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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 8 6
Rank change year-on-year -21 -2 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 30 40 75
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 5.76% 13.79% 12.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.55% 39.60% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 48
10th Percentile £121 £190 £350
25th Percentile £196 £239 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £409 £525
Median % change year-on-year -49.24% -22.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £394 £519 £595
90th Percentile £520 £525 £661
South East median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile - - £16.41
25th Percentile - £68.26 £17.80
Median hourly rate £85.40 £73.31 £18.08
Median % change year-on-year +16.49% +305.59% -59.83%
75th Percentile - £78.36 £20.75
90th Percentile - - £58.92
South East median hourly rate £84.00 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year +48.02% -1.05% +27.44%

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 146 101 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 28.02% 34.83% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 61 128
10th Percentile £204 £208 £350
25th Percentile £400 £400 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -9.48%
75th Percentile £563 £581 £638
90th Percentile £678 £663 £705
South East median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 12 23
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.44 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £28.00 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £30.25 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +123.14% +69.94% -60.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £55.94 £21.75
90th Percentile £85.40 £62.50 £56.00
South East median hourly rate £54.50 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.96% -1.05% -2.64%

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 21 May 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
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 21 May 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
Egham - 7 - - 3
Staines -16 3 £311 -2.73% 1
Godalming 0 1 £500 -
Leatherhead -10 1 £208 +6.41%
Redhill -11 1 £550 +10.00% 6
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 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.33%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Primavera
1 1 (3.33%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.67%) AWS
1 5 (16.67%) Azure
1 5 (16.67%) SaaS
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) Sauce Labs
4 2 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Google Gemini
5 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) WebEx
3 1 (3.33%) Firewall
3 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MySQL
1 5 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Android Studio
1 3 (10.00%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (10.00%) Eclipse
1 3 (10.00%) Xcode
2 2 (6.67%) JIRA
3 1 (3.33%) Burp Suite
3 1 (3.33%) Metasploit
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Legal
2 4 (13.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.67%) Billing
3 2 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Electronics
4 1 (3.33%) Law
4 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Support Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 6 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Graduate
3 3 (10.00%) IT Graduate
3 3 (10.00%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Principal Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Principal Security Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) UX Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Developer
4 2 (6.67%) IT Administrator
4 2 (6.67%) Sales Administrator
5 1 (3.33%) Bid Manager
5 1 (3.33%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (3.33%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Penetration Tester
5 1 (3.33%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) Ajax
1 3 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (10.00%) CSS
1 3 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (10.00%) React
2 1 (3.33%) LangChain
2 1 (3.33%) LlamaIndex
2 1 (3.33%) MDX
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (3.33%) Node.js
2 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Management Information System
2 3 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
3 1 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (30.00%) Windows
2 7 (23.33%) Linux
3 6 (20.00%) Unix
4 3 (10.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Computer Science
2 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
3 7 (23.33%) Information Security
4 6 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 5 (16.67%) AI
5 5 (16.67%) ITIL
5 5 (16.67%) OO
5 5 (16.67%) OOP
5 5 (16.67%) User Experience
6 4 (13.33%) Workflow
7 3 (10.00%) Agile
7 3 (10.00%) Business Continuity
7 3 (10.00%) Change Management
7 3 (10.00%) Incident Management
7 3 (10.00%) Information Assurance
7 3 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 3 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) Python
2 6 (20.00%) Java
3 5 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (16.67%) Perl
4 4 (13.33%) SQL
5 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
6 1 (3.33%) C#
6 1 (3.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
6 1 (3.33%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 9 (30.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (10.00%) CESG Certified Professional
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.33%) CHECK Team Member
4 1 (3.33%) CREST Certified
4 1 (3.33%) Cyber Scheme
4 1 (3.33%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (13.33%) QA
2 3 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 3 (10.00%) NCSC
3 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 2 (6.67%) PMO
4 1 (3.33%) EU AI Act
4 1 (3.33%) GMP
4 1 (3.33%) GxP
4 1 (3.33%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Nmap
Vendors
1 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 3 (10.00%) Splunk
4 2 (6.67%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Adobe
5 1 (3.33%) Blue Prism
5 1 (3.33%) DocuSign
5 1 (3.33%) OpenAI