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

6 months to
17 Dec 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 162 136 156
Rank change year-on-year -26 +20 +155
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 646 660 712
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.76% 1.92% 1.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.22% 6.47% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 407 488
10th Percentile £272 £350 £312
25th Percentile £383 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.45% +4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £638 £686 £646
90th Percentile £750 £838 £779
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 12 15
10th Percentile £25.59 £42.02 £42.50
25th Percentile - £48.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £52.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £37.81 £70.25 £63.13
90th Percentile £82.90 - £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 12,387 10,203 13,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.67% 29.65% 29.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,064 6,269 8,201
10th Percentile £311 £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 1,011 487 728
10th Percentile £16.35 £19.51 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.38 £24.18 £27.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -25.23% +18.89%
75th Percentile £51.53 £65.81 £67.61
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £52.35
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.79% +17.91%

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 17 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 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 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 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 -17 573 £477 -13.32% 353
UK excluding London +7 315 £450 -10.00% 304
London -37 271 £525 -8.70% 107
Work from Home -14 200 £443 -19.55% 179
North of England +20 114 £449 -14.57% 50
South East +18 76 £450 -10.00% 107
Yorkshire +4 64 £473 -14.08% 17
Midlands -15 57 £525 -12.50% 50
North West +2 49 £396 -20.80% 26
West Midlands -26 44 £528 -16.93% 22
Scotland +12 29 £450 +2.86% 17
South West +6 28 £500 -32.20% 28
East of England -32 20 £550 +22.22% 53
East Midlands -15 13 £450 +26.40% 27
Wales -1 3 £450 +39.53% 7
Northern Ireland -10 1 - - 4
North East -11 1 £450 -21.74% 7

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 33 (5.11%) Confluence
2 30 (4.64%) SharePoint
3 15 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.55%) Apache
5 9 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
6 7 (1.08%) nginx
7 5 (0.77%) IIS
8 4 (0.62%) GeoServer
8 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.62%) Smallworld
9 3 (0.46%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.46%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.46%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.46%) SAS
10 2 (0.31%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 2 (0.31%) Luigi
10 2 (0.31%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.15%) Gunicorn
11 1 (0.15%) Jupyter
11 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
Applications
1 33 (5.11%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (2.32%) 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 (0.15%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 11 (1.70%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (1.55%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.62%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.46%) Bloomberg AIM
4 3 (0.46%) SAP ERP
4 3 (0.46%) Temenos T24
4 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.15%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 1 (0.15%) SAP PLM
6 1 (0.15%) TRIRIGA
Cloud Services
1 188 (29.10%) Azure
2 186 (28.79%) AWS
3 106 (16.41%) GCP
4 65 (10.06%) Serverless
5 56 (8.67%) GitHub
6 45 (6.97%) Power Platform
7 32 (4.95%) Azure DevOps
7 32 (4.95%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (3.72%) SaaS
9 23 (3.56%) GitHub Actions
10 20 (3.10%) AWS Lambda
11 18 (2.79%) Amazon S3
12 16 (2.48%) Amazon ECS
