Degree Contracts 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 21 29
Rank change year-on-year -3 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Degree 975 1,403 1,740
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 7.85% 8.03% 6.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 30.30% 33.76% 30.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 625 837 1,149
10th Percentile £342 £300 £325
25th Percentile £425 £400 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £738 £675 £738
90th Percentile £850 £805 £878
England median daily rate £513 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.50% -9.09% +5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 78 38
10th Percentile £11.96 £15.07 £18.39
25th Percentile £20.24 £21.05 £21.24
Median hourly rate £31.35 £33.87 £24.01
Median % change year-on-year -7.44% +41.06% -31.41%
75th Percentile £60.88 £46.56 £46.94
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £66.50
England median hourly rate £53.50 £40.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.75% -11.11% +24.45%

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 3,218 4,156 5,648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.90% 23.78% 21.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,162 2,826 3,840
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £438 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 108 79
10th Percentile £16.78 £14.19 £19.23
25th Percentile £22.27 £19.98 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% -39.76% -6.74%
75th Percentile £56.25 £42.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £72.61 £68.23 £84.50
England median hourly rate £39.66 £40.00 £52.93
% change year-on-year -0.85% -24.42% +27.98%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in London.

Daily rate trend for Degree in London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in London.

Hourly rate trend for Degree in London

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

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 19 May 2025. 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 -1 161 £549 -2.36% 298
West London +1 31 £400 -15.79% 122
East London -2 9 £415 -8.76% 40
South London -3 7 £600 +50.00% 50
North London -2 1 £413 +51.10% 9
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 37 (3.79%) SharePoint
2 35 (3.59%) Confluence
3 32 (3.28%) Apache Spark
4 14 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
5 9 (0.92%) CMS
6 8 (0.82%) GemFire
6 8 (0.82%) Oracle Coherence
7 5 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.51%) Oracle Workflow
8 4 (0.41%) IIS
8 4 (0.41%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.41%) SAS
9 3 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.31%) Drupal
10 2 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.21%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.21%) WordPress
11 1 (0.10%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.10%) Luigi
Applications
1 87 (8.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 57 (5.85%) Microsoft Office
3 51 (5.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 38 (3.90%) Microsoft Project
5 30 (3.08%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.62%) Oracle Smart View
6 6 (0.62%) Trello
7 3 (0.31%) Camtasia
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
8 2 (0.21%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.21%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.21%) Final Cut Pro
8 2 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.21%) Sketch
9 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.10%) Blender
9 1 (0.10%) CINEMA 4D
9 1 (0.10%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.10%) Revit
9 1 (0.10%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (1.95%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (0.92%) FLEXCUBE
2 9 (0.92%) Salesforce CRM
3 8 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.82%) Oracle BPM
4 6 (0.62%) Endur
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle Assets
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle EBS
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle General Ledger
5 5 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
5 5 (0.51%) SAP CO
5 5 (0.51%) SAP FI
6 4 (0.41%) NEC Housing
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 4 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
6 4 (0.41%) SAP MDG
6 4 (0.41%) SAP MDG-S
6 4 (0.41%) Shopify
7 3 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 201 (20.62%) Azure
2 140 (14.36%) AWS
3 92 (9.44%) Power Platform
4 42 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
4 42 (4.31%) GCP
4 42 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (4.00%) SaaS
6 29 (2.97%) GitHub
7 27 (2.77%) Entra ID
8 22 (2.26%) Amazon S3
9 21 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
10 18 (1.85%) OCI
10 18 (1.85%) Serverless
11 16 (1.64%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.64%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.54%) AWS Lambda
12 15 (1.54%) Power Automate
13 14 (1.44%) IaaS
14 13 (1.33%) PaaS
15 12 (1.23%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 49 (5.03%) Firewall
2 40 (4.10%) Network Security
3 32 (3.28%) VPN
4 27 (2.77%) DNS
5 22 (2.26%) TCP/IP
6 14 (1.44%) WAN
6 14 (1.44%) Wireless
7 12 (1.23%) LAN
7 12 (1.23%) MPLS
8 11 (1.13%) BGP
8 11 (1.13%) DHCP
8 11 (1.13%) HTTP
8 11 (1.13%) Internet
8 11 (1.13%) OSPF
9 10 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.92%) IPsec
10 9 (0.92%) LTE
11 6 (0.62%) 4G
11 6 (0.62%) HSRP
11 6 (0.62%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (6.77%) Power BI
2 56 (5.74%) SQL Server
3 38 (3.90%) Relational Database
4 35 (3.59%) Tableau
5 31 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (2.77%) PostgreSQL
7 20 (2.05%) Oracle Database
8 18 (1.85%) Big Data
9 15 (1.54%) Hadoop
9 15 (1.54%) Redis
10 14 (1.44%) NoSQL
11 12 (1.23%) Oracle Reports
12 11 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 9 (0.92%) Data Lake
14 8 (0.82%) Metadata
14 8 (0.82%) Qlik Sense
14 8 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 7 (0.72%) Amazon RDS
15 7 (0.72%) DB2
15 7 (0.72%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 78 (8.00%) JIRA
2 43 (4.41%) Git
3 31 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.23%) GitLab
4 12 (1.23%) Selenium
5 10 (1.03%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.92%) JUnit
7 6 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.51%) Artifactory
8 5 (0.51%) Gradle
8 5 (0.51%) Maven
8 5 (0.51%) MLflow
8 5 (0.51%) Oracle Forms
8 5 (0.51%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.41%) git-flow
9 4 (0.41%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.31%) Appium
10 3 (0.31%) JMeter
10 3 (0.31%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.31%) SpecFlow
General
1 506 (51.90%) Social Skills
2 411 (42.15%) Finance
3 296 (30.36%) Analytical Skills
4 134 (13.74%) Banking
5 69 (7.08%) Marketing
6 56 (5.74%) Presentation Skills
7 53 (5.44%) Front Office
8 52 (5.33%) Public Sector
9 43 (4.41%) Investment Banking
9 43 (4.41%) Legal
10 41 (4.21%) Financial Institution
11 29 (2.97%) Telecoms
12 26 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
13 24 (2.46%) Influencing Skills
14 19 (1.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 19 (1.95%) Retail
15 18 (1.85%) Manufacturing
16 16 (1.64%) Law
16 16 (1.64%) Military
17 14 (1.44%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 154 (15.79%) Developer
2 150 (15.38%) Analyst
3 132 (13.54%) Senior
4 96 (9.85%) Business Analyst
5 70 (7.18%) Architect
6 60 (6.15%) Lead
7 58 (5.95%) Project Manager
8 44 (4.51%) Consultant
9 33 (3.38%) Java Developer
10 32 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
11 30 (3.08%) Senior Developer
12 21 (2.15%) Network Engineer
13 20 (2.05%) Security Engineer
14 19 (1.95%) Business Manager
14 19 (1.95%) Quantitative Developer
15 18 (1.85%) Data Scientist
15 18 (1.85%) Designer
15 18 (1.85%) IT Manager
15 18 (1.85%) Senior Manager
16 17 (1.74%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (4.10%) HTML
2 36 (3.69%) CSS
3 35 (3.59%) REST
4 34 (3.49%) .NET
5 28 (2.87%) Kafka
6 23 (2.36%) AngularJS
6 23 (2.36%) React
7 18 (1.85%) Pandas
7 18 (1.85%) Spring
8 17 (1.74%) Web Services
9 15 (1.54%) ActiveMQ
9 15 (1.54%) PySpark
10 14 (1.44%) ASP.NET
10 14 (1.44%) Oracle Fusion
10 14 (1.44%) SOAP
11 13 (1.33%) OAuth
11 13 (1.33%) TensorFlow
12 12 (1.23%) Middleware
12 12 (1.23%) Node.js
13 11 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (6.77%) Management Information System
2 50 (5.13%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.69%) Derivative
4 25 (2.56%) Data Structures
4 25 (2.56%) Fixed Income
4 25 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 24 (2.46%) Algorithms
5 24 (2.46%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (2.26%) Equities
7 21 (2.15%) Data Protection Act
7 21 (2.15%) Distributed Systems
8 20 (2.05%) Onboarding
9 19 (1.95%) Virtual Team
10 18 (1.85%) Hedge funds
11 17 (1.74%) Data Centre
11 17 (1.74%) PMI
12 16 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
13 15 (1.54%) Market Risk
