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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 24 20
Rank change year-on-year -19 -4 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 931 959 1,447
As % of all contract jobs in London 4.89% 7.65% 8.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.61% 29.62% 34.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 528 608 865
10th Percentile £263 £339 £300
25th Percentile £408 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% +5.09% -8.98%
75th Percentile £650 £725 £663
90th Percentile £775 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 24 78
10th Percentile £16.40 £11.96 £15.07
25th Percentile £19.03 £20.24 £21.05
Median hourly rate £33.53 £34.48 £33.87
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +1.82% +25.43%
75th Percentile £57.81 £63.06 £46.56
90th Percentile £73.75 £68.38 £75.00
England median hourly rate £51.44 £50.00 £40.33
% change year-on-year +2.88% +23.99% -12.81%

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 5,288 3,238 4,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.77% 25.84% 23.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,809 2,175 2,841
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.50%
75th Percentile £638 £659 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £767
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.23% -2.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 69 113
10th Percentile £19.15 £18.65 £14.49
25th Percentile £27.13 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £54.00 £27.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.36% +10.00% -52.38%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £67.75 £68.60
England median hourly rate £52.50 £30.13 £41.50
% change year-on-year +74.27% -27.41% -24.55%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -38 92 £502 -11.24% 136
West London -9 45 £325 -19.65% 46
South London -1 14 £215 -65.64% 10
East London -1 10 £568 +17.60% 30
North London +2 2 £550 +33.33% 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 51 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 39 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 31 (3.33%) Confluence
4 18 (1.93%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (1.07%) IIS
7 6 (0.64%) Apache
7 6 (0.64%) Oracle Workflow
8 5 (0.54%) Camunda
9 4 (0.43%) Appian
9 4 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 3 (0.32%) CMS
10 3 (0.32%) Moodle
11 2 (0.21%) ArcGIS
11 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.21%) Ethereum
11 2 (0.21%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.21%) WebSphere
12 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
12 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 88 (9.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 77 (8.27%) Microsoft Office
3 57 (6.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 40 (4.30%) Microsoft Project
5 27 (2.90%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.54%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 5 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
6 5 (0.54%) UserZoom
7 3 (0.32%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.21%) CPLEX
8 2 (0.21%) Trello
9 1 (0.11%) Navisworks
9 1 (0.11%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (0.86%) Veritas eDiscovery
2 7 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 5 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.43%) HFM
4 4 (0.43%) Magento
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 4 (0.43%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 3 (0.32%) Fidessa
5 3 (0.32%) IntelliMatch
5 3 (0.32%) OpenText MBPM
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle BPM
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
6 2 (0.21%) Actimize
6 2 (0.21%) Loan IQ
6 2 (0.21%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 242 (25.99%) Azure
2 151 (16.22%) AWS
3 87 (9.34%) Microsoft 365
4 66 (7.09%) Power Platform
5 62 (6.66%) GCP
6 55 (5.91%) Entra ID
7 38 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
8 37 (3.97%) SaaS
9 33 (3.54%) GitHub
10 25 (2.69%) Snowflake
11 19 (2.04%) Serverless
12 17 (1.83%) PaaS
13 14 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
13 14 (1.50%) AWS Lambda
13 14 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.40%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.40%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.40%) IaaS
