The certificate and the transcript are not one thing
A degree certificate is short. It names a person, a university, an award and a date, and little else fits on it. A transcript is the opposite: modules, marks, credits and years, running to several pages. A certified translation of a Degree Certificate in Southampton therefore covers a single sheet, and says nothing about how you got there.
Working out which one was named
Requests are often loose. Some name both papers, some name a qualification and leave you to guess, and some ask for proof of a degree without naming a document at all. Read the wording twice before ordering, because the page count is where the whole difference in price lives. Nothing here fixes the target language either, so confirm the language with the office that will read your file.
Award titles, classes and grades
Titles come across as written. An award name is a fact about what a university granted, so it is rendered rather than swapped for a local-sounding equivalent, and the same holds for a class or a division. That restraint is deliberate. The reader is entitled to see the original wording and to place it against their own scale without a translator quietly doing it for them.
What each order costs
The translation cost for a Degree Certificate in Southampton is about £25 / page, and one sheet usually means one page. Add a transcript and the same rate multiplies across every page it runs to. Standard work comes back in 2–3 business days, and the express route in 24 hours, measured from the moment a legible copy is in hand.
Who reads it at the other end
A certified translation of a Degree Certificate in United Kingdom lands in front of somebody assessing a candidate they have never met. They have your sheet, the new text, and the signed statement of accuracy tying the two together. Keeping the pair fastened is what lets them check any line back against the original wording.