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

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 117 119
Rank change year-on-year -48 +2 +83
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 253 296 368
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 2.18% 1.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.63% 8.60% 8.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 194 242
10th Percentile £204 £363 £329
25th Percentile £400 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.51% -2.27% -16.98%
75th Percentile £700 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £799
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 16
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.35 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £43.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +16.67% +5.26%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £77.19
90th Percentile £91.00 £56.75 £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £47.75 £55.00
% change year-on-year -29.84% -13.18% +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 4,496 3,443 4,549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.32% 25.31% 24.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,182 2,164 3,045
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £763
England median daily rate £520 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -0.95% -3.31% -1.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 59 128
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.45 £14.26
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £34.62
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +8.33% -1.10%
75th Percentile £65.88 £57.50 £64.06
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.36 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £45.88
% change year-on-year -46.77% +2.98% +1.96%

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 14 February 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 14 February 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 14 February 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 -12 38 £600 +17.65% 19
West London -7 17 £208 -46.45% 7
South London -12 6 £750 +15.38% 2
East London -6 1 - - 7
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 16 (6.32%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.58%) Confluence
3 4 (1.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.58%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.19%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.19%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.79%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.40%) Apache
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.19%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
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%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.40%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.40%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.40%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 130 (51.38%) Azure
2 64 (25.30%) AWS
3 38 (15.02%) GCP
4 27 (10.67%) Power Platform
5 26 (10.28%) Microsoft 365
6 23 (9.09%) SaaS
7 19 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (7.51%) GitHub
8 15 (5.93%) Serverless
9 13 (5.14%) IaaS
10 11 (4.35%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (3.95%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
12 9 (3.56%) Entra ID
12 9 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
13 8 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.16%) PaaS
13 8 (3.16%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.77%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.77%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.37%) Firewall
1 6 (2.37%) Network Security
1 6 (2.37%) VoIP
2 5 (1.98%) CTI
3 4 (1.58%) HTTP
3 4 (1.58%) VPN
4 3 (1.19%) DNS
4 3 (1.19%) SSL
4 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.40%) DKIM
6 1 (0.40%) DMARC
6 1 (0.40%) DMZ
6 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) MGCP
6 1 (0.40%) MQTT
6 1 (0.40%) SCCP
6 1 (0.40%) Telepresence
6 1 (0.40%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.30%) Power BI
2 20 (7.91%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.11%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.72%) Big Data
4 17 (6.72%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (4.74%) MySQL
5 12 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 11 (4.35%) Tableau
7 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.77%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.37%) Hadoop
8 6 (2.37%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.98%) OLAP
10 4 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.58%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.58%) Redis
10 4 (1.58%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.19%) Metadata
11 3 (1.19%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 30 (11.86%) Git
2 15 (5.93%) JIRA
3 8 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.37%) GitLab
4 6 (2.37%) Selenium
5 4 (1.58%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.58%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.58%) MLflow
6 3 (1.19%) ERwin
6 3 (1.19%) Hardhat
6 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.79%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.79%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.79%) Postman
7 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.79%) Vite
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
General
1 118 (46.64%) Social Skills
2 97 (38.34%) Finance
3 65 (25.69%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (17.39%) Banking
5 20 (7.91%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.93%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.74%) Front Office
7 12 (4.74%) Investment Banking
7 12 (4.74%) Marketing
8 11 (4.35%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.37%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.37%) Retail
