Computer Science Degree Contracts in London

Computer Science Degree
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 190 290
Rank change year-on-year +82 +100 -36
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 405 388 356
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.28% 1.44% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.46% 6.67% 5.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 302 266
10th Percentile £350 £400 £401
25th Percentile £425 £502 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +3.64%
75th Percentile £700 £800 £709
90th Percentile £813 £900 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 7
10th Percentile - £23.23 £30.80
25th Percentile £38.75 £28.06 £34.38
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -11.58% +18.75%
75th Percentile £80.00 £61.25 £55.94
90th Percentile £83.75 £74.75 £59.20
England median hourly rate £56.25 £54.44 £48.50
% change year-on-year +3.33% +12.24% +30.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 advertised in London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,281 5,818 6,737
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 24.05% 21.61% 17.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,893 3,922 4,568
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.09% +4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £659 £688 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 80 152
10th Percentile £14.60 £19.94 £21.62
25th Percentile £20.29 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.25 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.84% +6.74% +23.34%
75th Percentile £43.50 £64.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.75 £82.55 £65.65
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.75%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the London region over the 6 months to 2 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
Central London +38 55 £575 -23.33% 41
West London +22 12 £475 +10.14% 10
South London +13 7 £365 -27.00% 4
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 15 (3.70%) SharePoint
2 12 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.48%) Confluence
4 5 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.99%) Apache
6 3 (0.74%) CMS
7 2 (0.49%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.49%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.49%) MQSeries
7 2 (0.49%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 1 (0.25%) CICS
8 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.25%) IBM Domino
8 1 (0.25%) IBM Notes
8 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.25%) WebLogic
Applications
1 9 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.23%) Chatbot
5 3 (0.74%) Windchill
6 2 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 4 (0.99%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.74%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.74%) ENOVIA
2 3 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.49%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.25%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.25%) IBM Planning Analytics
4 1 (0.25%) Infor SunSystems
4 1 (0.25%) Magento
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 107 (26.42%) Azure
2 83 (20.49%) AWS
3 56 (13.83%) GCP
4 23 (5.68%) Serverless
5 20 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
7 18 (4.44%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.20%) GitHub
9 16 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
11 13 (3.21%) Vertex AI
12 11 (2.72%) PowerApps
13 10 (2.47%) Google Compute Engine
13 10 (2.47%) SaaS
14 9 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 9 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
14 9 (2.22%) Amazon S3
14 9 (2.22%) Microsoft Purview
15 8 (1.98%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.98%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (2.96%) Firewall
2 11 (2.72%) Network Security
3 9 (2.22%) DNS
3 9 (2.22%) Internet
4 7 (1.73%) LAN
5 5 (1.23%) VPN
5 5 (1.23%) WAN
6 4 (0.99%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (0.99%) SD-WAN
7 3 (0.74%) SNMP
7 3 (0.74%) Structured Cabling
7 3 (0.74%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.49%) DWDM
8 2 (0.49%) HTTP
8 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
8 2 (0.49%) IPsec
8 2 (0.49%) OSPF
8 2 (0.49%) SSH
8 2 (0.49%) SSL
8 2 (0.49%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (8.15%) SQL Server
2 20 (4.94%) Relational Database
3 19 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
4 16 (3.95%) BigQuery
5 15 (3.70%) Power BI
6 14 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (2.72%) Big Data
7 11 (2.72%) Tableau
8 10 (2.47%) MongoDB
9 9 (2.22%) MySQL
10 8 (1.98%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.73%) Data Lake
11 7 (1.73%) NoSQL
12 6 (1.48%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.23%) Amazon QuickSight
13 5 (1.23%) Hadoop
14 4 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.99%) Couchbase
15 3 (0.74%) Amazon RDS
15 3 (0.74%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 40 (9.88%) Git
2 23 (5.68%) Jenkins
3 16 (3.95%) JIRA
4 11 (2.72%) GitLab
5 9 (2.22%) Bitbucket
6 7 (1.73%) Gradle
7 6 (1.48%) JUnit
8 5 (1.23%) MLflow
9 4 (0.99%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 4 (0.99%) CircleCI
9 4 (0.99%) Sourcetree
9 4 (0.99%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.74%) ERwin
10 3 (0.74%) Maven
11 2 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.49%) Selenium
11 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.49%) Xcode
General
1 249 (61.48%) Social Skills
2 100 (24.69%) Analytical Skills
3 95 (23.46%) Finance
4 49 (12.10%) Banking
5 20 (4.94%) Front Office
6 16 (3.95%) Public Sector
7 14 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
8 12 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (2.72%) Legal
9 11 (2.72%) Marketing
10 10 (2.47%) Investment Banking
11 9 (2.22%) Financial Institution
12 7 (1.73%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.73%) Retail
13 5 (1.23%) Telecoms
14 4 (0.99%) Advertising
14 4 (0.99%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.99%) Billing
