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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 128 115
Rank change year-on-year -46 -13 +84
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 241 272 380
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 2.08% 2.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.09% 8.22% 8.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 186 248
10th Percentile £204 £359 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.64% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 18
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.24 £38.75
25th Percentile £62.50 £42.73 £39.38
Median hourly rate £72.50 £47.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +6.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £85.00 £55.00 £77.81
90th Percentile £91.00 £57.25 £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -22.09% -21.82% -

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 4,733 3,308 4,398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.51% 25.34% 24.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,369 2,181 2,941
10th Percentile £358 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 64 130
10th Percentile £20.34 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.75 £32.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +14.43% -20.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.88 £60.94
90th Percentile £76.60 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.91% +31.25% -19.80%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -17 32 £625 +28.34% 53
West London -7 14 £208 -47.07% 5
South London -10 5 £750 +3.45% 4
East London 0 1 - - 7
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 14 (5.81%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.66%) Confluence
5 3 (1.24%) Ethereum
5 3 (1.24%) Hyperledger
5 3 (1.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.83%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.41%) Apache
7 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.41%) Camunda
7 1 (0.41%) IIS
7 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (3.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.07%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.83%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.66%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.83%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.41%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.41%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (53.94%) Azure
2 67 (27.80%) AWS
3 36 (14.94%) GCP
4 25 (10.37%) Power Platform
5 24 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (9.13%) SaaS
7 20 (8.30%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (7.47%) GitHub
9 16 (6.64%) Serverless
10 14 (5.81%) IaaS
11 12 (4.98%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.56%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.15%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.73%) Azure Data Factory
14 9 (3.73%) PaaS
15 8 (3.32%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.32%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.90%) Dynamics 365
16 7 (2.90%) GitHub Actions
16 7 (2.90%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.49%) Firewall
2 5 (2.07%) CTI
2 5 (2.07%) Network Security
2 5 (2.07%) VoIP
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%) DMZ
5 2 (0.83%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.83%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) BGP
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) DNS
6 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.41%) IGMP
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
6 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.71%) Power BI
2 19 (7.88%) SQL Server
3 17 (7.05%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.64%) Big Data
4 16 (6.64%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.56%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.56%) Tableau
6 9 (3.73%) NoSQL
7 8 (3.32%) MySQL
8 7 (2.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.49%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.49%) Redis
10 5 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (2.07%) Hadoop
10 5 (2.07%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.66%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.66%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.24%) Metadata
12 3 (1.24%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 30 (12.45%) Git
2 13 (5.39%) JIRA
3 9 (3.73%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.49%) GitLab
5 5 (2.07%) Selenium
6 4 (1.66%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.66%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.24%) ERwin
7 3 (1.24%) Hardhat
7 3 (1.24%) MLflow
7 3 (1.24%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.24%) Vite
8 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.83%) Postman
8 2 (0.83%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.41%) JUnit
9 1 (0.41%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.41%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.41%) TestNG
General
1 120 (49.79%) Social Skills
2 95 (39.42%) Finance
3 64 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (19.09%) Banking
5 20 (8.30%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.81%) Front Office
7 13 (5.39%) Investment Banking
7 13 (5.39%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (4.56%) Marketing
9 9 (3.73%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.73%) Public Sector
10 7 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.49%) Legal
11 6 (2.49%) Retail
12 4 (1.66%) Financial Institution
12 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.66%) Publishing
13 3 (1.24%) Back Office
13 3 (1.24%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.24%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (20.75%) Developer
