Computer Science Contracts in Surrey

Computer Science
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 24 52
Rank change year-on-year 0 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 12 34 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 4.51% 5.61% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 6.91% 3.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 17
10th Percentile £329 £336 £490
25th Percentile £358 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +18.76%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £625 £624
South East median daily rate £481 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +6.94% -14.29% +18.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £70.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +200.00%
South East median hourly rate £21.90 £65.00 £20.47
% change year-on-year -66.31% +217.54% -34.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 239 492 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.85% 81.19% 86.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 348 488
10th Percentile £195 £250 £200
25th Percentile £295 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £538 £619 £638
90th Percentile £581 £700 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 62 28
10th Percentile £14.15 £11.71 £38.60
25th Percentile £24.75 £14.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £30.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -33.33% -
75th Percentile £51.16 £66.63 £62.13
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
% change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Surrey over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Surrey.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Surrey

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 31 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
Staines +5 6 £365 - 4
Redhill +3 4 £500 +5.26% 1
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 (8.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (25.00%) Snowflake
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (8.33%) Asana
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub
3 1 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (16.67%) Data Lake
2 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (16.67%) Tableau
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (8.33%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (8.33%) Big Data
3 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Couchbase
3 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (8.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
3 1 (8.33%) QlikView
3 1 (8.33%) Tableau Desktop
Development Applications
1 7 (58.33%) JIRA
2 6 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (41.67%) Git
3 5 (41.67%) TestRail
4 4 (33.33%) Bitbucket
4 4 (33.33%) GoogleTest
4 4 (33.33%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) JMeter
5 1 (8.33%) JUnit
5 1 (8.33%) Selenium
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) C++ Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Linux Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Linux Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 3 (25.00%) Data Scientist
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) Kafka
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Linux
2 4 (33.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Scrum
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (33.33%) Clean Code
5 4 (33.33%) Data Modelling
5 4 (33.33%) Design Patterns
5 4 (33.33%) Kanban
5 4 (33.33%) Multithreaded Programming
5 4 (33.33%) Multithreading
5 4 (33.33%) OO
5 4 (33.33%) OOD
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) SOLID
5 4 (33.33%) Storyboarding
6 3 (25.00%) Analytics
6 3 (25.00%) Data Analysis
6 3 (25.00%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 4 (33.33%) C++
3 3 (25.00%) Python
3 3 (25.00%) R
4 1 (8.33%) Go
4 1 (8.33%) Java
4 1 (8.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Numerate Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (8.33%) PMP
4 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Databricks
2 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 1 (8.33%) Atlassian