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 7 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +9
Contract jobs citing Degree 910 976 1,443
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.10% 7.78% 8.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.93% 30.41% 33.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 549 625 859
10th Percentile £295 £345 £285
25th Percentile £406 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £675
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £517 £510
% change year-on-year -3.29% +1.37% -6.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 77
10th Percentile £18.18 £11.96 £14.96
25th Percentile £26.06 £20.24 £20.98
Median hourly rate £33.53 £35.92 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% +7.23% +13.56%
75th Percentile £53.06 £59.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.38 £67.50 £71.25
England median hourly rate £64.25 £53.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.23% +32.50% -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 5,076 3,209 4,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.43% 25.58% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,623 2,167 2,897
10th Percentile £363 £352 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.42% -6.43%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £656
90th Percentile £738 £756 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 59 112
10th Percentile £20.04 £18.39 £14.37
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.76% +16.28% -50.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.75 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.68 £65.68
England median hourly rate £47.50 £42.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +11.11% +6.88% -23.81%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 7 May 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 -21 108 £500 -9.05% 281
West London -11 36 £334 -16.48% 50
South London 0 22 £450 -25.00% 13
East London -3 9 £568 +36.69% 51
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 43 (4.73%) SharePoint
2 37 (4.07%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.41%) Confluence
4 25 (2.75%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.10%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.55%) IIS
6 5 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.33%) Apache
7 3 (0.33%) CMS
7 3 (0.33%) Moodle
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.22%) Appian
8 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.22%) SAS
8 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 94 (10.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (8.24%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (6.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 43 (4.73%) Microsoft Project
5 33 (3.63%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.44%) Trello
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe After Effects
7 2 (0.22%) Adobe XD
7 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.22%) InVision
7 2 (0.22%) Sketch
8 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
8 1 (0.11%) Revit
8 1 (0.11%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 11 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.66%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.55%) Shopify
6 4 (0.44%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 2 (0.22%) Magento
8 2 (0.22%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 245 (26.92%) Azure
2 129 (14.18%) AWS
3 92 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
4 67 (7.36%) Power Platform
5 53 (5.82%) SaaS
6 49 (5.38%) GCP
7 42 (4.62%) Entra ID
8 32 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (3.19%) GitHub
10 20 (2.20%) Dynamics 365
10 20 (2.20%) Snowflake
11 18 (1.98%) Serverless
12 17 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (1.76%) Azure Data Factory
13 16 (1.76%) IaaS
13 16 (1.76%) PaaS
13 16 (1.76%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.65%) Microsoft Purview
15 14 (1.54%) Amazon ECS
16 13 (1.43%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.19%) Firewall
2 14 (1.54%) Network Security
2 14 (1.54%) VPN
3 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 11 (1.21%) WAN
5 10 (1.10%) LAN
6 9 (0.99%) BGP
6 9 (0.99%) DNS
7 8 (0.88%) HTTP
8 7 (0.77%) DHCP
8 7 (0.77%) DMZ
8 7 (0.77%) NetScaler
8 7 (0.77%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.66%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.66%) OSPF
10 5 (0.55%) IPv4
11 4 (0.44%) SSL
11 4 (0.44%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.44%) VoIP
11 4 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (5.82%) Power BI
2 46 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.97%) Data Warehouse
5 23 (2.53%) Tableau
6 20 (2.20%) Big Data
7 19 (2.09%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.76%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.76%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.21%) Metadata
11 8 (0.88%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.88%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.77%) Power Query
12 7 (0.77%) Redis
13 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 5 (0.55%) Data Lake
14 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.55%) MySQL
14 5 (0.55%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (7.80%) JIRA
2 56 (6.15%) Git
3 21 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.76%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.32%) MLflow
6 11 (1.21%) GitLab
7 10 (1.10%) Selenium
8 6 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.55%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.55%) Subversion
9 5 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.44%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.44%) Cucumber
10 4 (0.44%) ERwin
10 4 (0.44%) Maven
10 4 (0.44%) Zephyr
11 3 (0.33%) Gradle
11 3 (0.33%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.33%) Toad
11 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 431 (47.36%) Social Skills
2 378 (41.54%) Finance
3 196 (21.54%) Analytical Skills
4 138 (15.16%) Banking
5 56 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
6 55 (6.04%) Marketing
7 53 (5.82%) Public Sector
8 41 (4.51%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (4.29%) Legal
10 37 (4.07%) Front Office
11 32 (3.52%) Retail
12 31 (3.41%) Investment Banking
13 27 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
14 22 (2.42%) Law
15 21 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
