Computer Science Degree Contracts in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 15 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 76 102
Rank change year-on-year +10 +26 +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 24 23 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.89% 1.44% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.66% 5.04% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 14
10th Percentile £430 £356 £400
25th Percentile £438 £413 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £750
90th Percentile £650 £638 £922
England median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% -23.08% +32.65%
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +2.27% +9.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 424 456 618
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 33.46% 28.48% 32.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 165 313
10th Percentile £195 £213 £273
25th Percentile £350 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £675
90th Percentile £638 £600 £737
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 168 136
10th Percentile £16.30 £16.14 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.37 £14.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £43.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +104.76% -
75th Percentile £67.00 £64.44 £61.25
90th Percentile £86.65 £75.28 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the East of England region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
Cambridgeshire +12 13 £450 +10.77% 54
Essex +9 8 - - 5
Bedfordshire -12 2 £425 -15.00% 4
Hertfordshire +13 1 £650 - 12
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 3 (12.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (4.17%) SAP MDG
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (20.83%) AWS Lambda
2 5 (20.83%) Serverless
3 4 (16.67%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.67%) Azure
4 3 (12.50%) dbt
4 3 (12.50%) Snowflake
5 2 (8.33%) GCP
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (4.17%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (4.17%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco IOS
1 7 (29.17%) DHCP
1 7 (29.17%) DNS
1 7 (29.17%) PuTTY
2 2 (8.33%) Firewall
2 2 (8.33%) LAN
2 2 (8.33%) WAN
2 2 (8.33%) Wireless
2 2 (8.33%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle Database
1 3 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (12.50%) RDBMS
1 3 (12.50%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Artifactory
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
1 2 (8.33%) webpack
2 1 (4.17%) GitLab
General
1 8 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Analyst
1 7 (29.17%) Network Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Implementation Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Network Support
2 5 (20.83%) Network Support Analyst
2 5 (20.83%) Network Support Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Support Engineer
2 5 (20.83%) Support Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Implementation Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Manager
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Support
2 5 (20.83%) Technical Support Manager
3 4 (16.67%) Architect
4 3 (12.50%) Snowflake Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) SAP Consultant
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Celery
1 2 (8.33%) D3.js
1 2 (8.33%) Django
1 2 (8.33%) React
1 2 (8.33%) Sass
1 2 (8.33%) Vue
1 2 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (4.17%) EDI
2 1 (4.17%) IDoc
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) SOAP
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.17%) Life Science
3 1 (4.17%) LIMS
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) PMI
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (29.17%) Task Automation
4 6 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 5 (20.83%) System Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Agile
7 3 (12.50%) Data Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Data Modelling
7 3 (12.50%) Data Pipeline
7 3 (12.50%) DevOps
7 3 (12.50%) ETL
7 3 (12.50%) High Availability
7 3 (12.50%) Project Management
8 2 (8.33%) Full-Stack Development
8 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
8 2 (8.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (50.00%) Python
2 5 (20.83%) Java
2 5 (20.83%) SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (29.17%) CCNA
2 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (4.17%) GxP
2 1 (4.17%) HL7
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Cisco
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.67%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) IBM
4 3 (12.50%) StreamSets
5 2 (8.33%) Google
5 2 (8.33%) Peregrine
5 2 (8.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (8.33%) Remedy
6 1 (4.17%) SAP