Computer Science Contracts in the Midlands

Computer Science
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 121 145
Rank change year-on-year +73 +24 -42
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 87 43 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.22% 1.27% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 1.44% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 32 36
10th Percentile £330 £318 £194
25th Percentile £425 £419 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £433
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% +13.29% +1.76%
75th Percentile £635 £553 £506
90th Percentile £650 £728 £688
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +7.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.66 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £29.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.18% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.72 £14.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £52.09 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £46.71
% change year-on-year +2.10% +15.33% +22.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,225 2,990 4,391
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.22% 88.54% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,479 2,094 3,250
10th Percentile £250 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £370 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +4.74% +15.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £566
90th Percentile £700 £685 £653
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 115 143
10th Percentile £11.06 £11.88 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.71 £15.00 £13.73
Median hourly rate £19.00 £18.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% +7.14% +10.34%
75th Percentile £35.00 £29.38 £22.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.50 £34.90
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

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 7 May 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

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 7 May 2024. 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 +65 73 £525 +2.44% 89
East Midlands +18 14 £600 +29.73% 71
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 4 (4.60%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.45%) Apache
3 1 (1.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.05%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.30%) Simulink
3 1 (1.15%) CATIA
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.15%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.15%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Azure
2 5 (5.75%) AWS
2 5 (5.75%) Azure Sentinel
2 5 (5.75%) Power Platform
3 4 (4.60%) Serverless
4 3 (3.45%) Azure Functions
4 3 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.30%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.30%) GCP
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.15%) Azure App Service
6 1 (1.15%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.15%) GitHub
6 1 (1.15%) IaaS
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.15%) PaaS
6 1 (1.15%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) DHCP
1 6 (6.90%) DNS
2 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (5.75%) Ethereal
2 5 (5.75%) Ethernet
2 5 (5.75%) LAN
2 5 (5.75%) WAN
2 5 (5.75%) Wireless
2 5 (5.75%) Wireshark
3 4 (4.60%) Firewall
4 3 (3.45%) Network Security
5 2 (2.30%) SAN
6 1 (1.15%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.15%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.15%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.90%) Data Mining
2 5 (5.75%) Power BI
3 3 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.45%) Big Data
3 3 (3.45%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.30%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.30%) Tableau
5 1 (1.15%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.15%) Flink
5 1 (1.15%) MySQL
5 1 (1.15%) Presto
5 1 (1.15%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.75%) Git
1 5 (5.75%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.45%) GitLab
3 2 (2.30%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (2.30%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.15%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.15%) JIRA
4 1 (1.15%) NUnit
4 1 (1.15%) Visual Studio
General
1 59 (67.82%) Social Skills
2 35 (40.23%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Finance
4 7 (8.05%) Electronics
5 6 (6.90%) German Language
6 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.75%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.60%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.30%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.30%) Law
8 2 (2.30%) Legal
8 2 (2.30%) Retail
9 1 (1.15%) Banking
9 1 (1.15%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.15%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.15%) Police
9 1 (1.15%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (14.94%) Architect
2 11 (12.64%) Developer
3 9 (10.34%) Analyst
3 9 (10.34%) Senior
4 6 (6.90%) Data Architect
4 6 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Java Developer
4 6 (6.90%) Network Engineer
4 6 (6.90%) Support Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
5 5 (5.75%) Network Support
5 5 (5.75%) Network Support Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Splunk Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Validation Engineer
6 4 (4.60%) Verification Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (3.45%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) Spring
2 5 (5.75%) Middleware
3 4 (4.60%) Kafka
4 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.45%) React
5 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.15%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.15%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.15%) Dask
6 1 (1.15%) Keras
6 1 (1.15%) NumPy
6 1 (1.15%) Pandas
6 1 (1.15%) PySpark
6 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.15%) REST
6 1 (1.15%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.15%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.15%) Vue
6 1 (1.15%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Data Centre
1 13 (14.94%) Management Information System
2 11 (12.64%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (8.05%) Algorithms
3 7 (8.05%) Security Operations Centre
3 7 (8.05%) Security Posture
4 6 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (5.75%) Industry 4.0
5 5 (5.75%) IoT
5 5 (5.75%) SCADA
6 4 (4.60%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.45%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
7 3 (3.45%) Operational Technology
7 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.30%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.30%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.30%) Onboarding
8 2 (2.30%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.05%) Unix
2 5 (5.75%) Windows
3 4 (4.60%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (50.57%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (20.69%) Software Engineering
3 17 (19.54%) DevOps
4 16 (18.39%) Agile
5 15 (17.24%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (16.09%) Analytics
7 12 (13.79%) Analytical Thinking
7 12 (13.79%) Decision-Making
8 11 (12.64%) Migration
9 10 (11.49%) CI/CD
9 10 (11.49%) Data Science
9 10 (11.49%) ITIL
9 10 (11.49%) SIEM
10 9 (10.34%) Incident Response
10 9 (10.34%) Security Operations
11 8 (9.20%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (9.20%) Service Management
12 7 (8.05%) Artificial Intelligence
13 6 (6.90%) Business Transformation
13 6 (6.90%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.09%) Python
2 13 (14.94%) SQL
3 10 (11.49%) Java
4 4 (4.60%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.60%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 3 (3.45%) Scala
6 2 (2.30%) C#
6 2 (2.30%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.30%) Perl
7 1 (1.15%) C
7 1 (1.15%) C++
7 1 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.15%) PHP
7 1 (1.15%) R
7 1 (1.15%) Rust
7 1 (1.15%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 84 (96.55%) Degree
2 52 (59.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (26.44%) Security Cleared
4 13 (14.94%) SC Cleared
5 10 (11.49%) DV Cleared
6 9 (10.34%) CISSP
6 9 (10.34%) Master's Degree
7 7 (8.05%) CompTIA Security+
8 6 (6.90%) CCNA
8 6 (6.90%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (4.60%) Chartered Engineer
9 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (3.45%) Azure Certification
10 3 (3.45%) TOGAF Certification
11 2 (2.30%) CEH
12 1 (1.15%) CCNP
12 1 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (1.15%) PMI Certification
12 1 (1.15%) PMP
12 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.75%) QA
2 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.45%) NIST
3 1 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (4.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.45%) Docker
2 3 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.30%) vSphere
4 1 (1.15%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) OpenView
2 4 (4.60%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.45%) SysTrack
4 2 (2.30%) Kibana
4 2 (2.30%) logstash
4 2 (2.30%) Terraform
5 1 (1.15%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.34%) SAP
3 5 (5.75%) BMC
3 5 (5.75%) Cisco
3 5 (5.75%) Splunk
4 3 (3.45%) Citrix
4 3 (3.45%) New Relic
4 3 (3.45%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.45%) VMware
5 2 (2.30%) Confluent
5 2 (2.30%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) Informatica
6 1 (1.15%) Mitel
6 1 (1.15%) Oracle
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) Sage
6 1 (1.15%) Teradata
6 1 (1.15%) Xilinx