Computer Science Contracts in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 106 162
Rank change year-on-year +39 +56 -44
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,106 1,133 1,256
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.04% 2.35% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.52% 2.61% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 775 802
10th Percentile £315 £379 £358
25th Percentile £413 £487 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - +5.70%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £809 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 40 63
10th Percentile £22.33 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.59 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +13.86% +22.92%
75th Percentile £65.31 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.38 £61.40
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £44.75
% change year-on-year +2.10% +20.38% +17.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,446 43,440 63,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.42% 90.15% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,588 30,513 45,420
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,538 1,746
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £16.23 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +7.71%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.00 £49.37
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 16 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
London +25 666 £550 -8.33% 836
South East +16 121 £450 -14.29% 247
North of England +70 103 £506 +4.17% 198
Midlands +64 81 £525 +5.00% 159
West Midlands +64 68 £525 - 90
South West +9 54 £588 +6.82% 105
North West +43 53 £500 +2.88% 111
East of England +29 46 £500 - 126
Yorkshire +34 42 £484 -12.09% 56
East Midlands +11 13 £600 +29.73% 69
North East +19 10 £600 - 32
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 29 (2.62%) Confluence
2 22 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.18%) Apache
5 13 (1.18%) SAS
6 12 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.27%) Gunicorn
8 3 (0.27%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 46 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.90%) Simulink
4 20 (1.81%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.81%) Stateflow
5 13 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) SPSS
8 3 (0.27%) Windchill
9 2 (0.18%) Stata
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.090%) CATIA
10 1 (0.090%) InVision
10 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.090%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.27%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.18%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (22.60%) Azure
2 175 (15.82%) AWS
3 116 (10.49%) GCP
4 64 (5.79%) Azure DevOps
5 47 (4.25%) Power Platform
6 36 (3.25%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
7 33 (2.98%) Serverless
8 32 (2.89%) GitHub
9 21 (1.90%) Amazon S3
10 20 (1.81%) PaaS
10 20 (1.81%) SaaS
11 19 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (1.63%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.36%) Vertex AI
16 12 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
17 10 (0.90%) Google Compute Engine
17 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.80%) Firewall
2 40 (3.62%) DNS
3 25 (2.26%) Network Security
4 22 (1.99%) Internet
4 22 (1.99%) VPN
4 22 (1.99%) WAN
5 21 (1.90%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.81%) DHCP
6 20 (1.81%) LAN
6 20 (1.81%) Wireless
7 16 (1.45%) Wireshark
8 14 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (1.08%) 5G
9 12 (1.08%) VoIP
10 11 (0.99%) HTTP
10 11 (0.99%) OSPF
11 10 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.81%) BGP
12 9 (0.81%) MPLS
13 8 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (5.88%) SQL Server
2 50 (4.52%) Relational Database
3 47 (4.25%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (3.89%) Big Data
5 41 (3.71%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (3.71%) Power BI
5 41 (3.71%) Tableau
6 34 (3.07%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.35%) MySQL
8 22 (1.99%) BigQuery
9 21 (1.90%) Hadoop
10 17 (1.54%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.27%) Data Mining
12 13 (1.18%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.18%) KDB
13 12 (1.08%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 93 (8.41%) Git
2 68 (6.15%) JIRA
3 61 (5.52%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.62%) GitLab
5 21 (1.90%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.99%) Gradle
7 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 9 (0.81%) Subversion
8 8 (0.72%) JUnit
8 8 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.63%) ERwin
9 7 (0.63%) Selenium
10 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.54%) Postman
10 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.45%) Mercurial
11 5 (0.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 535 (48.37%) Social Skills
2 253 (22.88%) Analytical Skills
3 243 (21.97%) Finance
4 85 (7.69%) Banking
5 61 (5.52%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.33%) Front Office
7 54 (4.88%) Telecoms
8 49 (4.43%) Legal
9 39 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
10 36 (3.25%) Marketing
11 28 (2.53%) Retail
12 25 (2.26%) Automotive
13 24 (2.17%) Electronics
14 21 (1.90%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.81%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.81%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.36%) Multimedia
19 12 (1.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 205 (18.54%) Developer
2 161 (14.56%) Architect
3 118 (10.67%) Senior
4 87 (7.87%) Analyst
5 85 (7.69%) Software Engineer
6 69 (6.24%) Solutions Architect
7 53 (4.79%) Java Developer
8 47 (4.25%) Lead
