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

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 21
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 970 1,060 1,336
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.78% 7.81% 8.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.23% 29.89% 34.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 668 845
10th Percentile £263 £339 £312
25th Percentile £409 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £680
90th Percentile £760 £816 £820
England median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% -4.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 26 42
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £20.58
25th Percentile £28.00 £15.75 £25.99
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.41 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +36.31% -27.64% +15.87%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.73 £48.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £68.13 £68.68
England median hourly rate £49.25 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +15.88% -25.89% +14.70%

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 5,629 3,546 3,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.76% 26.12% 23.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,064 2,402 2,688
10th Percentile £371 £341 £345
25th Percentile £455 £435 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 86 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.53 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.06 £25.01 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.85% -50.91%
75th Percentile £73.00 £37.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.50 £68.30
England median hourly rate £54.25 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +115.71% -45.54% -16.04%

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 8 August 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 8 August 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 8 August 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 -45 87 £519 -9.39% 330
West London -7 44 £241 -40.41% 68
East London +3 11 £550 -8.33% 31
South London -20 9 £332 -44.61% 18
North London - 4 £550 - 9
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 (5.05%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.12%) Confluence
3 28 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 18 (1.86%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.13%) IIS
7 10 (1.03%) Apache
8 6 (0.62%) CMS
8 6 (0.62%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.52%) Camunda
10 4 (0.41%) Appian
11 3 (0.31%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.10%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 97 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (7.22%) Microsoft Office
3 53 (5.46%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (4.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.37%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.21%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.72%) HFM
3 7 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.62%) Aladdin
5 3 (0.31%) Actimize
5 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.21%) Changepoint
6 2 (0.21%) Endur
6 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.21%) Primavera
6 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
6 2 (0.21%) Shopify
6 2 (0.21%) Summit
6 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 250 (25.77%) Azure
2 150 (15.46%) AWS
3 76 (7.84%) Power Platform
4 73 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
5 72 (7.42%) GCP
6 61 (6.29%) Entra ID
7 47 (4.85%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (4.12%) GitHub
9 34 (3.51%) SaaS
10 28 (2.89%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
11 20 (2.06%) Serverless
12 16 (1.65%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (1.44%) IaaS
13 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (1.34%) PaaS
15 12 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
15 12 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
15 12 (1.24%) Figma
15 12 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.43%) Firewall
2 26 (2.68%) Network Security
3 25 (2.58%) VPN
4 22 (2.27%) DNS
5 21 (2.16%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.65%) DHCP
7 13 (1.34%) WAN
8 11 (1.13%) Internet
9 10 (1.03%) LAN
10 9 (0.93%) 3GPP
10 9 (0.93%) BGP
11 8 (0.82%) VoIP
12 7 (0.72%) 5G
12 7 (0.72%) Radio Access Network
12 7 (0.72%) VXLAN
12 7 (0.72%) Wireless
13 6 (0.62%) DMZ
13 6 (0.62%) HTTPS
13 6 (0.62%) OSPF
13 6 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (5.98%) Power BI
2 44 (4.54%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.47%) NoSQL
4 24 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.37%) Relational Database
6 22 (2.27%) Tableau
7 17 (1.75%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.65%) Big Data
9 15 (1.55%) Metadata
10 11 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 10 (1.03%) Amazon RDS
11 10 (1.03%) Oracle Database
12 9 (0.93%) Data Mining
12 9 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (0.72%) Power Query
14 6 (0.62%) Neo4j
15 5 (0.52%) Hadoop
15 5 (0.52%) Redis
15 5 (0.52%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 76 (7.84%) JIRA
2 64 (6.60%) Git
3 28 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.75%) GitLab
5 12 (1.24%) Selenium
6 11 (1.13%) Subversion
7 10 (1.03%) Visual Studio
8 9 (0.93%) MLflow
9 7 (0.72%) Gradle
9 7 (0.72%) Maven
10 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
10 6 (0.62%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.52%) JUnit
11 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.41%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.31%) Chocolatey
13 3 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
13 3 (0.31%) HP UFT
13 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 451 (46.49%) Social Skills
2 406 (41.86%) Finance
3 239 (24.64%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.81%) Banking
5 67 (6.91%) Marketing
6 64 (6.60%) Legal
6 64 (6.60%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (5.05%) Retail
8 45 (4.64%) Presentation Skills
9 44 (4.54%) Public Sector
10 38 (3.92%) Front Office
11 34 (3.51%) Investment Banking
12 32 (3.30%) Financial Institution
13 31 (3.20%) Telecoms
14 28 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
15 27 (2.78%) Law
16 26 (2.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 22 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
18 18 (1.86%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (1.44%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 141 (14.54%) Analyst
2 127 (13.09%) Senior
3 103 (10.62%) Developer
4 86 (8.87%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.35%) Lead
6 77 (7.94%) Architect
7 69 (7.11%) Project Manager
8 38 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.81%) Senior Manager
10 29 (2.99%) Consultant
10 29 (2.99%) Support Engineer
11 27 (2.78%) Data Scientist
12 25 (2.58%) Software Engineer
13 21 (2.16%) C# Developer
13 21 (2.16%) Data Engineer
13 21 (2.16%) Desktop Engineer
13 21 (2.16%) Financial Analyst
13 21 (2.16%) IT Analyst
13 21 (2.16%) Senior Project Manager
14 19 (1.96%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.77%) .NET
2 53 (5.46%) REST
3 32 (3.30%) React
4 27 (2.78%) .NET Framework
5 26 (2.68%) Kafka
6 20 (2.06%) RESTful
7 18 (1.86%) AngularJS
8 17 (1.75%) HTML
9 16 (1.65%) Spring
9 16 (1.65%) XML
10 15 (1.55%) JSON
10 15 (1.55%) Pandas
10 15 (1.55%) PyTorch
11 14 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
11 14 (1.44%) PySpark
11 14 (1.44%) Spring Boot
12 12 (1.24%) scikit-learn
13 11 (1.13%) LangChain
13 11 (1.13%) OAuth
13 11 (1.13%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 69 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 57 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 52 (5.36%) Cloud Native
4 47 (4.85%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.43%) Self-Motivation
6 41 (4.23%) Algorithms
7 28 (2.89%) Data Structures
7 28 (2.89%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.78%) Derivative
8 27 (2.78%) Virtual Team
9 26 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.16%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.06%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.75%) Equities
14 17 (1.75%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 116 (11.96%) Windows
2 57 (5.88%) Linux
3 22 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.06%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.65%) Unix
6 14 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.93%) Android
9 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.21%) CentOS
12 2 (0.21%) VMS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (35.98%) Computer Science
2 274 (28.25%) Agile
3 268 (27.63%) Problem-Solving
4 214 (22.06%) AI
5 187 (19.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 169 (17.42%) Analytics
7 151 (15.57%) DevOps
8 146 (15.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (13.92%) CI/CD
10 122 (12.58%) Project Management
11 110 (11.34%) Software Engineering
12 104 (10.72%) Decision-Making
12 104 (10.72%) Migration
13 100 (10.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 96 (9.90%) Scrum
15 92 (9.48%) Project Delivery
15 92 (9.48%) Risk Management
16 89 (9.18%) Change Management
17 86 (8.87%) ITIL
17 86 (8.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 206 (21.24%) Python
2 192 (19.79%) SQL
3 86 (8.87%) Java
4 66 (6.80%) C#
5 59 (6.08%) PowerShell
6 43 (4.43%) JavaScript
7 28 (2.89%) C++
8 24 (2.47%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.06%) R
10 17 (1.75%) Bash
10 17 (1.75%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.93%) Bicep
12 8 (0.82%) C
12 8 (0.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.72%) Scala
14 5 (0.52%) VBA
15 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.41%) X++
16 3 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 229 (23.61%) Computer Science Degree
2 115 (11.86%) Master's Degree
3 83 (8.56%) Security Cleared
4 68 (7.01%) PMI Certification
5 63 (6.49%) SC Cleared
6 58 (5.98%) PMP
7 51 (5.26%) CISSP
8 38 (3.92%) PhD
9 33 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 32 (3.30%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.68%) Cisco Certification
12 24 (2.47%) CISA
12 24 (2.47%) MBA
13 22 (2.27%) CISM
14 20 (2.06%) DV Cleared
15 16 (1.65%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.34%) ISTQB
17 12 (1.24%) CCNP
17 12 (1.24%) CRISC
18 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (7.01%) QA
2 58 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 46 (4.74%) PMO
4 38 (3.92%) NIST
5 37 (3.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.68%) GDPR
7 22 (2.27%) SLA
8 21 (2.16%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.44%) GRC
11 12 (1.24%) PCI DSS
12 11 (1.13%) COBIT
13 8 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.72%) IFRS
14 7 (0.72%) P3O
15 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
17 4 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
17 4 (0.41%) ITGC
17 4 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 79 (8.14%) Active Directory
2 56 (5.77%) Docker
3 19 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.82%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.72%) Firmware
6 6 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.52%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
8 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
8 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.41%) vSphere
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) HDFS
9 1 (0.10%) IAG
9 1 (0.10%) Squid
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.10%) XenApp
9 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 55 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 48 (4.95%) Terraform
3 46 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 28 (2.89%) Ansible
5 18 (1.86%) SCCM
6 14 (1.44%) Grafana
7 12 (1.24%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.41%) Puppet
9 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.41%) vMotion
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.31%) Control-M
10 3 (0.31%) Nagios
10 3 (0.31%) Packer
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.31%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 251 (25.88%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.32%) Oracle
3 52 (5.36%) Google
4 45 (4.64%) ServiceNow
5 30 (3.09%) SAP
6 28 (2.89%) Cisco
7 26 (2.68%) Citrix
7 26 (2.68%) VMware
8 23 (2.37%) Databricks
9 22 (2.27%) Adobe
10 20 (2.06%) Salesforce
11 15 (1.55%) Palo Alto
12 14 (1.44%) OpenAI
13 13 (1.34%) Apple
14 12 (1.24%) Bloomberg
14 12 (1.24%) Splunk
15 11 (1.13%) HP
16 10 (1.03%) CyberArk
16 10 (1.03%) Juniper
16 10 (1.03%) Murex