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 24 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 144 115
Rank change year-on-year -100 -29 +108
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 492 592 845
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.97% 1.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.09% 6.36% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 353 528
10th Percentile £178 £291 £312
25th Percentile £360 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £685 £650 £650
90th Percentile £788 £760 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 12 39
10th Percentile £25.85 £25.40 £25.40
25th Percentile £28.50 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -45.45% -
75th Percentile £132.96 £60.94 £74.38
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.63 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.96 £30.00 £59.38
% change year-on-year +169.85% -49.47% -1.45%

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 15,927 9,305 12,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.29% 30.98% 29.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,652 5,773 7,988
10th Percentile £350 £275 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £531
% change year-on-year +1.20% -5.84% +0.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,169 617 1,124
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.24 £19.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £29.25 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +70.94% -27.46% -26.85%
75th Percentile £72.54 £62.24 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.62 £75.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.85 £42.50
% change year-on-year +79.53% -34.47% -20.80%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -97 441 £505 -1.94% 208
UK excluding London -104 239 £500 +5.26% 167
London -81 217 £505 -8.18% 86
Work from Home -99 115 £429 -14.20% 107
North of England -59 75 £500 -4.76% 29
South East -53 62 £400 -18.37% 65
Yorkshire -29 40 £525 +5.00% 7
Midlands -75 38 £656 +42.92% 23
North West -47 35 £366 -31.07% 16
West Midlands -64 29 £671 +16.74% 9
East of England -26 21 £491 - 17
South West -28 19 £518 +39.86% 20
Scotland -31 15 £525 +5.00% 5
Wales -26 8 £530 +82.76% 2
East Midlands -33 8 £573 +27.65% 14
Northern Ireland +2 3 - - 14

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 (4.88%) Confluence
2 22 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.25%) Apache
4 15 (3.05%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.83%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.02%) SAS
7 3 (0.61%) Camunda
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.42%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.42%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.42%) Revit
4 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.41%) Workfront
4 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 192 (39.02%) Azure
2 126 (25.61%) AWS
3 65 (13.21%) GCP
4 47 (9.55%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (7.93%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.91%) Azure DevOps
7 33 (6.71%) GitHub
8 24 (4.88%) SaaS
9 23 (4.67%) Serverless
10 20 (4.07%) Snowflake
11 18 (3.66%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.46%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.25%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.05%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.85%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.64%) Azure AKS
17 12 (2.44%) IaaS
18 11 (2.24%) Amazon S3
18 11 (2.24%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.27%) TCP/IP
2 18 (3.66%) Firewall
3 14 (2.85%) Network Security
4 13 (2.64%) VPN
5 12 (2.44%) DNS
6 10 (2.03%) WAN
7 8 (1.63%) BGP
8 7 (1.42%) DMZ
8 7 (1.42%) LAN
9 5 (1.02%) 3GPP
9 5 (1.02%) OSPF
9 5 (1.02%) RTP
9 5 (1.02%) Wireless
9 5 (1.02%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.81%) VLAN
10 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.61%) IGMP
11 3 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (6.91%) Power BI
2 28 (5.69%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.86%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.46%) Metadata
8 16 (3.25%) Big Data
8 16 (3.25%) MySQL
9 13 (2.64%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.83%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.83%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.83%) Tableau
11 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.63%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.63%) Redis
12 7 (1.42%) Data Mining
12 7 (1.42%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 5 (1.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 56 (11.38%) Git
2 34 (6.91%) JIRA
3 32 (6.50%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.10%) GitLab
5 13 (2.64%) Selenium
6 11 (2.24%) Gradle
7 9 (1.83%) JUnit
8 8 (1.63%) Postman
9 7 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.42%) REST Assured
9 7 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.22%) CircleCI
10 6 (1.22%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.22%) Maven
11 5 (1.02%) Flyway
11 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.02%) Vite
12 4 (0.81%) Visual Studio
13 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
General
1 245 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 138 (28.05%) Finance
3 129 (26.22%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (12.20%) Banking
5 24 (4.88%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.67%) Front Office
7 22 (4.47%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.85%) Marketing
11 13 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.64%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.64%) Legal
12 12 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 11 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
14 9 (1.83%) Aerospace
14 9 (1.83%) Law
14 9 (1.83%) Retail
15 7 (1.42%) Aviation
15 7 (1.42%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 81 (16.46%) Architect
2 69 (14.02%) Developer
3 52 (10.57%) Lead
4 42 (8.54%) Analyst
4 42 (8.54%) Senior
5 28 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
6 26 (5.28%) Technical Support
7 24 (4.88%) Software Engineer
8 19 (3.86%) IT Analyst
9 18 (3.66%) IT Support
10 16 (3.25%) Data Engineer
10 16 (3.25%) Support Specialist
10 16 (3.25%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (3.05%) Integration Architect
11 15 (3.05%) Support Analyst
11 15 (3.05%) Technical Architect
11 15 (3.05%) Technical Support Specialist
12 13 (2.64%) IT Support Analyst
13 12 (2.44%) Consultant
13 12 (2.44%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.18%) REST
2 39 (7.93%) React
3 33 (6.71%) .NET
4 30 (6.10%) RESTful
5 29 (5.89%) Middleware
6 25 (5.08%) Spring
7 21 (4.27%) Spring Boot
8 20 (4.07%) OAuth
9 17 (3.46%) Kafka
9 17 (3.46%) SOAP
10 15 (3.05%) JSON
11 14 (2.85%) Elastic Stack
12 13 (2.64%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.64%) CSS
12 13 (2.64%) HTML
13 11 (2.24%) Node.js
13 11 (2.24%) PySpark
13 11 (2.24%) PyTorch
13 11 (2.24%) SAML
13 11 (2.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.59%) Management Information System
2 45 (9.15%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.15%) Onboarding
3 37 (7.52%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.88%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.86%) Derivative
6 18 (3.66%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.25%) Virtual Team
8 15 (3.05%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.85%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.85%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.44%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.44%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.44%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.24%) Equities
13 10 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (2.03%) Robotics
14 9 (1.83%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.67%) Windows
2 56 (11.38%) Linux
3 21 (4.27%) Unix
4 17 (3.46%) Android
5 12 (2.44%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.83%) Mac OS
6 9 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.81%) Debian
7 4 (0.81%) Rocky
7 4 (0.81%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.81%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.61%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) MVS
9 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (98.58%) Computer Science
2 192 (39.02%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (31.91%) Agile
4 140 (28.46%) CI/CD
5 137 (27.85%) AI
6 132 (26.83%) DevOps
7 92 (18.70%) Software Engineering
8 84 (17.07%) Continuous Improvement
9 79 (16.06%) Analytics
10 78 (15.85%) Microservices
11 69 (14.02%) Technical Leadership
12 66 (13.41%) ITIL
13 65 (13.21%) Containerisation
14 61 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
15 56 (11.38%) Migration
16 54 (10.98%) Cybersecurity
16 54 (10.98%) Data Governance
16 54 (10.98%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (9.76%) Scrum
18 47 (9.55%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 157 (31.91%) Python
2 113 (22.97%) SQL
3 82 (16.67%) Java
4 54 (10.98%) JavaScript
5 34 (6.91%) C#
6 22 (4.47%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.66%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.46%) Bash
9 13 (2.64%) Go
10 10 (2.03%) C++
10 10 (2.03%) Perl
10 10 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.83%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.42%) Scala
13 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.81%) Rust
15 3 (0.61%) Bicep
15 3 (0.61%) COBOL
15 3 (0.61%) R
16 2 (0.41%) RPG
Qualifications
1 492 (100.00%) Degree
2 88 (17.89%) Master's Degree
3 64 (13.01%) Security Cleared
4 53 (10.77%) SC Cleared
5 30 (6.10%) CISSP
6 23 (4.67%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (4.47%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.66%) CISM
9 17 (3.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (2.24%) DV Cleared
11 11 (2.24%) PMI Certification
12 10 (2.03%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.03%) PMP
13 9 (1.83%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
14 8 (1.63%) CompTIA CySA+
15 7 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.71%) QA
2 23 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.66%) GDPR
4 17 (3.46%) NIST
5 13 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.24%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.02%) GRC
8 5 (1.02%) PSD2
9 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.81%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.61%) DICOM
10 3 (0.61%) GAAP
10 3 (0.61%) IFRS
10 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.61%) SLA
10 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.41%) IFRS 9
System Software
1 72 (14.63%) Docker
2 37 (7.52%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) 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%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 87 (17.68%) Kubernetes
2 47 (9.55%) Terraform
3 30 (6.10%) Ansible
4 24 (4.88%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (4.47%) Grafana
7 5 (1.02%) Puppet
8 4 (0.81%) Kibana
8 4 (0.81%) SCCM
9 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.61%) Control-M
9 3 (0.61%) Foglight
9 3 (0.61%) WSUS
10 2 (0.41%) Consul
10 2 (0.41%) HP ALM
10 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.20%) Argo
11 1 (0.20%) CASB
11 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 119 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.72%) Oracle
3 28 (5.69%) Databricks
4 27 (5.49%) Google
5 24 (4.88%) Splunk
6 16 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.64%) SAP
8 10 (2.03%) IBM
9 9 (1.83%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.63%) Cisco
10 8 (1.63%) MuleSoft
10 8 (1.63%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.42%) Autodesk
11 7 (1.42%) Informatica
11 7 (1.42%) Software AG
12 6 (1.22%) Apple
12 6 (1.22%) Citrix
12 6 (1.22%) Okta
13 5 (1.02%) Ping Identity
13 5 (1.02%) Reuters