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 8 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 23 24
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,035 1,285 1,466
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.24% 8.24% 7.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.86% 32.22% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 661 784 961
10th Percentile £325 £323 £300
25th Percentile £413 £447 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £863 £800
England median daily rate £518 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.42% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 33 26
10th Percentile £24.50 £18.00 £18.89
25th Percentile £25.61 £31.62 £23.60
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -13.33% -
75th Percentile £58.63 £53.75 £64.88
90th Percentile £66.50 £67.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £36.23 £43.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.74% -14.00% +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 4,003 3,988 4,595
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.00% 25.56% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,799 2,531 3,069
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £665
90th Percentile £745 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 53 95
10th Percentile £19.33 £20.25 £19.35
25th Percentile - £27.00 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +11.70%
75th Percentile £43.31 £60.75 £65.43
90th Percentile £72.91 £83.20 £85.05
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025.

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 8 December 2025. 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 0 175 £550 +3.77% 182
South London +6 31 £525 -19.23% 37
West London 0 30 £208 -44.67% 60
East London -10 6 £900 +70.62% 47
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 67 (6.47%) Confluence
2 46 (4.44%) SharePoint
3 25 (2.42%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
5 12 (1.16%) nginx
6 10 (0.97%) IIS
7 7 (0.68%) CMS
8 5 (0.48%) Luigi
9 4 (0.39%) SAS
10 3 (0.29%) Apache
10 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.19%) Alfresco
11 2 (0.19%) Moodle
11 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.097%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 111 (10.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (6.38%) Microsoft Project
4 65 (6.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (3.29%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.77%) Trello
8 5 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.19%) InVision
9 2 (0.19%) Sketch
10 1 (0.097%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.097%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.097%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.097%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.35%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS R12
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle General Ledger
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.68%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.58%) Endur
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle Assets
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 6 (0.58%) Oracle Financials
5 6 (0.58%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.58%) SAP EWM
5 6 (0.58%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.39%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.29%) FLEXCUBE
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
7 3 (0.29%) Shopify
8 2 (0.19%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 249 (24.06%) Azure
2 129 (12.46%) AWS
3 82 (7.92%) Microsoft 365
4 69 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 65 (6.28%) GCP
6 61 (5.89%) SaaS
7 54 (5.22%) GitHub
8 47 (4.54%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (4.54%) Entra ID
9 24 (2.32%) Amazon ECS
10 22 (2.13%) Amazon S3
10 22 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
11 19 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
11 19 (1.84%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.84%) Serverless
12 17 (1.64%) PaaS
13 16 (1.55%) IaaS
13 16 (1.55%) Miro
13 16 (1.55%) PowerApps
14 15 (1.45%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.15%) Firewall
2 33 (3.19%) DNS
3 23 (2.22%) HTTP
4 22 (2.13%) VPN
5 17 (1.64%) DHCP
6 16 (1.55%) Network Security
7 15 (1.45%) LAN
8 14 (1.35%) WAN
9 13 (1.26%) SMTP
9 13 (1.26%) SSH
9 13 (1.26%) TCP/IP
10 10 (0.97%) FTP
10 10 (0.97%) IMAP
10 10 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (0.87%) VoIP
12 5 (0.48%) CTI
12 5 (0.48%) SSL
12 5 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
13 4 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.02%) Power BI
2 41 (3.96%) SQL Server
3 34 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
3 34 (3.29%) Tableau
4 23 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.93%) Relational Database
6 17 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (1.45%) NoSQL
8 14 (1.35%) Big Data
9 12 (1.16%) MySQL
10 11 (1.06%) MongoDB
11 10 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
11 10 (0.97%) BigQuery
11 10 (0.97%) Data Lake
11 10 (0.97%) Metadata
12 9 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.58%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.48%) Data Mart
14 5 (0.48%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.48%) Redis
Development Applications
1 120 (11.59%) JIRA
2 58 (5.60%) Git
3 32 (3.09%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.26%) Postman
5 11 (1.06%) Selenium
5 11 (1.06%) Vagrant
5 11 (1.06%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.87%) GitLab
7 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.77%) SpecFlow
8 6 (0.58%) JUnit
8 6 (0.58%) MLflow
9 5 (0.48%) Appium
9 5 (0.48%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (0.48%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.48%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.48%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 494 (47.73%) Social Skills
2 477 (46.09%) Finance
3 245 (23.67%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (16.81%) Banking
5 67 (6.47%) Presentation Skills
6 61 (5.89%) Public Sector
7 57 (5.51%) Marketing
8 56 (5.41%) Front Office
9 48 (4.64%) Investment Banking
10 37 (3.57%) Legal
11 35 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
11 35 (3.38%) Telecoms
12 34 (3.29%) Financial Institution
