Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Computer Science
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 67 60
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +36
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 29 8 33
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 2.21% 0.88% 2.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.66% 1.04% 2.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 4 23
10th Percentile - - £263
25th Percentile £170 £563 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £223 £600 £450
Median % change year-on-year -62.92% +33.33% +205.08%
75th Percentile £528 £688 £500
90th Percentile £819 - £583
South East median daily rate £325 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -35.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.00
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £28.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +214.49% -48.18% +168.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,092 768 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 83.04% 84.49% 86.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 738 533 619
10th Percentile £312 £356 £313
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £649
90th Percentile £725 £698 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 47 74
10th Percentile £16.17 £20.65 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £27.25 £21.48
Median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%
75th Percentile £25.15 £70.00 £63.44
90th Percentile £49.75 £75.00 £77.50
South East median hourly rate £22.38 £47.78 £53.50
% change year-on-year -53.16% -10.69% +42.67%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Hampshire over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Hampshire

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 December 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
Southampton - 13 £200 - 31
Fleet - 3 £537 -
Havant - 3 £475 -
Basingstoke -6 2 £675 +8.00% 19
Portsmouth -8 2 £588 - 34
Winchester - 2 £200 -
Fareham - 1 - - 3
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.90%) Entra ID
3 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (3.45%) IaaS
4 1 (3.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (3.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Git
General
1 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (13.79%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (3.45%) Advertising
3 1 (3.45%) Electronics
3 1 (3.45%) Military
3 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (13.79%) Architect
2 3 (10.34%) Analyst
2 3 (10.34%) IT Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Asset Management Analyst
3 2 (6.90%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Head of Analytics
4 1 (3.45%) Head of Strategy
4 1 (3.45%) Senior
4 1 (3.45%) Site Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Management Information System
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Mac OS
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
1 3 (10.34%) Windows 10
2 2 (6.90%) Linux
3 1 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (24.14%) Analytics
1 7 (24.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (20.69%) Thought Leadership
3 5 (17.24%) Agile
3 5 (17.24%) Data Strategy
3 5 (17.24%) ITIL
3 5 (17.24%) Mathematics
4 4 (13.79%) Data Governance
4 4 (13.79%) Data Science
4 4 (13.79%) Decision-Making
4 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Architecture
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (10.34%) AI
5 3 (10.34%) Application Packaging
5 3 (10.34%) Asset Management
5 3 (10.34%) IT Asset Management
5 3 (10.34%) IT Strategy
5 3 (10.34%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (10.34%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.34%) Bash
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (48.28%) Degree
2 6 (20.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared
5 3 (10.34%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (10.34%) Master's Degree
5 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.90%) DBS Check
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
7 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.79%) GDPR
2 3 (10.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (3.45%) Def Stans
4 1 (3.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (10.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) SCCM
2 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.45%) Ansible
3 1 (3.45%) Grafana
3 1 (3.45%) Puppet
3 1 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) Citrix
2 3 (10.34%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.34%) Snow
2 3 (10.34%) VMware
3 1 (3.45%) Cisco
3 1 (3.45%) Oracle
3 1 (3.45%) PagerDuty
3 1 (3.45%) SAP
3 1 (3.45%) Workday