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 27 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 109 127
Rank change year-on-year -42 +18 +97
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 266 353 362
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.84% 2.38% 1.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.44% 9.14% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 236 246
10th Percentile £315 £363 £333
25th Percentile £400 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -15.71%
75th Percentile £700 £714 £697
90th Percentile £785 £888 £818
England median daily rate £475 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.46 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £45.06 £42.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +2.44% +3.02%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £62.19
90th Percentile £91.00 - £63.88
England median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +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 4,130 3,862 4,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.59% 26.01% 24.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,876 2,436 2,997
10th Percentile £363 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £774 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 59 92
10th Percentile £20.79 £21.00 £19.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.99 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.37% -13.33% +4.65%
75th Percentile £62.89 £60.38 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.48
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.30%

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025.

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 27 December 2025. 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 -13 35 £650 +23.22% 146
West London -4 17 £208 -44.67% 12
South London -2 6 £750 +30.43% 11
East London -6 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 11 (4.14%) Apache Spark
1 11 (4.14%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.38%) Confluence
3 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.13%) Apache
4 3 (1.13%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.13%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.13%) IIS
4 3 (1.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.75%) Luigi
5 2 (0.75%) nginx
5 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.88%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.75%) SAP CX
3 2 (0.75%) Temenos T24
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 ERP
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.38%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.38%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.38%) TRIRIGA
4 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 114 (42.86%) Azure
2 66 (24.81%) AWS
3 36 (13.53%) GCP
4 27 (10.15%) GitHub
5 24 (9.02%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (8.27%) Power Platform
7 16 (6.02%) SaaS
7 16 (6.02%) Serverless
8 14 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
9 12 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.76%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.76%) Azure Logic Apps
11 9 (3.38%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.38%) IaaS
11 9 (3.38%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.01%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.01%) ChatGPT
12 8 (3.01%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.01%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.38%) Firewall
2 8 (3.01%) Network Security
3 6 (2.26%) VoIP
4 5 (1.88%) CTI
4 5 (1.88%) VPN
5 4 (1.50%) DNS
5 4 (1.50%) HTTP
6 3 (1.13%) SSL
7 2 (0.75%) S/MIME
7 2 (0.75%) SSH
7 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.75%) WAN
7 2 (0.75%) Wireless
8 1 (0.38%) 802.11
8 1 (0.38%) BGP
8 1 (0.38%) DHCP
8 1 (0.38%) HTTPS
8 1 (0.38%) Internet
8 1 (0.38%) LAN
8 1 (0.38%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 18 (6.77%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.39%) PostgreSQL
3 17 (6.39%) Power BI
4 16 (6.02%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.14%) Big Data
6 10 (3.76%) MySQL
6 10 (3.76%) NoSQL
6 10 (3.76%) Tableau
7 7 (2.63%) MongoDB
7 7 (2.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.88%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.13%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.13%) Metadata
11 3 (1.13%) Pinecone
12 2 (0.75%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 27 (10.15%) Git
2 21 (7.89%) JIRA
3 13 (4.89%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.63%) GitLab
4 7 (2.63%) Selenium
5 6 (2.26%) Cypress.io
5 6 (2.26%) Postman
6 5 (1.88%) CircleCI
6 5 (1.88%) Cucumber
6 5 (1.88%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.13%) Hardhat
8 3 (1.13%) MLflow
8 3 (1.13%) SonarQube
8 3 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (0.75%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.75%) ERwin
9 2 (0.75%) JMeter
9 2 (0.75%) JUnit
9 2 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
General
1 125 (46.99%) Social Skills
2 103 (38.72%) Finance
3 74 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (20.30%) Banking
5 17 (6.39%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.26%) Front Office
7 13 (4.89%) Marketing
8 12 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.14%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (3.38%) Back Office
12 8 (3.01%) Financial Institution
12 8 (3.01%) Telecoms
13 6 (2.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.88%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.88%) Retail
15 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.50%) Legal
15 4 (1.50%) Publishing
16 3 (1.13%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (25.56%) Developer
2 38 (14.29%) Architect
3 26 (9.77%) Analyst
4 22 (8.27%) Senior
5 15 (5.64%) Lead
6 14 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.51%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.14%) Senior Developer
9 10 (3.76%) Data Engineer
9 10 (3.76%) Technical Support
10 8 (3.01%) Business Analyst
10 8 (3.01%) C# Developer
10 8 (3.01%) Full-Stack Developer
10 8 (3.01%) Systems Analyst
11 7 (2.63%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.26%) Azure Architect
12 6 (2.26%) Business Integration Analyst
12 6 (2.26%) Cloud Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.26%) Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (12.78%) .NET
2 30 (11.28%) REST
3 21 (7.89%) HTML
4 18 (6.77%) RESTful
5 17 (6.39%) CSS
6 16 (6.02%) JSON
6 16 (6.02%) React
7 15 (5.64%) Kafka
7 15 (5.64%) OAuth
7 15 (5.64%) XML
8 13 (4.89%) LangChain
8 13 (4.89%) Middleware
8 13 (4.89%) Node.js
9 10 (3.76%) AngularJS
9 10 (3.76%) SOAP
10 9 (3.38%) OAuth2
10 9 (3.38%) PyTorch
11 8 (3.01%) RabbitMQ
12 7 (2.63%) TensorFlow
12 7 (2.63%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.40%) Management Information System
2 18 (6.77%) Product Ownership
3 17 (6.39%) Cloud Native
4 15 (5.64%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (5.26%) Algorithms
6 12 (4.51%) Derivative
7 10 (3.76%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.38%) Data Structures
8 9 (3.38%) Fixed Income
8 9 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.88%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.88%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.88%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.88%) IVR
11 5 (1.88%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 25 (9.40%) Linux
2 21 (7.89%) Windows
3 11 (4.14%) Unix
4 5 (1.88%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (99.25%) Computer Science
2 126 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (39.85%) Agile
4 76 (28.57%) DevOps
5 67 (25.19%) CI/CD
6 42 (15.79%) AI
7 41 (15.41%) Microservices
8 38 (14.29%) Software Engineering
9 35 (13.16%) Analytics
10 32 (12.03%) Machine Learning
11 31 (11.65%) Decision-Making
12 30 (11.28%) Data Modelling
12 30 (11.28%) Scrum
13 29 (10.90%) ETL
13 29 (10.90%) Migration
13 29 (10.90%) Roadmaps
14 28 (10.53%) Containerisation
14 28 (10.53%) Data Science
15 27 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
15 27 (10.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 89 (33.46%) Python
2 66 (24.81%) SQL
3 56 (21.05%) Java
4 44 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 30 (11.28%) C#
6 26 (9.77%) TypeScript
7 13 (4.89%) C++
8 8 (3.01%) Perl
9 7 (2.63%) Bash
9 7 (2.63%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.63%) Ruby
10 6 (2.26%) Bicep
10 6 (2.26%) R
10 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.88%) Go
12 4 (1.50%) C
13 3 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.13%) Rust
13 3 (1.13%) Solidity
13 3 (1.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 266 (100.00%) Degree
2 63 (23.68%) Master's Degree
3 18 (6.77%) Azure Certification
4 14 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.89%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.51%) SC Cleared
7 10 (3.76%) PMI Certification
7 10 (3.76%) PMP
8 8 (3.01%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.63%) CISSP
9 7 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
10 5 (1.88%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.50%) CISM
11 4 (1.50%) ISEB
11 4 (1.50%) PhD
12 3 (1.13%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 3 (1.13%) CBAP
12 3 (1.13%) CCNA
13 2 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.65%) QA
2 17 (6.39%) GDPR
3 15 (5.64%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.88%) SLA
6 4 (1.50%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.50%) NIST
6 4 (1.50%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.13%) Basel III
8 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.75%) MiFID
8 2 (0.75%) PMO
8 2 (0.75%) WCAG
9 1 (0.38%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.38%) EMIR
9 1 (0.38%) GAAP
9 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
9 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (14.66%) Docker
2 12 (4.51%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 32 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.15%) Terraform
3 10 (3.76%) Grafana
4 8 (3.01%) Ansible
5 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.13%) Argo
6 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.13%) Puppet
6 3 (1.13%) SCCM
7 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.38%) Control-M
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 60 (22.56%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.52%) Oracle
3 17 (6.39%) Databricks
4 13 (4.89%) Google
5 12 (4.51%) Salesforce
6 11 (4.14%) SAP
7 7 (2.63%) IBM
8 6 (2.26%) OpenAI
8 6 (2.26%) Software AG
9 5 (1.88%) Cisco
9 5 (1.88%) Genesys
10 4 (1.50%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.50%) PagerDuty
10 4 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.50%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.50%) Splunk
10 4 (1.50%) Tenable
10 4 (1.50%) UiPath
10 4 (1.50%) VMware
10 4 (1.50%) Workday