13 30 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 25 (2.42%) Back Office
15 25 (2.42%) Manufacturing
15 25 (2.42%) Retail
16 24 (2.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 21 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (14.20%) Analyst
2 130 (12.56%) Developer
3 127 (12.27%) Senior
4 100 (9.66%) Business Analyst
5 82 (7.92%) Project Manager
6 70 (6.76%) Architect
7 62 (5.99%) Lead
8 55 (5.31%) Consultant
9 38 (3.67%) Software Engineer
10 28 (2.71%) Data Scientist
10 28 (2.71%) Senior Developer
11 22 (2.13%) IT Manager
12 21 (2.03%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (1.93%) Data Engineer
14 19 (1.84%) Platform Engineer
14 19 (1.84%) Senior Software Engineer
15 18 (1.74%) Senior Manager
16 17 (1.64%) IT Project Manager
17 16 (1.55%) AWS Engineer
17 16 (1.55%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (5.60%) .NET
2 36 (3.48%) REST
3 28 (2.71%) HTML
3 28 (2.71%) RESTful
4 27 (2.61%) Kafka
5 22 (2.13%) Middleware
6 21 (2.03%) CSS
6 21 (2.03%) React
7 20 (1.93%) XML
8 19 (1.84%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.84%) OAuth
8 19 (1.84%) Web Services
9 18 (1.74%) LangChain
10 17 (1.64%) JSON
10 17 (1.64%) Node.js
10 17 (1.64%) PyTorch
11 16 (1.55%) Playwright
11 16 (1.55%) TensorFlow
12 15 (1.45%) FastAPI
12 15 (1.45%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 56 (5.41%) Product Ownership
3 50 (4.83%) Derivative
4 43 (4.15%) Cloud Native
5 41 (3.96%) Onboarding
6 36 (3.48%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.61%) Life Science
8 26 (2.51%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.42%) Equities
10 24 (2.32%) Fixed Income
10 24 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 24 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 22 (2.13%) Replication
13 21 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
13 21 (2.03%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.93%) Equity Derivative
15 19 (1.84%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.84%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 86 (8.31%) Windows
2 77 (7.44%) Linux
3 42 (4.06%) Unix
4 24 (2.32%) Windows Server
5 17 (1.64%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.35%) Android
6 14 (1.35%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.26%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.26%) VMS
8 12 (1.16%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.87%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 431 (41.64%) Computer Science
2 370 (35.75%) Agile
3 319 (30.82%) Problem-Solving
4 173 (16.71%) Project Management
5 171 (16.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (15.27%) DevOps
7 139 (13.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 135 (13.04%) AI
9 130 (12.56%) Analytics
10 128 (12.37%) Risk Management
11 122 (11.79%) Change Management
12 120 (11.59%) CI/CD
13 104 (10.05%) Decision-Making
14 103 (9.95%) Scrum
15 102 (9.86%) Software Engineering
16 101 (9.76%) Roadmaps
17 99 (9.57%) Machine Learning
18 97 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
19 91 (8.79%) Migration
19 91 (8.79%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 231 (22.32%) Python
2 191 (18.45%) SQL
3 91 (8.79%) Java
4 60 (5.80%) PowerShell
5 59 (5.70%) C#
5 59 (5.70%) JavaScript
6 58 (5.60%) C++
7 30 (2.90%) TypeScript
8 21 (2.03%) R
9 18 (1.74%) Bash
10 13 (1.26%) PL/SQL
11 12 (1.16%) Groovy
11 12 (1.16%) T-SQL
12 11 (1.06%) Ruby
13 10 (0.97%) Kotlin
13 10 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
14 8 (0.77%) Go
14 8 (0.77%) Perl
15 7 (0.68%) Bicep
16 6 (0.58%) VBA
Qualifications
1 271 (26.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 169 (16.33%) Master's Degree
3 88 (8.50%) Security Cleared
4 81 (7.83%) PMI Certification
5 72 (6.96%) PMP
6 63 (6.09%) SC Cleared
7 43 (4.15%) PhD
8 40 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.67%) Azure Certification
9 38 (3.67%) CISSP
10 24 (2.32%) AWS Certification
10 24 (2.32%) CISM
11 19 (1.84%) CBAP
12 18 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
13 16 (1.55%) MBA
13 16 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
14 13 (1.26%) CISA
15 12 (1.16%) CCNA
15 12 (1.16%) DV Cleared
16 10 (0.97%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (6.47%) QA
2 49 (4.73%) GDPR
3 39 (3.77%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.42%) NIST
5 25 (2.42%) PMO
6 24 (2.32%) Accessibility
7 19 (1.84%) SLA
8 12 (1.16%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.06%) GRC
10 10 (0.97%) COBIT
11 9 (0.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 8 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.77%) WCAG
13 7 (0.68%) Basel III
13 7 (0.68%) IFRS
14 5 (0.48%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.48%) MiFID
15 4 (0.39%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.39%) ECSS
System Software
1 77 (7.44%) Docker
2 61 (5.89%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.97%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.97%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.97%) Postfix
3 10 (0.97%) Squid
4 9 (0.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) XenApp
7 1 (0.097%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.097%) HDFS
7 1 (0.097%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.097%) vSphere
7 1 (0.097%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (5.31%) Terraform
2 49 (4.73%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.03%) Grafana
5 16 (1.55%) SCCM
6 13 (1.26%) Ansible
6 13 (1.26%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.97%) Nessus
7 10 (0.97%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.77%) SCOM
9 7 (0.68%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.39%) Puppet
10 4 (0.39%) QRadar
11 3 (0.29%) Argo
11 3 (0.29%) Functional Safety
11 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.19%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.097%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 204 (19.71%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.89%) Oracle
3 51 (4.93%) SAP
4 50 (4.83%) Google
5 44 (4.25%) ServiceNow
6 42 (4.06%) Salesforce
7 25 (2.42%) Databricks
8 20 (1.93%) Cisco
9 19 (1.84%) Splunk
10 18 (1.74%) Workday
11 13 (1.26%) Adobe
11 13 (1.26%) VMware
12 12 (1.16%) Citrix
13 10 (0.97%) IBM
13 10 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (0.87%) Murex
15 8 (0.77%) Fortinet
16 7 (0.68%) Apple
16 7 (0.68%) MuleSoft
16 7 (0.68%) Remedy