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 19 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 178 139 106
Rank change year-on-year -39 -33 +100
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 248 249 398
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.43% 1.96% 2.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 7.68% 9.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 167 258
10th Percentile £186 £351 £359
25th Percentile £400 £424 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £738 £700 £700
90th Percentile £876 £805 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 17
10th Percentile £27.21 £42.46 -
25th Percentile £28.64 £45.06 £38.75
Median hourly rate £32.07 £55.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.70% +22.22% -3.23%
75th Percentile £41.42 £65.31 £78.75
90th Percentile £46.42 £68.13 £83.75
England median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year -19.09% -1.12% +1.14%

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 5,009 3,241 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.81% 25.51% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,587 2,196 2,933
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £438 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £660
90th Percentile £750 £751 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 60 119
10th Percentile £20.87 £19.20 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.42 £22.27 £20.98
Median hourly rate £38.54 £30.67 £26.24
Median % change year-on-year +25.65% +16.89% -35.21%
75th Percentile £76.58 £55.50 £55.63
90th Percentile £88.58 £67.63 £75.75
England median hourly rate £47.25 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -5.50% +25.00% -20.00%

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 19 April 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 19 April 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 19 April 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 -24 27 £600 +14.29% 48
West London -24 7 £368 -7.96% 3
South London -12 4 £637 -12.14% 3
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 (5.65%) Apache Spark
1 14 (5.65%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.61%) Confluence
4 3 (1.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Aladdin
1 5 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.40%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 133 (53.63%) Azure
2 72 (29.03%) AWS
3 34 (13.71%) GCP
4 30 (12.10%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (9.27%) Power Platform
6 22 (8.87%) SaaS
7 19 (7.66%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (6.85%) GitHub
9 16 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (6.05%) Serverless
11 14 (5.65%) IaaS
12 11 (4.44%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (4.03%) Entra ID
13 10 (4.03%) Snowflake
14 9 (3.63%) Amazon ECS
14 9 (3.63%) Amazon S3
14 9 (3.63%) PaaS
15 8 (3.23%) Azure Logic Apps
16 7 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
16 7 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.23%) Firewall
2 7 (2.82%) DMZ
2 7 (2.82%) VPN
3 6 (2.42%) BGP
3 6 (2.42%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.02%) CTI
4 5 (2.02%) VoIP
5 4 (1.61%) HTTP
6 3 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.21%) IGMP
6 3 (1.21%) MPLS
6 3 (1.21%) Multicast
6 3 (1.21%) OSPF
6 3 (1.21%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.21%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.21%) WAN
7 2 (0.81%) IPv4
7 2 (0.81%) IPv6
7 2 (0.81%) Network Security
8 1 (0.40%) DKIM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.47%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.06%) Power BI
3 19 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (7.26%) Big Data
5 14 (5.65%) NoSQL
5 14 (5.65%) Relational Database
6 13 (5.24%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (4.03%) Tableau
8 8 (3.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (2.82%) Hadoop
9 7 (2.82%) Redis
10 6 (2.42%) MongoDB
10 6 (2.42%) Snowflake Schema
11 5 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (2.02%) MySQL
12 4 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (1.61%) Metadata
12 4 (1.61%) Pinecone
12 4 (1.61%) Star Schema
13 3 (1.21%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 26 (10.48%) Git
2 13 (5.24%) JIRA
3 11 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.82%) GitLab
5 5 (2.02%) Selenium
6 4 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.21%) Bitbucket
7 3 (1.21%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.21%) Cypress.io
7 3 (1.21%) ERwin
7 3 (1.21%) MLflow
7 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.21%) Vite
8 2 (0.81%) REST Assured
9 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.40%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) NUnit
9 1 (0.40%) Postman
9 1 (0.40%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 123 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 97 (39.11%) Finance
3 64 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (20.97%) Banking
5 20 (8.06%) Front Office
6 19 (7.66%) Investment Banking
6 19 (7.66%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (5.24%) Marketing
9 9 (3.63%) Legal
10 8 (3.23%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.82%) Public Sector
12 6 (2.42%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.42%) Retail
13 5 (2.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 3 (1.21%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.21%) General Ledger
