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 25 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 35 57
Rank change year-on-year -44 +22 +34
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 46 60 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.90% 4.59% 2.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.42% 5.12% 3.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 10 16
10th Percentile £168 £173 £269
25th Percentile £180 £393 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £478 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.61% +0.53% +18.75%
75th Percentile £507 £652 £550
90th Percentile £530 £719 £606
England median daily rate £474 £480 £550
% change year-on-year -1.25% -12.73% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 1
10th Percentile - £29.00 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £61.00 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £67.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.48% +34.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £77.75 £76.75 -
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.60 -
England median hourly rate £48.75 £43.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +12.07% -13.86% -18.55%

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 1,901 1,171 1,242
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 78.36% 89.53% 81.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 843 504 452
10th Percentile £190 £200 £200
25th Percentile £363 £390 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £553
90th Percentile £699 £688 £638
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 316 359
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.38 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.29 £15.62
Median hourly rate £50.00 £22.87 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +118.67% -46.20% +114.54%
75th Percentile £70.00 £60.56 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £67.60
England median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -2.05%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +2 19 £185 -56.73% 147
Hertfordshire -20 18 £300 -48.05% 29
Suffolk - 4 £425 - 8
Bedfordshire -5 3 - - 7
Essex -24 1 £505 -16.18% 16
Norfolk - 1 - - 7
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 (4.35%) Confluence
1 2 (4.35%) OpenStack
2 1 (2.17%) Apache
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (6.52%) Windchill
2 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.17%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 15 (32.61%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) GCP
5 2 (4.35%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (4.35%) GitHub
5 2 (4.35%) Serverless
6 1 (2.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.17%) Azure AKS
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Databricks
6 1 (2.17%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.17%) dbt
6 1 (2.17%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.17%) GitHub Copilot
6 1 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.17%) SaaS
6 1 (2.17%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) VPN
1 4 (8.70%) Wireless
2 3 (6.52%) 5G
2 3 (6.52%) DNS
2 3 (6.52%) HTTP
2 3 (6.52%) RS-232
2 3 (6.52%) RS-485
2 3 (6.52%) SSH
2 3 (6.52%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.35%) 4G
4 1 (2.17%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.70%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.52%) Metadata
2 3 (6.52%) MySQL
2 3 (6.52%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.52%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (6.52%) Redis
3 2 (4.35%) Data Mining
4 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.17%) Big Data
4 1 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (2.17%) Star Schema
4 1 (2.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (26.09%) Git
2 5 (10.87%) GitLab
2 5 (10.87%) Visual Studio
3 4 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.52%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 2 (4.35%) JIRA
5 2 (4.35%) Selenium
6 1 (2.17%) eggPlant
6 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.91%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Electronics
3 6 (13.04%) Manufacturing
4 4 (8.70%) Aerospace
4 4 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Law
6 2 (4.35%) Military
7 1 (2.17%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.17%) Aviation
7 1 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Developer
2 6 (13.04%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) .NET Developer
3 4 (8.70%) Architect
3 4 (8.70%) C# .NET Developer
3 4 (8.70%) C# Developer
3 4 (8.70%) C# WPF Developer
3 4 (8.70%) Software Developer
3 4 (8.70%) WPF Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Embedded Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Embedded Software Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Firmware Developer
4 3 (6.52%) Python Developer
5 2 (4.35%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Lead
5 2 (4.35%) Product Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Security Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) RESTful
2 6 (13.04%) REST
3 4 (8.70%) .NET
3 4 (8.70%) .NET Core
3 4 (8.70%) .NET Framework
3 4 (8.70%) Entity Framework
3 4 (8.70%) Managed Extensibility Framework
3 4 (8.70%) Silverlight
3 4 (8.70%) WCF
3 4 (8.70%) Web Services
3 4 (8.70%) WPF
4 3 (6.52%) CSS
4 3 (6.52%) FastAPI
4 3 (6.52%) Flask
4 3 (6.52%) HTML
4 3 (6.52%) Jinja
4 3 (6.52%) JSP
4 3 (6.52%) Pandas
4 3 (6.52%) Terraform
4 3 (6.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.74%) Management Information System
2 8 (17.39%) Algorithms
3 5 (10.87%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (6.52%) Robotics
5 2 (4.35%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (4.35%) Reference Data
6 1 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (2.17%) FPGA
6 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Low-Code
6 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.17%) PCIe
6 1 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 1 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) Verilog
6 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.39%) Linux
2 4 (8.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (41.30%) DevOps
2 15 (32.61%) Problem-Solving
3 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 14 (30.43%) Scrum
4 13 (28.26%) Software Engineering
5 11 (23.91%) Agile
5 11 (23.91%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (17.39%) Integration Testing
7 7 (15.22%) Mathematics
8 6 (13.04%) AI
8 6 (13.04%) Physics
8 6 (13.04%) Service Management
8 6 (13.04%) Validation
9 5 (10.87%) Design Patterns
9 5 (10.87%) Incident Management
9 5 (10.87%) Migration
10 4 (8.70%) Code Quality
10 4 (8.70%) Customer Service
10 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure as Code
10 4 (8.70%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) Python
2 7 (15.22%) Bash
2 7 (15.22%) SQL
3 5 (10.87%) C#
3 5 (10.87%) C++
4 4 (8.70%) Java
4 4 (8.70%) Shell Script
4 4 (8.70%) XAML
5 3 (6.52%) C
6 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) MATLAB
7 1 (2.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.17%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (2.17%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 38 (82.61%) Degree
2 15 (32.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (28.26%) Security Cleared
4 12 (26.09%) SC Cleared
5 10 (21.74%) Master's Degree
6 5 (10.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (10.87%) PhD
7 4 (8.70%) A+ Certification
7 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Certified Professional
8 3 (6.52%) ISACA
9 2 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (4.35%) DBS Check
9 2 (4.35%) DV Cleared
10 1 (2.17%) Azure Certification
10 1 (2.17%) CISM
10 1 (2.17%) CISSP
10 1 (2.17%) HNC
10 1 (2.17%) HND
10 1 (2.17%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.04%) QA
2 2 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (4.35%) NCSC
2 2 (4.35%) NIST
2 2 (4.35%) NIST 800
3 1 (2.17%) DO-254
System Software
1 6 (13.04%) Firmware
2 4 (8.70%) Docker
3 3 (6.52%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Ansible
2 3 (6.52%) Puppet
3 2 (4.35%) Grafana
3 2 (4.35%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.52%) PTC
3 2 (4.35%) Google
4 1 (2.17%) Actel
4 1 (2.17%) Altera
4 1 (2.17%) Atlassian
4 1 (2.17%) Databricks
4 1 (2.17%) IBM
4 1 (2.17%) Intel
4 1 (2.17%) Microsemi
4 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) Pega
4 1 (2.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.17%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.17%) Xilinx
4 1 (2.17%) Zscaler