Computer Science Contracts in the North of England

Computer Science
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 83 100 172
Rank change year-on-year +17 +72 +16
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 86 88 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.61% 1.85% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.90% 2.15% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 45 31
10th Percentile £205 £158 £319
25th Percentile £328 £320 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year +6.20% +2.88% +2.32%
75th Percentile £678 £575 £575
90th Percentile £716 £625 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 12 3
10th Percentile - £12.53 £44.25
25th Percentile - £20.38 £50.63
Median hourly rate - £51.78 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - -17.15% -
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.75
90th Percentile - £62.00 £65.35
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 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 1 May 2025.

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
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 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 +18 50 £551 +10.20% 251
Yorkshire +3 29 £386 -15.02% 137
North East 0 7 £575 -4.17% 80
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 2 (2.33%) Confluence
2 1 (1.16%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (10.47%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.16%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.16%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.09%) AWS
2 16 (18.60%) Azure
2 16 (18.60%) GCP
3 3 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.49%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.49%) Serverless
4 2 (2.33%) Amazon Bedrock
4 2 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.33%) GitHub
4 2 (2.33%) SaaS
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.16%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.16%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.16%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.16%) IaaS
5 1 (1.16%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.47%) DNS
1 9 (10.47%) TCP/IP
1 9 (10.47%) VPN
2 6 (6.98%) Network Security
3 5 (5.81%) DHCP
3 5 (5.81%) Firewall
4 3 (3.49%) BGP
4 3 (3.49%) OSPF
4 3 (3.49%) VLAN
5 2 (2.33%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (2.33%) DWDM
5 2 (2.33%) LAN
5 2 (2.33%) MPLS
5 2 (2.33%) NAS
5 2 (2.33%) SAN
5 2 (2.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (1.16%) EIGRP
6 1 (1.16%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) MySQL
2 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (3.49%) Power BI
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.16%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.16%) Big Data
4 1 (1.16%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.16%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.16%) Metadata
4 1 (1.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.16%) Power Query
4 1 (1.16%) Presto
4 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Git
2 3 (3.49%) GitLab
2 3 (3.49%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.33%) JIRA
3 2 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.16%) Postman
General
1 53 (61.63%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.40%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Legal
4 7 (8.14%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Telecoms
5 6 (6.98%) Automotive
5 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing
5 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.65%) French Language
7 3 (3.49%) Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Front Office
8 1 (1.16%) Games
8 1 (1.16%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.16%) International Banking
8 1 (1.16%) Military
8 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.16%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 15 (17.44%) Architect
2 9 (10.47%) Solutions Architect
3 8 (9.30%) Developer
4 7 (8.14%) Analyst
5 6 (6.98%) Support Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) IT Support
6 5 (5.81%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Designer
7 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
7 4 (4.65%) Project Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Consultant
8 3 (3.49%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.49%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Senior
8 3 (3.49%) Solutions Designer
9 2 (2.33%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 2 (2.33%) Network Designer
9 2 (2.33%) Service Analyst
9 2 (2.33%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.98%) React
2 5 (5.81%) AngularJS
2 5 (5.81%) HTML
2 5 (5.81%) Middleware
3 4 (4.65%) CSS
4 3 (3.49%) REST
5 2 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.33%) ADO
5 2 (2.33%) Node.js
5 2 (2.33%) RESTful
5 2 (2.33%) Spring
5 2 (2.33%) Web Services
6 1 (1.16%) CSS3
6 1 (1.16%) HTML5
6 1 (1.16%) JPA
6 1 (1.16%) jQuery
6 1 (1.16%) Kafka
6 1 (1.16%) LDAP
6 1 (1.16%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.16%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.28%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.98%) Enterprise Software
2 6 (6.98%) Industry 4.0
2 6 (6.98%) Manufacturing Execution System
3 4 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.65%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.49%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.33%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.16%) SCADA
6 1 (1.16%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.14%) Windows
2 3 (3.49%) Linux
3 2 (2.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (43.02%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (18.60%) Collaborative Working
3 15 (17.44%) Agile
4 13 (15.12%) Project Management
5 11 (12.79%) Mentoring
6 10 (11.63%) Roadmaps
7 9 (10.47%) Analytics
7 9 (10.47%) Data Modelling
7 9 (10.47%) Software Engineering
8 8 (9.30%) API Integration
8 8 (9.30%) ITSM
8 8 (9.30%) Technical Leadership
9 7 (8.14%) CI/CD
9 7 (8.14%) Decision-Making
9 7 (8.14%) ERP
10 6 (6.98%) Lean Manufacturing
10 6 (6.98%) Operations Management
10 6 (6.98%) PLM
10 6 (6.98%) Quality Management
10 6 (6.98%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.12%) Python
2 7 (8.14%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.98%) SQL
4 5 (5.81%) Java
5 4 (4.65%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.33%) PHP
6 2 (2.33%) Ruby
6 2 (2.33%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.16%) Bash
7 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.16%) R
7 1 (1.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 74 (86.05%) Degree
2 58 (67.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (15.12%) Microsoft Certification
4 11 (12.79%) Master's Degree
4 11 (12.79%) Security Cleared
5 8 (9.30%) Azure Certification
6 7 (8.14%) AWS Certification
6 7 (8.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 7 (8.14%) SC Cleared
7 6 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
8 5 (5.81%) A+ Certification
8 5 (5.81%) BPSS Clearance
8 5 (5.81%) CCNP
9 4 (4.65%) CISSP
10 3 (3.49%) CCNA
11 2 (2.33%) CCIE
11 2 (2.33%) CISM
11 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.33%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.30%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) GDPR
3 2 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.33%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.16%) COBIT
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) GRC
4 1 (1.16%) NCSC
4 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.16%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Docker
2 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.33%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.33%) vSphere
4 1 (1.16%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (6.98%) Ansible
1 6 (6.98%) MOM
2 5 (5.81%) Terraform
3 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.33%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.33%) vRealize
5 1 (1.16%) Grafana
5 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.95%) Google
3 10 (11.63%) SAP
4 7 (8.14%) Siemens
5 6 (6.98%) Cisco
5 6 (6.98%) Rockwell
6 5 (5.81%) Oracle
7 2 (2.33%) Arista
7 2 (2.33%) Dell
7 2 (2.33%) F5
7 2 (2.33%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.33%) Intel
7 2 (2.33%) Remedy
7 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.33%) VMware
8 1 (1.16%) Aruba
8 1 (1.16%) Centrify
8 1 (1.16%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.16%) Thycotic
8 1 (1.16%) Workday