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

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 965 1,056 1,345
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.79% 7.75% 8.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.30% 29.70% 34.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 663 854
10th Percentile £263 £335 £312
25th Percentile £412 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £756 £812 £813
England median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 40
10th Percentile £17.83 £11.96 £20.26
25th Percentile £27.13 £20.24 £25.74
Median hourly rate £36.00 £26.50 £36.11
Median % change year-on-year +35.85% -26.60% +12.49%
75th Percentile £62.88 £63.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.75 £69.38
England median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +17.65% -25.89% +9.24%

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 5,578 3,555 3,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.71% 26.10% 24.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,034 2,407 2,703
10th Percentile £375 £338 £336
25th Percentile £455 £431 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.67% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £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 89 87 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £17.62 £17.98
25th Percentile £26.00 £25.02 £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 £41.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.45 £68.45
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.69% -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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -42 87 £502 -12.78% 296
West London -10 43 £241 -40.40% 73
East London +4 10 £568 -5.42% 28
South London -20 9 £332 -44.61% 18
North London - 4 £550 - 10
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 (5.08%) SharePoint
2 40 (4.15%) Confluence
3 28 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.76%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.14%) IIS
7 9 (0.93%) 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 94 (9.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (7.05%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (5.28%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (4.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 23 (2.38%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.04%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.62%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
9 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.41%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.21%) Trello
11 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.83%) Magento
3 7 (0.73%) HFM
4 6 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 6 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
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 Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
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
1 249 (25.80%) Azure
2 148 (15.34%) AWS
3 79 (8.19%) Power Platform
4 71 (7.36%) GCP
4 71 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (6.32%) Entra ID
6 46 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
7 39 (4.04%) GitHub
8 34 (3.52%) SaaS
9 29 (3.01%) Snowflake
10 20 (2.07%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (2.07%) Serverless
11 16 (1.66%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (1.45%) IaaS
12 14 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (1.35%) PaaS
14 12 (1.24%) Anthropic Claude
14 12 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.24%) Figma
14 12 (1.24%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 43 (4.46%) Firewall
2 25 (2.59%) Network Security
3 24 (2.49%) VPN
4 21 (2.18%) DNS
5 19 (1.97%) TCP/IP
6 15 (1.55%) DHCP
7 13 (1.35%) WAN
8 10 (1.04%) LAN
9 9 (0.93%) 3GPP
9 9 (0.93%) BGP
9 9 (0.93%) Internet
10 8 (0.83%) VoIP
11 7 (0.73%) 5G
11 7 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
11 7 (0.73%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.62%) DMZ
12 6 (0.62%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.62%) OSPF
12 6 (0.62%) SAN
12 6 (0.62%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (6.32%) Power BI
2 44 (4.56%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.69%) NoSQL
5 25 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.59%) Tableau
6 23 (2.38%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.97%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.66%) Big Data
9 15 (1.55%) Metadata
10 10 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.04%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.04%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.83%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.73%) Power Query
12 7 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.62%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.52%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.52%) Redis
Development Applications
1 76 (7.88%) JIRA
2 64 (6.63%) Git
3 28 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.66%) GitLab
5 11 (1.14%) Subversion
6 10 (1.04%) MLflow
6 10 (1.04%) Selenium
6 10 (1.04%) Visual Studio
7 7 (0.73%) Gradle
7 7 (0.73%) Maven
8 6 (0.62%) SonarQube
8 6 (0.62%) Zephyr
9 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.52%) JUnit
9 5 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.41%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.31%) Chocolatey
11 3 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
11 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 448 (46.42%) Social Skills
2 404 (41.87%) Finance
3 233 (24.15%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.89%) Banking
5 68 (7.05%) Marketing
6 64 (6.63%) Legal
6 64 (6.63%) Organisational Skills
7 48 (4.97%) Retail
8 45 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
8 45 (4.66%) Public Sector
9 37 (3.83%) Front Office
10 33 (3.42%) Investment Banking
11 32 (3.32%) Financial Institution
12 30 (3.11%) Telecoms
13 29 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
14 27 (2.80%) Law
15 26 (2.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 22 (2.28%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.76%) Pharmaceutical
18 14 (1.45%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 139 (14.40%) Analyst
2 128 (13.26%) Senior
3 103 (10.67%) Developer
4 85 (8.81%) Lead
5 84 (8.70%) Business Analyst
6 78 (8.08%) Architect
7 66 (6.84%) Project Manager
8 39 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
9 37 (3.83%) Senior Manager
10 29 (3.01%) Consultant
11 28 (2.90%) Data Scientist
11 28 (2.90%) Support Engineer
12 25 (2.59%) Software Engineer
13 24 (2.49%) Data Engineer
14 21 (2.18%) C# Developer
14 21 (2.18%) Desktop Engineer
14 21 (2.18%) IT Analyst
14 21 (2.18%) Senior Project Manager
15 19 (1.97%) Junior
15 19 (1.97%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.80%) .NET
2 53 (5.49%) REST
3 31 (3.21%) React
4 27 (2.80%) .NET Framework
5 26 (2.69%) Kafka
6 19 (1.97%) AngularJS
6 19 (1.97%) RESTful
7 17 (1.76%) HTML
7 17 (1.76%) PyTorch
8 16 (1.66%) PySpark
8 16 (1.66%) Spring
8 16 (1.66%) XML
9 15 (1.55%) JSON
9 15 (1.55%) Pandas
10 14 (1.45%) Spring Boot
11 13 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
12 12 (1.24%) Middleware
12 12 (1.24%) scikit-learn
12 12 (1.24%) TensorFlow
13 11 (1.14%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.05%) Onboarding
2 56 (5.80%) Management Information System
3 51 (5.28%) Cloud Native
4 47 (4.87%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
6 39 (4.04%) Algorithms
7 28 (2.90%) Virtual Team
8 27 (2.80%) Data Centre
8 27 (2.80%) Data Structures
8 27 (2.80%) Derivative
8 27 (2.80%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.18%) AI Agents
10 21 (2.18%) Fixed Income
11 20 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
12 19 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.76%) Equities
13 17 (1.76%) Hedge funds
14 16 (1.66%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 115 (11.92%) Windows
2 57 (5.91%) Linux
3 22 (2.28%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.87%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.66%) Unix
6 14 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 13 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 10 (1.04%) Android
9 8 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.21%) CentOS
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 349 (36.17%) Computer Science
2 276 (28.60%) Agile
3 262 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
4 214 (22.18%) AI
5 184 (19.07%) Stakeholder Management
6 173 (17.93%) Analytics
7 150 (15.54%) DevOps
8 143 (14.82%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (13.78%) CI/CD
10 123 (12.75%) Project Management
11 107 (11.09%) Software Engineering
12 105 (10.88%) Decision-Making
13 102 (10.57%) Migration
14 100 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 93 (9.64%) Scrum
16 92 (9.53%) Risk Management
17 90 (9.33%) Project Delivery
18 87 (9.02%) Roadmaps
19 86 (8.91%) Change Management
19 86 (8.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 206 (21.35%) Python
2 192 (19.90%) SQL
3 83 (8.60%) Java
4 64 (6.63%) C#
5 57 (5.91%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.25%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.80%) C++
8 23 (2.38%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.07%) R
10 17 (1.76%) Bash
11 15 (1.55%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.93%) Bicep
12 9 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.83%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.73%) C
15 6 (0.62%) Scala
16 5 (0.52%) VBA
17 4 (0.41%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.41%) X++
18 3 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 227 (23.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 120 (12.44%) Master's Degree
3 83 (8.60%) Security Cleared
4 65 (6.74%) PMI Certification
5 63 (6.53%) SC Cleared
6 55 (5.70%) PMP
7 52 (5.39%) CISSP
8 39 (4.04%) PhD
9 33 (3.42%) Azure Certification
9 33 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.49%) CISA
11 24 (2.49%) MBA
12 23 (2.38%) CISM
13 20 (2.07%) DV Cleared
14 16 (1.66%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.24%) CCNP
15 12 (1.24%) CRISC
16 11 (1.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (6.74%) QA
2 60 (6.22%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.66%) PMO
4 37 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (3.83%) NIST
5 28 (2.90%) GDPR
6 22 (2.28%) SLA
7 21 (2.18%) Accessibility
8 15 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (1.45%) GRC
10 13 (1.35%) PCI DSS
11 10 (1.04%) COBIT
12 8 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
13 7 (0.73%) P3O
14 6 (0.62%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.52%) IFRS
15 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.41%) ITGC
16 4 (0.41%) NIST 800
System Software
1 77 (7.98%) Active Directory
2 55 (5.70%) Docker
3 19 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.83%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.62%) Firmware
6 5 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.41%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.41%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.41%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Squid
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.10%) XenApp
8 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 56 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 45 (4.66%) Terraform
3 28 (2.90%) Ansible
4 17 (1.76%) SCCM
5 14 (1.45%) Grafana
6 12 (1.24%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
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%) Puppet
9 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.31%) WSUS
10 2 (0.21%) Control-M
10 2 (0.21%) Kibana
11 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 247 (25.60%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.25%) Oracle
3 51 (5.28%) Google
4 46 (4.77%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.01%) SAP
6 28 (2.90%) Cisco
7 26 (2.69%) Citrix
7 26 (2.69%) VMware
8 24 (2.49%) Databricks
9 21 (2.18%) Adobe
9 21 (2.18%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.45%) OpenAI
12 12 (1.24%) Apple
12 12 (1.24%) Bloomberg
12 12 (1.24%) Splunk
13 11 (1.14%) HP
14 10 (1.04%) CyberArk
14 10 (1.04%) Juniper
14 10 (1.04%) Murex