Computer Science Contracts in the East of England

Computer Science
England > East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 96 101
Rank change year-on-year +34 +5 -14
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 47 27 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.49% 1.35% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.91% 1.54% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 24
10th Percentile £115 £329 £328
25th Percentile £359 £441 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% -7.50%
75th Percentile £625 £753 £538
90th Percentile £675 £922 £593
England median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +6.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 8
10th Percentile £35.50 - £48.28
25th Percentile £48.25 £51.25 £48.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £66.25 £53.75 £49.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £46.11
% change year-on-year +2.10% +16.84% +21.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,613 1,752 2,246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 85.34% 87.60% 88.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 678 1,014 1,277
10th Percentile £204 £205 £185
25th Percentile £332 £325 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £563
90th Percentile £678 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 610 337 376
10th Percentile £14.16 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.39 £14.25 £13.25
Median hourly rate £40.14 £22.00 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.44% +41.94% -15.16%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.00 £39.55
90th Percentile £75.25 £70.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 2024. 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 +3 19 £363 -21.62% 86
Essex +14 11 £568 -12.69% 15
Hertfordshire +8 10 £400 -52.24% 30
Suffolk +14 5 £650 +30.00% 3
Bedfordshire - 2 £550 - 6
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 1 (2.13%) Confluence
1 1 (2.13%) IIS
1 1 (2.13%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.51%) Simulink
1 4 (8.51%) Stateflow
2 3 (6.38%) Chatbot
2 3 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.26%) SAP CO
1 2 (4.26%) SAP FI
1 2 (4.26%) SAP FI/CO
1 2 (4.26%) SAP MM
1 2 (4.26%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (4.26%) SAP SD
2 1 (2.13%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 9 (19.15%) GCP
2 6 (12.77%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (6.38%) AWS
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (2.13%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.13%) Azure
4 1 (2.13%) CloudFront
4 1 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.13%) OneDrive
4 1 (2.13%) Salesforce Einstein
4 1 (2.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.26%) RS-485
2 1 (2.13%) DVB
2 1 (2.13%) Firewall
2 1 (2.13%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (2.13%) RTMP
2 1 (2.13%) RTP
2 1 (2.13%) RTSP
2 1 (2.13%) VoIP
2 1 (2.13%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.13%) Big Data
1 1 (2.13%) Data Mining
1 1 (2.13%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.13%) Hadoop
1 1 (2.13%) MongoDB
1 1 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.13%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Git
2 4 (8.51%) Mercurial
3 1 (2.13%) CMake
3 1 (2.13%) JIRA
3 1 (2.13%) MSI
3 1 (2.13%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (34.04%) Social Skills
2 11 (23.40%) Finance
3 10 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.89%) Automotive
4 7 (14.89%) Banking
4 7 (14.89%) Telecoms
5 6 (12.77%) Multimedia
6 5 (10.64%) Electronics
7 4 (8.51%) Legal
8 3 (6.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (4.26%) Aerospace
9 2 (4.26%) French Language
9 2 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (4.26%) Marketing
9 2 (4.26%) Military
9 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
10 1 (2.13%) Financial Institution
10 1 (2.13%) Games
10 1 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (23.40%) Software Engineer
2 10 (21.28%) Architect
3 8 (17.02%) Solutions Architect
4 7 (14.89%) Senior
5 5 (10.64%) Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Senior Software Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Developer
7 3 (6.38%) Artificial Intelligence Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) Consultant
7 3 (6.38%) Data Engineer
7 3 (6.38%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (6.38%) Machine Learning Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Embedded Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.26%) Lead
8 2 (4.26%) Machine Learning Analyst
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Embedded Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Software Development Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (10.64%) NumPy
1 5 (10.64%) React
2 4 (8.51%) Pandas
2 4 (8.51%) SciPy
3 3 (6.38%) RESTful
4 2 (4.26%) CSS
4 2 (4.26%) GraphQL
4 2 (4.26%) GStreamer
4 2 (4.26%) HTML
5 1 (2.13%) .NET
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.13%) Entity Framework
5 1 (2.13%) Next.js
5 1 (2.13%) Node.js
5 1 (2.13%) PySpark
5 1 (2.13%) Redux
5 1 (2.13%) Silverlight
5 1 (2.13%) Software Packaging
5 1 (2.13%) WCF
5 1 (2.13%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Algorithms
2 8 (17.02%) Data Structures
3 7 (14.89%) Legacy Systems
4 4 (8.51%) Data Centre
4 4 (8.51%) Social Media
5 3 (6.38%) Embedded Systems
6 2 (4.26%) CMDB
6 2 (4.26%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.26%) FPGA
6 2 (4.26%) IVR
6 2 (4.26%) Management Information System
7 1 (2.13%) Cloud Native
7 1 (2.13%) Digital TV
7 1 (2.13%) Driving Licence
7 1 (2.13%) MPEG
7 1 (2.13%) Security Operations Centre
7 1 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (2.13%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 11 (23.40%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Linux
3 3 (6.38%) Windows 7
3 3 (6.38%) Windows 8
4 2 (4.26%) Unix
5 1 (2.13%) Android
5 1 (2.13%) Apple iOS
5 1 (2.13%) CentOS
5 1 (2.13%) Embedded Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
1 20 (42.55%) Software Engineering
2 12 (25.53%) Artificial Intelligence
2 12 (25.53%) Data Science
2 12 (25.53%) Roadmaps
3 11 (23.40%) Agile
4 10 (21.28%) Machine Learning
5 9 (19.15%) Migration
5 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
6 8 (17.02%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (14.89%) Business Strategy
7 7 (14.89%) Collaborative Working
7 7 (14.89%) DevOps
7 7 (14.89%) Fintech
7 7 (14.89%) Mathematics
7 7 (14.89%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 7 (14.89%) TOGAF
7 7 (14.89%) Zachman Framework
8 6 (12.77%) Enterprise Architecture
8 6 (12.77%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 16 (34.04%) Python
2 12 (25.53%) Java
3 8 (17.02%) C#
3 8 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.51%) C
4 4 (8.51%) MATLAB
4 4 (8.51%) R
4 4 (8.51%) SQL
5 2 (4.26%) C++
5 2 (4.26%) Rust
5 2 (4.26%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.26%) VB
6 1 (2.13%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.13%) XAML
Qualifications
1 42 (89.36%) Degree
2 31 (65.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (19.15%) Master's Degree
4 5 (10.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (8.51%) PhD
6 3 (6.38%) A+ Certification
6 3 (6.38%) CCNA
6 3 (6.38%) CCNP
6 3 (6.38%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (6.38%) MCSA
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.13%) CISSP
7 1 (2.13%) HNC
7 1 (2.13%) Linux+ Certification
7 1 (2.13%) LPIC
7 1 (2.13%) RHCE
7 1 (2.13%) SAP Certification
7 1 (2.13%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.13%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.13%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (2.13%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.13%) KVM
2 1 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (4.26%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.26%) SCCM
2 1 (2.13%) Ansible
2 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.13%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 7 (14.89%) Google
3 4 (8.51%) SAP
4 2 (4.26%) Genesys
4 2 (4.26%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.13%) Cisco
5 1 (2.13%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.13%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.13%) VMware
5 1 (2.13%) Workday