Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Computer Science Degree
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Gloucestershire 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 16 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 43 41
Rank change year-on-year -9 -2 +21
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 3 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.91% 0.37% 2.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.62% 0.69% 3.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 9
10th Percentile - - £513
25th Percentile £450 - £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £588
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.51%
75th Percentile £550 - £594
90th Percentile - - £650
South West median daily rate £580 £388 £588
% change year-on-year +49.68% -34.04% +11.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 185 144 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 56.23% 53.53% 60.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 149 113 165
10th Percentile £322 £400 £406
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £575 £700 £700
90th Percentile £700 £868 £758
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £568
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.08% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 22
10th Percentile £32.69 £53.42 £15.75
25th Percentile £68.00 £54.44 £18.15
Median hourly rate £74.50 £64.00 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.41% +93.94% -60.39%
75th Percentile £197.50 £69.75 £68.75
90th Percentile - £72.90 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £35.00 £65.00 £57.33
% change year-on-year -46.15% +13.38% -11.80%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 16 March 2026. 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
Cheltenham - 2 - - 5
Computer Science Degree
South West

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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 (66.67%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) AWS
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (33.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Snowflake Schema
1 1 (33.33%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Rocky
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Go
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft