Degree Contracts in South London

Academic Degree
London > South London

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

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 27 29
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 7 14 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.89% 5.74% 5.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.29% 10.14% 13.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 23
10th Percentile - £318 £142
25th Percentile - - £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £669 £525 £638
90th Percentile £710 £735 £675
London median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £82.50 -
London median hourly rate £35.92 £33.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year +7.23% +13.56% -15.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 62 138 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 34.44% 56.56% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 92 132
10th Percentile £429 £283 £359
25th Percentile £463 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £613 £575 £649
90th Percentile £731 £630 £725
London median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £70.24 £26.25 -
25th Percentile £72.40 £48.12 -
Median hourly rate £78.40 £82.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.97% - -
75th Percentile £82.00 £83.75 -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -50.00% +12.36%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in South London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in South London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in South London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Croydon +8 4 - - 6
Bromley -5 3 £600 -7.69% 16
Degree
London

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (28.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon S3
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (57.14%) IaaS
1 4 (57.14%) PaaS
1 4 (57.14%) Serverless
1 4 (57.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) BGP
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
1 2 (28.57%) DMZ
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) DWDM
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) Internet
1 2 (28.57%) IPsec
1 2 (28.57%) L2TP
1 2 (28.57%) MPLS
1 2 (28.57%) Multicast
1 2 (28.57%) Network Security
1 2 (28.57%) OSPF
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) VPN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
1 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (28.57%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Git
1 4 (57.14%) GitLab
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) CI/CD
1 4 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) Refactoring
1 4 (57.14%) Task Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) Architecture Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) B2B
3 2 (28.57%) Change Management
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Bash
3 2 (28.57%) Perl
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) AWS Certification
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
2 4 (57.14%) Grafana
2 4 (57.14%) Kubernetes
2 4 (57.14%) Prometheus
2 4 (57.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Arista
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Fortinet
1 2 (28.57%) McAfee
1 2 (28.57%) Splunk
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle