Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Essex

Computer Science Degree
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Essex with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 13 22 33
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +15
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 9 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Essex 7.38% 0.76% 2.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 20.45% 4.55% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £347
25th Percentile £503 - £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.19%
75th Percentile £508 - £598
90th Percentile - - £719
East of England median daily rate £478 £500 £400
% change year-on-year -4.50% +25.00% -28.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% -23.08% +32.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Essex

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Essex.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 44 22 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 36.07% 16.79% 34.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 10 34
10th Percentile £160 £158 £188
25th Percentile £175 £316 £376
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £225 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -43.75% -15.79% -5.00%
75th Percentile £405 £569 £571
90th Percentile £505 £614 £709
East of England median daily rate £528 £500 £538
% change year-on-year +5.60% -6.98% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 7 6
10th Percentile - £30.75 £39.17
25th Percentile - £47.75 £58.44
Median hourly rate £18.87 £59.50 £67.59
Median % change year-on-year -68.29% -11.97% +68.97%
75th Percentile £20.47 £68.75 £75.69
90th Percentile £25.15 £75.95 £78.75
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £43.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -30.23% +104.76% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Essex

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 9 September 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
Epping - 5 - -
Basildon - 3 - - 3
Witham - 1 £505 -
Computer Science Degree
East of England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (33.33%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Serverless
2 3 (33.33%) Amazon S3
2 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 3 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (33.33%) dbt
2 3 (33.33%) Snowflake
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Functions
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Logic Apps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 3 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle Database
1 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
1 3 (33.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (11.11%) Big Data
2 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Implementation Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Support Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Implementation Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Manager
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Support
1 5 (55.56%) Technical Support Manager
2 4 (44.44%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Snowflake Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Express.js
1 1 (11.11%) MERN Stack
1 1 (11.11%) Node.js
1 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
1 1 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 9 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
2 5 (55.56%) System Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Task Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Data Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Data Engineering
4 3 (33.33%) Data Migration
4 3 (33.33%) Data Modelling
4 3 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
4 3 (33.33%) ETL
4 3 (33.33%) High Availability
4 3 (33.33%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Business Strategy
5 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 1 (11.11%) Critical Thinking
5 1 (11.11%) CRM
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (88.89%) Python
2 5 (55.56%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Certification
2 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Oracle
1 3 (33.33%) StreamSets
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft