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 18 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 65 58
Rank change year-on-year -18 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 47 54 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.26% 3.03% 3.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 3.31% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 36 48
10th Percentile £410 £434 £306
25th Percentile £453 £463 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £618 £690 £613
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +12.65% -15.52%
75th Percentile £682 £795 £749
90th Percentile £775 £913 £859
Central London median daily rate £605 £639 £600
% change year-on-year -5.36% +6.54% -15.79%
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 £29.07 -
% change year-on-year -3.68% - -

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 1,838 1,632 2,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.32% 91.58% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,268 1,039 1,496
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £669 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £46.29 £48.75 £44.29
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 18 March 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 (4.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.13%) Ethereum
2 1 (2.13%) Hyperledger
Applications
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (6.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 23 (48.94%) Azure
2 12 (25.53%) AWS
2 12 (25.53%) GCP
3 7 (14.89%) GitHub
3 7 (14.89%) Power Platform
4 6 (12.77%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (8.51%) GitHub Copilot
6 3 (6.38%) Azure AKS
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 3 (6.38%) Google Gemini
7 2 (4.26%) ChatGPT
7 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.13%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.13%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AI
8 1 (2.13%) Collibra
8 1 (2.13%) Dagster
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (2.13%) Prefect
8 1 (2.13%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) DHCP
2 1 (2.13%) DNS
2 1 (2.13%) HTTPS
2 1 (2.13%) Internet
2 1 (2.13%) Network Security
2 1 (2.13%) SSL
2 1 (2.13%) TCP/IP
2 1 (2.13%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.64%) NoSQL
1 5 (10.64%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.38%) DB2
2 3 (6.38%) KDB
2 3 (6.38%) Kdb+
2 3 (6.38%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.38%) Power BI
2 3 (6.38%) Tableau
3 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.26%) Tick Data
4 1 (2.13%) Big Data
4 1 (2.13%) Data Mart
4 1 (2.13%) Metadata
4 1 (2.13%) MySQL
4 1 (2.13%) OLAP
4 1 (2.13%) Oracle OLAP
4 1 (2.13%) PowerCenter
4 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.13%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.13%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 3 (6.38%) JIRA
3 2 (4.26%) Bitbucket
3 2 (4.26%) Cucumber
3 2 (4.26%) Jenkins
3 2 (4.26%) Postman
3 2 (4.26%) Selenium
3 2 (4.26%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.13%) ERwin
4 1 (2.13%) GitLab
4 1 (2.13%) Hardhat
4 1 (2.13%) SonarQube
General
1 29 (61.70%) Social Skills
2 20 (42.55%) Finance
3 14 (29.79%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
4 6 (12.77%) Front Office
4 6 (12.77%) Influencing Skills
4 6 (12.77%) Legal
5 5 (10.64%) Investment Banking
6 3 (6.38%) Back Office
6 3 (6.38%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (4.26%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.26%) Law
7 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
8 1 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.13%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.13%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (14.89%) Developer
2 6 (12.77%) Architect
2 6 (12.77%) Data Scientist
3 5 (10.64%) Analyst
4 4 (8.51%) Lead
5 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 3 (6.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
5 3 (6.38%) KDB Developer
5 3 (6.38%) Security Specialist
6 2 (4.26%) Java Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Java Developer
6 2 (4.26%) Java Technical Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Junior Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Junior Java Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Junior Java Technical Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Junior Technical Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.26%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (4.26%) Test Automation Engineer
6 2 (4.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.77%) PyTorch
1 6 (12.77%) TensorFlow
2 5 (10.64%) .NET
2 5 (10.64%) React
3 3 (6.38%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.38%) Backbone.js
3 3 (6.38%) Bootstrap
3 3 (6.38%) Ember.js
3 3 (6.38%) Hugging Face
3 3 (6.38%) jQuery
3 3 (6.38%) Keras
3 3 (6.38%) LangChain
3 3 (6.38%) Spring
4 2 (4.26%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) CSS
5 1 (2.13%) HTML
5 1 (2.13%) Murex MxML
5 1 (2.13%) OAuth
5 1 (2.13%) OpenID
5 1 (2.13%) STL
Miscellaneous
1 6 (12.77%) Cloud Native
2 5 (10.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (8.51%) Equities
3 4 (8.51%) Fixed Income
3 4 (8.51%) Product Ownership
4 3 (6.38%) Data Structures
4 3 (6.38%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (6.38%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.26%) AI Agents
5 2 (4.26%) Algorithms
5 2 (4.26%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.26%) Data Centre
5 2 (4.26%) Derivative
6 1 (2.13%) Blockchain
6 1 (2.13%) BYOD
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (2.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (2.13%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (12.77%) Linux
2 4 (8.51%) Unix
3 3 (6.38%) Android
3 3 (6.38%) Apple iOS
3 3 (6.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (51.06%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (40.43%) AI
3 16 (34.04%) Agile
4 13 (27.66%) DevOps
5 12 (25.53%) Data Science
6 9 (19.15%) Risk Management
6 9 (19.15%) SDLC
7 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
7 8 (17.02%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (17.02%) Data Governance
7 8 (17.02%) Generative AI
7 8 (17.02%) Machine Learning
8 7 (14.89%) LLM
8 7 (14.89%) Scrum
8 7 (14.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (12.77%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (12.77%) Software Engineering
9 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.77%) User Acceptance Testing
9 6 (12.77%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) Python
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 15 (31.91%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) C#
4 3 (6.38%) C++
4 3 (6.38%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) VB.NET
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) Solidity
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 44 (93.62%) Degree
2 29 (61.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (17.02%) CISSP
4 6 (12.77%) CISM
5 4 (8.51%) CRISC
5 4 (8.51%) Master's Degree
5 4 (8.51%) PhD
6 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (4.26%) CASP
6 2 (4.26%) CBAP
6 2 (4.26%) CISA
6 2 (4.26%) GSEC
6 2 (4.26%) ISEB
7 1 (2.13%) CEH
7 1 (2.13%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.13%) IIBA
7 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.51%) Data Quality
1 4 (8.51%) GDPR
2 3 (6.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.38%) NIST
2 3 (6.38%) QA
3 2 (4.26%) GRC
3 2 (4.26%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.13%) COBIT
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (2.13%) EU AI Act
4 1 (2.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (2.13%) ITGC
4 1 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (2.13%) Solvency II
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (12.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.13%) Ansible
3 1 (2.13%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.38%) Google
3 2 (4.26%) Informatica
3 2 (4.26%) Murex
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) UiPath
4 1 (2.13%) CheckPoint
4 1 (2.13%) F5
4 1 (2.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.13%) Foundry
4 1 (2.13%) IBM
4 1 (2.13%) Infoblox
4 1 (2.13%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.13%) SAP
4 1 (2.13%) VMware
4 1 (2.13%) Workday