Computer Science Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Computer Science
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 58 72
Rank change year-on-year -9 +14 +64
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 101 70 56
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 3.21% 3.04% 2.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.72% 3.54% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 31 32
10th Percentile £176 £356 £375
25th Percentile £203 £375 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £545 £624 £628
90th Percentile £673 £711 £650
England median daily rate £475 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -17.39% +4.55% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile £23.80 - -
25th Percentile £26.36 - £27.75
Median hourly rate £28.50 £50.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -43.00% +63.93% -
75th Percentile £31.00 - £33.25
90th Percentile £32.20 - -
England median hourly rate £41.50 £52.50 £59.00
% change year-on-year -20.95% -11.02% +8.26%

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 2,718 1,979 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 86.51% 85.93% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,706 1,244 1,509
10th Percentile £250 £250 £262
25th Percentile £375 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £483
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.63% -2.53%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £505 £525 £544
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.49% -1.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 200 69 97
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £17.07
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% -2.17% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £33.54 £51.50
90th Percentile £30.33 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

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

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 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 -16 69 £500 -13.04% 45
East Midlands 0 32 £447 +25.56% 45
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 (2.97%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.98%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.99%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.97%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.99%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 24 (23.76%) AWS
2 21 (20.79%) GCP
3 17 (16.83%) Serverless
4 15 (14.85%) Azure
5 8 (7.92%) Power Platform
6 5 (4.95%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 5 (4.95%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 4 (3.96%) AWS KMS
7 4 (3.96%) GitHub
7 4 (3.96%) PowerApps
8 3 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (2.97%) Power Automate
8 3 (2.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (1.98%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.98%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.98%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (1.98%) Azure Machine Learning
Communications & Networking
1 7 (6.93%) Firewall
2 6 (5.94%) DNS
2 6 (5.94%) Wireless
3 5 (4.95%) DHCP
3 5 (4.95%) LAN
3 5 (4.95%) WAN
3 5 (4.95%) WLAN
4 3 (2.97%) BGP
4 3 (2.97%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (2.97%) EIGRP
4 3 (2.97%) IPv4
4 3 (2.97%) IPv6
4 3 (2.97%) MPLS
4 3 (2.97%) OSPF
4 3 (2.97%) SD-WAN
4 3 (2.97%) VLAN
4 3 (2.97%) VPN
4 3 (2.97%) VXLAN
5 2 (1.98%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (1.98%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.86%) NoSQL
2 12 (11.88%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (9.90%) Elasticsearch
4 5 (4.95%) Power BI
5 3 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 3 (2.97%) Tableau
6 2 (1.98%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.99%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.99%) Big Data
7 1 (0.99%) Data Mining
7 1 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.99%) MySQL
7 1 (0.99%) OLTP
7 1 (0.99%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.99%) Power Query
7 1 (0.99%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
7 1 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (15.84%) GitLab
2 15 (14.85%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.90%) Liquibase
4 6 (5.94%) JIRA
5 2 (1.98%) Selenium
6 1 (0.99%) AdminStudio
6 1 (0.99%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.99%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.99%) CircleCI
6 1 (0.99%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.99%) Git
6 1 (0.99%) Gradle
6 1 (0.99%) InstallShield
6 1 (0.99%) JUnit
6 1 (0.99%) Maven
6 1 (0.99%) MSI
6 1 (0.99%) SoapUI
6 1 (0.99%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.99%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (0.99%) webpack
General
1 52 (51.49%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (18.81%) Finance
3 10 (9.90%) Banking
3 10 (9.90%) Financial Institution
4 7 (6.93%) Marketing
5 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.96%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Humanities
8 2 (1.98%) Legal
8 2 (1.98%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.99%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.99%) Agriculture
9 1 (0.99%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (0.99%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 12 (11.88%) Cloud Engineer
2 10 (9.90%) Architect
2 10 (9.90%) GCP Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Senior
3 9 (8.91%) Site Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Software Engineer
3 9 (8.91%) Splunk Engineer
4 7 (6.93%) AWS Engineer
4 7 (6.93%) Senior Software Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) Cloud Software Engineer
5 6 (5.94%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Analyst
6 5 (4.95%) AWS Software Engineer
6 5 (4.95%) Developer
6 5 (4.95%) Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.96%) Data Scientist
7 4 (3.96%) Delivery Manager
7 4 (3.96%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (3.96%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (24.75%) Elastic Stack
2 22 (21.78%) REST
3 16 (15.84%) RESTful
4 7 (6.93%) Middleware
5 6 (5.94%) SOAP
6 5 (4.95%) Lightning Web Components
6 5 (4.95%) Visualforce
7 3 (2.97%) .NET
7 3 (2.97%) HTML
8 2 (1.98%) JSON
8 2 (1.98%) OAuth
8 2 (1.98%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
9 1 (0.99%) Express.js
9 1 (0.99%) Node.js
9 1 (0.99%) SAML
9 1 (0.99%) Software Packaging
9 1 (0.99%) Spring
9 1 (0.99%) XML
9 1 (0.99%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.84%) Management Information System
2 15 (14.85%) Distributed Systems
3 14 (13.86%) Public Cloud
4 12 (11.88%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.96%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.97%) Algorithms
6 3 (2.97%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.98%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.98%) IoT
7 2 (1.98%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 2 (1.98%) SCADA
7 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.99%) CMDB
8 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.99%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.99%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.99%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 24 (23.76%) Linux
2 9 (8.91%) Unix
3 4 (3.96%) Windows
3 4 (3.96%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.98%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.99%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (35.64%) Agile
2 34 (33.66%) DevOps
2 34 (33.66%) Problem-Solving
3 31 (30.69%) Containerisation
4 22 (21.78%) CI/CD
5 20 (19.80%) Cybersecurity
6 18 (17.82%) Change Management
7 17 (16.83%) Infrastructure as Code
7 17 (16.83%) Migration
8 16 (15.84%) Microservices
8 16 (15.84%) Root Cause Analysis
9 15 (14.85%) Data Modelling
10 14 (13.86%) Cost Optimisation
10 14 (13.86%) Cryptography
10 14 (13.86%) Data Security
10 14 (13.86%) Software Engineering
11 13 (12.87%) Continuous Delivery
11 13 (12.87%) Incident Response
11 13 (12.87%) Validation
12 12 (11.88%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 39 (38.61%) Python
2 17 (16.83%) Go
3 16 (15.84%) SQL
4 12 (11.88%) Bash
5 5 (4.95%) Apex Code
6 3 (2.97%) C#
6 3 (2.97%) Java
6 3 (2.97%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.97%) R
7 2 (1.98%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.99%) C++
8 1 (0.99%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.99%) Scala
8 1 (0.99%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.99%) VBA
8 1 (0.99%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (71.29%) Degree
2 56 (55.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (21.78%) Master's Degree
4 12 (11.88%) DBS Check
5 8 (7.92%) Security Cleared
6 7 (6.93%) AWS Certification
7 5 (4.95%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.95%) CCNP
7 5 (4.95%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.95%) CISSP
7 5 (4.95%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 3 (2.97%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 3 (2.97%) CCIE
8 3 (2.97%) CCIE Security
8 3 (2.97%) CCSP
8 3 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (2.97%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.97%) PMP
9 2 (1.98%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (1.98%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.90%) GDPR
2 9 (8.91%) Data Quality
3 7 (6.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (4.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 5 (4.95%) NIST
4 5 (4.95%) QA
5 3 (2.97%) ISO 19650
5 3 (2.97%) PCI DSS
6 2 (1.98%) COBIT
6 2 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (1.98%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.99%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.99%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (26.73%) Docker
2 5 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.97%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.99%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.99%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 28 (27.72%) Ansible
1 28 (27.72%) Kubernetes
2 21 (20.79%) Terraform
3 15 (14.85%) Grafana
3 15 (14.85%) Prometheus
4 11 (10.89%) Puppet
5 10 (9.90%) Kibana
6 2 (1.98%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.98%) RSA Archer
6 2 (1.98%) SCCM
7 1 (0.99%) logstash
7 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.99%) Podman
7 1 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.99%) WSUS
Vendors
1 24 (23.76%) Splunk
2 18 (17.82%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.91%) Google
4 6 (5.94%) Cisco
5 5 (4.95%) Salesforce
5 5 (4.95%) VMware
6 3 (2.97%) Databricks
6 3 (2.97%) F5
6 3 (2.97%) Fortinet
6 3 (2.97%) Meraki
6 3 (2.97%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.97%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.98%) Forcepoint
7 2 (1.98%) IBM
7 2 (1.98%) Juniper
7 2 (1.98%) Oracle
7 2 (1.98%) Peregrine
7 2 (1.98%) Rapid7
7 2 (1.98%) Remedy
7 2 (1.98%) ServiceNow