Computer Science Contracts in the North of England

Computer Science
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 164 200
Rank change year-on-year +66 +36 -48
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 93 52 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.98% 0.90% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.30% 0.99% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 35 32
10th Percentile £158 £326 £188
25th Percentile £320 £458 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £486 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.18% +2.32% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £615 £660 £634
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +8.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 4
10th Percentile £12.53 £44.25 £30.60
25th Percentile £20.38 £50.63 £49.50
Median hourly rate £51.78 £62.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% - +64.47%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £62.00 £65.35 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £47.50
% change year-on-year +3.41% +11.97% +25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 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
North West +47 50 £500 +2.88% 135
Yorkshire +36 37 £450 -18.18% 60
North East +24 8 £600 - 36
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 3 (3.23%) Apache
1 3 (3.23%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (2.15%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.08%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.08%) Confluence
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) SharePoint
Applications
1 14 (15.05%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.30%) Simulink
2 4 (4.30%) Stateflow
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.23%) SAP MDG
2 2 (2.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.08%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.08%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (1.08%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 23 (24.73%) Azure
2 15 (16.13%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (10.75%) AWS
4 7 (7.53%) GCP
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 3 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.23%) Snowflake
5 3 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.15%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.08%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.08%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.08%) IaaS
7 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.08%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.08%) SaaS
7 1 (1.08%) Serverless
7 1 (1.08%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.45%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (5.38%) DHCP
2 5 (5.38%) DNS
2 5 (5.38%) VPN
3 4 (4.30%) BGP
3 4 (4.30%) MPLS
3 4 (4.30%) OSPF
3 4 (4.30%) Remote Desktop
3 4 (4.30%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.30%) Value-Added Service
3 4 (4.30%) VLAN
3 4 (4.30%) Wireshark
4 2 (2.15%) 5G
4 2 (2.15%) LAN
4 2 (2.15%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.15%) WAN
4 2 (2.15%) Wireless
5 1 (1.08%) Firewall
5 1 (1.08%) RTP
5 1 (1.08%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.30%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (4.30%) MySQL
2 3 (3.23%) Power BI
3 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.15%) Hadoop
3 2 (2.15%) Informix
3 2 (2.15%) Tableau
4 1 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.08%) Big Data
4 1 (1.08%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.08%) GIS
4 1 (1.08%) HBase
4 1 (1.08%) Metadata
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.08%) Presto
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.38%) Git
2 3 (3.23%) JIRA
3 2 (2.15%) Cypress.io
3 2 (2.15%) Postman
3 2 (2.15%) Selenium
General
1 35 (37.63%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.98%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (10.75%) Finance
4 7 (7.53%) Banking
4 7 (7.53%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.45%) Legal
6 4 (4.30%) Automotive
7 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.15%) Electronics
8 2 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.15%) Publishing
9 1 (1.08%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.08%) Marketing
9 1 (1.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (21.51%) Architect
2 16 (17.20%) Solutions Architect
3 11 (11.83%) Senior
4 10 (10.75%) Analyst
5 9 (9.68%) Developer
6 8 (8.60%) Author
6 8 (8.60%) Technical Author
7 7 (7.53%) Software Engineer
8 6 (6.45%) Network Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (5.38%) Lead
9 5 (5.38%) SAP Manager
10 4 (4.30%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Data Centre Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 4 (4.30%) IT Engineer
11 3 (3.23%) .NET Developer
11 3 (3.23%) Service Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Service Desk Analyst
11 3 (3.23%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.30%) CSS
1 4 (4.30%) HTML
1 4 (4.30%) LDAP
2 3 (3.23%) .NET
2 3 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 3 (3.23%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.15%) Kafka
3 2 (2.15%) XML
3 2 (2.15%) XSLT
4 1 (1.08%) HTML5 Canvas
4 1 (1.08%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.08%) Middleware
4 1 (1.08%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.68%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 4 (4.30%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.23%) CMDB
5 2 (2.15%) Robotics
5 2 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Insider Threat
6 1 (1.08%) IoT
6 1 (1.08%) Life Science
6 1 (1.08%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.08%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.08%) PKI
6 1 (1.08%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.08%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.60%) Windows
2 5 (5.38%) Linux
2 5 (5.38%) Unix
3 4 (4.30%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.30%) Windows 7
4 3 (3.23%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.15%) HPUX
5 2 (2.15%) Solaris
5 2 (2.15%) zOS
6 1 (1.08%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.41%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (32.26%) Agile
3 24 (25.81%) Migration
4 23 (24.73%) DevOps
5 22 (23.66%) Data Management
6 17 (18.28%) Project Delivery
7 16 (17.20%) Architectural Design
8 15 (16.13%) Architectural Patterns
9 14 (15.05%) Architecture Governance
10 13 (13.98%) Change Management
10 13 (13.98%) Service Design
11 11 (11.83%) SDLC
12 10 (10.75%) ITIL
12 10 (10.75%) Software Engineering
12 10 (10.75%) Test Automation
13 9 (9.68%) Incident Management
14 8 (8.60%) Content Strategy
14 8 (8.60%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (8.60%) Data Modelling
14 8 (8.60%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.98%) Python
2 8 (8.60%) Java
2 8 (8.60%) SQL
3 7 (7.53%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.53%) MATLAB
4 4 (4.30%) Bash
4 4 (4.30%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.23%) C#
5 3 (3.23%) VB.NET
5 3 (3.23%) VBA
6 1 (1.08%) ABAP
6 1 (1.08%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.08%) Perl
6 1 (1.08%) R
6 1 (1.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 80 (86.02%) Degree
2 43 (46.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (9.68%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 6 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (5.38%) CCNA
5 5 (5.38%) CCNP
5 5 (5.38%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.30%) A+ Certification
6 4 (4.30%) CCIE
6 4 (4.30%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.30%) VCAP
6 4 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 2 (2.15%) CISSP
7 2 (2.15%) PhD
8 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) QA
2 8 (8.60%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.15%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.08%) GRC
4 1 (1.08%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.38%) Hyper-V
2 5 (5.38%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (4.30%) KVM
3 4 (4.30%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.30%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (1.08%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.08%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (1.08%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (5.38%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.23%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (3.23%) Terraform
3 2 (2.15%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.08%) vMotion
Vendors
1 20 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.90%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.45%) SAP
4 5 (5.38%) VMware
5 4 (4.30%) LogicMonitor
5 4 (4.30%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.23%) Google
6 3 (3.23%) Informatica
6 3 (3.23%) Kofax
7 2 (2.15%) IBM
7 2 (2.15%) Sun
7 2 (2.15%) Symantec
8 1 (1.08%) Ariba
8 1 (1.08%) Citrix
8 1 (1.08%) HP
8 1 (1.08%) Infoblox
8 1 (1.08%) Proofpoint
8 1 (1.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.08%) Teradata