Computer Science Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Computer Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 60 41
Rank change year-on-year -41 -19 +19
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 32 68 104
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.34% 3.63% 5.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.53% 3.86% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 50 71
10th Percentile £463 £418 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £578 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% -3.75% -23.81%
75th Percentile £650 £744 £763
90th Percentile £725 £825 £838
Central London median daily rate £555 £578 £600
% change year-on-year -3.90% -3.75% -22.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.03 - -
Median hourly rate £32.07 - -
75th Percentile £33.10 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year +10.30% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,085 1,760 1,888
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.17% 93.97% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 1,150 1,285
10th Percentile £364 £331 £365
25th Percentile £456 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £797
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 22 15
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.57 £19.19
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 £29.75 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.45% +10.19% -22.86%
75th Percentile £41.25 £54.75 £85.63
90th Percentile £60.78 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.29% +3.33% -14.29%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the City of London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Computer Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (37.50%) Azure
2 8 (25.00%) AWS
3 7 (21.88%) GitHub
4 3 (9.38%) Azure AKS
4 3 (9.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (9.38%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (9.38%) GCP
4 3 (9.38%) GitHub Copilot
5 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.25%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Storage
6 1 (3.13%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (3.13%) IBM Cloud
6 1 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
6 1 (3.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) NoSQL
2 5 (15.63%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (12.50%) MongoDB
4 3 (9.38%) Db2
5 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (3.13%) Data Mart
5 1 (3.13%) Data Mining
5 1 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (3.13%) Metadata
5 1 (3.13%) MySQL
5 1 (3.13%) Power BI
5 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 1 (3.13%) Semantic Layer
5 1 (3.13%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
5 1 (3.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (3.13%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Git
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
3 2 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (6.25%) Zephyr
4 1 (3.13%) GitLab
4 1 (3.13%) Jasmine
4 1 (3.13%) JUnit
4 1 (3.13%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (3.13%) Selenium
General
1 14 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 11 (34.38%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Banking
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.13%) Automotive
6 1 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.13%) Front Office
6 1 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (3.13%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (18.75%) Architect
2 4 (12.50%) Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Data Scientist
2 4 (12.50%) IT Analyst
2 4 (12.50%) Senior
2 4 (12.50%) SOX Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Developer
3 3 (9.38%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Java Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 2 (6.25%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (6.25%) IT Risk Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Junior
4 2 (6.25%) Lead
4 2 (6.25%) Python Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (18.75%) React
2 4 (12.50%) AngularJS
2 4 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 4 (12.50%) Spring
3 3 (9.38%) Backbone.js
3 3 (9.38%) Bootstrap
3 3 (9.38%) Ember.js
3 3 (9.38%) Hugging Face
3 3 (9.38%) jQuery
3 3 (9.38%) Keras
3 3 (9.38%) TensorFlow
4 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
5 1 (3.13%) .NET
5 1 (3.13%) CSS
5 1 (3.13%) CSS3
5 1 (3.13%) HTML
5 1 (3.13%) HTML5
5 1 (3.13%) Node.js
5 1 (3.13%) REST
5 1 (3.13%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (28.13%) Cloud Native
2 3 (9.38%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (6.25%) Algorithms
3 2 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) AS400
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.13%) Equities
4 1 (3.13%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.13%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (3.13%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 7 (21.88%) Linux
2 5 (15.63%) Windows
3 3 (9.38%) Android
3 3 (9.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (9.38%) Unix
4 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.13%) VMS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) AI
2 12 (37.50%) Agile
2 12 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (34.38%) Machine Learning
4 8 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 7 (21.88%) Analytics
5 7 (21.88%) CI/CD
5 7 (21.88%) Mathematics
5 7 (21.88%) SDLC
6 6 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
6 6 (18.75%) DevOps
6 6 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 6 (18.75%) LLM
7 5 (15.63%) Asset Management
7 5 (15.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (12.50%) Change Management
8 4 (12.50%) IT Governance
8 4 (12.50%) Scrum
8 4 (12.50%) Software Engineering
8 4 (12.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 12 (37.50%) SQL
2 11 (34.38%) Python
3 9 (28.13%) Java
4 1 (3.13%) C++
4 1 (3.13%) COBOL
4 1 (3.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
4 1 (3.13%) RPG
4 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
4 1 (3.13%) VB
Qualifications
1 28 (87.50%) Degree
2 13 (40.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (18.75%) CISSP
4 5 (15.63%) CISA
4 5 (15.63%) PhD
5 4 (12.50%) CRISC
6 3 (9.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.25%) CISM
8 1 (3.13%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (3.13%) Azure Certification
8 1 (3.13%) CCNA
8 1 (3.13%) CCSK
8 1 (3.13%) CEH
8 1 (3.13%) MCSE
8 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
8 1 (3.13%) PMP
8 1 (3.13%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (15.63%) NIST
2 4 (12.50%) COBIT
2 4 (12.50%) ITGC
2 4 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (9.38%) QA
4 2 (6.25%) Data Quality
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (3.13%) EU AI Act
5 1 (3.13%) GDPR
5 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
5 1 (3.13%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (12.50%) Docker
2 2 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (28.13%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.25%) Ansible
2 2 (6.25%) Terraform
3 1 (3.13%) Control-M
3 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) IBM
3 1 (3.13%) EMC
3 1 (3.13%) Informatica
3 1 (3.13%) Murex
3 1 (3.13%) PTC
3 1 (3.13%) Siemens
3 1 (3.13%) Sitecore
3 1 (3.13%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) VMware