Computer Science Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 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 89 161 180
Rank change year-on-year +72 +19 -38
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 458 364 436
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.26% 1.58% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.68% 1.77% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 263 224 234
10th Percentile £275 £325 £188
25th Percentile £409 £456 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £603 £618 £600
90th Percentile £675 £743 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -7.83% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 29 39
10th Percentile £20.60 £18.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £35.50 £19.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +13.77% -7.96%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £71.00 £66.60 £56.41
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,112 20,583 27,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.30% 89.45% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,187 18,951
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,254 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.74 £61.52
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 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 +27 122 £450 -14.29% 422
North of England +81 103 £506 +4.17% 205
Midlands +57 80 £525 +5.00% 166
West Midlands +58 67 £519 -1.19% 94
South West +7 54 £588 +6.82% 108
North West +45 53 £500 +2.88% 107
Scotland +43 50 £538 +2.38% 57
East of England +22 45 £500 - 155
Yorkshire +35 42 £484 -12.09% 64
East Midlands +9 13 £600 +22.45% 72
North East +21 10 £600 - 36
Wales +13 8 £403 -26.82% 29
Northern Ireland +5 4 - - 18
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 18 (3.93%) Confluence
2 14 (3.06%) Apache Airflow
3 12 (2.62%) SAS
4 11 (2.40%) Apache
5 6 (1.31%) Apache Spark
6 5 (1.09%) SharePoint
7 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.44%) IIS
9 1 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.22%) ArcGIS
9 1 (0.22%) EPiServer
9 1 (0.22%) JBoss
9 1 (0.22%) MTS
9 1 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.22%) WebSphere
Applications
1 32 (6.99%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.28%) Simulink
3 14 (3.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (3.06%) Stateflow
4 10 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (1.97%) MS Visio
6 5 (1.09%) SPSS
7 2 (0.44%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.22%) CATIA
8 1 (0.22%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.22%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.66%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.44%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.44%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.44%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.44%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.44%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.44%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.44%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.22%) Magento
4 1 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.22%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.22%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 83 (18.12%) Azure
2 62 (13.54%) AWS
3 24 (5.24%) GCP
4 20 (4.37%) Azure DevOps
5 18 (3.93%) Power Platform
6 13 (2.84%) Snowflake
7 11 (2.40%) Cloud Computing
8 10 (2.18%) PaaS
8 10 (2.18%) SaaS
9 9 (1.97%) Amazon S3
10 8 (1.75%) Amazon EC2
10 8 (1.75%) OpenShift
11 7 (1.53%) Microsoft 365
12 6 (1.31%) GitHub
12 6 (1.31%) Serverless
13 5 (1.09%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.09%) IaaS
14 4 (0.87%) Azure Functions
14 4 (0.87%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.02%) DNS
2 17 (3.71%) Firewall
3 16 (3.49%) Wireless
4 15 (3.28%) DHCP
4 15 (3.28%) WAN
4 15 (3.28%) Wireshark
5 13 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 12 (2.62%) 5G
6 12 (2.62%) SAN
7 10 (2.18%) LAN
7 10 (2.18%) VPN
8 9 (1.97%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (1.53%) 3G
10 7 (1.53%) 4G
10 7 (1.53%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (1.53%) Network Security
11 6 (1.31%) BGP
11 6 (1.31%) MPLS
11 6 (1.31%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (3.93%) Power BI
2 16 (3.49%) Tableau
3 14 (3.06%) MySQL
3 14 (3.06%) SQL Server
4 12 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (2.62%) Relational Database
5 11 (2.40%) Metadata
6 10 (2.18%) Oracle Database
7 9 (1.97%) Data Mining
8 8 (1.75%) Big Data
9 7 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.31%) NoSQL
10 6 (1.31%) Qlik Sense
11 5 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (1.09%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.87%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.87%) BusinessObjects
12 4 (0.87%) DB2
12 4 (0.87%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.87%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 40 (8.73%) Git
2 39 (8.52%) JIRA
3 21 (4.59%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.18%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.18%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (1.75%) GitLab
5 8 (1.75%) Rational DOORS
5 8 (1.75%) Subversion
6 6 (1.31%) Artifactory
6 6 (1.31%) Selenium
7 5 (1.09%) JUnit
8 4 (0.87%) Gradle
8 4 (0.87%) JMeter
8 4 (0.87%) Mercurial
8 4 (0.87%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 3 (0.66%) Travis CI
9 3 (0.66%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.44%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.44%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.44%) Maven
General
1 199 (43.45%) Social Skills
2 111 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (10.70%) Finance
4 38 (8.30%) Telecoms
5 35 (7.64%) Public Sector
6 27 (5.90%) Legal
7 23 (5.02%) Banking
8 20 (4.37%) Electronics
9 19 (4.15%) Automotive
10 16 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.84%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.84%) Multimedia
12 12 (2.62%) Retail
13 10 (2.18%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.97%) Marketing
15 7 (1.53%) German Language
15 7 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
16 6 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 6 (1.31%) Law
17 5 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (15.28%) Architect
2 54 (11.79%) Senior
3 50 (10.92%) Software Engineer
4 47 (10.26%) Analyst
5 44 (9.61%) Developer
6 37 (8.08%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.24%) Network Engineer
8 20 (4.37%) DevOps Engineer
9 19 (4.15%) Lead
10 18 (3.93%) Data Engineer
10 18 (3.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.06%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.84%) Senior Software Engineer
13 12 (2.62%) Linux Engineer
13 12 (2.62%) Python Engineer
14 11 (2.40%) AWS Engineer
14 11 (2.40%) Support Engineer
15 10 (2.18%) Java Developer
16 9 (1.97%) Service Analyst
16 9 (1.97%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (4.37%) HTML
2 19 (4.15%) .NET
3 16 (3.49%) CSS
4 13 (2.84%) Kafka
4 13 (2.84%) React
5 12 (2.62%) AngularJS
5 12 (2.62%) Spring
6 11 (2.40%) Flash
6 11 (2.40%) RESTful
7 9 (1.97%) .NET Framework
7 9 (1.97%) Middleware
7 9 (1.97%) XML
8 8 (1.75%) REST
9 6 (1.31%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.31%) NumPy
9 6 (1.31%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.31%) Web Services
10 5 (1.09%) OpenGL ES
10 5 (1.09%) Pandas
10 5 (1.09%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 45 (9.83%) Management Information System
2 38 (8.30%) Algorithms
3 29 (6.33%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.71%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (3.71%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.28%) Legacy Systems
7 13 (2.84%) Data Structures
8 10 (2.18%) CMDB
9 8 (1.75%) PKI
9 8 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.53%) Product Ownership
11 6 (1.31%) Clustering
11 6 (1.31%) IoT
11 6 (1.31%) Life Science
12 5 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
12 5 (1.09%) Industry 4.0
12 5 (1.09%) SCADA
12 5 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
12 5 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 62 (13.54%) Windows
2 55 (12.01%) Linux
3 39 (8.52%) Unix
4 20 (4.37%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.84%) Android
6 8 (1.75%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 6 (1.31%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.87%) Data ONTAP
9 4 (0.87%) Solaris
10 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.66%) Windows 8
11 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
11 2 (0.44%) HPUX
11 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.44%) Windows Server 2019
11 2 (0.44%) zOS
12 1 (0.22%) VMS
12 1 (0.22%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 181 (39.52%) Problem-Solving
2 112 (24.45%) Agile
3 87 (19.00%) Software Engineering
4 81 (17.69%) DevOps
5 59 (12.88%) Migration
6 51 (11.14%) ITIL
7 45 (9.83%) Roadmaps
8 44 (9.61%) Test Automation
9 40 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
9 40 (8.73%) Scrum
10 38 (8.30%) Analytics
10 38 (8.30%) Data Modelling
10 38 (8.30%) Decision-Making
11 37 (8.08%) Data Management
12 36 (7.86%) Data Science
13 34 (7.42%) SDLC
14 33 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 31 (6.77%) CI/CD
16 30 (6.55%) Mathematics
16 30 (6.55%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 108 (23.58%) Python
2 76 (16.59%) SQL
3 67 (14.63%) Java
4 32 (6.99%) JavaScript
5 28 (6.11%) C#
6 25 (5.46%) C++
7 23 (5.02%) PowerShell
8 22 (4.80%) MATLAB
9 21 (4.59%) Perl
10 17 (3.71%) R
11 16 (3.49%) C
11 16 (3.49%) Scala
12 11 (2.40%) PL/SQL
13 10 (2.18%) Bash
14 8 (1.75%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.53%) VB.NET
16 6 (1.31%) Go
17 5 (1.09%) Kotlin
17 5 (1.09%) Rust
18 4 (0.87%) F#
Qualifications
1 401 (87.55%) Degree
2 259 (56.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 68 (14.85%) Security Cleared
4 57 (12.45%) Master's Degree
5 42 (9.17%) SC Cleared
6 36 (7.86%) Cisco Certification
7 24 (5.24%) DV Cleared
8 23 (5.02%) CCNA
9 20 (4.37%) CCNP
10 15 (3.28%) PhD
11 14 (3.06%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 11 (2.40%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 9 (1.97%) CISSP
15 8 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
16 7 (1.53%) A+ Certification
16 7 (1.53%) Azure Certification
16 7 (1.53%) HND
17 6 (1.31%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.99%) QA
2 20 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 11 (2.40%) SLA
4 5 (1.09%) GDPR
5 4 (0.87%) JTAG
6 3 (0.66%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.66%) HL7
6 3 (0.66%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.44%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.44%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.44%) NIST
8 1 (0.22%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.22%) GRC
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 33 (7.21%) Docker
2 26 (5.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.80%) Active Directory
4 11 (2.40%) vSphere
5 10 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (2.18%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.97%) Hyper-V
7 6 (1.31%) Firmware
8 5 (1.09%) NFS
9 4 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.87%) GPFS
9 4 (0.87%) KVM
9 4 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.87%) VirtualBox
10 3 (0.66%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.22%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.22%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (7.86%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.15%) Terraform
3 10 (2.18%) Ansible
3 10 (2.18%) vCenter Server
4 6 (1.31%) SCCM
5 5 (1.09%) OpenView
6 4 (0.87%) Veritas Storage Foundation
6 4 (0.87%) WSUS
7 3 (0.66%) Kibana
7 3 (0.66%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.66%) PowerCLI
7 3 (0.66%) SCOM
7 3 (0.66%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.66%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.44%) logstash
8 2 (0.44%) OPNET
8 2 (0.44%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (0.44%) vRealize
8 2 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 2 (0.44%) yum
Vendors
1 76 (16.59%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.42%) VMware
3 27 (5.90%) Cisco
3 27 (5.90%) SAP
4 25 (5.46%) Oracle
5 24 (5.24%) ServiceNow
6 23 (5.02%) Google
7 16 (3.49%) IBM
8 13 (2.84%) Databricks
9 12 (2.62%) Juniper
10 10 (2.18%) Atlassian
10 10 (2.18%) Red Hat
11 8 (1.75%) F5
12 7 (1.53%) EMC
12 7 (1.53%) Nokia
12 7 (1.53%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.53%) SolarWinds
12 7 (1.53%) Veritas
13 6 (1.31%) Empirix
13 6 (1.31%) NetScout