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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 142 115
Rank change year-on-year -107 -27 +116
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 490 595 849
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.99% 1.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.09% 6.44% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 354 530
10th Percentile £178 £292 £312
25th Percentile £361 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £649
90th Percentile £775 £763 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £514 £475 £519
% change year-on-year +8.21% -8.43% -0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 39
10th Percentile £25.85 £25.00 £25.40
25th Percentile £28.50 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £30.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +91.67% -45.45% -
75th Percentile £132.96 £63.13 £74.38
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.75 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.96 £30.00 £59.38
% change year-on-year +169.85% -49.47% -1.45%

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 15,844 9,241 13,090
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.28% 30.95% 29.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,572 5,751 8,089
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £411 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +1.40% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,165 599 1,132
10th Percentile £17.24 £17.86 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.24 £19.23
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.47% -27.24%
75th Percentile £72.54 £63.13 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.50 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £42.25
% change year-on-year +78.57% -33.73% -19.52%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -99 441 £505 -1.94% 278
UK excluding London -105 240 £514 +8.21% 200
London -85 215 £505 -8.18% 130
Work from Home -97 113 £425 -15.00% 130
North of England -56 75 £500 -4.76% 38
South East -55 63 £400 -18.37% 77
Yorkshire -36 40 £525 +5.00% 8
Midlands -82 39 £656 +40.47% 24
North West -43 35 £366 -31.07% 25
West Midlands -69 30 £671 +19.33% 13
East of England -30 21 £491 - 21
South West -26 19 £518 +39.86% 22
Scotland -26 14 £640 +28.00% 9
Wales -27 8 £530 +82.76% 3
East Midlands -33 8 £573 +27.65% 11
Northern Ireland +3 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 (4.90%) Confluence
2 22 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 16 (3.27%) Apache
4 15 (3.06%) Apache Spark
5 9 (1.84%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.02%) SAS
7 3 (0.61%) Camunda
7 3 (0.61%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.41%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.41%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.20%) CMS
9 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.43%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.43%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.43%) Revit
4 6 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.82%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.82%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.82%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.41%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 2 (0.41%) Workfront
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 189 (38.57%) Azure
2 125 (25.51%) AWS
3 65 (13.27%) GCP
4 47 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
5 40 (8.16%) Power Platform
6 32 (6.53%) Azure DevOps
6 32 (6.53%) GitHub
7 24 (4.90%) SaaS
8 22 (4.49%) Serverless
9 20 (4.08%) Snowflake
10 18 (3.67%) Entra ID
11 16 (3.27%) GitHub Actions
12 15 (3.06%) AWS CloudFormation
12 15 (3.06%) PowerApps
13 14 (2.86%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.65%) Azure AKS
15 12 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
15 12 (2.45%) IaaS
16 11 (2.24%) PaaS
17 10 (2.04%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.90%) TCP/IP
2 18 (3.67%) Firewall
3 15 (3.06%) DNS
4 14 (2.86%) Network Security
5 13 (2.65%) VPN
6 10 (2.04%) WAN
7 8 (1.63%) BGP
8 7 (1.43%) DMZ
8 7 (1.43%) LAN
9 5 (1.02%) 3GPP
9 5 (1.02%) OSPF
9 5 (1.02%) RTP
9 5 (1.02%) Wireless
9 5 (1.02%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.82%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.82%) VLAN
10 4 (0.82%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.82%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (0.61%) IGMP
11 3 (0.61%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.14%) Power BI
2 28 (5.71%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.31%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.90%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.29%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (3.88%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.47%) Metadata
8 16 (3.27%) Big Data
9 14 (2.86%) MySQL
10 13 (2.65%) MongoDB
11 10 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
11 10 (2.04%) Snowflake Schema
11 10 (2.04%) Tableau
12 8 (1.63%) Hadoop
12 8 (1.63%) Redis
13 7 (1.43%) Amazon RDS
13 7 (1.43%) Data Mining
13 7 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 7 (1.43%) Star Schema
14 5 (1.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 53 (10.82%) Git
2 33 (6.73%) JIRA
3 31 (6.33%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.12%) GitLab
5 11 (2.24%) Gradle
5 11 (2.24%) Selenium
6 8 (1.63%) JUnit
7 7 (1.43%) Postman
7 7 (1.43%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.22%) Bitbucket
8 6 (1.22%) CircleCI
8 6 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.22%) Maven
8 6 (1.22%) REST Assured
9 5 (1.02%) Flyway
9 5 (1.02%) SonarQube
10 4 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.82%) Vite
11 3 (0.61%) Eclipse
General
1 242 (49.39%) Social Skills
2 138 (28.16%) Finance
3 126 (25.71%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.84%) Banking
5 24 (4.90%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.69%) Front Office
7 21 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.67%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.86%) Marketing
11 13 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.65%) Investment Banking
11 13 (2.65%) Legal
12 11 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
12 11 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.84%) Aerospace
13 9 (1.84%) Law
13 9 (1.84%) Retail
14 7 (1.43%) Aviation
14 7 (1.43%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 81 (16.53%) Architect
2 69 (14.08%) Developer
3 53 (10.82%) Lead
4 46 (9.39%) Analyst
5 41 (8.37%) Senior
6 28 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (5.31%) Technical Support
8 24 (4.90%) Software Engineer
9 19 (3.88%) IT Analyst
10 18 (3.67%) IT Support
11 16 (3.27%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.27%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.27%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (3.06%) Integration Architect
12 15 (3.06%) Support Analyst
12 15 (3.06%) Technical Architect
12 15 (3.06%) Technical Support Specialist
13 13 (2.65%) IT Support Analyst
14 12 (2.45%) Consultant
15 11 (2.24%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (11.02%) REST
2 37 (7.55%) React
3 32 (6.53%) .NET
4 28 (5.71%) Middleware
4 28 (5.71%) RESTful
5 24 (4.90%) Spring
6 20 (4.08%) OAuth
6 20 (4.08%) Spring Boot
7 17 (3.47%) Kafka
8 16 (3.27%) SOAP
9 15 (3.06%) Elastic Stack
9 15 (3.06%) JSON
10 13 (2.65%) AngularJS
11 11 (2.24%) CSS
11 11 (2.24%) HTML
11 11 (2.24%) Node.js
11 11 (2.24%) PySpark
11 11 (2.24%) PyTorch
11 11 (2.24%) SAML
11 11 (2.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.22%) Management Information System
2 45 (9.18%) Cloud Native
2 45 (9.18%) Onboarding
3 36 (7.35%) Product Ownership
4 24 (4.90%) Distributed Systems
5 19 (3.88%) Derivative
6 18 (3.67%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.27%) Virtual Team
8 15 (3.06%) Data Protection Act
9 14 (2.86%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.45%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.45%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.24%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.24%) Cyberattack
12 11 (2.24%) Equities
12 11 (2.24%) Security Operations Centre
13 10 (2.04%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 85 (17.35%) Windows
2 60 (12.24%) Linux
3 22 (4.49%) Unix
4 17 (3.47%) Android
5 12 (2.45%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.84%) Mac OS
6 9 (1.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.82%) Debian
7 4 (0.82%) Rocky
7 4 (0.82%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.82%) Windows Server
8 3 (0.61%) VMS
9 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.20%) MVS
9 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 483 (98.57%) Computer Science
2 188 (38.37%) Problem-Solving
3 154 (31.43%) Agile
4 139 (28.37%) CI/CD
5 136 (27.76%) AI
6 127 (25.92%) DevOps
7 92 (18.78%) Software Engineering
8 80 (16.33%) Analytics
8 80 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 77 (15.71%) Microservices
10 68 (13.88%) Technical Leadership
11 66 (13.47%) Containerisation
12 62 (12.65%) ITIL
13 58 (11.84%) Migration
13 58 (11.84%) Stakeholder Management
14 56 (11.43%) Cybersecurity
15 55 (11.22%) Data Governance
16 54 (11.02%) Infrastructure as Code
17 48 (9.80%) Data Modelling
18 46 (9.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 157 (32.04%) Python
2 113 (23.06%) SQL
3 80 (16.33%) Java
4 48 (9.80%) JavaScript
5 33 (6.73%) C#
6 21 (4.29%) TypeScript
7 18 (3.67%) Bash
7 18 (3.67%) PowerShell
8 13 (2.65%) Go
9 11 (2.24%) C++
10 10 (2.04%) Perl
10 10 (2.04%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.84%) Kotlin
12 7 (1.43%) Scala
13 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 4 (0.82%) R
14 4 (0.82%) Rust
15 3 (0.61%) Bicep
16 2 (0.41%) Cypher
16 2 (0.41%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 490 (100.00%) Degree
2 89 (18.16%) Master's Degree
3 67 (13.67%) Security Cleared
4 56 (11.43%) SC Cleared
5 30 (6.12%) CISSP
6 23 (4.69%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (4.29%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.67%) CISM
9 17 (3.47%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (3.27%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.86%) DV Cleared
12 13 (2.65%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (2.24%) CompTIA CySA+
14 10 (2.04%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.84%) A+ Certification
15 9 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
15 9 (1.84%) Network+ Certification
15 9 (1.84%) PMP
16 8 (1.63%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.33%) QA
2 24 (4.90%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.88%) GDPR
4 17 (3.47%) NIST
5 13 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.24%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.43%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.02%) PSD2
9 4 (0.82%) GRC
9 4 (0.82%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.82%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.82%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.61%) DICOM
10 3 (0.61%) GAAP
10 3 (0.61%) IFRS
10 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.41%) NCSC
11 2 (0.41%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 73 (14.90%) Docker
2 37 (7.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.22%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) 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%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 88 (17.96%) Kubernetes
2 47 (9.59%) Terraform
3 31 (6.33%) Ansible
4 24 (4.90%) Prometheus
5 23 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
6 22 (4.49%) Grafana
7 6 (1.22%) Puppet
8 5 (1.02%) Kibana
9 4 (0.82%) SCCM
10 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.61%) Control-M
10 3 (0.61%) Foglight
10 3 (0.61%) WSUS
11 2 (0.41%) Consul
11 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.20%) Argo
12 1 (0.20%) CASB
12 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
12 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 118 (24.08%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.55%) Oracle
3 28 (5.71%) Databricks
3 28 (5.71%) Splunk
4 27 (5.51%) Google
5 14 (2.86%) ServiceNow
6 13 (2.65%) SAP
7 9 (1.84%) Salesforce
8 8 (1.63%) Cisco
8 8 (1.63%) IBM
8 8 (1.63%) Informatica
8 8 (1.63%) MuleSoft
8 8 (1.63%) Palo Alto
9 7 (1.43%) Autodesk
9 7 (1.43%) Software AG
10 6 (1.22%) Apple
10 6 (1.22%) Citrix
10 6 (1.22%) Okta
11 5 (1.02%) Ping Identity
11 5 (1.02%) Reuters