Degree Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Academic Degree
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey with a requirement for Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 13 5
Rank change year-on-year +1 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Degree 56 30 92
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 9.49% 10.20% 15.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 28.28% 31.91% 55.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 25 64
10th Percentile £154 £194 £203
25th Percentile £204 £208 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £365 £438
Median % change year-on-year -15.07% -16.57% -15.05%
75th Percentile £506 £500 £563
90th Percentile £539 £575 £643
South East median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 11
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.33 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £50.87 - £18.35
75th Percentile £85.40 - £22.74
90th Percentile - - £62.50
South East median hourly rate £81.50 £64.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +27.34% +11.60% +14.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 198 94 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 33.56% 31.97% 27.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 65 121
10th Percentile £204 £208 £350
25th Percentile £367 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% -10.87%
75th Percentile £595 £543 £625
90th Percentile £654 £597 £688
South East median daily rate £544 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +3.57% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 10 23
10th Percentile £21.54 £25.15 -
25th Percentile £62.50 - £11.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% +57.30% -69.04%
75th Percentile - £53.75 £38.37
90th Percentile £77.70 £62.50 £61.50
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £41.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year +58.54% -28.51% -5.70%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Degree job vacancy trend in Surrey

Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Degree

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Surrey

Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Degree

Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in Surrey

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Degree in Surrey over the 6 months to 17 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Degree in Surrey

Degree
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
Staines -7 18 £350 +9.38% 2
Leatherhead -9 5 £208 -3.49% 2
Egham - 4 - - 3
Reigate 0 3 - - 4
Chertsey +2 2 £170 -67.62% 2
Redhill -4 1 £525 +7.69% 8
Guildford -13 1 - - 11
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (35.71%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (16.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (1.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Primavera
2 2 (3.57%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.79%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (19.64%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 5 (8.93%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.14%) GCP
5 4 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (5.36%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (3.57%) Figma
7 2 (3.57%) IaaS
7 2 (3.57%) Smartsheet
8 1 (1.79%) Dialogflow
8 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.79%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.36%) Network Security
2 1 (1.79%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 6 (10.71%) MySQL
3 4 (7.14%) Power BI
4 3 (5.36%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.93%) JIRA
2 3 (5.36%) Android Studio
2 3 (5.36%) Browser DevTools
2 3 (5.36%) Eclipse
2 3 (5.36%) Xcode
3 2 (3.57%) Git
General
1 25 (44.64%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.07%) Public Sector
4 7 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (8.93%) Arabic Language
6 5 (8.93%) French Language
6 5 (8.93%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (7.14%) Finance
8 2 (3.57%) Billing
8 2 (3.57%) Retail
9 1 (1.79%) Marketing
9 1 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.79%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (12.50%) Lead
1 7 (12.50%) Support Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Analyst
2 6 (10.71%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (10.71%) Technical Support
2 6 (10.71%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (8.93%) IT Manager
3 5 (8.93%) Project Manager
4 4 (7.14%) Senior
5 3 (5.36%) Business Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Construction Planner
5 3 (5.36%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) Data Analyst
5 3 (5.36%) Graduate
5 3 (5.36%) IT Graduate
5 3 (5.36%) Junior
5 3 (5.36%) Principal Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Principal Security Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Project Planner
5 3 (5.36%) UX Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) CSS
1 6 (10.71%) React
2 4 (7.14%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.36%) Ajax
3 3 (5.36%) GraphQL
3 3 (5.36%) HTML
4 2 (3.57%) .NET
4 2 (3.57%) Django
4 2 (3.57%) OAuth
4 2 (3.57%) OAuth2
4 2 (3.57%) OpenID
4 2 (3.57%) REST
4 2 (3.57%) RESTful
5 1 (1.79%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.79%) CSS3
5 1 (1.79%) HTML5
5 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (1.79%) Middleware
5 1 (1.79%) Node.js
5 1 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.64%) Management Information System
2 4 (7.14%) PMI
3 3 (5.36%) Mobile App
3 3 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.79%) Autonomous Agent
5 1 (1.79%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.79%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.50%) Windows
2 6 (10.71%) Linux
2 6 (10.71%) Unix
3 3 (5.36%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (44.64%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (41.07%) Agile
2 23 (41.07%) Computer Science
3 15 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (23.21%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (19.64%) Mentoring
6 9 (16.07%) Change Management
6 9 (16.07%) Customer-Centricity
6 9 (16.07%) Matrix Organization
7 8 (14.29%) Analytics
7 8 (14.29%) Decision-Making
7 8 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 8 (14.29%) ITIL
7 8 (14.29%) Project Delivery
7 8 (14.29%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 7 (12.50%) AI
8 7 (12.50%) Project Management
8 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
9 6 (10.71%) Information Security
9 6 (10.71%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 8 (14.29%) Python
2 7 (12.50%) Java
3 6 (10.71%) SQL
4 5 (8.93%) Perl
5 2 (3.57%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.79%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) Computer Science Degree
2 7 (12.50%) PMI Certification
3 6 (10.71%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 4 (7.14%) Security Cleared
5 3 (5.36%) CESG Certified Professional
5 3 (5.36%) PMP
6 2 (3.57%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.57%) CBAP
6 2 (3.57%) MBA
6 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 5 (8.93%) Data Quality
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 3 (5.36%) NCSC
3 3 (5.36%) PMO
4 2 (3.57%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.79%) GMP
5 1 (1.79%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 4 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Oracle
2 5 (8.93%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.36%) Splunk
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.57%) SAP
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe
5 1 (1.79%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.79%) DocuSign