Computer Science Contracts in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 80 116
Rank change year-on-year -17 +36 -35
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 40 69 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.49% 2.40% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 2.65% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 38 28
10th Percentile £312 £351 £155
25th Percentile £380 £413 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £558 £600
Median % change year-on-year -17.04% -7.08% +26.32%
75th Percentile £638 £716 £628
90th Percentile - £721 £701
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 1
10th Percentile £35.60 £21.40 -
25th Percentile - £34.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £55.00 £18.76
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +193.18% -
75th Percentile - £62.50 -
90th Percentile - £67.00 -
South East median hourly rate £65.00 £20.47 £44.23
% change year-on-year +217.54% -53.71% -3.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,291 2,607 3,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.42% 90.62% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,259 1,771 2,166
10th Percentile £224 £313 £250
25th Percentile £375 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +4.62% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £588
90th Percentile £675 £699 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 67 89
10th Percentile £14.50 £17.00 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £25.23 £12.31
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £17.42
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +201.38% -17.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.59 £24.42
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £67.39
South East median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 -41 26 £425 -27.81% 53
Buckinghamshire +28 7 £625 +35.14% 19
Oxfordshire +4 7 £425 +11.84% 24
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
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 4 (10.00%) SAS
2 1 (2.50%) Apache
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
1 7 (17.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (7.50%) SPSS
3 2 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 4 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (2.50%) GCP
3 1 (2.50%) IaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.50%) PaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.50%) SaaS
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.50%) DNS
2 6 (15.00%) 3G
2 6 (15.00%) 4G
2 6 (15.00%) 5G
2 6 (15.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (15.00%) GGSN
2 6 (15.00%) LTE
2 6 (15.00%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (15.00%) RANAP
2 6 (15.00%) SGSN
2 6 (15.00%) VoLTE
2 6 (15.00%) Wireshark
3 5 (12.50%) Wireless
4 4 (10.00%) Firewall
5 3 (7.50%) Network Security
6 2 (5.00%) VPN
7 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (2.50%) LAN
7 1 (2.50%) SSL
7 1 (2.50%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.50%) Tableau
2 3 (7.50%) Qlik Sense
2 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.50%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.50%) DTS
3 1 (2.50%) Looker
3 1 (2.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.50%) MySQL
3 1 (2.50%) Power BI
3 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 8 (20.00%) JIRA
2 6 (15.00%) Git
3 4 (10.00%) Subversion
4 3 (7.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 1 (2.50%) CMake
5 1 (2.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 25 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 10 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (15.00%) Multimedia
5 4 (10.00%) Aerospace
5 4 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Advertising
6 1 (2.50%) Finance
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (12.50%) Analyst
1 5 (12.50%) Architect
1 5 (12.50%) Data Analyst
1 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Embedded Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 4 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Configuration Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Network Configuration Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Senior
3 3 (7.50%) Site Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 3 (7.50%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (7.50%) VMware Architect
4 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (5.00%) Project Manager
5 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) SOC Engineer
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) D3.js
2 1 (2.50%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.50%) ARM Templates
2 1 (2.50%) CNTK
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
2 1 (2.50%) jQuery
2 1 (2.50%) JSON
2 1 (2.50%) Node.js
2 1 (2.50%) OpenVINO
2 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (2.50%) React
2 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
2 1 (2.50%) Web Services
2 1 (2.50%) XML
2 1 (2.50%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 4 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.00%) Device Driver
3 2 (5.00%) Life Science
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.50%) Social Media
4 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Android
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
1 11 (27.50%) Statistics
2 9 (22.50%) Agile
3 6 (15.00%) Customer Experience
3 6 (15.00%) Network Architecture
3 6 (15.00%) Performance Improvement
3 6 (15.00%) Software Engineering
3 6 (15.00%) Visualisation
4 5 (12.50%) Analytics
4 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (12.50%) Data Analysis
4 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
4 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 5 (12.50%) Data Visualisation
4 5 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
5 4 (10.00%) Signal Processing
5 4 (10.00%) Software Optimisation
5 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (30.00%) Python
2 9 (22.50%) SQL
3 5 (12.50%) C++
3 5 (12.50%) R
4 4 (10.00%) Assembly Language
4 4 (10.00%) C
4 4 (10.00%) C#
4 4 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 4 (10.00%) Shell Script
5 3 (7.50%) F#
6 2 (5.00%) Java
7 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 34 (85.00%) Degree
2 23 (57.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 9 (22.50%) Master's Degree
4 4 (10.00%) PhD
5 3 (7.50%) CCNA
5 3 (7.50%) CCNP
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (7.50%) Security Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (5.00%) CCDP
6 2 (5.00%) ISTQB
7 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.50%) HP ASE
7 1 (2.50%) JNCIE
7 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (2.50%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.00%) JTAG
1 4 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
2 1 (2.50%) HL7
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Embedded Firmware
1 4 (10.00%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) SCCM
1 3 (7.50%) SCOM
2 1 (2.50%) Ansible
2 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
2 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 6 (15.00%) Empirix
2 6 (15.00%) NetScout
3 4 (10.00%) Cisco
3 4 (10.00%) Juniper
3 4 (10.00%) VMware
4 2 (5.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (2.50%) Adobe
5 1 (2.50%) Databricks
5 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.50%) Workday