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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 983 1,022 1,372
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.83% 7.58% 8.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.05% 28.65% 34.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 613 838
10th Percentile £263 £331 £313
25th Percentile £406 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £528
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% -4.09%
75th Percentile £663 £699 £693
90th Percentile £763 £788 £850
England median daily rate £510 £500 £505
% change year-on-year +2.00% -0.99% -3.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 42
10th Percentile £19.03 £14.25 £18.13
25th Percentile £28.00 £20.24 £25.99
Median hourly rate £49.00 £28.15 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +74.07% -23.19% +35.74%
75th Percentile £78.75 £62.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £86.00 £67.25 £66.95
England median hourly rate £41.71 £35.25 £57.35
% change year-on-year +18.33% -38.54% +19.48%

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 5,765 3,567 4,011
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.35% 26.46% 24.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,171 2,402 2,587
10th Percentile £363 £355 £350
25th Percentile £456 £445 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £731 £738 £775
England median daily rate £530 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +0.95% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 81 62
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £26.06 - £24.18
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -28.14% -24.32%
75th Percentile £83.44 £34.48 £56.00
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £71.00
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -52.55% -1.24%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -49 88 £539 +0.23% 559
West London -15 43 £226 -44.26% 213
East London +3 10 £265 -55.83% 36
South London -27 5 £190 -69.60% 34
North London - 4 £550 - 4
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 (4.98%) Confluence
1 49 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 21 (2.14%) Apache Spark
3 20 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.22%) IIS
5 11 (1.12%) Apache
5 11 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (0.92%) Camunda
7 7 (0.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 7 (0.71%) CMS
8 4 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
9 3 (0.31%) Appian
9 3 (0.31%) Moodle
10 2 (0.20%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.20%) CICS
10 2 (0.20%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.20%) nginx
10 2 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
Applications
1 101 (10.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (5.19%) Microsoft Project
4 45 (4.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (1.93%) 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%) Navisworks
10 2 (0.20%) CPLEX
11 1 (0.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Revit
11 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 (0.31%) Changepoint
7 3 (0.31%) Loan IQ
7 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
7 3 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
7 3 (0.31%) Temenos T24
8 2 (0.20%) Endur
8 2 (0.20%) Primavera
8 2 (0.20%) SAP HR
8 2 (0.20%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 234 (23.80%) Azure
2 145 (14.75%) AWS
3 81 (8.24%) GCP
4 77 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 66 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
6 54 (5.49%) Entra ID
7 52 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (4.48%) GitHub
9 35 (3.56%) SaaS
10 26 (2.64%) Serverless
11 25 (2.54%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (2.34%) Snowflake
13 21 (2.14%) Anthropic Claude
14 19 (1.93%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (1.73%) Amazon S3
15 17 (1.73%) OpenShift
16 15 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
16 15 (1.53%) IaaS
17 14 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
17 14 (1.42%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 39 (3.97%) Firewall
2 28 (2.85%) DNS
3 24 (2.44%) Network Security
4 21 (2.14%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.14%) VPN
5 19 (1.93%) DHCP
6 17 (1.73%) 3GPP
6 17 (1.73%) 5G
7 15 (1.53%) Radio Access Network
8 13 (1.32%) Internet
9 12 (1.22%) LAN
9 12 (1.22%) WAN
10 8 (0.81%) Wireless
11 7 (0.71%) VoIP
12 6 (0.61%) HTTPS
12 6 (0.61%) VXLAN
12 6 (0.61%) Wi-Fi
13 5 (0.51%) SMTP
13 5 (0.51%) SSH
13 5 (0.51%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.60%) Power BI
2 51 (5.19%) SQL Server
3 33 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (2.64%) Relational Database
6 25 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 20 (2.03%) Tableau
8 19 (1.93%) MongoDB
9 16 (1.63%) Big Data
9 16 (1.63%) Metadata
10 14 (1.42%) Oracle Database
11 13 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
11 13 (1.32%) MySQL
12 12 (1.22%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.02%) Data Mining
14 7 (0.71%) Delta Lake
14 7 (0.71%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.61%) Neo4j
15 6 (0.61%) Redis
Development Applications
1 78 (7.93%) JIRA
2 76 (7.73%) Git
3 39 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.95%) GitLab
5 18 (1.83%) Gradle
5 18 (1.83%) Maven
6 15 (1.53%) JUnit
7 14 (1.42%) Selenium
7 14 (1.42%) 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%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.41%) Zephyr
General
1 472 (48.02%) Social Skills
2 438 (44.56%) Finance
3 247 (25.13%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (15.67%) Banking
5 66 (6.71%) Marketing
6 64 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
7 61 (6.21%) Legal
8 53 (5.39%) Public Sector
9 46 (4.68%) Influencing Skills
9 46 (4.68%) Presentation Skills
10 42 (4.27%) Retail
11 40 (4.07%) Telecoms
12 34 (3.46%) Front Office
13 32 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
13 32 (3.26%) Financial Institution
13 32 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 32 (3.26%) Investment Banking
14 25 (2.54%) Law
15 24 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (1.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 158 (16.07%) Analyst
2 121 (12.31%) Senior
3 110 (11.19%) Developer
4 98 (9.97%) Business Analyst
5 87 (8.85%) Lead
6 76 (7.73%) Architect
7 60 (6.10%) Project Manager
8 36 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
9 32 (3.26%) Support Engineer
10 31 (3.15%) Consultant
11 28 (2.85%) Senior Manager
11 28 (2.85%) Software Engineer
12 25 (2.54%) Financial Analyst
12 25 (2.54%) Java Developer
13 23 (2.34%) Senior Developer
14 22 (2.24%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
15 21 (2.14%) Data Engineer
16 20 (2.03%) Desktop Support
16 20 (2.03%) IT Analyst
16 20 (2.03%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (6.41%) REST
2 59 (6.00%) .NET
3 56 (5.70%) Terraform
4 43 (4.37%) Kafka
5 36 (3.66%) HTML
6 33 (3.36%) React
7 29 (2.95%) CSS
8 27 (2.75%) .NET Framework
8 27 (2.75%) Spring Boot
9 25 (2.54%) Spring
10 24 (2.44%) RESTful
11 23 (2.34%) XML
12 20 (2.03%) Web Services
13 18 (1.83%) AngularJS
13 18 (1.83%) SOAP
14 17 (1.73%) LangChain
14 17 (1.73%) Oracle Fusion
15 16 (1.63%) Middleware
16 15 (1.53%) JSON
16 15 (1.53%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 71 (7.22%) Onboarding
2 60 (6.10%) Management Information System
3 58 (5.90%) Product Ownership
4 49 (4.98%) Cloud Native
5 44 (4.48%) Algorithms
6 35 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
7 34 (3.46%) Data Structures
8 29 (2.95%) AI Agents
9 26 (2.64%) Distributed Systems
9 26 (2.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 23 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 22 (2.24%) Derivative
12 18 (1.83%) Data Centre
12 18 (1.83%) Equities
13 16 (1.63%) Fixed Income
13 16 (1.63%) Hedge funds
13 16 (1.63%) Life Science
13 16 (1.63%) PMI
13 16 (1.63%) Social Media
13 16 (1.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 112 (11.39%) Windows
2 65 (6.61%) Linux
3 29 (2.95%) Unix
4 23 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 18 (1.83%) Windows 10
6 16 (1.63%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 7 (0.71%) Android
10 6 (0.61%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.41%) VMS
12 2 (0.20%) CentOS
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%) Windows Server 2003
13 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (36.42%) Computer Science
2 298 (30.32%) Agile
3 267 (27.16%) Problem-Solving
4 242 (24.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 225 (22.89%) AI
6 167 (16.99%) Analytics
7 162 (16.48%) DevOps
8 154 (15.67%) CI/CD
8 154 (15.67%) Continuous Improvement
9 130 (13.22%) Project Management
10 129 (13.12%) Software Engineering
11 113 (11.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 111 (11.29%) Scrum
13 110 (11.19%) Decision-Making
14 102 (10.38%) Risk Management
15 101 (10.27%) Change Management
15 101 (10.27%) User Acceptance Testing
16 100 (10.17%) Migration
17 96 (9.77%) Roadmaps
17 96 (9.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 202 (20.55%) SQL
2 200 (20.35%) Python
3 91 (9.26%) Java
4 69 (7.02%) C#
5 65 (6.61%) JavaScript
6 58 (5.90%) PowerShell
7 30 (3.05%) TypeScript
8 29 (2.95%) C++
9 25 (2.54%) Bash
10 18 (1.83%) R
11 17 (1.73%) PL/SQL
12 13 (1.32%) Scala
13 12 (1.22%) Shell Script
14 11 (1.12%) Bicep
15 9 (0.92%) T-SQL
16 7 (0.71%) C
17 5 (0.51%) COBOL
17 5 (0.51%) VBA
17 5 (0.51%) X++
18 4 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 232 (23.60%) Computer Science Degree
2 113 (11.50%) Master's Degree
3 105 (10.68%) Security Cleared
4 82 (8.34%) PMI Certification
5 79 (8.04%) SC Cleared
6 71 (7.22%) PMP
7 40 (4.07%) PhD
8 38 (3.87%) CISSP
9 27 (2.75%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (2.24%) DV Cleared
13 19 (1.93%) CISM
13 19 (1.93%) MBA
14 17 (1.73%) AWS Certification
15 14 (1.42%) ACCA
15 14 (1.42%) CIMA
15 14 (1.42%) CISA
15 14 (1.42%) TOGAF Certification
16 13 (1.32%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (7.73%) QA
2 75 (7.63%) Data Quality
3 38 (3.87%) PMO
4 26 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 24 (2.44%) NIST
6 20 (2.03%) GDPR
7 18 (1.83%) Accessibility
8 16 (1.63%) SLA
9 14 (1.42%) GRC
10 13 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 12 (1.22%) IFRS
12 8 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
12 8 (0.81%) COBIT
12 8 (0.81%) P3O
13 7 (0.71%) Basel III
13 7 (0.71%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.61%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
16 3 (0.31%) MiFID
16 3 (0.31%) NCSC
System Software
1 74 (7.53%) Active Directory
2 69 (7.02%) 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 (0.31%) Firmware
7 3 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (0.31%) 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 59 (6.00%) Kubernetes
2 40 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 26 (2.64%) Ansible
4 15 (1.53%) Grafana
5 14 (1.42%) Prometheus
6 13 (1.32%) SCCM
7 6 (0.61%) Control-M
7 6 (0.61%) Puppet
8 5 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.31%) Nagios
9 3 (0.31%) Packer
9 3 (0.31%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.31%) vMotion
10 2 (0.20%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.20%) HP Fortify
11 1 (0.10%) CASB
11 1 (0.10%) PingFederate
11 1 (0.10%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.10%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 238 (24.21%) Microsoft
2 90 (9.16%) Oracle
3 51 (5.19%) Google
4 50 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.66%) SAP
6 30 (3.05%) VMware
7 27 (2.75%) Adobe
8 25 (2.54%) Databricks
9 24 (2.44%) Cisco
9 24 (2.44%) OpenAI
10 22 (2.24%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.03%) Citrix
11 20 (2.03%) IBM
12 14 (1.42%) Apple
13 12 (1.22%) Splunk
13 12 (1.22%) UiPath
14 11 (1.12%) Murex
14 11 (1.12%) Palo Alto
15 9 (0.92%) Progress
15 9 (0.92%) Samsung