Computer Science Degree Contracts in England

Computer Science Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 234 324
Rank change year-on-year +108 +90 -11
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 659 541 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.81% 1.12% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.87% 4.08% 3.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 424 399 389
10th Percentile £300 £362 £363
25th Percentile £404 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £750 £650
90th Percentile £775 £900 £838
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 10 21
10th Percentile £31.63 £19.30 £18.76
25th Percentile £38.75 £35.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.63 £54.44 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +14.60% +25.00%
75th Percentile £74.06 £63.69 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.38 £49.59
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.27% +15.79% +16.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,220 13,267 15,322
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.80% 27.53% 21.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,953 8,906 10,133
10th Percentile £313 £333 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 672 677
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.53 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.87 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.93 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -24.42% +27.98% +10.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.23 £68.48
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.99 £43.95
% change year-on-year -27.26% +25.12% +20.41%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 18 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
London +82 408 £525 -12.50% 527
South East +49 74 £475 -5.00% 192
Midlands +46 49 £525 +5.00% 90
North of England +65 48 £340 -15.00% 117
West Midlands +49 43 £525 +7.14% 57
East of England +21 31 £500 -13.04% 65
South West +14 25 £588 -10.31% 56
North West +37 24 £165 -67.00% 61
Yorkshire +22 15 £358 -3.05% 40
North East - 9 £600 - 18
East Midlands +11 6 £650 +30.00% 33
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (2.73%) SharePoint
2 14 (2.12%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.97%) Confluence
4 10 (1.52%) Apache
5 7 (1.06%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.46%) CMS
6 3 (0.46%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.30%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.30%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.30%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.15%) CICS
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
8 1 (0.15%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.15%) Skype for Business
8 1 (0.15%) Tomcat
Applications
1 28 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.52%) Chatbot
3 10 (1.52%) MS Visio
4 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) Windchill
6 2 (0.30%) Simulink
7 1 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.15%) OmniGraffle
7 1 (0.15%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.15%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.61%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.46%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.46%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.46%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.30%) Endur
4 2 (0.30%) Magento
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle 11i
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Applications
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.30%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.30%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.30%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.30%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.30%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.30%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.30%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 162 (24.58%) Azure
2 131 (19.88%) AWS
3 82 (12.44%) GCP
4 35 (5.31%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.40%) Serverless
6 25 (3.79%) Microsoft 365
7 22 (3.34%) Cloud Computing
7 22 (3.34%) GitHub
8 21 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (2.73%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (2.28%) Amazon S3
11 14 (2.12%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.97%) Vertex AI
13 12 (1.82%) PowerApps
