Computer Science Degree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 159 296 314
Rank change year-on-year +137 +18 -24
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 263 149 206
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.30% 0.65% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.55% 1.98% 2.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 102 115
10th Percentile £243 £308 £196
25th Percentile £363 £425 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £628 £580
90th Percentile £654 £784 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 14
10th Percentile £22.87 £25.60 £18.23
25th Percentile £33.56 £44.50 £25.81
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £46.23
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +30.34% +21.64%
75th Percentile £66.25 £66.81 £49.50
90th Percentile £77.75 £68.73 -
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,404 7,527 8,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.48% 32.71% 26.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,312 5,028 5,210
10th Percentile £270 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £422 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.52% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £709 £675
UK median daily rate £533 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.09% +4.76% +7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 598 524
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.91 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.33 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% +42.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.94 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £68.11
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +49 74 £475 -5.00% 191
Midlands +46 49 £525 +5.00% 90
North of England +65 48 £340 -15.00% 119
West Midlands +49 43 £525 +7.14% 57
East of England +21 31 £500 -13.04% 65
Scotland +53 28 £560 +6.67% 27
South West +14 25 £588 -10.31% 56
North West +37 24 £165 -67.00% 63
Yorkshire +22 15 £358 -3.05% 40
North East - 9 £600 - 18
East Midlands +11 6 £650 +30.00% 33
Wales +22 5 £403 - 15
Northern Ireland +7 4 - - 10
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 8 (3.04%) Apache
2 5 (1.90%) Confluence
3 4 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.14%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.14%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.76%) SAS
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.38%) EPiServer
6 1 (0.38%) IIS
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (7.98%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.76%) Simulink
4 2 (0.76%) SPSS
5 1 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.38%) InfoPath
5 1 (0.38%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.38%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.38%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (1.52%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 2 (0.76%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.76%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.76%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.76%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.38%) Magento
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.38%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.38%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.38%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.11%) Azure
2 36 (13.69%) AWS
3 20 (7.60%) GCP
4 11 (4.18%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
6 6 (2.28%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.28%) GitHub
6 6 (2.28%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.28%) Serverless
7 5 (1.90%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.90%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.52%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (1.52%) OCI
8 4 (1.52%) SaaS
9 3 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.14%) IaaS
9 3 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (5.32%) DNS
2 12 (4.56%) 5G
2 12 (4.56%) Firewall
3 10 (3.80%) Wireshark
4 8 (3.04%) Wi-Fi
5 7 (2.66%) Network Security
5 7 (2.66%) VPN
6 6 (2.28%) 3G
6 6 (2.28%) 4G
6 6 (2.28%) DHCP
6 6 (2.28%) Diameter Protocol
6 6 (2.28%) GGSN
6 6 (2.28%) LTE
6 6 (2.28%) Radio Access Network
6 6 (2.28%) RANAP
6 6 (2.28%) SGSN
6 6 (2.28%) TCP/IP
6 6 (2.28%) VoLTE
7 4 (1.52%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
7 4 (1.52%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
1 12 (4.56%) Relational Database
2 11 (4.18%) Power BI
3 10 (3.80%) Metadata
3 10 (3.80%) MySQL
3 10 (3.80%) Oracle Database
4 9 (3.42%) Data Mining
5 8 (3.04%) SQL Server
6 6 (2.28%) Big Data
6 6 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
6 6 (2.28%) NoSQL
7 5 (1.90%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.14%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.14%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.14%) Couchbase
8 3 (1.14%) Qlik Sense
8 3 (1.14%) Tableau
9 2 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.76%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.76%) Flink
Development Applications
1 26 (9.89%) Git
2 17 (6.46%) Jenkins
3 16 (6.08%) JIRA
4 10 (3.80%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (3.04%) GitLab
6 5 (1.90%) JUnit
7 4 (1.52%) Bitbucket
7 4 (1.52%) Gradle
7 4 (1.52%) JMeter
7 4 (1.52%) Mercurial
7 4 (1.52%) Selenium
7 4 (1.52%) Subversion
8 3 (1.14%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.76%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.76%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.76%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.76%) Maven
10 1 (0.38%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.38%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.38%) Visual Studio
General
1 132 (50.19%) Social Skills
2 74 (28.14%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (12.55%) Finance
4 17 (6.46%) Banking
5 15 (5.70%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.70%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.56%) Multimedia
6 12 (4.56%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (3.04%) Legal
8 7 (2.66%) Retail
9 6 (2.28%) Automotive
9 6 (2.28%) Electronics
9 6 (2.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.52%) German Language
