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

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 137 102
Rank change year-on-year -92 -35 +50
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 243 290 422
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.20% 2.15% 2.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.29% 8.21% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 204 289
10th Percentile £221 £289 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £564
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% -7.76% +5.62%
75th Percentile £726 £700 £750
90th Percentile £850 £825 £888
England median daily rate £505 £479 £550
% change year-on-year +5.48% -12.95% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 5
10th Percentile £29.60 £62.88 £43.25
25th Percentile £34.76 £63.44 £46.25
Median hourly rate £40.25 £66.25 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.25% +26.19% +66.67%
75th Percentile £52.00 £68.44 £53.75
90th Percentile £59.35 £68.63 -
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -42.86% -4.55%

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 5,670 3,531 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.01% 26.22% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,062 2,384 2,680
10th Percentile £371 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.44 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -9.09%

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 30 August 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 30 August 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 30 August 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 -41 15 £490 -6.67% 50
West London -24 6 £283 -28.49% 50
East London +4 3 £190 -78.89% 3
South London -14 2 £744 +18.96% 6
North London - 1 £550 - 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 12 (4.94%) Apache Spark
2 9 (3.70%) Apache
3 7 (2.88%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.47%) Confluence
5 4 (1.65%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 4 (1.65%) Camunda
6 3 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.41%) CMS
7 1 (0.41%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.41%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (1.65%) Aladdin
2 3 (1.23%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.41%) Finacle
3 1 (0.41%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.41%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.41%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.41%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 102 (41.98%) Azure
2 67 (27.57%) AWS
3 40 (16.46%) GCP
4 28 (11.52%) Azure DevOps
5 21 (8.64%) Microsoft 365
6 20 (8.23%) GitHub
6 20 (8.23%) Power Platform
7 18 (7.41%) Snowflake
8 17 (7.00%) Serverless
9 15 (6.17%) SaaS
10 14 (5.76%) Entra ID
11 13 (5.35%) OpenShift
12 8 (3.29%) Datadog
13 7 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
13 7 (2.88%) Azure AKS
13 7 (2.88%) Azure Data Factory
13 7 (2.88%) Azure Functions
13 7 (2.88%) IaaS
13 7 (2.88%) PaaS
14 6 (2.47%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.00%) Firewall
2 15 (6.17%) VPN
3 12 (4.94%) Network Security
4 11 (4.53%) DNS
4 11 (4.53%) TCP/IP
5 9 (3.70%) DHCP
6 8 (3.29%) BGP
7 6 (2.47%) DMZ
8 5 (2.06%) Wireless
9 4 (1.65%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.65%) MPLS
9 4 (1.65%) OSPF
9 4 (1.65%) SAN
9 4 (1.65%) VLAN
9 4 (1.65%) WAN
9 4 (1.65%) WebEx
9 4 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.23%) Multicast
10 3 (1.23%) Software-Defined Networking
10 3 (1.23%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.70%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.41%) NoSQL
3 15 (6.17%) Data Warehouse
3 15 (6.17%) Power BI
4 14 (5.76%) Relational Database
5 13 (5.35%) PostgreSQL
6 11 (4.53%) MongoDB
7 9 (3.70%) Big Data
8 7 (2.88%) MySQL
8 7 (2.88%) Tableau
9 6 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 6 (2.47%) Data Mining
9 6 (2.47%) Metadata
9 6 (2.47%) Redis
10 5 (2.06%) Star Schema
11 4 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
11 4 (1.65%) Flink
11 4 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
12 3 (1.23%) Looker
12 3 (1.23%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 26 (10.70%) Git
2 21 (8.64%) Jenkins
3 17 (7.00%) GitLab
4 11 (4.53%) JIRA
5 10 (4.12%) Gradle
6 9 (3.70%) Maven
6 9 (3.70%) SonarQube
7 8 (3.29%) JUnit
7 8 (3.29%) Selenium
8 5 (2.06%) REST Assured
9 4 (1.65%) Bitbucket Server
9 4 (1.65%) Chocolatey
9 4 (1.65%) Mockito
9 4 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (1.23%) Claude Code
10 3 (1.23%) Cypress.io
10 3 (1.23%) HP UFT
11 2 (0.82%) Ant
11 2 (0.82%) Eclipse
11 2 (0.82%) Visual Studio
General
1 137 (56.38%) Social Skills
2 96 (39.51%) Finance
3 72 (29.63%) Analytical Skills
4 47 (19.34%) Banking
5 23 (9.47%) Front Office
6 13 (5.35%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (4.94%) Investment Banking
8 11 (4.53%) Marketing
9 10 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (3.29%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.47%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.47%) Retail
13 4 (1.65%) Back Office
13 4 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.65%) Legal
13 4 (1.65%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (1.23%) Law
14 3 (1.23%) Manufacturing
14 3 (1.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 58 (23.87%) Developer
2 33 (13.58%) Senior
3 30 (12.35%) Architect
4 20 (8.23%) Lead
5 15 (6.17%) Java Developer
6 14 (5.76%) Full-Stack Developer
7 12 (4.94%) Analyst
7 12 (4.94%) Data Engineer
8 11 (4.53%) Python Developer
9 10 (4.12%) Senior Developer
10 9 (3.70%) C# Developer
10 9 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.29%) DevOps Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (3.29%) Senior Java Developer
12 7 (2.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 7 (2.88%) Full-Stack Java Developer
12 7 (2.88%) Software Engineer
13 6 (2.47%) Security Engineer
13 6 (2.47%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (12.76%) Terraform
2 26 (10.70%) REST
3 22 (9.05%) Kafka
4 18 (7.41%) React
4 18 (7.41%) Spring
5 17 (7.00%) CSS
5 17 (7.00%) HTML
5 17 (7.00%) Spring Boot
6 16 (6.58%) .NET
7 15 (6.17%) RESTful
8 10 (4.12%) AngularJS
8 10 (4.12%) PyTorch
9 8 (3.29%) PySpark
10 7 (2.88%) Elastic Stack
10 7 (2.88%) Pandas
11 6 (2.47%) LangChain
11 6 (2.47%) Node.js
11 6 (2.47%) SOAP
11 6 (2.47%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.70%) Cloud Native
2 25 (10.29%) Management Information System
3 21 (8.64%) Onboarding
4 17 (7.00%) Data Structures
5 15 (6.17%) Product Ownership
6 13 (5.35%) Distributed Systems
7 12 (4.94%) AI Agents
7 12 (4.94%) Algorithms
7 12 (4.94%) Derivative
8 10 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
8 10 (4.12%) Fixed Income
8 10 (4.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (3.70%) Equities
10 6 (2.47%) Data Centre
10 6 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (2.47%) Replication
10 6 (2.47%) Virtual Team
11 5 (2.06%) Equity Derivative
11 5 (2.06%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.06%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.52%) Windows
2 26 (10.70%) Linux
3 5 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.06%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.65%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.65%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.23%) Android
5 3 (1.23%) Apple iOS
5 3 (1.23%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.82%) VMS
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 240 (98.77%) Computer Science
2 100 (41.15%) Problem-Solving
3 88 (36.21%) AI
4 83 (34.16%) Agile
5 68 (27.98%) CI/CD
5 68 (27.98%) DevOps
6 57 (23.46%) Software Engineering
7 55 (22.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 51 (20.99%) Analytics
9 41 (16.87%) Stakeholder Management
10 37 (15.23%) Test Automation
11 34 (13.99%) Generative AI
11 34 (13.99%) Scrum
12 32 (13.17%) Microservices
13 31 (12.76%) Machine Learning
14 30 (12.35%) Containerisation
14 30 (12.35%) Data Modelling
15 29 (11.93%) ITIL
16 28 (11.52%) Infrastructure as Code
17 26 (10.70%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (34.98%) Python
2 75 (30.86%) SQL
3 53 (21.81%) Java
4 29 (11.93%) JavaScript
5 22 (9.05%) C#
6 19 (7.82%) PowerShell
7 18 (7.41%) TypeScript
8 14 (5.76%) Bash
9 11 (4.53%) C++
10 4 (1.65%) Bicep
10 4 (1.65%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 4 (1.65%) PL/SQL
10 4 (1.65%) Scala
11 3 (1.23%) Go
11 3 (1.23%) Ruby
11 3 (1.23%) Shell Script
11 3 (1.23%) VBScript
12 2 (0.82%) C
12 2 (0.82%) RPG
12 2 (0.82%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 243 (100.00%) Degree
2 40 (16.46%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.41%) Azure Certification
4 17 (7.00%) Security Cleared
5 15 (6.17%) SC Cleared
6 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (4.53%) PhD
8 9 (3.70%) AWS Certification
9 8 (3.29%) CISSP
10 7 (2.88%) Cisco Certification
11 6 (2.47%) MBA
12 5 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 5 (2.06%) CISM
12 5 (2.06%) PMI Certification
12 5 (2.06%) PMP
13 4 (1.65%) CCNP
14 3 (1.23%) DV Cleared
14 3 (1.23%) MCSA
14 3 (1.23%) Tableau Certification
14 3 (1.23%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (8.23%) Data Quality
2 16 (6.58%) QA
3 7 (2.88%) NIST
4 6 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.47%) SLA
5 5 (2.06%) GDPR
6 2 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.41%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.41%) GRC
7 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
7 1 (0.41%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 30 (12.35%) Docker
2 17 (7.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.47%) Virtual Desktop
4 4 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.41%) Squid
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 39 (16.05%) Kubernetes
2 17 (7.00%) Ansible
3 13 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (4.94%) Grafana
4 12 (4.94%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.53%) SCCM
6 3 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (1.23%) WSUS
7 2 (0.82%) HP ALM
8 1 (0.41%) CASB
8 1 (0.41%) Control-M
8 1 (0.41%) Puppet
8 1 (0.41%) SCOM
8 1 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.41%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 68 (27.98%) Microsoft
2 22 (9.05%) Oracle
3 20 (8.23%) Google
4 12 (4.94%) Cisco
5 9 (3.70%) Splunk
5 9 (3.70%) VMware
6 8 (3.29%) IBM
7 7 (2.88%) Progress
7 7 (2.88%) Red Hat
7 7 (2.88%) ServiceNow
8 6 (2.47%) BeyondTrust
8 6 (2.47%) Citrix
9 5 (2.06%) Adobe
9 5 (2.06%) AppDynamics
9 5 (2.06%) Databricks
9 5 (2.06%) Dynatrace
10 4 (1.65%) Arista
10 4 (1.65%) CyberArk
10 4 (1.65%) Palo Alto
10 4 (1.65%) Veracode