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

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 275 145 110
Rank change year-on-year -130 -35 +89
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 484 644 814
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 1.97% 2.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.92% 6.37% 6.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 391 513
10th Percentile £189 £295 £321
25th Percentile £360 £399 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £684
90th Percentile £786 £775 £800
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £469 £525
% change year-on-year +3.99% -10.71% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 24
10th Percentile £17.25 £26.20 £23.00
25th Percentile £26.81 £29.00 £40.63
Median hourly rate £41.38 £30.00 £54.38
Median % change year-on-year +37.92% -44.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £86.12 £65.31 £70.25
90th Percentile £178.75 £78.70 £76.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.63 £30.00 £64.00
% change year-on-year +38.75% -53.13% +4.49%

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 16,581 10,104 11,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.37% 30.85% 29.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,078 6,264 7,609
10th Percentile £350 £281 £313
25th Percentile £431 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -0.48% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,220 765 912
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.19
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -23.88%
75th Percentile £73.75 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.02 £75.00 £76.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.79%

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 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 28 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 28 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 -125 432 £500 - 502
UK excluding London -115 223 £488 +3.99% 241
London -95 221 £505 -12.17% 308
Work from Home -112 123 £488 +2.63% 166
North of England -79 68 £507 +6.74% 36
South East -74 59 £400 -18.37% 87
Midlands -74 41 £625 +37.51% 43
Yorkshire -28 38 £525 +30.35% 7
North West -60 30 £402 -16.86% 24
West Midlands -60 27 £671 +16.70% 16
East of England -24 19 £481 +10.00% 32
South West -37 17 £518 +39.86% 23
East Midlands -28 13 £287 -35.68% 27
Scotland -34 13 £313 -30.44% 13
Wales -25 5 £530 +17.78% 6
Northern Ireland - 3 - - 8

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 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 19 (3.93%) Confluence
3 17 (3.51%) Apache
4 15 (3.10%) Apache Spark
5 10 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
6 6 (1.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (1.03%) SAS
8 4 (0.83%) Camunda
9 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.21%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.21%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (3.93%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.45%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.45%) Revit
4 3 (0.62%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.41%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.41%) Trello
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.83%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.83%) Workday HCM
3 3 (0.62%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
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 (0.21%) Finacle
5 1 (0.21%) Maximo
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Equation
5 1 (0.21%) Misys Midas
5 1 (0.21%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 188 (38.84%) Azure
2 124 (25.62%) AWS
3 71 (14.67%) GCP
4 46 (9.50%) Microsoft 365
5 42 (8.68%) Power Platform
6 35 (7.23%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (7.23%) GitHub
7 27 (5.58%) Entra ID
7 27 (5.58%) Serverless
7 27 (5.58%) Snowflake
8 24 (4.96%) SaaS
9 18 (3.72%) GitHub Actions
10 17 (3.51%) Azure AKS
11 15 (3.10%) PowerApps
12 14 (2.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 14 (2.89%) Power Automate
13 13 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
13 13 (2.69%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
15 10 (2.07%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.17%) Firewall
2 18 (3.72%) VPN
3 15 (3.10%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.48%) Network Security
4 12 (2.48%) WAN
5 11 (2.27%) DNS
6 9 (1.86%) LAN
7 8 (1.65%) BGP
8 6 (1.24%) DMZ
8 6 (1.24%) VLAN
8 6 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
8 6 (1.24%) Wireless
9 5 (1.03%) 3GPP
9 5 (1.03%) OSPF
9 5 (1.03%) RTP
9 5 (1.03%) Wireshark
10 4 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
10 4 (0.83%) Software-Defined Networking
10 4 (0.83%) VXLAN
10 4 (0.83%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (7.23%) Power BI
2 29 (5.99%) Relational Database
3 25 (5.17%) SQL Server
4 24 (4.96%) PostgreSQL
5 21 (4.34%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 16 (3.31%) Big Data
8 15 (3.10%) Metadata
9 12 (2.48%) MongoDB
10 11 (2.27%) Azure SQL Database
10 11 (2.27%) MySQL
11 9 (1.86%) Data Mining
11 9 (1.86%) Tableau
12 8 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
12 8 (1.65%) Snowflake Schema
13 7 (1.45%) Elasticsearch
13 7 (1.45%) Star Schema
14 6 (1.24%) Data Lake
15 5 (1.03%) Flink
15 5 (1.03%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 57 (11.78%) Git
2 34 (7.02%) Jenkins
3 29 (5.99%) GitLab
4 26 (5.37%) JIRA
5 11 (2.27%) Gradle
5 11 (2.27%) JUnit
5 11 (2.27%) Selenium
6 8 (1.65%) SpecFlow
7 7 (1.45%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.45%) Maven
7 7 (1.45%) TeamCity
8 6 (1.24%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.24%) REST Assured
8 6 (1.24%) SonarQube
9 5 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 5 (1.03%) Flyway
9 5 (1.03%) Postman
10 4 (0.83%) Android Studio
10 4 (0.83%) Mockito
11 3 (0.62%) Xcode
General
1 244 (50.41%) Social Skills
2 130 (26.86%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (24.59%) Finance
4 58 (11.98%) Banking
5 22 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.13%) Front Office
7 17 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (3.10%) Documentation Skills
10 14 (2.89%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.69%) Marketing
12 12 (2.48%) Organisational Skills
13 11 (2.27%) Investment Banking
13 11 (2.27%) Legal
14 8 (1.65%) Law
14 8 (1.65%) Manufacturing
15 7 (1.45%) Aviation
15 7 (1.45%) Financial Institution
15 7 (1.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 80 (16.53%) Architect
2 76 (15.70%) Developer
3 52 (10.74%) Senior
4 45 (9.30%) Lead
5 31 (6.40%) Analyst
6 22 (4.55%) Software Engineer
7 21 (4.34%) IT Support
7 21 (4.34%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (3.72%) Data Engineer
9 17 (3.51%) IT Analyst
10 16 (3.31%) Full-Stack Developer
10 16 (3.31%) Java Developer
10 16 (3.31%) Senior Developer
11 15 (3.10%) C# Developer
11 15 (3.10%) Support Analyst
11 15 (3.10%) Technical Architect
11 15 (3.10%) Technical Support
12 13 (2.69%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
12 13 (2.69%) IT Support Analyst
13 11 (2.27%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (12.19%) REST
2 39 (8.06%) React
3 38 (7.85%) .NET
4 30 (6.20%) RESTful
5 27 (5.58%) Spring
6 24 (4.96%) Spring Boot
7 22 (4.55%) Kafka
8 21 (4.34%) Middleware
9 17 (3.51%) OAuth
9 17 (3.51%) PyTorch
10 16 (3.31%) CSS
11 15 (3.10%) AngularJS
11 15 (3.10%) SOAP
12 13 (2.69%) HTML
12 13 (2.69%) JSON
13 12 (2.48%) .NET Core
13 12 (2.48%) SAML
14 11 (2.27%) OAuth2
14 11 (2.27%) TensorFlow
15 10 (2.07%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.74%) Cloud Native
2 48 (9.92%) Management Information System
3 42 (8.68%) Onboarding
4 33 (6.82%) Product Ownership
5 26 (5.37%) Distributed Systems
6 24 (4.96%) Algorithms
7 19 (3.93%) AI Agents
7 19 (3.93%) Data Structures
8 16 (3.31%) Enterprise Software
9 14 (2.89%) Analytical Mindset
10 13 (2.69%) Derivative
10 13 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
11 12 (2.48%) Fixed Income
11 12 (2.48%) Virtual Team
12 11 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
12 11 (2.27%) Security Posture
13 10 (2.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 10 (2.07%) Legacy Systems
13 10 (2.07%) Mobile App
13 10 (2.07%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 73 (15.08%) Windows
2 44 (9.09%) Linux
3 16 (3.31%) Android
4 12 (2.48%) Unix
5 10 (2.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 9 (1.86%) Windows 10
7 8 (1.65%) Apple iOS
8 7 (1.45%) Mac OS
8 7 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 5 (1.03%) Windows Server
10 4 (0.83%) VMS
11 3 (0.62%) Debian
11 3 (0.62%) Rocky
12 2 (0.41%) MVS
12 2 (0.41%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (98.97%) Computer Science
2 184 (38.02%) Problem-Solving
3 144 (29.75%) CI/CD
4 141 (29.13%) AI
5 140 (28.93%) Agile
6 121 (25.00%) DevOps
7 96 (19.83%) Software Engineering
8 86 (17.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 84 (17.36%) Analytics
10 68 (14.05%) ITIL
11 65 (13.43%) Microservices
12 63 (13.02%) Stakeholder Management
13 61 (12.60%) Containerisation
14 57 (11.78%) Machine Learning
14 57 (11.78%) Technical Leadership
15 53 (10.95%) Migration
15 53 (10.95%) Test Automation
16 52 (10.74%) Scrum
17 51 (10.54%) Data Governance
18 49 (10.12%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 149 (30.79%) Python
2 112 (23.14%) SQL
3 83 (17.15%) Java
4 49 (10.12%) JavaScript
5 41 (8.47%) C#
6 30 (6.20%) TypeScript
7 25 (5.17%) PowerShell
8 18 (3.72%) Bash
9 8 (1.65%) C++
9 8 (1.65%) Kotlin
9 8 (1.65%) Shell Script
10 7 (1.45%) Go
11 6 (1.24%) Bicep
11 6 (1.24%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (1.24%) Perl
12 4 (0.83%) R
12 4 (0.83%) Ruby
12 4 (0.83%) Scala
13 3 (0.62%) X++
14 2 (0.41%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 484 (100.00%) Degree
2 83 (17.15%) Master's Degree
3 63 (13.02%) Security Cleared
4 52 (10.74%) SC Cleared
5 31 (6.40%) Azure Certification
6 23 (4.75%) CISSP
7 22 (4.55%) AWS Certification
8 21 (4.34%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
10 15 (3.10%) TOGAF Certification
11 11 (2.27%) CISM
11 11 (2.27%) PhD
12 10 (2.07%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.86%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.86%) PMP
14 8 (1.65%) MBA
15 7 (1.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 7 (1.45%) CCNP
16 6 (1.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (1.24%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.23%) QA
2 26 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 14 (2.89%) GDPR
3 14 (2.89%) NIST
4 9 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (1.45%) Accessibility
6 6 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.24%) SLA
7 4 (0.83%) GRC
7 4 (0.83%) ISO 19650
7 4 (0.83%) ISO 20022
8 3 (0.62%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.62%) PSD2
8 3 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
9 2 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.41%) DICOM
9 2 (0.41%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.21%) HIPAA
System Software
1 61 (12.60%) Docker
2 32 (6.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (0.83%) Firmware
4 3 (0.62%) ACF2
4 3 (0.62%) RACF
4 3 (0.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 3 (0.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.41%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
6 1 (0.21%) HDFS
6 1 (0.21%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.21%) Squid
6 1 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 82 (16.94%) Kubernetes
2 42 (8.68%) Terraform
3 24 (4.96%) Ansible
4 21 (4.34%) Prometheus
5 20 (4.13%) Grafana
6 19 (3.93%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.03%) SCCM
8 3 (0.62%) Argo
8 3 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.62%) Foglight
8 3 (0.62%) 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 (0.21%) Data Guard
10 1 (0.21%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 117 (24.17%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.02%) Oracle
3 29 (5.99%) Databricks
3 29 (5.99%) Google
4 18 (3.72%) Splunk
5 17 (3.51%) SAP
6 16 (3.31%) ServiceNow
7 12 (2.48%) Cisco
8 11 (2.27%) IBM
9 9 (1.86%) VMware
10 8 (1.65%) Palo Alto
11 7 (1.45%) Apple
11 7 (1.45%) Autodesk
11 7 (1.45%) Dynatrace
11 7 (1.45%) Salesforce
11 7 (1.45%) UiPath
12 6 (1.24%) Bomgar
12 6 (1.24%) Citrix
12 6 (1.24%) ForgeRock
13 5 (1.03%) Informatica