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 29 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 32 25
Rank change year-on-year +10 -7 +17
Contract jobs citing Degree 13 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 7.47% 3.31% 5.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 15.66% 6.59% 12.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 18
10th Percentile - £381 £140
25th Percentile £475 - £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £550
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -27.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £638 £456 £644
90th Percentile £728 £650 £694
London median daily rate £550 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% -1.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £62.50
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £27.33 £36.50 £32.10
% change year-on-year -25.14% +13.72% -14.41%

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 83 91 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 47.70% 50.28% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 67 114
10th Percentile £446 £360 £380
25th Percentile £475 £400 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £538
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% -9.34% -2.23%
75th Percentile £638 £543 £600
90th Percentile £719 £611 £675
London median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 8
10th Percentile - - £33.50
25th Percentile - - £50.00
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.55%
75th Percentile - - £57.53
90th Percentile - - £65.82
London median hourly rate £25.15 £27.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% -50.91% +46.67%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in South London over the 6 months to 29 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 29 July 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
Bromley +1 7 £625 - 13
Croydon +3 3 - - 10
Kingston Upon Thames -1 3 £500 +25.00% 4
Merton - 3 £500 - 7
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
1 2 (15.38%) nginx
2 1 (7.69%) Mattermost
2 1 (7.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (15.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
3 2 (15.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon EC2
1 3 (23.08%) Amazon S3
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon ELB
2 2 (15.38%) AWS KMS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (15.38%) Route 53
3 1 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (30.77%) DNS
1 4 (30.77%) Firewall
2 2 (15.38%) BGP
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (15.38%) DMZ
2 2 (15.38%) DWDM
2 2 (15.38%) IMAP
2 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 2 (15.38%) IPsec
2 2 (15.38%) L2TP
2 2 (15.38%) MPLS
2 2 (15.38%) Multicast
2 2 (15.38%) Network Security
2 2 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
2 2 (15.38%) OSPF
2 2 (15.38%) SSH
2 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 2 (15.38%) WAN
2 2 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (15.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) Git
2 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
2 2 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Vagrant
3 1 (7.69%) GitLab
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Finance
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 4 (30.77%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (15.38%) Financial Institution
4 2 (15.38%) Front Office
4 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps
1 3 (23.08%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) AWS Engineer
1 3 (23.08%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Implementation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Python Developer
3 1 (7.69%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Radio Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Real Time Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Middleware
2 2 (15.38%) 802.1X
2 2 (15.38%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (15.38%) FpML
2 2 (15.38%) LDAP
3 1 (7.69%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (15.38%) Algorithms
2 2 (15.38%) Data Structures
2 2 (15.38%) Derivative
2 2 (15.38%) Fixed Income
2 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (15.38%) Replication
3 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Linux
2 2 (15.38%) Ubuntu
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (38.46%) Project Delivery
2 5 (38.46%) Validation
3 4 (30.77%) Change Management
4 3 (23.08%) B2B
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Cloud Security
4 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
4 3 (23.08%) DevOps
4 3 (23.08%) Project Management
4 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Systems Engineering
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Test Management
4 3 (23.08%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (23.08%) Workload Management
5 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
5 2 (15.38%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) Python
2 5 (38.46%) PowerShell
2 5 (38.46%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) C++
3 2 (15.38%) Groovy
3 2 (15.38%) Java
3 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) Bash
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) SC Cleared
1 6 (46.15%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) AWS Certification
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (23.08%) EMC Certification
2 3 (23.08%) HNC
2 3 (23.08%) HND
3 2 (15.38%) Azure Certification
3 2 (15.38%) CCIE
3 2 (15.38%) CCNP
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Def Stans
1 3 (23.08%) IEC 61508
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 15288
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 2 (15.38%) DFS Replication
2 2 (15.38%) Dovecot
2 2 (15.38%) Postfix
2 2 (15.38%) Squid
3 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Ansible
1 3 (23.08%) Functional Safety
1 3 (23.08%) Grafana
1 3 (23.08%) Prometheus
1 3 (23.08%) Terraform
2 2 (15.38%) Nessus
2 2 (15.38%) Proxmox
3 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Cisco
1 3 (23.08%) EMC
1 3 (23.08%) Splunk
2 2 (15.38%) Arista
2 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
2 2 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
2 2 (15.38%) McAfee
2 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat