Computer Science Degree Contracts in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 63 122
Rank change year-on-year +2 +59 +44
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 36 48 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.68% 2.47% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.67% 7.49% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 38 14
10th Percentile £187 £309 £254
25th Percentile £226 £450 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +12.24% +30.67%
75th Percentile £599 £625 £572
90th Percentile £613 £635 £626
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £56.25 -
England median hourly rate £57.50 £56.25 £54.44
% change year-on-year +2.22% +3.33% +12.24%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 415 641 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.86% 32.92% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 406 394
10th Percentile £150 £269 £313
25th Percentile £293 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.16 £13.31
Median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 £49.38 £24.16
90th Percentile £59.40 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Birmingham +12 12 £392 -21.60% 29
Warwickshire +2 6 £675 +50.00% 12
Worcestershire -2 4 £575 +9.52% 11
Coventry +8 3 £210 -30.00% 13
Staffordshire +3 2 £575 - 39
Herefordshire +12 1 - - 2
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) SAP ERP
2 1 (2.78%) Maximo
2 1 (2.78%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.11%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.78%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) Wireless
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) Internet
2 2 (5.56%) Network Security
2 2 (5.56%) NGFW
3 1 (2.78%) BGP
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) EIGRP
3 1 (2.78%) LAN
3 1 (2.78%) OSPF
3 1 (2.78%) SD-WAN
3 1 (2.78%) VLAN
3 1 (2.78%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) Wireless Security
3 1 (2.78%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
2 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.78%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) Postman
2 3 (8.33%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) JMeter
2 3 (8.33%) REST Assured
2 3 (8.33%) Selenium
2 3 (8.33%) TestNG
2 3 (8.33%) Travis CI
3 1 (2.78%) Ant
3 1 (2.78%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.78%) Gradle
3 1 (2.78%) JUnit
3 1 (2.78%) Maven
3 1 (2.78%) Mockito
General
1 22 (61.11%) Social Skills
2 19 (52.78%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (16.67%) Finance
4 5 (13.89%) Automotive
4 5 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.56%) Back Office
6 2 (5.56%) Banking
6 2 (5.56%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.56%) General Ledger
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (16.67%) Architect
2 4 (11.11%) Developer
2 4 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Network Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) SAP Developer
4 2 (5.56%) ABAP Developer
4 2 (5.56%) Administrator
4 2 (5.56%) Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Lead
4 2 (5.56%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (5.56%) Product Consultant
4 2 (5.56%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Senior Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Tester
5 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes Engineer
5 1 (2.78%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.11%) RESTful
2 2 (5.56%) BAPI
2 2 (5.56%) IDoc
2 2 (5.56%) REST
2 2 (5.56%) SAP Smart Forms
2 2 (5.56%) SOAP
2 2 (5.56%) Web Services
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) Django
3 1 (2.78%) Flask
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) J2EE
3 1 (2.78%) SAML
3 1 (2.78%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (2.78%) SAPUI5
3 1 (2.78%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.89%) Industry 4.0
2 5 (13.89%) IoT
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.78%) PMI
4 1 (2.78%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 16 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (33.33%) Agile
4 11 (30.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (25.00%) DevOps
6 6 (16.67%) Data Architecture
6 6 (16.67%) SIEM
6 6 (16.67%) User Experience
7 5 (13.89%) Analytical Thinking
7 5 (13.89%) Business Transformation
7 5 (13.89%) CAFM
7 5 (13.89%) Energy Management
7 5 (13.89%) Facilities Management
7 5 (13.89%) Informatics
7 5 (13.89%) Process Management
7 5 (13.89%) Software Engineering
7 5 (13.89%) Workflow
8 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
8 4 (11.11%) Project Management
8 4 (11.11%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 11 (30.56%) Python
2 6 (16.67%) Bash
3 3 (8.33%) ABAP
3 3 (8.33%) COBOL
3 3 (8.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (5.56%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.78%) Perl
5 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 36 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (11.11%) CISSP
4 3 (8.33%) CEH
4 3 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certification
5 2 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.56%) CCNA
5 2 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 2 (5.56%) PMP
5 2 (5.56%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.78%) CCNP
6 1 (2.78%) MCP
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.78%) OCP
6 1 (2.78%) Oracle Certification
6 1 (2.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (22.22%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (19.44%) Kubernetes
2 5 (13.89%) Ansible
3 4 (11.11%) Terraform
4 3 (8.33%) Kibana
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) SAP
2 6 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Adobe
4 2 (5.56%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco
4 2 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (2.78%) BT
5 1 (2.78%) Infoblox
5 1 (2.78%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.78%) Siemens
5 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
5 1 (2.78%) Sybase
5 1 (2.78%) Zscaler