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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 67 73
Rank change year-on-year +27 +6 -29
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 23 9 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 3.00% 1.01% 1.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.73% 1.17% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £355 £313 -
25th Percentile £388 £338 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £425
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +12.94% -10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £528 £649
90th Percentile £581 £565 £859
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
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 £14.00
% 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 617 770 1,194
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 80.55% 86.61% 91.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 511 853
10th Percentile £235 £263 £250
25th Percentile £373 £399 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £581 £638 £600
90th Percentile £688 £706 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 33 18
10th Percentile £13.33 £12.10 £12.72
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.25 £20.71 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year +31.61% +20.03% +9.52%
75th Percentile £47.94 £28.75 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £52.25 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
% change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%

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 25 June 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in Birmingham over the 6 months to 25 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (21.74%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) AWS
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Functions
2 3 (13.04%) Azure Monitor
2 3 (13.04%) Power Platform
2 3 (13.04%) Serverless
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (8.70%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.35%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (4.35%) dbt
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (13.04%) DHCP
1 3 (13.04%) DNS
1 3 (13.04%) Ethereal
1 3 (13.04%) Ethernet
1 3 (13.04%) LAN
1 3 (13.04%) WAN
1 3 (13.04%) Wireless
1 3 (13.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Power BI
2 2 (8.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.35%) Big Data
3 1 (4.35%) Flink
3 1 (4.35%) Hadoop
3 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (4.35%) Presto
3 1 (4.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
1 3 (13.04%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (78.26%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Finance
3 4 (17.39%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (13.04%) German Language
4 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Developer
2 6 (26.09%) Java Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Enterprise Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Network Support
3 3 (13.04%) Network Support Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
3 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Data Engineer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Consultant
5 1 (4.35%) Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Java Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (26.09%) Spring
2 3 (13.04%) AngularJS
2 3 (13.04%) React
3 1 (4.35%) CSS
3 1 (4.35%) Guice
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) Kafka
3 1 (4.35%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (4.35%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Vue
3 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (21.74%) Management Information System
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
4 2 (8.70%) Algorithms
4 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (8.70%) Data Structures
4 2 (8.70%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (8.70%) Industry 4.0
4 2 (8.70%) IoT
5 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.70%) Linux
2 2 (8.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Agile
2 7 (30.43%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) Data Science
3 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (21.74%) Analytics
4 5 (21.74%) CI/CD
5 4 (17.39%) Architectural Design
5 4 (17.39%) BDD
5 4 (17.39%) Microservices
5 4 (17.39%) SOA
5 4 (17.39%) Software Engineering
5 4 (17.39%) TDD
5 4 (17.39%) Translating Business Requirements
6 3 (13.04%) Artificial Intelligence
6 3 (13.04%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Roadmaps
6 3 (13.04%) Runbook
6 3 (13.04%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 3 (13.04%) TOGAF
6 3 (13.04%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) Python
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
4 2 (8.70%) Perl
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 22 (95.65%) Degree
2 17 (73.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (30.43%) Master's Degree
4 3 (13.04%) CCNA
4 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (13.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 4 (17.39%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) OpenView
1 3 (13.04%) SysTrack
2 1 (4.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.04%) Cisco
2 3 (13.04%) Citrix
2 3 (13.04%) New Relic
2 3 (13.04%) OpenAI
3 2 (8.70%) SAP
4 1 (4.35%) Informatica
4 1 (4.35%) Oracle
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Teradata