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

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 270 145 112
Rank change year-on-year -125 -33 +94
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 481 646 829
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.98% 2.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.92% 6.43% 6.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 394 522
10th Percentile £186 £302 £313
25th Percentile £360 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £779 £775 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £474 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.75% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 28
10th Percentile £17.25 £26.20 £23.00
25th Percentile £26.81 £29.00 £40.63
Median hourly rate £41.38 £30.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -46.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £86.12 £65.31 £71.44
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.70 £81.13
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.63 £30.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +38.75% -53.13% -1.92%

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 16,493 10,054 12,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.27% 30.81% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,021 6,237 7,796
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,192 742 985
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.93 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -121 425 £500 - 468
UK excluding London -134 224 £498 +5.00% 242
London -102 215 £505 -12.17% 288
Work from Home -107 121 £488 +2.63% 181
North of England -80 66 £514 +8.21% 28
South East -63 61 £400 -18.37% 88
Midlands -79 39 £650 +43.01% 39
Yorkshire -37 36 £525 +30.35% 8
North West -58 30 £381 -21.30% 17
West Midlands -65 25 £671 +16.74% 17
East of England -22 20 £488 +11.43% 27
South West -36 18 £518 +39.86% 22
East Midlands -28 13 £287 -35.68% 22
Scotland -35 13 £419 -6.89% 18
Wales -26 6 £530 +15.09% 5
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 22

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 (4.78%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.95%) Confluence
3 18 (3.74%) Apache
4 14 (2.91%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.04%) SAS
7 4 (0.83%) Camunda
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.21%) CMS
8 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (4.16%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.46%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.46%) Revit
4 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.42%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.42%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (0.62%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.42%) Workfront
5 1 (0.21%) Maximo
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 189 (39.29%) Azure
2 121 (25.16%) AWS
3 66 (13.72%) GCP
4 45 (9.36%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (8.52%) Power Platform
6 35 (7.28%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (7.07%) GitHub
8 26 (5.41%) Serverless
8 26 (5.41%) Snowflake
9 25 (5.20%) Entra ID
10 24 (4.99%) SaaS
11 18 (3.74%) GitHub Actions
12 17 (3.53%) Azure AKS
13 16 (3.33%) PowerApps
14 15 (3.12%) Power Automate
15 14 (2.91%) Azure Cosmos DB
16 13 (2.70%) Azure Service Bus
17 12 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
18 11 (2.29%) Azure Data Factory
19 10 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.78%) Firewall
2 18 (3.74%) TCP/IP
2 18 (3.74%) VPN
3 13 (2.70%) Network Security
4 12 (2.49%) DNS
4 12 (2.49%) WAN
5 9 (1.87%) LAN
6 8 (1.66%) BGP
7 6 (1.25%) DMZ
7 6 (1.25%) VLAN
7 6 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.25%) Wireless
8 5 (1.04%) 3GPP
8 5 (1.04%) OSPF
8 5 (1.04%) RTP
8 5 (1.04%) SAN
8 5 (1.04%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.83%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (7.07%) Power BI
2 30 (6.24%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.41%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.78%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (4.16%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.53%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.33%) Big Data
8 15 (3.12%) Metadata
9 13 (2.70%) MongoDB
10 12 (2.49%) MySQL
11 11 (2.29%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.87%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.66%) Snowflake Schema
13 8 (1.66%) Tableau
14 7 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
14 7 (1.46%) Star Schema
15 6 (1.25%) Data Lake
16 5 (1.04%) Flink
16 5 (1.04%) Redis
Development Applications
1 57 (11.85%) Git
2 33 (6.86%) Jenkins
3 29 (6.03%) GitLab
4 26 (5.41%) JIRA
5 11 (2.29%) Gradle
5 11 (2.29%) JUnit
5 11 (2.29%) Selenium
6 8 (1.66%) SpecFlow
7 7 (1.46%) Maven
7 7 (1.46%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.25%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.25%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.25%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.04%) Bitbucket
9 5 (1.04%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.04%) Flyway
9 5 (1.04%) Postman
10 4 (0.83%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.83%) Mockito
10 4 (0.83%) Vite
General
1 240 (49.90%) Social Skills
2 130 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 122 (25.36%) Finance
4 58 (12.06%) Banking
5 24 (4.99%) Public Sector
6 19 (3.95%) Front Office
7 18 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.91%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.70%) Marketing
11 13 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
11 13 (2.70%) Presentation Skills
12 11 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 11 (2.29%) Legal
13 8 (1.66%) Law
13 8 (1.66%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.46%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.46%) Aviation
14 7 (1.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 80 (16.63%) Architect
2 74 (15.38%) Developer
3 52 (10.81%) Senior
4 43 (8.94%) Lead
5 33 (6.86%) Analyst
6 23 (4.78%) Solutions Architect
7 22 (4.57%) Software Engineer
8 21 (4.37%) IT Support
9 19 (3.95%) Data Engineer
10 18 (3.74%) IT Analyst
11 17 (3.53%) Technical Support
12 16 (3.33%) Full-Stack Developer
12 16 (3.33%) Support Analyst
13 15 (3.12%) Java Developer
13 15 (3.12%) Senior Developer
13 15 (3.12%) Technical Architect
14 14 (2.91%) C# Developer
14 14 (2.91%) IT Support Analyst
15 13 (2.70%) Consultant
16 12 (2.49%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (12.06%) REST
2 38 (7.90%) .NET
3 37 (7.69%) React
4 31 (6.44%) RESTful
5 27 (5.61%) Spring
6 24 (4.99%) Spring Boot
7 21 (4.37%) Middleware
8 19 (3.95%) Kafka
9 16 (3.33%) CSS
10 15 (3.12%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.12%) OAuth
10 15 (3.12%) PyTorch
11 13 (2.70%) HTML
11 13 (2.70%) SOAP
12 12 (2.49%) JSON
13 11 (2.29%) .NET Core
14 10 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
14 10 (2.08%) GraphQL
14 10 (2.08%) PySpark
14 10 (2.08%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 51 (10.60%) Cloud Native
3 43 (8.94%) Onboarding
4 33 (6.86%) Product Ownership
5 23 (4.78%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.37%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.53%) AI Agents
8 16 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (3.12%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.91%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (2.70%) Derivative
11 13 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.49%) Fixed Income
12 12 (2.49%) Virtual Team
13 11 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
13 11 (2.29%) Security Posture
14 10 (2.08%) Mobile App
14 10 (2.08%) Robotics
15 9 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
15 9 (1.87%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 79 (16.42%) Windows
2 48 (9.98%) Linux
3 16 (3.33%) Android
4 12 (2.49%) Unix
5 10 (2.08%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.66%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.46%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.46%) Ubuntu
9 6 (1.25%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.83%) VMS
11 3 (0.62%) Debian
11 3 (0.62%) Rocky
12 2 (0.42%) MVS
12 2 (0.42%) zOS
13 1 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 476 (98.96%) Computer Science
2 182 (37.84%) Problem-Solving
3 142 (29.52%) Agile
4 140 (29.11%) AI
5 138 (28.69%) CI/CD
6 122 (25.36%) DevOps
7 95 (19.75%) Software Engineering
8 87 (18.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (17.05%) Analytics
10 68 (14.14%) ITIL
10 68 (14.14%) Microservices
11 60 (12.47%) Containerisation
11 60 (12.47%) Stakeholder Management
12 58 (12.06%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (11.43%) Machine Learning
14 54 (11.23%) Test Automation
15 51 (10.60%) Cybersecurity
15 51 (10.60%) Migration
15 51 (10.60%) Scrum
16 50 (10.40%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 148 (30.77%) Python
2 111 (23.08%) SQL
3 84 (17.46%) Java
4 49 (10.19%) JavaScript
5 40 (8.32%) C#
6 27 (5.61%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.57%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.74%) Bash
9 9 (1.87%) C++
9 9 (1.87%) Shell Script
10 8 (1.66%) Go
10 8 (1.66%) Kotlin
11 7 (1.46%) Perl
12 6 (1.25%) Bicep
12 6 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.83%) R
13 4 (0.83%) Scala
14 3 (0.62%) COBOL
14 3 (0.62%) X++
15 2 (0.42%) JCL
Qualifications
1 481 (100.00%) Degree
2 88 (18.30%) Master's Degree
3 65 (13.51%) Security Cleared
4 53 (11.02%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.86%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.78%) CISSP
7 22 (4.57%) AWS Certification
7 22 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
9 12 (2.49%) CISM
10 10 (2.08%) DV Cleared
10 10 (2.08%) PhD
11 9 (1.87%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.87%) PMP
12 8 (1.66%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (1.66%) MBA
13 7 (1.46%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.46%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.46%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.28%) QA
2 24 (4.99%) Data Quality
3 15 (3.12%) NIST
4 14 (2.91%) GDPR
5 10 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (1.46%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.25%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.25%) SLA
8 4 (0.83%) GRC
8 4 (0.83%) ISO 19650
8 4 (0.83%) ISO 20022
9 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.62%) DICOM
9 3 (0.62%) PSD2
9 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.42%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.42%) NCSC
10 2 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 63 (13.10%) Docker
2 34 (7.07%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.83%) Firmware
4 3 (0.62%) ACF2
4 3 (0.62%) RACF
4 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.21%) HDFS
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 80 (16.63%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.73%) Terraform
3 24 (4.99%) Ansible
4 21 (4.37%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.16%) Grafana
6 19 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.04%) SCCM
8 3 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.62%) Foglight
8 3 (0.62%) WSUS
9 2 (0.42%) CASB
9 2 (0.42%) Consul
9 2 (0.42%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.42%) Puppet
9 2 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.42%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.21%) Argo
10 1 (0.21%) Istio
10 1 (0.21%) linkerd
10 1 (0.21%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (25.36%) Microsoft
2 35 (7.28%) Oracle
3 29 (6.03%) Databricks
3 29 (6.03%) Google
4 19 (3.95%) Splunk
5 16 (3.33%) SAP
5 16 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.49%) Cisco
6 12 (2.49%) IBM
7 10 (2.08%) VMware
8 8 (1.66%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.46%) Apple
9 7 (1.46%) Autodesk
9 7 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 7 (1.46%) UiPath
10 6 (1.25%) Bomgar
11 5 (1.04%) Citrix
11 5 (1.04%) Informatica
11 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
11 5 (1.04%) Red Hat