Degree Contracts in Central London

Academic Degree
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 18 24 30
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing Degree 200 255 339
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 8.59% 7.86% 6.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 37.45% 38.17% 39.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 158 198
10th Percentile £296 £325 £378
25th Percentile £458 £450 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -1.79% -5.49%
75th Percentile £697 £750 £697
90th Percentile £792 £889 £804
London median daily rate £528 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.09% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 18
10th Percentile - - £18.43
25th Percentile - £16.61 £23.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £17.25 £43.12
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% -60.00% +34.75%
75th Percentile - £17.89 £55.25
90th Percentile - - £78.75
London median hourly rate £35.00 £27.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year +29.63% -38.29% +5.93%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 534 668 864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 22.93% 20.59% 17.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 330 409 549
10th Percentile £350 £325 £360
25th Percentile £456 £440 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £688 £700
90th Percentile £750 £820 £756
London median daily rate £538 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -2.27% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 20
10th Percentile £23.10 £16.89 £18.48
25th Percentile - £17.31 £27.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £18.00 £43.12
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -58.26% +55.39%
75th Percentile £112.00 £47.75 £55.38
90th Percentile - £65.60 £78.75
London median hourly rate £33.75 £52.50 £43.93
% change year-on-year -35.71% +19.51% +17.15%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Central London

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Degree in Central London

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Central London over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Central London

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Degree in Central London

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 20 September 2024. 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
City of London +6 194 £570 +3.64% 84
West End of London +5 4 £283 +28.41% 2
Camden +7 1 £473 -0.42% 2
Degree
London

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 13 (6.50%) SharePoint
2 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (2.00%) Confluence
4 3 (1.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.50%) Apache
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.50%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.50%) Appian
5 1 (0.50%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 19 (9.50%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (7.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (1.50%) MS Visio
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (1.00%) Adobe XD
6 2 (1.00%) Chatbot
6 2 (1.00%) Sketch
6 2 (1.00%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.00%) Trello
7 1 (0.50%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.50%) InVision
7 1 (0.50%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.50%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.50%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 6 (3.00%) Dynamics AX
2 3 (1.50%) Dynamics GP
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (1.50%) SAP HCM
2 3 (1.50%) SAP Payroll
2 3 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (1.00%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.50%) Advent Geneva
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.50%) Primavera
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.50%) SAP SCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (26.50%) Azure
2 22 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (11.00%) Power Platform
3 16 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.50%) GCP
5 14 (7.00%) AWS
6 13 (6.50%) Dynamics 365
7 11 (5.50%) WhatsApp
8 10 (5.00%) PowerApps
9 8 (4.00%) Microsoft Purview
10 7 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (3.50%) GitHub
10 7 (3.50%) OneDrive
10 7 (3.50%) Power Automate
11 5 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.50%) IaaS
11 5 (2.50%) PaaS
11 5 (2.50%) SaaS
12 4 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
12 4 (2.00%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 12 (6.00%) Firewall
2 5 (2.50%) CTI
2 5 (2.50%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.50%) VoIP
2 5 (2.50%) WAN
3 4 (2.00%) Network Security
3 4 (2.00%) VPN
4 3 (1.50%) Internet
4 3 (1.50%) LAN
5 2 (1.00%) H.323
5 2 (1.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (1.00%) WebEx
6 1 (0.50%) DNS
6 1 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.50%) Power BI
2 11 (5.50%) SQL Server
3 8 (4.00%) Tableau
4 7 (3.50%) Data Lake
5 5 (2.50%) SAP HANA
6 4 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (2.00%) MySQL
6 4 (2.00%) Neo4j
6 4 (2.00%) Oracle Database
6 4 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.50%) BigQuery
7 3 (1.50%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.50%) NoSQL
7 3 (1.50%) Redis
7 3 (1.50%) Relational Database
7 3 (1.50%) SAP Data Services
8 2 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.00%) Big Data
8 2 (1.00%) Bigtable
8 2 (1.00%) KDB
Development Applications
1 13 (6.50%) JIRA
2 12 (6.00%) Git
3 7 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.50%) GitLab
4 3 (1.50%) TeamCity
4 3 (1.50%) Visual Studio
5 2 (1.00%) Eclipse
5 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
6 1 (0.50%) CMake
6 1 (0.50%) Gradle
6 1 (0.50%) IBM UrbanCode
6 1 (0.50%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.50%) Maven
6 1 (0.50%) MSI
6 1 (0.50%) Oracle Forms
6 1 (0.50%) Subversion
6 1 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (0.50%) XCTest
General
1 99 (49.50%) Social Skills
2 89 (44.50%) Finance
3 48 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (17.50%) Banking
5 18 (9.00%) Public Sector
6 16 (8.00%) Legal
6 16 (8.00%) Retail
7 11 (5.50%) Front Office
8 8 (4.00%) Marketing
9 7 (3.50%) Financial Institution
9 7 (3.50%) Investment Banking
9 7 (3.50%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.00%) General Ledger
11 4 (2.00%) Manufacturing
11 4 (2.00%) Retail Banking
11 4 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.00%) Electronics
13 2 (1.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (14.50%) Developer
2 28 (14.00%) Analyst
3 23 (11.50%) Architect
4 16 (8.00%) Business Analyst
5 15 (7.50%) Consultant
5 15 (7.50%) Lead
6 11 (5.50%) Project Manager
6 11 (5.50%) Support Engineer
7 9 (4.50%) Microsoft Consultant
8 8 (4.00%) Data Analyst
8 8 (4.00%) Data Engineer
8 8 (4.00%) Senior
9 7 (3.50%) 1st Line Support
9 7 (3.50%) Designer
9 7 (3.50%) Junior
10 6 (3.00%) 1st Line Support Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Azure Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) IT Engineer
10 6 (3.00%) Java Developer
10 6 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.00%) CSS
2 10 (5.00%) HTML
3 8 (4.00%) .NET
4 6 (3.00%) React
4 6 (3.00%) XML
5 5 (2.50%) AngularJS
5 5 (2.50%) JSON
5 5 (2.50%) Kafka
5 5 (2.50%) REST
5 5 (2.50%) RESTful
6 4 (2.00%) Middleware
6 4 (2.00%) Web Services
7 3 (1.50%) HTML5 Canvas
7 3 (1.50%) jQuery
7 3 (1.50%) Microsoft Graph
7 3 (1.50%) PySpark
7 3 (1.50%) SOAP
7 3 (1.50%) Spring
7 3 (1.50%) Spring Boot
8 2 (1.00%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (4.50%) Data Structures
2 9 (4.50%) Product Ownership
3 7 (3.50%) Virtual Team
4 6 (3.00%) Algorithms
4 6 (3.00%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.00%) Fixed Income
5 5 (2.50%) Derivative
5 5 (2.50%) IVR
6 4 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.50%) Market Risk
7 3 (1.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.00%) Blackberry
8 2 (1.00%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.00%) Handset
8 2 (1.00%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.50%) Windows
2 11 (5.50%) Linux
3 3 (1.50%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.50%) Unix
3 3 (1.50%) Windows 10
3 3 (1.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.50%) Android
5 1 (0.50%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.50%) Solaris
5 1 (0.50%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (47.00%) Computer Science
2 58 (29.00%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (23.50%) Agile
4 34 (17.00%) Project Management
5 27 (13.50%) DevOps
6 20 (10.00%) CI/CD
6 20 (10.00%) Migration
7 19 (9.50%) Analytics
7 19 (9.50%) Business Intelligence
7 19 (9.50%) ITIL
7 19 (9.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (9.00%) PRINCE2
9 17 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 16 (8.00%) Data Modelling
11 15 (7.50%) Data Analysis
12 14 (7.00%) Business Analysis
13 13 (6.50%) ETL
13 13 (6.50%) Visualisation
14 11 (5.50%) Knowledge Transfer
14 11 (5.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.50%) SQL
2 37 (18.50%) Python
3 16 (8.00%) PowerShell
4 14 (7.00%) Java
5 11 (5.50%) JavaScript
6 7 (3.50%) C#
7 6 (3.00%) Kotlin
8 5 (2.50%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.00%) C++
9 4 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 3 (1.50%) R
10 3 (1.50%) Scala
10 3 (1.50%) VBA
11 2 (1.00%) Cypher
11 2 (1.00%) Go
11 2 (1.00%) Gremlin
11 2 (1.00%) Kusto Query Language
11 2 (1.00%) Perl
11 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 69 (34.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 28 (14.00%) Master's Degree
3 13 (6.50%) Security Cleared
4 12 (6.00%) ITIL Certification
4 12 (6.00%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) Azure Certification
5 8 (4.00%) PMI Certification
5 8 (4.00%) PMP
6 6 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (1.50%) CISM
7 3 (1.50%) CISSP
7 3 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (1.50%) PhD
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certification
8 2 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (1.00%) GCIA
8 2 (1.00%) GCIH
8 2 (1.00%) GIAC
8 2 (1.00%) MBA
8 2 (1.00%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (6.50%) QA
2 7 (3.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.50%) GDPR
3 5 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.00%) HIPAA
5 2 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (1.00%) PMO
5 2 (1.00%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.50%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.50%) COBIT
6 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.50%) EMIR
6 1 (0.50%) GRC
6 1 (0.50%) NIST
6 1 (0.50%) P3O
6 1 (0.50%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.00%) Docker
3 4 (2.00%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.50%) KVM
4 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 10 (5.00%) Terraform
2 9 (4.50%) Kubernetes
3 8 (4.00%) PingFederate
4 2 (1.00%) Ansible
4 2 (1.00%) CSIRT
4 2 (1.00%) Nessus
4 2 (1.00%) QRadar
4 2 (1.00%) SCCM
5 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 67 (33.50%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.00%) Oracle
3 12 (6.00%) Google
4 10 (5.00%) Citrix
5 8 (4.00%) SAP
6 7 (3.50%) Cisco
7 6 (3.00%) Adobe
8 5 (2.50%) Genesys
8 5 (2.50%) ServiceNow
9 4 (2.00%) Apple
9 4 (2.00%) ION Trading
9 4 (2.00%) Workday
10 3 (1.50%) Bloomberg
10 3 (1.50%) Databricks
10 3 (1.50%) Proofpoint
10 3 (1.50%) Symantec
11 2 (1.00%) Alteryx
11 2 (1.00%) BeyondTrust
11 2 (1.00%) iManage
11 2 (1.00%) Refinitiv