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 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 66 56
Rank change year-on-year -19 -10 +23
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 44 50 80
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.98% 2.84% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 3.06% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 54
10th Percentile £393 £433 £314
25th Percentile £443 £500 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +21.74% -20.69%
75th Percentile £700 £790 £738
90th Percentile £805 £910 £809
Central London median daily rate £501 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -22.88% +13.04% -20.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £26.95 - -
25th Percentile £27.63 - -
Median hourly rate £30.03 - -
75th Percentile £32.20 - -
90th Percentile £32.74 - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.03 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year +3.31% - -

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 1,914 1,634 2,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.06% 92.79% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,316 1,043 1,421
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £574 £550
% change year-on-year -4.14% +4.32% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -33.77%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 19 April 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 (4.55%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (6.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 17 (38.64%) Azure
2 12 (27.27%) AWS
3 10 (22.73%) GCP
4 7 (15.91%) GitHub
4 7 (15.91%) Power Platform
5 4 (9.09%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (6.82%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (6.82%) Google Gemini
6 3 (6.82%) Snowflake
7 2 (4.55%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.27%) Alation
8 1 (2.27%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.27%) Collibra
8 1 (2.27%) Dagster
8 1 (2.27%) dbt
8 1 (2.27%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (2.27%) Prefect
8 1 (2.27%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (2.27%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.36%) NoSQL
1 5 (11.36%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.82%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (6.82%) DB2
2 3 (6.82%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.82%) Power BI
3 2 (4.55%) KDB
3 2 (4.55%) Kdb+
3 2 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 2 (4.55%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.55%) Tableau
3 2 (4.55%) Tick Data
4 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.27%) Metadata
4 1 (2.27%) MySQL
4 1 (2.27%) OLAP
4 1 (2.27%) Power Query
4 1 (2.27%) Semantic Layer
4 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.27%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.27%) ERwin
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
3 1 (2.27%) Postman
3 1 (2.27%) Selenium
3 1 (2.27%) SonarQube
General
1 25 (56.82%) Social Skills
2 16 (36.36%) Finance
3 13 (29.55%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 5 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.82%) Front Office
6 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (6.82%) Legal
7 2 (4.55%) Back Office
7 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.27%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.27%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Analyst
1 6 (13.64%) Data Scientist
2 5 (11.36%) Architect
2 5 (11.36%) Developer
3 4 (9.09%) IT Analyst
3 4 (9.09%) SOX Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity Specialist
4 3 (6.82%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Java Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Lead
4 3 (6.82%) Risk Analyst
4 3 (6.82%) Security Specialist
5 2 (4.55%) Evangelist
5 2 (4.55%) Java Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Java Developer
5 2 (4.55%) Java Technical Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Junior Java Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Junior Java Technical Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Junior Technical Architect
5 2 (4.55%) KDB Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) PyTorch
1 6 (13.64%) React
2 5 (11.36%) TensorFlow
3 3 (6.82%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.82%) Backbone.js
3 3 (6.82%) Bootstrap
3 3 (6.82%) Ember.js
3 3 (6.82%) Hugging Face
3 3 (6.82%) jQuery
3 3 (6.82%) Keras
3 3 (6.82%) Spring
4 2 (4.55%) .NET
4 2 (4.55%) LangChain
4 2 (4.55%) Node.js
5 1 (2.27%) Murex MxML
5 1 (2.27%) Spring Boot
5 1 (2.27%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 3 (6.82%) Equities
2 3 (6.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.55%) AI Agents
3 2 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (4.55%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.27%) Blog
4 1 (2.27%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.27%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.27%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.27%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.27%) Tandem
4 1 (2.27%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Linux
2 4 (9.09%) Unix
2 4 (9.09%) Windows
3 3 (6.82%) Android
3 3 (6.82%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.27%) VMS
4 1 (2.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (52.27%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (47.73%) AI
3 14 (31.82%) Agile
4 10 (22.73%) Cybersecurity
4 10 (22.73%) Data Science
4 10 (22.73%) Machine Learning
5 9 (20.45%) Decision-Making
6 8 (18.18%) SDLC
7 7 (15.91%) DevOps
7 7 (15.91%) Generative AI
7 7 (15.91%) Risk Management
7 7 (15.91%) Software Engineering
8 6 (13.64%) Asset Management
8 6 (13.64%) CI/CD
8 6 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
8 6 (13.64%) Data Governance
8 6 (13.64%) LLM
9 5 (11.36%) Analytics
9 5 (11.36%) Performance Tuning
9 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 15 (34.09%) Python
1 15 (34.09%) SQL
2 12 (27.27%) Java
3 2 (4.55%) C#
3 2 (4.55%) C++
3 2 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.27%) VB
4 1 (2.27%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 38 (86.36%) Degree
2 23 (52.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (22.73%) CISSP
4 7 (15.91%) CRISC
5 6 (13.64%) CISM
6 5 (11.36%) CISA
7 4 (9.09%) PhD
8 3 (6.82%) Master's Degree
9 2 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (4.55%) CASP
9 2 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (4.55%) GSEC
10 1 (2.27%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 1 (2.27%) CCNA
10 1 (2.27%) CCSK
10 1 (2.27%) CEH
10 1 (2.27%) MCSE
10 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (13.64%) NIST
2 5 (11.36%) Data Quality
3 4 (9.09%) COBIT
3 4 (9.09%) GDPR
3 4 (9.09%) ITGC
3 4 (9.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (4.55%) GRC
4 2 (4.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (2.27%) EU AI Act
5 1 (2.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (2.27%) QA
5 1 (2.27%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.27%) Docker
1 1 (2.27%) Firmware
1 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.27%) Ansible
2 1 (2.27%) Control-M
2 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.82%) Google
2 3 (6.82%) Informatica
3 2 (4.55%) Murex
4 1 (2.27%) EMC
4 1 (2.27%) Foundry
4 1 (2.27%) IBM
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle
4 1 (2.27%) UiPath
4 1 (2.27%) VMware