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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 119 122
Rank change year-on-year -36 +3 +84
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 261 298 359
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.21% 1.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.90% 8.74% 7.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 195 233
10th Percentile £204 £363 £330
25th Percentile £400 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -2.27% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £672 £700
90th Percentile £780 £825 £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 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% +5.26%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £77.19
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% +2.80%

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 4,426 3,409 4,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.25% 25.24% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,116 2,134 3,012
10th Percentile £358 £351 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £763
England median daily rate £520 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 61 127
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +11.43% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £64.38
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.37 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.91% +3.25% +1.96%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -12 36 £625 +22.55% 41
West London -3 17 £208 -46.45% 6
South London -6 6 £750 +15.38% 1
East London -5 1 - - 6
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 16 (6.13%) Apache Spark
2 13 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.30%) Confluence
4 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.53%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (1.15%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.15%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.77%) Apache
6 2 (0.77%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.38%) Camunda
7 1 (0.38%) IIS
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) Luigi
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%) 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
1 132 (50.57%) Azure
2 64 (24.52%) AWS
3 40 (15.33%) GCP
4 27 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 26 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (8.81%) SaaS
7 19 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (6.90%) GitHub
9 15 (5.75%) Serverless
10 13 (4.98%) IaaS
11 10 (3.83%) Amazon ECS
11 10 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (3.83%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.07%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.07%) PaaS
13 8 (3.07%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.68%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.68%) PowerApps
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%) DKIM
7 1 (0.38%) DMARC
7 1 (0.38%) DMZ
7 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.38%) LAN
7 1 (0.38%) MQTT
7 1 (0.38%) Telepresence
7 1 (0.38%) WAN
7 1 (0.38%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.05%) Power BI
2 20 (7.66%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.28%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (6.90%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (6.51%) Big Data
6 13 (4.98%) Tableau
7 12 (4.60%) MySQL
7 12 (4.60%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.68%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.30%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.30%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.30%) NoSQL
10 5 (1.92%) OLAP
11 4 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.53%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.53%) Redis
11 4 (1.53%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.15%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.15%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 29 (11.11%) Git
2 18 (6.90%) JIRA
3 6 (2.30%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.30%) Selenium
4 4 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.53%) Cucumber
4 4 (1.53%) GitLab
4 4 (1.53%) MLflow
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%) CircleCI
6 2 (0.77%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.77%) Eclipse
6 2 (0.77%) Vite
7 1 (0.38%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.38%) webpack
General
1 124 (47.51%) Social Skills
2 103 (39.46%) Finance
3 69 (26.44%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (17.62%) Banking
5 20 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (4.98%) Marketing
8 12 (4.60%) Front Office
8 12 (4.60%) Investment Banking
9 11 (4.21%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.68%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.30%) Retail
12 5 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.92%) Legal
12 5 (1.92%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.53%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.53%) Publishing
14 3 (1.15%) Back Office
14 3 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 59 (22.61%) Developer
2 40 (15.33%) Architect
3 21 (8.05%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (7.66%) Technical Support
5 18 (6.90%) Analyst
5 18 (6.90%) Senior
6 17 (6.51%) Lead
7 12 (4.60%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (4.60%) Support Specialist
8 11 (4.21%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.21%) Integration Architect
8 11 (4.21%) Technical Specialist
8 11 (4.21%) Technical Support Specialist
9 9 (3.45%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.07%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.68%) Systems Analyst
12 6 (2.30%) Data Modeller
12 6 (2.30%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.30%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.30%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.11%) .NET
2 24 (9.20%) REST
3 19 (7.28%) React
4 18 (6.90%) HTML
4 18 (6.90%) RESTful
5 17 (6.51%) Middleware
6 14 (5.36%) OAuth
7 13 (4.98%) CSS
8 12 (4.60%) JSON
9 11 (4.21%) Node.js
10 10 (3.83%) LangChain
10 10 (3.83%) PyTorch
11 9 (3.45%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.07%) Kafka
13 7 (2.68%) SOAP
13 7 (2.68%) TensorFlow
13 7 (2.68%) XML
14 6 (2.30%) OAuth2
14 6 (2.30%) Spring
15 5 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 29 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.90%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.13%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.36%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.60%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.21%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.21%) Derivative
7 10 (3.83%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.45%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.07%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (2.68%) AI Agents
10 7 (2.68%) Data Structures
11 6 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 6 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.30%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.30%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.92%) Fixed Income
12 5 (1.92%) IVR
12 5 (1.92%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.26%) Windows
2 23 (8.81%) Linux
3 14 (5.36%) Unix
4 4 (1.53%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.53%) VMS
5 3 (1.15%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.77%) Android
6 2 (0.77%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 258 (98.85%) Computer Science
2 129 (49.43%) Problem-Solving
3 98 (37.55%) Agile
4 71 (27.20%) DevOps
5 66 (25.29%) CI/CD
6 58 (22.22%) AI
7 49 (18.77%) Analytics
8 39 (14.94%) Microservices
9 37 (14.18%) Decision-Making
10 36 (13.79%) Data Modelling
11 34 (13.03%) Software Engineering
12 33 (12.64%) ETL
13 32 (12.26%) Data Science
13 32 (12.26%) Roadmaps
14 30 (11.49%) Technical Leadership
15 29 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
15 29 (11.11%) Containerisation
16 28 (10.73%) Data Engineering
17 27 (10.34%) Machine Learning
17 27 (10.34%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 89 (34.10%) Python
2 68 (26.05%) SQL
3 50 (19.16%) Java
4 41 (15.71%) 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
10 6 (2.30%) Bash
10 6 (2.30%) Bicep
10 6 (2.30%) R
10 6 (2.30%) Scala
11 5 (1.92%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.53%) C
12 4 (1.53%) Ruby
12 4 (1.53%) Rust
13 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.15%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 261 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (26.44%) Master's Degree
3 20 (7.66%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.36%) CISSP
6 13 (4.98%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.21%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.45%) CISM
9 8 (3.07%) PMI Certification
9 8 (3.07%) PMP
10 7 (2.68%) TOGAF Certification
11 6 (2.30%) AWS Certification
11 6 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 5 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (1.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 4 (1.53%) CCSP
13 4 (1.53%) CRISC
13 4 (1.53%) ISEB
13 4 (1.53%) PhD
14 3 (1.15%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.81%) GDPR
1 23 (8.81%) QA
2 12 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.45%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.92%) NIST
6 4 (1.53%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.53%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.15%) Basel III
7 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.15%) WCAG
8 2 (0.77%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.77%) GAAP
8 2 (0.77%) GRC
8 2 (0.77%) IFRS
8 2 (0.77%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.77%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.77%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.77%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (16.48%) Docker
2 24 (9.20%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) HDFS
4 1 (0.38%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 38 (14.56%) Kubernetes
2 26 (9.96%) Terraform
3 16 (6.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.07%) 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 74 (28.35%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.58%) Oracle
3 16 (6.13%) Databricks
4 13 (4.98%) Google
5 11 (4.21%) SAP
5 11 (4.21%) Software AG
6 8 (3.07%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.30%) Informatica
8 5 (1.92%) Genesys
8 5 (1.92%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.92%) Workday
9 4 (1.53%) Cisco
9 4 (1.53%) IBM
9 4 (1.53%) Splunk
9 4 (1.53%) Tenable
9 4 (1.53%) VMware
10 3 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.15%) HP
10 3 (1.15%) iManage
10 3 (1.15%) Palo Alto