Computer Science Contracts in the East of England

Computer Science
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 60 95
Rank change year-on-year +16 +35 +4
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 38 52 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.05% 2.72% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 3.16% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 29 14
10th Percentile £591 £145 £322
25th Percentile £625 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £753
90th Percentile - £675 £922
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 12 2
10th Percentile £29.65 £35.50 -
25th Percentile £30.78 £48.25 £51.25
Median hourly rate £71.00 £55.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.09% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £83.69 £66.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.00 - -
England median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £53.19
% change year-on-year -2.73% +3.41% +11.97%

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 837 1,644 1,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.23% 86.12% 87.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 703 1,064
10th Percentile £225 £207 £200
25th Percentile £400 £339 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 607 340
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £14.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%
75th Percentile £70.00 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the East of England

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the East of England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the East of England

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +30 16 £650 +30.00% 46
Bedfordshire +7 8 £675 +22.73% 18
Essex +6 6 - - 46
Cambridgeshire -3 5 - - 171
Suffolk -8 3 £519 -20.15% 15
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 12 (31.58%) Apache Spark
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
3 1 (2.63%) Apache
3 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (7.89%) Simulink
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (42.11%) AWS
1 16 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) GitHub
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Ethernet
2 1 (2.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (34.21%) Tableau
2 12 (31.58%) Big Data
2 12 (31.58%) Hadoop
3 5 (13.16%) Metadata
4 4 (10.53%) Data Mining
5 2 (5.26%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle Database
6 1 (2.63%) BigQuery
6 1 (2.63%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Artifactory
1 2 (5.26%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Git
General
1 17 (44.74%) Analytical Skills
2 10 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Automotive
3 3 (7.89%) Electronics
3 3 (7.89%) Games
3 3 (7.89%) Japanese Language
4 1 (2.63%) Finance
4 1 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.63%) Law
4 1 (2.63%) Legal
4 1 (2.63%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (2.63%) Retail
4 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (36.84%) Developer
2 12 (31.58%) Data Science Developer
3 11 (28.95%) Senior
4 10 (26.32%) Senior Developer
5 8 (21.05%) Architect
6 5 (13.16%) Data Architect
7 4 (10.53%) Implementation Manager
7 4 (10.53%) Support Manager
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Implementation Manager
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Manager
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Support
7 4 (10.53%) Technical Support Manager
8 2 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
8 2 (5.26%) Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) FPGA Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) IFS Consultant
8 2 (5.26%) Software Developer
9 1 (2.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) PMO Project Manager
9 1 (2.63%) Project Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (31.58%) Matplotlib
1 12 (31.58%) NumPy
1 12 (31.58%) Pandas
1 12 (31.58%) PyTorch
1 12 (31.58%) scikit-learn
1 12 (31.58%) Seaborn
1 12 (31.58%) TensorFlow
2 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (2.63%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.63%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.63%) PySpark
3 1 (2.63%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Algorithms
2 5 (13.16%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (13.16%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.53%) Reference Data
4 3 (7.89%) FPGA
4 3 (7.89%) PCIe
4 3 (7.89%) Verilog
5 2 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.26%) Virtual Team
6 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.63%) Data Structures
6 1 (2.63%) Robotics
6 1 (2.63%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Android
2 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (44.74%) Visualisation
2 16 (42.11%) Data Science
3 15 (39.47%) Artificial Intelligence
3 15 (39.47%) Machine Learning
4 14 (36.84%) Analytics
5 13 (34.21%) Decision-Making
6 12 (31.58%) Data Analysis
6 12 (31.58%) Data Analytics
6 12 (31.58%) Data Munging
6 12 (31.58%) Feature Engineering
6 12 (31.58%) Generative AI
6 12 (31.58%) LLM
6 12 (31.58%) Predictive Analytics
6 12 (31.58%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (31.58%) Reinforcement Learning
6 12 (31.58%) Statistical Modelling
6 12 (31.58%) Time Series Forecasting
7 6 (15.79%) Task Automation
8 5 (13.16%) Data Architecture
8 5 (13.16%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 21 (55.26%) Python
2 12 (31.58%) R
3 8 (21.05%) Java
4 7 (18.42%) SQL
5 3 (7.89%) MATLAB
5 3 (7.89%) SystemVerilog
5 3 (7.89%) Tcl
6 2 (5.26%) Bash
6 2 (5.26%) Go
6 2 (5.26%) Perl
6 2 (5.26%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Degree
2 12 (31.58%) Computer Science Degree
2 12 (31.58%) Master's Degree
2 12 (31.58%) PhD
3 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.89%) HNC
4 3 (7.89%) HND
4 3 (7.89%) PMP
5 2 (5.26%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.63%) CISM
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (34.21%) Data Quality
2 3 (7.89%) DO-254
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
4 1 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (2.63%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (7.89%) Firmware
2 2 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) logstash
2 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 4 (10.53%) Google
2 3 (7.89%) Actel
2 3 (7.89%) Altera
2 3 (7.89%) Intel
2 3 (7.89%) Microsemi
2 3 (7.89%) Oracle
2 3 (7.89%) Xilinx
3 2 (5.26%) IBM
3 2 (5.26%) IFS
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.63%) Ariba
4 1 (2.63%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.63%) SAP