Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Computer Science Degree
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -16 +11 +3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 0.53% 0.93% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.79% 5.56% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £258 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £265 - £250
Median % change year-on-year - - -33.33%
75th Percentile £273 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £528 £635 £616
% change year-on-year -16.93% +3.04% +2.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Coventry

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Coventry.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 56 18 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 29.47% 16.67% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 11 16
10th Percentile £191 - £329
25th Percentile £287 £375 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.78% +4.44% +63.64%
75th Percentile £536 £561 £538
90th Percentile £683 £575 £581
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.06
25th Percentile - - £38.65
Median hourly rate - - £52.59
75th Percentile - - £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.01 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.11% - +44.33%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Coventry

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware