Computer Science Degree Contracts 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 124 155
Rank change year-on-year +25 +31 +16
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 57 75 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.95% 1.34% 1.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.91% 3.01% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 46 35
10th Percentile £290 £263 £374
25th Percentile £438 £393 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +15.61%
75th Percentile £524 £611 £615
90th Percentile £646 £638 £681
England median daily rate £513 £525 £575
% change year-on-year -2.38% -8.70% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £27.05 £21.40
25th Percentile - £43.63 £34.00
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - +31.82% +28.73%
75th Percentile - £76.88 £62.50
90th Percentile - £78.75 £67.00
England median hourly rate £43.75 £55.63 £55.00
% change year-on-year -21.35% +1.14% +22.22%

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 1,162 2,492 2,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 39.78% 44.62% 36.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 745 1,454 1,334
10th Percentile £263 £338 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £603 £650 £619
90th Percentile £675 £734 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 214 132
10th Percentile £19.68 £17.66 £19.60
25th Percentile £28.00 £26.92 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £59.45
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -3.54% +32.12%
75th Percentile £72.50 £67.95 £71.26
90th Percentile £78.69 £85.65 £76.87
England median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -18.75% -25.93% +33.33%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

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 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend 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 29 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
Thames Valley +34 21 £500 +6.67% 498
Berkshire +31 19 £500 -18.70% 319
Hampshire +42 13 £495 -1.00% 179
Surrey +12 11 £500 -9.09% 121
West Sussex +5 10 £289 -34.91% 61
Oxfordshire +1 2 - - 68
Kent - 2 £250 - 104
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.75%) JBoss
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.75%) SAS
2 1 (1.75%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 6 (10.53%) MS Visio
2 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.75%) CATIA
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.75%) Maximo
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.04%) Azure
2 7 (12.28%) AWS
3 5 (8.77%) Cloud Computing
4 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (5.26%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EMR
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon Kinesis
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.51%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (3.51%) GCP
6 2 (3.51%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.51%) Serverless
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.75%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.75%) GitHub
7 1 (1.75%) OCI
7 1 (1.75%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.75%) SaaS
7 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.79%) Firewall
2 8 (14.04%) Network Security
3 7 (12.28%) VPN
4 3 (5.26%) 802.11
4 3 (5.26%) VLAN
4 3 (5.26%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (5.26%) Wireless
5 2 (3.51%) DNS
6 1 (1.75%) 3G
6 1 (1.75%) 4G
6 1 (1.75%) 5G
6 1 (1.75%) Diameter Protocol
6 1 (1.75%) HTTP
6 1 (1.75%) Internet
6 1 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (1.75%) LTE
6 1 (1.75%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.75%) RANAP
6 1 (1.75%) SSL
6 1 (1.75%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.28%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (10.53%) Big Data
2 6 (10.53%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.77%) Relational Database
4 4 (7.02%) Metadata
5 3 (5.26%) Amazon Redshift
5 3 (5.26%) Tableau
6 2 (3.51%) NoSQL
6 2 (3.51%) Power BI
7 1 (1.75%) BigQuery
7 1 (1.75%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Analysis Services
7 1 (1.75%) Power Query
7 1 (1.75%) QlikView
7 1 (1.75%) Sisense
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (1.75%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 12 (21.05%) Jenkins
2 10 (17.54%) Git
2 10 (17.54%) JIRA
3 5 (8.77%) TestRail
4 4 (7.02%) Bitbucket
4 4 (7.02%) ERwin
4 4 (7.02%) GoogleTest
4 4 (7.02%) PowerDesigner
4 4 (7.02%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (5.26%) Subversion
6 2 (3.51%) JUnit
7 1 (1.75%) Burp Suite
7 1 (1.75%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.75%) IntelliJ
7 1 (1.75%) JMeter
7 1 (1.75%) Metasploit
7 1 (1.75%) Selenium
General
1 31 (54.39%) Social Skills
2 15 (26.32%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Automotive
5 1 (1.75%) Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.75%) French Language
5 1 (1.75%) Italian Language
5 1 (1.75%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.75%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.75%) Spanish Language
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Senior
2 8 (14.04%) Network Engineer
3 6 (10.53%) Architect
3 6 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 5 (8.77%) Developer
4 5 (8.77%) Lead
4 5 (8.77%) Senior Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Data Modeller
5 4 (7.02%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 4 (7.02%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.53%) Kafka
2 5 (8.77%) REST
3 4 (7.02%) GraphQL
3 4 (7.02%) gRPC
3 4 (7.02%) RabbitMQ
4 3 (5.26%) 802.1X
5 2 (3.51%) CSS
5 2 (3.51%) HTML
5 2 (3.51%) OAuth
5 2 (3.51%) RESTful
5 2 (3.51%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.75%) .NET
6 1 (1.75%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.75%) MDX
6 1 (1.75%) Middleware
6 1 (1.75%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.75%) React
6 1 (1.75%) SOAP
6 1 (1.75%) Spring
6 1 (1.75%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.79%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Algorithms
3 2 (3.51%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (3.51%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.51%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.51%) Operational Technology
3 2 (3.51%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Defence
4 1 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.75%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (1.75%) Industrial Internet of Things
4 1 (1.75%) IoT
4 1 (1.75%) PKI
4 1 (1.75%) Replication
4 1 (1.75%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 5 (8.77%) Windows
3 4 (7.02%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (3.51%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (98.25%) Computer Science
2 27 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (36.84%) Agile
4 11 (19.30%) Scrum
4 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
5 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
5 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
5 10 (17.54%) Migration
6 9 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (15.79%) Data Modelling
6 9 (15.79%) Software Engineering
6 9 (15.79%) Validation
7 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
7 8 (14.04%) Kanban
8 7 (12.28%) Analytics
8 7 (12.28%) Data Science
8 7 (12.28%) Microservices
8 7 (12.28%) Network Architecture
8 7 (12.28%) Project Management
9 6 (10.53%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.30%) SQL
2 8 (14.04%) Java
3 6 (10.53%) C++
3 6 (10.53%) Python
4 5 (8.77%) Go
5 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.51%) Apex Code
6 2 (3.51%) Scala
6 2 (3.51%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.75%) C
7 1 (1.75%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.75%) R
7 1 (1.75%) Ruby
7 1 (1.75%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) Degree
2 11 (19.30%) Security Cleared
3 10 (17.54%) SC Cleared
4 9 (15.79%) CCNA
4 9 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (14.04%) CCNP
6 6 (10.53%) Master's Degree
7 3 (5.26%) CISSP
7 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.51%) A+ Certification
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.51%) CCDP
8 2 (3.51%) CEH
8 2 (3.51%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.51%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.51%) MCP
8 2 (3.51%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.51%) PMP
9 1 (1.75%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) GDPR
1 3 (5.26%) NIST
2 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
2 2 (3.51%) HIPAA
2 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.51%) NIST 800
2 2 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.75%) ISO 22301
3 1 (1.75%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 7 (12.28%) Docker
2 3 (5.26%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
1 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.75%) CASB
2 1 (1.75%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 13 (22.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.53%) SAP
3 5 (8.77%) Google
4 4 (7.02%) CA Agile Central
5 3 (5.26%) AirMagnet
5 3 (5.26%) Aruba
5 3 (5.26%) Cisco
5 3 (5.26%) Ekahau
5 3 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
5 3 (5.26%) Juniper
5 3 (5.26%) Meraki
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
6 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.51%) Splunk
7 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.75%) Empirix
7 1 (1.75%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.75%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (1.75%) NetScout