14 13 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
15 12 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 35 (3.76%) Firewall
2 22 (2.36%) Network Security
3 17 (1.83%) TCP/IP
3 17 (1.83%) VPN
4 12 (1.29%) WAN
5 11 (1.18%) DNS
6 9 (0.97%) 3GPP
6 9 (0.97%) LAN
6 9 (0.97%) VoIP
7 8 (0.86%) BGP
7 8 (0.86%) DHCP
8 7 (0.75%) DMZ
8 7 (0.75%) VXLAN
9 6 (0.64%) HTTPS
9 6 (0.64%) Internet
9 6 (0.64%) NetScaler
9 6 (0.64%) Unified Communications
9 6 (0.64%) Wireless
10 5 (0.54%) OSPF
10 5 (0.54%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (6.02%) Power BI
2 54 (5.80%) SQL Server
3 29 (3.11%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (2.90%) Tableau
5 21 (2.26%) MongoDB
6 20 (2.15%) Relational Database
7 19 (2.04%) NoSQL
8 16 (1.72%) Big Data
8 16 (1.72%) Metadata
9 12 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 10 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.07%) Oracle Database
10 10 (1.07%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (0.97%) Data Lake
12 8 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
12 8 (0.86%) Hadoop
12 8 (0.86%) Redis
13 6 (0.64%) Neo4j
13 6 (0.64%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 68 (7.30%) JIRA
2 62 (6.66%) Git
3 21 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.50%) GitLab
5 13 (1.40%) MLflow
5 13 (1.40%) Visual Studio
6 9 (0.97%) Selenium
7 7 (0.75%) Subversion
8 6 (0.64%) Maven
9 5 (0.54%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.54%) Gradle
9 5 (0.54%) SonarQube
9 5 (0.54%) Zephyr
10 4 (0.43%) ERwin
10 4 (0.43%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.43%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.43%) Vite
11 3 (0.32%) Bitbucket
11 3 (0.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (0.32%) Toad
General
1 428 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 388 (41.68%) Finance
3 200 (21.48%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (14.07%) Banking
5 63 (6.77%) Marketing
6 60 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
7 58 (6.23%) Organisational Skills
8 56 (6.02%) Legal
9 51 (5.48%) Public Sector
10 39 (4.19%) Front Office
10 39 (4.19%) Retail
11 30 (3.22%) Investment Banking
12 24 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
12 24 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
13 23 (2.47%) Telecoms
14 22 (2.36%) Financial Institution
14 22 (2.36%) Law
15 19 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 16 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
17 13 (1.40%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 133 (14.29%) Analyst
2 128 (13.75%) Senior
3 105 (11.28%) Developer
4 82 (8.81%) Architect
4 82 (8.81%) Lead
5 80 (8.59%) Business Analyst
6 62 (6.66%) Project Manager
7 45 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (3.01%) Data Scientist
9 27 (2.90%) Consultant
9 27 (2.90%) Senior Analyst
9 27 (2.90%) Senior Manager
10 24 (2.58%) C# Developer
10 24 (2.58%) Software Engineer
11 23 (2.47%) Data Engineer
12 22 (2.36%) Senior Business Analyst
13 18 (1.93%) Data Analyst
13 18 (1.93%) Support Engineer
14 17 (1.83%) Security Engineer
14 17 (1.83%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (5.48%) .NET
2 45 (4.83%) REST
3 34 (3.65%) React
4 29 (3.11%) .NET Framework
5 23 (2.47%) Kafka
6 20 (2.15%) Oracle Fusion
6 20 (2.15%) RESTful
7 19 (2.04%) HTML
7 19 (2.04%) Pandas
8 18 (1.93%) Middleware
8 18 (1.93%) PySpark
9 14 (1.50%) AngularJS
9 14 (1.50%) Spring
10 12 (1.29%) PyTorch
10 12 (1.29%) Web Services
11 11 (1.18%) Node.js
11 11 (1.18%) NumPy
11 11 (1.18%) scikit-learn
11 11 (1.18%) Spring Boot
11 11 (1.18%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (6.12%) Onboarding
2 53 (5.69%) Management Information System
3 43 (4.62%) Cloud Native
3 43 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
4 40 (4.30%) Product Ownership
5 30 (3.22%) Algorithms
5 30 (3.22%) Data Centre
6 29 (3.11%) Derivative
6 29 (3.11%) Virtual Team
7 28 (3.01%) Distributed Systems
8 24 (2.58%) Fixed Income
9 23 (2.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 21 (2.26%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.83%) Equities
11 17 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
11 17 (1.83%) PMI
12 16 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.61%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.61%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 118 (12.67%) Windows
2 52 (5.59%) Linux
3 28 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 24 (2.58%) Unix
