Computer Science Contracts in London

Computer Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 56 82 138
Rank change year-on-year +26 +56 -36
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 660 784 825
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.76% 2.98% 2.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.28% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 425 563 556
10th Percentile £350 £413 £419
25th Percentile £425 £500 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £760 £763
90th Percentile £825 £900 £875
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 10 28
10th Percentile £38.75 £25.63 £30.18
25th Percentile £42.25 £35.63 £34.81
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.25 £41.25
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% +29.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.13 £55.81
90th Percentile £80.25 £84.38 £61.98
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £46.71
% change year-on-year +2.10% +15.33% +22.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in London.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +19 84 £565 -22.07% 86
West London +23 18 £475 +10.14% 39
South London +11 7 £365 -27.00% 8
East London +1 6 £725 +41.46% 21
North London +3 2 £100 - 4
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 18 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.67%) Confluence
4 9 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
5 7 (1.06%) SAS
6 4 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (0.61%) Exchange Server 2013
6 4 (0.61%) Skype for Business
7 3 (0.45%) Apache
7 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
7 3 (0.45%) CMS
7 3 (0.45%) Ethereum
7 3 (0.45%) Gunicorn
7 3 (0.45%) Hyperledger
7 3 (0.45%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.30%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.67%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.21%) Spreadsheet
5 7 (1.06%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.91%) Simulink
6 6 (0.91%) Stateflow
7 3 (0.45%) Windchill
8 2 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 1 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
9 1 (0.15%) Blender
9 1 (0.15%) Houdini
9 1 (0.15%) InVision
9 1 (0.15%) Maya
9 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 10 (1.52%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.61%) Primavera
4 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.45%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.45%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.30%) Orchestrade
5 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) BusinessWorks
6 1 (0.15%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.15%) Endur
6 1 (0.15%) IBM Planning Analytics
6 1 (0.15%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.15%) SAP CX
6 1 (0.15%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 172 (26.06%) Azure
2 117 (17.73%) AWS
3 85 (12.88%) GCP
4 43 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 27 (4.09%) GitHub
7 26 (3.94%) Power Platform
7 26 (3.94%) Serverless
8 22 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.27%) PowerApps
10 15 (2.27%) Vertex AI
11 14 (2.12%) SaaS
12 12 (1.82%) Amazon S3
13 10 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (1.52%) Entra ID
13 10 (1.52%) Google Compute Engine
14 9 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (1.36%) Microsoft Purview
14 9 (1.36%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 21 (3.18%) Internet
2 20 (3.03%) Firewall
3 17 (2.58%) DNS
4 15 (2.27%) Network Security
5 10 (1.52%) VPN
6 9 (1.36%) HTTP
6 9 (1.36%) LAN
6 9 (1.36%) TCP/IP
7 7 (1.06%) SSH
8 6 (0.91%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.91%) WAN
9 5 (0.76%) DHCP
9 5 (0.76%) OSPF
9 5 (0.76%) SD-WAN
9 5 (0.76%) Wireless
10 4 (0.61%) HSRP
10 4 (0.61%) IPsec
10 4 (0.61%) Skype
10 4 (0.61%) VLAN
11 3 (0.45%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (7.12%) SQL Server
2 41 (6.21%) Data Warehouse
3 37 (5.61%) Relational Database
4 33 (5.00%) Big Data
5 27 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.94%) NoSQL
7 20 (3.03%) Power BI
8 19 (2.88%) BigQuery
8 19 (2.88%) Tableau
9 15 (2.27%) Hadoop
10 13 (1.97%) KDB
10 13 (1.97%) MongoDB
11 10 (1.52%) MySQL
11 10 (1.52%) Oracle Database
12 9 (1.36%) Data Lake
12 9 (1.36%) RDBMS
13 7 (1.06%) Data Mining
14 6 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.91%) Metadata
14 6 (0.91%) Redis
Development Applications
1 52 (7.88%) Git
2 38 (5.76%) Jenkins
3 30 (4.55%) JIRA
4 20 (3.03%) GitLab
5 12 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.36%) Gradle
7 7 (1.06%) ERwin
8 5 (0.76%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.76%) JUnit
8 5 (0.76%) MLflow
9 4 (0.61%) git-flow
9 4 (0.61%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.61%) Postman
9 4 (0.61%) Sourcetree
9 4 (0.61%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.45%) Maven
10 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 3 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 354 (53.64%) Social Skills
2 188 (28.48%) Finance
3 148 (22.42%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (10.61%) Banking
5 53 (8.03%) Front Office
6 32 (4.85%) Public Sector
7 26 (3.94%) Marketing
8 21 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 20 (3.03%) Legal
10 18 (2.73%) Financial Institution
10 18 (2.73%) Investment Banking
11 15 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (1.97%) Retail
13 11 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.52%) Advertising
15 9 (1.36%) Games
15 9 (1.36%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.06%) Automotive
17 6 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
18 5 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 163 (24.70%) Developer
2 85 (12.88%) Architect
3 77 (11.67%) Senior
4 43 (6.52%) Java Developer
5 42 (6.36%) Software Engineer
6 37 (5.61%) Analyst
7 35 (5.30%) Lead
8 28 (4.24%) Data Engineer
9 27 (4.09%) Python Developer
9 27 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (3.94%) Consultant
11 25 (3.79%) DevOps Engineer
12 22 (3.33%) Senior Developer
13 20 (3.03%) Azure Engineer
14 19 (2.88%) Network Engineer
15 17 (2.58%) Business Analyst
16 16 (2.42%) Data Scientist
17 13 (1.97%) Quantitative Developer
17 13 (1.97%) Security Engineer
18 12 (1.82%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.12%) CSS
2 43 (6.52%) HTML
3 41 (6.21%) .NET
4 36 (5.45%) React
5 29 (4.39%) REST
6 22 (3.33%) Spring
7 21 (3.18%) JSON
7 21 (3.18%) Kafka
8 20 (3.03%) RESTful
9 17 (2.58%) Node.js
9 17 (2.58%) Pandas
10 15 (2.27%) Django
11 14 (2.12%) NumPy
12 13 (1.97%) AngularJS
12 13 (1.97%) XML
13 11 (1.67%) .NET Core
13 11 (1.67%) jQuery
13 11 (1.67%) Swagger
14 10 (1.52%) Hibernate
14 10 (1.52%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 81 (12.27%) Algorithms
2 54 (8.18%) Management Information System
3 43 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 41 (6.21%) Derivative
5 31 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
6 29 (4.39%) Fixed Income
7 22 (3.33%) Product Ownership
8 21 (3.18%) Data Centre
9 19 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (2.73%) Mobile App
11 17 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
12 16 (2.42%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 16 (2.42%) Virtual Team
13 14 (2.12%) Equities
14 12 (1.82%) Blockchain
15 11 (1.67%) Cloud Native
15 11 (1.67%) Market Risk
15 11 (1.67%) Social Media
15 11 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
16 10 (1.52%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 49 (7.42%) Linux
2 32 (4.85%) Windows
3 20 (3.03%) Unix
4 18 (2.73%) Android
5 12 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.36%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.91%) Solaris
8 5 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.76%) VMS
9 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
10 3 (0.45%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
12 1 (0.15%) OS/390
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
12 1 (0.15%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Mobile
12 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 237 (35.91%) Problem-Solving
2 197 (29.85%) Agile
3 106 (16.06%) CI/CD
4 101 (15.30%) DevOps
5 98 (14.85%) Software Engineering
6 90 (13.64%) Analytics
7 78 (11.82%) Machine Learning
8 77 (11.67%) Mathematics
9 76 (11.52%) Data Modelling
10 75 (11.36%) Data Science
11 64 (9.70%) Migration
12 58 (8.79%) Project Management
13 55 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence
14 54 (8.18%) Test Automation
15 50 (7.58%) Data Analysis
16 45 (6.82%) Scrum
17 44 (6.67%) SDLC
18 43 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
18 43 (6.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 43 (6.52%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 192 (29.09%) Python
2 169 (25.61%) SQL
3 129 (19.55%) Java
4 66 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 62 (9.39%) C#
6 46 (6.97%) C++
7 30 (4.55%) PowerShell
8 25 (3.79%) Bash
9 24 (3.64%) TypeScript
10 17 (2.58%) Go
10 17 (2.58%) Rust
11 16 (2.42%) Scala
12 13 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 11 (1.67%) C
14 10 (1.52%) Perl
14 10 (1.52%) PL/SQL
15 9 (1.36%) R
16 8 (1.21%) MATLAB
16 8 (1.21%) VBA
17 7 (1.06%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 588 (89.09%) Degree
2 400 (60.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 129 (19.55%) Master's Degree
4 54 (8.18%) Security Cleared
5 47 (7.12%) SC Cleared
6 34 (5.15%) PhD
7 21 (3.18%) Azure Certification
7 21 (3.18%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (3.03%) CISSP
9 15 (2.27%) Numerate Degree
10 13 (1.97%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (1.82%) PMI Certification
11 12 (1.82%) PMP
12 11 (1.67%) CCNP
12 11 (1.67%) CEH
13 10 (1.52%) CCIE
13 10 (1.52%) CCNA
14 9 (1.36%) CISM
15 8 (1.21%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (7.58%) QA
2 41 (6.21%) Data Quality
3 11 (1.67%) Accessibility
3 11 (1.67%) NIST
3 11 (1.67%) SLA
4 7 (1.06%) MiFID
5 6 (0.91%) GDPR
6 5 (0.76%) COBIT
6 5 (0.76%) HIPAA
6 5 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (0.61%) Dodd-Frank
7 4 (0.61%) GRC
7 4 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 1 (0.15%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (4.39%) Docker
2 19 (2.88%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.76%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.76%) KVM
6 4 (0.61%) NFS
6 4 (0.61%) vCloud
6 4 (0.61%) vSphere
7 3 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 45 (6.82%) Kubernetes
2 43 (6.52%) Terraform
3 10 (1.52%) Ansible
3 10 (1.52%) PingFederate
4 6 (0.91%) Grafana
4 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.61%) Nessus
6 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.45%) CSIRT
7 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
7 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 3 (0.45%) Puppet
7 3 (0.45%) SCCM
8 2 (0.30%) QRadar
8 2 (0.30%) SolarWinds Orion
8 2 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.15%) Kibana
9 1 (0.15%) logstash
9 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 114 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 57 (8.64%) Oracle
3 35 (5.30%) Google
4 23 (3.48%) Cisco
4 23 (3.48%) SAP
5 22 (3.33%) Databricks
6 18 (2.73%) ServiceNow
6 18 (2.73%) VMware
7 11 (1.67%) Foundry
7 11 (1.67%) ION Trading
7 11 (1.67%) Palantir
7 11 (1.67%) Salesforce
8 7 (1.06%) Arista
9 6 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 6 (0.91%) Genesys
9 6 (0.91%) IBM
9 6 (0.91%) Juniper
10 5 (0.76%) Citrix
10 5 (0.76%) F5
10 5 (0.76%) Red Hat