Computer Science Degree Contracts 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 106 185
Rank change year-on-year -32 +79 +102
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 274 425 385
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.07% 2.41% 1.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.02% 10.23% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 279 284
10th Percentile £329 £350 £331
25th Percentile £401 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +1.14% -4.35% -3.56%
75th Percentile £725 £719 £778
90th Percentile £825 £815 £900
England median daily rate £515 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.36% - -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 6
10th Percentile £57.50 - £27.00
25th Percentile £59.38 £38.75 £27.94
Median hourly rate £65.00 £45.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.44% +7.14% -1.18%
75th Percentile £68.13 £81.25 £62.19
90th Percentile £68.50 £83.75 £74.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -46.67% +2.27% +15.79%

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 3,415 4,155 5,490
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.83% 23.58% 21.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,301 2,858 3,781
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -6.25% +1.82%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £750 £769 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 106 83
10th Percentile £18.40 £14.84 £18.72
25th Percentile £25.00 £20.50 £23.63
Median hourly rate £26.41 £25.50 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -52.78% +27.06%
75th Percentile £50.54 £42.75 £71.25
90th Percentile £66.54 £68.38 £87.50
England median hourly rate £28.50 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.94% -22.73% +32.99%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 4 July 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 36 £580 +0.87% 304
West London +8 9 £400 -15.79% 55
South London -3 3 £625 +7.30% 10
East London - 2 £900 - 11
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.01%) Apache Spark
2 6 (2.19%) CMS
3 5 (1.82%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) Apache
4 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.73%) SAS
6 1 (0.36%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.36%) IIS
6 1 (0.36%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.36%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.36%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.19%) Oracle Smart View
3 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.09%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.73%) Actimize
2 2 (0.73%) Endur
2 2 (0.73%) NEC Housing
2 2 (0.73%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.36%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 65 (23.72%) AWS
2 61 (22.26%) Azure
3 24 (8.76%) GCP
4 15 (5.47%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.74%) SaaS
6 12 (4.38%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.38%) OCI
7 10 (3.65%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.28%) Cloud Computing
8 9 (3.28%) GitHub
9 4 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (1.46%) PaaS
10 3 (1.09%) Amazon SageMaker
10 3 (1.09%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.09%) Kong
10 3 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 3 (1.09%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.09%) Vertex AI
11 2 (0.73%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (9.49%) Firewall
2 16 (5.84%) TCP/IP
3 15 (5.47%) VPN
4 14 (5.11%) Network Security
5 10 (3.65%) DNS
6 8 (2.92%) WAN
7 7 (2.55%) Wireless
8 6 (2.19%) BGP
8 6 (2.19%) LAN
8 6 (2.19%) OSPF
9 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.46%) DHCP
10 4 (1.46%) HSRP
10 4 (1.46%) Internet
10 4 (1.46%) IPsec
11 3 (1.09%) Broadband
11 3 (1.09%) MGCP
11 3 (1.09%) SCCP
11 3 (1.09%) VoIP
11 3 (1.09%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (6.93%) Data Warehouse
2 14 (5.11%) Power BI
3 13 (4.74%) SQL Server
4 11 (4.01%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (3.65%) Tableau
6 9 (3.28%) Big Data
7 8 (2.92%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.55%) Hadoop
8 7 (2.55%) Oracle ODI
9 6 (2.19%) DB2
9 6 (2.19%) MySQL
9 6 (2.19%) Oracle BI Publisher
9 6 (2.19%) Oracle Database
9 6 (2.19%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.82%) KDB
10 5 (1.82%) Qlik Sense
10 5 (1.82%) Relational Database
11 4 (1.46%) Kdb+
11 4 (1.46%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 25 (9.12%) Git
2 17 (6.20%) JIRA
3 11 (4.01%) Selenium
4 9 (3.28%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.92%) GitLab
6 6 (2.19%) JUnit
7 5 (1.82%) Bitbucket
7 5 (1.82%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.46%) Cypress.io
8 4 (1.46%) Maven
9 3 (1.09%) Appium
9 3 (1.09%) Postman
9 3 (1.09%) REST Assured
9 3 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (0.73%) Gradle
10 2 (0.73%) MLflow
11 1 (0.36%) Cucumber
11 1 (0.36%) JProfiler
11 1 (0.36%) MSTest
11 1 (0.36%) NSubstitute
General
1 147 (53.65%) Social Skills
2 107 (39.05%) Finance
3 94 (34.31%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (13.14%) Banking
5 20 (7.30%) Investment Banking
6 18 (6.57%) Front Office
7 14 (5.11%) Financial Institution
8 10 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.65%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.28%) Retail
10 7 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Legal
11 5 (1.82%) Marketing
12 3 (1.09%) Military
13 2 (0.73%) Advertising
13 2 (0.73%) Back Office
13 2 (0.73%) Electronics
13 2 (0.73%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 59 (21.53%) Developer
2 39 (14.23%) Senior
3 34 (12.41%) Architect
4 18 (6.57%) Software Engineer