5 22 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 15 (1.61%) Mac OS
7 9 (0.97%) Android
7 9 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.54%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.21%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2003
12 1 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 323 (34.69%) Computer Science
2 272 (29.22%) Agile
3 246 (26.42%) Problem-Solving
4 194 (20.84%) AI
5 158 (16.97%) Analytics
6 149 (16.00%) DevOps
7 146 (15.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 129 (13.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 126 (13.53%) CI/CD
10 115 (12.35%) Project Management
11 109 (11.71%) Decision-Making
12 104 (11.17%) Migration
13 93 (9.99%) Risk Management
14 91 (9.77%) Roadmaps
14 91 (9.77%) Software Engineering
15 89 (9.56%) Project Delivery
16 86 (9.24%) Change Management
17 81 (8.70%) Scrum
18 80 (8.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 77 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 195 (20.95%) Python
2 181 (19.44%) SQL
3 81 (8.70%) Java
4 63 (6.77%) C#
5 56 (6.02%) PowerShell
6 39 (4.19%) JavaScript
7 27 (2.90%) C++
8 19 (2.04%) TypeScript
9 17 (1.83%) R
10 16 (1.72%) PL/SQL
11 13 (1.40%) T-SQL
12 10 (1.07%) Bash
13 8 (0.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 7 (0.75%) C
14 7 (0.75%) Scala
15 6 (0.64%) Bicep
15 6 (0.64%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.54%) VBA
17 3 (0.32%) Go
Qualifications
1 215 (23.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 128 (13.75%) Master's Degree
3 81 (8.70%) Security Cleared
4 62 (6.66%) SC Cleared
5 59 (6.34%) PMI Certification
6 52 (5.59%) CISSP
7 47 (5.05%) PMP
8 36 (3.87%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (3.65%) PhD
10 31 (3.33%) Azure Certification
11 25 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (2.69%) CISM
12 23 (2.47%) CISA
13 20 (2.15%) CBAP
14 19 (2.04%) CRISC
14 19 (2.04%) MBA
15 17 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
16 15 (1.61%) AWS Certification
16 15 (1.61%) IIBA
17 13 (1.40%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (7.63%) QA
2 57 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 44 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 43 (4.62%) GDPR
5 42 (4.51%) PMO
6 40 (4.30%) NIST
7 23 (2.47%) SLA
8 19 (2.04%) Accessibility
8 19 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 18 (1.93%) PCI DSS
10 16 (1.72%) GRC
11 10 (1.07%) IFRS
12 9 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
12 9 (0.97%) COBIT
13 7 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
14 6 (0.64%) HIPAA
14 6 (0.64%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.54%) IFRS 17
16 4 (0.43%) ITGC
16 4 (0.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 73 (7.84%) Active Directory
2 58 (6.23%) Docker
3 13 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.07%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.64%) Firmware
6 5 (0.54%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.54%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (0.43%) Microsoft App-V
7 4 (0.43%) Terminal Services
7 4 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.43%) XenApp
7 4 (0.43%) XenDesktop
8 3 (0.32%) vSphere
9 1 (0.11%) HDFS
9 1 (0.11%) IAG
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.11%) Squid
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 49 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (4.51%) Terraform
4 26 (2.79%) Ansible
5 18 (1.93%) SCCM
6 15 (1.61%) Grafana
7 14 (1.50%) Prometheus
8 11 (1.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.43%) Control-M
9 4 (0.43%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.43%) SCVMM
9 4 (0.43%) vCenter Server
9 4 (0.43%) vMotion
10 3 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.32%) Nagios
10 3 (0.32%) Packer
10 3 (0.32%) Puppet
10 3 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.32%) WSUS
11 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 222 (23.85%) Microsoft
2 75 (8.06%) Oracle
3 43 (4.62%) Google
4 37 (3.97%) ServiceNow
5 36 (3.87%) Citrix
6 23 (2.47%) SAP
7 22 (2.36%) Cisco
8 20 (2.15%) Databricks
9 18 (1.93%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.61%) Palo Alto
11 14 (1.50%) Adobe
11 14 (1.50%) Bloomberg
11 14 (1.50%) VMware
12 13 (1.40%) Informatica
13 12 (1.29%) Apple
13 12 (1.29%) Murex
14 11 (1.18%) Splunk
15 10 (1.07%) HP
15 10 (1.07%) Juniper
16 8 (0.86%) OpenAI