Degree Contract Job Trends in Heathrow

Academic Degree
Hillingdon > Heathrow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Heathrow with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 7 9 9
Rank change year-on-year +2 0 +3
Contract jobs citing Degree 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Heathrow 9.09% 10.00% 8.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 25.00% 75.00% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £408 -
25th Percentile - £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -
75th Percentile - £456 £488
90th Percentile - £468 £510
Hillingdon median daily rate £450 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Heathrow

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 Heathrow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4 4 13
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow 36.36% 13.33% 35.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 11
10th Percentile - £415 £294
25th Percentile - £438 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +11.76% -39.29%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - £500
Hillingdon median daily rate £700 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +60.00% -2.78% -30.23%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Heathrow

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Heathrow.

Degree job vacancy trend in Heathrow

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Heathrow

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Heathrow

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Heathrow citing Degree

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Heathrow by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Dagster
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) MLflow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Data Scientist
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NumPy
1 1 (100.00%) Pandas
1 1 (100.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (100.00%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Data Cleansing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Operations Research
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) Visualisation
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft