Computer Science Degree Contracts in London

Computer Science Degree
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 107 185 294
Rank change year-on-year +78 +109 -28
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 400 385 357
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.26% 1.42% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.33% 6.61% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 300 268
10th Percentile £350 £400 £400
25th Percentile £425 £505 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £567
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.80% +3.11%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £713
90th Percentile £813 £900 £875
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +5.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 7
10th Percentile - £23.23 £30.80
25th Percentile £38.75 £28.06 £34.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% +30.14%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.25 £55.94
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.75 £59.20
England median hourly rate £56.25 £54.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +12.24% +32.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,288 5,827 6,706
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.21% 21.52% 17.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,898 3,938 4,559
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £660 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 81 150
10th Percentile £14.49 £20.00 £22.85
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £26.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.26% +6.74% +21.92%
75th Percentile £43.75 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £69.75 £82.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +32 57 £575 -23.33% 41
West London +24 12 £475 +10.14% 10
South London +16 7 £365 -27.00%
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 13 (3.25%) SharePoint
2 12 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.50%) Confluence
4 5 (1.25%) Apache Spark
5 4 (1.00%) Apache
6 2 (0.50%) CMS
6 2 (0.50%) EPiServer
6 2 (0.50%) Ethereum
6 2 (0.50%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.50%) MQSeries
6 2 (0.50%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
7 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (2.25%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.25%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.75%) Windchill
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 4 (1.00%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.75%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.75%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.50%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.50%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) Endur
4 1 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CX
Cloud Services
1 103 (25.75%) Azure
2 83 (20.75%) AWS
3 55 (13.75%) GCP
4 24 (6.00%) Serverless
5 19 (4.75%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.50%) AWS Lambda
6 18 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.00%) GitHub
7 16 (4.00%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.50%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (3.25%) Vertex AI
10 11 (2.75%) Amazon EC2
10 11 (2.75%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 10 (2.50%) Google Compute Engine
11 10 (2.50%) PowerApps
12 9 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
12 9 (2.25%) SaaS
13 8 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
13 8 (2.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.00%) Firewall
1 12 (3.00%) Network Security
2 9 (2.25%) DNS
2 9 (2.25%) Internet
3 7 (1.75%) LAN
4 6 (1.50%) VPN
5 5 (1.25%) WAN
6 4 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.75%) SNMP
7 3 (0.75%) SSL
7 3 (0.75%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.75%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.50%) DWDM
8 2 (0.50%) HTTP
8 2 (0.50%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.50%) Intrusion Detection
8 2 (0.50%) IPsec
8 2 (0.50%) OSPF
8 2 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.25%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.75%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (4.50%) Relational Database
4 16 (4.00%) BigQuery
5 13 (3.25%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (3.25%) Power BI
6 11 (2.75%) Big Data
7 10 (2.50%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.50%) Tableau
8 9 (2.25%) MySQL
9 8 (2.00%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.75%) NoSQL
10 7 (1.75%) RDBMS
11 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon QuickSight
12 5 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
12 5 (1.25%) Hadoop
13 4 (1.00%) Couchbase
14 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.75%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 38 (9.50%) Git
2 24 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 16 (4.00%) JIRA
4 12 (3.00%) GitLab
5 9 (2.25%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.75%) Gradle
7 6 (1.50%) JUnit
8 5 (1.25%) MLflow
8 5 (1.25%) Visual Studio
9 4 (1.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (1.00%) CircleCI
9 4 (1.00%) Sourcetree
10 3 (0.75%) ERwin
10 3 (0.75%) Maven
10 3 (0.75%) Selenium
10 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.50%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.50%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.50%) Xcode
General
1 246 (61.50%) Social Skills
2 95 (23.75%) Analytical Skills
2 95 (23.75%) Finance
3 51 (12.75%) Banking
4 21 (5.25%) Front Office
5 16 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 14 (3.50%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (3.00%) Legal
8 11 (2.75%) Investment Banking
8 11 (2.75%) Marketing
8 11 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (2.25%) Financial Institution
10 8 (2.00%) Retail
