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

6 months to
7 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 138 113
Rank change year-on-year -106 -25 +116
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 515 582 838
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.99% 1.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.30% 6.43% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 344 529
10th Percentile £189 £289 £311
25th Percentile £366 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £677 £650 £645
90th Percentile £775 £771 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £503 £476 £525
% change year-on-year +5.51% -9.29% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 38
10th Percentile £27.83 £23.03 £25.10
25th Percentile £32.34 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £73.46 £30.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.85% -44.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £178.75 £67.50 £74.69
90th Percentile - £71.59 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 £30.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +176.67% -46.67% -6.64%

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 15,589 9,058 12,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.49% 30.99% 29.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,347 5,649 8,054
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
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 £621 £619 £643
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.00% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,140 550 1,109
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.60 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.27 £18.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% -20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £72.54 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.25 £76.34 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.80 £31.64 £40.94
% change year-on-year +51.06% -22.72% -22.02%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -78 462 £503 -3.46% 541
UK excluding London -88 258 £503 +5.51% 315
London -76 216 £505 -9.21% 284
Work from Home -93 119 £425 -15.00% 218
North of England -54 76 £500 -8.00% 57
South East -46 65 £400 -18.37% 118
Midlands -68 45 £638 +38.89% 32
Yorkshire -34 38 £525 +5.00% 13
North West -39 38 £368 -33.30% 34
West Midlands -63 34 £671 +16.70% 20
South West -16 27 £500 +35.14% 32
East of England -19 20 £488 - 33
Scotland -18 17 £620 +27.18% 28
East Midlands -40 10 £545 +21.92% 12
Wales -30 6 £450 +55.17% 6
Northern Ireland +8 4 - - 19

