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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 22 24
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,026 1,307 1,482
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.22% 8.21% 7.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.79% 32.23% 32.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 642 793 972
10th Percentile £320 £319 £306
25th Percentile £413 £427 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.37% -2.27% -5.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £775 £850 £800
England median daily rate £517 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.65% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 35 25
10th Percentile £24.50 £18.50 £18.87
25th Percentile £25.68 £31.94 £23.00
Median hourly rate £36.25 £41.91 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -6.87% -3.23%
75th Percentile £62.50 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.28 £66.75 £70.40
England median hourly rate £36.23 £42.69 £50.00
% change year-on-year -15.13% -14.62% +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 3,979 4,055 4,623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.01% 25.49% 23.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,766 2,575 3,110
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 55 99
10th Percentile £19.39 £20.20 £19.20
25th Percentile - £28.63 £23.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -25.71% +6.06%
75th Percentile £49.69 £60.38 £65.43
90th Percentile £72.25 £81.28 £83.85
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.54% +18.89%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 28 November 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 +2 171 £550 +4.76% 172
South London +4 32 £563 +9.76% 29
West London +1 31 £208 -44.67% 71
East London -10 6 £900 +70.62% 56
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 69 (6.73%) Confluence
2 49 (4.78%) SharePoint
3 32 (3.12%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.17%) nginx
7 10 (0.97%) IIS
8 7 (0.68%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) Luigi
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
10 4 (0.39%) SAS
11 3 (0.29%) Alfresco
11 3 (0.29%) Apache
11 3 (0.29%) Ethereum
11 3 (0.29%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 2 (0.19%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.097%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.097%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.097%) WordPress
Applications
1 108 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 93 (9.06%) Microsoft Office
3 63 (6.14%) Microsoft Project
4 61 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (3.31%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.78%) Trello
8 5 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.097%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.097%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.097%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.097%) InVision
10 1 (0.097%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.097%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.097%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.097%) Revit
10 1 (0.097%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 15 (1.46%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.68%) Oracle EBS R12
3 7 (0.68%) Salesforce CRM
3 7 (0.68%) Workday HCM
4 6 (0.58%) Endur
4 6 (0.58%) SAP EWM
4 6 (0.58%) SAP WM
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Financials
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.49%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
6 4 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
6 4 (0.39%) Temenos T24
7 3 (0.29%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.29%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.19%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 249 (24.27%) Azure
2 136 (13.26%) AWS
3 82 (7.99%) Microsoft 365
4 70 (6.82%) Power Platform
5 66 (6.43%) GCP
6 59 (5.75%) SaaS
7 56 (5.46%) GitHub
8 47 (4.58%) Entra ID
9 46 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
11 22 (2.14%) Amazon S3
12 21 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
13 19 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
13 19 (1.85%) Power Automate
14 17 (1.66%) Miro
14 17 (1.66%) PaaS
14 17 (1.66%) Serverless
15 16 (1.56%) IaaS
15 16 (1.56%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.29%) Firewall
2 33 (3.22%) DNS
3 23 (2.24%) HTTP
4 22 (2.14%) VPN
5 17 (1.66%) DHCP
5 17 (1.66%) Network Security
6 16 (1.56%) TCP/IP
7 15 (1.46%) LAN
7 15 (1.46%) WAN
8 13 (1.27%) SMTP
8 13 (1.27%) SSH
9 10 (0.97%) FTP
9 10 (0.97%) IMAP
9 10 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (0.88%) VoIP
11 5 (0.49%) CTI
11 5 (0.49%) Internet
11 5 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (0.39%) Intranet
12 4 (0.39%) MGCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.46%) Power BI
2 39 (3.80%) SQL Server
3 38 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
4 33 (3.22%) Tableau
5 26 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.36%) Big Data
10 13 (1.27%) Data Lake
11 12 (1.17%) MySQL
12 11 (1.07%) MongoDB
13 10 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
13 10 (0.97%) BigQuery
13 10 (0.97%) Hadoop
13 10 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 9 (0.88%) Metadata
15 7 (0.68%) Redis
15 7 (0.68%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.49%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 116 (11.31%) JIRA
2 55 (5.36%) Git
3 31 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.27%) Postman
5 11 (1.07%) GitLab
5 11 (1.07%) Selenium
5 11 (1.07%) Vagrant
6 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.78%) Bitbucket
7 8 (0.78%) Cucumber
7 8 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 8 (0.78%) SpecFlow
8 6 (0.58%) JUnit
8 6 (0.58%) MLflow
9 5 (0.49%) Appium
9 5 (0.49%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.49%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 496 (48.34%) Social Skills
2 476 (46.39%) Finance
3 242 (23.59%) Analytical Skills
4 172 (16.76%) Banking
5 69 (6.73%) Presentation Skills
6 60 (5.85%) Marketing
6 60 (5.85%) Public Sector
7 55 (5.36%) Front Office
8 47 (4.58%) Investment Banking
9 37 (3.61%) Legal
10 35 (3.41%) Financial Institution
10 35 (3.41%) Telecoms
11 34 (3.31%) Influencing Skills
12 30 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
13 27 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
14 25 (2.44%) Back Office
14 25 (2.44%) Manufacturing
14 25 (2.44%) Retail
15 22 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 21 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 147 (14.33%) Analyst
2 137 (13.35%) Developer
3 127 (12.38%) Senior
4 101 (9.84%) Business Analyst
5 79 (7.70%) Project Manager
6 65 (6.34%) Architect
6 65 (6.34%) Lead
7 52 (5.07%) Consultant
8 38 (3.70%) Software Engineer
9 29 (2.83%) Data Scientist
9 29 (2.83%) Senior Developer
10 24 (2.34%) Data Engineer
11 20 (1.95%) IT Manager
12 19 (1.85%) Platform Engineer
12 19 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
13 18 (1.75%) AWS Engineer
14 17 (1.66%) Senior Manager
14 17 (1.66%) Senior Software Engineer
15 16 (1.56%) Data Analyst
15 16 (1.56%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.56%) .NET
2 38 (3.70%) REST
3 30 (2.92%) HTML
3 30 (2.92%) Kafka
4 27 (2.63%) RESTful
5 22 (2.14%) CSS
6 21 (2.05%) Middleware
6 21 (2.05%) React
6 21 (2.05%) Web Services
7 20 (1.95%) Node.js
7 20 (1.95%) XML
8 19 (1.85%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.85%) OAuth
9 17 (1.66%) JSON
10 16 (1.56%) LangChain
11 15 (1.46%) FastAPI
11 15 (1.46%) Playwright
11 15 (1.46%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.46%) TensorFlow
12 14 (1.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 73 (7.12%) Management Information System
2 56 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 48 (4.68%) Derivative
4 42 (4.09%) Onboarding
5 40 (3.90%) Cloud Native
6 37 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 28 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
8 27 (2.63%) Life Science
9 26 (2.53%) Data Centre
9 26 (2.53%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (2.44%) Fixed Income
10 25 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (2.14%) Equities
12 21 (2.05%) Replication
12 21 (2.05%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
13 20 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
13 20 (1.95%) Security Posture
14 19 (1.85%) Data Structures
14 19 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 82 (7.99%) Windows
2 75 (7.31%) Linux
3 41 (4.00%) Unix
