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

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 126 116
Rank change year-on-year -51 -10 +86
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 241 291 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.52% 2.16% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.17% 8.60% 8.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 192 243
10th Percentile £204 £360 £340
25th Percentile £400 £450 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% -1.14% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £678 £700
90th Percentile £775 £823 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 17
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 £78.75
90th Percentile £91.00 £56.75 £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £47.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.84% -13.18% +4.76%

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 4,662 3,385 4,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.43% 25.14% 24.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,324 2,153 2,930
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £657 £650
90th Percentile £750 £774 £770
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 63 126
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% +15.21% -19.71%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.13 £62.26
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% +17.65% -8.60%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +2 33 £625 +28.34% 36
West London -5 15 £208 -44.67% 8
South London -11 6 £750 +15.38% 2
East London -7 1 - - 12
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 (6.22%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.56%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.66%) Confluence
3 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.66%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.24%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.24%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.90%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.41%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 128 (53.11%) Azure
2 65 (26.97%) AWS
3 37 (15.35%) GCP
4 24 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (9.96%) Power Platform
5 21 (8.71%) SaaS
6 19 (7.88%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (7.05%) GitHub
8 15 (6.22%) Serverless
9 12 (4.98%) IaaS
10 11 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
10 11 (4.56%) Entra ID
11 10 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
12 8 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
12 8 (3.32%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.32%) PaaS
13 7 (2.90%) Amazon S3
13 7 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.90%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.49%) Firewall
1 6 (2.49%) Network Security
1 6 (2.49%) VoIP
2 5 (2.07%) CTI
3 4 (1.66%) HTTP
3 4 (1.66%) VPN
4 3 (1.24%) SSL
4 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.83%) DNS
5 2 (0.83%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) DMZ
6 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
6 1 (0.41%) MGCP
6 1 (0.41%) SCCP
6 1 (0.41%) SSH
6 1 (0.41%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.47%) Power BI
1 18 (7.47%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.05%) Big Data
3 16 (6.64%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.22%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.15%) MySQL
6 9 (3.73%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.73%) Tableau
7 7 (2.90%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.07%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.07%) Redis
10 4 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.66%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.24%) Metadata
11 3 (1.24%) OLAP
11 3 (1.24%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (11.62%) Git
2 13 (5.39%) JIRA
3 7 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.49%) GitLab
5 4 (1.66%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.66%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.66%) Selenium
6 3 (1.24%) ERwin
6 3 (1.24%) Hardhat
6 3 (1.24%) MLflow
6 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.83%) Postman
7 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.83%) Vite
8 1 (0.41%) Gradle
8 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
8 1 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 115 (47.72%) Social Skills
2 97 (40.25%) Finance
3 61 (25.31%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (17.84%) Banking
5 20 (8.30%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.81%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.98%) Front Office
7 12 (4.98%) Marketing
8 10 (4.15%) Investment Banking
8 10 (4.15%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.90%) Retail
11 6 (2.49%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (2.07%) Legal
12 5 (2.07%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.66%) Publishing
13 4 (1.66%) Telecoms
14 3 (1.24%) Back Office
14 3 (1.24%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.24%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 49 (20.33%) Developer
2 41 (17.01%) Architect
3 22 (9.13%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.30%) Lead
4 20 (8.30%) Senior
5 19 (7.88%) Technical Support
6 13 (5.39%) Support Specialist
