Computer Science Contracts

Computer Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 80 130 158
Rank change year-on-year +50 +28 -6
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,232 1,625 1,612
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.71% 2.08% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.06% 2.31% 1.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 827 1,025 942
10th Percentile £346 £400 £340
25th Percentile £450 £500 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £697 £750 £675
90th Percentile £800 £863 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% +19.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 41 64
10th Percentile £32.32 £19.73 £19.52
25th Percentile £50.00 £35.00 £40.25
Median hourly rate £60.25 £54.50 £48.87
Median % change year-on-year +10.55% +11.52% +28.85%
75th Percentile £71.00 £72.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £82.50 £65.63
UK excluding London median hourly rate £58.75 £45.63 £48.50
% change year-on-year +28.77% -5.93% +7.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 40,246 70,338 81,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.54% 90.19% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,936 48,709 56,677
10th Percentile £310 £340 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £619
90th Percentile £745 £750 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £463
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +7.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,553 1,701 1,999
10th Percentile £14.37 £13.41 £11.97
25th Percentile £19.06 £17.38 £13.50
Median hourly rate £43.33 £35.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.80% +62.79% -15.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £77.50 £72.25 £62.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.83 £31.96 £18.00
% change year-on-year +37.15% +77.53% -20.00%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +47 1,059 £550 -8.33% 1,987
London +31 660 £575 -11.54% 959
Work from Home +58 432 £525 -19.23% 1,445
UK excluding London +85 423 £500 -4.76% 1,237
South East +58 124 £475 -9.52% 421
North of England +80 87 £495 +10.00% 248
Scotland +70 65 £500 -2.91% 100
Midlands +45 56 £600 +20.00% 141
South West +33 47 £550 -4.35% 117
Yorkshire +53 44 £400 +17.65% 85
North West +47 42 £555 +11.00% 140
East of England +24 41 £400 -23.74% 176
West Midlands +40 40 £600 +9.09% 97
East Midlands +34 15 £513 +9.33% 44
Wales +7 6 £457 +77.28% 40
Northern Ireland +11 3 £485 -20.82% 21
North East +36 1 £550 +46.67% 26

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 40 (3.25%) Apache Spark
2 31 (2.52%) Confluence
3 25 (2.03%) SharePoint
4 22 (1.79%) Apache
5 20 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (1.54%) Jupyter
7 14 (1.14%) SAS
8 7 (0.57%) CMS
8 7 (0.57%) MS Exchange
9 6 (0.49%) Apache Pulsar
9 6 (0.49%) Apache Solr
9 6 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 5 (0.41%) EPiServer
10 5 (0.41%) IIS
11 4 (0.32%) IBM Domino
11 4 (0.32%) IBM Notes
11 4 (0.32%) WebSphere
12 3 (0.24%) SharePoint 2013
12 3 (0.24%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.16%) GemFire
Applications
1 28 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (0.89%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.24%) Trello
6 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.081%) Adobe After Effects
7 1 (0.081%) Blender
7 1 (0.081%) CATIA
7 1 (0.081%) Houdini
7 1 (0.081%) Maya
7 1 (0.081%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.081%) Siemens NX
7 1 (0.081%) Simulink
7 1 (0.081%) Sketch
7 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.65%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.57%) Dynamics AX
4 6 (0.49%) Teamcenter
5 3 (0.24%) IBM Planning Analytics
5 3 (0.24%) Infor SunSystems
5 3 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.24%) SAP BPC
5 3 (0.24%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.24%) Shopify
5 3 (0.24%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.16%) Actimize
6 2 (0.16%) Global One
6 2 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.16%) Primavera
6 2 (0.16%) SAP HCM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.16%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.081%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 267 (21.67%) Azure
2 231 (18.75%) AWS
3 125 (10.15%) GCP
4 70 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 50 (4.06%) Cloud Computing
6 42 (3.41%) Azure DevOps
6 42 (3.41%) Microsoft 365
7 41 (3.33%) SaaS
8 37 (3.00%) GitHub
9 30 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 30 (2.44%) Serverless
10 25 (2.03%) AWS CloudFormation
10 25 (2.03%) Dynamics 365
10 25 (2.03%) PowerApps
11 24 (1.95%) AWS Lambda
12 23 (1.87%) Power Automate
13 22 (1.79%) Entra ID
14 19 (1.54%) Amazon EC2
14 19 (1.54%) OpenShift
14 19 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (5.11%) Firewall
2 45 (3.65%) Network Security
3 42 (3.41%) DNS
4 31 (2.52%) TCP/IP
5 25 (2.03%) LAN
5 25 (2.03%) VPN
5 25 (2.03%) Wireless
6 20 (1.62%) Intrusion Detection
6 20 (1.62%) SAN
7 19 (1.54%) SSL
8 18 (1.46%) DHCP
9 17 (1.38%) WAN
10 14 (1.14%) HTTP
11 13 (1.06%) BGP
11 13 (1.06%) VoIP
12 12 (0.97%) Internet
13 11 (0.89%) Fibre Channel
13 11 (0.89%) iSCSI
13 11 (0.89%) MPLS
13 11 (0.89%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 68 (5.52%) Data Warehouse
2 60 (4.87%) Power BI
3 55 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
3 55 (4.46%) Relational Database
4 51 (4.14%) Big Data
5 50 (4.06%) SQL Server
6 49 (3.98%) MySQL
7 42 (3.41%) Tableau
8 39 (3.17%) NoSQL
9 37 (3.00%) Hadoop
10 26 (2.11%) KDB
11 25 (2.03%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.38%) Data Lake
13 16 (1.30%) BigQuery
13 16 (1.30%) Metadata
14 15 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (1.22%) Kdb+
14 15 (1.22%) Redis
15 13 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
15 13 (1.06%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 80 (6.49%) Git
2 77 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 59 (4.79%) JIRA
4 24 (1.95%) Bitbucket
5 20 (1.62%) GitLab
5 20 (1.62%) Visual Studio
6 19 (1.54%) TeamCity
7 12 (0.97%) Selenium
7 12 (0.97%) Subversion
8 10 (0.81%) JUnit
9 9 (0.73%) Maven
9 9 (0.73%) MLflow
10 8 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
11 7 (0.57%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 7 (0.57%) Cypress.io
11 7 (0.57%) Mocha
12 6 (0.49%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
13 5 (0.41%) Gradle
13 5 (0.41%) MSBuild
General
1 622 (50.49%) Social Skills
2 341 (27.68%) Analytical Skills
3 307 (24.92%) Finance
4 162 (13.15%) Banking
5 60 (4.87%) Public Sector
6 55 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
7 47 (3.81%) Electronics
7 47 (3.81%) Telecoms
8 42 (3.41%) Investment Banking
9 41 (3.33%) Marketing
10 37 (3.00%) Legal
11 33 (2.68%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.03%) Front Office
13 24 (1.95%) Financial Institution
14 17 (1.38%) Retail
15 15 (1.22%) Automotive
16 13 (1.06%) Aerospace
16 13 (1.06%) Documentation Skills
16 13 (1.06%) Organisational Skills
17 11 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 272 (22.08%) Developer
2 137 (11.12%) Senior
3 130 (10.55%) Architect
4 98 (7.95%) Analyst
5 69 (5.60%) Software Engineer
6 66 (5.36%) Data Engineer
7 64 (5.19%) Consultant
7 64 (5.19%) Lead
8 49 (3.98%) Java Developer
9 43 (3.49%) DevOps Engineer
10 39 (3.17%) Business Analyst
11 34 (2.76%) Python Developer
11 34 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
12 29 (2.35%) C++ Developer
12 29 (2.35%) Senior Developer
13 26 (2.11%) Project Manager
14 25 (2.03%) Security Architect
15 23 (1.87%) AWS Engineer
15 23 (1.87%) Electronic Trading Developer
16 22 (1.79%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (5.44%) .NET
2 66 (5.36%) RESTful
3 54 (4.38%) HTML
4 47 (3.81%) React
5 46 (3.73%) Kafka
6 43 (3.49%) REST
7 42 (3.41%) CSS
8 39 (3.17%) Node.js
8 39 (3.17%) TensorFlow
9 36 (2.92%) PyTorch
10 34 (2.76%) JSON
10 34 (2.76%) Spring
11 31 (2.52%) Pandas
12 29 (2.35%) Web Services
13 25 (2.03%) AngularJS
14 24 (1.95%) .NET Framework
14 24 (1.95%) NumPy
15 23 (1.87%) Spring Boot
16 20 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
17 18 (1.46%) scikit-learn
Miscellaneous
1 122 (9.90%) Algorithms
2 118 (9.58%) Management Information System
3 57 (4.63%) Self-Motivation
4 55 (4.46%) Data Structures
4 55 (4.46%) Distributed Systems
5 45 (3.65%) Product Ownership
6 33 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.11%) Security Posture
7 26 (2.11%) Virtual Team
8 22 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 22 (1.79%) Fixed Income
8 22 (1.79%) Security Operations Centre
8 22 (1.79%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 21 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
11 18 (1.46%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.46%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 18 (1.46%) Mobile App
12 17 (1.38%) Derivative
13 15 (1.22%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 143 (11.61%) Linux
2 101 (8.20%) Windows
3 50 (4.06%) Unix
4 37 (3.00%) Windows Server
5 25 (2.03%) Android
6 14 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 14 (1.14%) Windows 10
