Computer Science Degree Contracts with Work from Home Options

Computer Science Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 266 357
Rank change year-on-year +112 +91 -22
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 223 228 271
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.45% 0.88% 0.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.18% 3.43% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 156 162
10th Percentile £325 £419 £364
25th Percentile £425 £479 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £610 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +10.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £863 £638
90th Percentile £813 £931 £760
UK median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 11
10th Percentile £56.25 £39.45 £21.00
25th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £42.10
Median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% +13.40% +42.63%
75th Percentile £79.38 £70.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £79.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £48.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +13.40% +32.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,304 6,644 8,884
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.90% 25.52% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,681 4,463 6,208
10th Percentile £331 £381 £363
25th Percentile £440 £455 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 301 224
10th Percentile £15.36 £20.00 £19.40
25th Percentile £24.19 £42.50 £35.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +34.02% +21.25%
75th Percentile £65.00 £73.75 £65.31
90th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £69.63
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%

Computer Science Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree.

Computer Science Degree daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Computer Science Degree daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree.

Computer Science Degree hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Computer Science Degree hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.35%) Confluence
4 2 (0.90%) Apache
4 2 (0.90%) EPiServer
4 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (0.90%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.90%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (0.90%) Skype for Business
4 2 (0.90%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.90%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.45%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.45%) CMS
5 1 (0.45%) IIS
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Fuse
5 1 (0.45%) WebLogic
Applications
1 5 (2.24%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.35%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.45%) Simulink
4 1 (0.45%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 5 (2.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (0.90%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.45%) BusinessWorks
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CAR
3 1 (0.45%) SAP CX
3 1 (0.45%) SAP POS DM
3 1 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 60 (26.91%) Azure
2 42 (18.83%) AWS
3 24 (10.76%) GCP
4 16 (7.17%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (4.93%) Power Platform
6 10 (4.48%) GitHub
7 8 (3.59%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (3.59%) Microsoft 365
7 8 (3.59%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.69%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (2.69%) Amazon EMR
8 6 (2.69%) Power Automate
9 5 (2.24%) Amazon ECS
9 5 (2.24%) GitHub Actions
9 5 (2.24%) OpenShift
9 5 (2.24%) PaaS
9 5 (2.24%) SaaS
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (1.79%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 18 (8.07%) Firewall
2 13 (5.83%) DNS
3 12 (5.38%) Network Security
4 7 (3.14%) DHCP
5 6 (2.69%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.69%) VPN
6 4 (1.79%) VLAN
7 3 (1.35%) Internet
7 3 (1.35%) VoIP
7 3 (1.35%) WAN
7 3 (1.35%) Wireless
8 2 (0.90%) Skype
8 2 (0.90%) SSH
8 2 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.45%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 1 (0.45%) Remote Desktop
9 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.45%) Telepresence
9 1 (0.45%) Unified Communications
9 1 (0.45%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (10.31%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.73%) Relational Database
3 13 (5.83%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (5.38%) PostgreSQL
5 11 (4.93%) Power BI
6 10 (4.48%) Couchbase
7 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
8 6 (2.69%) MySQL
9 5 (2.24%) Metadata
9 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
9 5 (2.24%) Oracle Database
9 5 (2.24%) RDBMS
10 4 (1.79%) Tableau
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon Athena
11 3 (1.35%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (1.35%) Big Data
11 3 (1.35%) BigQuery
11 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.90%) Looker
Development Applications
1 27 (12.11%) Git
2 20 (8.97%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.93%) GitLab
4 9 (4.04%) JIRA
5 6 (2.69%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.69%) MLflow
6 4 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
6 4 (1.79%) Selenium
7 3 (1.35%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
8 2 (0.90%) Eclipse
8 2 (0.90%) Postman
8 2 (0.90%) SpecFlow
8 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.90%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (0.90%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.45%) ERwin
9 1 (0.45%) HP UFT
9 1 (0.45%) PowerDesigner
9 1 (0.45%) Subversion
General
1 151 (67.71%) Social Skills
2 68 (30.49%) Analytical Skills
3 52 (23.32%) Finance
4 27 (12.11%) Banking
5 14 (6.28%) Front Office
6 9 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 7 (3.14%) Investment Banking
7 7 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
7 7 (3.14%) Retail
8 6 (2.69%) Financial Institution
8 6 (2.69%) Legal
9 5 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.79%) Marketing
11 3 (1.35%) Electronics
11 3 (1.35%) German Language
11 3 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.90%) Advertising
12 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.90%) Multimedia
12 2 (0.90%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (17.49%) Developer
2 27 (12.11%) Senior
3 26 (11.66%) Architect
4 23 (10.31%) Lead
5 18 (8.07%) Consultant
6 14 (6.28%) DevOps Engineer
7 13 (5.83%) Data Engineer
7 13 (5.83%) Software Engineer
8 12 (5.38%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.93%) Senior Developer
10 10 (4.48%) Azure Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Analyst
11 8 (3.59%) Java Developer
11 8 (3.59%) Lead Data Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Solutions Architect
12 7 (3.14%) AWS Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Azure DevOps Engineer
13 6 (2.69%) Technical Leader
14 5 (2.24%) Java Engineer
14 5 (2.24%) Risk Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.52%) HTML
2 17 (7.62%) CSS
3 13 (5.83%) .NET
4 12 (5.38%) Node.js
5 11 (4.93%) JSON
6 10 (4.48%) React
6 10 (4.48%) RESTful
7 8 (3.59%) .NET Framework
7 8 (3.59%) AngularJS
7 8 (3.59%) ASP.NET
8 7 (3.14%) Kafka
8 7 (3.14%) REST
8 7 (3.14%) Swagger
9 6 (2.69%) Web Services
10 5 (2.24%) jQuery
10 5 (2.24%) XML
11 4 (1.79%) Middleware
11 4 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
11 4 (1.79%) SOAP
11 4 (1.79%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.42%) Management Information System
2 14 (6.28%) Derivative
3 13 (5.83%) Algorithms
4 10 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 7 (3.14%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.14%) Fixed Income
7 5 (2.24%) Blockchain
7 5 (2.24%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 5 (2.24%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.79%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.79%) Legacy Systems
8 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
8 4 (1.79%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.79%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 3 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 16 (7.17%) Linux
1 16 (7.17%) Windows
2 6 (2.69%) Unix
2 6 (2.69%) Windows Server
3 4 (1.79%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.35%) Android
4 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.90%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.45%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Mobile
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 222 (99.55%) Computer Science
2 108 (48.43%) Problem-Solving
3 84 (37.67%) Agile
4 48 (21.52%) DevOps
5 35 (15.70%) Software Engineering
6 27 (12.11%) CI/CD
7 26 (11.66%) Analytics
7 26 (11.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.66%) Data Modelling
8 25 (11.21%) Project Management
9 20 (8.97%) Scrum
10 18 (8.07%) Data Integration
10 18 (8.07%) Translating Business Requirements
11 17 (7.62%) Microservices
12 16 (7.17%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (7.17%) Migration
12 16 (7.17%) Risk Management
12 16 (7.17%) Technical Leadership
13 15 (6.73%) Information Security
14 14 (6.28%) Data Security
Programming Languages
1 58 (26.01%) Python
2 44 (19.73%) Java
3 38 (17.04%) SQL
4 32 (14.35%) JavaScript
5 20 (8.97%) C++
6 17 (7.62%) C#
7 13 (5.83%) PowerShell
8 11 (4.93%) Bash
8 11 (4.93%) Go
9 10 (4.48%) Scala
10 8 (3.59%) Perl
10 8 (3.59%) PL/SQL
11 7 (3.14%) TypeScript
12 5 (2.24%) Shell Script
13 4 (1.79%) R
14 3 (1.35%) Bicep
14 3 (1.35%) Clojure
14 3 (1.35%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 2 (0.90%) MATLAB
15 2 (0.90%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 223 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (18.39%) Master's Degree
3 30 (13.45%) Security Cleared
4 23 (10.31%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.83%) CISSP
6 10 (4.48%) CISM
7 9 (4.04%) Azure Certification
8 7 (3.14%) PhD
9 6 (2.69%) CCNA
9 6 (2.69%) CEH
9 6 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.69%) PMP
10 4 (1.79%) APMP
10 4 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
10 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.35%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.35%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (1.35%) SAP Certification
12 2 (0.90%) MBA
12 2 (0.90%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.38%) Data Quality
2 10 (4.48%) QA
3 9 (4.04%) NIST
4 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.79%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.90%) COBIT
5 2 (0.90%) GRC
5 2 (0.90%) ISO 22301
5 2 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.90%) MiFID
5 2 (0.90%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.90%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) HIPAA
System Software
1 11 (4.93%) Docker
2 9 (4.04%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.45%) KVM
5 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.45%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.38%) Terraform
3 8 (3.59%) Grafana
4 5 (2.24%) Ansible
5 3 (1.35%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.35%) Nessus
5 3 (1.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.90%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.90%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.45%) Kibana
7 1 (0.45%) Kubeflow
7 1 (0.45%) Nagios
7 1 (0.45%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.45%) Puppet
7 1 (0.45%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.45%) WSUS
7 1 (0.45%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 34 (15.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (12.56%) Oracle
3 12 (5.38%) Databricks
4 10 (4.48%) Google
4 10 (4.48%) SAP
5 5 (2.24%) Qualys
5 5 (2.24%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.24%) VMware
6 4 (1.79%) ION Trading
6 4 (1.79%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.35%) Adobe
7 3 (1.35%) Ariba
7 3 (1.35%) CA
7 3 (1.35%) Foundry
7 3 (1.35%) IBM
7 3 (1.35%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.35%) Palantir
7 3 (1.35%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.35%) Tealium
8 2 (0.90%) Monetate