15 3 (1.21%) Japanese Language
15 3 (1.21%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (17.34%) Architect
2 42 (16.94%) Developer
3 27 (10.89%) Lead
4 22 (8.87%) Solutions Architect
5 21 (8.47%) Senior
6 18 (7.26%) Technical Support
7 16 (6.45%) Support Specialist
8 15 (6.05%) Technical Specialist
8 15 (6.05%) Technical Support Specialist
9 13 (5.24%) Data Engineer
10 12 (4.84%) Integration Architect
11 11 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
12 10 (4.03%) Analyst
13 9 (3.63%) Cloud Solutions Architect
14 7 (2.82%) Applications Architect
14 7 (2.82%) C# Developer
14 7 (2.82%) Cloud Engineer
14 7 (2.82%) Data Modeller
14 7 (2.82%) Python Developer
15 6 (2.42%) Desktop Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.68%) .NET
2 22 (8.87%) React
2 22 (8.87%) REST
3 18 (7.26%) Middleware
3 18 (7.26%) RESTful
4 11 (4.44%) Kafka
4 11 (4.44%) PyTorch
5 9 (3.63%) HTML
5 9 (3.63%) LangChain
5 9 (3.63%) Node.js
5 9 (3.63%) OAuth
6 8 (3.23%) PySpark
6 8 (3.23%) Spring
7 7 (2.82%) AngularJS
7 7 (2.82%) JSON
7 7 (2.82%) WebSockets
8 6 (2.42%) Pandas
8 6 (2.42%) TensorFlow
9 5 (2.02%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (2.02%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.89%) Onboarding
2 25 (10.08%) Management Information System
3 22 (8.87%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.24%) Derivative
4 13 (5.24%) Product Ownership
5 12 (4.84%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.63%) Distributed Systems
7 8 (3.23%) AI Agents
7 8 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
7 8 (3.23%) Data Structures
8 7 (2.82%) Data Centre
8 7 (2.82%) Distributed Computing
8 7 (2.82%) Equities
9 6 (2.42%) Algorithms
9 6 (2.42%) Equity Derivative
9 6 (2.42%) Fixed Income
9 6 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.42%) Virtual Team
10 5 (2.02%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.31%) Windows
2 17 (6.85%) Linux
3 7 (2.82%) Mac OS
4 6 (2.42%) Unix
5 3 (1.21%) VMS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (98.39%) Computer Science
2 104 (41.94%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (37.90%) Agile
4 80 (32.26%) AI
5 76 (30.65%) DevOps
6 69 (27.82%) CI/CD
7 53 (21.37%) Analytics
8 41 (16.53%) Microservices
9 40 (16.13%) Data Modelling
9 40 (16.13%) Software Engineering
10 36 (14.52%) Decision-Making
11 35 (14.11%) Continuous Improvement
11 35 (14.11%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (14.11%) Roadmaps
12 34 (13.71%) ETL
13 30 (12.10%) Technical Leadership
14 29 (11.69%) Data Governance
15 28 (11.29%) Data Engineering
15 28 (11.29%) ITIL
15 28 (11.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 90 (36.29%) Python
2 61 (24.60%) SQL
3 36 (14.52%) Java
4 26 (10.48%) C#
5 21 (8.47%) JavaScript
6 20 (8.06%) TypeScript
7 15 (6.05%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.23%) Bash
9 7 (2.82%) C++
9 7 (2.82%) Scala
10 5 (2.02%) Go
11 4 (1.61%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 4 (1.61%) R
12 3 (1.21%) Bicep
12 3 (1.21%) Rust
13 2 (0.81%) C
13 2 (0.81%) Perl
13 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.81%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.40%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 248 (100.00%) Degree
2 66 (26.61%) Master's Degree
3 21 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 18 (7.26%) Microsoft Certification
5 16 (6.45%) CISSP
6 13 (5.24%) CISM
7 11 (4.44%) Security Cleared
8 9 (3.63%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.63%) PMI Certification
8 9 (3.63%) PMP
8 9 (3.63%) SC Cleared
9 7 (2.82%) PhD
10 6 (2.42%) CRISC
11 4 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.61%) BPSS Clearance
11 4 (1.61%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 4 (1.61%) MBA
11 4 (1.61%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.47%) QA
2 17 (6.85%) Data Quality
2 17 (6.85%) GDPR
3 11 (4.44%) NIST
4 8 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.42%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.21%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.21%) Basel III
7 3 (1.21%) GRC
7 3 (1.21%) WCAG
8 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.81%) GAAP
8 2 (0.81%) IFRS
8 2 (0.81%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.81%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.81%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 33 (13.31%) Docker
2 25 (10.08%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.61%) Firmware
4 2 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.40%) HDFS
5 1 (0.40%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.40%) Squid
5 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (14.11%) Kubernetes
1 35 (14.11%) Terraform
2 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (5.24%) Grafana
4 12 (4.84%) Ansible
5 10 (4.03%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.61%) SCCM
7 3 (1.21%) Control-M
7 3 (1.21%) Puppet
7 3 (1.21%) WSUS
8 2 (0.81%) Progress Chef
9 1 (0.40%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 76 (30.65%) Microsoft
2 18 (7.26%) Oracle
3 17 (6.85%) Google
4 13 (5.24%) Databricks
5 12 (4.84%) Software AG
6 9 (3.63%) SAP
7 6 (2.42%) Citrix
7 6 (2.42%) Informatica
8 5 (2.02%) Apple
8 5 (2.02%) Bloomberg
8 5 (2.02%) Genesys
8 5 (2.02%) iManage
8 5 (2.02%) Intapp
8 5 (2.02%) Reuters
9 4 (1.61%) Aderant
9 4 (1.61%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.61%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.61%) Splunk
10 3 (1.21%) F5
10 3 (1.21%) Salesforce