11 7 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.25%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.00%) Advertising
13 4 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.00%) Billing
13 4 (1.00%) Electronics
14 3 (0.75%) French Language
Job Titles
1 84 (21.00%) Developer
2 65 (16.25%) Architect
3 38 (9.50%) Senior
4 29 (7.25%) Lead
5 24 (6.00%) Software Engineer
6 20 (5.00%) Java Developer
7 18 (4.50%) Consultant
8 17 (4.25%) DevOps Engineer
9 14 (3.50%) Data Engineer
9 14 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.25%) Azure Engineer
10 13 (3.25%) Network Engineer
10 13 (3.25%) Security Engineer
10 13 (3.25%) Senior Developer
11 11 (2.75%) Analyst
11 11 (2.75%) GCP Engineer
12 10 (2.50%) Cloud Engineer
12 10 (2.50%) Technical Architect
13 9 (2.25%) AWS Engineer
13 9 (2.25%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (8.00%) CSS
2 29 (7.25%) HTML
3 22 (5.50%) REST
4 20 (5.00%) React
5 19 (4.75%) .NET
6 16 (4.00%) RESTful
7 15 (3.75%) Spring
8 11 (2.75%) AngularJS
8 11 (2.75%) JSON
9 10 (2.50%) Swagger
10 9 (2.25%) Hibernate
10 9 (2.25%) jQuery
10 9 (2.25%) Kafka
10 9 (2.25%) RAML
11 8 (2.00%) Node.js
11 8 (2.00%) Spring Boot
12 7 (1.75%) ASP.NET
12 7 (1.75%) Twitter Bootstrap
12 7 (1.75%) Web Services
13 6 (1.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.25%) Algorithms
2 32 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.25%) Derivative
4 20 (5.00%) Data Centre
5 18 (4.50%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (3.75%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.75%) Mobile App
7 14 (3.50%) Fixed Income
8 11 (2.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 10 (2.50%) Virtual Team
10 9 (2.25%) Security Posture
11 8 (2.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 8 (2.00%) Legacy Code
12 7 (1.75%) Blockchain
12 7 (1.75%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.75%) Market Risk
12 7 (1.75%) Product Ownership
13 6 (1.50%) CMDB
13 6 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.75%) Linux
2 21 (5.25%) Windows
3 12 (3.00%) Android
4 9 (2.25%) Unix
5 7 (1.75%) Apple iOS
5 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
6 6 (1.50%) Solaris
7 5 (1.25%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.25%) VMS
8 4 (1.00%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) OS/390
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 396 (99.00%) Computer Science
2 180 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
3 115 (28.75%) Agile
4 67 (16.75%) DevOps
5 63 (15.75%) CI/CD
6 58 (14.50%) Software Engineering
7 42 (10.50%) Machine Learning
7 42 (10.50%) Migration
7 42 (10.50%) Project Management
8 40 (10.00%) Analytics
9 38 (9.50%) Data Science
10 36 (9.00%) Data Modelling
11 35 (8.75%) Infrastructure as Code
12 34 (8.50%) Microservices
13 32 (8.00%) Mathematics
14 31 (7.75%) Artificial Intelligence
15 30 (7.50%) Mentoring
16 29 (7.25%) Continuous Improvement
17 28 (7.00%) ITIL
18 27 (6.75%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 104 (26.00%) Python
2 78 (19.50%) SQL
3 68 (17.00%) Java
4 48 (12.00%) JavaScript
5 26 (6.50%) C#
6 24 (6.00%) PowerShell
7 23 (5.75%) C++
8 20 (5.00%) TypeScript
9 19 (4.75%) Bash
10 14 (3.50%) Scala
11 10 (2.50%) C
12 9 (2.25%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.25%) R
13 8 (2.00%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.75%) Go
15 6 (1.50%) Perl
16 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
17 4 (1.00%) Bicep
18 3 (0.75%) Swift
18 3 (0.75%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 400 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (17.25%) Master's Degree
3 43 (10.75%) Security Cleared
4 37 (9.25%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.25%) CISSP
6 16 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
7 14 (3.50%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.25%) PhD
9 12 (3.00%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.75%) CEH
11 8 (2.00%) CCIE
11 8 (2.00%) CISM
11 8 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (1.75%) CCNA
13 6 (1.50%) CCNP
14 5 (1.25%) GIAC
15 4 (1.00%) ISTQB
15 4 (1.00%) PMI Certification
15 4 (1.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (8.00%) QA
2 18 (4.50%) Data Quality
3 7 (1.75%) NIST
4 6 (1.50%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.00%) SLA
6 3 (0.75%) COBIT
6 3 (0.75%) GDPR
6 3 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.75%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.50%) GRC
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.50%) MiFID
7 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.50%) PMO
8 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 20 (5.00%) Docker
2 13 (3.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.25%) KVM
4 5 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.00%) vCloud
5 4 (1.00%) vSphere
6 3 (0.75%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 37 (9.25%) Terraform
2 23 (5.75%) Kubernetes
3 9 (2.25%) Ansible
4 8 (2.00%) PingFederate
5 6 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.25%) Grafana
7 4 (1.00%) SCCM
8 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.75%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.50%) Nessus
9 2 (0.50%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.50%) Puppet
9 2 (0.50%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.25%) Nagios
10 1 (0.25%) PowerCLI
10 1 (0.25%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 75 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 42 (10.50%) Oracle
3 19 (4.75%) Google
4 18 (4.50%) Cisco
5 17 (4.25%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.25%) VMware
6 11 (2.75%) Databricks
7 9 (2.25%) Salesforce
7 9 (2.25%) SAP
8 7 (1.75%) Arista
9 6 (1.50%) Foundry
9 6 (1.50%) IBM
9 6 (1.50%) Juniper
9 6 (1.50%) Palantir
10 5 (1.25%) Qualys
10 5 (1.25%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.25%) Sparx
11 4 (1.00%) CheckPoint
11 4 (1.00%) Genesys
11 4 (1.00%) ION Trading