Degree Contracts in the City of London

Academic Degree
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 23 31
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 -14
Contract jobs citing Degree 175 272 268
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 8.02% 7.94% 6.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 38.29% 38.80% 33.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 147 169
10th Percentile £313 £325 £411
25th Percentile £419 £475 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £638 £744 £638
90th Percentile £778 £960 £738
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 20
10th Percentile - £26.70 £18.50
25th Percentile - £41.84 £28.44
Median hourly rate £27.00 £52.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.08% +16.85% +61.82%
75th Percentile - £61.25 £52.25
90th Percentile - £74.75 £62.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.75 £52.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -33.17% +16.85% +111.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 457 701 799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.94% 20.46% 19.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 406 510
10th Percentile £382 £401 £375
25th Percentile £455 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £580 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.33% +5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £657 £700 £650
90th Percentile £775 £820 £738
Central London median daily rate £531 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -7.61% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 22
10th Percentile - £17.31 £18.78
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.56 £31.75
Median hourly rate £20.91 £36.10 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.09% -18.87% +61.82%
75th Percentile £22.88 £53.50 £53.25
90th Percentile £25.35 £68.75 £61.45
Central London median hourly rate £21.00 £36.10 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.83% -18.87% +122.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 14 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 16 (9.14%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.71%) Confluence
4 2 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.57%) Apache
5 1 (0.57%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 14 (8.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.86%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (6.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
4 10 (5.71%) MS Visio
5 4 (2.29%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (1.14%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.57%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.57%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Dynamics GP
2 8 (4.57%) Dynamics AX
3 3 (1.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 2 (1.14%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.57%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.57%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.57%) SAP WM
5 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 52 (29.71%) Azure
2 23 (13.14%) Power Platform
3 19 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (9.71%) AWS
4 17 (9.71%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (7.43%) Dynamics 365
5 13 (7.43%) PowerApps
6 11 (6.29%) GCP
7 8 (4.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 8 (4.57%) Power Automate
8 6 (3.43%) OneDrive
9 5 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (2.29%) GitHub
10 4 (2.29%) WhatsApp
11 3 (1.71%) IaaS
11 3 (1.71%) PaaS
11 3 (1.71%) SaaS
12 2 (1.14%) Google Analytics
12 2 (1.14%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (1.14%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.43%) Firewall
2 7 (4.00%) Network Security
3 6 (3.43%) LAN
4 5 (2.86%) WAN
5 4 (2.29%) CTI
5 4 (2.29%) SD-WAN
5 4 (2.29%) VoIP
6 3 (1.71%) H.323
7 2 (1.14%) DNS
7 2 (1.14%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (1.14%) TCP/IP
7 2 (1.14%) VPN
8 1 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
8 1 (0.57%) DHCP
8 1 (0.57%) Remote Desktop
8 1 (0.57%) Skype
8 1 (0.57%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (0.57%) SSL
8 1 (0.57%) VLAN
8 1 (0.57%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (9.71%) Power BI
2 16 (9.14%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.29%) Data Lake
4 9 (5.14%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (2.29%) MongoDB
5 4 (2.29%) MySQL
5 4 (2.29%) Oracle Database
6 3 (1.71%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.71%) Tableau
7 2 (1.14%) Big Data
7 2 (1.14%) Data Mining
7 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (1.14%) Redis
7 2 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.14%) SAP HANA
7 2 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.57%) DB2
8 1 (0.57%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.57%) MariaDB
8 1 (0.57%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (5.14%) Git
2 8 (4.57%) JIRA
3 6 (3.43%) GitLab
4 4 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.71%) Visual Studio
6 2 (1.14%) ERwin
6 2 (1.14%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.57%) Android Studio
7 1 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.57%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.57%) CMake
7 1 (0.57%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.57%) Moq
7 1 (0.57%) MSTest
7 1 (0.57%) Selenium
7 1 (0.57%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.57%) Subversion
7 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.57%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 86 (49.14%) Social Skills
2 74 (42.29%) Finance
3 41 (23.43%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (16.00%) Banking
5 16 (9.14%) Public Sector
6 15 (8.57%) Legal
7 14 (8.00%) Retail
8 9 (5.14%) General Ledger
9 8 (4.57%) Front Office
10 6 (3.43%) Investment Banking
11 5 (2.86%) Marketing
11 5 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (2.29%) Manufacturing
12 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 3 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (1.14%) Advertising
14 2 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (1.14%) French Language
14 2 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 28 (16.00%) Analyst
2 24 (13.71%) Developer
3 21 (12.00%) Consultant
4 19 (10.86%) Architect
5 17 (9.71%) Microsoft Consultant
6 10 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 10 (5.71%) Project Manager
7 9 (5.14%) Great Plains Consultant
8 8 (4.57%) Data Analyst
9 6 (3.43%) Lead
10 5 (2.86%) C# Developer
10 5 (2.86%) IT Engineer
10 5 (2.86%) Microsoft 365 Architect
10 5 (2.86%) Senior
10 5 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
11 4 (2.29%) .NET Developer
11 4 (2.29%) IT Manager
11 4 (2.29%) Java Developer
11 4 (2.29%) Software Engineer
11 4 (2.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.71%) React
2 8 (4.57%) .NET
2 8 (4.57%) CSS
3 6 (3.43%) HTML
3 6 (3.43%) XML
4 4 (2.29%) AngularJS
4 4 (2.29%) ASP.NET
4 4 (2.29%) jQuery
4 4 (2.29%) JSON
4 4 (2.29%) REST
4 4 (2.29%) Web Services
5 3 (1.71%) .NET Framework
5 3 (1.71%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (1.71%) HTML5 Canvas
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Graph
5 3 (1.71%) Middleware
6 2 (1.14%) FpML
6 2 (1.14%) Pandas
6 2 (1.14%) PySpark
6 2 (1.14%) Svelte
Miscellaneous
1 17 (9.71%) Management Information System
2 12 (6.86%) Data Structures
3 9 (5.14%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.57%) Product Ownership
4 8 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 7 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 5 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.29%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (2.29%) Fixed Income
7 4 (2.29%) IVR
7 4 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.71%) Blackberry
8 3 (1.71%) Derivative
9 2 (1.14%) Equities
9 2 (1.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (1.14%) Hedge funds
9 2 (1.14%) Market Risk
9 2 (1.14%) PKI
9 2 (1.14%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.86%) Windows
2 12 (6.86%) Linux
3 4 (2.29%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.14%) Android
4 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.14%) Oracle Linux
4 2 (1.14%) Solaris
4 2 (1.14%) Unix
4 2 (1.14%) VMS
4 2 (1.14%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (48.57%) Computer Science
2 49 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
3 46 (26.29%) Agile
4 30 (17.14%) DevOps
4 30 (17.14%) Project Management
5 20 (11.43%) Business Intelligence
5 20 (11.43%) ITIL
6 19 (10.86%) Migration
7 18 (10.29%) PRINCE2
8 16 (9.14%) CI/CD
9 15 (8.57%) Analytics
9 15 (8.57%) Software Engineering
10 14 (8.00%) Data Analysis
10 14 (8.00%) Requirements Gathering
10 14 (8.00%) Use Case
11 13 (7.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (7.43%) User Acceptance Testing
12 12 (6.86%) Change Management
12 12 (6.86%) Test Scripting
13 11 (6.29%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 42 (24.00%) SQL
2 24 (13.71%) Python
3 15 (8.57%) Java
3 15 (8.57%) PowerShell
4 11 (6.29%) C#
5 10 (5.71%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.86%) C++
6 5 (2.86%) Kotlin
7 4 (2.29%) PL/SQL
7 4 (2.29%) T-SQL
8 3 (1.71%) Scala
8 3 (1.71%) Shell Script
9 2 (1.14%) Bash
9 2 (1.14%) C
9 2 (1.14%) Go
9 2 (1.14%) Perl
9 2 (1.14%) Rust
9 2 (1.14%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 1 (0.57%) VBA
Qualifications
1 62 (35.43%) Computer Science Degree
2 20 (11.43%) Master's Degree
3 12 (6.86%) ITIL Certification
4 9 (5.14%) Security Cleared
5 7 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 7 (4.00%) PMP
6 6 (3.43%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.86%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (2.29%) CCNA
8 4 (2.29%) GCIA
8 4 (2.29%) GCIH
8 4 (2.29%) GIAC
9 3 (1.71%) PhD
10 2 (1.14%) ACCA
10 2 (1.14%) CIMA
10 2 (1.14%) CISSP
10 2 (1.14%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.14%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (5.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 7 (4.00%) QA
3 4 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 4 (2.29%) SLA
4 3 (1.71%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.71%) HIPAA
4 3 (1.71%) PMO
5 2 (1.14%) COBIT
5 2 (1.14%) GDPR
5 2 (1.14%) NIST
5 2 (1.14%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.14%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.57%) P3O
System Software
1 6 (3.43%) Active Directory
1 6 (3.43%) Virtual Machines
1 6 (3.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.86%) Docker
3 2 (1.14%) KVM
3 2 (1.14%) XenApp
4 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (4.57%) PingFederate
2 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.86%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.86%) Terraform
4 4 (2.29%) CSIRT
4 4 (2.29%) Nessus
4 4 (2.29%) QRadar
5 3 (1.71%) Ansible
6 2 (1.14%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.14%) Grafana
7 1 (0.57%) Kibana
7 1 (0.57%) logstash
7 1 (0.57%) Nagios
7 1 (0.57%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.57%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.57%) Puppet
7 1 (0.57%) SCCM
7 1 (0.57%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.57%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.57%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (39.43%) Microsoft
2 22 (12.57%) Oracle
3 11 (6.29%) Cisco
4 10 (5.71%) Google
5 9 (5.14%) Citrix
6 7 (4.00%) SAP
6 7 (4.00%) ServiceNow
6 7 (4.00%) VMware
7 4 (2.29%) Adobe
7 4 (2.29%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (2.29%) Bloomberg
7 4 (2.29%) Genesys
7 4 (2.29%) Refinitiv
8 3 (1.71%) Databricks
8 3 (1.71%) iManage
8 3 (1.71%) ION Trading
8 3 (1.71%) Proofpoint
8 3 (1.71%) Symantec
8 3 (1.71%) Tandberg
9 2 (1.14%) Alteryx