2 43 (17.84%) Architect
3 22 (9.13%) Lead
3 22 (9.13%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.30%) Senior
5 18 (7.47%) Technical Support
6 13 (5.39%) Support Specialist
7 12 (4.98%) Integration Architect
7 12 (4.98%) Technical Specialist
7 12 (4.98%) Technical Support Specialist
8 11 (4.56%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (3.73%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 9 (3.73%) Data Engineer
10 8 (3.32%) Analyst
11 6 (2.49%) Applications Architect
11 6 (2.49%) C# Developer
11 6 (2.49%) Data Modeller
11 6 (2.49%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.49%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.49%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.20%) .NET
2 23 (9.54%) React
3 18 (7.47%) REST
3 18 (7.47%) RESTful
4 17 (7.05%) Middleware
5 14 (5.81%) HTML
6 11 (4.56%) Node.js
6 11 (4.56%) OAuth
7 10 (4.15%) CSS
7 10 (4.15%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.73%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.73%) JSON
8 9 (3.73%) Kafka
8 9 (3.73%) LangChain
9 7 (2.90%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.49%) OAuth2
10 6 (2.49%) Spring
10 6 (2.49%) WebSockets
11 5 (2.07%) Vue
11 5 (2.07%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.79%) Management Information System
2 23 (9.54%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.71%) Onboarding
4 13 (5.39%) Derivative
5 12 (4.98%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.98%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.15%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.73%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.73%) Data Structures
7 9 (3.73%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.32%) AI Agents
8 8 (3.32%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.90%) Equities
9 7 (2.90%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.49%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.07%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.07%) IVR
11 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 29 (12.03%) Windows
2 15 (6.22%) Linux
3 10 (4.15%) Unix
4 4 (1.66%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.66%) VMS
5 2 (0.83%) Android
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 238 (98.76%) Computer Science
2 112 (46.47%) Problem-Solving
3 91 (37.76%) Agile
4 77 (31.95%) DevOps
5 73 (30.29%) CI/CD
6 65 (26.97%) AI
7 48 (19.92%) Analytics
8 43 (17.84%) Microservices
9 35 (14.52%) Data Modelling
9 35 (14.52%) Decision-Making
10 34 (14.11%) ETL
10 34 (14.11%) Roadmaps
10 34 (14.11%) Software Engineering
11 30 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (12.45%) Data Engineering
12 29 (12.03%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (11.62%) Containerisation
13 28 (11.62%) Data Science
13 28 (11.62%) Infrastructure as Code
14 27 (11.20%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 86 (35.68%) Python
2 58 (24.07%) SQL
3 46 (19.09%) Java
4 30 (12.45%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.96%) C#
6 22 (9.13%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.56%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.73%) C++
9 6 (2.49%) Bash
9 6 (2.49%) Go
9 6 (2.49%) Scala
10 5 (2.07%) Bicep
10 5 (2.07%) Perl
11 4 (1.66%) R
11 4 (1.66%) Rust
12 3 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.24%) Ruby
12 3 (1.24%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.24%) Solidity
13 2 (0.83%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 241 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (28.22%) Master's Degree
3 21 (8.71%) Azure Certification
4 17 (7.05%) CISSP
5 16 (6.64%) Microsoft Certification
6 13 (5.39%) CISM
7 10 (4.15%) Security Cleared
8 8 (3.32%) PMI Certification
8 8 (3.32%) PMP
8 8 (3.32%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.32%) TOGAF Certification
9 7 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.49%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.07%) AWS Certification
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%) CISA
13 3 (1.24%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.96%) QA
2 19 (7.88%) GDPR
3 11 (4.56%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.73%) NIST
4 9 (3.73%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
6 4 (1.66%) HIPAA
7 3 (1.24%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.24%) Basel III
7 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.24%) GRC
7 3 (1.24%) WCAG
8 2 (0.83%) GAAP
8 2 (0.83%) IFRS
8 2 (0.83%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.83%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.83%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (17.43%) Docker
2 24 (9.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.66%) Firmware
4 2 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.41%) HDFS
5 1 (0.41%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (15.77%) Kubernetes
2 29 (12.03%) Terraform
3 18 (7.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.32%) Grafana
5 6 (2.49%) Ansible
6 5 (2.07%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.24%) Argo
7 3 (1.24%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.24%) Puppet
8 2 (0.83%) Control-M
8 2 (0.83%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.41%) SCCM
Vendors
1 71 (29.46%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.71%) Oracle
3 15 (6.22%) Databricks
4 14 (5.81%) Google
5 12 (4.98%) Software AG
6 9 (3.73%) SAP
7 6 (2.49%) Informatica
8 5 (2.07%) Genesys
9 4 (1.66%) Apple
9 4 (1.66%) iManage
9 4 (1.66%) Intapp
9 4 (1.66%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.66%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.66%) Workday
10 3 (1.24%) Aderant
10 3 (1.24%) Cisco
10 3 (1.24%) IBM
10 3 (1.24%) PagerDuty
10 3 (1.24%) Red Hat