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

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 141 114
Rank change year-on-year -109 -27 +105
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 497 619 861
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.96% 1.98% 1.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 6.43% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 371 540
10th Percentile £178 £295 £312
25th Percentile £359 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £672 £650 £653
90th Percentile £788 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £525
% change year-on-year +4.71% -9.05% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 13 37
10th Percentile £19.80 £25.80 £24.80
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 £75.00
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 16,122 9,629 12,970
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.29% 30.79% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,754 5,982 8,029
10th Percentile £350 £278 £311
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.43% -0.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £527
% change year-on-year +2.00% -5.03% +0.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,177 647 1,108
10th Percentile £17.36 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.19 £20.19 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £27.94 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +82.53% -31.75% -26.70%
75th Percentile £72.54 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.32 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.47% -41.12% -20.54%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -97 444 £500 -2.91% 451
UK excluding London -116 241 £500 +4.71% 252
London -84 219 £503 -8.64% 250
Work from Home -94 118 £430 -14.00% 204
North of England -57 76 £514 +8.21% 42
South East -61 61 £400 -18.70% 86
Yorkshire -30 41 £525 +25.00% 9
Midlands -81 40 £653 +38.94% 40
North West -43 35 £374 -28.76% 26
West Midlands -69 28 £671 +16.74% 16
East of England -23 21 £491 - 32
South West -24 19 £518 +39.86% 28
Scotland -25 15 £525 +5.00% 13
East Midlands -29 11 £505 +11.11% 24
Wales -30 8 £530 +50.89% 3
Northern Ireland +5 3 - - 15

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 (4.83%) Confluence
2 22 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.42%) Apache
4 15 (3.02%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.01%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.01%) SAS
7 3 (0.60%) Camunda
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.43%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.61%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.41%) Navisworks
4 7 (1.41%) Revit
5 6 (1.21%) 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 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.40%) Workfront
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
3 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 197 (39.64%) Azure
2 128 (25.75%) AWS
3 68 (13.68%) GCP
4 48 (9.66%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (8.05%) Power Platform
6 36 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (6.84%) GitHub
8 26 (5.23%) Serverless
9 23 (4.63%) Snowflake
10 22 (4.43%) SaaS
11 20 (4.02%) Entra ID
12 16 (3.22%) AWS CloudFormation
12 16 (3.22%) GitHub Actions
13 15 (3.02%) Azure AKS
13 15 (3.02%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.82%) Power Automate
15 13 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
16 12 (2.41%) Azure Data Factory
16 12 (2.41%) IaaS
17 11 (2.21%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.23%) TCP/IP
2 20 (4.02%) Firewall
3 16 (3.22%) Network Security
4 15 (3.02%) VPN
5 14 (2.82%) DNS
6 11 (2.21%) WAN
7 8 (1.61%) BGP
7 8 (1.61%) LAN
8 6 (1.21%) DMZ
8 6 (1.21%) Wireless
9 5 (1.01%) 3GPP
9 5 (1.01%) OSPF
9 5 (1.01%) RTP
9 5 (1.01%) 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%) WebEx
10 4 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.04%) Power BI
2 29 (5.84%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.23%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 23 (4.63%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.23%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.42%) Metadata
7 17 (3.42%) MySQL
8 16 (3.22%) Big Data
9 15 (3.02%) MongoDB
10 10 (2.01%) Azure SQL Database
11 9 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.81%) Tableau
12 8 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.41%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.41%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.41%) Hadoop
13 7 (1.41%) Redis
13 7 (1.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 58 (11.67%) Git
2 32 (6.44%) Jenkins
2 32 (6.44%) JIRA
3 30 (6.04%) GitLab
4 11 (2.21%) Selenium
5 9 (1.81%) Gradle
5 9 (1.81%) JUnit
6 8 (1.61%) Postman
7 7 (1.41%) REST Assured
7 7 (1.41%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.21%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.21%) Maven
9 5 (1.01%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.01%) Flyway
9 5 (1.01%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.01%) SpecFlow
9 5 (1.01%) Vite
10 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.60%) Liquibase
General
1 245 (49.30%) Social Skills
2 132 (26.56%) Finance
3 128 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (11.27%) Banking
5 25 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.43%) Front Office
7 18 (3.62%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (3.62%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (2.82%) Marketing
10 13 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
10 13 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
11 12 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 12 (2.41%) Legal
12 11 (2.21%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.81%) Retail
14 8 (1.61%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.61%) Law
14 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (16.50%) Architect
2 73 (14.69%) Developer
3 49 (9.86%) Lead
4 44 (8.85%) Senior
5 39 (7.85%) Analyst
6 26 (5.23%) Solutions Architect
7 25 (5.03%) Technical Support
8 23 (4.63%) Software Engineer
9 20 (4.02%) IT Support
10 19 (3.82%) Data Engineer
10 19 (3.82%) IT Analyst
11 16 (3.22%) Support Analyst
11 16 (3.22%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.22%) Technical Architect
11 16 (3.22%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (3.02%) Technical Support Specialist
13 14 (2.82%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (2.82%) IT Support Analyst
13 14 (2.82%) Java Developer
14 13 (2.62%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (11.07%) REST
2 40 (8.05%) React
3 36 (7.24%) .NET
4 33 (6.64%) RESTful
5 28 (5.63%) Spring
6 25 (5.03%) Middleware
7 24 (4.83%) Spring Boot
8 18 (3.62%) OAuth
9 17 (3.42%) Kafka
10 15 (3.02%) AngularJS
10 15 (3.02%) CSS
10 15 (3.02%) HTML
10 15 (3.02%) SOAP
11 14 (2.82%) JSON
12 13 (2.62%) Elastic Stack
13 11 (2.21%) Node.js
13 11 (2.21%) PySpark
13 11 (2.21%) PyTorch
13 11 (2.21%) SAML
14 10 (2.01%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.07%) Management Information System
2 50 (10.06%) Cloud Native
3 44 (8.85%) Onboarding
4 36 (7.24%) Product Ownership
5 25 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 20 (4.02%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.42%) Derivative
8 14 (2.82%) Data Structures
8 14 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
8 14 (2.82%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
10 12 (2.41%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.41%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.41%) Fixed Income
10 12 (2.41%) Security Posture
11 11 (2.21%) Equities
11 11 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (2.01%) Robotics
13 9 (1.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 9 (1.81%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.10%) Windows
2 53 (10.66%) Linux
3 19 (3.82%) Unix
4 15 (3.02%) Android
5 12 (2.41%) Windows 10
6 10 (2.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.81%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.01%) 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
1 491 (98.79%) Computer Science
2 189 (38.03%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (30.99%) Agile
4 144 (28.97%) CI/CD
5 138 (27.77%) AI
6 133 (26.76%) DevOps
7 94 (18.91%) Software Engineering
8 86 (17.30%) Continuous Improvement
9 83 (16.70%) Analytics
10 78 (15.69%) Microservices
11 68 (13.68%) Containerisation
11 68 (13.68%) ITIL
12 64 (12.88%) Technical Leadership
13 59 (11.87%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (11.47%) Infrastructure as Code
15 56 (11.27%) Cybersecurity
16 55 (11.07%) Migration
17 54 (10.87%) Data Governance
18 51 (10.26%) Test Automation
19 50 (10.06%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.39%) Python
2 118 (23.74%) SQL
3 85 (17.10%) Java
4 52 (10.46%) JavaScript
5 35 (7.04%) C#
6 25 (5.03%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.82%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.42%) Bash
9 13 (2.62%) Go
10 11 (2.21%) Shell Script
11 10 (2.01%) C++
12 9 (1.81%) Perl
13 7 (1.41%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.41%) Scala
14 6 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 4 (0.80%) Bicep
15 4 (0.80%) R
16 3 (0.60%) COBOL
16 3 (0.60%) Rust
17 2 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 497 (100.00%) Degree
2 88 (17.71%) Master's Degree
3 67 (13.48%) Security Cleared
4 54 (10.87%) SC Cleared
5 31 (6.24%) CISSP
6 27 (5.43%) Azure Certification
7 23 (4.63%) AWS Certification
7 23 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 18 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (3.62%) CISM
9 17 (3.42%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
11 10 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (1.81%) A+ Certification
12 9 (1.81%) Network+ Certification
12 9 (1.81%) PMI Certification
13 8 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 8 (1.61%) CCNP
13 8 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
13 8 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.44%) QA
2 24 (4.83%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.82%) GDPR
4 18 (3.62%) NIST
5 13 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.21%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.21%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.21%) GRC
8 5 (1.01%) PSD2
9 4 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.80%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.60%) DICOM
10 3 (0.60%) SLA
10 3 (0.60%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.40%) NCSC
11 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (14.89%) Docker
2 37 (7.44%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.01%) 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 90 (18.11%) Kubernetes
2 49 (9.86%) Terraform
3 29 (5.84%) Ansible
4 23 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (4.63%) Prometheus
5 22 (4.43%) Grafana
6 4 (0.80%) Puppet
7 3 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.60%) Foglight
7 3 (0.60%) Kibana
7 3 (0.60%) SCCM
7 3 (0.60%) WSUS
8 2 (0.40%) CASB
8 2 (0.40%) Consul
8 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.20%) Argo
9 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 120 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.24%) Oracle
3 30 (6.04%) Databricks
3 30 (6.04%) Google
4 24 (4.83%) Splunk
5 16 (3.22%) ServiceNow
6 12 (2.41%) SAP
7 10 (2.01%) Cisco
8 9 (1.81%) IBM
8 9 (1.81%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.61%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.41%) Autodesk
11 6 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.21%) Okta
12 5 (1.01%) Apple
12 5 (1.01%) Citrix
12 5 (1.01%) Ping Identity
12 5 (1.01%) Software AG
12 5 (1.01%) UiPath
12 5 (1.01%) VMware