9 42 (3.80%) Data Engineer
9 42 (3.80%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (3.80%) Network Engineer
10 37 (3.35%) Consultant
11 28 (2.53%) Python Developer
12 26 (2.35%) Senior Developer
13 24 (2.17%) Data Analyst
14 22 (1.99%) Azure Engineer
15 20 (1.81%) Business Analyst
15 20 (1.81%) Data Scientist
16 19 (1.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (1.63%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.70%) CSS
2 62 (5.61%) .NET
2 62 (5.61%) HTML
3 49 (4.43%) React
4 40 (3.62%) REST
5 35 (3.16%) Kafka
6 34 (3.07%) RESTful
7 32 (2.89%) Spring
8 26 (2.35%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.17%) JSON
10 22 (1.99%) Node.js
10 22 (1.99%) XML
11 21 (1.90%) Pandas
12 20 (1.81%) NumPy
12 20 (1.81%) Web Services
13 16 (1.45%) Django
13 16 (1.45%) Middleware
14 14 (1.27%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.27%) .NET Framework
14 14 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.94%) Algorithms
2 105 (9.49%) Management Information System
3 56 (5.06%) Data Structures
4 52 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (4.52%) Data Centre
6 41 (3.71%) Derivative
7 32 (2.89%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.80%) Fixed Income
9 30 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 24 (2.17%) Distributed Systems
10 24 (2.17%) Virtual Team
11 19 (1.72%) Mobile App
12 18 (1.63%) CMDB
12 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
13 17 (1.54%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 16 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.45%) Social Media
15 14 (1.27%) Equities
16 13 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.31%) Linux
2 90 (8.14%) Windows
3 54 (4.88%) Unix
4 30 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.53%) Android
6 11 (0.99%) Solaris
7 10 (0.90%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.63%) VMS
9 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.63%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.36%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 415 (37.52%) Problem-Solving
2 311 (28.12%) Agile
3 180 (16.27%) Software Engineering
4 177 (16.00%) DevOps
5 145 (13.11%) CI/CD
6 127 (11.48%) Analytics
6 127 (11.48%) Migration
7 113 (10.22%) Data Modelling
8 112 (10.13%) Mathematics
9 110 (9.95%) Data Science
10 108 (9.76%) Machine Learning
11 101 (9.13%) Test Automation
12 88 (7.96%) ITIL
13 86 (7.78%) Artificial Intelligence
13 86 (7.78%) Roadmaps
14 83 (7.50%) Scrum
15 81 (7.32%) Decision-Making
16 79 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
16 79 (7.14%) Project Management
17 74 (6.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 292 (26.40%) Python
2 237 (21.43%) SQL
3 182 (16.46%) Java
4 103 (9.31%) JavaScript
5 92 (8.32%) C#
6 70 (6.33%) C++
7 56 (5.06%) PowerShell
8 40 (3.62%) Bash
9 30 (2.71%) MATLAB
10 28 (2.53%) TypeScript
11 27 (2.44%) R
12 26 (2.35%) C
13 24 (2.17%) Go
14 21 (1.90%) Rust
14 21 (1.90%) Scala
15 20 (1.81%) Perl
16 17 (1.54%) Kotlin
17 16 (1.45%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.18%) VB.NET
19 12 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 992 (89.69%) Degree
2 644 (58.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 191 (17.27%) Master's Degree
4 123 (11.12%) Security Cleared
5 91 (8.23%) SC Cleared
6 58 (5.24%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (4.43%) PhD
8 39 (3.53%) CISSP
9 34 (3.07%) CCNA
10 32 (2.89%) CCNP
10 32 (2.89%) DV Cleared
11 31 (2.80%) Azure Certification
12 27 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (1.99%) ITIL Certification
14 21 (1.90%) Numerate Degree
15 20 (1.81%) PMI Certification
15 20 (1.81%) PMP
16 17 (1.54%) CEH
17 14 (1.27%) CCIE
17 14 (1.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.96%) QA
2 61 (5.52%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.72%) SLA
4 16 (1.45%) NIST
5 14 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 13 (1.18%) GDPR
7 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
8 7 (0.63%) MiFID
9 6 (0.54%) GRC
10 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
11 4 (0.36%) COBIT
11 4 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.36%) JTAG
11 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 3 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (4.97%) Docker
2 43 (3.89%) Active Directory
3 40 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.36%) vSphere
6 14 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.18%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.90%) KVM
10 6 (0.54%) Firmware
11 4 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.36%) NFS
11 4 (0.36%) vCloud
11 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.36%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.090%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 75 (6.78%) Kubernetes
2 59 (5.33%) Terraform
3 23 (2.08%) Ansible
4 13 (1.18%) PingFederate
5 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.90%) SCCM
7 8 (0.72%) Grafana
7 8 (0.72%) Kibana
8 7 (0.63%) logstash
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.45%) Nessus
10 5 (0.45%) OpenView
10 5 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.36%) Puppet
11 4 (0.36%) WSUS
12 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 195 (17.63%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.60%) Oracle
3 61 (5.52%) Google
4 55 (4.97%) Cisco
5 54 (4.88%) SAP
6 53 (4.79%) VMware
7 41 (3.71%) ServiceNow
8 26 (2.35%) Databricks
9 19 (1.72%) IBM
10 18 (1.63%) Juniper
11 15 (1.36%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.36%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.18%) Atlassian
13 12 (1.08%) Genesys
13 12 (1.08%) ION Trading
13 12 (1.08%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.99%) Foundry
14 11 (0.99%) Palantir
14 11 (0.99%) SolarWinds
14 11 (0.99%) Splunk