Computer Science Contracts in the West Midlands

Computer Science
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 44 102
Rank change year-on-year -2 +58 +22
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 63 76 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.07% 3.68% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.59% 4.53% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 48 23
10th Percentile £142 £323 £365
25th Percentile £163 £425 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £292 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -46.91% - +22.22%
75th Percentile £532 £635 £681
90th Percentile £588 £668 £738
England median daily rate £500 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -7.06% -2.18% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 9 1
10th Percentile £21.05 - -
25th Percentile £27.00 £22.33 £24.63
Median hourly rate £30.00 £56.25 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -46.67% +122.77% +80.36%
75th Percentile £31.00 £72.50 £25.88
90th Percentile - £73.00 -
England median hourly rate £43.50 £55.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -20.91% -8.33% +24.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,373 1,676 1,986
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.75% 81.08% 87.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 867 1,117 1,366
10th Percentile £206 £273 £263
25th Percentile £363 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +0.20%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £613
90th Percentile £673 £725 £713
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 111 48
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.06 £15.38
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.95 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -20.20% +47.06%
75th Percentile £33.88 £37.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.25 £49.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
Birmingham +10 21 £195 -64.55% 146
Staffordshire +12 15 £150 +30.43% 91
Warwickshire -10 10 £300 -44.83% 35
Worcestershire -2 8 £575 +4.55% 25
Coventry -2 3 - - 37
Solihull +6 2 £348 -
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (3.17%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.59%) Apache
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Maximo
1 1 (1.59%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.94%) Azure
2 4 (6.35%) AWS
3 2 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (3.17%) GCP
3 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.59%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (1.59%) Datadog
4 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub
4 1 (1.59%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.59%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.59%) OCI
4 1 (1.59%) Serverless
4 1 (1.59%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (15.87%) Firewall
2 8 (12.70%) LAN
2 8 (12.70%) WAN
2 8 (12.70%) Wireless
3 7 (11.11%) DNS
4 6 (9.52%) DHCP
5 5 (7.94%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (7.94%) PuTTY
5 5 (7.94%) WLAN
6 3 (4.76%) Network Security
6 3 (4.76%) Unified Communications
7 2 (3.17%) Internet
7 2 (3.17%) Telepresence
7 2 (3.17%) VLAN
8 1 (1.59%) DKIM
8 1 (1.59%) DMARC
8 1 (1.59%) DMZ
8 1 (1.59%) EIGRP
8 1 (1.59%) OSPF
8 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
2 2 (3.17%) Big Data
2 2 (3.17%) Power BI
2 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.59%) Hadoop
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (1.59%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.59%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.59%) OLTP
3 1 (1.59%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.59%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) Sybase IQ
3 1 (1.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Jenkins
1 5 (7.94%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) GitLab
3 3 (4.76%) JMeter
3 3 (4.76%) Postman
3 3 (4.76%) REST Assured
3 3 (4.76%) Selenium
3 3 (4.76%) TestNG
3 3 (4.76%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.59%) Ant
4 1 (1.59%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.59%) Gradle
4 1 (1.59%) JUnit
4 1 (1.59%) Maven
4 1 (1.59%) Mockito
General
1 43 (68.25%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.16%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (12.70%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (9.52%) Manufacturing
5 5 (7.94%) Finance
6 2 (3.17%) Banking
6 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.17%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.59%) Automotive
7 1 (1.59%) Humanities
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Analyst
2 8 (12.70%) Support Analyst
3 7 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 7 (11.11%) Junior
4 5 (7.94%) Architect
4 5 (7.94%) IT Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) IT Analyst
5 4 (6.35%) IT Support
5 4 (6.35%) Junior IT Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Lead
6 3 (4.76%) IT Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Junior Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Junior IT Support
6 3 (4.76%) Junior IT Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Junior Support Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Administrator
7 2 (3.17%) Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Desktop Engineer
7 2 (3.17%) Desktop Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.17%) .NET
2 1 (1.59%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.59%) J2EE
2 1 (1.59%) Kafka
2 1 (1.59%) OAuth
2 1 (1.59%) OLE
2 1 (1.59%) OpenID
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.59%) RESTful
2 1 (1.59%) SAML
2 1 (1.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.52%) Virtual Team
2 4 (6.35%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) IoT
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.59%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.59%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.59%) PMI
5 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.59%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Windows
2 3 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.17%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.59%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (47.62%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (20.63%) DevOps
2 13 (20.63%) Project Management
3 12 (19.05%) Collaborative Working
4 9 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 8 (12.70%) Agile
5 8 (12.70%) Mentoring
5 8 (12.70%) Software Engineering
6 7 (11.11%) Decision-Making
6 7 (11.11%) SIEM
6 7 (11.11%) User Experience
6 7 (11.11%) Workflow
7 6 (9.52%) Process Improvement
7 6 (9.52%) Visualisation
8 5 (7.94%) Change Management
8 5 (7.94%) CI/CD
9 4 (6.35%) Containerisation
9 4 (6.35%) Incident Response
9 4 (6.35%) Site Reliability Engineering
9 4 (6.35%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.22%) Python
2 7 (11.11%) Bash
3 4 (6.35%) SQL
4 2 (3.17%) C#
4 2 (3.17%) Java
5 1 (1.59%) Go
5 1 (1.59%) Perl
5 1 (1.59%) Scala
5 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 52 (82.54%) Degree
2 34 (53.97%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (17.46%) Security Cleared
4 7 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (9.52%) CCNA
5 6 (9.52%) CCNP
5 6 (9.52%) CISSP
5 6 (9.52%) DV Cleared
6 4 (6.35%) CEH
7 3 (4.76%) DBS Check
7 3 (4.76%) ISTQB
8 2 (3.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.17%) PMI Certification
8 2 (3.17%) PMP
8 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.59%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.59%) OCP
9 1 (1.59%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (1.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.63%) QA
2 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.76%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.17%) GDPR
4 2 (3.17%) NIST
4 2 (3.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (3.17%) SLA
5 1 (1.59%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (12.70%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (12.70%) Kubernetes
2 7 (11.11%) Ansible
3 5 (7.94%) Terraform
4 3 (4.76%) Kibana
5 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.59%) Puppet
5 1 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (26.98%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) Cisco
3 5 (7.94%) Peregrine
3 5 (7.94%) Remedy
4 3 (4.76%) SAP
5 2 (3.17%) Juniper
5 2 (3.17%) Oracle
6 1 (1.59%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.59%) BT
6 1 (1.59%) Databricks
6 1 (1.59%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.59%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.59%) Sybase
6 1 (1.59%) Zscaler