Computer Science Degree Contracts in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 91 111
Rank change year-on-year +31 +20 +30
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 19 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.05% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.22% 1.39% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 7
10th Percentile £299 £480 £200
25th Percentile £531 £488 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £716 £563 £488
90th Percentile £733 £570 £510
North West median daily rate £626 £165 £450
% change year-on-year +279.09% -63.33% -28.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 361 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.40% 23.80% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 369
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £713 £805 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile - £24.14 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +96.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Salford - 8 £708 - 1
Computer Science Degree
North West

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 8 (42.11%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) Amazon EC2
3 2 (10.53%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (10.53%) Serverless
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CodeBuild
4 1 (5.26%) Azure Machine Learning
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) InfluxDB
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (42.11%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Legal
2 7 (36.84%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Architect
1 7 (36.84%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Computer Vision Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.26%) Python Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) QA Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Senior
3 1 (5.26%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.26%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
1 2 (10.53%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CDK
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) Node.js
2 1 (5.26%) OpenCV
2 1 (5.26%) PyTorch
2 1 (5.26%) React
2 1 (5.26%) RESTful
2 1 (5.26%) scikit-learn
2 1 (5.26%) Spring
2 1 (5.26%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.26%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 8 (42.11%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (42.11%) Software Engineering
3 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
3 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (10.53%) Scrum
3 2 (10.53%) SDLC
4 1 (5.26%) Agile
4 1 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (5.26%) Coaching
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Vision
4 1 (5.26%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 1 (5.26%) Deep Learning
4 1 (5.26%) Front End Development
4 1 (5.26%) Machine Learning
4 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.26%) Microservices
4 1 (5.26%) TDD
4 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.26%) Video Processing
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) Java
1 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.26%) Python
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
1 1 (5.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Certification
2 7 (36.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 7 (36.84%) Azure Certification
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (31.58%) SC Cleared
3 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Google
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle