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

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 124 119
Rank change year-on-year -49 -5 +77
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 250 283 369
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 2.09% 2.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.46% 8.28% 8.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 186 243
10th Percentile £204 £359 £340
25th Percentile £397 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £529 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.20% -3.86% -15.38%
75th Percentile £691 £675 £700
90th Percentile £775 £825 £798
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 17
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% +11.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £91.00 £56.75 £83.75
England median hourly rate £33.50 £47.75 £56.14
% change year-on-year -29.84% -14.95% +6.94%

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 4,580 3,417 4,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.29% 25.22% 24.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,256 2,150 2,989
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £650
90th Percentile £750 £774 £769
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 60 129
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.48 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +7.75% -5.33%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.88 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% -1.64%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -5 36 £600 +20.36% 46
West London -9 16 £208 -46.45% 9
South London -11 6 £750 +15.38% 2
East London -7 1 - - 9
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 (6.00%) Apache Spark
2 12 (4.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.60%) Confluence
3 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.60%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.20%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.20%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.80%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.80%) 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 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.80%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.80%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 2 (0.80%) 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
1 129 (51.60%) Azure
2 64 (25.60%) AWS
3 37 (14.80%) GCP
4 27 (10.80%) Power Platform
5 25 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
6 24 (9.60%) SaaS
7 19 (7.60%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (6.80%) GitHub
9 15 (6.00%) Serverless
10 13 (5.20%) IaaS
11 11 (4.40%) AWS CloudFormation
12 10 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
12 10 (4.00%) Entra ID
13 9 (3.60%) Azure Logic Apps
14 8 (3.20%) Dynamics 365
14 8 (3.20%) PaaS
14 8 (3.20%) Power Automate
15 7 (2.80%) Amazon S3
15 7 (2.80%) Azure Data Factory
15 7 (2.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.40%) Firewall
1 6 (2.40%) Network Security
1 6 (2.40%) VoIP
2 5 (2.00%) CTI
3 4 (1.60%) HTTP
3 4 (1.60%) VPN
4 3 (1.20%) SSL
4 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.80%) DNS
5 2 (0.80%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.40%) DHCP
6 1 (0.40%) DMZ
6 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.40%) Internet
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) MGCP
6 1 (0.40%) SCCP
6 1 (0.40%) SSH
6 1 (0.40%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.40%) Power BI
2 19 (7.60%) SQL Server
3 18 (7.20%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (6.80%) Big Data
4 17 (6.80%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (4.40%) MySQL
5 11 (4.40%) Relational Database
5 11 (4.40%) Tableau
6 7 (2.80%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 6 (2.40%) MongoDB
8 5 (2.00%) Hadoop
8 5 (2.00%) OLAP
9 4 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.60%) Data Lake
9 4 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (1.60%) Redis
9 4 (1.60%) Snowflake Schema
10 3 (1.20%) Metadata
10 3 (1.20%) Oracle OLAP
Development Applications
1 29 (11.60%) Git
2 15 (6.00%) JIRA
3 7 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.40%) GitLab
4 6 (2.40%) Selenium
5 4 (1.60%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.60%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.60%) MLflow
6 3 (1.20%) ERwin
6 3 (1.20%) Hardhat
6 3 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.80%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.80%) Eclipse
7 2 (0.80%) Postman
7 2 (0.80%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.80%) Vite
8 1 (0.40%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.40%) RStudio
8 1 (0.40%) webpack
General
1 118 (47.20%) Social Skills
2 97 (38.80%) Finance
3 65 (26.00%) Analytical Skills
4 46 (18.40%) Banking
5 20 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.60%) Organisational Skills
7 13 (5.20%) Marketing
8 12 (4.80%) Investment Banking
9 11 (4.40%) Front Office
9 11 (4.40%) Public Sector
10 8 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.80%) Retail
12 6 (2.40%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.40%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.00%) Legal
13 5 (2.00%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.60%) Publishing
15 3 (1.20%) Back Office
15 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.80%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 54 (21.60%) Developer
2 41 (16.40%) Architect
3 22 (8.80%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.00%) Senior
4 20 (8.00%) Technical Support
5 19 (7.60%) Lead
6 14 (5.60%) Analyst
7 13 (5.20%) Support Specialist
8 12 (4.80%) Cloud Architect
8 12 (4.80%) Integration Architect
8 12 (4.80%) Technical Specialist
8 12 (4.80%) Technical Support Specialist
9 11 (4.40%) Data Engineer
10 9 (3.60%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 8 (3.20%) Full-Stack Developer
12 6 (2.40%) Data Modeller
12 6 (2.40%) Data Scientist
12 6 (2.40%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.40%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.40%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.60%) .NET
2 22 (8.80%) React
3 20 (8.00%) REST
4 19 (7.60%) Middleware
5 18 (7.20%) HTML
6 17 (6.80%) RESTful
7 13 (5.20%) CSS
8 11 (4.40%) OAuth
9 10 (4.00%) AngularJS
9 10 (4.00%) JSON
9 10 (4.00%) Node.js
9 10 (4.00%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.60%) LangChain
11 8 (3.20%) Kafka
12 7 (2.80%) Spring
12 7 (2.80%) TensorFlow
13 6 (2.40%) OAuth2
13 6 (2.40%) SOAP
14 5 (2.00%) WebSockets
14 5 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.40%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.00%) Cloud Native
3 18 (7.20%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.80%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.40%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.00%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.00%) Derivative
7 9 (3.60%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.80%) AI Agents
9 7 (2.80%) Data Structures
10 6 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.00%) Fixed Income
11 5 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (2.00%) IVR
11 5 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.00%) Virtual Team
12 4 (1.60%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.00%) Windows
2 21 (8.40%) Linux
3 13 (5.20%) Unix
4 4 (1.60%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.60%) VMS
5 2 (0.80%) Android
5 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (98.80%) Computer Science
2 121 (48.40%) Problem-Solving
3 96 (38.40%) Agile
4 73 (29.20%) DevOps
5 69 (27.60%) CI/CD
6 59 (23.60%) AI
7 49 (19.60%) Analytics
8 41 (16.40%) Microservices
9 34 (13.60%) Decision-Making
9 34 (13.60%) Software Engineering
10 33 (13.20%) Data Modelling
11 32 (12.80%) ETL
11 32 (12.80%) Roadmaps
12 30 (12.00%) Data Science
12 30 (12.00%) Technical Leadership
13 29 (11.60%) Containerisation
13 29 (11.60%) Infrastructure as Code
14 28 (11.20%) SDLC
15 27 (10.80%) Business Intelligence
15 27 (10.80%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 85 (34.00%) Python
2 62 (24.80%) SQL
3 51 (20.40%) Java
4 40 (16.00%) JavaScript
5 24 (9.60%) C#
5 24 (9.60%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.00%) C++
7 7 (2.80%) Go
7 7 (2.80%) Perl
7 7 (2.80%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.40%) Bash
8 6 (2.40%) Bicep
8 6 (2.40%) Scala
9 5 (2.00%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.60%) R
10 4 (1.60%) Rust
11 3 (1.20%) C
11 3 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 3 (1.20%) Ruby
11 3 (1.20%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 250 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (27.20%) Master's Degree
3 21 (8.40%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 15 (6.00%) CISSP
6 13 (5.20%) Security Cleared
7 11 (4.40%) CISM
7 11 (4.40%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.20%) PMI Certification
8 8 (3.20%) PMP
9 7 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.40%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
10 6 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.00%) CCSP
11 5 (2.00%) CRISC
12 4 (1.60%) PhD
13 3 (1.20%) ISEB
14 2 (0.80%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.80%) GDPR
1 22 (8.80%) QA
2 12 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.60%) PCI DSS
4 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.80%) NIST
5 4 (1.60%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.60%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.20%) Basel III
6 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (1.20%) GRC
6 3 (1.20%) WCAG
7 2 (0.80%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.80%) GAAP
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.80%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 42 (16.80%) Docker
2 24 (9.60%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) HDFS
4 1 (0.40%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (15.20%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.60%) Terraform
3 15 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.80%) Grafana
5 5 (2.00%) Ansible
6 4 (1.60%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.20%) Argo
7 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.20%) Puppet
8 2 (0.80%) Control-M
8 2 (0.80%) SCCM
8 2 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 73 (29.20%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.20%) Oracle
3 15 (6.00%) Databricks
4 12 (4.80%) Google
4 12 (4.80%) Software AG
5 9 (3.60%) SAP
6 8 (3.20%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.40%) Informatica
8 5 (2.00%) Genesys
8 5 (2.00%) Workday
9 4 (1.60%) Cisco
9 4 (1.60%) IBM
9 4 (1.60%) OpenAI
9 4 (1.60%) Splunk
10 3 (1.20%) Dynatrace
10 3 (1.20%) iManage
10 3 (1.20%) Intapp
10 3 (1.20%) Palo Alto
10 3 (1.20%) Red Hat
10 3 (1.20%) VMware