Computer Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 87 174 191
Rank change year-on-year +87 +17 -38
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 464 357 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.24% 1.49% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.65% 1.67% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 275 213 225
10th Percentile £268 £322 £161
25th Percentile £411 £425 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +16.67% -5.26%
75th Percentile £624 £615 £588
90th Percentile £675 £724 £666
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 43
10th Percentile £21.79 £18.60 £17.20
25th Percentile £35.50 £19.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.14% +1.53%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £66.60 £59.21
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +10.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
South East +19 116 £463 -11.06% 245
Midlands +69 89 £550 +14.58% 151
North of England +69 89 £500 +2.88% 223
West Midlands +61 75 £538 +7.50% 84
South West +36 59 £588 +6.82% 108
Scotland +46 56 £538 +2.87% 42
East of England +39 53 £500 - 162
North West +40 49 £500 +2.88% 133
Yorkshire +33 34 £454 -17.41% 56
East Midlands +16 14 £600 +29.73% 67
North East +26 8 £600 - 36
Wales +13 6 £403 -26.82% 19
Northern Ireland +11 5 £520 +30.00% 26
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (3.66%) Confluence
2 12 (2.59%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.16%) SAS
4 9 (1.94%) Apache
5 7 (1.51%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.22%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.22%) Luigi
9 1 (0.22%) MTS
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (7.76%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.23%) Simulink
3 14 (3.02%) Stateflow
4 13 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
5 9 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.94%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.08%) Chatbot
6 5 (1.08%) SPSS
7 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.22%) CATIA
7 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.65%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.65%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.43%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.53%) Azure
2 56 (12.07%) AWS
3 25 (5.39%) GCP
4 20 (4.31%) Azure DevOps
5 15 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 12 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
7 11 (2.37%) SaaS
7 11 (2.37%) Snowflake
8 10 (2.16%) PaaS
9 8 (1.72%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.51%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
11 6 (1.29%) Entra ID
11 6 (1.29%) IaaS
11 6 (1.29%) Serverless
12 5 (1.08%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.08%) GitHub
13 4 (0.86%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.60%) DNS
2 21 (4.53%) Firewall
3 19 (4.09%) DHCP
4 18 (3.88%) Wireless
5 17 (3.66%) WAN
6 13 (2.80%) TCP/IP
6 13 (2.80%) Wireshark
7 12 (2.59%) LAN
7 12 (2.59%) SAN
8 10 (2.16%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (2.16%) Network Security
9 9 (1.94%) VPN
10 8 (1.72%) 5G
10 8 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (1.51%) BGP
11 7 (1.51%) Ethernet
11 7 (1.51%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (1.51%) Junos
11 7 (1.51%) OSPF
11 7 (1.51%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (3.23%) Power BI
1 15 (3.23%) Tableau
2 13 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 12 (2.59%) Metadata
3 12 (2.59%) PostgreSQL
4 10 (2.16%) Data Mining
4 10 (2.16%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.94%) Big Data
5 9 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.72%) MySQL
6 8 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.51%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.29%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.29%) NoSQL
9 4 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (0.86%) DB2
9 4 (0.86%) MS Access
10 3 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
10 3 (0.65%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 39 (8.41%) JIRA
2 38 (8.19%) Git
3 21 (4.53%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.16%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.16%) Oracle APEX
4 10 (2.16%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (1.72%) GitLab
5 8 (1.72%) Subversion
6 6 (1.29%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.29%) Mercurial
6 6 (1.29%) Selenium
7 4 (0.86%) Gradle
7 4 (0.86%) JUnit
7 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 3 (0.65%) JMeter
8 3 (0.65%) Travis CI
8 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.43%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.43%) Maven
General
1 217 (46.77%) Social Skills
2 122 (26.29%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (10.99%) Finance
4 40 (8.62%) Telecoms
5 35 (7.54%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.47%) Legal
7 27 (5.82%) Banking
8 21 (4.53%) Electronics
9 19 (4.09%) Automotive
10 18 (3.88%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.02%) Aerospace
11 14 (3.02%) Multimedia
12 13 (2.80%) Retail
13 10 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.51%) German Language
15 7 (1.51%) Marketing
16 6 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
17 5 (1.08%) Law
Job Titles
1 76 (16.38%) Architect
2 52 (11.21%) Senior
3 50 (10.78%) Software Engineer
4 47 (10.13%) Analyst
5 41 (8.84%) Developer
6 40 (8.62%) Solutions Architect
7 27 (5.82%) Network Engineer
8 18 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 17 (3.66%) Lead
10 15 (3.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
12 13 (2.80%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.80%) Linux Engineer
12 13 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (2.59%) Python Engineer
13 12 (2.59%) Support Engineer
14 11 (2.37%) AWS Engineer
15 10 (2.16%) Project Manager
16 9 (1.94%) Consultant
16 9 (1.94%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.45%) HTML
2 15 (3.23%) React
3 14 (3.02%) .NET
3 14 (3.02%) CSS
3 14 (3.02%) RESTful
4 12 (2.59%) Kafka
5 10 (2.16%) AngularJS
5 10 (2.16%) Flash
6 9 (1.94%) Middleware
6 9 (1.94%) NumPy
6 9 (1.94%) REST
6 9 (1.94%) Spring
6 9 (1.94%) XML
7 8 (1.72%) Pandas
8 7 (1.51%) .NET Framework
9 6 (1.29%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.29%) SciPy
10 5 (1.08%) OpenGL
10 5 (1.08%) OpenGL ES
Miscellaneous
1 53 (11.42%) Management Information System
2 37 (7.97%) Algorithms
3 30 (6.47%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.17%) Self-Motivation
5 16 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
7 13 (2.80%) Security Operations Centre
8 12 (2.59%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.16%) CMDB
9 10 (2.16%) Security Posture
10 9 (1.94%) PKI
11 7 (1.51%) Clustering
11 7 (1.51%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.51%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.51%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.29%) IoT
13 5 (1.08%) Public Cloud
13 5 (1.08%) Social Media
13 5 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 67 (14.44%) Windows
2 50 (10.78%) Linux
3 33 (7.11%) Unix
4 21 (4.53%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.80%) Android
6 9 (1.94%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (1.51%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.29%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (0.86%) Solaris
9 4 (0.86%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.65%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.43%) HPUX
11 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.43%) zOS
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (42.03%) Problem-Solving
2 102 (21.98%) Agile
3 81 (17.46%) Software Engineering
4 74 (15.95%) DevOps
5 58 (12.50%) Migration
6 53 (11.42%) ITIL
7 48 (10.34%) Roadmaps
8 42 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (9.05%) Test Automation
9 41 (8.84%) Analytics
10 40 (8.62%) Scrum
11 38 (8.19%) Decision-Making
12 36 (7.76%) Data Science
13 34 (7.33%) Data Management
14 33 (7.11%) Data Modelling
14 33 (7.11%) Validation
15 30 (6.47%) Artificial Intelligence
15 30 (6.47%) Mathematics
15 30 (6.47%) Project Management
15 30 (6.47%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (23.06%) Python
2 69 (14.87%) SQL
3 62 (13.36%) Java
4 31 (6.68%) JavaScript
5 29 (6.25%) C#
6 23 (4.96%) C++
6 23 (4.96%) PowerShell
7 22 (4.74%) MATLAB
8 21 (4.53%) Perl
9 16 (3.45%) R
9 16 (3.45%) Scala
10 12 (2.59%) C
11 11 (2.37%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.72%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.51%) Bash
13 7 (1.51%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.29%) Go
14 6 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 410 (88.36%) Degree
2 262 (56.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 79 (17.03%) Security Cleared
4 54 (11.64%) Master's Degree
5 51 (10.99%) SC Cleared
6 40 (8.62%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (6.03%) DV Cleared
8 24 (5.17%) CCNA
9 21 (4.53%) CCNP
10 20 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
11 18 (3.88%) CISSP
12 15 (3.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (2.80%) Azure Certification
14 12 (2.59%) PhD
15 11 (2.37%) A+ Certification
16 10 (2.16%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
16 10 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
17 9 (1.94%) Chartered Engineer
18 7 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.68%) QA
2 21 (4.53%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.16%) SLA
4 6 (1.29%) GDPR
5 4 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.86%) JTAG
5 4 (0.86%) NIST
6 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) HL7
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (6.25%) Active Directory
2 28 (6.03%) Docker
3 27 (5.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (2.59%) vSphere
5 11 (2.37%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.37%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.16%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.08%) Firmware
7 5 (1.08%) KVM
7 5 (1.08%) NFS
8 4 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.86%) GPFS
8 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.86%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (6.47%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.88%) Terraform
3 12 (2.59%) vCenter Server
4 10 (2.16%) Ansible
5 6 (1.29%) SCCM
6 5 (1.08%) OpenView
7 4 (0.86%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 4 (0.86%) WSUS
8 3 (0.65%) SCOM
8 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.65%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.43%) Kibana
9 2 (0.43%) logstash
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.43%) vRealize
9 2 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.43%) yum
Vendors
1 83 (17.89%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.76%) VMware
3 30 (6.47%) Cisco
4 28 (6.03%) SAP
5 24 (5.17%) Oracle
6 22 (4.74%) Google
7 21 (4.53%) ServiceNow
8 15 (3.23%) IBM
9 14 (3.02%) Juniper
10 13 (2.80%) Databricks
11 11 (2.37%) F5
12 10 (2.16%) Palo Alto
13 9 (1.94%) Atlassian
13 9 (1.94%) Red Hat
14 7 (1.51%) Nokia
14 7 (1.51%) SolarWinds
14 7 (1.51%) Splunk
14 7 (1.51%) Veritas
15 6 (1.29%) EMC
16 5 (1.08%) Citrix
964 Computer Science jobs in the UK excluding London