Degree Contract Job Trends in Hounslow

Academic Degree
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 4 6 8
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 -1
Contract jobs citing Degree 11 10 15
As % of all contract jobs in Hounslow 19.64% 14.29% 13.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 73.33% 45.45% 65.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 9
10th Percentile £218 £328 £333
25th Percentile £300 £373 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £392 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.34% -21.60% -8.26%
75th Percentile £425 £401 £550
90th Percentile £719 £403 £588
West London median daily rate £368 £396 £550
% change year-on-year -7.03% -28.00% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £30.78
25th Percentile - £61.00 £34.20
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £43.37
Median % change year-on-year - +42.97% +8.41%
75th Percentile - £63.00 £50.30
90th Percentile - - £52.37
West London median hourly rate - £62.00 £43.37
% change year-on-year - +42.97% +8.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15 22 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 26.79% 31.43% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 15 12
10th Percentile £206 £213 £405
25th Percentile £218 £319 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £334 £392 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -21.60% -5.21%
75th Percentile £397 £401 £550
90th Percentile £673 £437 £663
West London median daily rate £375 £392 £500
% change year-on-year -4.34% -21.60% -5.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £33.06
25th Percentile - £61.00 £39.88
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - +18.10% +31.25%
75th Percentile - £63.00 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
West London median hourly rate £21.77 £22.27 £43.37
% change year-on-year -2.26% -48.65% +0.85%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Hounslow

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Hounslow over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Hounslow

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing Degree

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
Brentford - 3 £375 -
Osterley +6 1 £300 -
Degree
West London

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hounslow 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 2 (18.18%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
1 3 (27.27%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 3 (27.27%) Power Platform
2 2 (18.18%) Amazon SageMaker
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) Dagster
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Data Lake
1 3 (27.27%) Power BI
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MLflow
2 1 (9.09%) Git
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Aviation
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Data Scientist
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 2 (18.18%) Scrum Master
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Lead Data Scientist
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) NumPy
1 2 (18.18%) Pandas
1 2 (18.18%) scikit-learn
2 1 (9.09%) Seaborn
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
1 2 (18.18%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) Data Pipeline
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (27.27%) Agile
3 3 (27.27%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (27.27%) Data Science
3 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
4 2 (18.18%) Agile Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) AI
4 2 (18.18%) Change Management
4 2 (18.18%) Coaching
4 2 (18.18%) Community of Practice
4 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (18.18%) Data Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Data Governance
4 2 (18.18%) Data Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Kanban
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) Operations Research
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Master's Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (18.18%) Postgraduate
3 1 (9.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) PMO
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft