Postgraduate Contracts in London

Postgraduate
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Postgraduate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 384 453
Rank change year-on-year +23 +69 +140
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Postgraduate 3 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.068% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.085% 0.28% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 3
10th Percentile - £366 £313
25th Percentile £931 £413 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £963 £460 £375
Median % change year-on-year +109.24% +22.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £994 £494 £494
90th Percentile - - £558
England median daily rate £688 £488 £488
% change year-on-year +41.03% - +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £27.50 £26.00 £30.05
% change year-on-year +5.77% -13.48% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Postgraduate 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,525 3,987 5,148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.36% 24.51% 22.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,378 2,699 3,555
10th Percentile £338 £350 £363
25th Percentile £431 £439 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £526 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% -2.27% -1.79%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £675
90th Percentile £748 £769 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 67 78
10th Percentile £18.83 £18.03 £19.11
25th Percentile £25.09 £22.00 £32.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £31.62 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.46% -42.51% +25.20%
75th Percentile £46.25 £46.25 £72.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £64.70 £84.35
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.21% -11.71% +22.22%

Postgraduate
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Postgraduate in London

Postgraduate
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Postgraduate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Postgraduate

Postgraduate
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Postgraduate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Postgraduate

Postgraduate
DemandTrendContract 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 Postgraduate within the London region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London - 2 £963 - 9
Postgraduate
England

Postgraduate
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) DHCP
1 1 (33.33%) DNS
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) VLAN
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) VSAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) KDB
1 1 (33.33%) Kdb+
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Artifactory
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) QUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Financial Institution
2 1 (33.33%) French Language
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Azure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) KDB Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Python Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Fixed Income
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Algorithmic Trading
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Physics
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Statistical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Fortran
1 1 (33.33%) MATLAB
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) R
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) CCDP
2 1 (33.33%) CCNP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) NetApp
1 1 (33.33%) VMware