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

6 months to
29 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 142 120
Rank change year-on-year -106 -22 +116
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 511 567 807
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.04% 1.97% 1.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.30% 6.35% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 337 511
10th Percentile £189 £289 £300
25th Percentile £359 £399 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% -4.76% -8.70%
75th Percentile £684 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £768 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 38
10th Percentile £25.70 £22.04 £25.10
25th Percentile £28.50 £28.00 £38.75
Median hourly rate £62.25 £43.75 £53.75
Median % change year-on-year +42.29% -18.60% -2.27%
75th Percentile £178.75 £67.81 £74.69
90th Percentile - £73.01 £83.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £82.00 £30.00 £56.25
% change year-on-year +173.33% -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 15,473 8,923 12,806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 31.03% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,267 5,624 8,010
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -1.84% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £645
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £534
% change year-on-year - -6.28% +1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 519 1,084
10th Percentile £16.35 £17.86 £13.74
25th Percentile £21.33 £21.39 £18.00
Median hourly rate £48.05 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.85% -18.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.50 £65.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £78.37 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £32.05 £40.94
% change year-on-year +48.21% -21.71% -18.12%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -85 459 £500 -2.44% 404
UK excluding London -74 258 £500 +5.26% 259
London -74 213 £515 -6.36% 194
Work from Home -74 118 £425 -11.46% 169
North of England -51 74 £500 -6.89% 53
South East -43 65 £400 -18.37% 97
Midlands -69 47 £559 +21.73% 27
North West -26 37 £374 -31.25% 32
Yorkshire -34 37 £525 +5.00% 12
West Midlands -62 35 £671 +16.70% 18
South West -17 27 £500 +35.14% 26
East of England -24 20 £488 - 32
Scotland -13 17 £610 +25.13% 13
East Midlands -36 11 £545 +33.91% 9
Wales -28 6 £370 +28.70% 4
Northern Ireland +6 4 - - 12

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 27 (5.28%) Confluence
2 22 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 18 (3.52%) Apache
3 18 (3.52%) Apache Spark
4 6 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.78%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 3 (0.59%) Camunda
6 3 (0.59%) SAS
7 2 (0.39%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
7 2 (0.39%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.20%) Apache Pulsar
8 1 (0.20%) CMS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Service Bus
8 1 (0.20%) Palantir Foundry
Applications
1 20 (3.91%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (1.96%) 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
1 186 (36.40%) Azure
2 126 (24.66%) AWS
3 58 (11.35%) GCP
4 45 (8.81%) Microsoft 365
5 36 (7.05%) Power Platform
6 34 (6.65%) GitHub
7 29 (5.68%) SaaS
8 24 (4.70%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.52%) AWS CloudFormation
10 17 (3.33%) IaaS
11 16 (3.13%) Azure AKS
11 16 (3.13%) Serverless
12 15 (2.94%) Snowflake
13 14 (2.74%) Entra ID
13 14 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (2.54%) PaaS
14 13 (2.54%) PowerApps
15 12 (2.35%) Azure Service Bus
16 10 (1.96%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (1.96%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.87%) TCP/IP
2 21 (4.11%) DNS
3 20 (3.91%) Firewall
4 13 (2.54%) WAN
5 12 (2.35%) Network Security
5 12 (2.35%) VPN
6 10 (1.96%) 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 (5.87%) Power BI
2 29 (5.68%) Relational Database
2 29 (5.68%) SQL Server
3 26 (5.09%) Data Warehouse
4 22 (4.31%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (3.72%) Big Data
5 19 (3.72%) NoSQL
6 16 (3.13%) MySQL
7 14 (2.74%) Elasticsearch
7 14 (2.74%) Metadata
8 11 (2.15%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.15%) Tableau
9 9 (1.76%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (1.57%) Hadoop
10 8 (1.57%) Redis
11 7 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.17%) Star Schema
13 5 (0.98%) Flink
Development Applications
1 51 (9.98%) Git
2 37 (7.24%) JIRA
3 31 (6.07%) GitLab
4 26 (5.09%) Jenkins
5 12 (2.35%) Gradle
6 10 (1.96%) Selenium
7 9 (1.76%) JUnit
8 8 (1.57%) 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
1 252 (49.32%) Social Skills
2 129 (25.24%) Finance
3 124 (24.27%) Analytical Skills
4 62 (12.13%) Banking
5 25 (4.89%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 21 (4.11%) Front Office
7 18 (3.52%) Telecoms
8 17 (3.33%) Investment Banking
9 16 (3.13%) Legal
9 16 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.94%) Marketing
11 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
12 9 (1.76%) Retail
13 8 (1.57%) Law
14 7 (1.37%) Aerospace
14 7 (1.37%) Aviation
14 7 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 6 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 80 (15.66%) Architect
2 63 (12.33%) Developer
3 56 (10.96%) Lead
4 51 (9.98%) Analyst
5 42 (8.22%) Senior
6 30 (5.87%) Technical Support
7 27 (5.28%) Solutions Architect
8 25 (4.89%) Software Engineer
9 18 (3.52%) IT Analyst
10 17 (3.33%) Integration Architect
11 16 (3.13%) Data Engineer
11 16 (3.13%) Support Specialist
11 16 (3.13%) Technical Specialist
12 15 (2.94%) Technical Support Specialist
13 14 (2.74%) IT Support
13 14 (2.74%) Site Reliability Engineer
13 14 (2.74%) SOC Analyst
14 13 (2.54%) Support Analyst
14 13 (2.54%) Technical Architect
15 12 (2.35%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (11.55%) REST
2 37 (7.24%) React
3 32 (6.26%) .NET
4 29 (5.68%) RESTful
5 28 (5.48%) Middleware
6 23 (4.50%) Spring
7 20 (3.91%) Elastic Stack
8 19 (3.72%) Spring Boot
9 17 (3.33%) SOAP
10 16 (3.13%) Kafka
11 15 (2.94%) OAuth
12 14 (2.74%) AngularJS
12 14 (2.74%) PyTorch
13 13 (2.54%) CSS
13 13 (2.54%) XML
14 12 (2.35%) HTML
14 12 (2.35%) JSON
14 12 (2.35%) Node.js
15 11 (2.15%) Swagger
16 10 (1.96%) JWT
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.57%) Management Information System
2 46 (9.00%) Onboarding
3 44 (8.61%) Cloud Native
4 30 (5.87%) Product Ownership
5 20 (3.91%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (3.52%) Virtual Team
7 17 (3.33%) Cyberattack
7 17 (3.33%) Derivative
7 17 (3.33%) Security Operations Centre
8 16 (3.13%) Algorithms
9 15 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
9 15 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.54%) Data Structures
11 12 (2.35%) AI Agents
12 11 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 11 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
13 10 (1.96%) Robotics
13 10 (1.96%) Security Posture
14 9 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
14 9 (1.76%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 92 (18.00%) Windows
2 77 (15.07%) Linux
3 29 (5.68%) Unix
4 18 (3.52%) Android
5 13 (2.54%) Windows 10
6 10 (1.96%) 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
1 503 (98.43%) Computer Science
2 194 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
3 148 (28.96%) Agile
4 141 (27.59%) CI/CD
5 134 (26.22%) DevOps
6 129 (25.24%) AI
7 103 (20.16%) Software Engineering
8 80 (15.66%) Microservices
9 73 (14.29%) Analytics
10 72 (14.09%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (13.31%) Containerisation
12 66 (12.92%) Technical Leadership
13 61 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (11.35%) Migration
15 57 (11.15%) Infrastructure as Code
16 56 (10.96%) Data Modelling
17 54 (10.57%) ITIL
18 51 (9.98%) Incident Response
18 51 (9.98%) Stakeholder Management
19 50 (9.78%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 162 (31.70%) Python
2 118 (23.09%) SQL
3 86 (16.83%) Java
4 52 (10.18%) JavaScript
5 32 (6.26%) C#
6 24 (4.70%) Bash
6 24 (4.70%) TypeScript
7 23 (4.50%) PowerShell
8 14 (2.74%) Go
9 13 (2.54%) Perl
10 12 (2.35%) C++
11 10 (1.96%) Kotlin
11 10 (1.96%) Shell Script
12 7 (1.37%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (1.17%) R
13 6 (1.17%) Scala
14 3 (0.59%) PHP
14 3 (0.59%) Rust
15 2 (0.39%) Bicep
15 2 (0.39%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 511 (100.00%) Degree
2 92 (18.00%) Master's Degree
3 73 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 52 (10.18%) SC Cleared
5 26 (5.09%) CISSP
6 23 (4.50%) Azure Certification
7 22 (4.31%) Microsoft Certification
8 19 (3.72%) CISM
8 19 (3.72%) CompTIA Security+
8 19 (3.72%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.72%) TOGAF Certification
9 18 (3.52%) AWS Certification
9 18 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
10 17 (3.33%) CompTIA CySA+
11 10 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
11 10 (1.96%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.76%) A+ Certification
12 9 (1.76%) CCNP
12 9 (1.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.05%) QA
2 21 (4.11%) Data Quality
2 21 (4.11%) GDPR
3 16 (3.13%) NIST
4 13 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.54%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.57%) 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 79 (15.46%) Docker
2 35 (6.85%) Active Directory
3 8 (1.57%) 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 (18.40%) Kubernetes
2 55 (10.76%) Terraform
3 39 (7.63%) Ansible
4 23 (4.50%) Microsoft Intune
5 22 (4.31%) Grafana
6 20 (3.91%) Prometheus
7 10 (1.96%) Puppet
8 9 (1.76%) Kibana
9 4 (0.78%) SCCM
10 3 (0.59%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.59%) Control-M
10 3 (0.59%) Foglight
10 3 (0.59%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.59%) WSUS
11 2 (0.39%) Consul
11 2 (0.39%) logstash
11 2 (0.39%) Zipkin
12 1 (0.20%) linkerd
12 1 (0.20%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.20%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 123 (24.07%) Microsoft
2 40 (7.83%) Oracle
2 40 (7.83%) Splunk
3 25 (4.89%) Databricks
3 25 (4.89%) Google
4 15 (2.94%) SAP
4 15 (2.94%) ServiceNow
5 12 (2.35%) Salesforce
6 11 (2.15%) Cisco
7 10 (1.96%) Software AG
8 9 (1.76%) Palo Alto
9 8 (1.57%) MuleSoft
10 7 (1.37%) Autodesk
10 7 (1.37%) IBM
10 7 (1.37%) Informatica
11 6 (1.17%) Apple
11 6 (1.17%) Citrix
12 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.98%) Reuters
12 5 (0.98%) Veritas
465 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide