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 25 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -13 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Degree 931 984 1,440
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.31% 7.72% 8.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.47% 30.29% 33.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 632 854
10th Percentile £304 £338 £300
25th Percentile £410 £442 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.82% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £675
90th Percentile £800 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -5.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 25 74
10th Percentile £19.72 £11.96 £14.60
25th Percentile £27.13 £20.24 £21.44
Median hourly rate £35.00 £40.50 £33.87
Median % change year-on-year -13.58% +19.59% +4.20%
75th Percentile £50.96 £58.75 £47.50
90th Percentile £63.70 £65.80 £74.63
England median hourly rate £55.00 £54.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +1.85% +35.00% -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 5,040 3,249 4,337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.74% 25.49% 24.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,613 2,200 2,927
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% -6.09%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £656
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 61 116
10th Percentile £20.79 £20.00 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £20.43
Median hourly rate £52.22 £30.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.07% +15.38% -39.53%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £69.38
England median hourly rate £47.50 £47.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year - +18.75% -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 25 April 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 25 April 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 25 April 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 -18 118 £500 -8.97% 190
West London -14 33 £368 -7.96% 39
South London +6 23 £450 -25.00% 9
East London -5 7 £568 +17.60% 37
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 42 (4.51%) SharePoint
2 38 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 30 (3.22%) Confluence
4 24 (2.58%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.29%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.32%) CMS
7 3 (0.32%) IIS
7 3 (0.32%) Moodle
7 3 (0.32%) Oracle Workflow
7 3 (0.32%) SAS
8 2 (0.21%) Apache
8 2 (0.21%) Appian
8 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.11%) Anypoint
9 1 (0.11%) Camunda
9 1 (0.11%) Drupal
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 93 (9.99%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (7.84%) Microsoft Office
3 59 (6.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 45 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (3.44%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.43%) Trello
7 3 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.21%) InVision
8 2 (0.21%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 12 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.86%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.86%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.64%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.43%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.43%) Shopify
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle FAH
7 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 253 (27.18%) Azure
2 121 (13.00%) AWS
3 99 (10.63%) Microsoft 365
4 72 (7.73%) Power Platform
5 61 (6.55%) SaaS
6 53 (5.69%) GCP
7 47 (5.05%) Entra ID
8 36 (3.87%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (3.44%) GitHub
10 22 (2.36%) Dynamics 365
10 22 (2.36%) Snowflake
11 19 (2.04%) Serverless
12 18 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 18 (1.93%) Power Automate
13 17 (1.83%) PaaS
14 16 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
14 16 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
15 15 (1.61%) IaaS
16 14 (1.50%) Amazon ECS
16 14 (1.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 31 (3.33%) Firewall
2 14 (1.50%) VPN
3 13 (1.40%) Network Security
4 11 (1.18%) LAN
4 11 (1.18%) WAN
5 10 (1.07%) TCP/IP
6 9 (0.97%) HTTP
7 8 (0.86%) BGP
7 8 (0.86%) DNS
7 8 (0.86%) NetScaler
8 7 (0.75%) DHCP
8 7 (0.75%) DMZ
8 7 (0.75%) VoIP
8 7 (0.75%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.64%) 3GPP
10 5 (0.54%) CTI
10 5 (0.54%) IPv4
10 5 (0.54%) OSPF
11 4 (0.43%) SSL
12 3 (0.32%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (5.91%) Power BI
2 47 (5.05%) SQL Server
3 28 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (2.79%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.79%) Tableau
5 19 (2.04%) Big Data
5 19 (2.04%) NoSQL
6 16 (1.72%) MongoDB
6 16 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.40%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (1.07%) Metadata
9 8 (0.86%) Snowflake Schema
10 7 (0.75%) Hadoop
10 7 (0.75%) Power Query
10 7 (0.75%) Redis
11 6 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
11 6 (0.64%) MySQL
12 5 (0.54%) Elasticsearch
12 5 (0.54%) KDB
12 5 (0.54%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 70 (7.52%) JIRA
2 54 (5.80%) Git
3 19 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.93%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.29%) MLflow
6 11 (1.18%) Selenium
7 9 (0.97%) GitLab
8 6 (0.64%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.54%) Bitbucket
9 5 (0.54%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.54%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.43%) ERwin
10 4 (0.43%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.32%) Maven
11 3 (0.32%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.32%) Subversion
11 3 (0.32%) Toad
11 3 (0.32%) Vite
11 3 (0.32%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.21%) Postman
General
1 441 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 384 (41.25%) Finance
3 210 (22.56%) Analytical Skills
4 150 (16.11%) Banking
5 56 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
6 54 (5.80%) Public Sector
7 53 (5.69%) Marketing
8 42 (4.51%) Front Office
9 36 (3.87%) Investment Banking
9 36 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
10 34 (3.65%) Legal
11 28 (3.01%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (3.01%) Retail
12 23 (2.47%) Telecoms
13 22 (2.36%) Financial Institution
14 21 (2.26%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (2.26%) Law
14 21 (2.26%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 11 (1.18%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 122 (13.10%) Senior
2 118 (12.67%) Analyst
3 106 (11.39%) Developer
4 75 (8.06%) Architect
4 75 (8.06%) Business Analyst
5 72 (7.73%) Lead
6 62 (6.66%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.51%) Consultant
8 34 (3.65%) Data Scientist
8 34 (3.65%) Solutions Architect
9 26 (2.79%) Senior Analyst
10 25 (2.69%) Data Engineer
11 22 (2.36%) Software Engineer
12 21 (2.26%) C# Developer
12 21 (2.26%) Senior Business Analyst
13 20 (2.15%) Technical Support
14 19 (2.04%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (1.93%) Senior Manager
16 17 (1.83%) Support Specialist
17 16 (1.72%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.26%) .NET
2 32 (3.44%) REST
3 30 (3.22%) React
4 26 (2.79%) Middleware
5 25 (2.69%) Pandas
6 23 (2.47%) PyTorch
6 23 (2.47%) RESTful
7 22 (2.36%) .NET Framework
7 22 (2.36%) HTML
8 21 (2.26%) Kafka
8 21 (2.26%) Oracle Fusion
9 18 (1.93%) NumPy
9 18 (1.93%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.50%) Node.js
10 14 (1.50%) scikit-learn
11 13 (1.40%) PySpark
11 13 (1.40%) XML
12 12 (1.29%) LangChain
12 12 (1.29%) OAuth
13 11 (1.18%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 58 (6.23%) Management Information System
2 54 (5.80%) Onboarding
3 44 (4.73%) Cloud Native
4 39 (4.19%) Product Ownership
5 34 (3.65%) Virtual Team
6 32 (3.44%) Derivative
6 32 (3.44%) Distributed Systems
7 28 (3.01%) Algorithms
7 28 (3.01%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
9 25 (2.69%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (2.47%) Equities
11 22 (2.36%) PMI
12 21 (2.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
13 19 (2.04%) Fixed Income
14 17 (1.83%) Equity Derivative
14 17 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
15 16 (1.72%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.72%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 96 (10.31%) Windows
2 52 (5.59%) Linux
3 34 (3.65%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.58%) Unix
5 16 (1.72%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.18%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.97%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.86%) Android
9 6 (0.64%) Apple iOS
9 6 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
10 5 (0.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.43%) VMS
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 343 (36.84%) Computer Science
2 278 (29.86%) Agile
3 247 (26.53%) Problem-Solving
4 182 (19.55%) AI
5 154 (16.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 149 (16.00%) DevOps
7 148 (15.90%) Analytics
8 129 (13.86%) Project Management
9 123 (13.21%) CI/CD
10 120 (12.89%) Continuous Improvement
11 116 (12.46%) Risk Management
12 114 (12.24%) Decision-Making
13 105 (11.28%) Roadmaps
14 100 (10.74%) Migration
15 96 (10.31%) Change Management
16 90 (9.67%) Project Delivery
17 85 (9.13%) Software Engineering
18 84 (9.02%) Business Intelligence
19 81 (8.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 79 (8.49%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 197 (21.16%) Python
2 166 (17.83%) SQL
3 70 (7.52%) Java
4 60 (6.44%) C#
5 55 (5.91%) PowerShell
6 44 (4.73%) C++
7 34 (3.65%) JavaScript
8 25 (2.69%) TypeScript
9 19 (2.04%) R
10 15 (1.61%) PL/SQL
11 14 (1.50%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.97%) Bash
13 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.75%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.54%) C
16 5 (0.54%) Go
16 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.54%) Rust
17 3 (0.32%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 244 (26.21%) Computer Science Degree
2 153 (16.43%) Master's Degree
3 84 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 63 (6.77%) SC Cleared
5 62 (6.66%) PMI Certification
6 48 (5.16%) PMP
7 47 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (4.51%) PhD
9 40 (4.30%) CISSP
10 34 (3.65%) Azure Certification
11 22 (2.36%) CBAP
12 20 (2.15%) CISM
13 18 (1.93%) Cisco Certification
13 18 (1.93%) CRISC
13 18 (1.93%) MBA
14 17 (1.83%) IIBA
15 16 (1.72%) CISA
16 15 (1.61%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.61%) MCSE
16 15 (1.61%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (8.70%) QA
2 45 (4.83%) GDPR
3 40 (4.30%) PMO
4 39 (4.19%) Data Quality
5 38 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (3.97%) NIST
7 28 (3.01%) SLA
8 16 (1.72%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.50%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.40%) GRC
10 13 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 10 (1.07%) COBIT
12 9 (0.97%) IFRS
13 8 (0.86%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.86%) IFRS 17
14 6 (0.64%) SOC 2
14 6 (0.64%) WCAG
15 5 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.54%) IFRS 9
15 5 (0.54%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 67 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 56 (6.02%) Docker
3 11 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.97%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (0.86%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.64%) Firmware
7 5 (0.54%) XenApp
7 5 (0.54%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 2 (0.21%) 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 48 (5.16%) Microsoft Intune
2 47 (5.05%) Kubernetes
3 39 (4.19%) Terraform
4 24 (2.58%) SCCM
5 18 (1.93%) Ansible
6 16 (1.72%) Grafana
7 11 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 10 (1.07%) Prometheus
9 5 (0.54%) SCOM
9 5 (0.54%) SCVMM
10 4 (0.43%) Control-M
10 4 (0.43%) HP ALM
11 3 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.32%) Puppet
11 3 (0.32%) WSUS
12 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 1 (0.11%) CloudHub
13 1 (0.11%) Kibana
13 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 230 (24.70%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.52%) Oracle
3 41 (4.40%) Google
4 32 (3.44%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.11%) Citrix
6 28 (3.01%) Databricks
6 28 (3.01%) SAP
7 19 (2.04%) Cisco
7 19 (2.04%) Salesforce
8 13 (1.40%) Informatica
8 13 (1.40%) VMware
9 12 (1.29%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.29%) Software AG
10 11 (1.18%) Adobe
11 10 (1.07%) Juniper
11 10 (1.07%) Splunk
12 9 (0.97%) Murex
13 8 (0.86%) Apple
13 8 (0.86%) Charles River