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 2 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 41 56
Rank change year-on-year -26 +15 +33
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 44 38 52
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.99% 4.06% 2.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.57% 4.55% 3.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 29
10th Percentile £168 £591 £145
25th Percentile £180 £625 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +30.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £675 £600
90th Percentile £688 - £675
England median daily rate £487 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -7.19% -4.55% -4.35%
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 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +58.10% -4.55% +3.41%

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 1,711 835 1,649
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.28% 89.11% 86.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 432 705
10th Percentile £200 £225 £210
25th Percentile £363 £400 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 432 174 611
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.26 £16.46 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.63 £41.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.14% +3.13% +62.47%
75th Percentile £65.22 £71.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.95
% change year-on-year +50.00% -16.55% -4.13%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -28 14 £519 -20.19% 14
Bedfordshire -4 13 £548 -18.89% 3
Cambridgeshire +13 10 £185 - 38
Suffolk -5 3 £215 -58.57% 3
Essex -13 3 £505 - 9
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 (4.55%) Apache
1 2 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Simulink
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.27%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) Azure
2 8 (18.18%) AWS
3 6 (13.64%) Azure AKS
4 5 (11.36%) Azure Service Bus
5 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (9.09%) Serverless
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Functions
6 3 (6.82%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.82%) GCP
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 2 (4.55%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.55%) SaaS
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (2.27%) Amazon S3
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.27%) Azure Storage
8 1 (2.27%) dbt
8 1 (2.27%) Google Ads
8 1 (2.27%) Power Platform
8 1 (2.27%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.09%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.82%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.55%) Big Data
2 2 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.55%) Metadata
3 1 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.27%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Parquet
3 1 (2.27%) Power BI
3 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Schema
3 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.27%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (9.09%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) GitLab
3 1 (2.27%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.27%) JIRA
General
1 16 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.36%) Electronics
3 4 (9.09%) Games
4 2 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (4.55%) Law
4 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.27%) Agriculture
5 1 (2.27%) Finance
5 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.27%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (13.64%) Architect
1 6 (13.64%) Lead
2 5 (11.36%) Technical Leader
3 4 (9.09%) Firmware Engineer
3 4 (9.09%) Software Engineer
4 3 (6.82%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Computer Science Graduate
5 2 (4.55%) Data Architect
5 2 (4.55%) Graduate
5 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 1 (2.27%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Azure Specialist
6 1 (2.27%) Java Developer
6 1 (2.27%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Senior
6 1 (2.27%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (2.27%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (11.36%) Spring
1 5 (11.36%) Spring Boot
2 3 (6.82%) REST
3 2 (4.55%) JSON
3 2 (4.55%) Kafka
3 2 (4.55%) Node.js
3 2 (4.55%) SOAP
4 1 (2.27%) Express.js
4 1 (2.27%) MERN Stack
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.27%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.27%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.27%) React
4 1 (2.27%) RESTful
4 1 (2.27%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.27%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (29.55%) Algorithms
2 7 (15.91%) Robotics
3 6 (13.64%) Cloud Native
4 5 (11.36%) FPGA
5 4 (9.09%) PCIe
5 4 (9.09%) Verilog
6 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (4.55%) Low-Code
6 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (2.27%) Augmented Reality
7 1 (2.27%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.27%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (2.27%) Life Science
7 1 (2.27%) PMI
7 1 (2.27%) Smart Meter
7 1 (2.27%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.82%) Linux
2 2 (4.55%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (2.27%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (31.82%) AI
3 12 (27.27%) DevOps
3 12 (27.27%) Software Engineering
4 11 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 10 (22.73%) Machine Learning
6 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 8 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
6 8 (18.18%) Mentoring
6 8 (18.18%) Microservices
7 7 (15.91%) Analytics
7 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven
7 7 (15.91%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 6 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
9 5 (11.36%) Collaborative Working
9 5 (11.36%) Network Architecture
9 5 (11.36%) Pedagogy
9 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (11.36%) Translating Business Requirements
9 5 (11.36%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 18 (40.91%) Python
2 6 (13.64%) Java
3 4 (9.09%) MATLAB
3 4 (9.09%) SystemVerilog
3 4 (9.09%) Tcl
4 3 (6.82%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.82%) SQL
5 2 (4.55%) Bash
5 2 (4.55%) C#
5 2 (4.55%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 32 (72.73%) Degree
2 24 (54.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (20.45%) Security Cleared
4 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
5 4 (9.09%) HNC
5 4 (9.09%) HND
5 4 (9.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
6 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) DO-254
2 2 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
System Software
1 5 (11.36%) Firmware
2 2 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.55%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) Puppet
2 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Actel
1 4 (9.09%) Altera
1 4 (9.09%) Intel
1 4 (9.09%) Microsemi
1 4 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 4 (9.09%) Xilinx
2 3 (6.82%) Salesforce
3 2 (4.55%) Google
3 2 (4.55%) MuleSoft
3 2 (4.55%) Oracle
3 2 (4.55%) Pega
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.27%) Adobe
4 1 (2.27%) Databricks
4 1 (2.27%) Informatica
4 1 (2.27%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.27%) Talend
4 1 (2.27%) Tealium