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 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 60 73 77
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.34% 3.42% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.65% 3.72% 3.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 46 47
10th Percentile £319 £441 £325
25th Percentile £457 £507 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £725
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% -13.79% +11.54%
75th Percentile £676 £725 £850
90th Percentile £775 £858 £935
Central London median daily rate £575 £600 £704
% change year-on-year -4.17% -14.77% +10.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.50 - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 - -
75th Percentile £29.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.00 - -

All Process and 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 1,644 1,961 2,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 91.49% 91.81% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,209 1,674
10th Percentile £330 £370 £363
25th Percentile £419 £474 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £754 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 16 11
10th Percentile £20.06 £16.25 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.88 £22.00 £17.97
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +62.00% -51.46%
75th Percentile £52.19 £97.38 £42.38
90th Percentile £63.75 £124.75 £73.75
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £35.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -11.43% +37.25% -49.50%

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 13 December 2025.

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 6 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.00%) Confluence
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (3.33%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.67%) Ethereum
4 1 (1.67%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (5.00%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.67%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.67%) SAP MDG
2 1 (1.67%) SAP PLM
2 1 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.67%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 25 (41.67%) Azure
2 10 (16.67%) AWS
2 10 (16.67%) GCP
3 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.00%) Google Gemini
6 3 (5.00%) PaaS
7 2 (3.33%) Amazon SageMaker
7 2 (3.33%) Azure Machine Learning
7 2 (3.33%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.67%) Akamai
8 1 (1.67%) ChatGPT
8 1 (1.67%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.67%) Dagster
8 1 (1.67%) Prefect
8 1 (1.67%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.00%) Firewall
2 2 (3.33%) Network Security
3 1 (1.67%) DHCP
3 1 (1.67%) DNS
3 1 (1.67%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.67%) Internet
3 1 (1.67%) SSH
3 1 (1.67%) SSL
3 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) KDB
2 3 (5.00%) Kdb+
2 3 (5.00%) Power BI
3 2 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.67%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.67%) Big Data
4 1 (1.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.67%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.67%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.67%) Tick Data
4 1 (1.67%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
2 3 (5.00%) Selenium
3 2 (3.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.33%) GitLab
3 2 (3.33%) MLflow
3 2 (3.33%) Postman
3 2 (3.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.67%) Gradle
4 1 (1.67%) Hardhat
4 1 (1.67%) QUnit
General
1 35 (58.33%) Finance
2 23 (38.33%) Social Skills
3 16 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Front Office
5 7 (11.67%) Banking
6 6 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (8.33%) Back Office
7 5 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (6.67%) Legal
9 3 (5.00%) Financial Institution
9 3 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (3.33%) Investment Banking
10 2 (3.33%) Law
10 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
11 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) Developer
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Data Engineer
4 6 (10.00%) Data Scientist
5 5 (8.33%) Architect
5 5 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 5 (8.33%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) Java Developer
6 4 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.00%) KDB Developer
7 3 (5.00%) Lead
7 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Systems Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Test Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Data Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Finance Systems Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Python Engineer
8 2 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) .NET
2 4 (6.67%) Web Services
3 3 (5.00%) CSS
3 3 (5.00%) HTML
3 3 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (5.00%) RESTful
3 3 (5.00%) XML
4 2 (3.33%) LangChain
4 2 (3.33%) NumPy
4 2 (3.33%) Spring
4 2 (3.33%) TensorFlow
5 1 (1.67%) Django
5 1 (1.67%) HTML5
5 1 (1.67%) jQuery
5 1 (1.67%) OAuth
5 1 (1.67%) OpenID
5 1 (1.67%) Ruby on Rails
5 1 (1.67%) SAML
5 1 (1.67%) Visualforce
5 1 (1.67%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.00%) Algorithms
1 6 (10.00%) Management Information System
1 6 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.33%) Fixed Income
3 4 (6.67%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.00%) Derivative
4 3 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (5.00%) Security Posture
5 2 (3.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.33%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.33%) Equities
5 2 (3.33%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.67%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.67%) BYOD
6 1 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
1 5 (8.33%) Unix
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (31.67%) Agile
3 16 (26.67%) AI
4 13 (21.67%) Data Science
5 12 (20.00%) SDLC
6 11 (18.33%) Project Delivery
7 10 (16.67%) DevOps
7 10 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 10 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (15.00%) Generative AI
8 9 (15.00%) Mathematics
9 8 (13.33%) Machine Learning
9 8 (13.33%) Roadmaps
9 8 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (13.33%) Validation
10 7 (11.67%) Analytics
10 7 (11.67%) Business Analysis
10 7 (11.67%) Migration
10 7 (11.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) Python
2 12 (20.00%) SQL
3 11 (18.33%) Java
4 6 (10.00%) C#
5 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.33%) C++
6 2 (3.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.67%) ABAP
7 1 (1.67%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.67%) F#
7 1 (1.67%) Go
7 1 (1.67%) PHP
7 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.67%) Ruby
7 1 (1.67%) Solidity
7 1 (1.67%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.67%) VBA
7 1 (1.67%) VC++
Qualifications
1 58 (96.67%) Degree
2 32 (53.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 6 (10.00%) CBAP
5 3 (5.00%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.33%) CISSP
6 2 (3.33%) ISEB
6 2 (3.33%) PhD
6 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.67%) CISM
7 1 (1.67%) IIBA
7 1 (1.67%) MBA
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (1.67%) PMP
7 1 (1.67%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.67%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.33%) GDPR
2 4 (6.67%) QA
3 3 (5.00%) COBIT
3 3 (5.00%) NIST
4 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.67%) EMIR
4 1 (1.67%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.67%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.67%) PSD2
4 1 (1.67%) SEPA
System Software
1 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.67%) Docker
2 1 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.67%) Ansible
1 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.67%) Rundeck
1 1 (1.67%) SCCM
1 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (21.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
2 5 (8.33%) Workday
3 3 (5.00%) Databricks
3 3 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.33%) Google
4 2 (3.33%) Oracle
4 2 (3.33%) SAP
4 2 (3.33%) Tenable
4 2 (3.33%) UiPath
5 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco
5 1 (1.67%) F5
5 1 (1.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (1.67%) Foundry
5 1 (1.67%) IBM
5 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
5 1 (1.67%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.67%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.67%) VMware