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 2 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 913 938 1,404
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.99% 7.72% 8.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.74% 29.79% 33.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 521 593 846
10th Percentile £288 £350 £300
25th Percentile £413 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £838 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 79
10th Percentile £16.16 £11.96 £15.19
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.12
Median hourly rate £30.03 £29.88 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -12.72% +25.61%
75th Percentile £57.06 £63.06 £45.63
90th Percentile £65.23 £68.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £56.50 £51.25 £40.00
% change year-on-year +10.24% +28.13% -15.79%

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 5,147 3,149 4,131
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.13% 25.90% 23.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,683 2,111 2,824
10th Percentile £374 £361 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +0.95% -7.89%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 61 113
10th Percentile £19.15 £20.00 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.13 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +11.41% -49.00%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.60
England median hourly rate £48.05 £32.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +47.85% -18.75% -27.27%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 -28 93 £520 -5.88% 261
West London -13 39 £372 -7.10% 58
South London -4 15 £215 -65.64% 18
East London -4 9 £568 +36.69% 33
North London -1 1 - - 8
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 46 (5.04%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.18%) Confluence
4 22 (2.41%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.88%) IIS
7 5 (0.55%) Apache
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 5 (0.55%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.44%) Appian
8 4 (0.44%) Camunda
9 3 (0.33%) Moodle
10 2 (0.22%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.22%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.22%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.11%) SAS
11 1 (0.11%) Tomcat
Applications
1 95 (10.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (8.21%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (6.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (3.18%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.55%) UserZoom
7 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.33%) Trello
9 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.22%) CPLEX
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.11%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.11%) InVision
10 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.11%) Revit
10 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.77%) Aladdin
2 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (0.77%) Oracle Payables
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
3 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.44%) Fidessa
4 4 (0.44%) HFM
4 4 (0.44%) Magento
4 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 4 (0.44%) Shopify
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
Cloud Services
1 240 (26.29%) Azure
2 144 (15.77%) AWS
3 87 (9.53%) Microsoft 365
4 61 (6.68%) Power Platform
5 53 (5.81%) GCP
6 49 (5.37%) Entra ID
7 39 (4.27%) SaaS
8 32 (3.50%) GitHub
9 30 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 17 (1.86%) Serverless
12 16 (1.75%) PaaS
13 14 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.53%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.42%) IaaS
15 12 (1.31%) Amazon S3
15 12 (1.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 29 (3.18%) Firewall
2 19 (2.08%) Network Security
3 13 (1.42%) WAN
4 12 (1.31%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.31%) VPN
5 11 (1.20%) LAN
6 9 (0.99%) BGP
7 8 (0.88%) VoIP
7 8 (0.88%) VXLAN
8 7 (0.77%) DMZ
9 6 (0.66%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.66%) DNS
9 6 (0.66%) NetScaler
9 6 (0.66%) OSPF
10 5 (0.55%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.55%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.44%) DHCP
11 4 (0.44%) HTTP
11 4 (0.44%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.70%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.37%) Power BI
3 27 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (2.63%) Tableau
5 19 (2.08%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.97%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.86%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.64%) Big Data
9 13 (1.42%) Metadata
10 11 (1.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (0.88%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.88%) Redis
13 7 (0.77%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.66%) Power Query
15 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.55%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 68 (7.45%) JIRA
2 58 (6.35%) Git
3 20 (2.19%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.64%) Visual Studio
5 12 (1.31%) GitLab
5 12 (1.31%) MLflow
6 9 (0.99%) Selenium
7 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.77%) Subversion
8 6 (0.66%) Gradle
8 6 (0.66%) Maven
9 5 (0.55%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.55%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.55%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.44%) ERwin
10 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.33%) Toad
11 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 426 (46.66%) Social Skills
2 393 (43.04%) Finance
3 194 (21.25%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (14.68%) Banking
5 59 (6.46%) Presentation Skills
6 58 (6.35%) Marketing
7 51 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
7 51 (5.59%) Public Sector
8 48 (5.26%) Legal
9 39 (4.27%) Front Office
10 36 (3.94%) Investment Banking
11 33 (3.61%) Retail
12 27 (2.96%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.52%) Law
14 20 (2.19%) Telecoms
15 19 (2.08%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
18 16 (1.75%) Manufacturing
19 13 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 129 (14.13%) Senior
2 128 (14.02%) Analyst
3 109 (11.94%) Developer
4 81 (8.87%) Architect
4 81 (8.87%) Lead
5 76 (8.32%) Business Analyst
6 58 (6.35%) Project Manager
7 42 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.07%) Data Scientist
9 26 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
9 26 (2.85%) Software Engineer
10 24 (2.63%) Consultant
11 23 (2.52%) C# Developer
11 23 (2.52%) Data Engineer
12 21 (2.30%) Delivery Manager
12 21 (2.30%) Senior Business Analyst
12 21 (2.30%) Senior Manager
13 19 (2.08%) Senior Developer
14 18 (1.97%) Data Analyst
15 17 (1.86%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (5.26%) .NET
2 44 (4.82%) REST
3 33 (3.61%) React
4 26 (2.85%) .NET Framework
4 26 (2.85%) Oracle Fusion
5 24 (2.63%) Kafka
6 23 (2.52%) Middleware
7 22 (2.41%) RESTful
8 21 (2.30%) Pandas
9 20 (2.19%) HTML
10 18 (1.97%) PyTorch
11 15 (1.64%) PySpark
12 14 (1.53%) AngularJS
12 14 (1.53%) Spring
12 14 (1.53%) TensorFlow
13 13 (1.42%) Node.js
13 13 (1.42%) NumPy
13 13 (1.42%) scikit-learn
14 12 (1.31%) CSS
15 11 (1.20%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 54 (5.91%) Management Information System
2 51 (5.59%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.71%) Cloud Native
4 41 (4.49%) Product Ownership
5 36 (3.94%) Self-Motivation
6 33 (3.61%) Derivative
7 32 (3.50%) Virtual Team
8 31 (3.40%) Algorithms
9 30 (3.29%) Distributed Systems
10 26 (2.85%) Data Centre
11 22 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
11 22 (2.41%) Fixed Income
12 21 (2.30%) Equities
13 19 (2.08%) Legacy Systems
13 19 (2.08%) PMI
14 18 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
16 15 (1.64%) Data Structures
16 15 (1.64%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 105 (11.50%) Windows
2 51 (5.59%) Linux
3 27 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.63%) Unix
5 17 (1.86%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.31%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.10%) Android
7 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 7 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.33%) VMS
12 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.11%) CentOS
13 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 328 (35.93%) Computer Science
2 268 (29.35%) Agile
3 238 (26.07%) Problem-Solving
4 180 (19.72%) AI
5 147 (16.10%) Analytics
6 143 (15.66%) DevOps
7 136 (14.90%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (13.69%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (13.36%) CI/CD
10 116 (12.71%) Project Management
11 108 (11.83%) Decision-Making
12 100 (10.95%) Migration
13 97 (10.62%) Risk Management
14 96 (10.51%) Roadmaps
15 94 (10.30%) Software Engineering
16 88 (9.64%) Project Delivery
17 83 (9.09%) Change Management
18 80 (8.76%) Scrum
19 77 (8.43%) Mathematics
19 77 (8.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 194 (21.25%) Python
2 177 (19.39%) SQL
3 86 (9.42%) Java
4 61 (6.68%) C#
5 52 (5.70%) PowerShell
6 41 (4.49%) C++
7 38 (4.16%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.08%) TypeScript
9 16 (1.75%) R
10 14 (1.53%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.42%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.99%) Bash
13 8 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.66%) C
14 6 (0.66%) Scala
14 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.55%) Bicep
15 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
16 4 (0.44%) Go
16 4 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 215 (23.55%) Computer Science Degree
2 131 (14.35%) Master's Degree
3 85 (9.31%) Security Cleared
4 66 (7.23%) SC Cleared
5 57 (6.24%) PMI Certification
6 48 (5.26%) CISSP
7 45 (4.93%) PMP
8 36 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (3.94%) PhD
9 35 (3.83%) Azure Certification
10 25 (2.74%) CISM
11 24 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (2.41%) CBAP
13 18 (1.97%) CISA
13 18 (1.97%) CRISC
13 18 (1.97%) MBA
14 17 (1.86%) IIBA
15 15 (1.64%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
16 13 (1.42%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.78%) QA
2 50 (5.48%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.60%) GDPR
5 41 (4.49%) PMO
6 38 (4.16%) NIST
7 25 (2.74%) SLA
8 19 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.97%) Accessibility
10 17 (1.86%) PCI DSS
11 15 (1.64%) GRC
12 10 (1.10%) COBIT
12 10 (1.10%) IFRS
13 8 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
14 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.55%) IFRS 17
16 4 (0.44%) ITGC
16 4 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 61 (6.68%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.81%) Docker
3 9 (0.99%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.77%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.66%) Firmware
6 5 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.44%) XenApp
7 4 (0.44%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.33%) vSphere
9 2 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
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%) Squid
10 1 (0.11%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (6.02%) Kubernetes
2 47 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (4.05%) Terraform
4 19 (2.08%) SCCM
5 18 (1.97%) Ansible
6 14 (1.53%) Grafana
7 12 (1.31%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.44%) Control-M
9 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.44%) SCVMM
10 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.33%) WSUS
11 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.22%) Kibana
11 2 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.11%) Packer
12 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 224 (24.53%) Microsoft
2 80 (8.76%) Oracle
3 34 (3.72%) Google
4 31 (3.40%) Citrix
4 31 (3.40%) ServiceNow
5 24 (2.63%) Databricks
5 24 (2.63%) SAP
6 22 (2.41%) Cisco
7 18 (1.97%) Salesforce
8 14 (1.53%) Palo Alto
9 12 (1.31%) Adobe
9 12 (1.31%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.31%) Informatica
10 11 (1.20%) Juniper
11 10 (1.10%) Murex
11 10 (1.10%) Software AG
11 10 (1.10%) Splunk
11 10 (1.10%) VMware
12 8 (0.88%) Apple
12 8 (0.88%) CheckPoint