The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 0.697% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.333% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £235 - -
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
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
60 55 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 20.91% 20.83% 21.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 25 21
Average daily rate £303 £280 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.03% +1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £183 £144
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £408 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
Average hourly rate £19.39 £10.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+93.90% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.05 £9.25 £8.35
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £114.08 £44.50 £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Computer Science Daily Rate Trend

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Computer Science across the Kent region.

Kent Computer Science Hourly Rate Trend

Computer Science
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Games
1 2 (100.00%) Google
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Lua
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Google App Engine
1 2 (100.00%) Game Development
1 2 (100.00%) MSBuild

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Google App Engine
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) MSBuild
General
1 2 (100.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Build Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) C++
1 2 (100.00%) Lua
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google