Computer Science Contracts in the Midlands

Computer Science
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 120 152
Rank change year-on-year +67 +32 -45
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 87 45 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.17% 1.30% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.86% 1.48% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 33 38
10th Percentile £357 £313 £199
25th Percentile £450 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £480 £440
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% +9.09% +5.07%
75th Percentile £626 £550 £519
90th Percentile £645 £630 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% +7.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.66 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £29.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.18% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.72 £14.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £52.09 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,255 3,048 4,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.18% 88.35% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,504 2,125 3,305
10th Percentile £241 £250 £246
25th Percentile £356 £370 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £675 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 118 156
10th Percentile £11.07 £11.94 £10.25
25th Percentile £13.81 £15.02 £13.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.04 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +5.31% +3.22% +9.25%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.97 £22.03
90th Percentile £55.00 £55.75 £33.00
England median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 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
West Midlands +69 73 £550 +10.00% 65
East Midlands +20 14 £575 +24.32% 56
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (3.45%) Apache
1 3 (3.45%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.30%) Simulink
3 1 (1.15%) CATIA
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.15%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.15%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.84%) Azure
2 8 (9.20%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.60%) AWS
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Functions
5 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.45%) Serverless
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.30%) GCP
7 1 (1.15%) Azure App Service
7 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.15%) GitHub
7 1 (1.15%) IaaS
7 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.15%) PaaS
7 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) DHCP
1 6 (6.90%) DNS
1 6 (6.90%) Firewall
2 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (5.75%) Ethereal
2 5 (5.75%) Ethernet
2 5 (5.75%) LAN
2 5 (5.75%) Network Security
2 5 (5.75%) WAN
2 5 (5.75%) Wireless
2 5 (5.75%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.30%) SAN
4 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Data Mining
2 5 (5.75%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.30%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.30%) Big Data
4 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.30%) Tableau
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.15%) Flink
5 1 (1.15%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Presto
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Git
2 4 (4.60%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.30%) GitLab
3 2 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.15%) JIRA
4 1 (1.15%) NUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 57 (65.52%) Social Skills
2 37 (42.53%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Finance
4 7 (8.05%) Electronics
5 6 (6.90%) German Language
6 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.60%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Law
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) Retail
9 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Marketing
9 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.15%) Police
9 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (14.94%) Architect
2 10 (11.49%) Analyst
2 10 (11.49%) Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Senior
4 6 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.90%) Network Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Network Support
5 5 (5.75%) Network Support Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) SOC Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Splunk Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Validation Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Verification Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Spring
2 5 (5.75%) Middleware
3 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.45%) Kafka
3 3 (3.45%) React
4 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Beam
5 1 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.15%) Dask
5 1 (1.15%) Guice
5 1 (1.15%) Keras
5 1 (1.15%) NumPy
5 1 (1.15%) Pandas
5 1 (1.15%) PySpark
5 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.15%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.15%) Vue
5 1 (1.15%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 13 (14.94%) Data Centre
3 11 (12.64%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (11.49%) Security Operations Centre
5 9 (10.34%) Security Posture
6 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
7 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (5.75%) Industry 4.0
8 5 (5.75%) IoT
8 5 (5.75%) SCADA
9 4 (4.60%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
10 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
10 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
10 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
11 2 (2.30%) CCTV
11 2 (2.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 2 (2.30%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Unix
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (54.02%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.69%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (19.54%) Software Engineering
4 16 (18.39%) Analytics
5 15 (17.24%) Agile
6 14 (16.09%) DevOps
7 13 (14.94%) Decision-Making
7 13 (14.94%) SIEM
8 12 (13.79%) Analytical Thinking
8 12 (13.79%) Security Operations
9 11 (12.64%) Incident Response
9 11 (12.64%) Migration
10 10 (11.49%) Data Science
10 10 (11.49%) ITIL
11 8 (9.20%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.20%) Service Management
12 7 (8.05%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
12 7 (8.05%) Threat Detection
12 7 (8.05%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.79%) Python
2 11 (12.64%) SQL
3 9 (10.34%) Java
4 6 (6.90%) Kusto Query Language
5 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 3 (3.45%) Scala
7 2 (2.30%) C#
7 2 (2.30%) MATLAB
7 2 (2.30%) Perl
8 1 (1.15%) C
8 1 (1.15%) C++
8 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.15%) PHP
8 1 (1.15%) R
8 1 (1.15%) Rust
8 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (96.55%) Degree
2 51 (58.62%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (28.74%) Security Cleared
4 16 (18.39%) SC Cleared
5 12 (13.79%) CISSP
6 10 (11.49%) CompTIA Security+
6 10 (11.49%) DV Cleared
7 9 (10.34%) Master's Degree
8 7 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 6 (6.90%) Azure Certification
9 6 (6.90%) CCNA
9 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (4.60%) Chartered Engineer
11 3 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
12 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 2 (2.30%) CEH
13 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
13 1 (1.15%) PMP
13 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
13 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) Docker
3 2 (2.30%) vSphere
4 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) OpenView
2 3 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.45%) SysTrack
3 2 (2.30%) Kibana
3 2 (2.30%) logstash
3 2 (2.30%) Terraform
4 1 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (19.54%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) SAP
3 5 (5.75%) BMC
3 5 (5.75%) Cisco
3 5 (5.75%) Splunk
4 3 (3.45%) Citrix
4 3 (3.45%) New Relic
4 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.45%) VMware
5 2 (2.30%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.15%) Confluent
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) Informatica
6 1 (1.15%) Mitel
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) Teradata
6 1 (1.15%) Xilinx