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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 99 67 48
Rank change year-on-year -32 -19 +23
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 36 50 88
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.54% 2.99% 4.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.82% 3.19% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 59
10th Percentile £405 £448 £344
25th Percentile £483 £516 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £655 £565
Median % change year-on-year -12.21% +15.93% -19.29%
75th Percentile £675 £776 £748
90th Percentile £786 £880 £828
Central London median daily rate £575 £650 £559
% change year-on-year -11.54% +16.33% -21.58%
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 1,983 1,566 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.03% 93.49% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 987 1,374
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.70 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.88 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.49 £39.21 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £57.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.15 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.67% +1.22% -20.54%

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 29 May 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 1 (2.78%) Confluence
1 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) AWS
3 7 (19.44%) GitHub
4 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 4 (11.11%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (8.33%) Azure AKS
6 3 (8.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.78%) Alation
8 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (2.78%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.78%) Collibra
8 1 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.78%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (2.78%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.89%) NoSQL
1 5 (13.89%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) DB2
2 3 (8.33%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.56%) Metadata
3 2 (5.56%) Power BI
3 2 (5.56%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.78%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.78%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.78%) Kdb+
4 1 (2.78%) MySQL
4 1 (2.78%) OLAP
4 1 (2.78%) Power Query
4 1 (2.78%) PowerCenter
4 1 (2.78%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.78%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.78%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 2 (5.56%) JIRA
3 1 (2.78%) ERwin
3 1 (2.78%) GitLab
3 1 (2.78%) SonarQube
3 1 (2.78%) Zephyr
General
1 19 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 15 (41.67%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (8.33%) Investment Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.56%) Legal
8 1 (2.78%) Aerospace
8 1 (2.78%) Automotive
8 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) Front Office
8 1 (2.78%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Architect
2 5 (13.89%) Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) IT Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) SOX Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Data Scientist
4 3 (8.33%) Developer
4 3 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Security Specialist
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 2 (5.56%) IT Risk Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Java Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Java Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Junior Java Technical Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 6 (16.67%) React
2 5 (13.89%) TensorFlow
3 3 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 3 (8.33%) Backbone.js
3 3 (8.33%) Bootstrap
3 3 (8.33%) Ember.js
3 3 (8.33%) Hugging Face
3 3 (8.33%) jQuery
3 3 (8.33%) Keras
3 3 (8.33%) Spring
4 2 (5.56%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) LangChain
5 1 (2.78%) Murex MxML
5 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.78%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.22%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.33%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (5.56%) AI Agents
3 2 (5.56%) Equities
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Blog
4 1 (2.78%) Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (2.78%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (2.78%) Tandem
4 1 (2.78%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (19.44%) Linux
2 4 (11.11%) Windows
3 3 (8.33%) Android
3 3 (8.33%) Apple iOS
3 3 (8.33%) Unix
4 1 (2.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.78%) VMS
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (41.67%) AI
3 11 (30.56%) Machine Learning
4 10 (27.78%) Agile
5 9 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
7 7 (19.44%) Analytics
8 6 (16.67%) Data Governance
8 6 (16.67%) Data Science
8 6 (16.67%) Risk Management
8 6 (16.67%) SDLC
9 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
9 5 (13.89%) Change Management
9 5 (13.89%) CI/CD
9 5 (13.89%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (13.89%) Full-Stack Development
9 5 (13.89%) LLM
9 5 (13.89%) Mathematics
9 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) SQL
2 11 (30.56%) Java
2 11 (30.56%) Python
3 3 (8.33%) C++
4 2 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
5 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
5 1 (2.78%) VB
Qualifications
1 31 (86.11%) Degree
2 16 (44.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (25.00%) CISSP
4 7 (19.44%) CRISC
5 5 (13.89%) CISA
5 5 (13.89%) CISM
5 5 (13.89%) PhD
6 3 (8.33%) Master's Degree
7 2 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (5.56%) CASP
7 2 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (5.56%) GSEC
8 1 (2.78%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.78%) CCNA
8 1 (2.78%) CCSK
8 1 (2.78%) CEH
8 1 (2.78%) MCSE
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.78%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) Data Quality
1 5 (13.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (13.89%) NIST
2 4 (11.11%) COBIT
2 4 (11.11%) ITGC
2 4 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (8.33%) GDPR
4 2 (5.56%) GRC
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.78%) EU AI Act
5 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.78%) QA
5 1 (2.78%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
2 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.78%) Firmware
2 1 (2.78%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Control-M
3 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.33%) Informatica
3 2 (5.56%) Murex
4 1 (2.78%) EMC
4 1 (2.78%) Google
4 1 (2.78%) IBM
4 1 (2.78%) Oracle
4 1 (2.78%) PTC
4 1 (2.78%) Siemens
4 1 (2.78%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) VMware