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 27 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 36 70
Rank change year-on-year -14 +34 +30
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 52 54 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 3.37% 4.19% 2.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.92% 5.10% 2.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 31
10th Percentile £136 £308 £263
25th Percentile £194 £403 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -23.74%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £500
90th Percentile £700 £666 £538
England median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 2
10th Percentile £29.00 £28.13 £58.25
25th Percentile £62.69 £29.84 £59.38
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.78 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.67% -50.75% +36.99%
75th Percentile - £35.59 £64.38
90th Percentile £80.80 £44.23 £64.75
England median hourly rate £37.25 £52.50 £60.25
% change year-on-year -29.05% -12.86% +10.55%

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 1,325 1,058 1,580
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.93% 82.14% 88.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 553 427 858
10th Percentile £185 £242 £225
25th Percentile £363 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £572 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £714
England median daily rate £501 £525 £548
% change year-on-year -4.67% -4.11% -0.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 391 221 363
10th Percentile £14.09 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.06 £15.62 £14.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.67 £21.46
Median % change year-on-year -24.11% +28.94% -4.62%
75th Percentile £63.88 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.43 £45.00
% change year-on-year -29.01% -21.27% +23.29%

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 27 November 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 27 November 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 27 November 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
Hertfordshire +7 26 £528 -15.60% 31
Cambridgeshire -17 12 £428 -5.00% 50
Bedfordshire -9 7 £63 -86.00% 13
Essex - 6 £603 - 13
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 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (11.54%) Simulink
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) SAP MDG
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) AWS
2 10 (19.23%) Azure
3 9 (17.31%) npm
4 5 (9.62%) Serverless
5 4 (7.69%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (5.77%) Amazon S3
6 3 (5.77%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.77%) SaaS
7 2 (3.85%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.85%) dbt
7 2 (3.85%) GCP
7 2 (3.85%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.85%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.92%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (1.92%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.38%) DNS
2 7 (13.46%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (13.46%) DHCP
2 7 (13.46%) PuTTY
3 6 (11.54%) Ethernet
4 2 (3.85%) Firewall
4 2 (3.85%) LAN
4 2 (3.85%) WAN
4 2 (3.85%) Wireless
4 2 (3.85%) WLAN
5 1 (1.92%) iSCSI
5 1 (1.92%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.77%) Big Data
1 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.85%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.85%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.85%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.85%) RDBMS
2 2 (3.85%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.85%) Tableau
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.92%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.92%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.92%) Parquet
3 1 (1.92%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 11 (21.15%) GitLab
2 10 (19.23%) JIRA
3 9 (17.31%) Artifactory
3 9 (17.31%) Visual Studio
4 2 (3.85%) Git
4 2 (3.85%) Selenium
4 2 (3.85%) webpack
5 1 (1.92%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Electronics
2 8 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 6 (11.54%) Games
4 5 (9.62%) Law
5 2 (3.85%) Aerospace
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Agriculture
6 1 (1.92%) Banking
6 1 (1.92%) Finance
6 1 (1.92%) Marketing
6 1 (1.92%) Multimedia
6 1 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.92%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.92%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 9 (17.31%) Developer
2 8 (15.38%) Software Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Analyst
3 7 (13.46%) Network Analyst
4 6 (11.54%) Architect
4 6 (11.54%) Full-Stack Developer
5 5 (9.62%) Firmware Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Network Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Network Support
5 5 (9.62%) Network Support Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Network Support Engineer
5 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Development Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Software Developer
8 2 (3.85%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (25.00%) React
2 11 (21.15%) Node.js
2 11 (21.15%) Vue
3 9 (17.31%) .NET
3 9 (17.31%) .NET Framework
3 9 (17.31%) AngularJS
3 9 (17.31%) CSS
3 9 (17.31%) HTML
3 9 (17.31%) Svelte
4 4 (7.69%) REST
5 3 (5.77%) SOAP
6 2 (3.85%) D3.js
6 2 (3.85%) Django
6 2 (3.85%) JSON
6 2 (3.85%) Matplotlib
6 2 (3.85%) Sass
6 2 (3.85%) scikit-learn
6 2 (3.85%) Seaborn
6 2 (3.85%) TensorFlow
6 2 (3.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (32.69%) Algorithms
2 10 (19.23%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (17.31%) Data Structures
4 8 (15.38%) FPGA
4 8 (15.38%) Verilog
5 6 (11.54%) PCIe
6 3 (5.77%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (3.85%) ASIC
7 2 (3.85%) Low-Code
7 2 (3.85%) VHDL
7 2 (3.85%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.92%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.92%) Life Science
8 1 (1.92%) LIMS
8 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.92%) PMI
8 1 (1.92%) Product Ownership
8 1 (1.92%) Smartphone
8 1 (1.92%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) CentOS
2 1 (1.92%) Ubuntu
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 12 (23.08%) DevOps
3 11 (21.15%) AI
3 11 (21.15%) Containerisation
3 11 (21.15%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (19.23%) Agile
4 10 (19.23%) Machine Learning
4 10 (19.23%) Microservices
4 10 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (19.23%) Software Testing
5 9 (17.31%) Design Patterns
5 9 (17.31%) OOP
5 9 (17.31%) SDLC
5 9 (17.31%) TDD
6 8 (15.38%) Physics
7 7 (13.46%) Software Engineering
8 6 (11.54%) Cryptography
8 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (11.54%) UVM
9 5 (9.62%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 15 (28.85%) JavaScript
2 12 (23.08%) Python
3 9 (17.31%) C#
3 9 (17.31%) TypeScript
4 7 (13.46%) C++
5 6 (11.54%) MATLAB
5 6 (11.54%) SQL
5 6 (11.54%) SystemVerilog
5 6 (11.54%) Tcl
6 3 (5.77%) R
7 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.92%) Bourne shell
8 1 (1.92%) Java
Qualifications
1 36 (69.23%) Degree
2 24 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (28.85%) Security Cleared
4 13 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 7 (13.46%) CCNA
5 7 (13.46%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (11.54%) HNC
6 6 (11.54%) HND
7 3 (5.77%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.85%) CCNP
8 2 (3.85%) PhD
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.92%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.92%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.92%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) DO-254
2 3 (5.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.85%) QA
4 1 (1.92%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (1.92%) GDPR
4 1 (1.92%) GxP
4 1 (1.92%) HL7
4 1 (1.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (17.31%) Docker
2 6 (11.54%) Firmware
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.92%) Ansible
2 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) ServiceNow
3 7 (13.46%) Cisco
4 6 (11.54%) Actel
4 6 (11.54%) Altera
4 6 (11.54%) Intel
4 6 (11.54%) Microsemi
4 6 (11.54%) Xilinx
5 3 (5.77%) Oracle
5 3 (5.77%) Salesforce
5 3 (5.77%) SAP
6 2 (3.85%) MuleSoft
6 2 (3.85%) Pega
6 2 (3.85%) Peregrine
6 2 (3.85%) Remedy
6 2 (3.85%) StreamSets
7 1 (1.92%) Adobe
7 1 (1.92%) Databricks
7 1 (1.92%) IBM
7 1 (1.92%) Tealium