Computer Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 85 160 182
Rank change year-on-year +75 +22 -34
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 462 353 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 1.51% 1.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 1.69% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 215 229
10th Percentile £275 £325 £183
25th Percentile £407 £456 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% -6.25%
75th Percentile £623 £615 £600
90th Percentile £675 £725 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.52% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 29 42
10th Percentile £21.73 £18.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.50 £19.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £45.61
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +9.64% -4.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £66.60 £57.76
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.94 £45.25
% change year-on-year +1.97% +19.19% +5.70%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,295 20,910 27,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,314 14,450 18,900
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,280 1,343
10th Percentile £12.32 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £47.11
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £61.45
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +13 120 £450 -13.88% 249
North of England +75 99 £500 +2.88% 203
Midlands +71 86 £525 +5.00% 157
West Midlands +58 72 £525 - 87
South West +16 55 £588 +6.82% 97
Scotland +51 53 £525 -4.55% 38
North West +40 51 £500 +2.88% 116
East of England +32 47 £500 - 144
Yorkshire +38 42 £475 -13.64% 54
East Midlands +19 14 £600 +29.73% 70
North East +22 8 £600 - 34
Wales +13 6 £403 -26.82% 23
Northern Ireland +7 4 - - 19
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 18 (3.90%) Confluence
2 14 (3.03%) Apache Airflow
3 11 (2.38%) Apache
4 10 (2.16%) SAS
5 6 (1.30%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.08%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.43%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.22%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) MTS
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (6.93%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.25%) Simulink
3 14 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.03%) Stateflow
4 10 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.95%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.08%) SPSS
7 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) CATIA
8 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.65%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.43%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.43%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.43%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.43%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.43%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 86 (18.61%) Azure
2 65 (14.07%) AWS
3 26 (5.63%) GCP
4 20 (4.33%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (3.68%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.81%) Snowflake
7 12 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.16%) PaaS
8 10 (2.16%) SaaS
9 9 (1.95%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.73%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.73%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.30%) GitHub
12 6 (1.30%) Serverless
13 5 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.08%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.08%) IaaS
14 4 (0.87%) Azure Functions
14 4 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 25 (5.41%) DNS
2 18 (3.90%) Firewall
3 17 (3.68%) DHCP
3 17 (3.68%) Wireless
4 16 (3.46%) WAN
5 15 (3.25%) Wireshark
6 13 (2.81%) TCP/IP
7 12 (2.60%) SAN
8 11 (2.38%) LAN
8 11 (2.38%) VPN
9 10 (2.16%) 5G
10 9 (1.95%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (1.95%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (1.73%) Network Security
12 7 (1.52%) 3G
12 7 (1.52%) 4G
12 7 (1.52%) BGP
12 7 (1.52%) Fibre Channel
12 7 (1.52%) OSPF
13 6 (1.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (3.68%) Power BI
2 14 (3.03%) MySQL
2 14 (3.03%) Tableau
3 13 (2.81%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (2.81%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.38%) Metadata
4 11 (2.38%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.16%) Data Mining
5 10 (2.16%) Oracle Database
6 8 (1.73%) Big Data
7 7 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.30%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.30%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.30%) Qlik Sense
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.08%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.87%) DB2
10 4 (0.87%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 41 (8.87%) Git
2 40 (8.66%) JIRA
3 22 (4.76%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.38%) Bitbucket
5 10 (2.16%) Oracle APEX
5 10 (2.16%) Rational DOORS
6 8 (1.73%) GitLab
6 8 (1.73%) Subversion
7 6 (1.30%) Artifactory
7 6 (1.30%) Selenium
8 5 (1.08%) JUnit
9 4 (0.87%) Gradle
9 4 (0.87%) JMeter
9 4 (0.87%) Mercurial
9 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 4 (0.87%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.65%) Travis CI
11 2 (0.43%) CircleCI
11 2 (0.43%) CMake
11 2 (0.43%) Postman
General
1 208 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 115 (24.89%) Analytical Skills
3 51 (11.04%) Finance
4 38 (8.23%) Telecoms
5 36 (7.79%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.84%) Legal
7 25 (5.41%) Banking
8 21 (4.55%) Electronics
9 19 (4.11%) Automotive
10 17 (3.68%) Presentation Skills
11 14 (3.03%) Aerospace
12 13 (2.81%) Multimedia
12 13 (2.81%) Retail
13 10 (2.16%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.73%) Organisational Skills
15 7 (1.52%) German Language
15 7 (1.52%) Marketing
16 6 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.30%) Law
17 5 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (15.15%) Architect
2 54 (11.69%) Senior
3 50 (10.82%) Software Engineer
4 45 (9.74%) Analyst
5 42 (9.09%) Developer
6 37 (8.01%) Solutions Architect
7 26 (5.63%) Network Engineer
8 20 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (4.11%) Lead
10 18 (3.90%) Data Engineer
10 18 (3.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.03%) Senior Software Engineer
12 13 (2.81%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.81%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (2.60%) Python Engineer
14 11 (2.38%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.38%) Support Engineer
15 10 (2.16%) Project Manager
16 9 (1.95%) Service Analyst
16 9 (1.95%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (4.11%) HTML
2 17 (3.68%) .NET
3 16 (3.46%) CSS
4 13 (2.81%) Kafka
4 13 (2.81%) React
5 12 (2.60%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.60%) RESTful
5 12 (2.60%) Spring
6 11 (2.38%) Flash
7 9 (1.95%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.95%) Middleware
7 9 (1.95%) REST
7 9 (1.95%) XML
8 7 (1.52%) Web Services
9 6 (1.30%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.30%) NumPy
9 6 (1.30%) RabbitMQ
10 5 (1.08%) OpenGL ES
10 5 (1.08%) Pandas
10 5 (1.08%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 47 (10.17%) Management Information System
2 38 (8.23%) Algorithms
3 30 (6.49%) Data Centre
4 24 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.68%) Distributed Systems
6 16 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
7 15 (3.25%) Legacy Systems
8 13 (2.81%) Data Structures
9 10 (2.16%) CMDB
10 9 (1.95%) PKI
11 8 (1.73%) Security Operations Centre
12 7 (1.52%) Clustering
12 7 (1.52%) Product Ownership
12 7 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.52%) Virtual Team
13 6 (1.30%) IoT
13 6 (1.30%) Onboarding
13 6 (1.30%) Public Cloud
14 5 (1.08%) Renewable Energy
14 5 (1.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (13.85%) Windows
2 56 (12.12%) Linux
3 38 (8.23%) Unix
4 21 (4.55%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.81%) Android
6 9 (1.95%) Embedded Linux
7 7 (1.52%) Windows 7
8 6 (1.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (1.30%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (0.87%) Solaris
9 4 (0.87%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.65%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.43%) HPUX
11 2 (0.43%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.43%) zOS
12 1 (0.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (40.04%) Problem-Solving
2 108 (23.38%) Agile
3 87 (18.83%) Software Engineering
4 82 (17.75%) DevOps
5 60 (12.99%) Migration
6 55 (11.90%) ITIL
7 47 (10.17%) Roadmaps
8 43 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 43 (9.31%) Test Automation
9 42 (9.09%) Scrum
10 37 (8.01%) Analytics
10 37 (8.01%) Data Science
11 36 (7.79%) Data Management
11 36 (7.79%) Data Modelling
11 36 (7.79%) Decision-Making
12 32 (6.93%) CI/CD
12 32 (6.93%) SDLC
12 32 (6.93%) Validation
13 31 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
14 30 (6.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (22.94%) Python
2 74 (16.02%) SQL
3 65 (14.07%) Java
4 32 (6.93%) JavaScript
5 29 (6.28%) C#
6 24 (5.19%) C++
6 24 (5.19%) PowerShell
7 22 (4.76%) MATLAB
8 21 (4.55%) Perl
9 16 (3.46%) Scala
10 15 (3.25%) R
11 12 (2.60%) C
12 11 (2.38%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.16%) Bash
14 8 (1.73%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.52%) VB.NET
16 6 (1.30%) Go
17 5 (1.08%) Kotlin
17 5 (1.08%) Rust
18 4 (0.87%) F#
Qualifications
1 407 (88.10%) Degree
2 264 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 74 (16.02%) Security Cleared
4 58 (12.55%) Master's Degree
5 46 (9.96%) SC Cleared
6 38 (8.23%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (5.63%) DV Cleared
8 24 (5.19%) CCNA
9 21 (4.55%) CCNP
10 15 (3.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (3.03%) PhD
12 12 (2.60%) CISSP
12 12 (2.60%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.95%) Chartered Engineer
15 8 (1.73%) A+ Certification
15 8 (1.73%) Azure Certification
16 7 (1.52%) HND
17 6 (1.30%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (6.71%) QA
2 20 (4.33%) Data Quality
3 10 (2.16%) SLA
4 6 (1.30%) GDPR
5 4 (0.87%) Disclosure Scotland
5 4 (0.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.87%) JTAG
5 4 (0.87%) NIST
6 3 (0.65%) HL7
6 3 (0.65%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 2 (0.43%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) COBIT
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (7.14%) Docker
2 28 (6.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (5.19%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (2.60%) vSphere
5 11 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (2.38%) VMware NSX
6 6 (1.30%) Firmware
7 5 (1.08%) KVM
7 5 (1.08%) NFS
8 4 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.87%) GPFS
8 4 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.87%) VirtualBox
8 4 (0.87%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (7.79%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.11%) Terraform
3 12 (2.60%) vCenter Server
4 10 (2.16%) Ansible
5 6 (1.30%) SCCM
6 5 (1.08%) OpenView
7 4 (0.87%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 4 (0.87%) WSUS
8 3 (0.65%) Kibana
8 3 (0.65%) NetBackup
8 3 (0.65%) PowerCLI
8 3 (0.65%) SCOM
8 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.65%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.43%) logstash
9 2 (0.43%) OPNET
9 2 (0.43%) Oracle ZFS
9 2 (0.43%) vRealize
9 2 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.43%) yum
Vendors
1 76 (16.45%) Microsoft
2 37 (8.01%) VMware
3 29 (6.28%) Cisco
4 27 (5.84%) SAP
5 25 (5.41%) Oracle
6 24 (5.19%) Google
6 24 (5.19%) ServiceNow
7 16 (3.46%) IBM
8 13 (2.81%) Databricks
9 12 (2.60%) Juniper
10 10 (2.16%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.16%) F5
10 10 (2.16%) Red Hat
11 9 (1.95%) Palo Alto
12 8 (1.73%) Veritas
13 7 (1.52%) EMC
13 7 (1.52%) Nokia
13 7 (1.52%) SolarWinds
14 6 (1.30%) NetScout
14 6 (1.30%) Splunk