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 30 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 147 111
Rank change year-on-year -123 -36 +83
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 491 647 805
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.97% 2.02%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.96% 6.36% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 397 508
10th Percentile £189 £293 £320
25th Percentile £360 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £676
90th Percentile £788 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £495 £459 £525
% change year-on-year +7.84% -12.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 21
10th Percentile £17.25 £26.20 £23.00
25th Percentile £26.81 £29.00 £45.22
Median hourly rate £41.38 £30.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -46.67% -
75th Percentile £86.12 £65.31 £70.25
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.70 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.63 £30.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +38.75% -54.20% +6.94%

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 16,596 10,167 11,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 30.98% 29.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 6,305 7,540
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £618 £638
90th Percentile £714 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,225 773 901
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.48
25th Percentile £25.77 £19.38 £21.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -23.30%
75th Percentile £74.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £76.99
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.19%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -105 439 £500 - 543
London -87 226 £503 -10.67% 336
UK excluding London -120 224 £495 +7.84% 253
Work from Home -109 124 £500 +5.26% 166
North of England -76 71 £500 +5.80% 42
South East -69 60 £400 -18.37% 90
Yorkshire -33 41 £507 +25.88% 9
Midlands -80 41 £625 +37.51% 46
North West -66 30 £500 +5.26% 28
West Midlands -71 27 £671 +16.70% 18
East of England -20 18 £488 +11.43% 29
South West -39 16 £535 +44.59% 27
East Midlands -27 13 £287 -35.68% 28
Scotland -33 12 £313 -30.44% 14
Wales -26 5 £530 +17.78% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 7

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 23 (4.68%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.87%) Confluence
3 17 (3.46%) Apache
4 15 (3.05%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.02%) SAS
7 3 (0.61%) 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 21 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.43%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.43%) Revit
4 4 (0.81%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.81%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.81%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.41%) Workfront
5 1 (0.20%) Finacle
5 1 (0.20%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 191 (38.90%) Azure
2 124 (25.25%) AWS
3 71 (14.46%) GCP
4 48 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (8.76%) Power Platform
6 38 (7.74%) GitHub
7 37 (7.54%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (5.91%) Snowflake
9 28 (5.70%) Entra ID
10 27 (5.50%) Serverless
11 25 (5.09%) SaaS
12 18 (3.67%) GitHub Actions
13 17 (3.46%) Azure AKS
14 15 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
15 14 (2.85%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.65%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.65%) Azure Service Bus
17 11 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
18 10 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.70%) Firewall
2 21 (4.28%) VPN
3 17 (3.46%) TCP/IP
4 15 (3.05%) DNS
5 14 (2.85%) Network Security
5 14 (2.85%) WAN
6 10 (2.04%) LAN
7 8 (1.63%) BGP
7 8 (1.63%) Wireless
8 7 (1.43%) VLAN
8 7 (1.43%) Wi-Fi
9 6 (1.22%) DHCP
9 6 (1.22%) DMZ
10 5 (1.02%) 3GPP
10 5 (1.02%) OSPF
10 5 (1.02%) RTP
10 5 (1.02%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (7.33%) Power BI
2 29 (5.91%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.30%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.89%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.28%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (3.26%) NoSQL
7 15 (3.05%) Big Data
7 15 (3.05%) Metadata
8 12 (2.44%) MongoDB
9 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
9 11 (2.24%) MySQL
10 10 (2.04%) Data Mining
11 9 (1.83%) Tableau
12 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.43%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.22%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.02%) Flink
15 5 (1.02%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (11.61%) Git
2 34 (6.92%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.91%) GitLab
4 26 (5.30%) JIRA
5 11 (2.24%) Gradle
5 11 (2.24%) JUnit
5 11 (2.24%) Selenium
6 8 (1.63%) SpecFlow
6 8 (1.63%) TeamCity
7 7 (1.43%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.43%) Maven
8 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.22%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.22%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.02%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.02%) Flyway
10 4 (0.81%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.81%) Mockito
10 4 (0.81%) Postman
10 4 (0.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 254 (51.73%) Social Skills
2 135 (27.49%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (24.85%) Finance
4 56 (11.41%) Banking
5 22 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.28%) Front Office
7 17 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 17 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (2.85%) Marketing
9 13 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 12 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.24%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.24%) Legal
12 8 (1.63%) Financial Institution
12 8 (1.63%) Law
12 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
13 7 (1.43%) Aviation
13 7 (1.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 78 (15.89%) Architect
1 78 (15.89%) Developer
2 56 (11.41%) Senior
3 44 (8.96%) Lead
4 31 (6.31%) Analyst
5 22 (4.48%) IT Support
6 21 (4.28%) Software Engineer
6 21 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
7 18 (3.67%) Java Developer
8 17 (3.46%) Data Engineer
8 17 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
8 17 (3.46%) IT Analyst
8 17 (3.46%) Senior Developer
9 16 (3.26%) Support Analyst
10 15 (3.05%) C# Developer
10 15 (3.05%) Technical Architect
10 15 (3.05%) Technical Support
11 14 (2.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (2.65%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (2.24%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (11.41%) REST
2 39 (7.94%) React
3 37 (7.54%) .NET
4 30 (6.11%) RESTful
5 27 (5.50%) Spring
6 24 (4.89%) Spring Boot
7 22 (4.48%) Kafka
8 20 (4.07%) Middleware
9 17 (3.46%) OAuth
10 16 (3.26%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.26%) CSS
10 16 (3.26%) PyTorch
11 13 (2.65%) HTML
11 13 (2.65%) SOAP
12 12 (2.44%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.44%) JSON
12 12 (2.44%) SAML
13 11 (2.24%) OAuth2
14 10 (2.04%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.04%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.59%) Cloud Native
2 46 (9.37%) Management Information System
3 43 (8.76%) Onboarding
4 34 (6.92%) Product Ownership
5 25 (5.09%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (4.89%) Algorithms
7 20 (4.07%) AI Agents
7 20 (4.07%) Data Structures
8 15 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (2.65%) Derivative
11 12 (2.44%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (2.24%) Hybrid Cloud
12 11 (2.24%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.24%) Virtual Team
13 10 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (2.04%) Mobile App
13 10 (2.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 76 (15.48%) Windows
2 44 (8.96%) Linux
3 16 (3.26%) Android
4 12 (2.44%) Unix
5 10 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.04%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.63%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.43%) Mac OS
7 7 (1.43%) Ubuntu
8 6 (1.22%) Windows Server
9 4 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.61%) Debian
10 3 (0.61%) Rocky
11 2 (0.41%) MVS
11 2 (0.41%) zOS
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 486 (98.98%) Computer Science
2 189 (38.49%) Problem-Solving
3 147 (29.94%) CI/CD
4 144 (29.33%) AI
5 141 (28.72%) Agile
6 123 (25.05%) DevOps
7 95 (19.35%) Software Engineering
8 89 (18.13%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (17.31%) Analytics
10 71 (14.46%) ITIL
11 67 (13.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 64 (13.03%) Microservices
13 60 (12.22%) Containerisation
14 58 (11.81%) Technical Leadership
15 56 (11.41%) Machine Learning
16 55 (11.20%) Migration
17 53 (10.79%) Test Automation
18 52 (10.59%) Scrum
19 51 (10.39%) Data Governance
20 50 (10.18%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 152 (30.96%) Python
2 116 (23.63%) SQL
3 84 (17.11%) Java
4 49 (9.98%) JavaScript
5 41 (8.35%) C#
6 30 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 29 (5.91%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.67%) Bash
9 8 (1.63%) C++
9 8 (1.63%) Kotlin
10 6 (1.22%) Bicep
10 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 6 (1.22%) Go
10 6 (1.22%) Perl
10 6 (1.22%) Shell Script
11 4 (0.81%) R
11 4 (0.81%) Ruby
11 4 (0.81%) Scala
12 3 (0.61%) X++
13 2 (0.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 491 (100.00%) Degree
2 81 (16.50%) Master's Degree
3 64 (13.03%) Security Cleared
4 53 (10.79%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.72%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.89%) CISSP
7 22 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (4.28%) AWS Certification
9 17 (3.46%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (3.05%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (2.24%) CISM
11 11 (2.24%) PhD
12 9 (1.83%) DV Cleared
12 9 (1.83%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.83%) PMP
13 8 (1.63%) CCNP
13 8 (1.63%) MBA
14 7 (1.43%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.43%) CCNA
15 6 (1.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.13%) QA
2 29 (5.91%) Data Quality
3 16 (3.26%) NIST
4 15 (3.05%) GDPR
5 10 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.43%) SLA
7 5 (1.02%) PCI DSS
8 4 (0.81%) GRC
8 4 (0.81%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.61%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 2 (0.41%) DICOM
10 2 (0.41%) EU AI Act
10 2 (0.41%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 42001
10 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.41%) PSD2
System Software
1 60 (12.22%) Docker
2 34 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.81%) Firmware
4 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (0.61%) ACF2
5 3 (0.61%) RACF
6 2 (0.41%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.41%) Oracle RAC
6 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
7 1 (0.20%) HDFS
7 1 (0.20%) Squid
7 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 82 (16.70%) Kubernetes
2 44 (8.96%) Terraform
3 25 (5.09%) Ansible
4 22 (4.48%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (4.07%) Prometheus
6 19 (3.87%) Grafana
7 8 (1.63%) SCCM
8 4 (0.81%) Argo
9 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.61%) Foglight
9 3 (0.61%) WSUS
10 2 (0.41%) CASB
10 2 (0.41%) Consul
10 2 (0.41%) Data Guard
10 2 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.41%) Oracle RMAN
10 2 (0.41%) Puppet
10 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 120 (24.44%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.33%) Oracle
3 29 (5.91%) Databricks
4 28 (5.70%) Google
5 18 (3.67%) Splunk
6 16 (3.26%) SAP
6 16 (3.26%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.65%) Cisco
8 11 (2.24%) IBM
8 11 (2.24%) VMware
9 8 (1.63%) Dynatrace
9 8 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.43%) Apple
10 7 (1.43%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.43%) UiPath
11 6 (1.22%) Bomgar
11 6 (1.22%) Citrix
11 6 (1.22%) ForgeRock
11 6 (1.22%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.02%) Informatica