Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends 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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 92 95
Rank change year-on-year -50 +3 +29
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 37 43 25
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.95% 1.96% 1.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 5.70% 3.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 27 12
10th Percentile £375 £309 £328
25th Percentile £514 £373 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £475 £463
Median % change year-on-year +13.05% +2.70% -7.50%
75th Percentile £634 £513 £566
90th Percentile £638 £620 £678
England median daily rate £522 £477 £550
% change year-on-year +9.51% -13.32% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £17.25 - £45.22
Median hourly rate £29.00 - £48.56
75th Percentile £178.75 - £51.91
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £33.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year +40.30% -36.19% -4.55%

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 1,204 755 643
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.95% 34.44% 27.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 464 357
10th Percentile £310 £313 £294
25th Percentile £419 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £613 £635 £603
90th Percentile £682 £721 £691
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 71 57
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.50 £16.71
25th Percentile £28.69 £18.87 £22.22
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +62.81% -41.53% +0.65%
75th Percentile £64.09 £58.42 £55.79
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.75 £81.77
England median hourly rate £52.52 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +108.82% -53.43% -0.81%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Computer Science Degree

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 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 16 September 2026. 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 -40 19 £625 +27.03% 80
Cheshire +5 17 £531 +38.28% 6
Lancashire - 1 £519 - 3
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (21.62%) SharePoint
2 7 (18.92%) Confluence
3 4 (10.81%) Camunda
Applications
1 15 (40.54%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (5.41%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (10.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (18.92%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) Power Platform
4 4 (10.81%) Power Automate
4 4 (10.81%) PowerApps
5 3 (8.11%) OpenShift
6 2 (5.41%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.70%) AWS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure AKS
7 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.70%) GCP
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub
7 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.70%) IaaS
7 1 (2.70%) Lucidchart
7 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (2.70%) Miro
7 1 (2.70%) PaaS
7 1 (2.70%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.92%) VPN
2 4 (10.81%) SSH
3 2 (5.41%) Wireless
4 1 (2.70%) DNS
4 1 (2.70%) Firewall
4 1 (2.70%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.70%) SNMP
4 1 (2.70%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.81%) Power BI
2 3 (8.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (18.92%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) GitLab
2 4 (10.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (8.11%) Bitbucket Server
3 3 (8.11%) Gradle
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) JUnit
3 3 (8.11%) Maven
3 3 (8.11%) Mockito
3 3 (8.11%) REST Assured
3 3 (8.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.70%) Postman
4 1 (2.70%) Robot Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Selenium
General
1 23 (62.16%) Social Skills
2 9 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Telecoms
4 5 (13.51%) Banking
5 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.70%) Automotive
6 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.70%) German Language
6 1 (2.70%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 14 (37.84%) Analyst
2 13 (35.14%) IT Analyst
3 12 (32.43%) IT Support
3 12 (32.43%) IT Support Analyst
3 12 (32.43%) Support Analyst
4 7 (18.92%) Developer
5 6 (16.22%) IT Operations Analyst
5 6 (16.22%) Operations Analyst
6 5 (13.51%) Architect
6 5 (13.51%) Operational Support Analyst
6 5 (13.51%) Operations Support Analyst
7 4 (10.81%) Salesforce Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Senior
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Developer
7 4 (10.81%) Senior Salesforce Developer
8 3 (8.11%) Automation Specialist
8 3 (8.11%) Technical Architect
9 1 (2.70%) Network Engineer
9 1 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (2.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (13.51%) REST
1 5 (13.51%) SOAP
2 4 (10.81%) Lightning Web Components
3 3 (8.11%) CSS
3 3 (8.11%) Hibernate
3 3 (8.11%) HTML
3 3 (8.11%) JPA
3 3 (8.11%) Kafka
3 3 (8.11%) React
3 3 (8.11%) Redux
3 3 (8.11%) Spring Boot
4 1 (2.70%) .NET
4 1 (2.70%) Middleware
4 1 (2.70%) OAuth
4 1 (2.70%) Playwright
4 1 (2.70%) SAML
4 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Onboarding
2 5 (13.51%) Data Structures
3 4 (10.81%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (10.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (10.81%) PKI
3 4 (10.81%) Tandem
4 3 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (2.70%) AI Agents
5 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.70%) CMDB
5 1 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Infotainment
5 1 (2.70%) Life Science
5 1 (2.70%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (2.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (43.24%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Windows 10
3 4 (10.81%) Unix
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 20 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (51.35%) ITIL
4 13 (35.14%) Customer Service
5 11 (29.73%) Service Management
6 10 (27.03%) CI/CD
6 10 (27.03%) Incident Management
7 9 (24.32%) Agile
8 8 (21.62%) Knowledge Management
8 8 (21.62%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (18.92%) AI
9 7 (18.92%) Conflict Resolution
9 7 (18.92%) Creative Problem-Solving
9 7 (18.92%) DevOps
9 7 (18.92%) Inventory Management
10 6 (16.22%) Analytics
10 6 (16.22%) Generative AI
10 6 (16.22%) Informatics
10 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
11 5 (13.51%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) Python
2 8 (21.62%) SQL
3 5 (13.51%) Java
3 5 (13.51%) JavaScript
4 4 (10.81%) Apex Code
5 1 (2.70%) Bash
5 1 (2.70%) Bicep
5 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.70%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 37 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (21.62%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (18.92%) A+ Certification
3 7 (18.92%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.70%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.70%) Data Quality
1 1 (2.70%) ISO 20022
1 1 (2.70%) PSD2
1 1 (2.70%) SEPA
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 13 (35.14%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.92%) IBM
3 6 (16.22%) Bomgar
3 6 (16.22%) SAP
4 4 (10.81%) Databricks
4 4 (10.81%) Gemalto
4 4 (10.81%) Salesforce
4 4 (10.81%) Thales
4 4 (10.81%) UiPath
4 4 (10.81%) Veracode
5 2 (5.41%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.70%) Splunk