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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 22 7 6
Rank change year-on-year -15 -1 +7
Contract jobs citing Degree 41 39 89
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 7.21% 14.03% 14.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 23.43% 40.63% 48.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 26 59
10th Percentile £121 £188 £342
25th Percentile £204 £208 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 £366 £450
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% -18.61% -10.00%
75th Percentile £438 £519 £569
90th Percentile £545 £569 £630
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 12
10th Percentile £37.05 - £16.41
25th Percentile £68.13 - £17.80
Median hourly rate £85.40 - £18.08
75th Percentile - - £20.75
90th Percentile - - £58.92
South East median hourly rate £83.00 £55.13 £57.35
% change year-on-year +50.57% -3.88% +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 175 96 184
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 30.76% 34.53% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 61 136
10th Percentile £209 £208 £331
25th Percentile £359 £350 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £580 £543 £638
90th Percentile £655 £594 £700
South East median daily rate £531 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +1.60% -4.95% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 23
10th Percentile £26.75 £25.15 -
25th Percentile £60.00 - £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £17.80
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +57.30% -60.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £53.75 £38.37
90th Percentile £79.24 £62.50 £61.50
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £57.35
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.46% -7.50%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -10 13 £310 -15.07% 3
Egham - 6 - - 2
Reigate 0 1 - - 4
Guildford -11 1 - - 18
Leatherhead -12 1 £208 -3.49% 4
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 (9.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 12 (29.27%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (19.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (14.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (2.44%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (2.44%) SAP Hybris
1 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (14.63%) AWS
1 6 (14.63%) Azure
2 5 (12.20%) SaaS
3 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.32%) GCP
4 3 (7.32%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.32%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (4.88%) Figma
6 1 (2.44%) Dialogflow
6 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.44%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.32%) Network Security
2 1 (2.44%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.07%) Relational Database
2 6 (14.63%) MySQL
3 2 (4.88%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.88%) Power BI
4 1 (2.44%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Android Studio
1 3 (7.32%) Browser DevTools
1 3 (7.32%) Eclipse
1 3 (7.32%) Xcode
2 1 (2.44%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) JIRA
General
1 19 (46.34%) Social Skills
2 5 (12.20%) Arabic Language
2 5 (12.20%) Finance
2 5 (12.20%) French Language
2 5 (12.20%) Organisational Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Public Sector
4 3 (7.32%) Billing
4 3 (7.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.88%) Legal
6 1 (2.44%) Marketing
6 1 (2.44%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.44%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (17.07%) Support Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Technical Engineer
2 6 (14.63%) Technical Support
2 6 (14.63%) Technical Support Engineer
3 5 (12.20%) Lead
4 3 (7.32%) Consultant
4 3 (7.32%) Graduate
4 3 (7.32%) IT Graduate
4 3 (7.32%) IT Manager
4 3 (7.32%) Principal Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Principal Security Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Security Engineer
4 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 3 (7.32%) UX Engineer
5 2 (4.88%) Business Relationship Manager
5 2 (4.88%) Developer
5 2 (4.88%) Interaction Designer
5 2 (4.88%) Junior
5 2 (4.88%) Sales Administrator
5 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.20%) CSS
1 5 (12.20%) React
2 4 (9.76%) AngularJS
3 3 (7.32%) Ajax
3 3 (7.32%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.88%) .NET
4 2 (4.88%) HTML
4 2 (4.88%) REST
5 1 (2.44%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.44%) CSS3
5 1 (2.44%) Django
5 1 (2.44%) HTML5
5 1 (2.44%) MDX
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (2.44%) Middleware
5 1 (2.44%) Node.js
5 1 (2.44%) OAuth
5 1 (2.44%) OAuth2
5 1 (2.44%) OpenID
5 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
2 3 (7.32%) Mobile App
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.44%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.44%) PMI
4 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.07%) Windows
2 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 6 (14.63%) Unix
3 3 (7.32%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (43.90%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (39.02%) Computer Science
3 10 (24.39%) Agile
4 8 (19.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (19.51%) Customer-Centricity
4 8 (19.51%) Matrix Organization
5 7 (17.07%) ITIL
5 7 (17.07%) Mentoring
5 7 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (17.07%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 6 (14.63%) AI
6 6 (14.63%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (14.63%) Decision-Making
6 6 (14.63%) Information Security
6 6 (14.63%) User Experience
7 5 (12.20%) Analytics
7 5 (12.20%) Business Continuity
7 5 (12.20%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 5 (12.20%) OO
7 5 (12.20%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Java
1 7 (17.07%) JavaScript
1 7 (17.07%) Python
2 5 (12.20%) Perl
3 4 (9.76%) SQL
4 2 (4.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 10 (24.39%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (12.20%) Master's Degree
3 3 (7.32%) CESG Certified Professional
3 3 (7.32%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.88%) MBA
4 2 (4.88%) PMP
4 2 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (4.88%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.44%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.32%) ISO/IEC 42001
1 3 (7.32%) NCSC
2 2 (4.88%) PMO
2 2 (4.88%) QA
3 1 (2.44%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.44%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.44%) GMP
3 1 (2.44%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (9.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.32%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.20%) Oracle
2 5 (12.20%) ServiceNow
3 3 (7.32%) Salesforce
3 3 (7.32%) Splunk
4 2 (4.88%) SAP
5 1 (2.44%) Adobe
5 1 (2.44%) Blue Prism
5 1 (2.44%) DocuSign