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

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,021 1,246 1,430
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.16% 8.22% 7.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.28% 32.01% 31.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 762 933
10th Percentile £325 £319 £300
25th Percentile £413 £449 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £688
90th Percentile £803 £863 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 24
10th Percentile £24.50 £18.50 £18.85
25th Percentile £25.61 £30.46 £23.91
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% -20.00% +8.33%
75th Percentile £62.75 £53.75 £65.19
90th Percentile £66.50 £66.75 £70.80
England median hourly rate £37.50 £43.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year -12.79% -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 4,038 3,892 4,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.33% 25.68% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,815 2,460 3,018
10th Percentile £358 £350 £350
25th Percentile £427 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £774 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 57 89
10th Percentile £19.49 £20.75 £19.20
25th Percentile - £27.00 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -28.57% +12.90%
75th Percentile £54.06 £60.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -2 164 £530 - 162
South London +6 32 £525 -19.23% 26
West London -5 30 £208 -42.76% 59
East London -11 4 £1,000 +89.57% 45
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 66 (6.46%) Confluence
2 44 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.74%) Apache Spark
4 20 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.18%) nginx
7 11 (1.08%) IIS
8 7 (0.69%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) Luigi
10 3 (0.29%) Apache
10 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.29%) SAS
11 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 1 (0.098%) Moodle
12 1 (0.098%) MQSeries
12 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
12 1 (0.098%) SAP Portal
12 1 (0.098%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 115 (11.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 88 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
3 66 (6.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 62 (6.07%) Microsoft Project
5 35 (3.43%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.78%) Trello
8 5 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.098%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.098%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.098%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.098%) Revit
Business Applications
1 17 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.78%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (0.78%) Oracle EBS R12
3 8 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 8 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 7 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
4 7 (0.69%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.69%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.59%) Endur
5 6 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
5 6 (0.59%) SAP EWM
5 6 (0.59%) SAP WM
6 4 (0.39%) Shopify
6 4 (0.39%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.20%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.20%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 258 (25.27%) Azure
2 131 (12.83%) AWS
3 84 (8.23%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (6.56%) Power Platform
5 63 (6.17%) GCP
6 61 (5.97%) SaaS
7 58 (5.68%) GitHub
8 48 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
9 47 (4.60%) Entra ID
10 25 (2.45%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (2.15%) Amazon S3
11 22 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.06%) GitHub Actions
13 20 (1.96%) Serverless
14 19 (1.86%) IaaS
14 19 (1.86%) PaaS
15 18 (1.76%) Power Automate
16 16 (1.57%) Miro
17 15 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
17 15 (1.47%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.31%) Firewall
2 32 (3.13%) DNS
3 23 (2.25%) HTTP
3 23 (2.25%) VPN
4 17 (1.67%) Network Security
5 16 (1.57%) DHCP
6 15 (1.47%) LAN
7 14 (1.37%) WAN
8 13 (1.27%) SMTP
8 13 (1.27%) SSH
8 13 (1.27%) TCP/IP
9 10 (0.98%) FTP
9 10 (0.98%) IMAP
9 10 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
10 6 (0.59%) VoIP
11 5 (0.49%) CTI
11 5 (0.49%) SSL
11 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.39%) Softphone
12 4 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (5.00%) Power BI
2 44 (4.31%) SQL Server
3 34 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (3.13%) Tableau
5 23 (2.25%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.96%) Relational Database
7 17 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.57%) Big Data
9 15 (1.47%) NoSQL
10 12 (1.18%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.08%) MySQL
12 10 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.98%) Data Lake
12 10 (0.98%) Metadata
13 9 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (0.49%) Data Mart
14 5 (0.49%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.49%) Redis
14 5 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 117 (11.46%) JIRA
2 57 (5.58%) Git
3 32 (3.13%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.18%) Postman
4 12 (1.18%) Visual Studio
5 11 (1.08%) Selenium
5 11 (1.08%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.98%) GitLab
7 9 (0.88%) Cypress.io
8 8 (0.78%) Cucumber
8 8 (0.78%) SpecFlow
9 7 (0.69%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.59%) JUnit
10 6 (0.59%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.49%) Appium
11 5 (0.49%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (0.49%) MLflow
11 5 (0.49%) XCUITest
General
1 498 (48.78%) Social Skills
2 465 (45.54%) Finance
3 238 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
4 175 (17.14%) Banking
5 63 (6.17%) Presentation Skills
6 60 (5.88%) Public Sector
7 54 (5.29%) Front Office
7 54 (5.29%) Marketing
8 50 (4.90%) Investment Banking
9 36 (3.53%) Legal
10 35 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
11 34 (3.33%) Financial Institution
11 34 (3.33%) Telecoms
12 28 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
