Computer Science Contracts in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 112 167
Rank change year-on-year +44 +55 -43
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,080 1,160 1,244
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.92% 2.30% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 2.55% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 667 777 793
10th Percentile £315 £380 £350
25th Percentile £422 £491 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +8.49%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £848
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 42 63
10th Percentile £22.33 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £41.75 £25.03 £35.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +17.56%
75th Percentile £65.63 £64.69 £53.06
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.10% +13.41% +10.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,992 45,544 64,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,975 31,977 45,770
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,229 1,592 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.87 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 +29 647 £553 -7.92% 883
South East +9 112 £450 -12.62% 256
Midlands +68 87 £550 +12.24% 125
North of England +66 86 £500 +2.88% 211
West Midlands +72 73 £550 +10.00% 66
South West +24 59 £588 +6.82% 107
East of England +33 52 £500 - 164
North West +44 48 £500 +6.38% 118
Yorkshire +35 33 £454 -17.41% 56
East Midlands +18 14 £575 +24.32% 59
North East +27 7 £600 - 38
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 25 (2.31%) Confluence
2 19 (1.76%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.48%) Apache Spark
5 12 (1.11%) Apache
6 8 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
6 8 (0.74%) SAS
7 4 (0.37%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.37%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.37%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.28%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.28%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.19%) Camunda
9 2 (0.19%) GemFire
9 2 (0.19%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 50 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.94%) Simulink
4 20 (1.85%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.85%) Stateflow
5 14 (1.30%) Chatbot
6 8 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.74%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.28%) SPSS
7 3 (0.28%) Windchill
8 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.093%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.093%) Blender
9 1 (0.093%) CATIA
9 1 (0.093%) Houdini
9 1 (0.093%) Maya
9 1 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (0.093%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.093%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 15 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.93%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.37%) Primavera
5 3 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.28%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.28%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.19%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.19%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.19%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.19%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 238 (22.04%) Azure
2 155 (14.35%) AWS
3 105 (9.72%) GCP
4 66 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 38 (3.52%) Power Platform
7 31 (2.87%) GitHub
7 31 (2.87%) Serverless
8 28 (2.59%) Cloud Computing
9 22 (2.04%) SaaS
10 20 (1.85%) AWS Lambda
10 20 (1.85%) PaaS
11 16 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (1.48%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.39%) Vertex AI
13 14 (1.30%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.11%) Azure Sentinel
14 12 (1.11%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (1.02%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.98%) DNS
2 42 (3.89%) Firewall
3 25 (2.31%) DHCP
3 25 (2.31%) Network Security
4 23 (2.13%) WAN
4 23 (2.13%) Wireless
5 22 (2.04%) Internet
5 22 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.94%) LAN
6 21 (1.94%) VPN
7 16 (1.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 13 (1.20%) Wireshark
9 12 (1.11%) OSPF
10 11 (1.02%) HTTP
11 10 (0.93%) BGP
12 9 (0.83%) MPLS
12 9 (0.83%) Remote Desktop
13 8 (0.74%) SSL
13 8 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (0.65%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 47 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
3 41 (3.80%) Big Data
3 41 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 36 (3.33%) Tableau
6 32 (2.96%) Power BI
7 29 (2.69%) NoSQL
8 23 (2.13%) Hadoop
9 18 (1.67%) BigQuery
9 18 (1.67%) MongoDB
10 17 (1.57%) MySQL
11 14 (1.30%) Data Mining
12 12 (1.11%) Oracle Database
13 11 (1.02%) Data Lake
13 11 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
13 11 (1.02%) KDB
13 11 (1.02%) RDBMS
14 10 (0.93%) Metadata
15 9 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 81 (7.50%) Git
2 61 (5.65%) JIRA
3 57 (5.28%) Jenkins
4 26 (2.41%) GitLab
5 20 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 10 (0.93%) Gradle
6 10 (0.93%) Rational DOORS
7 9 (0.83%) Subversion
8 8 (0.74%) JUnit
9 7 (0.65%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.65%) ERwin
9 7 (0.65%) Mercurial
9 7 (0.65%) Selenium
9 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 7 (0.65%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.56%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.56%) Postman
11 5 (0.46%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 5 (0.46%) git-flow
11 5 (0.46%) MLflow
General
1 534 (49.44%) Social Skills
2 242 (22.41%) Analytical Skills
3 227 (21.02%) Finance
4 90 (8.33%) Banking
5 58 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 56 (5.19%) Front Office
7 52 (4.81%) Legal
8 49 (4.54%) Telecoms
9 41 (3.80%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (3.15%) Marketing
11 27 (2.50%) Electronics
12 25 (2.31%) Automotive
12 25 (2.31%) Retail
13 22 (2.04%) Investment Banking
14 18 (1.67%) Aerospace
14 18 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
14 18 (1.67%) Manufacturing
15 16 (1.48%) Financial Institution
16 15 (1.39%) Multimedia
17 11 (1.02%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 192 (17.78%) Developer
2 163 (15.09%) Architect
3 122 (11.30%) Senior
4 87 (8.06%) Software Engineer
5 81 (7.50%) Analyst
6 66 (6.11%) Solutions Architect
7 48 (4.44%) Java Developer
8 46 (4.26%) Lead
9 42 (3.89%) Consultant
9 42 (3.89%) Data Engineer
