Computer Science Contracts in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Cambridge region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 26 35 26
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -9
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 10 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 3.040% 3.066% 3.125%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.63% 11.50% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 0
Average daily rate £263 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £35.50 £47.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.26% +295.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £31.00 £36.00
% change year-on-year
+3.22% -13.88%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 86 113 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 26.14% 26.65% 19.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 13
Average daily rate £263 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £225 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £377 £400 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 20 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +240.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.00 £15.00 £10.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Computer Science
Cambridgeshire

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Cambridge Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Computer Science across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge Computer Science Daily Rate Histogram

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the Cambridge region.

Cambridge Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Computer Science also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Computer Science.

1 18 (81.82%) Degree
2 13 (59.09%) C#
2 13 (59.09%) SQL
3 9 (40.91%) Java
3 9 (40.91%) Games
3 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
4 7 (31.82%) Python
4 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
5 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
5 6 (27.27%) Linux
5 6 (27.27%) Apache
5 6 (27.27%) Tomcat
5 6 (27.27%) Oracle
6 5 (22.73%) Lisp
6 5 (22.73%) Perl
6 5 (22.73%) C++
6 5 (22.73%) Facebook
7 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
7 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (18.18%) Git (software)
7 4 (18.18%) RESTful
7 4 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (18.18%) JSON
7 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
7 4 (18.18%) Informatics
7 4 (18.18%) Information Management
7 4 (18.18%) Spring
7 4 (18.18%) Maven
7 4 (18.18%) Subversion
7 4 (18.18%) Ruby

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Computer Science also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (18.18%) RESTful
1 4 (18.18%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (18.18%) JSON
1 4 (18.18%) Spring
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
1 4 (18.18%) J2EE
1 4 (18.18%) Web Services
1 4 (18.18%) Swing
1 4 (18.18%) Hibernate
2 2 (9.091%) iOS SDK
2 2 (9.091%) GWT
2 2 (9.091%) JDBC
2 2 (9.091%) EDI
3 1 (4.545%) OpenGL
3 1 (4.545%) Cocoa
3 1 (4.545%) XML
3 1 (4.545%) XSLT
3 1 (4.545%) HTML5
3 1 (4.545%) OpenGL ES
3 1 (4.545%) Direct3D
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) Apache
1 6 (27.27%) Tomcat
2 4 (18.18%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.545%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) MySQL
1 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Git (software)
1 4 (18.18%) Maven
1 4 (18.18%) Subversion
2 2 (9.091%) TestNG
3 1 (4.545%) Xcode
3 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
General
1 9 (40.91%) Games
2 1 (4.545%) Electronics
2 1 (4.545%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.545%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Developer
2 7 (31.82%) Software Engineer
3 6 (27.27%) Java Developer
4 4 (18.18%) Development Engineer
4 4 (18.18%) Software Manager
4 4 (18.18%) Project Manager
4 4 (18.18%) Software Project Manager
4 4 (18.18%) Software Development Engineer
5 2 (9.091%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Author
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Author
6 1 (4.545%) Programmer
6 1 (4.545%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Design Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Graduate
6 1 (4.545%) Software Design Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 1 (4.545%) iOS Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Machine Learning
2 4 (18.18%) Informatics
3 2 (9.091%) Augmented Reality
3 2 (9.091%) Biology
3 2 (9.091%) LIMS
4 1 (4.545%) E-Learning
4 1 (4.545%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (4.545%) Animation
4 1 (4.545%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (4.545%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Android
2 3 (13.64%) Apple iOS
3 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 2 (9.091%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (9.091%) Windows XP
3 2 (9.091%) Mac OS X
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (27.27%) Unit Testing
3 4 (18.18%) Resource Management
3 4 (18.18%) Information Management
3 4 (18.18%) PRINCE2
3 4 (18.18%) Project Management
3 4 (18.18%) MVC
3 4 (18.18%) TDD
3 4 (18.18%) Migration
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (9.091%) Game Development
4 2 (9.091%) Multithreading
4 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
4 2 (9.091%) Data Modelling
4 2 (9.091%) Regression Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Benchmarking
5 1 (4.545%) OO
5 1 (4.545%) Software Testing
5 1 (4.545%) Content Management
5 1 (4.545%) Parallel Computing
Programming Languages
1 13 (59.09%) C#
1 13 (59.09%) SQL
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 7 (31.82%) Python
4 5 (22.73%) Lisp
4 5 (22.73%) Perl
4 5 (22.73%) C++
5 4 (18.18%) Ruby
6 3 (13.64%) C
6 3 (13.64%) Objective-C
7 1 (4.545%) Assembly Language
7 1 (4.545%) Haskell
7 1 (4.545%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 4 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Oracle
2 5 (22.73%) Facebook
3 4 (18.18%) VMware
4 2 (9.091%) webMethods
5 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
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