The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London 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 27 29 32
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 3 2 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.754% 0.948% 4.312%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.615% 3.922% 9.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
Average daily rate £500 - £288
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
-1.51% +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
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
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
65 51 288
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 38.01% 24.17% 47.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 31 129
Average daily rate £500 £525 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -8.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £388 £425
10% offered a daily rate of more than £638 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £26.75 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +16.30%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, London 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (87.50%) Windows
3 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
3 6 (75.00%) Banking
4 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
4 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
5 3 (37.50%) Finance
5 3 (37.50%) Linux
5 3 (37.50%) Java
5 3 (37.50%) SQL
5 3 (37.50%) Oracle
5 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (37.50%) Maven
6 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
6 2 (25.00%) C++
6 2 (25.00%) Retail
6 2 (25.00%) Derivative
6 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
6 2 (25.00%) Physics
6 2 (25.00%) BusinessObjects XI
6 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
6 2 (25.00%) System Testing
6 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (25.00%) Business Objects
6 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
6 2 (25.00%) IIS
6 2 (25.00%) SAP
6 2 (25.00%) VC++
6 2 (25.00%) Apache

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, London 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 2 (25.00%) SAP XI
2 1 (12.50%) Hibernate
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) JSP
2 1 (12.50%) Servlets
2 1 (12.50%) XML
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
2 1 (12.50%) HTML5
2 1 (12.50%) CSS3
2 1 (12.50%) WebSockets
2 1 (12.50%) Sass
2 1 (12.50%) LESS
2 1 (12.50%) Spine.js
2 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (12.50%) Ext JS
2 1 (12.50%) Dojo
2 1 (12.50%) Spring MVC
2 1 (12.50%) Grails
2 1 (12.50%) jQuery
2 1 (12.50%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) WebLogic
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) Apache
1 2 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SAN
1 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) BusinessObjects XI
1 2 (25.00%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Maven
2 2 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (75.00%) Investment Banking
1 6 (75.00%) Banking
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Retail
3 2 (25.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Front Office
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) C++ Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Business Objects Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Report Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Front Office Developer
3 2 (25.00%) Business Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Front-End Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Java Applications Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (25.00%) Derivative
2 2 (25.00%) Physics
2 2 (25.00%) Grid Computing
2 2 (25.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (25.00%) Multithreading
3 2 (25.00%) System Testing
3 2 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) MVC
4 1 (12.50%) OO
4 1 (12.50%) ITIL
4 1 (12.50%) BDD
4 1 (12.50%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C++
2 2 (25.00%) VC++
2 2 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 2 (25.00%) Business Objects
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) HP
3 1 (12.50%) EMC