Computer Science Degree Contracts in England

Computer Science Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 258 332
Rank change year-on-year +122 +74 -11
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 629 549 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.70% 1.09% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.43% 3.91% 3.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 405 381
10th Percentile £300 £361 £351
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.63%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £650
90th Percentile £785 £900 £825
UK median daily rate £550 £564 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 10 24
10th Percentile £30.85 £19.30 £19.43
25th Percentile £38.75 £35.88 £35.31
Median hourly rate £56.25 £54.44 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +12.24% +32.88%
75th Percentile £74.38 £63.69 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.38 £56.56
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year - +13.40% +32.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
London +78 400 £550 -8.33% 398
South East +36 62 £488 -2.50% 103
Midlands +48 51 £550 +14.58% 66
West Midlands +59 46 £550 +12.24% 37
North of England +49 39 £339 -24.72% 107
East of England +35 32 £500 -13.04% 61
South West +36 28 £588 +6.82% 43
North West +22 21 £165 -63.33% 62
Yorkshire +24 12 £340 -7.80% 30
North East - 6 £600 - 15
East Midlands +15 5 £650 +39.78% 29
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.91%) Apache
4 10 (1.59%) Confluence
5 8 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.32%) Camunda
6 2 (0.32%) CMS
6 2 (0.32%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.32%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.32%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.32%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.16%) CICS
7 1 (0.16%) IBM Domino
7 1 (0.16%) IBM Notes
7 1 (0.16%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Fuse
7 1 (0.16%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 27 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.59%) MS Visio
4 6 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.79%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.48%) Windchill
7 2 (0.32%) Simulink
8 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.16%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.16%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.48%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.48%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.48%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.32%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.32%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.32%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.32%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.32%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.16%) Magento
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Assets
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
Cloud Services
1 150 (23.85%) Azure
2 111 (17.65%) AWS
3 73 (11.61%) GCP
4 28 (4.45%) Serverless
5 25 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (3.66%) Power Platform
7 21 (3.34%) GitHub
8 20 (3.18%) Cloud Computing
9 19 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.54%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (2.23%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.07%) Vertex AI
13 12 (1.91%) Azure Sentinel
14 11 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 10 (1.59%) Google Compute Engine
15 10 (1.59%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.59%) SaaS
16 9 (1.43%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.97%) Firewall
2 23 (3.66%) DNS
3 21 (3.34%) Network Security
4 12 (1.91%) VPN
5 10 (1.59%) DHCP
6 9 (1.43%) Internet
6 9 (1.43%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.27%) LAN
7 8 (1.27%) Wireshark
8 6 (0.95%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.95%) WAN
8 6 (0.95%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.79%) 5G
9 5 (0.79%) OSPF
9 5 (0.79%) SSL
10 4 (0.64%) 3G
10 4 (0.64%) MPLS
10 4 (0.64%) RANAP
10 4 (0.64%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.36%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.13%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.97%) Relational Database
4 23 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (3.18%) Power BI
6 18 (2.86%) BigQuery
7 17 (2.70%) Big Data
8 16 (2.54%) MySQL
9 15 (2.38%) Tableau
10 13 (2.07%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.91%) NoSQL
12 11 (1.75%) Data Mining
13 10 (1.59%) Oracle Database
14 9 (1.43%) Hadoop
15 8 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
16 7 (1.11%) Data Lake
16 7 (1.11%) RDBMS
17 6 (0.95%) Couchbase
18 5 (0.79%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 62 (9.86%) Git
2 39 (6.20%) Jenkins
3 29 (4.61%) JIRA
4 18 (2.86%) GitLab
5 13 (2.07%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.43%) Gradle
7 8 (1.27%) JUnit
8 6 (0.95%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.95%) Mercurial
8 6 (0.95%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 5 (0.79%) Maven
9 5 (0.79%) MLflow
9 5 (0.79%) Selenium
9 5 (0.79%) Subversion
10 4 (0.64%) Sourcetree
11 3 (0.48%) ERwin
11 3 (0.48%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.48%) TeamCity
12 2 (0.32%) Oracle APEX
General
1 356 (56.60%) Social Skills
2 156 (24.80%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (20.35%) Finance
4 66 (10.49%) Banking
5 23 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
6 21 (3.34%) Front Office
6 21 (3.34%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.18%) Legal
8 17 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
9 16 (2.54%) Retail
9 16 (2.54%) Telecoms
10 14 (2.23%) Marketing
10 14 (2.23%) Multimedia
11 12 (1.91%) Investment Banking
12 10 (1.59%) Electronics
12 10 (1.59%) Financial Institution
12 10 (1.59%) Manufacturing
13 6 (0.95%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.79%) Automotive
14 5 (0.79%) French Language
Job Titles
1 111 (17.65%) Developer
2 101 (16.06%) Architect
3 55 (8.74%) Senior
4 40 (6.36%) Software Engineer
5 36 (5.72%) Lead
6 31 (4.93%) Analyst
7 27 (4.29%) Java Developer
8 26 (4.13%) Data Engineer
8 26 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
9 24 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
10 23 (3.66%) Consultant
11 22 (3.50%) Network Engineer
12 17 (2.70%) Senior Developer
13 16 (2.54%) Technical Architect
14 14 (2.23%) Azure Engineer
15 13 (2.07%) Project Manager
15 13 (2.07%) Security Engineer
16 12 (1.91%) AWS Engineer
16 12 (1.91%) GCP Engineer
17 11 (1.75%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (6.68%) CSS
2 39 (6.20%) HTML
3 35 (5.56%) React
4 32 (5.09%) REST
5 24 (3.82%) .NET
6 23 (3.66%) RESTful
6 23 (3.66%) Spring
7 19 (3.02%) AngularJS
8 18 (2.86%) Kafka
9 15 (2.38%) JSON
10 11 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
10 11 (1.75%) jQuery
11 10 (1.59%) Hibernate
11 10 (1.59%) Node.js
11 10 (1.59%) NumPy
11 10 (1.59%) Pandas
11 10 (1.59%) PyTorch
11 10 (1.59%) RAML
11 10 (1.59%) Swagger
11 10 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 64 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 49 (7.79%) Algorithms
3 31 (4.93%) Data Centre
4 30 (4.77%) Self-Motivation
5 25 (3.97%) Data Structures
6 21 (3.34%) Derivative
7 18 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.70%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.54%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 14 (2.23%) Fixed Income
11 14 (2.23%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.07%) CMDB
12 13 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
13 11 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.75%) Onboarding
13 11 (1.75%) Social Media
14 10 (1.59%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.59%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 58 (9.22%) Windows
2 50 (7.95%) Linux
3 21 (3.34%) Android
4 18 (2.86%) Windows Server
5 16 (2.54%) Unix
6 9 (1.43%) Solaris
7 8 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.27%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.27%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.11%) VMS
9 6 (0.95%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.64%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.64%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.48%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.32%) HPUX
12 2 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.32%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (98.73%) Computer Science
2 294 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
3 159 (25.28%) Agile
4 101 (16.06%) DevOps
5 98 (15.58%) Software Engineering
6 79 (12.56%) CI/CD
7 76 (12.08%) Migration
8 62 (9.86%) Data Science
8 62 (9.86%) Machine Learning
9 61 (9.70%) Analytics
10 57 (9.06%) Data Modelling
11 53 (8.43%) Project Management
12 51 (8.11%) Continuous Improvement
13 48 (7.63%) Artificial Intelligence
13 48 (7.63%) Microservices
14 46 (7.31%) ITIL
15 45 (7.15%) Continuous Integration
15 45 (7.15%) Mathematics
16 43 (6.84%) Mentoring
17 42 (6.68%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 158 (25.12%) Python
2 103 (16.38%) SQL
3 102 (16.22%) Java
4 70 (11.13%) JavaScript
5 43 (6.84%) C#
6 38 (6.04%) PowerShell
7 32 (5.09%) C++
8 27 (4.29%) Bash
9 22 (3.50%) TypeScript
10 20 (3.18%) Scala
11 17 (2.70%) R
12 15 (2.38%) C
13 13 (2.07%) Go
13 13 (2.07%) Kotlin
14 11 (1.75%) Perl
15 10 (1.59%) PL/SQL
16 6 (0.95%) Kusto Query Language
16 6 (0.95%) MATLAB
16 6 (0.95%) Shell Script
17 5 (0.79%) PHP
Qualifications
1 629 (100.00%) Degree
2 100 (15.90%) Master's Degree
3 87 (13.83%) Security Cleared
4 66 (10.49%) SC Cleared
5 35 (5.56%) CISSP
6 32 (5.09%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (4.13%) Azure Certification
8 20 (3.18%) CCNA
8 20 (3.18%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (2.86%) CCNP
9 18 (2.86%) DV Cleared
10 17 (2.70%) CEH
11 16 (2.54%) PhD
12 14 (2.23%) CompTIA Security+
12 14 (2.23%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.75%) CCIE
14 10 (1.59%) A+ Certification
14 10 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
15 9 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.43%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.95%) QA
2 26 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.59%) NIST
4 9 (1.43%) SLA
5 8 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 5 (0.79%) GDPR
7 4 (0.64%) GRC
8 3 (0.48%) COBIT
8 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 3 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.32%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.32%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.32%) MiFID
9 2 (0.32%) PMO
10 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.16%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (4.93%) Docker
2 27 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.75%) KVM
4 11 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.59%) vSphere
6 8 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.79%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.64%) vCloud
9 4 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.64%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.16%) Firmware
10 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.16%) Xen
Systems Management
1 45 (7.15%) Terraform
2 37 (5.88%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.23%) Ansible
4 8 (1.27%) PingFederate
5 7 (1.11%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.95%) Kibana
6 6 (0.95%) logstash
6 6 (0.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.79%) Grafana
7 5 (0.79%) SCCM
8 3 (0.48%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.48%) Nessus
8 3 (0.48%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.48%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.48%) Puppet
8 3 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.48%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.32%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.32%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 130 (20.67%) Microsoft
2 49 (7.79%) Oracle
3 33 (5.25%) Google
3 33 (5.25%) VMware
4 32 (5.09%) ServiceNow
5 22 (3.50%) SAP
6 19 (3.02%) Cisco
7 13 (2.07%) Databricks
8 12 (1.91%) Red Hat
9 11 (1.75%) Salesforce
10 10 (1.59%) IBM
11 9 (1.43%) Juniper
12 7 (1.11%) Arista
12 7 (1.11%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.95%) Foundry
13 6 (0.95%) Palantir
13 6 (0.95%) Qualys
14 5 (0.79%) Sparx
14 5 (0.79%) Splunk
15 4 (0.64%) Optimizely
805 Computer Science Degree jobs in England