Computer Science Degree Contracts in London

Computer Science Degree
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 106 184 289
Rank change year-on-year +78 +105 -54
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 410 376 366
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.34% 1.48% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.92% 6.73% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 266 290 269
10th Percentile £330 £361 £402
25th Percentile £413 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £585
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +2.56% +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £788 £738
90th Percentile £813 £900 £875
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 5 7
10th Percentile - £28.50 £30.80
25th Percentile £38.75 £30.75 £34.38
Median hourly rate £46.25 £52.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +10.53% +7.34%
75th Percentile £80.00 £65.00 £56.88
90th Percentile £83.75 £76.25 £60.33
England median hourly rate £55.63 £55.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +1.14% +18.92% +13.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,131 5,587 6,805
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 23.59% 21.96% 17.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,824 3,835 4,698
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +3.64% +4.76%
75th Percentile £650 £685 £650
90th Percentile £775 £800 £750
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 85 146
10th Percentile £14.49 £18.89 £23.84
25th Percentile £20.22 £21.24 £25.68
Median hourly rate £25.50 £50.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -49.00% +12.36% +18.67%
75th Percentile £42.75 £70.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £68.60 £87.50 £65.71
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.75
% change year-on-year -27.27% +38.36% +8.90%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in London

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in 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 London 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
Central London +29 60 £565 -22.07% 25
West London +26 12 £475 +10.14% 12
South London +8 6 £583 +16.50% 5
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 17 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.95%) Confluence
4 6 (1.46%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.98%) Apache
6 3 (0.73%) CMS
6 3 (0.73%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.49%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.49%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.49%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.24%) CICS
8 1 (0.24%) Drupal
8 1 (0.24%) EPiServer
8 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.24%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.24%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.24%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.24%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.20%) MS Visio
3 7 (1.71%) Chatbot
3 7 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.73%) Windchill
5 1 (0.24%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (0.98%) Teamcenter
2 3 (0.73%) Distributed Ledger
2 3 (0.73%) ENOVIA
3 2 (0.49%) Endur
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle 11i
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.49%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (0.49%) R3 Corda
3 2 (0.49%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
4 1 (0.24%) BusinessWorks
4 1 (0.24%) Magento
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 119 (29.02%) Azure
2 97 (23.66%) AWS
3 68 (16.59%) GCP
4 24 (5.85%) Power Platform
5 23 (5.61%) Serverless
6 20 (4.88%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 16 (3.90%) GitHub
8 15 (3.66%) AWS Lambda
8 15 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
9 13 (3.17%) Vertex AI
10 12 (2.93%) PowerApps
11 11 (2.68%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (2.68%) Amazon S3
12 10 (2.44%) Azure Data Factory
12 10 (2.44%) Google Compute Engine
13 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Purview
13 9 (2.20%) Power Automate
13 9 (2.20%) SaaS
14 8 (1.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.15%) Firewall
2 14 (3.41%) Network Security
3 9 (2.20%) DNS
3 9 (2.20%) Internet
3 9 (2.20%) LAN
4 7 (1.71%) WAN
5 6 (1.46%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.22%) VoIP
7 4 (0.98%) Cisco Nexus
7 4 (0.98%) CTI
7 4 (0.98%) VPN
8 3 (0.73%) SNMP
8 3 (0.73%) SSH
8 3 (0.73%) Structured Cabling
8 3 (0.73%) TCP/IP
9 2 (0.49%) DWDM
9 2 (0.49%) HTTP
9 2 (0.49%) HTTPS
9 2 (0.49%) IPsec
9 2 (0.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (9.02%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.34%) Relational Database
3 21 (5.12%) Power BI
4 20 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (4.39%) BigQuery
6 15 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (3.66%) Tableau
7 11 (2.68%) Big Data
7 11 (2.68%) MySQL
8 10 (2.44%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.44%) NoSQL
9 9 (2.20%) Data Lake
10 8 (1.95%) Oracle Database
11 7 (1.71%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (1.46%) Hadoop
12 6 (1.46%) RDBMS
13 5 (1.22%) Data Mining
14 4 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
14 4 (0.98%) Couchbase
15 3 (0.73%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 45 (10.98%) Git
2 28 (6.83%) Jenkins
3 20 (4.88%) JIRA
4 15 (3.66%) GitLab
5 10 (2.44%) Gradle
6 9 (2.20%) Bitbucket
7 7 (1.71%) JUnit
8 5 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (1.22%) CircleCI
8 5 (1.22%) MLflow
9 4 (0.98%) Maven
9 4 (0.98%) Sourcetree
9 4 (0.98%) Visual Studio
10 3 (0.73%) ERwin
10 3 (0.73%) Selenium
11 2 (0.49%) Karma Test Runner
11 2 (0.49%) Postman
11 2 (0.49%) PowerDesigner
11 2 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
11 2 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 253 (61.71%) Social Skills
2 110 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
3 102 (24.88%) Finance
4 46 (11.22%) Banking
5 21 (5.12%) Front Office
6 18 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 13 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
7 13 (3.17%) Legal
7 13 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
8 11 (2.68%) Marketing
9 10 (2.44%) Investment Banking
10 9 (2.20%) Manufacturing
10 9 (2.20%) Retail
11 8 (1.95%) Financial Institution
11 8 (1.95%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.22%) Billing
13 4 (0.98%) Advertising
13 4 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.73%) Electronics
14 3 (0.73%) Games
Job Titles
1 86 (20.98%) Developer
2 61 (14.88%) Architect
3 32 (7.80%) Lead
3 32 (7.80%) Senior
4 24 (5.85%) Consultant
5 23 (5.61%) Software Engineer
6 21 (5.12%) Java Developer
7 17 (4.15%) Analyst
7 17 (4.15%) Data Engineer
7 17 (4.15%) DevOps Engineer
8 16 (3.90%) Security Engineer
9 15 (3.66%) Network Engineer
10 14 (3.41%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.17%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (2.93%) GCP Engineer
12 12 (2.93%) Senior Developer
13 11 (2.68%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.68%) Java Engineer
14 10 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
15 9 (2.20%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (9.51%) CSS
2 35 (8.54%) HTML
3 26 (6.34%) React
4 23 (5.61%) .NET
5 22 (5.37%) REST
6 20 (4.88%) Spring
7 19 (4.63%) RESTful
8 15 (3.66%) AngularJS
9 12 (2.93%) Kafka
9 12 (2.93%) Web Services
10 11 (2.68%) JSON
11 10 (2.44%) Swagger
12 9 (2.20%) ASP.NET
12 9 (2.20%) Hibernate
12 9 (2.20%) jQuery
12 9 (2.20%) Node.js
12 9 (2.20%) RAML
12 9 (2.20%) Spring Boot
12 9 (2.20%) XML
13 7 (1.71%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 35 (8.54%) Algorithms
2 33 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 23 (5.61%) Data Centre
4 20 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
5 19 (4.63%) Data Structures
5 19 (4.63%) Derivative
6 15 (3.66%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 14 (3.41%) Virtual Team
8 13 (3.17%) Fixed Income
8 13 (3.17%) Mobile App
9 11 (2.68%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 10 (2.44%) Legacy Code
11 9 (2.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 9 (2.20%) Distributed Systems
11 9 (2.20%) Security Posture
12 8 (1.95%) Blockchain
13 7 (1.71%) Cloud Native
13 7 (1.71%) Market Risk