10 6 (2.37%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.98%) Legal
11 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.58%) Publishing
13 3 (1.19%) Back Office
13 3 (1.19%) General Ledger
14 2 (0.79%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 55 (21.74%) Developer
2 39 (15.42%) Architect
3 21 (8.30%) Technical Support
4 20 (7.91%) Solutions Architect
5 19 (7.51%) Lead
5 19 (7.51%) Senior
6 16 (6.32%) Analyst
7 13 (5.14%) Support Specialist
8 12 (4.74%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (4.74%) Technical Specialist
8 12 (4.74%) Technical Support Specialist
9 11 (4.35%) Data Engineer
9 11 (4.35%) Integration Architect
10 9 (3.56%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.16%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (2.37%) Data Modeller
12 6 (2.37%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.37%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.37%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.37%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.07%) .NET
2 21 (8.30%) React
3 20 (7.91%) REST
4 18 (7.11%) HTML
5 17 (6.72%) Middleware
5 17 (6.72%) RESTful
6 13 (5.14%) CSS
7 12 (4.74%) OAuth
8 11 (4.35%) Node.js
9 10 (3.95%) JSON
9 10 (3.95%) LangChain
9 10 (3.95%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
11 8 (3.16%) Kafka
12 7 (2.77%) Spring
12 7 (2.77%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.37%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.37%) SOAP
13 6 (2.37%) XML
14 5 (1.98%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 27 (10.67%) Management Information System
2 20 (7.91%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.11%) Onboarding
4 14 (5.53%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.35%) Algorithms
5 11 (4.35%) Product Ownership
6 10 (3.95%) Derivative
7 9 (3.56%) Distributed Computing
7 9 (3.56%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.16%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (2.77%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.77%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.37%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.98%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.98%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (1.98%) IVR
11 5 (1.98%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (1.98%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 32 (12.65%) Windows
2 22 (8.70%) Linux
3 14 (5.53%) Unix
4 4 (1.58%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.58%) VMS
5 3 (1.19%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) Android
6 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 250 (98.81%) Computer Science
2 125 (49.41%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (37.55%) Agile
4 72 (28.46%) DevOps
5 70 (27.67%) CI/CD
6 59 (23.32%) AI
7 48 (18.97%) Analytics
8 39 (15.42%) Microservices
9 35 (13.83%) Software Engineering
10 34 (13.44%) Decision-Making
11 32 (12.65%) Data Modelling
11 32 (12.65%) ETL
12 31 (12.25%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.46%) Containerisation
13 29 (11.46%) Data Science
13 29 (11.46%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (11.46%) Technical Leadership
14 28 (11.07%) Data Engineering
15 27 (10.67%) Machine Learning
15 27 (10.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 85 (33.60%) Python
2 65 (25.69%) SQL
3 52 (20.55%) Java
4 41 (16.21%) JavaScript
5 25 (9.88%) TypeScript
6 24 (9.49%) C#
7 11 (4.35%) C++
8 8 (3.16%) Perl
9 7 (2.77%) Go
10 6 (2.37%) Bash
10 6 (2.37%) Bicep
10 6 (2.37%) PowerShell
10 6 (2.37%) Scala
11 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.58%) R
12 4 (1.58%) Ruby
12 4 (1.58%) Rust
13 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.19%) Shell Script
13 3 (1.19%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 253 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (26.88%) Master's Degree
3 19 (7.51%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.93%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (5.53%) CISSP
6 13 (5.14%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.35%) SC Cleared
8 10 (3.95%) CISM
9 8 (3.16%) PMI Certification
9 8 (3.16%) PMP
10 6 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (1.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (1.98%) AWS Certification
11 5 (1.98%) CCSP
12 4 (1.58%) CRISC
12 4 (1.58%) PhD
13 3 (1.19%) ISEB
13 3 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.70%) QA
2 21 (8.30%) GDPR
3 11 (4.35%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.56%) PCI DSS
5 7 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 6 (2.37%) NIST
7 4 (1.58%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.58%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.19%) Basel III
8 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.19%) WCAG
9 2 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.79%) GAAP
9 2 (0.79%) GRC
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.79%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 43 (17.00%) Docker
2 24 (9.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
4 1 (0.40%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 39 (15.42%) Kubernetes
2 28 (11.07%) Terraform
3 17 (6.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 8 (3.16%) Grafana
5 5 (1.98%) Ansible
6 4 (1.58%) Prometheus
6 4 (1.58%) SCCM
7 3 (1.19%) Argo
7 3 (1.19%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.19%) Puppet
8 2 (0.79%) Control-M
8 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 74 (29.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.88%) Oracle
3 16 (6.32%) Databricks
4 13 (5.14%) Google
5 11 (4.35%) Software AG
6 9 (3.56%) SAP
7 8 (3.16%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.37%) Informatica
9 5 (1.98%) Genesys
9 5 (1.98%) Workday
10 4 (1.58%) Cisco
10 4 (1.58%) IBM
10 4 (1.58%) OpenAI
10 4 (1.58%) Splunk
10 4 (1.58%) Tenable
10 4 (1.58%) VMware
11 3 (1.19%) Dynatrace
11 3 (1.19%) iManage
11 3 (1.19%) PagerDuty
11 3 (1.19%) Palo Alto