9 42 (3.89%) Network Engineer
10 32 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
11 27 (2.50%) Python Developer
12 25 (2.31%) Senior Developer
13 21 (1.94%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (1.76%) Data Analyst
15 18 (1.67%) Data Scientist
15 18 (1.67%) Support Engineer
16 17 (1.57%) Data Architect
16 17 (1.57%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (5.56%) CSS
2 57 (5.28%) HTML
3 51 (4.72%) .NET
4 47 (4.35%) React
5 38 (3.52%) REST
6 36 (3.33%) RESTful
7 30 (2.78%) Kafka
8 26 (2.41%) Spring
9 25 (2.31%) JSON
9 25 (2.31%) Pandas
10 24 (2.22%) NumPy
11 22 (2.04%) AngularJS
12 20 (1.85%) Node.js
13 18 (1.67%) XML
14 15 (1.39%) Django
15 14 (1.30%) Elastic Stack
15 14 (1.30%) SciPy
16 13 (1.20%) .NET Core
16 13 (1.20%) PyTorch
17 12 (1.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 115 (10.65%) Algorithms
2 113 (10.46%) Management Information System
3 52 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
4 49 (4.54%) Data Centre
5 48 (4.44%) Data Structures
6 43 (3.98%) Derivative
7 30 (2.78%) Product Ownership
8 27 (2.50%) Fixed Income
9 23 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
10 21 (1.94%) Virtual Team
11 20 (1.85%) Mobile App
12 19 (1.76%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.67%) CMDB
13 18 (1.67%) Distributed Systems
14 16 (1.48%) Equities
14 16 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (1.48%) Legacy Systems
15 15 (1.39%) Onboarding
15 15 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
15 15 (1.39%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 94 (8.70%) Windows
2 87 (8.06%) Linux
3 45 (4.17%) Unix
4 29 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.59%) Android
6 11 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.02%) Solaris
7 9 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.83%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.74%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.65%) VMS
10 6 (0.56%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.56%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.46%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.37%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.28%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.28%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 407 (37.69%) Problem-Solving
2 279 (25.83%) Agile
3 177 (16.39%) Software Engineering
4 159 (14.72%) DevOps
5 126 (11.67%) Migration
6 125 (11.57%) CI/CD
7 120 (11.11%) Analytics
8 111 (10.28%) Mathematics
9 108 (10.00%) Data Science
9 108 (10.00%) Machine Learning
10 103 (9.54%) Data Modelling
11 90 (8.33%) ITIL
12 89 (8.24%) Roadmaps
12 89 (8.24%) Test Automation
13 83 (7.69%) Artificial Intelligence
14 80 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
15 79 (7.31%) Decision-Making
15 79 (7.31%) Project Management
15 79 (7.31%) Scrum
16 71 (6.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 279 (25.83%) Python
2 217 (20.09%) SQL
3 172 (15.93%) Java
4 96 (8.89%) JavaScript
5 88 (8.15%) C#
6 72 (6.67%) C++
7 54 (5.00%) PowerShell
8 31 (2.87%) Bash
9 29 (2.69%) MATLAB
10 27 (2.50%) TypeScript
11 25 (2.31%) R
12 24 (2.22%) C
12 24 (2.22%) Scala
13 19 (1.76%) Go
13 19 (1.76%) Perl
14 16 (1.48%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.48%) Rust
15 14 (1.30%) Shell Script
16 12 (1.11%) PL/SQL
16 12 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 971 (89.91%) Degree
2 621 (57.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 182 (16.85%) Master's Degree
4 130 (12.04%) Security Cleared
5 98 (9.07%) SC Cleared
6 64 (5.93%) Cisco Certification
7 47 (4.35%) PhD
8 45 (4.17%) CISSP
9 36 (3.33%) CCNA
10 34 (3.15%) DV Cleared
11 33 (3.06%) Microsoft Certification
12 32 (2.96%) Azure Certification
12 32 (2.96%) CCNP
13 22 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
14 21 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
15 17 (1.57%) CEH
16 16 (1.48%) A+ Certification
16 16 (1.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 15 (1.39%) PMI Certification
17 15 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (7.59%) QA
2 60 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.85%) SLA
4 18 (1.67%) NIST
5 13 (1.20%) Accessibility
6 10 (0.93%) GDPR
6 10 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 7 (0.65%) GRC
7 7 (0.65%) MiFID
8 6 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.46%) COBIT
9 5 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.37%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.37%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.37%) JTAG
11 3 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.28%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.19%) PMO
System Software
1 45 (4.17%) Active Directory
2 42 (3.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (3.80%) Docker
4 20 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.39%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.39%) vSphere
6 14 (1.30%) VMware NSX
7 13 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.02%) KVM
9 5 (0.46%) Firmware
10 4 (0.37%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.37%) NFS
10 4 (0.37%) vCloud
10 4 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.37%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.093%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.093%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.093%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.093%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (5.37%) Kubernetes
2 53 (4.91%) Terraform
3 20 (1.85%) Ansible
4 13 (1.20%) vCenter Server
5 11 (1.02%) PingFederate
6 10 (0.93%) SCCM
7 9 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.65%) Kibana
8 7 (0.65%) logstash
9 6 (0.56%) Grafana
9 6 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.46%) Nessus
10 5 (0.46%) OpenView
11 4 (0.37%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.37%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.37%) Puppet
11 4 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
11 4 (0.37%) WSUS
12 3 (0.28%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.28%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 196 (18.15%) Microsoft
2 69 (6.39%) Oracle
3 55 (5.09%) Cisco
3 55 (5.09%) VMware
4 52 (4.81%) SAP
5 49 (4.54%) Google
6 41 (3.80%) ServiceNow
7 24 (2.22%) Databricks
8 19 (1.76%) Juniper
9 17 (1.57%) IBM
10 15 (1.39%) Palo Alto
10 15 (1.39%) Red Hat
11 13 (1.20%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.11%) Genesys
13 11 (1.02%) Atlassian
13 11 (1.02%) F5
13 11 (1.02%) Foundry
13 11 (1.02%) Palantir
13 11 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 11 (1.02%) Splunk