Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in London

Computer Science Degree
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 132 113
Rank change year-on-year -39 -19 +92
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 255 262 385
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.54% 2.07% 2.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.21% 8.16% 8.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 183 252
10th Percentile £204 £358 £351
25th Percentile £400 £428 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £799 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 18
10th Percentile - £42.35 £38.75
25th Percentile £85.00 £43.00 £39.38
Median hourly rate £90.00 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +71.43% +16.67% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95.00 £58.75 £77.81
90th Percentile - £64.00 £83.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £52.50 £55.63
% change year-on-year -28.57% -5.62% +1.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,892 3,211 4,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.45% 25.34% 24.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,478 2,167 2,966
10th Percentile £360 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £659
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 65 120
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.35 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.25 £36.50 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +2.05% +2.51% -12.09%
75th Percentile £74.46 £55.25 £61.77
90th Percentile £77.28 £69.60 £83.75
England median hourly rate £31.18 £50.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -37.65% +30.03% -23.10%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 24 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
Central London -14 34 £600 +14.29% 60
West London -10 12 £208 -47.60% 2
South London -12 4 £637 -12.14% 4
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 15 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 14 (5.49%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.57%) Confluence
5 3 (1.18%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.18%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.39%) Apache
7 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.39%) Camunda
7 1 (0.39%) IIS
7 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.57%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 140 (54.90%) Azure
2 71 (27.84%) AWS
3 38 (14.90%) GCP
4 28 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 23 (9.02%) SaaS
7 21 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (7.45%) GitHub
9 17 (6.67%) Serverless
10 15 (5.88%) IaaS
11 13 (5.10%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.71%) Entra ID
13 11 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
14 10 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
14 10 (3.92%) PaaS
15 9 (3.53%) Amazon S3
15 9 (3.53%) Azure Logic Apps
15 9 (3.53%) Snowflake
16 8 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
16 8 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.14%) Firewall
2 6 (2.35%) VPN
3 5 (1.96%) CTI
3 5 (1.96%) DMZ
3 5 (1.96%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.96%) VoIP
4 4 (1.57%) BGP
4 4 (1.57%) HTTP
4 4 (1.57%) Network Security
5 3 (1.18%) SSL
6 2 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.78%) IGMP
6 2 (0.78%) IPv4
6 2 (0.78%) IPv6
6 2 (0.78%) MPLS
6 2 (0.78%) Multicast
6 2 (0.78%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.24%) Power BI
1 21 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 20 (7.84%) Big Data
2 20 (7.84%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.27%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (4.71%) NoSQL
4 12 (4.71%) Relational Database
4 12 (4.71%) Tableau
5 8 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 7 (2.75%) Hadoop
6 7 (2.75%) MySQL
7 6 (2.35%) MongoDB
7 6 (2.35%) Redis
7 6 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.96%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.96%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.57%) Metadata
9 4 (1.57%) Pinecone
9 4 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 30 (11.76%) Git
2 14 (5.49%) JIRA
3 11 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.35%) GitLab
5 5 (1.96%) Selenium
6 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.18%) ERwin
7 3 (1.18%) Hardhat
7 3 (1.18%) MLflow
7 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.18%) Vite
8 2 (0.78%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.78%) Postman
8 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.39%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.39%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 124 (48.63%) Social Skills
2 100 (39.22%) Finance
3 66 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (18.82%) Banking
5 21 (8.24%) Presentation Skills
6 18 (7.06%) Front Office
7 16 (6.27%) Investment Banking
8 14 (5.49%) Marketing
8 14 (5.49%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.53%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.14%) Legal
11 7 (2.75%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.35%) Retail
13 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.57%) Publishing
14 3 (1.18%) Back Office
14 3 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 46 (18.04%) Developer
2 45 (17.65%) Architect
3 25 (9.80%) Lead
4 21 (8.24%) Senior
4 21 (8.24%) Solutions Architect
5 18 (7.06%) Technical Support
6 14 (5.49%) Support Specialist
7 13 (5.10%) Technical Specialist
7 13 (5.10%) Technical Support Specialist
8 12 (4.71%) Integration Architect
9 11 (4.31%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (4.31%) Data Engineer
10 10 (3.92%) Analyst
11 9 (3.53%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.75%) Applications Architect
12 7 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
12 7 (2.75%) Data Modeller
12 7 (2.75%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.75%) Python Developer
13 6 (2.35%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.59%) .NET
2 22 (8.63%) React
3 18 (7.06%) Middleware
3 18 (7.06%) REST
4 16 (6.27%) RESTful
5 11 (4.31%) HTML
5 11 (4.31%) Kafka
5 11 (4.31%) Node.js
5 11 (4.31%) OAuth
6 10 (3.92%) Spring
7 9 (3.53%) AngularJS
7 9 (3.53%) LangChain
7 9 (3.53%) PyTorch
8 8 (3.14%) JSON
9 7 (2.75%) CSS
10 6 (2.35%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.35%) PySpark
10 6 (2.35%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.35%) WebSockets
11 5 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.59%) Management Information System
2 26 (10.20%) Cloud Native
3 24 (9.41%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.10%) Derivative
4 13 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.31%) Distributed Systems
5 11 (4.31%) Product Ownership
6 9 (3.53%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.14%) AI Agents
7 8 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
7 8 (3.14%) Equities
8 7 (2.75%) Algorithms
8 7 (2.75%) Data Structures
9 6 (2.35%) Data Centre
9 6 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (2.35%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
10 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (1.96%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.16%) Windows
2 18 (7.06%) Linux
3 9 (3.53%) Unix
4 5 (1.96%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (98.04%) Computer Science
2 114 (44.71%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (36.47%) Agile
4 79 (30.98%) DevOps
5 78 (30.59%) CI/CD
6 75 (29.41%) AI
7 55 (21.57%) Analytics
8 42 (16.47%) Microservices
9 41 (16.08%) Data Modelling
10 38 (14.90%) ETL
11 37 (14.51%) Software Engineering
12 36 (14.12%) Decision-Making
13 35 (13.73%) Roadmaps
14 34 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (12.55%) Data Engineering
15 32 (12.55%) Infrastructure as Code
15 32 (12.55%) Technical Leadership
16 31 (12.16%) Data Governance
16 31 (12.16%) Data Science
17 30 (11.76%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 94 (36.86%) Python
2 66 (25.88%) SQL
3 50 (19.61%) Java
4 24 (9.41%) C#
4 24 (9.41%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.24%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.49%) PowerShell
7 8 (3.14%) C++
8 7 (2.75%) Scala
9 6 (2.35%) Bash
9 6 (2.35%) Go
10 5 (1.96%) R
11 4 (1.57%) Bicep
11 4 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.57%) Perl
11 4 (1.57%) Rust
12 3 (1.18%) Ruby
12 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.18%) Solidity
13 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 255 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (26.67%) Master's Degree
3 22 (8.63%) Azure Certification
4 20 (7.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (6.67%) CISSP
6 14 (5.49%) Security Cleared
7 13 (5.10%) CISM
8 12 (4.71%) SC Cleared
9 9 (3.53%) PMI Certification
9 9 (3.53%) PMP
10 6 (2.35%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 6 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.35%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.96%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.96%) CCSP
11 5 (1.96%) CRISC
11 5 (1.96%) PhD
12 3 (1.18%) ISEB
12 3 (1.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.63%) GDPR
1 22 (8.63%) QA
2 16 (6.27%) Data Quality
3 11 (4.31%) NIST
4 10 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 9 (3.53%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.57%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.18%) Basel III
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.18%) GRC
7 3 (1.18%) WCAG
8 2 (0.78%) GAAP
8 2 (0.78%) IFRS
8 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.78%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (16.08%) Docker
2 25 (9.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) HDFS
5 1 (0.39%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 40 (15.69%) Kubernetes
2 34 (13.33%) Terraform
3 19 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.71%) Grafana
5 9 (3.53%) Ansible
5 9 (3.53%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.18%) Argo
6 3 (1.18%) Control-M
6 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.18%) Puppet
6 3 (1.18%) SCCM
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.78%) WSUS
8 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 79 (30.98%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.24%) Oracle
3 19 (7.45%) Google
4 14 (5.49%) Databricks
5 12 (4.71%) Software AG
6 9 (3.53%) SAP
7 7 (2.75%) Informatica
8 5 (1.96%) Apple
8 5 (1.96%) Citrix
8 5 (1.96%) Genesys
8 5 (1.96%) iManage
8 5 (1.96%) Intapp
9 4 (1.57%) Aderant
9 4 (1.57%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.57%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.57%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.57%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.57%) Reuters
9 4 (1.57%) Workday