Computer Science Degree Contracts

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 262 355
Rank change year-on-year +134 +93 -36
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 786 621 679
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.82% 1.05% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.96% 3.85% 3.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 508 442 429
10th Percentile £300 £363 £362
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £750 £650
90th Percentile £775 £900 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -5.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 11 23
10th Percentile £25.40 £20.00 £19.21
25th Percentile £38.75 £41.00 £34.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £48.50
Median % change year-on-year - +13.40% +27.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £67.88 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £53.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £48.50
% change year-on-year -6.64% +24.23% +34.71%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,178 16,121 19,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.53% 27.29% 21.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,130 10,752 12,590
10th Percentile £300 £330 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £744 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,075 841 765
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.84 £20.00 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.86
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £49.72 £34.38
% change year-on-year -17.66% +44.65% -0.48%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 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
England +112 649 £525 -8.70% 894
London +79 405 £538 -10.42% 428
UK excluding London +144 266 £525 +5.00% 474
Work from Home +119 226 £550 -8.33% 421
South East +36 68 £475 -5.00% 111
Midlands +57 54 £550 +12.24% 88
West Midlands +54 48 £538 +9.69% 55
North of England +56 43 £340 -26.88% 116
Scotland +60 33 £550 -9.09% 16
East of England +37 33 £500 -13.04% 60
South West +35 28 £588 -9.62% 54
North West +39 23 £165 -65.26% 65
Yorkshire +25 13 £340 -7.80% 35
North East - 7 £600 - 17
East Midlands +17 6 £650 +32.65% 33
Wales +19 5 £403 - 13
Northern Ireland +10 4 - - 17

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (2.93%) SharePoint
2 17 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.65%) Apache
3 13 (1.65%) Confluence
4 12 (1.53%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.89%) CMS
6 5 (0.64%) Drupal
6 5 (0.64%) WordPress
7 3 (0.38%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.38%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
8 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.25%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
8 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
8 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 10 (1.27%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.76%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.38%) SPSS
6 3 (0.38%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) Simulink
8 1 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.13%) CPLEX
8 1 (0.13%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.13%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.13%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.13%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 12 (1.53%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.76%) Magento
3 4 (0.51%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.38%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.38%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Retail
5 2 (0.25%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.13%) Oracle Assets
Cloud Services
1 197 (25.06%) Azure
2 149 (18.96%) AWS
3 99 (12.60%) GCP
4 34 (4.33%) Power Platform
5 33 (4.20%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (3.94%) GitHub
7 29 (3.69%) Serverless
8 24 (3.05%) Cloud Computing
9 21 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
10 18 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 16 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (2.04%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.91%) PowerApps
12 15 (1.91%) SaaS
13 13 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.65%) Amazon EKS
13 13 (1.65%) Vertex AI
14 12 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
14 12 (1.53%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 40 (5.09%) Firewall
2 35 (4.45%) Network Security
3 30 (3.82%) DNS
4 17 (2.16%) VPN
5 14 (1.78%) DHCP
5 14 (1.78%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.27%) Internet
6 10 (1.27%) Wireshark
7 9 (1.15%) VLAN
7 9 (1.15%) WAN
8 8 (1.02%) 5G
8 8 (1.02%) LAN
8 8 (1.02%) Wireless
9 7 (0.89%) OSPF
9 7 (0.89%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (0.76%) Cisco Nexus
11 5 (0.64%) 4G
11 5 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
11 5 (0.64%) RANAP
11 5 (0.64%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (5.73%) SQL Server
2 35 (4.45%) Data Warehouse
3 33 (4.20%) Relational Database
4 30 (3.82%) Power BI
5 29 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
6 23 (2.93%) Big Data
7 20 (2.54%) MySQL
7 20 (2.54%) Tableau
8 19 (2.42%) Oracle Database
9 18 (2.29%) BigQuery
9 18 (2.29%) NoSQL
10 16 (2.04%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.65%) Data Mining
11 13 (1.65%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.53%) Data Lake
12 12 (1.53%) Metadata
13 11 (1.40%) Couchbase
14 10 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
15 8 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
16 6 (0.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 82 (10.43%) Git
2 49 (6.23%) Jenkins
3 37 (4.71%) JIRA
4 29 (3.69%) GitLab
5 14 (1.78%) Bitbucket
6 11 (1.40%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 11 (1.40%) Gradle
6 11 (1.40%) JUnit
6 11 (1.40%) Oracle APEX
7 9 (1.15%) Selenium
8 6 (0.76%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.76%) Mercurial
8 6 (0.76%) MLflow
8 6 (0.76%) Visual Studio
9 5 (0.64%) Maven
9 5 (0.64%) Subversion
10 4 (0.51%) JMeter
10 4 (0.51%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.51%) TeamCity
11 3 (0.38%) Travis CI
General
1 469 (59.67%) Social Skills
2 228 (29.01%) Analytical Skills
3 144 (18.32%) Finance
4 72 (9.16%) Banking
5 30 (3.82%) Public Sector
6 25 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (2.80%) Legal
8 21 (2.67%) Front Office
8 21 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 19 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
10 17 (2.16%) Marketing
10 17 (2.16%) Retail
11 15 (1.91%) Multimedia
12 14 (1.78%) Electronics
13 12 (1.53%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 11 (1.40%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.27%) Financial Institution
16 6 (0.76%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.76%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 145 (18.45%) Developer
2 116 (14.76%) Architect
3 77 (9.80%) Senior
4 51 (6.49%) Software Engineer
5 49 (6.23%) Lead
6 45 (5.73%) Analyst
7 34 (4.33%) DevOps Engineer
8 32 (4.07%) Java Developer
9 31 (3.94%) Consultant
9 31 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
10 28 (3.56%) Data Engineer
10 28 (3.56%) Network Engineer
11 22 (2.80%) Senior Developer
12 19 (2.42%) Project Manager
13 18 (2.29%) Technical Architect
14 16 (2.04%) Azure Engineer
15 15 (1.91%) Senior Software Engineer
16 14 (1.78%) Data Scientist
16 14 (1.78%) Security Engineer
16 14 (1.78%) SOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (6.87%) CSS
2 52 (6.62%) HTML
2 52 (6.62%) React
3 35 (4.45%) .NET
4 31 (3.94%) REST
5 28 (3.56%) Spring
6 27 (3.44%) RESTful
7 26 (3.31%) AngularJS
8 21 (2.67%) Kafka
9 19 (2.42%) JSON
9 19 (2.42%) Node.js
10 17 (2.16%) Web Services
11 15 (1.91%) .NET Framework
12 14 (1.78%) .NET Core
12 14 (1.78%) ASP.NET
12 14 (1.78%) Elastic Stack
12 14 (1.78%) XML
13 12 (1.53%) Spring Boot
13 12 (1.53%) Swagger
14 11 (1.40%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.81%) Management Information System
2 54 (6.87%) Algorithms
3 38 (4.83%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.58%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.69%) Data Structures
6 24 (3.05%) Security Posture
7 21 (2.67%) Derivative
8 19 (2.42%) Security Operations Centre
9 18 (2.29%) Legacy Systems
9 18 (2.29%) Mobile App
10 17 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
11 16 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 14 (1.78%) Cyber Threat
12 14 (1.78%) Virtual Team
13 13 (1.65%) CMDB
13 13 (1.65%) Cyber Defence
13 13 (1.65%) Fixed Income
14 11 (1.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 11 (1.40%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.02%) Windows
2 53 (6.74%) Linux
3 23 (2.93%) Android
4 19 (2.42%) Unix
4 19 (2.42%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.15%) Solaris
5 9 (1.15%) Windows 7
6 8 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.02%) Windows 10
7 7 (0.89%) VMS
8 6 (0.76%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.64%) Windows 8
10 4 (0.51%) Embedded Linux
10 4 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.38%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) HPUX
12 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 777 (98.85%) Computer Science
2 394 (50.13%) Problem-Solving
3 212 (26.97%) Agile
4 126 (16.03%) DevOps
5 115 (14.63%) Software Engineering
6 104 (13.23%) CI/CD
7 88 (11.20%) Analytics
8 87 (11.07%) Migration
9 75 (9.54%) Project Management
10 74 (9.41%) Data Modelling
11 72 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (8.78%) Machine Learning
13 68 (8.65%) Data Science
14 58 (7.38%) Cybersecurity
14 58 (7.38%) Scrum
15 57 (7.25%) Microservices
16 56 (7.12%) Mentoring
17 54 (6.87%) Code Quality
18 52 (6.62%) Mathematics
18 52 (6.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 191 (24.30%) Python
2 134 (17.05%) SQL
3 128 (16.28%) Java
4 91 (11.58%) JavaScript
5 49 (6.23%) C#
6 47 (5.98%) PowerShell
7 38 (4.83%) C++
8 35 (4.45%) Bash
9 25 (3.18%) Perl
9 25 (3.18%) Scala
10 23 (2.93%) PL/SQL
10 23 (2.93%) TypeScript
11 20 (2.54%) Go
11 20 (2.54%) R
12 15 (1.91%) C
12 15 (1.91%) Kotlin
13 12 (1.53%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.89%) MATLAB
14 7 (0.89%) Shell Script
15 6 (0.76%) Rust
Qualifications
1 786 (100.00%) Degree
2 125 (15.90%) Master's Degree
3 119 (15.14%) Security Cleared
4 89 (11.32%) SC Cleared
5 54 (6.87%) CISSP
6 42 (5.34%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (4.96%) Azure Certification
8 29 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.56%) CCNA
10 24 (3.05%) CEH
11 22 (2.80%) CCNP
11 22 (2.80%) DV Cleared
12 20 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
13 18 (2.29%) CISM
14 16 (2.04%) PhD
15 15 (1.91%) ITIL Certification
16 14 (1.78%) PMP
17 12 (1.53%) CCIE
18 11 (1.40%) A+ Certification
19 10 (1.27%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (8.27%) QA
2 31 (3.94%) Data Quality
3 14 (1.78%) NIST
4 9 (1.15%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.15%) GDPR
4 9 (1.15%) SLA
5 5 (0.64%) GRC
5 5 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.51%) COBIT
6 4 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
6 4 (0.51%) NIST 800
6 4 (0.51%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.38%) PMO
7 3 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.25%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 2 (0.25%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.25%) HL7
8 2 (0.25%) ISO 22301
8 2 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 35 (4.45%) Docker
2 30 (3.82%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.31%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.40%) KVM
5 11 (1.40%) vSphere
6 10 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 8 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.51%) vCloud
9 4 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.51%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.25%) Firmware
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.13%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.13%) Xen
Systems Management
1 53 (6.74%) Terraform
2 46 (5.85%) Kubernetes
3 14 (1.78%) Ansible
4 11 (1.40%) Grafana
5 10 (1.27%) Kibana
6 9 (1.15%) logstash
7 8 (1.02%) PingFederate
7 8 (1.02%) vCenter Server
8 7 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
9 6 (0.76%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.64%) SCCM
11 4 (0.51%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.38%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.38%) Nessus
12 3 (0.38%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.38%) Puppet
12 3 (0.38%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.25%) PowerCLI
13 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 164 (20.87%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.91%) Oracle
3 51 (6.49%) Google
4 35 (4.45%) VMware
5 30 (3.82%) SAP
5 30 (3.82%) ServiceNow
6 20 (2.54%) Cisco
7 19 (2.42%) Databricks
8 18 (2.29%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.65%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.53%) IBM
11 10 (1.27%) Juniper
12 8 (1.02%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.89%) Arista
13 7 (0.89%) F5
13 7 (0.89%) Splunk
14 6 (0.76%) Atlassian
14 6 (0.76%) Foundry
14 6 (0.76%) Okta
14 6 (0.76%) Palantir