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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 6 17
Rank change year-on-year -3 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Degree 6 7 7
As % of all contract jobs in Staines 16.22% 38.89% 13.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 31.58% 100.00% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £158 £149 £187
25th Percentile £204 £169 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £215
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -4.65% -32.81%
75th Percentile £211 £214 £252
90th Percentile £347 £218 £391
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 19 7 11
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staines 51.35% 38.89% 20.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 3 9
10th Percentile £204 £149 £154
25th Percentile £356 £169 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £205 £215
Median % change year-on-year +89.02% -4.65% -32.81%
75th Percentile £500 £214 £252
90th Percentile £520 £218 £610
Surrey median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -
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 20 January 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 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) Google Gemini
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MySQL
1 3 (50.00%) Relational Database
General
1 2 (33.33%) Legal
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Customer Support Representative
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) LangChain
1 1 (16.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Linux
1 3 (50.00%) Unix
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 3 (50.00%) OO
2 3 (50.00%) OOP
2 3 (50.00%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) AI
3 2 (33.33%) LLM
3 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
3 2 (33.33%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
3 2 (33.33%) Workflow
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) E-Discovery
4 1 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 1 (16.67%) Human-in-the-Loop
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Ontologies
4 1 (16.67%) Product Management
4 1 (16.67%) Prompt Engineering
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 3 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (50.00%) Perl
2 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) EU AI Act
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
2 1 (16.67%) HIPAA
2 1 (16.67%) SOC 2
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) OpenAI