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 17 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 23 23
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Degree 1,003 1,114 1,400
As % of all contract jobs in London 6.95% 7.94% 7.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.63% 30.65% 31.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 668 865
10th Percentile £322 £332 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -8.47%
75th Percentile £675 £711 £674
90th Percentile £825 £875 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 31 45
10th Percentile £17.97 £20.00 £15.71
25th Percentile £25.47 £31.94 £19.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £41.91 £28.75
Median % change year-on-year -10.52% +45.77% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £82.38 £63.75 £72.45
England median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year -11.76% -7.97% +6.16%

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 4,245 3,635 4,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.40% 25.92% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,967 2,264 2,966
10th Percentile £363 £351 £336
25th Percentile £432 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £775 £771
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 59 101
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.45 £18.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% -6.25% -0.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £58.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £50.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% -7.64% +11.11%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -4 144 £525 - 239
South London +4 29 £563 -13.46% 51
West London -5 29 £208 -44.67% 43
East London -9 3 £748 +34.99% 30
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 59 (5.88%) Confluence
2 44 (4.39%) SharePoint
3 29 (2.89%) Apache Spark
4 27 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 12 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
6 11 (1.10%) nginx
7 9 (0.90%) IIS
8 7 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 5 (0.50%) Ethereum
10 4 (0.40%) CMS
10 4 (0.40%) Luigi
11 3 (0.30%) Apache
11 3 (0.30%) Hyperledger
11 3 (0.30%) SAS
11 3 (0.30%) WebSphere
12 2 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 1 (0.100%) Drupal
13 1 (0.100%) MQSeries
13 1 (0.100%) NetWeaver
13 1 (0.100%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 115 (11.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 85 (8.47%) Microsoft Office
3 67 (6.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 47 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
5 39 (3.89%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 6 (0.60%) Trello
8 5 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe After Effects
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
9 2 (0.20%) Chatbot
9 2 (0.20%) InVision
9 2 (0.20%) Sketch
10 1 (0.100%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.100%) Navisworks
10 1 (0.100%) Oracle Smart View
10 1 (0.100%) ProjectWise
10 1 (0.100%) Revit
Business Applications
1 15 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 13 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
3 11 (1.10%) Oracle General Ledger
4 9 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
5 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 8 (0.80%) Oracle EBS R12
6 7 (0.70%) Oracle Assets
6 7 (0.70%) Oracle Financials
6 7 (0.70%) Veritas eDiscovery
7 6 (0.60%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 6 (0.60%) Remedy ITSM
7 6 (0.60%) SAP EWM
7 6 (0.60%) SAP WM
8 4 (0.40%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 4 (0.40%) Workday HCM
9 3 (0.30%) Bloomberg TOMS
9 3 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 3 (0.30%) Salesforce CRM
9 3 (0.30%) SAP IBP
9 3 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 254 (25.32%) Azure
2 121 (12.06%) AWS
3 104 (10.37%) Microsoft 365
4 73 (7.28%) Power Platform
5 67 (6.68%) SaaS
6 63 (6.28%) GCP
7 50 (4.99%) GitHub
8 47 (4.69%) Entra ID
9 40 (3.99%) Azure DevOps
10 25 (2.49%) Dynamics 365
11 23 (2.29%) Amazon ECS
12 21 (2.09%) IaaS
12 21 (2.09%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.99%) Serverless
14 19 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 19 (1.89%) PaaS
15 18 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
16 17 (1.69%) Microsoft Purview
17 16 (1.60%) PowerApps
18 15 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 42 (4.19%) Firewall
2 26 (2.59%) DNS
3 23 (2.29%) HTTP
4 19 (1.89%) VPN
5 18 (1.79%) LAN
6 17 (1.69%) Network Security
7 15 (1.50%) WAN
8 13 (1.30%) DHCP
9 12 (1.20%) SSH
10 11 (1.10%) SMTP
10 11 (1.10%) TCP/IP
11 9 (0.90%) FTP
11 9 (0.90%) IMAP
11 9 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
12 7 (0.70%) NetScaler
13 6 (0.60%) SSL
13 6 (0.60%) VoIP
14 5 (0.50%) CTI
15 4 (0.40%) IPv4
15 4 (0.40%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (5.58%) Power BI
2 49 (4.89%) SQL Server
3 35 (3.49%) Tableau
4 26 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.69%) Big Data
6 17 (1.69%) Relational Database
7 15 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
8 13 (1.30%) MySQL
9 11 (1.10%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.00%) MongoDB
11 9 (0.90%) Amazon Aurora
11 9 (0.90%) BigQuery
11 9 (0.90%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.60%) Metadata
13 6 (0.60%) Oracle Database
14 5 (0.50%) Amazon Redshift
14 5 (0.50%) Hadoop
14 5 (0.50%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 102 (10.17%) JIRA
2 56 (5.58%) Git
3 26 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.79%) Visual Studio
5 10 (1.00%) Vagrant
6 9 (0.90%) Postman
6 9 (0.90%) Selenium
7 7 (0.70%) GitLab
8 6 (0.60%) Bitbucket
8 6 (0.60%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.60%) Cypress.io
8 6 (0.60%) JUnit
8 6 (0.60%) SpecFlow
9 5 (0.50%) Appium
9 5 (0.50%) Charles Proxy
9 5 (0.50%) Katalon Studio
9 5 (0.50%) TeamCity
9 5 (0.50%) XCUITest
10 4 (0.40%) MLflow
10 4 (0.40%) SonarQube
General
1 485 (48.35%) Social Skills
2 439 (43.77%) Finance
3 229 (22.83%) Analytical Skills
4 164 (16.35%) Banking
5 69 (6.88%) Public Sector
6 66 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
7 50 (4.99%) Front Office
7 50 (4.99%) Marketing
8 45 (4.49%) Investment Banking
9 36 (3.59%) Legal
10 30 (2.99%) Financial Institution
10 30 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 30 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
11 28 (2.79%) Manufacturing
12 27 (2.69%) Telecoms
13 26 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
14 21 (2.09%) Back Office
15 20 (1.99%) Documentation Skills
15 20 (1.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 139 (13.86%) Analyst
2 129 (12.86%) Senior
3 126 (12.56%) Developer
4 93 (9.27%) Business Analyst
5 71 (7.08%) Lead
6 68 (6.78%) Project Manager
7 63 (6.28%) Architect
8 51 (5.08%) Consultant
9 37 (3.69%) Software Engineer
10 25 (2.49%) Senior Developer
11 24 (2.39%) Senior Software Engineer
12 23 (2.29%) Solutions Architect
13 22 (2.19%) Data Scientist
14 21 (2.09%) C# Developer
14 21 (2.09%) Senior Analyst
15 20 (1.99%) C++ Software Engineer
15 20 (1.99%) Senior Business Analyst
15 20 (1.99%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
16 19 (1.89%) IT Manager
17 18 (1.79%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (5.68%) .NET
2 34 (3.39%) REST
3 30 (2.99%) HTML
4 25 (2.49%) RESTful
5 24 (2.39%) XML
6 23 (2.29%) Middleware
7 22 (2.19%) CSS
8 21 (2.09%) React
9 20 (1.99%) Oracle Fusion
10 19 (1.89%) JSON
10 19 (1.89%) OAuth
11 18 (1.79%) Kafka
11 18 (1.79%) LangChain
11 18 (1.79%) PyTorch
12 17 (1.69%) .NET Framework
12 17 (1.69%) AngularJS
13 16 (1.60%) TensorFlow
14 15 (1.50%) Pandas
14 15 (1.50%) Playwright
15 14 (1.40%) LangGraph
Miscellaneous
1 68 (6.78%) Management Information System
2 49 (4.89%) Product Ownership
3 46 (4.59%) Cloud Native
4 43 (4.29%) Derivative
5 42 (4.19%) Onboarding
6 36 (3.59%) Algorithms
7 31 (3.09%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (2.99%) Data Centre
9 29 (2.89%) Equities
10 27 (2.69%) PMI
11 26 (2.59%) Life Science
12 23 (2.29%) Enterprise Software
13 22 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
13 22 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 22 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
14 21 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
14 21 (2.09%) Fixed Income
15 20 (1.99%) Replication
15 20 (1.99%) Virtual Team
16 18 (1.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 104 (10.37%) Windows
2 76 (7.58%) Linux
3 43 (4.29%) Unix
4 32 (3.19%) Windows Server
5 20 (1.99%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.50%) Android
7 14 (1.40%) Windows Server 2016
8 12 (1.20%) Apple iOS
8 12 (1.20%) Ubuntu
8 12 (1.20%) VMS
9 11 (1.10%) Windows Server 2019
10 9 (0.90%) Amazon Linux
10 9 (0.90%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (39.28%) Computer Science
2 353 (35.19%) Agile
3 305 (30.41%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (16.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 152 (15.15%) AI
5 152 (15.15%) DevOps
6 145 (14.46%) Risk Management
7 144 (14.36%) Project Management
8 129 (12.86%) Analytics
9 123 (12.26%) CI/CD
10 120 (11.96%) Change Management
11 115 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 110 (10.97%) Decision-Making
13 102 (10.17%) Migration
14 100 (9.97%) Roadmaps
14 100 (9.97%) Software Engineering
15 97 (9.67%) Machine Learning
16 96 (9.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 96 (9.57%) Scrum
17 93 (9.27%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 216 (21.54%) Python
2 186 (18.54%) SQL
3 78 (7.78%) Java
4 76 (7.58%) PowerShell
5 64 (6.38%) C++
6 62 (6.18%) JavaScript
7 60 (5.98%) C#
8 33 (3.29%) TypeScript
9 18 (1.79%) R
10 15 (1.50%) Bash
10 15 (1.50%) PL/SQL
10 15 (1.50%) T-SQL
11 11 (1.10%) Groovy
11 11 (1.10%) Kotlin
11 11 (1.10%) Kusto Query Language
12 8 (0.80%) Bicep
12 8 (0.80%) Perl
13 7 (0.70%) Ruby
14 6 (0.60%) Rust
14 6 (0.60%) VBA
Qualifications
1 263 (26.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 174 (17.35%) Master's Degree
3 104 (10.37%) Security Cleared
4 85 (8.47%) PMI Certification
5 74 (7.38%) SC Cleared
6 69 (6.88%) PMP
7 48 (4.79%) Microsoft Certification
8 42 (4.19%) CISSP
9 41 (4.09%) Azure Certification
10 39 (3.89%) PhD
11 28 (2.79%) CBAP
12 26 (2.59%) CISM
13 22 (2.19%) AWS Certification
14 20 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
15 19 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
16 16 (1.60%) MBA
17 15 (1.50%) MCSE
18 14 (1.40%) IIBA
19 13 (1.30%) MCP
20 12 (1.20%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (7.78%) QA
2 55 (5.48%) GDPR
3 34 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 28 (2.79%) Data Quality
5 25 (2.49%) NIST
6 24 (2.39%) PMO
7 21 (2.09%) Accessibility
8 19 (1.89%) SLA
9 16 (1.60%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.30%) GRC
10 13 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.90%) IFRS
13 7 (0.70%) IFRS 17
13 7 (0.70%) IFRS 9
13 7 (0.70%) WCAG
14 6 (0.60%) Basel III
15 5 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
15 5 (0.50%) COBIT
16 4 (0.40%) ECSS
System Software
1 76 (7.58%) Docker
2 67 (6.68%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.90%) DFS Replication
3 9 (0.90%) Dovecot
3 9 (0.90%) Postfix
3 9 (0.90%) Squid
4 7 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
4 7 (0.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.50%) XenApp
6 4 (0.40%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.40%) XenDesktop
7 1 (0.100%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.100%) HDFS
7 1 (0.100%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 55 (5.48%) Terraform
2 49 (4.89%) Kubernetes
3 36 (3.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 20 (1.99%) SCCM
5 19 (1.89%) Grafana
6 12 (1.20%) Prometheus
7 11 (1.10%) Ansible
8 9 (0.90%) Nessus
8 9 (0.90%) Proxmox
9 8 (0.80%) SCOM
10 7 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 6 (0.60%) CSIRT
12 4 (0.40%) Puppet
12 4 (0.40%) QRadar
12 4 (0.40%) SCVMM
13 3 (0.30%) Argo
13 3 (0.30%) Progress Chef
13 3 (0.30%) Single Sign-On
14 2 (0.20%) Control-M
14 2 (0.20%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 216 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 79 (7.88%) Oracle
3 46 (4.59%) Google
4 43 (4.29%) SAP
5 40 (3.99%) ServiceNow
6 28 (2.79%) Salesforce
7 26 (2.59%) Databricks
8 20 (1.99%) Citrix
9 19 (1.89%) Splunk
10 18 (1.79%) Cisco
11 12 (1.20%) Informatica
11 12 (1.20%) Workday
12 10 (1.00%) Adobe
12 10 (1.00%) IBM
12 10 (1.00%) VMware
13 9 (0.90%) Bloomberg
13 9 (0.90%) Fortinet
13 9 (0.90%) Jaspersoft
13 9 (0.90%) Palo Alto
13 9 (0.90%) Remedy