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

6 months to
22 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 23 25
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,025 1,297 1,510
As % of all contract jobs in London 7.24% 8.20% 7.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.84% 32.14% 32.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 634 792 996
10th Percentile £320 £319 £308
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -3.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £796 £850 £800
England median daily rate £520 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +1.51% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 26
10th Percentile £24.50 £18.50 £18.89
25th Percentile £25.61 £31.94 £23.60
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.39% -12.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £58.63 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £66.75 £70.00
England median hourly rate £35.25 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -17.06% -15.00% +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 3,967 4,036 4,680
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.03% 25.52% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,751 2,579 3,157
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £431 £450 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.49% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £755 £775
England median daily rate £525 £529 £550
% change year-on-year -0.76% -3.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 56 104
10th Percentile £19.38 £20.25 £19.33
25th Percentile - £29.44 £24.79
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.92% -28.64% +13.40%
75th Percentile £41.87 £61.50 £67.63
90th Percentile £65.57 £80.80 £86.43
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.83% +19.26%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -3 172 £550 +4.27% 719
South London +6 32 £600 +17.07% 43
West London +1 31 £208 -44.67% 85
East London -8 6 £900 +70.62% 52
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 68 (6.63%) Confluence
2 51 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 35 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 22 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 13 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
6 12 (1.17%) nginx
7 10 (0.98%) IIS
8 8 (0.78%) CMS
9 5 (0.49%) Luigi
10 4 (0.39%) Moodle
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
11 3 (0.29%) SAS
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.098%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.098%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 106 (10.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 94 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
3 62 (6.05%) Microsoft Project
4 61 (5.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 34 (3.32%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.98%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 8 (0.78%) Trello
8 5 (0.49%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.098%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.098%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.098%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.098%) InVision
9 1 (0.098%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.098%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.098%) ProjectWise
9 1 (0.098%) Revit
9 1 (0.098%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 17 (1.66%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (1.17%) 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 (0.59%) Endur
4 6 (0.59%) SAP EWM
4 6 (0.59%) 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 (0.20%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 251 (24.49%) Azure
2 141 (13.76%) AWS
3 83 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (6.54%) GCP
5 65 (6.34%) Power Platform
6 57 (5.56%) GitHub
6 57 (5.56%) SaaS
7 47 (4.59%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (4.59%) Entra ID
8 23 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
8 23 (2.24%) Amazon S3
9 19 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
10 18 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (1.76%) Miro
11 17 (1.66%) PaaS
12 16 (1.56%) IaaS
12 16 (1.56%) Serverless
13 15 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 15 (1.46%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.46%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 48 (4.68%) Firewall
2 35 (3.41%) DNS
3 23 (2.24%) HTTP
3 23 (2.24%) VPN
4 18 (1.76%) Network Security
5 17 (1.66%) DHCP
6 16 (1.56%) TCP/IP
6 16 (1.56%) WAN
7 15 (1.46%) LAN
8 13 (1.27%) SMTP
8 13 (1.27%) SSH
9 10 (0.98%) FTP
9 10 (0.98%) IMAP
9 10 (0.98%) OpenLDAP
10 9 (0.88%) VoIP
11 6 (0.59%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (0.49%) CTI
12 5 (0.49%) Internet
13 4 (0.39%) Intranet
13 4 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (4.98%) Power BI
2 40 (3.90%) SQL Server
3 39 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 32 (3.12%) Tableau
5 24 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
6 20 (1.95%) Relational Database
7 19 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
8 16 (1.56%) NoSQL
9 14 (1.37%) Data Lake
10 12 (1.17%) MySQL
11 11 (1.07%) Big Data
11 11 (1.07%) MongoDB
12 10 (0.98%) Amazon Aurora
12 10 (0.98%) BigQuery
12 10 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 10 (0.98%) Metadata
13 9 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 8 (0.78%) Redis
15 6 (0.59%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 115 (11.22%) JIRA
2 55 (5.37%) Git
3 30 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.27%) Postman
5 11 (1.07%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.98%) GitLab
6 10 (0.98%) Selenium
7 9 (0.88%) SpecFlow
8 8 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 8 (0.78%) Cypress.io
9 7 (0.68%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.68%) MLflow
9 7 (0.68%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.59%) JUnit
11 5 (0.49%) Appium
11 5 (0.49%) Charles Proxy
11 5 (0.49%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.49%) Katalon Studio
11 5 (0.49%) XCUITest
12 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 494 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 477 (46.54%) Finance
3 239 (23.32%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (17.27%) Banking
5 67 (6.54%) Presentation Skills
6 61 (5.95%) Marketing
7 57 (5.56%) Public Sector
8 55 (5.37%) Front Office
9 53 (5.17%) Investment Banking
10 38 (3.71%) Legal
11 35 (3.41%) Financial Institution
11 35 (3.41%) Telecoms
12 34 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
13 30 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
14 27 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
15 26 (2.54%) Back Office
16 25 (2.44%) Manufacturing
17 24 (2.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 24 (2.34%) Retail
18 21 (2.05%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 145 (14.15%) Analyst
2 138 (13.46%) Developer
3 125 (12.20%) Senior
4 100 (9.76%) Business Analyst
5 76 (7.41%) Project Manager
6 67 (6.54%) Architect
7 66 (6.44%) Lead
8 51 (4.98%) Consultant
9 37 (3.61%) Software Engineer
10 29 (2.83%) Data Scientist
10 29 (2.83%) Senior Developer
11 24 (2.34%) Data Engineer
12 20 (1.95%) IT Manager
13 19 (1.85%) AWS Engineer
13 19 (1.85%) Platform Engineer
13 19 (1.85%) Solutions Architect
14 18 (1.76%) Machine Learning Engineer
15 16 (1.56%) Java Developer
15 16 (1.56%) Senior Software Engineer
16 15 (1.46%) Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (5.46%) .NET
2 40 (3.90%) REST
3 32 (3.12%) Kafka
4 29 (2.83%) HTML
5 28 (2.73%) RESTful
6 23 (2.24%) React
7 22 (2.15%) CSS
8 21 (2.05%) Web Services
9 20 (1.95%) AngularJS
9 20 (1.95%) Middleware
9 20 (1.95%) Node.js
10 18 (1.76%) OAuth
10 18 (1.76%) XML
11 17 (1.66%) JSON
12 16 (1.56%) Playwright
13 15 (1.46%) FastAPI
13 15 (1.46%) LangChain
13 15 (1.46%) Pandas
13 15 (1.46%) PyTorch
13 15 (1.46%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 76 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 56 (5.46%) Product Ownership
3 47 (4.59%) Derivative
4 42 (4.10%) Onboarding
5 40 (3.90%) Cloud Native
6 37 (3.61%) Algorithms
7 27 (2.63%) Data Centre
7 27 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 27 (2.63%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 27 (2.63%) Life Science
8 24 (2.34%) Fixed Income
8 24 (2.34%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.15%) Equities
10 21 (2.05%) Replication
11 20 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
11 20 (1.95%) Distributed Computing
11 20 (1.95%) Enterprise Software
11 20 (1.95%) Security Posture
11 20 (1.95%) Virtual Team
12 18 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 82 (8.00%) Windows
2 76 (7.41%) Linux
3 41 (4.00%) Unix
4 21 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.76%) Windows 10
6 14 (1.37%) Android
6 14 (1.37%) Apple iOS
7 12 (1.17%) Ubuntu
7 12 (1.17%) VMS
8 11 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
9 10 (0.98%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.098%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.098%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (43.51%) Computer Science
2 357 (34.83%) Agile
3 316 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (16.49%) Project Management
5 158 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 151 (14.73%) DevOps
7 141 (13.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 128 (12.49%) AI
8 128 (12.49%) Analytics
9 119 (11.61%) Risk Management
10 117 (11.41%) Change Management
11 112 (10.93%) CI/CD
12 104 (10.15%) Scrum
13 102 (9.95%) Machine Learning
14 99 (9.66%) Roadmaps
15 98 (9.56%) Software Engineering
16 94 (9.17%) Migration
16 94 (9.17%) Project Delivery
17 92 (8.98%) Decision-Making
18 89 (8.68%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 238 (23.22%) Python
2 197 (19.22%) SQL
3 105 (10.24%) Java
4 66 (6.44%) JavaScript
5 59 (5.76%) PowerShell
6 58 (5.66%) C++
7 55 (5.37%) C#
8 29 (2.83%) TypeScript
9 23 (2.24%) R
10 17 (1.66%) Bash
11 14 (1.37%) Ruby
12 12 (1.17%) Groovy
12 12 (1.17%) PL/SQL
13 11 (1.07%) T-SQL
14 10 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 10 (0.98%) Kusto Query Language
14 10 (0.98%) Perl
15 8 (0.78%) C
15 8 (0.78%) Go
16 6 (0.59%) PHP
Qualifications
1 276 (26.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 161 (15.71%) Master's Degree
3 81 (7.90%) Security Cleared
4 80 (7.80%) PMI Certification
5 71 (6.93%) PMP
6 59 (5.76%) SC Cleared
7 45 (4.39%) PhD
8 42 (4.10%) Microsoft Certification
9 40 (3.90%) CISSP
10 38 (3.71%) Azure Certification
11 26 (2.54%) CISM
12 25 (2.44%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.85%) CBAP
13 19 (1.85%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (1.66%) Numerate Degree
15 13 (1.27%) CISA
15 13 (1.27%) MBA
16 12 (1.17%) CCNA
17 10 (0.98%) DV Cleared
18 9 (0.88%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.85%) QA
2 49 (4.78%) GDPR
3 39 (3.80%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (2.83%) NIST
5 25 (2.44%) Accessibility
6 22 (2.15%) PMO
7 15 (1.46%) SLA
8 13 (1.27%) PCI DSS
9 11 (1.07%) GRC
10 10 (0.98%) COBIT
11 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.68%) Basel III
12 7 (0.68%) MiFID
12 7 (0.68%) WCAG
13 6 (0.59%) IFRS
14 4 (0.39%) EMIR
14 4 (0.39%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.39%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 76 (7.41%) Docker
2 59 (5.76%) Active Directory
3 10 (0.98%) DFS Replication
3 10 (0.98%) Dovecot
3 10 (0.98%) Postfix
3 10 (0.98%) Squid
4 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.20%) XenApp
7 1 (0.098%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.098%) Firmware
7 1 (0.098%) HDFS
7 1 (0.098%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.098%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.098%) vSphere
7 1 (0.098%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 53 (5.17%) Terraform
2 51 (4.98%) 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 (0.98%) Nessus
8 10 (0.98%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.68%) CSIRT
9 7 (0.68%) SCOM
10 6 (0.59%) 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 (0.20%) FortiGate
13 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
13 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 201 (19.61%) Microsoft
2 57 (5.56%) Oracle
3 50 (4.88%) SAP
4 49 (4.78%) Google
5 45 (4.39%) ServiceNow
6 40 (3.90%) Salesforce
7 24 (2.34%) Cisco
8 21 (2.05%) Databricks
9 20 (1.95%) Splunk
10 19 (1.85%) Workday
11 12 (1.17%) Adobe
12 11 (1.07%) Citrix
12 11 (1.07%) VMware
13 10 (0.98%) IBM
13 10 (0.98%) Jaspersoft
14 9 (0.88%) Fortinet
14 9 (0.88%) Murex
15 8 (0.78%) Apple
16 7 (0.68%) OpenAI
16 7 (0.68%) UiPath