14 4 (0.99%) Electronics
14 4 (0.99%) Games
Job Titles
1 86 (21.23%) Developer
2 65 (16.05%) Architect
3 39 (9.63%) Senior
4 30 (7.41%) Lead
5 26 (6.42%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.19%) Java Developer
7 18 (4.44%) Consultant
8 17 (4.20%) DevOps Engineer
9 15 (3.70%) Data Engineer
10 14 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.21%) Azure Engineer
11 13 (3.21%) Network Engineer
11 13 (3.21%) Senior Developer
12 12 (2.96%) Analyst
12 12 (2.96%) Security Engineer
13 11 (2.72%) GCP Engineer
14 10 (2.47%) Cloud Engineer
14 10 (2.47%) Technical Architect
15 9 (2.22%) Data Scientist
15 9 (2.22%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.40%) CSS
2 31 (7.65%) HTML
3 24 (5.93%) React
4 21 (5.19%) .NET
4 21 (5.19%) REST
5 17 (4.20%) RESTful
5 17 (4.20%) Spring
6 12 (2.96%) AngularJS
7 11 (2.72%) JSON
8 10 (2.47%) Swagger
9 9 (2.22%) ASP.NET
9 9 (2.22%) Hibernate
9 9 (2.22%) jQuery
9 9 (2.22%) Kafka
9 9 (2.22%) Node.js
9 9 (2.22%) RAML
10 8 (1.98%) Spring Boot
11 7 (1.73%) .NET Core
11 7 (1.73%) Twitter Bootstrap
11 7 (1.73%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.64%) Algorithms
2 30 (7.41%) Management Information System
3 21 (5.19%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.94%) Derivative
5 19 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
6 17 (4.20%) Data Structures
7 15 (3.70%) Mobile App
8 13 (3.21%) Fixed Income
9 11 (2.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 11 (2.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 10 (2.47%) Virtual Team
11 8 (1.98%) Blockchain
11 8 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 8 (1.98%) Legacy Code
11 8 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 8 (1.98%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.73%) Cloud Native
12 7 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
12 7 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
12 7 (1.73%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 31 (7.65%) Linux
2 20 (4.94%) Windows
3 12 (2.96%) Android
4 10 (2.47%) Unix
5 7 (1.73%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.48%) Solaris
6 6 (1.48%) Windows Server
7 5 (1.23%) Oracle Linux
7 5 (1.23%) VMS
8 4 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) OS/390
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 8
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Mobile
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2003
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (99.01%) Computer Science
2 182 (44.94%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (29.88%) Agile
4 66 (16.30%) DevOps
5 65 (16.05%) CI/CD
6 59 (14.57%) Software Engineering
7 44 (10.86%) Migration
7 44 (10.86%) Project Management
8 42 (10.37%) Analytics
8 42 (10.37%) Machine Learning
9 39 (9.63%) Data Science
10 38 (9.38%) Data Modelling
11 35 (8.64%) Infrastructure as Code
12 33 (8.15%) Mathematics
12 33 (8.15%) Microservices
13 31 (7.65%) Artificial Intelligence
13 31 (7.65%) Mentoring
14 30 (7.41%) Code Quality
15 29 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 28 (6.91%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 103 (25.43%) Python
2 80 (19.75%) SQL
3 70 (17.28%) Java
4 50 (12.35%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.67%) C#
6 25 (6.17%) PowerShell
7 24 (5.93%) C++
8 21 (5.19%) TypeScript
9 19 (4.69%) Bash
10 14 (3.46%) Scala
11 10 (2.47%) C
12 9 (2.22%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.22%) R
13 8 (1.98%) Go
13 8 (1.98%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.73%) Perl
15 5 (1.23%) Bicep
15 5 (1.23%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.74%) Rust
16 3 (0.74%) Swift
Qualifications
1 405 (100.00%) Degree
2 71 (17.53%) Master's Degree
3 45 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 39 (9.63%) SC Cleared
5 17 (4.20%) CISSP
6 16 (3.95%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 13 (3.21%) PhD
9 12 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
10 11 (2.72%) CEH
11 8 (1.98%) CCIE
11 8 (1.98%) CISM
11 8 (1.98%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.98%) Numerate Degree
12 7 (1.73%) CCNA
13 6 (1.48%) CCNP
14 5 (1.23%) GIAC
14 5 (1.23%) PMI Certification
14 5 (1.23%) PMP
15 4 (0.99%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.15%) QA
2 19 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 6 (1.48%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.48%) NIST
4 4 (0.99%) SLA
5 3 (0.74%) COBIT
5 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.49%) GRC
6 2 (0.49%) ISO 22301
6 2 (0.49%) MiFID
6 2 (0.49%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.49%) PMO
7 1 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (4.69%) Docker
2 13 (3.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.72%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.23%) KVM
4 5 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.99%) vCloud
5 4 (0.99%) vSphere
6 3 (0.74%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.25%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 35 (8.64%) Terraform
2 22 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 8 (1.98%) PingFederate
4 7 (1.73%) Ansible
5 6 (1.48%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.23%) Grafana
7 4 (0.99%) SCCM
8 3 (0.74%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.74%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.49%) Nessus
9 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.49%) Puppet
9 2 (0.49%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.25%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.25%) Nagios
10 1 (0.25%) TIBCO Hawk
10 1 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (19.26%) Microsoft
2 43 (10.62%) Oracle
3 20 (4.94%) Google
4 18 (4.44%) Cisco
5 17 (4.20%) ServiceNow
5 17 (4.20%) VMware
6 12 (2.96%) Databricks
7 10 (2.47%) Salesforce
8 9 (2.22%) SAP
9 7 (1.73%) Arista
10 6 (1.48%) Foundry
10 6 (1.48%) IBM
10 6 (1.48%) Juniper
10 6 (1.48%) Palantir
11 5 (1.23%) Qualys
11 5 (1.23%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.23%) Sparx
12 4 (0.99%) CheckPoint
12 4 (0.99%) Genesys
12 4 (0.99%) ION Trading