Computer Science Degree Contracts

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 243 335
Rank change year-on-year +124 +92 -6
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 799 619 692
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.88% 1.09% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.23% 4.00% 3.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 506 437 434
10th Percentile £300 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £643 £738 £650
90th Percentile £775 £900 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £506 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +1.25% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 21
10th Percentile £25.70 £20.00 £18.76
25th Percentile £38.75 £41.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% +16.56%
75th Percentile £68.13 £67.88 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £49.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £46.23
% change year-on-year -6.64% +30.34% +21.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,818 15,477 18,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.10% 27.18% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,971 10,343 12,521
10th Percentile £308 £330 £338
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £702
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 768 763
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.24 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £21.00 £19.82
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 Contract 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 18 May 2024. 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 +108 659 £525 -8.70% 955
London +82 408 £525 -12.50% 504
UK excluding London +137 263 £506 +1.25% 558
Work from Home +107 233 £550 -8.33% 422
South East +49 74 £475 -5.00% 180
Midlands +46 49 £525 +5.00% 84
North of England +65 48 £340 -15.00% 119
West Midlands +49 43 £525 +7.14% 54
East of England +21 31 £500 -13.04% 68
Scotland +53 28 £560 +6.67% 26
South West +14 25 £588 -10.31% 56
North West +37 24 £165 -67.00% 64
Yorkshire +22 15 £358 -3.05% 40
North East - 9 £600 - 17
East Midlands +11 6 £650 +30.00% 30
Wales +22 5 £403 - 18
Northern Ireland +7 4 - - 11

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 24 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.63%) Confluence
4 11 (1.38%) Apache
5 10 (1.25%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.88%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) Drupal
7 5 (0.63%) WordPress
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.25%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (4.13%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.88%) Chatbot
4 13 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.38%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.38%) SPSS
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) Simulink
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 10 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.75%) Magento
3 4 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.38%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 207 (25.91%) Azure
2 171 (21.40%) AWS
3 109 (13.64%) GCP
4 43 (5.38%) Power Platform
5 32 (4.01%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.88%) Serverless
7 29 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
7 29 (3.63%) GitHub
8 20 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
9 19 (2.38%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
11 15 (1.88%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.75%) SaaS
13 13 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.63%) Vertex AI
14 12 (1.50%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.50%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.01%) Firewall
2 34 (4.26%) Network Security
3 28 (3.50%) DNS
4 18 (2.25%) VPN
5 16 (2.00%) VoIP
6 14 (1.75%) CTI
7 13 (1.63%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.50%) 5G
9 11 (1.38%) DHCP
9 11 (1.38%) Internet
9 11 (1.38%) Wireshark
10 10 (1.25%) WAN
11 9 (1.13%) LAN
11 9 (1.13%) VLAN
11 9 (1.13%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (1.00%) Wireless
13 7 (0.88%) OSPF
14 6 (0.75%) 3G
14 6 (0.75%) GGSN
14 6 (0.75%) RANAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.13%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.13%) Relational Database
3 39 (4.88%) Power BI
4 35 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.25%) Tableau
7 24 (3.00%) MySQL
8 23 (2.88%) Big Data
9 20 (2.50%) BigQuery
10 19 (2.38%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.38%) Oracle Database
11 16 (2.00%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.88%) Data Mining
13 12 (1.50%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.50%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.50%) Metadata
14 11 (1.38%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.13%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 83 (10.39%) Git
2 50 (6.26%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.76%) JIRA
4 32 (4.01%) GitLab
5 13 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.50%) Selenium
7 11 (1.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (1.38%) Gradle
7 11 (1.38%) Oracle APEX
8 10 (1.25%) JUnit
9 6 (0.75%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.75%) MLflow
10 5 (0.63%) Maven
10 5 (0.63%) Subversion
10 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.50%) JMeter
11 4 (0.50%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.50%) Sourcetree
11 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.38%) WebDriver
General
1 465 (58.20%) Social Skills
2 236 (29.54%) Analytical Skills
3 155 (19.40%) Finance
4 67 (8.39%) Banking
5 35 (4.38%) Public Sector
6 32 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 26 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (3.00%) Retail
9 23 (2.88%) Front Office
10 22 (2.75%) Legal
11 19 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.13%) Marketing
13 14 (1.75%) Multimedia
14 13 (1.63%) Electronics
14 13 (1.63%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.50%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.25%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.75%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (18.52%) Developer
2 124 (15.52%) Architect
3 69 (8.64%) Senior
4 47 (5.88%) Analyst
4 47 (5.88%) Lead
5 45 (5.63%) Software Engineer
6 41 (5.13%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (5.01%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (4.13%) Java Developer
9 32 (4.01%) Consultant
10 29 (3.63%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.63%) Network Engineer
11 22 (2.75%) Senior Developer
12 18 (2.25%) Technical Architect
13 17 (2.13%) Azure Engineer
13 17 (2.13%) Data Scientist
13 17 (2.13%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.00%) AWS Engineer
14 16 (2.00%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.75%) Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.26%) CSS
2 56 (7.01%) HTML
3 53 (6.63%) React
4 37 (4.63%) .NET
5 31 (3.88%) AngularJS
5 31 (3.88%) REST
5 31 (3.88%) Spring
6 30 (3.75%) RESTful
7 28 (3.50%) Web Services
8 22 (2.75%) Kafka
9 20 (2.50%) Node.js
10 18 (2.25%) JSON
11 17 (2.13%) Middleware
12 15 (1.88%) .NET Framework
12 15 (1.88%) XML
13 14 (1.75%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.75%) ASP.NET
13 14 (1.75%) Elastic Stack
14 13 (1.63%) Spring Boot
15 12 (1.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 89 (11.14%) Management Information System
2 55 (6.88%) Algorithms
3 37 (4.63%) Data Centre
3 37 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (3.88%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.50%) Derivative
6 19 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.38%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 18 (2.25%) Mobile App
8 17 (2.13%) Security Posture
8 17 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 15 (1.88%) IVR
10 14 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.75%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.63%) CMDB
11 13 (1.63%) Cyber Defence
12 11 (1.38%) Blockchain
12 11 (1.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.88%) Linux
2 58 (7.26%) Windows
3 25 (3.13%) Unix
4 24 (3.00%) Android
5 18 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.13%) Solaris
7 8 (1.00%) Windows 7
8 7 (0.88%) VMS
8 7 (0.88%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.63%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
12 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.25%) HPUX
13 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 790 (98.87%) Computer Science
2 401 (50.19%) Problem-Solving
3 222 (27.78%) Agile
4 148 (18.52%) DevOps
5 113 (14.14%) CI/CD
6 112 (14.02%) Software Engineering
7 95 (11.89%) Analytics
8 85 (10.64%) Migration
9 83 (10.39%) Data Modelling
10 75 (9.39%) Data Science
11 71 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (8.64%) Machine Learning
13 68 (8.51%) Project Management
14 58 (7.26%) Artificial Intelligence
14 58 (7.26%) Microservices
14 58 (7.26%) Roadmaps
14 58 (7.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 55 (6.88%) Business Intelligence
16 54 (6.76%) Code Quality
16 54 (6.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 191 (23.90%) Python
2 146 (18.27%) SQL
3 130 (16.27%) Java
4 94 (11.76%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.88%) C#
6 44 (5.51%) PowerShell
7 37 (4.63%) Bash
8 36 (4.51%) C++
9 25 (3.13%) TypeScript
10 24 (3.00%) Perl
11 22 (2.75%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.75%) Scala
12 21 (2.63%) R
13 20 (2.50%) Go
14 15 (1.88%) C
14 15 (1.88%) Kotlin
15 11 (1.38%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.88%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.88%) Rust
16 7 (0.88%) VBA
Qualifications
1 799 (100.00%) Degree
2 142 (17.77%) Master's Degree
3 109 (13.64%) Security Cleared
4 80 (10.01%) SC Cleared
5 48 (6.01%) CISSP
6 42 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (5.01%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.50%) CCNA
10 24 (3.00%) CEH
11 23 (2.88%) CCNP
12 20 (2.50%) DV Cleared
13 19 (2.38%) CISM
14 18 (2.25%) AWS Certification
15 16 (2.00%) PhD
15 16 (2.00%) PMP
16 15 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (1.50%) CCIE
17 12 (1.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.26%) QA
2 34 (4.26%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.88%) GDPR
4 12 (1.50%) NIST
5 11 (1.38%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.13%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.13%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.13%) SLA
7 8 (1.00%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.63%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.38%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.38%) GRC
9 3 (0.38%) HL7
9 3 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) COBIT
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (5.26%) Docker
2 27 (3.38%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.63%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (1.25%) KVM
5 10 (1.25%) vSphere
6 8 (1.00%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.50%) vCloud
9 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.38%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.25%) Firmware
12 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 58 (7.26%) Kubernetes
1 58 (7.26%) Terraform
2 18 (2.25%) Ansible
3 11 (1.38%) Grafana
4 10 (1.25%) Kibana
5 9 (1.13%) logstash
6 8 (1.00%) PingFederate
7 7 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (0.75%) vCenter Server
9 5 (0.63%) SCCM
10 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.38%) Nessus
11 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.38%) Puppet
11 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
12 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 164 (20.53%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.76%) Oracle
3 62 (7.76%) Google
4 33 (4.13%) ServiceNow
4 33 (4.13%) VMware
5 30 (3.75%) SAP
6 29 (3.63%) Cisco
7 19 (2.38%) Salesforce
8 18 (2.25%) Databricks
8 18 (2.25%) Genesys
9 13 (1.63%) IBM
9 13 (1.63%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.25%) Avaya
10 10 (1.25%) Juniper
11 8 (1.00%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.88%) Adobe
12 7 (0.88%) Arista
12 7 (0.88%) CA
12 7 (0.88%) F5
12 7 (0.88%) Qualys