Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Computer Science
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Coventry requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 14 26
Rank change year-on-year -12 +12 +7
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 10 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 5.26% 5.56% 2.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 6.25% 2.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 2
10th Percentile £175 - -
25th Percentile £178 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £211 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -47.25% -11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £329 £425 -
90th Percentile £511 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -13.04% -4.17% +10.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 175 96 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 92.11% 88.89% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 63 139
10th Percentile £263 £375 £325
25th Percentile £313 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £573 £575
90th Percentile £678 £626 £645
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
10th Percentile £19.19 - £31.06
25th Percentile £24.35 £15.50 £38.65
Median hourly rate £27.21 £17.00 £52.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.06% -67.68% +78.28%
75th Percentile - £18.50 £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.00 £21.80 £24.60
% change year-on-year -8.24% -11.40% +38.98%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Coventry

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Coventry

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Coventry over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Coventry

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

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

Computer Science
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 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) GCP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) BGP
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (20.00%) DHCP
1 2 (20.00%) DNS
1 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
1 2 (20.00%) Firewall
1 2 (20.00%) IPv4
1 2 (20.00%) IPv6
1 2 (20.00%) LAN
1 2 (20.00%) MPLS
1 2 (20.00%) OSPF
1 2 (20.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (20.00%) VLAN
1 2 (20.00%) VPN
1 2 (20.00%) VXLAN
1 2 (20.00%) WAN
1 2 (20.00%) Wireless
1 2 (20.00%) WLAN
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (10.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MLflow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Data Scientist
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Scientist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (20.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
2 2 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Network Management
2 2 (20.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (20.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Bash
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) DBS Check
1 5 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) CCIE
3 2 (20.00%) CCIE Security
3 2 (20.00%) CCNP
3 2 (20.00%) CCSP
3 2 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (20.00%) CISSP
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (10.00%) JNCIE
4 1 (10.00%) JNCIP
4 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) PhD
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) GDPR
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) NIST
1 2 (20.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 2 (20.00%) VMware NSX
3 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Ansible
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) F5
2 2 (20.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (20.00%) Google
2 2 (20.00%) Meraki
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (10.00%) Databricks
3 1 (10.00%) Forcepoint
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper