Computer Science Degree Contracts in the Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 110 141
Rank change year-on-year -14 +31 -23
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 18 39 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.66% 1.32% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.60% 3.83% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 22 17
10th Percentile £364 £363 £152
25th Percentile £413 £400 £157
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £498 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.55% +32.67% -9.09%
75th Percentile £596 £536 £600
90th Percentile £627 £665 -
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £433
% change year-on-year - +15.61% -1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Median hourly rate £16.00 £55.00 £18.76
Median % change year-on-year -70.91% +193.18% -
South East median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £42.73
% change year-on-year +31.82% +28.73% +25.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,127 1,017 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 41.45% 34.35% 28.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 697 677
10th Percentile £213 £315 £256
25th Percentile £413 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £689 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 44 29
10th Percentile £18.40 £19.95 £17.00
25th Percentile £41.50 £26.77 £20.50
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.24% -
75th Percentile £70.50 £74.84 £43.75
90th Percentile £87.09 £80.25 £70.08
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £56.19 £44.61
% change year-on-year +2.06% +25.96% +11.53%

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 23 April 2024.

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 23 April 2024. 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 -30 14 £500 - 28
Buckinghamshire +30 2 £250 - 9
Oxfordshire +7 2 £425 +63.46% 11
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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.56%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (22.22%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 2 (11.11%) OpenShift
2 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) IaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) SaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) DNS
2 4 (22.22%) 3G
2 4 (22.22%) 4G
2 4 (22.22%) 5G
2 4 (22.22%) Diameter Protocol
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
2 4 (22.22%) GGSN
2 4 (22.22%) LTE
2 4 (22.22%) Radio Access Network
2 4 (22.22%) RANAP
2 4 (22.22%) SGSN
2 4 (22.22%) VoLTE
2 4 (22.22%) Wireshark
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (5.56%) LAN
5 1 (5.56%) SSL
5 1 (5.56%) WAN
5 1 (5.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) MongoDB
1 1 (5.56%) MySQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.56%) Git
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) Maven
2 1 (5.56%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 4 (22.22%) Multimedia
3 4 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Finance
5 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Configuration Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Network Configuration Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (5.56%) Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Desktop Technician
3 1 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Developer
3 1 (5.56%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Lead
3 1 (5.56%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Security Project Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Senior Analytics Manager
3 1 (5.56%) SOC Engineer
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Manager
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) AngularJS
1 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
1 1 (5.56%) CSS
1 1 (5.56%) HTML
1 1 (5.56%) jQuery
1 1 (5.56%) JSON
1 1 (5.56%) Node.js
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) React
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
1 1 (5.56%) XML
1 1 (5.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) IoT
1 1 (5.56%) Life Science
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (33.33%) Statistics
3 4 (22.22%) Capacity Planning
3 4 (22.22%) Customer Experience
3 4 (22.22%) Network Architecture
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Improvement
3 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (16.67%) Agile
4 3 (16.67%) DevOps
5 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (11.11%) Machine Learning
5 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.11%) Software Engineering
6 1 (5.56%) Containerisation
6 1 (5.56%) Data Collection
6 1 (5.56%) Full Stack Development
6 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) Java
3 1 (5.56%) C
3 1 (5.56%) C#
3 1 (5.56%) C++
3 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.56%) R
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.11%) CCNA
3 2 (11.11%) CCNP
3 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.56%) CCDP
4 1 (5.56%) HP ASE
4 1 (5.56%) JNCIE
4 1 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (5.56%) PhD
4 1 (5.56%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Docker
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Empirix
2 4 (22.22%) NetScout
3 3 (16.67%) Juniper
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (5.56%) Checkmarx
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco
5 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.56%) VMware
5 1 (5.56%) Workday