7 12 (4.98%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (4.98%) Integration Architect
7 12 (4.98%) Technical Specialist
7 12 (4.98%) Technical Support Specialist
8 11 (4.56%) Data Engineer
9 10 (4.15%) Analyst
10 9 (3.73%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 6 (2.49%) Data Modeller
11 6 (2.49%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.49%) Full-Stack Developer
12 5 (2.07%) C# Developer
12 5 (2.07%) Genesys Developer
12 5 (2.07%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.62%) .NET
2 23 (9.54%) React
3 20 (8.30%) REST
4 19 (7.88%) Middleware
5 18 (7.47%) RESTful
6 16 (6.64%) HTML
7 11 (4.56%) CSS
7 11 (4.56%) OAuth
8 10 (4.15%) Node.js
8 10 (4.15%) PyTorch
9 9 (3.73%) JSON
9 9 (3.73%) Kafka
10 8 (3.32%) AngularJS
10 8 (3.32%) LangChain
11 7 (2.90%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.49%) OAuth2
12 6 (2.49%) SOAP
12 6 (2.49%) WebSockets
13 5 (2.07%) Spring
13 5 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.30%) Cloud Native
3 19 (7.88%) Onboarding
4 11 (4.56%) Derivative
4 11 (4.56%) Enterprise Software
4 11 (4.56%) Product Ownership
5 10 (4.15%) Algorithms
6 9 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.32%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.32%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.90%) AI Agents
8 7 (2.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (2.49%) Greenfield Project
10 5 (2.07%) Fixed Income
10 5 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (2.07%) IVR
10 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
10 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
10 5 (2.07%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (12.86%) Windows
2 18 (7.47%) Linux
3 12 (4.98%) Unix
4 4 (1.66%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.66%) VMS
5 2 (0.83%) Android
5 2 (0.83%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (98.76%) Computer Science
2 115 (47.72%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (37.76%) Agile
4 74 (30.71%) DevOps
5 68 (28.22%) CI/CD
6 58 (24.07%) AI
7 48 (19.92%) Analytics
8 42 (17.43%) Microservices
9 34 (14.11%) Decision-Making
10 33 (13.69%) Data Modelling
10 33 (13.69%) ETL
10 33 (13.69%) Software Engineering
11 31 (12.86%) Roadmaps
12 30 (12.45%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (12.03%) Containerisation
13 29 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (11.62%) Data Science
15 27 (11.20%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (11.20%) Data Engineering
16 26 (10.79%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 85 (35.27%) Python
2 57 (23.65%) SQL
3 48 (19.92%) Java
4 36 (14.94%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.54%) C#
6 21 (8.71%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.15%) C++
8 9 (3.73%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.90%) Go
10 6 (2.49%) Bash
10 6 (2.49%) Bicep
10 6 (2.49%) Perl
10 6 (2.49%) Scala
11 5 (2.07%) Rust
12 3 (1.24%) C
12 3 (1.24%) R
12 3 (1.24%) Ruby
12 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.24%) Solidity
12 3 (1.24%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 241 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (28.22%) Master's Degree
3 20 (8.30%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.64%) CISSP
4 16 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.98%) CISM
6 11 (4.56%) Security Cleared
7 9 (3.73%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.32%) PMI Certification
8 8 (3.32%) PMP
9 7 (2.90%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.49%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.07%) CCSP
11 5 (2.07%) CRISC
12 4 (1.66%) PhD
13 3 (1.24%) ISEB
14 2 (0.83%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.54%) QA
2 21 (8.71%) GDPR
3 12 (4.98%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.73%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.32%) NIST
6 7 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.66%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.24%) Basel III
8 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.24%) GRC
8 3 (1.24%) WCAG
9 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.83%) GAAP
9 2 (0.83%) IFRS
9 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.83%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (17.43%) Docker
2 25 (10.37%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.83%) Firmware
3 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) HDFS
4 1 (0.41%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 30 (12.45%) Terraform
3 17 (7.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.32%) Grafana
5 5 (2.07%) Ansible
5 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.24%) Argo
6 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.24%) Puppet
7 2 (0.83%) Control-M
7 2 (0.83%) SCCM
7 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 70 (29.05%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.54%) Oracle
3 14 (5.81%) Databricks
4 13 (5.39%) Google
5 12 (4.98%) Software AG
6 8 (3.32%) SAP
7 6 (2.49%) Informatica
8 5 (2.07%) Genesys
8 5 (2.07%) Workday
9 4 (1.66%) Cisco
9 4 (1.66%) IBM
9 4 (1.66%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.66%) Splunk
10 3 (1.24%) Apple
10 3 (1.24%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.24%) iManage
10 3 (1.24%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.24%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.24%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.24%) VMware