13 15 (1.54%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 62 (6.36%) Linux
2 61 (6.26%) Windows
3 21 (2.15%) Apple iOS
4 16 (1.64%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.13%) Android
5 11 (1.13%) Unix
6 9 (0.92%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.41%) AIX
7 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.31%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.21%) Solaris
9 2 (0.21%) SUSE
10 1 (0.10%) VMS
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.10%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (41.13%) Computer Science
2 347 (35.59%) Problem-Solving
3 308 (31.59%) Agile
4 176 (18.05%) Project Management
5 134 (13.74%) DevOps
6 133 (13.64%) Analytics
7 126 (12.92%) Stakeholder Management
8 114 (11.69%) Risk Management
9 101 (10.36%) CI/CD
9 101 (10.36%) Decision-Making
10 90 (9.23%) Mathematics
11 89 (9.13%) Data Analysis
12 87 (8.92%) Business Intelligence
13 81 (8.31%) Software Engineering
14 80 (8.21%) Artificial Intelligence
15 78 (8.00%) Roadmaps
16 75 (7.69%) Migration
17 71 (7.28%) Continuous Improvement
18 68 (6.97%) Machine Learning
19 67 (6.87%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 218 (22.36%) Python
2 175 (17.95%) SQL
3 125 (12.82%) Java
4 56 (5.74%) JavaScript
5 49 (5.03%) PowerShell
6 44 (4.51%) C++
7 37 (3.79%) C#
8 27 (2.77%) Bash
9 21 (2.15%) R
10 19 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 15 (1.54%) T-SQL
12 13 (1.33%) TypeScript
13 11 (1.13%) Perl
14 10 (1.03%) C
15 9 (0.92%) Apex Code
16 8 (0.82%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.72%) PHP
17 7 (0.72%) VBA
18 6 (0.62%) Data Analysis Expressions
19 4 (0.41%) Go
Qualifications
1 250 (25.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 130 (13.33%) Master's Degree
3 86 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 77 (7.90%) PMI Certification
5 66 (6.77%) SC Cleared
6 62 (6.36%) PMP
7 47 (4.82%) CISSP
8 44 (4.51%) Numerate Degree
9 32 (3.28%) AWS Certification
9 32 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (3.08%) PhD
11 28 (2.87%) CISM
12 27 (2.77%) Cisco Certification
13 25 (2.56%) Azure Certification
14 22 (2.26%) CISA
15 20 (2.05%) CBAP
16 17 (1.74%) CRISC
17 16 (1.64%) CCNA
17 16 (1.64%) CCNP
18 12 (1.23%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (5.33%) Data Quality
2 51 (5.23%) QA
3 34 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 34 (3.49%) NIST
4 28 (2.87%) GDPR
5 24 (2.46%) PMO
6 23 (2.36%) Accessibility
7 11 (1.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.72%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.72%) MiFID
9 7 (0.72%) PCI DSS
9 7 (0.72%) SLA
10 6 (0.62%) GRC
10 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 6 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 6 (0.62%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 5 (0.51%) PSD2
11 5 (0.51%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (4.10%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.90%) Docker
3 8 (0.82%) GridGain
4 7 (0.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 4 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
8 3 (0.31%) Firmware
9 2 (0.21%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.21%) iptables
9 2 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.10%) Lustre
10 1 (0.10%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.10%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.10%) XenApp
10 1 (0.10%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 52 (5.33%) Kubernetes
2 43 (4.41%) Terraform
3 37 (3.79%) Ansible
4 21 (2.15%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (1.23%) SCCM
6 11 (1.13%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.03%) Grafana
8 8 (0.82%) Puppet
9 6 (0.62%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.41%) WSUS
11 3 (0.31%) Argo
11 3 (0.31%) Control-M
11 3 (0.31%) Istio
11 3 (0.31%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.21%) EnCase
12 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.21%) FTK
12 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.21%) SELinux
Vendors
1 161 (16.51%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.41%) Oracle
3 52 (5.33%) SAP
4 43 (4.41%) Google
5 40 (4.10%) Salesforce
6 36 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.46%) Cisco
8 20 (2.05%) Databricks
9 19 (1.95%) Adobe
10 15 (1.54%) Fortinet
10 15 (1.54%) IBM
11 12 (1.23%) ION Trading
12 11 (1.13%) Workday
13 10 (1.03%) Juniper
13 10 (1.03%) Palo Alto
14 9 (0.92%) F5
14 9 (0.92%) Splunk
15 8 (0.82%) NEC
15 8 (0.82%) VMware
16 7 (0.72%) CheckPoint