Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends in the South East

Computer Science Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 126 134
Rank change year-on-year +11 +8 +64
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 78 43 76
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.79% 1.15% 1.51%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.13% 2.96% 3.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 30 52
10th Percentile £204 £212 £217
25th Percentile £291 £456 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £554
90th Percentile £650 £593 £633
England median daily rate £475 £550 £534
% change year-on-year -13.64% +3.00% -11.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £89.80 - £50.00
25th Percentile £101.50 - £52.81
Median hourly rate £121.00 - £55.00
75th Percentile £140.50 - £62.81
90th Percentile £152.20 - £70.50
England median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £56.14
% change year-on-year -36.19% -6.49% +3.01%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,888 1,451 2,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.21% 38.66% 43.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,256 966 1,305
10th Percentile £265 £263 £213
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £526 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.99% -2.09% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £688 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 78 142
10th Percentile £17.87 £20.07 £27.50
25th Percentile £18.94 £28.06 £48.73
Median hourly rate £25.15 £56.75 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.68% -5.43% +33.33%
75th Percentile £62.00 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £75.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Thames Valley +18 42 £425 -15.00% 82
Berkshire +12 32 £425 -15.00% 47
Surrey -1 15 £525 +5.00% 20
Buckinghamshire - 9 £318 - 26
West Sussex -3 7 £282 - 10
Hampshire -15 7 £534 -7.22% 49
East Sussex +9 4 £565 +41.25% 12
Oxfordshire -16 1 £450 -35.71% 9
Home Counties - 1 - -
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 6 (7.69%) Confluence
2 4 (5.13%) GeoServer
2 4 (5.13%) Smallworld
3 2 (2.56%) nginx
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.28%) Apache
4 1 (1.28%) CMS
4 1 (1.28%) Gunicorn
4 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.85%) SAP ERP
2 2 (2.56%) SAP GRC
2 2 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.51%) AWS
1 16 (20.51%) Azure
2 9 (11.54%) GitHub
3 7 (8.97%) GCP
3 7 (8.97%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 3 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (3.85%) IaaS
4 3 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.28%) Amazon EventBridge
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.28%) Collibra
6 1 (1.28%) iPaaS
6 1 (1.28%) Serverless
6 1 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) Network Security
1 5 (6.41%) Wireless
2 3 (3.85%) Firewall
2 3 (3.85%) VoIP
3 2 (2.56%) 5G
3 2 (2.56%) Internet
4 1 (1.28%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.28%) DNS
4 1 (1.28%) Intranet
4 1 (1.28%) LAN
4 1 (1.28%) MGCP
4 1 (1.28%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (1.28%) SCCP
4 1 (1.28%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (1.28%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.28%) Telepresence
4 1 (1.28%) VPN
4 1 (1.28%) WAN
4 1 (1.28%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.10%) PostgreSQL
1 11 (14.10%) Relational Database
2 9 (11.54%) MySQL
3 5 (6.41%) Apache Cassandra
3 5 (6.41%) Couchbase
3 5 (6.41%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (6.41%) NoSQL
4 4 (5.13%) Geospatial Data
4 4 (5.13%) GIS
4 4 (5.13%) QGIS
5 3 (3.85%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (3.85%) Metadata
5 3 (3.85%) Power BI
5 3 (3.85%) SQL Server
5 3 (3.85%) Tableau
6 2 (2.56%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.56%) Redis
7 1 (1.28%) Amazon Athena
7 1 (1.28%) Big Data
7 1 (1.28%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (17.95%) Git
2 9 (11.54%) JIRA
3 8 (10.26%) Jenkins
4 7 (8.97%) GitLab
5 2 (2.56%) Subversion
6 1 (1.28%) Appium
6 1 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.28%) Burp Suite
6 1 (1.28%) CircleCI
6 1 (1.28%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.28%) Gradle
6 1 (1.28%) JUnit
6 1 (1.28%) Selenium
General
1 37 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 26 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.69%) Finance
4 4 (5.13%) Military
5 3 (3.85%) Legal
6 2 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.56%) Electronics
6 2 (2.56%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.28%) Digital Healthcare
7 1 (1.28%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 19 (24.36%) Developer
2 12 (15.38%) Senior
3 9 (11.54%) Architect
3 9 (11.54%) Technical Support
4 6 (7.69%) Analyst
4 6 (7.69%) Lead
4 6 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 4 (5.13%) Informatica Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Android Developer
6 3 (3.85%) Principal Developer
6 3 (3.85%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (2.56%) Cloud Architect
7 2 (2.56%) Data Centre Analyst
7 2 (2.56%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.56%) GIS Architect
7 2 (2.56%) IT Services Delivery Manager
7 2 (2.56%) IT Services Manager
7 2 (2.56%) Service Manager
7 2 (2.56%) Site Engineer
7 2 (2.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.10%) REST
2 7 (8.97%) Kafka
2 7 (8.97%) RabbitMQ
3 5 (6.41%) HTML
3 5 (6.41%) RESTful
4 4 (5.13%) CSS
5 3 (3.85%) Material Design
5 3 (3.85%) Web Services
6 2 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 2 (2.56%) gRPC
6 2 (2.56%) Node.js
6 2 (2.56%) XML
7 1 (1.28%) Django
7 1 (1.28%) HTML5
7 1 (1.28%) jQuery
7 1 (1.28%) JSON
7 1 (1.28%) JSR 170
7 1 (1.28%) Matplotlib
7 1 (1.28%) OAuth
7 1 (1.28%) OSGi
Miscellaneous
1 6 (7.69%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (6.41%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.13%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (5.13%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 4 (5.13%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.85%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.56%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.56%) Replication
5 2 (2.56%) Security Operations Centre
6 1 (1.28%) EMV
6 1 (1.28%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.28%) Java Card
6 1 (1.28%) Life Science
6 1 (1.28%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.28%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.36%) Windows
2 18 (23.08%) Linux
3 9 (11.54%) Unix
4 5 (6.41%) Android
5 4 (5.13%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.13%) Mac OS
6 3 (3.85%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.28%) Kali Linux
7 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (97.44%) Computer Science
2 32 (41.03%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (32.05%) Agile
4 18 (23.08%) DevOps
5 15 (19.23%) Migration
6 13 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 13 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (14.10%) Analytics
7 11 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
7 11 (14.10%) Decision-Making
7 11 (14.10%) Process Improvement
8 10 (12.82%) Microservices
9 9 (11.54%) OO
9 9 (11.54%) OOP
10 8 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.26%) ITIL
10 8 (10.26%) Software Engineering
10 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (10.26%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 33 (42.31%) Python
2 18 (23.08%) Java
2 18 (23.08%) SQL
3 14 (17.95%) JavaScript
4 9 (11.54%) Perl
5 7 (8.97%) Go
5 7 (8.97%) PowerShell
6 5 (6.41%) Bash
7 4 (5.13%) Kotlin
7 4 (5.13%) Shell Script
8 3 (3.85%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.85%) Swift
9 1 (1.28%) ABAP
9 1 (1.28%) C#
9 1 (1.28%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 78 (100.00%) Degree
2 13 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 5 (6.41%) CISSP
4 4 (5.13%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
5 3 (3.85%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (3.85%) DBS Check
5 3 (3.85%) PMP
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.56%) CCNA
6 2 (2.56%) CCNP
6 2 (2.56%) CFCE
6 2 (2.56%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.56%) GCFA
6 2 (2.56%) GCIA
6 2 (2.56%) GCIH
6 2 (2.56%) GIAC
6 2 (2.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.82%) Data Quality
1 10 (12.82%) GDPR
2 7 (8.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (8.97%) QA
3 3 (3.85%) GRC
3 3 (3.85%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.56%) NIST
4 2 (2.56%) PMO
5 1 (1.28%) Def Stans
5 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 17025
5 1 (1.28%) JSP 440
5 1 (1.28%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (15.38%) Docker
2 4 (5.13%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.28%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 5 (6.41%) Terraform
3 4 (5.13%) Ansible
4 3 (3.85%) SCCM
5 2 (2.56%) Grafana
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (2.56%) Puppet
6 1 (1.28%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 1 (1.28%) FortiGate
6 1 (1.28%) Nessus
6 1 (1.28%) Nmap
6 1 (1.28%) vRealize
6 1 (1.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 13 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.10%) Oracle
3 7 (8.97%) SAP
4 5 (6.41%) Atlassian
4 5 (6.41%) VMware
5 4 (5.13%) ESRI
5 4 (5.13%) Informatica
5 4 (5.13%) Intergraph
5 4 (5.13%) Splunk
6 3 (3.85%) Apple
6 3 (3.85%) Cisco
6 3 (3.85%) Citrix
7 2 (2.56%) ArcSight
7 2 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.56%) Google
7 2 (2.56%) LogRhythm
7 2 (2.56%) PagerDuty
8 1 (1.28%) Palo Alto
8 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.28%) Workday
247 Computer Science Degree jobs in the South East