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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 895 972 1,416
As % of all contract jobs in London 5.04% 7.79% 8.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.83% 30.34% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 534 619 841
10th Percentile £300 £350 £288
25th Percentile £408 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £675
90th Percentile £788 £850 £800
England median daily rate £500 £515 £510
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.98% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 77
10th Percentile £18.18 £11.96 £14.96
25th Percentile £24.45 £20.24 £20.98
Median hourly rate £33.53 £35.92 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.65% +7.23% +26.42%
75th Percentile £53.06 £59.81 £43.75
90th Percentile £65.38 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +21.50% +33.75% -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 5,019 3,204 4,221
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.27% 25.67% 23.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,579 2,162 2,858
10th Percentile £363 £356 £325
25th Percentile £443 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £759 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 57 109
10th Percentile £19.54 £16.78 £14.21
25th Percentile £25.77 £22.27 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £29.07 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.76% +16.28% -47.37%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £72.61 £66.35
England median hourly rate £48.05 £40.84 £40.00
% change year-on-year +17.65% +2.10% -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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -22 105 £500 -9.05% 284
West London -16 35 £368 -7.96% 51
South London +1 20 £450 -25.00% 16
East London -5 9 £568 +36.69% 54
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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.46%) Confluence
4 24 (2.68%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.12%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.56%) Apache
6 5 (0.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 4 (0.45%) IIS
8 3 (0.34%) Moodle
8 3 (0.34%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.22%) Appian
9 2 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.22%) SAS
9 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.11%) Camunda
10 1 (0.11%) Drupal
10 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 96 (10.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (8.60%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
5 32 (3.58%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.34%) Trello
8 2 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
9 1 (0.11%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.11%) InVision
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
9 1 (0.11%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 12 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.89%) Aladdin
2 8 (0.89%) Veritas eDiscovery
3 7 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 6 (0.67%) Oracle Payables
4 6 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (0.56%) Shopify
6 4 (0.45%) Fidessa
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
6 4 (0.45%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 3 (0.34%) Magento
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Assets
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle EBS R12
7 3 (0.34%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
7 3 (0.34%) SimCorp Dimension
8 2 (0.22%) Actimize
8 2 (0.22%) Bloomberg TOMS
Cloud Services
1 240 (26.82%) Azure
2 131 (14.64%) AWS
3 89 (9.94%) Microsoft 365
4 65 (7.26%) Power Platform
5 48 (5.36%) GCP
5 48 (5.36%) SaaS
6 39 (4.36%) Entra ID
7 31 (3.46%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.24%) GitHub
9 21 (2.35%) Snowflake
10 19 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
10 19 (2.12%) Serverless
11 16 (1.79%) PaaS
11 16 (1.79%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.68%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
13 14 (1.56%) IaaS
14 13 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 12 (1.34%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 27 (3.02%) Firewall
2 14 (1.56%) Network Security
3 12 (1.34%) TCP/IP
3 12 (1.34%) VPN
4 11 (1.23%) WAN
5 10 (1.12%) LAN
6 9 (1.01%) BGP
7 8 (0.89%) DNS
8 7 (0.78%) DMZ
8 7 (0.78%) HTTP
8 7 (0.78%) NetScaler
8 7 (0.78%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.67%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.67%) DHCP
9 6 (0.67%) OSPF
10 4 (0.45%) IPv4
10 4 (0.45%) SSL
10 4 (0.45%) Unified Communications
10 4 (0.45%) VoIP
10 4 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.81%) Power BI
2 44 (4.92%) SQL Server
3 27 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
4 26 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.57%) Tableau
6 20 (2.23%) Big Data
7 19 (2.12%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.79%) MongoDB
8 16 (1.79%) Relational Database
9 12 (1.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 11 (1.23%) Metadata
11 8 (0.89%) Hadoop
11 8 (0.89%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (0.78%) Power Query
12 7 (0.78%) Redis
13 5 (0.56%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.56%) Elasticsearch
13 5 (0.56%) MySQL
13 5 (0.56%) Star Schema
14 4 (0.45%) DB2
Development Applications
1 70 (7.82%) JIRA
2 54 (6.03%) Git
3 21 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.34%) MLflow
6 11 (1.23%) GitLab
7 10 (1.12%) Selenium
8 7 (0.78%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.67%) Subversion
10 5 (0.56%) Gradle
10 5 (0.56%) Maven
10 5 (0.56%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.45%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.45%) ERwin
11 4 (0.45%) Zephyr
12 3 (0.34%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.34%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.34%) Toad
12 3 (0.34%) Vite
General
1 430 (48.04%) Social Skills
2 376 (42.01%) Finance
3 194 (21.68%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (14.86%) Banking
5 57 (6.37%) Marketing
6 56 (6.26%) Presentation Skills
7 50 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 42 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 39 (4.36%) Legal
10 38 (4.25%) Front Office
11 30 (3.35%) Investment Banking
11 30 (3.35%) Retail
12 27 (3.02%) Influencing Skills
13 21 (2.35%) Telecoms
14 20 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
14 20 (2.23%) Law
15 16 (1.79%) Financial Institution
15 16 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 14 (1.56%) Manufacturing
17 11 (1.23%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 127 (14.19%) Senior
2 123 (13.74%) Analyst
3 101 (11.28%) Developer
4 77 (8.60%) Business Analyst
5 76 (8.49%) Architect
6 75 (8.38%) Lead
7 62 (6.93%) Project Manager
8 38 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
9 34 (3.80%) Consultant
10 27 (3.02%) Data Scientist
11 26 (2.91%) Senior Analyst
12 23 (2.57%) Data Engineer
13 22 (2.46%) Senior Manager
13 22 (2.46%) Software Engineer
14 21 (2.35%) C# Developer
14 21 (2.35%) Senior Business Analyst
15 20 (2.23%) Delivery Manager
16 18 (2.01%) Technical Support
17 17 (1.90%) Java Developer
18 16 (1.79%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (5.03%) .NET
2 33 (3.69%) REST
3 30 (3.35%) React
4 26 (2.91%) Middleware
5 24 (2.68%) Oracle Fusion
6 23 (2.57%) RESTful
7 22 (2.46%) Kafka
7 22 (2.46%) Pandas
7 22 (2.46%) PyTorch
8 21 (2.35%) .NET Framework
9 20 (2.23%) HTML
10 17 (1.90%) TensorFlow
11 16 (1.79%) NumPy
12 14 (1.56%) Spring
13 13 (1.45%) Node.js
13 13 (1.45%) PySpark
13 13 (1.45%) scikit-learn
13 13 (1.45%) XML
14 11 (1.23%) AngularJS
15 10 (1.12%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 56 (6.26%) Management Information System
2 54 (6.03%) Onboarding
3 41 (4.58%) Cloud Native
4 40 (4.47%) Product Ownership
5 33 (3.69%) Virtual Team
6 31 (3.46%) Distributed Systems
7 29 (3.24%) Derivative
8 28 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 27 (3.02%) Data Centre
10 26 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
11 25 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
12 21 (2.35%) PMI
13 20 (2.23%) Equities
14 19 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
15 18 (2.01%) Fixed Income
16 17 (1.90%) Data Structures
17 16 (1.79%) Equity Derivative
17 16 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
18 15 (1.68%) AI Agents
Operating Systems
1 95 (10.61%) Windows
2 53 (5.92%) Linux
3 31 (3.46%) Windows Server
4 23 (2.57%) Unix
5 15 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 11 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.01%) Android
8 8 (0.89%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 4 (0.45%) VMS
12 3 (0.34%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 318 (35.53%) Computer Science
2 274 (30.61%) Agile
3 234 (26.15%) Problem-Solving
4 170 (18.99%) AI
5 143 (15.98%) Analytics
5 143 (15.98%) DevOps
6 141 (15.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (14.64%) Project Management
8 120 (13.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 117 (13.07%) CI/CD
10 111 (12.40%) Decision-Making
11 107 (11.96%) Risk Management
12 102 (11.40%) Migration
13 96 (10.73%) Roadmaps
14 91 (10.17%) Project Delivery
15 87 (9.72%) Change Management
16 84 (9.39%) Software Engineering
17 80 (8.94%) Scrum
18 79 (8.83%) Data Modelling
19 77 (8.60%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 183 (20.45%) Python
2 171 (19.11%) SQL
3 74 (8.27%) Java
4 61 (6.82%) C#
5 49 (5.47%) PowerShell
6 43 (4.80%) C++
7 31 (3.46%) JavaScript
8 23 (2.57%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.01%) R
10 12 (1.34%) PL/SQL
10 12 (1.34%) T-SQL
11 9 (1.01%) Bash
12 8 (0.89%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.67%) Scala
13 6 (0.67%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.56%) C
14 5 (0.56%) Go
14 5 (0.56%) Rust
15 3 (0.34%) Bicep
15 3 (0.34%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 223 (24.92%) Computer Science Degree
2 138 (15.42%) Master's Degree
3 85 (9.50%) Security Cleared
4 66 (7.37%) SC Cleared
5 64 (7.15%) PMI Certification
6 51 (5.70%) PMP
7 41 (4.58%) CISSP
8 38 (4.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (4.02%) PhD
10 32 (3.58%) Azure Certification
11 23 (2.57%) CBAP
12 21 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (2.35%) CISM
13 18 (2.01%) CRISC
13 18 (2.01%) MBA
14 17 (1.90%) IIBA
15 16 (1.79%) CISA
16 14 (1.56%) AWS Certification
16 14 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
17 13 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (8.72%) QA
2 44 (4.92%) Data Quality
2 44 (4.92%) GDPR
3 41 (4.58%) PMO
4 40 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (4.13%) NIST
6 28 (3.13%) SLA
7 16 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.68%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.56%) GRC
9 14 (1.56%) PCI DSS
10 10 (1.12%) COBIT
10 10 (1.12%) IFRS
11 7 (0.78%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.67%) IFRS 17
12 6 (0.67%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.56%) Basel III
13 5 (0.56%) WCAG
14 4 (0.45%) ITGC
System Software
1 57 (6.37%) Active Directory
2 52 (5.81%) Docker
3 9 (1.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.89%) Hyper-V
5 7 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
6 6 (0.67%) Firmware
7 5 (0.56%) XenApp
7 5 (0.56%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.34%) 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 51 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 35 (3.91%) Terraform
4 21 (2.35%) SCCM
5 18 (2.01%) Ansible
6 15 (1.68%) Grafana
7 11 (1.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 11 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.56%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.45%) Control-M
9 4 (0.45%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.45%) SCOM
10 3 (0.34%) 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%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 226 (25.25%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.82%) Oracle
3 34 (3.80%) Google
4 29 (3.24%) SAP
5 28 (3.13%) Databricks
6 27 (3.02%) Citrix
6 27 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 20 (2.23%) Cisco
8 19 (2.12%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.45%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.45%) Informatica
10 12 (1.34%) Adobe
10 12 (1.34%) Palo Alto
10 12 (1.34%) Software AG
10 12 (1.34%) Splunk
11 11 (1.23%) VMware
12 10 (1.12%) Juniper
12 10 (1.12%) Murex
13 9 (1.01%) Apple
14 8 (0.89%) Charles River