16 20 (2.20%) Telecoms
17 19 (2.09%) Financial Institution
18 16 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
19 14 (1.54%) Manufacturing
20 11 (1.21%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 124 (13.63%) Senior
2 123 (13.52%) Analyst
3 98 (10.77%) Developer
4 77 (8.46%) Business Analyst
4 77 (8.46%) Lead
5 76 (8.35%) Architect
6 60 (6.59%) Project Manager
7 37 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (3.96%) Consultant
9 29 (3.19%) Data Scientist
10 26 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
11 24 (2.64%) Data Engineer
12 21 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
12 21 (2.31%) Senior Manager
12 21 (2.31%) Software Engineer
13 20 (2.20%) C# Developer
13 20 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
14 19 (2.09%) Technical Support
15 16 (1.76%) Support Specialist
16 15 (1.65%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (5.05%) .NET
2 34 (3.74%) REST
3 30 (3.30%) React
4 26 (2.86%) Middleware
5 24 (2.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (2.53%) Kafka
6 23 (2.53%) Pandas
6 23 (2.53%) RESTful
7 22 (2.42%) .NET Framework
7 22 (2.42%) PyTorch
8 21 (2.31%) HTML
9 17 (1.87%) TensorFlow
10 16 (1.76%) NumPy
11 14 (1.54%) XML
12 13 (1.43%) Node.js
12 13 (1.43%) PySpark
12 13 (1.43%) scikit-learn
13 12 (1.32%) Spring
14 11 (1.21%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.21%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.15%) Onboarding
2 55 (6.04%) Management Information System
3 43 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 42 (4.62%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.63%) Virtual Team
6 31 (3.41%) Distributed Systems
7 30 (3.30%) Derivative
8 28 (3.08%) Algorithms
8 28 (3.08%) Data Centre
8 28 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
9 26 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (2.31%) Analytical Mindset
10 21 (2.31%) Equities
10 21 (2.31%) PMI
11 19 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
12 18 (1.98%) Fixed Income
13 17 (1.87%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.76%) Equity Derivative
15 15 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (1.65%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 98 (10.77%) Windows
2 55 (6.04%) Linux
3 32 (3.52%) Windows Server
4 22 (2.42%) Unix
5 15 (1.65%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.21%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.99%) Android
8 8 (0.88%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.44%) VMS
12 3 (0.33%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 329 (36.15%) Computer Science
2 277 (30.44%) Agile
3 235 (25.82%) Problem-Solving
4 174 (19.12%) AI
5 146 (16.04%) DevOps
6 144 (15.82%) Stakeholder Management
7 143 (15.71%) Analytics
8 128 (14.07%) Project Management
9 120 (13.19%) CI/CD
10 119 (13.08%) Continuous Improvement
11 112 (12.31%) Decision-Making
12 110 (12.09%) Risk Management
13 101 (11.10%) Migration
14 99 (10.88%) Roadmaps
15 89 (9.78%) Change Management
15 89 (9.78%) Project Delivery
16 83 (9.12%) Software Engineering
17 78 (8.57%) Scrum
18 77 (8.46%) Business Intelligence
18 77 (8.46%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 188 (20.66%) Python
2 168 (18.46%) SQL
3 72 (7.91%) Java
4 59 (6.48%) C#
5 52 (5.71%) PowerShell
6 42 (4.62%) C++
7 31 (3.41%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.53%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.09%) R
10 13 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.21%) Bash
12 8 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.77%) Scala
14 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.55%) C
15 5 (0.55%) Go
15 5 (0.55%) Rust
16 4 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
17 3 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 231 (25.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 140 (15.38%) Master's Degree
3 86 (9.45%) Security Cleared
4 67 (7.36%) SC Cleared
5 63 (6.92%) PMI Certification
6 50 (5.49%) PMP
7 42 (4.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (4.51%) CISSP
9 38 (4.18%) PhD
10 32 (3.52%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.53%) CBAP
12 21 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (2.31%) CISM
13 18 (1.98%) CRISC
13 18 (1.98%) MBA
14 17 (1.87%) IIBA
15 16 (1.76%) CISA
16 14 (1.54%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.90%) QA
2 46 (5.05%) GDPR
3 43 (4.73%) Data Quality
4 41 (4.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 41 (4.51%) PMO
5 38 (4.18%) NIST
6 28 (3.08%) SLA
7 17 (1.87%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.76%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.65%) PCI DSS
10 14 (1.54%) GRC
11 10 (1.10%) COBIT
11 10 (1.10%) IFRS
12 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
13 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.66%) IFRS 17
13 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 6 (0.66%) WCAG
14 5 (0.55%) Basel III
15 4 (0.44%) ITGC
System Software
1 61 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.82%) Docker
3 9 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.88%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.66%) Firmware
7 5 (0.55%) XenApp
7 5 (0.55%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.33%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.11%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.11%) HDFS
10 1 (0.11%) IAG
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.11%) PowerHA
10 1 (0.11%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 49 (5.38%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (4.07%) Terraform
4 22 (2.42%) SCCM
5 20 (2.20%) Ansible
6 17 (1.87%) Grafana
7 11 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (1.21%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.55%) SCOM
8 5 (0.55%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.44%) Control-M
9 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
10 3 (0.33%) Puppet
10 3 (0.33%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 231 (25.38%) Microsoft
2 71 (7.80%) Oracle
3 36 (3.96%) Google
4 30 (3.30%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.19%) SAP
6 28 (3.08%) Databricks
7 27 (2.97%) Citrix
8 20 (2.20%) Cisco
9 19 (2.09%) Salesforce
10 13 (1.43%) Adobe
10 13 (1.43%) Bloomberg
10 13 (1.43%) Informatica
11 12 (1.32%) Palo Alto
11 12 (1.32%) Software AG
11 12 (1.32%) Splunk
12 11 (1.21%) VMware
13 10 (1.10%) Juniper
14 9 (0.99%) Apple
15 8 (0.88%) Charles River
15 8 (0.88%) Murex