Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 80 111
Rank change year-on-year -23 +31 +75
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 58 42 25
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 1.86% 1.80% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.37% 6.46% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 19 14
10th Percentile £407 £331 £309
25th Percentile £448 £459 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £600 £615
Median % change year-on-year -14.17% -2.44% +11.82%
75th Percentile £549 £635 £626
90th Percentile £714 £725 £635
England median daily rate £477 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -13.32% +3.00% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £22.85 - -
25th Percentile £26.16 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £30.50
75th Percentile £31.00 - £33.25
90th Percentile £33.00 - -
England median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +0.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,081 650 784
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.74% 27.84% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 399 490
10th Percentile £260 £225 £263
25th Percentile £405 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £650 £715 £676
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 30 45
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.59
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.07 £17.75
Median hourly rate £22.92 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £35.50 £52.50 £68.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
West Midlands -28 45 £525 -17.32% 53
East Midlands -11 13 £450 +26.40% 51
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (5.17%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) nginx
2 1 (1.72%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.72%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 20 (34.48%) AWS
2 17 (29.31%) GCP
2 17 (29.31%) Serverless
3 10 (17.24%) Azure
4 7 (12.07%) Power Platform
5 5 (8.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 5 (8.62%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 4 (6.90%) AWS KMS
6 4 (6.90%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.17%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (5.17%) GitHub
7 3 (5.17%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (3.45%) SaaS
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
3 4 (6.90%) Wireless
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (5.17%) DHCP
4 3 (5.17%) LAN
4 3 (5.17%) PuTTY
4 3 (5.17%) WAN
4 3 (5.17%) WLAN
5 1 (1.72%) Telepresence
5 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (24.14%) NoSQL
2 12 (20.69%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (17.24%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (6.90%) Power BI
5 3 (5.17%) Tableau
6 2 (3.45%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (3.45%) Relational Database
7 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.72%) Big Data
7 1 (1.72%) MongoDB
7 1 (1.72%) OLTP
7 1 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (1.72%) Power Query
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.72%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (25.86%) GitLab
2 14 (24.14%) Jenkins
3 10 (17.24%) Liquibase
4 6 (10.34%) JIRA
5 1 (1.72%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.72%) InstallShield
5 1 (1.72%) MSI
5 1 (1.72%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.72%) Selenium
5 1 (1.72%) SoapUI
General
1 41 (70.69%) Social Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (25.86%) Finance
3 10 (17.24%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Financial Institution
4 7 (12.07%) Marketing
5 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.72%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.72%) Agriculture
7 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (20.69%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Site Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Software Engineer
3 9 (15.52%) Splunk Engineer
4 8 (13.79%) Architect
4 8 (13.79%) Senior
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Engineer
5 7 (12.07%) Senior Software Engineer
6 6 (10.34%) Cloud Software Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) AWS Software Engineer
7 5 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Analyst
8 4 (6.90%) Developer
8 4 (6.90%) GCP Software Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Salesforce Architect
8 4 (6.90%) Senior Cloud Engineer
8 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps
8 4 (6.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (41.38%) Elastic Stack
2 21 (36.21%) REST
3 16 (27.59%) RESTful
4 6 (10.34%) SOAP
5 5 (8.62%) Lightning Web Components
5 5 (8.62%) Middleware
5 5 (8.62%) Visualforce
6 3 (5.17%) .NET
6 3 (5.17%) HTML
7 2 (3.45%) OAuth
7 2 (3.45%) SailPoint
8 1 (1.72%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET Web API
8 1 (1.72%) Express.js
8 1 (1.72%) Node.js
8 1 (1.72%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.72%) React
8 1 (1.72%) SAML
8 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Management Information System
2 15 (25.86%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (24.14%) Public Cloud
4 12 (20.69%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.90%) Product Ownership
6 3 (5.17%) Virtual Team
7 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (3.45%) IoT
8 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.72%) CMDB
8 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.72%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 23 (39.66%) Linux
2 9 (15.52%) Unix
3 4 (6.90%) Windows
3 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (98.28%) Computer Science
2 33 (56.90%) DevOps
3 29 (50.00%) Containerisation
4 28 (48.28%) Agile
4 28 (48.28%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (34.48%) CI/CD
6 19 (32.76%) Change Management
7 17 (29.31%) Migration
8 16 (27.59%) Infrastructure as Code
8 16 (27.59%) Microservices
8 16 (27.59%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (25.86%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (25.86%) Data Modelling
10 14 (24.14%) Cryptography
10 14 (24.14%) Data Security
11 12 (20.69%) High Availability
11 12 (20.69%) Software Engineering
12 11 (18.97%) Cost Optimisation
12 11 (18.97%) Performance Metrics
13 10 (17.24%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 30 (51.72%) Python
2 16 (27.59%) Go
3 14 (24.14%) SQL
4 11 (18.97%) Bash
5 5 (8.62%) Apex Code
6 3 (5.17%) C#
6 3 (5.17%) Java
6 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
6 3 (5.17%) R
7 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.72%) C++
8 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.72%) Scala
8 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.72%) VBA
8 1 (1.72%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (100.00%) Degree
2 21 (36.21%) Master's Degree
3 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) AWS Certification
5 3 (5.17%) CCNA
5 3 (5.17%) CCNP
5 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Developer
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.45%) CISA
6 2 (3.45%) CISM
6 2 (3.45%) CISSP
6 2 (3.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
6 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.72%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.07%) GDPR
2 5 (8.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 5 (8.62%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) QA
3 4 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.45%) COBIT
4 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (3.45%) NIST
4 2 (3.45%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (43.10%) Docker
2 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 26 (44.83%) Kubernetes
2 24 (41.38%) Ansible
3 17 (29.31%) Terraform
4 14 (24.14%) Grafana
4 14 (24.14%) Prometheus
5 10 (17.24%) Kibana
5 10 (17.24%) Puppet
6 2 (3.45%) RSA Archer
6 2 (3.45%) SCCM
7 1 (1.72%) logstash
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.72%) Progress Chef
7 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (1.72%) WSUS
Vendors
1 23 (39.66%) Splunk
2 18 (31.03%) Microsoft
3 7 (12.07%) Google
4 5 (8.62%) Salesforce
5 4 (6.90%) Cisco
6 3 (5.17%) Peregrine
6 3 (5.17%) Remedy
7 2 (3.45%) Databricks
7 2 (3.45%) IBM
7 2 (3.45%) Oracle
7 2 (3.45%) Rapid7
7 2 (3.45%) ServiceNow
7 2 (3.45%) VMware
8 1 (1.72%) Alteryx
8 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.72%) Citrix
8 1 (1.72%) Pega