Degree Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 33 93 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 11.79% 14.62% 10.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 36.67% 51.96% 39.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 65 55
10th Percentile £188 £238 £257
25th Percentile £208 £363 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £450 £515
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% -12.62% +3.00%
75th Percentile £500 £563 £644
90th Percentile £575 £640 £776
South East median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 12
10th Percentile - £16.41 -
25th Percentile - £17.80 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £18.08 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -59.83% -
75th Percentile - £20.75 £48.13
90th Percentile - £58.92 £59.00
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £48.00
% change year-on-year -1.05% +19.48% +6.67%

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 90 179 190
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 32.14% 28.14% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 134 122
10th Percentile £207 £313 £301
25th Percentile £347 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
75th Percentile £544 £625 £700
90th Percentile £594 £688 £838
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 23 19
10th Percentile £25.15 - -
25th Percentile - £11.71 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% -64.40% +11.11%
75th Percentile £53.75 £38.37 £62.55
90th Percentile £62.50 £61.50 £64.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -17.18% -4.42% +33.33%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in Surrey

Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Degree in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Degree in Surrey

Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Degree in Surrey over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Degree in Surrey

Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Degree in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 July 2025. 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
Leatherhead +12 7 £215 +17.81% 16
Staines +7 6 £365 +78.05% 13
Redhill -5 5 £488 -2.50% 6
Reigate +1 2 £950 +66.67% 10
Guildford -5 2 £525 +650.00% 45
Godalming - 2 - - 1
Weybridge +7 1 £350 +53.85% 7
Chertsey +5 1 £525 +43.84% 8
Caterham - 1 £163 - 2
Horley - 1 £450 -
Warlingham - 1 £163 -
Degree
South East

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.06%) Apache
2 2 (6.06%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) IIS
2 2 (6.06%) Tomcat
3 1 (3.03%) Anypoint
3 1 (3.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (3.03%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (3.03%) MS Visio
3 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (18.18%) Azure
3 4 (12.12%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.09%) AWS
4 3 (9.09%) SaaS
4 3 (9.09%) Snowflake
5 2 (6.06%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (3.03%) Asana
6 1 (3.03%) GCP
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub
6 1 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.03%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.09%) Firewall
2 2 (6.06%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.03%) MPLS
3 1 (3.03%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.03%) VoIP
3 1 (3.03%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Power BI
2 2 (6.06%) Data Lake
2 2 (6.06%) MySQL
2 2 (6.06%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) Tableau
3 1 (3.03%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.03%) Couchbase
3 1 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.03%) QlikView
3 1 (3.03%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 9 (27.27%) JIRA
2 7 (21.21%) Jenkins
3 4 (12.12%) Git
4 3 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 3 (9.09%) GoogleTest
4 3 (9.09%) Rational DOORS
4 3 (9.09%) TestRail
5 1 (3.03%) GitLab
General
1 13 (39.39%) Social Skills
2 9 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (18.18%) Finance
4 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Korean Language
5 1 (3.03%) Advertising
5 1 (3.03%) Electronics
5 1 (3.03%) Marketing
5 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.03%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 6 (18.18%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 6 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Desktop Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Desktop Support
2 6 (18.18%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Mobile Engineer
3 4 (12.12%) Senior
4 3 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Data Scientist
4 3 (9.09%) Embedded C++ Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Embedded Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Embedded Linux Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) IT Support
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.06%) .NET
1 2 (6.06%) EDI
1 2 (6.06%) LAMP
2 1 (3.03%) Kafka
2 1 (3.03%) OpenAPI
2 1 (3.03%) RAML
2 1 (3.03%) REST
2 1 (3.03%) RESTful
2 1 (3.03%) Swagger
2 1 (3.03%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.06%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.06%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.06%) Photography
2 2 (6.06%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (3.03%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (27.27%) Windows
2 6 (18.18%) Linux
3 3 (9.09%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (6.06%) Apple iOS
5 1 (3.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (30.30%) Computer Science
1 10 (30.30%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (24.24%) ITIL
2 8 (24.24%) Service Management
3 7 (21.21%) Agile
4 6 (18.18%) Data Analysis
4 6 (18.18%) Patch Management
4 6 (18.18%) Scrum
5 5 (15.15%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (15.15%) Data Modelling
6 4 (12.12%) Analytics
6 4 (12.12%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (12.12%) Customer Service
6 4 (12.12%) DevOps
6 4 (12.12%) Project Management
6 4 (12.12%) Test Automation
7 3 (9.09%) CI/CD
7 3 (9.09%) Clean Code
7 3 (9.09%) Design Patterns
7 3 (9.09%) Storyboarding
Programming Languages
1 8 (24.24%) SQL
2 3 (9.09%) C++
2 3 (9.09%) Python
2 3 (9.09%) R
3 2 (6.06%) PHP
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Go
4 1 (3.03%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (21.21%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (12.12%) SC Cleared
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) PMI Certification
3 3 (9.09%) PMP
3 3 (9.09%) Postgraduate
4 2 (6.06%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.03%) CCNA
5 1 (3.03%) CISA
5 1 (3.03%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.03%) CISM
5 1 (3.03%) CISSP
5 1 (3.03%) CRISC
5 1 (3.03%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.03%) MCSE
5 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.03%) OCP
5 1 (3.03%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (3.03%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (3.03%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) COSHH
1 1 (3.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.03%) PMO
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 7 (21.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (3.03%) CSIRT
2 1 (3.03%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 8 (24.24%) Microsoft
2 3 (9.09%) Apple
2 3 (9.09%) Google
3 2 (6.06%) Cisco
3 2 (6.06%) Databricks
3 2 (6.06%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.03%) Adobe
4 1 (3.03%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.03%) EMC
4 1 (3.03%) IFS
4 1 (3.03%) Marketo
4 1 (3.03%) Meraki
4 1 (3.03%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.03%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) SAP
4 1 (3.03%) Splunk
4 1 (3.03%) Xilinx