12 16 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
14 13 (2.01%) IaaS
14 13 (2.01%) OpenShift
14 13 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 12 (1.86%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.33%) Firewall
2 20 (3.10%) DNS
3 17 (2.63%) Network Security
4 14 (2.17%) Wireless
5 13 (2.01%) SSH
6 11 (1.70%) HTTP
7 10 (1.55%) VoIP
8 9 (1.39%) VPN
9 8 (1.24%) TCP/IP
10 7 (1.08%) DHCP
10 7 (1.08%) WAN
11 5 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (0.77%) CTI
11 5 (0.77%) HTTPS
11 5 (0.77%) LAN
11 5 (0.77%) SAN
12 4 (0.62%) Internet
12 4 (0.62%) PuTTY
12 4 (0.62%) SSL
12 4 (0.62%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (9.91%) PostgreSQL
2 56 (8.67%) NoSQL
3 41 (6.35%) Relational Database
4 39 (6.04%) SQL Server
5 33 (5.11%) Data Warehouse
6 32 (4.95%) Power BI
7 26 (4.02%) MySQL
8 20 (3.10%) Big Data
9 19 (2.94%) Tableau
10 14 (2.17%) MongoDB
11 12 (1.86%) Amazon RDS
12 11 (1.70%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.39%) Metadata
14 8 (1.24%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
15 7 (1.08%) Redis
16 6 (0.93%) Amazon Athena
16 6 (0.93%) Amazon Redshift
16 6 (0.93%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 76 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 75 (11.61%) Git
3 69 (10.68%) GitLab
4 67 (10.37%) JIRA
5 29 (4.49%) Liquibase
6 15 (2.32%) Postman
7 13 (2.01%) Selenium
8 9 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 7 (1.08%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.93%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.77%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.77%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.77%) SonarQube
11 5 (0.77%) TeamCity
12 4 (0.62%) Hardhat
12 4 (0.62%) Subversion
12 4 (0.62%) webpack
13 3 (0.46%) JUnit
13 3 (0.46%) MLflow
13 3 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 345 (53.41%) Social Skills
2 191 (29.57%) Finance
3 158 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (14.71%) Banking
5 34 (5.26%) Financial Institution
6 33 (5.11%) Public Sector
7 22 (3.41%) Marketing
8 18 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
9 17 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 17 (2.63%) Front Office
9 17 (2.63%) Investment Banking
9 17 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (2.17%) Manufacturing
11 13 (2.01%) Influencing Skills
12 10 (1.55%) Legal
12 10 (1.55%) Retail
12 10 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 9 (1.39%) Back Office
13 9 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 6 (0.93%) Digital Healthcare
Job Titles
1 143 (22.14%) Developer
2 71 (10.99%) Architect
3 66 (10.22%) Analyst
3 66 (10.22%) Senior
4 39 (6.04%) Software Engineer
5 36 (5.57%) Lead
6 23 (3.56%) Senior Developer
7 22 (3.41%) AWS Engineer
8 21 (3.25%) Solutions Architect
8 21 (3.25%) Technical Support
9 19 (2.94%) Cloud Engineer
9 19 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (2.94%) Full-Stack Developer
10 18 (2.79%) Java Developer
10 18 (2.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 18 (2.79%) Site Engineer
10 18 (2.79%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 17 (2.63%) Consultant
12 16 (2.48%) Business Analyst
12 16 (2.48%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (17.18%) REST
2 73 (11.30%) RESTful
3 46 (7.12%) .NET
4 45 (6.97%) Elastic Stack
5 41 (6.35%) HTML
6 34 (5.26%) JSON
6 34 (5.26%) React
7 33 (5.11%) SOAP
8 31 (4.80%) XML
9 30 (4.64%) CSS
10 29 (4.49%) Kafka
10 29 (4.49%) OAuth
11 28 (4.33%) Spring
12 25 (3.87%) Node.js
13 24 (3.72%) Middleware
14 20 (3.10%) LangChain
15 19 (2.94%) OAuth2
16 18 (2.79%) AngularJS
17 17 (2.63%) Web Services
18 16 (2.48%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 75 (11.61%) Management Information System
2 68 (10.53%) Cloud Native
3 50 (7.74%) Distributed Systems
4 38 (5.88%) Public Cloud
5 32 (4.95%) Product Ownership
6 30 (4.64%) Algorithms
7 24 (3.72%) Data Protection Act
8 21 (3.25%) Data Structures
8 21 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (3.10%) Security Posture
10 14 (2.17%) Legacy Systems
10 14 (2.17%) Onboarding
10 14 (2.17%) Tandem
