Computer Science Degree Contracts in South Yorkshire

Computer Science Degree
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

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

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 40 49
Rank change year-on-year -10 +9 +11
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 15 22 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 2.79% 4.55% 0.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 18.07% 30.56% 4.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 1
10th Percentile £308 £442 -
25th Percentile £344 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £389 £554 £400
Median % change year-on-year -29.87% +38.50% +12.28%
75th Percentile £427 £588 -
90th Percentile £495 £602 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £413 £525 £369
% change year-on-year -21.43% +42.37% +22.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 83 72 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 15.43% 14.88% 17.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 50 66
10th Percentile £316 £375 £249
25th Percentile £360 £464 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -18.60% -10.42% +33.33%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £700
90th Percentile £649 £653 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £490 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -9.09% +22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £18.50 - £11.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.14%
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £17.96 £30.00
% change year-on-year +40.07% -40.15% +63.27%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in South Yorkshire

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in South Yorkshire

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in South Yorkshire

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Sheffield -5 15 £389 -29.87% 12
Computer Science Degree
Yorkshire

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (6.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (46.67%) AWS
2 4 (26.67%) GCP
2 4 (26.67%) Serverless
3 2 (13.33%) Amazon Bedrock
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) DNS
2 4 (26.67%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) NAS
2 4 (26.67%) SAN
3 3 (20.00%) Network Security
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (13.33%) DWDM
4 2 (13.33%) LAN
4 2 (13.33%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 1 (6.67%) BGP
5 1 (6.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (6.67%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (20.00%) MySQL
3 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (6.67%) Apache Hive
4 1 (6.67%) Big Data
4 1 (6.67%) Hadoop
4 1 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (6.67%) Presto
Development Applications
1 8 (53.33%) GitLab
1 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
2 4 (26.67%) Git
2 4 (26.67%) Liquibase
3 2 (13.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Banking
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (26.67%) Financial Institution
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Front Office
5 1 (6.67%) International Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Migration Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Server Migration Specialist
3 2 (13.33%) Server Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Java Developer
4 1 (6.67%) React Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Virtualisation Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) REST
2 4 (26.67%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (26.67%) Middleware
2 4 (26.67%) RESTful
3 3 (20.00%) React
4 2 (13.33%) .NET
4 2 (13.33%) AngularJS
4 2 (13.33%) CSS
4 2 (13.33%) HTML
5 1 (6.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Cloud Native
1 4 (26.67%) Distributed Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (26.67%) Public Cloud
2 2 (13.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (53.33%) Linux
2 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 4 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (13.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (53.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 6 (40.00%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 5 (33.33%) Containerisation
5 5 (33.33%) Microservices
5 5 (33.33%) Migration
6 4 (26.67%) Change Management
6 4 (26.67%) Cost Optimisation
6 4 (26.67%) Cryptography
6 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (26.67%) Data Security
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Full-Stack Development
6 4 (26.67%) High Availability
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (26.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (26.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 14 (93.33%) Python
2 4 (26.67%) Go
2 4 (26.67%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (13.33%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certification
2 4 (26.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (13.33%) CCNA
3 2 (13.33%) CCNP
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (13.33%) JNCIA
3 2 (13.33%) JNCIS
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) Docker
2 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 4 (26.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (26.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (26.67%) VMware NSX
2 4 (26.67%) vSphere
3 1 (6.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 11 (73.33%) Ansible
2 7 (46.67%) Terraform
3 5 (33.33%) Kubernetes
4 4 (26.67%) Grafana
4 4 (26.67%) Prometheus
4 4 (26.67%) vCenter Server
4 4 (26.67%) vRealize
5 1 (6.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Google
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
1 4 (26.67%) Splunk
1 4 (26.67%) VMware
2 3 (20.00%) Cisco
3 2 (13.33%) Arista
3 2 (13.33%) F5
3 2 (13.33%) Oracle