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 1 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 218 131 104
Rank change year-on-year -87 -27 +72
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 217 262 426
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.13% 2.03% 2.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.06% 7.85% 10.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 182 279
10th Percentile £178 £341 £350
25th Percentile £400 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.41% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £725 £719
90th Percentile £838 £825 £815
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.89% -5.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 16
10th Percentile £27.68 £57.50 -
25th Percentile £29.84 £59.38 £38.75
Median hourly rate £38.28 £65.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -41.10% +40.54% +10.12%
75th Percentile £52.00 £68.13 £80.00
90th Percentile £56.05 £68.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +91.67% -46.67% +2.27%

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 5,346 3,338 4,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.74% 25.89% 23.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,855 2,241 2,825
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.25%
75th Percentile £638 £661 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 75 109
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.32 £15.19
25th Percentile £26.69 £25.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £54.00 £26.32 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +105.17% +3.22% -52.78%
75th Percentile £73.56 £51.08 £42.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £66.73 £68.15
England median hourly rate £52.75 £28.60 £42.50
% change year-on-year +84.44% -32.71% -22.73%

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 1 July 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 1 July 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 1 July 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 -29 18 £486 -16.29% 57
West London -22 4 £274 -31.48% 14
South London -5 2 £744 +18.96% 5
East London -1 1 - - 2
North London - 1 £550 - 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 11 (5.07%) Apache Spark
2 10 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 7 (3.23%) Apache
4 4 (1.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.92%) Camunda
5 2 (0.92%) Confluence
6 1 (0.46%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.84%) Aladdin
2 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.46%) Misys Equation
2 1 (0.46%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.46%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 109 (50.23%) Azure
2 68 (31.34%) AWS
3 36 (16.59%) GCP
4 25 (11.52%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (10.14%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (8.29%) Power Platform
7 15 (6.91%) GitHub
7 15 (6.91%) Serverless
8 13 (5.99%) AWS CloudFormation
8 13 (5.99%) SaaS
9 12 (5.53%) Snowflake
10 10 (4.61%) Entra ID
11 9 (4.15%) AWS Lambda
12 8 (3.69%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.69%) Amazon S3
13 7 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (3.23%) OpenShift
14 6 (2.76%) Azure AKS
14 6 (2.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 6 (2.76%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.15%) Firewall
1 9 (4.15%) Network Security
2 8 (3.69%) TCP/IP
2 8 (3.69%) VPN
3 7 (3.23%) BGP
4 6 (2.76%) DMZ
5 4 (1.84%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.84%) OSPF
5 4 (1.84%) WAN
6 3 (1.38%) IGMP
6 3 (1.38%) MPLS
6 3 (1.38%) Multicast
6 3 (1.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.38%) Unified Communications
6 3 (1.38%) VoIP
6 3 (1.38%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.38%) WebEx
7 2 (0.92%) IPv4
7 2 (0.92%) IPv6
7 2 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.76%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.83%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.91%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.91%) Power BI
4 13 (5.99%) MongoDB
4 13 (5.99%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (5.99%) Relational Database
5 9 (4.15%) Big Data
6 8 (3.69%) Tableau
7 7 (3.23%) Metadata
7 7 (3.23%) Redis
8 6 (2.76%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.30%) Data Lake
9 5 (2.30%) MySQL
9 5 (2.30%) Snowflake Schema
9 5 (2.30%) Star Schema
10 4 (1.84%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.84%) Flink
11 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (1.38%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 25 (11.52%) Git
2 13 (5.99%) Jenkins
3 12 (5.53%) GitLab
4 8 (3.69%) JIRA
5 5 (2.30%) Gradle
5 5 (2.30%) Maven
5 5 (2.30%) Selenium
5 5 (2.30%) SonarQube
6 4 (1.84%) Vite
7 3 (1.38%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.38%) ERwin
7 3 (1.38%) JUnit
7 3 (1.38%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.92%) Jasmine
8 2 (0.92%) Karma Test Runner
8 2 (0.92%) MLflow
8 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.46%) Babel
9 1 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.46%) webpack
General
1 107 (49.31%) Social Skills
2 88 (40.55%) Finance
3 63 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (17.05%) Banking
5 22 (10.14%) Front Office
6 16 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (5.99%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (5.07%) Investment Banking
9 9 (4.15%) Retail
10 8 (3.69%) Marketing
11 7 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (3.23%) Legal
12 6 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.84%) Law
15 3 (1.38%) Back Office
15 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 43 (19.82%) Developer
2 37 (17.05%) Architect
3 24 (11.06%) Senior
4 22 (10.14%) Lead
5 17 (7.83%) Solutions Architect
6 16 (7.37%) Support Specialist
7 15 (6.91%) Technical Specialist
7 15 (6.91%) Technical Support
7 15 (6.91%) Technical Support Specialist
8 12 (5.53%) Data Engineer
9 9 (4.15%) C# Developer
9 9 (4.15%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.69%) Desktop Engineer
10 8 (3.69%) Python Developer
11 7 (3.23%) Analyst
11 7 (3.23%) Java Developer
11 7 (3.23%) Security Engineer
12 6 (2.76%) Integration Architect
12 6 (2.76%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.76%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.14%) React
2 19 (8.76%) REST
3 16 (7.37%) .NET
3 16 (7.37%) RESTful
4 15 (6.91%) Spring
5 12 (5.53%) Spring Boot
6 11 (5.07%) Kafka
6 11 (5.07%) Middleware
7 9 (4.15%) PySpark
8 8 (3.69%) HTML
9 7 (3.23%) AngularJS
9 7 (3.23%) Node.js
9 7 (3.23%) WebSockets
10 6 (2.76%) HTML5
11 5 (2.30%) CSS
11 5 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
11 5 (2.30%) Pandas
11 5 (2.30%) PyTorch
12 4 (1.84%) Next.js
12 4 (1.84%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 30 (13.82%) Onboarding
2 23 (10.60%) Cloud Native
3 20 (9.22%) Management Information System
4 17 (7.83%) Derivative
5 12 (5.53%) Product Ownership
6 11 (5.07%) Equities
6 11 (5.07%) Fixed Income
7 9 (4.15%) Distributed Systems
7 9 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (3.23%) Data Structures
9 7 (3.23%) Equity Derivative
9 7 (3.23%) Security Posture
9 7 (3.23%) Virtual Team
10 6 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.76%) Marketing Technology
10 6 (2.76%) Operational Technology
11 5 (2.30%) Algorithms
11 5 (2.30%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.29%) Windows
2 13 (5.99%) Linux
3 8 (3.69%) Mac OS
4 5 (2.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.84%) Unix
6 3 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.92%) Android
7 2 (0.92%) VMS
8 1 (0.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 214 (98.62%) Computer Science
2 92 (42.40%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (35.94%) AI
4 75 (34.56%) Agile
5 63 (29.03%) DevOps
6 58 (26.73%) CI/CD
7 52 (23.96%) Analytics
8 46 (21.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 39 (17.97%) Microservices
9 39 (17.97%) Software Engineering
10 34 (15.67%) Data Modelling
10 34 (15.67%) ITIL
11 30 (13.82%) Containerisation
11 30 (13.82%) Infrastructure as Code
12 29 (13.36%) Data Engineering
12 29 (13.36%) Decision-Making
12 29 (13.36%) Test Automation
13 28 (12.90%) Data Governance
14 27 (12.44%) ETL
15 23 (10.60%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.48%) Python
2 59 (27.19%) SQL
3 37 (17.05%) Java
4 18 (8.29%) C#
4 18 (8.29%) JavaScript
5 14 (6.45%) TypeScript
6 11 (5.07%) PowerShell
7 7 (3.23%) Bash
7 7 (3.23%) Scala
8 4 (1.84%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 3 (1.38%) Go
10 2 (0.92%) Bicep
10 2 (0.92%) C++
10 2 (0.92%) COBOL
10 2 (0.92%) Cypher
10 2 (0.92%) R
10 2 (0.92%) RPG
10 2 (0.92%) Rust
10 2 (0.92%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.92%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 217 (100.00%) Degree
2 46 (21.20%) Master's Degree
3 19 (8.76%) CISSP
4 17 (7.83%) Azure Certification
5 14 (6.45%) CISM
6 11 (5.07%) Security Cleared
7 10 (4.61%) AWS Certification
7 10 (4.61%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (4.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.61%) SC Cleared
8 7 (3.23%) PhD
9 6 (2.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.76%) CRISC
10 5 (2.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 5 (2.30%) MBA
11 4 (1.84%) CCNP
11 4 (1.84%) CCSP
12 3 (1.38%) MCSA
12 3 (1.38%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (9.22%) Data Quality
2 14 (6.45%) GDPR
3 12 (5.53%) NIST
3 12 (5.53%) QA
4 9 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (2.30%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.84%) GRC
7 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.92%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.92%) SLA
8 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.46%) COBIT
8 1 (0.46%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.46%) PMO
8 1 (0.46%) PSD2
8 1 (0.46%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 33 (15.21%) Docker
2 22 (10.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.84%) Firmware
4 2 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.46%) HDFS
5 1 (0.46%) Squid
Systems Management
1 45 (20.74%) Kubernetes
2 31 (14.29%) Terraform
3 20 (9.22%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.91%) Ansible
5 12 (5.53%) Prometheus
6 10 (4.61%) Grafana
7 3 (1.38%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.38%) SCCM
7 3 (1.38%) WSUS
8 2 (0.92%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.46%) CASB
9 1 (0.46%) Control-M
9 1 (0.46%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (30.41%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.83%) Google
3 16 (7.37%) Oracle
4 7 (3.23%) Cisco
4 7 (3.23%) Splunk
5 6 (2.76%) Databricks
5 6 (2.76%) Software AG
6 5 (2.30%) Apple
6 5 (2.30%) Citrix
7 4 (1.84%) Bloomberg
7 4 (1.84%) Informatica
7 4 (1.84%) Nexthink
7 4 (1.84%) Palo Alto
7 4 (1.84%) Reuters
7 4 (1.84%) Zscaler
8 3 (1.38%) Aderant
8 3 (1.38%) iManage
8 3 (1.38%) Intapp
8 3 (1.38%) Litera
8 3 (1.38%) Red Box