Computer Science Contract Job Trends in Wokingham

Computer Science
Berkshire > Wokingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wokingham requiring Computer Science skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 16
Rank change year-on-year - - -3
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 8 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in Wokingham 3.56% - 5.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.04% - 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £408 - £770
25th Percentile £411 - £781
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 - £825
Median % change year-on-year - - +22.22%
75th Percentile £469 - £884
90th Percentile - - £924
Berkshire median daily rate £456 £520 £538
% change year-on-year -12.26% -3.26% -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wokingham

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 Wokingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 198 85 67
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham 88.00% 85.00% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 63 34
10th Percentile £313 £313 £348
25th Percentile £393 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% -13.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £650
90th Percentile £625 £600 £863
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £546 £525
% change year-on-year -8.47% +4.05% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £14.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £59.47 £61.79
% change year-on-year -45.67% -3.75% +22.36%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Wokingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wokingham.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Wokingham

Computer Science
Daily Rate Trend in Wokingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Computer Science.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wokingham citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wokingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) GeoServer
1 4 (50.00%) Smallworld
2 1 (12.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Collibra
2 1 (12.50%) GCP
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (50.00%) Geospatial Data
1 4 (50.00%) GIS
1 4 (50.00%) QGIS
2 3 (37.50%) Metadata
3 1 (12.50%) Big Data
3 1 (12.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
3 1 (12.50%) Power BI
3 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
3 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Architect
1 2 (25.00%) Data Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Data Scientist
1 2 (25.00%) GIS Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Data Management Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) Reference Data Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Pandas
1 2 (25.00%) scikit-learn
2 1 (12.50%) Matplotlib
2 1 (12.50%) NumPy
2 1 (12.50%) Plotly
2 1 (12.50%) PyTorch
2 1 (12.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (25.00%) Replication
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (12.50%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (12.50%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Machine Learning
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Visualisation
3 4 (50.00%) AI
3 4 (50.00%) Analytics
3 4 (50.00%) Data Governance
3 4 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Data Science
3 4 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (37.50%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) Change Control
5 2 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
5 2 (25.00%) High Availability
5 2 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 2 (25.00%) Statistics
5 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (87.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ESRI
1 4 (50.00%) Intergraph
2 1 (12.50%) Google