Computer Science Degree Contracts in England

Computer Science Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 238 323
Rank change year-on-year +110 +85 -21
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 647 541 582
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.77% 1.10% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.70% 3.99% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 418 400 392
10th Percentile £300 £363 £363
25th Percentile £407 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £650
90th Percentile £775 £900 £836
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 10 21
10th Percentile £30.85 £19.30 £18.76
25th Percentile £38.75 £35.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £54.44 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +14.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.38 £63.69 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.38 £49.59
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +16.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications 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 academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,345 13,572 15,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.03% 27.59% 21.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,976 9,091 10,137
10th Percentile £313 £334 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 975 706 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.22 £19.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +32.91% +3.95%
75th Percentile £62.03 £67.50 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.00 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +24.14% +14.47%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 13 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 +69 400 £525 -12.50% 445
South East +35 73 £475 -5.00% 101
Midlands +59 51 £525 +5.00% 96
North of England +53 46 £340 -15.00% 117
West Midlands +51 45 £525 +7.14% 59
East of England +25 31 £500 -13.04% 64
South West +26 25 £588 -9.62% 51
North West +40 23 £165 -67.00% 65
Yorkshire +28 16 £340 -7.80% 34
North East - 7 £600 - 19
East Midlands +23 6 £650 +30.00% 37
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
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 18 (2.78%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (2.01%) Confluence
4 10 (1.55%) Apache
5 7 (1.08%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.46%) CMS
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.31%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.31%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.31%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.31%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) CICS
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 28 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.55%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) Windchill
6 2 (0.31%) Simulink
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.46%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.31%) Magento
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.31%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.31%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.31%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.31%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.31%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.31%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.31%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.31%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 157 (24.27%) Azure
2 127 (19.63%) AWS
3 82 (12.67%) GCP
4 32 (4.95%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.48%) Serverless
6 24 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.55%) GitHub
8 22 (3.40%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
10 18 (2.78%) AWS Lambda
11 14 (2.16%) Amazon S3
12 13 (2.01%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (2.01%) Vertex AI
13 12 (1.85%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.70%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.55%) AWS CloudFormation
15 10 (1.55%) Entra ID
15 10 (1.55%) Google Compute Engine
15 10 (1.55%) SaaS
16 9 (1.39%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.86%) Firewall
2 22 (3.40%) DNS
3 21 (3.25%) Network Security
4 12 (1.85%) VPN
5 11 (1.70%) Wireshark
6 9 (1.39%) 5G
6 9 (1.39%) Internet
7 8 (1.24%) DHCP
7 8 (1.24%) LAN
7 8 (1.24%) TCP/IP
7 8 (1.24%) VoIP
7 8 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (0.93%) 3G
8 6 (0.93%) CTI
8 6 (0.93%) GGSN
8 6 (0.93%) LTE
8 6 (0.93%) OSPF
8 6 (0.93%) RANAP
8 6 (0.93%) SGSN
8 6 (0.93%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.34%) SQL Server
2 31 (4.79%) Relational Database
3 29 (4.48%) Power BI
4 26 (4.02%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.86%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (3.09%) BigQuery
6 20 (3.09%) MySQL
7 18 (2.78%) Tableau
8 16 (2.47%) Big Data
9 15 (2.32%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.16%) MongoDB
11 13 (2.01%) Data Mining
12 10 (1.55%) Oracle Database
13 8 (1.24%) Data Lake
13 8 (1.24%) Hadoop
14 7 (1.08%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.93%) Amazon RDS
15 6 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.93%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.77%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 65 (10.05%) Git
2 41 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.95%) JIRA
4 20 (3.09%) GitLab
5 12 (1.85%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.39%) Gradle
7 8 (1.24%) JUnit
8 6 (0.93%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.93%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.77%) Maven
9 5 (0.77%) MLflow
9 5 (0.77%) Subversion
10 4 (0.62%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.62%) Selenium
10 4 (0.62%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.46%) ERwin
11 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.46%) Travis CI
12 2 (0.31%) JMeter
General
1 360 (55.64%) Social Skills
2 169 (26.12%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (20.09%) Finance
4 62 (9.58%) Banking
5 26 (4.02%) Presentation Skills
5 26 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 24 (3.71%) Telecoms
7 20 (3.09%) Front Office
7 20 (3.09%) Legal
8 18 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (2.78%) Retail
9 15 (2.32%) Marketing
10 14 (2.16%) Multimedia
11 11 (1.70%) Investment Banking
11 11 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 10 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 8 (1.24%) Electronics
14 6 (0.93%) Aerospace
15 5 (0.77%) Automotive
15 5 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 110 (17.00%) Developer
2 99 (15.30%) Architect
3 48 (7.42%) Senior
4 38 (5.87%) Lead
4 38 (5.87%) Software Engineer
5 35 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 33 (5.10%) Analyst
7 29 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
8 28 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 27 (4.17%) Java Developer
10 25 (3.86%) Consultant
10 25 (3.86%) Network Engineer
11 17 (2.63%) Senior Developer
12 16 (2.47%) Technical Architect
13 15 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
13 15 (2.32%) Security Engineer
14 14 (2.16%) AWS Engineer
14 14 (2.16%) Data Scientist
15 13 (2.01%) Project Manager
16 12 (1.85%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (6.96%) CSS
2 42 (6.49%) HTML
3 36 (5.56%) React
4 30 (4.64%) REST
5 28 (4.33%) .NET
6 27 (4.17%) Spring
7 24 (3.71%) RESTful
8 22 (3.40%) AngularJS
9 20 (3.09%) Kafka
10 19 (2.94%) Web Services
11 14 (2.16%) JSON
12 11 (1.70%) Elastic Stack
12 11 (1.70%) jQuery
12 11 (1.70%) Node.js
12 11 (1.70%) Spring Boot
13 10 (1.55%) .NET Core
13 10 (1.55%) .NET Framework
13 10 (1.55%) PyTorch
13 10 (1.55%) RAML
13 10 (1.55%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.74%) Management Information System
2 52 (8.04%) Algorithms
3 33 (5.10%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.48%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.94%) Derivative
7 18 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
8 16 (2.47%) Mobile App
8 16 (2.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 15 (2.32%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.01%) CMDB
10 13 (2.01%) Fixed Income
11 12 (1.85%) Security Posture
12 11 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
12 11 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 11 (1.70%) Onboarding
13 10 (1.55%) Cyber Defence
13 10 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (1.55%) Legacy Code
13 10 (1.55%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 58 (8.96%) Linux
2 53 (8.19%) Windows
3 23 (3.55%) Unix
4 20 (3.09%) Android
5 16 (2.47%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.39%) Solaris
7 8 (1.24%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.08%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.08%) VMS
8 7 (1.08%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.93%) Oracle Linux
10 4 (0.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.62%) Windows 8
11 3 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.31%) HPUX
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.15%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 638 (98.61%) Computer Science
2 299 (46.21%) Problem-Solving
3 171 (26.43%) Agile
4 118 (18.24%) DevOps
5 96 (14.84%) Software Engineering
6 90 (13.91%) CI/CD
7 76 (11.75%) Migration
8 67 (10.36%) Data Science
9 65 (10.05%) Analytics
10 63 (9.74%) Data Modelling
11 62 (9.58%) Machine Learning
12 53 (8.19%) Artificial Intelligence
12 53 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (8.04%) Project Management
14 50 (7.73%) Microservices
15 48 (7.42%) SDLC
16 46 (7.11%) ITIL
17 45 (6.96%) Infrastructure as Code
18 44 (6.80%) Continuous Integration
18 44 (6.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 158 (24.42%) Python
2 114 (17.62%) SQL
3 101 (15.61%) Java
4 72 (11.13%) JavaScript
5 42 (6.49%) C#
6 39 (6.03%) PowerShell
7 32 (4.95%) Bash
7 32 (4.95%) C++
8 23 (3.55%) TypeScript
9 17 (2.63%) R
9 17 (2.63%) Scala
10 15 (2.32%) C
10 15 (2.32%) Go
11 12 (1.85%) Kotlin
11 12 (1.85%) Perl
12 10 (1.55%) PL/SQL
13 7 (1.08%) MATLAB
13 7 (1.08%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.77%) Bicep
14 5 (0.77%) VBA
Qualifications
1 647 (100.00%) Degree
2 109 (16.85%) Master's Degree
3 86 (13.29%) Security Cleared
4 63 (9.74%) SC Cleared
5 34 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (5.10%) CISSP
7 25 (3.86%) Azure Certification
8 21 (3.25%) CCNA
9 19 (2.94%) CCNP
10 18 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
11 17 (2.63%) CEH
11 17 (2.63%) DV Cleared
12 16 (2.47%) PhD
13 15 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (1.85%) CCIE
14 12 (1.85%) CISM
15 11 (1.70%) AWS Certification
16 10 (1.55%) Numerate Degree
17 9 (1.39%) A+ Certification
17 9 (1.39%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.88%) QA
2 28 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.39%) GDPR
3 9 (1.39%) NIST
3 9 (1.39%) SLA
4 8 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.77%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.46%) GRC
8 3 (0.46%) HL7
8 3 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.31%) COBIT
9 2 (0.31%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.31%) MiFID
9 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) WCAG
System Software
1 40 (6.18%) Docker
2 26 (4.02%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.70%) KVM
5 10 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.55%) vSphere
6 8 (1.24%) Hyper-V
7 7 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.77%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.62%) vCloud
9 4 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.62%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.31%) Firmware
11 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (7.57%) Kubernetes
2 48 (7.42%) Terraform
3 15 (2.32%) Ansible
4 8 (1.24%) PingFederate
5 7 (1.08%) Grafana
5 7 (1.08%) Kibana
5 7 (1.08%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.93%) logstash
6 6 (0.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.62%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.62%) SCCM
8 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.46%) Nessus
8 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.46%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.46%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.31%) vRealize
9 2 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.31%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 132 (20.40%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.88%) Oracle
3 40 (6.18%) Google
4 32 (4.95%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.95%) VMware
5 24 (3.71%) SAP
6 22 (3.40%) Cisco
7 14 (2.16%) Databricks
8 13 (2.01%) Red Hat
8 13 (2.01%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.85%) IBM
10 10 (1.55%) Genesys
10 10 (1.55%) Juniper
11 8 (1.24%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.08%) Arista
13 6 (0.93%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.93%) Foundry
13 6 (0.93%) NetScout
13 6 (0.93%) Palantir
13 6 (0.93%) Qualys