Computer Science Degree Contracts in the North West

Computer Science Degree
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 89 115 144
Rank change year-on-year +26 +29 +21
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 31 22 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.58% 0.80% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.39% 2.65% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile £305 - £200
25th Percentile £463 £158 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £165 £450
Median % change year-on-year +279.09% -63.33% -28.57%
75th Percentile £716 £523 £488
90th Percentile £730 £575 £524
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £45.22 £65.25
Median hourly rate - £48.56 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -25.86% -
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 West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +31 19 £700 +33.33% 94
Cheshire -2 12 £475 +187.88% 31
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (3.23%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (19.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (38.71%) AWS
1 12 (38.71%) Azure
2 10 (32.26%) GCP
3 3 (9.68%) Serverless
4 2 (6.45%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon S3
5 1 (3.23%) AWS CodeBuild
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (3.23%) Azure Pipelines
5 1 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub
5 1 (3.23%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (3.23%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.23%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.45%) BGP
1 2 (6.45%) Firewall
1 2 (6.45%) MPLS
1 2 (6.45%) Network Security
1 2 (6.45%) OSPF
1 2 (6.45%) VLAN
1 2 (6.45%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) InfluxDB
2 1 (3.23%) MongoDB
2 1 (3.23%) MySQL
2 1 (3.23%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
2 1 (3.23%) Relational Database
2 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Git
2 1 (3.23%) Bitbucket
2 1 (3.23%) JIRA
General
1 16 (51.61%) Social Skills
2 12 (38.71%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Legal
3 7 (22.58%) Telecoms
4 6 (19.35%) Automotive
4 6 (19.35%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.68%) Finance
6 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 2 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 1 (3.23%) Games
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Architect
1 8 (25.81%) Solutions Architect
2 3 (9.68%) Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Designer
3 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (6.45%) Network Designer
3 2 (6.45%) Solutions Designer
4 1 (3.23%) Azure Specialist
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Computer Vision Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 1 (3.23%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Java Developer
4 1 (3.23%) Payments Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Payments Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.23%) Python Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Software Engineer
4 1 (3.23%) Telecoms Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.68%) AngularJS
1 3 (9.68%) HTML
2 2 (6.45%) ADO
2 2 (6.45%) CSS
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) React
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) CSS3
3 1 (3.23%) HTML5
3 1 (3.23%) Middleware
3 1 (3.23%) OpenCV
3 1 (3.23%) PyTorch
3 1 (3.23%) REST
3 1 (3.23%) scikit-learn
3 1 (3.23%) Spring
3 1 (3.23%) Spring Boot
3 1 (3.23%) TensorFlow
3 1 (3.23%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) Industry 4.0
1 6 (19.35%) Manufacturing Execution System
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (29.03%) Agile
3 9 (29.03%) Software Engineering
4 8 (25.81%) Collaborative Working
4 8 (25.81%) Mentoring
4 8 (25.81%) Roadmaps
5 7 (22.58%) API Integration
6 6 (19.35%) Agile Project Management
6 6 (19.35%) Analytics
6 6 (19.35%) Data Modelling
6 6 (19.35%) Decision-Making
6 6 (19.35%) ERP
6 6 (19.35%) Lean Manufacturing
6 6 (19.35%) Operations Management
6 6 (19.35%) PLM
6 6 (19.35%) Presales
6 6 (19.35%) Project Management
6 6 (19.35%) Quality Management
6 6 (19.35%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Python
2 2 (6.45%) Java
2 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
2 2 (6.45%) SQL
3 1 (3.23%) Bash
3 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 31 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (29.03%) Master's Degree
3 8 (25.81%) Azure Certification
3 8 (25.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (25.81%) Security Cleared
4 7 (22.58%) AWS Certification
4 7 (22.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 6 (19.35%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.13%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (6.45%) CCIE
7 2 (6.45%) CCNP
7 2 (6.45%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (6.45%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) MOM
2 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.23%) Grafana
3 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (22.58%) Google
3 6 (19.35%) Rockwell
3 6 (19.35%) SAP
3 6 (19.35%) Siemens
4 2 (6.45%) Cisco
4 2 (6.45%) F5
4 2 (6.45%) Fortinet
4 2 (6.45%) Oracle