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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -20 -2 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 983 1,054 1,359
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.83% 7.81% 8.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.23% 29.66% 33.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 523 642 839
10th Percentile £253 £331 £312
25th Percentile £406 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £700 £678
90th Percentile £763 £800 £825
England median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -3.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 39
10th Percentile £19.03 £12.87 £18.00
25th Percentile £27.13 £20.24 £25.08
Median hourly rate £44.50 £27.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.82% -21.43% +19.66%
75th Percentile £78.75 £63.25 £51.25
90th Percentile £86.25 £68.25 £59.60
England median hourly rate £39.11 £40.46 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.34% -29.45% +24.19%

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 5,706 3,554 4,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.06% 26.32% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,096 2,382 2,639
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £535 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.87% -0.47% -2.27%
75th Percentile £639 £653 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 82 60
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.88
25th Percentile £25.21 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £30.81
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -18.37% -43.98%
75th Percentile £78.75 £43.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £92.13 £65.00 £65.30
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% +0.40%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -50 88 £535 -2.73% 317
West London -10 44 £226 -44.25% 192
East London +4 10 £445 -25.83% 28
South London -22 6 £190 -68.33% 24
North London - 4 £550 - 6
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 51 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 41 (4.17%) Confluence
3 24 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (2.03%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.22%) IIS
7 11 (1.12%) Apache
8 8 (0.81%) Camunda
9 6 (0.61%) CMS
10 4 (0.41%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 4 (0.41%) Appian
10 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
11 3 (0.31%) Moodle
12 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
12 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 98 (9.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (5.09%) Microsoft Project
4 46 (4.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.31%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
10 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.81%) Magento
3 7 (0.71%) HFM
4 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.31%) Actimize
6 3 (0.31%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.31%) Changepoint
6 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
6 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.31%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.20%) Cloudability
7 2 (0.20%) Orchestrade
7 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
7 2 (0.20%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 243 (24.72%) Azure
2 145 (14.75%) AWS
3 75 (7.63%) GCP
4 73 (7.43%) Power Platform
5 72 (7.32%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (5.39%) Entra ID
7 48 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (4.58%) GitHub
9 35 (3.56%) SaaS
10 25 (2.54%) Serverless
11 24 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (2.24%) Snowflake
13 18 (1.83%) OpenShift
14 17 (1.73%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.63%) Anthropic Claude
15 16 (1.63%) GitHub Actions
16 15 (1.53%) IaaS
16 15 (1.53%) OneDrive
17 14 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
18 13 (1.32%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.48%) Firewall
2 29 (2.95%) DNS
3 25 (2.54%) VPN
4 24 (2.44%) Network Security
4 24 (2.44%) TCP/IP
5 20 (2.03%) DHCP
6 18 (1.83%) 3GPP
7 17 (1.73%) 5G
8 16 (1.63%) Radio Access Network
9 14 (1.42%) Internet
10 13 (1.32%) WAN
11 12 (1.22%) LAN
12 8 (0.81%) BGP
12 8 (0.81%) Wireless
13 7 (0.71%) VoIP
13 7 (0.71%) VXLAN
14 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
14 6 (0.61%) MPLS
14 6 (0.61%) OSPF
14 6 (0.61%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 54 (5.49%) SQL Server
2 52 (5.29%) Power BI
3 29 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.44%) Relational Database
6 23 (2.34%) NoSQL
7 21 (2.14%) Tableau
8 17 (1.73%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.63%) Big Data
9 16 (1.63%) Metadata
10 15 (1.53%) Oracle Database
11 12 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.12%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.02%) Data Mining
13 10 (1.02%) MySQL
14 7 (0.71%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.61%) Neo4j
16 5 (0.51%) Redis
Development Applications
1 77 (7.83%) JIRA
2 70 (7.12%) Git
3 37 (3.76%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.64%) GitLab
5 15 (1.53%) Maven
6 14 (1.42%) Gradle
6 14 (1.42%) Selenium
7 13 (1.32%) JUnit
7 13 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 11 (1.12%) Subversion
9 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio
10 8 (0.81%) MLflow
10 8 (0.81%) Mockito
11 7 (0.71%) REST Assured
12 5 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
12 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
12 5 (0.51%) Zephyr
13 4 (0.41%) Cucumber
13 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 472 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 430 (43.74%) Finance
3 243 (24.72%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (15.67%) Banking
5 66 (6.71%) Marketing
6 64 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
7 62 (6.31%) Legal
8 50 (5.09%) Public Sector
9 43 (4.37%) Retail
10 42 (4.27%) Presentation Skills
11 40 (4.07%) Telecoms
12 39 (3.97%) Front Office
13 37 (3.76%) Investment Banking
14 32 (3.26%) Financial Institution
15 31 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 31 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
16 30 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (2.34%) Law
18 22 (2.24%) Pharmaceutical
19 18 (1.83%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 159 (16.17%) Analyst
2 123 (12.51%) Senior
3 110 (11.19%) Developer
4 94 (9.56%) Business Analyst
5 90 (9.16%) Lead
6 76 (7.73%) Architect
7 57 (5.80%) Project Manager
8 37 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.36%) Support Engineer
10 29 (2.95%) Senior Manager
11 28 (2.85%) Consultant
12 27 (2.75%) Software Engineer
13 25 (2.54%) Java Developer
14 23 (2.34%) Data Engineer
14 23 (2.34%) Data Scientist
14 23 (2.34%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.34%) IT Analyst
14 23 (2.34%) Senior Developer
15 21 (2.14%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
16 20 (2.03%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (6.10%) .NET
1 60 (6.10%) REST
2 58 (5.90%) Terraform
3 42 (4.27%) Kafka
4 34 (3.46%) HTML
5 32 (3.26%) React
6 28 (2.85%) .NET Framework
7 26 (2.64%) Spring Boot
8 25 (2.54%) CSS
9 24 (2.44%) RESTful
9 24 (2.44%) Spring
10 22 (2.24%) XML
11 19 (1.93%) AngularJS
12 16 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (1.63%) Pandas
12 16 (1.63%) Web Services
13 15 (1.53%) LangChain
14 14 (1.42%) JSON
14 14 (1.42%) PySpark
15 13 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 62 (6.31%) Management Information System
3 50 (5.09%) Cloud Native
4 47 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 44 (4.48%) Algorithms
6 37 (3.76%) Data Structures
7 35 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.75%) Distributed Systems
8 27 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 26 (2.64%) AI Agents
10 24 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
11 23 (2.34%) Derivative
12 22 (2.24%) Data Centre
13 18 (1.83%) Equities
13 18 (1.83%) Fixed Income
13 18 (1.83%) Social Media
14 17 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.73%) Virtual Team
15 16 (1.63%) Hedge funds
15 16 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 116 (11.80%) Windows
2 64 (6.51%) Linux
3 24 (2.44%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.03%) Unix
5 18 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 17 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 14 (1.42%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.81%) Android
8 8 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 4 (0.41%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
12 1 (0.10%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.10%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (36.83%) Computer Science
2 289 (29.40%) Agile
3 268 (27.26%) Problem-Solving
4 219 (22.28%) Stakeholder Management
5 217 (22.08%) AI
6 160 (16.28%) Analytics
6 160 (16.28%) DevOps
7 153 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 148 (15.06%) CI/CD
9 124 (12.61%) Project Management
10 122 (12.41%) Software Engineering
11 111 (11.29%) Decision-Making
12 108 (10.99%) Scrum
13 107 (10.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 103 (10.48%) Migration
15 99 (10.07%) User Acceptance Testing
16 95 (9.66%) Change Management
17 87 (8.85%) Risk Management
17 87 (8.85%) Roadmaps
18 86 (8.75%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 206 (20.96%) Python
2 200 (20.35%) SQL
3 93 (9.46%) Java
4 71 (7.22%) C#
5 64 (6.51%) JavaScript
6 63 (6.41%) PowerShell
7 32 (3.26%) C++
8 29 (2.95%) TypeScript
9 22 (2.24%) Bash
10 19 (1.93%) R
11 17 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 11 (1.12%) Scala
13 10 (1.02%) Bicep
14 9 (0.92%) C
14 9 (0.92%) T-SQL
15 8 (0.81%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.51%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.51%) VBA
16 5 (0.51%) X++
17 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 234 (23.80%) Computer Science Degree
2 114 (11.60%) Master's Degree
3 100 (10.17%) Security Cleared
4 74 (7.53%) PMI Certification
4 74 (7.53%) SC Cleared
5 64 (6.51%) PMP
6 40 (4.07%) PhD
7 37 (3.76%) CISSP
8 30 (3.05%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 22 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (2.24%) DV Cleared
9 22 (2.24%) MBA
10 17 (1.73%) CISA
11 16 (1.63%) CISM
12 15 (1.53%) ISTQB
13 13 (1.32%) AWS Certification
13 13 (1.32%) CCNP
13 13 (1.32%) TOGAF Certification
14 12 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.63%) QA
2 67 (6.82%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.87%) PMO
4 25 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.44%) NIST
6 18 (1.83%) Accessibility
6 18 (1.83%) SLA
7 17 (1.73%) GDPR
8 15 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (1.42%) GRC
10 10 (1.02%) IFRS
11 9 (0.92%) COBIT
12 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.81%) P3O
13 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
16 4 (0.41%) ITGC
16 4 (0.41%) MiFID
17 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 76 (7.73%) Active Directory
2 65 (6.61%) Docker
3 24 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.81%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.51%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.41%) vSphere
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.20%) Squid
10 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.10%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.10%) Postfix
10 1 (0.10%) RACF
10 1 (0.10%) Time Sharing Option
10 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 42 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
3 28 (2.85%) Ansible
4 15 (1.53%) Grafana
4 15 (1.53%) SCCM
5 13 (1.32%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.61%) Puppet
7 5 (0.51%) Control-M
8 4 (0.41%) HP ALM
8 4 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
8 4 (0.41%) vMotion
9 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.31%) Nagios
9 3 (0.31%) Packer
9 3 (0.31%) WSUS
10 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.10%) QRadar
11 1 (0.10%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 241 (24.52%) Microsoft
2 91 (9.26%) Oracle
3 49 (4.98%) ServiceNow
4 48 (4.88%) Google
5 37 (3.76%) SAP
6 32 (3.26%) VMware
7 27 (2.75%) Adobe
8 25 (2.54%) Cisco
9 24 (2.44%) Citrix
10 23 (2.34%) Salesforce
11 22 (2.24%) Databricks
12 18 (1.83%) OpenAI
13 17 (1.73%) IBM
14 13 (1.32%) Apple
15 12 (1.22%) Palo Alto
15 12 (1.22%) Splunk
16 10 (1.02%) Bloomberg
16 10 (1.02%) Samsung
17 9 (0.92%) HP
17 9 (0.92%) Red Hat