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

6 months to
10 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 276 142 109
Rank change year-on-year -134 -33 +72
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 498 641 819
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 1.94% 2.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 6.21% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 280 394 510
10th Percentile £175 £288 £350
25th Percentile £363 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £478 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.23% -13.18% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £688
90th Percentile £788 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £465 £550
% change year-on-year +12.90% -15.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 16 16
10th Percentile £17.25 £27.00 £45.22
25th Percentile £28.50 £29.00 £49.06
Median hourly rate £45.20 £30.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +50.67% -42.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £82.37 £43.13 £70.25
90th Percentile £178.75 £75.86 £72.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.20 £30.00 £65.50
% change year-on-year +50.67% -54.20% +13.91%

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 17,176 10,322 11,238
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.52% 31.29% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,481 6,406 6,958
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,308 824 674
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.97 £16.90
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.03% -49.70% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72.54 £48.13 £67.69
90th Percentile £87.96 £71.39 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £53.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -52.55% +2.14%

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 10 September 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 10 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 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 10 September 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 -122 443 £519 +8.16% 760
London -97 231 £500 -3.94% 509
UK excluding London -130 224 £525 +12.90% 359
Work from Home -101 138 £500 +17.65% 292
North of England -71 79 £525 +16.67% 49
South East -56 63 £493 +6.49% 115
Yorkshire -38 40 £520 +24.80% 12
North West -59 38 £537 +13.05% 32
Midlands -90 33 £653 +23.21% 38
West Midlands -66 19 £742 +29.02% 24
East of England -37 17 £400 -16.23% 34
South West -44 14 £600 +17.07% 66
East Midlands -31 13 £287 -36.11% 14
Scotland -63 12 £313 -30.44% 27
Wales -17 4 £530 +14.59% 5
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 25
North East -51 1 - - 5

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 (4.82%) SharePoint
2 23 (4.62%) Confluence
3 17 (3.41%) Apache Spark
4 15 (3.01%) Apache
5 12 (2.41%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.81%) Camunda
7 5 (1.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 5 (1.00%) SAS
8 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.60%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.40%) CMS
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.20%) CICS
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.41%) Navisworks
2 7 (1.41%) Revit
3 5 (1.00%) MS Visio
4 3 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 5 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.00%) Workday HCM
2 4 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
3 3 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.40%) Workfront
5 1 (0.20%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.20%) Finacle
5 1 (0.20%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.20%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.20%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 183 (36.75%) Azure
2 131 (26.31%) AWS
3 71 (14.26%) GCP
4 50 (10.04%) Microsoft 365
5 43 (8.63%) GitHub
5 43 (8.63%) Power Platform
6 37 (7.43%) Azure DevOps
7 30 (6.02%) Serverless
7 30 (6.02%) Snowflake
8 28 (5.62%) SaaS
9 26 (5.22%) Entra ID
10 19 (3.82%) OpenShift
11 17 (3.41%) Power Automate
11 17 (3.41%) PowerApps
12 16 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
13 15 (3.01%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.61%) Microsoft Copilot
15 11 (2.21%) Amazon EKS
15 11 (2.21%) Azure Functions
15 11 (2.21%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.82%) Firewall
2 26 (5.22%) DNS
3 25 (5.02%) VPN
4 21 (4.22%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.21%) Network Security
6 12 (2.41%) DHCP
7 10 (2.01%) HTTP
7 10 (2.01%) WAN
8 9 (1.81%) SSH
9 8 (1.61%) BGP
10 7 (1.41%) LAN
10 7 (1.41%) Software-Defined Networking
10 7 (1.41%) Wireless
11 6 (1.20%) VLAN
12 5 (1.00%) 3GPP
12 5 (1.00%) DMZ
12 5 (1.00%) OSPF
12 5 (1.00%) SAN
12 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
12 5 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (7.43%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.83%) Power BI
3 33 (6.63%) SQL Server
4 32 (6.43%) Relational Database
5 23 (4.62%) Metadata
6 20 (4.02%) MySQL
6 20 (4.02%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.82%) MongoDB
8 18 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
9 15 (3.01%) Elasticsearch
10 13 (2.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 13 (2.61%) Big Data
11 10 (2.01%) Data Mining
12 8 (1.61%) Data Lake
12 8 (1.61%) Redis
13 7 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.41%) Tableau
14 5 (1.00%) BigQuery
14 5 (1.00%) Flink
14 5 (1.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 68 (13.65%) Git
2 43 (8.63%) Jenkins
3 40 (8.03%) GitLab
4 27 (5.42%) JIRA
5 18 (3.61%) JUnit
6 16 (3.21%) Gradle
7 15 (3.01%) Maven
7 15 (3.01%) Selenium
8 13 (2.61%) SonarQube
9 12 (2.41%) Mockito
9 12 (2.41%) REST Assured
10 10 (2.01%) Sonatype Nexus
10 10 (2.01%) SpecFlow
11 8 (1.61%) Bitbucket Server
11 8 (1.61%) Cucumber
12 7 (1.41%) TeamCity
13 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
13 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
14 5 (1.00%) Eclipse
15 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 264 (53.01%) Social Skills
2 132 (26.51%) Analytical Skills
3 130 (26.10%) Finance
4 67 (13.45%) Banking
5 25 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (5.02%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.22%) Telecoms
7 19 (3.82%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.82%) Front Office
8 14 (2.81%) Aerospace
8 14 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (2.61%) Marketing
10 11 (2.21%) Investment Banking
10 11 (2.21%) Manufacturing
11 10 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.61%) Police
13 7 (1.41%) Aviation
13 7 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 102 (20.48%) Developer
2 64 (12.85%) Architect
3 59 (11.85%) Senior
4 38 (7.63%) Lead
5 37 (7.43%) Analyst
6 25 (5.02%) IT Support
7 23 (4.62%) Data Engineer
7 23 (4.62%) Java Developer
8 20 (4.02%) Full-Stack Developer
9 19 (3.82%) Senior Developer
9 19 (3.82%) Support Analyst
10 18 (3.61%) IT Analyst
11 16 (3.21%) C# Developer
11 16 (3.21%) Software Engineer
12 14 (2.81%) IT Support Analyst
12 14 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
13 13 (2.61%) 1st Line Support
13 13 (2.61%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 13 (2.61%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 11 (2.21%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (13.65%) REST
2 46 (9.24%) Terraform
3 45 (9.04%) React
4 43 (8.63%) CSS
5 41 (8.23%) .NET
5 41 (8.23%) HTML
6 40 (8.03%) Kafka
6 40 (8.03%) RESTful
7 28 (5.62%) Spring Boot
8 23 (4.62%) Spring
9 21 (4.22%) OAuth
10 19 (3.82%) SOAP
11 18 (3.61%) .NET Core
12 17 (3.41%) JSON
13 16 (3.21%) OAuth2
14 15 (3.01%) Middleware
15 14 (2.81%) AngularJS
16 13 (2.61%) OpenAPI
16 13 (2.61%) OpenID
16 13 (2.61%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.45%) Management Information System
2 53 (10.64%) Cloud Native
3 35 (7.03%) Product Ownership
4 34 (6.83%) Onboarding
5 30 (6.02%) Data Structures
6 27 (5.42%) Distributed Systems
7 26 (5.22%) Algorithms
8 21 (4.22%) AI Agents
9 20 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
12 10 (2.01%) Replication
12 10 (2.01%) Robotics
13 9 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
13 9 (1.81%) Virtual Team
14 8 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.61%) Fixed Income
14 8 (1.61%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 75 (15.06%) Windows
2 59 (11.85%) Linux
3 13 (2.61%) Unix
3 13 (2.61%) Windows 10
4 12 (2.41%) Android
5 10 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 10 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.41%) Apple iOS
6 7 (1.41%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.00%) Mac OS
8 3 (0.60%) Debian
8 3 (0.60%) Rocky
8 3 (0.60%) VMS
8 3 (0.60%) zOS
9 2 (0.40%) MVS
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
10 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 493 (99.00%) Computer Science
2 199 (39.96%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (31.53%) CI/CD
4 149 (29.92%) Agile
5 140 (28.11%) AI
6 137 (27.51%) DevOps
7 106 (21.29%) Software Engineering
8 96 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 90 (18.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 87 (17.47%) Analytics
11 73 (14.66%) Test Automation
12 67 (13.45%) ITIL
13 65 (13.05%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (12.25%) Scrum
15 57 (11.45%) Microservices
16 55 (11.04%) Containerisation
16 55 (11.04%) Migration
17 53 (10.64%) Data Modelling
17 53 (10.64%) Machine Learning
17 53 (10.64%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.33%) Python
2 134 (26.91%) SQL
3 83 (16.67%) Java
4 67 (13.45%) JavaScript
5 48 (9.64%) C#
6 35 (7.03%) PowerShell
7 33 (6.63%) TypeScript
8 28 (5.62%) Bash
9 13 (2.61%) C++
10 10 (2.01%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.61%) Bicep
12 7 (1.41%) Go
12 7 (1.41%) Scala
13 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.00%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.00%) Perl
14 4 (0.80%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.80%) Ruby
14 4 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 498 (100.00%) Degree
2 72 (14.46%) Security Cleared
3 70 (14.06%) Master's Degree
4 59 (11.85%) SC Cleared
5 37 (7.43%) Azure Certification
6 27 (5.42%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (4.22%) AWS Certification
8 19 (3.82%) CISSP
9 15 (3.01%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (2.21%) PhD
11 10 (2.01%) DV Cleared
12 8 (1.61%) MBA
13 7 (1.41%) A+ Certification
13 7 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 7 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (1.20%) CCNP
14 6 (1.20%) CISM
14 6 (1.20%) PMI Certification
14 6 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.23%) QA
2 31 (6.22%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.21%) NIST
4 9 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.61%) SLA
6 7 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 6 (1.20%) GDPR
8 4 (0.80%) GRC
8 4 (0.80%) ISO 19650
9 2 (0.40%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.40%) DICOM
9 2 (0.40%) NCSC
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) HL7
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.20%) SEPA
System Software
1 60 (12.05%) Docker
2 29 (5.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (2.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (1.20%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (1.00%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.80%) RACF
7 3 (0.60%) ACF2
7 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle RAC
8 2 (0.40%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.40%) vSphere
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.20%) Firmware
9 1 (0.20%) KVM
9 1 (0.20%) Squid
9 1 (0.20%) Time Sharing Option
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 74 (14.86%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.82%) Ansible
3 18 (3.61%) Grafana
3 18 (3.61%) Prometheus
4 17 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (2.41%) SCCM
6 5 (1.00%) Argo
7 4 (0.80%) Puppet
8 3 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.60%) WSUS
9 2 (0.40%) CASB
9 2 (0.40%) Consul
9 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
9 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.40%) Istio
9 2 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
9 2 (0.40%) SCOM
9 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 120 (24.10%) Microsoft
2 44 (8.84%) Oracle
3 28 (5.62%) Google
4 26 (5.22%) Databricks
5 21 (4.22%) IBM
6 19 (3.82%) Splunk
7 17 (3.41%) VMware
8 16 (3.21%) SAP
9 15 (3.01%) ServiceNow
10 14 (2.81%) Cisco
11 12 (2.41%) Salesforce
12 9 (1.81%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.81%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.81%) Veracode
13 8 (1.61%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.41%) Adobe
14 7 (1.41%) Autodesk
14 7 (1.41%) ForgeRock
14 7 (1.41%) Progress
14 7 (1.41%) UiPath