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 10 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 58 45
Rank change year-on-year -56 -13 +16
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 27 64 93
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.26% 3.72% 4.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 3.94% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 47 60
10th Percentile £382 £319 £425
25th Percentile £498 £484 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £619
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -7.07% -20.16%
75th Percentile £705 £675 £750
90th Percentile £786 £768 £838
Central London median daily rate £588 £575 £606
% change year-on-year +2.17% -5.15% -21.77%

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 1,944 1,626 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.46% 94.43% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,347 1,103 1,217
10th Percentile £367 £325 £366
25th Percentile £456 £421 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 20
10th Percentile £17.39 £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £20.25 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £27.35 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £44.85 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

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 10 October 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 3 (11.11%) Confluence
2 1 (3.70%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (3.70%) CMS
2 1 (3.70%) MQSeries
2 1 (3.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (25.93%) Azure
2 5 (18.52%) AWS
3 3 (11.11%) GCP
3 3 (11.11%) GitHub
4 2 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.70%) Adobe Analytics
5 1 (3.70%) Apigee
5 1 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.70%) Azure Storage
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.70%) SaaS
5 1 (3.70%) Serverless
5 1 (3.70%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.11%) NoSQL
2 2 (7.41%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (3.70%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.70%) Big Data
3 1 (3.70%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.70%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.70%) KDB
3 1 (3.70%) Kdb+
3 1 (3.70%) Metadata
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) Oracle Database
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.70%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) Git
2 2 (7.41%) GitLab
2 2 (7.41%) JIRA
2 2 (7.41%) Selenium
2 2 (7.41%) Zephyr
3 1 (3.70%) Appium
3 1 (3.70%) eggPlant
3 1 (3.70%) Gradle
3 1 (3.70%) HP UFT
3 1 (3.70%) Jasmine
3 1 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.70%) JMeter
3 1 (3.70%) JUnit
3 1 (3.70%) Karma Test Runner
3 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
3 1 (3.70%) Maven
3 1 (3.70%) Postman
3 1 (3.70%) QUnit
3 1 (3.70%) SoapUI
3 1 (3.70%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (44.44%) Finance
2 11 (40.74%) Social Skills
3 6 (22.22%) Banking
4 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (7.41%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (7.41%) Marketing
5 2 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (7.41%) Retail
6 1 (3.70%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.70%) Automotive
6 1 (3.70%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (3.70%) Front Office
6 1 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (3.70%) Publishing
6 1 (3.70%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (18.52%) Senior
2 4 (14.81%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Lead
4 2 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Python Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) QA Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Applications Support Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Java Developer
5 1 (3.70%) Product Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Project Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Support Manager
5 1 (3.70%) Technical Writer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
1 3 (11.11%) React
1 3 (11.11%) REST
1 3 (11.11%) Spring
1 3 (11.11%) Spring Boot
1 3 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (7.41%) .NET
2 2 (7.41%) CSS
2 2 (7.41%) Kafka
2 2 (7.41%) Middleware
2 2 (7.41%) RESTful
2 2 (7.41%) SOAP
3 1 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 1 (3.70%) CSS3
3 1 (3.70%) JSF
3 1 (3.70%) JSP
3 1 (3.70%) pytest
3 1 (3.70%) Web Services
3 1 (3.70%) XBRL
3 1 (3.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 3 (11.11%) Life Science
2 3 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 3 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 2 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.41%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (7.41%) Product Ownership
3 2 (7.41%) Replication
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) AS400
4 1 (3.70%) CMDB
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Equities
4 1 (3.70%) Exotic Derivative
4 1 (3.70%) Fixed Income
4 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.70%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (3.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.93%) Linux
2 5 (18.52%) Unix
3 2 (7.41%) Windows
4 1 (3.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (3.70%) VMS
4 1 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) Agile
2 8 (29.63%) AI
2 8 (29.63%) CI/CD
2 8 (29.63%) Mathematics
2 8 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (25.93%) Machine Learning
3 7 (25.93%) Scrum
4 6 (22.22%) Analytics
4 6 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
5 5 (18.52%) Containerisation
5 5 (18.52%) Software Testing
5 5 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (18.52%) Technical Leadership
6 4 (14.81%) Decision-Making
6 4 (14.81%) DevOps
6 4 (14.81%) ERP
6 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
6 4 (14.81%) SDLC
7 3 (11.11%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (33.33%) Python
2 8 (29.63%) Java
3 7 (25.93%) SQL
4 2 (7.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.70%) C#
5 1 (3.70%) C++
5 1 (3.70%) COBOL
5 1 (3.70%) CQL
5 1 (3.70%) PL/SQL
5 1 (3.70%) RPG
5 1 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 1 (3.70%) VB
5 1 (3.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 25 (92.59%) Degree
2 11 (40.74%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (11.11%) Master's Degree
3 3 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 3 (11.11%) PMP
4 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 2 (7.41%) CAPM
4 2 (7.41%) ISTQB
4 2 (7.41%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.70%) CCNA
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.70%) ISEB
5 1 (3.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (3.70%) MCSE
5 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.70%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (3.70%) PhD
5 1 (3.70%) RHCE
5 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) QA
2 4 (14.81%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.41%) PMO
4 1 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (3.70%) PSD2
4 1 (3.70%) SEPA
4 1 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.70%) Firmware
3 1 (3.70%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.70%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) Kubernetes
2 2 (7.41%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Control-M
3 1 (3.70%) HP Fortify
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
2 5 (18.52%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) SAP
3 3 (11.11%) Google
3 3 (11.11%) IBM
4 2 (7.41%) Adobe
4 2 (7.41%) JD Edwards
4 2 (7.41%) VMware
5 1 (3.70%) Avaloq
5 1 (3.70%) Calypso
5 1 (3.70%) EMC
5 1 (3.70%) FIS
5 1 (3.70%) MuleSoft
5 1 (3.70%) Murex
5 1 (3.70%) PTC
5 1 (3.70%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.70%) Siemens
5 1 (3.70%) Sitecore
5 1 (3.70%) Splunk
5 1 (3.70%) Temenos