Computer Science Degree Contracts

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 131 256 354
Rank change year-on-year +125 +98 -39
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 768 621 673
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.77% 1.04% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.79% 3.80% 3.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 438 421
10th Percentile £311 £363 £353
25th Percentile £413 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £643 £750 £650
90th Percentile £775 £900 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 24
10th Percentile £25.40 £20.00 £19.43
25th Percentile £38.75 £41.00 £35.31
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.40% +32.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.88 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £56.56
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year -6.64% +24.23% +34.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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
England +122 629 £550 -4.35% 806
London +78 400 £550 -8.33% 397
UK excluding London +147 255 £525 +5.00% 432
Work from Home +112 222 £550 -9.84% 378
South East +36 62 £488 -2.50% 104
Midlands +48 51 £550 +14.58% 66
West Midlands +59 46 £550 +12.24% 37
North of England +49 39 £339 -24.72% 108
Scotland +54 35 £550 -9.09% 24
East of England +35 32 £500 -13.04% 61
South West +36 28 £588 +6.82% 43
North West +22 21 £165 -63.33% 63
Yorkshire +24 12 £340 -7.80% 30
North East - 6 £600 - 15
Wales +20 5 £403 - 9
East Midlands +15 5 £650 +39.78% 29
Northern Ireland +12 5 £520 +30.00% 18

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 20 (2.60%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.69%) Apache
4 11 (1.43%) Apache Spark
5 10 (1.30%) Confluence
6 6 (0.78%) CMS
7 4 (0.52%) Drupal
7 4 (0.52%) WordPress
8 3 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.39%) EPiServer
8 3 (0.39%) SAS
9 2 (0.26%) Camunda
9 2 (0.26%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.26%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.26%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
9 2 (0.26%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.30%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.39%) SPSS
5 3 (0.39%) Windchill
6 2 (0.26%) Simulink
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
7 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 11 (1.43%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.65%) Magento
3 4 (0.52%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.39%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.39%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.26%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.26%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.26%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.26%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.26%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 192 (25.00%) Azure
2 141 (18.36%) AWS
3 92 (11.98%) GCP
4 35 (4.56%) Microsoft 365
5 33 (4.30%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (4.17%) Power Platform
7 28 (3.65%) GitHub
7 28 (3.65%) Serverless
8 23 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
9 22 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
10 19 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
10 19 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.21%) Amazon S3
11 17 (2.21%) SaaS
12 14 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.69%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (1.69%) PowerApps
13 13 (1.69%) Vertex AI
14 12 (1.56%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.21%) Firewall
2 37 (4.82%) Network Security
3 29 (3.78%) DNS
4 16 (2.08%) VPN
5 15 (1.95%) DHCP
6 14 (1.82%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.30%) Internet
8 8 (1.04%) LAN
8 8 (1.04%) VLAN
8 8 (1.04%) WAN
8 8 (1.04%) Wireshark
9 7 (0.91%) Wireless
10 6 (0.78%) 5G
10 6 (0.78%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (0.78%) OSPF
10 6 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (0.65%) SSL
12 4 (0.52%) 3G
12 4 (0.52%) BGP
12 4 (0.52%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 36 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
3 29 (3.78%) Relational Database
4 28 (3.65%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (3.65%) Power BI
5 22 (2.86%) Big Data
6 20 (2.60%) Tableau
7 19 (2.47%) Oracle Database
8 18 (2.34%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.34%) MySQL
9 16 (2.08%) NoSQL
10 15 (1.95%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.69%) Data Mining
11 13 (1.69%) Metadata
12 12 (1.56%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
12 12 (1.56%) Hadoop
13 10 (1.30%) Couchbase
14 8 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
15 7 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 77 (10.03%) Git
2 47 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 33 (4.30%) JIRA
4 27 (3.52%) GitLab
5 14 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.43%) Gradle
6 11 (1.43%) Oracle APEX
7 10 (1.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 10 (1.30%) JUnit
8 9 (1.17%) Selenium
9 7 (0.91%) Visual Studio
10 6 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.78%) Mercurial
10 6 (0.78%) MLflow
11 5 (0.65%) Maven
11 5 (0.65%) Subversion
11 5 (0.65%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.52%) Sourcetree
13 3 (0.39%) ERwin
13 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 460 (59.90%) Social Skills
2 220 (28.65%) Analytical Skills
3 142 (18.49%) Finance
4 73 (9.51%) Banking
5 30 (3.91%) Public Sector
6 23 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (2.86%) Front Office
8 21 (2.73%) Legal
9 18 (2.34%) Telecoms
10 17 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.21%) Retail
11 16 (2.08%) Marketing
12 15 (1.95%) Electronics
13 14 (1.82%) Multimedia
14 13 (1.69%) Investment Banking
15 11 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 11 (1.43%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.30%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.91%) Automotive
18 6 (0.78%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 140 (18.23%) Developer
2 122 (15.89%) Architect
3 75 (9.77%) Senior
4 48 (6.25%) Software Engineer
