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

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 147 113
Rank change year-on-year -114 -34 +107
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 500 600 856
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.96% 1.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.12% 6.35% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 356 536
10th Percentile £178 £298 £313
25th Percentile £359 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £679 £650 £653
90th Percentile £788 £769 £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 24 13 39
10th Percentile £19.80 £25.80 £25.40
25th Percentile £27.94 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% -45.45% -
75th Percentile £110.06 £58.75 £74.38
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.50 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £79.91 £30.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +166.37% -52.00% -3.85%

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 16,028 9,450 12,874
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.23% 30.88% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,706 5,857 7,950
10th Percentile £350 £275 £312
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £521 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.77% -0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £528
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.30% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,161 635 1,116
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.78 £20.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £50.00 £28.15 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +77.62% -31.24% -26.00%
75th Percentile £72.54 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.13 £43.00
% change year-on-year +84.33% -36.92% -19.87%

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 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 30 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 30 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 -95 449 £500 -2.91% 281
UK excluding London -107 244 £500 +5.26% 182
London -94 221 £505 -8.18% 144
Work from Home -93 117 £430 -14.00% 116
North of England -58 76 £514 +0.29% 27
South East -60 63 £400 -18.37% 72
Yorkshire -28 41 £525 +5.00% 8
Midlands -80 41 £653 +40.43% 33
North West -47 35 £374 -28.76% 16
West Midlands -62 29 £671 +16.74% 16
East of England -27 21 £491 - 17
South West -27 19 £518 +39.86% 19
Scotland -30 15 £525 +5.00% 7
East Midlands -30 11 £505 +12.22% 17
Wales -25 8 £530 +50.89% 2
Northern Ireland +4 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 (4.80%) Confluence
2 22 (4.40%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.40%) Apache
4 16 (3.20%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.00%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.00%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.00%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
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
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.60%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.40%) Navisworks
4 7 (1.40%) Revit
5 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.80%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.80%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.40%) 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 General Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (39.40%) Azure
2 127 (25.40%) AWS
3 68 (13.60%) GCP
4 49 (9.80%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (8.00%) Power Platform
6 36 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
7 35 (7.00%) GitHub
8 26 (5.20%) Serverless
9 24 (4.80%) SaaS
10 22 (4.40%) Snowflake
11 20 (4.00%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.40%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.20%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.00%) Azure AKS
14 15 (3.00%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.80%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.60%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.60%) IaaS
17 12 (2.40%) Azure Data Factory
17 12 (2.40%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.40%) TCP/IP
2 21 (4.20%) Firewall
3 16 (3.20%) Network Security
3 16 (3.20%) VPN
4 14 (2.80%) DNS
5 11 (2.20%) WAN
6 8 (1.60%) BGP
6 8 (1.60%) LAN
7 7 (1.40%) DMZ
8 6 (1.20%) Wireless
9 5 (1.00%) 3GPP
9 5 (1.00%) OSPF
9 5 (1.00%) RTP
9 5 (1.00%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.80%) VLAN
10 4 (0.80%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.60%) Multicast
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.00%) Power BI
2 29 (5.80%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.20%) PostgreSQL
3 26 (5.20%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (4.40%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.40%) Big Data
6 17 (3.40%) Metadata
6 17 (3.40%) MySQL
7 15 (3.00%) MongoDB
8 9 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
8 9 (1.80%) Snowflake Schema
8 9 (1.80%) Tableau
9 8 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.60%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (1.60%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.40%) Data Lake
10 7 (1.40%) Data Mining
10 7 (1.40%) Redis
10 7 (1.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 57 (11.40%) Git
2 33 (6.60%) JIRA
3 32 (6.40%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.00%) GitLab
5 13 (2.60%) Selenium
6 10 (2.00%) Gradle
6 10 (2.00%) JUnit
7 8 (1.60%) Postman
8 7 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.40%) REST Assured
8 7 (1.40%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.20%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.20%) Maven
10 5 (1.00%) CircleCI
10 5 (1.00%) Flyway
10 5 (1.00%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.00%) Vite
11 3 (0.60%) MLflow
11 3 (0.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 248 (49.60%) Social Skills
2 136 (27.20%) Finance
3 131 (26.20%) Analytical Skills
4 59 (11.80%) Banking
5 26 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.60%) Front Office
7 20 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.80%) Marketing
11 13 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.60%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.40%) Legal
13 9 (1.80%) Law
13 9 (1.80%) Retail
14 8 (1.60%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.60%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 83 (16.60%) Architect
