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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 47 59
Rank change year-on-year -11 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 68 86 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.91% 4.11% 3.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.16% 4.49% 3.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 54 53
10th Percentile £321 £425 £326
25th Percentile £462 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £578 £625 £700
Median % change year-on-year -7.60% -10.71% +12.00%
75th Percentile £676 £744 £850
90th Percentile £780 £855 £945
Central London median daily rate £578 £600 £675
% change year-on-year -3.75% -11.11% +8.00%
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 1,633 1,914 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.80% 91.49% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,173 1,741
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £764 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 12 November 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 (8.82%) SharePoint
2 5 (7.35%) Apache Spark
3 3 (4.41%) Confluence
3 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.94%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (1.47%) Drupal
5 1 (1.47%) Ethereum
5 1 (1.47%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (4.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.47%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (4.41%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.94%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.94%) SAP PLM
2 2 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.94%) SAP VC
Cloud Services
1 29 (42.65%) Azure
2 12 (17.65%) AWS
3 10 (14.71%) GCP
4 6 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
5 5 (7.35%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.41%) Google Gemini
7 3 (4.41%) PaaS
8 2 (2.94%) Amazon SageMaker
8 2 (2.94%) Azure Machine Learning
8 2 (2.94%) Snowflake
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.47%) ChatGPT
9 1 (1.47%) Dagster
9 1 (1.47%) dbt
9 1 (1.47%) Fivetran
9 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.47%) Prefect
9 1 (1.47%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.41%) Firewall
2 2 (2.94%) Network Security
3 1 (1.47%) DHCP
3 1 (1.47%) DNS
3 1 (1.47%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.47%) Internet
3 1 (1.47%) SSH
3 1 (1.47%) SSL
3 1 (1.47%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.47%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (5.88%) KDB
2 3 (4.41%) Apache Hive
2 3 (4.41%) Hadoop
2 3 (4.41%) Kdb+
2 3 (4.41%) Power BI
3 2 (2.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.94%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.94%) Spark SQL
3 2 (2.94%) Tableau
4 1 (1.47%) Big Data
4 1 (1.47%) Pinecone
4 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.47%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.47%) Tick Data
4 1 (1.47%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (8.82%) JIRA
2 3 (4.41%) Git
2 3 (4.41%) MLflow
2 3 (4.41%) Selenium
3 2 (2.94%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.94%) Cucumber
3 2 (2.94%) GitLab
3 2 (2.94%) Postman
3 2 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (1.47%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.47%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.47%) Gradle
4 1 (1.47%) Hardhat
4 1 (1.47%) QUnit
General
1 37 (54.41%) Finance
2 29 (42.65%) Social Skills
3 19 (27.94%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Banking
4 8 (11.76%) Front Office
5 5 (7.35%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.88%) Back Office
6 4 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 4 (5.88%) Legal
6 4 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.41%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.94%) Law
8 2 (2.94%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.47%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (22.06%) Developer
2 12 (17.65%) Analyst
3 9 (13.24%) Data Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) Data Scientist
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 5 (7.35%) Business Analyst
7 4 (5.88%) Architect
7 4 (5.88%) Java Developer
7 4 (5.88%) Lead
8 3 (4.41%) Consultant
8 3 (4.41%) KDB Developer
8 3 (4.41%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.41%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (4.41%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (4.41%) Test Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Junior
9 2 (2.94%) SAP Consultant
9 2 (2.94%) Software Developer
9 2 (2.94%) Software Engineer
9 2 (2.94%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (14.71%) .NET
2 6 (8.82%) CSS
2 6 (8.82%) HTML
3 4 (5.88%) Pandas
3 4 (5.88%) Web Services
4 3 (4.41%) Lightning Web Components
4 3 (4.41%) NumPy
4 3 (4.41%) PySpark
4 3 (4.41%) RESTful
4 3 (4.41%) TensorFlow
4 3 (4.41%) XML
5 2 (2.94%) Django
5 2 (2.94%) Flask
5 2 (2.94%) jQuery
5 2 (2.94%) LangChain
5 2 (2.94%) PyTorch
5 2 (2.94%) REST
5 2 (2.94%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.94%) Spring
6 1 (1.47%) React
Miscellaneous
1 8 (11.76%) Algorithms
1 8 (11.76%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.82%) Management Information System
3 5 (7.35%) Data Structures
3 5 (7.35%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (5.88%) Fixed Income
4 4 (5.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.41%) Derivative
5 3 (4.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (4.41%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.94%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.94%) Equities
6 2 (2.94%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.94%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.94%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.94%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.47%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.82%) Linux
2 5 (7.35%) Unix
3 2 (2.94%) Windows
4 1 (1.47%) Android
4 1 (1.47%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (36.76%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (32.35%) Agile
3 16 (23.53%) AI
3 16 (23.53%) Data Science
4 12 (17.65%) Project Delivery
4 12 (17.65%) SDLC
4 12 (17.65%) Software Engineering
5 11 (16.18%) Machine Learning
5 11 (16.18%) Mathematics
5 11 (16.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (14.71%) DevOps
6 10 (14.71%) Scrum
6 10 (14.71%) Validation
7 9 (13.24%) Analytics
7 9 (13.24%) Generative AI
7 9 (13.24%) Risk Management
8 8 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 7 (10.29%) Migration
9 7 (10.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (10.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 28 (41.18%) Python
2 18 (26.47%) SQL
3 12 (17.65%) Java
4 8 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 6 (8.82%) C#
6 3 (4.41%) C++
7 2 (2.94%) ABAP
7 2 (2.94%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.47%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.47%) C
8 1 (1.47%) F#
8 1 (1.47%) Go
8 1 (1.47%) PHP
8 1 (1.47%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.47%) R
8 1 (1.47%) Ruby
8 1 (1.47%) Solidity
8 1 (1.47%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.47%) VBA
8 1 (1.47%) VC++
Qualifications
1 65 (95.59%) Degree
2 32 (47.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (16.18%) Master's Degree
4 6 (8.82%) CBAP
5 4 (5.88%) PhD
6 3 (4.41%) SC Cleared
6 3 (4.41%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.94%) CISSP
7 2 (2.94%) ISEB
7 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.47%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.47%) CISM
8 1 (1.47%) IIBA
8 1 (1.47%) MBA
8 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.47%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.47%) PMP
8 1 (1.47%) Postgraduate
8 1 (1.47%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) QA
2 5 (7.35%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.35%) GDPR
3 3 (4.41%) COBIT
3 3 (4.41%) NIST
4 2 (2.94%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.47%) EMIR
5 1 (1.47%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.47%) PSD2
5 1 (1.47%) SEPA
5 1 (1.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (4.41%) Docker
2 2 (2.94%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.41%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.47%) Ansible
2 1 (1.47%) Kubeflow
2 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.47%) Rundeck
2 1 (1.47%) SCCM
2 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (19.12%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.35%) Salesforce
2 5 (7.35%) Workday
3 3 (4.41%) Databricks
3 3 (4.41%) Foundry
3 3 (4.41%) SAP
3 3 (4.41%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.94%) Google
4 2 (2.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.94%) Palantir
4 2 (2.94%) Tenable
4 2 (2.94%) UiPath
5 1 (1.47%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco
5 1 (1.47%) IBM
5 1 (1.47%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.47%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.47%) OutSystems
5 1 (1.47%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.47%) VMware