Computer Science Contracts in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 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 67 105 157
Rank change year-on-year +38 +52 -37
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,110 1,136 1,259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.05% 2.36% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.53% 2.62% 1.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 774 803
10th Percentile £313 £379 £360
25th Percentile £413 £488 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £738 £713
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 40 63
10th Percentile £22.33 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £23.59 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £46.71
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% +13.86% +22.92%
75th Percentile £65.31 £65.00 £51.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.38 £61.40
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £44.75
% change year-on-year +3.41% +18.85% +17.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,464 43,415 63,929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.38% 90.10% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,624 30,476 45,458
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,526 1,738
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.95 £16.20 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
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 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 +23 669 £550 -8.33% 1,068
South East +27 122 £450 -14.29% 427
North of England +81 103 £506 +4.17% 213
Midlands +57 80 £525 +5.00% 168
West Midlands +58 67 £519 -1.19% 95
South West +7 54 £588 +6.82% 107
North West +45 53 £500 +2.88% 115
East of England +22 45 £500 - 156
Yorkshire +35 42 £484 -12.09% 64
East Midlands +9 13 £600 +22.45% 73
North East +21 10 £600 - 36
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 28 (2.52%) Confluence
2 22 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.17%) Apache
5 13 (1.17%) SAS
6 12 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
7 4 (0.36%) ArcGIS
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2003
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (0.36%) Exchange Server 2013
7 4 (0.36%) Jupyter
7 4 (0.36%) Skype for Business
8 3 (0.27%) CMS
8 3 (0.27%) Ethereum
8 3 (0.27%) Gunicorn
8 3 (0.27%) Hyperledger
8 3 (0.27%) nginx
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 46 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.89%) Simulink
4 20 (1.80%) MS Visio
4 20 (1.80%) Stateflow
5 12 (1.08%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 9 (0.81%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.27%) SPSS
8 3 (0.27%) Windchill
9 2 (0.18%) Stata
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Illustrator
10 1 (0.090%) CATIA
10 1 (0.090%) InVision
10 1 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
10 1 (0.090%) OmniGraffle
10 1 (0.090%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.090%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.63%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.54%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.27%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.27%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.27%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.27%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.27%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 2 (0.18%) Magento
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.18%) Primavera
5 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.18%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 255 (22.97%) Azure
2 177 (15.95%) AWS
3 115 (10.36%) GCP
4 64 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
5 49 (4.41%) Power Platform
6 36 (3.24%) Microsoft 365
7 34 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
8 33 (2.97%) Serverless
9 32 (2.88%) GitHub
10 21 (1.89%) Amazon S3
11 20 (1.80%) PaaS
11 20 (1.80%) SaaS
12 19 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
13 18 (1.62%) Entra ID
14 17 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
15 16 (1.44%) PowerApps
16 15 (1.35%) Vertex AI
17 12 (1.08%) GitHub Actions
18 10 (0.90%) Google Compute Engine
18 10 (0.90%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.78%) Firewall
2 40 (3.60%) DNS
3 25 (2.25%) Network Security
4 22 (1.98%) Internet
4 22 (1.98%) VPN
4 22 (1.98%) WAN
