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

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 171 121 120
Rank change year-on-year -50 -1 +79
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 245 284 370
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 2.10% 2.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.34% 8.36% 8.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 186 243
10th Percentile £204 £359 £340
25th Percentile £400 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% -3.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £700 £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% +5.26%
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% +4.45%

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 4,590 3,397 4,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.31% 25.15% 24.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,266 2,144 3,001
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% -3.14% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £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 58 129
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.50 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £39.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +9.86% -11.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £58.13 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £79.84 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.40 £45.00
% change year-on-year -48.04% +7.56% -2.17%

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 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 21 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 21 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 -7 34 £613 +21.05% 38
West London -9 16 £208 -44.67% 8
South London -9 6 £750 +15.38% 2
East London -1 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 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 11 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.63%) Confluence
3 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.63%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.22%) Ethereum
4 3 (1.22%) Hyperledger
5 2 (0.82%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.82%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.41%) Apache
6 1 (0.41%) Camunda
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Service Bus
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (0.82%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.41%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.41%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.41%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle FAH
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle HRMS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.41%) SAP BPC
3 1 (0.41%) SAP FS
3 1 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.41%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.41%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 127 (51.84%) Azure
2 64 (26.12%) AWS
3 37 (15.10%) GCP
4 24 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (9.80%) Power Platform
5 23 (9.39%) SaaS
6 19 (7.76%) Azure DevOps
7 17 (6.94%) GitHub
8 15 (6.12%) Serverless
9 13 (5.31%) IaaS
10 11 (4.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 10 (4.08%) Amazon ECS
12 9 (3.67%) Entra ID
13 8 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
13 8 (3.27%) Dynamics 365
13 8 (3.27%) PaaS
14 7 (2.86%) Amazon S3
14 7 (2.86%) Azure Data Factory
14 7 (2.86%) Power Automate
14 7 (2.86%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.45%) Firewall
1 6 (2.45%) Network Security
1 6 (2.45%) VoIP
2 5 (2.04%) CTI
3 4 (1.63%) HTTP
3 4 (1.63%) VPN
4 3 (1.22%) SSL
4 3 (1.22%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.82%) DNS
5 2 (0.82%) S/MIME
6 1 (0.41%) DHCP
6 1 (0.41%) DMZ
6 1 (0.41%) HTTPS
6 1 (0.41%) Internet
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
6 1 (0.41%) MGCP
6 1 (0.41%) SCCP
6 1 (0.41%) SSH
6 1 (0.41%) WAN
6 1 (0.41%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.35%) Power BI
2 17 (6.94%) Big Data
2 17 (6.94%) PostgreSQL
2 17 (6.94%) SQL Server
3 15 (6.12%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (4.49%) MySQL
5 10 (4.08%) Relational Database
6 9 (3.67%) Tableau
7 7 (2.86%) NoSQL
7 7 (2.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 6 (2.45%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.04%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.63%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (1.63%) Redis
10 4 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
11 3 (1.22%) Metadata
11 3 (1.22%) OLAP
11 3 (1.22%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 28 (11.43%) Git
2 14 (5.71%) JIRA
3 7 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.45%) GitLab
4 6 (2.45%) Selenium
5 4 (1.63%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.63%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.63%) MLflow
6 3 (1.22%) ERwin
6 3 (1.22%) Hardhat
6 3 (1.22%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.22%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.82%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.82%) Postman
7 2 (0.82%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (0.82%) Vite
8 1 (0.41%) NeoLoad
8 1 (0.41%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.41%) RStudio
8 1 (0.41%) webpack
General
1 118 (48.16%) Social Skills
2 96 (39.18%) Finance
3 64 (26.12%) Analytical Skills
4 44 (17.96%) Banking
5 20 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
6 14 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.90%) Front Office
7 12 (4.90%) Marketing
8 11 (4.49%) Public Sector
9 10 (4.08%) Investment Banking
10 8 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.86%) Retail
12 6 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
12 6 (2.45%) Telecoms
13 5 (2.04%) Legal
13 5 (2.04%) Manufacturing
14 4 (1.63%) Publishing
15 3 (1.22%) Back Office
15 3 (1.22%) General Ledger
16 2 (0.82%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 50 (20.41%) Developer
2 41 (16.73%) Architect
3 22 (8.98%) Solutions Architect
4 20 (8.16%) Lead
4 20 (8.16%) Technical Support
5 19 (7.76%) Senior
6 13 (5.31%) Support Specialist
7 12 (4.90%) Analyst
7 12 (4.90%) Cloud Architect
7 12 (4.90%) Integration Architect
7 12 (4.90%) Technical Specialist
7 12 (4.90%) Technical Support Specialist
8 11 (4.49%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.67%) Cloud Solutions Architect
10 7 (2.86%) Full-Stack Developer
11 6 (2.45%) Data Modeller
11 6 (2.45%) Data Scientist
11 6 (2.45%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (2.45%) Software Engineer
12 5 (2.04%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.43%) .NET
2 22 (8.98%) React
3 19 (7.76%) Middleware
3 19 (7.76%) REST
4 17 (6.94%) HTML
4 17 (6.94%) RESTful
5 12 (4.90%) CSS
6 11 (4.49%) OAuth
7 10 (4.08%) JSON
7 10 (4.08%) Node.js
7 10 (4.08%) PyTorch
8 9 (3.67%) AngularJS
8 9 (3.67%) LangChain
9 8 (3.27%) Kafka
10 7 (2.86%) TensorFlow
11 6 (2.45%) OAuth2
11 6 (2.45%) SOAP
11 6 (2.45%) Spring
12 5 (2.04%) WebSockets
12 5 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 20 (8.16%) Cloud Native
3 17 (6.94%) Onboarding
4 12 (4.90%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
6 10 (4.08%) Algorithms
6 10 (4.08%) Derivative
7 9 (3.67%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (3.67%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.27%) Data Structures
8 8 (3.27%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (2.86%) AI Agents
10 6 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (2.04%) Fixed Income
11 5 (2.04%) IVR
11 5 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (2.04%) Security Posture
11 5 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
11 5 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (12.24%) Windows
2 20 (8.16%) Linux
3 13 (5.31%) Unix
4 4 (1.63%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.63%) VMS
5 2 (0.82%) Android
5 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (98.78%) Computer Science
2 119 (48.57%) Problem-Solving
3 95 (38.78%) Agile
4 73 (29.80%) DevOps
5 69 (28.16%) CI/CD
6 58 (23.67%) AI
7 48 (19.59%) Analytics
8 41 (16.73%) Microservices
9 34 (13.88%) Decision-Making
9 34 (13.88%) Software Engineering
10 33 (13.47%) Data Modelling
11 32 (13.06%) ETL
12 31 (12.65%) Roadmaps
13 29 (11.84%) Containerisation
13 29 (11.84%) Data Science
13 29 (11.84%) Infrastructure as Code
13 29 (11.84%) Technical Leadership
14 27 (11.02%) Data Engineering
14 27 (11.02%) SDLC
15 26 (10.61%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 85 (34.69%) Python
2 59 (24.08%) SQL
3 50 (20.41%) Java
4 39 (15.92%) JavaScript
5 23 (9.39%) C#
5 23 (9.39%) TypeScript
6 10 (4.08%) C++
7 7 (2.86%) Go
7 7 (2.86%) Perl
7 7 (2.86%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.45%) Bash
8 6 (2.45%) Bicep
8 6 (2.45%) Scala
9 4 (1.63%) R
9 4 (1.63%) Rust
10 3 (1.22%) C
10 3 (1.22%) Ruby
10 3 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 3 (1.22%) Solidity
10 3 (1.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (100.00%) Degree
2 68 (27.76%) Master's Degree
3 21 (8.57%) Azure Certification
4 16 (6.53%) CISSP
4 16 (6.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (5.31%) Security Cleared
6 12 (4.90%) CISM
7 11 (4.49%) SC Cleared
8 8 (3.27%) PMI Certification
8 8 (3.27%) PMP
9 7 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
10 6 (2.45%) AWS Certification
10 6 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (2.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 5 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.04%) CCSP
11 5 (2.04%) CRISC
12 4 (1.63%) PhD
13 3 (1.22%) ISEB
14 2 (0.82%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.98%) QA
2 21 (8.57%) GDPR
3 12 (4.90%) Data Quality
4 9 (3.67%) PCI DSS
5 8 (3.27%) NIST
6 7 (2.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.63%) HIPAA
8 3 (1.22%) Basel III
8 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (1.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.22%) GRC
8 3 (1.22%) WCAG
9 2 (0.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.82%) GAAP
9 2 (0.82%) IFRS
9 2 (0.82%) IFRS 17
9 2 (0.82%) IFRS 9
9 2 (0.82%) NIST 800
9 2 (0.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 42 (17.14%) Docker
2 23 (9.39%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.82%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.82%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.41%) HDFS
4 1 (0.41%) PowerHA
4 1 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (15.51%) Kubernetes
2 29 (11.84%) Terraform
3 15 (6.12%) Microsoft Intune
4 7 (2.86%) Grafana
5 5 (2.04%) Ansible
6 4 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 3 (1.22%) Argo
7 3 (1.22%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.22%) Puppet
8 2 (0.82%) Control-M
8 2 (0.82%) SCCM
8 2 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.41%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 69 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 23 (9.39%) Oracle
3 15 (6.12%) Databricks
4 12 (4.90%) Google
4 12 (4.90%) Software AG
5 8 (3.27%) SAP
6 6 (2.45%) Informatica
6 6 (2.45%) Salesforce
7 5 (2.04%) Genesys
7 5 (2.04%) Workday
8 4 (1.63%) Cisco
8 4 (1.63%) IBM
8 4 (1.63%) Splunk
9 3 (1.22%) Dynatrace
9 3 (1.22%) iManage
9 3 (1.22%) Intapp
9 3 (1.22%) PagerDuty
9 3 (1.22%) Palo Alto
9 3 (1.22%) Red Hat
9 3 (1.22%) VMware