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 4 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 32 54
Rank change year-on-year -43 +22 +59
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 34 58 60
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.96% 5.38% 3.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.40% 6.27% 3.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 24 40
10th Percentile £185 £363 £218
25th Percentile £212 £413 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £560 £400
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% +39.88% -2.74%
75th Percentile £697 £675 £509
90th Percentile £720 - £655
England median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 11
10th Percentile £64.25 £28.89 £35.50
25th Percentile £66.88 £30.78 £52.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £40.39 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.50% -26.56% +4.76%
75th Percentile £76.88 £74.19 £66.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £82.25 -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +4.76%

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 1,419 925 1,596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.79% 85.81% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 417 818
10th Percentile £196 £242 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £586 £600 £597
90th Percentile £675 £690 £711
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 444 161 439
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.16 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.60% +25.79% +44.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -0.71% +0.71%

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 4 February 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 4 February 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 4 February 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 -15 17 £550 -15.38% 22
Bedfordshire -14 7 £63 -86.00% 5
Essex +2 5 £603 - 8
Cambridgeshire -18 4 £403 -14.13% 37
Norfolk - 1 - - 4
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 (5.88%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.94%) Apache
2 1 (2.94%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.94%) Confluence
2 1 (2.94%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Simulink
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (5.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 7 (20.59%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) SaaS
4 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
4 2 (5.88%) Serverless
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (2.94%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.94%) ChatGPT
5 1 (2.94%) dbt
5 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.94%) Google Ads
5 1 (2.94%) Google Gemini
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.88%) Big Data
1 2 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.94%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
2 1 (2.94%) Metadata
2 1 (2.94%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.94%) MySQL
2 1 (2.94%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.94%) Parquet
2 1 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.94%) RDBMS
2 1 (2.94%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Schema
2 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 16 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 8 (23.53%) Electronics
3 7 (20.59%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (17.65%) Games
5 4 (11.76%) Law
6 2 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Finance
6 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.94%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.94%) Banking
7 1 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.94%) Marketing
7 1 (2.94%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.94%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.94%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 7 (20.59%) Architect
2 6 (17.65%) Firmware Engineer
2 6 (17.65%) Software Engineer
3 5 (14.71%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Computer Science Graduate
4 2 (5.88%) Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Graduate
4 2 (5.88%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Lead
4 2 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.88%) Solutions Consultant
4 2 (5.88%) Verification Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) R Developer
5 1 (2.94%) SAS Engineer
5 1 (2.94%) Snowflake Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) REST
2 2 (5.88%) Node.js
2 2 (5.88%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (5.88%) React
2 2 (5.88%) SOAP
3 1 (2.94%) Express.js
3 1 (2.94%) FastAPI
3 1 (2.94%) JSON
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) MERN Stack
3 1 (2.94%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.94%) RESTful
3 1 (2.94%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 8 (23.53%) FPGA
1 8 (23.53%) Verilog
2 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 6 (17.65%) PCIe
3 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (5.88%) ASIC
4 2 (5.88%) Augmented Reality
4 2 (5.88%) Low-Code
4 2 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.88%) PMI
4 2 (5.88%) Robotics
4 2 (5.88%) VHDL
4 2 (5.88%) Virtual Reality
5 1 (2.94%) Credit Risk
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (2.94%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.94%) Life Science
5 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.94%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Linux
1 2 (5.88%) Robot Operating System
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (32.35%) AI
3 10 (29.41%) Machine Learning
4 8 (23.53%) Physics
4 8 (23.53%) Software Engineering
5 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (17.65%) Analytics
6 6 (17.65%) Cryptography
6 6 (17.65%) UVM
7 4 (11.76%) DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Digital Innovation
7 4 (11.76%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 4 (11.76%) ETL
8 3 (8.82%) Collaborative Culture
8 3 (8.82%) Data Integration
8 3 (8.82%) Data Modelling
8 3 (8.82%) Enterprise Architecture
8 3 (8.82%) Generative AI
8 3 (8.82%) Mathematics
8 3 (8.82%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 9 (26.47%) Python
2 6 (17.65%) MATLAB
2 6 (17.65%) SystemVerilog
2 6 (17.65%) Tcl
3 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 4 (11.76%) SQL
4 2 (5.88%) C#
4 2 (5.88%) C++
4 2 (5.88%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.94%) Bourne shell
5 1 (2.94%) Java
5 1 (2.94%) R
Qualifications
1 27 (79.41%) Degree
2 15 (44.12%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (29.41%) Security Cleared
4 9 (26.47%) SC Cleared
5 6 (17.65%) HNC
5 6 (17.65%) HND
6 3 (8.82%) Master's Degree
7 2 (5.88%) Azure Certification
7 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (5.88%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) DO-254
2 2 (5.88%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.88%) QA
3 1 (2.94%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Firmware
Vendors
1 6 (17.65%) Actel
1 6 (17.65%) Altera
1 6 (17.65%) Intel
1 6 (17.65%) Microsemi
1 6 (17.65%) Xilinx
2 4 (11.76%) Oracle
2 4 (11.76%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.88%) Google
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) MuleSoft
3 2 (5.88%) Pega
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
3 2 (5.88%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.94%) Adobe
4 1 (2.94%) Databricks
4 1 (2.94%) Informatica
4 1 (2.94%) OpenAI
4 1 (2.94%) StreamSets
4 1 (2.94%) Talend
4 1 (2.94%) Tealium