Computer Science Contracts in the Midlands

Computer Science
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the 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 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 57 114 140
Rank change year-on-year +57 +26 -29
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 80 44 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.97% 1.34% 1.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 1.52% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 35 42
10th Percentile £320 £333 £211
25th Percentile £425 £440 £368
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +12.36% +4.71%
75th Percentile £619 £594 £500
90th Percentile £648 £753 £688
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 2 1
10th Percentile - £26.66 -
25th Percentile £22.33 £29.72 £13.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £37.63 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +46.18% +168.75% -
75th Percentile £63.75 £47.72 £14.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £52.09 -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.19 £46.71
% change year-on-year +3.41% +13.86% +22.92%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,210 2,891 4,388
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 82.13% 88.14% 87.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,487 2,028 3,224
10th Percentile £234 £250 £250
25th Percentile £356 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £667
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 104 145
10th Percentile £11.06 £12.15 £10.50
25th Percentile £13.91 £14.88 £13.73
Median hourly rate £18.00 £21.32 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.57% +21.83% +13.27%
75th Percentile £33.25 £32.77 £22.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £54.63 £35.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.29% +45.58% +8.70%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the Midlands

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the 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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +58 67 £519 -1.19% 94
East Midlands +9 13 £600 +22.45% 72
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the 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 4 (5.00%) Apache Spark
2 3 (3.75%) Apache
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
3 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (8.75%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.50%) Simulink
3 1 (1.25%) CATIA
3 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.25%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) SAP Business One
1 1 (1.25%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.25%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) AWS
2 5 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 4 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (5.00%) Serverless
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Functions
4 3 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) GCP
6 1 (1.25%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) IaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) PaaS
6 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.50%) DHCP
1 6 (7.50%) DNS
2 5 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (6.25%) Ethereal
2 5 (6.25%) Ethernet
2 5 (6.25%) LAN
2 5 (6.25%) WAN
2 5 (6.25%) Wireless
2 5 (6.25%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.75%) Firewall
4 2 (2.50%) Network Security
4 2 (2.50%) SAN
5 1 (1.25%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.25%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.50%) Data Mining
2 5 (6.25%) Power BI
3 3 (3.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (3.75%) Big Data
3 3 (3.75%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.75%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (3.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.50%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.50%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.50%) Tableau
5 1 (1.25%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (1.25%) Apache Hive
5 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.25%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.25%) MySQL
5 1 (1.25%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.25%) Git
1 5 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (3.75%) GitLab
3 2 (2.50%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.25%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.25%) JIRA
4 1 (1.25%) NUnit
4 1 (1.25%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio
General
1 52 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 33 (41.25%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 6 (7.50%) German Language
5 5 (6.25%) Electronics
5 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Law
8 2 (2.50%) Legal
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
9 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Marketing
9 1 (1.25%) Multimedia
9 1 (1.25%) Police
9 1 (1.25%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 13 (16.25%) Architect
2 11 (13.75%) Developer
3 9 (11.25%) Analyst
3 9 (11.25%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Data Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.50%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Network Support
6 5 (6.25%) Network Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Lead
8 3 (3.75%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Validation Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.50%) Spring
2 5 (6.25%) Middleware
3 4 (5.00%) Kafka
4 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.75%) React
5 2 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.25%) Apache Beam
6 1 (1.25%) Apache NiFi
6 1 (1.25%) Dask
6 1 (1.25%) Guice
6 1 (1.25%) Keras
6 1 (1.25%) NumPy
6 1 (1.25%) Pandas
6 1 (1.25%) PySpark
6 1 (1.25%) PyTorch
6 1 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
6 1 (1.25%) SAP PI
6 1 (1.25%) scikit-learn
6 1 (1.25%) Vue
6 1 (1.25%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.25%) Data Centre
2 12 (15.00%) Management Information System
3 10 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (8.75%) Algorithms
5 6 (7.50%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (6.25%) Industry 4.0
6 5 (6.25%) IoT
6 5 (6.25%) SCADA
7 4 (5.00%) Cyber Defence
8 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (3.75%) Data Structures
8 3 (3.75%) Virtual Team
9 2 (2.50%) CCTV
9 2 (2.50%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 2 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (2.50%) Operational Technology
9 2 (2.50%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Unix
2 5 (6.25%) Windows
3 4 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (45.00%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (22.50%) DevOps
2 18 (22.50%) Software Engineering
3 16 (20.00%) Agile
4 13 (16.25%) Decision-Making
5 11 (13.75%) Analytical Thinking
5 11 (13.75%) Migration
6 10 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 10 (12.50%) Data Science
6 10 (12.50%) ITIL
7 9 (11.25%) Analytics
7 9 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 8 (10.00%) Service Management
9 7 (8.75%) Artificial Intelligence
10 6 (7.50%) Business Transformation
10 6 (7.50%) CAD
10 6 (7.50%) Microservices
10 6 (7.50%) User Experience
11 5 (6.25%) Process Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) Python
2 13 (16.25%) SQL
3 10 (12.50%) Java
4 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.75%) Scala
6 2 (2.50%) C#
6 2 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.50%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.50%) Perl
7 1 (1.25%) C
7 1 (1.25%) C++
7 1 (1.25%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.25%) PHP
7 1 (1.25%) R
7 1 (1.25%) Rust
7 1 (1.25%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (96.25%) Degree
2 48 (60.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (22.50%) Security Cleared
4 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 9 (11.25%) Master's Degree
6 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (7.50%) CCNA
7 6 (7.50%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (5.00%) CISSP
9 3 (3.75%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (3.75%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (2.50%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.50%) CEH
10 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.25%) PMP
11 1 (1.25%) SAP Certification
11 1 (1.25%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.50%) NIST
4 1 (1.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.75%) Docker
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) vSphere
4 1 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.25%) OpenView
2 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.75%) SysTrack
4 2 (2.50%) Kibana
4 2 (2.50%) logstash
4 2 (2.50%) Terraform
5 1 (1.25%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) SAP
3 5 (6.25%) BMC
3 5 (6.25%) Cisco
4 3 (3.75%) Citrix
4 3 (3.75%) New Relic
4 3 (3.75%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.75%) VMware
5 2 (2.50%) Confluent
5 2 (2.50%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.25%) Google
6 1 (1.25%) Informatica
6 1 (1.25%) Mitel
6 1 (1.25%) Oracle
6 1 (1.25%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.25%) Sage
6 1 (1.25%) Splunk
6 1 (1.25%) Teradata
6 1 (1.25%) Xilinx