Computer Science Contracts in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 103 80 106
Rank change year-on-year -23 +26 -29
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 40 65 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.51% 2.30% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 2.52% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 36 27
10th Percentile £222 £344 £155
25th Percentile £315 £453 £260
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -21.30% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £638 £721 £600
90th Percentile - - £710
South East median daily rate £450 £523 £433
% change year-on-year -13.88% +20.81% -8.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £35.60 £21.40 -
25th Percentile - £34.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £18.76
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +193.18% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
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
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,301 2,577 3,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.38% 89.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,293 1,790 2,098
10th Percentile £213 £320 £226
25th Percentile £369 £413 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.44% +6.39%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 63 85
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £23.75 £12.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £63.72 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £63.45
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -4.04% +130.23% -19.63%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 11 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
Berkshire -40 27 £425 -27.81% 47
Buckinghamshire +26 7 £625 +127.27% 18
Oxfordshire +7 6 £425 -15.00% 51
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (7.50%) SAS
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (7.50%) SPSS
4 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.50%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) OpenShift
2 2 (5.00%) PaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) IaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) 3G
1 7 (17.50%) 4G
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) 5G
2 6 (15.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (15.00%) GGSN
2 6 (15.00%) LTE
2 6 (15.00%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (15.00%) RANAP
2 6 (15.00%) SGSN
2 6 (15.00%) VoLTE
2 6 (15.00%) Wireshark
3 5 (12.50%) Wireless
4 4 (10.00%) Firewall
5 3 (7.50%) Network Security
5 3 (7.50%) VPN
6 1 (2.50%) 2G
6 1 (2.50%) Junos
6 1 (2.50%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (2.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Tableau
2 3 (7.50%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) DTS
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (22.50%) JIRA
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) Subversion
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
5 1 (2.50%) CMake
5 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.50%) Maven
5 1 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Multimedia
5 4 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Analyst
2 4 (10.00%) Data Analyst
2 4 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Configuration Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Network Configuration Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
4 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) D3.js
2 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) CNTK
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) jQuery
2 1 (2.50%) JSON
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) OpenVINO
2 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
2 1 (2.50%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) Device Driver
3 3 (7.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.00%) Life Science
5 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (25.00%) Statistics
3 9 (22.50%) Agile
4 7 (17.50%) Customer Experience
4 7 (17.50%) Software Engineering
5 6 (15.00%) Network Architecture
5 6 (15.00%) Performance Improvement
6 5 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
6 5 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
6 5 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
6 5 (12.50%) Validation
6 5 (12.50%) Visualisation
7 4 (10.00%) Analytics
7 4 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (10.00%) Data Analysis
7 4 (10.00%) Data Protection
7 4 (10.00%) Scrum
7 4 (10.00%) Signal Processing
7 4 (10.00%) Software Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Python
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) C++
4 4 (10.00%) Assembly Language
4 4 (10.00%) C
4 4 (10.00%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 4 (10.00%) R
4 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) F#
6 2 (5.00%) Java
7 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (85.00%) Degree
2 22 (55.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (22.50%) Master's Degree
4 4 (10.00%) PhD
5 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.00%) CCNA
6 2 (5.00%) CCNP
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) A+ Certification
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) CCDP
7 1 (2.50%) HP ASE
7 1 (2.50%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.50%) JNCIE
7 1 (2.50%) MBCS
7 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) QA
2 4 (10.00%) JTAG
3 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.50%) GDPR
3 1 (2.50%) HL7
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) SCCM
1 3 (7.50%) SCOM
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Empirix
2 6 (15.00%) NetScout
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (10.00%) Juniper
3 4 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (5.00%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) Checkmarx
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Ericsson
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) Mavenir
5 1 (2.50%) Remedy
5 1 (2.50%) Workday