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 14 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 37 73
Rank change year-on-year -25 +36 +21
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 49 57 30
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.26% 4.51% 1.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 5.08% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 12
10th Percentile £168 £243 £361
25th Percentile £180 £431 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £215 £478 £513
Median % change year-on-year -54.97% -6.83% +2.50%
75th Percentile £498 £633 £556
90th Percentile £558 £688 £631
England median daily rate £450 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 2
10th Percentile - £29.00 £20.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £61.25 £25.25
Median hourly rate £23.00 £67.00 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +100.00% -46.40%
75th Percentile £70.00 £84.00 £41.75
90th Percentile £74.60 £88.00 £46.70
England median hourly rate £75.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% +13.64% -11.29%

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 1,708 1,122 1,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.64% 88.84% 83.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 814 519 503
10th Percentile £192 £200 £200
25th Percentile £383 £374 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £675 £675 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 273 490
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.84 £14.81
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £47.50 £37.50 £42.75
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% -12.28% +115.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £65.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £79.10 £81.95 £70.00
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +2.87%

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 14 August 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the East of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the East of England

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 14 August 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
Cambridgeshire +3 18 £185 -58.89% 168
Hertfordshire -13 16 £200 -69.23% 34
Suffolk - 7 £320 - 10
Bedfordshire 0 5 £495 +104.12% 13
Essex -28 1 £505 - 26
Norfolk - 1 - - 2
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 (4.08%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.04%) Apache
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.49%) Azure
2 7 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.24%) AWS
4 3 (6.12%) GCP
4 3 (6.12%) Serverless
5 2 (4.08%) Azure AKS
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon Bedrock
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.04%) dbt
6 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) VPN
1 4 (8.16%) Wireless
2 3 (6.12%) 5G
2 3 (6.12%) DNS
2 3 (6.12%) HTTP
2 3 (6.12%) RS-232
2 3 (6.12%) RS-485
2 3 (6.12%) SSH
2 3 (6.12%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.08%) 4G
4 1 (2.04%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.12%) Metadata
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.12%) Redis
3 2 (4.08%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.04%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.04%) Big Data
4 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.04%) Power BI
4 1 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) Git
2 5 (10.20%) GitLab
3 3 (6.12%) Jenkins
3 3 (6.12%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (6.12%) Visual Studio
4 2 (4.08%) Selenium
5 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 22 (44.90%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Electronics
4 4 (8.16%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.16%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.08%) Aerospace
5 2 (4.08%) Law
6 1 (2.04%) Agriculture
6 1 (2.04%) Aviation
6 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Games
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Developer
2 4 (8.16%) Architect
2 4 (8.16%) Software Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Embedded Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Embedded Software Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Firmware Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Lead
3 3 (6.12%) Python Developer
3 3 (6.12%) Senior
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Developer
4 2 (4.08%) C# .NET Developer
4 2 (4.08%) C# Developer
4 2 (4.08%) C# WPF Developer
4 2 (4.08%) Data Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Data Engineer
4 2 (4.08%) Senior Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.08%) Technical Leader
4 2 (4.08%) WPF Developer
5 1 (2.04%) Hardware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.20%) RESTful
2 4 (8.16%) REST
3 3 (6.12%) CSS
3 3 (6.12%) FastAPI
3 3 (6.12%) Flask
3 3 (6.12%) HTML
3 3 (6.12%) Jinja
3 3 (6.12%) Pandas
4 2 (4.08%) .NET
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Core
4 2 (4.08%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.08%) Entity Framework
4 2 (4.08%) Kafka
4 2 (4.08%) Managed Extensibility Framework
4 2 (4.08%) pytest
4 2 (4.08%) RabbitMQ
4 2 (4.08%) Silverlight
4 2 (4.08%) WCF
4 2 (4.08%) Web Services
4 2 (4.08%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 14 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 7 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 5 (10.20%) Robotics
4 4 (8.16%) Onboarding
5 3 (6.12%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (4.08%) Cloud Native
6 2 (4.08%) FPGA
6 2 (4.08%) Raspberry Pi
6 2 (4.08%) Reference Data
7 1 (2.04%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.04%) Low-Code
7 1 (2.04%) Operational Technology
7 1 (2.04%) PCIe
7 1 (2.04%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.04%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.29%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (30.61%) DevOps
3 14 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 14 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 11 (22.45%) CI/CD
5 7 (14.29%) Mathematics
5 7 (14.29%) Scrum
6 6 (12.24%) AI
6 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (12.24%) Mentoring
6 6 (12.24%) Validation
7 5 (10.20%) Agile
7 5 (10.20%) Data Science
7 5 (10.20%) Integration Testing
7 5 (10.20%) Network Architecture
7 5 (10.20%) Pedagogy
8 4 (8.16%) Data Architecture
8 4 (8.16%) Incident Management
8 4 (8.16%) Migration
8 4 (8.16%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 18 (36.73%) Python
2 7 (14.29%) SQL
3 6 (12.24%) Bash
4 5 (10.20%) C++
5 3 (6.12%) C
5 3 (6.12%) C#
5 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
6 2 (4.08%) Java
6 2 (4.08%) XAML
7 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.04%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.04%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.04%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (2.04%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 33 (67.35%) Degree
2 19 (38.78%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (16.33%) Master's Degree
4 7 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 5 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
6 4 (8.16%) A+ Certification
6 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (6.12%) DBS Check
7 3 (6.12%) PhD
8 2 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (2.04%) Azure Certification
9 1 (2.04%) CISM
9 1 (2.04%) CISSP
9 1 (2.04%) HNC
9 1 (2.04%) HND
9 1 (2.04%) ISACA
9 1 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.20%) QA
2 1 (2.04%) DO-254
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Firmware
2 3 (6.12%) Docker
2 3 (6.12%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Ansible
1 3 (6.12%) Puppet
2 2 (4.08%) Grafana
2 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.04%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.04%) Actel
2 1 (2.04%) Altera
2 1 (2.04%) Databricks
2 1 (2.04%) Google
2 1 (2.04%) Intel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsemi
2 1 (2.04%) MuleSoft
2 1 (2.04%) Pega
2 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.04%) SAP
2 1 (2.04%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.04%) Xilinx
2 1 (2.04%) Zscaler