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

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 26 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -5 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,006 1,006 1,336
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.91% 7.51% 8.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.12% 28.18% 33.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 602 814
10th Percentile £274 £322 £313
25th Percentile £408 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £675
90th Percentile £753 £786 £850
England median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.02% +1.00% -6.10%
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 £34.48 £50.00
% change year-on-year +12.30% -31.04% +3.86%

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 5,877 3,570 4,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.66% 26.65% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,262 2,408 2,558
10th Percentile £369 £357 £350
25th Percentile £457 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £765
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 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% -32.13%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £75.88
England median hourly rate £48.83 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +94.14% -52.10% -2.17%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 -42 92 £538 -2.27% 397
West London -12 44 £263 -34.31% 94
East London +8 12 £190 -78.89% 15
North London - 4 £550 - 3
South London -34 2 £650 +4.00% 12
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 58 (5.77%) Confluence
2 48 (4.77%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.99%) Apache Spark
4 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 15 (1.49%) CMS
6 13 (1.29%) IIS
7 11 (1.09%) Apache
7 11 (1.09%) Apache Airflow
8 9 (0.89%) Camunda
9 7 (0.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 6 (0.60%) 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%) ArcGIS
13 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.20%) Kentico
13 2 (0.20%) Moodle
13 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 101 (10.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
3 46 (4.57%) Microsoft Project
4 43 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.99%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.09%) 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 (0.099%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.099%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.099%) Simulink
10 1 (0.099%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 11 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.80%) Magento
3 7 (0.70%) 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%) Endur
8 2 (0.20%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 244 (24.25%) Azure
2 147 (14.61%) AWS
3 83 (8.25%) GCP
4 79 (7.85%) Power Platform
5 64 (6.36%) Microsoft 365
6 56 (5.57%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (5.37%) Entra ID
8 44 (4.37%) GitHub
9 36 (3.58%) SaaS
10 27 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
10 27 (2.68%) Serverless
11 24 (2.39%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.19%) Anthropic Claude
13 18 (1.79%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (1.69%) OpenShift
15 16 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (1.49%) IaaS
16 15 (1.49%) OneDrive
16 15 (1.49%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.08%) Firewall
2 27 (2.68%) DNS
3 25 (2.49%) Network Security
4 21 (2.09%) VPN
5 19 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.69%) 3GPP
6 17 (1.69%) 5G
6 17 (1.69%) DHCP
7 15 (1.49%) Radio Access Network
8 12 (1.19%) Internet
8 12 (1.19%) LAN
8 12 (1.19%) WAN
9 9 (0.89%) Wireless
10 8 (0.80%) VoIP
11 6 (0.60%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.60%) VLAN
11 6 (0.60%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.50%) NGN
12 5 (0.50%) SSH
12 5 (0.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.67%) Power BI
2 55 (5.47%) SQL Server
3 36 (3.58%) Data Warehouse
4 33 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
5 26 (2.58%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 22 (2.19%) MongoDB
8 20 (1.99%) Metadata
8 20 (1.99%) Tableau
9 18 (1.79%) Big Data
10 15 (1.49%) MySQL
11 14 (1.39%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.29%) Data Lake
13 9 (0.89%) Delta Lake
14 8 (0.80%) Data Mining
14 8 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.60%) Neo4j
15 6 (0.60%) Redis
Development Applications
1 82 (8.15%) Git
2 81 (8.05%) JIRA
3 40 (3.98%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.78%) GitLab
5 22 (2.19%) Gradle
6 19 (1.89%) Maven
7 18 (1.79%) JUnit
8 15 (1.49%) SonarQube
9 14 (1.39%) Selenium
10 12 (1.19%) Mockito
11 10 (0.99%) Visual Studio
12 8 (0.80%) Cucumber
12 8 (0.80%) 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
1 485 (48.21%) Social Skills
2 443 (44.04%) Finance
3 263 (26.14%) Analytical Skills
4 161 (16.00%) Banking
5 68 (6.76%) Marketing
6 65 (6.46%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (5.96%) Legal
7 60 (5.96%) Public Sector
8 51 (5.07%) Influencing Skills
9 47 (4.67%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (4.47%) Retail
11 40 (3.98%) Telecoms
12 37 (3.68%) Documentation Skills
12 37 (3.68%) Investment Banking
13 36 (3.58%) Front Office
14 34 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 32 (3.18%) Financial Institution
16 26 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
17 23 (2.29%) Law
18 16 (1.59%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 172 (17.10%) Analyst
2 123 (12.23%) Senior
3 114 (11.33%) Developer
4 107 (10.64%) Business Analyst
5 92 (9.15%) Lead
6 78 (7.75%) Architect
7 60 (5.96%) Project Manager
8 36 (3.58%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.28%) Consultant
10 31 (3.08%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.68%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.58%) Java Developer
12 26 (2.58%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.39%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.29%) Senior Developer
15 21 (2.09%) IT Manager
16 20 (1.99%) Desktop Support
16 20 (1.99%) IT Support
16 20 (1.99%) Programme Manager
16 20 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.26%) .NET
2 62 (6.16%) REST
3 58 (5.77%) Terraform
4 46 (4.57%) Kafka
5 36 (3.58%) HTML
6 32 (3.18%) React
7 30 (2.98%) CSS
7 30 (2.98%) Spring Boot
8 28 (2.78%) Spring
9 26 (2.58%) RESTful
10 25 (2.49%) .NET Framework
10 25 (2.49%) XML
11 20 (1.99%) Web Services
12 19 (1.89%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.89%) SOAP
13 18 (1.79%) LangChain
14 17 (1.69%) LangGraph
14 17 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
15 15 (1.49%) GraphQL
15 15 (1.49%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.06%) Onboarding
2 59 (5.86%) Management Information System
3 56 (5.57%) Cloud Native
3 56 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 47 (4.67%) Algorithms
5 35 (3.48%) Data Structures
6 34 (3.38%) Self-Motivation
7 30 (2.98%) AI Agents
8 28 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (2.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (2.19%) Derivative
12 20 (1.99%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.79%) Equities
13 18 (1.79%) PMI
13 18 (1.79%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.69%) Credit Risk
14 17 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (1.59%) Life Science
15 16 (1.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 109 (10.83%) Windows
2 69 (6.86%) Linux
3 33 (3.28%) Unix
4 24 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.79%) macOS
6 16 (1.59%) Windows 10
7 14 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.80%) Android
9 7 (0.70%) 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 (0.099%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.099%) CentOS
13 1 (0.099%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 368 (36.58%) Computer Science
2 316 (31.41%) Agile
3 279 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
4 263 (26.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 226 (22.47%) AI
6 168 (16.70%) Analytics
7 166 (16.50%) CI/CD
7 166 (16.50%) DevOps
8 156 (15.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (13.42%) Software Engineering
10 125 (12.43%) Project Management
11 120 (11.93%) Scrum
12 115 (11.43%) Decision-Making
13 113 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 110 (10.93%) Risk Management
15 105 (10.44%) User Acceptance Testing
16 104 (10.34%) Migration
16 104 (10.34%) Roadmaps
17 98 (9.74%) Change Management
18 97 (9.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 211 (20.97%) SQL
2 196 (19.48%) Python
3 92 (9.15%) Java
4 70 (6.96%) C#
5 65 (6.46%) JavaScript
6 61 (6.06%) PowerShell
7 30 (2.98%) TypeScript
8 28 (2.78%) Bash
8 28 (2.78%) C++
9 17 (1.69%) PL/SQL
9 17 (1.69%) R
10 16 (1.59%) Scala
11 13 (1.29%) Shell Script
12 12 (1.19%) Bicep
13 9 (0.89%) T-SQL
14 8 (0.80%) Kotlin
15 7 (0.70%) C
16 5 (0.50%) COBOL
16 5 (0.50%) X++
17 4 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 244 (24.25%) Computer Science Degree
2 117 (11.63%) Master's Degree
3 105 (10.44%) Security Cleared
4 87 (8.65%) PMI Certification
5 77 (7.65%) SC Cleared
6 75 (7.46%) PMP
7 37 (3.68%) PhD
8 34 (3.38%) CISSP
9 28 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.58%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (2.49%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.19%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.79%) CISM
14 17 (1.69%) ACCA
14 17 (1.69%) CIMA
15 16 (1.59%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.59%) MBA
16 14 (1.39%) CBAP
16 14 (1.39%) IIBA
16 14 (1.39%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (7.85%) Data Quality
2 77 (7.65%) QA
3 35 (3.48%) PMO
4 24 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.19%) NIST
6 21 (2.09%) Accessibility
7 20 (1.99%) GDPR
8 15 (1.49%) GRC
9 13 (1.29%) IFRS
9 13 (1.29%) SLA
10 10 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 9 (0.89%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.80%) P3O
13 7 (0.70%) Basel III
14 6 (0.60%) COBIT
14 6 (0.60%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.40%) NCSC
17 3 (0.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 70 (6.96%) Docker
2 69 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 22 (2.19%) 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 (0.099%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.099%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.099%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.099%) Postfix
9 1 (0.099%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (6.26%) Kubernetes
2 39 (3.88%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (2.58%) Ansible
4 16 (1.59%) Grafana
5 15 (1.49%) Prometheus
6 12 (1.19%) SCCM
7 8 (0.80%) 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 (0.099%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.099%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.099%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 244 (24.25%) Microsoft
2 93 (9.24%) Oracle
3 58 (5.77%) Google
4 50 (4.97%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.68%) SAP
6 31 (3.08%) Databricks
7 29 (2.88%) Adobe
7 29 (2.88%) VMware
8 26 (2.58%) Salesforce
9 25 (2.49%) Cisco
9 25 (2.49%) OpenAI
10 20 (1.99%) Citrix
10 20 (1.99%) IBM
11 15 (1.49%) Splunk
12 13 (1.29%) Apple
12 13 (1.29%) Murex
13 12 (1.19%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.19%) Sitecore
13 12 (1.19%) UiPath
14 11 (1.09%) Progress