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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -17 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 927 945 1,403
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.02% 7.77% 8.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.85% 30.03% 34.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 599 846
10th Percentile £298 £350 £295
25th Percentile £413 £428 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £664 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £500 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -2.08% +2.13% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 80
10th Percentile £16.28 £11.96 £15.31
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.18
Median hourly rate £32.07 £28.41 £34.87
Median % change year-on-year +12.87% -18.51% +26.78%
75th Percentile £56.63 £60.88 £47.81
90th Percentile £65.20 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £51.25 £40.13
% change year-on-year +7.32% +27.73% -13.24%

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 5,193 3,147 4,115
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.11% 25.87% 23.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,717 2,114 2,816
10th Percentile £372 £362 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.52% -6.54%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 61 113
10th Percentile £19.22 £20.00 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.25 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +11.41% -49.75%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £67.40
England median hourly rate £47.50 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +46.15% -18.75% -27.27%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -26 97 £500 -11.46% 121
West London -16 39 £372 -7.10% 46
South London -6 16 £332 -46.82% 16
East London -6 9 £568 +36.69% 26
North London -1 1 - - 12
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 46 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.88%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.13%) Confluence
4 22 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.51%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.76%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.43%) Appian
8 4 (0.43%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
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%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 96 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (8.20%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (6.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.42%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (3.13%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.54%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.32%) Trello
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.86%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.43%) HFM
4 4 (0.43%) Magento
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.43%) Shopify
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 242 (26.11%) Azure
2 145 (15.64%) AWS
3 89 (9.60%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (6.69%) Power Platform
5 53 (5.72%) GCP
6 49 (5.29%) Entra ID
7 41 (4.42%) SaaS
8 32 (3.45%) GitHub
9 30 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.48%) Snowflake
11 17 (1.83%) Serverless
12 16 (1.73%) PaaS
13 14 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.51%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.40%) IaaS
15 12 (1.29%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.29%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.13%) Firewall
2 19 (2.05%) Network Security
3 13 (1.40%) WAN
4 12 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.29%) VPN
5 11 (1.19%) LAN
6 9 (0.97%) BGP
7 8 (0.86%) VoIP
7 8 (0.86%) VXLAN
8 7 (0.76%) DMZ
9 6 (0.65%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.65%) DNS
9 6 (0.65%) NetScaler
9 6 (0.65%) OSPF
10 5 (0.54%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.43%) DHCP
11 4 (0.43%) HTTP
11 4 (0.43%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.43%) SSL
11 4 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.61%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.29%) Power BI
3 27 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (2.70%) Tableau
5 19 (2.05%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.83%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.62%) Big Data
9 13 (1.40%) Metadata
10 11 (1.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.97%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (0.86%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.86%) Redis
13 7 (0.76%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.65%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.65%) Power Query
15 5 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.54%) KDB
Development Applications
1 68 (7.34%) JIRA
2 58 (6.26%) Git
3 20 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.29%) GitLab
5 12 (1.29%) MLflow
6 9 (0.97%) Selenium
7 7 (0.76%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.76%) Subversion
8 6 (0.65%) Gradle
8 6 (0.65%) Maven
9 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.54%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.54%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.43%) ERwin
10 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.32%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.32%) Toad
11 3 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 430 (46.39%) Social Skills
2 394 (42.50%) Finance
3 198 (21.36%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (14.46%) Banking
5 58 (6.26%) Marketing
5 58 (6.26%) Presentation Skills
6 51 (5.50%) Organisational Skills
7 50 (5.39%) Public Sector
8 49 (5.29%) Legal
9 39 (4.21%) Front Office
10 36 (3.88%) Investment Banking
11 33 (3.56%) Retail
12 27 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.48%) Law
14 20 (2.16%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.05%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.83%) Manufacturing
