Computer Science Contracts in the South East

Computer Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 83 99 111
Rank change year-on-year +16 +12 -18
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 125 123 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.22% 2.18% 2.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% 2.45% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 65 88
10th Percentile £263 £263 £148
25th Percentile £359 £425 £232
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £441
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +18.98% -11.66%
75th Percentile £575 £674 £600
90th Percentile £638 £721 £688
England median daily rate £525 £565 £586
% change year-on-year -7.08% -3.62% +6.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 15 11
10th Percentile £20.12 £15.40 £18.76
25th Percentile £61.25 £19.00 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £20.47 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year +217.54% +4.87% -61.91%
75th Percentile £66.01 £61.50 £47.92
90th Percentile £73.75 £63.00 £48.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £53.87 £47.50
% change year-on-year +2.10% +13.41% +17.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -4 42 £425 -24.78% 94
Surrey +27 34 £500 - 33
Berkshire -36 27 £425 -30.61% 50
West Sussex +30 25 £445 - 16
Hampshire -18 14 £475 -5.00% 31
Buckinghamshire +35 8 £544 +24.29% 21
Oxfordshire +7 7 £425 +11.84% 24
Middlesex - 5 £275 - 1
Home Counties - 2 £475 -
Sussex - 1 £350 - 3
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (5.60%) Confluence
2 5 (4.00%) SAS
3 2 (1.60%) Apache
4 1 (0.80%) JBoss
4 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.80%) MTS
Applications
1 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (5.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (2.40%) SPSS
4 2 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.80%) Stata
Business Applications
1 2 (1.60%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (13.60%) Azure
2 15 (12.00%) AWS
3 7 (5.60%) Power Platform
4 5 (4.00%) GitHub
5 4 (3.20%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (3.20%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.40%) Entra ID
6 3 (2.40%) IaaS
6 3 (2.40%) PaaS
6 3 (2.40%) SaaS
7 2 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (1.60%) GCP
8 1 (0.80%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.80%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (0.80%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.80%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.80%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.60%) DNS
2 11 (8.80%) Firewall
3 7 (5.60%) 3G
3 7 (5.60%) 4G
3 7 (5.60%) TCP/IP
4 6 (4.80%) 5G
4 6 (4.80%) Diameter Protocol
4 6 (4.80%) GGSN
4 6 (4.80%) LTE
4 6 (4.80%) Radio Access Network
4 6 (4.80%) RANAP
4 6 (4.80%) SGSN
4 6 (4.80%) VoLTE
4 6 (4.80%) Wireless
4 6 (4.80%) Wireshark
5 5 (4.00%) DHCP
5 5 (4.00%) SAN
6 3 (2.40%) SSL
6 3 (2.40%) VPN
6 3 (2.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (8.80%) Tableau
2 8 (6.40%) PostgreSQL
3 7 (5.60%) Power BI
4 6 (4.80%) SQL Server
5 4 (3.20%) BusinessObjects
5 4 (3.20%) MS Access
6 3 (2.40%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (2.40%) Couchbase
6 3 (2.40%) NoSQL
6 3 (2.40%) Qlik Sense
6 3 (2.40%) Relational Database
7 2 (1.60%) Big Data
7 2 (1.60%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.60%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.80%) Looker
8 1 (0.80%) QlikView
8 1 (0.80%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.80%) Tableau Server
Development Applications
1 21 (16.80%) Git
2 20 (16.00%) JIRA
3 15 (12.00%) Jenkins
4 7 (5.60%) Subversion
5 5 (4.00%) Bitbucket
6 4 (3.20%) Artifactory
6 4 (3.20%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 3 (2.40%) GitLab
7 3 (2.40%) JUnit
8 2 (1.60%) CircleCI
8 2 (1.60%) Gradle
8 2 (1.60%) JMeter
8 2 (1.60%) Selenium
9 1 (0.80%) CMake
9 1 (0.80%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.80%) GoogleTest
9 1 (0.80%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.80%) TestNG
9 1 (0.80%) Travis CI
9 1 (0.80%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 43 (34.40%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.60%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (13.60%) Telecoms
4 14 (11.20%) Finance
5 11 (8.80%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (8.00%) Legal
