Computer Science Degree Contracts in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 121 165
Rank change year-on-year +56 +44 -42
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 48 17 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.49% 0.72% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.63% 2.67% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 14 5
10th Percentile £300 £254 £269
25th Percentile £450 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £490 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.69% +30.67% -48.28%
75th Percentile £623 £597 £438
90th Percentile £635 £708 £445
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £13.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £14.00
75th Percentile - - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.25 £54.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +12.24% +27.63%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 629 636 705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.66% 27.03% 19.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 390 491
10th Percentile £273 £312 £306
25th Percentile £358 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £536 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% +12.84% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £611 £563
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 28 13
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.70 £11.60
25th Percentile £22.08 £13.31 £13.50
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.00 £18.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% +1.33% +14.89%
75th Percentile £43.44 £27.54 £20.00
90th Percentile £58.75 £60.05 £20.51
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £38.90
% change year-on-year -23.81% +34.98% +2.36%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
Birmingham +25 17 £500 +4.17% 19
Warwickshire +7 7 £450 -23.40% 6
Worcestershire - 6 £525 - 8
Coventry +14 4 £300 +20.00% 8
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 - - 5
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 1 (2.08%) Apache
1 1 (2.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.17%) Simulink
2 1 (2.08%) Stateflow
Cloud Services
1 13 (27.08%) Azure
2 7 (14.58%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Functions
3 3 (6.25%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 3 (6.25%) Serverless
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 2 (4.17%) AWS
5 1 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.08%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (12.50%) Firewall
2 4 (8.33%) Network Security
3 1 (2.08%) DHCP
3 1 (2.08%) DNS
3 1 (2.08%) NGFW
3 1 (2.08%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.08%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.08%) VoIP
3 1 (2.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.50%) Data Mining
2 3 (6.25%) Power BI
3 2 (4.17%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (4.17%) MongoDB
3 2 (4.17%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.17%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (2.08%) Flink
Development Applications
1 5 (10.42%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.33%) Git
3 3 (6.25%) GitLab
4 2 (4.17%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.08%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 27 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (43.75%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (6.25%) German Language
6 2 (4.17%) Legal
6 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.08%) Back Office
7 1 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.08%) Electronics
7 1 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.08%) Marketing
7 1 (2.08%) Multimedia
7 1 (2.08%) Publishing
7 1 (2.08%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Architect
1 9 (18.75%) Developer
2 6 (12.50%) Data Architect
2 6 (12.50%) Java Developer
3 5 (10.42%) DevOps Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) SOC Engineer
4 4 (8.33%) Splunk Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Data Consultant
6 2 (4.17%) Full Stack Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Network Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (4.17%) SOC Analyst
6 2 (4.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.50%) Spring
2 3 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 3 (6.25%) Kafka
2 3 (6.25%) React
3 2 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.08%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (2.08%) CSS
4 1 (2.08%) Dask
4 1 (2.08%) Guice
4 1 (2.08%) HTML
4 1 (2.08%) Keras
4 1 (2.08%) NumPy
4 1 (2.08%) Pandas
4 1 (2.08%) PySpark
4 1 (2.08%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.08%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (2.08%) REST
4 1 (2.08%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.08%) Vue
4 1 (2.08%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 9 (18.75%) Management Information System
1 9 (18.75%) Security Operations Centre
2 8 (16.67%) Security Posture
3 6 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (8.33%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
6 2 (4.17%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.17%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.17%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.17%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (4.17%) IoT
7 1 (2.08%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.08%) FPGA
7 1 (2.08%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.33%) Windows
2 2 (4.17%) Linux
2 2 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (97.92%) Computer Science
2 25 (52.08%) Problem-Solving
3 15 (31.25%) DevOps
4 12 (25.00%) Analytics
5 11 (22.92%) Cybersecurity
5 11 (22.92%) Security Operations
5 11 (22.92%) SIEM
6 10 (20.83%) Agile
6 10 (20.83%) Incident Response
7 9 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 8 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 8 (16.67%) Migration
9 6 (12.50%) CAD
9 6 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
9 6 (12.50%) Data Science
9 6 (12.50%) Microservices
9 6 (12.50%) Threat Detection
9 6 (12.50%) Threat Intelligence
10 5 (10.42%) Decision-Making
10 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (16.67%) Java
2 6 (12.50%) Python
3 5 (10.42%) Kusto Query Language
3 5 (10.42%) SQL
4 4 (8.33%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.17%) MATLAB
6 2 (4.17%) Perl
7 1 (2.08%) C#
7 1 (2.08%) PHP
7 1 (2.08%) Scala
Qualifications
1 48 (100.00%) Degree
2 17 (35.42%) Security Cleared
3 12 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 11 (22.92%) CISSP
5 9 (18.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 7 (14.58%) Master's Degree
7 6 (12.50%) DV Cleared
8 5 (10.42%) Azure Certification
8 5 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (6.25%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (4.17%) CCNA
10 2 (4.17%) CEH
10 2 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (2.08%) CCNP
11 1 (2.08%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) QA
System Software
1 4 (8.33%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.25%) Docker
3 1 (2.08%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.25%) SysTrack
3 2 (4.17%) Kibana
3 2 (4.17%) logstash
3 2 (4.17%) Terraform
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (8.33%) Splunk
3 3 (6.25%) Citrix
3 3 (6.25%) New Relic
3 3 (6.25%) OpenAI
4 2 (4.17%) Confluent
4 2 (4.17%) SAP
5 1 (2.08%) Informatica
5 1 (2.08%) Mitel
5 1 (2.08%) Oracle
5 1 (2.08%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.08%) Xilinx