Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Computer Science
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Southampton requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - 17
Rank change year-on-year - - +17
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 13 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 7.65% - 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 0 8
10th Percentile - - £451
25th Percentile £170 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -13.04%
75th Percentile £261 - £504
90th Percentile £488 - £517
Hampshire median daily rate £223 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -62.92% +33.33% +205.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 108 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 84.12% 75.52% 82.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 67 100
10th Percentile £170 £220 £262
25th Percentile £241 £356 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £525
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -17.14% +1.94%
75th Percentile £550 £572 £616
90th Percentile £654 £638 £651
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +2.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 0 3
10th Percentile £22.50 - £27.85
25th Percentile £24.38 - £29.13
Median hourly rate £44.25 - £32.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +76.97%
75th Percentile £73.42 - £34.13
90th Percentile £74.97 - £34.35
Hampshire median hourly rate £20.71 £35.00 £50.71
% change year-on-year -40.83% -30.98% +16.57%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Southampton

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

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

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Southampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Southampton over the 6 months to 18 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Southampton

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Trend in Southampton

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Computer Science.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon S3
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (7.69%) IaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Git
General
1 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (7.69%) Senior
1 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
1 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
1 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) Agile
1 2 (15.38%) Analytics
1 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.69%) AI
2 1 (7.69%) CI/CD
2 1 (7.69%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (7.69%) Configuration Management
2 1 (7.69%) Containerisation
2 1 (7.69%) Continuous Deployment
2 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
2 1 (7.69%) Data Science
2 1 (7.69%) Data Strategy
2 1 (7.69%) Data Transformation
2 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
2 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (7.69%) Mathematics
2 1 (7.69%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Software Engineering
2 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (7.69%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Bash
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) Grafana
1 1 (7.69%) Puppet
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) PagerDuty