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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 143 112
Rank change year-on-year -115 -31 +105
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 494 600 857
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.97% 1.96% 1.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.10% 6.36% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 356 538
10th Percentile £178 £298 £312
25th Percentile £359 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £684 £650 £653
90th Percentile £788 £769 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 38
10th Percentile £25.85 £25.80 £25.10
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 £58.75 £74.69
90th Percentile £178.75 £68.50 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £80.96 £30.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +169.85% -52.00% -3.85%

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 15,943 9,435 12,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.26% 30.88% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,653 5,854 8,007
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -0.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £702 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +1.40% -4.76% -0.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,163 625 1,119
10th Percentile £17.64 £17.83 £14.00
25th Percentile £24.22 £20.24 £20.00
Median hourly rate £51.00 £28.55 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +78.63% -30.26% -26.47%
75th Percentile £72.54 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £27.39 £43.00
% change year-on-year +82.57% -36.31% -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 28 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 28 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 28 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 -105 443 £503 -2.43% 319
UK excluding London -114 240 £500 +5.26% 207
London -82 219 £505 -8.18% 167
Work from Home -97 116 £429 -14.20% 136
North of England -50 75 £514 +0.29% 31
South East -53 62 £400 -18.37% 79
Yorkshire -23 41 £525 +5.00% 7
Midlands -81 39 £656 +41.08% 32
North West -50 34 £374 -28.76% 20
West Midlands -66 29 £671 +16.74% 16
East of England -27 21 £491 - 21
South West -34 19 £518 +39.86% 25
Scotland -24 15 £525 +5.00% 9
East Midlands -29 9 £573 +27.22% 16
Wales -29 8 £530 +50.89% 2
Northern Ireland +3 3 - - 17

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 (4.86%) Confluence
2 22 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 17 (3.44%) Apache
4 16 (3.24%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.02%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (1.01%) SAS
7 3 (0.61%) Camunda
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
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
9 1 (0.20%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.42%) Navisworks
4 7 (1.42%) Revit
5 6 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.40%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.40%) Trello
7 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (0.81%) Aladdin
1 4 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (0.61%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.40%) Workfront
4 1 (0.20%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.20%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.20%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 193 (39.07%) Azure
2 124 (25.10%) AWS
3 67 (13.56%) GCP
4 48 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
5 38 (7.69%) Power Platform
6 35 (7.09%) Azure DevOps
7 34 (6.88%) GitHub
8 24 (4.86%) Serverless
9 23 (4.66%) SaaS
10 21 (4.25%) Snowflake
11 20 (4.05%) Entra ID
12 17 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
13 16 (3.24%) AWS CloudFormation
14 15 (3.04%) Azure AKS
14 15 (3.04%) PowerApps
15 14 (2.83%) Power Automate
16 13 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
16 13 (2.63%) IaaS
17 12 (2.43%) PaaS
18 11 (2.23%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.25%) TCP/IP
2 20 (4.05%) Firewall
3 14 (2.83%) Network Security
3 14 (2.83%) VPN
4 13 (2.63%) DNS
5 10 (2.02%) WAN
6 8 (1.62%) BGP
7 7 (1.42%) DMZ
7 7 (1.42%) LAN
8 5 (1.01%) 3GPP
8 5 (1.01%) OSPF
8 5 (1.01%) RTP
8 5 (1.01%) Wireless
8 5 (1.01%) Wireshark
9 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
9 4 (0.81%) VLAN
9 4 (0.81%) VXLAN
9 4 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (0.61%) MPLS
10 3 (0.61%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (6.68%) Power BI
2 29 (5.87%) Relational Database
3 26 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 25 (5.06%) PostgreSQL
5 23 (4.66%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (4.25%) NoSQL
7 17 (3.44%) Metadata
7 17 (3.44%) MySQL
8 16 (3.24%) Big Data
9 15 (3.04%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.82%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.82%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.82%) Tableau
11 8 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.62%) Hadoop
12 7 (1.42%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (1.42%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.42%) Data Mining
12 7 (1.42%) Redis
12 7 (1.42%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 56 (11.34%) Git
2 33 (6.68%) JIRA
3 32 (6.48%) Jenkins
4 30 (6.07%) GitLab
5 13 (2.63%) Selenium
6 10 (2.02%) Gradle
7 9 (1.82%) JUnit
8 8 (1.62%) Postman
9 7 (1.42%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.42%) REST Assured
9 7 (1.42%) TeamCity
10 6 (1.21%) Bitbucket
10 6 (1.21%) Cucumber
10 6 (1.21%) Maven
11 5 (1.01%) CircleCI
11 5 (1.01%) Flyway
11 5 (1.01%) SonarQube
11 5 (1.01%) Vite
12 3 (0.61%) Liquibase
12 3 (0.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 246 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 136 (27.53%) Finance
3 129 (26.11%) Analytical Skills
4 58 (11.74%) Banking
5 24 (4.86%) Public Sector
6 23 (4.66%) Front Office
7 20 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
8 18 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.83%) Marketing
11 13 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
11 13 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 13 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.63%) Investment Banking
12 12 (2.43%) Legal
13 9 (1.82%) Law
13 9 (1.82%) Retail
14 8 (1.62%) Aerospace
14 8 (1.62%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.42%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 81 (16.40%) Architect
2 71 (14.37%) Developer
3 51 (10.32%) Lead
4 43 (8.70%) Senior
5 40 (8.10%) Analyst
6 27 (5.47%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (5.26%) Technical Support
8 23 (4.66%) Software Engineer
9 19 (3.85%) IT Analyst
9 19 (3.85%) IT Support
10 17 (3.44%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.24%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.24%) Technical Architect
11 16 (3.24%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (3.04%) Support Analyst
12 15 (3.04%) Technical Support Specialist
13 14 (2.83%) Integration Architect
14 13 (2.63%) Consultant
14 13 (2.63%) IT Support Analyst
14 13 (2.63%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (10.73%) REST
2 40 (8.10%) React
3 34 (6.88%) .NET
4 30 (6.07%) RESTful
5 27 (5.47%) Middleware
5 27 (5.47%) Spring
6 23 (4.66%) Spring Boot
7 18 (3.64%) OAuth
8 17 (3.44%) Kafka
9 15 (3.04%) SOAP
10 14 (2.83%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.83%) CSS
10 14 (2.83%) Elastic Stack
10 14 (2.83%) HTML
10 14 (2.83%) JSON
11 11 (2.23%) Node.js
11 11 (2.23%) PySpark
11 11 (2.23%) PyTorch
11 11 (2.23%) SAML
12 9 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.54%) Management Information System
2 47 (9.51%) Cloud Native
3 45 (9.11%) Onboarding
4 37 (7.49%) Product Ownership
5 24 (4.86%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (3.85%) Algorithms
7 17 (3.44%) Derivative
8 16 (3.24%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.83%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.83%) Enterprise Software
10 13 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
10 13 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.43%) AI Agents
11 12 (2.43%) Analytical Mindset
11 12 (2.43%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.43%) Security Posture
12 11 (2.23%) Equities
13 10 (2.02%) Robotics
14 9 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (1.82%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 82 (16.60%) Windows
2 56 (11.34%) Linux
3 21 (4.25%) Unix
4 16 (3.24%) Android
5 12 (2.43%) Windows 10
6 10 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.82%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.82%) Mac OS
8 5 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.81%) Debian
9 4 (0.81%) Rocky
9 4 (0.81%) VMS
10 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
11 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.20%) MVS
11 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 487 (98.58%) Computer Science
2 190 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (31.78%) Agile
4 141 (28.54%) CI/CD
5 137 (27.73%) AI
6 131 (26.52%) DevOps
7 93 (18.83%) Software Engineering
8 85 (17.21%) Continuous Improvement
9 82 (16.60%) Analytics
10 76 (15.38%) Microservices
11 68 (13.77%) Containerisation
12 67 (13.56%) ITIL
12 67 (13.56%) Technical Leadership
13 58 (11.74%) Stakeholder Management
14 57 (11.54%) Migration
15 56 (11.34%) Infrastructure as Code
16 55 (11.13%) Cybersecurity
16 55 (11.13%) Data Governance
17 49 (9.92%) Test Automation
18 48 (9.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 156 (31.58%) Python
2 114 (23.08%) SQL
3 84 (17.00%) Java
4 53 (10.73%) JavaScript
5 35 (7.09%) C#
6 24 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 19 (3.85%) PowerShell
8 17 (3.44%) Bash
9 13 (2.63%) Go
10 10 (2.02%) C++
10 10 (2.02%) Perl
10 10 (2.02%) Shell Script
11 8 (1.62%) Kotlin
11 8 (1.62%) Scala
12 6 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 4 (0.81%) Bicep
14 3 (0.61%) COBOL
14 3 (0.61%) R
14 3 (0.61%) Rust
15 2 (0.40%) RPG
Qualifications
1 494 (100.00%) Degree
2 88 (17.81%) Master's Degree
3 66 (13.36%) Security Cleared
4 55 (11.13%) SC Cleared
5 30 (6.07%) CISSP
6 24 (4.86%) Azure Certification
6 24 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (4.45%) AWS Certification
8 18 (3.64%) CISM
9 17 (3.44%) TOGAF Certification
10 16 (3.24%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (2.23%) DV Cleared
12 10 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
12 10 (2.02%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.82%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.82%) Network+ Certification
13 9 (1.82%) PMP
14 8 (1.62%) CompTIA CySA+
15 7 (1.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.48%) QA
2 24 (4.86%) Data Quality
3 18 (3.64%) GDPR
4 17 (3.44%) NIST
5 13 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (2.23%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.42%) Accessibility
8 6 (1.21%) GRC
9 5 (1.01%) PSD2
10 4 (0.81%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 19650
10 4 (0.81%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.61%) DICOM
11 3 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.61%) SLA
11 3 (0.61%) SOC 2
12 2 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.40%) NCSC
12 2 (0.40%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.40%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 75 (15.18%) Docker
2 37 (7.49%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.01%) Firmware
4 3 (0.61%) 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 90 (18.22%) Kubernetes
2 48 (9.72%) Terraform
3 30 (6.07%) Ansible
4 23 (4.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (4.66%) Prometheus
5 21 (4.25%) Grafana
6 5 (1.01%) Puppet
7 4 (0.81%) Kibana
7 4 (0.81%) SCCM
8 3 (0.61%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.61%) Foglight
8 3 (0.61%) WSUS
9 2 (0.40%) Consul
9 2 (0.40%) Control-M
9 2 (0.40%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.40%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) CASB
10 1 (0.20%) Istio
Vendors
1 120 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 38 (7.69%) Oracle
3 29 (5.87%) Databricks
4 27 (5.47%) Google
5 24 (4.86%) Splunk
6 16 (3.24%) ServiceNow
7 13 (2.63%) SAP
8 9 (1.82%) IBM
8 9 (1.82%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.62%) Cisco
9 8 (1.62%) Palo Alto
10 7 (1.42%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.42%) Informatica
11 6 (1.21%) Citrix
11 6 (1.21%) MuleSoft
11 6 (1.21%) Okta
11 6 (1.21%) Software AG
12 5 (1.01%) Ping Identity
12 5 (1.01%) Reuters
12 5 (1.01%) UiPath