Computer Science Degree Contracts in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 84 136 188
Rank change year-on-year +52 +52 -39
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 49 24 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.82% 0.73% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.65% 2.64% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 21 12
10th Percentile £300 £263 £363
25th Percentile £450 £313 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +8.11% -30.19%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £488
90th Percentile £642 £738 £499
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £23.54 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £43.38 - £14.00
75th Percentile £56.25 - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.63 £54.44 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.19% +14.60% +25.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 868 909 989
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.23% 27.69% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 539 578 672
10th Percentile £230 £255 £210
25th Percentile £325 £400 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 63 35
10th Percentile £13.20 £10.88 £11.95
25th Percentile £17.00 £13.31 £13.74
Median hourly rate £24.65 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.74% -5.00% +22.55%
75th Percentile £42.50 £31.91 £24.63
90th Percentile £56.75 £65.00 £37.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -23.81% +29.63% +6.58%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 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
West Midlands +52 43 £525 +7.14% 58
East Midlands +12 6 £650 +30.00% 31
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 3 (6.12%) Apache
1 3 (6.12%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Simulink
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (2.04%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.53%) Azure
2 5 (10.20%) AWS
2 5 (10.20%) Power Platform
3 4 (8.16%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (8.16%) Serverless
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Functions
4 3 (6.12%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (4.08%) Amazon S3
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.04%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
2 2 (4.08%) Network Security
3 1 (2.04%) DHCP
3 1 (2.04%) DNS
3 1 (2.04%) NGFW
3 1 (2.04%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.04%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.04%) VoIP
3 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (12.24%) Data Mining
2 5 (10.20%) Power BI
3 3 (6.12%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.08%) Big Data
4 2 (4.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (4.08%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (4.08%) MongoDB
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Hive
5 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
5 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Flink
5 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.04%) MySQL
5 1 (2.04%) SAP HANA
5 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
2 4 (8.16%) Git
3 3 (6.12%) GitLab
4 2 (4.08%) Travis CI
5 1 (2.04%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.04%) JIRA
General
1 28 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 19 (38.78%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (14.29%) Finance
4 5 (10.20%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.12%) German Language
7 2 (4.08%) Back Office
7 2 (4.08%) Legal
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Electronics
8 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.04%) Marketing
8 1 (2.04%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.04%) Police
8 1 (2.04%) Publishing
8 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Architect
3 7 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Data Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Java Developer
5 5 (10.20%) Data Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Senior
6 3 (6.12%) Analyst
6 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (4.08%) Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Data Consultant
7 2 (4.08%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Lead
7 2 (4.08%) Network Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Data Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Developer
7 2 (4.08%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (4.08%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (2.04%) Analytics Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Spring
2 4 (8.16%) Kafka
3 3 (6.12%) AngularJS
3 3 (6.12%) React
4 2 (4.08%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (2.04%) Apache Beam
5 1 (2.04%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.04%) Dask
5 1 (2.04%) Guice
5 1 (2.04%) HTML
5 1 (2.04%) Keras
5 1 (2.04%) NumPy
5 1 (2.04%) Pandas
5 1 (2.04%) PySpark
5 1 (2.04%) PyTorch
5 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (2.04%) REST
5 1 (2.04%) scikit-learn
5 1 (2.04%) Vue
5 1 (2.04%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) Management Information System
2 6 (12.24%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (12.24%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (10.20%) Algorithms
4 4 (8.16%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (6.12%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (6.12%) Data Structures
6 2 (4.08%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (4.08%) Cyber Threat
6 2 (4.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (4.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (4.08%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (4.08%) IoT
6 2 (4.08%) Security Operations Centre
6 2 (4.08%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.04%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (2.04%) FPGA
7 1 (2.04%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Windows
2 2 (4.08%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (97.96%) Computer Science
2 20 (40.82%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (34.69%) DevOps
4 12 (24.49%) Software Engineering
5 11 (22.45%) Agile
6 9 (18.37%) CI/CD
6 9 (18.37%) Migration
7 8 (16.33%) Analytics
7 8 (16.33%) Data Science
8 6 (12.24%) CAD
8 6 (12.24%) Decision-Making
8 6 (12.24%) Microservices
9 5 (10.20%) Artificial Intelligence
9 5 (10.20%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (10.20%) Incident Management
9 5 (10.20%) SIEM
9 5 (10.20%) User Experience
9 5 (10.20%) Workflow
10 4 (8.16%) BDD
10 4 (8.16%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (20.41%) Java
1 10 (20.41%) Python
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 4 (8.16%) JavaScript
3 4 (8.16%) PowerShell
4 3 (6.12%) Scala
5 2 (4.08%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (4.08%) MATLAB
5 2 (4.08%) Perl
6 1 (2.04%) C
6 1 (2.04%) C#
6 1 (2.04%) C++
6 1 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (2.04%) PHP
6 1 (2.04%) R
6 1 (2.04%) Rust
6 1 (2.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (100.00%) Degree
2 12 (24.49%) Security Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 7 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 5 (10.20%) SC Cleared
5 4 (8.16%) CISSP
6 3 (6.12%) TOGAF Certification
7 2 (4.08%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.08%) CCNA
7 2 (4.08%) CEH
7 2 (4.08%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (4.08%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (2.04%) CCNP
8 1 (2.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (2.04%) GDPR
3 1 (2.04%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (8.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (6.12%) Docker
3 1 (2.04%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) SysTrack
3 2 (4.08%) Kibana
3 2 (4.08%) logstash
3 2 (4.08%) Terraform
4 1 (2.04%) Ansible
Vendors
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.12%) Citrix
2 3 (6.12%) New Relic
2 3 (6.12%) OpenAI
2 3 (6.12%) SAP
3 2 (4.08%) Confluent
4 1 (2.04%) Google
4 1 (2.04%) Informatica
4 1 (2.04%) Mitel
4 1 (2.04%) Oracle
4 1 (2.04%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.04%) Sage
4 1 (2.04%) Xilinx