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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 141 255 345
Rank change year-on-year +114 +90 +7
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 234 228 287
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.60% 0.93% 0.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.04% 3.67% 3.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 147 182
10th Percentile £307 £408 £375
25th Percentile £413 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £863 £650
90th Percentile £800 £963 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 7
10th Percentile £56.25 £39.45 £20.10
25th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £30.63
Median hourly rate £77.50 £55.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% +25.14% +29.25%
75th Percentile £79.38 £70.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £79.75 - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £44.48
% change year-on-year -4.55% +23.66% +2.24%

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 3,873 6,207 8,771
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.43% 25.41% 19.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,489 4,208 6,176
10th Percentile £335 £380 £375
25th Percentile £438 £452 £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 £529 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.82% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 252 227
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.03 £20.61
25th Percentile £24.00 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £62.50 £49.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.20% +26.26% +32.00%
75th Percentile £67.73 £70.00 £65.77
90th Percentile £84.57 £80.25 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +23.47%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 8 (3.42%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.71%) Confluence
4 3 (1.28%) Oracle Self-Service HR
5 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.85%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.43%) Apache
6 1 (0.43%) CMS
6 1 (0.43%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Fuse
6 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.43%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.42%) Chatbot
1 8 (3.42%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.43%) Simulink
4 1 (0.43%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle 11i
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle Applications
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (1.28%) Oracle Receivables
1 3 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP CAR
2 1 (0.43%) SAP CX
2 1 (0.43%) SAP POS DM
2 1 (0.43%) SAP Retail
2 1 (0.43%) SAP SD
2 1 (0.43%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 70 (29.91%) Azure
2 56 (23.93%) AWS
3 33 (14.10%) GCP
4 15 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (5.56%) Cloud Computing
6 11 (4.70%) Power Platform
7 9 (3.85%) GitHub
8 8 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
8 8 (3.42%) PowerApps
9 7 (2.99%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.56%) Amazon EKS
10 6 (2.56%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.56%) Twilio
11 5 (2.14%) Amazon EMR
11 5 (2.14%) Amazon S3
11 5 (2.14%) AWS Lambda
11 5 (2.14%) Azure Data Factory
11 5 (2.14%) OpenShift
11 5 (2.14%) SaaS
11 5 (2.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 20 (8.55%) Firewall
2 12 (5.13%) DNS
3 11 (4.70%) VoIP
4 10 (4.27%) Network Security
5 9 (3.85%) CTI
6 7 (2.99%) VPN
7 6 (2.56%) DHCP
8 5 (2.14%) TCP/IP
9 4 (1.71%) VLAN
9 4 (1.71%) WAN
9 4 (1.71%) Wireless
10 3 (1.28%) SSH
11 2 (0.85%) Internet
11 2 (0.85%) LAN
11 2 (0.85%) SD-WAN
11 2 (0.85%) Skype
12 1 (0.43%) HTTPS
12 1 (0.43%) MGCP
12 1 (0.43%) MPLS
12 1 (0.43%) SCCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.97%) SQL Server
2 20 (8.55%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
4 11 (4.70%) Power BI
5 10 (4.27%) Couchbase
5 10 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (4.27%) MySQL
5 10 (4.27%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.56%) MongoDB
7 5 (2.14%) Big Data
7 5 (2.14%) Oracle Database
8 4 (1.71%) Amazon Redshift
8 4 (1.71%) Metadata
8 4 (1.71%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.71%) Tableau
9 3 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
9 3 (1.28%) Azure SQL Database
9 3 (1.28%) Hadoop
9 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 3 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 29 (12.39%) Git
2 19 (8.12%) Jenkins
3 11 (4.70%) GitLab
4 8 (3.42%) JIRA
5 6 (2.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (2.56%) MLflow
6 5 (2.14%) Selenium
7 4 (1.71%) Oracle APEX
8 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
8 3 (1.28%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.85%) Postman
9 2 (0.85%) SpecFlow
9 2 (0.85%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.85%) Visual Studio Code
10 1 (0.43%) Babel
10 1 (0.43%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.43%) Katalon Studio
10 1 (0.43%) Sonatype Nexus
10 1 (0.43%) Spinnaker
10 1 (0.43%) webpack
General
1 158 (67.52%) Social Skills
2 76 (32.48%) Analytical Skills
3 56 (23.93%) Finance
4 21 (8.97%) Banking
5 14 (5.98%) Public Sector
6 13 (5.56%) Front Office
7 11 (4.70%) Retail
8 9 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 7 (2.99%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.99%) Marketing
11 6 (2.56%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.56%) Investment Banking
11 6 (2.56%) Legal
12 3 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.28%) Electronics
12 3 (1.28%) German Language
