Computer Science Degree Contracts in Birmingham

Computer Science Degree
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 50 69
Rank change year-on-year +12 +19 +25
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 12 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.30% 2.20% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.70% 7.62% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 6
10th Percentile £184 £350 £313
25th Percentile £247 £422 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year -21.60% +2.04% +130.59%
75th Percentile £563 £550 £504
90th Percentile £587 £587 £546
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £550 £490
% change year-on-year -2.27% +12.24% +30.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.25 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 138 223 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 26.44% 28.85% 22.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 100
10th Percentile £148 £263 £303
25th Percentile £195 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £670 £538 £638
90th Percentile £700 £638 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £498 £450 £528
% change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 14 18
10th Percentile £21.66 £13.48 £11.70
25th Percentile £26.38 £16.08 £12.70
Median hourly rate £39.50 £26.00 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year +51.92% +55.22% -19.28%
75th Percentile £54.13 £28.75 £20.00
90th Percentile £57.05 £55.88 £29.51
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Birmingham

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Birmingham

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Birmingham

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Birmingham

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) OCI
1 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (8.33%) BGP
2 1 (8.33%) DHCP
2 1 (8.33%) DNS
2 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (8.33%) Internet
2 1 (8.33%) LAN
2 1 (8.33%) OSPF
2 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (8.33%) VLAN
2 1 (8.33%) WAN
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless
2 1 (8.33%) Wireless Security
2 1 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) GitLab
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) JMeter
2 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) TestNG
2 2 (16.67%) Travis CI
3 1 (8.33%) Ant
3 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (8.33%) Gradle
3 1 (8.33%) JUnit
3 1 (8.33%) Maven
3 1 (8.33%) Mockito
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) SAP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Python Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) BAPI
2 2 (16.67%) IDoc
2 2 (16.67%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) CSS3
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) HTML5
3 1 (8.33%) J2EE
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OpenID
3 1 (8.33%) SAML
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (8.33%) SAPUI5
3 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 7 (58.33%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) SIEM
4 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Containerisation
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Task Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Visualisation
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (16.67%) Data Ingestion
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (16.67%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 5 (41.67%) Bash
3 3 (25.00%) ABAP
3 3 (25.00%) COBOL
4 2 (16.67%) Java
5 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (8.33%) Perl
5 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) CEH
2 2 (16.67%) CISSP
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) CCNP
3 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (8.33%) OCP
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (41.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Kubernetes
2 4 (33.33%) Ansible
3 3 (25.00%) Terraform
4 2 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Adobe
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) BT
3 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Sybase
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler