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

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 144 118
Rank change year-on-year -100 -26 +117
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 509 582 840
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.02% 1.99% 1.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.26% 6.42% 6.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 343 530
10th Percentile £189 £289 £311
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £674 £650 £643
90th Percentile £775 £773 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £508 £476 £525
% change year-on-year +6.56% -9.29% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 38
10th Percentile £27.83 £24.01 £25.10
25th Percentile £33.09 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £80.96 £30.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +169.85% -44.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £178.75 £65.31 £74.69
90th Percentile - £70.17 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £87.16 £30.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +190.53% -46.67% -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 15,625 9,067 12,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.45% 30.97% 29.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,368 5,651 8,039
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £505 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.00% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,152 554 1,109
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.53 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.91 £22.23 £18.19
Median hourly rate £49.36 £32.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +54.25% -20.00% -27.27%
75th Percentile £72.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £76.25 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £30.91 £40.97
% change year-on-year +53.70% -24.57% -21.96%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -94 456 £503 -3.87% 314
UK excluding London -90 254 £508 +6.56% 223
London -73 217 £505 -9.21% 146
Work from Home -90 116 £425 -15.00% 225
North of England -52 75 £507 -6.72% 45
South East -46 66 £400 -18.37% 92
Midlands -80 44 £650 +41.61% 23
North West -30 38 £368 -33.30% 26
Yorkshire -39 37 £525 +5.00% 10
West Midlands -66 33 £671 +16.72% 12
South West -20 24 £500 +35.14% 24
East of England -28 20 £488 - 18
Scotland -20 17 £620 +27.18% 15
East Midlands -42 10 £545 +21.92% 11
Wales -25 6 £450 +55.17% 4
Northern Ireland +6 4 - - 12

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 28 (5.50%) Confluence
2 21 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.54%) Apache
3 18 (3.54%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.98%) SAS
7 4 (0.79%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.59%) Camunda
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%) CMS
10 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
10 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.38%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.38%) Revit
4 6 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.39%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.79%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.79%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
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%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 194 (38.11%) Azure
2 128 (25.15%) AWS
3 63 (12.38%) GCP
4 45 (8.84%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (7.07%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.68%) GitHub
7 28 (5.50%) SaaS
8 27 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (3.93%) Serverless
10 18 (3.54%) Snowflake
11 15 (2.95%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (2.95%) Entra ID
11 15 (2.95%) IaaS
12 14 (2.75%) GitHub Actions
13 13 (2.55%) Azure AKS
13 13 (2.55%) PowerApps
14 12 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
14 12 (2.36%) PaaS
14 12 (2.36%) Power Automate
15 11 (2.16%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.89%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.93%) DNS
3 18 (3.54%) Firewall
4 13 (2.55%) WAN
5 12 (2.36%) Network Security
5 12 (2.36%) VPN
6 10 (1.96%) LAN
7 9 (1.77%) BGP
8 7 (1.38%) DMZ
9 6 (1.18%) OSPF
9 6 (1.18%) Wireless
10 5 (0.98%) 3GPP
10 5 (0.98%) RTP
10 5 (0.98%) SAN
10 5 (0.98%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.79%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.79%) VLAN
11 4 (0.79%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.79%) Wi-Fi
12 3 (0.59%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (6.09%) Power BI
2 30 (5.89%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.11%) SQL Server
4 25 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.73%) Big Data
7 18 (3.54%) NoSQL
8 16 (3.14%) MySQL
9 14 (2.75%) Metadata
10 12 (2.36%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (1.96%) MongoDB
12 9 (1.77%) Snowflake Schema
12 9 (1.77%) Tableau
13 8 (1.57%) Hadoop
13 8 (1.57%) Redis
14 7 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
14 7 (1.38%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 6 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (1.18%) Star Schema
16 5 (0.98%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 52 (10.22%) Git
2 37 (7.27%) JIRA
3 33 (6.48%) GitLab
4 30 (5.89%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.36%) Gradle
5 12 (2.36%) Selenium
6 9 (1.77%) JUnit
7 8 (1.57%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.38%) CircleCI
8 7 (1.38%) Postman
8 7 (1.38%) SonarQube
8 7 (1.38%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.18%) Maven
10 5 (0.98%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.98%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.98%) Flyway
10 5 (0.98%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.79%) Artifactory
11 4 (0.79%) Visual Studio
12 3 (0.59%) Eclipse
General
1 252 (49.51%) Social Skills
2 134 (26.33%) Finance
3 124 (24.36%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.57%) Banking
5 27 (5.30%) Public Sector
6 24 (4.72%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (3.93%) Front Office
8 18 (3.54%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
10 16 (3.14%) Investment Banking
11 15 (2.95%) Legal
11 15 (2.95%) Marketing
12 12 (2.36%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (2.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 10 (1.96%) Law
15 9 (1.77%) Retail
16 7 (1.38%) Aerospace
16 7 (1.38%) Aviation
16 7 (1.38%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 82 (16.11%) Architect
2 65 (12.77%) Developer
3 60 (11.79%) Lead
4 52 (10.22%) Analyst
5 46 (9.04%) Senior
6 28 (5.50%) Technical Support
7 26 (5.11%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (4.91%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.54%) IT Analyst
10 16 (3.14%) Data Engineer
10 16 (3.14%) Integration Architect
10 16 (3.14%) Support Specialist
10 16 (3.14%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (2.95%) Technical Architect
11 15 (2.95%) Technical Support Specialist
12 14 (2.75%) IT Support
12 14 (2.75%) SOC Analyst
13 13 (2.55%) Support Analyst
14 12 (2.36%) Consultant
14 12 (2.36%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.98%) REST
2 38 (7.47%) React
3 31 (6.09%) .NET
4 29 (5.70%) RESTful
5 27 (5.30%) Middleware
6 23 (4.52%) Spring
7 19 (3.73%) Elastic Stack
7 19 (3.73%) Spring Boot
8 17 (3.34%) OAuth
8 17 (3.34%) SOAP
9 15 (2.95%) AngularJS
9 15 (2.95%) JSON
9 15 (2.95%) Kafka
10 14 (2.75%) CSS
10 14 (2.75%) PyTorch
11 13 (2.55%) HTML
11 13 (2.55%) Node.js
11 13 (2.55%) XML
12 11 (2.16%) Swagger
13 10 (1.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.61%) Management Information System
2 45 (8.84%) Cloud Native
2 45 (8.84%) Onboarding
3 34 (6.68%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.32%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.54%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.34%) Cyberattack
6 17 (3.34%) Derivative
6 17 (3.34%) Security Operations Centre
7 16 (3.14%) Algorithms
8 15 (2.95%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
9 14 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
11 12 (2.36%) Data Structures
12 11 (2.16%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.16%) Security Posture
13 10 (1.96%) Fixed Income
13 10 (1.96%) Robotics
14 9 (1.77%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 91 (17.88%) Windows
2 70 (13.75%) Linux
3 26 (5.11%) Unix
4 18 (3.54%) Android
5 12 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.77%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.77%) Mac OS
6 9 (1.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.79%) Debian
7 4 (0.79%) Rocky
7 4 (0.79%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.79%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.59%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) MVS
9 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (98.62%) Computer Science
2 193 (37.92%) Problem-Solving
3 150 (29.47%) Agile
4 142 (27.90%) CI/CD
5 135 (26.52%) AI
5 135 (26.52%) DevOps
6 99 (19.45%) Software Engineering
7 82 (16.11%) Microservices
8 76 (14.93%) Analytics
9 74 (14.54%) Continuous Improvement
10 69 (13.56%) Containerisation
10 69 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
11 62 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
12 58 (11.39%) Migration
12 58 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
13 56 (11.00%) ITIL
14 54 (10.61%) Data Modelling
15 53 (10.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 52 (10.22%) Data Governance
17 50 (9.82%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 162 (31.83%) Python
2 116 (22.79%) SQL
3 89 (17.49%) Java
4 53 (10.41%) JavaScript
5 33 (6.48%) C#
6 24 (4.72%) TypeScript
7 22 (4.32%) Bash
8 21 (4.13%) PowerShell
9 14 (2.75%) Go
10 12 (2.36%) C++
10 12 (2.36%) Perl
11 10 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.18%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.18%) Scala
13 4 (0.79%) R
14 3 (0.59%) Rust
15 2 (0.39%) Bicep
15 2 (0.39%) PHP
15 2 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 509 (100.00%) Degree
2 93 (18.27%) Master's Degree
3 76 (14.93%) Security Cleared
4 57 (11.20%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.11%) CISSP
6 23 (4.52%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.32%) Microsoft Certification
8 21 (4.13%) AWS Certification
9 20 (3.93%) DV Cleared
10 19 (3.73%) CompTIA Security+
11 18 (3.54%) Cisco Certification
11 18 (3.54%) CISM
11 18 (3.54%) TOGAF Certification
12 17 (3.34%) CompTIA CySA+
13 10 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
13 10 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (1.96%) PMI Certification
14 9 (1.77%) A+ Certification
14 9 (1.77%) CCNP
14 9 (1.77%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (7.66%) QA
2 21 (4.13%) Data Quality
3 20 (3.93%) GDPR
4 16 (3.14%) NIST
5 12 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.36%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.77%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.38%) PSD2
8 5 (0.98%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.79%) GRC
9 4 (0.79%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.79%) ISO 19650
10 3 (0.59%) DICOM
10 3 (0.59%) GAAP
10 3 (0.59%) IFRS
10 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
10 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.39%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 75 (14.73%) Docker
2 35 (6.88%) 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 92 (18.07%) Kubernetes
2 50 (9.82%) Terraform
3 36 (7.07%) Ansible
4 23 (4.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (4.52%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.13%) Grafana
6 8 (1.57%) Puppet
7 7 (1.38%) Kibana
8 4 (0.79%) SCCM
9 3 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.59%) Control-M
9 3 (0.59%) Foglight
9 3 (0.59%) WSUS
10 2 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.20%) CASB
11 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.20%) linkerd
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 119 (23.38%) Microsoft
2 41 (8.06%) Oracle
3 37 (7.27%) Splunk
4 28 (5.50%) Databricks
5 25 (4.91%) Google
6 15 (2.95%) SAP
7 13 (2.55%) ServiceNow
8 11 (2.16%) Salesforce
9 10 (1.96%) Cisco
10 9 (1.77%) MuleSoft
10 9 (1.77%) Palo Alto
10 9 (1.77%) Software AG
11 8 (1.57%) IBM
12 7 (1.38%) Autodesk
12 7 (1.38%) Informatica
13 6 (1.18%) Apple
13 6 (1.18%) Citrix
14 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
14 5 (0.98%) Reuters
14 5 (0.98%) Veritas