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

6 months to
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 141 121
Rank change year-on-year -92 -20 +129
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 511 571 803
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.06% 1.98% 1.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.34% 6.40% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 343 510
10th Percentile £189 £289 £300
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £677 £650 £643
90th Percentile £779 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.56% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 7 39
10th Percentile £25.53 £21.05 £25.40
25th Percentile £31.03 £38.13 £38.75
Median hourly rate £79.91 £57.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +38.97% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £178.75 £68.13 £70.00
90th Percentile - £74.43 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 £25.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +232.00% -55.56% -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 15,288 8,915 12,744
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.64% 30.94% 30.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,149 5,624 7,936
10th Percentile £350 £278 £306
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £645
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +0.90% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,091 502 1,058
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.33 £22.06 £17.80
Median hourly rate £48.05 £36.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.55% -9.38% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £79.87 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +35.71% -14.51% -18.12%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 -74 458 £500 -3.85% 361
UK excluding London -83 253 £488 +1.56% 269
London -65 215 £500 -9.09% 155
Work from Home -75 123 £425 -15.00% 162
South East -50 68 £363 -27.50% 105
North of England -56 68 £475 -13.79% 47
Midlands -76 48 £559 +21.73% 27
West Midlands -57 36 £671 +24.84% 15
Yorkshire -36 35 £525 - 18
North West -38 33 £374 -32.12% 22
South West -16 25 £500 +35.14% 30
East of England -21 20 £488 - 29
Scotland -12 16 £610 +25.13% 17
East Midlands -32 11 £545 +21.92% 12
Wales -28 6 £358 +24.35% 5
Northern Ireland +3 4 - - 16

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 25 (4.89%) Confluence
2 20 (3.91%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 16 (3.13%) Apache
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.59%) SAS
9 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
9 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
10 1 (0.20%) Camunda
10 1 (0.20%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.37%) MS Visio
2 7 (1.37%) Navisworks
2 7 (1.37%) Revit
3 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.39%) Trello
5 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Aladdin
1 5 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.59%) 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 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 187 (36.59%) Azure
2 126 (24.66%) AWS
3 58 (11.35%) GCP
4 44 (8.61%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.65%) GitHub
6 33 (6.46%) Power Platform
7 30 (5.87%) SaaS
8 26 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.33%) IaaS
11 16 (3.13%) Azure AKS
11 16 (3.13%) Serverless
11 16 (3.13%) Snowflake
12 14 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.54%) Azure Service Bus
13 13 (2.54%) Entra ID
13 13 (2.54%) PaaS
14 11 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
15 9 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.87%) TCP/IP
2 21 (4.11%) DNS
3 20 (3.91%) Firewall
4 13 (2.54%) WAN
5 11 (2.15%) Network Security
5 11 (2.15%) VPN
6 10 (1.96%) LAN
7 9 (1.76%) BGP
8 7 (1.37%) DMZ
9 6 (1.17%) OSPF
9 6 (1.17%) Wireless
10 5 (0.98%) SAN
11 4 (0.78%) HTTPS
11 4 (0.78%) RTP
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
11 4 (0.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.87%) Relational Database
2 28 (5.48%) Power BI
3 27 (5.28%) SQL Server
4 26 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.11%) Big Data
5 21 (4.11%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.72%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.33%) MySQL
8 14 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
8 14 (2.74%) Metadata
9 11 (2.15%) Tableau
10 10 (1.96%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
12 8 (1.57%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
13 7 (1.37%) Redis
14 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
14 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
15 5 (0.98%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 53 (10.37%) Git
2 38 (7.44%) JIRA
3 30 (5.87%) GitLab
4 27 (5.28%) Jenkins
5 11 (2.15%) Gradle
6 10 (1.96%) Selenium
7 8 (1.57%) JUnit
8 7 (1.37%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.37%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.37%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.17%) Postman
9 6 (1.17%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.98%) Flyway
10 5 (0.98%) Maven
11 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.78%) MLflow
12 3 (0.59%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.59%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.59%) Liquibase
General
1 249 (48.73%) Social Skills
2 129 (25.24%) Finance
3 124 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.52%) Banking
5 25 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.91%) Front Office
7 18 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 17 (3.33%) Legal
9 16 (3.13%) Marketing
9 16 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (1.57%) Law
11 8 (1.57%) Retail
12 6 (1.17%) Aviation
12 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.78%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 80 (15.66%) Architect
2 64 (12.52%) Developer
3 57 (11.15%) Lead
4 50 (9.78%) Analyst
5 43 (8.41%) Senior
6 31 (6.07%) Technical Support
7 29 (5.68%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (4.31%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.52%) Integration Architect
10 17 (3.33%) IT Analyst
11 16 (3.13%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.13%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.13%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (2.94%) Site Reliability Engineer
12 15 (2.94%) Technical Support Specialist
13 14 (2.74%) IT Support
13 14 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
14 13 (2.54%) Consultant
14 13 (2.54%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.54%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.55%) REST
2 36 (7.05%) React
3 34 (6.65%) .NET
4 31 (6.07%) RESTful
5 30 (5.87%) Middleware
6 24 (4.70%) Spring
7 21 (4.11%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.72%) SOAP
8 19 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 16 (3.13%) OAuth
9 16 (3.13%) XML
10 15 (2.94%) PyTorch
11 14 (2.74%) CSS
11 14 (2.74%) JSON
12 13 (2.54%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.54%) HTML
12 13 (2.54%) Kafka
13 12 (2.35%) Node.js
13 12 (2.35%) Swagger
14 11 (2.15%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.15%) Management Information System
2 46 (9.00%) Onboarding
3 43 (8.41%) Cloud Native
4 32 (6.26%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (3.33%) Cyberattack
6 17 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
6 17 (3.33%) Virtual Team
7 16 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (2.74%) AI Agents
8 14 (2.74%) Derivative
9 13 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (2.35%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
11 11 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 10 (1.96%) Security Posture
13 9 (1.76%) Mobile App
13 9 (1.76%) Robotics
14 8 (1.57%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 92 (18.00%) Windows
2 78 (15.26%) Linux
3 31 (6.07%) Unix
4 17 (3.33%) Android
5 13 (2.54%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.96%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (1.57%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.78%) Debian
9 4 (0.78%) Rocky
9 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
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
1 503 (98.43%) Computer Science
2 194 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (28.96%) Agile
4 147 (28.77%) CI/CD
5 140 (27.40%) DevOps
6 127 (24.85%) AI
7 96 (18.79%) Software Engineering
8 81 (15.85%) Microservices
9 71 (13.89%) Containerisation
10 68 (13.31%) Analytics
10 68 (13.31%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (12.72%) Technical Leadership
12 61 (11.94%) Data Modelling
13 59 (11.55%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (11.35%) Infrastructure as Code
15 57 (11.15%) Migration
16 54 (10.57%) ITIL
17 53 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
18 51 (9.98%) Incident Response
19 50 (9.78%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 160 (31.31%) Python
2 114 (22.31%) SQL
3 88 (17.22%) Java
4 50 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 32 (6.26%) C#
6 24 (4.70%) Bash
6 24 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.74%) Go
8 14 (2.74%) Perl
9 12 (2.35%) C++
10 10 (1.96%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.96%) Shell Script
11 7 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.17%) R
12 6 (1.17%) Scala
13 3 (0.59%) Bicep
13 3 (0.59%) PHP
13 3 (0.59%) Rust
14 2 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 511 (100.00%) Degree
2 91 (17.81%) Master's Degree
3 74 (14.48%) Security Cleared
4 54 (10.57%) SC Cleared
5 25 (4.89%) CISSP
6 23 (4.50%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
7 19 (3.72%) DV Cleared
7 19 (3.72%) TOGAF Certification
8 18 (3.52%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.52%) CISM
9 17 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
10 13 (2.54%) BPSS Clearance
11 11 (2.15%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (1.96%) PMP
13 9 (1.76%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.76%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (8.22%) QA
2 21 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.11%) GDPR
3 16 (3.13%) NIST
4 13 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.37%) PSD2
7 5 (0.98%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.78%) GRC
8 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.78%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.59%) DICOM
9 3 (0.59%) GAAP
9 3 (0.59%) IFRS
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 3 (0.59%) WCAG
10 2 (0.39%) SLA
System Software
1 81 (15.85%) Docker
2 35 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.57%) 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%) 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 97 (18.98%) Kubernetes
2 55 (10.76%) Terraform
3 41 (8.02%) Ansible
4 22 (4.31%) Grafana
4 22 (4.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.91%) Prometheus
6 11 (2.15%) Puppet
7 10 (1.96%) Kibana
8 4 (0.78%) SCCM
9 3 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.59%) Control-M
9 3 (0.59%) Foglight
9 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.59%) WSUS
10 2 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.39%) logstash
10 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.20%) linkerd
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 121 (23.68%) Microsoft
2 42 (8.22%) Splunk
3 40 (7.83%) Oracle
4 23 (4.50%) Databricks
4 23 (4.50%) Google
5 15 (2.94%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 11 (2.15%) Cisco
7 11 (2.15%) SAP
7 11 (2.15%) Software AG
8 9 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.57%) IBM
9 8 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.37%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.37%) Informatica
11 6 (1.17%) Apple
11 6 (1.17%) Citrix
12 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.98%) Reuters
12 5 (0.98%) Veritas
419 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide