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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 102 154
Rank change year-on-year +36 +52 -41
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,137 1,137 1,297
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.08% 2.40% 1.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 2.66% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 699 772 850
10th Percentile £313 £369 £350
25th Percentile £406 £486 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £586
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% -3.62% +6.59%
75th Percentile £667 £725 £725
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £589
% change year-on-year -7.08% -4.03% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 39 55
10th Percentile £21.30 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £40.63 £26.63 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.10% +13.41% +17.56%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £55.64
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.75 £62.20
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £45.00
% change year-on-year +2.10% +19.71% +5.12%

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 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +25 672 £550 -8.33% 871
South East +16 125 £450 -14.29% 241
North of England +70 114 £517 +6.38% 189
Midlands +50 82 £525 +3.96% 160
West Midlands +53 70 £525 - 81
North West +46 57 £500 +2.88% 114
South West +6 56 £588 +6.82% 98
East of England +33 49 £500 - 114
Yorkshire +41 47 £521 -3.07% 52
North East +21 12 £600 - 26
East Midlands +7 12 £650 +30.00% 79
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 32 (2.81%) Confluence
2 24 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.41%) Apache Spark
5 14 (1.23%) Apache
6 13 (1.14%) SAS
7 10 (0.88%) Apache Airflow
8 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
9 4 (0.35%) ArcGIS
9 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
9 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
9 4 (0.35%) Skype for Business
10 3 (0.26%) CMS
10 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
10 3 (0.26%) Gunicorn
10 3 (0.26%) Hyperledger
10 3 (0.26%) nginx
10 3 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 46 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.93%) MS Visio
4 21 (1.85%) Simulink
5 20 (1.76%) Stateflow
6 13 (1.14%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 10 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.35%) SPSS
10 3 (0.26%) Windchill
11 2 (0.18%) Stata
12 1 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.088%) CATIA
12 1 (0.088%) InVision
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.088%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.088%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.26%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.26%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 2 (0.18%) Primavera
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 281 (24.71%) Azure
2 187 (16.45%) AWS
3 129 (11.35%) GCP
4 62 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
5 58 (5.10%) Power Platform
6 39 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
7 37 (3.25%) Cloud Computing
8 33 (2.90%) Serverless
9 32 (2.81%) GitHub
10 26 (2.29%) PaaS
11 25 (2.20%) SaaS
12 21 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 19 (1.67%) Entra ID
14 18 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
15 17 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
15 17 (1.50%) PowerApps
16 16 (1.41%) Snowflake
17 15 (1.32%) Vertex AI
18 13 (1.14%) Azure Data Factory
18 13 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 46 (4.05%) Firewall
2 41 (3.61%) DNS
3 26 (2.29%) Network Security
4 23 (2.02%) WAN
5 22 (1.93%) VPN
6 21 (1.85%) DHCP
6 21 (1.85%) Internet
6 21 (1.85%) TCP/IP
7 20 (1.76%) LAN
8 19 (1.67%) Wireless
9 16 (1.41%) Wireshark
10 13 (1.14%) 5G
10 13 (1.14%) Cisco Nexus
10 13 (1.14%) VoIP
11 11 (0.97%) HTTP
11 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
12 10 (0.88%) OSPF
13 9 (0.79%) SAN
14 8 (0.70%) BGP
14 8 (0.70%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 58 (5.10%) Relational Database
3 52 (4.57%) Power BI
4 49 (4.31%) Big Data
5 46 (4.05%) Tableau
6 45 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (3.69%) PostgreSQL
8 39 (3.43%) NoSQL
9 29 (2.55%) MySQL
10 21 (1.85%) BigQuery
10 21 (1.85%) Hadoop
11 17 (1.50%) Data Lake
11 17 (1.50%) MongoDB
12 14 (1.23%) Data Mining
13 12 (1.06%) Oracle Database
13 12 (1.06%) Qlik Sense
14 10 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
14 10 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
14 10 (0.88%) KDB
14 10 (0.88%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 103 (9.06%) Git
2 73 (6.42%) JIRA
3 59 (5.19%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.73%) GitLab
5 22 (1.93%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.23%) Gradle
7 10 (0.88%) JUnit
8 9 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 9 (0.79%) Subversion
9 8 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.62%) Selenium
11 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.53%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.53%) Postman
11 6 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.44%) git-flow
12 5 (0.44%) MLflow
General
1 539 (47.41%) Social Skills
2 265 (23.31%) Analytical Skills
3 238 (20.93%) Finance
4 82 (7.21%) Banking
5 66 (5.80%) Public Sector
6 55 (4.84%) Front Office
7 51 (4.49%) Legal
7 51 (4.49%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.34%) Marketing
8 38 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
9 29 (2.55%) Retail
10 26 (2.29%) Automotive
11 20 (1.76%) Electronics
11 20 (1.76%) Investment Banking
11 20 (1.76%) Manufacturing
12 19 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
13 16 (1.41%) Financial Institution
14 15 (1.32%) Multimedia
15 14 (1.23%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 209 (18.38%) Developer
2 164 (14.42%) Architect
3 120 (10.55%) Senior
4 97 (8.53%) Analyst
5 84 (7.39%) Software Engineer
6 69 (6.07%) Solutions Architect
7 54 (4.75%) Java Developer
8 51 (4.49%) Lead
9 47 (4.13%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (3.78%) Data Engineer
11 42 (3.69%) Consultant
12 40 (3.52%) Network Engineer
13 29 (2.55%) Data Scientist
14 28 (2.46%) Python Developer
15 27 (2.37%) Data Analyst
16 25 (2.20%) Senior Developer
17 22 (1.93%) Azure Engineer
17 22 (1.93%) Business Analyst
18 20 (1.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
18 20 (1.76%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (6.42%) CSS
2 71 (6.24%) HTML
3 64 (5.63%) .NET
4 50 (4.40%) React
5 43 (3.78%) REST
6 41 (3.61%) Kafka
7 38 (3.34%) Spring
8 33 (2.90%) AngularJS
8 33 (2.90%) RESTful
9 24 (2.11%) XML
10 23 (2.02%) Pandas
11 22 (1.93%) JSON
11 22 (1.93%) Node.js
11 22 (1.93%) Web Services
12 20 (1.76%) NumPy
13 16 (1.41%) .NET Framework
13 16 (1.41%) PyTorch
14 15 (1.32%) Django
14 15 (1.32%) Middleware
14 15 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 115 (10.11%) Algorithms
2 108 (9.50%) Management Information System
3 55 (4.84%) Data Structures
4 52 (4.57%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (4.40%) Data Centre
6 41 (3.61%) Derivative
7 33 (2.90%) Product Ownership
8 29 (2.55%) Fixed Income
9 28 (2.46%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (2.37%) Virtual Team
11 21 (1.85%) Distributed Systems
12 18 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
12 18 (1.58%) Mobile App
12 18 (1.58%) Social Media
12 18 (1.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 17 (1.50%) CMDB
14 16 (1.41%) Onboarding
14 16 (1.41%) Security Posture
15 15 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 110 (9.67%) Linux
2 97 (8.53%) Windows
3 57 (5.01%) Unix
4 31 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.64%) Android
6 11 (0.97%) Apple iOS
6 11 (0.97%) Solaris
7 8 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
8 7 (0.62%) VMS
9 6 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
9 6 (0.53%) Windows 10
9 6 (0.53%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.53%) Windows Server 2012