14 11 (1.67%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
15 10 (1.52%) Google Compute Engine
15 10 (1.52%) SaaS
16 9 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.37%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.25%) Firewall
2 22 (3.34%) DNS
3 21 (3.19%) Network Security
4 13 (1.97%) VPN
5 11 (1.67%) 5G
5 11 (1.67%) Wireshark
6 10 (1.52%) Internet
7 9 (1.37%) LAN
7 9 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.21%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.21%) VoIP
9 7 (1.06%) DHCP
9 7 (1.06%) WAN
10 6 (0.91%) 3G
10 6 (0.91%) CTI
10 6 (0.91%) GGSN
10 6 (0.91%) LTE
10 6 (0.91%) OSPF
10 6 (0.91%) RANAP
10 6 (0.91%) SGSN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 35 (5.31%) Relational Database
3 32 (4.86%) Power BI
4 27 (4.10%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (3.79%) PostgreSQL
6 22 (3.34%) Tableau
7 20 (3.03%) BigQuery
7 20 (3.03%) MySQL
8 17 (2.58%) Big Data
9 15 (2.28%) NoSQL
10 14 (2.12%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.97%) Data Mining
12 10 (1.52%) Oracle Database
13 9 (1.37%) Hadoop
14 8 (1.21%) Data Lake
15 7 (1.06%) Couchbase
16 6 (0.91%) Amazon RDS
16 6 (0.91%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.91%) RDBMS
17 5 (0.76%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 67 (10.17%) Git
2 42 (6.37%) Jenkins
3 34 (5.16%) JIRA
4 20 (3.03%) GitLab
5 12 (1.82%) Bitbucket
6 9 (1.37%) Gradle
7 8 (1.21%) JUnit
8 6 (0.91%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.91%) CircleCI
9 5 (0.76%) Maven
9 5 (0.76%) MLflow
9 5 (0.76%) Selenium
9 5 (0.76%) Subversion
10 4 (0.61%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.61%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.61%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.46%) ERwin
11 3 (0.46%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.46%) Travis CI
12 2 (0.30%) JMeter
General
1 366 (55.54%) Social Skills
2 174 (26.40%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (20.33%) Finance
4 59 (8.95%) Banking
5 27 (4.10%) Public Sector
6 26 (3.95%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 22 (3.34%) Front Office
9 20 (3.03%) Legal
10 18 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.73%) Retail
11 14 (2.12%) Marketing
11 14 (2.12%) Multimedia
12 12 (1.82%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.67%) Investment Banking
14 10 (1.52%) Financial Institution
15 8 (1.21%) Electronics
16 6 (0.91%) Aerospace
17 5 (0.76%) Automotive
17 5 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 116 (17.60%) Developer
2 101 (15.33%) Architect
3 48 (7.28%) Senior
4 37 (5.61%) Lead
4 37 (5.61%) Software Engineer
5 35 (5.31%) Analyst
6 34 (5.16%) DevOps Engineer
7 30 (4.55%) Java Developer
8 29 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
9 28 (4.25%) Data Engineer
10 26 (3.95%) Network Engineer
11 25 (3.79%) Consultant
12 17 (2.58%) Senior Developer
13 16 (2.43%) Security Engineer
13 16 (2.43%) Technical Architect
14 15 (2.28%) AWS Engineer
14 15 (2.28%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (2.12%) Data Scientist
16 13 (1.97%) Project Manager
17 12 (1.82%) GCP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (7.13%) CSS
2 44 (6.68%) HTML
3 39 (5.92%) React
4 30 (4.55%) REST
5 29 (4.40%) .NET
5 29 (4.40%) Spring
6 27 (4.10%) RESTful
7 25 (3.79%) AngularJS
8 21 (3.19%) Kafka
9 19 (2.88%) Web Services
10 14 (2.12%) JSON
11 11 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
11 11 (1.67%) jQuery
11 11 (1.67%) Node.js
11 11 (1.67%) Spring Boot
12 10 (1.52%) .NET Core
12 10 (1.52%) .NET Framework
12 10 (1.52%) PyTorch
12 10 (1.52%) RAML
12 10 (1.52%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 63 (9.56%) Management Information System
2 53 (8.04%) Algorithms
3 33 (5.01%) Data Centre
4 32 (4.86%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (4.40%) Data Structures
6 19 (2.88%) Derivative
6 19 (2.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 18 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
8 17 (2.58%) Virtual Team
9 16 (2.43%) Mobile App
10 14 (2.12%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.97%) CMDB
12 12 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
13 11 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.67%) Security Posture
14 10 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (1.52%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (1.52%) Legacy Code
14 10 (1.52%) Onboarding
14 10 (1.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 59 (8.95%) Linux
2 53 (8.04%) Windows
3 23 (3.49%) Unix
4 22 (3.34%) Android
5 17 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.37%) Apple iOS
6 9 (1.37%) Solaris
7 7 (1.06%) VMS
7 7 (1.06%) Windows 10
7 7 (1.06%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.91%) Oracle Linux
9 4 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.61%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.46%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.46%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.30%) HPUX
11 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 650 (98.63%) Computer Science
2 308 (46.74%) Problem-Solving
3 178 (27.01%) Agile
4 120 (18.21%) DevOps
5 96 (14.57%) Software Engineering
6 93 (14.11%) CI/CD
7 75 (11.38%) Migration
8 68 (10.32%) Data Modelling
8 68 (10.32%) Data Science
9 66 (10.02%) Analytics
10 63 (9.56%) Machine Learning
11 54 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 53 (8.04%) Artificial Intelligence
13 52 (7.89%) Project Management
14 50 (7.59%) Microservices
15 47 (7.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 47 (7.13%) ITIL
15 47 (7.13%) SDLC
16 46 (6.98%) Business Intelligence
16 46 (6.98%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 160 (24.28%) Python
2 120 (18.21%) SQL
3 107 (16.24%) Java
4 75 (11.38%) JavaScript
5 43 (6.53%) C#
6 39 (5.92%) PowerShell
7 32 (4.86%) Bash
7 32 (4.86%) C++
8 24 (3.64%) TypeScript
9 18 (2.73%) R
10 17 (2.58%) Scala
11 15 (2.28%) C
11 15 (2.28%) Go
12 13 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.82%) Perl
14 9 (1.37%) PL/SQL
15 8 (1.21%) Shell Script
16 7 (1.06%) MATLAB
17 6 (0.91%) PHP
17 6 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 659 (100.00%) Degree
2 112 (17.00%) Master's Degree
3 83 (12.59%) Security Cleared
4 60 (9.10%) SC Cleared
5 34 (5.16%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (4.70%) CISSP
7 25 (3.79%) Azure Certification
8 21 (3.19%) CCNA
9 20 (3.03%) CCNP
10 17 (2.58%) CEH
10 17 (2.58%) DV Cleared
10 17 (2.58%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (2.43%) PhD
12 15 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (1.82%) CCIE
13 12 (1.82%) CISM
14 11 (1.67%) AWS Certification
15 10 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
16 9 (1.37%) PMI Certification
16 9 (1.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (7.74%) QA
2 28 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 9 (1.37%) Accessibility
3 9 (1.37%) GDPR
3 9 (1.37%) SLA
4 8 (1.21%) NIST
5 7 (1.06%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.76%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.61%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.46%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.46%) GRC
8 3 (0.46%) HL7
8 3 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.30%) COBIT
9 2 (0.30%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.30%) MiFID
9 2 (0.30%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 40 (6.07%) Docker
2 26 (3.95%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.52%) KVM
4 10 (1.52%) vSphere
5 9 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
6 7 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 6 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.61%) vCloud
9 4 (0.61%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.46%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (0.30%) Firmware
12 1 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.15%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 50 (7.59%) Kubernetes
1 50 (7.59%) Terraform
2 16 (2.43%) Ansible
3 8 (1.21%) PingFederate
4 7 (1.06%) Grafana
4 7 (1.06%) Kibana
5 6 (0.91%) logstash
5 6 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (0.91%) vCenter Server
6 5 (0.76%) SCCM
7 4 (0.61%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.46%) Nessus
8 3 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.46%) Puppet
8 3 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.46%) SysTrack
9 2 (0.30%) vRealize
9 2 (0.30%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 2 (0.30%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 132 (20.03%) Microsoft
2 51 (7.74%) Oracle
3 40 (6.07%) Google
4 32 (4.86%) ServiceNow
4 32 (4.86%) VMware
5 24 (3.64%) SAP
6 23 (3.49%) Cisco
7 14 (2.12%) Databricks
8 13 (1.97%) Red Hat
8 13 (1.97%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.82%) IBM
10 10 (1.52%) Genesys
10 10 (1.52%) Juniper
11 8 (1.21%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.06%) Arista
12 7 (1.06%) Qualys
13 6 (0.91%) Atlassian
13 6 (0.91%) Foundry
13 6 (0.91%) NetScout
13 6 (0.91%) Palantir