Computer Science Contracts in the East Midlands

Computer Science
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 51 70
Rank change year-on-year +15 +19 +16
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 20 15 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 3.73% 1.94% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.33% 2.49% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 13
10th Percentile £241 £426 £326
25th Percentile - £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £575 £463
Median % change year-on-year -56.52% +24.32% +7.56%
75th Percentile £447 £638 £500
90th Percentile £465 £668 £810
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £22.93 -
25th Percentile - £24.74 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £30.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -39.00% -
75th Percentile - £46.63 £55.00
90th Percentile - £54.65 -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £53.19
% change year-on-year -2.73% +3.41% +11.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 462 603 918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.19% 78.01% 88.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 404 692
10th Percentile £200 £192 £213
25th Percentile £323 £269 £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £419 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £525 £553 £573
90th Percentile £591 £625 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 57 74
10th Percentile - £11.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
Median % change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%
75th Percentile £24.54 £26.15 £31.50
90th Percentile £33.15 £45.79 £58.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the East Midlands

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leicestershire +19 13 £250 -60.00% 24
Northamptonshire +1 4 £447 +9.02% 12
Derbyshire +3 2 - - 37
Nottinghamshire +6 1 £213 -68.52% 34
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon Kinesis
3 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (10.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.00%) Serverless
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Functions
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) Google App Engine
4 1 (5.00%) Google Compute Engine
4 1 (5.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (90.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (10.00%) Architect
1 2 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (5.00%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Developer
2 1 (5.00%) IT Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) IT Support
2 1 (5.00%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (5.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Architect
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Developer
2 1 (5.00%) Senior
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Cloud Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Kafka
1 2 (10.00%) Visualforce
2 1 (5.00%) CSS
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (5.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Smartphone
2 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (10.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Android
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
3 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 4 (20.00%) Operations Management
3 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 3 (15.00%) Data Governance
4 3 (15.00%) Data Modelling
4 3 (15.00%) Data Security
4 3 (15.00%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (10.00%) Data Engineering
5 2 (10.00%) Data Ingestion
5 2 (10.00%) Data Lineage
5 2 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 2 (10.00%) Data Science
5 2 (10.00%) DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Apex Code
1 2 (10.00%) Java
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) Scala
1 2 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Degree
2 16 (80.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certification
3 2 (10.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) DBS Check
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (5.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) BitLocker
2 2 (10.00%) Docker
3 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.00%) SCCM
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Apple
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.00%) Google