10 5 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
11 4 (0.35%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
12 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
12 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
2 326 (28.67%) Agile
3 188 (16.53%) DevOps
4 182 (16.01%) Software Engineering
5 150 (13.19%) CI/CD
6 137 (12.05%) Analytics
7 131 (11.52%) Migration
8 124 (10.91%) Data Science
9 119 (10.47%) Data Modelling
9 119 (10.47%) Mathematics
10 111 (9.76%) Machine Learning
11 106 (9.32%) Test Automation
12 91 (8.00%) ITIL
13 89 (7.83%) Scrum
14 87 (7.65%) Artificial Intelligence
15 86 (7.56%) Decision-Making
15 86 (7.56%) Roadmaps
16 83 (7.30%) Project Management
17 80 (7.04%) Business Intelligence
17 80 (7.04%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 303 (26.65%) Python
2 250 (21.99%) SQL
3 180 (15.83%) Java
4 113 (9.94%) JavaScript
5 84 (7.39%) C#
6 71 (6.24%) C++
7 60 (5.28%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.87%) Bash
9 31 (2.73%) R
10 30 (2.64%) MATLAB
11 28 (2.46%) C
12 26 (2.29%) TypeScript
13 23 (2.02%) Go
14 20 (1.76%) Perl
15 19 (1.67%) Rust
15 19 (1.67%) Scala
15 19 (1.67%) Shell Script
16 18 (1.58%) Kotlin
17 16 (1.41%) PL/SQL
18 13 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,025 (90.15%) Degree
2 666 (58.58%) Computer Science Degree
3 200 (17.59%) Master's Degree
4 130 (11.43%) Security Cleared
5 98 (8.62%) SC Cleared
6 56 (4.93%) Cisco Certification
7 46 (4.05%) PhD
8 42 (3.69%) CISSP
9 36 (3.17%) Azure Certification
10 33 (2.90%) CCNA
10 33 (2.90%) DV Cleared
11 32 (2.81%) CCNP
12 28 (2.46%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
14 23 (2.02%) PMI Certification
14 23 (2.02%) PMP
15 21 (1.85%) Numerate Degree
16 19 (1.67%) CEH
17 15 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
18 14 (1.23%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (8.09%) QA
2 63 (5.54%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.67%) SLA
4 15 (1.32%) Accessibility
4 15 (1.32%) NIST
5 14 (1.23%) GDPR
6 9 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.70%) HIPAA
8 7 (0.62%) MiFID
9 6 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
9 6 (0.53%) GRC
9 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 5 (0.44%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.35%) JTAG
12 3 (0.26%) COBIT
12 3 (0.26%) HL7
12 3 (0.26%) ISO 20022
12 3 (0.26%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 61 (5.36%) Docker
2 45 (3.96%) Active Directory
3 44 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.41%) vSphere
6 15 (1.32%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.06%) Hyper-V
8 11 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.79%) KVM
10 6 (0.53%) Firmware
11 5 (0.44%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.35%) vCloud
12 4 (0.35%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.26%) NFS
14 2 (0.18%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.088%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.088%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (7.30%) Kubernetes
2 66 (5.80%) Terraform
3 26 (2.29%) Ansible
4 13 (1.14%) PingFederate
5 12 (1.06%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.88%) SCCM
6 10 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.70%) Grafana
7 8 (0.70%) Kibana
8 7 (0.62%) logstash
8 7 (0.62%) Nessus
9 5 (0.44%) CSIRT
9 5 (0.44%) OpenView
9 5 (0.44%) PowerCLI
9 5 (0.44%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.35%) OPNET
10 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.35%) SCOM
10 4 (0.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 210 (18.47%) Microsoft
2 76 (6.68%) Oracle
3 71 (6.24%) Google
4 57 (5.01%) Cisco
5 55 (4.84%) VMware
6 54 (4.75%) SAP
7 49 (4.31%) ServiceNow
8 31 (2.73%) Databricks
9 20 (1.76%) IBM
10 18 (1.58%) Juniper
11 16 (1.41%) Atlassian
12 15 (1.32%) Red Hat
12 15 (1.32%) Salesforce
13 13 (1.14%) Splunk
14 12 (1.06%) Genesys
14 12 (1.06%) ION Trading
14 12 (1.06%) Palo Alto
15 11 (0.97%) Citrix
15 11 (0.97%) Foundry
15 11 (0.97%) Palantir