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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 72 96
Rank change year-on-year +32 +24 -10
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 50 42 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 4.36% 2.21% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 2.61% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 15
10th Percentile £479 £103 £323
25th Percentile £515 £425 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +23.81% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £700
90th Percentile - £675 £913
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -2.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 2
10th Percentile £28.88 £33.65 £58.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £52.50 £59.38
Median hourly rate £80.00 £55.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.45% -12.00% +27.55%
75th Percentile £88.00 £66.25 £64.38
90th Percentile - £68.43 £64.75
England median hourly rate £43.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.91% -8.33% +24.30%

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 1,015 1,608 1,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.41% 84.63% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 639 1,020
10th Percentile £207 £200 £231
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £428 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -14.41% +5.16%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 603 352
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.14 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.26 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

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 6 July 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 6 July 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 6 July 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 +15 18 - - 159
Hertfordshire +36 13 £650 - 56
Essex +12 10 - - 40
Bedfordshire +2 8 £425 -22.73% 21
Suffolk -9 1 £519 -13.50% 7
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 10 (20.00%) Apache Spark
2 5 (10.00%) OpenStack
3 4 (8.00%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (4.00%) Confluence
5 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (14.00%) Simulink
2 1 (2.00%) CANalyzer
2 1 (2.00%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (2.00%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (42.00%) AWS
2 13 (26.00%) Azure
3 5 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (8.00%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (8.00%) Serverless
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.00%) dbt
5 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.00%) Amazon EMR
6 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.00%) GitHub
6 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 12 (24.00%) DNS
2 7 (14.00%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (14.00%) DHCP
2 7 (14.00%) Ethernet
2 7 (14.00%) PuTTY
3 4 (8.00%) iSCSI
3 4 (8.00%) SAN
4 3 (6.00%) Wireless
5 2 (4.00%) Firewall
5 2 (4.00%) LAN
5 2 (4.00%) WAN
5 2 (4.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (22.00%) Tableau
2 10 (20.00%) Big Data
2 10 (20.00%) Hadoop
3 4 (8.00%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (6.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (6.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (6.00%) RDBMS
4 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
5 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (14.00%) JIRA
2 5 (10.00%) GitLab
2 5 (10.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (4.00%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (2.00%) CANoe
4 1 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.00%) webpack
General
1 16 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (20.00%) Electronics
4 8 (16.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (12.00%) Games
6 3 (6.00%) Aerospace
6 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.00%) Automotive
8 1 (2.00%) Finance
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (2.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Developer
2 10 (20.00%) Data Science Developer
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Network Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Senior
4 5 (10.00%) Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Implementation Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Network Support
4 5 (10.00%) Network Support Analyst
4 5 (10.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Senior Developer
4 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Support Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Implementation Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 5 (10.00%) Technical Support Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (20.00%) Matplotlib
1 10 (20.00%) PyTorch
1 10 (20.00%) scikit-learn
1 10 (20.00%) Seaborn
1 10 (20.00%) TensorFlow
2 9 (18.00%) NumPy
2 9 (18.00%) Pandas
3 2 (4.00%) React
4 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.00%) Celery
4 1 (2.00%) D3.js
4 1 (2.00%) EDI
4 1 (2.00%) IDoc
4 1 (2.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (2.00%) PySpark
4 1 (2.00%) REST
4 1 (2.00%) Sass
4 1 (2.00%) SOAP
4 1 (2.00%) Vue
4 1 (2.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (32.00%) Algorithms
2 6 (12.00%) FPGA
2 6 (12.00%) PCIe
2 6 (12.00%) Verilog
3 4 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 4 (8.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (8.00%) Linux Command Line
3 4 (8.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (6.00%) Raspberry Pi
5 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 1 (2.00%) Life Science
6 1 (2.00%) LIMS
6 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.00%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.00%) Linux
2 4 (8.00%) CentOS
2 4 (8.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 16 (32.00%) Machine Learning
2 12 (24.00%) Data Science
2 12 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (24.00%) Visualisation
3 11 (22.00%) Software Engineering
4 10 (20.00%) Analytics
4 10 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 10 (20.00%) Data Munging
4 10 (20.00%) Feature Engineering
4 10 (20.00%) Generative AI
4 10 (20.00%) LLM
4 10 (20.00%) Reinforcement Learning
4 10 (20.00%) Statistical Modelling
5 9 (18.00%) Data Analytics
5 9 (18.00%) Decision-Making
5 9 (18.00%) Predictive Analytics
5 9 (18.00%) Time Series Forecasting
6 7 (14.00%) Task Automation
7 6 (12.00%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 27 (54.00%) Python
2 10 (20.00%) R
3 7 (14.00%) Java
3 7 (14.00%) MATLAB
4 6 (12.00%) SystemVerilog
4 6 (12.00%) Tcl
5 5 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.00%) SQL
6 3 (6.00%) C++
7 2 (4.00%) Bash
7 2 (4.00%) Perl
8 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 47 (94.00%) Degree
2 23 (46.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (20.00%) Master's Degree
3 10 (20.00%) PhD
4 7 (14.00%) CCNA
4 7 (14.00%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (12.00%) HNC
5 6 (12.00%) HND
5 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
5 6 (12.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (4.00%) CCNP
7 1 (2.00%) CISM
7 1 (2.00%) CISSP
7 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.00%) PMP
7 1 (2.00%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (12.00%) DO-254
3 5 (10.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.00%) GDPR
5 1 (2.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
5 1 (2.00%) GxP
5 1 (2.00%) HL7
5 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.00%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Firmware
2 5 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) Ansible
2 4 (8.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.00%) Puppet
3 1 (2.00%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (24.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco
4 6 (12.00%) Actel
4 6 (12.00%) Altera
4 6 (12.00%) Intel
4 6 (12.00%) Microsemi
4 6 (12.00%) Xilinx
5 5 (10.00%) VMware
6 4 (8.00%) Oracle
7 3 (6.00%) StreamSets
8 2 (4.00%) Google
8 2 (4.00%) IBM
8 2 (4.00%) Peregrine
8 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
8 2 (4.00%) Remedy
9 1 (2.00%) OpenAI
9 1 (2.00%) SAP