12 28 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
13 25 (2.45%) Back Office
13 25 (2.45%) Manufacturing
13 25 (2.45%) Retail
14 24 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 20 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 141 (13.81%) Analyst
2 132 (12.93%) Developer
3 127 (12.44%) Senior
4 99 (9.70%) Business Analyst
5 81 (7.93%) Project Manager
6 72 (7.05%) Architect
7 62 (6.07%) Lead
8 54 (5.29%) Consultant
9 35 (3.43%) Software Engineer
10 31 (3.04%) Senior Developer
11 26 (2.55%) Data Scientist
12 22 (2.15%) IT Manager
12 22 (2.15%) Solutions Architect
13 20 (1.96%) Senior Software Engineer
14 19 (1.86%) Data Engineer
14 19 (1.86%) Platform Engineer
15 18 (1.76%) Senior Manager
16 17 (1.67%) C# Developer
16 17 (1.67%) IT Project Manager
17 16 (1.57%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (5.78%) .NET
2 35 (3.43%) REST
3 30 (2.94%) RESTful
4 27 (2.64%) HTML
4 27 (2.64%) Kafka
5 23 (2.25%) Middleware
5 23 (2.25%) React
6 21 (2.06%) CSS
6 21 (2.06%) LangChain
6 21 (2.06%) PyTorch
7 20 (1.96%) XML
8 19 (1.86%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.86%) OAuth
8 19 (1.86%) TensorFlow
9 18 (1.76%) JSON
9 18 (1.76%) Node.js
9 18 (1.76%) Web Services
10 17 (1.67%) Playwright
11 15 (1.47%) FastAPI
11 15 (1.47%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.66%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.09%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.51%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.41%) Derivative
5 40 (3.92%) Onboarding
6 37 (3.62%) Algorithms
7 28 (2.74%) Data Protection Act
7 28 (2.74%) Equities
8 27 (2.64%) Life Science
9 26 (2.55%) Data Centre
10 25 (2.45%) Fixed Income
11 24 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
11 24 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 23 (2.25%) Virtual Team
13 22 (2.15%) Replication
14 20 (1.96%) Data Structures
15 19 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
16 18 (1.76%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 89 (8.72%) Windows
2 76 (7.44%) Linux
3 41 (4.02%) Unix
4 26 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 16 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.37%) Android
7 13 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.27%) Ubuntu
7 13 (1.27%) VMS
8 12 (1.18%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.78%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (41.92%) Computer Science
2 364 (35.65%) Agile
3 316 (30.95%) Problem-Solving
4 168 (16.45%) Project Management
5 167 (16.36%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (15.48%) DevOps
7 138 (13.52%) AI
7 138 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 130 (12.73%) Risk Management
9 129 (12.63%) Analytics
10 123 (12.05%) CI/CD
11 116 (11.36%) Change Management
12 108 (10.58%) Decision-Making
13 104 (10.19%) Software Engineering
14 100 (9.79%) Machine Learning
15 99 (9.70%) Scrum
16 98 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
16 98 (9.60%) Roadmaps
17 88 (8.62%) Migration
18 87 (8.52%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 222 (21.74%) Python
2 192 (18.81%) SQL
3 92 (9.01%) Java
4 62 (6.07%) PowerShell
5 61 (5.97%) C#
6 59 (5.78%) C++
7 58 (5.68%) JavaScript
8 34 (3.33%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.86%) R
10 17 (1.67%) Bash
11 13 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 12 (1.18%) Groovy
13 11 (1.08%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.08%) PL/SQL
14 10 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.98%) Ruby
15 9 (0.88%) Go
16 8 (0.78%) Bicep
16 8 (0.78%) Perl
17 6 (0.59%) VBA
Qualifications
1 273 (26.74%) Computer Science Degree
2 163 (15.96%) Master's Degree
3 90 (8.81%) Security Cleared
4 77 (7.54%) PMI Certification
5 68 (6.66%) PMP
6 66 (6.46%) SC Cleared
7 42 (4.11%) Azure Certification
8 40 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 38 (3.72%) CISSP
9 38 (3.72%) PhD
10 25 (2.45%) AWS Certification
11 23 (2.25%) CISM
12 18 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
12 18 (1.76%) Numerate Degree
13 17 (1.67%) CBAP
14 16 (1.57%) MBA
15 13 (1.27%) CISA
16 12 (1.18%) CCNA
16 12 (1.18%) DV Cleared
17 11 (1.08%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (6.76%) QA
2 50 (4.90%) GDPR
3 37 (3.62%) Data Quality
4 30 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.35%) Accessibility
5 24 (2.35%) NIST
5 24 (2.35%) PMO
6 20 (1.96%) SLA
7 12 (1.18%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.98%) GRC
9 9 (0.88%) COBIT
9 9 (0.88%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.78%) WCAG
11 7 (0.69%) Basel III
11 7 (0.69%) IFRS
12 5 (0.49%) IFRS 9
12 5 (0.49%) MiFID
13 4 (0.39%) ECSS
13 4 (0.39%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 77 (7.54%) Docker
2 57 (5.58%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.98%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.98%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.98%) Postfix
3 10 (0.98%) Squid
4 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) XenApp
7 1 (0.098%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.098%) HDFS
7 1 (0.098%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.098%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.098%) vSphere
7 1 (0.098%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 59 (5.78%) Terraform
2 49 (4.80%) Kubernetes
3 24 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.96%) Grafana
5 16 (1.57%) SCCM
6 12 (1.18%) Ansible
6 12 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 10 (0.98%) Nessus
7 10 (0.98%) Proxmox
8 8 (0.78%) SCOM
9 7 (0.69%) 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 (0.20%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
13 1 (0.098%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 206 (20.18%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.17%) Oracle
3 51 (5.00%) SAP
4 50 (4.90%) Google
5 43 (4.21%) ServiceNow
6 41 (4.02%) Salesforce
7 29 (2.84%) Databricks
8 19 (1.86%) Splunk
9 18 (1.76%) Workday
10 17 (1.67%) Cisco
11 12 (1.18%) Adobe
11 12 (1.18%) Citrix
11 12 (1.18%) VMware
12 10 (0.98%) IBM
12 10 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (0.88%) Murex
14 8 (0.78%) Fortinet
15 7 (0.69%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.69%) Remedy
16 6 (0.59%) Bloomberg