12 3 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.85%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.85%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 40 (17.09%) Developer
2 33 (14.10%) Architect
3 26 (11.11%) Senior
4 23 (9.83%) Lead
5 21 (8.97%) Consultant
6 17 (7.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 16 (6.84%) Solutions Architect
8 13 (5.56%) Data Engineer
9 12 (5.13%) Software Engineer
10 11 (4.70%) Senior Developer
11 10 (4.27%) Azure Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Project Manager
13 8 (3.42%) Analyst
13 8 (3.42%) Java Developer
13 8 (3.42%) Lead Data Engineer
14 7 (2.99%) .NET Developer
15 6 (2.56%) AWS Engineer
15 6 (2.56%) Risk Consultant
15 6 (2.56%) Technical Leader
16 5 (2.14%) Azure DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.40%) HTML
2 20 (8.55%) CSS
3 17 (7.26%) .NET
4 15 (6.41%) React
5 14 (5.98%) Node.js
6 12 (5.13%) .NET Framework
6 12 (5.13%) AngularJS
6 12 (5.13%) ASP.NET
7 11 (4.70%) Web Services
8 10 (4.27%) Middleware
8 10 (4.27%) RESTful
9 9 (3.85%) JSON
9 9 (3.85%) Kafka
10 7 (2.99%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.99%) REST
10 7 (2.99%) Swagger
10 7 (2.99%) Vue
11 6 (2.56%) Entity Framework
11 6 (2.56%) XML
12 5 (2.14%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 25 (10.68%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.56%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.56%) Derivative
3 11 (4.70%) Self-Motivation
4 10 (4.27%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.27%) IVR
5 6 (2.56%) Blockchain
5 6 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.56%) Fixed Income
5 6 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Cyber Threat
6 5 (2.14%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (2.14%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.14%) Mobile App
6 5 (2.14%) Virtual Team
7 4 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 4 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.28%) Distributed Applications
8 3 (1.28%) Distributed Systems
8 3 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.55%) Linux
2 16 (6.84%) Windows
3 11 (4.70%) Unix
4 7 (2.99%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.71%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.28%) Android
6 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Mobile
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (99.15%) Computer Science
2 118 (50.43%) Problem-Solving
3 94 (40.17%) Agile
4 58 (24.79%) DevOps
5 31 (13.25%) CI/CD
5 31 (13.25%) Software Engineering
6 28 (11.97%) Analytics
6 28 (11.97%) Continuous Improvement
7 23 (9.83%) Data Modelling
8 20 (8.55%) Scrum
9 19 (8.12%) Project Management
9 19 (8.12%) Translating Business Requirements
10 18 (7.69%) Microservices
10 18 (7.69%) Migration
10 18 (7.69%) Web Development
11 17 (7.26%) Information Security
11 17 (7.26%) Risk Management
11 17 (7.26%) Roadmaps
12 16 (6.84%) Business Intelligence
12 16 (6.84%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 59 (25.21%) Python
2 42 (17.95%) Java
2 42 (17.95%) SQL
3 39 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 18 (7.69%) C#
4 18 (7.69%) C++
5 14 (5.98%) PowerShell
6 12 (5.13%) Bash
6 12 (5.13%) Go
7 10 (4.27%) Perl
7 10 (4.27%) Scala
8 9 (3.85%) PL/SQL
9 7 (2.99%) TypeScript
10 6 (2.56%) Shell Script
11 4 (1.71%) R
11 4 (1.71%) Rust
12 3 (1.28%) Bicep
12 3 (1.28%) Clojure
12 3 (1.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 3 (1.28%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 234 (100.00%) Degree
2 53 (22.65%) Master's Degree
3 30 (12.82%) Security Cleared
4 22 (9.40%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.13%) CISM
5 12 (5.13%) CISSP
6 10 (4.27%) Azure Certification
7 7 (2.99%) AWS Certification
7 7 (2.99%) CCNA
7 7 (2.99%) CEH
7 7 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (2.99%) PhD
8 6 (2.56%) PMP
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 4 (1.71%) APMP
11 3 (1.28%) CREST Certified
11 3 (1.28%) ISTQB
11 3 (1.28%) Numerate Degree
11 3 (1.28%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.98%) QA
2 12 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 10 (4.27%) NIST
4 7 (2.99%) PCI DSS
5 6 (2.56%) GDPR
6 5 (2.14%) HIPAA
6 5 (2.14%) NIST 800
7 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
7 4 (1.71%) SOC 2
8 3 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.85%) COBIT
9 2 (0.85%) GRC
9 2 (0.85%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.85%) MiFID
10 1 (0.43%) GxP
10 1 (0.43%) HL7
System Software
1 16 (6.84%) Docker
2 10 (4.27%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.85%) vSphere
5 1 (0.43%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 25 (10.68%) Kubernetes
2 12 (5.13%) Terraform
3 7 (2.99%) Grafana
4 4 (1.71%) Ansible
4 4 (1.71%) SCCM
5 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.28%) Nessus
6 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
6 2 (0.85%) vCenter Server
7 1 (0.43%) Argo
7 1 (0.43%) Nagios
7 1 (0.43%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.43%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.43%) Puppet
7 1 (0.43%) TIBCO Hawk
7 1 (0.43%) WSUS
7 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (16.24%) Microsoft
2 28 (11.97%) Oracle
3 17 (7.26%) Google
4 12 (5.13%) Databricks
5 10 (4.27%) Genesys
5 10 (4.27%) SAP
6 9 (3.85%) Cisco
7 6 (2.56%) Avaya
7 6 (2.56%) Qualys
7 6 (2.56%) VMware
8 5 (2.14%) Adobe
8 5 (2.14%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.71%) ION Trading
9 4 (1.71%) Salesforce
10 3 (1.28%) Ariba
10 3 (1.28%) CA
10 3 (1.28%) CheckPoint
10 3 (1.28%) Foundry
10 3 (1.28%) Informatica
10 3 (1.28%) Red Hat