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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 110 167
Rank change year-on-year +42 +57 -49
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,108 1,151 1,256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.99% 2.30% 1.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.45% 2.55% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 682 777 806
10th Percentile £315 £380 £351
25th Percentile £413 £488 £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 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 42 64
10th Percentile £22.33 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £42.00 £25.03 £33.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.31 £64.69 £52.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £46.71
% change year-on-year +3.41% +13.86% +9.11%

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 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
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% +7.61%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 6 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
London +27 662 £550 -8.33% 914
South East +15 120 £450 -14.29% 272
North of England +66 93 £492 +1.18% 217
Midlands +70 88 £550 +12.24% 160
West Midlands +63 74 £525 +2.44% 90
South West +29 57 £588 +6.82% 115
East of England +34 52 £500 - 167
North West +47 50 £500 +2.88% 124
Yorkshire +36 37 £450 -18.18% 60
East Midlands +17 14 £600 +29.73% 70
North East +24 8 £600 - 35
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 28 (2.53%) Confluence
2 22 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 17 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 15 (1.35%) Apache
6 11 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.90%) SAS
8 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.27%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.18%) GemFire
10 2 (0.18%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) MQSeries
Applications
1 50 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.90%) Simulink
4 20 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.81%) Stateflow
5 12 (1.08%) Chatbot
6 10 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 8 (0.72%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) SPSS
8 3 (0.27%) Windchill
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.090%) Blender
10 1 (0.090%) CATIA
10 1 (0.090%) Houdini
10 1 (0.090%) InVision
10 1 (0.090%) Maya
10 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.090%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 16 (1.44%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (0.90%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.36%) Primavera
5 3 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
5 3 (0.27%) ENOVIA
5 3 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.18%) Magento
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.18%) Orchestrade
6 2 (0.18%) R3 Corda
6 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.18%) SAP SD
6 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 251 (22.65%) Azure
2 162 (14.62%) AWS
3 112 (10.11%) GCP
4 65 (5.87%) Azure DevOps
5 41 (3.70%) Power Platform
6 40 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (3.07%) Cloud Computing
8 33 (2.98%) GitHub
8 33 (2.98%) Serverless
9 21 (1.90%) SaaS
10 19 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (1.71%) PaaS
11 18 (1.62%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (1.44%) Entra ID
12 16 (1.44%) PowerApps
13 15 (1.35%) Vertex AI
14 12 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
15 11 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
16 10 (0.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.97%) DNS
2 41 (3.70%) Firewall
3 24 (2.17%) DHCP
3 24 (2.17%) Network Security
4 23 (2.08%) WAN
4 23 (2.08%) Wireless
5 22 (1.99%) Internet
5 22 (1.99%) TCP/IP
6 21 (1.90%) LAN
6 21 (1.90%) VPN
7 16 (1.44%) Cisco Nexus
7 16 (1.44%) Wireshark
8 13 (1.17%) OSPF
9 11 (0.99%) BGP
9 11 (0.99%) HTTP
9 11 (0.99%) VoIP
10 10 (0.90%) MPLS
11 9 (0.81%) 5G
11 9 (0.81%) Remote Desktop
11 9 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (5.42%) SQL Server
2 48 (4.33%) Data Warehouse
3 44 (3.97%) Relational Database
4 42 (3.79%) Big Data
4 42 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
5 37 (3.34%) Tableau
6 35 (3.16%) Power BI
7 33 (2.98%) NoSQL
8 24 (2.17%) Hadoop
9 20 (1.81%) MySQL
10 19 (1.71%) BigQuery
10 19 (1.71%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.35%) Data Mining
12 13 (1.17%) KDB
13 12 (1.08%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.08%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.90%) Elasticsearch
14 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 91 (8.21%) Git
2 67 (6.05%) JIRA
3 59 (5.32%) Jenkins
4 28 (2.53%) GitLab
5 21 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.99%) Gradle
7 10 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
8 9 (0.81%) JUnit
8 9 (0.81%) Subversion
9 8 (0.72%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.63%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.63%) ERwin
10 7 (0.63%) Mercurial
10 7 (0.63%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.54%) Postman
11 6 (0.54%) Selenium
12 5 (0.45%) git-flow
12 5 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 550 (49.64%) Social Skills
2 258 (23.29%) Analytical Skills
3 235 (21.21%) Finance
4 90 (8.12%) Banking
5 59 (5.32%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.14%) Front Office
7 52 (4.69%) Legal
8 51 (4.60%) Telecoms
9 44 (3.97%) Presentation Skills
10 34 (3.07%) Marketing
11 27 (2.44%) Retail
12 26 (2.35%) Electronics
13 25 (2.26%) Automotive
14 20 (1.81%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.71%) Financial Institution
16 18 (1.62%) Aerospace
16 18 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
16 18 (1.62%) Manufacturing
17 17 (1.53%) Multimedia
18 11 (0.99%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 201 (18.14%) Developer
2 160 (14.44%) Architect
3 125 (11.28%) Senior
4 89 (8.03%) Software Engineer
