Computer Science Contracts in West London

Computer Science
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 28 53 47
Rank change year-on-year +25 -6 -5
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 15 13 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 4.17% 2.27% 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.75% 2.43% 3.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 10
10th Percentile £424 £368 £187
25th Percentile £450 £377 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £431 £510
Median % change year-on-year +10.14% -15.44% -17.74%
75th Percentile - £500 £518
90th Percentile £476 £523 £618
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £67.50 £33.25
25th Percentile £51.25 £71.25 £34.38
Median hourly rate £52.50 £80.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.38% +113.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 £86.25 £42.38
90th Percentile - £88.50 £44.55
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
West 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 West London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 535 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 87.78% 93.53% 93.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 226 389 405
10th Percentile £209 £350 £218
25th Percentile £314 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +7.84% -1.45%
75th Percentile £577 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 51 27
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.00 £15.65
25th Percentile £16.86 £47.88 £17.27
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £21.93
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +196.40% -18.78%
75th Percentile £46.50 £75.00 £41.51
90th Percentile £59.00 £90.00 £43.61
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 West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in West London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in West London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in West London

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West 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
Hillingdon +37 9 £475 +22.58% 10
Hounslow -5 6 £450 -5.26% 11
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (6.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.67%) Azure API Management
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Functions
3 1 (6.67%) Boomi
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
3 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Couchbase
2 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
2 1 (6.67%) Big Data
2 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
2 1 (6.67%) Power BI
2 1 (6.67%) QlikView
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Karma Test Runner
General
1 11 (73.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Development Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Software Development Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) C++ Developer
2 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Angular Developer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Azure Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Backend Developer
4 2 (13.33%) C++ Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 2 (13.33%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) C++ Software Developer
5 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Data Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) CSS
2 4 (26.67%) Kafka
3 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 2 (13.33%) OpenAPI
4 2 (13.33%) Playwright
4 2 (13.33%) React
4 2 (13.33%) Redux
4 2 (13.33%) REST
4 2 (13.33%) Swagger
5 1 (6.67%) Itk
5 1 (6.67%) JSON
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (6.67%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (6.67%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Feasibility Study
2 7 (46.67%) Product Management
2 7 (46.67%) Validation
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 6 (40.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 4 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 3 (20.00%) Full Stack Development
5 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (13.33%) Backlog Management
6 2 (13.33%) Coaching
6 2 (13.33%) Product Backlog
6 2 (13.33%) Responsive Web Design
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (13.33%) Sprint Review
6 2 (13.33%) Unit Testing
6 2 (13.33%) User Experience
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C++
2 5 (33.33%) Python
2 5 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 3 (20.00%) C
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
5 1 (6.67%) VB
Qualifications
1 14 (93.33%) Degree
2 12 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (13.33%) MBA
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certification
5 1 (6.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Oracle
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Dell
3 1 (6.67%) SAP