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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 152 105 177
Rank change year-on-year -47 +72 +141
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 627 825 724
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.90% 2.16% 1.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.06% 7.37% 5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 506 499
10th Percentile £287 £350 £325
25th Percentile £400 £450 £434
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £638 £679 £674
90th Percentile £775 £806 £815
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 13
10th Percentile - £45.22 £27.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £49.06 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +9.73%
75th Percentile - £70.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £61.00 £72.63 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £33.50 £65.50 £57.50
% change year-on-year -48.85% +13.91% +79.69%

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 10,344 11,188 13,953
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 29.26% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,455 6,894 9,010
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £707 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 831 654 726
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £16.42
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £49.50 £54.44
Median % change year-on-year -49.19% -9.08% +20.98%
75th Percentile £45.00 £68.00 £69.91
90th Percentile £71.00 £76.00 £78.36
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £51.90
% change year-on-year -52.10% +1.16% +16.21%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree 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 September 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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -34 533 £477 -13.32% 721
UK excluding London 0 289 £450 -18.18% 523
London -42 269 £520 -7.92% 319
Work from Home -30 189 £425 -22.73% 369
North of England 0 82 £450 -14.29% 107
Midlands 0 66 £530 -7.83% 68
South East +11 53 £450 - 195
North West +3 43 £475 +2.70% 52
West Midlands -15 41 £575 - 40
Scotland +7 35 £450 -18.92% 29
Yorkshire -8 33 £420 -23.91% 39
East of England +3 26 £478 -4.50% 66
East Midlands +12 25 £449 +25.98% 26
South West +8 21 £513 -25.32% 44
Wales +11 10 £463 +21.71% 7
North East -10 6 £475 -5.00% 17

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 19 (3.03%) Confluence
2 16 (2.55%) SharePoint
3 12 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 11 (1.75%) Apache Spark
5 8 (1.28%) Apache
6 7 (1.12%) nginx
7 5 (0.80%) CMS
7 5 (0.80%) OpenStack
8 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
9 3 (0.48%) SAS
10 2 (0.32%) IIS
10 2 (0.32%) JBoss
10 2 (0.32%) Luigi
10 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.32%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.16%) Gunicorn
11 1 (0.16%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.16%) Mule
11 1 (0.16%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 33 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.64%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.32%) Trello
5 1 (0.16%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.16%) InDesign
5 1 (0.16%) Notion
5 1 (0.16%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 18 (2.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Aladdin
3 3 (0.48%) Bloomberg AIM
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.32%) Actimize
4 2 (0.32%) Maximo
4 2 (0.32%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.32%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.32%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.32%) SAP CX
4 2 (0.32%) SAP GRC
4 2 (0.32%) SAP PLM
4 2 (0.32%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.32%) Temenos T24
4 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.16%) SAP GTS
5 1 (0.16%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.16%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 157 (25.04%) AWS
2 135 (21.53%) Azure
3 79 (12.60%) GCP
4 43 (6.86%) Serverless
5 41 (6.54%) GitHub
6 29 (4.63%) SaaS
7 28 (4.47%) Power Platform
8 22 (3.51%) Amazon S3
8 22 (3.51%) Microsoft 365
9 18 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
9 18 (2.87%) Azure DevOps
10 17 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
11 12 (1.91%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (1.91%) GitHub Actions
12 11 (1.75%) Snowflake
13 9 (1.44%) Azure Logic Apps
13 9 (1.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 7 (1.12%) Amazon EventBridge
14 7 (1.12%) Amazon SQS
14 7 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (7.97%) Firewall
2 30 (4.78%) DNS
3 27 (4.31%) Network Security
4 25 (3.99%) Wireless
5 23 (3.67%) VPN
6 17 (2.71%) DHCP
7 13 (2.07%) Cisco IOS
7 13 (2.07%) WAN
8 12 (1.91%) BGP
8 12 (1.91%) OSPF
8 12 (1.91%) PuTTY
9 11 (1.75%) TCP/IP
9 11 (1.75%) WLAN
10 10 (1.59%) LAN
11 9 (1.44%) VLAN
12 7 (1.12%) MPLS
12 7 (1.12%) Telepresence
12 7 (1.12%) VoIP
13 6 (0.96%) 802.11
13 6 (0.96%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.54%) NoSQL
2 38 (6.06%) SQL Server
3 35 (5.58%) PostgreSQL
4 31 (4.94%) Relational Database
5 30 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
6 23 (3.67%) Power BI
7 19 (3.03%) MySQL
8 14 (2.23%) Amazon RDS
8 14 (2.23%) Big Data
8 14 (2.23%) Tableau
9 13 (2.07%) MongoDB
10 11 (1.75%) Amazon Athena
11 9 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
12 8 (1.28%) SAP HANA
13 7 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.12%) Power Query
14 6 (0.96%) KDB
14 6 (0.96%) Metadata
14 6 (0.96%) Oracle Database
14 6 (0.96%) Redis
Development Applications
1 67 (10.69%) Git
2 59 (9.41%) JIRA
3 58 (9.25%) Jenkins
4 51 (8.13%) GitLab
5 20 (3.19%) Liquibase
6 18 (2.87%) Postman
7 12 (1.91%) Selenium
8 11 (1.75%) Artifactory
9 7 (1.12%) JUnit
9 7 (1.12%) Subversion
10 6 (0.96%) Bitbucket
10 6 (0.96%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.80%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.64%) CircleCI
12 4 (0.64%) IntelliJ
12 4 (0.64%) webpack
13 3 (0.48%) Eclipse
13 3 (0.48%) JMeter
13 3 (0.48%) MLflow
13 3 (0.48%) REST Assured
General
1 346 (55.18%) Social Skills
2 178 (28.39%) Finance
3 162 (25.84%) Analytical Skills
4 75 (11.96%) Banking
5 33 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
6 27 (4.31%) Financial Institution
7 25 (3.99%) Public Sector
8 24 (3.83%) Front Office
9 22 (3.51%) Investment Banking
10 20 (3.19%) Manufacturing
11 16 (2.55%) Marketing
12 13 (2.07%) Documentation Skills
12 13 (2.07%) Retail
13 11 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 10 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 10 (1.59%) Telecoms
15 9 (1.44%) Presentation Skills
16 8 (1.28%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.28%) Back Office
16 8 (1.28%) Legal
Job Titles
1 125 (19.94%) Developer
2 77 (12.28%) Senior
3 59 (9.41%) Analyst
3 59 (9.41%) Architect
4 34 (5.42%) Software Engineer
5 27 (4.31%) Lead
6 25 (3.99%) DevOps Engineer
7 23 (3.67%) Consultant
8 19 (3.03%) Java Developer
8 19 (3.03%) Senior Developer
9 18 (2.87%) Data Engineer
9 18 (2.87%) Network Engineer
9 18 (2.87%) Technical Support
10 17 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
10 17 (2.71%) Support Engineer
11 16 (2.55%) Cloud Architect
12 14 (2.23%) Senior Software Engineer
13 13 (2.07%) AWS Engineer
13 13 (2.07%) Business Analyst
13 13 (2.07%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (13.24%) REST
2 51 (8.13%) RESTful
3 39 (6.22%) HTML
4 30 (4.78%) CSS
4 30 (4.78%) Kafka
4 30 (4.78%) Middleware
5 28 (4.47%) .NET
5 28 (4.47%) SOAP
6 25 (3.99%) Spring
7 24 (3.83%) Web Services
8 23 (3.67%) React
8 23 (3.67%) XML
9 21 (3.35%) Elastic Stack
9 21 (3.35%) JSON
9 21 (3.35%) OAuth
10 15 (2.39%) AngularJS
11 14 (2.23%) Node.js
12 13 (2.07%) RabbitMQ
13 12 (1.91%) OAuth2
13 12 (1.91%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.96%) Management Information System
2 54 (8.61%) Cloud Native
3 42 (6.70%) Data Protection Act
4 39 (6.22%) Distributed Systems
5 33 (5.26%) Product Ownership
6 27 (4.31%) Algorithms
7 25 (3.99%) Public Cloud
7 25 (3.99%) Security Posture
8 22 (3.51%) Data Structures
8 22 (3.51%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (3.35%) Virtual Team
10 17 (2.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 13 (2.07%) Onboarding
12 12 (1.91%) Hybrid Cloud
13 11 (1.75%) Derivative
13 11 (1.75%) Fixed Income
13 11 (1.75%) Hedge funds
13 11 (1.75%) Legacy Systems
14 10 (1.59%) Data Centre
15 9 (1.44%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 85 (13.56%) Linux
2 50 (7.97%) Windows
3 24 (3.83%) Unix
4 11 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 11 (1.75%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.59%) Android
6 9 (1.44%) Apple iOS
7 7 (1.12%) Mac OS
8 5 (0.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.64%) SUSE
10 2 (0.32%) VMS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 621 (99.04%) Computer Science
2 276 (44.02%) Problem-Solving
3 212 (33.81%) Agile
4 153 (24.40%) DevOps
5 140 (22.33%) CI/CD
6 103 (16.43%) Software Engineering
7 77 (12.28%) Microservices
8 73 (11.64%) Containerisation
8 73 (11.64%) Migration
9 70 (11.16%) Project Management
10 68 (10.85%) Analytics
11 62 (9.89%) Scrum
12 61 (9.73%) Data Protection
13 58 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 58 (9.25%) Mentoring
14 55 (8.77%) Decision-Making
14 55 (8.77%) Infrastructure as Code
15 54 (8.61%) Cybersecurity
16 50 (7.97%) Change Management
17 47 (7.50%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 210 (33.49%) Python
2 123 (19.62%) Java
3 120 (19.14%) SQL
4 66 (10.53%) JavaScript
5 31 (4.94%) Go
6 30 (4.78%) C#
6 30 (4.78%) PowerShell
7 29 (4.63%) Bash
8 27 (4.31%) C++
9 19 (3.03%) Perl
10 16 (2.55%) TypeScript
11 12 (1.91%) Apex Code
12 8 (1.28%) Scala
13 7 (1.12%) R
13 7 (1.12%) T-SQL
14 6 (0.96%) Ruby
14 6 (0.96%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.80%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.80%) Kotlin
16 4 (0.64%) Rust
Qualifications
1 627 (100.00%) Degree
2 108 (17.22%) Master's Degree
3 48 (7.66%) AWS Certification
4 47 (7.50%) Security Cleared
5 34 (5.42%) Azure Certification
5 34 (5.42%) Cisco Certification
5 34 (5.42%) SC Cleared
6 32 (5.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 23 (3.67%) CCNA
7 23 (3.67%) CISSP
8 22 (3.51%) CCNP
9 16 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (2.39%) PMP
11 14 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
11 14 (2.23%) PMI Certification
12 10 (1.59%) CISM
12 10 (1.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
13 7 (1.12%) ISEB
13 7 (1.12%) ISTQB
14 6 (0.96%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (6.70%) Data Quality
1 42 (6.70%) QA
2 33 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (4.31%) GDPR
4 13 (2.07%) GRC
4 13 (2.07%) NIST
5 11 (1.75%) Def Stans
6 9 (1.44%) SLA
7 7 (1.12%) Accessibility
7 7 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 5 (0.80%) SEPA
9 4 (0.64%) HIPAA
9 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
9 4 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 3 (0.48%) MiFID
10 3 (0.48%) NCSC
11 2 (0.32%) COBIT
11 2 (0.32%) PMO
12 1 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 79 (12.60%) Docker
2 17 (2.71%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.96%) VMware NSX
4 6 (0.96%) vSphere
5 3 (0.48%) Apache ZooKeeper
6 1 (0.16%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 80 (12.76%) Kubernetes
2 70 (11.16%) Terraform
3 63 (10.05%) Ansible
4 30 (4.78%) Grafana
5 26 (4.15%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.28%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (1.28%) SCCM
7 7 (1.12%) Argo
8 6 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.80%) Progress Chef
9 5 (0.80%) Puppet
9 5 (0.80%) vRealize
10 4 (0.64%) Kibana
10 4 (0.64%) Kustomize
10 4 (0.64%) vCenter Server
11 3 (0.48%) Consul
11 3 (0.48%) logstash
12 2 (0.32%) HP ALM
12 2 (0.32%) QRadar
12 2 (0.32%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 108 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 46 (7.34%) Cisco
2 46 (7.34%) Google
2 46 (7.34%) Oracle
3 40 (6.38%) SAP
4 35 (5.58%) Splunk
5 32 (5.10%) Salesforce
6 23 (3.67%) IBM
6 23 (3.67%) ServiceNow
7 16 (2.55%) VMware
8 10 (1.59%) Databricks
8 10 (1.59%) Juniper
9 9 (1.44%) Fortinet
9 9 (1.44%) Meraki
10 8 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
10 8 (1.28%) F5
10 8 (1.28%) Remedy
11 7 (1.12%) Aruba
11 7 (1.12%) Peregrine
11 7 (1.12%) Red Hat
816 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide