Computer Science Degree Contracts

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 247 338
Rank change year-on-year +122 +91 -21
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 788 617 692
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.84% 1.06% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.08% 3.90% 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 503 438 437
10th Percentile £300 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £641 £743 £650
90th Percentile £770 £900 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +2.50% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 21
10th Percentile £25.40 £20.00 £18.76
25th Percentile £38.75 £41.00 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +16.56%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.88 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £49.59
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £46.23
% change year-on-year -6.64% +30.34% +21.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,968 15,820 18,959
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.33% 27.20% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,992 10,558 12,540
10th Percentile £307 £330 £337
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £533 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.43% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,064 805 779
10th Percentile £13.74 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.25 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +24.14% +14.47%
75th Percentile £61.60 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.95 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +110 647 £525 -8.70% 915
London +69 400 £525 -12.50% 450
UK excluding London +158 265 £513 +2.50% 477
Work from Home +115 232 £550 -9.09% 428
South East +35 73 £475 -5.00% 101
Midlands +59 51 £525 +5.00% 96
North of England +53 46 £340 -15.00% 121
West Midlands +51 45 £525 +7.14% 60
Scotland +64 31 £555 -8.26% 17
East of England +25 31 £500 -13.04% 64
South West +26 25 £588 -9.62% 54
North West +40 23 £165 -67.00% 69
Yorkshire +28 16 £340 -7.80% 34
North East - 7 £600 - 19
East Midlands +23 6 £650 +30.00% 36
Wales +25 5 £403 - 13
Northern Ireland +10 4 - - 13

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 24 (3.05%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.65%) Confluence
4 11 (1.40%) Apache
5 10 (1.27%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.89%) CMS
7 5 (0.63%) Drupal
7 5 (0.63%) WordPress
8 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.38%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.38%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.25%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
Applications
1 33 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 24 (3.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.90%) Chatbot
4 13 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.38%) SPSS
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) CPLEX
7 2 (0.25%) Simulink
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 10 (1.27%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.76%) Magento
3 4 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.38%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) BusinessWorks
Cloud Services
1 202 (25.63%) Azure
2 166 (21.07%) AWS
3 108 (13.71%) GCP
4 40 (5.08%) Power Platform
5 31 (3.93%) GitHub
5 31 (3.93%) Microsoft 365
6 30 (3.81%) Cloud Computing
7 29 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
7 29 (3.68%) Serverless
8 18 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
8 18 (2.28%) Azure Sentinel
9 17 (2.16%) Amazon S3
10 16 (2.03%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.90%) PowerApps
12 14 (1.78%) SaaS
13 13 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (1.65%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (1.65%) Vertex AI
14 12 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 38 (4.82%) Firewall
2 35 (4.44%) Network Security
3 29 (3.68%) DNS
4 17 (2.16%) VPN
5 16 (2.03%) VoIP
6 14 (1.78%) CTI
7 13 (1.65%) DHCP
7 13 (1.65%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.40%) Wireshark
9 10 (1.27%) 5G
9 10 (1.27%) Internet
10 9 (1.14%) VLAN
10 9 (1.14%) WAN
11 8 (1.02%) LAN
11 8 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
11 8 (1.02%) Wireless
12 7 (0.89%) OSPF
13 6 (0.76%) 3G
13 6 (0.76%) Diameter Protocol
13 6 (0.76%) RANAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 37 (4.70%) Relational Database
3 36 (4.57%) Power BI
4 34 (4.31%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
6 24 (3.05%) MySQL
7 22 (2.79%) Tableau
8 21 (2.66%) Big Data
9 20 (2.54%) BigQuery
10 19 (2.41%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.41%) Oracle Database
11 16 (2.03%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.90%) Data Mining
13 12 (1.52%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.52%) Metadata
14 11 (1.40%) Couchbase
14 11 (1.40%) Hadoop
15 9 (1.14%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.14%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (10.03%) Git
2 49 (6.22%) Jenkins
3 36 (4.57%) JIRA
4 31 (3.93%) GitLab
5 13 (1.65%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (1.40%) Gradle
6 11 (1.40%) Oracle APEX
7 10 (1.27%) JUnit
7 10 (1.27%) Selenium
8 6 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.76%) MLflow
9 5 (0.63%) Maven
9 5 (0.63%) Subversion
9 5 (0.63%) Visual Studio
10 4 (0.51%) JMeter
10 4 (0.51%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.51%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 459 (58.25%) Social Skills
2 231 (29.31%) Analytical Skills
3 151 (19.16%) Finance
4 70 (8.88%) Banking
5 34 (4.31%) Public Sector
6 31 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 26 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (3.05%) Retail
9 22 (2.79%) Legal
10 21 (2.66%) Front Office
11 19 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
12 18 (2.28%) Marketing
13 14 (1.78%) Multimedia
14 13 (1.65%) Electronics
15 12 (1.52%) Investment Banking
15 12 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 11 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.27%) Financial Institution
18 6 (0.76%) Aerospace
18 6 (0.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 140 (17.77%) Developer
2 122 (15.48%) Architect
3 69 (8.76%) Senior
4 49 (6.22%) Lead
5 47 (5.96%) Software Engineer
6 46 (5.84%) Analyst
7 41 (5.20%) DevOps Engineer
7 41 (5.20%) Solutions Architect
8 32 (4.06%) Consultant
9 30 (3.81%) Java Developer
10 29 (3.68%) Data Engineer
11 28 (3.55%) Network Engineer
12 22 (2.79%) Senior Developer
13 18 (2.28%) Technical Architect
14 17 (2.16%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.16%) Data Scientist
14 17 (2.16%) Project Manager
15 16 (2.03%) Security Engineer
16 15 (1.90%) AWS Engineer
17 14 (1.78%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (6.98%) CSS
2 53 (6.73%) HTML
3 49 (6.22%) React
4 36 (4.57%) .NET
5 30 (3.81%) REST
6 29 (3.68%) Spring
7 28 (3.55%) AngularJS
7 28 (3.55%) Web Services
8 27 (3.43%) RESTful
9 21 (2.66%) Kafka
10 20 (2.54%) Node.js
11 18 (2.28%) JSON
12 17 (2.16%) Middleware
13 15 (1.90%) .NET Framework
14 14 (1.78%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.78%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
14 14 (1.78%) XML
15 13 (1.65%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.42%) Management Information System
2 54 (6.85%) Algorithms
3 38 (4.82%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 31 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.54%) Derivative
7 19 (2.41%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.41%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
8 18 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 15 (1.90%) Data Protection Act
10 15 (1.90%) IVR
10 15 (1.90%) Virtual Team
11 14 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.65%) CMDB
12 13 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (1.65%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.65%) Security Operations Centre
13 11 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 60 (7.61%) Linux
2 59 (7.49%) Windows
3 25 (3.17%) Unix
4 22 (2.79%) Android
5 18 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.14%) Solaris
6 9 (1.14%) Windows 7
7 7 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.89%) VMS
7 7 (0.89%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.63%) Windows 8
10 4 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) HPUX
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 779 (98.86%) Computer Science
2 390 (49.49%) Problem-Solving
3 215 (27.28%) Agile
4 143 (18.15%) DevOps
5 112 (14.21%) Software Engineering
6 109 (13.83%) CI/CD
7 94 (11.93%) Analytics
8 86 (10.91%) Migration
9 78 (9.90%) Data Modelling
10 72 (9.14%) Data Science
11 71 (9.01%) Continuous Improvement
12 70 (8.88%) Project Management
13 67 (8.50%) Machine Learning
14 58 (7.36%) Artificial Intelligence
14 58 (7.36%) Microservices
15 56 (7.11%) Roadmaps
15 56 (7.11%) Scrum
15 56 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
16 53 (6.73%) SDLC
17 52 (6.60%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 188 (23.86%) Python
2 140 (17.77%) SQL
3 125 (15.86%) Java
4 90 (11.42%) JavaScript
5 46 (5.84%) C#
6 45 (5.71%) PowerShell
7 37 (4.70%) Bash
8 36 (4.57%) C++
9 24 (3.05%) Perl
9 24 (3.05%) TypeScript
10 23 (2.92%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.79%) Scala
12 20 (2.54%) Go
12 20 (2.54%) R
13 15 (1.90%) C
14 14 (1.78%) Kotlin
15 9 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
16 8 (1.02%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
18 6 (0.76%) VBA
Qualifications
1 788 (100.00%) Degree
2 137 (17.39%) Master's Degree
3 113 (14.34%) Security Cleared
4 83 (10.53%) SC Cleared
5 51 (6.47%) CISSP
6 42 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (5.20%) Azure Certification
8 32 (4.06%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.55%) CCNA
10 24 (3.05%) CEH
11 22 (2.79%) CCNP
12 21 (2.66%) DV Cleared
13 20 (2.54%) CISM
14 17 (2.16%) AWS Certification
15 16 (2.03%) PhD
15 16 (2.03%) PMP
16 15 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
17 14 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (1.52%) CCIE
18 12 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.38%) QA
2 34 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 16 (2.03%) GDPR
4 14 (1.78%) NIST
5 11 (1.40%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.14%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.14%) SLA
7 8 (1.02%) Accessibility
7 8 (1.02%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.63%) NIST 800
9 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
9 4 (0.51%) GRC
9 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 3 (0.38%) COBIT
10 3 (0.38%) HL7
10 3 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
11 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.25%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 42 (5.33%) Docker
2 28 (3.55%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.40%) KVM
5 11 (1.40%) vSphere
6 10 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.63%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.51%) vCloud
9 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.25%) Firmware
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 56 (7.11%) Kubernetes
1 56 (7.11%) Terraform
2 17 (2.16%) Ansible
3 12 (1.52%) Grafana
4 10 (1.27%) Kibana
5 9 (1.14%) logstash
6 8 (1.02%) PingFederate
6 8 (1.02%) vCenter Server
7 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.63%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.51%) SCCM
11 3 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
11 3 (0.38%) Nessus
11 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.38%) Puppet
11 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
12 2 (0.25%) vRealize
12 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 2 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 166 (21.07%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.88%) Oracle
3 61 (7.74%) Google
4 34 (4.31%) VMware
5 32 (4.06%) ServiceNow
6 30 (3.81%) SAP
7 28 (3.55%) Cisco
8 19 (2.41%) Databricks
8 19 (2.41%) Salesforce
9 18 (2.28%) Genesys
10 13 (1.65%) IBM
10 13 (1.65%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.27%) Avaya
11 10 (1.27%) Juniper
12 8 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.89%) Adobe
13 7 (0.89%) Arista
13 7 (0.89%) F5
14 6 (0.76%) CA
14 6 (0.76%) Okta
1,061 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide