Computer Science Contracts in the City of London

Computer Science
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 67 90
Rank change year-on-year +21 +23 +2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 90 113 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.17% 3.26% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 3.56% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 70 75
10th Percentile £344 £412 £455
25th Percentile £422 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £713 £600
Median % change year-on-year -22.46% +18.75% +9.09%
75th Percentile £725 £875 £675
90th Percentile £818 £1,063 £780
Central London median daily rate £551 £725 £600
% change year-on-year -23.97% +20.83% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 8
10th Percentile - £50.45 £45.65
25th Percentile - £50.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year - -7.89% +78.13%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £61.94
90th Percentile - £77.75 £68.58
Central London median hourly rate - £52.50 £57.00
% change year-on-year - -7.89% +78.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,954 3,173 3,854
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.63% 91.49% 92.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,367 2,145 2,906
10th Percentile £350 £363 £381
25th Percentile £450 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +4.35% +6.98%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £688
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £565
% change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 44
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.55 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £16.33 £24.25
Median hourly rate £26.63 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.93% -14.63% +115.93%
75th Percentile £40.46 £57.50 £55.38
90th Percentile £49.41 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 9 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.22%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.11%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.11%) Confluence
4 1 (1.11%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.11%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.33%) Chatbot
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.22%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (2.22%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.11%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.11%) Primavera
2 1 (1.11%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.11%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 29 (32.22%) Azure
2 16 (17.78%) AWS
3 10 (11.11%) GCP
4 9 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (8.89%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
7 5 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (5.56%) OneDrive
8 4 (4.44%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (4.44%) PowerApps
9 3 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (3.33%) GitHub
9 3 (3.33%) WhatsApp
10 2 (2.22%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (2.22%) IaaS
10 2 (2.22%) PaaS
10 2 (2.22%) Snowflake
10 2 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
10 2 (2.22%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.89%) Firewall
2 5 (5.56%) LAN
3 4 (4.44%) CTI
3 4 (4.44%) Network Security
3 4 (4.44%) VoIP
4 3 (3.33%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.33%) WAN
5 2 (2.22%) DNS
5 2 (2.22%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (1.11%) DHCP
6 1 (1.11%) MPLS
6 1 (1.11%) Multicast
6 1 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.11%) SSL
6 1 (1.11%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.11%) VLAN
6 1 (1.11%) VPN
6 1 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.44%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.33%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.22%) Big Data
4 2 (2.22%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.22%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.22%) MySQL
4 2 (2.22%) Presto
4 2 (2.22%) Tableau
5 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.11%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.11%) InfluxDB
5 1 (1.11%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
5 1 (1.11%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 7 (7.78%) Git
2 5 (5.56%) JIRA
3 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.33%) GitLab
4 3 (3.33%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.22%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.22%) ERwin
5 2 (2.22%) Gradle
5 2 (2.22%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (1.11%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.11%) CMake
6 1 (1.11%) Darcs
6 1 (1.11%) JUnit
6 1 (1.11%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.11%) Moq
6 1 (1.11%) MSTest
6 1 (1.11%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.11%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.11%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.11%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 32 (35.56%) Finance
3 19 (21.11%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (17.78%) Banking
5 9 (10.00%) Legal
6 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.44%) Marketing
8 3 (3.33%) Front Office
8 3 (3.33%) Investment Banking
8 3 (3.33%) Retail
9 2 (2.22%) Advertising
9 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.22%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.22%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.11%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.11%) French Language
10 1 (1.11%) German Language
10 1 (1.11%) Japanese Language
10 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 20 (22.22%) Developer
2 17 (18.89%) Architect
3 7 (7.78%) Analyst
3 7 (7.78%) Senior
4 5 (5.56%) Lead
4 5 (5.56%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 4 (4.44%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (3.33%) C# Developer
6 3 (3.33%) Consultant
6 3 (3.33%) Data Scientist
6 3 (3.33%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.33%) Quantitative Developer
6 3 (3.33%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (2.22%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) CRM Developer
7 2 (2.22%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (2.22%) Senior Architect
7 2 (2.22%) SOC Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.78%) CSS
2 5 (5.56%) REST
3 4 (4.44%) .NET
3 4 (4.44%) HTML
3 4 (4.44%) jQuery
3 4 (4.44%) JSON
3 4 (4.44%) Matplotlib
3 4 (4.44%) Pandas
3 4 (4.44%) Web Services
3 4 (4.44%) XML
4 3 (3.33%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (3.33%) PyTorch
4 3 (3.33%) React
4 3 (3.33%) scikit-learn
5 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.22%) NumPy
5 2 (2.22%) Plotly
5 2 (2.22%) PySpark
5 2 (2.22%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.22%) Management Information System
2 6 (6.67%) Algorithms
2 6 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 5 (5.56%) IVR
4 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
5 3 (3.33%) Cyber Threat
5 3 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.22%) Derivative
6 2 (2.22%) Equities
6 2 (2.22%) Legacy Code
6 2 (2.22%) Market Risk
6 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.22%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (1.11%) Blog
7 1 (1.11%) CMDB
7 1 (1.11%) DataPower
7 1 (1.11%) PKI
7 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.00%) Windows
2 8 (8.89%) Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.22%) Solaris
3 2 (2.22%) VMS
4 1 (1.11%) Android
4 1 (1.11%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.11%) Unix
4 1 (1.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (25.56%) Agile
3 15 (16.67%) DevOps
3 15 (16.67%) Migration
4 14 (15.56%) CI/CD
4 14 (15.56%) Project Management
5 13 (14.44%) ITIL
6 12 (13.33%) Analytics
7 11 (12.22%) Machine Learning
8 10 (11.11%) Mathematics
9 9 (10.00%) Artificial Intelligence
9 9 (10.00%) Change Management
9 9 (10.00%) PRINCE2
9 9 (10.00%) Software Engineering
9 9 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (8.89%) Data Loss Prevention
11 7 (7.78%) Customer Experience
11 7 (7.78%) Data Analysis
11 7 (7.78%) Data Modelling
11 7 (7.78%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) Python
2 19 (21.11%) SQL
3 13 (14.44%) Java
4 10 (11.11%) PowerShell
5 9 (10.00%) C#
6 6 (6.67%) C++
6 6 (6.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (4.44%) Bash
7 4 (4.44%) Kotlin
7 4 (4.44%) PL/SQL
8 3 (3.33%) Go
8 3 (3.33%) Rust
8 3 (3.33%) Scala
9 2 (2.22%) C
9 2 (2.22%) Clojure
9 2 (2.22%) Haskell
9 2 (2.22%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.11%) VBA
10 1 (1.11%) VC++
10 1 (1.11%) XPath
Qualifications
1 82 (91.11%) Degree
2 59 (65.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (17.78%) Master's Degree
4 10 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (3.33%) GCIA
7 3 (3.33%) GCIH
7 3 (3.33%) GIAC
7 3 (3.33%) PhD
7 3 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 3 (3.33%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.11%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.11%) MCITP
9 1 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.11%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.78%) QA
2 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.33%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.22%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
3 2 (2.22%) NIST
3 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.22%) SLA
3 2 (2.22%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.11%) NIST 800
System Software
1 5 (5.56%) Docker
1 5 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.22%) KVM
4 1 (1.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (8.89%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.89%) PingFederate
2 6 (6.67%) Terraform
3 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (3.33%) CSIRT
4 3 (3.33%) Nessus
4 3 (3.33%) QRadar
5 2 (2.22%) Ansible
5 2 (2.22%) Grafana
6 1 (1.11%) Kibana
6 1 (1.11%) logstash
6 1 (1.11%) Nagios
6 1 (1.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.11%) Puppet
6 1 (1.11%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (1.11%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (31.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (18.89%) Oracle
3 8 (8.89%) Google
4 5 (5.56%) Cisco
4 5 (5.56%) Databricks
4 5 (5.56%) Genesys
4 5 (5.56%) SAP
5 4 (4.44%) VMware
6 3 (3.33%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (3.33%) Proofpoint
6 3 (3.33%) ServiceNow
6 3 (3.33%) Symantec
7 2 (2.22%) Avaya
7 2 (2.22%) Citrix
7 2 (2.22%) CrowdStrike
7 2 (2.22%) Foundry
7 2 (2.22%) Palantir
7 2 (2.22%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.22%) Sparx
8 1 (1.11%) IBM