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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 60 147
Rank change year-on-year -24 +87 +51
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 88 150 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.51% 3.09% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.79% 3.69% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 78 38
10th Percentile £265 £158 £332
25th Percentile £344 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £486
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +8.02% -2.80%
75th Percentile £589 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £615 £615
England median daily rate £509 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.10% -4.55% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 12 3
10th Percentile - £12.53 £44.25
25th Percentile - £20.38 £50.63
Median hourly rate £70.16 £51.78 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +35.50% -17.15% +1.67%
75th Percentile - £57.50 £64.75
90th Percentile - £62.00 £65.35
England median hourly rate £44.50 £55.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year -19.09% -4.35% +21.05%

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 3,158 4,069 4,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.00% 83.69% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 2,422 3,347
10th Percentile £277 £300 £300
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% - -
75th Percentile £550 £585 £600
90th Percentile £649 £665 £688
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 387 209
10th Percentile £12.80 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.44 £12.55 £15.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £22.53
Median % change year-on-year +19.76% -6.79% +18.02%
75th Percentile £52.13 £46.18 £43.25
90th Percentile £77.88 £63.75 £55.88
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 -14 55 £475 -10.38% 283
Yorkshire -17 28 £429 -18.29% 200
North East -9 5 £475 -20.83% 55
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 (2.27%) Confluence
1 2 (2.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.14%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
3 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (1.14%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.14%) SAP CO
2 1 (1.14%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.59%) AWS
2 15 (17.05%) Azure
2 15 (17.05%) GCP
3 5 (5.68%) SaaS
4 4 (4.55%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.41%) GitHub
5 3 (3.41%) Serverless
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon Bedrock
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.27%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.27%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.27%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.14%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.14%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.50%) VPN
2 8 (9.09%) DNS
2 8 (9.09%) Network Security
2 8 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 6 (6.82%) Firewall
4 5 (5.68%) BGP
4 5 (5.68%) OSPF
5 4 (4.55%) DHCP
5 4 (4.55%) MPLS
5 4 (4.55%) VLAN
6 3 (3.41%) LAN
6 3 (3.41%) WAN
7 2 (2.27%) Cisco Nexus
7 2 (2.27%) DWDM
7 2 (2.27%) NAS
7 2 (2.27%) SAN
8 1 (1.14%) Broadband
8 1 (1.14%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.14%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.55%) MySQL
1 4 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.55%) Power BI
2 3 (3.41%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.14%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.14%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.14%) Big Data
4 1 (1.14%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.14%) InfluxDB
4 1 (1.14%) Metadata
4 1 (1.14%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.14%) Power Query
4 1 (1.14%) Presto
4 1 (1.14%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.55%) Git
1 4 (4.55%) GitLab
2 3 (3.41%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.41%) JIRA
3 2 (2.27%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (1.14%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.14%) Gradle
4 1 (1.14%) JUnit
4 1 (1.14%) Postman
General
1 53 (60.23%) Social Skills
2 27 (30.68%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Legal
5 5 (5.68%) Publishing
5 5 (5.68%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.55%) Banking
6 4 (4.55%) French Language
6 4 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.14%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Front Office
7 1 (1.14%) International Banking
7 1 (1.14%) Local Government
7 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (10.23%) Architect
2 8 (9.09%) Developer
3 6 (6.82%) Analyst
3 6 (6.82%) Designer
3 6 (6.82%) IT Support
3 6 (6.82%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (6.82%) Support Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) IT Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) IT Support Engineer
4 5 (5.68%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (4.55%) Network Designer
5 4 (4.55%) Project Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Consultant
6 3 (3.41%) Network Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Senior
6 3 (3.41%) Service Manager
6 3 (3.41%) Service Transition Manager
6 3 (3.41%) Transition Manager
7 2 (2.27%) Full-Stack Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 8 (9.09%) HTML
2 7 (7.95%) CSS
3 6 (6.82%) REST
4 5 (5.68%) Middleware
4 5 (5.68%) React
4 5 (5.68%) Web Services
5 4 (4.55%) LDAP
6 3 (3.41%) SOAP
7 2 (2.27%) .NET
7 2 (2.27%) ADO
7 2 (2.27%) Node.js
7 2 (2.27%) RESTful
8 1 (1.14%) HTML5
8 1 (1.14%) SAP PI
8 1 (1.14%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.14%) Spring
8 1 (1.14%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.14%) Swagger
8 1 (1.14%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 19 (21.59%) Management Information System
2 7 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (6.82%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (6.82%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.41%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.27%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.27%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.14%) CMDB
6 1 (1.14%) Credit Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Data Fabric
6 1 (1.14%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.14%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.14%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) SCADA
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.09%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Linux
3 2 (2.27%) Android
3 2 (2.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 19 (21.59%) ITSM
3 18 (20.45%) Collaborative Working
4 17 (19.32%) Agile
5 14 (15.91%) Service Management
6 12 (13.64%) ITIL
7 10 (11.36%) DevOps
8 9 (10.23%) Project Management
8 9 (10.23%) Service Delivery
9 8 (9.09%) Analytics
9 8 (9.09%) Scrum
9 8 (9.09%) Service Design
10 7 (7.95%) CI/CD
10 7 (7.95%) Customer Service
10 7 (7.95%) Migration
10 7 (7.95%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.95%) Roadmaps
10 7 (7.95%) Stakeholder Management
11 6 (6.82%) Containerisation
11 6 (6.82%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) Python
2 9 (10.23%) JavaScript
3 7 (7.95%) Java
4 5 (5.68%) SQL
5 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
6 2 (2.27%) PHP
6 2 (2.27%) Ruby
6 2 (2.27%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.14%) Bash
7 1 (1.14%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.14%) Kotlin
7 1 (1.14%) R
7 1 (1.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 75 (85.23%) Degree
2 54 (61.36%) Computer Science Degree
3 10 (11.36%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (10.23%) Master's Degree
5 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
6 6 (6.82%) CCNP
6 6 (6.82%) Cisco Certification
6 6 (6.82%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (5.68%) A+ Certification
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
7 5 (5.68%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 5 (5.68%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.55%) CCIE
8 4 (4.55%) JNCIE
8 4 (4.55%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.27%) CCNA
9 2 (2.27%) CISSP
9 2 (2.27%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.27%) JNCIS
10 1 (1.14%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.55%) QA
2 2 (2.27%) COBIT
2 2 (2.27%) GDPR
3 1 (1.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (1.14%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.14%) NIST
3 1 (1.14%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (4.55%) Docker
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.27%) vSphere
4 1 (1.14%) BitLocker
4 1 (1.14%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 6 (6.82%) Ansible
2 5 (5.68%) Terraform
3 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 4 (4.55%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (2.27%) vCenter Server
4 2 (2.27%) vRealize
5 1 (1.14%) Grafana
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.14%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 19 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 11 (12.50%) ServiceNow
3 9 (10.23%) Google
4 7 (7.95%) Cisco
5 4 (4.55%) F5
5 4 (4.55%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.55%) Oracle
6 2 (2.27%) Arista
6 2 (2.27%) BMC
6 2 (2.27%) Remedy
6 2 (2.27%) SAP
6 2 (2.27%) VMware
7 1 (1.14%) Centrify
7 1 (1.14%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.14%) IBM
7 1 (1.14%) Sage
7 1 (1.14%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.14%) Siemens
7 1 (1.14%) Thycotic
7 1 (1.14%) Workday