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

6 months to
3 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 139 118
Rank change year-on-year -105 -21 +108
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 512 575 815
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.05% 2.00% 1.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.32% 6.43% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 327 341 519
10th Percentile £189 £289 £308
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £645
90th Percentile £775 £775 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.32% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 9 38
10th Percentile £27.83 £23.03 £25.10
25th Percentile £32.34 £29.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £73.46 £30.00 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +144.85% -44.19% -2.27%
75th Percentile £178.75 £67.50 £74.69
90th Percentile - £71.59 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £83.00 £30.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +176.67% -46.67% -6.64%

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 15,413 8,949 12,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.55% 31.10% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 5,610 8,017
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -1.89% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £644
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.30% +1.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,135 529 1,104
10th Percentile £16.88 £17.59 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.50 £18.13
Median hourly rate £48.50 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +49.23% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.68 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.05 £41.27
% change year-on-year +48.21% -22.33% -21.40%

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 3 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 3 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 3 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 -80 461 £503 -2.43% 557
UK excluding London -83 257 £500 +5.26% 332
London -79 215 £525 -4.55% 286
Work from Home -87 118 £425 -11.46% 369
North of England -53 76 £500 -6.89% 64
South East -51 66 £400 -18.37% 118
Midlands -73 44 £625 +37.51% 37
North West -28 38 £368 -32.44% 39
Yorkshire -38 38 £525 +5.00% 14
West Midlands -63 33 £671 +16.72% 25
South West -14 27 £500 +35.14% 36
East of England -26 20 £488 - 33
Scotland -13 16 £620 +27.18% 26
East Midlands -40 10 £545 +21.92% 12
Wales -28 6 £450 +56.52% 6
Northern Ireland +7 4 - - 21

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 28 (5.47%) Confluence
2 21 (4.10%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.52%) Apache
3 18 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 7 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
5 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.78%) SAS
7 3 (0.59%) Camunda
8 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
8 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
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%) Oracle Service Bus
9 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 19 (3.71%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.37%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.37%) Navisworks
3 7 (1.37%) Revit
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Trello
6 1 (0.20%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.78%) Aladdin
2 4 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
3 3 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle Payables
3 3 (0.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.39%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 2 (0.39%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.39%) Workfront
5 1 (0.20%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (0.20%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 193 (37.70%) Azure
2 128 (25.00%) AWS
3 61 (11.91%) GCP
4 45 (8.79%) Microsoft 365
5 34 (6.64%) GitHub
5 34 (6.64%) Power Platform
6 29 (5.66%) SaaS
7 25 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
8 17 (3.32%) Serverless
9 16 (3.13%) Azure AKS
9 16 (3.13%) IaaS
9 16 (3.13%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.93%) AWS CloudFormation
11 14 (2.73%) Entra ID
11 14 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (2.54%) PaaS
13 12 (2.34%) Azure Service Bus
14 11 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
14 11 (2.15%) PowerApps
15 10 (1.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.86%) TCP/IP
2 20 (3.91%) DNS
3 19 (3.71%) Firewall
4 13 (2.54%) WAN
5 12 (2.34%) Network Security
5 12 (2.34%) VPN
6 10 (1.95%) LAN
7 9 (1.76%) BGP
8 7 (1.37%) DMZ
8 7 (1.37%) Wireless
9 6 (1.17%) OSPF
10 5 (0.98%) 3GPP
10 5 (0.98%) RTP
10 5 (0.98%) SAN
10 5 (0.98%) Wireshark
11 4 (0.78%) Software-Defined Networking
11 4 (0.78%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.78%) VLAN
11 4 (0.78%) VXLAN
11 4 (0.78%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (5.86%) Relational Database
2 28 (5.47%) Power BI
3 26 (5.08%) Data Warehouse
3 26 (5.08%) SQL Server
4 20 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.71%) Big Data
5 19 (3.71%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.13%) MySQL
7 14 (2.73%) Metadata
8 12 (2.34%) Elasticsearch
9 11 (2.15%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 9 (1.76%) Tableau
11 8 (1.56%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.56%) Redis
12 7 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
13 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
13 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
14 5 (0.98%) Flink
Development Applications
1 50 (9.77%) Git
2 37 (7.23%) JIRA
3 32 (6.25%) GitLab
4 27 (5.27%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.34%) Gradle
6 10 (1.95%) Selenium
7 9 (1.76%) JUnit
8 8 (1.56%) TeamCity
9 7 (1.37%) CircleCI
9 7 (1.37%) SonarQube
10 6 (1.17%) Cypress.io
10 6 (1.17%) Maven
10 6 (1.17%) Postman
11 5 (0.98%) Flyway
12 4 (0.78%) Artifactory
12 4 (0.78%) Bitbucket
12 4 (0.78%) Cucumber
12 4 (0.78%) REST Assured
13 3 (0.59%) Android Studio
13 3 (0.59%) Liquibase
General
1 253 (49.41%) Social Skills
2 132 (25.78%) Finance
3 125 (24.41%) Analytical Skills
4 64 (12.50%) Banking
5 27 (5.27%) Public Sector
6 25 (4.88%) Presentation Skills
7 21 (4.10%) Front Office
8 18 (3.52%) Telecoms
9 17 (3.32%) Investment Banking
9 17 (3.32%) Legal
9 17 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.93%) Marketing
11 11 (2.15%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
13 9 (1.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 9 (1.76%) Law
13 9 (1.76%) Retail
14 7 (1.37%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.37%) Aviation
14 7 (1.37%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (16.21%) Architect
2 63 (12.30%) Developer
3 59 (11.52%) Lead
4 51 (9.96%) Analyst
5 43 (8.40%) Senior
6 30 (5.86%) Technical Support
7 27 (5.27%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (4.88%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.52%) IT Analyst
10 17 (3.32%) Integration Architect
11 16 (3.13%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.13%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.13%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (2.93%) Technical Support Specialist
13 14 (2.73%) IT Support
13 14 (2.73%) SOC Analyst
13 14 (2.73%) Technical Architect
14 13 (2.54%) Support Analyst
15 12 (2.34%) Consultant
15 12 (2.34%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (11.91%) REST
2 37 (7.23%) React
3 32 (6.25%) .NET
4 30 (5.86%) RESTful
5 28 (5.47%) Middleware
6 23 (4.49%) Spring
7 19 (3.71%) Spring Boot
8 18 (3.52%) Elastic Stack
8 18 (3.52%) SOAP
9 16 (3.13%) Kafka
9 16 (3.13%) OAuth
10 14 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 14 (2.73%) PyTorch
11 13 (2.54%) CSS
11 13 (2.54%) JSON
11 13 (2.54%) XML
12 12 (2.34%) HTML
12 12 (2.34%) Node.js
13 11 (2.15%) Swagger
14 10 (1.95%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.55%) Management Information System
2 46 (8.98%) Cloud Native
2 46 (8.98%) Onboarding
3 31 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 22 (4.30%) Distributed Systems
5 18 (3.52%) Virtual Team
6 17 (3.32%) Cyberattack
6 17 (3.32%) Derivative
6 17 (3.32%) Security Operations Centre
7 16 (3.13%) Algorithms
7 16 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (2.93%) Self-Motivation
9 13 (2.54%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.34%) AI Agents
10 12 (2.34%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.95%) Robotics
11 10 (1.95%) Security Posture
12 9 (1.76%) Equities
12 9 (1.76%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 93 (18.16%) Windows
2 73 (14.26%) Linux
3 27 (5.27%) Unix
4 18 (3.52%) Android
5 13 (2.54%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.95%) Mac OS
7 9 (1.76%) Apple iOS
7 9 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.78%) Debian
8 4 (0.78%) Rocky
8 4 (0.78%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.78%) Windows Server
9 3 (0.59%) VMS
10 1 (0.20%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.20%) MVS
10 1 (0.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (98.63%) Computer Science
2 195 (38.09%) Problem-Solving
3 149 (29.10%) Agile
4 141 (27.54%) CI/CD
5 134 (26.17%) DevOps
6 132 (25.78%) AI
7 103 (20.12%) Software Engineering
8 83 (16.21%) Microservices
9 74 (14.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 73 (14.26%) Analytics
11 69 (13.48%) Technical Leadership
12 68 (13.28%) Containerisation
13 61 (11.91%) Cybersecurity
14 59 (11.52%) Migration
15 56 (10.94%) ITIL
16 55 (10.74%) Infrastructure as Code
16 55 (10.74%) Stakeholder Management
17 54 (10.55%) Data Modelling
18 51 (9.96%) Data Governance
19 49 (9.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 160 (31.25%) Python
2 114 (22.27%) SQL
3 87 (16.99%) Java
4 52 (10.16%) JavaScript
5 32 (6.25%) C#
6 24 (4.69%) TypeScript
7 21 (4.10%) Bash
7 21 (4.10%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.73%) Go
9 13 (2.54%) Perl
10 12 (2.34%) C++
11 10 (1.95%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.95%) Shell Script
12 6 (1.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (1.17%) Scala
13 4 (0.78%) R
14 3 (0.59%) PHP
14 3 (0.59%) Rust
15 2 (0.39%) Bicep
15 2 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 512 (100.00%) Degree
2 93 (18.16%) Master's Degree
3 73 (14.26%) Security Cleared
4 53 (10.35%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.08%) CISSP
6 23 (4.49%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 20 (3.91%) AWS Certification
9 19 (3.71%) CISM
9 19 (3.71%) CompTIA Security+
9 19 (3.71%) DV Cleared
9 19 (3.71%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (3.32%) CompTIA CySA+
12 10 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.95%) Network+ Certification
12 10 (1.95%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.76%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.76%) CCNP
13 9 (1.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.23%) QA
2 21 (4.10%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.10%) GDPR
3 16 (3.13%) NIST
4 13 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 9 (1.76%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.37%) PSD2
7 5 (0.98%) ISO 20022
8 4 (0.78%) GRC
8 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
8 4 (0.78%) ISO 19650
9 3 (0.59%) DICOM
9 3 (0.59%) GAAP
9 3 (0.59%) IFRS
9 3 (0.59%) ISO 8583
9 3 (0.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
10 2 (0.39%) SLA
10 2 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 77 (15.04%) Docker
2 35 (6.84%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.56%) Firmware
4 3 (0.59%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.39%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.20%) ACF2
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%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 94 (18.36%) Kubernetes
2 52 (10.16%) Terraform
3 35 (6.84%) Ansible
4 23 (4.49%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (4.10%) Grafana
5 21 (4.10%) Prometheus
6 8 (1.56%) Puppet
7 7 (1.37%) Kibana
8 4 (0.78%) SCCM
9 3 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (0.59%) Control-M
9 3 (0.59%) Foglight
9 3 (0.59%) WSUS
10 2 (0.39%) Consul
10 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
11 1 (0.20%) HP ALM
11 1 (0.20%) linkerd
11 1 (0.20%) logstash
11 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 122 (23.83%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.81%) Oracle
3 37 (7.23%) Splunk
4 27 (5.27%) Databricks
5 25 (4.88%) Google
6 15 (2.93%) SAP
6 15 (2.93%) ServiceNow
7 11 (2.15%) Cisco
7 11 (2.15%) Salesforce
8 10 (1.95%) Software AG
9 9 (1.76%) Palo Alto
10 8 (1.56%) IBM
10 8 (1.56%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.37%) Autodesk
11 7 (1.37%) Informatica
12 6 (1.17%) Apple
12 6 (1.17%) Citrix
13 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
13 5 (0.98%) Reuters
13 5 (0.98%) Veritas
655 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide