Computer Science Contracts in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 108 160
Rank change year-on-year +40 +52 -41
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,101 1,142 1,254
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.00% 2.33% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.46% 2.59% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 778 807
10th Percentile £314 £380 £356
25th Percentile £413 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% - +6.93%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £700
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 41 60
10th Percentile £22.33 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £42.00 £24.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £46.11
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +16.84% +21.33%
75th Percentile £65.31 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.94 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.97% +19.86% +5.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,794 44,158 63,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,826 30,977 45,197
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £766 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,739
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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
London +23 657 £550 -8.33% 846
South East +14 120 £450 -13.88% 246
North of England +75 99 £500 +2.88% 201
Midlands +69 86 £525 +5.00% 152
West Midlands +59 72 £525 - 81
South West +22 55 £588 +6.82% 97
North West +46 51 £500 +2.88% 118
East of England +34 47 £500 - 144
Yorkshire +39 42 £475 -13.64% 50
East Midlands +21 14 £600 +29.73% 71
North East +22 8 £600 - 34
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 29 (2.63%) Confluence
2 23 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.36%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.18%) Apache
6 11 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
7 10 (0.91%) SAS
8 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.36%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.27%) CMS
9 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.27%) Gunicorn
9 3 (0.27%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.27%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
10 2 (0.18%) MQSeries
Applications
1 46 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.91%) Simulink
4 20 (1.82%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.82%) Stateflow
5 13 (1.18%) Chatbot
6 11 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) SPSS
8 3 (0.27%) Windchill
9 2 (0.18%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.091%) Adobe After Effects
10 1 (0.091%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.091%) Blender
10 1 (0.091%) CATIA
10 1 (0.091%) Houdini
10 1 (0.091%) InVision
10 1 (0.091%) Maya
10 1 (0.091%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.091%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 15 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.64%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.27%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 250 (22.71%) Azure
2 172 (15.62%) AWS
3 116 (10.54%) GCP
4 64 (5.81%) Azure DevOps
5 45 (4.09%) Power Platform
6 35 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
7 33 (3.00%) Cloud Computing
7 33 (3.00%) GitHub
7 33 (3.00%) Serverless
8 20 (1.82%) Amazon S3
8 20 (1.82%) PaaS
8 20 (1.82%) SaaS
9 19 (1.73%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (1.45%) Entra ID
10 16 (1.45%) PowerApps
11 15 (1.36%) Vertex AI
12 12 (1.09%) GitHub Actions
13 10 (0.91%) Microsoft Purview
13 10 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 41 (3.72%) DNS
2 39 (3.54%) Firewall
3 24 (2.18%) Network Security
4 22 (2.00%) DHCP
4 22 (2.00%) Internet
4 22 (2.00%) VPN
4 22 (2.00%) WAN
5 21 (1.91%) TCP/IP
5 21 (1.91%) Wireless
6 20 (1.82%) LAN
7 16 (1.45%) Wireshark
8 15 (1.36%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (1.09%) OSPF
9 12 (1.09%) VoIP
10 11 (1.00%) HTTP
11 10 (0.91%) 5G
11 10 (0.91%) BGP
11 10 (0.91%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.82%) MPLS
13 8 (0.73%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.63%) SQL Server
2 48 (4.36%) Relational Database
3 47 (4.27%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
5 41 (3.72%) Big Data
6 39 (3.54%) Power BI
7 38 (3.45%) Tableau
8 34 (3.09%) NoSQL
9 25 (2.27%) MySQL
10 22 (2.00%) Hadoop
11 21 (1.91%) BigQuery
12 19 (1.73%) MongoDB
13 16 (1.45%) Data Mining
14 13 (1.18%) KDB
15 12 (1.09%) Data Lake
15 12 (1.09%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
16 10 (0.91%) RDBMS
17 9 (0.82%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (0.82%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 92 (8.36%) Git
2 68 (6.18%) JIRA
3 61 (5.54%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.63%) GitLab
5 22 (2.00%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.00%) Gradle
7 10 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
8 9 (0.82%) Subversion
9 8 (0.73%) JUnit
9 8 (0.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 7 (0.64%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.64%) ERwin
10 7 (0.64%) Visual Studio
11 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
11 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.54%) Postman
11 6 (0.54%) Selenium
12 5 (0.45%) git-flow
12 5 (0.45%) Maven
12 5 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 537 (48.77%) Social Skills
2 255 (23.16%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (21.62%) Finance
4 88 (7.99%) Banking
5 61 (5.54%) Public Sector
6 57 (5.18%) Front Office
7 53 (4.81%) Telecoms
8 49 (4.45%) Legal
9 42 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
10 35 (3.18%) Marketing
11 29 (2.63%) Retail
12 25 (2.27%) Automotive
12 25 (2.27%) Electronics
13 21 (1.91%) Investment Banking
14 19 (1.73%) Documentation Skills
14 19 (1.73%) Financial Institution
14 19 (1.73%) Manufacturing
15 18 (1.63%) Aerospace
16 15 (1.36%) Multimedia
17 11 (1.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 201 (18.26%) Developer
2 157 (14.26%) Architect
3 117 (10.63%) Senior
4 87 (7.90%) Software Engineer
5 83 (7.54%) Analyst
6 69 (6.27%) Solutions Architect
7 51 (4.63%) Java Developer
8 48 (4.36%) Lead
9 44 (4.00%) Data Engineer
10 43 (3.91%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (3.91%) Network Engineer
11 37 (3.36%) Consultant
12 28 (2.54%) Python Developer
13 26 (2.36%) Senior Developer
14 23 (2.09%) Data Analyst
15 22 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (2.00%) Data Scientist
16 19 (1.73%) Business Analyst
16 19 (1.73%) Senior Software Engineer
17 18 (1.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (5.72%) CSS
2 61 (5.54%) HTML
3 58 (5.27%) .NET
4 48 (4.36%) React
5 40 (3.63%) REST
6 33 (3.00%) Kafka
6 33 (3.00%) RESTful
7 32 (2.91%) Spring
8 25 (2.27%) AngularJS
8 25 (2.27%) JSON
9 22 (2.00%) Node.js
9 22 (2.00%) Pandas
9 22 (2.00%) XML
10 20 (1.82%) NumPy
10 20 (1.82%) Web Services
11 16 (1.45%) Django
11 16 (1.45%) Middleware
12 14 (1.27%) .NET Core
12 14 (1.27%) .NET Framework
12 14 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 122 (11.08%) Algorithms
2 106 (9.63%) Management Information System
3 56 (5.09%) Data Structures
4 54 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (4.54%) Data Centre
6 41 (3.72%) Derivative
7 32 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.72%) Fixed Income
9 28 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
10 23 (2.09%) Virtual Team
11 22 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.73%) Mobile App
13 18 (1.63%) CMDB
13 18 (1.63%) Legacy Systems
14 16 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 16 (1.45%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.45%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 15 (1.36%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.36%) Social Media
16 14 (1.27%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.36%) Linux
2 91 (8.27%) Windows
3 53 (4.81%) Unix
4 29 (2.63%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.54%) Android
6 11 (1.00%) Solaris
7 10 (0.91%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.82%) Embedded Linux
9 8 (0.73%) Windows 10
9 8 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.64%) VMS
11 6 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
11 6 (0.54%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
12 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.36%) Windows 8
13 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
14 3 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 411 (37.33%) Problem-Solving
2 304 (27.61%) Agile
3 181 (16.44%) Software Engineering
4 178 (16.17%) DevOps
5 142 (12.90%) CI/CD
6 128 (11.63%) Migration
7 124 (11.26%) Analytics
8 112 (10.17%) Data Modelling
8 112 (10.17%) Data Science
9 108 (9.81%) Mathematics
10 107 (9.72%) Machine Learning
11 98 (8.90%) Test Automation
12 91 (8.27%) ITIL
13 90 (8.17%) Roadmaps
14 86 (7.81%) Artificial Intelligence
15 84 (7.63%) Scrum
16 82 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
17 79 (7.18%) Project Management
18 76 (6.90%) Decision-Making
19 72 (6.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 290 (26.34%) Python
2 234 (21.25%) SQL
3 177 (16.08%) Java
4 101 (9.17%) JavaScript
5 92 (8.36%) C#
6 70 (6.36%) C++
7 56 (5.09%) PowerShell
8 40 (3.63%) Bash
9 30 (2.72%) MATLAB
10 27 (2.45%) TypeScript
11 23 (2.09%) C
11 23 (2.09%) Go
11 23 (2.09%) R
12 21 (1.91%) Scala
13 20 (1.82%) Perl
13 20 (1.82%) Rust
14 16 (1.45%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.36%) Shell Script
16 13 (1.18%) VB.NET
17 12 (1.09%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 988 (89.74%) Degree
2 641 (58.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 194 (17.62%) Master's Degree
4 129 (11.72%) Security Cleared
5 96 (8.72%) SC Cleared
6 59 (5.36%) Cisco Certification
7 49 (4.45%) PhD
8 40 (3.63%) CISSP
9 34 (3.09%) CCNA
10 32 (2.91%) CCNP
10 32 (2.91%) DV Cleared
11 31 (2.82%) Azure Certification
12 29 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
13 22 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
14 20 (1.82%) Numerate Degree
14 20 (1.82%) PMI Certification
14 20 (1.82%) PMP
15 17 (1.54%) CEH
16 15 (1.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 14 (1.27%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (7.72%) QA
2 62 (5.63%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.82%) SLA
4 16 (1.45%) NIST
5 13 (1.18%) Accessibility
5 13 (1.18%) GDPR
6 8 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 8 (0.73%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.64%) MiFID
8 6 (0.54%) GRC
8 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
9 4 (0.36%) COBIT
9 4 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
9 4 (0.36%) JTAG
9 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.27%) HL7
10 3 (0.27%) ISO 20022
10 3 (0.27%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 54 (4.90%) Docker
2 43 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 42 (3.81%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.36%) Hyper-V
5 15 (1.36%) vSphere
6 14 (1.27%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (1.00%) KVM
9 6 (0.54%) Firmware
10 4 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.36%) NFS
10 4 (0.36%) vCloud
10 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.36%) VirtualBox
10 4 (0.36%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.091%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.091%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.091%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.091%) Xen
Systems Management
1 74 (6.72%) Kubernetes
2 57 (5.18%) Terraform
3 22 (2.00%) Ansible
4 12 (1.09%) PingFederate
4 12 (1.09%) vCenter Server
5 10 (0.91%) Single Sign-On
6 9 (0.82%) SCCM
7 8 (0.73%) Grafana
7 8 (0.73%) Kibana
8 7 (0.64%) logstash
9 6 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.45%) Nessus
10 5 (0.45%) OpenView
10 5 (0.45%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.36%) Puppet
11 4 (0.36%) WSUS
12 3 (0.27%) CSIRT
12 3 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.27%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 196 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.54%) Oracle
3 61 (5.54%) Google
4 56 (5.09%) Cisco
5 54 (4.90%) SAP
5 54 (4.90%) VMware
6 41 (3.72%) ServiceNow
7 25 (2.27%) Databricks
8 19 (1.73%) IBM
9 18 (1.63%) Juniper
10 16 (1.45%) Red Hat
11 15 (1.36%) Salesforce
12 14 (1.27%) Palo Alto
13 13 (1.18%) Atlassian
14 12 (1.09%) Genesys
14 12 (1.09%) Splunk
15 11 (1.00%) F5
15 11 (1.00%) Foundry
15 11 (1.00%) ION Trading
15 11 (1.00%) SolarWinds