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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing Degree 44 78 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 14.77% 13.29% 10.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 42.72% 41.27% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 50 46
10th Percentile £192 £350 £257
25th Percentile £341 £425 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -0.10%
75th Percentile £525 £595 £602
90th Percentile - £654 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 20
10th Percentile - £16.56 -
25th Percentile £68.26 £17.80 £42.50
Median hourly rate £73.31 £18.35 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +299.51% -59.22% -
75th Percentile £78.36 £26.73 £47.50
90th Percentile - £60.75 £51.00
South East median hourly rate £58.38 £57.35 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.79% +27.44% +8.43%

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 103 189 181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 34.56% 32.20% 26.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 136 105
10th Percentile £231 £294 £307
25th Percentile £403 £448 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -8.70% +11.22%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £700
90th Percentile £666 £700 £750
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 24 29
10th Percentile £24.18 - £38.43
25th Percentile £25.15 £11.71 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £17.80 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +57.30% -60.44% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.00 £58.77
90th Percentile £62.50 £55.25 £62.79
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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
Redhill 0 9 £500 - 9
Staines +6 8 £320 -46.67% 15
Reigate -3 6 £950 +66.67% 9
Godalming - 5 - - 1
Leatherhead +10 3 £195 -46.76% 17
Chertsey +7 1 £525 - 10
Guildford -5 1 £450 +28.57% 40
Horley - 1 £450 - 2
Tadworth - 1 - -
Weybridge - 1 £350 - 5
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 2 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Confluence
1 2 (4.55%) IIS
1 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (4.55%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.27%) Anypoint
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.27%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) SaaS
3 4 (9.09%) AWS
3 4 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 2 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.27%) Asana
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub
6 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
2 2 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.55%) WAN
3 1 (2.27%) MPLS
3 1 (2.27%) PSTN
3 1 (2.27%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (9.09%) Power BI
2 2 (4.55%) Data Lake
2 2 (4.55%) MySQL
2 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Tableau
3 1 (2.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.27%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (2.27%) Big Data
3 1 (2.27%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.27%) Couchbase
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.27%) QlikView
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 15 (34.09%) JIRA
2 13 (29.55%) Jenkins
3 11 (25.00%) Git
4 8 (18.18%) TestRail
5 7 (15.91%) Bitbucket
5 7 (15.91%) GoogleTest
5 7 (15.91%) Rational DOORS
6 4 (9.09%) Cypress.io
7 3 (6.82%) Selenium
7 3 (6.82%) SpecFlow
8 2 (4.55%) Balsamiq
8 2 (4.55%) JMeter
8 2 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
9 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
9 1 (2.27%) GitLab
9 1 (2.27%) JUnit
9 1 (2.27%) Maven
9 1 (2.27%) Mocha
General
1 19 (43.18%) Social Skills
2 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (9.09%) Finance
5 2 (4.55%) Electronics
5 2 (4.55%) Korean Language
5 2 (4.55%) Marketing
5 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.27%) Advertising
6 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (22.73%) Senior
2 7 (15.91%) C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Linux Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Senior Software Engineer
2 7 (15.91%) Software Engineer
3 6 (13.64%) Developer
3 6 (13.64%) Support Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Data Scientist
4 3 (6.82%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 3 (6.82%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) EDI
2 4 (9.09%) RESTful
3 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.82%) CSS
3 3 (6.82%) HTML
3 3 (6.82%) React
4 2 (4.55%) .NET
4 2 (4.55%) Bootstrap
4 2 (4.55%) LAMP
4 2 (4.55%) Vue
4 2 (4.55%) YAML
5 1 (2.27%) Google Maps API
5 1 (2.27%) HTML5 Canvas
5 1 (2.27%) Kafka
5 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
5 1 (2.27%) Playwright
5 1 (2.27%) RAML
5 1 (2.27%) REST
5 1 (2.27%) Vaadin
5 1 (2.27%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.36%) Photography
1 5 (11.36%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.55%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (2.27%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.27%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (2.27%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 11 (25.00%) Linux
2 7 (15.91%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (9.09%) Windows
4 2 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (47.73%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (45.45%) Computer Science
3 17 (38.64%) Agile
4 14 (31.82%) Scrum
4 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 10 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (22.73%) Design Patterns
6 9 (20.45%) OO
6 9 (20.45%) Software Engineering
6 9 (20.45%) SOLID
7 8 (18.18%) DevOps
7 8 (18.18%) Mathematics
8 7 (15.91%) CI/CD
8 7 (15.91%) Clean Code
8 7 (15.91%) Kanban
8 7 (15.91%) Multithreaded Programming
8 7 (15.91%) Multithreading
8 7 (15.91%) OOD
8 7 (15.91%) Storyboarding
9 6 (13.64%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) SQL
2 7 (15.91%) C++
3 4 (9.09%) C#
3 4 (9.09%) JavaScript
3 4 (9.09%) Python
3 4 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 3 (6.82%) Java
4 3 (6.82%) R
5 2 (4.55%) PHP
5 2 (4.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.27%) Go
Qualifications
1 14 (31.82%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 8 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 6 (13.64%) Postgraduate
4 2 (4.55%) CISSP
4 2 (4.55%) Numerate Degree
4 2 (4.55%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.55%) PMP
5 1 (2.27%) CCNA
5 1 (2.27%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (2.27%) CISA
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.27%) CISM
5 1 (2.27%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.27%) MCSE
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.27%) OCP
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (2.27%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.91%) QA
2 2 (4.55%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) COSHH
3 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.27%) NCSC
3 1 (2.27%) PMO
3 1 (2.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (6.82%) Docker
2 2 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 8 (18.18%) Google
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) Databricks
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.27%) Blue Prism
4 1 (2.27%) Cisco
4 1 (2.27%) EMC
4 1 (2.27%) Marketo
4 1 (2.27%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.27%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.27%) SAP
4 1 (2.27%) Splunk
4 1 (2.27%) Xilinx