Computer Science Contracts in the South East

Computer Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 98 116
Rank change year-on-year +7 +18 -28
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 115 124 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.09% 2.18% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.44% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 80
10th Percentile £255 £188 £140
25th Percentile £350 £416 £296
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £523 £433
Median % change year-on-year -13.88% +20.81% -8.95%
75th Percentile £575 £636 £600
90th Percentile £638 £721 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 16 15
10th Percentile £55.20 £16.00 £19.06
25th Percentile - £19.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £65.00 £20.47 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.54% -2.52% -59.02%
75th Percentile £67.02 £60.75 £45.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £63.00 £48.68
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £46.71
% change year-on-year +2.10% +15.33% +22.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,650 5,085 6,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.33% 89.37% 89.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,713 3,536 4,653
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £402 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.28% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 222 283
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.05 £12.26
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.59 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.98 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the South East over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Thames Valley -15 40 £425 -21.30% 122
Surrey +27 27 £500 -1.48% 47
Berkshire -36 27 £425 -27.81% 53
West Sussex +23 20 £400 -5.88% 9
Hampshire -19 17 £488 +50.58% 29
Buckinghamshire +27 7 £625 +127.27% 17
Oxfordshire +10 6 £425 -15.00% 52
Middlesex - 5 £275 -
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Kent +7 1 £363 - 12
Sussex - 1 £350 - 2
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (6.09%) Confluence
2 3 (2.61%) SAS
3 2 (1.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.87%) JBoss
4 1 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.87%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (6.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (6.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.61%) SPSS
4 1 (0.87%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.87%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (11.30%) Azure
2 11 (9.57%) AWS
3 6 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.35%) GitHub
5 4 (3.48%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.48%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.61%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.61%) GCP
6 3 (2.61%) IaaS
6 3 (2.61%) PaaS
7 2 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.74%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.74%) SaaS
8 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.87%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.87%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (10.43%) DNS
2 11 (9.57%) Firewall
3 8 (6.96%) Wireless
4 7 (6.09%) 3G
4 7 (6.09%) 4G
4 7 (6.09%) TCP/IP
5 6 (5.22%) 5G
5 6 (5.22%) Diameter Protocol
5 6 (5.22%) GGSN
5 6 (5.22%) LTE
5 6 (5.22%) Radio Access Network
5 6 (5.22%) RANAP
5 6 (5.22%) SGSN
5 6 (5.22%) VoLTE
5 6 (5.22%) Wireshark
6 5 (4.35%) DHCP
6 5 (4.35%) WAN
7 4 (3.48%) LAN
7 4 (3.48%) SAN
7 4 (3.48%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.83%) Tableau
2 8 (6.96%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (5.22%) Power BI
3 6 (5.22%) SQL Server
4 4 (3.48%) BusinessObjects
4 4 (3.48%) MS Access
5 3 (2.61%) Apache Cassandra
5 3 (2.61%) Couchbase
5 3 (2.61%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.61%) Qlik Sense
5 3 (2.61%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.74%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.87%) DTS
7 1 (0.87%) MySQL
7 1 (0.87%) QlikView
7 1 (0.87%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (18.26%) Git
1 21 (18.26%) JIRA
2 16 (13.91%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.09%) Bitbucket
3 7 (6.09%) Subversion
4 4 (3.48%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.48%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 3 (2.61%) GitLab
5 3 (2.61%) JUnit
6 2 (1.74%) CircleCI
6 2 (1.74%) Gradle
6 2 (1.74%) JMeter
6 2 (1.74%) Selenium
7 1 (0.87%) CMake
7 1 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.87%) GoogleTest
7 1 (0.87%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.87%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.87%) Valgrind
7 1 (0.87%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (38.26%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (14.78%) Telecoms
4 11 (9.57%) Finance
4 11 (9.57%) Presentation Skills
5 10 (8.70%) Legal
5 10 (8.70%) Retail
6 6 (5.22%) Multimedia
7 5 (4.35%) Electronics
8 4 (3.48%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.48%) Billing
8 4 (3.48%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.61%) Front Office
10 2 (1.74%) Automotive
11 1 (0.87%) Banking
11 1 (0.87%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.87%) Law
11 1 (0.87%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.87%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (16.52%) Software Engineer
2 16 (13.91%) Analyst
3 15 (13.04%) Senior
4 11 (9.57%) Network Engineer
5 8 (6.96%) Data Analyst
6 6 (5.22%) Architect
6 6 (5.22%) Developer
6 6 (5.22%) Embedded Engineer
