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 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 32 67
Rank change year-on-year -26 +35 +45
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 47 54 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.94% 4.75% 2.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.48% 5.65% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 20 33
10th Percentile £161 £344 £263
25th Percentile £194 £409 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +25.00% -23.74%
75th Percentile £575 £666 £500
90th Percentile £700 £676 £538
England median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 1
10th Percentile £64.00 £28.13 -
25th Percentile £66.25 £29.84 -
Median hourly rate £67.00 £30.78 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +117.67% -52.65% +23.81%
75th Percentile - £35.59 -
90th Percentile £72.20 £44.23 -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £52.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -20.95% -11.02% +8.26%

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 1,350 956 1,511
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 84.38% 84.01% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 558 411 795
10th Percentile £187 £231 £247
25th Percentile £363 £338 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £585 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 184 359
10th Percentile £14.15 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £15.62 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £30.00 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% +40.78% -3.14%
75th Percentile £60.96 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.70%

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 19 December 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 19 December 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 19 December 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 -4 26 £528 -17.25% 23
Cambridgeshire -20 8 £403 -14.13% 44
Bedfordshire -11 6 £63 -87.40% 3
Essex - 6 £603 - 11
Norfolk - 1 - - 3
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 (4.26%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (4.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.13%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) Simulink
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) SAP MDG
1 1 (2.13%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.40%) AWS
2 10 (21.28%) Azure
3 9 (19.15%) npm
4 5 (10.64%) Serverless
5 4 (8.51%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (6.38%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.38%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (6.38%) SaaS
7 2 (4.26%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (4.26%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (4.26%) dbt
7 2 (4.26%) GCP
7 2 (4.26%) Power Automate
7 2 (4.26%) Snowflake
8 1 (2.13%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (2.13%) Azure AKS
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (2.13%) GitHub
8 1 (2.13%) Google Ads
Communications & Networking
1 5 (10.64%) Ethernet
2 2 (4.26%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (4.26%) DHCP
2 2 (4.26%) DNS
2 2 (4.26%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.38%) Big Data
1 3 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.26%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (4.26%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (4.26%) Hadoop
2 2 (4.26%) Oracle Database
2 2 (4.26%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.26%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.26%) Tableau
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (2.13%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.13%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.13%) Parquet
3 1 (2.13%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) GitLab
2 9 (19.15%) Artifactory
2 9 (19.15%) JIRA
2 9 (19.15%) Visual Studio
3 2 (4.26%) Git
3 2 (4.26%) Selenium
3 2 (4.26%) webpack
General
1 22 (46.81%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.02%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.89%) Electronics
4 5 (10.64%) Games
4 5 (10.64%) Law
5 4 (8.51%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
6 2 (4.26%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.13%) Agriculture
7 1 (2.13%) Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Finance
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Software Engineer
2 9 (19.15%) Developer
3 6 (12.77%) Architect
3 6 (12.77%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.64%) Firmware Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 5 (10.64%) Full-Stack Software Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Development Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Principal Engineer
5 4 (8.51%) Software Development Engineer
6 3 (6.38%) Consultant
6 3 (6.38%) Software Developer
7 2 (4.26%) Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Graduate
7 2 (4.26%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Network Support
7 2 (4.26%) Network Support Analyst
7 2 (4.26%) Network Support Engineer
7 2 (4.26%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (27.66%) React
2 11 (23.40%) Node.js
2 11 (23.40%) Vue
3 9 (19.15%) .NET
3 9 (19.15%) .NET Framework
3 9 (19.15%) AngularJS
3 9 (19.15%) CSS
3 9 (19.15%) HTML
3 9 (19.15%) Svelte
4 4 (8.51%) REST
5 3 (6.38%) SOAP
6 2 (4.26%) Celery
6 2 (4.26%) D3.js
6 2 (4.26%) Django
6 2 (4.26%) JSON
6 2 (4.26%) Matplotlib
6 2 (4.26%) Sass
6 2 (4.26%) scikit-learn
6 2 (4.26%) TensorFlow
6 2 (4.26%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 16 (34.04%) Algorithms
2 10 (21.28%) Distributed Systems
3 9 (19.15%) Data Structures
4 7 (14.89%) FPGA
4 7 (14.89%) Verilog
5 5 (10.64%) PCIe
6 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Software
7 2 (4.26%) ASIC
7 2 (4.26%) Life Science
7 2 (4.26%) Low-Code
7 2 (4.26%) Robotics
7 2 (4.26%) VHDL
8 1 (2.13%) Credit Risk
8 1 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (2.13%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (2.13%) LIMS
8 1 (2.13%) PMI
8 1 (2.13%) Product Ownership
8 1 (2.13%) Smartphone
8 1 (2.13%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.02%) Linux
2 2 (4.26%) Robot Operating System
3 1 (2.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (27.66%) CI/CD
2 12 (25.53%) DevOps
3 11 (23.40%) Full-Stack Development
4 10 (21.28%) Agile
4 10 (21.28%) AI
4 10 (21.28%) Containerisation
4 10 (21.28%) Microservices
4 10 (21.28%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (21.28%) Software Testing
5 9 (19.15%) Design Patterns
5 9 (19.15%) Machine Learning
5 9 (19.15%) OOP
5 9 (19.15%) SDLC
5 9 (19.15%) Software Engineering
5 9 (19.15%) TDD
6 7 (14.89%) Physics
7 6 (12.77%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (10.64%) Analytics
8 5 (10.64%) Cryptography
8 5 (10.64%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) JavaScript
2 13 (27.66%) Python
3 11 (23.40%) C#
4 9 (19.15%) C++
4 9 (19.15%) TypeScript
5 6 (12.77%) SQL
6 5 (10.64%) MATLAB
6 5 (10.64%) SystemVerilog
6 5 (10.64%) Tcl
7 3 (6.38%) R
8 1 (2.13%) Bourne shell
8 1 (2.13%) Java
8 1 (2.13%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 31 (65.96%) Degree
2 19 (40.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (29.79%) Security Cleared
4 12 (25.53%) SC Cleared
5 5 (10.64%) HNC
5 5 (10.64%) HND
6 3 (6.38%) Master's Degree
7 2 (4.26%) CCNA
7 2 (4.26%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.26%) PhD
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (2.13%) Azure Certification
8 1 (2.13%) DBS Check
8 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.13%) PMI Certification
8 1 (2.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.64%) DO-254
2 3 (6.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.26%) QA
4 1 (2.13%) 21 CFR Part 11
4 1 (2.13%) GDPR
4 1 (2.13%) GxP
4 1 (2.13%) HL7
System Software
1 9 (19.15%) Docker
2 5 (10.64%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (19.15%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (10.64%) Actel
1 5 (10.64%) Altera
1 5 (10.64%) Intel
1 5 (10.64%) Microsemi
1 5 (10.64%) Xilinx
2 4 (8.51%) ServiceNow
3 3 (6.38%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.38%) Oracle
3 3 (6.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (6.38%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) Cisco
4 2 (4.26%) MuleSoft
4 2 (4.26%) Pega
4 2 (4.26%) StreamSets
5 1 (2.13%) Adobe
5 1 (2.13%) Databricks
5 1 (2.13%) IBM
5 1 (2.13%) Tealium