Computer Science Contracts in South London

Computer Science
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 34 46 43
Rank change year-on-year +12 -3 -11
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 7 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.87% 1.52% 2.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.04% 1.69% 3.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
10th Percentile £185 - £480
25th Percentile £251 - £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £365 £500 £725
Median % change year-on-year -27.00% -31.03% +38.10%
75th Percentile £596 - £800
90th Percentile £734 £619 -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.25 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £83.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £41.25
% change year-on-year +4.76% +27.27% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 230 354 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 94.26% 89.85% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 283 248
10th Percentile £266 £300 £338
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £541
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% +3.10%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £638 £750 £704
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 14
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.43
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.31 £40.70
Median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £46.82
Median % change year-on-year -36.38% -21.09% +0.86%
75th Percentile £75.00 £50.42 £48.59
90th Percentile £83.75 £54.94 £54.08
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London 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
Kingston Upon Thames +3 4 - - 4
Croydon - 2 £253 - 3
Bromley +4 1 £800 +60.00% 2
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Route 53
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Aerospace
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Banking
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Senior
1 4 (57.14%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (57.14%) Software Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
2 1 (14.29%) Junior IT Support
2 1 (14.29%) React Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) CSS
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) Data Structures
2 1 (14.29%) Derivative
2 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 1 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) UML
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
3 1 (14.29%) Design Patterns
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Kanban
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) OOP
3 1 (14.29%) Physics
3 1 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (57.14%) Master's Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Numerate Degree
4 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
1 1 (14.29%) Prometheus
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform