Computer Science Contracts

Computer Science
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 63 98
Rank change year-on-year +2 +35 +48
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,182 1,401 1,386
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.72% 3.23% 2.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.10% 3.79% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 665 843 885
10th Percentile £240 £315 £363
25th Percentile £363 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -2.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £706
90th Percentile £775 £800 £863
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -12.58% -1.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 103 48
10th Percentile £25.00 £21.25 £19.00
25th Percentile £28.41 £38.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £30.50 £55.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.55% -4.35% +23.66%
75th Percentile £67.50 £65.63 £65.00
90th Percentile £84.98 £75.00 £80.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.16 £55.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -45.16% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 5 July 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 -5 980 £500 -7.06% 9,148
UK excluding London +20 538 £450 -12.58% 3,999
London -11 504 £600 +9.09% 5,642
Work from Home -9 321 £550 - 3,217
South East +38 147 £490 +8.89% 1,021
North of England -27 97 £475 -9.52% 886
Midlands +5 95 £307 -44.27% 640
South West +37 64 £240 -59.58% 356
Scotland +33 64 £500 +9.53% 313
West Midlands -3 63 £292 -46.91% 389
North West -15 60 £475 -10.38% 506
East of England +30 50 £650 +26.83% 607
East Midlands +24 32 £352 -45.81% 250
Yorkshire -16 31 £420 -20.00% 290
Wales +13 22 £351 -7.57% 114
North East -8 6 £463 -22.92% 91
Northern Ireland -13 1 £600 - 108

Computer Science
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 59 (4.99%) Apache Spark
2 42 (3.55%) Confluence
3 15 (1.27%) SharePoint
4 10 (0.85%) OpenStack
5 9 (0.76%) Apache
5 9 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
6 8 (0.68%) GemFire
6 8 (0.68%) Oracle Coherence
7 6 (0.51%) CMS
8 5 (0.42%) SAS
9 3 (0.25%) JBoss
9 3 (0.25%) Moodle
9 3 (0.25%) Tomcat
10 2 (0.17%) Camunda
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.17%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.085%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.085%) Appian
Applications
1 54 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 28 (2.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.78%) MS Visio
4 7 (0.59%) Simulink
5 6 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.51%) Oracle Smart View
6 5 (0.42%) Trello
7 4 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.25%) Sketch
9 2 (0.17%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.085%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.085%) CANalyzer
10 1 (0.085%) CATIA
10 1 (0.085%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.085%) Final Cut Pro
10 1 (0.085%) InVision
10 1 (0.085%) Notion
10 1 (0.085%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.085%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.085%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 25 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (1.18%) FLEXCUBE
2 14 (1.18%) Oracle BPM
3 6 (0.51%) Workday HCM
4 5 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
5 4 (0.34%) SAP EWM
5 4 (0.34%) SAP MDG
5 4 (0.34%) SAP PLM
6 3 (0.25%) Endur
6 3 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.25%) SAP VC
7 2 (0.17%) Actimize
7 2 (0.17%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.17%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.17%) Maximo
7 2 (0.17%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.17%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.17%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.17%) Sprinklr
7 2 (0.17%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 248 (20.98%) AWS
2 242 (20.47%) Azure
3 96 (8.12%) GCP
4 49 (4.15%) Power Platform
5 45 (3.81%) Azure DevOps
6 43 (3.64%) SaaS
7 42 (3.55%) Serverless
8 41 (3.47%) Amazon S3
9 38 (3.21%) GitHub
10 34 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
11 28 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
12 26 (2.20%) Microsoft 365
13 21 (1.78%) Entra ID
14 16 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
15 15 (1.27%) PaaS
16 14 (1.18%) OCI
16 14 (1.18%) Snowflake
17 11 (0.93%) Amazon EMR
18 10 (0.85%) OpenShift
19 9 (0.76%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.51%) Firewall
2 54 (4.57%) Network Security
3 45 (3.81%) DNS
4 44 (3.72%) VPN
5 40 (3.38%) TCP/IP
6 33 (2.79%) Wireless
7 27 (2.28%) BGP
7 27 (2.28%) OSPF
8 25 (2.12%) WAN
9 23 (1.95%) DHCP
10 22 (1.86%) LAN
11 20 (1.69%) VLAN
12 17 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (1.10%) SD-WAN
14 12 (1.02%) PuTTY
14 12 (1.02%) WLAN
15 11 (0.93%) Internet
16 10 (0.85%) IPsec
16 10 (0.85%) MPLS
17 9 (0.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.40%) Data Warehouse
1 52 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
2 51 (4.31%) Relational Database
3 46 (3.89%) Power BI
4 39 (3.30%) Big Data
5 38 (3.21%) NoSQL
6 33 (2.79%) Tableau
7 32 (2.71%) Hadoop
8 26 (2.20%) SQL Server
9 22 (1.86%) MySQL
9 22 (1.86%) Redis
10 19 (1.61%) Oracle Database
11 18 (1.52%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (1.27%) Metadata
14 13 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
15 12 (1.02%) Apache Hive
16 11 (0.93%) Data Lake
17 10 (0.85%) DB2
17 10 (0.85%) KDB
Development Applications
1 89 (7.53%) JIRA
2 77 (6.51%) Git
3 66 (5.58%) Jenkins
4 36 (3.05%) GitLab
5 21 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 17 (1.44%) Selenium
7 15 (1.27%) JUnit
8 14 (1.18%) Postman
9 13 (1.10%) Artifactory
10 10 (0.85%) Gradle
11 9 (0.76%) Cucumber
12 7 (0.59%) Maven
12 7 (0.59%) Subversion
12 7 (0.59%) TeamCity
13 6 (0.51%) ERwin
13 6 (0.51%) IntelliJ
13 6 (0.51%) MLflow
13 6 (0.51%) REST Assured
14 5 (0.42%) Oracle Forms
14 5 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 630 (53.30%) Social Skills
2 325 (27.50%) Analytical Skills
3 288 (24.37%) Finance
4 112 (9.48%) Banking
5 102 (8.63%) Organisational Skills
6 69 (5.84%) Public Sector
7 48 (4.06%) Front Office
8 47 (3.98%) Investment Banking
9 43 (3.64%) Marketing
10 37 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 36 (3.05%) Manufacturing
12 33 (2.79%) Financial Institution
13 32 (2.71%) Telecoms
14 27 (2.28%) Legal
15 26 (2.20%) Military
16 25 (2.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 23 (1.95%) Electronics
18 20 (1.69%) Retail
19 16 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
20 14 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 233 (19.71%) Developer
2 131 (11.08%) Senior
3 102 (8.63%) Architect
4 90 (7.61%) Analyst
5 68 (5.75%) Lead
6 63 (5.33%) Java Developer
7 43 (3.64%) Network Engineer
7 43 (3.64%) Software Engineer
8 35 (2.96%) Senior Developer
9 33 (2.79%) Consultant
10 29 (2.45%) Data Engineer
10 29 (2.45%) Data Scientist
10 29 (2.45%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (2.28%) C# Developer
11 27 (2.28%) Python Developer
11 27 (2.28%) Support Engineer
12 25 (2.12%) Cloud Architect
12 25 (2.12%) DevOps Engineer
13 22 (1.86%) Business Analyst
14 18 (1.52%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.50%) .NET
2 64 (5.41%) HTML
3 63 (5.33%) CSS
4 62 (5.25%) REST
5 51 (4.31%) Kafka
6 39 (3.30%) React
7 33 (2.79%) AngularJS
7 33 (2.79%) Spring
7 33 (2.79%) Web Services
8 31 (2.62%) Pandas
9 30 (2.54%) TensorFlow
10 29 (2.45%) Middleware
11 27 (2.28%) RESTful
12 24 (2.03%) PyTorch
12 24 (2.03%) SOAP
13 20 (1.69%) Node.js
14 19 (1.61%) ActiveMQ
14 19 (1.61%) NumPy
15 17 (1.44%) PySpark
15 17 (1.44%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 99 (8.38%) Management Information System
2 69 (5.84%) Algorithms
3 56 (4.74%) Data Structures
4 42 (3.55%) Cloud Native
5 40 (3.38%) Product Ownership
6 36 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
7 34 (2.88%) Virtual Team
8 28 (2.37%) Distributed Systems
9 27 (2.28%) Enterprise Software
10 25 (2.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 22 (1.86%) Fixed Income
12 20 (1.69%) Distributed Computing
12 20 (1.69%) Security Posture
13 18 (1.52%) Derivative
14 17 (1.44%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.35%) Data Centre
15 16 (1.35%) Mobile App
15 16 (1.35%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
17 13 (1.10%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 98 (8.29%) Linux
2 53 (4.48%) Windows
3 18 (1.52%) Unix
4 17 (1.44%) Android
4 17 (1.44%) Windows Server
5 10 (0.85%) Apple iOS
5 10 (0.85%) Windows 10
6 7 (0.59%) Mac OS
6 7 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (0.42%) CentOS
8 4 (0.34%) AIX
8 4 (0.34%) SUSE
8 4 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.17%) Solaris
11 1 (0.085%) Amazon Linux
11 1 (0.085%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 443 (37.48%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (25.72%) Agile
3 196 (16.58%) DevOps
4 165 (13.96%) Software Engineering
5 142 (12.01%) CI/CD
6 131 (11.08%) Analytics
7 115 (9.73%) Project Management
8 108 (9.14%) Data Science
9 107 (9.05%) Machine Learning
10 103 (8.71%) Mathematics
11 95 (8.04%) Migration
12 93 (7.87%) Artificial Intelligence
13 88 (7.45%) Collaborative Working
14 86 (7.28%) Mentoring
15 84 (7.11%) Decision-Making
15 84 (7.11%) Scrum
16 81 (6.85%) Roadmaps
17 79 (6.68%) Validation
18 76 (6.43%) Data Modelling
19 74 (6.26%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 332 (28.09%) Python
2 237 (20.05%) SQL
3 215 (18.19%) Java
4 93 (7.87%) JavaScript
5 60 (5.08%) C#
6 55 (4.65%) C++
7 42 (3.55%) Bash
8 39 (3.30%) PowerShell
9 32 (2.71%) R
10 23 (1.95%) PL/SQL
11 18 (1.52%) Perl
12 17 (1.44%) Shell Script
13 16 (1.35%) Go
13 16 (1.35%) PHP
14 15 (1.27%) Ruby
14 15 (1.27%) TypeScript
15 12 (1.02%) C
15 12 (1.02%) Scala
16 11 (0.93%) Haskell
16 11 (0.93%) VBA
Qualifications
1 969 (81.98%) Degree
2 627 (53.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 150 (12.69%) Master's Degree
4 101 (8.54%) Security Cleared
5 86 (7.28%) DBS Check
6 80 (6.77%) SC Cleared
7 73 (6.18%) Cisco Certification
8 59 (4.99%) AWS Certification
9 52 (4.40%) CCNA
9 52 (4.40%) PhD
10 46 (3.89%) Azure Certification
10 46 (3.89%) CCNP
10 46 (3.89%) CISSP
11 41 (3.47%) Microsoft Certification
12 34 (2.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 32 (2.71%) Numerate Degree
13 32 (2.71%) PMI Certification
13 32 (2.71%) PMP
14 25 (2.12%) CISM
15 15 (1.27%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (5.75%) Data Quality
2 63 (5.33%) QA
3 40 (3.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 36 (3.05%) GDPR
5 32 (2.71%) NIST
6 23 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 18 (1.52%) PCI DSS
8 11 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 10 (0.85%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.85%) SLA
10 8 (0.68%) GRC
10 8 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 7 (0.59%) COBIT
11 7 (0.59%) PMO
11 7 (0.59%) SEPA
12 6 (0.51%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 6 (0.51%) DO-254
12 6 (0.51%) MiFID
12 6 (0.51%) NCSC
13 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 75 (6.35%) Docker
2 33 (2.79%) Active Directory
3 25 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.02%) VMware NSX
5 9 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 8 (0.68%) GridGain
7 6 (0.51%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.51%) Firmware
7 6 (0.51%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.34%) vSphere
9 3 (0.25%) Apache ZooKeeper
10 2 (0.17%) HDFS
10 2 (0.17%) iptables
10 2 (0.17%) Oracle RAC
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) XenApp
11 1 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.085%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
11 1 (0.085%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 95 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 73 (6.18%) Terraform
3 64 (5.41%) Ansible
4 12 (1.02%) Grafana
4 12 (1.02%) Progress Chef
5 11 (0.93%) Prometheus
5 11 (0.93%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (0.68%) Puppet
8 7 (0.59%) Argo
8 7 (0.59%) SCCM
8 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.42%) Cacti
10 3 (0.25%) Consul
10 3 (0.25%) Control-M
10 3 (0.25%) Kibana
10 3 (0.25%) Kubeflow
10 3 (0.25%) Kustomize
10 3 (0.25%) logstash
10 3 (0.25%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 174 (14.72%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.87%) Oracle
3 73 (6.18%) Cisco
4 72 (6.09%) Google
5 71 (6.01%) SAP
6 51 (4.31%) ServiceNow
7 35 (2.96%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.62%) VMware
9 20 (1.69%) IBM
10 15 (1.27%) Databricks
10 15 (1.27%) Splunk
11 14 (1.18%) Atlassian
11 14 (1.18%) Palo Alto
12 12 (1.02%) Juniper
13 11 (0.93%) F5
13 11 (0.93%) Remedy
14 10 (0.85%) Apple
14 10 (0.85%) Aruba
14 10 (0.85%) Meraki
14 10 (0.85%) SolarWinds