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

6 months to
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 134 111
Rank change year-on-year -40 -23 +91
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 254 269 387
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.55% 2.10% 2.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.22% 8.22% 8.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 189 256
10th Percentile £204 £362 £333
25th Percentile £400 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.91% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £700
90th Percentile £791 £825 £800
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -10.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 18
10th Percentile - £42.24 £38.75
25th Percentile £85.00 £42.73 £39.38
Median hourly rate £90.00 £47.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.48% +6.11% -3.23%
75th Percentile £95.00 £55.00 £77.81
90th Percentile - £57.25 £83.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £47.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.47% -13.18% -

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 4,866 3,271 4,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.62% 25.52% 24.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,453 2,175 2,951
10th Percentile £361 £349 £325
25th Percentile £430 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £655 £656
90th Percentile £750 £764 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 66 127
10th Percentile £19.74 £21.50 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.93 £20.10
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +24.17% -25.93%
75th Percentile £75.17 £56.19 £60.63
90th Percentile £77.35 £78.40 £83.75
England median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £38.85
% change year-on-year -43.00% +28.70% -22.30%

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 18 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
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 18 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 -14 34 £625 +19.05% 68
West London -11 12 £208 -47.60% 2
South London -13 4 £637 -12.14% 2
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 (5.51%) Apache Spark
1 14 (5.51%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.57%) Confluence
4 3 (1.18%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.18%) Hyperledger
4 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
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
Applications
1 9 (3.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.18%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.57%) Aladdin
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.79%) 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%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.39%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.39%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 138 (54.33%) Azure
2 72 (28.35%) AWS
3 39 (15.35%) GCP
4 26 (10.24%) Power Platform
5 25 (9.84%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (9.06%) SaaS
7 21 (8.27%) Azure DevOps
8 20 (7.87%) GitHub
9 17 (6.69%) Serverless
10 15 (5.91%) IaaS
11 13 (5.12%) AWS CloudFormation
12 12 (4.72%) Entra ID
13 10 (3.94%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (3.94%) Azure Data Factory
13 10 (3.94%) PaaS
14 9 (3.54%) Amazon S3
15 8 (3.15%) AWS Lambda
15 8 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 8 (3.15%) Azure Logic Apps
15 8 (3.15%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) Firewall
2 5 (1.97%) CTI
2 5 (1.97%) Network Security
2 5 (1.97%) VoIP
2 5 (1.97%) VPN
3 4 (1.57%) HTTP
4 3 (1.18%) BGP
4 3 (1.18%) DMZ
4 3 (1.18%) SSL
4 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.18%) WAN
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (0.79%) IGMP
5 2 (0.79%) IPv4
5 2 (0.79%) IPv6
5 2 (0.79%) Multicast
5 2 (0.79%) S/MIME
5 2 (0.79%) VXLAN
6 1 (0.39%) DKIM
6 1 (0.39%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.66%) Power BI
2 20 (7.87%) SQL Server
3 19 (7.48%) Big Data
4 18 (7.09%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (4.72%) NoSQL
6 12 (4.72%) Tableau
7 11 (4.33%) Relational Database
8 7 (2.76%) MySQL
8 7 (2.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (2.36%) Hadoop
9 6 (2.36%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.36%) Redis
10 5 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.97%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.97%) Snowflake Schema
11 4 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (1.57%) Metadata
11 4 (1.57%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (12.20%) Git
2 13 (5.12%) JIRA
3 10 (3.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.36%) GitLab
5 5 (1.97%) Selenium
6 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.57%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.18%) ERwin
7 3 (1.18%) Hardhat
7 3 (1.18%) MLflow
7 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.18%) TeamCity
7 3 (1.18%) Vite
8 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.79%) Postman
8 2 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
9 1 (0.39%) RStudio
9 1 (0.39%) Spinnaker
9 1 (0.39%) webpack
General
1 125 (49.21%) Social Skills
2 99 (38.98%) Finance
3 67 (26.38%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (17.72%) Banking
5 22 (8.66%) Presentation Skills
6 17 (6.69%) Front Office
7 14 (5.51%) Investment Banking
7 14 (5.51%) Marketing
8 13 (5.12%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.54%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.15%) Legal
11 7 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.36%) Retail
12 6 (2.36%) Telecoms
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 48 (18.90%) Developer
2 46 (18.11%) Architect
3 25 (9.84%) Lead
4 22 (8.66%) Senior
4 22 (8.66%) Solutions Architect
5 17 (6.69%) Technical Support
6 13 (5.12%) Support Specialist
7 12 (4.72%) Integration Architect
7 12 (4.72%) Technical Specialist
7 12 (4.72%) Technical Support Specialist
8 11 (4.33%) Cloud Architect
8 11 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.54%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.15%) Analyst
11 7 (2.76%) Applications Architect
11 7 (2.76%) Cloud Engineer
11 7 (2.76%) Data Modeller
11 7 (2.76%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.76%) Python Developer
12 6 (2.36%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.63%) .NET
2 23 (9.06%) React
3 19 (7.48%) Middleware
4 18 (7.09%) REST
5 16 (6.30%) RESTful
6 12 (4.72%) HTML
7 11 (4.33%) Node.js
7 11 (4.33%) OAuth
8 10 (3.94%) Kafka
8 10 (3.94%) Spring
9 9 (3.54%) AngularJS
9 9 (3.54%) LangChain
9 9 (3.54%) PyTorch
10 8 (3.15%) CSS
10 8 (3.15%) JSON
11 6 (2.36%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.36%) PySpark
11 6 (2.36%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.36%) WebSockets
12 5 (1.97%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.63%) Management Information System
2 26 (10.24%) Cloud Native
3 21 (8.27%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.51%) Derivative
5 13 (5.12%) Enterprise Software
6 12 (4.72%) Product Ownership
7 11 (4.33%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.54%) Algorithms
8 9 (3.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
9 8 (3.15%) AI Agents
9 8 (3.15%) Data Structures
9 8 (3.15%) Distributed Computing
9 8 (3.15%) Equities
10 7 (2.76%) Fixed Income
10 7 (2.76%) Virtual Team
11 6 (2.36%) Data Centre
11 6 (2.36%) Equity Derivative
12 5 (1.97%) Legacy Systems
12 5 (1.97%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.02%) Windows
2 15 (5.91%) Linux
3 9 (3.54%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.57%) VMS
5 2 (0.79%) Android
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (98.82%) Computer Science
2 112 (44.09%) Problem-Solving
3 93 (36.61%) Agile
4 78 (30.71%) CI/CD
4 78 (30.71%) DevOps
5 72 (28.35%) AI
6 55 (21.65%) Analytics
7 43 (16.93%) Microservices
8 40 (15.75%) Data Modelling
9 37 (14.57%) Software Engineering
10 36 (14.17%) ETL
11 35 (13.78%) Decision-Making
12 34 (13.39%) Roadmaps
13 33 (12.99%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (12.60%) Data Science
14 32 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (12.20%) Data Engineering
15 31 (12.20%) Data Governance
15 31 (12.20%) Infrastructure as Code
16 30 (11.81%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 93 (36.61%) Python
2 66 (25.98%) SQL
3 51 (20.08%) Java
4 26 (10.24%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.45%) C#
6 21 (8.27%) TypeScript
7 12 (4.72%) PowerShell
8 8 (3.15%) C++
9 7 (2.76%) Scala
10 6 (2.36%) Bash
10 6 (2.36%) Go
11 5 (1.97%) 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%) Ruby
13 3 (1.18%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.18%) Solidity
14 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 254 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (26.77%) Master's Degree
3 22 (8.66%) Azure Certification
4 17 (6.69%) CISSP
4 17 (6.69%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.12%) CISM
5 13 (5.12%) Security Cleared
6 11 (4.33%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.54%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.54%) PMP
8 7 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 6 (2.36%) AWS Certification
10 5 (1.97%) BPSS Clearance
10 5 (1.97%) CCSP
10 5 (1.97%) CRISC
10 5 (1.97%) PhD
11 3 (1.18%) CISA
11 3 (1.18%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (9.06%) QA
2 22 (8.66%) GDPR
3 14 (5.51%) Data Quality
4 11 (4.33%) NIST
5 10 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (3.54%) PCI DSS
7 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.57%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.18%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (1.18%) Basel III
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.18%) GRC
8 3 (1.18%) WCAG
9 2 (0.79%) GAAP
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.79%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (16.54%) Docker
2 24 (9.45%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.57%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.39%) HDFS
5 1 (0.39%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 40 (15.75%) Kubernetes
2 33 (12.99%) Terraform
3 18 (7.09%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.33%) Grafana
5 8 (3.15%) Ansible
5 8 (3.15%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.18%) Argo
6 3 (1.18%) Progress Chef
6 3 (1.18%) Puppet
7 2 (0.79%) Control-M
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (29.92%) Microsoft
2 20 (7.87%) Oracle
3 19 (7.48%) Google
4 14 (5.51%) Databricks
5 12 (4.72%) Software AG
6 10 (3.94%) SAP
7 6 (2.36%) Informatica
8 5 (1.97%) Apple
8 5 (1.97%) Genesys
8 5 (1.97%) iManage
8 5 (1.97%) Intapp
8 5 (1.97%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.57%) Aderant
9 4 (1.57%) Cisco
9 4 (1.57%) Nexthink
9 4 (1.57%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.57%) Workday
10 3 (1.18%) Citrix
10 3 (1.18%) IBM
10 3 (1.18%) Red Hat