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 12 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 22 26
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +2
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,034 1,279 1,508
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.40% 8.25% 7.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 26.73% 32.52% 32.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 637 788 1,006
10th Percentile £318 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.02% -3.86% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £681
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £521 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +3.27% -4.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 36 27
10th Percentile £24.50 £18.75 £18.46
25th Percentile £25.75 £32.09 £19.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.71 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -14.02% +5.05% -15.30%
75th Percentile £62.25 £54.31 £64.75
90th Percentile £87.75 £68.38 £69.60
England median hourly rate £37.46 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -11.86% -15.00% +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 3,869 3,933 4,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.70% 25.36% 23.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,669 2,505 3,176
10th Percentile £355 £350 £350
25th Percentile £440 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £543 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -1.36% -4.35%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £670
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 57 104
10th Percentile £19.42 £20.30 £19.00
25th Percentile - £30.00 £22.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -26.76% +14.52%
75th Percentile £42.09 £60.75 £68.50
90th Percentile £65.29 £77.11 £86.50
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 12 November 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 12 November 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 12 November 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 0 171 £550 +3.04% 764
West London +1 34 £375 - 91
South London +8 30 £625 +21.95% 38
East London -10 6 £900 +70.62% 54
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 (6.48%) Confluence
2 50 (4.84%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.77%) Apache Spark
4 21 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.26%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.16%) nginx
7 10 (0.97%) IIS
8 9 (0.87%) CMS
9 5 (0.48%) Luigi
10 4 (0.39%) Apache
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
11 3 (0.29%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 3 (0.29%) SAS
12 2 (0.19%) Drupal
12 2 (0.19%) Skype for Business
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.097%) SAP Portal
Applications
1 104 (10.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 89 (8.61%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (5.90%) Microsoft Project
4 58 (5.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 31 (3.00%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.77%) Trello
8 5 (0.48%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.097%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.097%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.097%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.097%) InVision
9 1 (0.097%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.097%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.097%) Revit
9 1 (0.097%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 20 (1.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.97%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.77%) Oracle EBS
4 7 (0.68%) FLEXCUBE
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle BPM
4 7 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
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%) SAP EWM
5 6 (0.58%) SAP WM
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle Financials
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle General Ledger
6 5 (0.48%) Oracle Payables
7 4 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
8 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 3 (0.29%) Temenos T24
9 2 (0.19%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 244 (23.60%) Azure
2 146 (14.12%) AWS
3 78 (7.54%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (6.77%) GCP
5 62 (6.00%) Power Platform
6 60 (5.80%) GitHub
7 57 (5.51%) SaaS
8 46 (4.45%) Azure DevOps
9 45 (4.35%) Entra ID
10 22 (2.13%) Amazon S3
11 20 (1.93%) Amazon ECS
11 20 (1.93%) PaaS
12 19 (1.84%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (1.55%) IaaS
13 16 (1.55%) Miro
14 15 (1.45%) Dynamics 365
14 15 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 13 (1.26%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 45 (4.35%) Firewall
2 34 (3.29%) DNS
3 24 (2.32%) VPN
4 22 (2.13%) HTTP
5 17 (1.64%) Network Security
6 16 (1.55%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.55%) WAN
7 15 (1.45%) DHCP
8 14 (1.35%) LAN
9 13 (1.26%) SMTP
9 13 (1.26%) SSH
10 10 (0.97%) FTP
10 10 (0.97%) IMAP
10 10 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
11 9 (0.87%) VoIP
12 6 (0.58%) WebEx
12 6 (0.58%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.48%) CTI
13 5 (0.48%) Internet
13 5 (0.48%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (4.84%) Power BI
2 41 (3.97%) SQL Server
3 39 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (3.09%) Tableau
5 25 (2.42%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (2.03%) Relational Database
7 18 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
8 17 (1.64%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.35%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.16%) MySQL
11 11 (1.06%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.97%) Big Data
12 10 (0.97%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.97%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.97%) Metadata
13 9 (0.87%) Redis
13 9 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 7 (0.68%) Oracle Reports
14 7 (0.68%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (11.22%) JIRA
2 56 (5.42%) Git
3 34 (3.29%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.26%) Postman
5 11 (1.06%) SpecFlow
5 11 (1.06%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.97%) GitLab
6 10 (0.97%) Selenium
7 8 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.77%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.77%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.77%) MLflow
8 7 (0.68%) JUnit
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%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.48%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.39%) Gradle
General
1 497 (48.07%) Social Skills
2 477 (46.13%) Finance
3 244 (23.60%) Analytical Skills
4 178 (17.21%) Banking
5 67 (6.48%) Presentation Skills
6 61 (5.90%) Marketing
7 57 (5.51%) Front Office
8 54 (5.22%) Investment Banking
8 54 (5.22%) Public Sector
9 39 (3.77%) Legal
10 36 (3.48%) Telecoms
11 35 (3.38%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (3.19%) Financial Institution
13 30 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
14 28 (2.71%) Pharmaceutical
15 27 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (2.42%) Back Office
16 25 (2.42%) Retail
17 22 (2.13%) Manufacturing
18 19 (1.84%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 149 (14.41%) Developer
2 145 (14.02%) Analyst
3 129 (12.48%) Senior
4 98 (9.48%) Business Analyst
5 75 (7.25%) Project Manager
6 68 (6.58%) Lead
7 64 (6.19%) Architect
8 48 (4.64%) Consultant
9 40 (3.87%) Software Engineer
10 32 (3.09%) Senior Developer
11 31 (3.00%) Data Scientist
12 24 (2.32%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.03%) Machine Learning Engineer
14 20 (1.93%) AWS Engineer
14 20 (1.93%) IT Manager
15 19 (1.84%) Java Developer
16 18 (1.74%) Solutions Architect
17 17 (1.64%) Platform Engineer
18 16 (1.55%) C++ Developer
18 16 (1.55%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.22%) .NET
2 41 (3.97%) REST
3 34 (3.29%) Kafka
4 30 (2.90%) HTML
4 30 (2.90%) RESTful
5 25 (2.42%) CSS
6 24 (2.32%) React
7 23 (2.22%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.03%) Web Services
9 20 (1.93%) Middleware
10 19 (1.84%) Node.js
11 17 (1.64%) OAuth
11 17 (1.64%) Playwright
11 17 (1.64%) XML
12 16 (1.55%) FastAPI
12 16 (1.55%) Pandas
13 15 (1.45%) JSON
13 15 (1.45%) PyTorch
13 15 (1.45%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.35%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 75 (7.25%) Management Information System
2 57 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 47 (4.55%) Derivative
4 39 (3.77%) Algorithms
5 38 (3.68%) Cloud Native
6 37 (3.58%) Onboarding
7 28 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 27 (2.61%) Life Science
9 25 (2.42%) Data Centre
9 25 (2.42%) Fixed Income
10 23 (2.22%) Equities
10 23 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
12 21 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
13 20 (1.93%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.93%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.84%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.84%) Virtual Team
15 18 (1.74%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 77 (7.45%) Linux
2 75 (7.25%) Windows
3 43 (4.16%) Unix
4 18 (1.74%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.45%) Android
5 15 (1.45%) Apple iOS
5 15 (1.45%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.16%) VMS
7 11 (1.06%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.87%) Mac OS
9 9 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
11 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.097%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.097%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 464 (44.87%) Computer Science
2 361 (34.91%) Agile
3 330 (31.91%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (16.25%) Project Management
5 153 (14.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 151 (14.60%) DevOps
7 137 (13.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 127 (12.28%) AI
9 123 (11.90%) Analytics
10 119 (11.51%) Risk Management
11 117 (11.32%) CI/CD
12 112 (10.83%) Change Management
13 108 (10.44%) Scrum
14 102 (9.86%) Machine Learning
15 101 (9.77%) Roadmaps
15 101 (9.77%) Software Engineering
16 95 (9.19%) Migration
17 93 (8.99%) Project Delivery
18 90 (8.70%) Decision-Making
19 89 (8.61%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 246 (23.79%) Python
2 208 (20.12%) SQL
3 115 (11.12%) Java
4 69 (6.67%) JavaScript
5 62 (6.00%) C++
6 55 (5.32%) PowerShell
7 50 (4.84%) C#
8 28 (2.71%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.13%) R
10 16 (1.55%) Bash
11 15 (1.45%) PL/SQL
12 14 (1.35%) Ruby
13 12 (1.16%) Groovy
14 11 (1.06%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.06%) Perl
15 10 (0.97%) C
15 10 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
15 10 (0.97%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.77%) Go
17 6 (0.58%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 280 (27.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 161 (15.57%) Master's Degree
3 80 (7.74%) Security Cleared
4 78 (7.54%) PMI Certification
5 70 (6.77%) PMP
6 59 (5.71%) SC Cleared
7 48 (4.64%) PhD
8 42 (4.06%) CISSP
9 38 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
10 37 (3.58%) Azure Certification
11 27 (2.61%) CISM
12 25 (2.42%) AWS Certification
13 20 (1.93%) Numerate Degree
14 19 (1.84%) CBAP
14 19 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (1.26%) CISA
15 13 (1.26%) MBA
16 12 (1.16%) CCNA
17 9 (0.87%) CCNP
17 9 (0.87%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.80%) QA
2 46 (4.45%) GDPR
3 41 (3.97%) Data Quality
4 30 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 30 (2.90%) NIST
5 26 (2.51%) Accessibility
6 20 (1.93%) PMO
7 16 (1.55%) SLA
8 14 (1.35%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.06%) COBIT
10 10 (0.97%) GRC
11 9 (0.87%) WCAG
12 8 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.68%) IFRS
13 7 (0.68%) MiFID
14 5 (0.48%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.39%) Basel III
15 4 (0.39%) GMP
15 4 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 80 (7.74%) Docker
2 57 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.97%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.97%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.97%) Postfix
3 10 (0.97%) Squid
4 7 (0.68%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.097%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.097%) Firmware
7 1 (0.097%) HDFS
7 1 (0.097%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.097%) vSphere
7 1 (0.097%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 56 (5.42%) Kubernetes
2 52 (5.03%) Terraform
3 22 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.93%) Grafana
5 13 (1.26%) Prometheus
5 13 (1.26%) SCCM
6 12 (1.16%) Ansible
7 10 (0.97%) Nessus
7 10 (0.97%) Proxmox
8 7 (0.68%) CSIRT
9 6 (0.58%) QRadar
10 5 (0.48%) SCOM
11 4 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 3 (0.29%) Argo
12 3 (0.29%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.29%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.29%) Puppet
13 2 (0.19%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.19%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 190 (18.38%) Microsoft
2 61 (5.90%) Oracle
3 49 (4.74%) Google
4 48 (4.64%) SAP
5 47 (4.55%) ServiceNow
6 38 (3.68%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.51%) Cisco
8 20 (1.93%) Splunk
9 19 (1.84%) Databricks
10 18 (1.74%) Workday
11 11 (1.06%) Adobe
12 10 (0.97%) IBM
12 10 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
12 10 (0.97%) Murex
12 10 (0.97%) VMware
13 9 (0.87%) Fortinet
14 8 (0.77%) Apple
14 8 (0.77%) Citrix
15 7 (0.68%) CyberArk
15 7 (0.68%) OpenAI