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 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -21 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 956 1,051 1,351
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.78% 7.73% 8.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.30% 29.82% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 662 861
10th Percentile £263 £331 £310
25th Percentile £407 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £675
90th Percentile £755 £809 £813
England median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 28 43
10th Percentile £17.54 £11.96 £20.65
25th Percentile £26.69 £20.24 £25.49
Median hourly rate £36.00 £27.33 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.75% -25.14% +13.72%
75th Percentile £60.25 £63.06 £51.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.88 £68.75
England median hourly rate £49.25 £42.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year +15.88% -24.77% +10.22%

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 5,526 3,525 3,914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.60% 25.92% 23.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,002 2,386 2,715
10th Percentile £371 £333 £331
25th Percentile £453 £428 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £731 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 85 70
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.32 £18.10
25th Percentile £27.56 £25.04 £22.00
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.99
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -6.80% -50.94%
75th Percentile £73.00 £45.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.55 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.75 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +117.69% -41.51% -21.82%

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 30 July 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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -42 89 £502 -10.84% 188
West London -8 45 £271 -33.12% 74
East London +4 10 £568 -5.42% 28
South London -21 10 £215 -64.21% 22
North London - 4 £550 - 10
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 (5.13%) SharePoint
2 38 (3.97%) Confluence
3 28 (2.93%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.67%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.46%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.15%) IIS
7 9 (0.94%) Apache
8 6 (0.63%) CMS
8 6 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
9 5 (0.52%) Camunda
10 4 (0.42%) Appian
11 3 (0.31%) Moodle
12 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
13 1 (0.10%) Apache Solr
13 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
13 1 (0.10%) PowerExchange
13 1 (0.10%) SAS
13 1 (0.10%) Tomcat
Applications
1 90 (9.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (7.01%) Microsoft Office
3 49 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (4.92%) Microsoft Project
5 23 (2.41%) MS Visio
6 10 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 6 (0.63%) Spreadsheet
8 5 (0.52%) UserZoom
9 4 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.42%) CPLEX
10 2 (0.21%) Trello
11 1 (0.10%) Navisworks
11 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.10%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.84%) Magento
2 7 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.73%) HFM
3 6 (0.63%) Aladdin
3 6 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.31%) OpenText MBPM
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.21%) Actimize
5 2 (0.21%) Changepoint
5 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.21%) Primavera
5 2 (0.21%) SAP HR
5 2 (0.21%) Shopify
5 2 (0.21%) Summit
5 2 (0.21%) Temenos T24
5 2 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 247 (25.84%) Azure
2 149 (15.59%) AWS
3 79 (8.26%) Power Platform
4 73 (7.64%) GCP
5 72 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
6 60 (6.28%) Entra ID
7 44 (4.60%) Azure DevOps
8 38 (3.97%) GitHub
9 33 (3.45%) SaaS
10 29 (3.03%) Snowflake
11 20 (2.09%) Serverless
12 18 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
13 16 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 14 (1.46%) IaaS
14 14 (1.46%) Microsoft Copilot
15 13 (1.36%) PaaS
16 12 (1.26%) Anthropic Claude
16 12 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (1.26%) Figma
16 12 (1.26%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.39%) Firewall
2 24 (2.51%) Network Security
2 24 (2.51%) VPN
3 20 (2.09%) DNS
3 20 (2.09%) TCP/IP
4 15 (1.57%) DHCP
5 11 (1.15%) WAN
6 9 (0.94%) 3GPP
7 8 (0.84%) BGP
7 8 (0.84%) Internet
7 8 (0.84%) LAN
7 8 (0.84%) VoIP
8 7 (0.73%) 5G
8 7 (0.73%) Radio Access Network
8 7 (0.73%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.63%) DMZ
9 6 (0.63%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.63%) SAN
9 6 (0.63%) Wireless
10 5 (0.52%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.49%) Power BI
2 44 (4.60%) SQL Server
3 28 (2.93%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (2.82%) PostgreSQL
5 25 (2.62%) Tableau
6 24 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 23 (2.41%) Relational Database
8 20 (2.09%) MongoDB
9 15 (1.57%) Big Data
9 15 (1.57%) Metadata
10 10 (1.05%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.05%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.05%) Oracle Database
11 8 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.73%) Data Mining
12 7 (0.73%) Power Query
12 7 (0.73%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.63%) Neo4j
14 5 (0.52%) Redis
14 5 (0.52%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 71 (7.43%) JIRA
2 65 (6.80%) Git
3 28 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.57%) GitLab
5 12 (1.26%) MLflow
6 11 (1.15%) Selenium
6 11 (1.15%) Subversion
7 10 (1.05%) Visual Studio
8 7 (0.73%) Gradle
8 7 (0.73%) Maven
9 6 (0.63%) SonarQube
9 6 (0.63%) TeamCity
9 6 (0.63%) Zephyr
10 5 (0.52%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.52%) JUnit
11 4 (0.42%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.42%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.31%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.31%) Chocolatey
12 3 (0.31%) Gemini Tracker
General
1 445 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 399 (41.74%) Finance
3 232 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
4 135 (14.12%) Banking
5 68 (7.11%) Marketing
6 63 (6.59%) Organisational Skills
7 60 (6.28%) Legal
8 49 (5.13%) Public Sector
9 48 (5.02%) Retail
10 45 (4.71%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (3.77%) Front Office
12 30 (3.14%) Investment Banking
13 29 (3.03%) Influencing Skills
14 28 (2.93%) Financial Institution
15 27 (2.82%) Law
16 26 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 26 (2.72%) Telecoms
17 23 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
18 17 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
19 14 (1.46%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 141 (14.75%) Analyst
2 128 (13.39%) Senior
3 104 (10.88%) Developer
4 85 (8.89%) Business Analyst
5 81 (8.47%) Lead
6 77 (8.05%) Architect
7 65 (6.80%) Project Manager
8 39 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
9 36 (3.77%) Senior Manager
10 30 (3.14%) Consultant
11 28 (2.93%) Data Scientist
12 25 (2.62%) Support Engineer
13 24 (2.51%) Data Engineer
13 24 (2.51%) Software Engineer
14 21 (2.20%) C# Developer
14 21 (2.20%) IT Analyst
15 20 (2.09%) Financial Analyst
15 20 (2.09%) Junior
15 20 (2.09%) Senior Project Manager
16 19 (1.99%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.65%) .NET
2 50 (5.23%) REST
3 34 (3.56%) React
4 26 (2.72%) .NET Framework
5 25 (2.62%) Kafka
6 20 (2.09%) AngularJS
6 20 (2.09%) RESTful
7 19 (1.99%) PyTorch
8 18 (1.88%) HTML
9 17 (1.78%) Spring
10 16 (1.67%) PySpark
11 15 (1.57%) Pandas
11 15 (1.57%) Spring Boot
11 15 (1.57%) XML
12 14 (1.46%) JSON
13 13 (1.36%) Oracle Fusion
13 13 (1.36%) TensorFlow
14 12 (1.26%) CSS
14 12 (1.26%) LangChain
14 12 (1.26%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 68 (7.11%) Onboarding
2 58 (6.07%) Management Information System
3 52 (5.44%) Cloud Native
4 45 (4.71%) Product Ownership
4 45 (4.71%) Self-Motivation
5 38 (3.97%) Algorithms
6 28 (2.93%) Distributed Systems
6 28 (2.93%) Virtual Team
7 27 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 26 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 26 (2.72%) Derivative
8 26 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.20%) AI Agents
9 21 (2.20%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (2.20%) Fixed Income
10 18 (1.88%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 16 (1.67%) Equities
12 16 (1.67%) Security Posture
12 16 (1.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 115 (12.03%) Windows
2 54 (5.65%) Linux
3 23 (2.41%) Windows Server
4 18 (1.88%) Windows 10
5 16 (1.67%) Unix
6 14 (1.46%) Mac OS
7 13 (1.36%) Apple iOS
8 10 (1.05%) Android
9 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.52%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.42%) VMS
12 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 2 (0.21%) CentOS
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
14 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 346 (36.19%) Computer Science
2 275 (28.77%) Agile
3 264 (27.62%) Problem-Solving
4 214 (22.38%) AI
5 175 (18.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 170 (17.78%) Analytics
7 147 (15.38%) DevOps
8 144 (15.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 135 (14.12%) CI/CD
10 118 (12.34%) Project Management
11 105 (10.98%) Decision-Making
11 105 (10.98%) Software Engineering
12 103 (10.77%) Migration
13 98 (10.25%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 92 (9.62%) Scrum
15 87 (9.10%) Risk Management
16 86 (9.00%) ITIL
16 86 (9.00%) Roadmaps
17 85 (8.89%) Change Management
17 85 (8.89%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 205 (21.44%) Python
2 192 (20.08%) SQL
3 84 (8.79%) Java
4 64 (6.69%) C#
5 55 (5.75%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.29%) JavaScript
7 26 (2.72%) C++
8 24 (2.51%) TypeScript
9 19 (1.99%) R
10 16 (1.67%) Bash
11 14 (1.46%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.94%) Bicep
12 9 (0.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 8 (0.84%) T-SQL
14 7 (0.73%) C
15 5 (0.52%) VBA
16 4 (0.42%) Scala
16 4 (0.42%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.42%) X++
17 3 (0.31%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 226 (23.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 124 (12.97%) Master's Degree
3 83 (8.68%) Security Cleared
4 65 (6.80%) SC Cleared
5 60 (6.28%) PMI Certification
6 51 (5.33%) CISSP
7 50 (5.23%) PMP
8 42 (4.39%) PhD
9 33 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 33 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
11 24 (2.51%) CISA
12 22 (2.30%) CISM
12 22 (2.30%) MBA
13 20 (2.09%) DV Cleared
14 15 (1.57%) AWS Certification
15 12 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (1.26%) CRISC
15 12 (1.26%) ISTQB
16 11 (1.15%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (7.22%) QA
2 62 (6.49%) Data Quality
3 45 (4.71%) PMO
4 38 (3.97%) NIST
5 37 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 29 (3.03%) GDPR
7 22 (2.30%) SLA
8 21 (2.20%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (1.46%) GRC
11 13 (1.36%) PCI DSS
12 10 (1.05%) COBIT
13 8 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
14 7 (0.73%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.73%) P3O
15 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
15 5 (0.52%) IFRS
15 5 (0.52%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.42%) ITGC
16 4 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 77 (8.05%) Active Directory
2 56 (5.86%) Docker
3 19 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.84%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.63%) Firmware
6 5 (0.52%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.42%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.42%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.42%) vSphere
8 1 (0.10%) HDFS
8 1 (0.10%) IAG
8 1 (0.10%) Squid
8 1 (0.10%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.10%) XenApp
8 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (6.07%) Kubernetes
2 45 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 44 (4.60%) Terraform
4 28 (2.93%) Ansible
5 18 (1.88%) SCCM
6 14 (1.46%) Grafana
7 12 (1.26%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.52%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.42%) vMotion
10 3 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.31%) Nagios
10 3 (0.31%) Packer
10 3 (0.31%) Puppet
10 3 (0.31%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.31%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 2 (0.21%) Control-M
11 2 (0.21%) Kibana
12 1 (0.10%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 238 (24.90%) Microsoft
2 70 (7.32%) Oracle
3 51 (5.33%) Google
4 43 (4.50%) ServiceNow
5 29 (3.03%) SAP
6 27 (2.82%) Cisco
7 26 (2.72%) VMware
8 25 (2.62%) Citrix
9 22 (2.30%) Databricks
10 21 (2.20%) Salesforce
11 20 (2.09%) Adobe
12 14 (1.46%) OpenAI
12 14 (1.46%) Palo Alto
13 12 (1.26%) Bloomberg
14 11 (1.15%) Apple
14 11 (1.15%) Splunk
15 10 (1.05%) CyberArk
15 10 (1.05%) HP
15 10 (1.05%) Juniper
15 10 (1.05%) Murex