Computer Science Degree Contracts in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 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 108 144 199
Rank change year-on-year +36 +55 +16
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 58 41 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.76% 0.86% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.42% 3.31% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 25 15
10th Percentile £287 - £248
25th Percentile £357 £158 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £340 £450
Median % change year-on-year +65.59% -24.44% -5.26%
75th Percentile £700 £575 £488
90th Percentile £716 £603 £532
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
10th Percentile - £27.44 -
25th Percentile - £34.11 £65.25
Median hourly rate - £48.56 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.86% +263.89%
75th Percentile - £51.91 £65.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £54.44
% change year-on-year +2.22% +3.33% +12.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,070 1,240 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.47% 26.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 684 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £652 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England 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
North West +26 31 £626 +279.09% 135
Yorkshire +16 21 £429 +26.18% 72
North East 0 6 £575 -4.17% 45
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.45%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (12.07%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.72%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.72%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.72%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 17 (29.31%) AWS
2 13 (22.41%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) GCP
4 3 (5.17%) Serverless
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CodeBuild
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (1.72%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Network Security
2 5 (8.62%) DNS
2 5 (8.62%) Firewall
3 4 (6.90%) TCP/IP
3 4 (6.90%) VPN
4 3 (5.17%) BGP
4 3 (5.17%) OSPF
4 3 (5.17%) VLAN
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (3.45%) DWDM
5 2 (3.45%) LAN
5 2 (3.45%) MPLS
5 2 (3.45%) NAS
5 2 (3.45%) SAN
5 2 (3.45%) WAN
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.72%) DHCP
6 1 (1.72%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) MySQL
2 3 (5.17%) MongoDB
2 3 (5.17%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.72%) Big Data
3 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.72%) InfluxDB
3 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.72%) Power BI
3 1 (1.72%) Presto
3 1 (1.72%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.72%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Git
2 2 (3.45%) GitLab
2 2 (3.45%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.45%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.72%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.72%) Postman
General
1 35 (60.34%) Social Skills
2 19 (32.76%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Finance
3 7 (12.07%) Legal
3 7 (12.07%) Telecoms
4 6 (10.34%) Automotive
4 6 (10.34%) Manufacturing
5 4 (6.90%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 1 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Front Office
7 1 (1.72%) Games
7 1 (1.72%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (18.97%) Architect
2 9 (15.52%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (10.34%) Developer
4 4 (6.90%) Designer
4 4 (6.90%) Full-Stack Developer
5 3 (5.17%) Analyst
5 3 (5.17%) Network Engineer
5 3 (5.17%) Solutions Designer
6 2 (3.45%) Consultant
6 2 (3.45%) Full-Stack Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Java Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Network Designer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior
6 2 (3.45%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (1.72%) Applications Support Analyst
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Specialist
7 1 (1.72%) Dynamics 365 Specialist
7 1 (1.72%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) Python Engineer
7 1 (1.72%) React Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.62%) AngularJS
1 5 (8.62%) HTML
1 5 (8.62%) React
2 4 (6.90%) CSS
2 4 (6.90%) Middleware
3 3 (5.17%) REST
4 2 (3.45%) .NET
4 2 (3.45%) ADO
4 2 (3.45%) Node.js
4 2 (3.45%) RESTful
5 1 (1.72%) CSS3
5 1 (1.72%) HTML5
5 1 (1.72%) Kafka
5 1 (1.72%) LDAP
5 1 (1.72%) OpenCV
5 1 (1.72%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.72%) Spring
5 1 (1.72%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.72%) Swagger
5 1 (1.72%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.07%) Management Information System
2 6 (10.34%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (10.34%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (6.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.45%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.72%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.72%) NHS
6 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.45%) Linux
1 2 (3.45%) Windows
1 2 (3.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 25 (43.10%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (20.69%) Agile
3 12 (20.69%) Collaborative Working
4 11 (18.97%) Mentoring
5 9 (15.52%) Project Management
5 9 (15.52%) Roadmaps
5 9 (15.52%) Software Engineering
6 8 (13.79%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (12.07%) API Integration
8 6 (10.34%) Agile Project Management
8 6 (10.34%) Analytics
8 6 (10.34%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.34%) ERP
8 6 (10.34%) Lean Manufacturing
8 6 (10.34%) Operations Management
8 6 (10.34%) PLM
8 6 (10.34%) Presales
8 6 (10.34%) Quality Management
8 6 (10.34%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.69%) Python
2 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.90%) Java
3 4 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 4 (6.90%) SQL
4 2 (3.45%) PHP
4 2 (3.45%) Ruby
4 2 (3.45%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.72%) Bash
5 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (100.00%) Degree
2 10 (17.24%) Security Cleared
3 9 (15.52%) Master's Degree
4 8 (13.79%) Azure Certification
4 8 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Certification
5 7 (12.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 6 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared
7 5 (8.62%) BPSS Clearance
7 5 (8.62%) CCNP
8 3 (5.17%) CCNA
9 2 (3.45%) CCIE
9 2 (3.45%) CISSP
9 2 (3.45%) JNCIA
9 2 (3.45%) JNCIE
9 2 (3.45%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.72%) ACCA
10 1 (1.72%) CIMA
10 1 (1.72%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) GDPR
2 2 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.45%) NIST
2 2 (3.45%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.72%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (3.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.45%) VMware NSX
3 2 (3.45%) vSphere
4 1 (1.72%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) MOM
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) Terraform
4 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
5 2 (3.45%) vCenter Server
5 2 (3.45%) vRealize
6 1 (1.72%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.72%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) SAP
3 7 (12.07%) Google
4 6 (10.34%) Cisco
4 6 (10.34%) Rockwell
4 6 (10.34%) Siemens
5 4 (6.90%) Oracle
6 2 (3.45%) Arista
6 2 (3.45%) Dell
6 2 (3.45%) F5
6 2 (3.45%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.45%) Intel
6 2 (3.45%) VMware
7 1 (1.72%) Aruba
7 1 (1.72%) Centrify
7 1 (1.72%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.72%) Sage
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Thycotic
1,835 Computer Science Degree jobs in England