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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 984 1,011 1,356
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.83% 7.50% 8.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.05% 28.37% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 533 608 828
10th Percentile £263 £325 £312
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £850
England median daily rate £510 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.00% - -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 26 42
10th Percentile £16.64 £14.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £26.25 £21.31 £26.24
Median hourly rate £50.00 £31.32 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +59.67% -15.71% +37.59%
75th Percentile £78.75 £63.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.25 £68.68
England median hourly rate £39.50 £34.50 £54.00
% change year-on-year +14.49% -36.11% +13.68%

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 5,771 3,564 4,026
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.35% 26.45% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,181 2,395 2,585
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £653 £650
90th Percentile £726 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +0.95% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 84 61
10th Percentile £19.50 £19.05 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.47 - £25.75
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.10% -18.89%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £71.25
England median hourly rate £51.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +102.78% -52.10% -

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -45 90 £538 +1.18% 541
West London -15 41 £226 -44.26% 199
East London +7 11 £190 -71.11% 31
North London - 4 £550 - 4
South London -32 3 £420 -32.80% 37
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 52 (5.28%) Confluence
2 49 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 20 (2.03%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 13 (1.32%) IIS
5 11 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.02%) Apache
7 9 (0.91%) Camunda
7 9 (0.91%) CMS
8 7 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
10 3 (0.30%) Appian
10 3 (0.30%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) CICS
11 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.20%) nginx
11 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.20%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 100 (10.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (6.50%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (5.18%) Microsoft Project
4 44 (4.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.03%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.51%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.20%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Simulink
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 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
6 4 (0.41%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.41%) Workday HCM
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 Receivables
7 3 (0.30%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.20%) Endur
8 2 (0.20%) Primavera
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 239 (24.29%) Azure
2 145 (14.74%) AWS
3 81 (8.23%) GCP
4 78 (7.93%) Power Platform
5 65 (6.61%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (5.49%) Azure DevOps
6 54 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.47%) GitHub
8 36 (3.66%) SaaS
9 26 (2.64%) Serverless
10 25 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.34%) Snowflake
12 22 (2.24%) Anthropic Claude
13 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
14 17 (1.73%) Amazon S3
14 17 (1.73%) OpenShift
15 15 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.52%) IaaS
16 14 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
16 14 (1.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.96%) Firewall
2 27 (2.74%) DNS
3 25 (2.54%) Network Security
4 20 (2.03%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.03%) VPN
5 18 (1.83%) DHCP
6 17 (1.73%) 3GPP
6 17 (1.73%) 5G
7 15 (1.52%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (1.32%) Internet
9 11 (1.12%) LAN
9 11 (1.12%) WAN
10 8 (0.81%) VoIP
10 8 (0.81%) Wireless
11 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
11 6 (0.61%) Unified Communications
11 6 (0.61%) VXLAN
11 6 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.51%) HTTP
12 5 (0.51%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.69%) Power BI
2 52 (5.28%) SQL Server
3 33 (3.35%) Data Warehouse
4 32 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.24%) Relational Database
7 20 (2.03%) Tableau
8 19 (1.93%) MongoDB
9 17 (1.73%) Big Data
10 16 (1.63%) Metadata
11 14 (1.42%) Oracle Database
12 13 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.32%) MySQL
13 12 (1.22%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.81%) Data Mining
15 7 (0.71%) Delta Lake
15 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 7 (0.71%) Redis
16 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.61%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 80 (8.13%) JIRA
2 77 (7.83%) Git
3 39 (3.96%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.85%) GitLab
5 17 (1.73%) Gradle
5 17 (1.73%) Maven
6 15 (1.52%) JUnit
7 13 (1.32%) Selenium
7 13 (1.32%) SonarQube
8 10 (1.02%) Mockito
8 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio
9 8 (0.81%) Subversion
10 6 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.61%) MLflow
10 6 (0.61%) REST Assured
11 5 (0.51%) Bitbucket Server
11 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.51%) Sonatype Nexus
12 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
12 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
General
1 472 (47.97%) Social Skills
2 438 (44.51%) Finance
3 254 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (15.55%) Banking
5 67 (6.81%) Marketing
6 66 (6.71%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (6.20%) Legal
8 57 (5.79%) Public Sector
9 47 (4.78%) Presentation Skills
10 45 (4.57%) Influencing Skills
11 43 (4.37%) Retail
12 39 (3.96%) Telecoms
13 35 (3.56%) Investment Banking
14 34 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
14 34 (3.46%) Front Office
15 33 (3.35%) Financial Institution
15 33 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 25 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
17 24 (2.44%) Law
18 17 (1.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 163 (16.57%) Analyst
2 120 (12.20%) Senior
3 110 (11.18%) Developer
4 101 (10.26%) Business Analyst
5 87 (8.84%) Lead
6 77 (7.83%) Architect
7 60 (6.10%) Project Manager
8 37 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
9 33 (3.35%) Consultant
10 32 (3.25%) Support Engineer
11 28 (2.85%) Senior Manager
12 26 (2.64%) Software Engineer
13 25 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
14 23 (2.34%) Java Developer
15 21 (2.13%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 21 (2.13%) IT Manager
15 21 (2.13%) Senior Developer
16 20 (2.03%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.03%) Data Scientist
16 20 (2.03%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.20%) .NET
2 60 (6.10%) REST
3 57 (5.79%) Terraform
4 43 (4.37%) Kafka
5 36 (3.66%) HTML
6 33 (3.35%) React
7 29 (2.95%) CSS
8 27 (2.74%) .NET Framework
9 26 (2.64%) Spring Boot
10 24 (2.44%) Spring
11 23 (2.34%) XML
12 22 (2.24%) RESTful
13 19 (1.93%) AngularJS
14 18 (1.83%) SOAP
14 18 (1.83%) Web Services
15 17 (1.73%) LangChain
15 17 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
16 16 (1.63%) LangGraph
17 15 (1.52%) JSON
17 15 (1.52%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 70 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 59 (6.00%) Management Information System
3 55 (5.59%) Product Ownership
4 52 (5.28%) Cloud Native
5 45 (4.57%) Algorithms
6 35 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (3.46%) Data Structures
8 29 (2.95%) AI Agents
9 26 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 25 (2.54%) Distributed Systems
11 24 (2.44%) Enterprise Software
12 23 (2.34%) Derivative
13 20 (2.03%) Data Centre
14 18 (1.83%) Equities
15 17 (1.73%) PMI
15 17 (1.73%) Virtual Team
16 16 (1.63%) Credit Risk
16 16 (1.63%) Hedge funds
16 16 (1.63%) Life Science
16 16 (1.63%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 112 (11.38%) Windows
2 64 (6.50%) Linux
3 29 (2.95%) Unix
4 25 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.42%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.61%) Android
10 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
12 2 (0.20%) Mac OS X
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.20%) zOS
13 1 (0.10%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.10%) CentOS
13 1 (0.10%) Embedded Linux
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.38%) Computer Science
2 305 (31.00%) Agile
3 270 (27.44%) Problem-Solving
4 250 (25.41%) Stakeholder Management
5 224 (22.76%) AI
6 165 (16.77%) Analytics
7 163 (16.57%) DevOps
8 156 (15.85%) CI/CD
9 154 (15.65%) Continuous Improvement
10 128 (13.01%) Project Management
10 128 (13.01%) Software Engineering
11 113 (11.48%) Scrum
12 111 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 110 (11.18%) Decision-Making
14 106 (10.77%) Risk Management
15 102 (10.37%) User Acceptance Testing
16 101 (10.26%) Migration
17 99 (10.06%) Change Management
18 97 (9.86%) Validation
19 96 (9.76%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 204 (20.73%) SQL
2 197 (20.02%) Python
3 87 (8.84%) Java
4 68 (6.91%) C#
5 65 (6.61%) JavaScript
6 59 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 29 (2.95%) C++
9 27 (2.74%) Bash
10 17 (1.73%) PL/SQL
10 17 (1.73%) R
11 13 (1.32%) Scala
12 12 (1.22%) Shell Script
13 11 (1.12%) Bicep
14 9 (0.91%) C
14 9 (0.91%) T-SQL
15 5 (0.51%) COBOL
15 5 (0.51%) VBA
15 5 (0.51%) X++
16 4 (0.41%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 234 (23.78%) Computer Science Degree
2 112 (11.38%) Master's Degree
3 106 (10.77%) Security Cleared
4 85 (8.64%) PMI Certification
5 79 (8.03%) SC Cleared
6 74 (7.52%) PMP
7 38 (3.86%) PhD
8 35 (3.56%) CISSP
9 27 (2.74%) Azure Certification
10 26 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.24%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.83%) CISM
14 16 (1.63%) MBA
15 15 (1.52%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.42%) ACCA
16 14 (1.42%) CIMA
16 14 (1.42%) CISA
17 13 (1.32%) CCNP
17 13 (1.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (7.62%) Data Quality
2 74 (7.52%) QA
3 38 (3.86%) PMO
4 25 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 22 (2.24%) NIST
6 20 (2.03%) GDPR
7 18 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.52%) GRC
9 14 (1.42%) SLA
10 12 (1.22%) IFRS
10 12 (1.22%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
11 8 (0.81%) P3O
11 8 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 7 (0.71%) Basel III
12 7 (0.71%) COBIT
13 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
15 4 (0.41%) NCSC
16 3 (0.30%) EU AI Act
System Software
1 72 (7.32%) Active Directory
2 68 (6.91%) Docker
3 23 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.71%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.51%) BitLocker
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.41%) vSphere
7 3 (0.30%) Firmware
7 3 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.30%) Terminal Services
8 2 (0.20%) RACF
8 2 (0.20%) Squid
8 2 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.10%) DFS Replication
9 1 (0.10%) Dovecot
9 1 (0.10%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.10%) Postfix
9 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (5.89%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 25 (2.54%) Ansible
4 16 (1.63%) Grafana
5 14 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.32%) SCCM
7 7 (0.71%) Control-M
8 6 (0.61%) Puppet
9 5 (0.51%) 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
12 1 (0.10%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.10%) Kibana
12 1 (0.10%) PingFederate
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 240 (24.39%) Microsoft
2 89 (9.04%) Oracle
3 54 (5.49%) Google
4 49 (4.98%) ServiceNow
5 37 (3.76%) SAP
6 30 (3.05%) VMware
7 27 (2.74%) Adobe
8 26 (2.64%) Cisco
9 25 (2.54%) Databricks
9 25 (2.54%) OpenAI
9 25 (2.54%) Salesforce
10 20 (2.03%) Citrix
10 20 (2.03%) IBM
11 14 (1.42%) Splunk
12 13 (1.32%) Apple
13 12 (1.22%) Murex
13 12 (1.22%) UiPath
14 11 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.91%) Progress
15 9 (0.91%) Samsung