5 21 (1.89%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.80%) DHCP
6 20 (1.80%) LAN
6 20 (1.80%) Wireless
7 16 (1.44%) Wireshark
8 14 (1.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (1.08%) 5G
9 12 (1.08%) VoIP
10 11 (0.99%) HTTP
10 11 (0.99%) OSPF
11 10 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.81%) BGP
12 9 (0.81%) MPLS
13 8 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.59%) Relational Database
3 47 (4.23%) Data Warehouse
4 43 (3.87%) Big Data
4 43 (3.87%) Power BI
4 43 (3.87%) Tableau
5 41 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 34 (3.06%) NoSQL
7 26 (2.34%) MySQL
8 22 (1.98%) BigQuery
9 21 (1.89%) Hadoop
10 17 (1.53%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.26%) Data Mining
12 13 (1.17%) Data Lake
12 13 (1.17%) KDB
13 12 (1.08%) Oracle Database
14 10 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.90%) RDBMS
15 9 (0.81%) Amazon Redshift
15 9 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 96 (8.65%) Git
2 69 (6.22%) JIRA
3 61 (5.50%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.61%) GitLab
5 21 (1.89%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.99%) Gradle
7 9 (0.81%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 9 (0.81%) Subversion
8 8 (0.72%) JUnit
8 8 (0.72%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (0.63%) CircleCI
9 7 (0.63%) ERwin
9 7 (0.63%) Selenium
10 6 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 6 (0.54%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 6 (0.54%) Cypress.io
10 6 (0.54%) Postman
10 6 (0.54%) Visual Studio
11 5 (0.45%) Mercurial
11 5 (0.45%) MLflow
General
1 535 (48.20%) Social Skills
2 256 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
3 244 (21.98%) Finance
4 83 (7.48%) Banking
5 62 (5.59%) Public Sector
6 59 (5.32%) Front Office
7 53 (4.77%) Telecoms
8 49 (4.41%) Legal
9 39 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
10 37 (3.33%) Marketing
11 28 (2.52%) Retail
12 25 (2.25%) Automotive
13 23 (2.07%) Electronics
14 21 (1.89%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.80%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.80%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
17 17 (1.53%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.35%) Multimedia
19 12 (1.08%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 209 (18.83%) Developer
2 161 (14.50%) Architect
3 119 (10.72%) Senior
4 88 (7.93%) Analyst
5 85 (7.66%) Software Engineer
6 69 (6.22%) Solutions Architect
7 55 (4.95%) Java Developer
8 47 (4.23%) Lead
9 42 (3.78%) Data Engineer
9 42 (3.78%) DevOps Engineer
9 42 (3.78%) Network Engineer
10 36 (3.24%) Consultant
11 28 (2.52%) Python Developer
12 26 (2.34%) Data Analyst
12 26 (2.34%) Senior Developer
13 22 (1.98%) Azure Engineer
14 21 (1.89%) Data Scientist
15 20 (1.80%) Business Analyst
16 19 (1.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (1.62%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (5.86%) CSS
2 64 (5.77%) HTML
3 62 (5.59%) .NET
4 51 (4.59%) React
5 40 (3.60%) REST
6 35 (3.15%) Kafka
6 35 (3.15%) RESTful
7 34 (3.06%) Spring
8 28 (2.52%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.16%) JSON
10 22 (1.98%) Node.js
10 22 (1.98%) Pandas
10 22 (1.98%) XML
11 20 (1.80%) NumPy
11 20 (1.80%) Web Services
12 16 (1.44%) Django
12 16 (1.44%) Middleware
13 14 (1.26%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.26%) .NET Framework
13 14 (1.26%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 121 (10.90%) Algorithms
2 105 (9.46%) Management Information System
3 56 (5.05%) Data Structures
4 51 (4.59%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (4.50%) Data Centre
6 40 (3.60%) Derivative
7 32 (2.88%) Product Ownership
8 30 (2.70%) Data Protection Act
8 30 (2.70%) Fixed Income
9 25 (2.25%) Virtual Team
10 24 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
11 19 (1.71%) Mobile App
11 19 (1.71%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 18 (1.62%) CMDB
12 18 (1.62%) Legacy Systems
13 16 (1.44%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 16 (1.44%) Onboarding
13 16 (1.44%) Social Media
14 13 (1.17%) Equities
14 13 (1.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 103 (9.28%) Linux
2 91 (8.20%) Windows
3 54 (4.86%) Unix
4 30 (2.70%) Android
4 30 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.08%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.99%) Solaris
7 8 (0.72%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.63%) VMS
8 7 (0.63%) Windows 10
