Computer Science Degree Contracts in the North West

Computer Science Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 117 153 168
Rank change year-on-year +36 +15 -43
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 24 7 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.90% 0.23% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 0.75% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 8
10th Percentile - - £427
25th Percentile £158 £200 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £165 £500 £632
Median % change year-on-year -67.00% -20.89% +42.02%
75th Percentile £522 £524 £639
90th Percentile £575 £562 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £45.22 £65.25 -
Median hourly rate £48.56 £65.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% - -
75th Percentile £51.91 £65.75 -
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
North West

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 North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 796 933 913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.85% 30.39% 22.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 622 599
10th Percentile £300 £330 £275
25th Percentile £425 £431 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £650 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 68 67
10th Percentile £10.95 £20.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.77 £25.75 £23.14
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.54 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -60.38% -1.98% -0.95%
75th Percentile £38.43 £50.17 £58.35
90th Percentile £70.83 £67.90 £77.40
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 North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cheshire +16 15 £165 -71.30% 14
Manchester +17 6 £500 +42.86% 39
Cumbria - 2 - - 1
Merseyside - 1 £550 - 4
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) GCP
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
4 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) BGP
1 4 (16.67%) MPLS
1 4 (16.67%) OSPF
1 4 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 4 (16.67%) Value-Added Service
1 4 (16.67%) VLAN
1 4 (16.67%) VPN
1 4 (16.67%) Wireshark
2 1 (4.17%) Internet
2 1 (4.17%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) BigQuery
2 1 (4.17%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.17%) OLAP
2 1 (4.17%) Relational Database
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 9 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Finance
4 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.17%) Marketing
4 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Author
1 8 (33.33%) Technical Author
2 5 (20.83%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
3 4 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Architect
5 2 (8.33%) PLC Software Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Administrator
6 1 (4.17%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) GCP Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Power BI Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) AWS CDK
1 1 (4.17%) CSS
1 1 (4.17%) HTML
1 1 (4.17%) HTML5 Canvas
1 1 (4.17%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
1 1 (4.17%) Node.js
1 1 (4.17%) React
1 1 (4.17%) Spring
1 1 (4.17%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.17%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) IoT
1 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (37.50%) SDLC
4 8 (33.33%) Content Strategy
5 4 (16.67%) Change Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Modelling
5 4 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 3 (12.50%) Agile
6 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) CI/CD
7 2 (8.33%) Collaborative Engineering
7 2 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.33%) Customer Service
7 2 (8.33%) ETL
7 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure as Code
8 1 (4.17%) Business Strategy
8 1 (4.17%) Code Quality
8 1 (4.17%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Java
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) Apex Code
2 1 (4.17%) Bash
2 1 (4.17%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
2 1 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (4.17%) T-SQL
2 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) CCIE
2 4 (16.67%) CCNP
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (16.67%) VCAP
3 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (33.33%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.67%) LogicMonitor
3 4 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (4.17%) Databricks
4 1 (4.17%) Google
4 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
4 1 (4.17%) Salesforce