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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -14 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 917 981 1,432
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.15% 7.80% 8.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.07% 30.48% 33.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 629 851
10th Percentile £300 £341 £290
25th Percentile £408 £435 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £675
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £515 £511
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.76% -6.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 77
10th Percentile £18.18 £11.96 £14.96
25th Percentile £27.56 £20.24 £20.98
Median hourly rate £35.00 £35.92 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% +7.23% +13.56%
75th Percentile £53.06 £59.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.38 £67.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +22.64% +32.50% -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 5,075 3,218 4,258
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.50% 25.60% 24.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,621 2,174 2,875
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £656
90th Percentile £738 £758 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 59 112
10th Percentile £20.74 £18.39 £14.37
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.27 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.76% +16.28% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.68 £65.68
England median hourly rate £47.50 £44.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% -23.81%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -23 111 £500 -9.09% 373
West London -11 35 £334 -16.48% 82
South London +1 22 £450 -25.00% 51
East London -5 9 £568 +36.69% 78
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 42 (4.58%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.49%) Confluence
4 25 (2.73%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.55%) IIS
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Moodle
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.33%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) Appian
8 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 94 (10.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (8.18%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (6.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 44 (4.80%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (3.60%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.44%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.22%) InVision
7 2 (0.22%) Sketch
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
8 1 (0.11%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.87%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.87%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.65%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.55%) Shopify
6 4 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
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%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.22%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
8 2 (0.22%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 252 (27.48%) Azure
2 129 (14.07%) AWS
3 93 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (7.52%) Power Platform
5 55 (6.00%) SaaS
6 53 (5.78%) GCP
7 42 (4.58%) Entra ID
8 33 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (3.16%) GitHub
10 20 (2.18%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (2.18%) Snowflake
11 18 (1.96%) Serverless
12 17 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
12 17 (1.85%) PaaS
13 16 (1.74%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (1.74%) IaaS
13 16 (1.74%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.64%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (1.53%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.42%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (3.27%) Firewall
2 14 (1.53%) Network Security
2 14 (1.53%) VPN
3 11 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 11 (1.20%) WAN
4 10 (1.09%) LAN
5 9 (0.98%) BGP
5 9 (0.98%) DNS
6 8 (0.87%) HTTP
7 7 (0.76%) DHCP
7 7 (0.76%) DMZ
7 7 (0.76%) NetScaler
7 7 (0.76%) VXLAN
8 6 (0.65%) 3GPP
8 6 (0.65%) OSPF
9 5 (0.55%) IPv4
10 4 (0.44%) SSL
10 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.44%) VoIP
11 3 (0.33%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.78%) Power BI
2 47 (5.13%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.51%) Tableau
6 20 (2.18%) Big Data
7 19 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.74%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.74%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.20%) Metadata
11 8 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.87%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.76%) Power Query
12 7 (0.76%) Redis
13 6 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.55%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.55%) MySQL
14 5 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (7.63%) JIRA
2 56 (6.11%) Git
3 21 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.31%) MLflow
6 10 (1.09%) GitLab
6 10 (1.09%) Selenium
7 6 (0.65%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.55%) Subversion
8 5 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
9 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.44%) ERwin
9 4 (0.44%) Maven
9 4 (0.44%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.33%) Gradle
10 3 (0.33%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.33%) Toad
10 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 438 (47.76%) Social Skills
2 380 (41.44%) Finance
3 201 (21.92%) Analytical Skills
4 139 (15.16%) Banking
5 57 (6.22%) Presentation Skills
6 54 (5.89%) Marketing
6 54 (5.89%) Public Sector
7 40 (4.36%) Organisational Skills
8 38 (4.14%) Legal
9 37 (4.03%) Front Office
10 32 (3.49%) Retail
11 31 (3.38%) Investment Banking
12 27 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
13 22 (2.40%) Law
14 21 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.07%) Financial Institution
16 17 (1.85%) Manufacturing
17 16 (1.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 11 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 125 (13.63%) Senior
2 123 (13.41%) Analyst
3 99 (10.80%) Developer
4 78 (8.51%) Architect
5 77 (8.40%) Business Analyst
6 75 (8.18%) Lead
7 61 (6.65%) Project Manager
8 37 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
9 35 (3.82%) Consultant
10 33 (3.60%) Data Scientist
11 27 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
12 24 (2.62%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.29%) C# Developer
13 21 (2.29%) Senior Business Analyst
13 21 (2.29%) Senior Manager
13 21 (2.29%) Software Engineer
14 20 (2.18%) Delivery Manager
15 19 (2.07%) Technical Support
16 16 (1.74%) Support Specialist
17 15 (1.64%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (5.13%) .NET
2 34 (3.71%) REST
3 30 (3.27%) React
4 26 (2.84%) Middleware
5 24 (2.62%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (2.51%) .NET Framework
6 23 (2.51%) Kafka
6 23 (2.51%) Pandas
6 23 (2.51%) RESTful
7 22 (2.40%) PyTorch
8 21 (2.29%) HTML
9 17 (1.85%) TensorFlow
10 16 (1.74%) NumPy
11 14 (1.53%) XML
12 13 (1.42%) Node.js
12 13 (1.42%) PySpark
12 13 (1.42%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.31%) Spring
14 11 (1.20%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.20%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.11%) Management Information System
2 55 (6.00%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.80%) Cloud Native
4 42 (4.58%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.60%) Virtual Team
6 31 (3.38%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.27%) Derivative
8 28 (3.05%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.05%) Data Centre
8 28 (3.05%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (2.29%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (2.29%) Equities
10 21 (2.29%) PMI
11 19 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
12 17 (1.85%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.85%) Fixed Income
13 16 (1.74%) Equity Derivative
14 15 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
14 15 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 98 (10.69%) Windows
2 54 (5.89%) Linux
3 33 (3.60%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.40%) Unix
5 14 (1.53%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.98%) Android
8 8 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.76%) Apple iOS
9 7 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.44%) VMS
12 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 333 (36.31%) Computer Science
2 279 (30.43%) Agile
3 237 (25.85%) Problem-Solving
4 179 (19.52%) AI
5 148 (16.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 147 (16.03%) Analytics
7 146 (15.92%) DevOps
8 129 (14.07%) Project Management
9 121 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
10 120 (13.09%) CI/CD
11 114 (12.43%) Decision-Making
12 111 (12.10%) Risk Management
13 102 (11.12%) Migration
14 101 (11.01%) Roadmaps
15 93 (10.14%) Change Management
16 92 (10.03%) Project Delivery
17 84 (9.16%) Software Engineering
18 79 (8.62%) Business Intelligence
18 79 (8.62%) Scrum
19 77 (8.40%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 192 (20.94%) Python
2 168 (18.32%) SQL
3 71 (7.74%) Java
4 60 (6.54%) C#
5 52 (5.67%) PowerShell
6 42 (4.58%) C++
7 31 (3.38%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.18%) R
10 14 (1.53%) PL/SQL
10 14 (1.53%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.09%) Bash
12 8 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.76%) Scala
14 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.55%) C
15 5 (0.55%) Go
15 5 (0.55%) Rust
16 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.33%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 233 (25.41%) Computer Science Degree
2 139 (15.16%) Master's Degree
3 87 (9.49%) Security Cleared
4 67 (7.31%) SC Cleared
5 63 (6.87%) PMI Certification
6 50 (5.45%) PMP
7 42 (4.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.47%) CISSP
9 38 (4.14%) PhD
10 32 (3.49%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.51%) CBAP
12 21 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (2.29%) CISM
13 18 (1.96%) CRISC
13 18 (1.96%) MBA
14 17 (1.85%) IIBA
15 16 (1.74%) CISA
16 14 (1.53%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.53%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (8.94%) QA
2 46 (5.02%) GDPR
3 42 (4.58%) Data Quality
4 41 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (4.47%) PMO
5 38 (4.14%) NIST
6 28 (3.05%) SLA
7 17 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.74%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.64%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.53%) GRC
11 10 (1.09%) COBIT
11 10 (1.09%) IFRS
12 7 (0.76%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.65%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.65%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.65%) WCAG
14 5 (0.55%) Basel III
14 5 (0.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 61 (6.65%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.78%) Docker
3 10 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.87%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.65%) Firmware
7 5 (0.55%) XenApp
7 5 (0.55%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.33%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
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%) PowerHA
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 49 (5.34%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
3 38 (4.14%) Terraform
4 22 (2.40%) SCCM
5 20 (2.18%) Ansible
6 16 (1.74%) Grafana
7 11 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.55%) SCOM
9 5 (0.55%) SCVMM
10 4 (0.44%) Control-M
10 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.33%) Puppet
11 3 (0.33%) WSUS
12 2 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
12 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.11%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 231 (25.19%) Microsoft
2 72 (7.85%) Oracle
3 39 (4.25%) Google
4 30 (3.27%) SAP
4 30 (3.27%) ServiceNow
5 28 (3.05%) Citrix
5 28 (3.05%) Databricks
6 20 (2.18%) Cisco
6 20 (2.18%) Salesforce
7 13 (1.42%) Adobe
7 13 (1.42%) Informatica
8 12 (1.31%) Bloomberg
8 12 (1.31%) Palo Alto
8 12 (1.31%) Software AG
8 12 (1.31%) Splunk
8 12 (1.31%) VMware
9 10 (1.09%) Juniper
10 8 (0.87%) Apple
10 8 (0.87%) Charles River
10 8 (0.87%) Murex