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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 109 125
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 +89
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 267 319 343
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.30% 1.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.20% 8.94% 7.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 211 225
10th Percentile £286 £363 £332
25th Percentile £400 £453 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -17.91%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £700
90th Percentile £795 £888 £800
England median daily rate £477 £528 £534
% change year-on-year -9.62% -1.22% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 11
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.46 £38.75
25th Percentile £62.50 £45.06 £40.63
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 £68.13
90th Percentile £91.00 - £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £51.25 £55.00
% change year-on-year -34.63% -6.82% +0.92%

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 4,303 3,568 4,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.52% 25.70% 24.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,016 2,225 2,976
10th Percentile £360 £352 £331
25th Percentile £431 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £653
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 61 112
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.50 £15.50
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 £36.57
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% +6.66% +4.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £48.40
% change year-on-year -46.77% -2.39% +7.56%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -8 36 £563 +8.70% 37
West London -6 17 £208 -44.67% 8
South London -7 6 £750 +30.43% 7
East London -8 1 - - 4
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 (5.62%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.00%) Confluence
4 5 (1.87%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.12%) Apache
6 3 (1.12%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.12%) Hyperledger
6 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.75%) Luigi
7 2 (0.75%) nginx
7 2 (0.75%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.37%) IIS
8 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.37%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.37%) Tomcat
Applications
1 11 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.62%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.12%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.75%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.75%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.75%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.37%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.37%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.37%) Maximo
4 1 (0.37%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.37%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.37%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.37%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.37%) TRIRIGA
4 1 (0.37%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 125 (46.82%) Azure
2 69 (25.84%) AWS
3 41 (15.36%) GCP
4 26 (9.74%) Power Platform
5 23 (8.61%) GitHub
6 21 (7.87%) SaaS
7 20 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (7.12%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (6.37%) Serverless
10 12 (4.49%) GitHub Actions
10 12 (4.49%) IaaS
11 11 (4.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 10 (3.75%) Amazon ECS
13 9 (3.37%) AWS CloudFormation
13 9 (3.37%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.37%) Snowflake
14 8 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
14 8 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
14 8 (3.00%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.00%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.62%) Firewall
1 7 (2.62%) Network Security
2 6 (2.25%) VoIP
3 5 (1.87%) CTI
4 4 (1.50%) HTTP
4 4 (1.50%) VPN
5 3 (1.12%) DNS
5 3 (1.12%) SSL
6 2 (0.75%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.75%) SSH
6 2 (0.75%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.37%) DHCP
7 1 (0.37%) DMZ
7 1 (0.37%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.37%) Internet
7 1 (0.37%) LAN
7 1 (0.37%) MGCP
7 1 (0.37%) SCCP
7 1 (0.37%) WAN
7 1 (0.37%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (8.61%) SQL Server
2 21 (7.87%) Data Warehouse
2 21 (7.87%) Power BI
3 17 (6.37%) PostgreSQL
4 15 (5.62%) Big Data
4 15 (5.62%) Relational Database
5 13 (4.87%) MySQL
5 13 (4.87%) Tableau
6 8 (3.00%) MongoDB
6 8 (3.00%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 5 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
8 5 (1.87%) Data Lake
8 5 (1.87%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.87%) OLAP
9 4 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.50%) Neo4j
10 3 (1.12%) Oracle OLAP
10 3 (1.12%) Redis
10 3 (1.12%) Snowflake Schema
Development Applications
1 29 (10.86%) Git
2 20 (7.49%) JIRA
3 9 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.25%) Selenium
5 4 (1.50%) CircleCI
5 4 (1.50%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.50%) GitLab
5 4 (1.50%) TeamCity
6 3 (1.12%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.12%) Cypress.io
6 3 (1.12%) ERwin
6 3 (1.12%) Hardhat
6 3 (1.12%) MLflow
6 3 (1.12%) Postman
6 3 (1.12%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.12%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.75%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.75%) Maven
8 1 (0.37%) JMeter
8 1 (0.37%) NUnit
General
1 125 (46.82%) Social Skills
2 103 (38.58%) Finance
3 76 (28.46%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (18.73%) Banking
5 19 (7.12%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.62%) Investment Banking
