Computer Science Contracts in Surrey

Computer Science
South East > Surrey

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 53 49
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 0
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 27 17 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 4.62% 2.44% 3.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 2.84% 3.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 9
10th Percentile £388 £483 £371
25th Percentile £425 £500 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% -7.73% -
75th Percentile £603 £538 £688
90th Percentile £625 £611 £714
South East median daily rate £450 £523 £433
% change year-on-year -13.88% +20.81% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.75
25th Percentile - - £19.13
Median hourly rate £80.00 £60.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +200.00% -65.22%
75th Percentile - - £20.63
90th Percentile - - £20.85
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £20.47 £21.00
% change year-on-year +217.54% -2.52% -59.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 478 598 794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 81.85% 85.92% 90.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 457 553
10th Percentile £237 £200 £207
25th Percentile £375 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% - +7.89%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £612
90th Percentile £700 £750 £697
South East median daily rate £500 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 32 23
10th Percentile £11.71 £30.80 £17.64
25th Percentile £13.25 £42.50 £19.50
Median hourly rate £20.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.44% +87.50% -44.19%
75th Percentile £55.63 £60.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £63.63 £48.50
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -21.82%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Surrey over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 7 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
Redhill - 11 £450 - 1
Guildford 0 2 £600 +17.07% 9
Dorking - 2 - -
Sunbury-on-Thames +20 1 - - 1
Staines - 1 - - 5
Epsom - 1 £675 - 4
Leatherhead - 1 £183 - 5
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 4 (14.81%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.70%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.70%) AWS
1 1 (3.70%) Azure
1 1 (3.70%) Power Platform
1 1 (3.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 3 (11.11%) DHCP
2 3 (11.11%) DNS
2 3 (11.11%) SAN
3 2 (7.41%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (7.41%) Firewall
4 1 (3.70%) BGP
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (3.70%) DDNS
4 1 (3.70%) DSL
4 1 (3.70%) Ethernet
4 1 (3.70%) FCoE
4 1 (3.70%) IPsec
4 1 (3.70%) Junos
4 1 (3.70%) MPLS
4 1 (3.70%) NFC
4 1 (3.70%) OSPF
4 1 (3.70%) TACACS
4 1 (3.70%) Unified Communications
4 1 (3.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (3.70%) Power BI
1 1 (3.70%) QlikView
1 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.70%) SAP HANA
1 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
1 6 (22.22%) Jenkins
2 5 (18.52%) Bitbucket
2 5 (18.52%) JIRA
3 4 (14.81%) Artifactory
4 1 (3.70%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.70%) GoogleTest
4 1 (3.70%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (3.70%) TestRail
4 1 (3.70%) Valgrind
4 1 (3.70%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.11%) Electronics
3 2 (7.41%) Front Office
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Law
4 1 (3.70%) Manufacturing
4 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (22.22%) Senior
1 6 (22.22%) Software Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) C++ Software Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Development Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Python Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Software Development Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Test Development Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Administrator
4 3 (11.11%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Test Manager
5 2 (7.41%) Computer Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Developer
5 2 (7.41%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Unix Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (18.52%) XML
2 4 (14.81%) DirectX
2 4 (14.81%) OpenGL
2 4 (14.81%) OpenGL ES
2 4 (14.81%) RESTful
2 4 (14.81%) SOAP
2 4 (14.81%) Vulkan
2 4 (14.81%) Web Services
3 3 (11.11%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) PyTorch
3 3 (11.11%) TensorFlow
4 2 (7.41%) Unity (Game Engine)
5 1 (3.70%) .NET Framework
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET
5 1 (3.70%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (3.70%) Entity Framework
5 1 (3.70%) HTML
5 1 (3.70%) HTML5
5 1 (3.70%) JSON
5 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Management Information System
2 4 (14.81%) Algorithms
3 3 (11.11%) Photography
4 2 (7.41%) Animation
4 2 (7.41%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (7.41%) Life Science
4 2 (7.41%) Mixed Reality
5 1 (3.70%) Data Centre
5 1 (3.70%) Digital Media
5 1 (3.70%) NHS
5 1 (3.70%) PKI
5 1 (3.70%) Product Ownership
5 1 (3.70%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (3.70%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 13 (48.15%) Linux
2 10 (37.04%) Windows
3 6 (22.22%) Embedded Linux
4 5 (18.52%) Android
4 5 (18.52%) Unix
5 3 (11.11%) Ubuntu
6 2 (7.41%) Solaris
7 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (29.63%) Test Automation
3 7 (25.93%) Agile
3 7 (25.93%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (25.93%) Scrum
3 7 (25.93%) Software Testing
4 6 (22.22%) ITIL
4 6 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 5 (18.52%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (18.52%) Machine Learning
5 5 (18.52%) Mathematics
6 4 (14.81%) API Testing
6 4 (14.81%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Manual Testing
6 4 (14.81%) Open Source
6 4 (14.81%) Performance Management
6 4 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (14.81%) SDET
6 4 (14.81%) SDLC
6 4 (14.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) C++
2 12 (44.44%) Python
3 5 (18.52%) C#
3 5 (18.52%) Java
3 5 (18.52%) SQL
4 3 (11.11%) Perl
4 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (7.41%) AWK
5 2 (7.41%) Bash
5 2 (7.41%) Bourne shell
5 2 (7.41%) GLSL
5 2 (7.41%) HLSL
5 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.41%) Korn
5 2 (7.41%) Kotlin
5 2 (7.41%) Shell Script
5 2 (7.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (92.59%) Degree
2 13 (48.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (18.52%) Master's Degree
4 3 (11.11%) RHCSA
5 2 (7.41%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
5 2 (7.41%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (7.41%) PhD
5 2 (7.41%) RHCE
6 1 (3.70%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.41%) HL7
1 2 (7.41%) ISO 9001
1 2 (7.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
1 2 (7.41%) QA
1 2 (7.41%) SLA
2 1 (3.70%) Data Quality
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (14.81%) VirtualBox
3 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
4 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (7.41%) vSphere
5 1 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (7.41%) Ansible
1 2 (7.41%) NetBackup
1 2 (7.41%) Oracle ZFS
1 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Satellite
1 2 (7.41%) WSUS
1 2 (7.41%) yum
2 1 (3.70%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 4 (14.81%) Oracle
2 3 (11.11%) Red Hat
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (7.41%) Cisco
3 2 (7.41%) EMC
3 2 (7.41%) F5
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 2 (7.41%) Veritas
4 1 (3.70%) Barracuda Networks
4 1 (3.70%) Forcepoint
4 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.70%) Google
4 1 (3.70%) Juniper
4 1 (3.70%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.70%) Qualys
4 1 (3.70%) SAP
4 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.70%) Snow
4 1 (3.70%) SolarWinds