6 6 (5.22%) Embedded Software Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) C++ Software Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Senior Software Engineer
7 5 (4.35%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.35%) Service Management Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Project Analyst
8 4 (3.48%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Software Development Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Test Development Engineer
8 4 (3.48%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.09%) REST
1 7 (6.09%) RESTful
2 6 (5.22%) .NET
2 6 (5.22%) Kafka
2 6 (5.22%) XML
3 5 (4.35%) DirectX
3 5 (4.35%) OpenGL
3 5 (4.35%) OpenGL ES
3 5 (4.35%) Vulkan
3 5 (4.35%) Web Services
4 4 (3.48%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.48%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.48%) SOAP
4 4 (3.48%) TensorFlow
5 3 (2.61%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.61%) D3.js
5 3 (2.61%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.61%) HTML
5 3 (2.61%) JSON
5 3 (2.61%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (13.04%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.83%) Algorithms
3 8 (6.96%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.35%) CMDB
4 5 (4.35%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.48%) Device Driver
5 4 (3.48%) e-Health
5 4 (3.48%) Life Science
5 4 (3.48%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.61%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.61%) Photography
7 2 (1.74%) Animation
7 2 (1.74%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.74%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.74%) Mixed Reality
7 2 (1.74%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.74%) PKI
7 2 (1.74%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.74%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 26 (22.61%) Windows
2 21 (18.26%) Linux
3 10 (8.70%) Unix
4 9 (7.83%) Android
4 9 (7.83%) Windows Server
5 8 (6.96%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (3.48%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.74%) Solaris
8 1 (0.87%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.87%) VMS
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.65%) Problem-Solving
2 28 (24.35%) Agile
3 25 (21.74%) Software Engineering
4 21 (18.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (17.39%) ITIL
6 19 (16.52%) Scrum
7 17 (14.78%) Software Testing
8 16 (13.91%) Continuous Integration
8 16 (13.91%) Test Automation
9 13 (11.30%) Roadmaps
10 12 (10.43%) Customer Experience
11 11 (9.57%) Mathematics
12 10 (8.70%) Business Intelligence
12 10 (8.70%) Customer Service
12 10 (8.70%) DevOps
12 10 (8.70%) Kanban
12 10 (8.70%) Stakeholder Management
12 10 (8.70%) Statistics
13 9 (7.83%) Defect Tracking
13 9 (7.83%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 30 (26.09%) Python
2 19 (16.52%) SQL
3 18 (15.65%) C++
4 13 (11.30%) C#
5 9 (7.83%) Java
6 8 (6.96%) PowerShell
7 6 (5.22%) Go
7 6 (5.22%) Shell Script
8 5 (4.35%) Bash
8 5 (4.35%) C
8 5 (4.35%) Perl
9 4 (3.48%) Assembly Language
9 4 (3.48%) F#
9 4 (3.48%) JavaScript
9 4 (3.48%) MATLAB
9 4 (3.48%) R
9 4 (3.48%) VB.NET
10 3 (2.61%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.74%) AWK
11 2 (1.74%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 106 (92.17%) Degree
2 69 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (13.91%) Master's Degree
4 11 (9.57%) Security Cleared
5 8 (6.96%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (5.22%) PhD
6 6 (5.22%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.35%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.35%) CCNA
7 5 (4.35%) CCNP
8 3 (2.61%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.61%) RHCSA
9 2 (1.74%) RHCE
9 2 (1.74%) VCAP
9 2 (1.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.87%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.87%) JNCIE
10 1 (0.87%) MBCS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.83%) QA
1 9 (7.83%) SLA
2 6 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.48%) JTAG
4 3 (2.61%) HL7
4 3 (2.61%) ISO 9001
4 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.87%) GDPR
6 1 (0.87%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (7.83%) Active Directory
1 9 (7.83%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (7.83%) vSphere
2 7 (6.09%) Virtual Machines
3 6 (5.22%) Docker
4 5 (4.35%) Firmware
5 4 (3.48%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (3.48%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.48%) VirtualBox
5 4 (3.48%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.87%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.48%) Ansible
2 4 (3.48%) SCCM
2 4 (3.48%) WSUS
3 3 (2.61%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.61%) SCOM
4 2 (1.74%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (1.74%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.74%) vRealize
4 2 (1.74%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (1.74%) yum
5 1 (0.87%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.87%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.87%) Grafana
5 1 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.87%) Kibana
5 1 (0.87%) Nessus
5 1 (0.87%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.87%) Terraform
5 1 (0.87%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 16 (13.91%) Microsoft
1 16 (13.91%) VMware
2 10 (8.70%) Oracle
3 9 (7.83%) Cisco
4 7 (6.09%) SAP
4 7 (6.09%) ServiceNow
5 6 (5.22%) Empirix
5 6 (5.22%) F5
5 6 (5.22%) NetScout
5 6 (5.22%) Red Hat
6 5 (4.35%) Juniper
6 5 (4.35%) Palo Alto
7 4 (3.48%) Alteryx
8 3 (2.61%) CA Agile Central
8 3 (2.61%) EMC
8 3 (2.61%) SolarWinds
8 3 (2.61%) Veritas
9 2 (1.74%) Forcepoint
9 2 (1.74%) Fortinet
9 2 (1.74%) Google