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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 201 135 104
Rank change year-on-year -66 -31 +81
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 236 249 404
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.33% 1.98% 2.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.66% 7.72% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 164 261
10th Percentile £178 £314 £350
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -8.37%
75th Percentile £748 £725 £700
90th Percentile £850 £825 £813
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 16
10th Percentile £27.21 £46.30 -
25th Percentile £28.64 £51.25 £38.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% +15.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.42 £67.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £46.42 £68.25 £83.75
England median hourly rate £82.50 £55.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +50.00% -2.22% +3.33%

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 5,064 3,225 4,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.55% 25.63% 24.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,619 2,171 2,896
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £440 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £543
Median % change year-on-year - -3.36% -5.52%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £661
90th Percentile £740 £753 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 60 114
10th Percentile £20.74 £19.20 £14.60
25th Percentile £25.24 £22.27 £20.29
Median hourly rate £53.50 £29.07 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +84.04% +15.13% -46.84%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.50 £43.50
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.72 £68.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -23.81%

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 2 May 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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -26 25 £551 -5.16% 63
South London -13 4 £637 -12.14% 2
West London -28 3 £368 -7.96% 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 15 (6.36%) Apache Spark
2 13 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.27%) Apache
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
4 3 (1.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (2.12%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.42%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 124 (52.54%) Azure
2 71 (30.08%) AWS
3 32 (13.56%) GCP
4 29 (12.29%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (8.90%) SaaS
6 19 (8.05%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 16 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
8 16 (6.78%) GitHub
9 14 (5.93%) IaaS
10 13 (5.51%) Serverless
11 10 (4.24%) Azure Data Factory
12 9 (3.81%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.81%) Amazon S3
12 9 (3.81%) PaaS
12 9 (3.81%) Snowflake
13 8 (3.39%) Entra ID
14 7 (2.97%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (2.97%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 6 (2.54%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.39%) VPN
2 7 (2.97%) BGP
2 7 (2.97%) DMZ
2 7 (2.97%) Firewall
2 7 (2.97%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.69%) OSPF
4 3 (1.27%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (1.27%) HTTP
4 3 (1.27%) IGMP
4 3 (1.27%) MPLS
4 3 (1.27%) Multicast
4 3 (1.27%) Software-Defined Networking
4 3 (1.27%) VoIP
4 3 (1.27%) VXLAN
4 3 (1.27%) WAN
5 2 (0.85%) CTI
5 2 (0.85%) IPv4
5 2 (0.85%) IPv6
5 2 (0.85%) Network Security
6 1 (0.42%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.63%) Big Data
2 18 (7.63%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (7.20%) Power BI
4 14 (5.93%) NoSQL
5 13 (5.51%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (5.08%) Relational Database
7 8 (3.39%) Tableau
8 7 (2.97%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.97%) Redis
8 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.54%) Snowflake Schema
10 5 (2.12%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.69%) Metadata
11 4 (1.69%) Star Schema
12 3 (1.27%) MySQL
12 3 (1.27%) OLAP
12 3 (1.27%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 26 (11.02%) Git
2 12 (5.08%) JIRA
3 11 (4.66%) Jenkins
4 9 (3.81%) GitLab
5 6 (2.54%) Selenium
6 5 (2.12%) SonarQube
7 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
8 3 (1.27%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
8 3 (1.27%) ERwin
8 3 (1.27%) MLflow
8 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.27%) Vite
9 2 (0.85%) Gradle
9 2 (0.85%) Maven
9 2 (0.85%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
10 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
10 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 121 (51.27%) Social Skills
2 97 (41.10%) Finance
3 62 (26.27%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (22.03%) Banking
5 20 (8.47%) Front Office
6 19 (8.05%) Investment Banking
6 19 (8.05%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (6.78%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.24%) Marketing
9 9 (3.81%) Legal
10 7 (2.97%) Telecoms
11 6 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.54%) Retail
12 5 (2.12%) Public Sector
13 4 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.27%) Back Office
14 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.27%) General Ledger
14 3 (1.27%) Japanese Language
14 3 (1.27%) Law
Job Titles
1 41 (17.37%) Architect
2 39 (16.53%) Developer
3 29 (12.29%) Lead
4 21 (8.90%) Senior
4 21 (8.90%) Solutions Architect
5 16 (6.78%) Support Specialist
5 16 (6.78%) Technical Support
6 15 (6.36%) Technical Specialist
6 15 (6.36%) Technical Support Specialist
7 12 (5.08%) Data Engineer
7 12 (5.08%) Integration Architect
8 11 (4.66%) Cloud Architect
9 9 (3.81%) Analyst
9 9 (3.81%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.97%) Applications Architect
10 7 (2.97%) C# Developer
10 7 (2.97%) Data Modeller
10 7 (2.97%) Desktop Engineer
10 7 (2.97%) Python Developer
11 6 (2.54%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.32%) .NET
2 21 (8.90%) React
3 20 (8.47%) REST
4 18 (7.63%) Middleware
4 18 (7.63%) RESTful
5 11 (4.66%) Kafka
6 10 (4.24%) PyTorch
7 9 (3.81%) Node.js
7 9 (3.81%) Spring
8 8 (3.39%) HTML
8 8 (3.39%) LangChain
8 8 (3.39%) PySpark
9 7 (2.97%) OAuth
9 7 (2.97%) WebSockets
10 6 (2.54%) AngularJS
11 5 (2.12%) JSON
11 5 (2.12%) Pandas
11 5 (2.12%) SOAP
11 5 (2.12%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (12.71%) Onboarding
2 24 (10.17%) Management Information System
3 22 (9.32%) Cloud Native
4 14 (5.93%) Product Ownership
5 13 (5.51%) Derivative
6 11 (4.66%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (3.39%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.97%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.97%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.97%) Equities
10 6 (2.54%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.54%) Equity Derivative
10 6 (2.54%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
10 6 (2.54%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.12%) Hybrid Cloud
11 5 (2.12%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.56%) Windows
2 18 (7.63%) Linux
3 7 (2.97%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (1.69%) Unix
5 3 (1.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.42%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (98.31%) Computer Science
2 96 (40.68%) Problem-Solving
3 89 (37.71%) Agile
4 82 (34.75%) AI
5 72 (30.51%) DevOps
6 66 (27.97%) CI/CD
7 50 (21.19%) Analytics
8 41 (17.37%) Microservices
9 40 (16.95%) Data Modelling
9 40 (16.95%) Software Engineering
10 35 (14.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (14.83%) Decision-Making
11 32 (13.56%) Infrastructure as Code
12 31 (13.14%) ETL
12 31 (13.14%) Roadmaps
13 30 (12.71%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (11.86%) Data Governance
14 28 (11.86%) ITIL
14 28 (11.86%) Migration
15 26 (11.02%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 84 (35.59%) Python
2 59 (25.00%) SQL
3 35 (14.83%) Java
4 24 (10.17%) C#
5 18 (7.63%) TypeScript
6 16 (6.78%) JavaScript
7 13 (5.51%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.39%) Bash
9 7 (2.97%) C++
9 7 (2.97%) Scala
10 5 (2.12%) Go
11 4 (1.69%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.69%) R
12 3 (1.27%) Rust
13 2 (0.85%) Bicep
13 2 (0.85%) C
13 2 (0.85%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.42%) Korn
14 1 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 236 (100.00%) Degree
2 60 (25.42%) Master's Degree
3 19 (8.05%) Azure Certification
4 17 (7.20%) CISSP
5 16 (6.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.08%) CISM
7 11 (4.66%) Security Cleared
8 9 (3.81%) SC Cleared
9 8 (3.39%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.39%) PMI Certification
9 8 (3.39%) PMP
10 7 (2.97%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 6 (2.54%) CRISC
11 6 (2.54%) PhD
12 4 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.69%) CCSP
12 4 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.69%) MCSA
12 4 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (8.05%) QA
2 17 (7.20%) Data Quality
3 16 (6.78%) GDPR
4 12 (5.08%) NIST
5 8 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (2.12%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.27%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.27%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.27%) Basel III
7 3 (1.27%) GRC
7 3 (1.27%) NIST 800
7 3 (1.27%) WCAG
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.85%) GAAP
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.85%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 33 (13.98%) Docker
2 23 (9.75%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.69%) Firmware
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.42%) HDFS
5 1 (0.42%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.42%) Squid
5 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 38 (16.10%) Kubernetes
2 33 (13.98%) Terraform
3 21 (8.90%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.36%) Ansible
5 13 (5.51%) Grafana
6 10 (4.24%) Prometheus
7 4 (1.69%) SCCM
8 3 (1.27%) Control-M
8 3 (1.27%) Puppet
8 3 (1.27%) WSUS
9 2 (0.85%) Progress Chef
10 1 (0.42%) CASB
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 73 (30.93%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.20%) Oracle
3 16 (6.78%) Google
4 12 (5.08%) Databricks
4 12 (5.08%) Software AG
5 8 (3.39%) SAP
6 6 (2.54%) Citrix
6 6 (2.54%) Informatica
6 6 (2.54%) Splunk
7 5 (2.12%) Apple
7 5 (2.12%) Bloomberg
7 5 (2.12%) iManage
7 5 (2.12%) Intapp
7 5 (2.12%) Reuters
8 4 (1.69%) Aderant
8 4 (1.69%) Cisco
8 4 (1.69%) ION Trading
8 4 (1.69%) Nexthink
9 3 (1.27%) IBM
9 3 (1.27%) Juniper