Computer Science Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Computer Science
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 40 69
Rank change year-on-year -31 +29 +30
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 39 47 45
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.76% 4.82% 2.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 5.33% 2.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 11 22
10th Percentile £168 - £110
25th Percentile £180 £625 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £248 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -61.92% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £675 £638
90th Percentile £634 - £675
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 12
10th Percentile - £28.27 £35.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £30.78 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.13% +28.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £82.25 £66.25
90th Percentile - £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £82.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% -4.55% +3.41%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,738 882 1,601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.36% 90.46% 84.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 871 466 668
10th Percentile £198 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £400 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £596 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £678
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 437 180 606
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.98 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.39
Median hourly rate £25.09 £38.66 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.10% -3.35% +81.82%
75th Percentile £66.00 £72.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £73.46 £85.00 £75.13
England median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the East of England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the East of England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Computer Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Computer Science

Computer Science
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Bedfordshire -5 12 £548 -18.89% 2
Hertfordshire -32 11 £400 -38.46% 15
Cambridgeshire +6 10 £185 - 46
Suffolk -4 3 £215 -58.57% 4
Essex -20 2 £505 - 12
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.13%) Apache
1 2 (5.13%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Simulink
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.77%) Azure
2 7 (17.95%) AWS
3 6 (15.38%) Azure AKS
4 5 (12.82%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (10.26%) Serverless
6 3 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (7.69%) Azure Functions
6 3 (7.69%) GCP
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.56%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (2.56%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.56%) ChatGPT
8 1 (2.56%) dbt
8 1 (2.56%) Google Gemini
8 1 (2.56%) Power Automate
8 1 (2.56%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.56%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.69%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) Big Data
2 2 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (5.13%) Metadata
3 1 (2.56%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.56%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.56%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.56%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.56%) MySQL
3 1 (2.56%) Power BI
3 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.56%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (7.69%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) GitLab
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.56%) JIRA
General
1 15 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (10.26%) Electronics
3 3 (7.69%) Games
4 2 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Finance
5 1 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.56%) Law
5 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (15.38%) Lead
2 5 (12.82%) Technical Leader
3 4 (10.26%) Architect
4 3 (7.69%) Firmware Engineer
4 3 (7.69%) Software Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Data Architect
5 2 (5.13%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Applications Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Author
6 1 (2.56%) Developer
6 1 (2.56%) ETL Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Graduate
6 1 (2.56%) Integration Specialist
6 1 (2.56%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.56%) Operations Director
6 1 (2.56%) Python Software Engineer
6 1 (2.56%) Services Director
6 1 (2.56%) Snowflake Architect
6 1 (2.56%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) Spring
1 5 (12.82%) Spring Boot
2 2 (5.13%) Kafka
3 1 (2.56%) Express.js
3 1 (2.56%) JSON
3 1 (2.56%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.56%) Node.js
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.56%) React
3 1 (2.56%) REST
3 1 (2.56%) RESTful
3 1 (2.56%) SOAP
3 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
3 1 (2.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (33.33%) Algorithms
2 7 (17.95%) Robotics
3 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
4 4 (10.26%) FPGA
5 3 (7.69%) PCIe
5 3 (7.69%) Verilog
6 1 (2.56%) Augmented Reality
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (2.56%) Life Science
6 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.56%) PMI
6 1 (2.56%) Smart Meter
6 1 (2.56%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (2.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.21%) DevOps
2 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
3 10 (25.64%) AI
3 10 (25.64%) CI/CD
4 8 (20.51%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (20.51%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (20.51%) Mentoring
4 8 (20.51%) Microservices
5 7 (17.95%) Machine Learning
6 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven
6 6 (15.38%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 6 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
7 5 (12.82%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (12.82%) Network Architecture
7 5 (12.82%) Pedagogy
7 5 (12.82%) Translating Business Requirements
8 4 (10.26%) Analytics
8 4 (10.26%) Data Science
8 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) Python
2 6 (15.38%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) MATLAB
3 3 (7.69%) SQL
3 3 (7.69%) SystemVerilog
3 3 (7.69%) Tcl
4 2 (5.13%) Bash
4 2 (5.13%) C#
4 2 (5.13%) C++
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 27 (69.23%) Degree
2 20 (51.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (17.95%) Security Cleared
4 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
5 4 (10.26%) Master's Degree
6 3 (7.69%) HNC
6 3 (7.69%) HND
7 2 (5.13%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.13%) DBS Check
7 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.69%) DO-254
2 1 (2.56%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.56%) QA
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Firmware
2 2 (5.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.13%) Ansible
2 2 (5.13%) Puppet
2 2 (5.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.69%) Actel
2 3 (7.69%) Altera
2 3 (7.69%) Intel
2 3 (7.69%) Microsemi
2 3 (7.69%) Xilinx
3 2 (5.13%) Google
3 2 (5.13%) Oracle
3 2 (5.13%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.56%) Databricks
4 1 (2.56%) Informatica
4 1 (2.56%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.56%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.56%) Pega
4 1 (2.56%) SAP
4 1 (2.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.56%) Talend