4 21 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.75%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.36%) Android
6 14 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.17%) VMS
8 11 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.97%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.097%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.097%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (42.88%) Computer Science
2 366 (35.67%) Agile
3 322 (31.38%) Problem-Solving
4 171 (16.67%) Project Management
5 165 (16.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 151 (14.72%) DevOps
7 142 (13.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 131 (12.77%) AI
9 130 (12.67%) Analytics
10 121 (11.79%) Change Management
11 118 (11.50%) Risk Management
12 113 (11.01%) CI/CD
13 108 (10.53%) Scrum
14 104 (10.14%) Roadmaps
15 100 (9.75%) Machine Learning
15 100 (9.75%) Software Engineering
16 98 (9.55%) Decision-Making
17 94 (9.16%) Migration
18 93 (9.06%) Project Delivery
19 88 (8.58%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 237 (23.10%) Python
2 196 (19.10%) SQL
3 103 (10.04%) Java
4 66 (6.43%) JavaScript
5 58 (5.65%) PowerShell
6 57 (5.56%) C++
7 55 (5.36%) C#
8 28 (2.73%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.14%) R
10 17 (1.66%) Bash
11 14 (1.36%) Ruby
12 13 (1.27%) PL/SQL
13 12 (1.17%) Groovy
14 11 (1.07%) T-SQL
15 10 (0.97%) Kotlin
15 10 (0.97%) Kusto Query Language
16 9 (0.88%) Perl
17 8 (0.78%) Go
18 7 (0.68%) C
18 7 (0.68%) VBA
Qualifications
1 274 (26.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 166 (16.18%) Master's Degree
3 83 (8.09%) Security Cleared
4 81 (7.89%) PMI Certification
5 72 (7.02%) PMP
6 60 (5.85%) SC Cleared
7 43 (4.19%) PhD
8 40 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 39 (3.80%) CISSP
10 36 (3.51%) Azure Certification
11 25 (2.44%) AWS Certification
11 25 (2.44%) CISM
12 19 (1.85%) CBAP
13 17 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
14 16 (1.56%) MBA
14 16 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
15 13 (1.27%) CISA
16 11 (1.07%) CCNA
17 10 (0.97%) DV Cleared
18 9 (0.88%) CFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (6.14%) QA
2 49 (4.78%) GDPR
3 37 (3.61%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.63%) NIST
6 25 (2.44%) Accessibility
7 24 (2.34%) PMO
8 17 (1.66%) SLA
9 13 (1.27%) PCI DSS
10 11 (1.07%) GRC
11 10 (0.97%) COBIT
12 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.78%) IFRS
12 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.68%) Basel III
13 7 (0.68%) WCAG
14 5 (0.49%) IFRS 9
14 5 (0.49%) MiFID
15 4 (0.39%) Def Stans
15 4 (0.39%) ECSS
System Software
1 75 (7.31%) Docker
2 59 (5.75%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.97%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.97%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.97%) Postfix
3 10 (0.97%) Squid
4 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) XenApp
7 1 (0.097%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.097%) Firmware
7 1 (0.097%) HDFS
7 1 (0.097%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.097%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.097%) vSphere
7 1 (0.097%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (5.17%) Terraform
2 51 (4.97%) Kubernetes
3 23 (2.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 21 (2.05%) Grafana
5 16 (1.56%) SCCM
6 13 (1.27%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.17%) Ansible
8 10 (0.97%) Nessus
8 10 (0.97%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.68%) CSIRT
9 7 (0.68%) SCOM
10 5 (0.49%) QRadar
11 4 (0.39%) Puppet
12 3 (0.29%) Argo
12 3 (0.29%) Functional Safety
12 3 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
13 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.19%) Progress Chef
13 2 (0.19%) RSA Archer
14 1 (0.097%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 201 (19.59%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.56%) Oracle
3 51 (4.97%) SAP
4 49 (4.78%) Google
5 44 (4.29%) ServiceNow
6 41 (4.00%) Salesforce
7 22 (2.14%) Databricks
8 21 (2.05%) Cisco
9 19 (1.85%) Splunk
9 19 (1.85%) Workday
10 13 (1.27%) Adobe
11 12 (1.17%) Citrix
11 12 (1.17%) IBM
12 11 (1.07%) VMware
13 10 (0.97%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (0.88%) Murex
15 8 (0.78%) Apple
15 8 (0.78%) Fortinet
16 7 (0.68%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.68%) UiPath