5 83 (7.49%) Analyst
6 70 (6.32%) Solutions Architect
7 52 (4.69%) Java Developer
8 49 (4.42%) Lead
9 45 (4.06%) Network Engineer
10 43 (3.88%) Data Engineer
11 38 (3.43%) Consultant
12 34 (3.07%) DevOps Engineer
13 26 (2.35%) Python Developer
13 26 (2.35%) Senior Developer
14 21 (1.90%) Data Analyst
15 20 (1.81%) Azure Engineer
16 19 (1.71%) Business Analyst
16 19 (1.71%) Data Scientist
16 19 (1.71%) Project Manager
17 18 (1.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (5.60%) CSS
2 59 (5.32%) HTML
3 55 (4.96%) .NET
4 51 (4.60%) React
5 40 (3.61%) REST
6 33 (2.98%) Kafka
6 33 (2.98%) RESTful
7 31 (2.80%) Spring
8 27 (2.44%) JSON
9 25 (2.26%) Pandas
10 23 (2.08%) AngularJS
10 23 (2.08%) NumPy
11 22 (1.99%) Node.js
11 22 (1.99%) XML
12 16 (1.44%) Django
12 16 (1.44%) Web Services
13 14 (1.26%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
13 14 (1.26%) Middleware
13 14 (1.26%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.01%) Algorithms
2 109 (9.84%) Management Information System
3 54 (4.87%) Data Structures
3 54 (4.87%) Self-Motivation
4 51 (4.60%) Data Centre
5 42 (3.79%) Derivative
6 30 (2.71%) Product Ownership
7 29 (2.62%) Fixed Income
8 24 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
9 22 (1.99%) Virtual Team
10 20 (1.81%) Distributed Systems
10 20 (1.81%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.62%) CMDB
12 17 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
12 17 (1.53%) Security Posture
13 16 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.44%) Social Media
13 16 (1.44%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 15 (1.35%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 96 (8.66%) Windows
2 92 (8.30%) Linux
3 47 (4.24%) Unix
4 30 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.62%) Android
6 11 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.99%) Solaris
7 9 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
7 9 (0.81%) Windows 10
8 8 (0.72%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.63%) VMS
10 6 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.36%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 418 (37.73%) Problem-Solving
2 299 (26.99%) Agile
3 180 (16.25%) Software Engineering
4 166 (14.98%) DevOps
5 135 (12.18%) CI/CD
6 132 (11.91%) Migration
7 124 (11.19%) Analytics
8 110 (9.93%) Data Science
8 110 (9.93%) Mathematics
9 108 (9.75%) Data Modelling
9 108 (9.75%) Machine Learning
10 99 (8.94%) Test Automation
11 92 (8.30%) ITIL
11 92 (8.30%) Roadmaps
12 85 (7.67%) Artificial Intelligence
13 84 (7.58%) Project Management
13 84 (7.58%) Scrum
14 83 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 77 (6.95%) Decision-Making
16 68 (6.14%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 285 (25.72%) Python
2 229 (20.67%) SQL
3 178 (16.06%) Java
4 100 (9.03%) JavaScript
5 93 (8.39%) C#
6 70 (6.32%) C++
7 56 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 37 (3.34%) Bash
9 30 (2.71%) MATLAB
10 26 (2.35%) TypeScript
11 24 (2.17%) R
11 24 (2.17%) Scala
12 23 (2.08%) C
13 22 (1.99%) Go
14 21 (1.90%) Perl
15 18 (1.62%) Rust
16 16 (1.44%) Kotlin
17 14 (1.26%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.17%) VB.NET
19 12 (1.08%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 997 (89.98%) Degree
2 648 (58.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 190 (17.15%) Master's Degree
4 133 (12.00%) Security Cleared
5 100 (9.03%) SC Cleared
6 62 (5.60%) Cisco Certification
7 48 (4.33%) PhD
8 42 (3.79%) CISSP
9 35 (3.16%) CCNA
10 34 (3.07%) CCNP
10 34 (3.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 33 (2.98%) Azure Certification
11 33 (2.98%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
13 20 (1.81%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (1.62%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.62%) PMP
15 17 (1.53%) CEH
16 16 (1.44%) A+ Certification
17 15 (1.35%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.67%) QA
2 62 (5.60%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.81%) SLA
4 16 (1.44%) NIST
5 13 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 12 (1.08%) GDPR
7 9 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 7 (0.63%) GRC
8 7 (0.63%) MiFID
9 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 6 (0.54%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.45%) COBIT
11 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.36%) JTAG
12 3 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 48 (4.33%) Active Directory
2 43 (3.88%) Docker
3 41 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.35%) vSphere
6 13 (1.17%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.99%) KVM
9 6 (0.54%) Firmware
10 4 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.36%) NFS
10 4 (0.36%) vCloud
10 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.36%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.090%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 52 (4.69%) Terraform
3 18 (1.62%) Ansible
4 12 (1.08%) PingFederate
4 12 (1.08%) vCenter Server
5 10 (0.90%) SCCM
5 10 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (0.72%) Kibana
7 7 (0.63%) Grafana
7 7 (0.63%) logstash
8 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.45%) Nessus
9 5 (0.45%) OpenView
10 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.36%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
10 4 (0.36%) SolarWinds Orion
10 4 (0.36%) WSUS
11 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
11 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 202 (18.23%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.59%) Oracle
3 57 (5.14%) Cisco
4 56 (5.05%) Google
5 54 (4.87%) SAP
5 54 (4.87%) VMware
6 39 (3.52%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.26%) Databricks
8 20 (1.81%) Juniper
9 18 (1.62%) IBM
10 16 (1.44%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.35%) Palo Alto
11 15 (1.35%) Salesforce
12 12 (1.08%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.08%) F5
12 12 (1.08%) SolarWinds
12 12 (1.08%) Splunk
13 11 (0.99%) Foundry
13 11 (0.99%) Genesys
13 11 (0.99%) ION Trading