Computer Science Contracts in Central London

Computer Science
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 68 84
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 +8
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 99 118 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.11% 3.22% 2.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.54% 3.52% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 68 75
10th Percentile £354 £412 £455
25th Percentile £425 £523 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £551 £725 £600
Median % change year-on-year -23.97% +20.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £716 £875 £700
90th Percentile £821 £1,063 £823
London median daily rate £550 £590 £625
% change year-on-year -6.78% -5.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 12
10th Percentile - £50.45 £44.45
25th Percentile - £50.75 £48.50
Median hourly rate - £52.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% +65.63%
75th Percentile - £68.75 £61.94
90th Percentile - £77.75 £65.43
London median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -15.38% +42.86% +20.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central 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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,181 3,349 4,127
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.65% 91.28% 92.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,535 2,253 3,118
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +7.55%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £791 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 47
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.25 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.50 £16.33 £25.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £31.19 £53.19 £54.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £35.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +9.09% +8.83%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Central London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in Central London

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 9 June 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
City of London +24 96 £553 -23.79% 40
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 9 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.03%) Jupyter
4 1 (1.01%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.01%) Confluence
4 1 (1.01%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.01%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.02%) Chatbot
3 2 (2.02%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle Applications
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (2.02%) Oracle Receivables
1 2 (2.02%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.02%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
1 2 (2.02%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.01%) BusinessWorks
2 1 (1.01%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle E-Business Tax
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.01%) Primavera
2 1 (1.01%) R3 Corda
2 1 (1.01%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.01%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 29 (29.29%) Azure
2 18 (18.18%) AWS
3 10 (10.10%) GCP
3 10 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (8.08%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (6.06%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (6.06%) Power Platform
6 5 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.05%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.04%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (3.03%) GitHub
8 3 (3.03%) Snowflake
8 3 (3.03%) WhatsApp
9 2 (2.02%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (2.02%) IaaS
9 2 (2.02%) PaaS
9 2 (2.02%) SuccessFactors
9 2 (2.02%) Twilio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.09%) Firewall
2 5 (5.05%) LAN
3 4 (4.04%) CTI
3 4 (4.04%) Network Security
3 4 (4.04%) VoIP
4 3 (3.03%) SD-WAN
4 3 (3.03%) WAN
5 2 (2.02%) DNS
5 2 (2.02%) Structured Cabling
5 2 (2.02%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.01%) DHCP
6 1 (1.01%) Internet
6 1 (1.01%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (1.01%) SSL
6 1 (1.01%) VLAN
6 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.10%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.04%) NoSQL
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle Database
2 4 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.03%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.03%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.03%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.02%) Big Data
4 2 (2.02%) Data Mining
4 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 2 (2.02%) Presto
4 2 (2.02%) Tableau
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.01%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.01%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
5 1 (1.01%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.08%) Git
2 5 (5.05%) JIRA
3 4 (4.04%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.03%) GitLab
4 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio
5 2 (2.02%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.02%) ERwin
5 2 (2.02%) Gradle
5 2 (2.02%) PowerDesigner
6 1 (1.01%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.01%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.01%) CMake
6 1 (1.01%) Darcs
6 1 (1.01%) Jaeger
6 1 (1.01%) JUnit
6 1 (1.01%) Mercurial
6 1 (1.01%) Moq
6 1 (1.01%) MSTest
6 1 (1.01%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 1 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (47.47%) Social Skills
2 36 (36.36%) Finance
3 22 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (16.16%) Banking
5 9 (9.09%) Legal
6 5 (5.05%) Front Office
6 5 (5.05%) Marketing
7 4 (4.04%) Financial Institution
7 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.03%) Retail
9 2 (2.02%) Advertising
9 2 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.01%) Arabic Language
10 1 (1.01%) French Language
10 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (21.21%) Developer
2 18 (18.18%) Architect
3 8 (8.08%) Analyst
3 8 (8.08%) Senior
4 5 (5.05%) Lead
4 5 (5.05%) Microsoft 365 Architect
4 5 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
5 4 (4.04%) Data Engineer
5 4 (4.04%) Data Scientist
5 4 (4.04%) Python Developer
6 3 (3.03%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 3 (3.03%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 3 (3.03%) C# Developer
6 3 (3.03%) Consultant
6 3 (3.03%) Delivery Manager
6 3 (3.03%) IT Engineer
6 3 (3.03%) Java Developer
6 3 (3.03%) Network Engineer
6 3 (3.03%) Senior Data Scientist
6 3 (3.03%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) CSS
2 5 (5.05%) Matplotlib
2 5 (5.05%) Pandas
2 5 (5.05%) REST
3 4 (4.04%) .NET
3 4 (4.04%) HTML
3 4 (4.04%) jQuery
3 4 (4.04%) JSON
3 4 (4.04%) PyTorch
3 4 (4.04%) React
3 4 (4.04%) scikit-learn
3 4 (4.04%) Web Services
3 4 (4.04%) XML
4 3 (3.03%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.03%) HTML5 Canvas
4 3 (3.03%) Microsoft Graph
4 3 (3.03%) Middleware
4 3 (3.03%) Plotly
4 3 (3.03%) pytest
5 2 (2.02%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.12%) Management Information System
2 8 (8.08%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (7.07%) Algorithms
4 6 (6.06%) Virtual Team
5 5 (5.05%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.04%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.04%) IVR
6 4 (4.04%) Product Ownership
7 3 (3.03%) Derivative
7 3 (3.03%) Fixed Income
7 3 (3.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 2 (2.02%) Blockchain
8 2 (2.02%) CBDC
8 2 (2.02%) Equities
8 2 (2.02%) IoT
8 2 (2.02%) Legacy Code
8 2 (2.02%) Market Risk
8 2 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.10%) Windows
2 9 (9.09%) Linux
3 2 (2.02%) Oracle Linux
3 2 (2.02%) Solaris
3 2 (2.02%) VMS
4 1 (1.01%) Android
4 1 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.01%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (25.25%) Agile
3 16 (16.16%) Migration
4 15 (15.15%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.14%) DevOps
5 14 (14.14%) Project Management
6 13 (13.13%) ITIL
6 13 (13.13%) Machine Learning
6 13 (13.13%) Mathematics
7 12 (12.12%) Analytics
8 10 (10.10%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (10.10%) PRINCE2
9 9 (9.09%) Change Management
9 9 (9.09%) Data Science
9 9 (9.09%) Software Engineering
9 9 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (8.08%) Customer Experience
10 8 (8.08%) Data Loss Prevention
11 7 (7.07%) Infrastructure as Code
11 7 (7.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.25%) Python
2 21 (21.21%) SQL
3 14 (14.14%) Java
4 10 (10.10%) PowerShell
5 9 (9.09%) C#
6 6 (6.06%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.05%) Bash
7 5 (5.05%) C++
7 5 (5.05%) Kotlin
8 4 (4.04%) Go
8 4 (4.04%) PL/SQL
8 4 (4.04%) Rust
9 3 (3.03%) Clojure
9 3 (3.03%) Haskell
9 3 (3.03%) Scala
10 2 (2.02%) C
10 2 (2.02%) T-SQL
11 1 (1.01%) Apex Code
11 1 (1.01%) VBA
11 1 (1.01%) VC++
Qualifications
1 88 (88.89%) Degree
2 65 (65.66%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (16.16%) Master's Degree
4 10 (10.10%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (6.06%) Azure Certification
6 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (5.05%) SC Cleared
6 5 (5.05%) Security Cleared
7 4 (4.04%) GCIA
7 4 (4.04%) GCIH
7 4 (4.04%) GIAC
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certification
8 2 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (2.02%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (2.02%) PhD
8 2 (2.02%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.02%) PMP
9 1 (1.01%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.01%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.07%) QA
2 3 (3.03%) Actionable Recommendations
2 3 (3.03%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.03%) HIPAA
3 2 (2.02%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.02%) GDPR
3 2 (2.02%) NIST
3 2 (2.02%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.02%) SLA
3 2 (2.02%) SOC 2
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.01%) NIST 800
System Software
1 6 (6.06%) Docker
1 6 (6.06%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.02%) KVM
4 1 (1.01%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 8 (8.08%) PingFederate
3 6 (6.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.06%) Terraform
4 4 (4.04%) CSIRT
4 4 (4.04%) Nessus
4 4 (4.04%) QRadar
5 2 (2.02%) Ansible
5 2 (2.02%) Grafana
6 1 (1.01%) Kibana
6 1 (1.01%) logstash
6 1 (1.01%) Nagios
6 1 (1.01%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.01%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.01%) Puppet
6 1 (1.01%) TIBCO Hawk
6 1 (1.01%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.01%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 28 (28.28%) Microsoft
2 18 (18.18%) Oracle
3 8 (8.08%) Google
4 6 (6.06%) Databricks
5 5 (5.05%) SAP
5 5 (5.05%) VMware
6 4 (4.04%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (4.04%) Cisco
6 4 (4.04%) Genesys
7 3 (3.03%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
7 3 (3.03%) Symantec
8 2 (2.02%) Avaya
8 2 (2.02%) Citrix
8 2 (2.02%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (2.02%) Foundry
8 2 (2.02%) ION Trading
8 2 (2.02%) Palantir
8 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
8 2 (2.02%) Sparx