13 7 (1.71%) Product Ownership
14 5 (1.22%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 36 (8.78%) Linux
2 19 (4.63%) Windows
3 12 (2.93%) Unix
4 11 (2.68%) Android
5 6 (1.46%) Solaris
6 5 (1.22%) Oracle Linux
6 5 (1.22%) VMS
6 5 (1.22%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.98%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.98%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.24%) OS/390
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.24%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Mobile
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (99.02%) Computer Science
2 191 (46.59%) Problem-Solving
3 130 (31.71%) Agile
4 71 (17.32%) CI/CD
4 71 (17.32%) DevOps
5 52 (12.68%) Analytics
6 51 (12.44%) Software Engineering
7 43 (10.49%) Data Science
7 43 (10.49%) Machine Learning
7 43 (10.49%) Migration
8 41 (10.00%) Data Modelling
8 41 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 41 (10.00%) Project Management
9 38 (9.27%) Microservices
10 35 (8.54%) Artificial Intelligence
11 34 (8.29%) Code Quality
12 33 (8.05%) Mentoring
13 32 (7.80%) Business Intelligence
14 30 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
15 29 (7.07%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 110 (26.83%) Python
2 91 (22.20%) SQL
3 69 (16.83%) Java
4 53 (12.93%) JavaScript
5 27 (6.59%) C#
6 24 (5.85%) C++
7 22 (5.37%) PowerShell
8 21 (5.12%) Bash
9 20 (4.88%) TypeScript
10 12 (2.93%) Kotlin
11 11 (2.68%) Scala
12 10 (2.44%) C
13 9 (2.20%) Go
13 9 (2.20%) R
14 8 (1.95%) Shell Script
15 7 (1.71%) Perl
15 7 (1.71%) PL/SQL
16 5 (1.22%) Bicep
17 3 (0.73%) Rust
17 3 (0.73%) VBA
Qualifications
1 410 (100.00%) Degree
2 79 (19.27%) Master's Degree
3 46 (11.22%) Security Cleared
4 40 (9.76%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.12%) CISSP
6 18 (4.39%) Azure Certification
7 16 (3.90%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (2.93%) ITIL Certification
9 11 (2.68%) CEH
9 11 (2.68%) CISM
9 11 (2.68%) PhD
10 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
11 8 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.95%) CCIE
12 7 (1.71%) CCNA
12 7 (1.71%) Numerate Degree
13 6 (1.46%) CCNP
14 5 (1.22%) CISA
14 5 (1.22%) PMI Certification
14 5 (1.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (8.05%) QA
2 26 (6.34%) Data Quality
3 8 (1.95%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.22%) NIST
5 4 (0.98%) PCI DSS
5 4 (0.98%) SLA
6 3 (0.73%) GDPR
6 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
6 3 (0.73%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.49%) COBIT
7 2 (0.49%) ISO 22301
7 2 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (0.49%) MiFID
7 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.24%) GRC
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (5.85%) Docker
2 13 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.93%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.22%) KVM
4 5 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.98%) vCloud
5 4 (0.98%) vSphere
6 3 (0.73%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 42 (10.24%) Terraform
2 30 (7.32%) Kubernetes
3 11 (2.68%) Ansible
4 8 (1.95%) PingFederate
5 6 (1.46%) Grafana
5 6 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.98%) SCCM
7 3 (0.73%) Docker Swarm
8 2 (0.49%) Nessus
8 2 (0.49%) Progress Chef
8 2 (0.49%) Puppet
8 2 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.49%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.24%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.24%) HP ALM
9 1 (0.24%) Nagios
9 1 (0.24%) TIBCO Hawk
9 1 (0.24%) vCenter Server
9 1 (0.24%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 78 (19.02%) Microsoft
2 44 (10.73%) Oracle
3 28 (6.83%) Google
4 19 (4.63%) Cisco
5 17 (4.15%) VMware
6 13 (3.17%) Databricks
6 13 (3.17%) SAP
7 12 (2.93%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.20%) Salesforce
9 8 (1.95%) Genesys
10 7 (1.71%) Arista
10 7 (1.71%) IBM
11 6 (1.46%) Foundry
11 6 (1.46%) Juniper
11 6 (1.46%) Palantir
11 6 (1.46%) Qualys
12 5 (1.22%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.22%) ION Trading
12 5 (1.22%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.22%) Sparx