2 72 (14.40%) Developer
3 51 (10.20%) Lead
4 44 (8.80%) Senior
5 41 (8.20%) Analyst
6 27 (5.40%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (5.00%) Technical Support
8 23 (4.60%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.00%) IT Analyst
9 20 (4.00%) IT Support
10 19 (3.80%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.20%) Support Analyst
11 16 (3.20%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.20%) Technical Architect
11 16 (3.20%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (3.00%) Technical Support Specialist
13 14 (2.80%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (2.80%) Integration Architect
13 14 (2.80%) IT Support Analyst
13 14 (2.80%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (10.80%) REST
2 40 (8.00%) React
3 34 (6.80%) .NET
4 31 (6.20%) RESTful
5 28 (5.60%) Spring
6 27 (5.40%) Middleware
7 24 (4.80%) Spring Boot
8 18 (3.60%) OAuth
9 17 (3.40%) Kafka
10 15 (3.00%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.00%) CSS
10 15 (3.00%) HTML
10 15 (3.00%) SOAP
11 14 (2.80%) Elastic Stack
11 14 (2.80%) JSON
12 11 (2.20%) Node.js
12 11 (2.20%) PySpark
12 11 (2.20%) PyTorch
12 11 (2.20%) SAML
13 9 (1.80%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.40%) Management Information System
2 48 (9.60%) Cloud Native
3 45 (9.00%) Onboarding
4 37 (7.40%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.80%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (3.80%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.40%) Derivative
8 16 (3.20%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.80%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.80%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.40%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.40%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.40%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.20%) Equities
13 10 (2.00%) Robotics
14 9 (1.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.80%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.40%) Windows
2 55 (11.00%) Linux
3 20 (4.00%) Unix
4 16 (3.20%) Android
5 12 (2.40%) Windows 10
6 10 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.80%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.80%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.00%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.80%) Debian
9 4 (0.80%) Rocky
9 4 (0.80%) VMS
10 3 (0.60%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.20%) MVS
11 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (98.60%) Computer Science
2 193 (38.60%) Problem-Solving
3 159 (31.80%) Agile
4 143 (28.60%) CI/CD
5 138 (27.60%) AI
6 133 (26.60%) DevOps
7 95 (19.00%) Software Engineering
8 86 (17.20%) Continuous Improvement
9 85 (17.00%) Analytics
10 78 (15.60%) Microservices
11 69 (13.80%) Containerisation
11 69 (13.80%) ITIL
12 67 (13.40%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (11.60%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (11.40%) Infrastructure as Code
14 57 (11.40%) Migration
15 56 (11.20%) Cybersecurity
15 56 (11.20%) Data Governance
16 51 (10.20%) Data Modelling
17 50 (10.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 157 (31.40%) Python
2 117 (23.40%) SQL
3 85 (17.00%) Java
4 52 (10.40%) JavaScript
5 35 (7.00%) C#
6 25 (5.00%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.60%) Bash
9 13 (2.60%) Go
10 10 (2.00%) C++
10 10 (2.00%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.80%) Perl
12 8 (1.60%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.60%) Scala
13 6 (1.20%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.00%) R
15 4 (0.80%) Bicep
16 3 (0.60%) COBOL
16 3 (0.60%) Rust
17 2 (0.40%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 500 (100.00%) Degree
2 89 (17.80%) Master's Degree
3 68 (13.60%) Security Cleared
4 55 (11.00%) SC Cleared
5 31 (6.20%) CISSP
6 25 (5.00%) Azure Certification
7 24 (4.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 23 (4.60%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.60%) CISM
10 17 (3.40%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (2.20%) DV Cleared
12 10 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.00%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.80%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.80%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (1.80%) PMP
14 8 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 8 (1.60%) CCNP
14 8 (1.60%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.60%) QA
2 24 (4.80%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.00%) GDPR
4 18 (3.60%) NIST
5 13 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.20%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.40%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.20%) GRC
9 5 (1.00%) PSD2
10 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.60%) DICOM
11 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.60%) SLA
11 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.40%) GAAP
12 2 (0.40%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 76 (15.20%) Docker
2 37 (7.40%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.00%) Firmware
4 3 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.40%) 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%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 92 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.80%) Terraform
3 30 (6.00%) Ansible
4 23 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (4.60%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.20%) Grafana
6 5 (1.00%) Puppet
7 4 (0.80%) Kibana
7 4 (0.80%) SCCM
8 3 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.60%) Foglight
8 3 (0.60%) WSUS
9 2 (0.40%) CASB
9 2 (0.40%) Consul
9 2 (0.40%) Control-M
9 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 121 (24.20%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.40%) Oracle
3 29 (5.80%) Databricks
4 28 (5.60%) Google
5 24 (4.80%) Splunk
6 16 (3.20%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.60%) SAP
8 9 (1.80%) Cisco
8 9 (1.80%) IBM
8 9 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.60%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.40%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.40%) Informatica
11 6 (1.20%) Citrix
11 6 (1.20%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.20%) Okta
11 6 (1.20%) Software AG
12 5 (1.00%) Ping Identity
12 5 (1.00%) UiPath
12 5 (1.00%) VMware