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 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 138 162
Rank change year-on-year -16 +24 +152
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 644 660 718
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.77% 1.91% 1.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.25% 6.45% 5.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 405 493
10th Percentile £272 £350 £313
25th Percentile £383 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £688 £645
90th Percentile £750 £838 £785
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 13 15
10th Percentile £25.97 £42.13 £42.50
25th Percentile £31.25 £50.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £36.88 £70.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £82.80 - £66.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £65.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -48.85% +19.09% -29.03%

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 12,262 10,228 13,188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.65% 29.58% 29.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,988 6,266 8,308
10th Percentile £310 £305 £300
25th Percentile £415 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,009 495 736
10th Percentile £16.82 £19.72 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.37
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.91 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.99% -20.17% +16.67%
75th Percentile £53.75 £66.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -21 574 £477 -13.32% 751
UK excluding London +13 311 £450 -10.00% 663
London -41 273 £525 -8.70% 191
Work from Home +4 201 £447 -18.73% 417
North of England +25 113 £450 -14.29% 124
South East +36 76 £450 -10.00% 193
Yorkshire +1 64 £473 -14.08% 47
Midlands -23 58 £515 -14.17% 109
North West +5 48 £390 -23.90% 67
West Midlands -28 45 £525 -17.32% 53
South West -3 27 £563 -23.73% 69
Scotland +6 26 £450 +2.86% 51
East of England -41 20 £550 +22.22% 104
East Midlands -11 13 £450 +26.40% 51
Wales -3 4 £450 +39.53% 15
North East -14 1 £450 -21.74% 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 32 (4.97%) Confluence
2 30 (4.66%) SharePoint
3 14 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.55%) Apache
5 9 (1.40%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.09%) nginx
7 5 (0.78%) IIS
8 4 (0.62%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.62%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.47%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.47%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.47%) SAS
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.31%) Luigi
10 2 (0.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Gunicorn
11 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 34 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.31%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.47%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.47%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.47%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.31%) Maximo
5 2 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.31%) SAP CX
5 2 (0.31%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.31%) SAP Travel Management
6 1 (0.16%) FLEXCUBE
6 1 (0.16%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.16%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.16%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 189 (29.35%) Azure
2 184 (28.57%) AWS
3 106 (16.46%) GCP
4 64 (9.94%) Serverless
5 56 (8.70%) GitHub
6 45 (6.99%) Power Platform
7 32 (4.97%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.73%) SaaS
9 23 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
10 19 (2.95%) AWS Lambda
11 17 (2.64%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.02%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (2.02%) IaaS
14 13 (2.02%) OpenShift
14 13 (2.02%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.50%) Firewall
2 17 (2.64%) DNS
2 17 (2.64%) Network Security
3 15 (2.33%) Wireless
4 13 (2.02%) SSH
5 11 (1.71%) HTTP
6 10 (1.55%) VoIP
7 9 (1.40%) VPN
8 8 (1.24%) DHCP
8 8 (1.24%) WAN
9 6 (0.93%) Cisco IOS
9 6 (0.93%) LAN
10 5 (0.78%) CTI
10 5 (0.78%) HTTPS
10 5 (0.78%) PuTTY
10 5 (0.78%) SAN
10 5 (0.78%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.62%) SSL
11 4 (0.62%) Telepresence
11 4 (0.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 65 (10.09%) PostgreSQL
2 57 (8.85%) NoSQL
3 41 (6.37%) Relational Database
4 40 (6.21%) SQL Server
5 32 (4.97%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (4.97%) Power BI
6 26 (4.04%) MySQL
7 19 (2.95%) Big Data
7 19 (2.95%) Tableau
8 14 (2.17%) MongoDB
9 12 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
11 9 (1.40%) Metadata
12 8 (1.24%) Data Lake
13 7 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
13 7 (1.09%) Redis
13 7 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 6 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
14 6 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
14 6 (0.93%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 77 (11.96%) Jenkins
2 76 (11.80%) Git
3 69 (10.71%) GitLab
3 69 (10.71%) JIRA
4 29 (4.50%) Liquibase
5 15 (2.33%) Postman
6 13 (2.02%) Selenium
7 9 (1.40%) Cypress.io
8 7 (1.09%) Artifactory
9 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
10 5 (0.78%) CircleCI
10 5 (0.78%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.78%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.78%) Subversion
10 5 (0.78%) TeamCity
11 4 (0.62%) Hardhat
11 4 (0.62%) webpack
12 3 (0.47%) Eclipse
12 3 (0.47%) MLflow
12 3 (0.47%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 344 (53.42%) Social Skills
2 192 (29.81%) Finance
3 158 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (14.91%) Banking
5 34 (5.28%) Financial Institution
6 32 (4.97%) Public Sector
7 22 (3.42%) Marketing
8 18 (2.80%) Front Office
8 18 (2.80%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.64%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 16 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
11 14 (2.17%) Manufacturing
12 13 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
13 10 (1.55%) Legal
13 10 (1.55%) Retail
13 10 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.40%) Back Office
14 9 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 148 (22.98%) Developer
2 70 (10.87%) Architect
2 70 (10.87%) Senior
3 63 (9.78%) Analyst
4 39 (6.06%) Software Engineer
5 33 (5.12%) Lead
6 27 (4.19%) Senior Developer
7 21 (3.26%) AWS Engineer
7 21 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
7 21 (3.26%) Technical Support
8 19 (2.95%) Cloud Engineer
8 19 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
8 19 (2.95%) Full-Stack Developer
9 18 (2.80%) Java Developer
9 18 (2.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 17 (2.64%) Consultant
10 17 (2.64%) Site Engineer
10 17 (2.64%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 16 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
12 15 (2.33%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 112 (17.39%) REST
2 73 (11.34%) RESTful
3 46 (7.14%) .NET
4 44 (6.83%) Elastic Stack
5 41 (6.37%) HTML
6 34 (5.28%) React
7 33 (5.12%) JSON
7 33 (5.12%) SOAP
8 30 (4.66%) CSS
8 30 (4.66%) Kafka
8 30 (4.66%) XML
9 29 (4.50%) OAuth
10 28 (4.35%) Spring
11 27 (4.19%) Middleware
12 25 (3.88%) Node.js
13 20 (3.11%) LangChain
14 19 (2.95%) OAuth2
15 18 (2.80%) AngularJS
16 17 (2.64%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (2.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 72 (11.18%) Management Information System
2 68 (10.56%) Cloud Native
3 50 (7.76%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (5.90%) Public Cloud
5 32 (4.97%) Product Ownership
6 31 (4.81%) Algorithms
7 25 (3.88%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (3.42%) Data Structures
9 21 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (3.11%) Security Posture
11 14 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
11 14 (2.17%) Onboarding
11 14 (2.17%) Tandem
11 14 (2.17%) Virtual Team
12 13 (2.02%) AI Agents
13 12 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.86%) Derivative
13 12 (1.86%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.55%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 106 (16.46%) Linux
2 78 (12.11%) Windows
3 47 (7.30%) Unix
4 11 (1.71%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.40%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.09%) Android
6 7 (1.09%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.62%) VMS
9 3 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 637 (98.91%) Computer Science
2 268 (41.61%) Problem-Solving
3 243 (37.73%) Agile
4 206 (31.99%) DevOps
5 187 (29.04%) CI/CD
6 118 (18.32%) Microservices
7 115 (17.86%) Software Engineering
8 111 (17.24%) Containerisation
9 80 (12.42%) Analytics
10 79 (12.27%) Infrastructure as Code
11 75 (11.65%) Migration
12 74 (11.49%) AI
13 71 (11.02%) Change Management
14 65 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 65 (10.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 61 (9.47%) Data Modelling
16 60 (9.32%) Decision-Making
17 58 (9.01%) Continuous Integration
18 57 (8.85%) Test Automation
19 54 (8.39%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 245 (38.04%) Python
2 137 (21.27%) SQL
3 122 (18.94%) Java
4 81 (12.58%) JavaScript
5 56 (8.70%) Go
6 46 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 44 (6.83%) C#
8 34 (5.28%) PowerShell
9 30 (4.66%) Bash
10 20 (3.11%) C++
11 19 (2.95%) Perl
12 11 (1.71%) Ruby
13 10 (1.55%) R
13 10 (1.55%) Shell Script
14 9 (1.40%) Apex Code
15 6 (0.93%) Bicep
15 6 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.62%) Solidity
Qualifications
1 644 (100.00%) Degree
2 140 (21.74%) Master's Degree
3 64 (9.94%) Security Cleared
4 43 (6.68%) SC Cleared
5 34 (5.28%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.81%) Azure Certification
7 22 (3.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (3.26%) CISSP
8 21 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 20 (3.11%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (2.64%) PMI Certification
11 15 (2.33%) PMP
12 11 (1.71%) CCNA
13 10 (1.55%) CCNP
13 10 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 10 (1.55%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.40%) DV Cleared
15 8 (1.24%) CISM
16 7 (1.09%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (8.54%) QA
2 41 (6.37%) Data Quality
3 40 (6.21%) GDPR
4 30 (4.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.02%) GRC
6 11 (1.71%) Def Stans
7 10 (1.55%) NIST
8 7 (1.09%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.09%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.09%) HIPAA
9 6 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.93%) SLA
10 5 (0.78%) PMO
11 3 (0.47%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.31%) Basel III
12 2 (0.31%) COBIT
12 2 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.31%) MiFID
12 2 (0.31%) WCAG
System Software
1 120 (18.63%) Docker
2 19 (2.95%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 4 (0.62%) vSphere
5 3 (0.47%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.16%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 120 (18.63%) Kubernetes
2 88 (13.66%) Terraform
3 72 (11.18%) Ansible
4 49 (7.61%) Grafana
5 39 (6.06%) Prometheus
6 15 (2.33%) Puppet
7 10 (1.55%) Kibana
8 7 (1.09%) Argo
8 7 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.09%) SCCM
9 5 (0.78%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.47%) vRealize
11 2 (0.31%) FortiGate
11 2 (0.31%) HP ALM
11 2 (0.31%) Kustomize
11 2 (0.31%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.31%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.16%) logstash
12 1 (0.16%) Packer
Vendors
1 130 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.47%) Splunk
3 46 (7.14%) Google
4 43 (6.68%) Oracle
5 30 (4.66%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.88%) IBM
6 25 (3.88%) SAP
7 21 (3.26%) ServiceNow
8 20 (3.11%) Cisco
8 20 (3.11%) Databricks
9 19 (2.95%) VMware
10 14 (2.17%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.24%) Atlassian
11 8 (1.24%) Pega
12 7 (1.09%) MuleSoft
12 7 (1.09%) OpenAI
13 6 (0.93%) Gemalto
13 6 (0.93%) PagerDuty
13 6 (0.93%) Palo Alto
13 6 (0.93%) Thales
842 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide