Computer Science Contracts in Birmingham

Computer Science
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science 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 29 44 64
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +17
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 21 23 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.02% 2.98% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 3.57% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 7
10th Percentile - £356 £313
25th Percentile £163 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -58.95% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £419 £550 £528
90th Percentile £548 £578 £565
West Midlands median daily rate £240 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -55.44% +7.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.33 £24.63
Median hourly rate - £40.45 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - +60.20% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £25.88
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £56.25 £25.25
% change year-on-year - +122.77% +80.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Birmingham

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Birmingham

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Birmingham

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Birmingham

Computer Science
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 (9.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
2 1 (4.76%) GCP
2 1 (4.76%) OCI
2 1 (4.76%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) Network Security
2 1 (4.76%) BGP
2 1 (4.76%) DHCP
2 1 (4.76%) DNS
2 1 (4.76%) EIGRP
2 1 (4.76%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) Internet
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) OSPF
2 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
2 1 (4.76%) VLAN
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless
2 1 (4.76%) Wireless Security
2 1 (4.76%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.76%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.76%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Postman
2 2 (9.52%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Jenkins
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) JMeter
2 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) TestNG
2 2 (9.52%) Travis CI
3 1 (4.76%) Ant
3 1 (4.76%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.76%) Gradle
3 1 (4.76%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Maven
3 1 (4.76%) Mockito
General
1 15 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (28.57%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Financial Institution
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (23.81%) Developer
2 3 (14.29%) SAP Developer
3 2 (9.52%) ABAP Developer
3 2 (9.52%) Site Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Information Security Advisor
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Java Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Lead
4 1 (4.76%) Network Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Oracle Architect
4 1 (4.76%) Product Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.76%) Security Advisor
4 1 (4.76%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) RESTful
2 2 (9.52%) BAPI
2 2 (9.52%) IDoc
2 2 (9.52%) REST
2 2 (9.52%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (9.52%) SOAP
2 2 (9.52%) Web Services
3 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.76%) CSS
3 1 (4.76%) CSS3
3 1 (4.76%) HTML
3 1 (4.76%) HTML5
3 1 (4.76%) J2EE
3 1 (4.76%) jQuery
3 1 (4.76%) OAuth
3 1 (4.76%) OpenID
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (4.76%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (4.76%) SAPUI5
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.76%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Collaborative Working
2 9 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (28.57%) SIEM
4 4 (19.05%) Incident Response
4 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
4 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Visualisation
5 3 (14.29%) Agile
5 3 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 3 (14.29%) DevOps
5 3 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (14.29%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Performance Testing
6 2 (9.52%) SAP Implementation
6 2 (9.52%) Security Testing
6 2 (9.52%) Test Automation
6 2 (9.52%) Test Scripting
6 2 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 10 (47.62%) Python
2 5 (23.81%) Bash
3 3 (14.29%) ABAP
3 3 (14.29%) COBOL
4 2 (9.52%) Java
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
5 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (66.67%) Degree
2 12 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (14.29%) CEH
3 3 (14.29%) CISSP
4 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
4 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) CCNP
5 1 (4.76%) CISA
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.76%) CISM
5 1 (4.76%) DBS Check
5 1 (4.76%) OCP
5 1 (4.76%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (9.52%) NIST
1 2 (9.52%) QA
1 2 (9.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.76%) GDPR
2 1 (4.76%) HIPAA
2 1 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
2 4 (19.05%) Ansible
3 3 (14.29%) Terraform
4 2 (9.52%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) Adobe
2 2 (9.52%) Cisco
2 2 (9.52%) Juniper
3 1 (4.76%) BT
3 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
3 1 (4.76%) Sybase
3 1 (4.76%) Zscaler