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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 42 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +22 +12
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 59 99 98
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.35% 4.72% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 5.12% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 70 58
10th Percentile £314 £413 £329
25th Percentile £488 £513 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £613 £775
Median % change year-on-year -9.18% -20.97% +29.17%
75th Percentile £663 £750 £875
90th Percentile £832 £838 £933
Central London median daily rate £556 £613 £775
% change year-on-year -9.18% -20.97% +30.25%

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 1,661 1,932 2,687
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.21% 92.09% 90.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 1,224 1,857
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £705
90th Percentile £763 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 17 16
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.20 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.22 £16.02
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% +8.00% -41.86%
75th Percentile £53.50 £78.75 £44.87
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £31.25 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -10.71% +34.62% -38.82%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science 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 September 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Apache Spark
1 6 (10.17%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.08%) Confluence
2 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.69%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.69%) Drupal
Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Salesforce CRM
1 3 (5.08%) Workday HCM
2 2 (3.39%) SAP MDG
2 2 (3.39%) SAP PLM
2 2 (3.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.39%) SAP VC
3 1 (1.69%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) Azure
2 8 (13.56%) AWS
3 4 (6.78%) Entra ID
3 4 (6.78%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.08%) GCP
4 3 (5.08%) PaaS
5 2 (3.39%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (3.39%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (3.39%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.69%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.69%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.69%) Firewall
1 1 (1.69%) NAS
1 1 (1.69%) Network Security
1 1 (1.69%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) Apache Hive
1 4 (6.78%) Hadoop
2 3 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (5.08%) KDB
3 2 (3.39%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.39%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.39%) Power BI
3 2 (3.39%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.39%) Spark SQL
4 1 (1.69%) Big Data
4 1 (1.69%) DB2
4 1 (1.69%) Kdb+
4 1 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (10.17%) JIRA
2 3 (5.08%) MLflow
3 2 (3.39%) Git
3 2 (3.39%) Selenium
4 1 (1.69%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.69%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.69%) Fiddler
4 1 (1.69%) GitLab
4 1 (1.69%) Gradle
4 1 (1.69%) QUnit
4 1 (1.69%) TeamCity
General
1 37 (62.71%) Finance
2 21 (35.59%) Social Skills
3 17 (28.81%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.86%) Banking
5 5 (8.47%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.47%) Front Office
6 3 (5.08%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (5.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 3 (5.08%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.39%) Back Office
7 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.69%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 15 (25.42%) Developer
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
3 9 (15.25%) Data Engineer
4 5 (8.47%) Business Analyst
4 5 (8.47%) Data Scientist
4 5 (8.47%) Senior
5 4 (6.78%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Architect
6 3 (5.08%) Lead
6 3 (5.08%) Salesforce Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Software Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Software Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.39%) Finance Systems Analyst
7 2 (3.39%) Java Engineer
7 2 (3.39%) Junior
7 2 (3.39%) Lead Data Scientist
7 2 (3.39%) SAP PLM Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) Senior Data Scientist
7 2 (3.39%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) CSS
1 7 (11.86%) HTML
2 6 (10.17%) .NET
3 5 (8.47%) Web Services
4 4 (6.78%) Pandas
4 4 (6.78%) PySpark
5 3 (5.08%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (5.08%) NumPy
5 3 (5.08%) REST
5 3 (5.08%) RESTful
5 3 (5.08%) Spring
5 3 (5.08%) TensorFlow
5 3 (5.08%) Visualforce
5 3 (5.08%) XML
6 2 (3.39%) Django
6 2 (3.39%) Flask
6 2 (3.39%) jQuery
6 2 (3.39%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.69%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.69%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.56%) Algorithms
2 6 (10.17%) Management Information System
3 5 (8.47%) Distributed Computing
4 4 (6.78%) Data Structures
4 4 (6.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.08%) Fixed Income
6 2 (3.39%) Credit Risk
6 2 (3.39%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (3.39%) Hedge funds
6 2 (3.39%) Mobile App
6 2 (3.39%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.39%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.69%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.69%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.69%) Multi-touch
7 1 (1.69%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.56%) Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Unix
3 2 (3.39%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Android
4 1 (1.69%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.90%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (30.51%) Agile
3 12 (20.34%) Data Science
4 11 (18.64%) Software Engineering
5 10 (16.95%) Machine Learning
5 10 (16.95%) Mathematics
5 10 (16.95%) Project Delivery
6 9 (15.25%) Analytics
6 9 (15.25%) Project Management
6 9 (15.25%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (13.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 8 (13.56%) Risk Management
7 8 (13.56%) Roadmaps
8 7 (11.86%) Data Modelling
8 7 (11.86%) ITIL
8 7 (11.86%) Validation
8 7 (11.86%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (10.17%) Change Management
9 6 (10.17%) Migration
9 6 (10.17%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 19 (32.20%) Python
2 16 (27.12%) SQL
3 9 (15.25%) JavaScript
4 8 (13.56%) Java
5 4 (6.78%) C#
6 3 (5.08%) Apex Code
6 3 (5.08%) C++
7 2 (3.39%) ABAP
7 2 (3.39%) Go
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) C
8 1 (1.69%) F#
8 1 (1.69%) PHP
8 1 (1.69%) R
8 1 (1.69%) RPG
8 1 (1.69%) RPG IV
8 1 (1.69%) Ruby
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.69%) VBA
8 1 (1.69%) VC++
Qualifications
1 57 (96.61%) Degree
2 28 (47.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (16.95%) Master's Degree
4 5 (8.47%) PhD
4 5 (8.47%) SC Cleared
4 5 (8.47%) Security Cleared
5 4 (6.78%) CBAP
6 2 (3.39%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.69%) MBA
7 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.69%) PMP
7 1 (1.69%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.69%) SnowPro
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.78%) GDPR
1 4 (6.78%) QA
2 3 (5.08%) COBIT
3 2 (3.39%) NIST
4 1 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.69%) EMIR
4 1 (1.69%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.69%) PSD2
4 1 (1.69%) SEPA
4 1 (1.69%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (6.78%) Docker
2 2 (3.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.39%) Ansible
2 2 (3.39%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) Grafana
3 1 (1.69%) Kubeflow
3 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.69%) Podman
3 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.69%) Puppet
3 1 (1.69%) Rundeck
3 1 (1.69%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (18.64%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.56%) Salesforce
3 4 (6.78%) Databricks
3 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.78%) Workday
4 3 (5.08%) Oracle
5 2 (3.39%) Foundry
5 2 (3.39%) IBM
5 2 (3.39%) ION Trading
5 2 (3.39%) Palantir
5 2 (3.39%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Tenable
6 1 (1.69%) Cisco
6 1 (1.69%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.69%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.69%) OutSystems