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 28 (5.44%) Confluence
2 21 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.50%) Apache
3 18 (3.50%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.97%) SAS
7 4 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.58%) Camunda
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.19%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (3.69%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.36%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.36%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.36%) Revit
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Trello
6 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.58%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Workfront
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 196 (38.06%) Azure
2 131 (25.44%) AWS
3 64 (12.43%) GCP
4 45 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 35 (6.80%) GitHub
5 35 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 28 (5.44%) SaaS
7 27 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 19 (3.69%) Serverless
9 17 (3.30%) Snowflake
10 16 (3.11%) IaaS
11 15 (2.91%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.91%) Azure AKS
11 15 (2.91%) GitHub Actions
12 14 (2.72%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.52%) PaaS
14 12 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.33%) Azure Service Bus
14 12 (2.33%) PowerApps
15 11 (2.14%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.83%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.88%) DNS
3 19 (3.69%) Firewall
4 13 (2.52%) WAN
5 12 (2.33%) Network Security
5 12 (2.33%) VPN
6 10 (1.94%) LAN
7 9 (1.75%) BGP
8 7 (1.36%) DMZ
8 7 (1.36%) Wireless
9 6 (1.17%) OSPF
10 5 (0.97%) 3GPP
10 5 (0.97%) RTP
10 5 (0.97%) SAN
10 5 (0.97%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.78%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.78%) VLAN
11 4 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.83%) Relational Database
2 29 (5.63%) Power BI
3 27 (5.24%) SQL Server
4 26 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.69%) Big Data
6 19 (3.69%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.11%) MySQL
8 14 (2.72%) Metadata
9 12 (2.33%) Elasticsearch
10 11 (2.14%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.75%) Snowflake Schema
11 9 (1.75%) Tableau
12 8 (1.55%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.55%) Redis
13 7 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.36%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.97%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 52 (10.10%) Git
2 37 (7.18%) JIRA
3 33 (6.41%) GitLab
4 30 (5.83%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.33%) Gradle
5 12 (2.33%) Selenium
6 9 (1.75%) JUnit
7 8 (1.55%) Cypress.io
7 8 (1.55%) TeamCity
8 7 (1.36%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.36%) Postman
8 7 (1.36%) SonarQube
9 6 (1.17%) Maven
10 5 (0.97%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.97%) Flyway
10 5 (0.97%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.58%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.58%) Mockito
General
1 255 (49.51%) Social Skills
2 134 (26.02%) Finance
3 127 (24.66%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (12.62%) Banking
5 29 (5.63%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.66%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.08%) Front Office
8 18 (3.50%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.30%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.30%) Legal
9 17 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.91%) Marketing
11 12 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
12 11 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 10 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.94%) Law
14 9 (1.75%) Retail
15 7 (1.36%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.36%) Aviation
15 7 (1.36%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (16.12%) Architect
2 65 (12.62%) Developer
3 61 (11.84%) Lead
4 51 (9.90%) Analyst
5 45 (8.74%) Senior
6 29 (5.63%) Technical Support
7 26 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (4.85%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.50%) IT Analyst
10 16 (3.11%) Data Engineer
10 16 (3.11%) Integration Architect
10 16 (3.11%) Support Specialist
10 16 (3.11%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (2.91%) Technical Architect
11 15 (2.91%) Technical Support Specialist
12 14 (2.72%) IT Support
12 14 (2.72%) SOC Analyst
13 13 (2.52%) Support Analyst
14 12 (2.33%) Consultant
14 12 (2.33%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 62 (12.04%) REST
2 38 (7.38%) React
3 33 (6.41%) .NET
4 30 (5.83%) RESTful
5 27 (5.24%) Middleware
6 23 (4.47%) Spring
7 19 (3.69%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (3.69%) Spring Boot
8 18 (3.50%) SOAP
9 16 (3.11%) Kafka
9 16 (3.11%) OAuth
10 15 (2.91%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.72%) CSS
11 14 (2.72%) JSON
11 14 (2.72%) PyTorch
12 13 (2.52%) HTML
12 13 (2.52%) Node.js
12 13 (2.52%) XML
13 11 (2.14%) Swagger
14 10 (1.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.49%) Management Information System
2 47 (9.13%) Cloud Native
3 45 (8.74%) Onboarding
4 32 (6.21%) Product Ownership
5 22 (4.27%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.50%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.30%) Cyberattack
7 17 (3.30%) Derivative
7 17 (3.30%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (3.11%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.91%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
10 14 (2.72%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (2.52%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
12 11 (2.14%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.14%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.94%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.94%) Robotics
14 9 (1.75%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 92 (17.86%) Windows
2 72 (13.98%) Linux
3 26 (5.05%) Unix
4 18 (3.50%) Android
5 13 (2.52%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.94%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.75%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.78%) Debian
8 4 (0.78%) Rocky
8 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.58%) VMS
10 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.19%) MVS
10 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 508 (98.64%) Computer Science
2 197 (38.25%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (29.13%) Agile
4 145 (28.16%) CI/CD
5 138 (26.80%) DevOps
6 134 (26.02%) AI
7 101 (19.61%) Software Engineering
8 84 (16.31%) Microservices
9 76 (14.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 75 (14.56%) Analytics
11 71 (13.79%) Containerisation
12 69 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
13 61 (11.84%) Cybersecurity
14 60 (11.65%) Migration
15 59 (11.46%) Stakeholder Management
16 56 (10.87%) ITIL
17 55 (10.68%) Infrastructure as Code
18 54 (10.49%) Data Modelling
19 52 (10.10%) Data Governance
20 50 (9.71%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 162 (31.46%) Python
2 115 (22.33%) SQL
3 89 (17.28%) Java
4 54 (10.49%) JavaScript
5 34 (6.60%) C#
6 25 (4.85%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.27%) Bash
8 21 (4.08%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.72%) Go
10 12 (2.33%) C++
10 12 (2.33%) Perl
11 10 (1.94%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.94%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.17%) Scala
13 4 (0.78%) R
14 3 (0.58%) PHP
14 3 (0.58%) Rust
15 2 (0.39%) Ada
15 2 (0.39%) C
Qualifications
1 515 (100.00%) Degree
2 93 (18.06%) Master's Degree
3 77 (14.95%) Security Cleared
4 57 (11.07%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.05%) CISSP
6 23 (4.47%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (4.08%) AWS Certification
9 20 (3.88%) DV Cleared
10 19 (3.69%) CISM
10 19 (3.69%) CompTIA Security+
10 19 (3.69%) TOGAF Certification
11 18 (3.50%) Cisco Certification
12 17 (3.30%) CompTIA CySA+
13 10 (1.94%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.94%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (1.94%) PMI Certification
14 9 (1.75%) A+ Certification
14 9 (1.75%) CCNP
14 9 (1.75%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.57%) QA
2 21 (4.08%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.08%) GDPR
3 16 (3.11%) NIST
4 13 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.52%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.75%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.36%) PSD2
7 5 (0.97%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.78%) GRC
8 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.78%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.58%) DICOM
9 3 (0.58%) GAAP
9 3 (0.58%) IFRS
9 3 (0.58%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 78 (15.15%) Docker
2 35 (6.80%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.55%) Firmware
4 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) ACF2
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.19%) RACF
6 1 (0.19%) Squid
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 96 (18.64%) Kubernetes
2 52 (10.10%) Terraform
3 36 (6.99%) Ansible
4 23 (4.47%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.27%) Grafana
6 8 (1.55%) Puppet
7 7 (1.36%) Kibana
8 4 (0.78%) SCCM
9 3 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.58%) Control-M
9 3 (0.58%) Foglight
9 3 (0.58%) WSUS
10 2 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.19%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.19%) linkerd
11 1 (0.19%) logstash
11 1 (0.19%) Progress Chef
11 1 (0.19%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (23.69%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.77%) Oracle
3 37 (7.18%) Splunk
4 28 (5.44%) Databricks
5 25 (4.85%) Google
6 15 (2.91%) SAP
7 14 (2.72%) ServiceNow
8 12 (2.33%) Salesforce
9 11 (2.14%) Cisco
10 9 (1.75%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.75%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.75%) Software AG
11 8 (1.55%) IBM
12 7 (1.36%) Autodesk
12 7 (1.36%) Informatica
13 6 (1.17%) Apple
13 6 (1.17%) Citrix
14 5 (0.97%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.97%) Reuters
14 5 (0.97%) Veritas
640 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide