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

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 151 106 127
Rank change year-on-year -45 +21 +94
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 252 335 342
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.78% 2.38% 1.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.06% 9.19% 7.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 224 230
10th Percentile £320 £363 £350
25th Percentile £400 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -17.91%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £684
90th Percentile £798 £888 £800
England median daily rate £480 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -12.73% +3.38% -11.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
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 £60.31
90th Percentile £91.00 - £68.13
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 4,156 3,647 4,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.29% 25.88% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 2,279 2,913
10th Percentile £363 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 58 93
10th Percentile £19.94 £20.88 £18.81
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.79 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -16 33 £650 +23.81% 33
West London -4 17 £208 -44.67% 8
South London -9 6 £750 +30.43% 9
East London -5 1 - - 1
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 13 (5.16%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.37%) SharePoint
3 8 (3.17%) Confluence
4 5 (1.98%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (1.19%) Apache
6 3 (1.19%) Ethereum
6 3 (1.19%) Hyperledger
6 3 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.79%) IIS
7 2 (0.79%) Luigi
7 2 (0.79%) nginx
7 2 (0.79%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.79%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.40%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.79%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.79%) SAP CX
4 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
4 1 (0.40%) ION Anvil
4 1 (0.40%) Maximo
4 1 (0.40%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.40%) SAP BPC
4 1 (0.40%) SAP FS
4 1 (0.40%) Temenos T24
4 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (44.84%) Azure
2 62 (24.60%) AWS
3 35 (13.89%) GCP
4 23 (9.13%) GitHub
5 22 (8.73%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (8.73%) Power Platform
6 18 (7.14%) SaaS
7 16 (6.35%) Serverless
8 13 (5.16%) GitHub Actions
8 13 (5.16%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (3.97%) Azure Logic Apps
9 10 (3.97%) IaaS
10 9 (3.57%) Entra ID
10 9 (3.57%) Snowflake
11 8 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
11 8 (3.17%) ChatGPT
11 8 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
11 8 (3.17%) Power Automate
12 7 (2.78%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) Firewall
1 7 (2.78%) Network Security
2 6 (2.38%) VoIP
3 5 (1.98%) CTI
4 4 (1.59%) HTTP
4 4 (1.59%) VPN
5 3 (1.19%) DNS
5 3 (1.19%) SSL
6 2 (0.79%) S/MIME
6 2 (0.79%) SSH
6 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.40%) DHCP
7 1 (0.40%) DMZ
7 1 (0.40%) HTTPS
7 1 (0.40%) Internet
7 1 (0.40%) LAN
7 1 (0.40%) MGCP
7 1 (0.40%) SCCP
7 1 (0.40%) WAN
7 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 17 (6.75%) Data Warehouse
2 17 (6.75%) Power BI
3 16 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 14 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (5.16%) Big Data
6 10 (3.97%) MySQL
6 10 (3.97%) Tableau
7 9 (3.57%) NoSQL
8 7 (2.78%) MongoDB
8 7 (2.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 5 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.98%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.59%) Neo4j
11 3 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.19%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.19%) Hadoop
11 3 (1.19%) Pinecone
11 3 (1.19%) Snowflake Schema
12 2 (0.79%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 28 (11.11%) Git
2 20 (7.94%) JIRA
3 10 (3.97%) Jenkins
4 7 (2.78%) Selenium
5 5 (1.98%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.98%) GitLab
5 5 (1.98%) TeamCity
6 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 4 (1.59%) CircleCI
6 4 (1.59%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.59%) Postman
7 3 (1.19%) Hardhat
7 3 (1.19%) MLflow
7 3 (1.19%) SonarQube
7 3 (1.19%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.79%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.79%) Maven
9 1 (0.40%) JUnit
9 1 (0.40%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.40%) PowerDesigner
General
1 120 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 102 (40.48%) Finance
3 73 (28.97%) Analytical Skills
4 54 (21.43%) Banking
5 18 (7.14%) Investment Banking
6 15 (5.95%) Presentation Skills
7 14 (5.56%) Front Office
8 13 (5.16%) Marketing
9 11 (4.37%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.57%) Back Office
10 9 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.17%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.38%) Financial Institution
14 5 (1.98%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.59%) Legal
15 4 (1.59%) Publishing
16 3 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
16 3 (1.19%) Retail
Job Titles
1 64 (25.40%) Developer
2 36 (14.29%) Architect
3 26 (10.32%) Analyst
4 21 (8.33%) Senior
5 16 (6.35%) Lead
5 16 (6.35%) Solutions Architect
6 11 (4.37%) Cloud Architect
6 11 (4.37%) Senior Developer
7 10 (3.97%) Data Engineer
7 10 (3.97%) Technical Support
8 9 (3.57%) Systems Analyst
9 8 (3.17%) C# Developer
9 8 (3.17%) Cloud Solutions Architect
9 8 (3.17%) Integration Architect
10 7 (2.78%) Data Scientist
10 7 (2.78%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (2.78%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (2.38%) Business Analyst
12 5 (1.98%) Project Manager
12 5 (1.98%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.10%) .NET
2 28 (11.11%) REST
3 20 (7.94%) HTML
4 18 (7.14%) RESTful
5 16 (6.35%) CSS
5 16 (6.35%) JSON
6 15 (5.95%) Middleware
6 15 (5.95%) OAuth
6 15 (5.95%) React
6 15 (5.95%) XML
7 14 (5.56%) Kafka
8 12 (4.76%) LangChain
8 12 (4.76%) Node.js
9 10 (3.97%) AngularJS
10 9 (3.57%) OAuth2
10 9 (3.57%) PyTorch
10 9 (3.57%) SOAP
11 7 (2.78%) RabbitMQ
11 7 (2.78%) TensorFlow
12 6 (2.38%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.32%) Management Information System
2 17 (6.75%) Cloud Native
3 16 (6.35%) Product Ownership
4 14 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
5 13 (5.16%) Algorithms
6 11 (4.37%) Derivative
7 9 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (3.17%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (2.38%) Distributed Computing
10 6 (2.38%) Fixed Income
10 6 (2.38%) Greenfield Project
10 6 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 5 (1.98%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.98%) Data Fabric
11 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
11 5 (1.98%) IVR
12 4 (1.59%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 26 (10.32%) Linux
2 23 (9.13%) Windows
3 11 (4.37%) Unix
4 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 2 (0.79%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (98.81%) Computer Science
2 123 (48.81%) Problem-Solving
3 103 (40.87%) Agile
4 74 (29.37%) DevOps
5 65 (25.79%) CI/CD
6 43 (17.06%) AI
7 40 (15.87%) Microservices
8 38 (15.08%) Software Engineering
9 37 (14.68%) Analytics
10 33 (13.10%) Decision-Making
11 31 (12.30%) Data Modelling
11 31 (12.30%) Machine Learning
12 29 (11.51%) ETL
12 29 (11.51%) Roadmaps
12 29 (11.51%) Technical Leadership
13 28 (11.11%) Data Science
14 26 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
14 26 (10.32%) Containerisation
14 26 (10.32%) Migration
14 26 (10.32%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 86 (34.13%) Python
2 63 (25.00%) SQL
3 53 (21.03%) Java
4 44 (17.46%) JavaScript
5 29 (11.51%) C#
6 26 (10.32%) TypeScript
7 13 (5.16%) C++
8 8 (3.17%) Perl
8 8 (3.17%) PowerShell
9 7 (2.78%) R
9 7 (2.78%) Ruby
10 6 (2.38%) Bash
10 6 (2.38%) Bicep
11 5 (1.98%) T-SQL
12 4 (1.59%) C
12 4 (1.59%) Go
12 4 (1.59%) Rust
13 3 (1.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 3 (1.19%) Solidity
13 3 (1.19%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 252 (100.00%) Degree
2 64 (25.40%) Master's Degree
3 18 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 15 (5.95%) Microsoft Certification
5 12 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 11 (4.37%) SC Cleared
7 8 (3.17%) PMI Certification
7 8 (3.17%) PMP
8 7 (2.78%) AWS Certification
8 7 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (2.38%) CISSP
10 4 (1.59%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.59%) ISEB
10 4 (1.59%) PhD
11 3 (1.19%) CBAP
11 3 (1.19%) CISM
11 3 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (0.79%) CCSP
12 2 (0.79%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (9.52%) QA
2 16 (6.35%) GDPR
3 14 (5.56%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.59%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.19%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.19%) Basel III
6 3 (1.19%) HIPAA
6 3 (1.19%) NIST
7 2 (0.79%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.79%) GAAP
7 2 (0.79%) IFRS
7 2 (0.79%) IFRS 17
7 2 (0.79%) IFRS 9
7 2 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (0.79%) WCAG
8 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.40%) MiFID
System Software
1 39 (15.48%) Docker
2 12 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.40%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 32 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 24 (9.52%) Terraform
3 10 (3.97%) Grafana
4 6 (2.38%) Ansible
5 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (1.59%) SCCM
6 3 (1.19%) Argo
6 3 (1.19%) Prometheus
6 3 (1.19%) Puppet
7 2 (0.79%) Control-M
7 2 (0.79%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.79%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.40%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.40%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 62 (24.60%) Microsoft
2 21 (8.33%) Oracle
3 15 (5.95%) Databricks
4 12 (4.76%) Google
5 10 (3.97%) Salesforce
5 10 (3.97%) SAP
6 8 (3.17%) Software AG
7 6 (2.38%) IBM
7 6 (2.38%) OpenAI
8 5 (1.98%) Genesys
8 5 (1.98%) Informatica
8 5 (1.98%) Workday
9 4 (1.59%) Cisco
9 4 (1.59%) Dynatrace
9 4 (1.59%) PagerDuty
9 4 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 4 (1.59%) Splunk
9 4 (1.59%) Tenable
9 4 (1.59%) VMware
10 3 (1.19%) ServiceNow