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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 254 140 115
Rank change year-on-year -114 -25 +99
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 497 646 846
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.94% 1.99% 1.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 6.48% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 304 396 528
10th Percentile £191 £306 £313
25th Percentile £360 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £784 £769 £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 34
10th Percentile £17.25 £26.20 £23.90
25th Percentile £26.25 £29.00 £39.38
Median hourly rate £38.25 £30.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +27.50% -46.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87.16 £65.31 £73.81
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.70 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.63 £30.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +38.75% -52.00% -4.21%

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 16,487 9,965 12,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 30.71% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,019 6,179 7,959
10th Percentile £350 £281 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £623 £638
90th Percentile £713 £706 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,190 716 1,085
10th Percentile £17.86 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.44 £20.47
Median hourly rate £52.50 £26.81 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +95.80% -35.39% -24.93%
75th Percentile £73.00 £58.34 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.41 £75.00 £75.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -114 441 £500 - 499
UK excluding London -134 233 £500 +5.26% 404
London -81 223 £503 -8.64% 201
Work from Home -111 121 £473 -1.56% 338
North of England -70 71 £515 +8.32% 74
South East -70 60 £400 -18.37% 113
Midlands -77 40 £638 +38.89% 63
Yorkshire -41 37 £525 +26.13% 28
North West -49 34 £394 -25.00% 32
West Midlands -73 26 £671 +16.72% 22
East of England -23 21 £491 +12.29% 51
South West -31 18 £518 +39.86% 39
Scotland -29 15 £525 +10.53% 37
East Midlands -27 13 £373 -16.72% 41
Wales -23 6 £530 +23.47% 16
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 24

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 23 (4.63%) Confluence
2 22 (4.43%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.62%) Apache
4 15 (3.02%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.21%) 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 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.41%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.41%) Revit
4 6 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.40%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.01%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.80%) Aladdin
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%) Maximo
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 193 (38.83%) Azure
2 126 (25.35%) AWS
3 69 (13.88%) GCP
4 45 (9.05%) Microsoft 365
5 39 (7.85%) Power Platform
6 35 (7.04%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (6.84%) GitHub
8 27 (5.43%) Serverless
9 23 (4.63%) Entra ID
9 23 (4.63%) Snowflake
10 22 (4.43%) SaaS
11 18 (3.62%) GitHub Actions
12 16 (3.22%) Azure AKS
13 15 (3.02%) PowerApps
14 14 (2.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 14 (2.82%) Power Automate
15 13 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
15 13 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
15 13 (2.62%) Azure Service Bus
16 11 (2.21%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.43%) Firewall
2 21 (4.23%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.62%) VPN
4 16 (3.22%) Network Security
5 14 (2.82%) DNS
6 13 (2.62%) WAN
7 10 (2.01%) LAN
8 8 (1.61%) BGP
9 6 (1.21%) DMZ
9 6 (1.21%) Wireless
10 5 (1.01%) 3GPP
10 5 (1.01%) OSPF
10 5 (1.01%) RTP
10 5 (1.01%) VLAN
10 5 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.01%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.80%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.80%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.80%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.80%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.64%) Power BI
2 30 (6.04%) Relational Database
3 27 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.03%) SQL Server
5 21 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.62%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.22%) Big Data
7 16 (3.22%) Metadata
8 15 (3.02%) MongoDB
8 15 (3.02%) MySQL
9 11 (2.21%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.81%) Data Mining
10 9 (1.81%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.61%) Snowflake Schema
11 8 (1.61%) Tableau
12 7 (1.41%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.41%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.21%) Redis
14 5 (1.01%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 60 (12.07%) Git
2 33 (6.64%) Jenkins
3 31 (6.24%) JIRA
4 29 (5.84%) GitLab
5 12 (2.41%) Selenium
6 10 (2.01%) Gradle
6 10 (2.01%) JUnit
7 8 (1.61%) Postman
7 8 (1.61%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.41%) REST Assured
8 7 (1.41%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.21%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.21%) Maven
10 5 (1.01%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.01%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.01%) Flyway
10 5 (1.01%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.01%) Vite
11 4 (0.80%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.80%) CircleCI
General
1 249 (50.10%) Social Skills
2 130 (26.16%) Analytical Skills
3 128 (25.75%) Finance
4 58 (11.67%) Banking
5 25 (5.03%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.43%) Front Office
7 16 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
7 16 (3.22%) Telecoms
8 15 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.02%) Presentation Skills
9 14 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 13 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (2.62%) Legal
10 13 (2.62%) Marketing
11 11 (2.21%) Investment Banking
12 8 (1.61%) Law
12 8 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.61%) Retail
13 7 (1.41%) Aerospace
13 7 (1.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 82 (16.50%) Architect
1 82 (16.50%) Developer
2 52 (10.46%) Senior
3 45 (9.05%) Lead
4 38 (7.65%) Analyst
5 24 (4.83%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (4.43%) Software Engineer
7 20 (4.02%) IT Support
7 20 (4.02%) Technical Support
8 19 (3.82%) Data Engineer
8 19 (3.82%) IT Analyst
9 16 (3.22%) Full-Stack Developer
9 16 (3.22%) Java Developer
9 16 (3.22%) Support Analyst
10 15 (3.02%) Senior Developer
10 15 (3.02%) Technical Architect
11 14 (2.82%) C# Developer
11 14 (2.82%) IT Support Analyst
12 13 (2.62%) Consultant
12 13 (2.62%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.07%) REST
2 41 (8.25%) React
3 38 (7.65%) .NET
4 36 (7.24%) RESTful
5 28 (5.63%) Spring
6 24 (4.83%) Spring Boot
7 23 (4.63%) Middleware
8 18 (3.62%) Kafka
9 17 (3.42%) OAuth
10 16 (3.22%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.22%) PyTorch
11 15 (3.02%) CSS
11 15 (3.02%) HTML
11 15 (3.02%) SOAP
12 14 (2.82%) JSON
13 12 (2.41%) Elastic Stack
13 12 (2.41%) Swagger
14 11 (2.21%) .NET Core
14 11 (2.21%) PySpark
15 10 (2.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.27%) Management Information System
2 55 (11.07%) Cloud Native
3 41 (8.25%) Onboarding
4 33 (6.64%) Product Ownership
5 25 (5.03%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.23%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.62%) AI Agents
8 17 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
9 16 (3.22%) Derivative
10 14 (2.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (2.82%) Data Structures
10 14 (2.82%) Virtual Team
11 13 (2.62%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.41%) Fixed Income
12 12 (2.41%) Security Posture
13 11 (2.21%) Equities
14 10 (2.01%) Mobile App
14 10 (2.01%) Robotics
15 9 (1.81%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 80 (16.10%) Windows
2 51 (10.26%) Linux
3 17 (3.42%) Unix
4 16 (3.22%) Android
5 10 (2.01%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.81%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.61%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.21%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.01%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.80%) VMS
11 3 (0.60%) Debian
11 3 (0.60%) Rocky
12 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
12 1 (0.20%) MVS
12 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 492 (98.99%) Computer Science
2 191 (38.43%) Problem-Solving
3 152 (30.58%) Agile
4 142 (28.57%) AI
4 142 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 128 (25.75%) DevOps
6 98 (19.72%) Software Engineering
7 88 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
8 82 (16.50%) Analytics
9 71 (14.29%) Microservices
10 65 (13.08%) ITIL
11 63 (12.68%) Containerisation
12 60 (12.07%) Stakeholder Management
12 60 (12.07%) Technical Leadership
13 55 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
13 55 (11.07%) Migration
14 54 (10.87%) Machine Learning
14 54 (10.87%) Test Automation
15 51 (10.26%) Data Governance
15 51 (10.26%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 157 (31.59%) Python
2 115 (23.14%) SQL
3 86 (17.30%) Java
4 50 (10.06%) JavaScript
5 38 (7.65%) C#
6 27 (5.43%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.02%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.42%) Bash
9 11 (2.21%) Go
9 11 (2.21%) Shell Script
10 9 (1.81%) C++
11 8 (1.61%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.61%) Perl
12 6 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (1.01%) Bicep
13 5 (1.01%) Scala
14 4 (0.80%) R
15 3 (0.60%) COBOL
16 2 (0.40%) Ada
16 2 (0.40%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 497 (100.00%) Degree
2 94 (18.91%) Master's Degree
3 65 (13.08%) Security Cleared
4 53 (10.66%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.64%) Azure Certification
6 29 (5.84%) CISSP
7 24 (4.83%) AWS Certification
8 21 (4.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.62%) CISM
9 18 (3.62%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (3.22%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (2.21%) DV Cleared
12 10 (2.01%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.01%) PhD
13 9 (1.81%) PMI Certification
14 8 (1.61%) CCNP
14 8 (1.61%) CompTIA CySA+
14 8 (1.61%) MBA
14 8 (1.61%) PMP
15 7 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.64%) QA
2 23 (4.63%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.42%) NIST
4 16 (3.22%) GDPR
5 12 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.81%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.41%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.21%) GRC
9 5 (1.01%) PSD2
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.80%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.80%) SLA
11 3 (0.60%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.60%) DICOM
11 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
System Software
1 68 (13.68%) Docker
2 34 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.80%) 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 86 (17.30%) Kubernetes
2 46 (9.26%) Terraform
3 27 (5.43%) Ansible
4 22 (4.43%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.23%) Grafana
6 20 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.80%) SCCM
8 3 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.60%) Foglight
8 3 (0.60%) Puppet
8 3 (0.60%) WSUS
9 2 (0.40%) CASB
9 2 (0.40%) Consul
9 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.40%) Kibana
9 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 121 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 39 (7.85%) Oracle
3 32 (6.44%) Google
4 30 (6.04%) Databricks
5 22 (4.43%) Splunk
6 15 (3.02%) SAP
6 15 (3.02%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.41%) Cisco
8 10 (2.01%) IBM
9 8 (1.61%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.61%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.61%) VMware
10 7 (1.41%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.41%) UiPath
11 6 (1.21%) Apple
11 6 (1.21%) Bomgar
12 5 (1.01%) Citrix
12 5 (1.01%) Informatica
12 5 (1.01%) Okta
12 5 (1.01%) OpenAI