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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 42 62
Rank change year-on-year -31 +20 +37
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 42 39 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.01% 4.13% 2.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.58% 4.70% 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 33
10th Percentile £168 £497 £139
25th Percentile £180 £578 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +30.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £675 £575
90th Percentile £698 - £671
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 12
10th Percentile - £29.65 £35.50
25th Percentile £62.50 £30.78 £48.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £71.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.45% +29.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £67.50 £83.69 £66.25
90th Percentile - £88.00 -
England median hourly rate £83.00 £53.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +55.14% -2.73% +4.76%

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 1,628 830 1,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.01% 87.92% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 436 761
10th Percentile £200 £237 £235
25th Percentile £363 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 425 167 554
10th Percentile £14.30 £15.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.92 £20.26 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.63 £55.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.85% +44.28% +50.91%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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
Hertfordshire -22 15 £550 -15.38% 13
Bedfordshire -2 13 £548 -18.89% 4
Cambridgeshire +1 8 £185 -66.36% 34
Suffolk -4 3 £215 -55.62% 8
Essex -9 2 - - 27
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 1 (2.38%) Apache
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
1 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Simulink
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (16.67%) AWS
3 5 (11.90%) Azure AKS
3 5 (11.90%) Azure Service Bus
4 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) SaaS
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Functions
6 2 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
6 2 (4.76%) Power Automate
6 2 (4.76%) Serverless
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (2.38%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Storage
7 1 (2.38%) ChatGPT
7 1 (2.38%) Google Ads
7 1 (2.38%) Google Gemini
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.52%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.38%) Big Data
2 1 (2.38%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.38%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.38%) Metadata
2 1 (2.38%) MySQL
2 1 (2.38%) Parquet
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
General
1 18 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (14.29%) Electronics
3 4 (9.52%) Games
3 4 (9.52%) Law
4 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Finance
6 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.38%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (14.29%) Lead
2 5 (11.90%) Technical Leader
3 4 (9.52%) Architect
3 4 (9.52%) Firmware Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) Software Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Computer Science Graduate
5 2 (4.76%) Consultant
5 2 (4.76%) Graduate
5 2 (4.76%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Solutions Consultant
6 1 (2.38%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 1 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Data Architect
6 1 (2.38%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.38%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Software Development Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.90%) Spring
1 5 (11.90%) Spring Boot
2 3 (7.14%) REST
3 2 (4.76%) JSON
3 2 (4.76%) Kafka
3 2 (4.76%) SOAP
4 1 (2.38%) Node.js
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.38%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.38%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.38%) RESTful
4 1 (2.38%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.38%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (30.95%) Algorithms
2 7 (16.67%) Robotics
3 6 (14.29%) FPGA
4 5 (11.90%) Cloud Native
4 5 (11.90%) Verilog
5 4 (9.52%) PCIe
6 3 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.76%) Low-Code
7 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
8 1 (2.38%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (2.38%) ASIC
8 1 (2.38%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (2.38%) Embedded Systems
8 1 (2.38%) Life Science
8 1 (2.38%) PMI
8 1 (2.38%) Smart Meter
8 1 (2.38%) VHDL
8 1 (2.38%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.76%) Robot Operating System
2 1 (2.38%) Linux
2 1 (2.38%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 11 (26.19%) AI
4 9 (21.43%) DevOps
4 9 (21.43%) Machine Learning
5 8 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
5 8 (19.05%) Mentoring
6 7 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven
6 7 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 7 (16.67%) Microservices
7 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
7 6 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (11.90%) Analytics
8 5 (11.90%) Collaborative Working
8 5 (11.90%) Network Architecture
8 5 (11.90%) Pedagogy
8 5 (11.90%) Physics
8 5 (11.90%) Translating Business Requirements
9 4 (9.52%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 15 (35.71%) Python
2 6 (14.29%) Java
3 4 (9.52%) MATLAB
3 4 (9.52%) SystemVerilog
3 4 (9.52%) Tcl
4 3 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.76%) C#
5 2 (4.76%) C++
6 1 (2.38%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (73.81%) Degree
2 22 (52.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (23.81%) Security Cleared
4 7 (16.67%) SC Cleared
5 4 (9.52%) HNC
5 4 (9.52%) HND
6 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.38%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.52%) DO-254
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (11.90%) Firmware
2 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.52%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (9.52%) Actel
1 4 (9.52%) Altera
1 4 (9.52%) Intel
1 4 (9.52%) Microsemi
1 4 (9.52%) Xilinx
2 3 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.76%) Google
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.76%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.76%) Oracle
3 2 (4.76%) Pega
3 2 (4.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.38%) Adobe
4 1 (2.38%) Informatica
4 1 (2.38%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.38%) Talend
4 1 (2.38%) Tealium