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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 25 19
Rank change year-on-year -17 -6 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 919 946 1,446
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.85% 7.61% 8.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.39% 29.64% 34.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 518 603 868
10th Percentile £280 £340 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £550 £518
Median % change year-on-year -8.05% +6.28% -10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £650
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £502 £500
% change year-on-year -0.30% +0.30% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 23 79
10th Percentile £16.28 £11.96 £15.19
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.12
Median hourly rate £32.07 £40.50 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +18.32% +26.78%
75th Percentile £56.63 £63.13 £45.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year +5.00% +24.22% -10.56%

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 5,284 3,192 4,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.90% 25.69% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,798 2,144 2,875
10th Percentile £367 £356 £325
25th Percentile £450 £442 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £732 £750 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 68 114
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.57 £14.60
25th Percentile £26.69 £24.66 £20.29
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% +6.93% -51.21%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.88 £68.53
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.32 £41.27
% change year-on-year +73.15% -26.52% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -35 92 £502 -11.24% 160
West London -10 43 £325 -19.65% 63
South London -3 14 £215 -65.64% 15
East London -3 9 £568 +17.60% 29
North London +3 2 £550 +33.33% 7
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 49 (5.33%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 32 (3.48%) Confluence
4 17 (1.85%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.09%) IIS
7 6 (0.65%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.54%) Apache
8 5 (0.54%) Camunda
9 4 (0.44%) Appian
9 4 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.33%) CMS
10 3 (0.33%) Moodle
11 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 87 (9.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
3 56 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 39 (4.24%) Microsoft Project
5 28 (3.05%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.54%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.22%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.87%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.76%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.44%) HFM
5 4 (0.44%) Magento
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 3 (0.33%) Fidessa
6 3 (0.33%) IntelliMatch
6 3 (0.33%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle ERP
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.22%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.22%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 236 (25.68%) Azure
2 144 (15.67%) AWS
3 87 (9.47%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (7.07%) Power Platform
5 60 (6.53%) GCP
6 55 (5.98%) Entra ID
7 37 (4.03%) SaaS
8 36 (3.92%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (3.59%) GitHub
10 23 (2.50%) Snowflake
11 18 (1.96%) Serverless
12 17 (1.85%) PaaS
13 14 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.41%) IaaS
15 12 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (3.70%) Firewall
2 22 (2.39%) Network Security
3 16 (1.74%) VPN
4 15 (1.63%) TCP/IP
5 12 (1.31%) WAN
6 10 (1.09%) DNS
7 9 (0.98%) 3GPP
7 9 (0.98%) LAN
7 9 (0.98%) VoIP
8 8 (0.87%) BGP
8 8 (0.87%) DHCP
9 7 (0.76%) DMZ
9 7 (0.76%) VXLAN
10 6 (0.65%) HTTPS
10 6 (0.65%) NetScaler
10 6 (0.65%) Unified Communications
10 6 (0.65%) Wireless
11 5 (0.54%) Internet
11 5 (0.54%) OSPF
11 5 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.98%) Power BI
2 53 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.05%) Data Warehouse
3 28 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.94%) Tableau
5 19 (2.07%) MongoDB
5 19 (2.07%) Relational Database
6 18 (1.96%) NoSQL
7 16 (1.74%) Big Data
8 14 (1.52%) Metadata
9 12 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.09%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.09%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (0.87%) Data Lake
11 8 (0.87%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.87%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.87%) Redis
12 6 (0.65%) Power Query
13 5 (0.54%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 67 (7.29%) JIRA
2 61 (6.64%) Git
3 20 (2.18%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.41%) GitLab
4 13 (1.41%) MLflow
4 13 (1.41%) Visual Studio
5 9 (0.98%) Selenium
6 7 (0.76%) Subversion
7 6 (0.65%) Maven
8 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
8 5 (0.54%) Gradle
8 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
8 5 (0.54%) Zephyr
9 4 (0.44%) ERwin
9 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.44%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.44%) Vite
10 3 (0.33%) Bitbucket
10 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (0.33%) Toad
General
1 427 (46.46%) Social Skills
2 385 (41.89%) Finance
3 196 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (14.25%) Banking
5 63 (6.86%) Marketing
6 59 (6.42%) Presentation Skills
7 58 (6.31%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (6.09%) Legal
9 48 (5.22%) Public Sector
10 39 (4.24%) Front Office
11 38 (4.13%) Retail
12 30 (3.26%) Investment Banking
13 24 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
14 23 (2.50%) Telecoms
15 22 (2.39%) Documentation Skills
15 22 (2.39%) Law
16 21 (2.29%) Financial Institution
17 19 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 16 (1.74%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (1.41%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 133 (14.47%) Analyst
2 127 (13.82%) Senior
3 103 (11.21%) Developer
4 81 (8.81%) Lead
5 80 (8.71%) Business Analyst
6 78 (8.49%) Architect
7 62 (6.75%) Project Manager
8 44 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
9 27 (2.94%) Consultant
9 27 (2.94%) Data Scientist
9 27 (2.94%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (2.83%) Senior Manager
11 24 (2.61%) C# Developer
11 24 (2.61%) Software Engineer
12 22 (2.39%) Senior Business Analyst
13 21 (2.29%) Data Engineer
14 18 (1.96%) Data Analyst
14 18 (1.96%) Delivery Manager
15 17 (1.85%) Security Engineer
15 17 (1.85%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (5.44%) .NET
2 44 (4.79%) REST
3 34 (3.70%) React
4 28 (3.05%) .NET Framework
5 22 (2.39%) Kafka
6 21 (2.29%) Oracle Fusion
7 20 (2.18%) RESTful
8 19 (2.07%) HTML
8 19 (2.07%) Pandas
9 18 (1.96%) Middleware
10 17 (1.85%) PySpark
11 14 (1.52%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.41%) Spring
13 12 (1.31%) PyTorch
13 12 (1.31%) Web Services
14 11 (1.20%) Node.js
14 11 (1.20%) NumPy
14 11 (1.20%) scikit-learn
14 11 (1.20%) XML
15 10 (1.09%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.20%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 43 (4.68%) Cloud Native
4 42 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 40 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 30 (3.26%) Virtual Team
7 29 (3.16%) Algorithms
7 29 (3.16%) Data Centre
7 29 (3.16%) Derivative
8 28 (3.05%) Distributed Systems
9 24 (2.61%) Fixed Income
10 23 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 21 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
12 18 (1.96%) PMI
13 17 (1.85%) Equities
13 17 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
15 15 (1.63%) Data Structures
16 14 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
16 14 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 114 (12.40%) Windows
2 52 (5.66%) Linux
3 28 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.61%) Unix
5 20 (2.18%) Windows 10
6 13 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.98%) Android
7 9 (0.98%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.33%) 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
1 315 (34.28%) Computer Science
2 268 (29.16%) Agile
3 242 (26.33%) Problem-Solving
4 188 (20.46%) AI
5 154 (16.76%) Analytics
6 147 (16.00%) DevOps
7 146 (15.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 132 (14.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 123 (13.38%) CI/CD
10 115 (12.51%) Project Management
11 109 (11.86%) Decision-Making
12 103 (11.21%) Migration
13 93 (10.12%) Risk Management
13 93 (10.12%) Roadmaps
14 90 (9.79%) Project Delivery
14 90 (9.79%) Software Engineering
15 85 (9.25%) Change Management
16 80 (8.71%) Scrum
16 80 (8.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 76 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 188 (20.46%) Python
2 181 (19.70%) SQL
3 80 (8.71%) Java
4 62 (6.75%) C#
5 56 (6.09%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.24%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.94%) C++
8 18 (1.96%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.85%) R
10 16 (1.74%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.41%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.09%) Bash
13 8 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.76%) C
15 6 (0.65%) Bicep
15 6 (0.65%) Scala
15 6 (0.65%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.54%) VBA
17 3 (0.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 207 (22.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 123 (13.38%) Master's Degree
3 78 (8.49%) Security Cleared
4 61 (6.64%) PMI Certification
5 59 (6.42%) SC Cleared
6 52 (5.66%) CISSP
7 48 (5.22%) PMP
8 36 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 33 (3.59%) PhD
10 32 (3.48%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.83%) CISM
12 24 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (2.29%) CBAP
13 21 (2.29%) CISA
14 19 (2.07%) CRISC
15 18 (1.96%) MBA
16 16 (1.74%) BPSS Clearance
17 15 (1.63%) AWS Certification
17 15 (1.63%) IIBA
18 13 (1.41%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.62%) QA
2 53 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.90%) GDPR
3 45 (4.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.57%) PMO
5 40 (4.35%) NIST
6 23 (2.50%) SLA
7 19 (2.07%) Accessibility
7 19 (2.07%) PCI DSS
7 19 (2.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.85%) GRC
9 10 (1.09%) COBIT
9 10 (1.09%) IFRS
10 9 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
11 7 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 7 (0.76%) SOC 2
12 6 (0.65%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.54%) IFRS 17
14 4 (0.44%) ITGC
14 4 (0.44%) NIST 800
System Software
1 71 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 57 (6.20%) Docker
3 13 (1.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.65%) Firmware
6 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.44%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.44%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) XenApp
7 4 (0.44%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.33%) 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 57 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (4.46%) Terraform
4 26 (2.83%) Ansible
5 18 (1.96%) SCCM
6 14 (1.52%) Grafana
7 13 (1.41%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.44%) Control-M
9 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.44%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.44%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.44%) vMotion
10 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.33%) Nagios
10 3 (0.33%) Packer
10 3 (0.33%) Puppet
10 3 (0.33%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 218 (23.72%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.16%) Oracle
3 41 (4.46%) Google
4 36 (3.92%) Citrix
4 36 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.61%) SAP
6 22 (2.39%) Cisco
7 19 (2.07%) Databricks
8 17 (1.85%) Salesforce
9 14 (1.52%) Adobe
9 14 (1.52%) Bloomberg
9 14 (1.52%) Palo Alto
9 14 (1.52%) VMware
10 12 (1.31%) Informatica
10 12 (1.31%) Murex
11 11 (1.20%) Splunk
12 10 (1.09%) Apple
12 10 (1.09%) HP
12 10 (1.09%) Juniper
13 8 (0.87%) OpenAI