Computer Science Contract Job Trends in London

Computer Science
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 65 56
Rank change year-on-year -69 -9 +13
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 439 506 691
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.17% 3.76% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.44% 4.06% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 325 470
10th Percentile £193 £315 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.79% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £713 £750 £750
90th Percentile £850 £825 £850
England median daily rate £475 £490 £550
% change year-on-year -3.06% -10.91% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 12 15
10th Percentile £33.02 £30.39 £38.65
25th Percentile £35.00 £42.25 £43.63
Median hourly rate £40.00 £53.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +5.94% -22.31%
75th Percentile £49.19 £65.00 £54.38
90th Percentile £59.75 £67.25 £68.45
England median hourly rate £52.25 £53.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year -2.34% +5.94% -18.55%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,987 12,459 14,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.90% 92.61% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,749 8,238 9,752
10th Percentile £359 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 301 256 181
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.00 £17.25
25th Percentile £19.50 £25.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £35.00 £31.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% -9.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £57.00 £48.94 £55.00
90th Percentile £86.25 £63.75 £71.88
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Computer Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 13 September 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 -54 35 £575 - 163
West London -18 14 £190 -52.50% 90
East London +3 6 £190 -54.23% 7
South London -10 6 £190 -75.08% 12
North London +2 3 £550 - 4
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 19 (4.33%) Apache Spark
2 13 (2.96%) Confluence
3 10 (2.28%) Apache
3 10 (2.28%) SharePoint
4 9 (2.05%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.59%) IIS
6 5 (1.14%) Camunda
7 4 (0.91%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 3 (0.68%) CMS
8 3 (0.68%) Jupyter
8 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
9 2 (0.46%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.46%) Cloud Foundry
9 2 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.23%) Apache Solr
10 1 (0.23%) nginx
10 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.23%) SAS
10 1 (0.23%) Tomcat
Applications
1 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.91%) Trello
3 3 (0.68%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 2 (0.46%) CPLEX
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.68%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.46%) Actimize
2 2 (0.46%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Finacle
3 1 (0.23%) Loan IQ
3 1 (0.23%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.23%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.23%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Forecasting and Replenishment
3 1 (0.23%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.23%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.23%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 139 (31.66%) Azure
2 98 (22.32%) AWS
3 65 (14.81%) GCP
4 32 (7.29%) GitHub
5 30 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 25 (5.69%) Azure DevOps
7 21 (4.78%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.78%) SaaS
8 19 (4.33%) Entra ID
9 17 (3.87%) Serverless
9 17 (3.87%) Snowflake
10 15 (3.42%) OpenShift
11 12 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
12 10 (2.28%) dbt
13 8 (1.82%) Anthropic Claude
13 8 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
14 7 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 7 (1.59%) GitHub Copilot
14 7 (1.59%) IaaS
14 7 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (4.10%) Network Security
2 16 (3.64%) Firewall
3 14 (3.19%) DNS
4 12 (2.73%) VPN
