Computer Science Degree Contracts in Central London

Computer Science Degree
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 89 79 110
Rank change year-on-year -10 +31 +26
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 40 56 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.00% 2.29% 1.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.15% 11.16% 8.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 39 44
10th Percentile £425 £354 £488
25th Percentile £450 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £750
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -23.33% +33.93%
75th Percentile £700 £738 £1,063
90th Percentile £833 £793 -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £54.25
25th Percentile - - £58.75
Median hourly rate - - £67.50
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £80.75
London median hourly rate £57.50 £50.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year +15.00% +19.05% -11.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 491 502 769
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 24.59% 20.52% 19.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 315 451
10th Percentile £368 £366 £325
25th Percentile £456 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
London median daily rate £525 £540 £575
% change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 5
10th Percentile £24.16 £20.22 £18.06
25th Percentile £27.39 £22.60 £20.22
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.00 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.67% -47.57% +13.19%
75th Percentile £63.75 £54.38 £53.75
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £71.75
London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Central London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Central London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Central London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Central London

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -15 32 £641 +11.48% 29
West End of London - 6 £450 - 8
Camden - 5 £450 -
City of Westminster - 1 £650 - 1
Computer Science Degree
London

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 3 (7.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.50%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) AWS
3 5 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
5 3 (7.50%) OCI
6 2 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.50%) Azure API Management
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.50%) Boomi
7 1 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.50%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.50%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (15.00%) S/MIME
1 6 (15.00%) SSL
2 3 (7.50%) Firewall
3 1 (2.50%) BIG-IP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (2.50%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (2.50%) HTTP
3 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (2.50%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.50%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) Wireless
3 1 (2.50%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) Hadoop
1 3 (7.50%) Power BI
2 2 (5.00%) Apache Hive
2 2 (5.00%) DB2
2 2 (5.00%) MySQL
2 2 (5.00%) Power Query
2 2 (5.00%) Tableau
3 1 (2.50%) Big Data
3 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.50%) KDB
3 1 (2.50%) Looker
3 1 (2.50%) PowerPivot
3 1 (2.50%) QlikView
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Git
1 4 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) Maven
2 1 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (32.50%) Finance
3 11 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (12.50%) Banking
4 5 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.00%) Front Office
7 1 (2.50%) Advertising
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Marketing
7 1 (2.50%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Developer
2 9 (22.50%) Lead
3 6 (15.00%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.50%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C++ Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C++ Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Integration Architect
7 2 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) RPG Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior C# Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior C++ Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) OAuth
1 4 (10.00%) REST
2 3 (7.50%) OpenID
2 3 (7.50%) SAML
2 3 (7.50%) SOAP
2 3 (7.50%) Web Services
3 2 (5.00%) .NET
3 2 (5.00%) CSS
3 2 (5.00%) Middleware
3 2 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (5.00%) PySpark
3 2 (5.00%) Spring
3 2 (5.00%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.50%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (2.50%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (2.50%) JSON
4 1 (2.50%) Node.js
4 1 (2.50%) React
4 1 (2.50%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.50%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 7 (17.50%) Management Information System
3 6 (15.00%) PKI
4 4 (10.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (5.00%) AS400
5 2 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 2 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) CMDB
6 1 (2.50%) Credit Risk
6 1 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.50%) Hedge funds
6 1 (2.50%) iSeries
6 1 (2.50%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
2 2 (5.00%) Windows
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 25 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (32.50%) DevOps
4 12 (30.00%) Agile
5 9 (22.50%) Software Engineering
6 8 (20.00%) Key Management
6 8 (20.00%) Migration
7 6 (15.00%) CI/CD
7 6 (15.00%) Low Latency
7 6 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 5 (12.50%) ITIL
8 5 (12.50%) Multithreading
8 5 (12.50%) Project Management
8 5 (12.50%) Scrum
9 4 (10.00%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (10.00%) Service Management
10 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
10 3 (7.50%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (7.50%) Data Science
10 3 (7.50%) Integration Patterns
Programming Languages
1 17 (42.50%) Python
2 10 (25.00%) Java
3 9 (22.50%) PowerShell
3 9 (22.50%) SQL
4 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.00%) C#
6 3 (7.50%) C++
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) RPG
7 2 (5.00%) RPG IV
8 1 (2.50%) Bicep
8 1 (2.50%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (2.50%) R
8 1 (2.50%) Scala
8 1 (2.50%) VBA
8 1 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 4 (10.00%) Master's Degree
5 3 (7.50%) AWS Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Azure Certification
5 3 (7.50%) OCP
5 3 (7.50%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (7.50%) PhD
6 2 (5.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) CBAP
7 1 (2.50%) CCNA
7 1 (2.50%) CEH
7 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.50%) OSCP
7 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.50%) PMP
7 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (12.50%) NIST
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (7.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (5.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (5.00%) QA
4 1 (2.50%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) BitLocker
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.50%) XenApp
2 1 (2.50%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (10.00%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Ansible
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Argo
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Istio
3 1 (2.50%) OPNET
3 1 (2.50%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.50%) Puppet
3 1 (2.50%) SCCM
3 1 (2.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (32.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (12.50%) Oracle
3 3 (7.50%) Google
3 3 (7.50%) IBM
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco
5 1 (2.50%) Citrix
5 1 (2.50%) Dell
5 1 (2.50%) F5
5 1 (2.50%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.50%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.50%) Meraki
5 1 (2.50%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) SAP
5 1 (2.50%) VMware