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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 62 90
Rank change year-on-year +24 +28 +2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 57 36 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.41% 2.37% 1.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 2.89% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 21
10th Percentile £279 £369 £263
25th Percentile £438 £414 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% +25.00% -28.89%
75th Percentile £604 £550 £530
90th Percentile £700 £619 £600
England median daily rate £490 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -10.91% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 2
10th Percentile £29.00 - £58.25
25th Percentile £60.75 - £59.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 £50.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.00% -20.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile - - £64.38
90th Percentile £86.40 - £64.75
England median hourly rate £52.50 £50.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +3.96% -18.55% +20.10%

All Process and 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 1,156 1,244 1,650
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.40% 81.79% 87.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 452 899
10th Percentile £200 £213 £230
25th Percentile £379 £309 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
75th Percentile £580 £550 £625
90th Percentile £682 £638 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 395 358
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.48 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.33 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £68.45 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
% change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +48.85%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025.

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 September 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 +2 19 £450 +4.35% 46
Hertfordshire +20 18 £578 - 21
Essex +10 12 £603 - 19
Bedfordshire -10 8 £243 -51.50% 18
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 5 (8.77%) Apache Spark
1 5 (8.77%) OpenStack
2 4 (7.02%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
4 1 (1.75%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (12.28%) Simulink
3 1 (1.75%) CANalyzer
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.75%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (1.75%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (33.33%) AWS
2 10 (17.54%) Azure
3 9 (15.79%) npm
4 7 (12.28%) Serverless
5 6 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (8.77%) Amazon S3
6 5 (8.77%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (7.02%) dbt
7 4 (7.02%) Snowflake
8 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
8 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (3.51%) GCP
9 1 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (1.75%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (1.75%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.05%) DNS
2 7 (12.28%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (12.28%) DHCP
2 7 (12.28%) Ethernet
2 7 (12.28%) PuTTY
3 4 (7.02%) iSCSI
3 4 (7.02%) SAN
4 2 (3.51%) Firewall
4 2 (3.51%) LAN
4 2 (3.51%) WAN
4 2 (3.51%) Wireless
4 2 (3.51%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.53%) Big Data
2 5 (8.77%) Hadoop
2 5 (8.77%) Tableau
3 4 (7.02%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (7.02%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (7.02%) Oracle Database
3 4 (7.02%) RDBMS
3 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (28.07%) JIRA
2 15 (26.32%) GitLab
3 11 (19.30%) Artifactory
4 9 (15.79%) Visual Studio
5 5 (8.77%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.51%) Selenium
6 2 (3.51%) webpack
7 1 (1.75%) CANoe
7 1 (1.75%) Git
General
1 23 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 10 (17.54%) Electronics
3 8 (14.04%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.04%) Manufacturing
4 6 (10.53%) Games
5 5 (8.77%) Aerospace
6 3 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.51%) Finance
8 1 (1.75%) Agriculture
8 1 (1.75%) Automotive
8 1 (1.75%) Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Law
8 1 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.75%) Retail
8 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Developer
2 8 (14.04%) Software Engineer
3 7 (12.28%) Analyst
3 7 (12.28%) Network Analyst
4 6 (10.53%) Architect
4 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Administrator
5 5 (8.77%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Data Science Developer
5 5 (8.77%) Implementation Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Network Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Network Support
5 5 (8.77%) Network Support Analyst
5 5 (8.77%) Network Support Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Support Engineer
5 5 (8.77%) Support Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Technical Implementation Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Technical Manager
5 5 (8.77%) Technical Support
5 5 (8.77%) Technical Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) React
2 11 (19.30%) Vue
3 10 (17.54%) Node.js
4 9 (15.79%) .NET
4 9 (15.79%) .NET Framework
4 9 (15.79%) AngularJS
4 9 (15.79%) CSS
4 9 (15.79%) HTML
4 9 (15.79%) Svelte
5 5 (8.77%) Matplotlib
5 5 (8.77%) PyTorch
5 5 (8.77%) scikit-learn
5 5 (8.77%) Seaborn
5 5 (8.77%) TensorFlow
6 4 (7.02%) NumPy
6 4 (7.02%) Pandas
7 2 (3.51%) Celery
7 2 (3.51%) D3.js
7 2 (3.51%) Django
7 2 (3.51%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 20 (35.09%) Algorithms
2 10 (17.54%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (15.79%) Data Structures
4 6 (10.53%) FPGA
4 6 (10.53%) PCIe
4 6 (10.53%) Verilog
5 4 (7.02%) Data Centre
5 4 (7.02%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
6 3 (5.26%) Raspberry Pi
7 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.75%) Credit Risk
8 1 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.75%) Life Science
8 1 (1.75%) LIMS
8 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.07%) Linux
2 4 (7.02%) CentOS
2 4 (7.02%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (28.07%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (26.32%) Containerisation
2 15 (26.32%) Software Engineering
3 14 (24.56%) Agile
4 12 (21.05%) CI/CD
5 11 (19.30%) Artificial Intelligence
5 11 (19.30%) Full-Stack Development
5 11 (19.30%) Machine Learning
6 10 (17.54%) DevOps
6 10 (17.54%) Microservices
6 10 (17.54%) SDLC
6 10 (17.54%) TDD
7 9 (15.79%) Design Patterns
7 9 (15.79%) OOP
7 9 (15.79%) Software Testing
8 8 (14.04%) Data Science
9 7 (12.28%) Task Automation
9 7 (12.28%) Visualisation
10 6 (10.53%) Physics
10 6 (10.53%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) Python
2 11 (19.30%) JavaScript
3 10 (17.54%) C++
4 9 (15.79%) C#
4 9 (15.79%) TypeScript
5 8 (14.04%) SQL
6 7 (12.28%) Java
6 7 (12.28%) MATLAB
7 6 (10.53%) R
7 6 (10.53%) SystemVerilog
7 6 (10.53%) Tcl
8 5 (8.77%) Shell Script
9 2 (3.51%) Bash
9 2 (3.51%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (78.95%) Degree
2 26 (45.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 11 (19.30%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.28%) CCNA
5 7 (12.28%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (10.53%) HNC
6 6 (10.53%) HND
6 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
7 5 (8.77%) PhD
8 2 (3.51%) CCNP
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.75%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.75%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.75%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) Data Quality
2 6 (10.53%) DO-254
3 5 (8.77%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.75%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.75%) GxP
4 1 (1.75%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Docker
2 6 (10.53%) Firmware
3 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
3 5 (8.77%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 7 (12.28%) Ansible
3 4 (7.02%) Terraform
4 1 (1.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.75%) Puppet
4 1 (1.75%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.54%) ServiceNow
3 7 (12.28%) Cisco
4 6 (10.53%) Actel
4 6 (10.53%) Altera
4 6 (10.53%) Intel
4 6 (10.53%) Microsemi
4 6 (10.53%) Xilinx
5 5 (8.77%) Oracle
5 5 (8.77%) VMware
6 4 (7.02%) StreamSets
7 3 (5.26%) IBM
8 2 (3.51%) Google
8 2 (3.51%) Peregrine
8 2 (3.51%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.51%) Remedy
9 1 (1.75%) Databricks
9 1 (1.75%) SAP