Computer Science Contracts in Cambridgeshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridgeshire 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 35 40 42
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 15 22 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.732% 3.184% 1.718%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.19% 15.38% 9.783%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 0
Average daily rate £283 £358 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.97% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £47.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +295.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-8.06% -11.42%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category		 134 143 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 24.41% 20.69% 17.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 73 26
Average daily rate £288 £300 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.16% +4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £448 £400 £378
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £342 £340
% change year-on-year
+2.41% +0.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 24 24
Average hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +88.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £22.50 £10.55
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £50.00 £36.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £24.50 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-10.20% -7.54%
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +2 11 £263 -16.00%
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 22 (84.62%) Degree
2 16 (61.54%) C#
3 15 (57.69%) SQL
4 12 (46.15%) Games
5 11 (42.31%) Java
6 9 (34.62%) Linux
6 9 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
7 8 (30.77%) Python
7 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
8 7 (26.92%) Windows
8 7 (26.92%) C++
9 6 (23.08%) Oracle
9 6 (23.08%) Apache
9 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
9 6 (23.08%) Unit Testing
9 6 (23.08%) Facebook
10 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
10 5 (19.23%) Android
10 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
10 5 (19.23%) Objective-C
10 5 (19.23%) VMware
10 5 (19.23%) Subversion
10 5 (19.23%) PhD
10 5 (19.23%) C
10 5 (19.23%) Lisp
11 4 (15.38%) Mac OS X
11 4 (15.38%) Windows XP
11 4 (15.38%) Project Management
11 4 (15.38%) MVC
11 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 (15.38%) .NET
1 4 (15.38%) J2EE
1 4 (15.38%) Web Services
1 4 (15.38%) Swing
1 4 (15.38%) Spring
1 4 (15.38%) Ruby on Rails
1 4 (15.38%) JSON
1 4 (15.38%) Hibernate
1 4 (15.38%) RESTful
1 4 (15.38%) iOS SDK
2 2 (7.692%) GWT
2 2 (7.692%) EDI
2 2 (7.692%) JDBC
3 1 (3.846%) STL
3 1 (3.846%) OpenGL
3 1 (3.846%) HTML5
3 1 (3.846%) Cocoa
3 1 (3.846%) Direct3D
3 1 (3.846%) OpenGL ES
Application Platforms
1 6 (23.08%) Apache
1 6 (23.08%) Tomcat
2 4 (15.38%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (3.846%) Lync
3 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.846%) SharePoint
3 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
3 1 (3.846%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 2 (7.692%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.846%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) Adaptiv
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) Wireless
2 1 (3.846%) VLAN
2 1 (3.846%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (3.846%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (3.846%) LDAP
2 1 (3.846%) Firewall
2 1 (3.846%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) MySQL
1 4 (15.38%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Subversion
2 4 (15.38%) Maven
2 4 (15.38%) Git (software)
3 2 (7.692%) TestNG
4 1 (3.846%) Visual Studio
4 1 (3.846%) Xcode
General
1 12 (46.15%) Games
2 1 (3.846%) Banking
2 1 (3.846%) Multimedia
2 1 (3.846%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.846%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Software Engineer
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Project Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Software Development Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Software Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Project Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Development Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Tester
4 2 (7.692%) Design Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) Software Tester
4 2 (7.692%) Software Design Engineer
4 2 (7.692%) QA Tester
4 2 (7.692%) QA Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Software Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 1 (3.846%) Analyst
5 1 (3.846%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Machine Learning
2 4 (15.38%) Informatics
3 2 (7.692%) LIMS
3 2 (7.692%) Biology
3 2 (7.692%) Augmented Reality
4 1 (3.846%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.846%) Market Risk
4 1 (3.846%) iPhone
4 1 (3.846%) 3D Graphics
4 1 (3.846%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (3.846%) Mathematics
4 1 (3.846%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 9 (34.62%) Linux
2 7 (26.92%) Windows
3 5 (19.23%) Android
3 5 (19.23%) Apple iOS
4 4 (15.38%) Windows 7
4 4 (15.38%) Windows XP
4 4 (15.38%) Mac OS X
4 4 (15.38%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (3.846%) Solaris
5 1 (3.846%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (23.08%) Unit Testing
3 4 (15.38%) Resource Management
3 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 4 (15.38%) TDD
3 4 (15.38%) Migration
3 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (15.38%) Information Management
3 4 (15.38%) PRINCE2
3 4 (15.38%) Project Management
3 4 (15.38%) Regression Testing
3 4 (15.38%) MVC
4 3 (11.54%) Software Testing
4 3 (11.54%) Multithreading
5 2 (7.692%) Game Development
5 2 (7.692%) Software Engineering
6 1 (3.846%) Data Analysis
6 1 (3.846%) IC Design
6 1 (3.846%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.846%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (61.54%) C#
2 15 (57.69%) SQL
3 11 (42.31%) Java
4 8 (30.77%) Python
5 7 (26.92%) C++
6 5 (19.23%) Lisp
6 5 (19.23%) Objective-C
6 5 (19.23%) C
7 4 (15.38%) Ruby
7 4 (15.38%) Perl
8 1 (3.846%) Shell Script
8 1 (3.846%) MATLAB
8 1 (3.846%) Haskell
8 1 (3.846%) Erlang
Qualifications
1 22 (84.62%) Degree
2 5 (19.23%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) QA
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.846%) XenApp
2 1 (3.846%) NFS
2 1 (3.846%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.846%) Terminal Services
2 1 (3.846%) Samba
2 1 (3.846%) VMware ESX
2 1 (3.846%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) AppManager
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Oracle
1 6 (23.08%) Facebook
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
4 2 (7.692%) webMethods
5 1 (3.846%) Twitter
5 1 (3.846%) Sun
5 1 (3.846%) SunGard
5 1 (3.846%) Citrix
5 1 (3.846%) CommVault
5 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
5 1 (3.846%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.846%) Cadence
5 1 (3.846%) Cisco
Software Developers - High Throughput Gene Targeting
Cambridgeshire, East Anglia
Essential Skills Solid experience in a modern scripting language (We use modern Perl and Ruby. The job will initially involve coming to grips with our Perl-based code.)...
The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
Rate: £29750 - £37525 per annum
Posted: 19 May 2013
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