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

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 25 21
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 911 942 1,408
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.98% 7.80% 8.07%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.71% 30.12% 34.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 532 604 849
10th Percentile £300 £345 £298
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 £664 £738 £675
90th Percentile £775 £847 £803
England median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% +1.05% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 23 78
10th Percentile £17.11 £11.96 £15.07
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.05
Median hourly rate £30.03 £31.35 £33.87
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% -7.44% +27.79%
75th Percentile £53.06 £60.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £66.48 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £54.75 £40.00
% change year-on-year +0.46% +36.88% -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 5,145 3,128 4,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.12% 25.89% 23.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,682 2,096 2,790
10th Percentile £371 £358 £325
25th Percentile £450 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £534 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.73% -0.60% -6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £664 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 61 111
10th Percentile £20.34 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £27.81 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £55.00 £28.41 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.59% +13.64% -47.37%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.25 £42.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.50 £68.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -26.31%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -24 99 £520 -5.45% 257
West London -18 37 £372 -7.10% 53
South London -4 16 £332 -46.82% 17
East London -4 9 £568 +36.69% 42
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 45 (4.94%) SharePoint
2 36 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 29 (3.18%) Confluence
4 23 (2.52%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.43%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (0.77%) 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 94 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 76 (8.34%) Microsoft Office
3 61 (6.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 41 (4.50%) Microsoft Project
5 29 (3.18%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.44%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.33%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.33%) Trello
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%) InVision
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
9 1 (0.11%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 8 (0.88%) Aladdin
1 8 (0.88%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
3 6 (0.66%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.55%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 5 (0.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.44%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.44%) HFM
5 4 (0.44%) Magento
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 4 (0.44%) Shopify
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.33%) Oracle Financials
6 3 (0.33%) SimCorp Dimension
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle E-Business Tax
7 2 (0.22%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 241 (26.45%) Azure
2 141 (15.48%) AWS
3 86 (9.44%) Microsoft 365
4 62 (6.81%) Power Platform
5 50 (5.49%) GCP
6 47 (5.16%) Entra ID
7 41 (4.50%) SaaS
8 31 (3.40%) GitHub
9 30 (3.29%) Azure DevOps
10 23 (2.52%) Snowflake
11 16 (1.76%) PaaS
12 15 (1.65%) Serverless
13 14 (1.54%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
13 14 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
14 13 (1.43%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.43%) IaaS
15 12 (1.32%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (1.32%) OCI
16 11 (1.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 26 (2.85%) Firewall
2 16 (1.76%) Network Security
3 13 (1.43%) WAN
4 12 (1.32%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.32%) VPN
5 11 (1.21%) LAN
6 9 (0.99%) BGP
7 8 (0.88%) VXLAN
8 7 (0.77%) DMZ
8 7 (0.77%) VoIP
9 6 (0.66%) 3GPP
9 6 (0.66%) DNS
9 6 (0.66%) NetScaler
9 6 (0.66%) OSPF
10 5 (0.55%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.44%) DHCP
11 4 (0.44%) HTTP
11 4 (0.44%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.44%) SSL
11 4 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 48 (5.27%) Power BI
3 27 (2.96%) Data Warehouse
3 27 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (2.63%) Tableau
5 19 (2.09%) NoSQL
6 18 (1.98%) MongoDB
7 17 (1.87%) Relational Database
8 16 (1.76%) Big Data
9 13 (1.43%) Metadata
10 11 (1.21%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.99%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (0.88%) Hadoop
13 7 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.77%) Redis
14 6 (0.66%) Data Lake
14 6 (0.66%) Power Query
15 5 (0.55%) Amazon RDS
15 5 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
15 5 (0.55%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 66 (7.24%) JIRA
2 59 (6.48%) Git
3 20 (2.20%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.65%) Visual Studio
5 13 (1.43%) MLflow
6 11 (1.21%) GitLab
7 9 (0.99%) Selenium
8 7 (0.77%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.77%) Subversion
9 6 (0.66%) Cypress.io
9 6 (0.66%) Gradle
9 6 (0.66%) Maven
10 5 (0.55%) TeamCity
10 5 (0.55%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.44%) ERwin
11 4 (0.44%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.33%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.33%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.33%) Toad
12 3 (0.33%) Vite
General
1 421 (46.21%) Social Skills
2 386 (42.37%) Finance
3 192 (21.08%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (14.71%) Banking
5 56 (6.15%) Marketing
5 56 (6.15%) Presentation Skills
6 51 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
7 49 (5.38%) Public Sector
8 45 (4.94%) Legal
9 40 (4.39%) Front Office
10 36 (3.95%) Investment Banking
11 32 (3.51%) Retail
12 28 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
13 20 (2.20%) Law
13 20 (2.20%) Telecoms
14 19 (2.09%) Financial Institution
15 17 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
15 17 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (1.65%) Manufacturing
17 13 (1.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 131 (14.38%) Senior
2 123 (13.50%) Analyst
3 105 (11.53%) Developer
4 81 (8.89%) Architect
4 81 (8.89%) Lead
5 76 (8.34%) Business Analyst
6 58 (6.37%) Project Manager
7 41 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
8 29 (3.18%) Data Scientist
9 27 (2.96%) Consultant
10 26 (2.85%) Senior Analyst
10 26 (2.85%) Software Engineer
11 24 (2.63%) Data Engineer
12 22 (2.41%) C# Developer
12 22 (2.41%) Senior Manager
13 21 (2.31%) Senior Business Analyst
14 20 (2.20%) Delivery Manager
15 18 (1.98%) Senior Developer
16 17 (1.87%) Data Analyst
16 17 (1.87%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 49 (5.38%) .NET
2 42 (4.61%) REST
3 32 (3.51%) React
4 27 (2.96%) Oracle Fusion
5 26 (2.85%) .NET Framework
6 23 (2.52%) Kafka
6 23 (2.52%) Middleware
6 23 (2.52%) Pandas
7 22 (2.41%) RESTful
8 20 (2.20%) HTML
8 20 (2.20%) PyTorch
9 15 (1.65%) NumPy
9 15 (1.65%) PySpark
9 15 (1.65%) TensorFlow
10 14 (1.54%) AngularJS
10 14 (1.54%) scikit-learn
10 14 (1.54%) Spring
11 13 (1.43%) CSS
12 12 (1.32%) Node.js
13 11 (1.21%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 53 (5.82%) Management Information System
2 52 (5.71%) Onboarding
3 43 (4.72%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.72%) Product Ownership
4 34 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
5 33 (3.62%) Derivative
6 32 (3.51%) Virtual Team
7 31 (3.40%) Distributed Systems
8 30 (3.29%) Algorithms
9 26 (2.85%) Data Centre
10 22 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
10 22 (2.41%) Fixed Income
11 21 (2.31%) Equities
12 19 (2.09%) Analytical Mindset
12 19 (2.09%) PMI
13 18 (1.98%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (1.87%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.87%) Enterprise Software
15 16 (1.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.65%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 103 (11.31%) Windows
2 51 (5.60%) Linux
3 27 (2.96%) Windows Server
4 25 (2.74%) Unix
5 16 (1.76%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.32%) Mac OS
7 10 (1.10%) Android
7 10 (1.10%) Apple iOS
8 6 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.55%) Windows Server 2019
10 4 (0.44%) VMS
11 2 (0.22%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) CentOS
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 327 (35.89%) Computer Science
2 275 (30.19%) Agile
3 237 (26.02%) Problem-Solving
4 182 (19.98%) AI
5 146 (16.03%) Analytics
6 144 (15.81%) DevOps
7 135 (14.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 125 (13.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 124 (13.61%) CI/CD
10 122 (13.39%) Project Management
11 108 (11.86%) Decision-Making
12 104 (11.42%) Risk Management
13 100 (10.98%) Migration
14 94 (10.32%) Roadmaps
15 91 (9.99%) Software Engineering
16 88 (9.66%) Project Delivery
17 82 (9.00%) Change Management
18 79 (8.67%) Scrum
19 78 (8.56%) Mathematics
20 75 (8.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 193 (21.19%) Python
2 176 (19.32%) SQL
3 81 (8.89%) Java
4 62 (6.81%) C#
5 54 (5.93%) PowerShell
6 42 (4.61%) C++
7 36 (3.95%) JavaScript
8 19 (2.09%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.87%) R
10 13 (1.43%) PL/SQL
10 13 (1.43%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.88%) Bash
11 8 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.66%) Bicep
12 6 (0.66%) C
12 6 (0.66%) Scala
12 6 (0.66%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
14 4 (0.44%) Go
14 4 (0.44%) Rust
Qualifications
1 214 (23.49%) Computer Science Degree
2 134 (14.71%) Master's Degree
3 87 (9.55%) Security Cleared
4 67 (7.35%) SC Cleared
5 58 (6.37%) PMI Certification
6 46 (5.05%) CISSP
6 46 (5.05%) PMP
7 40 (4.39%) PhD
8 38 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 36 (3.95%) Azure Certification
10 24 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
10 24 (2.63%) CISM
11 22 (2.41%) CBAP
12 18 (1.98%) CISA
12 18 (1.98%) CRISC
13 17 (1.87%) IIBA
13 17 (1.87%) MBA
14 15 (1.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (1.54%) AWS Certification
16 12 (1.32%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (8.23%) QA
2 52 (5.71%) Data Quality
3 43 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 42 (4.61%) GDPR
4 42 (4.61%) PMO
5 38 (4.17%) NIST
6 25 (2.74%) SLA
7 18 (1.98%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.76%) PCI DSS
9 14 (1.54%) GRC
10 10 (1.10%) COBIT
10 10 (1.10%) IFRS
11 7 (0.77%) Actionable Recommendations
12 6 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.66%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.55%) IFRS 17
13 5 (0.55%) WCAG
14 4 (0.44%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.44%) Solvency II
System Software
1 61 (6.70%) Active Directory
2 53 (5.82%) 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 54 (5.93%) Kubernetes
2 46 (5.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 37 (4.06%) Terraform
4 18 (1.98%) Ansible
4 18 (1.98%) SCCM
5 14 (1.54%) Grafana
6 11 (1.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 11 (1.21%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.44%) Control-M
7 4 (0.44%) HP ALM
7 4 (0.44%) SCVMM
8 3 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.33%) WSUS
9 2 (0.22%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.22%) Kibana
9 2 (0.22%) Packer
9 2 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.11%) vMotion
Vendors
1 224 (24.59%) Microsoft
2 79 (8.67%) Oracle
3 31 (3.40%) Google
4 30 (3.29%) Citrix
4 30 (3.29%) ServiceNow
5 27 (2.96%) Databricks
6 25 (2.74%) SAP
7 22 (2.41%) Cisco
8 17 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.43%) Bloomberg
9 13 (1.43%) Informatica
9 13 (1.43%) Palo Alto
10 11 (1.21%) Adobe
10 11 (1.21%) Juniper
10 11 (1.21%) Splunk
10 11 (1.21%) VMware
11 10 (1.10%) Murex
11 10 (1.10%) Software AG
12 8 (0.88%) Apple
12 8 (0.88%) Charles River