5 14 (5.11%) Analyst
6 13 (4.74%) Network Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Lead
8 11 (4.01%) Consultant
8 11 (4.01%) Java Engineer
8 11 (4.01%) Python Developer
9 10 (3.65%) Cloud Architect
9 10 (3.65%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Security Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.92%) Business Analyst
12 7 (2.55%) C++ Developer
12 7 (2.55%) IT Manager
12 7 (2.55%) Java Developer
12 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.47%) CSS
2 14 (5.11%) REST
3 13 (4.74%) HTML
3 13 (4.74%) React
4 12 (4.38%) Spring
5 11 (4.01%) Oracle Fusion
6 10 (3.65%) Middleware
6 10 (3.65%) Web Services
7 9 (3.28%) .NET
8 8 (2.92%) PySpark
9 7 (2.55%) Kafka
9 7 (2.55%) OAuth
9 7 (2.55%) OpenID
9 7 (2.55%) SAML
9 7 (2.55%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.19%) Node.js
11 5 (1.82%) AngularJS
11 5 (1.82%) Jest
11 5 (1.82%) PyTorch
11 5 (1.82%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 23 (8.39%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.30%) Algorithms
3 19 (6.93%) Data Structures
4 16 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
4 16 (5.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 15 (5.47%) Product Ownership
6 11 (4.01%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.28%) Fixed Income
8 8 (2.92%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (2.92%) Hedge funds
8 8 (2.92%) Mobile App
9 7 (2.55%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
10 6 (2.19%) Derivative
10 6 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.19%) Reference Data
10 6 (2.19%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.82%) Data Centre
11 5 (1.82%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.22%) Linux
2 9 (3.28%) Windows
3 8 (2.92%) Apple iOS
4 7 (2.55%) Android
5 5 (1.82%) Unix
5 5 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.46%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.73%) AIX
7 2 (0.73%) Solaris
7 2 (0.73%) SUSE
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 272 (99.27%) Computer Science
2 131 (47.81%) Problem-Solving
3 100 (36.50%) Agile
4 52 (18.98%) DevOps
5 41 (14.96%) Software Engineering
6 40 (14.60%) CI/CD
7 39 (14.23%) Scrum
8 34 (12.41%) Migration
9 33 (12.04%) Mentoring
10 32 (11.68%) Project Management
11 28 (10.22%) Analytics
12 25 (9.12%) Technical Leadership
12 25 (9.12%) Test Automation
13 24 (8.76%) Data Governance
14 22 (8.03%) Information Security
14 22 (8.03%) Machine Learning
14 22 (8.03%) Risk Management
15 21 (7.66%) Decision-Making
16 20 (7.30%) Data Modelling
16 20 (7.30%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 99 (36.13%) Python
2 71 (25.91%) Java
3 66 (24.09%) SQL
4 27 (9.85%) JavaScript
5 22 (8.03%) C++
6 15 (5.47%) C#
7 14 (5.11%) Bash
8 11 (4.01%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.92%) Perl
10 5 (1.82%) Apex Code
10 5 (1.82%) PHP
10 5 (1.82%) PL/SQL
11 4 (1.46%) TypeScript
12 3 (1.09%) C
12 3 (1.09%) R
13 2 (0.73%) MATLAB
13 2 (0.73%) Ruby
13 2 (0.73%) Scala
13 2 (0.73%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.73%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 274 (100.00%) Degree
2 43 (15.69%) Master's Degree
3 30 (10.95%) Security Cleared
4 26 (9.49%) SC Cleared
5 15 (5.47%) AWS Certification
6 14 (5.11%) CISSP
7 12 (4.38%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (4.38%) PMI Certification
8 11 (4.01%) PMP
9 10 (3.65%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.65%) CCNA
10 9 (3.28%) CCNP
11 8 (2.92%) CISM
11 8 (2.92%) PhD
12 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 5 (1.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 5 (1.82%) ISTQB
13 5 (1.82%) JNCIA
13 5 (1.82%) OCP
13 5 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.39%) QA
2 20 (7.30%) Data Quality
3 19 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 16 (5.84%) NIST
5 10 (3.65%) GDPR
6 7 (2.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 6 (2.19%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (1.82%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 4 (1.46%) SLA
10 3 (1.09%) MiFID
10 3 (1.09%) PMO
11 2 (0.73%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.73%) NCSC
12 1 (0.36%) Basel III
12 1 (0.36%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.36%) GRC
12 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.36%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.36%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (6.93%) Docker
2 6 (2.19%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.36%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.36%) vSphere
5 1 (0.36%) XenApp
5 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 22 (8.03%) Kubernetes
2 21 (7.66%) Terraform
3 16 (5.84%) Ansible
4 5 (1.82%) Grafana
4 5 (1.82%) Progress Chef
4 5 (1.82%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.82%) Puppet
5 3 (1.09%) Control-M
5 3 (1.09%) Istio
5 3 (1.09%) Rundeck
5 3 (1.09%) SCCM
6 2 (0.73%) Argo
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (0.73%) QRadar
6 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.36%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.36%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.36%) OPNET
7 1 (0.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 30 (10.95%) Microsoft
2 27 (9.85%) Oracle
3 18 (6.57%) Google
4 16 (5.84%) Cisco
5 15 (5.47%) Salesforce
6 11 (4.01%) SAP
7 8 (2.92%) IBM
7 8 (2.92%) ServiceNow
8 5 (1.82%) Databricks
8 5 (1.82%) Fortinet
8 5 (1.82%) Juniper
8 5 (1.82%) Meraki
8 5 (1.82%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.46%) Aruba
9 4 (1.46%) CyberArk
9 4 (1.46%) Murex
9 4 (1.46%) OutSystems
9 4 (1.46%) Splunk
10 3 (1.09%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.09%) VMware