA
8 17 (1.89%) Accessibility
8 17 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.66%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.55%) GRC
11 11 (1.22%) IFRS
12 10 (1.11%) COBIT
13 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.67%) IFRS 17
14 6 (0.67%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.55%) WCAG
16 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 58 (6.44%) Active Directory
2 54 (5.99%) Docker
3 9 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.78%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.67%) Firmware
5 6 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.44%) XenApp
6 4 (0.44%) XenDesktop
7 3 (0.33%) vSphere
8 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) IAG
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (6.10%) Kubernetes
2 44 (4.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 33 (3.66%) Terraform
4 18 (2.00%) SCCM
5 17 (1.89%) Ansible
6 14 (1.55%) Grafana
7 11 (1.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 4 (0.44%) Control-M
8 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.44%) SCVMM
9 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.33%) WSUS
10 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.22%) Kibana
10 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.11%) Packer
11 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
11 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 223 (24.75%) Microsoft
2 74 (8.21%) Oracle
3 31 (3.44%) Google
4 28 (3.11%) Citrix
4 28 (3.11%) ServiceNow
5 27 (3.00%) Databricks
6 26 (2.89%) SAP
7 21 (2.33%) Cisco
8 18 (2.00%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.44%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.44%) Informatica
10 12 (1.33%) Adobe
10 12 (1.33%) Palo Alto
11 11 (1.22%) Software AG
11 11 (1.22%) Splunk
11 11 (1.22%) VMware
12 10 (1.11%) Juniper
12 10 (1.11%) Murex
13 8 (0.89%) Apple
13 8 (0.89%) Charles River