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 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -22 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 957 1,056 1,347
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.75% 7.78% 8.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.10% 29.75% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 666 851
10th Percentile £263 £339 £312
25th Percentile £411 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £678
90th Percentile £763 £818 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 44
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £18.84
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.75 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.41 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -27.64% +8.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.73 £50.00
90th Percentile £85.75 £68.13 £68.53
England median hourly rate £51.00 £42.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +21.43% -26.77% +15.69%

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 5,598 3,549 3,917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 26.15% 24.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 2,407 2,693
10th Percentile £373 £339 £346
25th Percentile £456 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £530 £537
Median % change year-on-year +1.89% -1.39% -2.28%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £736 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 87 69
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.62 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.89 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.38 £36.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £90.25 £63.45 £68.15
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £47.50
% change year-on-year +118.69% -47.05% -13.64%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -47 84 £503 -11.84% 251
West London -5 44 £241 -40.41% 63
East London +6 11 £550 -8.33% 31
South London -15 9 £332 -44.61% 18
North London - 4 £550 - 8
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 (5.02%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.18%) Confluence
3 28 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.78%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.15%) IIS
7 9 (0.94%) Apache
8 6 (0.63%) CMS
8 6 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.52%) Camunda
10 4 (0.42%) Appian
11 3 (0.31%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.10%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (9.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
3 52 (5.43%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 22 (2.30%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.42%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.84%) Magento
3 7 (0.73%) HFM
4 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.52%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.31%) Actimize
6 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.21%) Changepoint
7 2 (0.21%) Endur
7 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.21%) Primavera
7 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
7 2 (0.21%) Shopify
7 2 (0.21%) Summit
7 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 241 (25.18%) Azure
2 145 (15.15%) AWS
3 73 (7.63%) Power Platform
4 70 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
5 67 (7.00%) GCP
6 60 (6.27%) Entra ID
7 45 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (3.87%) GitHub
9 33 (3.45%) SaaS
10 28 (2.93%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.09%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.09%) Serverless
12 15 (1.57%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.46%) IaaS
13 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (1.36%) PaaS
15 12 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.25%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.25%) OneDrive
15 12 (1.25%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.49%) Firewall
2 26 (2.72%) Network Security
3 25 (2.61%) VPN
4 22 (2.30%) DNS
5 21 (2.19%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.67%) DHCP
7 13 (1.36%) WAN
8 11 (1.15%) Internet
9 10 (1.04%) LAN
10 9 (0.94%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.94%) BGP
11 8 (0.84%) VoIP
12 7 (0.73%) 5G
12 7 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.73%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.73%) Wireless
13 6 (0.63%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.63%) OSPF
13 6 (0.63%) SAN
13 6 (0.63%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.96%) Power BI
2 43 (4.49%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 23 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 22 (2.30%) NoSQL
5 22 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.19%) Tableau
7 15 (1.57%) Big Data
7 15 (1.57%) Metadata
7 15 (1.57%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (1.04%) Oracle Database
10 9 (0.94%) Data Mining
10 9 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 7 (0.73%) Power Query
12 6 (0.63%) Neo4j
13 5 (0.52%) Redis
13 5 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
13 5 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 73 (7.63%) JIRA
2 65 (6.79%) Git
3 28 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.78%) GitLab
5 12 (1.25%) Selenium
6 11 (1.15%) Subversion
7 10 (1.04%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.94%) MLflow
9 7 (0.73%) Gradle
9 7 (0.73%) Maven
10 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.63%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.52%) JUnit
11 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.42%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.31%) Chocolatey
13 3 (0.31%) HP UFT
13 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 450 (47.02%) Social Skills
2 400 (41.80%) Finance
3 238 (24.87%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (13.90%) Banking
5 66 (6.90%) Marketing
6 64 (6.69%) Legal
7 61 (6.37%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (4.91%) Retail
9 44 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (4.60%) Public Sector
10 38 (3.97%) Front Office
11 34 (3.55%) Investment Banking
12 31 (3.24%) Financial Institution
12 31 (3.24%) Telecoms
13 28 (2.93%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (2.82%) Law
15 26 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 20 (2.09%) Documentation Skills
17 18 (1.88%) Pharmaceutical
18 12 (1.25%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 140 (14.63%) Analyst
2 124 (12.96%) Senior
3 101 (10.55%) Developer
4 85 (8.88%) Business Analyst
5 80 (8.36%) Lead
6 74 (7.73%) Architect
7 66 (6.90%) Project Manager
8 37 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.76%) Senior Manager
10 29 (3.03%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.82%) Consultant
12 25 (2.61%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.51%) Data Scientist
14 21 (2.19%) Desktop Engineer
14 21 (2.19%) Financial Analyst
14 21 (2.19%) IT Analyst
15 20 (2.09%) C# Developer
15 20 (2.09%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.09%) Senior Project Manager
16 19 (1.99%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.64%) .NET
1 54 (5.64%) REST
2 28 (2.93%) React
3 27 (2.82%) Kafka
4 26 (2.72%) .NET Framework
5 19 (1.99%) RESTful
6 17 (1.78%) HTML
7 16 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 16 (1.67%) Spring
7 16 (1.67%) XML
8 15 (1.57%) JSON
8 15 (1.57%) Pandas
9 14 (1.46%) Oracle Fusion
9 14 (1.46%) PySpark
9 14 (1.46%) Spring Boot
10 12 (1.25%) PyTorch
11 11 (1.15%) CSS
11 11 (1.15%) LangChain
11 11 (1.15%) OAuth
11 11 (1.15%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 67 (7.00%) Onboarding
2 57 (5.96%) Management Information System
3 53 (5.54%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.81%) Product Ownership
5 42 (4.39%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (4.28%) Algorithms
7 29 (3.03%) Data Structures
8 28 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
8 28 (2.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 27 (2.82%) Data Centre
9 27 (2.82%) Derivative
10 23 (2.40%) Virtual Team
11 21 (2.19%) AI Agents
12 20 (2.09%) Fixed Income
13 19 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (1.99%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.78%) Equities
14 17 (1.78%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 111 (11.60%) Windows
2 54 (5.64%) Linux
3 22 (2.30%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.99%) Windows 10
5 15 (1.57%) Unix
6 13 (1.36%) Mac OS
7 11 (1.15%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.73%) Android
10 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.21%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (36.15%) Computer Science
2 267 (27.90%) Agile
3 266 (27.80%) Problem-Solving
4 207 (21.63%) AI
5 184 (19.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 161 (16.82%) Analytics
7 149 (15.57%) DevOps
8 145 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
9 132 (13.79%) CI/CD
10 121 (12.64%) Project Management
11 113 (11.81%) Software Engineering
12 104 (10.87%) Migration
13 102 (10.66%) Decision-Making
14 100 (10.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 95 (9.93%) Scrum
16 93 (9.72%) Risk Management
17 89 (9.30%) Project Delivery
18 87 (9.09%) Change Management
19 85 (8.88%) Mathematics
19 85 (8.88%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 200 (20.90%) Python
2 185 (19.33%) SQL
3 86 (8.99%) Java
4 65 (6.79%) C#
5 59 (6.17%) PowerShell
6 43 (4.49%) JavaScript
7 29 (3.03%) C++
8 23 (2.40%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.99%) R
10 17 (1.78%) Bash
10 17 (1.78%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.94%) Bicep
12 8 (0.84%) C
12 8 (0.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 6 (0.63%) Scala
14 5 (0.52%) VBA
15 4 (0.42%) X++
16 3 (0.31%) Ruby
16 3 (0.31%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 227 (23.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 113 (11.81%) Master's Degree
3 82 (8.57%) Security Cleared
4 65 (6.79%) PMI Certification
5 62 (6.48%) SC Cleared
6 55 (5.75%) PMP
7 50 (5.22%) CISSP
8 36 (3.76%) PhD
9 33 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (3.34%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.72%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (2.51%) CISA
13 23 (2.40%) MBA
14 21 (2.19%) CISM
15 20 (2.09%) DV Cleared
16 16 (1.67%) AWS Certification
17 13 (1.36%) ISTQB
18 12 (1.25%) CCNP
18 12 (1.25%) CRISC
19 10 (1.04%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.11%) QA
2 56 (5.85%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.70%) PMO
4 38 (3.97%) NIST
5 37 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.61%) GDPR
7 21 (2.19%) SLA
8 19 (1.99%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.46%) GRC
11 11 (1.15%) COBIT
11 11 (1.15%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.73%) IFRS
13 7 (0.73%) P3O
14 6 (0.63%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.42%) ITGC
16 4 (0.42%) MiFID
16 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 77 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 56 (5.85%) Docker
3 19 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.73%) Firmware
4 7 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.42%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Squid
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (5.54%) Kubernetes
2 48 (5.02%) Terraform
3 44 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.93%) Ansible
5 17 (1.78%) SCCM
6 14 (1.46%) Grafana
7 12 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.42%) Puppet
9 4 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.42%) vMotion
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.31%) Control-M
10 3 (0.31%) Nagios
10 3 (0.31%) Packer
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.31%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 247 (25.81%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.42%) Oracle
3 50 (5.22%) Google
4 44 (4.60%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.03%) SAP
6 28 (2.93%) Cisco
7 26 (2.72%) VMware
8 25 (2.61%) Citrix
9 22 (2.30%) Adobe
10 21 (2.19%) Databricks
11 20 (2.09%) Salesforce
12 15 (1.57%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.36%) Apple
13 13 (1.36%) OpenAI
14 12 (1.25%) Splunk
15 11 (1.15%) Bloomberg
15 11 (1.15%) HP
15 11 (1.15%) Murex
16 10 (1.04%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.04%) Juniper