Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Computer Science Degree
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 8 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 60 79
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +26
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 5 5 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.85% 0.70% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.58% 2.96% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £350 - £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £411 £550 £338
Median % change year-on-year -25.22% +62.96% -28.95%
75th Percentile £507 - £356
90th Percentile £548 - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £411 £550 £380
% change year-on-year -25.22% +44.74% +2.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 194 169 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 32.83% 23.50% 16.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 130 145
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -13.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £542 £688
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £496 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +4.42% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +29.17% +66.67%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Leeds

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Leeds over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Leeds

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
1 1 (20.00%) Gradle
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Developer
1 2 (40.00%) ServiceNow Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Android Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Software Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (20.00%) Dagger
1 1 (20.00%) J2EE
1 1 (20.00%) Jetpack Compose
1 1 (20.00%) JPA
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
1 1 (20.00%) Retrofit
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (40.00%) ITIL
3 2 (40.00%) ITSM
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) Web Development
4 1 (20.00%) Agile
4 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (20.00%) Clean Code
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (20.00%) Product Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) C++
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) CISSP
2 1 (20.00%) CompTIA CySA+
2 1 (20.00%) GCIH
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (20.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (20.00%) Darktrace
2 1 (20.00%) Google
2 1 (20.00%) IBM
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk