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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 113 169
Rank change year-on-year -39 +56 +158
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 628 782 738
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.88% 2.10% 1.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.81% 7.16% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 408 479 506
10th Percentile £285 £350 £313
25th Percentile £400 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.55% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £659
90th Percentile £750 £840 £790
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 14
10th Percentile - £50.00 £31.65
25th Percentile £29.00 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.85% +19.09% +2.80%
75th Percentile - £70.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £51.00 - £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.85% +19.09% +22.22%

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 10,803 10,915 13,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 29.29% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,797 6,630 8,694
10th Percentile £290 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £636 £650
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 539 744
10th Percentile £17.08 £18.13 £16.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.34 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -11.49% +19.26%
75th Percentile £39.50 £67.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £79.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £51.90
% change year-on-year -49.70% -3.65% +15.32%

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025.

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 October 2025. 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 -36 555 £475 -13.64% 925
UK excluding London -1 306 £450 -14.29% 734
London -45 266 £520 -5.45% 448
Work from Home -27 182 £425 -22.73% 644
North of England +7 103 £469 -10.66% 91
Midlands -15 69 £525 -8.70% 56
South East +21 63 £425 -4.49% 391
Yorkshire +4 56 £450 -18.18% 26
West Midlands -22 46 £539 -6.35% 32
North West +9 43 £470 -3.54% 46
Scotland +7 29 £450 -15.49% 56
East of England -19 25 £478 +6.11% 69
South West +6 23 £650 -11.86% 53
East Midlands +2 23 £450 +26.40% 24
Wales +7 6 £431 -27.40% 17
North East -14 4 £475 +18.75% 20

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 29 (4.62%) Confluence
2 23 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.59%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (1.27%) Apache
6 7 (1.11%) nginx
7 5 (0.80%) CMS
7 5 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.64%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.64%) IIS
8 4 (0.64%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.48%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.48%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.48%) SAS
10 2 (0.32%) JBoss
10 2 (0.32%) Luigi
10 2 (0.32%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Gunicorn
Applications
1 34 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.16%) InDesign
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Notion
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.48%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.48%) Workday HCM
4 2 (0.32%) Actimize
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.32%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.32%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.32%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.32%) SAP Travel Management
4 2 (0.32%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
5 1 (0.16%) JDE EnterpriseOne
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.16%) SAP FS
Cloud Services
1 171 (27.23%) AWS
2 148 (23.57%) Azure
3 98 (15.61%) GCP
4 60 (9.55%) Serverless
5 52 (8.28%) GitHub
6 33 (5.25%) Power Platform
7 28 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.82%) SaaS
9 23 (3.66%) Amazon S3
10 22 (3.50%) AWS Lambda
11 21 (3.34%) Azure DevOps
12 19 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
13 14 (2.23%) Amazon ECS
13 14 (2.23%) OpenShift
