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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 39 64
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 -1
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 24 26 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 4.20% 3.42% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.82% 4.30% 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 9
10th Percentile - £373 £294
25th Percentile £163 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £550 £480
Median % change year-on-year -60.91% +14.58% +3.78%
75th Percentile £350 £638 £550
90th Percentile £485 £722 £600
West Midlands median daily rate £292 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -46.91% -8.33% +33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £22.33 £24.63
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year - +98.02% -
75th Percentile - £56.25 £25.88
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 £25.25
% change year-on-year -46.67% +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 498 604 765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.22% 79.37% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 414 518
10th Percentile £163 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £376 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.21% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £575 £592 £620
90th Percentile £689 £700 £731
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 28 29
10th Percentile - £13.23 £12.50
25th Percentile £12.62 £15.16 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.87 £25.33 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.49% +5.52% +38.33%
75th Percentile £22.08 £41.75 £30.00
90th Percentile £26.51 £56.25 £62.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.05 £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +16.05% -24.00% +42.86%

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 17 July 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub
2 1 (4.17%) OCI
2 1 (4.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) Network Security
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) VLAN
3 1 (4.17%) BGP
3 1 (4.17%) DHCP
3 1 (4.17%) DMZ
3 1 (4.17%) DNS
3 1 (4.17%) EIGRP
3 1 (4.17%) Internet
3 1 (4.17%) LAN
3 1 (4.17%) OSPF
3 1 (4.17%) SD-WAN
3 1 (4.17%) WAN
3 1 (4.17%) Wireless
3 1 (4.17%) Wireless Security
3 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) JMeter
2 2 (8.33%) Postman
2 2 (8.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 2 (8.33%) TestNG
2 2 (8.33%) Travis CI
3 1 (4.17%) Ant
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Gradle
3 1 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Maven
3 1 (4.17%) Mockito
General
1 18 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (8.33%) Analyst
1 2 (8.33%) Developer
1 2 (8.33%) Site Engineer
1 2 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
1 2 (8.33%) Tester
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Architect
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (4.17%) Compliance Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Compliance Business Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Data Business Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Data Compliance Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Data Migration Business Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Functional Business Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Information Security Advisor
2 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Migration Analyst
2 1 (4.17%) Product Developer
2 1 (4.17%) Python Engineer
2 1 (4.17%) Security Advisor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) J2EE
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OLE
1 1 (4.17%) OpenID
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.17%) RESTful
1 1 (4.17%) SAML
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.17%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (41.67%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (25.00%) SIEM
4 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 3 (12.50%) Agile
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 3 (12.50%) Site Reliability Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
6 2 (8.33%) Functional Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Migration
6 2 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
6 2 (8.33%) Regression Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (4.17%) Perl
4 1 (4.17%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Degree
2 10 (41.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (16.67%) CISSP
4 3 (12.50%) CEH
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
6 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (4.17%) CCNA
6 1 (4.17%) CCNP
6 1 (4.17%) CISA
6 1 (4.17%) CISM
6 1 (4.17%) DBS Check
6 1 (4.17%) OCP
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (4.17%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Kubernetes
2 4 (16.67%) Ansible
2 4 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Cisco
1 2 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (4.17%) BT
2 1 (4.17%) IBM
2 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
2 1 (4.17%) Sybase
2 1 (4.17%) Zscaler