Computer Science Contracts in the North West

Computer Science
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 86 134 155
Rank change year-on-year +48 +21 -46
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 50 29 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.85% 0.91% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.15% 1.01% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 14
10th Percentile - £355 £196
25th Percentile £158 £470 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £486 £543
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% -10.41% +20.56%
75th Percentile £569 £531 £633
90th Percentile £600 £707 £704
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 3
10th Percentile £45.22 £42.53 £61.00
25th Percentile £50.68 £46.31 £62.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.75 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% -18.85% +31.31%
75th Percentile £58.75 £59.31 -
90th Percentile £62.50 £63.18 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +17.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,328 2,877 3,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.70% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,485 2,043 2,606
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 142 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.67% +82.66% +10.08%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.44
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the North West over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Manchester +36 25 £510 +20.00% 79
Cheshire +19 20 £165 -71.30% 21
Merseyside +15 2 £575 +23.66% 15
Cumbria -26 2 - - 1
Lancashire +1 1 £600 -19.33% 13
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (4.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.00%) ArcGIS
2 1 (2.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (8.00%) Simulink
2 4 (8.00%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) SAP MDG
2 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Retail
2 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (36.00%) Azure
2 11 (22.00%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (10.00%) AWS
3 5 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) IaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.00%) PaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.00%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.00%) SaaS
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.00%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.00%) BGP
1 4 (8.00%) MPLS
1 4 (8.00%) OSPF
1 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.00%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (8.00%) VLAN
1 4 (8.00%) VPN
1 4 (8.00%) Wireshark
2 2 (4.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (4.00%) Wireless
3 1 (2.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.00%) Hadoop
1 2 (4.00%) Power BI
1 2 (4.00%) Tableau
2 1 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.00%) GIS
2 1 (2.00%) HBase
2 1 (2.00%) Metadata
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) Presto
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Git
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Legal
4 4 (8.00%) Automotive
4 4 (8.00%) Finance
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Electronics
6 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.00%) Publishing
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Marketing
7 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (26.00%) Architect
2 11 (22.00%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (16.00%) Author
3 8 (16.00%) Technical Author
4 7 (14.00%) Software Engineer
5 6 (12.00%) Network Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 5 (10.00%) Senior
7 4 (8.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
8 3 (6.00%) Applications Architect
8 3 (6.00%) SAP Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Data Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) Data Governance Analyst
9 2 (4.00%) Data Governance Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Data Manager
9 2 (4.00%) Developer
9 2 (4.00%) Governance Manager
9 2 (4.00%) PLC Software Engineer
9 2 (4.00%) SAP Data Manager
10 1 (2.00%) Security Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) CSS
1 1 (2.00%) HTML
1 1 (2.00%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (2.00%) Kafka
1 1 (2.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (2.00%) Middleware
1 1 (2.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (4.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.00%) Robotics
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Insider Threat
3 1 (2.00%) IoT
3 1 (2.00%) Life Science
3 1 (2.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (30.00%) Agile
1 15 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (28.00%) Data Management
3 13 (26.00%) DevOps
4 11 (22.00%) Architectural Patterns
5 10 (20.00%) Architectural Design
5 10 (20.00%) Architecture Governance
5 10 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 9 (18.00%) Migration
6 9 (18.00%) SDLC
6 9 (18.00%) Service Design
7 8 (16.00%) Content Strategy
8 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.00%) Change Management
10 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
11 4 (8.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
11 4 (8.00%) Network Virtualisation
11 4 (8.00%) Test Automation
11 4 (8.00%) Validation
11 4 (8.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.00%) Python
2 4 (8.00%) MATLAB
3 2 (4.00%) Java
3 2 (4.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) Apex Code
4 1 (2.00%) Bash
4 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.00%) Perl
4 1 (2.00%) R
4 1 (2.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 41 (82.00%) Degree
2 23 (46.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 4 (8.00%) CCIE
4 4 (8.00%) CCNP
4 4 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
4 4 (8.00%) VCAP
5 2 (4.00%) PhD
5 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (18.00%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.00%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (8.00%) SolarWinds
4 3 (6.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) Anaplan
5 1 (2.00%) Databricks
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) Mapbox
5 1 (2.00%) Proofpoint
5 1 (2.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.00%) Splunk
5 1 (2.00%) Symantec
5 1 (2.00%) Teradata
5 1 (2.00%) Zscaler