14 12 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
15 10 (1.59%) AWS KMS
15 10 (1.59%) Snowflake
16 9 (1.43%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
17 8 (1.27%) Azure Logic Apps
17 8 (1.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 43 (6.85%) Firewall
2 29 (4.62%) DNS
3 26 (4.14%) Network Security
4 21 (3.34%) Wireless
5 19 (3.03%) VPN
6 18 (2.87%) DHCP
7 13 (2.07%) Cisco IOS
7 13 (2.07%) SSH
8 12 (1.91%) PuTTY
8 12 (1.91%) WAN
9 10 (1.59%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.43%) LAN
10 9 (1.43%) VoIP
10 9 (1.43%) WLAN
11 8 (1.27%) BGP
11 8 (1.27%) OSPF
11 8 (1.27%) Telepresence
12 5 (0.80%) MGCP
12 5 (0.80%) SCCP
12 5 (0.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (9.39%) NoSQL
2 56 (8.92%) PostgreSQL
3 33 (5.25%) Relational Database
3 33 (5.25%) SQL Server
4 31 (4.94%) Data Warehouse
5 26 (4.14%) Power BI
6 17 (2.71%) MySQL
7 16 (2.55%) Big Data
7 16 (2.55%) Tableau
8 13 (2.07%) Amazon RDS
9 12 (1.91%) MongoDB
10 10 (1.59%) Amazon Athena
10 10 (1.59%) Amazon Redshift
11 8 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.27%) SAP HANA
12 7 (1.11%) Metadata
12 7 (1.11%) Redis
13 6 (0.96%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.96%) Oracle Database
13 6 (0.96%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 77 (12.26%) Jenkins
2 67 (10.67%) Git
3 64 (10.19%) GitLab
3 64 (10.19%) JIRA
4 28 (4.46%) Liquibase
5 16 (2.55%) Postman
6 10 (1.59%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.43%) Selenium
8 7 (1.11%) JUnit
9 6 (0.96%) Subversion
10 5 (0.80%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.80%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.80%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.64%) Cucumber
11 4 (0.64%) Gradle
11 4 (0.64%) Hardhat
11 4 (0.64%) IntelliJ
11 4 (0.64%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.64%) webpack
12 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
General
1 339 (53.98%) Social Skills
2 188 (29.94%) Finance
3 154 (24.52%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (14.17%) Banking
5 38 (6.05%) Financial Institution
6 26 (4.14%) Organisational Skills
7 25 (3.98%) Front Office
8 22 (3.50%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.71%) Manufacturing
9 17 (2.71%) Public Sector
10 14 (2.23%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.23%) Marketing
11 13 (2.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.07%) Retail
12 12 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
13 9 (1.43%) Legal
13 9 (1.43%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.27%) Aerospace
15 7 (1.11%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 139 (22.13%) Developer
2 74 (11.78%) Senior
3 68 (10.83%) Analyst
4 53 (8.44%) Architect
5 38 (6.05%) Software Engineer
6 27 (4.30%) Lead
7 26 (4.14%) Senior Developer
8 23 (3.66%) DevOps Engineer
9 20 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
10 19 (3.03%) AWS Engineer
11 18 (2.87%) Consultant
11 18 (2.87%) Full-Stack Developer
12 17 (2.71%) Data Engineer
13 16 (2.55%) Senior Software Engineer
13 16 (2.55%) Technical Support
14 15 (2.39%) GCP Engineer
15 13 (2.07%) Java Developer
15 13 (2.07%) Network Engineer
15 13 (2.07%) Python Engineer
15 13 (2.07%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 106 (16.88%) REST
2 63 (10.03%) RESTful
3 42 (6.69%) HTML
4 39 (6.21%) Elastic Stack
5 37 (5.89%) Kafka
6 33 (5.25%) .NET
6 33 (5.25%) CSS
7 29 (4.62%) React
8 28 (4.46%) SOAP
9 25 (3.98%) Middleware
9 25 (3.98%) Spring
10 22 (3.50%) Node.js
10 22 (3.50%) XML
11 21 (3.34%) JSON
12 20 (3.18%) Web Services
13 19 (3.03%) AngularJS
13 19 (3.03%) OAuth
14 18 (2.87%) RabbitMQ
15 13 (2.07%) OAuth2
16 12 (1.91%) LangChain
Miscellaneous
1 69 (10.99%) Management Information System
2 63 (10.03%) Cloud Native
3 52 (8.28%) Distributed Systems
4 41 (6.53%) Public Cloud
5 35 (5.57%) Data Protection Act
6 33 (5.25%) Algorithms
6 33 (5.25%) Product Ownership
7 22 (3.50%) Data Structures
8 19 (3.03%) Virtual Team
9 18 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 18 (2.87%) Security Posture
10 16 (2.55%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.23%) Derivative
11 14 (2.23%) Enterprise Software
11 14 (2.23%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.23%) Tandem
12 13 (2.07%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.75%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.59%) Mobile App
15 8 (1.27%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (15.76%) Linux
2 64 (10.19%) Windows
3 38 (6.05%) Unix
4 11 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.59%) Android
6 9 (1.43%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.11%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.48%) VMS
10 2 (0.32%) SUSE
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (98.89%) Computer Science
2 261 (41.56%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (35.35%) Agile
4 180 (28.66%) DevOps
5 157 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 113 (17.99%) Software Engineering
7 103 (16.40%) Microservices
8 97 (15.45%) Containerisation
9 77 (12.26%) Migration
10 76 (12.10%) Analytics
11 67 (10.67%) Change Management
12 64 (10.19%) Infrastructure as Code
13 60 (9.55%) Continuous Improvement
13 60 (9.55%) Continuous Integration
14 59 (9.39%) Cybersecurity
15 58 (9.24%) High Availability
16 57 (9.08%) Decision-Making
17 56 (8.92%) Data Protection
17 56 (8.92%) Scrum
18 54 (8.60%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 234 (37.26%) Python
2 127 (20.22%) SQL
3 114 (18.15%) Java
4 74 (11.78%) JavaScript
5 56 (8.92%) Go
6 31 (4.94%) C#
6 31 (4.94%) TypeScript
7 25 (3.98%) C++
8 24 (3.82%) Bash
9 23 (3.66%) PowerShell
10 22 (3.50%) Perl
11 12 (1.91%) Ruby
12 11 (1.75%) Apex Code
13 8 (1.27%) R
14 7 (1.11%) Scala
14 7 (1.11%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 6 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 5 (0.80%) Rust
Qualifications
1 628 (100.00%) Degree
2 124 (19.75%) Master's Degree
3 53 (8.44%) Security Cleared
4 40 (6.37%) AWS Certification
4 40 (6.37%) SC Cleared
5 28 (4.46%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (3.98%) Azure Certification
7 24 (3.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 22 (3.50%) CISSP
9 17 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
9 17 (2.71%) CCNA
10 15 (2.39%) CCNP
11 12 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.59%) CISM
12 10 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
12 10 (1.59%) PMP
13 9 (1.43%) ISEB
13 9 (1.43%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 9 (1.43%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.64%) Data Quality
2 39 (6.21%) QA
3 37 (5.89%) GDPR
4 31 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.07%) GRC
6 11 (1.75%) Def Stans
6 11 (1.75%) NIST
7 9 (1.43%) SLA
8 8 (1.27%) HIPAA
9 7 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 5 (0.80%) PCI DSS
10 5 (0.80%) SEPA
11 4 (0.64%) Accessibility
11 4 (0.64%) MiFID
11 4 (0.64%) NCSC
12 3 (0.48%) COBIT
12 3 (0.48%) PMO
13 2 (0.32%) HL7
13 2 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 102 (16.24%) Docker
2 17 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.64%) VMware NSX
5 4 (0.64%) vSphere
6 2 (0.32%) Apache ZooKeeper
7 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 104 (16.56%) Kubernetes
2 76 (12.10%) Terraform
3 69 (10.99%) Ansible
4 45 (7.17%) Grafana
5 41 (6.53%) Prometheus
6 11 (1.75%) Argo
7 8 (1.27%) Puppet
7 8 (1.27%) SCCM
8 7 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.11%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.96%) Kibana
10 5 (0.80%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.64%) Kustomize
12 3 (0.48%) vRealize
13 2 (0.32%) Consul
13 2 (0.32%) HP ALM
13 2 (0.32%) logstash
13 2 (0.32%) QRadar
13 2 (0.32%) RSA Archer
13 2 (0.32%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (15.92%) Microsoft
2 53 (8.44%) Splunk
3 50 (7.96%) Google
4 41 (6.53%) Oracle
5 39 (6.21%) Cisco
6 33 (5.25%) SAP
7 28 (4.46%) IBM
8 27 (4.30%) Salesforce
9 22 (3.50%) ServiceNow
10 15 (2.39%) Red Hat
10 15 (2.39%) VMware
11 13 (2.07%) Databricks
12 7 (1.11%) Atlassian
12 7 (1.11%) CA Agile Central
12 7 (1.11%) F5
12 7 (1.11%) Fortinet
12 7 (1.11%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.11%) Pega
12 7 (1.11%) Peregrine
12 7 (1.11%) Remedy