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 17 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 59 60
Rank change year-on-year +27 +1 +12
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 31 12 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 4.61% 1.36% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.22% 1.73% 2.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 17
10th Percentile - £455 £297
25th Percentile £250 £528 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -51.85% +30.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £447 £787 £650
90th Percentile £472 £823 £854
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.05% -4.55% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £24.56 -
25th Percentile - £28.80 £45.00
Median hourly rate - £38.37 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -23.27% -
75th Percentile - £50.43 £55.00
90th Percentile - £56.17 -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -2.73% - +15.79%

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 594 693 875
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 88.26% 78.31% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 456 680
10th Percentile £221 £200 £213
25th Percentile £326 £309 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.35% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £598 £623 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 64 50
10th Percentile £13.81 £11.75 £13.11
25th Percentile £15.11 £12.75 £17.82
Median hourly rate £18.64 £17.25 £26.07
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% -33.83% +21.26%
75th Percentile £25.11 £26.24 £51.50
90th Percentile £29.52 £50.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £27.13 £37.88 £35.03
% change year-on-year -28.38% +8.12% +36.41%

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 17 June 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 17 June 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 +23 19 £250 -60.00% 214
Northamptonshire 0 7 £352 -22.58% 211
Nottinghamshire +5 3 £331 -50.93% 259
Derbyshire +9 2 - - 349
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:

Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (3.23%) InDesign
1 1 (3.23%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (6.45%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (12.90%) SaaS
3 3 (9.68%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon S3
4 2 (6.45%) AWS
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Serverless
5 1 (3.23%) Cloud Functions
5 1 (3.23%) GCP
5 1 (3.23%) Google App Engine
5 1 (3.23%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (3.23%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (6.45%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.45%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
2 1 (3.23%) Dreamweaver
General
1 27 (87.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (45.16%) Organisational Skills
3 5 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Finance
4 2 (6.45%) Marketing
4 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (6.45%) Retail
5 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.23%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (6.45%) Architect
1 2 (6.45%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (6.45%) Consultant
1 2 (6.45%) Developer
1 2 (6.45%) Digital Product Owner
1 2 (6.45%) Implementation Consultant
1 2 (6.45%) Product Owner
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Developer
2 1 (3.23%) Analyst
2 1 (3.23%) Applications Architect
2 1 (3.23%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) Data Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) Desktop Support
2 1 (3.23%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (3.23%) IT Analyst
2 1 (3.23%) IT Support Analyst
2 1 (3.23%) Senior
2 1 (3.23%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) Senior Platform Engineer
2 1 (3.23%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) CSS
1 3 (9.68%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) Kafka
2 2 (6.45%) Visualforce
3 1 (3.23%) .NET
3 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.23%) Flash
3 1 (3.23%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.13%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.90%) Smartphone
3 3 (9.68%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.23%) Blog
5 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.23%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Android
2 2 (6.45%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (41.94%) Agile
2 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (19.35%) Analytics
3 6 (19.35%) Customer Service
3 6 (19.35%) Process Improvement
4 4 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (12.90%) Data Analytics
4 4 (12.90%) Data Ingestion
4 4 (12.90%) DevOps
4 4 (12.90%) Operations Management
4 4 (12.90%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (9.68%) Data Governance
5 3 (9.68%) Data Integration
5 3 (9.68%) Data Modelling
5 3 (9.68%) Data Security
5 3 (9.68%) Mentoring
5 3 (9.68%) Project Management
5 3 (9.68%) Roadmaps
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (6.45%) Iteration Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.90%) SQL
2 3 (9.68%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.45%) Apex Code
3 2 (6.45%) Java
3 2 (6.45%) Python
3 2 (6.45%) Scala
4 1 (3.23%) C#
4 1 (3.23%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Degree
2 25 (80.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certification
3 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (6.45%) DBS Check
3 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (3.23%) Master's Degree
4 1 (3.23%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) BitLocker
2 2 (6.45%) Docker
3 1 (3.23%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.23%) SCCM
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Apple
3 2 (6.45%) Avaya
3 2 (6.45%) Genesys
3 2 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.23%) Adobe
4 1 (3.23%) Facebook
4 1 (3.23%) Google
4 1 (3.23%) Instagram
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle
4 1 (3.23%) Twitter
4 1 (3.23%) YouTube