Degree Contract Job Trends in Staines

Academic Degree
Surrey > Staines

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

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 3 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 +8 -6
Contract jobs citing Degree 3 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in Staines 9.38% 46.15% 6.67%
As % of the Qualifications category 17.65% 85.71% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £156 £144 £207
25th Percentile £199 £156 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £180 £215
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -16.28% -32.81%
75th Percentile £364 £201 £411
90th Percentile £408 £213 £525
Surrey median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Staines

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 Staines.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17 7 7
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staines 53.13% 53.85% 15.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £359 £144 £167
25th Percentile £369 £156 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £180 £215
Median % change year-on-year +136.11% -16.28% -32.81%
75th Percentile £500 £201 £600
90th Percentile £545 £213 £630
Surrey median daily rate £525 £500 £548
% change year-on-year +5.00% -8.68% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
Surrey median hourly rate £60.00 £28.34 £65.00
% change year-on-year +111.71% -56.40% +44.44%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Staines

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Staines

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Staines

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staines citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Staines

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

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Staines

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Staines

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staines citing Degree

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staines 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) Google Gemini
1 1 (33.33%) SaaS
General
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Customer Support Representative
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) LangChain
1 1 (33.33%) LlamaIndex
1 1 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) AI Agents
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) LLM
1 2 (66.67%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (66.67%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 2 (66.67%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (33.33%) CRM
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) E-Discovery
2 1 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (33.33%) Human-in-the-Loop
2 1 (33.33%) Information Retrieval
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) MLOps
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) EU AI Act
2 1 (33.33%) GDPR
2 1 (33.33%) HIPAA
2 1 (33.33%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) OpenAI