Computer Science Contracts in London

Computer Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 57 82 129
Rank change year-on-year +25 +47 -33
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 672 775 856
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 3.84% 3.05% 2.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.35% 3.35% 2.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 554 581
10th Percentile £325 £400 £413
25th Percentile £413 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £606
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% -1.02% +5.42%
75th Percentile £723 £750 £770
90th Percentile £825 £900 £875
England median daily rate £525 £565 £586
% change year-on-year -7.08% -3.62% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 10 31
10th Percentile £38.75 £26.93 £29.25
25th Percentile £42.25 £35.63 £34.63
Median hourly rate £55.00 £58.75 £45.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +29.12% +21.33%
75th Percentile £68.75 £78.13 £58.44
90th Percentile £80.75 £84.38 £62.50
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.10% +13.41% +17.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,465 23,124 35,641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.32% 90.91% 92.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,089 16,746 26,132
10th Percentile £340 £375 £390
25th Percentile £449 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 264 402
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.00
90th Percentile £68.08 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +19 92 £551 -23.97% 53
West London +23 17 £475 -11.63% 40
South London +7 6 £583 +16.50% 9
East London -3 5 £713 +1.79% 15
North London +3 2 £100 - 3
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 20 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (1.64%) Apache Spark
4 10 (1.49%) Confluence
5 7 (1.04%) SAS
6 6 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.74%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.60%) Apache
8 4 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.60%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.60%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.45%) ArcGIS
9 3 (0.45%) CMS
9 3 (0.45%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.45%) Gunicorn
9 3 (0.45%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.45%) nginx
9 3 (0.45%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 16 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.64%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.34%) Spreadsheet
5 8 (1.19%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.89%) Simulink
6 6 (0.89%) Stateflow
7 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 3 (0.45%) Windchill
8 1 (0.15%) InVision
8 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.15%) Sketch
8 1 (0.15%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 7 (1.04%) Teamcenter
2 6 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.45%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.45%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.45%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.30%) Endur
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.30%) Primavera
5 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.15%) Magento
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 198 (29.46%) Azure
2 133 (19.79%) AWS
3 99 (14.73%) GCP
4 40 (5.95%) Azure DevOps
5 34 (5.06%) Power Platform
6 30 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 26 (3.87%) GitHub
7 26 (3.87%) Serverless
8 24 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
9 17 (2.53%) SaaS
10 16 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (2.38%) PowerApps
11 15 (2.23%) Vertex AI
12 14 (2.08%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.93%) Entra ID
14 12 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 12 (1.79%) PaaS
14 12 (1.79%) Snowflake
15 11 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (1.64%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 25 (3.72%) Firewall
2 19 (2.83%) DNS
2 19 (2.83%) Internet
3 18 (2.68%) Network Security
4 11 (1.64%) LAN
5 9 (1.34%) HTTP
5 9 (1.34%) TCP/IP
6 8 (1.19%) VPN
6 8 (1.19%) WAN
7 7 (1.04%) SD-WAN
7 7 (1.04%) SSH
8 6 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (0.89%) DHCP
9 5 (0.74%) OSPF
9 5 (0.74%) VoIP
9 5 (0.74%) Wireless
10 4 (0.60%) CTI
10 4 (0.60%) HSRP
10 4 (0.60%) IPsec
10 4 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (8.63%) SQL Server
2 43 (6.40%) Relational Database
3 40 (5.95%) Big Data
4 39 (5.80%) Data Warehouse
5 32 (4.76%) NoSQL
6 30 (4.46%) PostgreSQL
7 28 (4.17%) Power BI
8 26 (3.87%) Tableau
9 20 (2.98%) BigQuery
10 15 (2.23%) Hadoop
11 14 (2.08%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.93%) MySQL
13 12 (1.79%) MongoDB
14 10 (1.49%) KDB
14 10 (1.49%) Oracle Database
14 10 (1.49%) RDBMS
15 9 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
16 7 (1.04%) Data Mining
16 7 (1.04%) Redis
17 6 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 62 (9.23%) Git
2 39 (5.80%) Jenkins
3 32 (4.76%) JIRA
4 22 (3.27%) GitLab
5 12 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 12 (1.79%) Gradle
6 7 (1.04%) ERwin
6 7 (1.04%) JUnit
7 6 (0.89%) CircleCI
8 5 (0.74%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.74%) MLflow
9 4 (0.60%) git-flow
9 4 (0.60%) IntelliJ
9 4 (0.60%) Maven
9 4 (0.60%) Postman
9 4 (0.60%) Sourcetree
9 4 (0.60%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.60%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 358 (53.27%) Social Skills
2 190 (28.27%) Finance
3 158 (23.51%) Analytical Skills
4 65 (9.67%) Banking
5 51 (7.59%) Front Office
6 35 (5.21%) Public Sector
7 25 (3.72%) Marketing
8 24 (3.57%) Legal
9 20 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.68%) Investment Banking
11 15 (2.23%) Financial Institution
12 14 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
12 14 (2.08%) Retail
13 12 (1.79%) Telecoms
14 10 (1.49%) Advertising
14 10 (1.49%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.19%) Automotive
15 8 (1.19%) Games
16 7 (1.04%) Organisational Skills
17 6 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 165 (24.55%) Developer
2 86 (12.80%) Architect
3 75 (11.16%) Senior
4 43 (6.40%) Analyst
4 43 (6.40%) Java Developer
5 39 (5.80%) Lead
6 36 (5.36%) Software Engineer
7 35 (5.21%) Consultant
8 29 (4.32%) Data Engineer
9 26 (3.87%) DevOps Engineer
9 26 (3.87%) Python Developer
9 26 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
10 21 (3.13%) Senior Developer
11 20 (2.98%) Azure Engineer
11 20 (2.98%) Network Engineer
12 18 (2.68%) Business Analyst
13 17 (2.53%) Data Scientist
13 17 (2.53%) Security Engineer
14 14 (2.08%) GCP Engineer
14 14 (2.08%) Quantitative Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 52 (7.74%) CSS
2 47 (6.99%) HTML
3 44 (6.55%) .NET
4 37 (5.51%) React
5 31 (4.61%) REST
6 29 (4.32%) Kafka
7 27 (4.02%) Spring
8 21 (3.13%) RESTful
9 19 (2.83%) JSON
10 18 (2.68%) Pandas
11 17 (2.53%) AngularJS
12 16 (2.38%) Node.js
13 14 (2.08%) Django
13 14 (2.08%) NumPy
13 14 (2.08%) XML
14 13 (1.93%) Web Services
15 12 (1.79%) jQuery
16 11 (1.64%) .NET Core
16 11 (1.64%) Swagger
17 10 (1.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 76 (11.31%) Algorithms
2 56 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 40 (5.95%) Data Structures
3 40 (5.95%) Derivative
4 33 (4.91%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (4.17%) Fixed Income
6 23 (3.42%) Data Centre
7 22 (3.27%) Product Ownership
8 19 (2.83%) Virtual Team
9 16 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
9 16 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 16 (2.38%) Mobile App
10 15 (2.23%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 15 (2.23%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 12 (1.79%) Blockchain
12 11 (1.64%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.64%) Equities
12 11 (1.64%) Hedge funds
13 10 (1.49%) Market Risk
13 10 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 55 (8.18%) Linux
2 37 (5.51%) Windows
3 22 (3.27%) Unix
4 17 (2.53%) Android
5 12 (1.79%) Windows Server
6 7 (1.04%) Apple iOS
7 6 (0.89%) Solaris
8 5 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
8 5 (0.74%) VMS
9 4 (0.60%) Windows 10
9 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2003
9 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.15%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.15%) OS/390
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.15%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.15%) Windows Mobile
11 1 (0.15%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (37.35%) Problem-Solving
2 207 (30.80%) Agile
3 117 (17.41%) CI/CD
4 109 (16.22%) DevOps
5 102 (15.18%) Analytics
6 94 (13.99%) Software Engineering
7 82 (12.20%) Mathematics
8 81 (12.05%) Machine Learning
9 80 (11.90%) Data Science
10 77 (11.46%) Data Modelling
11 67 (9.97%) Migration
12 58 (8.63%) Data Analysis
12 58 (8.63%) Test Automation
13 55 (8.18%) Artificial Intelligence
13 55 (8.18%) Project Management
14 50 (7.44%) Microservices
15 49 (7.29%) Business Intelligence
16 47 (6.99%) Mentoring
17 45 (6.70%) Decision-Making
17 45 (6.70%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 196 (29.17%) Python
2 180 (26.79%) SQL
3 124 (18.45%) Java
4 71 (10.57%) JavaScript
5 57 (8.48%) C#
6 45 (6.70%) C++
7 30 (4.46%) Bash
8 29 (4.32%) PowerShell
9 23 (3.42%) TypeScript
10 17 (2.53%) Go
11 16 (2.38%) Rust
12 15 (2.23%) Kotlin
13 14 (2.08%) Scala
14 13 (1.93%) PL/SQL
15 11 (1.64%) C
15 11 (1.64%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.49%) Perl
16 10 (1.49%) R
17 9 (1.34%) VBA
18 8 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 604 (89.88%) Degree
2 406 (60.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 131 (19.49%) Master's Degree
4 57 (8.48%) Security Cleared
5 50 (7.44%) SC Cleared
6 28 (4.17%) PhD
7 27 (4.02%) Azure Certification
8 24 (3.57%) CISSP
9 21 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
10 16 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
11 14 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
12 12 (1.79%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 11 (1.64%) CCNP
13 11 (1.64%) CEH
13 11 (1.64%) CISM
14 10 (1.49%) CCIE
14 10 (1.49%) CCNA
14 10 (1.49%) PMI Certification
14 10 (1.49%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.59%) QA
2 43 (6.40%) Data Quality
3 13 (1.93%) Accessibility
4 10 (1.49%) SLA
5 9 (1.34%) NIST
6 7 (1.04%) MiFID
7 6 (0.89%) GDPR
7 6 (0.89%) HIPAA
8 5 (0.74%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 5 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 4 (0.60%) Dodd-Frank
10 3 (0.45%) COBIT
10 3 (0.45%) GRC
10 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 20022
11 2 (0.30%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 38 (5.65%) Docker
2 23 (3.42%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.74%) KVM
6 4 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.60%) vCloud
6 4 (0.60%) vSphere
7 3 (0.45%) NFS
7 3 (0.45%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 55 (8.18%) Kubernetes
2 51 (7.59%) Terraform
3 14 (2.08%) Ansible
4 11 (1.64%) PingFederate
5 10 (1.49%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (1.04%) Grafana
7 5 (0.74%) CSIRT
7 5 (0.74%) Nessus
7 5 (0.74%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
8 4 (0.60%) SCCM
9 3 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.45%) Puppet
9 3 (0.45%) QRadar
10 2 (0.30%) Istio
10 2 (0.30%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
11 1 (0.15%) Oracle Identity Management
11 1 (0.15%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (17.86%) Microsoft
2 61 (9.08%) Oracle
3 45 (6.70%) Google
4 28 (4.17%) Databricks
5 25 (3.72%) SAP
6 24 (3.57%) Cisco
7 20 (2.98%) ServiceNow
8 17 (2.53%) VMware
9 12 (1.79%) ION Trading
10 11 (1.64%) Foundry
10 11 (1.64%) Palantir
10 11 (1.64%) Salesforce
11 8 (1.19%) Genesys
11 8 (1.19%) Splunk
12 7 (1.04%) Arista
12 7 (1.04%) CA
12 7 (1.04%) CheckPoint
12 7 (1.04%) IBM
13 6 (0.89%) BeyondTrust
13 6 (0.89%) Informatica