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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 107 124
Rank change year-on-year -48 +17 +102
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 257 339 344
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 2.38% 1.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.16% 9.18% 7.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 226 234
10th Percentile £320 £363 £331
25th Percentile £400 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -17.91%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £675
90th Percentile £780 £888 £798
England median daily rate £476 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -13.55% +4.76% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £58.00 £42.46 -
25th Percentile £62.50 £45.06 £42.50
Median hourly rate £72.50 £52.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.10% +5.00% +0.50%
75th Percentile £85.00 £53.75 £58.44
90th Percentile £91.00 - £60.13
England median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +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 4,175 3,692 4,353
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.10% 25.96% 24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,916 2,316 2,902
10th Percentile £363 £350 £338
25th Percentile £435 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 59 87
10th Percentile £20.71 £21.00 £18.97
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.08 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £39.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.49% -13.33% +11.11%
75th Percentile £64.13 £60.38 £66.88
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.21
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.54% +16.01%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 -18 34 £650 +23.81% 37
West London -3 17 £208 -44.67% 7
South London -6 6 £750 +30.43% 5
East London -4 1 - - 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 (4.67%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.28%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.11%) Confluence
4 5 (1.95%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.17%) Apache
6 3 (1.17%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.17%) Hyperledger
6 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.78%) IIS
7 2 (0.78%) Luigi
7 2 (0.78%) nginx
7 2 (0.78%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.78%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.39%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.72%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 7 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.78%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.78%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.39%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.39%) Maximo
4 1 (0.39%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
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%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.39%) TRIRIGA
4 1 (0.39%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (43.97%) Azure
2 65 (25.29%) AWS
3 35 (13.62%) GCP
4 26 (10.12%) GitHub
5 22 (8.56%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.56%) Power Platform
6 17 (6.61%) SaaS
7 16 (6.23%) Serverless
8 14 (5.45%) GitHub Actions
9 13 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
10 10 (3.89%) Amazon ECS
10 10 (3.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 10 (3.89%) IaaS
11 9 (3.50%) Entra ID
11 9 (3.50%) Snowflake
12 8 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
12 8 (3.11%) ChatGPT
12 8 (3.11%) Dynamics 365
12 8 (3.11%) Power Automate
13 7 (2.72%) Anthropic Claude
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.11%) Firewall
1 8 (3.11%) Network Security
2 6 (2.33%) VoIP
3 5 (1.95%) CTI
3 5 (1.95%) VPN
4 4 (1.56%) HTTP
5 3 (1.17%) DNS
5 3 (1.17%) SSL
6 2 (0.78%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.78%) SSH
6 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.39%) DMZ
7 1 (0.39%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.39%) Internet
7 1 (0.39%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (0.39%) LAN
7 1 (0.39%) MGCP
7 1 (0.39%) SCCP
7 1 (0.39%) WAN
7 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.56%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.00%) Data Warehouse
3 17 (6.61%) Power BI
4 16 (6.23%) PostgreSQL
4 16 (6.23%) Relational Database
5 12 (4.67%) Big Data
6 10 (3.89%) MySQL
6 10 (3.89%) Tableau
7 9 (3.50%) NoSQL
7 9 (3.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (2.72%) MongoDB
9 6 (2.33%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.95%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.56%) Neo4j
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon Athena
12 3 (1.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (1.17%) BigQuery
12 3 (1.17%) Pinecone
12 3 (1.17%) Snowflake Schema
13 2 (0.78%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (10.89%) Git
2 21 (8.17%) JIRA
3 12 (4.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (3.11%) Selenium
5 7 (2.72%) GitLab
6 6 (2.33%) Cucumber
6 6 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 5 (1.95%) CircleCI
7 5 (1.95%) Postman
7 5 (1.95%) TeamCity
8 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
9 3 (1.17%) Hardhat
9 3 (1.17%) MLflow
9 3 (1.17%) SonarQube
9 3 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
10 2 (0.78%) Eclipse
10 2 (0.78%) JMeter
10 2 (0.78%) JUnit
10 2 (0.78%) Maven
11 1 (0.39%) ERwin
General
1 121 (47.08%) Social Skills
2 101 (39.30%) Finance
3 73 (28.40%) Analytical Skills
4 53 (20.62%) Banking
5 18 (7.00%) Investment Banking
6 14 (5.45%) Front Office
6 14 (5.45%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (5.06%) Marketing
8 11 (4.28%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.50%) Back Office
9 9 (3.50%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.11%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (2.33%) Financial Institution
13 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.56%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (1.56%) Legal
14 4 (1.56%) Publishing
15 3 (1.17%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (1.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 66 (25.68%) Developer
2 35 (13.62%) Architect
3 26 (10.12%) Analyst
4 22 (8.56%) Senior
5 16 (6.23%) Lead
6 15 (5.84%) Solutions Architect
7 11 (4.28%) Senior Developer
8 10 (3.89%) Cloud Architect
8 10 (3.89%) Data Engineer
8 10 (3.89%) Technical Support
9 9 (3.50%) Systems Analyst
10 8 (3.11%) C# Developer
11 7 (2.72%) Cloud Solutions Architect
11 7 (2.72%) Data Scientist
11 7 (2.72%) Full-Stack Developer
11 7 (2.72%) Integration Architect
11 7 (2.72%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.33%) Business Analyst
12 6 (2.33%) Project Manager
13 5 (1.95%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.23%) .NET
2 30 (11.67%) REST
3 21 (8.17%) HTML
4 19 (7.39%) RESTful
5 17 (6.61%) CSS
6 16 (6.23%) JSON
6 16 (6.23%) Kafka
6 16 (6.23%) React
7 15 (5.84%) OAuth
7 15 (5.84%) XML
8 14 (5.45%) Middleware
9 13 (5.06%) LangChain
9 13 (5.06%) Node.js
10 10 (3.89%) AngularJS
10 10 (3.89%) SOAP
11 9 (3.50%) OAuth2
11 9 (3.50%) PyTorch
12 8 (3.11%) RabbitMQ
13 7 (2.72%) TensorFlow
14 6 (2.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.12%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.61%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.23%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.45%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.06%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.28%) Derivative
7 10 (3.89%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (3.50%) Distributed Systems
8 9 (3.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (3.11%) Data Structures
10 7 (2.72%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (2.33%) Distributed Computing
11 6 (2.33%) Fixed Income
11 6 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
11 6 (2.33%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.95%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.95%) Data Fabric
12 5 (1.95%) Hedge funds
12 5 (1.95%) IVR
13 4 (1.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.12%) Linux
2 23 (8.95%) Windows
3 11 (4.28%) Unix
4 5 (1.95%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.78%) Android
5 2 (0.78%) VMS
5 2 (0.78%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 254 (98.83%) Computer Science
2 126 (49.03%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (40.08%) Agile
4 74 (28.79%) DevOps
5 67 (26.07%) CI/CD
6 43 (16.73%) AI
7 41 (15.95%) Microservices
8 38 (14.79%) Software Engineering
9 36 (14.01%) Analytics
10 32 (12.45%) Decision-Making
10 32 (12.45%) Machine Learning
11 30 (11.67%) Data Modelling
11 30 (11.67%) ETL
12 28 (10.89%) Data Science
12 28 (10.89%) Migration
12 28 (10.89%) Roadmaps
13 27 (10.51%) Containerisation
13 27 (10.51%) Technical Leadership
14 26 (10.12%) Scrum
14 26 (10.12%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 88 (34.24%) Python
2 64 (24.90%) SQL
3 55 (21.40%) Java
4 45 (17.51%) JavaScript
5 29 (11.28%) C#
6 26 (10.12%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.06%) C++
8 8 (3.11%) Perl
8 8 (3.11%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.72%) R
9 7 (2.72%) Ruby
10 6 (2.33%) Bash
10 6 (2.33%) Bicep
10 6 (2.33%) T-SQL
11 4 (1.56%) C
11 4 (1.56%) Go
11 4 (1.56%) Rust
12 3 (1.17%) Apex Code
12 3 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 257 (100.00%) Degree
2 63 (24.51%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.00%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.84%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.06%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.67%) SC Cleared
7 9 (3.50%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.50%) PMP
8 8 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 7 (2.72%) CISSP
9 7 (2.72%) TOGAF Certification
10 4 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.56%) CISM
10 4 (1.56%) ISEB
10 4 (1.56%) PhD
11 3 (1.17%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (1.17%) CBAP
11 3 (1.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (9.73%) QA
2 16 (6.23%) GDPR
3 15 (5.84%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.56%) NIST
5 4 (1.56%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.56%) SLA
6 3 (1.17%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.17%) Basel III
6 3 (1.17%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.78%) GAAP
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.78%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.78%) WCAG
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 39 (15.18%) Docker
2 12 (4.67%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.39%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 32 (12.45%) Kubernetes
2 26 (10.12%) Terraform
3 10 (3.89%) Grafana
4 6 (2.33%) Ansible
5 4 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.56%) SCCM
6 3 (1.17%) Argo
6 3 (1.17%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.17%) Puppet
7 2 (0.78%) Control-M
7 2 (0.78%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.78%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.39%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.39%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 61 (23.74%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.17%) Oracle
3 15 (5.84%) Databricks
4 12 (4.67%) Google
5 11 (4.28%) Salesforce
5 11 (4.28%) SAP
6 7 (2.72%) IBM
6 7 (2.72%) Software AG
7 6 (2.33%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.95%) Genesys
8 5 (1.95%) Informatica
8 5 (1.95%) Workday
9 4 (1.56%) Cisco
9 4 (1.56%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.56%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.56%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.56%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.56%) Splunk
9 4 (1.56%) UiPath
9 4 (1.56%) VMware
125 Computer Science Degree jobs in London