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 14 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 182 133 117
Rank change year-on-year -49 -16 +79
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 254 263 379
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 2.03% 2.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.27% 7.99% 8.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 182 247
10th Percentile £204 £360 £334
25th Percentile £400 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £789 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.45% -9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.24 £38.75
25th Percentile £62.50 £42.73 £39.38
Median hourly rate £72.50 £47.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +6.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85.00 £55.00 £77.81
90th Percentile £91.00 £57.25 £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £47.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.84% -13.18% -

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 4,818 3,291 4,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.46% 25.43% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,428 2,179 2,946
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 66 128
10th Percentile £20.54 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +15.99% -20.70%
75th Percentile £73.75 £56.19 £60.31
90th Percentile £76.75 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £27.50 £52.00 £39.44
% change year-on-year -47.12% +31.86% -21.13%

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 14 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 14 March 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 14 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 -12 33 £625 +28.34% 71
West London -10 13 £279 -29.61% 2
South London -7 7 £750 +3.45% 2
East London 0 1 - - 5
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 (5.91%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.12%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.97%) 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 (0.79%) 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
Applications
1 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.57%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.79%) 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%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 137 (53.94%) Azure
2 73 (28.74%) AWS
3 41 (16.14%) GCP
4 25 (9.84%) Power Platform
5 24 (9.45%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (8.66%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (8.66%) SaaS
7 21 (8.27%) GitHub
8 16 (6.30%) Serverless
9 14 (5.51%) IaaS
10 12 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
10 12 (4.72%) Entra ID
11 10 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.54%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.54%) PaaS
13 8 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.15%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.15%) Snowflake
14 7 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) Firewall
2 5 (1.97%) CTI
2 5 (1.97%) Network Security
2 5 (1.97%) VoIP
2 5 (1.97%) VPN
3 4 (1.57%) HTTP
4 3 (1.18%) BGP
4 3 (1.18%) DMZ
4 3 (1.18%) SSL
4 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.79%) IGMP
5 2 (0.79%) IPv4
5 2 (0.79%) IPv6
5 2 (0.79%) Multicast
5 2 (0.79%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.79%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.39%) DKIM
6 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.27%) Power BI
2 19 (7.48%) Big Data
2 19 (7.48%) SQL Server
3 17 (6.69%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.33%) Tableau
7 10 (3.94%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.76%) MySQL
8 7 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.36%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.36%) Redis
10 5 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.97%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.57%) Metadata
11 4 (1.57%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.18%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 32 (12.60%) Git
2 13 (5.12%) JIRA
3 10 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.36%) GitLab
5 5 (1.97%) 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 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.79%) Postman
8 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.39%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.39%) RStudio
9 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 125 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 100 (39.37%) Finance
3 70 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (18.50%) Banking
5 22 (8.66%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (6.69%) Front Office
7 14 (5.51%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.51%) Marketing
8 13 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.15%) Legal
11 7 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.36%) Retail
13 5 (1.97%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.57%) Publishing
15 3 (1.18%) Back Office
15 3 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 51 (20.08%) Developer
2 48 (18.90%) Architect
3 24 (9.45%) Lead
3 24 (9.45%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.87%) Senior
5 17 (6.69%) Technical Support
6 13 (5.12%) Support Specialist
7 12 (4.72%) Integration Architect
7 12 (4.72%) Technical Specialist
7 12 (4.72%) Technical Support Specialist
8 11 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.94%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.54%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.15%) Analyst
11 8 (3.15%) Python Developer
12 7 (2.76%) Azure Architect
12 7 (2.76%) Data Modeller
13 6 (2.36%) Cloud Engineer
13 6 (2.36%) Data Scientist
13 6 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.02%) .NET
2 23 (9.06%) React
3 19 (7.48%) Middleware
3 19 (7.48%) REST
4 17 (6.69%) RESTful
5 14 (5.51%) HTML
6 11 (4.33%) Node.js
6 11 (4.33%) OAuth
7 10 (3.94%) CSS
7 10 (3.94%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.54%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.54%) JSON
8 9 (3.54%) Kafka
8 9 (3.54%) LangChain
9 8 (3.15%) Spring
10 7 (2.76%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.36%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.36%) WebSockets
12 5 (1.97%) Vue
12 5 (1.97%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.63%) Management Information System
2 26 (10.24%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.27%) Onboarding
4 15 (5.91%) Derivative
5 12 (4.72%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.72%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
7 10 (3.94%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.54%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.15%) AI Agents
9 8 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.15%) Equities
9 8 (3.15%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.36%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.36%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (2.36%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.97%) IVR
11 5 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.02%) Windows
2 15 (5.91%) Linux
3 9 (3.54%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.57%) VMS
5 2 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (98.82%) Computer Science
2 115 (45.28%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (37.80%) Agile
4 81 (31.89%) DevOps
5 78 (30.71%) CI/CD
6 70 (27.56%) AI
7 54 (21.26%) Analytics
8 44 (17.32%) Microservices
9 39 (15.35%) Data Modelling
10 38 (14.96%) Software Engineering
11 37 (14.57%) ETL
12 35 (13.78%) Decision-Making
13 34 (13.39%) Roadmaps
14 33 (12.99%) Data Engineering
15 32 (12.60%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (12.60%) Data Governance
16 31 (12.20%) Data Science
16 31 (12.20%) Technical Leadership
17 30 (11.81%) Migration
18 28 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 93 (36.61%) Python
2 64 (25.20%) SQL
3 50 (19.69%) Java
4 29 (11.42%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.45%) C#
6 22 (8.66%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.33%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.54%) C++
9 7 (2.76%) Scala
10 6 (2.36%) Bash
10 6 (2.36%) Go
11 5 (1.97%) Bicep
12 4 (1.57%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) R
12 4 (1.57%) Rust
13 3 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.18%) Ruby
13 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.18%) Solidity
14 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 254 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (27.56%) Master's Degree
3 23 (9.06%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.69%) CISSP
5 16 (6.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.12%) CISM
7 12 (4.72%) Security Cleared
8 10 (3.94%) SC Cleared
9 9 (3.54%) PMI Certification
9 9 (3.54%) PMP
10 8 (3.15%) AWS Certification
10 8 (3.15%) TOGAF Certification
11 7 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 5 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (1.97%) CCSP
13 5 (1.97%) CRISC
14 4 (1.57%) PhD
15 3 (1.18%) CISA
15 3 (1.18%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.45%) QA
2 22 (8.66%) GDPR
3 14 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.33%) NIST
5 10 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.57%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.18%) Basel III
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.18%) GRC
8 3 (1.18%) WCAG
9 2 (0.79%) GAAP
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (17.32%) Docker
2 24 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) HDFS
5 1 (0.39%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (16.54%) Kubernetes
2 31 (12.20%) Terraform
3 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.33%) Grafana
5 8 (3.15%) Ansible
5 8 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.18%) Argo
6 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (0.79%) Control-M
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 74 (29.13%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.87%) Oracle
3 19 (7.48%) Google
4 15 (5.91%) Databricks
5 12 (4.72%) Software AG
6 9 (3.54%) SAP
7 6 (2.36%) Informatica
8 5 (1.97%) Apple
8 5 (1.97%) Genesys
8 5 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.57%) Cisco
9 4 (1.57%) iManage
9 4 (1.57%) Intapp
9 4 (1.57%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.57%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.57%) Workday
10 3 (1.18%) F5
10 3 (1.18%) IBM
10 3 (1.18%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.18%) Salesforce