Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Northumberland

Computer Science
North East > Northumberland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northumberland requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 6 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northumberland 20.00% 9.52% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.00% 9.52% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
North East median daily rate £333 £513 £575
% change year-on-year -35.07% -10.87% +53.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northumberland

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 Northumberland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5 21 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northumberland 100.00% 100.00% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 -
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - -
North East median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 5
10th Percentile - - £28.22
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% - +105.24%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Northumberland

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Northumberland

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Northumberland

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northumberland citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Northumberland citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northumberland 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Change Control
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) ITSM
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCDP
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware