Computer Science Contracts in the West Midlands

Computer Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 106 139
Rank change year-on-year +59 +33 -37
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 72 27 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.76% 1.16% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.49% 1.32% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 19 24
10th Percentile £322 £353 £280
25th Percentile £425 £415 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £438
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% +6.06%
75th Percentile £624 £594 £688
90th Percentile £647 £658 £800
England median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +5.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.33 £24.63 £13.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £25.25 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.77% +80.36% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £25.88 £14.50
90th Percentile £72.50 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £46.71
% change year-on-year +2.10% +15.33% +22.92%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,603 2,049 3,180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.80% 88.32% 90.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,063 1,398 2,330
10th Percentile £275 £263 £275
25th Percentile £371 £400 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 47 65
10th Percentile £11.09 £12.30 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £19.00 £16.83
Median % change year-on-year +18.42% +12.93% +0.03%
75th Percentile £40.25 £28.13 £19.86
90th Percentile £57.75 £50.00 £21.40
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham +29 23 £475 -1.04% 32
Warwickshire +16 20 £450 -18.18% 8
Worcestershire +18 9 £525 -12.50% 8
Solihull -13 3 - - 1
Coventry - 3 £300 - 18
Staffordshire - 3 £800 - 13
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 1
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 1 (1.39%) Apache
1 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
1 1 (1.39%) Confluence
1 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (6.94%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.78%) Simulink
3 1 (1.39%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (22.22%) Azure
2 5 (6.94%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Functions
3 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (4.17%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.17%) Serverless
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.78%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.78%) AWS
4 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.39%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.39%) GitHub
5 1 (1.39%) IaaS
5 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.39%) PaaS
5 1 (1.39%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) DHCP
1 4 (5.56%) DNS
1 4 (5.56%) Firewall
2 3 (4.17%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (4.17%) Ethereal
2 3 (4.17%) Ethernet
2 3 (4.17%) LAN
2 3 (4.17%) Network Security
2 3 (4.17%) WAN
2 3 (4.17%) Wireless
2 3 (4.17%) Wireshark
3 2 (2.78%) SAN
4 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.39%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.33%) Data Mining
2 3 (4.17%) Power BI
3 2 (2.78%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.78%) NoSQL
3 2 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.78%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.39%) Big Data
4 1 (1.39%) Flink
4 1 (1.39%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.39%) Presto
4 1 (1.39%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) Git
1 5 (6.94%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.17%) GitLab
3 2 (2.78%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.39%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.39%) JIRA
4 1 (1.39%) NUnit
4 1 (1.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 34 (47.22%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.33%) Finance
3 6 (8.33%) German Language
4 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (4.17%) Electronics
5 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Law
6 2 (2.78%) Legal
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
7 1 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.39%) Marketing
7 1 (1.39%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.39%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (16.67%) Architect
2 10 (13.89%) Developer
3 7 (9.72%) Analyst
3 7 (9.72%) DevOps Engineer
4 6 (8.33%) Data Architect
4 6 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 6 (8.33%) Senior
5 4 (5.56%) Network Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Support Engineer
5 4 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Architect
6 3 (4.17%) Lead
6 3 (4.17%) Network Support
6 3 (4.17%) Network Support Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Software Engineer
6 3 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (2.78%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (2.78%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.33%) Spring
2 5 (6.94%) Middleware
3 3 (4.17%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.17%) Kafka
3 3 (4.17%) React
4 2 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (1.39%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (1.39%) Dask
5 1 (1.39%) Guice
5 1 (1.39%) Keras
5 1 (1.39%) NumPy
5 1 (1.39%) Pandas
5 1 (1.39%) PySpark
5 1 (1.39%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.39%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.39%) REST
5 1 (1.39%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.39%) scikit-learn
5 1 (1.39%) Vue
5 1 (1.39%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.28%) Data Centre
1 11 (15.28%) Management Information System
1 11 (15.28%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (8.33%) Algorithms
2 6 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (6.94%) Industry 4.0
3 5 (6.94%) IoT
3 5 (6.94%) SCADA
3 5 (6.94%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (6.94%) Security Posture
4 4 (5.56%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (4.17%) Operational Technology
5 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.78%) Cyber Kill Chain
6 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (2.78%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.72%) Unix
2 5 (6.94%) Windows
3 4 (5.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (48.61%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (25.00%) DevOps
3 15 (20.83%) Agile
4 13 (18.06%) Decision-Making
4 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
5 12 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
5 12 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 10 (13.89%) Analytics
6 10 (13.89%) ITIL
6 10 (13.89%) Migration
7 9 (12.50%) CI/CD
8 8 (11.11%) Service Management
9 7 (9.72%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (9.72%) Data Science
9 7 (9.72%) Incident Response
9 7 (9.72%) Security Operations
9 7 (9.72%) SIEM
10 6 (8.33%) Business Transformation
10 6 (8.33%) Microservices
10 6 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 9 (12.50%) Python
2 8 (11.11%) Java
2 8 (11.11%) SQL
3 4 (5.56%) PowerShell
4 3 (4.17%) JavaScript
4 3 (4.17%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (2.78%) C#
5 2 (2.78%) MATLAB
5 2 (2.78%) Perl
6 1 (1.39%) PHP
6 1 (1.39%) Scala
Qualifications
1 69 (95.83%) Degree
2 45 (62.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 11 (15.28%) SC Cleared
5 9 (12.50%) Master's Degree
6 7 (9.72%) CISSP
6 7 (9.72%) DV Cleared
7 5 (6.94%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (5.56%) CCNA
8 4 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
9 3 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (2.78%) CEH
11 1 (1.39%) CCNP
11 1 (1.39%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.39%) PMP
11 1 (1.39%) SAP Certification
11 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 2 (2.78%) NIST
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (5.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (4.17%) Docker
2 3 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.78%) vSphere
4 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) OpenView
2 3 (4.17%) SysTrack
3 2 (2.78%) Kibana
3 2 (2.78%) logstash
3 2 (2.78%) Terraform
4 1 (1.39%) Ansible
Vendors
1 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 8 (11.11%) SAP
3 5 (6.94%) BMC
4 3 (4.17%) Cisco
4 3 (4.17%) Citrix
4 3 (4.17%) New Relic
4 3 (4.17%) OpenAI
4 3 (4.17%) Splunk
4 3 (4.17%) VMware
5 2 (2.78%) Confluent
5 2 (2.78%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.39%) Informatica
6 1 (1.39%) Mitel
6 1 (1.39%) Oracle
6 1 (1.39%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.39%) Teradata
6 1 (1.39%) Xilinx
1,798 Computer Science jobs in England