5 11 (2.51%) DHCP
5 11 (2.51%) TCP/IP
6 6 (1.37%) 5G
7 5 (1.14%) 3GPP
7 5 (1.14%) BGP
7 5 (1.14%) HTTPS
7 5 (1.14%) NGN
7 5 (1.14%) Radio Access Network
7 5 (1.14%) tcpdump
7 5 (1.14%) Wireless
7 5 (1.14%) Wireshark
8 4 (0.91%) SAN
8 4 (0.91%) VLAN
8 4 (0.91%) VoIP
8 4 (0.91%) WebEx
8 4 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (7.29%) SQL Server
2 28 (6.38%) PostgreSQL
2 28 (6.38%) Relational Database
3 25 (5.69%) Power BI
4 21 (4.78%) MongoDB
5 19 (4.33%) NoSQL
6 18 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.73%) Big Data
8 10 (2.28%) Metadata
8 10 (2.28%) MySQL
8 10 (2.28%) Redis
8 10 (2.28%) Tableau
9 9 (2.05%) Data Lake
9 9 (2.05%) Data Mining
10 8 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 8 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
11 6 (1.37%) Oracle Database
12 5 (1.14%) Hadoop
13 4 (0.91%) Flink
13 4 (0.91%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 45 (10.25%) Git
2 26 (5.92%) GitLab
2 26 (5.92%) Jenkins
3 23 (5.24%) JIRA
4 15 (3.42%) Gradle
4 15 (3.42%) Maven
5 13 (2.96%) SonarQube
6 12 (2.73%) JUnit
7 9 (2.05%) Selenium
8 8 (1.82%) Mockito
9 6 (1.37%) REST Assured
10 5 (1.14%) Bitbucket Server
10 5 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
11 4 (0.91%) Bitbucket
11 4 (0.91%) Chocolatey
11 4 (0.91%) Cucumber
12 3 (0.68%) Claude Code
12 3 (0.68%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.68%) Team Foundation Server
12 3 (0.68%) TeamCity
General
1 213 (48.52%) Social Skills
2 161 (36.67%) Finance
3 101 (23.01%) Analytical Skills
4 71 (16.17%) Banking
5 24 (5.47%) Front Office
5 24 (5.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.56%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.10%) Public Sector
8 15 (3.42%) Retail
9 13 (2.96%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 12 (2.73%) Marketing
11 11 (2.51%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (2.51%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.82%) Back Office
12 8 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (1.59%) Financial Institution
13 7 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
14 6 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (1.37%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 87 (19.82%) Developer
2 62 (14.12%) Senior
3 40 (9.11%) Lead
4 34 (7.74%) Architect
5 30 (6.83%) Analyst
6 23 (5.24%) Java Developer
7 21 (4.78%) Software Engineer
8 19 (4.33%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 19 (4.33%) Full-Stack Developer
9 17 (3.87%) Data Engineer
9 17 (3.87%) Junior
10 16 (3.64%) Java Engineer
10 16 (3.64%) Python Developer
10 16 (3.64%) Python Engineer
11 15 (3.42%) Data Scientist
11 15 (3.42%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.51%) C# Developer
12 11 (2.51%) Engineering Manager
13 10 (2.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (11.85%) REST
2 41 (9.34%) Kafka
3 37 (8.43%) Terraform
4 34 (7.74%) .NET
5 33 (7.52%) React
6 30 (6.83%) HTML
7 29 (6.61%) Spring
8 27 (6.15%) Spring Boot
9 24 (5.47%) CSS
10 19 (4.33%) RESTful
11 15 (3.42%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.42%) LangChain
12 13 (2.96%) LangGraph
13 12 (2.73%) FastAPI
13 12 (2.73%) Pandas
14 11 (2.51%) Model Context Protocol
15 10 (2.28%) PySpark
15 10 (2.28%) PyTorch
15 10 (2.28%) SOAP
15 10 (2.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (11.16%) Algorithms
2 36 (8.20%) Cloud Native
3 35 (7.97%) Data Structures
3 35 (7.97%) Management Information System
4 33 (7.52%) Distributed Systems
5 24 (5.47%) Onboarding
6 23 (5.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 23 (5.24%) Product Ownership
7 22 (5.01%) AI Agents
8 18 (4.10%) Derivative
9 14 (3.19%) Fixed Income
10 13 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.96%) Equities
11 10 (2.28%) Virtual Team
12 8 (1.82%) Operational Technology
13 7 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
13 7 (1.59%) OTC Derivatives
13 7 (1.59%) Replication
14 6 (1.37%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 41 (9.34%) Linux
2 40 (9.11%) Windows
3 8 (1.82%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.59%) Unix
5 6 (1.37%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (0.91%) Android
6 4 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 4 (0.91%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.68%) Apple iOS
7 3 (0.68%) VMS
8 1 (0.23%) CentOS
8 1 (0.23%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.23%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (33.49%) Problem-Solving
2 136 (30.98%) AI
3 128 (29.16%) Agile
4 104 (23.69%) Software Engineering
5 96 (21.87%) CI/CD
6 82 (18.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (18.22%) DevOps
8 74 (16.86%) Analytics
9 71 (16.17%) Machine Learning
9 71 (16.17%) Stakeholder Management
10 69 (15.72%) Mathematics
11 53 (12.07%) Scrum
11 53 (12.07%) Test Automation
12 50 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 48 (10.93%) Containerisation
14 47 (10.71%) Data Science
15 46 (10.48%) Microservices
16 45 (10.25%) Decision-Making
16 45 (10.25%) Generative AI
17 41 (9.34%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 143 (32.57%) Python
2 119 (27.11%) SQL
3 93 (21.18%) Java
4 56 (12.76%) JavaScript
5 41 (9.34%) C#
6 26 (5.92%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.78%) PowerShell
8 20 (4.56%) Bash
9 17 (3.87%) C++
10 8 (1.82%) R
10 8 (1.82%) Scala
11 7 (1.59%) Kotlin
12 6 (1.37%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.14%) Bicep
14 4 (0.91%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.91%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.91%) VB.NET
15 3 (0.68%) C
15 3 (0.68%) Go
15 3 (0.68%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 356 (81.09%) Degree
2 229 (52.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 64 (14.58%) Master's Degree
4 34 (7.74%) Security Cleared
5 32 (7.29%) PhD
6 29 (6.61%) SC Cleared
7 20 (4.56%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.56%) CISSP
8 13 (2.96%) DBS Check
9 12 (2.73%) PMI Certification
9 12 (2.73%) PMP
10 11 (2.51%) CISM
11 10 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 9 (2.05%) AWS Certification
12 9 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (2.05%) ISTQB
13 8 (1.82%) TOGAF Certification
14 7 (1.59%) CISA
15 6 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
15 6 (1.37%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (7.52%) Data Quality
2 29 (6.61%) QA
3 14 (3.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (2.51%) SLA
5 10 (2.28%) GDPR
5 10 (2.28%) NIST
6 9 (2.05%) GRC
7 8 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 6 (1.37%) HIPAA
8 6 (1.37%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.14%) PMO
10 4 (0.91%) Accessibility
11 3 (0.68%) COBIT
11 3 (0.68%) ITGC
12 2 (0.46%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.46%) Solvency II
13 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
13 1 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 1 (0.23%) NCSC
13 1 (0.23%) SEPA
System Software
1 48 (10.93%) Docker
2 20 (4.56%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.46%) vSphere
5 1 (0.23%) Firmware
5 1 (0.23%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.23%) RACF
5 1 (0.23%) Squid
5 1 (0.23%) Time Sharing Option
5 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.23%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 52 (11.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (4.10%) Ansible
3 16 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (3.42%) Prometheus
5 11 (2.51%) Grafana
6 9 (2.05%) SCCM
7 3 (0.68%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.68%) Control-M
7 3 (0.68%) Kubeflow
8 2 (0.46%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.46%) HP Fortify
9 1 (0.23%) CASB
9 1 (0.23%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.23%) Puppet
9 1 (0.23%) SCOM
9 1 (0.23%) Single Sign-On
9 1 (0.23%) SQL Sentry
Vendors
1 79 (18.00%) Microsoft
2 36 (8.20%) Oracle
3 23 (5.24%) Google
4 14 (3.19%) IBM
4 14 (3.19%) SAP
4 14 (3.19%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.73%) VMware
6 11 (2.51%) Cisco
7 10 (2.28%) Citrix
7 10 (2.28%) Databricks
8 9 (2.05%) OpenAI
8 9 (2.05%) Splunk
9 7 (1.59%) Progress
9 7 (1.59%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.59%) Zscaler
10 6 (1.37%) Adobe
10 6 (1.37%) BeyondTrust
10 6 (1.37%) Remedy
10 6 (1.37%) Solace
11 5 (1.14%) Dynatrace