7 11 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 8 (0.65%) VxWorks
9 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.57%) Windows Server 2019
10 6 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
11 5 (0.41%) CentOS
11 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.32%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.24%) Debian
13 3 (0.24%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
13 3 (0.24%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 518 (42.05%) Problem-Solving
2 329 (26.70%) Agile
3 221 (17.94%) Software Engineering
4 175 (14.20%) DevOps
5 161 (13.07%) CI/CD
6 154 (12.50%) Mathematics
7 150 (12.18%) Analytics
8 143 (11.61%) Project Management
9 134 (10.88%) Data Modelling
10 114 (9.25%) SDLC
11 112 (9.09%) Data Science
12 108 (8.77%) Continuous Improvement
13 107 (8.69%) Machine Learning
14 104 (8.44%) Cybersecurity
15 100 (8.12%) Test Automation
16 94 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
17 93 (7.55%) Mentoring
18 91 (7.39%) Migration
18 91 (7.39%) Scrum
19 89 (7.22%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 353 (28.65%) Python
2 233 (18.91%) SQL
3 205 (16.64%) Java
4 104 (8.44%) JavaScript
5 101 (8.20%) C++
6 92 (7.47%) C#
7 85 (6.90%) PowerShell
8 50 (4.06%) Scala
9 49 (3.98%) Bash
10 44 (3.57%) C
11 41 (3.33%) Perl
12 39 (3.17%) TypeScript
13 35 (2.84%) Go
14 29 (2.35%) Shell Script
15 27 (2.19%) R
16 20 (1.62%) PL/SQL
17 18 (1.46%) Kotlin
18 14 (1.14%) Ruby
19 13 (1.06%) T-SQL
20 11 (0.89%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1,098 (89.12%) Degree
2 712 (57.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 222 (18.02%) Master's Degree
4 138 (11.20%) Security Cleared
5 114 (9.25%) SC Cleared
6 81 (6.57%) CISSP
7 70 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
8 54 (4.38%) Azure Certification
9 51 (4.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 43 (3.49%) CISM
11 42 (3.41%) CCNA
12 34 (2.76%) PhD
13 32 (2.60%) AWS Certification
14 31 (2.52%) A+ Certification
14 31 (2.52%) GIAC
15 29 (2.35%) DV Cleared
16 25 (2.03%) Numerate Degree
17 24 (1.95%) CCNP
17 24 (1.95%) CRISC
18 23 (1.87%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (8.20%) QA
2 58 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.84%) NIST
4 32 (2.60%) GDPR
5 30 (2.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 12 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 10 (0.81%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.81%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 9 (0.73%) SLA
9 7 (0.57%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.49%) FIPS 140-2
10 6 (0.49%) GRC
10 6 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 6 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 5 (0.41%) PMO
12 4 (0.32%) Automotive SPICE
12 4 (0.32%) AUTOSAR
13 3 (0.24%) COBIT
13 3 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
13 3 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 116 (9.42%) Docker
2 60 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 41 (3.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 33 (2.68%) Hyper-V
5 13 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
6 12 (0.97%) NFS
7 11 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.41%) Firmware
8 5 (0.41%) KVM
8 5 (0.41%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.32%) vSphere
10 3 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 3 (0.24%) Apache Flume
10 3 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.24%) GPFS
10 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
11 2 (0.16%) etcd
11 2 (0.16%) HDFS
11 2 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 117 (9.50%) Kubernetes
2 71 (5.76%) Terraform
3 44 (3.57%) Ansible
4 25 (2.03%) Prometheus
5 17 (1.38%) Puppet
6 13 (1.06%) Grafana
6 13 (1.06%) SCCM
6 13 (1.06%) Zipkin
7 11 (0.89%) Progress Chef
8 10 (0.81%) Kubeflow
8 10 (0.81%) PowerCLI
9 9 (0.73%) Argo
10 6 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
10 6 (0.49%) vCenter Server
11 5 (0.41%) Veritas Storage Foundation
12 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
12 4 (0.32%) Oozie
13 3 (0.24%) Nagios
13 3 (0.24%) NetBackup
13 3 (0.24%) Salt
Vendors
1 193 (15.67%) Microsoft
2 73 (5.93%) Oracle
3 57 (4.63%) Google
4 56 (4.55%) VMware
5 49 (3.98%) SAP
6 44 (3.57%) Cisco
7 28 (2.27%) IBM
8 21 (1.70%) Splunk
9 16 (1.30%) Red Hat
9 16 (1.30%) Salesforce
10 15 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 13 (1.06%) Databricks
12 11 (0.89%) Atlassian
12 11 (0.89%) Avaloq
12 11 (0.89%) F5
12 11 (0.89%) Genesys
12 11 (0.89%) HP
13 10 (0.81%) Juniper
13 10 (0.81%) NetApp
14 9 (0.73%) CA