Computer Science Degree Contract Job Trends

Computer Science Degree
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 147 115
Rank change year-on-year -102 -32 +102
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 510 637 866
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.97% 2.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.09% 6.42% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 385 541
10th Percentile £178 £297 £313
25th Percentile £353 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £653 £650 £672
90th Percentile £783 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 13 39
10th Percentile £17.25 £25.80 £25.40
25th Percentile £27.94 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £41.38 £30.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -46.67% +2.27%
75th Percentile £87.16 £58.75 £72.63
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.50 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -52.00% -3.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,480 9,928 12,965
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 30.74% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,007 6,162 8,061
10th Percentile £350 £278 £310
25th Percentile £429 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £703 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,198 695 1,107
10th Percentile £17.69 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.19 £20.00 £20.12
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.38 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +82.65% -33.13% -25.56%
75th Percentile £72.54 £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -19.87%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Science Degree.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 16 Contract Job Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 July 2026. 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
England -109 454 £500 -1.23% 405
UK excluding London -115 242 £500 +5.26% 232
London -88 229 £500 -9.09% 223
Work from Home -94 122 £450 -10.00% 145
North of England -71 75 £515 +8.42% 34
South East -59 60 £400 -18.70% 77
Midlands -76 43 £638 +35.64% 40
Yorkshire -31 41 £525 +21.11% 7
North West -46 34 £387 -26.26% 21
West Midlands -69 28 £671 +16.74% 16
East of England -25 21 £491 +15.59% 29
South West -32 19 £518 +39.86% 26
Scotland -27 15 £525 +5.00% 10
East Midlands -25 14 £447 -1.65% 23
Wales -25 8 £530 +28.48% 3
Northern Ireland +8 3 - - 18

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 24 (4.71%) Confluence
2 22 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.73%) Apache
4 16 (3.14%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.98%) SAS
7 3 (0.59%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.57%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.37%) Navisworks
4 7 (1.37%) Revit
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.39%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.39%) Workfront
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 199 (39.02%) Azure
2 128 (25.10%) AWS
3 71 (13.92%) GCP
4 48 (9.41%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (8.04%) Power Platform
6 37 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
7 36 (7.06%) GitHub
8 27 (5.29%) Serverless
9 23 (4.51%) Snowflake
10 22 (4.31%) Entra ID
11 21 (4.12%) SaaS
12 18 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 16 (3.14%) Azure AKS
14 15 (2.94%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.75%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.55%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (2.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
17 12 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.12%) Firewall
1 21 (4.12%) TCP/IP
2 16 (3.14%) Network Security
2 16 (3.14%) VPN
3 14 (2.75%) DNS
4 13 (2.55%) WAN
5 10 (1.96%) LAN
6 8 (1.57%) BGP
7 6 (1.18%) DMZ
7 6 (1.18%) Wireless
8 5 (0.98%) 3GPP
8 5 (0.98%) OSPF
8 5 (0.98%) RTP
8 5 (0.98%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.78%) VLAN
9 4 (0.78%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.78%) WebEx
9 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.86%) Power BI
2 30 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.29%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (5.10%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.51%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.12%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.33%) Big Data
7 17 (3.33%) Metadata
7 17 (3.33%) MySQL
8 15 (2.94%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.16%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.76%) Data Mining
10 9 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.76%) Tableau
11 8 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.57%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.37%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.37%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.18%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.18%) Redis
Development Applications
1 61 (11.96%) Git
2 33 (6.47%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.27%) JIRA
4 30 (5.88%) GitLab
5 12 (2.35%) Selenium
6 10 (1.96%) Gradle
6 10 (1.96%) JUnit
7 8 (1.57%) Postman
8 7 (1.37%) REST Assured
8 7 (1.37%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.18%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.18%) Maven
9 6 (1.18%) SpecFlow
10 5 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.98%) Flyway
10 5 (0.98%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.98%) Vite
11 4 (0.78%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.78%) CircleCI
General
1 254 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 133 (26.08%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (25.49%) Finance
4 57 (11.18%) Banking
5 25 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.31%) Front Office
7 19 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 15 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.75%) Marketing
11 13 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
12 12 (2.35%) Legal
13 11 (2.16%) Investment Banking
14 9 (1.76%) Retail
15 8 (1.57%) Law
15 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
16 7 (1.37%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.37%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 83 (16.27%) Architect
2 80 (15.69%) Developer
3 49 (9.61%) Senior
4 48 (9.41%) Lead
5 38 (7.45%) Analyst
6 25 (4.90%) Solutions Architect
6 25 (4.90%) Technical Support
7 24 (4.71%) Software Engineer
8 20 (3.92%) IT Support
9 19 (3.73%) Data Engineer
9 19 (3.73%) IT Analyst
10 16 (3.14%) Support Analyst
10 16 (3.14%) Support Specialist
10 16 (3.14%) Technical Architect
10 16 (3.14%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
11 15 (2.94%) Java Developer
11 15 (2.94%) Technical Support Specialist
12 14 (2.75%) IT Support Analyst
13 13 (2.55%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (11.37%) REST
2 40 (7.84%) React
3 39 (7.65%) .NET
4 35 (6.86%) RESTful
5 28 (5.49%) Spring
6 24 (4.71%) Middleware
6 24 (4.71%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.53%) Kafka
8 17 (3.33%) OAuth
9 16 (3.14%) PyTorch
10 15 (2.94%) AngularJS
10 15 (2.94%) CSS
10 15 (2.94%) HTML
10 15 (2.94%) SOAP
11 14 (2.75%) JSON
12 13 (2.55%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (2.16%) .NET Core
13 11 (2.16%) Node.js
13 11 (2.16%) PySpark
13 11 (2.16%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (10.98%) Management Information System
2 53 (10.39%) Cloud Native
3 45 (8.82%) Onboarding
4 36 (7.06%) Product Ownership
5 26 (5.10%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.12%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.53%) AI Agents
8 16 (3.14%) Derivative
8 16 (3.14%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.75%) Virtual Team
10 13 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.55%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.55%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.35%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.35%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.16%) Equities
13 10 (1.96%) Mobile App
13 10 (1.96%) Robotics
14 9 (1.76%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 83 (16.27%) Windows
2 54 (10.59%) Linux
3 19 (3.73%) Unix
4 16 (3.14%) Android
5 11 (2.16%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.76%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.76%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.18%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.78%) Debian
9 4 (0.78%) Rocky
9 4 (0.78%) VMS
9 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) MVS
10 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (98.82%) Computer Science
2 196 (38.43%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (30.20%) Agile
4 149 (29.22%) CI/CD
5 147 (28.82%) AI
6 133 (26.08%) DevOps
7 99 (19.41%) Software Engineering
8 86 (16.86%) Analytics
8 86 (16.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (15.10%) Microservices
10 70 (13.73%) Containerisation
11 68 (13.33%) ITIL
12 63 (12.35%) Technical Leadership
13 60 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 58 (11.37%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
15 56 (10.98%) Migration
16 55 (10.78%) Test Automation
17 53 (10.39%) Data Governance
17 53 (10.39%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 165 (32.35%) Python
2 122 (23.92%) SQL
3 89 (17.45%) Java
4 52 (10.20%) JavaScript
5 38 (7.45%) C#
6 26 (5.10%) TypeScript
7 20 (3.92%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.53%) Bash
9 13 (2.55%) Go
10 11 (2.16%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.96%) C++
12 9 (1.76%) Perl
13 8 (1.57%) Kotlin
14 6 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (1.18%) Scala
15 5 (0.98%) Bicep
16 4 (0.78%) R
17 3 (0.59%) COBOL
18 2 (0.39%) RPG
18 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 510 (100.00%) Degree
2 97 (19.02%) Master's Degree
3 67 (13.14%) Security Cleared
4 54 (10.59%) SC Cleared
5 31 (6.08%) CISSP
6 29 (5.69%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.51%) AWS Certification
8 22 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.53%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.53%) CISM
10 17 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (2.16%) DV Cleared
12 10 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (1.96%) PhD
13 9 (1.76%) PMI Certification
14 8 (1.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (1.57%) CCNP
14 8 (1.57%) MBA
14 8 (1.57%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (1.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.27%) QA
2 24 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.73%) GDPR
4 18 (3.53%) NIST
5 13 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.16%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.18%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.18%) GRC
8 5 (0.98%) PSD2
9 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.59%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.59%) DICOM
10 3 (0.59%) SLA
10 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.39%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 75 (14.71%) Docker
2 37 (7.25%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) Firmware
4 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.20%) ACF2
6 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) RACF
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 93 (18.24%) Kubernetes
2 50 (9.80%) Terraform
3 29 (5.69%) Ansible
4 23 (4.51%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (4.31%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.12%) Grafana
7 4 (0.78%) Puppet
8 3 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.59%) Foglight
8 3 (0.59%) Kibana
8 3 (0.59%) SCCM
8 3 (0.59%) WSUS
9 2 (0.39%) CASB
9 2 (0.39%) Consul
9 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 123 (24.12%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.84%) Oracle
3 34 (6.67%) Google
4 31 (6.08%) Databricks
5 24 (4.71%) Splunk
6 16 (3.14%) ServiceNow
7 14 (2.75%) SAP
8 11 (2.16%) Cisco
9 9 (1.76%) IBM
9 9 (1.76%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.57%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.37%) Autodesk
11 7 (1.37%) UiPath
12 6 (1.18%) Apple
12 6 (1.18%) Okta
12 6 (1.18%) VMware
13 5 (0.98%) Citrix
13 5 (0.98%) Informatica
13 5 (0.98%) OpenAI
13 5 (0.98%) Ping Identity