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

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 253 143 116
Rank change year-on-year -110 -27 +98
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 516 643 847
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.98% 1.98% 1.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.11% 6.45% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 319 393 528
10th Percentile £178 £308 £313
25th Percentile £359 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £778 £773 £777
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 14 35
10th Percentile £17.25 £26.20 £24.20
25th Percentile £27.94 £29.00 £40.00
Median hourly rate £41.38 £30.00 £56.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -46.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £87.16 £65.31 £72.63
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.70 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -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 16,603 9,976 12,858
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.39% 30.74% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,094 6,194 8,008
10th Percentile £350 £280 £310
25th Percentile £428 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £524 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.24% -0.24% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £622 £638
90th Percentile £713 £702 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,198 706 1,091
10th Percentile £17.56 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.20 £20.00 £20.24
Median hourly rate £50.00 £27.45 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +82.15% -33.86% -24.72%
75th Percentile £72.54 £58.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.25 £75.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -20.54%

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 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 11 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 11 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 -98 459 £500 - 339
UK excluding London -115 243 £500 +5.26% 211
London -77 233 £500 -9.09% 180
Work from Home -101 123 £470 -6.00% 135
North of England -67 75 £515 +8.42% 23
South East -66 61 £400 -18.70% 85
Midlands -75 43 £625 +34.41% 37
Yorkshire -33 41 £525 +26.13% 7
North West -56 34 £387 -26.26% 10
West Midlands -71 28 £671 +16.72% 13
East of England -27 21 £491 +12.29% 23
South West -32 19 £518 +39.86% 25
Scotland -28 15 £525 +5.00% 4
East Midlands -32 14 £447 -1.65% 23
Wales -24 8 £530 +23.47% 3
Northern Ireland +7 3 - - 16

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 (4.65%) Confluence
2 22 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 19 (3.68%) Apache
4 16 (3.10%) Apache Spark
5 11 (2.13%) Apache Airflow
6 5 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
6 5 (0.97%) SAS
7 3 (0.58%) Camunda
8 1 (0.19%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.19%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.19%) CMS
8 1 (0.19%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.19%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 22 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.55%) MS Visio
4 7 (1.36%) Navisworks
4 7 (1.36%) Revit
5 6 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.39%) Trello
7 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.97%) Payment Gateway
1 5 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.78%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.39%) Workfront
5 1 (0.19%) Maximo
5 1 (0.19%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.19%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.19%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.19%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.19%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 205 (39.73%) Azure
2 131 (25.39%) AWS
3 74 (14.34%) GCP
4 49 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
5 41 (7.95%) Power Platform
6 37 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
6 37 (7.17%) GitHub
7 27 (5.23%) Serverless
8 24 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 24 (4.65%) SaaS
9 23 (4.46%) Snowflake
10 18 (3.49%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (3.10%) AWS CloudFormation
11 16 (3.10%) Azure AKS
12 15 (2.91%) PowerApps
13 14 (2.71%) Azure Service Bus
13 14 (2.71%) Power Automate
14 13 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
14 13 (2.52%) Azure Cosmos DB
14 13 (2.52%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.46%) Firewall
2 21 (4.07%) TCP/IP
3 17 (3.29%) VPN
4 16 (3.10%) Network Security
5 15 (2.91%) DNS
6 13 (2.52%) WAN
7 10 (1.94%) LAN
8 8 (1.55%) BGP
9 6 (1.16%) DMZ
9 6 (1.16%) Wireless
10 5 (0.97%) 3GPP
10 5 (0.97%) OSPF
10 5 (0.97%) RTP
10 5 (0.97%) VLAN
10 5 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
10 5 (0.97%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.78%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.78%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (6.78%) Power BI
2 30 (5.81%) Relational Database
3 28 (5.43%) PostgreSQL
3 28 (5.43%) SQL Server
4 23 (4.46%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (4.07%) NoSQL
6 17 (3.29%) Big Data
6 17 (3.29%) Metadata
7 16 (3.10%) MySQL
8 15 (2.91%) MongoDB
9 12 (2.33%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (1.74%) Data Mining
10 9 (1.74%) Elasticsearch
10 9 (1.74%) Tableau
11 8 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (1.55%) Snowflake Schema
12 7 (1.36%) Data Lake
12 7 (1.36%) Star Schema
13 6 (1.16%) Hadoop
13 6 (1.16%) Redis
Development Applications
1 62 (12.02%) Git
2 33 (6.40%) Jenkins
3 32 (6.20%) JIRA
4 30 (5.81%) GitLab
5 12 (2.33%) Selenium
6 10 (1.94%) Gradle
6 10 (1.94%) JUnit
7 8 (1.55%) Postman
8 7 (1.36%) REST Assured
8 7 (1.36%) SpecFlow
8 7 (1.36%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.16%) Bitbucket
9 6 (1.16%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.16%) Maven
10 5 (0.97%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.97%) Flyway
10 5 (0.97%) SonarQube
10 5 (0.97%) Vite
11 4 (0.78%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.78%) CircleCI
General
1 258 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 137 (26.55%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (25.97%) Finance
4 59 (11.43%) Banking
5 26 (5.04%) Public Sector
6 22 (4.26%) Front Office
7 19 (3.68%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.29%) Presentation Skills
8 17 (3.29%) Telecoms
9 16 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 14 (2.71%) Marketing
11 13 (2.52%) Influencing Skills
11 13 (2.52%) Legal
12 11 (2.13%) Investment Banking
13 9 (1.74%) Retail
14 8 (1.55%) Law
14 8 (1.55%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.36%) Aviation
15 7 (1.36%) Police
Job Titles
1 84 (16.28%) Architect
2 82 (15.89%) Developer
3 51 (9.88%) Senior
4 49 (9.50%) Lead
5 38 (7.36%) Analyst
6 25 (4.84%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (4.65%) Software Engineer
7 24 (4.65%) Technical Support
8 20 (3.88%) IT Support
9 19 (3.68%) Data Engineer
9 19 (3.68%) IT Analyst
10 16 (3.10%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (3.10%) Java Developer
10 16 (3.10%) Support Analyst
10 16 (3.10%) Support Specialist
10 16 (3.10%) Technical Architect
10 16 (3.10%) Technical Specialist
11 15 (2.91%) Technical Support Specialist
12 14 (2.71%) IT Support Analyst
12 14 (2.71%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.43%) REST
2 41 (7.95%) .NET
2 41 (7.95%) React
3 38 (7.36%) RESTful
4 28 (5.43%) Spring
5 24 (4.65%) Middleware
5 24 (4.65%) Spring Boot
6 18 (3.49%) Kafka
6 18 (3.49%) OAuth
7 16 (3.10%) AngularJS
7 16 (3.10%) CSS
7 16 (3.10%) HTML
7 16 (3.10%) PyTorch
8 15 (2.91%) SOAP
9 14 (2.71%) JSON
10 12 (2.33%) .NET Core
10 12 (2.33%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (2.13%) Node.js
11 11 (2.13%) PySpark
11 11 (2.13%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 57 (11.05%) Management Information System
2 55 (10.66%) Cloud Native
3 46 (8.91%) Onboarding
4 36 (6.98%) Product Ownership
5 26 (5.04%) Distributed Systems
6 21 (4.07%) Algorithms
7 18 (3.49%) AI Agents
8 16 (3.10%) Derivative
8 16 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (2.91%) Virtual Team
10 14 (2.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 14 (2.71%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (2.71%) Data Structures
11 13 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (2.33%) Fixed Income
12 12 (2.33%) Security Posture
13 11 (2.13%) Equities
14 10 (1.94%) Mobile App
14 10 (1.94%) Robotics
15 9 (1.74%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (16.28%) Windows
2 53 (10.27%) Linux
3 17 (3.29%) Unix
4 16 (3.10%) Android
5 11 (2.13%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 9 (1.74%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.74%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.36%) Ubuntu
9 5 (0.97%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.78%) Debian
10 4 (0.78%) Rocky
10 4 (0.78%) VMS
11 1 (0.19%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.19%) MVS
11 1 (0.19%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (98.84%) Computer Science
2 201 (38.95%) Problem-Solving
3 157 (30.43%) Agile
4 153 (29.65%) CI/CD
5 148 (28.68%) AI
6 135 (26.16%) DevOps
7 100 (19.38%) Software Engineering
8 88 (17.05%) Continuous Improvement
9 87 (16.86%) Analytics
10 79 (15.31%) Microservices
11 70 (13.57%) Containerisation
12 69 (13.37%) ITIL
13 65 (12.60%) Technical Leadership
14 61 (11.82%) Stakeholder Management
15 58 (11.24%) Infrastructure as Code
16 57 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
16 57 (11.05%) Test Automation
17 56 (10.85%) Migration
18 54 (10.47%) Machine Learning
19 53 (10.27%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 164 (31.78%) Python
2 122 (23.64%) SQL
3 89 (17.25%) Java
4 52 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 39 (7.56%) C#
6 27 (5.23%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.07%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.49%) Bash
9 13 (2.52%) Go
10 11 (2.13%) Shell Script
11 10 (1.94%) C++
12 8 (1.55%) Kotlin
12 8 (1.55%) Perl
13 6 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.16%) Scala
14 5 (0.97%) Bicep
15 4 (0.78%) R
16 3 (0.58%) COBOL
17 2 (0.39%) RPG
17 2 (0.39%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 516 (100.00%) Degree
2 99 (19.19%) Master's Degree
3 67 (12.98%) Security Cleared
4 54 (10.47%) SC Cleared
5 32 (6.20%) Azure Certification
6 31 (6.01%) CISSP
7 24 (4.65%) AWS Certification
8 22 (4.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 18 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
9 18 (3.49%) CISM
9 18 (3.49%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (2.13%) DV Cleared
11 10 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (1.94%) PhD
12 9 (1.74%) PMI Certification
13 8 (1.55%) A+ Certification
13 8 (1.55%) CCNP
13 8 (1.55%) MBA
13 8 (1.55%) Network+ Certification
13 8 (1.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (6.40%) QA
2 24 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 19 (3.68%) GDPR
3 19 (3.68%) NIST
4 13 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (2.13%) PCI DSS
6 7 (1.36%) Accessibility
7 6 (1.16%) GRC
8 5 (0.97%) PSD2
9 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 19650
9 4 (0.78%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.78%) SLA
10 3 (0.58%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.58%) DICOM
10 3 (0.58%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.58%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 75 (14.53%) Docker
2 39 (7.56%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.78%) Firmware
4 3 (0.58%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.19%) ACF2
6 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.19%) HDFS
6 1 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.19%) RACF
6 1 (0.19%) Squid
6 1 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 93 (18.02%) Kubernetes
2 50 (9.69%) Terraform
3 28 (5.43%) Ansible
4 24 (4.65%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (4.26%) Prometheus
6 21 (4.07%) Grafana
7 4 (0.78%) SCCM
8 3 (0.58%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.58%) Foglight
8 3 (0.58%) Puppet
8 3 (0.58%) WSUS
9 2 (0.39%) CASB
9 2 (0.39%) Consul
9 2 (0.39%) HP ALM
9 2 (0.39%) Kibana
9 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
10 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.19%) Argo
10 1 (0.19%) Istio
Vendors
1 126 (24.42%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.75%) Oracle
3 36 (6.98%) Google
4 31 (6.01%) Databricks
5 23 (4.46%) Splunk
6 16 (3.10%) ServiceNow
7 15 (2.91%) SAP
8 12 (2.33%) Cisco
9 10 (1.94%) IBM
10 9 (1.74%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.55%) Palo Alto
11 8 (1.55%) VMware
12 7 (1.36%) Autodesk
12 7 (1.36%) UiPath
13 6 (1.16%) Apple
13 6 (1.16%) Okta
14 5 (0.97%) Bomgar
14 5 (0.97%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.97%) OpenAI
14 5 (0.97%) Ping Identity