Computer Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 167 182
Rank change year-on-year +83 +15 -25
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 466 359 437
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 1.50% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.68% 1.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 217 228
10th Percentile £266 £325 £177
25th Percentile £400 £450 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 29 45
10th Percentile £21.79 £18.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.50 £19.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +5.26% -0.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.00 £66.60 £58.41
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £46.71
% change year-on-year +3.41% +13.86% +9.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,480 21,395 27,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.68% 89.58% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,444 14,842 19,202
10th Percentile £250 £256 £231
25th Percentile £375 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,054 1,309 1,355
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.36
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
South East +15 120 £450 -14.29% 266
North of England +66 93 £492 +1.18% 211
Midlands +70 88 £550 +12.24% 155
West Midlands +63 74 £525 +2.44% 87
South West +29 57 £588 +6.82% 112
Scotland +46 55 £525 - 37
East of England +34 52 £500 - 168
North West +47 50 £500 +2.88% 121
Yorkshire +36 37 £450 -18.18% 57
East Midlands +17 14 £600 +29.73% 68
North East +24 8 £600 - 35
Wales +9 6 £403 -26.82% 23
Northern Ireland +8 4 - - 24
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (3.65%) Confluence
2 15 (3.22%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.58%) Apache
4 10 (2.15%) SAS
5 7 (1.50%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.07%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.21%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.21%) JBoss
9 1 (0.21%) Luigi
9 1 (0.21%) MTS
9 1 (0.21%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.21%) WebSphere
Applications
1 36 (7.73%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.22%) Simulink
3 14 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.00%) Stateflow
4 10 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.93%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.07%) SPSS
7 4 (0.86%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.21%) CATIA
8 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.64%) SAP ERP
2 3 (0.64%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.43%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 85 (18.24%) Azure
2 59 (12.66%) AWS
3 25 (5.36%) GCP
4 20 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (3.00%) Power Platform
5 14 (3.00%) Snowflake
6 12 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
7 11 (2.36%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.15%) SaaS
9 9 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
9 9 (1.93%) Amazon S3
9 9 (1.93%) PaaS
10 7 (1.50%) Azure Sentinel
10 7 (1.50%) OpenShift
11 6 (1.29%) GitHub
11 6 (1.29%) Serverless
12 5 (1.07%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.07%) IaaS
13 4 (0.86%) Azure Functions
13 4 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 27 (5.79%) DNS
2 20 (4.29%) Firewall
3 19 (4.08%) DHCP
4 18 (3.86%) Wireless
5 17 (3.65%) WAN
6 15 (3.22%) Wireshark
7 14 (3.00%) TCP/IP
8 13 (2.79%) SAN
9 12 (2.58%) LAN
10 10 (2.15%) Cisco Nexus
10 10 (2.15%) VPN
11 9 (1.93%) 5G
11 9 (1.93%) Network Security
12 8 (1.72%) BGP
12 8 (1.72%) OSPF
12 8 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (1.50%) 3G
13 7 (1.50%) Ethernet
13 7 (1.50%) MPLS
13 7 (1.50%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.00%) Power BI
1 14 (3.00%) Tableau
2 13 (2.79%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 11 (2.36%) Metadata
3 11 (2.36%) MySQL
4 10 (2.15%) Data Mining
4 10 (2.15%) Oracle Database
5 9 (1.93%) Big Data
5 9 (1.93%) Data Warehouse
6 8 (1.72%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.50%) Hadoop
7 7 (1.50%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.29%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.07%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (0.86%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.86%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.86%) DB2
10 4 (0.86%) MS Access
11 3 (0.64%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 43 (9.23%) Git
2 39 (8.37%) JIRA
3 22 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.15%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.15%) Oracle APEX
4 10 (2.15%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (1.72%) GitLab
5 8 (1.72%) Subversion
6 6 (1.29%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.29%) Mercurial
6 6 (1.29%) Selenium
7 5 (1.07%) JUnit
8 4 (0.86%) Gradle
8 4 (0.86%) JMeter
8 4 (0.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 4 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.64%) Travis CI
10 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.43%) CMake
10 2 (0.43%) Cypress.io
General
1 218 (46.78%) Social Skills
2 121 (25.97%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (10.94%) Finance
4 39 (8.37%) Telecoms
5 34 (7.30%) Public Sector
6 30 (6.44%) Legal
7 27 (5.79%) Banking
8 21 (4.51%) Electronics
9 19 (4.08%) Automotive
10 18 (3.86%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (3.22%) Multimedia
12 14 (3.00%) Aerospace
13 13 (2.79%) Retail
14 10 (2.15%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
16 7 (1.50%) German Language
16 7 (1.50%) Marketing
17 6 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
18 5 (1.07%) Influencing Skills
18 5 (1.07%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (15.67%) Architect
2 53 (11.37%) Senior
3 50 (10.73%) Software Engineer
4 46 (9.87%) Analyst
5 43 (9.23%) Developer
6 40 (8.58%) Solutions Architect
7 28 (6.01%) Network Engineer
8 19 (4.08%) Lead
9 18 (3.86%) Data Engineer
9 18 (3.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
11 13 (2.79%) Data Analyst
11 13 (2.79%) Linux Engineer
11 13 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
12 12 (2.58%) Python Engineer
12 12 (2.58%) Support Engineer
13 11 (2.36%) AWS Engineer
14 10 (2.15%) Project Manager
15 9 (1.93%) Service Analyst
16 8 (1.72%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.43%) HTML
2 15 (3.22%) .NET
2 15 (3.22%) React
3 14 (3.00%) CSS
4 13 (2.79%) Kafka
5 12 (2.58%) RESTful
6 11 (2.36%) Flash
7 10 (2.15%) AngularJS
7 10 (2.15%) Spring
8 9 (1.93%) Middleware
8 9 (1.93%) NumPy
8 9 (1.93%) REST
8 9 (1.93%) XML
9 8 (1.72%) .NET Framework
9 8 (1.72%) Pandas
10 6 (1.29%) GraphQL
10 6 (1.29%) RabbitMQ
10 6 (1.29%) SciPy
10 6 (1.29%) Web Services
11 5 (1.07%) POSIX
Miscellaneous
1 52 (11.16%) Management Information System
2 38 (8.15%) Algorithms
3 31 (6.65%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.65%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.22%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.79%) Data Protection Act
8 12 (2.58%) Data Structures
8 12 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
9 10 (2.15%) CMDB
10 9 (1.93%) PKI
10 9 (1.93%) Security Posture
11 7 (1.50%) Clustering
11 7 (1.50%) Onboarding
11 7 (1.50%) Virtual Team
12 6 (1.29%) IoT
12 6 (1.29%) Product Ownership
13 5 (1.07%) Industry 4.0
13 5 (1.07%) NVMe
13 5 (1.07%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 68 (14.59%) Windows
2 50 (10.73%) Linux
3 33 (7.08%) Unix
4 21 (4.51%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.79%) Android
6 9 (1.93%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (1.50%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.29%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.86%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (0.86%) Solaris
9 4 (0.86%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.64%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.43%) HPUX
11 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.43%) zOS
12 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 195 (41.85%) Problem-Solving
2 103 (22.10%) Agile
3 83 (17.81%) Software Engineering
4 75 (16.09%) DevOps
5 61 (13.09%) Migration
6 53 (11.37%) ITIL
7 47 (10.09%) Roadmaps
8 44 (9.44%) Test Automation
9 41 (8.80%) Analytics
9 41 (8.80%) Continuous Improvement
10 40 (8.58%) Scrum
11 37 (7.94%) Decision-Making
12 36 (7.73%) Data Management
13 35 (7.51%) Data Science
14 32 (6.87%) Data Modelling
14 32 (6.87%) Validation
15 30 (6.44%) CI/CD
15 30 (6.44%) Mathematics
15 30 (6.44%) Stakeholder Management
16 29 (6.22%) Artificial Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 110 (23.61%) Python
2 73 (15.67%) SQL
3 63 (13.52%) Java
4 31 (6.65%) JavaScript
5 30 (6.44%) C#
6 23 (4.94%) C++
6 23 (4.94%) PowerShell
7 22 (4.72%) MATLAB
8 21 (4.51%) Perl
9 16 (3.43%) R
9 16 (3.43%) Scala
10 12 (2.58%) C
11 11 (2.36%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.15%) Bash
13 8 (1.72%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.50%) VB.NET
15 6 (1.29%) Go
16 5 (1.07%) Kotlin
16 5 (1.07%) Kusto Query Language
17 4 (0.86%) Rust
Qualifications
1 412 (88.41%) Degree
2 264 (56.65%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (16.52%) Security Cleared
4 55 (11.80%) Master's Degree
5 49 (10.52%) SC Cleared
6 40 (8.58%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (5.79%) DV Cleared
8 24 (5.15%) CCNA
9 22 (4.72%) CCNP
10 18 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (3.43%) CISSP
12 15 (3.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 13 (2.79%) PhD
14 11 (2.36%) A+ Certification
14 11 (2.36%) Azure Certification
15 10 (2.15%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (2.15%) TOGAF Certification
16 9 (1.93%) Chartered Engineer
16 9 (1.93%) CompTIA Security+
17 7 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (6.44%) QA
2 21 (4.51%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.15%) SLA
4 6 (1.29%) GDPR
5 4 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.86%) JTAG
5 4 (0.86%) NIST
6 3 (0.64%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 2 (0.43%) HL7
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) COBIT
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.21%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (6.01%) Active Directory
1 28 (6.01%) Docker
2 27 (5.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.58%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (2.58%) vSphere
4 11 (2.36%) Hyper-V
4 11 (2.36%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.15%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.29%) Firmware
7 5 (1.07%) KVM
7 5 (1.07%) NFS
8 4 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.86%) GPFS
8 4 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.86%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.86%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.21%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 30 (6.44%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.86%) Terraform
3 12 (2.58%) vCenter Server
4 10 (2.15%) Ansible
5 6 (1.29%) SCCM
6 5 (1.07%) OpenView
7 4 (0.86%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 4 (0.86%) WSUS
8 3 (0.64%) Kibana
8 3 (0.64%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.64%) SCOM
8 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.64%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.43%) logstash
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.43%) Red Hat Satellite
9 2 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.43%) vRealize
9 2 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 80 (17.17%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.73%) VMware
3 30 (6.44%) Cisco
4 28 (6.01%) SAP
5 25 (5.36%) Oracle
6 23 (4.94%) Google
7 21 (4.51%) ServiceNow
8 16 (3.43%) IBM
9 14 (3.00%) Juniper
10 13 (2.79%) Databricks
11 11 (2.36%) F5
12 10 (2.15%) Palo Alto
12 10 (2.15%) Red Hat
13 9 (1.93%) Atlassian
14 8 (1.72%) SolarWinds
14 8 (1.72%) Splunk
14 8 (1.72%) Veritas
15 7 (1.50%) EMC
15 7 (1.50%) Nokia
16 6 (1.29%) Empirix