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

6 months to
24 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 23 22
Rank change year-on-year -21 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing Degree 976 1,069 1,342
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.87% 7.93% 8.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.46% 30.12% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 674 844
10th Percentile £251 £327 £312
25th Percentile £410 £425 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £661 £700 £688
90th Percentile £775 £809 £825
England median daily rate £500 £500 £519
% change year-on-year - -3.57% -3.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 42
10th Percentile £19.03 £11.96 £18.32
25th Percentile £26.69 £20.24 £25.99
Median hourly rate £40.25 £26.50 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.89% -27.40% +15.87%
75th Percentile £75.31 £63.13 £47.50
90th Percentile £87.38 £68.00 £57.50
England median hourly rate £41.71 £42.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year -1.86% -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 5,589 3,549 3,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.86% 26.32% 24.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 2,392 2,699
10th Percentile £375 £338 £350
25th Percentile £456 £431 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.56% -2.09% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £769
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 85 67
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.84 £18.03
25th Percentile £26.06 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £53.50 £25.15 £31.62
Median % change year-on-year +112.72% -20.46% -42.51%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £46.25
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.70
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +110.74% -48.21% -11.71%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -48 79 £530 -3.64% 206
West London -7 42 £226 -44.25% 95
East London +6 10 £445 -25.83% 28
South London -18 8 £215 -64.21% 11
North London - 4 £550 - 5
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 (5.23%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.89%) Confluence
3 27 (2.77%) Microsoft Exchange
4 19 (1.95%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.13%) Apache
6 11 (1.13%) IIS
7 6 (0.61%) CMS
7 6 (0.61%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.51%) Camunda
9 4 (0.41%) Appian
10 3 (0.31%) Moodle
11 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
12 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
12 1 (0.10%) SAS
12 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 99 (10.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (5.02%) Microsoft Project
4 47 (4.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (2.05%) MS Visio
6 11 (1.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 5 (0.51%) Spreadsheet
7 5 (0.51%) UserZoom
8 4 (0.41%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.41%) CPLEX
9 2 (0.20%) Trello
10 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.82%) Magento
3 7 (0.72%) HFM
4 6 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.51%) Aladdin
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
7 3 (0.31%) Actimize
7 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.20%) Cloudability
8 2 (0.20%) IntelliMatch
8 2 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.20%) Orchestrade
8 2 (0.20%) SAP IBP
8 2 (0.20%) Sprinklr
8 2 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 244 (25.00%) Azure
2 147 (15.06%) AWS
3 72 (7.38%) GCP
4 70 (7.17%) Power Platform
5 69 (7.07%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (6.05%) Entra ID
7 49 (5.02%) Azure DevOps
8 36 (3.69%) GitHub
9 34 (3.48%) SaaS
10 26 (2.66%) Snowflake
11 23 (2.36%) Serverless
12 22 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
13 15 (1.54%) IaaS
14 14 (1.43%) Microsoft Copilot
14 14 (1.43%) PaaS
15 13 (1.33%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
15 13 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.33%) OneDrive
15 13 (1.33%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.51%) Firewall
2 27 (2.77%) Network Security
2 27 (2.77%) VPN
3 25 (2.56%) DNS
4 22 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 19 (1.95%) DHCP
6 14 (1.43%) WAN
7 12 (1.23%) 3GPP
7 12 (1.23%) Internet
8 11 (1.13%) LAN
9 10 (1.02%) 5G
9 10 (1.02%) BGP
9 10 (1.02%) Radio Access Network
10 8 (0.82%) VoIP
10 8 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 8 (0.82%) Wireless
11 7 (0.72%) SAN
12 6 (0.61%) DMZ
12 6 (0.61%) MPLS
12 6 (0.61%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.33%) Power BI
2 46 (4.71%) SQL Server
3 30 (3.07%) Data Warehouse
4 24 (2.46%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.36%) NoSQL
6 22 (2.25%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (2.25%) Tableau
7 18 (1.84%) Metadata
8 16 (1.64%) Big Data
9 14 (1.43%) MongoDB
9 14 (1.43%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.02%) Data Lake
11 9 (0.92%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.61%) Neo4j
13 6 (0.61%) Power Query
13 6 (0.61%) Redis
14 5 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
14 5 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 74 (7.58%) JIRA
2 64 (6.56%) Git
3 29 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 17 (1.74%) GitLab
5 15 (1.54%) Selenium
6 11 (1.13%) Subversion
7 10 (1.02%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.82%) Maven
8 8 (0.82%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.72%) Gradle
10 6 (0.61%) JUnit
10 6 (0.61%) MLflow
10 6 (0.61%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 4 (0.41%) Chocolatey
12 4 (0.41%) REST Assured
12 4 (0.41%) TeamCity
13 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
13 3 (0.31%) eggPlant
13 3 (0.31%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 461 (47.23%) Social Skills
2 417 (42.73%) Finance
3 244 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (14.75%) Banking
5 66 (6.76%) Marketing
6 65 (6.66%) Legal
7 60 (6.15%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (4.71%) Retail
9 43 (4.41%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (4.30%) Public Sector
11 41 (4.20%) Front Office
12 36 (3.69%) Investment Banking
13 35 (3.59%) Telecoms
14 32 (3.28%) Financial Institution
15 28 (2.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 28 (2.87%) Influencing Skills
16 27 (2.77%) Law
17 23 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
18 20 (2.05%) Pharmaceutical
19 13 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 153 (15.68%) Analyst
2 123 (12.60%) Senior
3 104 (10.66%) Developer
4 91 (9.32%) Business Analyst
5 85 (8.71%) Lead
6 77 (7.89%) Architect
7 56 (5.74%) Project Manager
8 36 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.28%) Senior Manager
9 32 (3.28%) Support Engineer
10 26 (2.66%) Consultant
11 24 (2.46%) Software Engineer
12 23 (2.36%) Financial Analyst
13 22 (2.25%) Data Scientist
13 22 (2.25%) Senior Developer
14 21 (2.15%) Data Engineer
14 21 (2.15%) IT Analyst
15 20 (2.05%) C# Developer
15 20 (2.05%) Desktop Engineer
15 20 (2.05%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (6.05%) REST
2 57 (5.84%) .NET
3 52 (5.33%) Terraform
4 33 (3.38%) Kafka
5 27 (2.77%) .NET Framework
6 26 (2.66%) React
7 20 (2.05%) RESTful
8 19 (1.95%) HTML
9 18 (1.84%) Spring
9 18 (1.84%) XML
10 17 (1.74%) Spring Boot
11 16 (1.64%) Pandas
12 15 (1.54%) AngularJS
12 15 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
12 15 (1.54%) PySpark
13 14 (1.43%) Web Services
14 13 (1.33%) JSON
14 13 (1.33%) Middleware
15 12 (1.23%) PyTorch
16 11 (1.13%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.97%) Onboarding
2 61 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 50 (5.12%) Cloud Native
4 44 (4.51%) Product Ownership
5 43 (4.41%) Algorithms
6 38 (3.89%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (3.48%) Data Structures
8 30 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
9 28 (2.87%) Derivative
9 28 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 27 (2.77%) Data Centre
11 21 (2.15%) AI Agents
12 20 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
12 20 (2.05%) Equities
12 20 (2.05%) Fixed Income
13 18 (1.84%) Social Media
14 17 (1.74%) Hedge funds
14 17 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
15 16 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 117 (11.99%) Windows
2 63 (6.45%) Linux
3 22 (2.25%) Windows Server
4 20 (2.05%) Windows 10
5 18 (1.84%) Unix
6 15 (1.54%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.82%) Android
8 8 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) CentOS
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.68%) Computer Science
2 270 (27.66%) Problem-Solving
3 268 (27.46%) Agile
4 208 (21.31%) AI
5 200 (20.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 158 (16.19%) Analytics
7 154 (15.78%) Continuous Improvement
8 153 (15.68%) DevOps
9 135 (13.83%) CI/CD
10 122 (12.50%) Software Engineering
11 121 (12.40%) Project Management
12 106 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 104 (10.66%) Migration
14 103 (10.55%) Decision-Making
15 96 (9.84%) Scrum
16 94 (9.63%) User Acceptance Testing
17 91 (9.32%) Change Management
18 89 (9.12%) Mathematics
19 87 (8.91%) Roadmaps
20 85 (8.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 205 (21.00%) Python
2 194 (19.88%) SQL
3 91 (9.32%) Java
4 67 (6.86%) C#
5 62 (6.35%) PowerShell
6 46 (4.71%) JavaScript
7 35 (3.59%) C++
8 24 (2.46%) TypeScript
9 20 (2.05%) Bash
10 18 (1.84%) R
11 17 (1.74%) PL/SQL
12 10 (1.02%) Bicep
13 9 (0.92%) C
14 8 (0.82%) T-SQL
15 7 (0.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 7 (0.72%) Scala
16 5 (0.51%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.51%) VBA
16 5 (0.51%) X++
17 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 235 (24.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 113 (11.58%) Master's Degree
3 90 (9.22%) Security Cleared
4 67 (6.86%) SC Cleared
5 66 (6.76%) PMI Certification
6 56 (5.74%) PMP
7 41 (4.20%) CISSP
8 37 (3.79%) PhD
9 31 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (2.97%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (2.36%) MBA
12 20 (2.05%) DV Cleared
13 18 (1.84%) CISA
14 16 (1.64%) CISM
14 16 (1.64%) ISTQB
15 15 (1.54%) AWS Certification
16 13 (1.33%) CCNP
17 11 (1.13%) ACCA
17 11 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (7.38%) QA
2 64 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.69%) PMO
4 32 (3.28%) NIST
5 30 (3.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (2.05%) GDPR
6 20 (2.05%) SLA
7 19 (1.95%) Accessibility
8 14 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (1.23%) GRC
10 10 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
11 9 (0.92%) COBIT
11 9 (0.92%) IFRS
12 7 (0.72%) P3O
12 7 (0.72%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.41%) ITGC
14 4 (0.41%) MiFID
15 3 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
16 2 (0.20%) NIST 800
System Software
1 80 (8.20%) Active Directory
2 57 (5.84%) Docker
3 22 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.72%) Firmware
4 7 (0.72%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.61%) BitLocker
5 6 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
6 5 (0.51%) 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%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Squid
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 29 (2.97%) Ansible
4 18 (1.84%) SCCM
5 16 (1.64%) Grafana
6 14 (1.43%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.61%) Control-M
7 6 (0.61%) Puppet
8 5 (0.51%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.41%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.41%) vMotion
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.31%) Nagios
10 3 (0.31%) Packer
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.31%) WSUS
11 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
12 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.10%) Kibana
12 1 (0.10%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 242 (24.80%) Microsoft
2 84 (8.61%) Oracle
3 50 (5.12%) Google
4 46 (4.71%) ServiceNow
5 33 (3.38%) SAP
6 29 (2.97%) Cisco
6 29 (2.97%) VMware
7 25 (2.56%) Salesforce
8 24 (2.46%) Adobe
8 24 (2.46%) Citrix
9 21 (2.15%) Databricks
10 15 (1.54%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.43%) Apple
11 14 (1.43%) OpenAI
11 14 (1.43%) Splunk
12 11 (1.13%) CyberArk
12 11 (1.13%) HP
12 11 (1.13%) Juniper
12 11 (1.13%) Murex
13 10 (1.02%) Samsung