18 12 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 130 (14.02%) Senior
2 129 (13.92%) Analyst
3 109 (11.76%) Developer
4 83 (8.95%) Architect
4 83 (8.95%) Lead
5 76 (8.20%) Business Analyst
6 60 (6.47%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.53%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.02%) Data Scientist
9 26 (2.80%) Consultant
9 26 (2.80%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (2.80%) Software Engineer
10 23 (2.48%) C# Developer
10 23 (2.48%) Data Engineer
11 21 (2.27%) Delivery Manager
11 21 (2.27%) Senior Business Analyst
11 21 (2.27%) Senior Manager
12 19 (2.05%) Senior Developer
13 18 (1.94%) Data Analyst
14 17 (1.83%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.18%) .NET
2 43 (4.64%) REST
3 33 (3.56%) React
4 26 (2.80%) .NET Framework
4 26 (2.80%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (2.59%) Kafka
6 23 (2.48%) Middleware
7 22 (2.37%) RESTful
8 21 (2.27%) Pandas
9 20 (2.16%) HTML
10 18 (1.94%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.62%) PySpark
12 14 (1.51%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.51%) Spring
12 14 (1.51%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.40%) Node.js
13 13 (1.40%) NumPy
13 13 (1.40%) scikit-learn
14 12 (1.29%) CSS
15 11 (1.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.83%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.61%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.64%) Cloud Native
4 42 (4.53%) Product Ownership
5 36 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (3.56%) Derivative
6 33 (3.56%) Virtual Team
7 31 (3.34%) Algorithms
8 30 (3.24%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.91%) Data Centre
10 23 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (2.37%) Fixed Income
12 21 (2.27%) Equities
13 19 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 19 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (2.05%) PMI
14 18 (1.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (1.73%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.73%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 105 (11.33%) Windows
2 51 (5.50%) Linux
3 28 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.59%) Unix
5 17 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.29%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.08%) Android
7 10 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.32%) VMS
12 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (35.49%) Computer Science
2 273 (29.45%) Agile
3 242 (26.11%) Problem-Solving
4 182 (19.63%) AI
5 151 (16.29%) Analytics
6 142 (15.32%) DevOps
7 137 (14.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 126 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (13.16%) CI/CD
9 122 (13.16%) Project Management
10 109 (11.76%) Decision-Making
11 103 (11.11%) Migration
12 102 (11.00%) Risk Management
13 97 (10.46%) Roadmaps
14 94 (10.14%) Software Engineering
15 89 (9.60%) Project Delivery
16 83 (8.95%) Change Management
17 80 (8.63%) Scrum
18 77 (8.31%) Mathematics
19 76 (8.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 197 (21.25%) Python
2 179 (19.31%) SQL
3 86 (9.28%) Java
4 61 (6.58%) C#
5 54 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.42%) C++
7 38 (4.10%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.05%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.83%) R
10 14 (1.51%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.08%) Bash
13 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.65%) C
14 6 (0.65%) Scala
14 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.54%) Bicep
15 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.43%) Go
16 4 (0.43%) Rust
Qualifications
1 215 (23.19%) Computer Science Degree
2 134 (14.46%) Master's Degree
3 87 (9.39%) Security Cleared
4 67 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 59 (6.36%) PMI Certification
6 48 (5.18%) CISSP
7 47 (5.07%) PMP
8 37 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
8 37 (3.99%) PhD
9 36 (3.88%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.70%) CISM
11 24 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (2.37%) CBAP
13 18 (1.94%) CISA
13 18 (1.94%) CRISC
13 18 (1.94%) MBA
14 17 (1.83%) IIBA
15 16 (1.73%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.62%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (1.40%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.77%) QA
2 52 (5.61%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.53%) GDPR
4 42 (4.53%) PMO
5 38 (4.10%) NIST
6 26 (2.80%) SLA
7 18 (1.94%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.73%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.51%) GRC
10 10 (1.08%) COBIT
10 10 (1.08%) IFRS
11 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.54%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.43%) ITGC
14 4 (0.43%) NCSC
14 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 62 (6.69%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.72%) Docker
3 9 (0.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.65%) Firmware
6 5 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) XenApp
7 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) IAG
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (4.10%) Terraform
4 19 (2.05%) SCCM
5 18 (1.94%) Ansible
6 14 (1.51%) Grafana
7 12 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.43%) Control-M
9 4 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.43%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.32%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 226 (24.38%) Microsoft
2 81 (8.74%) Oracle
3 34 (3.67%) Google
4 31 (3.34%) Citrix
4 31 (3.34%) ServiceNow
5 25 (2.70%) SAP
6 24 (2.59%) Databricks
7 22 (2.37%) Cisco
8 18 (1.94%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.51%) Palo Alto
10 13 (1.40%) Informatica
11 12 (1.29%) Adobe
11 12 (1.29%) Bloomberg
12 11 (1.19%) Juniper
12 11 (1.19%) Splunk
13 10 (1.08%) Murex
13 10 (1.08%) Software AG
13 10 (1.08%) VMware
14 8 (0.86%) Apple
14 8 (0.86%) CheckPoint