Computer Science Contracts in the Midlands

Computer Science
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science 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 41 48 125
Rank change year-on-year +7 +77 +36
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 78 90 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 4.08% 3.26% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 3.97% 1.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 55 30
10th Percentile £144 £339 £313
25th Percentile £163 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% +12.24% +11.36%
75th Percentile £520 £626 £547
90th Percentile £588 £645 £648
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 2
10th Percentile - - £26.66
25th Percentile - £22.33 £29.72
Median hourly rate - £55.00 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year - +46.18% +168.75%
75th Percentile - £63.75 £47.72
90th Percentile - £72.50 £52.09
England median hourly rate £53.50 £55.00 £53.19
% change year-on-year -2.73% +3.41% +11.97%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
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 within the Midlands 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
West Midlands +1 58 £240 -55.44% 166
East Midlands +15 20 £250 -56.52% 115
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 (3.85%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.28%) Maximo
2 1 (1.28%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 9 (11.54%) AWS
2 6 (7.69%) Azure
3 5 (6.41%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.13%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (5.13%) GCP
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EMR
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon Kinesis
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.56%) Serverless
5 2 (2.56%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.28%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.28%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.28%) Google Compute Engine
6 1 (1.28%) Google Kubernetes Engine
6 1 (1.28%) OCI
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.85%) LAN
1 3 (3.85%) Network Security
1 3 (3.85%) WAN
2 2 (2.56%) Internet
3 1 (1.28%) BGP
3 1 (1.28%) DHCP
3 1 (1.28%) DNS
3 1 (1.28%) EIGRP
3 1 (1.28%) Firewall
3 1 (1.28%) OSPF
3 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.28%) VLAN
3 1 (1.28%) Wireless
3 1 (1.28%) Wireless Security
3 1 (1.28%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.41%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.13%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.85%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.56%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.28%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.28%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (7.69%) Postman
2 5 (6.41%) Git
2 5 (6.41%) Jenkins
3 4 (5.13%) JIRA
4 3 (3.85%) GitLab
4 3 (3.85%) JMeter
4 3 (3.85%) REST Assured
4 3 (3.85%) Selenium
4 3 (3.85%) TestNG
4 3 (3.85%) Travis CI
5 1 (1.28%) Ant
5 1 (1.28%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.28%) Gradle
5 1 (1.28%) JUnit
5 1 (1.28%) Maven
5 1 (1.28%) Mockito
General
1 59 (75.64%) Social Skills
2 25 (32.05%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (20.51%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.69%) Finance
5 5 (6.41%) Automotive
5 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.85%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.56%) Banking
7 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.56%) General Ledger
7 2 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.56%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.28%) Back Office
8 1 (1.28%) Humanities
8 1 (1.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.28%) Marketing
8 1 (1.28%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (11.54%) Architect
2 7 (8.97%) Junior
3 6 (7.69%) Developer
3 6 (7.69%) IT Engineer
3 6 (7.69%) IT Support
4 4 (5.13%) Analyst
4 4 (5.13%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) IT Analyst
4 4 (5.13%) IT Support Analyst
4 4 (5.13%) Junior IT Engineer
4 4 (5.13%) Lead
4 4 (5.13%) Support Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) Junior Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) Junior IT Support
5 3 (3.85%) Junior IT Support Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) Junior Support Analyst
5 3 (3.85%) SAP Developer
5 3 (3.85%) Senior
5 3 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.13%) .NET
1 4 (5.13%) RESTful
2 3 (3.85%) REST
2 3 (3.85%) SOAP
3 2 (2.56%) BAPI
3 2 (2.56%) CSS
3 2 (2.56%) HTML
3 2 (2.56%) IDoc
3 2 (2.56%) Kafka
3 2 (2.56%) SAP Smart Forms
3 2 (2.56%) Visualforce
3 2 (2.56%) Web Services
4 1 (1.28%) 802.1X
4 1 (1.28%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.28%) J2EE
4 1 (1.28%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.28%) Middleware
4 1 (1.28%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (1.28%) SAPUI5
4 1 (1.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.41%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (6.41%) IoT
2 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.13%) Smartphone
4 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.28%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.28%) PMI
6 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.28%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
2 4 (5.13%) Android
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (2.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (39.74%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.05%) Agile
3 13 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 11 (14.10%) DevOps
6 10 (12.82%) Project Management
7 8 (10.26%) CI/CD
7 8 (10.26%) Mentoring
7 8 (10.26%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (8.97%) Continuous Integration
8 7 (8.97%) SIEM
8 7 (8.97%) Visualisation
8 7 (8.97%) Workflow
9 6 (7.69%) Containerisation
9 6 (7.69%) Data Architecture
9 6 (7.69%) Scrum
9 6 (7.69%) User Experience
10 5 (6.41%) Analytical Thinking
10 5 (6.41%) Data Ingestion
10 5 (6.41%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 16 (20.51%) Python
2 6 (7.69%) Bash
3 4 (5.13%) Java
4 3 (3.85%) ABAP
4 3 (3.85%) COBOL
4 3 (3.85%) SQL
5 2 (2.56%) Apex Code
5 2 (2.56%) C#
5 2 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.56%) Scala
6 1 (1.28%) Perl
6 1 (1.28%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 69 (88.46%) Degree
2 48 (61.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 6 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (6.41%) CISSP
5 5 (6.41%) DBS Check
6 4 (5.13%) CEH
7 3 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 3 (3.85%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.56%) PMP
8 2 (2.56%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.28%) OCP
9 1 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.38%) QA
2 5 (6.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.13%) Data Quality
4 3 (3.85%) GDPR
5 2 (2.56%) NIST
5 2 (2.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (1.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (1.28%) HIPAA
6 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.28%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.41%) Ansible
2 5 (6.41%) Terraform
3 3 (3.85%) Kibana
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 10 (12.82%) SAP
3 4 (5.13%) Apple
4 3 (3.85%) Oracle
4 3 (3.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.56%) Adobe
5 2 (2.56%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.56%) Cisco
5 2 (2.56%) Juniper
6 1 (1.28%) BT
6 1 (1.28%) Google
6 1 (1.28%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.28%) Siemens
6 1 (1.28%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.28%) Sybase
6 1 (1.28%) Zscaler