Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Computer Science Degree
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 24 36
Rank change year-on-year -13 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.46% 2.26% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.63% 7.69% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £400 £325
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +23.08% -
75th Percentile - - £338
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £600 £438 £375
% change year-on-year +37.14% +16.67% +2.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £21.00 £27.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year -22.22% -56.80% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bedfordshire

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 71 39 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 25.91% 29.32% 26.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 21 42
10th Percentile £270 £121 £297
25th Percentile £475 £304 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £624 - £579
90th Percentile £675 £538 £645
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 4
10th Percentile £25.15 £28.20 £20.15
25th Percentile £60.00 £29.89 £20.38
Median hourly rate £68.21 £30.78 £26.41
Median % change year-on-year +121.60% +16.57% -59.99%
75th Percentile £73.46 £55.13 £39.05
90th Percentile £84.60 £77.80 £50.12
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £64.00 £28.84
% change year-on-year -64.84% +121.95% +37.31%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 11 February 2026. 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
Luton - 4 £600 - 1
Computer Science Degree
East of England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure AKS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Functions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) Spring
1 4 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Kafka
2 1 (25.00%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 4 (100.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 4 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 4 (100.00%) Microservices
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (75.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (25.00%) AI
4 1 (25.00%) Application Security
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven Programming
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft