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 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 149 97 131
Rank change year-on-year -52 +34 +115
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 266 414 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.99% 2.58% 1.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.43% 10.26% 8.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 279 283
10th Percentile £289 £363 £315
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £700
90th Percentile £825 £888 £860
England median daily rate £476 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.45% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 6
10th Percentile £58.00 £47.75 £27.00
25th Percentile £62.50 £50.00 £27.94
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £38.25
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +37.25% -29.82%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £91.00 - £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.50 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.85% +19.09% +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 3,581 4,037 4,771
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 26.75% 25.15% 23.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 2,572 3,285
10th Percentile £358 £350 £355
25th Percentile £438 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £775 £788
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 65 95
10th Percentile £18.99 £18.13 £19.10
25th Percentile - £25.99 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% -30.56% +13.68%
75th Percentile £36.88 £57.50 £65.05
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.75 £82.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.67
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.17% +19.26%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -23 34 £525 -14.29% 69
West London +7 14 £350 -12.50% 14
South London -2 7 £750 +46.34% 1
East London -1 3 £900 +70.62% 2
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 9 (3.38%) Apache Spark
2 7 (2.63%) Confluence
2 7 (2.63%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.88%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.88%) CMS
4 4 (1.50%) Apache
4 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (1.13%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.13%) Hyperledger
6 2 (0.75%) IIS
6 2 (0.75%) Luigi
6 2 (0.75%) nginx
6 2 (0.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.75%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.38%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.38%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 11 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (3.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.75%) Actimize
2 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) SAP CX
2 2 (0.75%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.38%) Endur
3 1 (0.38%) ION Anvil
3 1 (0.38%) Maximo
3 1 (0.38%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.38%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.38%) TRIRIGA
3 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.20%) Azure
2 65 (24.44%) AWS
3 35 (13.16%) GCP
4 23 (8.65%) GitHub
5 18 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (4.89%) Power Platform
7 12 (4.51%) GitHub Actions
7 12 (4.51%) SaaS
8 9 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
9 8 (3.01%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.01%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.01%) Serverless
10 6 (2.26%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.26%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (1.88%) PaaS
11 5 (1.88%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.50%) Anthropic Claude
12 4 (1.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 4 (1.50%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.14%) Firewall
2 13 (4.89%) VPN
3 12 (4.51%) Network Security
4 9 (3.38%) TCP/IP
5 8 (3.01%) DNS
6 4 (1.50%) BGP
6 4 (1.50%) MGCP
6 4 (1.50%) OSPF
6 4 (1.50%) SCCP
6 4 (1.50%) Telepresence
6 4 (1.50%) VoIP
6 4 (1.50%) WAN
6 4 (1.50%) WebEx
6 4 (1.50%) Wireless
7 3 (1.13%) DHCP
7 3 (1.13%) Internet
7 3 (1.13%) SSL
8 2 (0.75%) IPsec
8 2 (0.75%) LAN
8 2 (0.75%) S/MIME
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.27%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.02%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (5.64%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (4.89%) Relational Database
5 10 (3.76%) NoSQL
5 10 (3.76%) Power BI
6 9 (3.38%) MySQL
7 7 (2.63%) Big Data
7 7 (2.63%) Tableau
8 6 (2.26%) Amazon RDS
8 6 (2.26%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.88%) Amazon Athena
9 5 (1.88%) Metadata
10 4 (1.50%) BigQuery
10 4 (1.50%) Data Mart
10 4 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.13%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
11 3 (1.13%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (9.77%) Git
2 20 (7.52%) JIRA
3 11 (4.14%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.38%) GitLab
5 8 (3.01%) Selenium
6 6 (2.26%) Postman
7 5 (1.88%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.88%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.88%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.50%) Bitbucket
8 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
8 4 (1.50%) JUnit
9 3 (1.13%) Gradle
9 3 (1.13%) Hardhat
9 3 (1.13%) MLflow
9 3 (1.13%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.75%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.75%) ERwin
10 2 (0.75%) JMeter
10 2 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
General
1 126 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 112 (42.11%) Finance
3 73 (27.44%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (18.05%) Banking
5 22 (8.27%) Front Office
5 22 (8.27%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.26%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.51%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.01%) Back Office
9 8 (3.01%) Retail
10 7 (2.63%) Marketing
10 7 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.63%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.26%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.88%) Legal
12 5 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.75%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.75%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 75 (28.20%) Developer
2 31 (11.65%) Senior
3 29 (10.90%) Architect
4 28 (10.53%) Analyst
5 14 (5.26%) Senior Developer
6 10 (3.76%) Business Analyst
6 10 (3.76%) Software Engineer
7 9 (3.38%) Data Engineer
8 8 (3.01%) Business Integration Analyst
8 8 (3.01%) C++ Developer
8 8 (3.01%) Integration Analyst
8 8 (3.01%) Python Developer
9 7 (2.63%) Cloud Architect
9 7 (2.63%) Full-Stack Developer
9 7 (2.63%) IT Manager
9 7 (2.63%) Java Developer
9 7 (2.63%) Machine Learning Engineer
9 7 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
9 7 (2.63%) Systems Analyst
9 7 (2.63%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.40%) REST
2 22 (8.27%) .NET
3 19 (7.14%) HTML
4 17 (6.39%) CSS
5 15 (5.64%) Kafka
6 14 (5.26%) React
7 13 (4.89%) RESTful
8 12 (4.51%) Middleware
9 11 (4.14%) Node.js
9 11 (4.14%) XML
10 10 (3.76%) OAuth
10 10 (3.76%) Spring
11 9 (3.38%) JSON
12 8 (3.01%) AngularJS
12 8 (3.01%) LangChain
12 8 (3.01%) Web Services
13 7 (2.63%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.63%) SOAP
14 6 (2.26%) FastAPI
14 6 (2.26%) FIX Protocol
Miscellaneous
1 24 (9.02%) Management Information System
2 19 (7.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 19 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 16 (6.02%) Algorithms
4 15 (5.64%) Cloud Native
5 14 (5.26%) Derivative
6 13 (4.89%) Fixed Income
7 12 (4.51%) Distributed Systems
8 11 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
9 10 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
9 10 (3.76%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.26%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.88%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.88%) Distributed Computing
12 5 (1.88%) Linux Command Line
13 4 (1.50%) Data Centre
13 4 (1.50%) Life Science
13 4 (1.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 31 (11.65%) Linux
2 17 (6.39%) Windows
3 13 (4.89%) Unix
4 6 (2.26%) Android
4 6 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.88%) Apple iOS
5 5 (1.88%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.75%) SUSE
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.38%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 263 (98.87%) Computer Science
2 123 (46.24%) Problem-Solving
3 101 (37.97%) Agile
4 68 (25.56%) DevOps
5 59 (22.18%) CI/CD
6 35 (13.16%) Scrum
7 33 (12.41%) Analytics
7 33 (12.41%) Migration
7 33 (12.41%) Software Engineering
8 31 (11.65%) Microservices
9 28 (10.53%) Project Management
10 27 (10.15%) Containerisation
11 26 (9.77%) SDLC
12 25 (9.40%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (9.40%) Test Automation
13 24 (9.02%) Machine Learning
14 23 (8.65%) Decision-Making
15 22 (8.27%) AI
16 21 (7.89%) ETL
16 21 (7.89%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (37.97%) Python
2 67 (25.19%) SQL
3 65 (24.44%) Java
4 40 (15.04%) JavaScript
5 21 (7.89%) C#
6 18 (6.77%) C++
7 15 (5.64%) TypeScript
8 10 (3.76%) Perl
9 8 (3.01%) Bash
9 8 (3.01%) Ruby
10 6 (2.26%) R
10 6 (2.26%) T-SQL
11 5 (1.88%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.88%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.50%) Go
13 3 (1.13%) Bicep
13 3 (1.13%) C
13 3 (1.13%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.13%) Solidity
13 3 (1.13%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 266 (100.00%) Degree
2 46 (17.29%) Master's Degree
3 16 (6.02%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.02%) Security Cleared
4 13 (4.89%) Azure Certification
5 12 (4.51%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.38%) CISSP
7 7 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.26%) PMI Certification
8 6 (2.26%) PMP
8 6 (2.26%) TOGAF Certification
9 4 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 4 (1.50%) CCNA
9 4 (1.50%) CCNP
9 4 (1.50%) CISM
9 4 (1.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 4 (1.50%) PhD
10 3 (1.13%) ISEB
10 3 (1.13%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (7.14%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.39%) GDPR
3 13 (4.89%) QA
4 9 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (3.01%) SLA
6 5 (1.88%) HIPAA
6 5 (1.88%) NIST
7 4 (1.50%) MiFID
8 3 (1.13%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.13%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.75%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.75%) PMO
10 1 (0.38%) Basel III
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
10 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.38%) EMIR
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27005
10 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.38%) WCAG
System Software
1 41 (15.41%) Docker
2 11 (4.14%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.38%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.38%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 40 (15.04%) Kubernetes
2 22 (8.27%) Terraform
3 12 (4.51%) Ansible
4 7 (2.63%) Grafana
5 5 (1.88%) Argo
5 5 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.88%) SCCM
6 3 (1.13%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.13%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.75%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.75%) QRadar
8 1 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
8 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.38%) Kubeflow
8 1 (0.38%) Puppet
8 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 42 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.52%) Oracle
3 17 (6.39%) Salesforce
4 15 (5.64%) SAP
5 14 (5.26%) Google
6 13 (4.89%) Cisco
7 9 (3.38%) Databricks
8 6 (2.26%) IBM
8 6 (2.26%) Tenable
9 5 (1.88%) Fortinet
9 5 (1.88%) Murex
9 5 (1.88%) Palo Alto
9 5 (1.88%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.88%) Splunk
10 4 (1.50%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.50%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.50%) Red Hat
10 4 (1.50%) UiPath
10 4 (1.50%) VMware
11 3 (1.13%) CheckPoint