5 47 (6.12%) Lead
6 44 (5.73%) Analyst
7 34 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
8 33 (4.30%) DevOps Engineer
9 31 (4.04%) Consultant
10 30 (3.91%) Java Developer
11 27 (3.52%) Data Engineer
12 25 (3.26%) Network Engineer
13 22 (2.86%) Senior Developer
14 17 (2.21%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.21%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.21%) Technical Architect
15 16 (2.08%) SOC Engineer
16 14 (1.82%) Data Scientist
16 14 (1.82%) Security Engineer
17 13 (1.69%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (6.51%) CSS
2 48 (6.25%) HTML
3 46 (5.99%) React
4 32 (4.17%) REST
5 30 (3.91%) .NET
6 26 (3.39%) RESTful
7 25 (3.26%) Spring
8 23 (2.99%) AngularJS
9 20 (2.60%) JSON
10 19 (2.47%) Kafka
11 18 (2.34%) Node.js
12 14 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
13 13 (1.69%) Web Services
13 13 (1.69%) XML
14 12 (1.56%) .NET Framework
14 12 (1.56%) Swagger
15 11 (1.43%) .NET Core
15 11 (1.43%) jQuery
15 11 (1.43%) PyTorch
15 11 (1.43%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.59%) Management Information System
2 53 (6.90%) Algorithms
3 36 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 35 (4.56%) Self-Motivation
5 27 (3.52%) Data Structures
5 27 (3.52%) Security Posture
6 22 (2.86%) Derivative
7 21 (2.73%) Security Operations Centre
8 18 (2.34%) Mobile App
9 17 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
10 15 (1.95%) Distributed Systems
10 15 (1.95%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 14 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.82%) Fixed Income
11 14 (1.82%) Virtual Team
12 13 (1.69%) CMDB
12 13 (1.69%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
13 11 (1.43%) Legacy Code
13 11 (1.43%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 64 (8.33%) Windows
2 52 (6.77%) Linux
3 23 (2.99%) Android
4 20 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 18 (2.34%) Unix
6 9 (1.17%) Solaris
6 9 (1.17%) Windows 7
7 8 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 8 (1.04%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.91%) VMS
9 6 (0.78%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.65%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.52%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.39%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.26%) HPUX
13 2 (0.26%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.26%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 760 (98.96%) Computer Science
2 389 (50.65%) Problem-Solving
3 194 (25.26%) Agile
4 121 (15.76%) DevOps
5 113 (14.71%) Software Engineering
6 97 (12.63%) CI/CD
7 87 (11.33%) Migration
8 85 (11.07%) Analytics
9 73 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 73 (9.51%) Data Modelling
10 72 (9.38%) Project Management
11 68 (8.85%) Machine Learning
12 65 (8.46%) Data Science
13 59 (7.68%) Cybersecurity
14 56 (7.29%) Mentoring
14 56 (7.29%) Microservices
15 54 (7.03%) Scrum
16 52 (6.77%) Mathematics
17 48 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence
17 48 (6.25%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 186 (24.22%) Python
2 130 (16.93%) SQL
3 125 (16.28%) Java
4 85 (11.07%) JavaScript
5 47 (6.12%) C#
6 45 (5.86%) PowerShell
7 38 (4.95%) C++
8 33 (4.30%) Bash
9 25 (3.26%) Scala
10 23 (2.99%) PL/SQL
10 23 (2.99%) TypeScript
11 22 (2.86%) Perl
12 20 (2.60%) R
13 18 (2.34%) Go
14 15 (1.95%) C
14 15 (1.95%) Kotlin
15 14 (1.82%) Kusto Query Language
16 7 (0.91%) Shell Script
17 6 (0.78%) MATLAB
18 5 (0.65%) PHP
Qualifications
1 768 (100.00%) Degree
2 121 (15.76%) Master's Degree
3 115 (14.97%) Security Cleared
4 87 (11.33%) SC Cleared
5 55 (7.16%) CISSP
6 44 (5.73%) Azure Certification
7 40 (5.21%) Cisco Certification
8 31 (4.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.52%) CCNA
10 24 (3.13%) CEH
11 22 (2.86%) CompTIA Security+
11 22 (2.86%) DV Cleared
12 21 (2.73%) CCNP
13 17 (2.21%) CISM
14 16 (2.08%) PhD
15 14 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
16 12 (1.56%) PMP
17 11 (1.43%) A+ Certification
17 11 (1.43%) CCIE
18 10 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (8.20%) QA
2 31 (4.04%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.95%) NIST
4 9 (1.17%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.17%) SLA
5 8 (1.04%) GDPR
6 5 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
6 5 (0.65%) GRC
6 5 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.52%) COBIT
7 4 (0.52%) NIST 800
8 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.39%) PMO
8 3 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 2 (0.26%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.26%) MiFID
10 1 (0.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 34 (4.43%) Docker
2 29 (3.78%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.43%) KVM
5 11 (1.43%) vSphere
6 10 (1.30%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.65%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.52%) vCloud
9 4 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.52%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.13%) Firmware
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (6.90%) Terraform
2 45 (5.86%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.08%) Ansible
4 10 (1.30%) Grafana
4 10 (1.30%) Kibana
5 9 (1.17%) logstash
6 8 (1.04%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.04%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.78%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.65%) SCCM
10 4 (0.52%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.39%) Nessus
11 3 (0.39%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.39%) Puppet
11 3 (0.39%) SysTrack
12 2 (0.26%) PowerCLI
12 2 (0.26%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.26%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 165 (21.48%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.85%) Oracle
3 47 (6.12%) Google
4 35 (4.56%) VMware
5 32 (4.17%) ServiceNow
6 29 (3.78%) SAP
7 19 (2.47%) Cisco
8 17 (2.21%) Databricks
9 16 (2.08%) Salesforce
10 12 (1.56%) Red Hat
11 11 (1.43%) IBM
12 9 (1.17%) Juniper
13 7 (0.91%) Arista
13 7 (0.91%) F5
13 7 (0.91%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.78%) Foundry
14 6 (0.78%) Okta
14 6 (0.78%) Palantir
14 6 (0.78%) Qualys
14 6 (0.78%) Splunk