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 8 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 44 66
Rank change year-on-year -4 +22 +25
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 10 16 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.82% 2.36% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.92% 10.81% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 3
10th Percentile £198 £413 £420
25th Percentile £282 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +10.00% +31.15%
75th Percentile £450 £718 £544
90th Percentile £542 £725 £570
West Midlands median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +31.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 -
% change year-on-year -46.67% - -

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 169 148 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.84% 21.80% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 83 111
10th Percentile £150 £263 £270
25th Percentile £254 £369 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £619 £650
90th Percentile £602 £725 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £519 £550
% change year-on-year -3.66% -5.64% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 9 5
10th Percentile £18.62 £13.85 £12.98
25th Percentile - £14.00 £13.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +21.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £27.44 £50.00 £35.08
90th Percentile £49.95 £56.25 £72.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £32.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year -6.69% +16.91% +37.50%

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 8 August 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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) nginx
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon EventBridge
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (10.00%) OCI
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) DHCP
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless Security
2 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Git
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) Postman
2 2 (20.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) TestNG
2 2 (20.00%) Travis CI
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
4 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Site Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Python Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) JSON
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) OpenID
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) SAML
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (50.00%) Containerisation
3 5 (50.00%) DevOps
3 5 (50.00%) SIEM
4 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (30.00%) Agile
5 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
5 3 (30.00%) High Availability
5 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
5 3 (30.00%) Mentoring
5 3 (30.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (30.00%) Task Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
6 2 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
6 2 (20.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 9 (90.00%) Python
2 5 (50.00%) Bash
3 2 (20.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) CEH
2 2 (20.00%) CISSP
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (10.00%) CCNP
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (10.00%) OCP
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (40.00%) Ansible
2 4 (40.00%) Terraform
3 2 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
1 2 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) BT
2 1 (10.00%) IBM
2 1 (10.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) Pega
2 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (10.00%) Zscaler