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 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -5 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 981 1,011 1,446
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.01% 7.79% 7.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.37% 30.63% 32.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 660 880
10th Percentile £318 £325 £282
25th Percentile £413 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £875 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 27 72
10th Percentile £21.16 £27.57 £14.37
25th Percentile £26.50 £34.00 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.58 £43.00 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +20.77% +9.23%
75th Percentile £57.50 £59.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £87.25 £65.25 £74.88
England median hourly rate £45.46 £52.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year -13.41% +37.70% -15.28%

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 4,816 3,301 4,405
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.49% 25.44% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,427 2,199 2,951
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £658 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 66 126
10th Percentile £20.54 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £20.04
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +15.99% -20.70%
75th Percentile £73.75 £56.19 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £27.69 £51.50 £38.85
% change year-on-year -46.23% +32.56% -22.30%

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 16 March 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 16 March 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 16 March 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 -7 136 £550 - 265
West London -4 33 £359 -9.32% 59
South London -3 24 £500 -31.03% 13
East London +1 6 £585 +23.16% 46
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 45 (4.59%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.87%) Confluence
3 32 (3.26%) Microsoft Exchange
4 29 (2.96%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.51%) CMS
7 5 (0.51%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.31%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.31%) Oracle Workflow
8 3 (0.31%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.20%) Drupal
9 2 (0.20%) IIS
9 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.20%) SAS
10 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
10 1 (0.10%) Apache
10 1 (0.10%) Luigi
10 1 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 106 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (7.54%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (6.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 49 (4.99%) Microsoft Project
5 36 (3.67%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.71%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.51%) Trello
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.20%) InVision
8 2 (0.20%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.10%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.10%) Oracle Smart View
Business Applications
1 11 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 8 (0.82%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.71%) Aladdin
3 7 (0.71%) Oracle General Ledger
4 5 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.41%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
5 4 (0.41%) Shopify
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 3 (0.31%) SimCorp Dimension
6 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
Cloud Services
1 268 (27.32%) Azure
2 125 (12.74%) AWS
3 103 (10.50%) Microsoft 365
4 76 (7.75%) Power Platform
5 71 (7.24%) SaaS
6 68 (6.93%) GCP
7 55 (5.61%) Entra ID
8 44 (4.49%) GitHub
9 41 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
10 22 (2.24%) Microsoft Purview
11 21 (2.14%) Dynamics 365
11 21 (2.14%) Serverless
11 21 (2.14%) Snowflake
12 20 (2.04%) PaaS
13 19 (1.94%) IaaS
14 16 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
14 16 (1.63%) Power Automate
15 15 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
15 15 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
15 15 (1.53%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.47%) Firewall
2 17 (1.73%) Network Security
3 14 (1.43%) LAN
3 14 (1.43%) VPN
4 13 (1.33%) WAN
5 10 (1.02%) HTTP
6 9 (0.92%) DNS
7 8 (0.82%) DHCP
7 8 (0.82%) NetScaler
8 7 (0.71%) SSL
8 7 (0.71%) VoIP
9 6 (0.61%) BGP
9 6 (0.61%) IPv4
10 5 (0.51%) CTI
10 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.41%) 3GPP
11 4 (0.41%) OSPF
11 4 (0.41%) Structured Cabling
11 4 (0.41%) Wi-Fi
11 4 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.91%) Power BI
2 44 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 29 (2.96%) Tableau
4 28 (2.85%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (2.04%) Big Data
7 18 (1.83%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.73%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.22%) Metadata
9 12 (1.22%) Relational Database
10 11 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.92%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.92%) MySQL
12 7 (0.71%) BigQuery
12 7 (0.71%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (0.61%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.61%) Redis
14 5 (0.51%) DB2
14 5 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (7.95%) JIRA
2 60 (6.12%) Git
3 19 (1.94%) Visual Studio
4 18 (1.83%) Jenkins
5 10 (1.02%) MLflow
5 10 (1.02%) Selenium
6 7 (0.71%) GitLab
7 6 (0.61%) Bitbucket
7 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.51%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.41%) ERwin
9 4 (0.41%) Postman
10 3 (0.31%) Hardhat
10 3 (0.31%) Oracle APEX
10 3 (0.31%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.31%) Toad
10 3 (0.31%) Vite
11 2 (0.20%) Axure RP
General
1 458 (46.69%) Social Skills
2 418 (42.61%) Finance
3 234 (23.85%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (15.19%) Banking
5 63 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
7 52 (5.30%) Marketing
8 49 (4.99%) Front Office
9 41 (4.18%) Legal
10 38 (3.87%) Investment Banking
11 33 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.85%) Influencing Skills
13 27 (2.75%) Financial Institution
13 27 (2.75%) Retail
14 24 (2.45%) Documentation Skills
15 23 (2.34%) Telecoms
16 21 (2.14%) Manufacturing
17 20 (2.04%) Law
18 19 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 19 (1.94%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (13.25%) Senior
2 127 (12.95%) Analyst
3 116 (11.82%) Developer
4 87 (8.87%) Business Analyst
5 76 (7.75%) Architect
5 76 (7.75%) Lead
6 69 (7.03%) Project Manager
7 52 (5.30%) Consultant
8 33 (3.36%) Data Scientist
9 31 (3.16%) Solutions Architect
10 27 (2.75%) Software Engineer
11 26 (2.65%) Senior Analyst
12 22 (2.24%) Data Engineer
13 20 (2.04%) Senior Business Analyst
13 20 (2.04%) Senior Manager
13 20 (2.04%) Technical Support
14 19 (1.94%) C# Developer
14 19 (1.94%) Delivery Manager
14 19 (1.94%) Security Engineer
15 18 (1.83%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (4.89%) .NET
2 34 (3.47%) React
3 28 (2.85%) REST
4 26 (2.65%) Middleware
5 25 (2.55%) HTML
6 23 (2.34%) PyTorch
6 23 (2.34%) RESTful
7 21 (2.14%) Oracle Fusion
8 20 (2.04%) TensorFlow
9 19 (1.94%) Pandas
10 18 (1.83%) CSS
10 18 (1.83%) Kafka
11 17 (1.73%) Node.js
11 17 (1.73%) OAuth
11 17 (1.73%) XML
12 16 (1.63%) .NET Framework
12 16 (1.63%) NumPy
13 15 (1.53%) JSON
14 14 (1.43%) LangChain
14 14 (1.43%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 65 (6.63%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.50%) Cloud Native
2 54 (5.50%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.49%) Derivative
3 44 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 35 (3.57%) Data Centre
6 33 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 33 (3.36%) Virtual Team
7 32 (3.26%) Equities
8 28 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
8 28 (2.85%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.65%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (2.34%) Fixed Income
10 23 (2.34%) Greenfield Project
11 22 (2.24%) Equity Derivative
11 22 (2.24%) Life Science
12 21 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
12 21 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (2.14%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 99 (10.09%) Windows
2 50 (5.10%) Linux
3 34 (3.47%) Windows Server
4 33 (3.36%) Unix
5 17 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.02%) Android
7 9 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
8 7 (0.71%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.71%) Mac OS
9 6 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.51%) VMS
11 3 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (37.92%) Computer Science
2 312 (31.80%) Agile
3 279 (28.44%) Problem-Solving
4 185 (18.86%) AI
5 168 (17.13%) Stakeholder Management
6 159 (16.21%) Analytics
7 158 (16.11%) DevOps
8 146 (14.88%) Risk Management
9 136 (13.86%) CI/CD
10 129 (13.15%) Project Management
11 116 (11.82%) Decision-Making
12 108 (11.01%) Continuous Improvement
13 106 (10.81%) Roadmaps
14 105 (10.70%) Migration
15 104 (10.60%) Change Management
16 101 (10.30%) Project Delivery
17 99 (10.09%) Machine Learning
17 99 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 90 (9.17%) Software Engineering
19 88 (8.97%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 220 (22.43%) Python
2 182 (18.55%) SQL
3 82 (8.36%) Java
4 66 (6.73%) PowerShell
5 52 (5.30%) C++
6 51 (5.20%) C#
7 47 (4.79%) JavaScript
8 30 (3.06%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.73%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.73%) R
10 14 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 12 (1.22%) Bash
12 7 (0.71%) Bicep
12 7 (0.71%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.71%) Scala
13 6 (0.61%) Go
13 6 (0.61%) Rust
14 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.51%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 253 (25.79%) Computer Science Degree
2 179 (18.25%) Master's Degree
3 90 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 68 (6.93%) PMI Certification
5 67 (6.83%) SC Cleared
6 56 (5.71%) PMP
7 52 (5.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 46 (4.69%) PhD
9 44 (4.49%) CISSP
10 39 (3.98%) Azure Certification
11 25 (2.55%) CBAP
12 24 (2.45%) CISM
13 23 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (2.04%) IIBA
15 19 (1.94%) Numerate Degree
16 18 (1.83%) MBA
17 15 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.53%) MCSE
18 13 (1.33%) AWS Certification
18 13 (1.33%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.26%) QA
2 59 (6.01%) GDPR
3 42 (4.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (3.87%) PMO
5 36 (3.67%) Data Quality
5 36 (3.67%) NIST
6 24 (2.45%) SLA
7 19 (1.94%) PCI DSS
8 17 (1.73%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.53%) GRC
10 10 (1.02%) IFRS
10 10 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.92%) IFRS 17
12 8 (0.82%) COBIT
12 8 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.82%) WCAG
13 7 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.71%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.61%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.51%) MiFID
System Software
1 75 (7.65%) Active Directory
2 71 (7.24%) Docker
3 10 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.61%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.51%) XenApp
6 5 (0.51%) XenDesktop
7 4 (0.41%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) BitLocker
8 2 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.10%) HDFS
9 1 (0.10%) IAG
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.10%) PowerHA
9 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 49 (4.99%) Microsoft Intune
3 45 (4.59%) Terraform
4 24 (2.45%) SCCM
5 12 (1.22%) Ansible
5 12 (1.22%) Grafana
6 11 (1.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 8 (0.82%) Prometheus
8 6 (0.61%) SCOM
9 5 (0.51%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.31%) Argo
10 3 (0.31%) Control-M
10 3 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.31%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.31%) Puppet
11 2 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.10%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.10%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 243 (24.77%) Microsoft
2 75 (7.65%) Oracle
3 48 (4.89%) Google
4 36 (3.67%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.47%) SAP
6 33 (3.36%) Databricks
7 25 (2.55%) Cisco
8 24 (2.45%) Citrix
9 22 (2.24%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.53%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.43%) Informatica
12 12 (1.22%) Software AG
13 11 (1.12%) Juniper
13 11 (1.12%) Murex
13 11 (1.12%) VMware
14 10 (1.02%) Bloomberg
15 9 (0.92%) Adobe
15 9 (0.92%) Splunk
16 7 (0.71%) HP
16 7 (0.71%) Remedy