Computer Science Degree Contracts in the Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 125 112
Rank change year-on-year +47 -13 +25
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 24 20 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.59% 0.74% 1.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.39% 1.81% 3.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 7 22
10th Percentile £445 £348 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £498
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -14.57% +32.67%
75th Percentile £650 £549 £536
90th Percentile £700 £629 £665
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +15.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £21.40
25th Percentile - - £34.00
Median hourly rate - £16.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -70.91% +193.18%
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - £67.00
South East median hourly rate - £72.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year - +31.82% +28.73%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 547 1,103 1,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.20% 41.06% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 588 696
10th Percentile £313 £213 £319
25th Percentile £436 £413 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £620 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £690
South East median daily rate £537 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 107 45
10th Percentile £19.12 £18.30 £20.10
25th Percentile £32.05 £41.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £61.50 £58.30 £64.68
Median % change year-on-year +5.48% -9.86% +207.61%
75th Percentile £71.38 £70.44 £74.79
90th Percentile £87.46 £87.18 £80.25
South East median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
% change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +35 20 £500 +5.26% 65
Oxfordshire +7 4 £700 +64.71% 30
Computer Science Degree
South East

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Service Bus
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 6 (25.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (4.17%) CATIA
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Maximo
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) AWS
2 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (8.33%) Snowflake
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) OCI
4 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (12.50%) 802.11
1 3 (12.50%) VLAN
1 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (12.50%) Wireless
2 2 (8.33%) 3G
2 2 (8.33%) 4G
2 2 (8.33%) 5G
2 2 (8.33%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (8.33%) DNS
2 2 (8.33%) GGSN
2 2 (8.33%) LTE
2 2 (8.33%) Network Security
2 2 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
2 2 (8.33%) RANAP
2 2 (8.33%) SGSN
2 2 (8.33%) VoLTE
2 2 (8.33%) Wireshark
3 1 (4.17%) Firewall
3 1 (4.17%) SSL
3 1 (4.17%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) Big Data
1 5 (20.83%) Relational Database
2 4 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (16.67%) Metadata
3 2 (8.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 4 (16.67%) ERwin
1 4 (16.67%) PowerDesigner
2 2 (8.33%) Burp Suite
2 2 (8.33%) Metasploit
General
1 20 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 2 (8.33%) Multimedia
3 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.17%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Senior
2 4 (16.67%) Data Modeller
3 3 (12.50%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Data Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Penetration Tester
4 2 (8.33%) Senior Data Modeller
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Information Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Operations Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SAP Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.17%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) Middleware
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
3 1 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (4.17%) SOAP
3 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (4.17%) Cyberattack
3 1 (4.17%) Operational Technology
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (25.00%) Migration
4 5 (20.83%) Agile
4 5 (20.83%) Mentoring
4 5 (20.83%) Network Design
4 5 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (16.67%) Data Architecture
5 4 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
5 4 (16.67%) Data Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) Data Science
5 4 (16.67%) Data Security
5 4 (16.67%) Physical Data Model
5 4 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
6 3 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (25.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C++
2 3 (12.50%) Java
2 3 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (8.33%) C
3 2 (8.33%) Ruby
4 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (25.00%) Master's Degree
3 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 2 (8.33%) CCDP
4 2 (8.33%) CCNA
4 2 (8.33%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) CEH
4 2 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) GPEN
4 2 (8.33%) GWAPT
4 2 (8.33%) OSCE
4 2 (8.33%) OSCP
4 2 (8.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (8.33%) PMP
4 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) CCSK
5 1 (4.17%) CISA
5 1 (4.17%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) GDPR
2 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
2 2 (8.33%) NIST
2 2 (8.33%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) CASB
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (25.00%) SAP
3 3 (12.50%) AirMagnet
3 3 (12.50%) Aruba
3 3 (12.50%) Cisco
3 3 (12.50%) Ekahau
3 3 (12.50%) Extreme Networks
3 3 (12.50%) Google
3 3 (12.50%) Juniper
3 3 (12.50%) Meraki
4 2 (8.33%) Databricks
4 2 (8.33%) Empirix
4 2 (8.33%) NetScout
5 1 (4.17%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
5 1 (4.17%) Oracle