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

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 176 137 105
Rank change year-on-year -39 -32 +99
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 255 251 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.49% 1.98% 2.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.10% 7.82% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 166 173 255
10th Percentile £204 £358 £350
25th Percentile £400 £435 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.83% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £725 £694
90th Percentile £825 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
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 £37.50 £55.00 £55.63
% change year-on-year -31.82% -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 5,000 3,209 4,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.15% 25.30% 24.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,573 2,180 2,935
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £658
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 60 118
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.13 £14.19
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £28.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +32.47% -34.60%
75th Percentile £76.58 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.72 £83.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £50.00 £38.45
% change year-on-year -25.00% +30.03% -26.05%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -22 30 £600 +3.23% 58
West London -17 11 £208 -47.60% 5
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 (5.49%) Apache Spark
1 14 (5.49%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.57%) Confluence
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.78%) Apache
5 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Camunda
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.96%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 136 (53.33%) Azure
2 73 (28.63%) AWS
3 36 (14.12%) GCP
4 28 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
5 25 (9.80%) Power Platform
6 23 (9.02%) SaaS
7 21 (8.24%) Azure DevOps
8 18 (7.06%) Serverless
9 17 (6.67%) GitHub
10 15 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
10 15 (5.88%) IaaS
11 11 (4.31%) Azure Data Factory
11 11 (4.31%) Entra ID
12 10 (3.92%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (3.92%) PaaS
12 10 (3.92%) Snowflake
13 9 (3.53%) Amazon S3
14 8 (3.14%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 8 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.14%) Firewall
2 7 (2.75%) VPN
3 6 (2.35%) BGP
3 6 (2.35%) DMZ
4 5 (1.96%) CTI
4 5 (1.96%) TCP/IP
4 5 (1.96%) VoIP
5 4 (1.57%) HTTP
6 3 (1.18%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.18%) IGMP
6 3 (1.18%) MPLS
6 3 (1.18%) Multicast
6 3 (1.18%) OSPF
6 3 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (1.18%) VXLAN
6 3 (1.18%) WAN
7 2 (0.78%) IPv4
7 2 (0.78%) IPv6
8 1 (0.39%) DKIM
8 1 (0.39%) DMARC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.24%) Power BI
1 21 (8.24%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.45%) Big Data
2 19 (7.45%) Data Warehouse
3 16 (6.27%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.10%) NoSQL
6 11 (4.31%) Tableau
7 8 (3.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.75%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.75%) MySQL
9 6 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (2.35%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.35%) Redis
9 6 (2.35%) Snowflake Schema
10 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.57%) Metadata
10 4 (1.57%) Pinecone
10 4 (1.57%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 28 (10.98%) Git
2 13 (5.10%) JIRA
3 12 (4.71%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.35%) GitLab
4 6 (2.35%) Selenium
5 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.57%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.18%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.18%) ERwin
6 3 (1.18%) MLflow
6 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.18%) Vite
7 2 (0.78%) Maven
7 2 (0.78%) Postman
7 2 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.39%) Gradle
8 1 (0.39%) RStudio
8 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
8 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 125 (49.02%) Social Skills
2 97 (38.04%) Finance
3 66 (25.88%) Analytical Skills
4 51 (20.00%) Banking
5 20 (7.84%) Front Office
6 19 (7.45%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (7.06%) Investment Banking
8 15 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (5.49%) Marketing
10 9 (3.53%) Legal
11 8 (3.14%) Public Sector
11 8 (3.14%) Telecoms
12 6 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.35%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.35%) Retail
13 4 (1.57%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.57%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.57%) Publishing
14 3 (1.18%) Back Office
14 3 (1.18%) Law
Job Titles
1 43 (16.86%) Architect
1 43 (16.86%) Developer
2 26 (10.20%) Lead
3 22 (8.63%) Senior
4 21 (8.24%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (7.45%) Technical Support
6 15 (5.88%) Support Specialist
7 14 (5.49%) Technical Specialist
7 14 (5.49%) Technical Support Specialist
8 12 (4.71%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (4.71%) Data Engineer
8 12 (4.71%) Integration Architect
9 10 (3.92%) Analyst
10 9 (3.53%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.75%) Applications Architect
11 7 (2.75%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.75%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.75%) Data Modeller
11 7 (2.75%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (9.80%) .NET
2 22 (8.63%) REST
3 21 (8.24%) React
4 19 (7.45%) RESTful
5 18 (7.06%) Middleware
6 11 (4.31%) PyTorch
7 10 (3.92%) HTML
7 10 (3.92%) Kafka
7 10 (3.92%) Node.js
8 9 (3.53%) LangChain
9 8 (3.14%) OAuth
9 8 (3.14%) Spring
10 7 (2.75%) AngularJS
10 7 (2.75%) JSON
10 7 (2.75%) PySpark
11 6 (2.35%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.35%) WebSockets
12 5 (1.96%) CSS
12 5 (1.96%) Elastic Stack
12 5 (1.96%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.80%) Management Information System
1 25 (9.80%) Onboarding
2 23 (9.02%) Cloud Native
3 13 (5.10%) Derivative
3 13 (5.10%) Enterprise Software
3 13 (5.10%) Product Ownership
4 10 (3.92%) Distributed Systems
5 8 (3.14%) AI Agents
5 8 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 8 (3.14%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.14%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.14%) Distributed Computing
5 8 (3.14%) Equities
6 7 (2.75%) Fixed Income
7 6 (2.35%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.35%) Equity Derivative
7 6 (2.35%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.55%) Windows
2 19 (7.45%) Linux
3 9 (3.53%) Unix
4 6 (2.35%) Mac OS
5 4 (1.57%) VMS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (98.43%) Computer Science
2 109 (42.75%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (36.47%) Agile
4 80 (31.37%) DevOps
5 78 (30.59%) AI
6 74 (29.02%) CI/CD
7 56 (21.96%) Analytics
8 42 (16.47%) Data Modelling
8 42 (16.47%) Microservices
8 42 (16.47%) Software Engineering
9 37 (14.51%) Decision-Making
9 37 (14.51%) ETL
9 37 (14.51%) Roadmaps
10 35 (13.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 35 (13.73%) Infrastructure as Code
11 31 (12.16%) Data Science
11 31 (12.16%) Technical Leadership
12 30 (11.76%) Data Engineering
13 29 (11.37%) Data Governance
14 28 (10.98%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 94 (36.86%) Python
2 67 (26.27%) SQL
3 43 (16.86%) Java
4 26 (10.20%) C#
5 25 (9.80%) JavaScript
6 19 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 14 (5.49%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.53%) C++
9 7 (2.75%) Bash
9 7 (2.75%) Scala
10 6 (2.35%) Go
11 5 (1.96%) R
12 4 (1.57%) Bicep
12 4 (1.57%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 4 (1.57%) Perl
12 4 (1.57%) Rust
13 3 (1.18%) C
13 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
14 2 (0.78%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 255 (100.00%) Degree
2 66 (25.88%) Master's Degree
3 21 (8.24%) Azure Certification
4 19 (7.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (5.88%) CISSP
6 13 (5.10%) CISM
6 13 (5.10%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.31%) SC Cleared
8 9 (3.53%) AWS Certification
8 9 (3.53%) PMI Certification
8 9 (3.53%) PMP
9 7 (2.75%) PhD
10 6 (2.35%) CRISC
11 5 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 4 (1.57%) Cisco Certification
12 4 (1.57%) MBA
12 4 (1.57%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (1.18%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.63%) QA
2 18 (7.06%) GDPR
3 16 (6.27%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.31%) NIST
5 8 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.35%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
8 3 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.18%) Basel III
8 3 (1.18%) GRC
8 3 (1.18%) WCAG
9 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.78%) GAAP
9 2 (0.78%) IFRS
9 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.78%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 36 (14.12%) Docker
2 25 (9.80%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.39%) HDFS
5 1 (0.39%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 35 (13.73%) Kubernetes
1 35 (13.73%) Terraform
2 20 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (5.10%) Grafana
4 10 (3.92%) Ansible
4 10 (3.92%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.18%) Control-M
5 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
5 3 (1.18%) Puppet
5 3 (1.18%) SCCM
6 2 (0.78%) WSUS
7 1 (0.39%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 78 (30.59%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.84%) Oracle
3 17 (6.67%) Google
4 13 (5.10%) Databricks
5 12 (4.71%) Software AG
6 9 (3.53%) SAP
7 6 (2.35%) Informatica
8 5 (1.96%) Apple
8 5 (1.96%) Citrix
8 5 (1.96%) Genesys
8 5 (1.96%) iManage
8 5 (1.96%) Intapp
9 4 (1.57%) Aderant
9 4 (1.57%) Bloomberg
9 4 (1.57%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.57%) Reuters
10 3 (1.18%) F5
10 3 (1.18%) Nokia
10 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.18%) Splunk