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 4 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 158 110 123
Rank change year-on-year -48 +13 +93
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 261 308 354
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.75% 2.26% 1.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.00% 8.94% 7.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 204 230
10th Percentile £204 £363 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.36% - -17.91%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £800
England median daily rate £492 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -6.29% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.35 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £43.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £77.19
90th Percentile £91.00 - £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £50.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.00% -9.09% +0.92%

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 4,353 3,446 4,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.27% 25.30% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,051 2,146 3,037
10th Percentile £358 £351 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £764
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 62 129
10th Percentile £20.65 £21.55 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £19.99
Median hourly rate £34.27 £37.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.61% +5.63% -1.69%
75th Percentile £65.13 £55.81 £64.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year -45.54% - +2.62%

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 4 February 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 4 February 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

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 4 February 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 -7 34 £650 +27.45% 37
West London -8 16 £208 -46.45% 12
South London -10 6 £750 +30.43% 2
East London -7 1 - - 3
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 (5.75%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.21%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.30%) Confluence
4 4 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.15%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.15%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.77%) Apache
6 2 (0.77%) Luigi
6 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) nginx
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (4.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.77%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.68%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.77%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.77%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.38%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.38%) Maximo
4 1 (0.38%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.38%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (49.04%) Azure
2 65 (24.90%) AWS
3 40 (15.33%) GCP
4 26 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 24 (9.20%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (8.81%) SaaS
7 19 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.28%) GitHub
8 16 (6.13%) Serverless
9 13 (4.98%) IaaS
10 10 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.83%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
11 9 (3.45%) Entra ID
12 8 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.07%) PaaS
12 8 (3.07%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.68%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.68%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.68%) Network Security
2 6 (2.30%) Firewall
2 6 (2.30%) VoIP
3 5 (1.92%) CTI
4 4 (1.53%) HTTP
4 4 (1.53%) VPN
5 3 (1.15%) DNS
5 3 (1.15%) SSL
5 3 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.77%) S/MIME
7 1 (0.38%) DHCP
7 1 (0.38%) DMZ
7 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.38%) Internet
7 1 (0.38%) LAN
7 1 (0.38%) MGCP
7 1 (0.38%) SCCP
7 1 (0.38%) SSH
7 1 (0.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.43%) SQL Server
2 21 (8.05%) Power BI
3 19 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (6.13%) Big Data
6 14 (5.36%) Relational Database
7 13 (4.98%) Tableau
8 12 (4.60%) MySQL
9 7 (2.68%) MongoDB
9 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (2.30%) NoSQL
11 5 (1.92%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.92%) OLAP
12 4 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.53%) Neo4j
12 4 (1.53%) Redis
13 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
13 3 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 28 (10.73%) Git
2 17 (6.51%) JIRA
3 6 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.30%) Selenium
4 4 (1.53%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.53%) GitLab
4 4 (1.53%) MLflow
5 3 (1.15%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.15%) CircleCI
5 3 (1.15%) ERwin
5 3 (1.15%) Hardhat
5 3 (1.15%) Postman
5 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.15%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (1.15%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.77%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.77%) Vite
7 1 (0.38%) JUnit
7 1 (0.38%) TestNG
General
1 123 (47.13%) Social Skills
2 103 (39.46%) Finance
3 73 (27.97%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (18.39%) Banking
5 20 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.36%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.98%) Front Office
7 13 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (4.60%) Marketing
9 11 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.68%) Legal
10 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.30%) Retail
12 5 (1.92%) Financial Institution
12 5 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.53%) Publishing
14 3 (1.15%) Back Office
14 3 (1.15%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 62 (23.75%) Developer
2 37 (14.18%) Architect
3 19 (7.28%) Analyst
3 19 (7.28%) Lead
3 19 (7.28%) Technical Support
4 18 (6.90%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.51%) Senior
6 12 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
7 10 (3.83%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.83%) Integration Architect
7 10 (3.83%) Support Specialist
8 9 (3.45%) Cloud Solutions Architect
8 9 (3.45%) Technical Specialist
8 9 (3.45%) Technical Support Specialist
9 8 (3.07%) Systems Analyst
10 7 (2.68%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (2.68%) Machine Learning Engineer
10 7 (2.68%) Senior Developer
11 6 (2.30%) Data Modeller
11 6 (2.30%) Data Scientist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (11.49%) .NET
2 25 (9.58%) REST
3 19 (7.28%) HTML
3 19 (7.28%) RESTful
4 18 (6.90%) React
5 16 (6.13%) Middleware
6 15 (5.75%) OAuth
7 13 (4.98%) CSS
7 13 (4.98%) JSON
8 11 (4.21%) Node.js
9 10 (3.83%) LangChain
10 9 (3.45%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.45%) Kafka
10 9 (3.45%) PyTorch
11 8 (3.07%) SOAP
11 8 (3.07%) XML
12 7 (2.68%) OAuth2
12 7 (2.68%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.30%) Spring
14 5 (1.92%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 31 (11.88%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 14 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 14 (5.36%) Product Ownership
4 11 (4.21%) Algorithms
4 11 (4.21%) Derivative
5 10 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (3.07%) Distributed Computing
7 7 (2.68%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.68%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (2.68%) Legacy Systems
8 6 (2.30%) AI Agents
8 6 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 6 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (2.30%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
9 5 (1.92%) IVR
9 5 (1.92%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.49%) Windows
2 23 (8.81%) Linux
3 14 (5.36%) Unix
4 3 (1.15%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.15%) VMS
4 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.77%) Android
5 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (98.85%) Computer Science
2 132 (50.57%) Problem-Solving
3 97 (37.16%) Agile
4 71 (27.20%) DevOps
5 66 (25.29%) CI/CD
6 55 (21.07%) AI
7 46 (17.62%) Analytics
8 42 (16.09%) Microservices
9 36 (13.79%) Software Engineering
10 35 (13.41%) Data Modelling
11 34 (13.03%) Decision-Making
12 32 (12.26%) Data Science
12 32 (12.26%) ETL
12 32 (12.26%) Roadmaps
13 31 (11.88%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (11.11%) Containerisation
15 28 (10.73%) Business Intelligence
15 28 (10.73%) Continuous Improvement
16 27 (10.34%) Machine Learning
17 26 (9.96%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 91 (34.87%) Python
2 66 (25.29%) SQL
3 50 (19.16%) Java
4 42 (16.09%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.58%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.20%) C#
7 12 (4.60%) C++
8 8 (3.07%) Perl
9 7 (2.68%) Go
9 7 (2.68%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.68%) R
10 6 (2.30%) Bash
10 6 (2.30%) Bicep
11 5 (1.92%) Ruby
11 5 (1.92%) Scala
11 5 (1.92%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.53%) C
12 4 (1.53%) Rust
13 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 261 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (26.05%) Master's Degree
3 20 (7.66%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.98%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.60%) CISSP
7 11 (4.21%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.07%) PMI Certification
8 8 (3.07%) PMP
9 7 (2.68%) CISM
9 7 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.30%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.53%) CCSP
12 4 (1.53%) CRISC
12 4 (1.53%) ISEB
12 4 (1.53%) PhD
13 3 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.81%) QA
2 20 (7.66%) GDPR
3 12 (4.60%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.68%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (1.92%) NIST
7 4 (1.53%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.15%) Basel III
9 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.77%) GAAP
9 2 (0.77%) GRC
9 2 (0.77%) IFRS
9 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.77%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.77%) SLA
9 2 (0.77%) WCAG
10 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.38%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (16.86%) Docker
2 22 (8.43%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 38 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.96%) Terraform
3 14 (5.36%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (3.83%) Grafana
5 5 (1.92%) Ansible
6 4 (1.53%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.53%) SCCM
7 3 (1.15%) Argo
7 3 (1.15%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.15%) Puppet
8 2 (0.77%) Control-M
8 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 70 (26.82%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.58%) Oracle
3 16 (6.13%) Databricks
4 14 (5.36%) Google
5 11 (4.21%) SAP
6 10 (3.83%) Salesforce
6 10 (3.83%) Software AG
7 6 (2.30%) Informatica
8 5 (1.92%) Genesys
8 5 (1.92%) IBM
8 5 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.92%) Workday
9 4 (1.53%) Cisco
9 4 (1.53%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.53%) Splunk
9 4 (1.53%) Tenable
9 4 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) HP
10 3 (1.15%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.15%) ServiceNow