Computer Science Contracts in Central London

Computer Science
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 71 86
Rank change year-on-year +21 +15 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 89 114 112
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.71% 3.09% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.08% 3.38% 2.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 70 74
10th Percentile £344 £428 £466
25th Percentile £422 £531 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.79% +20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £875 £650
90th Percentile £818 £1,063 £785
London median daily rate £550 £600 £606
% change year-on-year -8.33% -0.92% +5.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - £50.45 £45.45
25th Percentile - £50.75 £47.75
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% +67.19%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £61.75
90th Percentile - £77.75 £62.05
London median hourly rate £53.75 £65.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year -17.31% +43.65% +20.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,179 3,368 4,130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.94% 91.22% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,539 2,277 3,137
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.57% +7.24%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £680
90th Percentile £800 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 46
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.00 £17.08 £21.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £29.38 £52.69 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £62.13
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.42 £35.08
% change year-on-year -28.97% +12.39% +8.86%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Central London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 29 May 2024. 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 +22 87 £559 -22.93% 43
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
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 9 (10.11%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.25%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.12%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.12%) Confluence
4 1 (1.12%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.37%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.25%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.25%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (2.25%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (2.25%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.12%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.12%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.12%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.12%) Primavera
2 1 (1.12%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.12%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.12%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.58%) Azure
2 16 (17.98%) AWS
3 9 (10.11%) GCP
3 9 (10.11%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.99%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.62%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.49%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (4.49%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.37%) GitHub
8 3 (3.37%) WhatsApp
9 2 (2.25%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.25%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.25%) IaaS
9 2 (2.25%) PaaS
9 2 (2.25%) Snowflake
9 2 (2.25%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (2.25%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.87%) Firewall
2 4 (4.49%) CTI
2 4 (4.49%) LAN
2 4 (4.49%) Network Security
2 4 (4.49%) VoIP
3 2 (2.25%) DNS
3 2 (2.25%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.25%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (2.25%) WAN
4 1 (1.12%) DHCP
4 1 (1.12%) Internet
4 1 (1.12%) MPLS
4 1 (1.12%) Multicast
4 1 (1.12%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.12%) SSL
4 1 (1.12%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.12%) VLAN
4 1 (1.12%) VPN
4 1 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.49%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.49%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.37%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.37%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.37%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.25%) Big Data
4 2 (2.25%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.25%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.25%) MySQL
4 2 (2.25%) Presto
4 2 (2.25%) Tableau
5 1 (1.12%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.12%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.12%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.12%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.12%) Power BI
5 1 (1.12%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (7.87%) Git
2 5 (5.62%) JIRA
3 3 (3.37%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.37%) Visual Studio
4 2 (2.25%) CircleCI
4 2 (2.25%) ERwin
4 2 (2.25%) GitLab
4 2 (2.25%) Gradle
4 2 (2.25%) PowerDesigner
5 1 (1.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (1.12%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.12%) CMake
5 1 (1.12%) Darcs
5 1 (1.12%) JUnit
5 1 (1.12%) Mercurial
5 1 (1.12%) MSTest
5 1 (1.12%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (1.12%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.12%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (48.31%) Social Skills
2 32 (35.96%) Finance
3 20 (22.47%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (16.85%) Banking
5 9 (10.11%) Legal
6 5 (5.62%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.49%) Marketing
8 3 (3.37%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.37%) Front Office
8 3 (3.37%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.37%) Retail
9 2 (2.25%) Advertising
9 2 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.25%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.12%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.12%) French Language
10 1 (1.12%) German Language
10 1 (1.12%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.12%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (21.35%) Developer
2 18 (20.22%) Architect
3 7 (7.87%) Analyst
3 7 (7.87%) Senior
4 5 (5.62%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 5 (5.62%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.49%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.49%) Lead
6 3 (3.37%) C# Developer
6 3 (3.37%) Consultant
6 3 (3.37%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (3.37%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.37%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (3.37%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (2.25%) .NET Developer
7 2 (2.25%) Data Modeller
7 2 (2.25%) Java Developer
7 2 (2.25%) Service Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.25%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.74%) CSS
2 5 (5.62%) REST
3 4 (4.49%) .NET
3 4 (4.49%) jQuery
3 4 (4.49%) JSON
3 4 (4.49%) Matplotlib
3 4 (4.49%) Pandas
3 4 (4.49%) Web Services
3 4 (4.49%) XML
4 3 (3.37%) HTML
4 3 (3.37%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (3.37%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (3.37%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.37%) React
4 3 (3.37%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.25%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.25%) NumPy
5 2 (2.25%) Plotly
5 2 (2.25%) PySpark
5 2 (2.25%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.87%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (6.74%) Algorithms
3 6 (6.74%) Virtual Team
4 5 (5.62%) IVR
5 3 (3.37%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.37%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.25%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.25%) CBDC
6 2 (2.25%) Derivative
6 2 (2.25%) Equities
6 2 (2.25%) IoT
6 2 (2.25%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.25%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.25%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.25%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.12%) Blog
7 1 (1.12%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Windows
2 8 (8.99%) Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.25%) Solaris
3 2 (2.25%) VMS
4 1 (1.12%) Android
4 1 (1.12%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.12%) Unix
4 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.34%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (25.84%) Agile
3 15 (16.85%) Migration
4 14 (15.73%) DevOps
5 13 (14.61%) CI/CD
5 13 (14.61%) ITIL
5 13 (14.61%) Project Management
6 11 (12.36%) Analytics
6 11 (12.36%) Machine Learning
6 11 (12.36%) Mathematics
7 10 (11.24%) PRINCE2
8 9 (10.11%) Artificial Intelligence
8 9 (10.11%) Change Management
8 9 (10.11%) Software Engineering
8 9 (10.11%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (8.99%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (8.99%) Data Science
10 7 (7.87%) Customer Experience
10 7 (7.87%) Data Analysis
10 7 (7.87%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.72%) Python
2 19 (21.35%) SQL
3 13 (14.61%) Java
4 10 (11.24%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.11%) C#
6 6 (6.74%) C++
7 5 (5.62%) JavaScript
8 4 (4.49%) Bash
8 4 (4.49%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.49%) PL/SQL
9 3 (3.37%) Go
9 3 (3.37%) Rust
9 3 (3.37%) Scala
10 2 (2.25%) C
10 2 (2.25%) Clojure
10 2 (2.25%) Haskell
10 2 (2.25%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.12%) VBA
11 1 (1.12%) VC++
11 1 (1.12%) XPath
Qualifications
1 80 (89.89%) Degree
2 57 (64.04%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (17.98%) Master's Degree
4 10 (11.24%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (6.74%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
7 4 (4.49%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.37%) GCIA
8 3 (3.37%) GCIH
8 3 (3.37%) GIAC
8 3 (3.37%) PhD
9 2 (2.25%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.25%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (2.25%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.25%) PMP
10 1 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (1.12%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.87%) QA
2 3 (3.37%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.37%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.25%) GDPR
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.25%) SLA
3 2 (2.25%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.12%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.12%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.62%) Docker
1 5 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.25%) KVM
4 1 (1.12%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (8.99%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.99%) PingFederate
2 5 (5.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.62%) Terraform
3 3 (3.37%) CSIRT
3 3 (3.37%) Nessus
3 3 (3.37%) QRadar
4 2 (2.25%) Ansible
4 2 (2.25%) Grafana
5 1 (1.12%) Kibana
5 1 (1.12%) logstash
5 1 (1.12%) Nagios
5 1 (1.12%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.12%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.12%) Puppet
5 1 (1.12%) TIBCO Hawk
5 1 (1.12%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (31.46%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.10%) Oracle
3 7 (7.87%) Google
4 5 (5.62%) Cisco
4 5 (5.62%) Databricks
4 5 (5.62%) Genesys
4 5 (5.62%) SAP
5 4 (4.49%) VMware
6 3 (3.37%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (3.37%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.37%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.37%) Symantec
7 2 (2.25%) Avaya
7 2 (2.25%) Citrix
7 2 (2.25%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.25%) Foundry
7 2 (2.25%) Palantir
7 2 (2.25%) Sparx
8 1 (1.12%) IBM
8 1 (1.12%) Juniper