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

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 272 147 108
Rank change year-on-year -125 -39 +70
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 502 638 824
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.93% 2.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.92% 6.17% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 390 512
10th Percentile £181 £288 £350
25th Percentile £363 £399 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £478 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.72% -13.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £638 £688
90th Percentile £800 £775 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £464 £550
% change year-on-year +13.21% -15.68% +8.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 17 16
10th Percentile £17.25 £27.40 £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 £35.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £178.75 £74.43 £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 17,217 10,344 11,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.53% 31.33% 29.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,496 6,423 7,004
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 1,318 826 676
10th Percentile £17.18 £17.97 £16.93
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -8.73%
75th Percentile £72.44 £47.97 £67.77
90th Percentile £87.16 £71.35 £75.32
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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -118 448 £525 +9.38% 1,102
London -93 234 £518 -0.58% 731
UK excluding London -118 226 £525 +13.21% 494
Work from Home -113 136 £500 +17.65% 439
North of England -72 79 £525 +16.67% 73
South East -49 64 £510 +10.27% 150
Yorkshire -32 40 £520 +25.94% 21
North West -45 38 £537 +13.05% 42
Midlands -82 33 £653 +23.21% 56
West Midlands -70 19 £742 +29.02% 31
East of England -40 18 £400 -16.23% 58
South West -50 14 £600 +17.07% 85
East Midlands -27 13 £287 -36.11% 25
Scotland -38 12 £313 -30.44% 44
Wales -20 4 £530 +14.59% 9
Northern Ireland - 4 - - 21
North East -51 1 - - 10

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 25 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 24 (4.78%) Confluence
3 16 (3.19%) Apache Spark
4 15 (2.99%) Apache
5 12 (2.39%) Apache Airflow
6 9 (1.79%) 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%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.39%) Navisworks
2 7 (1.39%) 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
1 184 (36.65%) Azure
2 132 (26.29%) AWS
3 72 (14.34%) GCP
4 50 (9.96%) Microsoft 365
5 44 (8.76%) GitHub
6 43 (8.57%) Power Platform
7 37 (7.37%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (5.98%) Serverless
9 29 (5.78%) Snowflake
10 28 (5.58%) SaaS
11 26 (5.18%) Entra ID
12 20 (3.98%) OpenShift
13 17 (3.39%) Power Automate
13 17 (3.39%) PowerApps
14 16 (3.19%) AWS Lambda
15 15 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (2.59%) Microsoft Copilot
17 11 (2.19%) Amazon EKS
17 11 (2.19%) Azure Functions
17 11 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.58%) Firewall
2 26 (5.18%) DNS
3 24 (4.78%) VPN
4 21 (4.18%) TCP/IP
5 16 (3.19%) Network Security
6 12 (2.39%) DHCP
7 10 (1.99%) HTTP
8 9 (1.79%) SSH
8 9 (1.79%) WAN
9 7 (1.39%) BGP
9 7 (1.39%) LAN
9 7 (1.39%) Software-Defined Networking
9 7 (1.39%) Wireless
10 6 (1.20%) VLAN
11 5 (1.00%) 3GPP
11 5 (1.00%) OSPF
11 5 (1.00%) RTP
11 5 (1.00%) SAN
11 5 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
11 5 (1.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 38 (7.57%) PostgreSQL
2 34 (6.77%) Power BI
3 33 (6.57%) Relational Database
3 33 (6.57%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.58%) Metadata
5 21 (4.18%) MySQL
6 20 (3.98%) MongoDB
6 20 (3.98%) NoSQL
7 19 (3.78%) Data Warehouse
8 15 (2.99%) Elasticsearch
9 13 (2.59%) Azure SQL Database
9 13 (2.59%) Big Data
10 10 (1.99%) Data Mining
11 8 (1.59%) Data Lake
11 8 (1.59%) Redis
12 7 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 7 (1.39%) Tableau
13 5 (1.00%) BigQuery
13 5 (1.00%) Flink
13 5 (1.00%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 68 (13.55%) Git
2 45 (8.96%) Jenkins
3 40 (7.97%) GitLab
4 28 (5.58%) JIRA
5 19 (3.78%) JUnit
6 17 (3.39%) Gradle
7 16 (3.19%) Maven
8 15 (2.99%) Selenium
9 14 (2.79%) SonarQube
10 13 (2.59%) Mockito
11 12 (2.39%) REST Assured
12 10 (1.99%) Sonatype Nexus
12 10 (1.99%) SpecFlow
13 9 (1.79%) Cucumber
14 8 (1.59%) Bitbucket Server
15 7 (1.39%) TeamCity
16 6 (1.20%) Bitbucket
16 6 (1.20%) Cypress.io
17 5 (1.00%) Eclipse
18 4 (0.80%) Visual Studio
General
1 265 (52.79%) Social Skills
2 133 (26.49%) Finance
3 132 (26.29%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (13.55%) Banking
5 25 (4.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 25 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.18%) Telecoms
7 19 (3.78%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (3.78%) Front Office
8 15 (2.99%) Aerospace
9 14 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
10 13 (2.59%) Marketing
11 11 (2.19%) Influencing Skills
11 11 (2.19%) Investment Banking
11 11 (2.19%) Manufacturing
12 8 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.59%) Police
13 7 (1.39%) Aviation
13 7 (1.39%) Financial Institution
14 6 (1.20%) Law
Job Titles
1 103 (20.52%) Developer
2 64 (12.75%) Architect
3 63 (12.55%) Senior
4 41 (8.17%) Lead
5 37 (7.37%) Analyst
6 25 (4.98%) IT Support
7 24 (4.78%) Java Developer
8 23 (4.58%) Data Engineer
9 20 (3.98%) Full-Stack Developer
10 19 (3.78%) Senior Developer
10 19 (3.78%) Software Engineer
10 19 (3.78%) Support Analyst
11 18 (3.59%) IT Analyst
12 16 (3.19%) C# Developer
13 15 (2.99%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
13 15 (2.99%) Solutions Architect
14 14 (2.79%) IT Support Analyst
15 13 (2.59%) 1st Line Support
15 13 (2.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 11 (2.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 69 (13.75%) REST
2 47 (9.36%) Terraform
3 46 (9.16%) React
4 44 (8.76%) CSS
5 42 (8.37%) .NET
5 42 (8.37%) HTML
6 41 (8.17%) Kafka
6 41 (8.17%) RESTful
7 30 (5.98%) Spring Boot
8 25 (4.98%) Spring
9 21 (4.18%) OAuth
9 21 (4.18%) SOAP
10 19 (3.78%) .NET Core
11 17 (3.39%) JSON
12 16 (3.19%) OAuth2
13 15 (2.99%) AngularJS
13 15 (2.99%) Middleware
14 13 (2.59%) OpenAPI
14 13 (2.59%) OpenID
14 13 (2.59%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.16%) Management Information System
2 54 (10.76%) Cloud Native
3 36 (7.17%) Product Ownership
4 35 (6.97%) Onboarding
5 30 (5.98%) Data Structures
6 27 (5.38%) Distributed Systems
7 25 (4.98%) Algorithms
8 21 (4.18%) AI Agents
9 20 (3.98%) Enterprise Software
10 17 (3.39%) Hybrid Cloud
11 11 (2.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 11 (2.19%) Legacy Systems
11 11 (2.19%) Virtual Team
12 10 (1.99%) Replication
12 10 (1.99%) Robotics
13 9 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
13 9 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
14 8 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
14 8 (1.59%) Fixed Income
14 8 (1.59%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 75 (14.94%) Windows
2 61 (12.15%) Linux
3 14 (2.79%) Unix
4 13 (2.59%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.39%) Android
6 10 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 10 (1.99%) Windows Server
7 7 (1.39%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.39%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.00%) Mac OS
9 3 (0.60%) Debian
9 3 (0.60%) Rocky
9 3 (0.60%) VMS
9 3 (0.60%) zOS
10 2 (0.40%) MVS
11 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (99.00%) Computer Science
2 201 (40.04%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (31.47%) CI/CD
4 151 (30.08%) Agile
5 142 (28.29%) AI
6 139 (27.69%) DevOps
7 109 (21.71%) Software Engineering
8 99 (19.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 91 (18.13%) Stakeholder Management
10 86 (17.13%) Analytics
11 74 (14.74%) Test Automation
12 67 (13.35%) ITIL
13 66 (13.15%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (12.15%) Scrum
15 59 (11.75%) Microservices
16 56 (11.16%) Containerisation
17 55 (10.96%) Machine Learning
17 55 (10.96%) Migration
18 54 (10.76%) Mentoring
19 53 (10.56%) Generative AI
Programming Languages
1 158 (31.47%) Python
2 134 (26.69%) SQL
3 88 (17.53%) Java
4 68 (13.55%) JavaScript
5 48 (9.56%) C#
6 35 (6.97%) PowerShell
7 33 (6.57%) TypeScript
8 29 (5.78%) Bash
9 13 (2.59%) C++
10 10 (1.99%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.59%) Bicep
12 7 (1.39%) Go
13 6 (1.20%) Perl
13 6 (1.20%) Scala
14 5 (1.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (1.00%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.80%) Apex Code
15 4 (0.80%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.80%) Ruby
15 4 (0.80%) X++
Qualifications
1 502 (100.00%) Degree
2 74 (14.74%) Security Cleared
3 70 (13.94%) Master's Degree
4 60 (11.95%) SC Cleared
5 38 (7.57%) Azure Certification
6 27 (5.38%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (4.18%) AWS Certification
8 19 (3.78%) CISSP
9 16 (3.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
10 11 (2.19%) DV Cleared
10 11 (2.19%) PhD
11 8 (1.59%) MBA
12 7 (1.39%) A+ Certification
12 7 (1.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (1.20%) CCNP
13 6 (1.20%) CISM
13 6 (1.20%) PMI Certification
13 6 (1.20%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.17%) QA
2 30 (5.98%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.19%) NIST
4 9 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.59%) SLA
6 7 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.00%) 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%) PSD2
9 2 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.40%) SEPA
10 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
10 1 (0.20%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 61 (12.15%) Docker
2 29 (5.78%) Active Directory
3 10 (1.99%) 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 76 (15.14%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.78%) Ansible
3 17 (3.39%) Grafana
3 17 (3.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (3.39%) Prometheus
4 12 (2.39%) SCCM
5 5 (1.00%) Argo
6 4 (0.80%) Puppet
7 3 (0.60%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (0.60%) WSUS
8 2 (0.40%) CASB
8 2 (0.40%) Consul
8 2 (0.40%) Data Guard
8 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.40%) Istio
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (0.40%) SCOM
8 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
9 1 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 120 (23.90%) Microsoft
2 45 (8.96%) Oracle
3 30 (5.98%) Google
4 25 (4.98%) Databricks
5 22 (4.38%) IBM
6 19 (3.78%) Splunk
7 17 (3.39%) SAP
7 17 (3.39%) VMware
8 15 (2.99%) ServiceNow
9 13 (2.59%) Cisco
10 12 (2.39%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.99%) Red Hat
12 9 (1.79%) Dynatrace
12 9 (1.79%) Veracode
13 8 (1.59%) OpenAI
14 7 (1.39%) Adobe
14 7 (1.39%) Autodesk
14 7 (1.39%) ForgeRock
14 7 (1.39%) Progress
14 7 (1.39%) UiPath