11 13 (2.01%) AI Agents
11 13 (2.01%) Virtual Team
12 12 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (1.70%) Derivative
13 11 (1.70%) Fixed Income
14 10 (1.55%) Data Centre
14 10 (1.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 110 (17.03%) Linux
2 82 (12.69%) Windows
3 48 (7.43%) Unix
4 11 (1.70%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.39%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.08%) Android
6 7 (1.08%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.93%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.62%) VMS
9 3 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Kali Linux
10 1 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 639 (98.92%) Computer Science
2 269 (41.64%) Problem-Solving
3 242 (37.46%) Agile
4 205 (31.73%) DevOps
5 187 (28.95%) CI/CD
6 117 (18.11%) Microservices
7 113 (17.49%) Software Engineering
8 112 (17.34%) Containerisation
9 81 (12.54%) Analytics
10 79 (12.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 76 (11.76%) AI
11 76 (11.76%) Migration
12 71 (10.99%) Change Management
13 67 (10.37%) Stakeholder Management
14 65 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
15 62 (9.60%) Data Modelling
16 60 (9.29%) Decision-Making
17 57 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
17 57 (8.82%) Test Automation
18 55 (8.51%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 245 (37.93%) Python
2 135 (20.90%) SQL
3 123 (19.04%) Java
4 81 (12.54%) JavaScript
5 55 (8.51%) Go
6 46 (7.12%) TypeScript
7 43 (6.66%) C#
8 34 (5.26%) PowerShell
9 31 (4.80%) Bash
10 19 (2.94%) C++
10 19 (2.94%) Perl
11 11 (1.70%) Ruby
12 10 (1.55%) R
12 10 (1.55%) Shell Script
13 9 (1.39%) Apex Code
14 6 (0.93%) Bicep
14 6 (0.93%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.93%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.62%) Kotlin
15 4 (0.62%) PHP
Qualifications
1 646 (100.00%) Degree
2 142 (21.98%) Master's Degree
3 69 (10.68%) Security Cleared
4 47 (7.28%) SC Cleared
5 34 (5.26%) AWS Certification
6 31 (4.80%) Azure Certification
7 22 (3.41%) BPSS Clearance
8 21 (3.25%) CISSP
8 21 (3.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 20 (3.10%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 19 (2.94%) Cisco Certification
11 17 (2.63%) PMI Certification
12 15 (2.32%) PMP
13 13 (2.01%) DV Cleared
14 11 (1.70%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (1.55%) CCNA
15 10 (1.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 9 (1.39%) CCNP
17 8 (1.24%) CISM
17 8 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (8.67%) QA
2 41 (6.35%) Data Quality
3 40 (6.19%) GDPR
4 30 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (2.01%) GRC
6 11 (1.70%) Def Stans
7 10 (1.55%) NIST
8 7 (1.08%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 7 (1.08%) HIPAA
8 7 (1.08%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.93%) Accessibility
10 5 (0.77%) PMO
10 5 (0.77%) SLA
11 3 (0.46%) 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 (18.58%) Docker
2 19 (2.94%) 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 (0.46%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.31%) Firmware
7 1 (0.15%) PowerHA
7 1 (0.15%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 121 (18.73%) Kubernetes
2 88 (13.62%) Terraform
3 73 (11.30%) Ansible
4 49 (7.59%) Grafana
5 39 (6.04%) Prometheus
6 16 (2.48%) Puppet
7 11 (1.70%) Kibana
8 7 (1.08%) Argo
8 7 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
8 7 (1.08%) SCCM
9 5 (0.77%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.46%) 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 (0.15%) SCOM
12 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 128 (19.81%) Microsoft
2 66 (10.22%) Splunk
3 46 (7.12%) Google
4 43 (6.66%) Oracle
5 28 (4.33%) Salesforce
6 25 (3.87%) IBM
6 25 (3.87%) SAP
7 21 (3.25%) Databricks
7 21 (3.25%) ServiceNow
8 19 (2.94%) Cisco
8 19 (2.94%) VMware
9 14 (2.17%) Red Hat
10 8 (1.24%) Atlassian
10 8 (1.24%) Pega
11 7 (1.08%) MuleSoft
11 7 (1.08%) OpenAI
12 6 (0.93%) Foundry
12 6 (0.93%) PagerDuty
12 6 (0.93%) Palo Alto
12 6 (0.93%) Thales
384 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide