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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 966 1,059 1,337
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.81% 7.83% 8.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.35% 29.80% 34.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 535 663 840
10th Percentile £263 £331 £311
25th Percentile £412 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £688
90th Percentile £763 £813 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 28 45
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £19.08
25th Percentile £28.00 £18.74 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -27.40% +8.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.06 £48.75
90th Percentile £85.75 £67.88 £68.45
England median hourly rate £47.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +10.59% -25.89% +15.69%

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 5,568 3,554 3,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.72% 26.27% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,012 2,390 2,682
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £455 £430 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 89 71
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.65 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.25 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -53 82 £536 -4.67% 250
West London -5 43 £241 -40.41% 77
East London +3 11 £550 -8.33% 27
South London -14 9 £332 -44.61% 21
North London - 4 £550 - 3
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 (5.28%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.93%) Confluence
3 29 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.97%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.14%) Apache
6 11 (1.14%) IIS
7 6 (0.62%) CMS
7 6 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.52%) Camunda
9 4 (0.41%) Appian
10 3 (0.31%) Moodle
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.10%) Drupal
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
Applications
1 91 (9.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.94%) Microsoft Office
3 48 (4.97%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (4.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.07%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.14%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.83%) Magento
3 7 (0.72%) HFM
4 6 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.52%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.31%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.21%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.21%) Endur
8 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.21%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.21%) Primavera
8 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.21%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.21%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 248 (25.67%) Azure
2 146 (15.11%) AWS
3 72 (7.45%) GCP
3 72 (7.45%) Microsoft 365
3 72 (7.45%) Power Platform
4 62 (6.42%) Entra ID
5 45 (4.66%) Azure DevOps
6 36 (3.73%) GitHub
6 36 (3.73%) SaaS
7 27 (2.80%) Snowflake
8 21 (2.17%) Serverless
9 20 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 15 (1.55%) IaaS
11 14 (1.45%) GitHub Actions
11 14 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
11 14 (1.45%) PaaS
12 13 (1.35%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (1.35%) OneDrive
13 12 (1.24%) AWS Lambda
13 12 (1.24%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.55%) Firewall
2 26 (2.69%) Network Security
2 26 (2.69%) VPN
3 23 (2.38%) DNS
4 21 (2.17%) TCP/IP
5 17 (1.76%) DHCP
6 13 (1.35%) WAN
7 11 (1.14%) Internet
8 10 (1.04%) 3GPP
8 10 (1.04%) LAN
9 9 (0.93%) BGP
10 8 (0.83%) 5G
10 8 (0.83%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.83%) VoIP
11 7 (0.72%) SAN
11 7 (0.72%) VXLAN
11 7 (0.72%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (0.72%) Wireless
12 6 (0.62%) DMZ
12 6 (0.62%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.80%) Power BI
2 45 (4.66%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.38%) Relational Database
4 23 (2.38%) Tableau
5 22 (2.28%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.28%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.76%) Metadata
7 16 (1.66%) Big Data
8 15 (1.55%) MongoDB
9 13 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.24%) Oracle Database
11 10 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 9 (0.93%) Data Mining
13 7 (0.72%) Power Query
14 6 (0.62%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.52%) Azure SQL Database
15 5 (0.52%) Redis
15 5 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (7.35%) JIRA
2 64 (6.63%) Git
3 27 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.66%) GitLab
5 12 (1.24%) Selenium
6 11 (1.14%) Subversion
7 10 (1.04%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.83%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.72%) Gradle
9 7 (0.72%) Maven
9 7 (0.72%) MLflow
10 6 (0.62%) JUnit
10 6 (0.62%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
12 4 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.31%) SoapUI
13 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 453 (46.89%) Social Skills
2 405 (41.93%) Finance
3 236 (24.43%) Analytical Skills
4 136 (14.08%) Banking
5 66 (6.83%) Legal
5 66 (6.83%) Marketing
6 61 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
7 47 (4.87%) Retail
8 45 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
9 42 (4.35%) Public Sector
10 40 (4.14%) Front Office
11 34 (3.52%) Investment Banking
12 33 (3.42%) Telecoms
13 31 (3.21%) Financial Institution
14 27 (2.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 27 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (2.80%) Law
15 21 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
17 12 (1.24%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 144 (14.91%) Analyst
2 124 (12.84%) Senior
3 103 (10.66%) Developer
4 89 (9.21%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.39%) Lead
6 76 (7.87%) Architect
7 62 (6.42%) Project Manager
8 38 (3.93%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.62%) Senior Manager
10 31 (3.21%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.80%) Consultant
12 24 (2.48%) Software Engineer
13 22 (2.28%) Data Engineer
13 22 (2.28%) Data Scientist
14 21 (2.17%) C# Developer
14 21 (2.17%) Desktop Engineer
14 21 (2.17%) Financial Analyst
14 21 (2.17%) IT Analyst
14 21 (2.17%) Senior Developer
15 19 (1.97%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.80%) .NET
2 55 (5.69%) REST
3 33 (3.42%) Kafka
4 27 (2.80%) React
5 25 (2.59%) .NET Framework
6 20 (2.07%) RESTful
7 18 (1.86%) HTML
8 17 (1.76%) Spring
8 17 (1.76%) XML
9 16 (1.66%) AngularJS
9 16 (1.66%) Spring Boot
10 14 (1.45%) JSON
10 14 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.45%) Pandas
10 14 (1.45%) PySpark
11 13 (1.35%) Middleware
11 13 (1.35%) Web Services
12 12 (1.24%) PyTorch
13 11 (1.14%) LangChain
14 10 (1.04%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.83%) Onboarding
2 59 (6.11%) Management Information System
3 51 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.66%) Product Ownership
5 41 (4.24%) Algorithms
6 40 (4.14%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (3.11%) Data Structures
8 29 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
8 29 (3.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 28 (2.90%) Data Centre
10 27 (2.80%) Derivative
11 23 (2.38%) Virtual Team
12 21 (2.17%) AI Agents
13 20 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (2.07%) Fixed Income
14 19 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.86%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.86%) Equities
16 17 (1.76%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 114 (11.80%) Windows
2 58 (6.00%) Linux
3 22 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.97%) Windows 10
5 17 (1.76%) Unix
6 14 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.83%) Android
8 8 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.21%) CentOS
10 2 (0.21%) VMS
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
11 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 350 (36.23%) Computer Science
2 267 (27.64%) Agile
2 267 (27.64%) Problem-Solving
3 206 (21.33%) AI
4 185 (19.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 160 (16.56%) Analytics
6 149 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
6 149 (15.42%) DevOps
7 131 (13.56%) CI/CD
8 121 (12.53%) Project Management
9 113 (11.70%) Software Engineering
10 107 (11.08%) Migration
11 100 (10.35%) Decision-Making
11 100 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 95 (9.83%) Scrum
13 88 (9.11%) Change Management
13 88 (9.11%) User Acceptance Testing
14 87 (9.01%) Project Delivery
15 86 (8.90%) Risk Management
15 86 (8.90%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 200 (20.70%) Python
2 188 (19.46%) SQL
3 88 (9.11%) Java
4 65 (6.73%) C#
5 63 (6.52%) PowerShell
6 45 (4.66%) JavaScript
7 30 (3.11%) C++
8 24 (2.48%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.86%) R
10 17 (1.76%) Bash
10 17 (1.76%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.93%) Bicep
12 8 (0.83%) C
12 8 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.52%) VBA
15 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
15 4 (0.41%) X++
Qualifications
1 227 (23.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 112 (11.59%) Master's Degree
3 86 (8.90%) Security Cleared
4 66 (6.83%) PMI Certification
5 64 (6.63%) SC Cleared
6 56 (5.80%) PMP
7 47 (4.87%) CISSP
8 36 (3.73%) PhD
9 34 (3.52%) Microsoft Certification
10 33 (3.42%) Azure Certification
11 25 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (2.38%) MBA
13 22 (2.28%) CISA
14 20 (2.07%) CISM
14 20 (2.07%) DV Cleared
15 16 (1.66%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.55%) ISTQB
17 12 (1.24%) CCNP
18 11 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
19 10 (1.04%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.94%) QA
2 60 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 41 (4.24%) PMO
4 37 (3.83%) NIST
5 34 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.48%) GDPR
7 20 (2.07%) SLA
8 19 (1.97%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (1.24%) GRC
11 10 (1.04%) COBIT
12 9 (0.93%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.72%) IFRS
14 7 (0.72%) P3O
15 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.41%) ITGC
16 4 (0.41%) MiFID
16 4 (0.41%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 80 (8.28%) Active Directory
2 56 (5.80%) Docker
3 22 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.72%) Firmware
4 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.62%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.41%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Squid
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.07%) Terraform
3 47 (4.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.90%) Ansible
5 18 (1.86%) SCCM
6 15 (1.55%) Grafana
7 13 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.62%) Control-M
9 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
9 5 (0.52%) Puppet
10 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
10 4 (0.41%) vMotion
11 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
11 3 (0.31%) Nagios
11 3 (0.31%) Packer
11 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.31%) WSUS
12 2 (0.21%) HP Fortify
12 2 (0.21%) Kibana
13 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 249 (25.78%) Microsoft
2 78 (8.07%) Oracle
3 52 (5.38%) Google
4 48 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.42%) SAP
6 29 (3.00%) VMware
7 28 (2.90%) Cisco
8 25 (2.59%) Citrix
9 24 (2.48%) Adobe
10 23 (2.38%) Salesforce
11 22 (2.28%) Databricks
12 15 (1.55%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.35%) Apple
13 13 (1.35%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.35%) Splunk
14 11 (1.14%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.14%) HP
14 11 (1.14%) Murex
15 10 (1.04%) IBM
15 10 (1.04%) Juniper