Computer Science Contracts in the East Midlands

Computer Science
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 73 83
Rank change year-on-year +21 +10 -21
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 14 16 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 1.81% 1.53% 1.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 1.74% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 12
10th Percentile £456 £335 £165
25th Percentile £524 £425 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £463 £430
Median % change year-on-year +29.73% +7.56% -4.44%
75th Percentile £650 £500 £491
90th Percentile £673 £776 £500
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £22.93 - -
25th Percentile £24.74 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £30.50 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -39.00% - -
75th Percentile £46.63 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £54.65 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +10.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 607 920 1,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.42% 88.21% 83.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 697 869
10th Percentile £200 £211 £207
25th Percentile £270 £330 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% +2.27% +12.82%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £603
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 73 80
10th Percentile £11.33 £11.98 £9.59
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.47
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -7.43% -4.60% +31.76%
75th Percentile £26.15 £30.00 £27.81
90th Percentile £38.75 £54.30 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derbyshire +3 6 £575 +9.52% 12
Nottinghamshire +8 3 £675 +35.00% 19
Lincolnshire +12 2 - - 4
Northamptonshire - 2 £410 - 16
Leicestershire +7 1 £625 +35.14% 24
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) Apache Spark
2 2 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.14%) CATIA
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Ethereal
1 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
1 2 (14.29%) LAN
1 2 (14.29%) WAN
1 2 (14.29%) Wireless
1 2 (14.29%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (14.29%) Big Data
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (7.14%) Apache Hive
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Data Lake
2 1 (7.14%) Hadoop
2 1 (7.14%) MySQL
2 1 (7.14%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
General
1 12 (85.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 4 (28.57%) Electronics
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Back Office
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
4 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.14%) Police
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Validation Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Verification Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Network Support
3 2 (14.29%) Network Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Analytics Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Business Intelligence Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) C++ Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Data Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Software Validation Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Software Verification Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Apache Beam
1 1 (7.14%) Kafka
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Systems Engineering
3 4 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
4 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (21.43%) Data Modelling
4 3 (21.43%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (21.43%) Data Science
4 3 (21.43%) ETL
5 2 (14.29%) Analytics
5 2 (14.29%) Data Engineering
5 2 (14.29%) Data Governance
5 2 (14.29%) Machine Learning
5 2 (14.29%) Visualisation
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Data Privacy
6 1 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Python
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) Scala
3 1 (7.14%) C
3 1 (7.14%) C++
3 1 (7.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) R
3 1 (7.14%) Rust
3 1 (7.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (28.57%) Chartered Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) DV Cleared
3 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (14.29%) CCNA
4 2 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
2 1 (7.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.14%) GDPR
2 1 (7.14%) NIST
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Sage
2 1 (7.14%) SAP