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 20 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 1 10
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 -5
Contract jobs citing Degree 3 8 2
As % of all contract jobs in Staines 7.89% 57.14% 7.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.00% 80.00% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £211 £241 -
25th Percentile £245 £255 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £311 £320 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -46.67% -
75th Percentile £380 £373 -
90th Percentile £414 £375 -
Surrey median daily rate £450 £463 £500
% change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
Surrey median hourly rate £85.40 £73.31 £18.35
% change year-on-year +16.49% +299.51% -59.22%

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 15 10 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staines 39.47% 71.43% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 2
10th Percentile £358 £244 £555
25th Percentile £367 £263 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £365 £600
Median % change year-on-year +16.44% -39.17% -
75th Percentile £500 £376 £638
90th Percentile £546 £413 £645
Surrey median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £19.25
Median hourly rate - - £20.50
75th Percentile - - £50.88
90th Percentile - - £68.35
Surrey median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £17.80
% change year-on-year +150.00% +57.30% -60.44%

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 20 April 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%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Support Engineer
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%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
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%) 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%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Ontologies
2 1 (33.33%) Product Management
2 1 (33.33%) Prompt Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
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 2 (66.67%) 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