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 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -18 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 926 941 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.90% 7.63% 8.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.48% 29.77% 34.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 598 867
10th Percentile £280 £341 £300
25th Percentile £406 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +6.80% -9.25%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £650
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £500 £504 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +0.80% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 78
10th Percentile £16.16 £11.96 £15.07
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.05
Median hourly rate £30.03 £40.50 £34.87
Median % change year-on-year -25.85% +16.16% +32.82%
75th Percentile £55.44 £63.13 £46.56
90th Percentile £64.38 £68.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +5.00% +24.22% -15.26%

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 5,297 3,161 4,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.01% 25.64% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,119 2,859
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +0.38% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £767
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 64 113
10th Percentile £19.12 £19.05 £14.49
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.75 £27.83 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.77% +11.30% -51.46%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £68.38 £68.60
England median hourly rate £51.22 £30.31 £41.27
% change year-on-year +69.02% -26.56% -24.97%

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 15 June 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 15 June 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 15 June 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 -31 94 £501 -12.96% 207
West London -10 42 £347 -14.32% 80
South London -2 14 £215 -65.64% 15
East London -4 9 £568 +17.60% 46
North London +2 2 £550 +33.33% 11
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 48 (5.18%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.46%) Confluence
4 18 (1.94%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.97%) IIS
7 5 (0.54%) Apache
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.54%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.43%) Camunda
9 3 (0.32%) Appian
9 3 (0.32%) CMS
9 3 (0.32%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
11 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 86 (9.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (6.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.21%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (3.02%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.54%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.22%) Trello
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.86%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.54%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.43%) HFM
5 4 (0.43%) Magento
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.22%) Actimize
7 2 (0.22%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle BPM
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.22%) Shopify
7 2 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 236 (25.49%) Azure
2 145 (15.66%) AWS
3 86 (9.29%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.24%) Power Platform
5 59 (6.37%) GCP
6 52 (5.62%) Entra ID
7 37 (4.00%) SaaS
8 35 (3.78%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (3.46%) GitHub
10 25 (2.70%) Snowflake
11 18 (1.94%) Serverless
12 17 (1.84%) PaaS
13 14 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.51%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.51%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.40%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.40%) IaaS
15 12 (1.30%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.78%) Firewall
2 21 (2.27%) Network Security
3 16 (1.73%) VPN
4 14 (1.51%) TCP/IP
5 13 (1.40%) WAN
6 10 (1.08%) LAN
7 9 (0.97%) BGP
7 9 (0.97%) DNS
7 9 (0.97%) VoIP
8 8 (0.86%) 3GPP
8 8 (0.86%) VXLAN
9 7 (0.76%) DHCP
9 7 (0.76%) DMZ
10 6 (0.65%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.65%) NetScaler
10 6 (0.65%) OSPF
10 6 (0.65%) Wireless
11 5 (0.54%) SSL
11 5 (0.54%) Unified Communications
12 4 (0.43%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.05%) Power BI
2 51 (5.51%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
4 28 (3.02%) PostgreSQL
5 27 (2.92%) Tableau
6 19 (2.05%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.94%) MongoDB
7 18 (1.94%) NoSQL
8 17 (1.84%) Big Data
9 14 (1.51%) Metadata
10 12 (1.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 10 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.08%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (0.97%) Oracle Database
13 8 (0.86%) Data Lake
13 8 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (0.86%) Hadoop
13 8 (0.86%) Redis
14 6 (0.65%) Power Query
15 5 (0.54%) KDB
Development Applications
1 67 (7.24%) JIRA
2 61 (6.59%) Git
3 20 (2.16%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.51%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.40%) MLflow
6 12 (1.30%) GitLab
7 9 (0.97%) Selenium
8 7 (0.76%) Subversion
9 6 (0.65%) Maven
10 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.54%) Gradle
10 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.54%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.43%) ERwin
11 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.32%) Toad
12 3 (0.32%) Vite
General
1 427 (46.11%) Social Skills
2 393 (42.44%) Finance
3 198 (21.38%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (13.93%) Banking
5 65 (7.02%) Marketing
6 61 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
7 58 (6.26%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (6.05%) Legal
9 50 (5.40%) Public Sector
10 37 (4.00%) Retail
11 35 (3.78%) Front Office
12 30 (3.24%) Investment Banking
13 25 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.48%) Law
15 22 (2.38%) Financial Institution
15 22 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 20 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
17 19 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 15 (1.62%) Manufacturing
18 15 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 137 (14.79%) Analyst
2 128 (13.82%) Senior
3 104 (11.23%) Developer
4 83 (8.96%) Business Analyst
4 83 (8.96%) Lead
5 81 (8.75%) Architect
6 61 (6.59%) Project Manager
7 46 (4.97%) Solutions Architect
8 27 (2.92%) Data Scientist
8 27 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
8 27 (2.92%) Software Engineer
9 26 (2.81%) Consultant
9 26 (2.81%) Senior Manager
10 23 (2.48%) C# Developer
11 22 (2.38%) Senior Business Analyst
12 21 (2.27%) Data Engineer
13 19 (2.05%) Delivery Manager
14 18 (1.94%) Data Analyst
15 17 (1.84%) Security Engineer
15 17 (1.84%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.18%) .NET
2 45 (4.86%) REST
3 33 (3.56%) React
4 27 (2.92%) .NET Framework
5 23 (2.48%) Kafka
6 22 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
7 20 (2.16%) HTML
7 20 (2.16%) RESTful
8 19 (2.05%) Middleware
8 19 (2.05%) Pandas
9 17 (1.84%) PySpark
10 14 (1.51%) AngularJS
11 13 (1.40%) Spring
12 12 (1.30%) PyTorch
12 12 (1.30%) Web Services
12 12 (1.30%) XML
13 11 (1.19%) Node.js
13 11 (1.19%) NumPy
13 11 (1.19%) scikit-learn
14 10 (1.08%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.16%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.72%) Management Information System
3 42 (4.54%) Cloud Native
4 41 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (4.32%) Product Ownership
6 31 (3.35%) Data Centre
7 30 (3.24%) Virtual Team
8 29 (3.13%) Algorithms
8 29 (3.13%) Derivative
9 27 (2.92%) Distributed Systems
10 23 (2.48%) Fixed Income
11 21 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (2.16%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 19 (2.05%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.94%) PMI
15 17 (1.84%) Equities
16 15 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (1.51%) Data Structures
17 14 (1.51%) Greenfield Project
17 14 (1.51%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 110 (11.88%) Windows
2 54 (5.83%) Linux
3 28 (3.02%) Windows Server
4 26 (2.81%) Unix
5 19 (2.05%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.40%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.08%) Android
7 10 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.22%) CentOS
11 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 317 (34.23%) Computer Science
2 271 (29.27%) Agile
3 244 (26.35%) Problem-Solving
4 186 (20.09%) AI
5 155 (16.74%) Analytics
6 147 (15.87%) DevOps
7 146 (15.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 129 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
9 121 (13.07%) CI/CD
10 116 (12.53%) Project Management
11 112 (12.10%) Decision-Making
12 107 (11.56%) Migration
13 98 (10.58%) Roadmaps
14 95 (10.26%) Risk Management
15 93 (10.04%) Project Delivery
16 91 (9.83%) Software Engineering
17 84 (9.07%) Change Management
17 84 (9.07%) Scrum
18 78 (8.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 77 (8.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 189 (20.41%) Python
2 181 (19.55%) SQL
3 79 (8.53%) Java
4 61 (6.59%) C#
5 55 (5.94%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.21%) JavaScript
7 32 (3.46%) C++
8 17 (1.84%) R
8 17 (1.84%) TypeScript
9 15 (1.62%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.30%) T-SQL
11 10 (1.08%) Bash
12 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.76%) 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 3 (0.32%) Go
16 3 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 210 (22.68%) Computer Science Degree
2 125 (13.50%) Master's Degree
3 85 (9.18%) Security Cleared
4 63 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 61 (6.59%) PMI Certification
6 52 (5.62%) CISSP
7 48 (5.18%) PMP
8 36 (3.89%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (3.56%) PhD
10 32 (3.46%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
11 26 (2.81%) CISM
12 23 (2.48%) CBAP
13 21 (2.27%) CISA
14 19 (2.05%) CRISC
15 18 (1.94%) MBA
16 17 (1.84%) IIBA
17 16 (1.73%) BPSS Clearance
18 15 (1.62%) AWS Certification
19 12 (1.30%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.45%) QA
2 53 (5.72%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.86%) GDPR
4 44 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 43 (4.64%) PMO
6 40 (4.32%) NIST
7 23 (2.48%) SLA
8 19 (2.05%) PCI DSS
8 19 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.94%) Accessibility
10 17 (1.84%) GRC
11 10 (1.08%) COBIT
11 10 (1.08%) IFRS
12 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.76%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.54%) IFRS 17
16 4 (0.43%) ITGC
16 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 68 (7.34%) Active Directory
2 56 (6.05%) Docker
3 13 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.08%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.65%) Firmware
6 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.43%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) XenApp
7 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) IAG
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (6.05%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
3 39 (4.21%) Terraform
4 26 (2.81%) Ansible
5 18 (1.94%) SCCM
6 14 (1.51%) Grafana
7 13 (1.40%) 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
9 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.43%) vMotion
10 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.32%) Nagios
10 3 (0.32%) Packer
10 3 (0.32%) Puppet
10 3 (0.32%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 219 (23.65%) Microsoft
2 76 (8.21%) Oracle
3 41 (4.43%) Google
4 35 (3.78%) ServiceNow
5 34 (3.67%) Citrix
6 24 (2.59%) Cisco
6 24 (2.59%) SAP
7 20 (2.16%) Databricks
8 19 (2.05%) Salesforce
9 17 (1.84%) Palo Alto
10 14 (1.51%) Adobe
10 14 (1.51%) VMware
11 12 (1.30%) Bloomberg
11 12 (1.30%) Informatica
12 11 (1.19%) Juniper
12 11 (1.19%) Splunk
13 10 (1.08%) HP
13 10 (1.08%) Murex
14 9 (0.97%) Apple
15 8 (0.86%) CheckPoint