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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 260 139 115
Rank change year-on-year -121 -24 +93
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 492 644 839
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.93% 1.98% 1.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 6.44% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 395 520
10th Percentile £195 £303 £313
25th Percentile £361 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.25% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £651 £650 £675
90th Percentile £786 £775 £783
UK excluding London median daily rate £498 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +4.74% -9.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 14 32
10th Percentile £17.25 £26.20 £23.30
25th Percentile £26.25 £29.00 £38.75
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 £71.44
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.70 £83.38
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 16,532 10,007 12,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.39% 30.77% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,048 6,209 7,900
10th Percentile £350 £280 £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 1,192 730 1,045
10th Percentile £17.74 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £50.74 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.76% -40.82% -24.47%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.49 £75.00 £75.85
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.19%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -116 435 £501 +0.25% 293
UK excluding London -117 232 £498 +4.74% 176
London -102 217 £515 -8.44% 167
Work from Home -105 123 £475 -1.04% 117
North of England -74 70 £515 +8.32% 17
South East -69 61 £400 -18.37% 75
Midlands -79 40 £625 +37.51% 25
Yorkshire -31 36 £525 +27.27% 7
North West -54 34 £394 -22.57% 6
West Midlands -69 25 £671 +16.72% 6
East of England -22 21 £491 +12.29% 20
South West -41 18 £518 +39.86% 22
Scotland -27 14 £419 -6.89% 5
East Midlands -29 14 £300 -32.89% 19
Wales -23 6 £530 +18.83% 3
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 14

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 (4.88%) Confluence
1 24 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 18 (3.66%) Apache
3 15 (3.05%) Apache Spark
4 11 (2.24%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (1.02%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (1.02%) SAS
6 4 (0.81%) Camunda
7 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
7 1 (0.20%) CMS
7 1 (0.20%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 21 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.42%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.42%) Revit
4 5 (1.02%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.41%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.81%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.41%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.41%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.41%) 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
1 191 (38.82%) Azure
2 125 (25.41%) AWS
3 68 (13.82%) GCP
4 43 (8.74%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (7.72%) Power Platform
6 35 (7.11%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (6.91%) GitHub
8 27 (5.49%) Serverless
9 23 (4.67%) Entra ID
9 23 (4.67%) SaaS
9 23 (4.67%) Snowflake
10 18 (3.66%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (3.25%) Azure AKS
12 15 (3.05%) PowerApps
13 14 (2.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 14 (2.85%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.64%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.64%) Azure Service Bus
15 12 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
16 11 (2.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.27%) Firewall
2 18 (3.66%) TCP/IP
3 17 (3.46%) VPN
4 15 (3.05%) Network Security
5 13 (2.64%) WAN
6 11 (2.24%) DNS
7 10 (2.03%) LAN
8 8 (1.63%) BGP
9 6 (1.22%) DMZ
9 6 (1.22%) Wireless
10 5 (1.02%) 3GPP
10 5 (1.02%) OSPF
10 5 (1.02%) RTP
10 5 (1.02%) VLAN
10 5 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (1.02%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.81%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.81%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (6.50%) Power BI
2 30 (6.10%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.28%) PostgreSQL
4 25 (5.08%) SQL Server
5 20 (4.07%) Data Warehouse
6 18 (3.66%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.46%) Metadata
8 16 (3.25%) Big Data
9 15 (3.05%) MongoDB
10 13 (2.64%) MySQL
11 11 (2.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 9 (1.83%) Data Mining
13 8 (1.63%) Amazon RDS
13 8 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
13 8 (1.63%) Snowflake Schema
14 7 (1.42%) Data Lake
14 7 (1.42%) Star Schema
14 7 (1.42%) Tableau
15 6 (1.22%) Redis
16 5 (1.02%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 60 (12.20%) Git
2 34 (6.91%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.50%) JIRA
4 30 (6.10%) GitLab
5 12 (2.44%) Selenium
6 11 (2.24%) Gradle
6 11 (2.24%) JUnit
7 8 (1.63%) Postman
7 8 (1.63%) REST Assured
7 8 (1.63%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.42%) Maven
8 7 (1.42%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.22%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.22%) SonarQube
10 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
10 5 (1.02%) Cucumber
10 5 (1.02%) Flyway
10 5 (1.02%) Vite
11 4 (0.81%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.81%) CircleCI
General
1 249 (50.61%) Social Skills
2 133 (27.03%) Analytical Skills
3 129 (26.22%) Finance
4 61 (12.40%) Banking
5 25 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.27%) Front Office
7 17 (3.46%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.64%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.64%) Marketing
12 11 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 11 (2.24%) Legal
13 8 (1.63%) Law
13 8 (1.63%) Manufacturing
14 7 (1.42%) Aviation
14 7 (1.42%) Police
14 7 (1.42%) Retail
Job Titles
1 82 (16.67%) Architect
1 82 (16.67%) Developer
2 51 (10.37%) Senior
3 44 (8.94%) Lead
4 36 (7.32%) Analyst
5 24 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
6 22 (4.47%) Software Engineer
7 20 (4.07%) IT Support
8 19 (3.86%) IT Analyst
9 18 (3.66%) Data Engineer
9 18 (3.66%) Technical Support
10 17 (3.46%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (3.25%) Java Developer
11 16 (3.25%) Support Analyst
12 15 (3.05%) Senior Developer
12 15 (3.05%) Technical Architect
13 14 (2.85%) C# Developer
13 14 (2.85%) IT Support Analyst
14 13 (2.64%) Consultant
14 13 (2.64%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (12.20%) REST
2 41 (8.33%) React
3 38 (7.72%) .NET
4 35 (7.11%) RESTful
5 28 (5.69%) Spring
6 25 (5.08%) Spring Boot
7 23 (4.67%) Middleware
8 19 (3.86%) Kafka
9 17 (3.46%) OAuth
10 16 (3.25%) AngularJS
10 16 (3.25%) CSS
10 16 (3.25%) PyTorch
11 15 (3.05%) HTML
11 15 (3.05%) SOAP
12 14 (2.85%) JSON
13 12 (2.44%) Swagger
14 11 (2.24%) .NET Core
14 11 (2.24%) Elastic Stack
15 10 (2.03%) GraphQL
15 10 (2.03%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 56 (11.38%) Management Information System
2 55 (11.18%) Cloud Native
3 40 (8.13%) Onboarding
4 32 (6.50%) Product Ownership
5 25 (5.08%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.27%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.66%) AI Agents
8 17 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (3.05%) Data Structures
9 15 (3.05%) Derivative
10 14 (2.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.85%) Virtual Team
11 13 (2.64%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
12 12 (2.44%) Fixed Income
12 12 (2.44%) Security Posture
13 10 (2.03%) Equities
13 10 (2.03%) Mobile App
13 10 (2.03%) Robotics
14 9 (1.83%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 76 (15.45%) Windows
2 47 (9.55%) Linux
3 16 (3.25%) Android
4 14 (2.85%) Unix
5 10 (2.03%) Windows 10
6 9 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (1.63%) Mac OS
8 6 (1.22%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.02%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.81%) VMS
11 3 (0.61%) Debian
11 3 (0.61%) Rocky
12 2 (0.41%) MVS
12 2 (0.41%) zOS
13 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (98.98%) Computer Science
2 186 (37.80%) Problem-Solving
3 151 (30.69%) Agile
4 143 (29.07%) CI/CD
5 141 (28.66%) AI
6 128 (26.02%) DevOps
7 98 (19.92%) Software Engineering
8 88 (17.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 80 (16.26%) Analytics
10 72 (14.63%) Microservices
11 67 (13.62%) ITIL
12 62 (12.60%) Containerisation
13 61 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (12.40%) Technical Leadership
14 55 (11.18%) Test Automation
15 54 (10.98%) Machine Learning
16 53 (10.77%) Migration
17 51 (10.37%) Cybersecurity
18 50 (10.16%) Data Governance
18 50 (10.16%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 151 (30.69%) Python
2 112 (22.76%) SQL
3 86 (17.48%) Java
4 50 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 38 (7.72%) C#
6 27 (5.49%) TypeScript
7 20 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 16 (3.25%) Bash
9 11 (2.24%) Go
10 10 (2.03%) Shell Script
11 9 (1.83%) C++
12 8 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 7 (1.42%) Perl
14 6 (1.22%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (1.02%) Bicep
15 5 (1.02%) Scala
16 4 (0.81%) R
17 3 (0.61%) COBOL
18 2 (0.41%) RPG
18 2 (0.41%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 492 (100.00%) Degree
2 94 (19.11%) Master's Degree
3 66 (13.41%) Security Cleared
4 53 (10.77%) SC Cleared
5 33 (6.71%) Azure Certification
6 26 (5.28%) CISSP
7 24 (4.88%) AWS Certification
8 21 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.66%) TOGAF Certification
10 15 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (3.05%) CISM
11 10 (2.03%) DV Cleared
11 10 (2.03%) PhD
12 9 (1.83%) PMI Certification
13 8 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.63%) MBA
13 8 (1.63%) PMP
14 7 (1.42%) A+ Certification
14 7 (1.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 7 (1.42%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (6.91%) QA
2 22 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 17 (3.46%) NIST
4 16 (3.25%) GDPR
5 12 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 9 (1.83%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 5 (1.02%) PSD2
8 5 (1.02%) SLA
9 4 (0.81%) GRC
9 4 (0.81%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.61%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.61%) DICOM
10 3 (0.61%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.41%) ISO 8583
11 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.41%) SOC 2
System Software
1 67 (13.62%) Docker
2 32 (6.50%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.81%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) ACF2
4 3 (0.61%) RACF
4 3 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.20%) HDFS
6 1 (0.20%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.20%) Squid
6 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 85 (17.28%) Kubernetes
2 44 (8.94%) Terraform
3 25 (5.08%) Ansible
4 22 (4.47%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.27%) Grafana
6 18 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.81%) SCCM
8 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.61%) Foglight
8 3 (0.61%) WSUS
9 2 (0.41%) CASB
9 2 (0.41%) Consul
9 2 (0.41%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.41%) Puppet
9 2 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.41%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
10 1 (0.20%) linkerd
Vendors
1 119 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 36 (7.32%) Oracle
3 31 (6.30%) Google
4 30 (6.10%) Databricks
5 19 (3.86%) Splunk
6 16 (3.25%) ServiceNow
7 15 (3.05%) SAP
8 13 (2.64%) IBM
9 11 (2.24%) Cisco
10 8 (1.63%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.63%) Salesforce
10 8 (1.63%) VMware
11 7 (1.42%) Apple
11 7 (1.42%) Autodesk
11 7 (1.42%) UiPath
12 6 (1.22%) Bomgar
13 5 (1.02%) Citrix
13 5 (1.02%) Informatica
13 5 (1.02%) Okta
13 5 (1.02%) OpenAI