7 13 (4.87%) Front Office
8 12 (4.49%) Marketing
8 12 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.37%) Back Office
9 9 (3.37%) Influencing Skills
9 9 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (3.00%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.25%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.25%) Legal
12 6 (2.25%) Retail
13 5 (1.87%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 65 (24.34%) Developer
2 35 (13.11%) Architect
3 26 (9.74%) Analyst
4 19 (7.12%) Lead
5 18 (6.74%) Senior
6 17 (6.37%) Solutions Architect
7 15 (5.62%) Technical Support
8 12 (4.49%) Cloud Architect
9 11 (4.12%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.37%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.37%) Integration Architect
10 9 (3.37%) Systems Analyst
11 8 (3.00%) Senior Developer
12 7 (2.62%) C# Developer
12 7 (2.62%) Data Scientist
12 7 (2.62%) Full-Stack Developer
12 7 (2.62%) Machine Learning Engineer
13 6 (2.25%) Business Analyst
13 6 (2.25%) Data Modeller
13 6 (2.25%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.36%) .NET
2 27 (10.11%) REST
3 22 (8.24%) HTML
4 20 (7.49%) RESTful
5 17 (6.37%) React
6 16 (5.99%) CSS
6 16 (5.99%) JSON
6 16 (5.99%) OAuth
7 14 (5.24%) Middleware
7 14 (5.24%) XML
8 12 (4.49%) Node.js
9 11 (4.12%) Kafka
9 11 (4.12%) LangChain
10 10 (3.75%) AngularJS
11 9 (3.37%) OAuth2
11 9 (3.37%) PyTorch
12 8 (3.00%) SOAP
13 7 (2.62%) TensorFlow
14 5 (1.87%) Spring
14 5 (1.87%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.86%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.37%) Cloud Native
3 16 (5.99%) Product Ownership
4 13 (4.87%) Enterprise Software
5 12 (4.49%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.12%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (4.12%) Derivative
7 10 (3.75%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.00%) Legacy Systems
9 7 (2.62%) Data Structures
9 7 (2.62%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.25%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (1.87%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.87%) Fixed Income
11 5 (1.87%) IVR
11 5 (1.87%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
12 4 (1.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.49%) Windows
2 25 (9.36%) Linux
3 14 (5.24%) Unix
4 4 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.75%) Android
5 2 (0.75%) VMS
5 2 (0.75%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.37%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (98.88%) Computer Science
2 133 (49.81%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (39.33%) Agile
4 75 (28.09%) DevOps
5 67 (25.09%) CI/CD
6 53 (19.85%) AI
7 44 (16.48%) Analytics
8 42 (15.73%) Microservices
9 38 (14.23%) Software Engineering
10 37 (13.86%) Decision-Making
11 35 (13.11%) Data Modelling
12 32 (11.99%) ETL
13 31 (11.61%) Data Science
13 31 (11.61%) Technical Leadership
14 30 (11.24%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (11.24%) Machine Learning
15 29 (10.86%) Containerisation
15 29 (10.86%) Migration
15 29 (10.86%) Roadmaps
16 28 (10.49%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 94 (35.21%) Python
2 67 (25.09%) SQL
3 50 (18.73%) Java
4 45 (16.85%) JavaScript
5 26 (9.74%) C#
5 26 (9.74%) TypeScript
6 13 (4.87%) C++
7 8 (3.00%) Perl
7 8 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 7 (2.62%) R
8 7 (2.62%) Ruby
9 6 (2.25%) Bash
9 6 (2.25%) Bicep
10 5 (1.87%) Go
10 5 (1.87%) Scala
10 5 (1.87%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.50%) C
11 4 (1.50%) Rust
12 3 (1.12%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.12%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 267 (100.00%) Degree
2 65 (24.34%) Master's Degree
3 19 (7.12%) Azure Certification
4 16 (5.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (4.87%) Security Cleared
6 11 (4.12%) CISSP
6 11 (4.12%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.00%) PMP
8 7 (2.62%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.62%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.25%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.25%) CISM
10 4 (1.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.50%) CCSP
10 4 (1.50%) ISEB
10 4 (1.50%) PhD
11 3 (1.12%) CBAP
11 3 (1.12%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.61%) QA
2 17 (6.37%) GDPR
3 16 (5.99%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.87%) NIST
6 4 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.12%) Basel III
7 3 (1.12%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.75%) GAAP
8 2 (0.75%) GRC
8 2 (0.75%) IFRS
8 2 (0.75%) IFRS 17
8 2 (0.75%) IFRS 9
8 2 (0.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 2 (0.75%) SLA
8 2 (0.75%) WCAG
9 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 1 (0.37%) MiFID
System Software
1 45 (16.85%) Docker
2 18 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.37%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 37 (13.86%) Kubernetes
2 27 (10.11%) Terraform
3 10 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (3.37%) Grafana
5 6 (2.25%) Ansible
6 4 (1.50%) SCCM
7 3 (1.12%) Argo
7 3 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.12%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.12%) Puppet
8 2 (0.75%) Control-M
8 2 (0.75%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.37%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 72 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 25 (9.36%) Oracle
3 17 (6.37%) Google
4 15 (5.62%) Databricks
5 10 (3.75%) SAP
6 9 (3.37%) Salesforce
6 9 (3.37%) Software AG
7 6 (2.25%) IBM
7 6 (2.25%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.87%) Genesys
8 5 (1.87%) Informatica
8 5 (1.87%) Workday
9 4 (1.50%) Cisco
9 4 (1.50%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.50%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.50%) Splunk
9 4 (1.50%) Tenable
9 4 (1.50%) VMware
10 3 (1.12%) New Relic
10 3 (1.12%) ServiceNow