Computer Science Degree Contracts 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 22 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 83 124
Rank change year-on-year +17 +41 +61
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 61 54 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.79% 1.82% 1.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.24% 5.68% 4.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 41 30
10th Percentile £193 £313 £279
25th Percentile £367 £450 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.55% +10.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £734
90th Percentile £603 £645 £748
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £19.08 £32.09 -
25th Percentile £25.00 £47.62 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £60.94 -
90th Percentile - £69.38 -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 £54.44
% change year-on-year -46.67% +3.33% +20.97%

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 660 951 868
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.23% 31.97% 26.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 409 583 573
10th Percentile £160 £256 £313
25th Percentile £309 £351 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% -6.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £625
90th Percentile £689 £696 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 73 42
10th Percentile £17.87 £13.30 £10.49
25th Percentile £18.60 £17.00 £12.13
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.65 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +2.03% +21.12% +0.48%
75th Percentile £31.00 £42.50 £44.39
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.25 £65.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £42.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -28.57% -23.64% +37.50%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

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 22 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 0 37 £575 +4.55% 287
East Midlands +22 24 £449 -40.00% 199
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 2 (3.28%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.64%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.64%) Adobe Illustrator
2 1 (1.64%) InDesign
2 1 (1.64%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (3.28%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (3.28%) Sprinklr
2 1 (1.64%) Maximo
2 1 (1.64%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (8.20%) AWS
2 4 (6.56%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.92%) Amazon S3
3 3 (4.92%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (4.92%) Serverless
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (3.28%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (3.28%) Azure
4 2 (3.28%) GCP
4 2 (3.28%) SaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.64%) Datadog
5 1 (1.64%) GitHub
5 1 (1.64%) Google App Engine
5 1 (1.64%) Google Compute Engine
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.48%) Firewall
1 7 (11.48%) Wireless
2 5 (8.20%) DNS
3 4 (6.56%) DHCP
3 4 (6.56%) LAN
3 4 (6.56%) WAN
4 3 (4.92%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (4.92%) PuTTY
4 3 (4.92%) WLAN
5 2 (3.28%) Internet
5 2 (3.28%) Network Security
5 2 (3.28%) Telepresence
5 2 (3.28%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.64%) BGP
6 1 (1.64%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.64%) NGFW
6 1 (1.64%) OSPF
6 1 (1.64%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.64%) Wireless Security
6 1 (1.64%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.92%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.92%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.92%) NoSQL
2 2 (3.28%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (3.28%) Big Data
2 2 (3.28%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.64%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) OLTP
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.64%) Power BI
3 1 (1.64%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.64%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.56%) Git
2 4 (6.56%) GitLab
2 4 (6.56%) JIRA
3 3 (4.92%) JMeter
3 3 (4.92%) Postman
3 3 (4.92%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.92%) Selenium
3 3 (4.92%) TestNG
3 3 (4.92%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.64%) Ant
4 1 (1.64%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.64%) Dreamweaver
4 1 (1.64%) Gradle
4 1 (1.64%) JUnit
4 1 (1.64%) Maven
4 1 (1.64%) Mockito
General
1 44 (72.13%) Social Skills
2 21 (34.43%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (22.95%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (6.56%) Finance
5 3 (4.92%) Automotive
5 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.92%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.28%) Banking
6 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.28%) Marketing
6 2 (3.28%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.28%) Retail
7 1 (1.64%) Back Office
7 1 (1.64%) Legal
7 1 (1.64%) Publishing
7 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (11.48%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (9.84%) Architect
3 4 (6.56%) Consultant
4 3 (4.92%) Analyst
4 3 (4.92%) Developer
4 3 (4.92%) Lead
4 3 (4.92%) Support Analyst
5 2 (3.28%) Administrator
5 2 (3.28%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Data Architect
5 2 (3.28%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Desktop Support
5 2 (3.28%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Implementation Consultant
5 2 (3.28%) Network Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Platform Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Site Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Site Reliability Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.28%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.92%) CSS
1 3 (4.92%) HTML
1 3 (4.92%) Kafka
2 2 (3.28%) Visualforce
3 1 (1.64%) .NET
3 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.64%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.64%) Flash
3 1 (1.64%) J2EE
3 1 (1.64%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (1.64%) Middleware
3 1 (1.64%) OAuth
3 1 (1.64%) OpenID
3 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.64%) REST
3 1 (1.64%) RESTful
3 1 (1.64%) SAML
3 1 (1.64%) SOAP
3 1 (1.64%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.48%) Management Information System
2 4 (6.56%) IoT
3 3 (4.92%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.92%) Industry 4.0
3 3 (4.92%) Product Ownership
3 3 (4.92%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.64%) Blog
5 1 (1.64%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.64%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.64%) PMI
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Linux
2 2 (3.28%) Mac OS
2 2 (3.28%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (96.72%) Computer Science
2 25 (40.98%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (24.59%) Agile
4 14 (22.95%) DevOps
5 10 (16.39%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (14.75%) Project Management
6 9 (14.75%) Workflow
7 8 (13.11%) Software Engineering
8 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
8 7 (11.48%) Data Ingestion
8 7 (11.48%) Decision-Making
8 7 (11.48%) User Experience
8 7 (11.48%) Visualisation
9 6 (9.84%) Containerisation
9 6 (9.84%) Data Security
9 6 (9.84%) Mentoring
9 6 (9.84%) Process Improvement
9 6 (9.84%) SIEM
10 5 (8.20%) Data Governance
10 5 (8.20%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.95%) Python
2 7 (11.48%) Bash
2 7 (11.48%) SQL
3 4 (6.56%) Java
4 3 (4.92%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.92%) Scala
5 2 (3.28%) Apex Code
5 2 (3.28%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.64%) C#
6 1 (1.64%) Go
6 1 (1.64%) Perl
6 1 (1.64%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 61 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
3 6 (9.84%) DV Cleared
4 5 (8.20%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (6.56%) CCNA
5 4 (6.56%) CCNP
5 4 (6.56%) CISSP
6 3 (4.92%) CEH
6 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Certification
7 2 (3.28%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 2 (3.28%) DBS Check
7 2 (3.28%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (3.28%) Master's Degree
7 2 (3.28%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.28%) PMP
8 1 (1.64%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.64%) OCP
8 1 (1.64%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (16.39%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.28%) GDPR
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.64%) NIST
4 1 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (16.39%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (18.03%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.48%) Ansible
3 6 (9.84%) Terraform
4 3 (4.92%) Kibana
5 1 (1.64%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) Cisco
3 5 (8.20%) SAP
4 3 (4.92%) Oracle
4 3 (4.92%) Peregrine
4 3 (4.92%) Remedy
4 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.28%) Avaya
5 2 (3.28%) Genesys
5 2 (3.28%) Juniper
6 1 (1.64%) Adobe
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.64%) BT
6 1 (1.64%) Databricks
6 1 (1.64%) Facebook
6 1 (1.64%) Google
6 1 (1.64%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.64%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.64%) Sybase
6 1 (1.64%) Twitter