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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 183 121 117
Rank change year-on-year -62 -4 +84
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 236 282 371
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.50% 2.13% 2.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.06% 8.43% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 159 186 243
10th Percentile £204 £361 £330
25th Percentile £400 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.18% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £697 £700
90th Percentile £778 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 17
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.24 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £42.73 £38.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £47.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.83% +6.11% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £55.00 £78.75
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% +4.76%

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 4,664 3,346 4,429
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.59% 25.25% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,322 2,141 2,956
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £527 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% -4.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 62 130
10th Percentile £20.24 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.75 £29.38
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +25.11% -26.56%
75th Percentile £72.50 £56.19 £61.46
90th Percentile £76.61 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% +21.95% -14.58%

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 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 2 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 2 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 -11 32 £638 +30.90% 53
West London -10 14 £208 -46.45% 9
South London -14 6 £750 +15.38% 8
East London -4 1 - - 11
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 12 (5.08%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.69%) Confluence
3 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.27%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.27%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.85%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) Camunda
6 1 (0.42%) IIS
6 1 (0.42%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.27%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (2.54%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.85%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.42%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.42%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.42%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.42%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.42%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 126 (53.39%) Azure
2 64 (27.12%) AWS
3 37 (15.68%) GCP
4 24 (10.17%) Microsoft 365
5 23 (9.75%) Power Platform
6 22 (9.32%) SaaS
7 18 (7.63%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (7.20%) GitHub
9 14 (5.93%) Serverless
10 13 (5.51%) IaaS
11 12 (5.08%) Entra ID
12 11 (4.66%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (4.24%) Amazon ECS
14 8 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (3.39%) PaaS
15 7 (2.97%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
15 7 (2.97%) GitHub Actions
16 6 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.12%) CTI
1 5 (2.12%) Firewall
1 5 (2.12%) Network Security
1 5 (2.12%) VoIP
2 4 (1.69%) HTTP
3 3 (1.27%) SSL
3 3 (1.27%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.27%) VPN
4 2 (0.85%) S/MIME
5 1 (0.42%) DHCP
5 1 (0.42%) DKIM
5 1 (0.42%) DMZ
5 1 (0.42%) DNS
5 1 (0.42%) HTTPS
5 1 (0.42%) Internet
5 1 (0.42%) LAN
5 1 (0.42%) SSH
5 1 (0.42%) VLAN
5 1 (0.42%) WAN
5 1 (0.42%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.63%) Power BI
2 17 (7.20%) Big Data
2 17 (7.20%) SQL Server
3 16 (6.78%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (6.36%) Data Warehouse
5 9 (3.81%) MySQL
5 9 (3.81%) Tableau
6 8 (3.39%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.97%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.54%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.12%) Hadoop
9 5 (2.12%) Redis
10 4 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.69%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.69%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.27%) Metadata
11 3 (1.27%) OLAP
11 3 (1.27%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (11.86%) Git
2 13 (5.51%) JIRA
3 7 (2.97%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.54%) GitLab
5 5 (2.12%) Selenium
6 4 (1.69%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.69%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.27%) ERwin
7 3 (1.27%) Hardhat
7 3 (1.27%) MLflow
7 3 (1.27%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.27%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.85%) Postman
8 2 (0.85%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.85%) Vite
9 1 (0.42%) Gradle
9 1 (0.42%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
9 1 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 115 (48.73%) Social Skills
2 93 (39.41%) Finance
3 59 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (17.80%) Banking
5 20 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (5.51%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.08%) Front Office
8 11 (4.66%) Marketing
9 10 (4.24%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.81%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.97%) Retail
12 6 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.12%) Legal
14 4 (1.69%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.69%) Publishing
15 3 (1.27%) Back Office
15 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
15 3 (1.27%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.85%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 48 (20.34%) Developer
2 41 (17.37%) Architect
