Degree Contract Job Trends in Welwyn Garden City

Academic Degree
Hertfordshire > Welwyn Garden City

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Welwyn Garden City citing Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	7	12	5
Rank change year-on-year	+5	-7	+2
Contract jobs citing Degree	3	1	8
As % of all contract jobs in Welwyn Garden City	14.29%	2.63%	20.00%
As % of the Qualifications category	75.00%	33.33%	80.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	1	1	1
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£248	£663	£613
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£265	£675	£625
Median % change year-on-year	-60.74%	+8.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£283	£688	£638
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Hertfordshire median daily rate	£233	£550	£350
% change year-on-year	-57.73%	+57.14%	-41.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Welwyn Garden City

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 citing academic qualifications or professional certifications in Welwyn Garden City.

	6 months to 11 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing academic qualifications or professional certifications	4	3	10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Welwyn Garden City	19.05%	7.89%	25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted	2	2	1
10^th Percentile	£268	£573	-
25^th Percentile	£298	£588	£613
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£358	£625	£625
Median % change year-on-year	-42.80%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£408	£663	£638
90^th Percentile	£433	£678	-
Hertfordshire median daily rate	£550	£550	£550
% change year-on-year	-	-	-10.20%

Degree Job Vacancy Trend in Welwyn Garden City

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

Degree Daily Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Degree.

Degree Hourly Rate Trend in Welwyn Garden City

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Welwyn Garden City citing Degree.

Degree Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City

For the 6 months to 11 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Degree also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Welwyn Garden City region citing Degree.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Continuous Improvement	100.0%	3
2	Computer Science	66.7%	2
2	Data Science	66.7%	2
2	Decision-Making	66.7%	2
2	Master's Degree	66.7%	2
2	Python	66.7%	2
2	Stakeholder Management	66.7%	2
2	Statistics	66.7%	2
9	Adaptive Web Design	33.3%	1
9	Analytics	33.3%	1
9	Biostatistics	33.3%	1
9	Budget Management	33.3%	1
9	CDISC	33.3%	1
9	Change Control	33.3%	1
9	Clinical Data Management	33.3%	1
9	Commercial Awareness	33.3%	1
9	Computer Science Degree	33.3%	1
9	Critical Thinking	33.3%	1
9	Customer Experience	33.3%	1
9	Data Cleansing	33.3%	1
9	Data Entry	33.3%	1
9	Data Management	33.3%	1
9	Data Pipeline	33.3%	1
9	Data Quality	33.3%	1
9	Data-Driven Decision Making	33.3%	1
9	Git	33.3%	1
9	Informatics	33.3%	1
9	Logistics	33.3%	1
9	Machine Learning	33.3%	1
9	Mathematics	33.3%	1

Degree Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Welwyn Garden City by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Qualifications

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Master's Degree	66.7%	2
2	Computer Science Degree	33.3%	1
2	PhD	33.3%	1
2	PRINCE2 Practitioner	33.3%	1