8 7 (0.63%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.54%) Oracle Linux
10 5 (0.45%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
11 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.36%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.27%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.27%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (37.57%) Problem-Solving
2 316 (28.47%) Agile
3 182 (16.40%) Software Engineering
4 179 (16.13%) DevOps
5 147 (13.24%) CI/CD
6 129 (11.62%) Analytics
7 127 (11.44%) Migration
8 115 (10.36%) Data Modelling
9 113 (10.18%) Data Science
9 113 (10.18%) Mathematics
10 108 (9.73%) Machine Learning
11 102 (9.19%) Test Automation
12 88 (7.93%) ITIL
13 87 (7.84%) Roadmaps
14 84 (7.57%) Artificial Intelligence
15 83 (7.48%) Scrum
16 80 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
16 80 (7.21%) Decision-Making
17 79 (7.12%) Project Management
18 74 (6.67%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 294 (26.49%) Python
2 241 (21.71%) SQL
3 186 (16.76%) Java
4 105 (9.46%) JavaScript
5 92 (8.29%) C#
6 70 (6.31%) C++
7 56 (5.05%) PowerShell
8 41 (3.69%) Bash
9 30 (2.70%) MATLAB
10 28 (2.52%) TypeScript
11 27 (2.43%) R
12 26 (2.34%) C
13 24 (2.16%) Go
14 21 (1.89%) Rust
14 21 (1.89%) Scala
15 20 (1.80%) Perl
16 17 (1.53%) Kotlin
17 16 (1.44%) Shell Script
18 13 (1.17%) VB.NET
19 12 (1.08%) VBA
Qualifications
1 995 (89.64%) Degree
2 650 (58.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 191 (17.21%) Master's Degree
4 123 (11.08%) Security Cleared
5 91 (8.20%) SC Cleared
6 58 (5.23%) Cisco Certification
7 48 (4.32%) PhD
8 39 (3.51%) CISSP
9 34 (3.06%) CCNA
10 32 (2.88%) Azure Certification
10 32 (2.88%) CCNP
10 32 (2.88%) DV Cleared
11 27 (2.43%) Microsoft Certification
12 22 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
13 21 (1.89%) Numerate Degree
14 20 (1.80%) PMI Certification
14 20 (1.80%) PMP
15 17 (1.53%) CEH
16 14 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 88 (7.93%) QA
2 61 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.71%) SLA
4 14 (1.26%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.26%) NIST
5 13 (1.17%) GDPR
6 8 (0.72%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.72%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.63%) MiFID
8 6 (0.54%) GRC
9 5 (0.45%) Actionable Recommendations
9 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.36%) COBIT
10 4 (0.36%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.36%) JTAG
10 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.27%) HL7
11 3 (0.27%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 56 (5.05%) Docker
2 43 (3.87%) Active Directory
3 40 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (1.35%) vSphere
6 14 (1.26%) Hyper-V
7 13 (1.17%) VMware NSX
8 11 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.90%) KVM
10 6 (0.54%) Firmware
11 4 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
11 4 (0.36%) NFS
11 4 (0.36%) vCloud
11 4 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.36%) VirtualBox
12 3 (0.27%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.090%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.090%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.090%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.090%) Xen
Systems Management
1 76 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 59 (5.32%) Terraform
3 23 (2.07%) Ansible
4 13 (1.17%) PingFederate
5 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
5 11 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.90%) SCCM
7 8 (0.72%) Grafana
7 8 (0.72%) Kibana
8 7 (0.63%) logstash
8 7 (0.63%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (0.45%) Nessus
9 5 (0.45%) OpenView
9 5 (0.45%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.36%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.36%) Puppet
10 4 (0.36%) WSUS
11 3 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 3 (0.27%) SCOM
11 3 (0.27%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 197 (17.75%) Microsoft
2 73 (6.58%) Oracle
3 61 (5.50%) Google
4 55 (4.95%) Cisco
5 53 (4.77%) SAP
5 53 (4.77%) VMware
6 41 (3.69%) ServiceNow
7 27 (2.43%) Databricks
8 19 (1.71%) IBM
9 18 (1.62%) Juniper
10 15 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 15 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 13 (1.17%) Atlassian
12 12 (1.08%) ION Trading
12 12 (1.08%) Palo Alto
13 11 (0.99%) Foundry
13 11 (0.99%) Genesys
13 11 (0.99%) Palantir
13 11 (0.99%) SolarWinds
13 11 (0.99%) Splunk