3 22 (9.32%) Solutions Architect
4 21 (8.90%) Lead
5 19 (8.05%) Senior
6 18 (7.63%) Technical Support
7 13 (5.51%) Support Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Integration Architect
8 12 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Technical Support Specialist
9 11 (4.66%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (4.66%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.81%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.39%) Analyst
12 6 (2.54%) Data Modeller
12 6 (2.54%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.54%) Full-Stack Developer
13 5 (2.12%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 5 (2.12%) Cloud Engineer
13 5 (2.12%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (11.44%) .NET
2 23 (9.75%) React
3 19 (8.05%) Middleware
3 19 (8.05%) REST
4 18 (7.63%) RESTful
5 15 (6.36%) HTML
6 11 (4.66%) OAuth
7 10 (4.24%) CSS
7 10 (4.24%) Node.js
7 10 (4.24%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.81%) JSON
8 9 (3.81%) Kafka
9 8 (3.39%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.39%) LangChain
10 7 (2.97%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.54%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.54%) SOAP
11 6 (2.54%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.12%) Spring
12 5 (2.12%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (11.02%) Management Information System
2 21 (8.90%) Onboarding
3 19 (8.05%) Cloud Native
4 12 (5.08%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.66%) Derivative
5 11 (4.66%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.24%) Algorithms
7 9 (3.81%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.81%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.39%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.39%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.97%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.54%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.12%) Fixed Income
11 5 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.12%) IVR
11 5 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.69%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.71%) Windows
2 16 (6.78%) Linux
3 11 (4.66%) Unix
4 4 (1.69%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.69%) VMS
5 2 (0.85%) Android
6 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 233 (98.73%) Computer Science
2 114 (48.31%) Problem-Solving
3 90 (38.14%) Agile
4 71 (30.08%) DevOps
5 67 (28.39%) CI/CD
6 58 (24.58%) AI
7 47 (19.92%) Analytics
8 42 (17.80%) Microservices
9 33 (13.98%) Data Modelling
9 33 (13.98%) Decision-Making
9 33 (13.98%) ETL
9 33 (13.98%) Roadmaps
10 32 (13.56%) Software Engineering
11 29 (12.29%) Technical Leadership
12 28 (11.86%) Containerisation
12 28 (11.86%) Data Science
12 28 (11.86%) Infrastructure as Code
13 27 (11.44%) Continuous Improvement
13 27 (11.44%) Data Engineering
14 26 (11.02%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 81 (34.32%) Python
2 53 (22.46%) SQL
3 46 (19.49%) Java
4 33 (13.98%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.75%) C#
6 21 (8.90%) TypeScript
7 11 (4.66%) PowerShell
8 9 (3.81%) C++
9 6 (2.54%) Bash
9 6 (2.54%) Go
9 6 (2.54%) Scala
10 5 (2.12%) Bicep
10 5 (2.12%) Perl
11 4 (1.69%) Rust
12 3 (1.27%) R
12 3 (1.27%) Ruby
12 3 (1.27%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.27%) Solidity
12 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.85%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 236 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (28.81%) Master's Degree
3 20 (8.47%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.78%) CISSP
5 15 (6.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 12 (5.08%) CISM
7 10 (4.24%) Security Cleared
8 8 (3.39%) PMI Certification
8 8 (3.39%) PMP
8 8 (3.39%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.54%) AWS Certification
9 6 (2.54%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (2.12%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 5 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (2.12%) CCSP
10 5 (2.12%) CRISC
11 4 (1.69%) PhD
12 3 (1.27%) ISEB
13 2 (0.85%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (10.17%) QA
2 21 (8.90%) GDPR
3 12 (5.08%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.81%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.39%) NIST
6 7 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.69%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.69%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.27%) Basel III
8 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.27%) GRC
8 3 (1.27%) WCAG
9 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.85%) GAAP
9 2 (0.85%) IFRS
9 2 (0.85%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.85%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.85%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 41 (17.37%) Docker
2 24 (10.17%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.69%) Firmware
4 2 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.42%) HDFS
5 1 (0.42%) PowerHA
5 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (15.25%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.86%) Terraform
3 18 (7.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.39%) Grafana
5 5 (2.12%) Ansible
5 5 (2.12%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.27%) Argo
6 3 (1.27%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.27%) Puppet
7 2 (0.85%) Control-M
7 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.42%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.42%) SCCM
Vendors
1 69 (29.24%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.32%) Oracle
3 14 (5.93%) Databricks
4 13 (5.51%) Google
5 12 (5.08%) Software AG
6 9 (3.81%) SAP
7 6 (2.54%) Informatica
8 5 (2.12%) Genesys
8 5 (2.12%) Workday
9 4 (1.69%) IBM
9 4 (1.69%) iManage
9 4 (1.69%) Intapp
9 4 (1.69%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.69%) Salesforce
9 4 (1.69%) Splunk
10 3 (1.27%) Aderant
10 3 (1.27%) Apple
10 3 (1.27%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.27%) OpenAI
10 3 (1.27%) Red Hat