Computer Science Degree Contracts in the City of London

Computer Science Degree
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 72 114
Rank change year-on-year -16 +42 +14
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 31 54 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.76% 2.46% 1.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.21% 12.08% 8.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 39 42
10th Percentile £428 £354 £479
25th Percentile £461 £500 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £641 £575 £750
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -23.33% +33.93%
75th Percentile £770 £738 £1,063
90th Percentile £885 £793 -
Central London median daily rate £581 £575 £750
% change year-on-year +1.09% -23.33% +33.93%
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
Central London median hourly rate - - £67.50
% change year-on-year - - +11.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 447 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 20.35% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 293 409
10th Percentile £404 £382 £375
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £723
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the City of London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the City of London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the City of London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the City of London

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (9.68%) Apache Spark
2 1 (3.23%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (3.23%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) AWS
3 5 (16.13%) Power Platform
4 3 (9.68%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) OCI
5 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (3.23%) Azure API Management
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.23%) Boomi
6 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (3.23%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
6 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (3.23%) BIG-IP
2 1 (3.23%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (3.23%) DHCP
2 1 (3.23%) DNS
2 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
2 1 (3.23%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
2 1 (3.23%) HTTP
2 1 (3.23%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (3.23%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.23%) TCP/IP
2 1 (3.23%) Wireless
2 1 (3.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Hadoop
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Hive
2 2 (6.45%) DB2
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) Tableau
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.23%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.23%) KDB
3 1 (3.23%) Looker
3 1 (3.23%) Power Query
3 1 (3.23%) QlikView
3 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (12.90%) JIRA
2 3 (9.68%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.23%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (38.71%) Finance
2 10 (32.26%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (25.81%) Social Skills
4 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 5 (16.13%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.68%) Financial Institution
6 2 (6.45%) Front Office
7 1 (3.23%) Advertising
7 1 (3.23%) Investment Banking
7 1 (3.23%) Marketing
7 1 (3.23%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Developer
2 6 (19.35%) Architect
3 5 (16.13%) Senior
4 4 (12.90%) Security Architect
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Developer
6 2 (6.45%) C++ Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Integration Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Java Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Senior C# Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior C# Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior C++ Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Software Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) OAuth
1 4 (12.90%) REST
2 3 (9.68%) OpenID
2 3 (9.68%) SAML
2 3 (9.68%) SOAP
3 2 (6.45%) .NET
3 2 (6.45%) CSS
3 2 (6.45%) Middleware
3 2 (6.45%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (6.45%) PySpark
3 2 (6.45%) TensorFlow
3 2 (6.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.23%) Akka
4 1 (3.23%) HTML
4 1 (3.23%) Node.js
4 1 (3.23%) Protocol Buffers
4 1 (3.23%) React
4 1 (3.23%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.23%) XML
4 1 (3.23%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Management Information System
2 4 (12.90%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.45%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.45%) AS400
3 2 (6.45%) Data Structures
3 2 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) CMDB
4 1 (3.23%) Credit Risk
4 1 (3.23%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.23%) Hedge funds
4 1 (3.23%) iSeries
4 1 (3.23%) IVR
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.23%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Windows 10
2 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 17 (54.84%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (38.71%) DevOps
4 11 (35.48%) Agile
5 8 (25.81%) Software Engineering
6 6 (19.35%) Low Latency
6 6 (19.35%) Mentoring
7 5 (16.13%) Multithreading
7 5 (16.13%) Project Management
7 5 (16.13%) Scrum
8 4 (12.90%) CI/CD
8 4 (12.90%) Identity Access Management
8 4 (12.90%) ITIL
9 3 (9.68%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (9.68%) Data Science
9 3 (9.68%) Electronic Trading
9 3 (9.68%) Machine Learning
9 3 (9.68%) Process Improvement
9 3 (9.68%) Service Management
9 3 (9.68%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (32.26%) Python
2 9 (29.03%) Java
3 8 (25.81%) SQL
4 5 (16.13%) JavaScript
5 4 (12.90%) C#
6 3 (9.68%) C++
7 2 (6.45%) Bash
7 2 (6.45%) RPG
7 2 (6.45%) RPG IV
8 1 (3.23%) Bicep
8 1 (3.23%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
8 1 (3.23%) R
8 1 (3.23%) Scala
8 1 (3.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (19.35%) Security Cleared
3 5 (16.13%) SC Cleared
4 4 (12.90%) Master's Degree
5 3 (9.68%) OCP
5 3 (9.68%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (9.68%) PhD
6 2 (6.45%) Azure Certification
7 1 (3.23%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.23%) CBAP
7 1 (3.23%) CEH
7 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.23%) OSCP
7 1 (3.23%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.23%) PMP
7 1 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (16.13%) NIST
2 3 (9.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 3 (9.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (6.45%) Accessibility
4 1 (3.23%) PMO
4 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) BitLocker
2 1 (3.23%) Docker
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (3.23%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.23%) XenApp
2 1 (3.23%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Terraform
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) OPNET
2 1 (3.23%) Progress Chef
2 1 (3.23%) Puppet
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
2 1 (3.23%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 3 (9.68%) IBM
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
4 1 (3.23%) Cisco
4 1 (3.23%) Citrix
4 1 (3.23%) Dell
4 1 (3.23%) F5
4 1 (3.23%) Infoblox
4 1 (3.23%) ION Trading
4 1 (3.23%) Meraki
4 1 (3.23%) MuleSoft
4 1 (3.23%) Palo Alto
4 1 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (3.23%) VMware