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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 992 1,001 1,354
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.91% 7.48% 8.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.12% 28.11% 33.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 597 826
10th Percentile £275 £325 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £684
90th Percentile £753 £788 £850
England median daily rate £513 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.49% +1.00% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 43
10th Percentile £15.88 £17.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.75 £24.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £34.48 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.01% -8.05% +38.89%
75th Percentile £78.75 £64.56 £53.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £90.00 £68.60
England median hourly rate £38.72 £34.49 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.26% -31.02% +8.27%

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 5,795 3,561 4,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.66% 26.60% 25.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,201 2,402 2,585
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £727 £738 £775
England median daily rate £535 £525 £526
% change year-on-year +1.90% -0.19% -4.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 85 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.93
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.38% -30.19%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £75.88
England median hourly rate £49.50 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +96.82% -52.10% -2.02%

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 October 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 October 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 October 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 -41 90 £538 -2.71% 584
West London -7 44 £263 -34.31% 131
East London +8 11 £190 -78.89% 32
North London - 4 £550 - 6
South London -37 2 £650 +4.00% 22
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 57 (5.75%) Confluence
2 47 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.02%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.71%) Microsoft Exchange
5 14 (1.41%) CMS
6 13 (1.31%) IIS
7 11 (1.11%) Apache
7 11 (1.11%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.91%) Camunda
9 7 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 5 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
11 4 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
12 3 (0.30%) Appian
12 3 (0.30%) nginx
12 3 (0.30%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.20%) Kentico
13 2 (0.20%) Moodle
13 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 100 (10.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (6.15%) Microsoft Office
3 45 (4.54%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (4.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.02%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.50%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.50%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Simulink
10 1 (0.10%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 10 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.81%) Magento
3 7 (0.71%) HFM
4 6 (0.60%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.50%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.30%) Aladdin
7 3 (0.30%) Changepoint
7 3 (0.30%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.30%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.20%) Endur
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 241 (24.29%) Azure
2 146 (14.72%) AWS
3 83 (8.37%) GCP
4 78 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 63 (6.35%) Microsoft 365
6 55 (5.54%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (5.34%) Entra ID
8 44 (4.44%) GitHub
9 36 (3.63%) SaaS
10 26 (2.62%) Serverless
11 25 (2.52%) Dynamics 365
12 24 (2.42%) Snowflake
13 22 (2.22%) Anthropic Claude
14 18 (1.81%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (1.71%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.71%) OpenShift
16 15 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (1.51%) IaaS
16 15 (1.51%) PaaS
17 14 (1.41%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.03%) Firewall
2 27 (2.72%) DNS
3 25 (2.52%) Network Security
4 20 (2.02%) VPN
5 19 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.71%) 3GPP
6 17 (1.71%) 5G
6 17 (1.71%) DHCP
7 15 (1.51%) Radio Access Network
8 11 (1.11%) Internet
8 11 (1.11%) LAN
8 11 (1.11%) WAN
9 8 (0.81%) VoIP
9 8 (0.81%) Wireless
10 6 (0.60%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.50%) NGN
11 5 (0.50%) tcpdump
11 5 (0.50%) VLAN
11 5 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.65%) Power BI
2 55 (5.54%) SQL Server
3 36 (3.63%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.62%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.32%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 20 (2.02%) Metadata
8 20 (2.02%) Tableau
9 18 (1.81%) Big Data
10 15 (1.51%) MySQL
11 14 (1.41%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.31%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.21%) Amazon RDS
14 9 (0.91%) Delta Lake
15 8 (0.81%) Data Mining
15 8 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.60%) Neo4j
16 6 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (8.27%) Git
2 80 (8.06%) JIRA
3 40 (4.03%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.82%) GitLab
5 22 (2.22%) Gradle
6 19 (1.92%) Maven
7 18 (1.81%) JUnit
8 15 (1.51%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.41%) Selenium
10 12 (1.21%) Mockito
11 10 (1.01%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.81%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.81%) Subversion
13 6 (0.60%) Cypress.io
13 6 (0.60%) MLflow
13 6 (0.60%) Postman
13 6 (0.60%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.50%) Bitbucket Server
14 5 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
15 4 (0.40%) Chocolatey
General
1 477 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 438 (44.15%) Finance
3 260 (26.21%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (15.83%) Banking
5 67 (6.75%) Marketing
6 65 (6.55%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (6.05%) Public Sector
8 59 (5.95%) Legal
9 50 (5.04%) Influencing Skills
10 47 (4.74%) Presentation Skills
11 43 (4.33%) Retail
12 38 (3.83%) Telecoms
13 37 (3.73%) Investment Banking
14 36 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
15 35 (3.53%) Front Office
16 34 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 32 (3.23%) Financial Institution
18 26 (2.62%) Pharmaceutical
19 22 (2.22%) Law
20 16 (1.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 167 (16.83%) Analyst
2 123 (12.40%) Senior
3 114 (11.49%) Developer
4 102 (10.28%) Business Analyst
5 91 (9.17%) Lead
6 77 (7.76%) Architect
7 59 (5.95%) Project Manager
8 36 (3.63%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.33%) Consultant
10 31 (3.13%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.72%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.62%) Java Developer
12 26 (2.62%) Software Engineer
13 23 (2.32%) Financial Analyst
13 23 (2.32%) Senior Developer
14 21 (2.12%) IT Manager
15 20 (2.02%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 20 (2.02%) Data Engineer
15 20 (2.02%) Desktop Support
15 20 (2.02%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (6.25%) .NET
1 62 (6.25%) REST
2 59 (5.95%) Terraform
3 46 (4.64%) Kafka
4 36 (3.63%) HTML
5 32 (3.23%) React
6 30 (3.02%) CSS
6 30 (3.02%) Spring Boot
7 28 (2.82%) Spring
8 26 (2.62%) RESTful
9 25 (2.52%) .NET Framework
9 25 (2.52%) XML
10 20 (2.02%) Web Services
11 19 (1.92%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.92%) SOAP
12 18 (1.81%) LangChain
13 17 (1.71%) LangGraph
13 17 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
14 15 (1.51%) JSON
14 15 (1.51%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 69 (6.96%) Onboarding
2 59 (5.95%) Management Information System
3 56 (5.65%) Product Ownership
4 55 (5.54%) Cloud Native
5 46 (4.64%) Algorithms
6 35 (3.53%) Data Structures
7 34 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (3.02%) AI Agents
9 28 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
10 27 (2.72%) Enterprise Software
11 25 (2.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 22 (2.22%) Derivative
13 20 (2.02%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.81%) Equities
14 18 (1.81%) PMI
15 17 (1.71%) Credit Risk
15 17 (1.71%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.61%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.61%) Life Science
16 16 (1.61%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 108 (10.89%) Windows
2 69 (6.96%) Linux
3 33 (3.33%) Unix
4 24 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.81%) macOS
6 16 (1.61%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.41%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.81%) Android
9 7 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.50%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.40%) VMS
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) zOS
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.10%) CentOS
13 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 364 (36.69%) Computer Science
2 314 (31.65%) Agile
3 274 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
4 255 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (22.78%) AI
6 168 (16.94%) Analytics
7 165 (16.63%) CI/CD
8 164 (16.53%) DevOps
9 156 (15.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 135 (13.61%) Software Engineering
11 123 (12.40%) Project Management
12 119 (12.00%) Scrum
13 113 (11.39%) Decision-Making
14 111 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 108 (10.89%) Risk Management
16 103 (10.38%) Migration
16 103 (10.38%) User Acceptance Testing
17 101 (10.18%) Roadmaps
18 97 (9.78%) Change Management
19 96 (9.68%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 211 (21.27%) SQL
2 197 (19.86%) Python
3 92 (9.27%) Java
4 70 (7.06%) C#
5 65 (6.55%) JavaScript
6 60 (6.05%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.02%) TypeScript
8 28 (2.82%) Bash
8 28 (2.82%) C++
9 17 (1.71%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.71%) R
10 16 (1.61%) Scala
11 13 (1.31%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.21%) Bicep
13 9 (0.91%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.81%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.71%) C
16 5 (0.50%) COBOL
16 5 (0.50%) X++
17 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 242 (24.40%) Computer Science Degree
2 115 (11.59%) Master's Degree
3 105 (10.58%) Security Cleared
4 85 (8.57%) PMI Certification
5 77 (7.76%) SC Cleared
6 73 (7.36%) PMP
7 37 (3.73%) PhD
8 34 (3.43%) CISSP
9 28 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.22%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.81%) CISM
14 16 (1.61%) ACCA
14 16 (1.61%) CIMA
14 16 (1.61%) MBA
15 15 (1.51%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.41%) CBAP
16 14 (1.41%) IIBA
16 14 (1.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.06%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.76%) QA
3 35 (3.53%) PMO
4 24 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.22%) NIST
6 21 (2.12%) Accessibility
7 20 (2.02%) GDPR
8 15 (1.51%) GRC
9 13 (1.31%) SLA
10 12 (1.21%) IFRS
11 10 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 9 (0.91%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.81%) P3O
14 7 (0.71%) Basel III
15 6 (0.60%) COBIT
15 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.40%) NCSC
18 3 (0.30%) WCAG
System Software
1 70 (7.06%) Docker
2 69 (6.96%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.60%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.50%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
6 4 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.40%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
7 3 (0.30%) vSphere
8 2 (0.20%) Firmware
8 2 (0.20%) RACF
8 2 (0.20%) Squid
8 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.10%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) Postfix
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 38 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (2.62%) Ansible
4 16 (1.61%) Grafana
5 15 (1.51%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.21%) SCCM
7 8 (0.81%) Control-M
8 6 (0.60%) Puppet
9 5 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.30%) Nagios
10 3 (0.30%) Packer
10 3 (0.30%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.30%) vMotion
11 2 (0.20%) CASB
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.10%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.10%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 240 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.38%) Oracle
3 58 (5.85%) Google
4 49 (4.94%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.73%) SAP
6 31 (3.13%) Databricks
7 29 (2.92%) Adobe
7 29 (2.92%) VMware
8 26 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.52%) OpenAI
10 24 (2.42%) Cisco
11 20 (2.02%) Citrix
11 20 (2.02%) IBM
12 15 (1.51%) Splunk
13 13 (1.31%) Apple
13 13 (1.31%) Murex
14 12 (1.21%) UiPath
15 11 (1.11%) Palo Alto
15 11 (1.11%) Sitecore
16 10 (1.01%) Progress