10 4 (1.52%) Law
10 4 (1.52%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.52%) Marketing
11 3 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.76%) French Language
Job Titles
1 36 (13.69%) Developer
2 33 (12.55%) Architect
3 27 (10.27%) Senior
4 18 (6.84%) Analyst
5 17 (6.46%) Software Engineer
6 15 (5.70%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (5.70%) Network Engineer
7 13 (4.94%) Lead
8 12 (4.56%) Data Engineer
9 9 (3.42%) Solutions Architect
10 8 (3.04%) Author
10 8 (3.04%) Java Developer
10 8 (3.04%) Technical Author
11 6 (2.28%) Data Architect
11 6 (2.28%) Enterprise Architect
11 6 (2.28%) Machine Learning Engineer
11 6 (2.28%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.28%) Technical Architect
12 5 (1.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 5 (1.90%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.32%) HTML
2 13 (4.94%) CSS
2 13 (4.94%) React
3 12 (4.56%) Kafka
4 11 (4.18%) Spring
5 9 (3.42%) AngularJS
5 9 (3.42%) REST
6 8 (3.04%) .NET
7 6 (2.28%) GraphQL
7 6 (2.28%) RabbitMQ
7 6 (2.28%) RESTful
8 5 (1.90%) .NET Framework
8 5 (1.90%) DirectX
8 5 (1.90%) NumPy
8 5 (1.90%) OpenGL
8 5 (1.90%) OpenGL ES
8 5 (1.90%) Pandas
8 5 (1.90%) Vulkan
8 5 (1.90%) Web Services
9 4 (1.52%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 28 (10.65%) Management Information System
2 16 (6.08%) Algorithms
3 14 (5.32%) Legacy Systems
4 13 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (4.18%) Data Centre
6 10 (3.80%) Data Structures
7 8 (3.04%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.66%) CMDB
9 6 (2.28%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.52%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.52%) Life Science
10 4 (1.52%) Onboarding
10 4 (1.52%) Social Media
10 4 (1.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 4 (1.52%) Virtual Team
11 3 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.14%) Legacy Code
11 3 (1.14%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.14%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.69%) Windows
2 24 (9.13%) Linux
3 14 (5.32%) Unix
4 11 (4.18%) Android
4 11 (4.18%) Windows Server
5 6 (2.28%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.14%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (1.14%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.14%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.76%) HPUX
7 2 (0.76%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.76%) Solaris
7 2 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.38%) CentOS
8 1 (0.38%) VMS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 259 (98.48%) Computer Science
2 131 (49.81%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (19.77%) Agile
4 45 (17.11%) DevOps
5 43 (16.35%) Software Engineering
6 33 (12.55%) Migration
7 27 (10.27%) Data Science
8 25 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
8 25 (9.51%) Data Modelling
8 25 (9.51%) Roadmaps
8 25 (9.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (9.13%) CI/CD
9 24 (9.13%) SDLC
10 23 (8.75%) Analytics
11 22 (8.37%) Scrum
12 21 (7.98%) ITIL
13 18 (6.84%) Artificial Intelligence
13 18 (6.84%) Customer Service
13 18 (6.84%) Machine Learning
13 18 (6.84%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 52 (19.77%) Python
2 40 (15.21%) SQL
3 38 (14.45%) Java
4 25 (9.51%) JavaScript
5 17 (6.46%) C#
6 15 (5.70%) PowerShell
7 11 (4.18%) PL/SQL
8 10 (3.80%) R
9 9 (3.42%) C++
9 9 (3.42%) Perl
10 7 (2.66%) Bash
11 6 (2.28%) Go
12 5 (1.90%) C
12 5 (1.90%) Kotlin
12 5 (1.90%) MATLAB
12 5 (1.90%) Scala
13 4 (1.52%) VB.NET
14 3 (1.14%) Rust
14 3 (1.14%) TypeScript
14 3 (1.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 263 (100.00%) Degree
2 37 (14.07%) Security Cleared
3 34 (12.93%) Master's Degree
4 20 (7.60%) SC Cleared
5 17 (6.46%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (4.94%) CCNA
6 13 (4.94%) CCNP
6 13 (4.94%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.28%) A+ Certification
7 6 (2.28%) Azure Certification
7 6 (2.28%) CISSP
7 6 (2.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (2.28%) VCAP
8 5 (1.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (1.52%) CCIE
9 4 (1.52%) ISTQB
9 4 (1.52%) Network+ Certification
9 4 (1.52%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.52%) PMP
10 3 (1.14%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.46%) QA
2 6 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.90%) SLA
4 4 (1.52%) GDPR
5 3 (1.14%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.14%) HL7
6 2 (0.76%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.38%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.38%) NIST
7 1 (0.38%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.46%) Docker
2 15 (5.70%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.80%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.28%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.28%) vSphere
5 5 (1.90%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.52%) KVM
6 4 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.14%) VMware Workstation
8 2 (0.76%) Firmware
8 2 (0.76%) VMware NSX
9 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.38%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.38%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (7.60%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.66%) Terraform
3 6 (2.28%) Ansible
4 5 (1.90%) vCenter Server
5 3 (1.14%) Kibana
5 3 (1.14%) SysTrack
6 2 (0.76%) logstash
6 2 (0.76%) vRealize
6 2 (0.76%) vRealize Orchestrator
7 1 (0.38%) FortiGate
7 1 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.38%) Nessus
7 1 (0.38%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
7 1 (0.38%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.38%) Puppet
7 1 (0.38%) SCCM
7 1 (0.38%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.38%) vMotion
7 1 (0.38%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (18.25%) Microsoft
2 18 (6.84%) ServiceNow
3 17 (6.46%) Oracle
4 14 (5.32%) Google
4 14 (5.32%) VMware
5 13 (4.94%) SAP
6 8 (3.04%) Red Hat
7 6 (2.28%) Empirix
7 6 (2.28%) F5
7 6 (2.28%) NetScout
7 6 (2.28%) SolarWinds
8 5 (1.90%) IBM
9 4 (1.52%) CA
9 4 (1.52%) Citrix
9 4 (1.52%) Juniper
9 4 (1.52%) LogicMonitor
10 3 (1.14%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (1.14%) New Relic
10 3 (1.14%) OpenAI