6 10 (8.00%) Retail
7 6 (4.80%) Multimedia
8 5 (4.00%) Electronics
8 5 (4.00%) Marketing
8 5 (4.00%) Public Sector
9 4 (3.20%) Aerospace
9 4 (3.20%) Billing
10 3 (2.40%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.40%) Front Office
11 2 (1.60%) Automotive
12 1 (0.80%) Advertising
12 1 (0.80%) Banking
12 1 (0.80%) Law
12 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (16.80%) Analyst
2 18 (14.40%) Senior
2 18 (14.40%) Software Engineer
3 9 (7.20%) Data Analyst
4 7 (5.60%) Network Engineer
5 6 (4.80%) Architect
5 6 (4.80%) Developer
5 6 (4.80%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Embedded Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (4.00%) Service Analyst
6 5 (4.00%) Service Management Analyst
7 4 (3.20%) C++ Software Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Python Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Senior Software Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Site Reliability Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (3.20%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.60%) .NET
1 7 (5.60%) RESTful
2 6 (4.80%) Kafka
2 6 (4.80%) REST
3 5 (4.00%) DirectX
3 5 (4.00%) OpenGL
3 5 (4.00%) OpenGL ES
3 5 (4.00%) Vulkan
3 5 (4.00%) XML
4 4 (3.20%) ADO
4 4 (3.20%) PyTorch
4 4 (3.20%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (3.20%) SOAP
4 4 (3.20%) TensorFlow
4 4 (3.20%) Web Services
5 3 (2.40%) AngularJS
5 3 (2.40%) D3.js
5 3 (2.40%) GraphQL
5 3 (2.40%) HTML
5 3 (2.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 15 (12.00%) Management Information System
2 9 (7.20%) Algorithms
3 6 (4.80%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (4.00%) CMDB
4 5 (4.00%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.20%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (3.20%) Device Driver
5 4 (3.20%) e-Health
5 4 (3.20%) Life Science
6 3 (2.40%) Photography
6 3 (2.40%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
7 2 (1.60%) Animation
7 2 (1.60%) Augmented Reality
7 2 (1.60%) Legacy Code
7 2 (1.60%) Mixed Reality
7 2 (1.60%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.60%) PKI
8 1 (0.80%) NHS
8 1 (0.80%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 27 (21.60%) Linux
2 26 (20.80%) Windows
3 15 (12.00%) Unix
4 9 (7.20%) Android
4 9 (7.20%) Windows Server
5 7 (5.60%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (2.40%) Ubuntu
7 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (1.60%) Solaris
7 2 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.80%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.80%) VMS
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
2 33 (26.40%) Agile
3 24 (19.20%) Software Engineering
4 20 (16.00%) Test Automation
5 19 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (14.40%) ITIL
6 18 (14.40%) Scrum
6 18 (14.40%) Software Testing
7 15 (12.00%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (12.00%) SDLC
8 14 (11.20%) DevOps
9 13 (10.40%) Business Intelligence
9 13 (10.40%) Statistics
10 12 (9.60%) Customer Experience
10 12 (9.60%) Mathematics
11 11 (8.80%) Roadmaps
11 11 (8.80%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (8.80%) Test Scripting
12 10 (8.00%) Customer Service
12 10 (8.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.00%) Python
2 21 (16.80%) SQL
3 19 (15.20%) C++
4 14 (11.20%) Java
5 12 (9.60%) C#
6 9 (7.20%) C
7 8 (6.40%) PowerShell
8 7 (5.60%) R
9 6 (4.80%) Go
9 6 (4.80%) Shell Script
10 5 (4.00%) Bash
10 5 (4.00%) Perl
11 4 (3.20%) Assembly Language
11 4 (3.20%) F#
11 4 (3.20%) MATLAB
11 4 (3.20%) VB.NET
11 4 (3.20%) VBScript
12 3 (2.40%) JavaScript
12 3 (2.40%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.60%) GLSL
Qualifications
1 116 (92.80%) Degree
2 74 (59.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (12.80%) Master's Degree
4 10 (8.00%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.60%) PhD
6 6 (4.80%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (4.00%) Azure Certification
7 5 (4.00%) CCNA
7 5 (4.00%) SC Cleared
8 4 (3.20%) CCNP
8 4 (3.20%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.20%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (2.40%) RHCSA
9 3 (2.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.60%) CCDP
10 2 (1.60%) RHCE
10 2 (1.60%) VCAP
11 1 (0.80%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.40%) QA
2 9 (7.20%) SLA
3 6 (4.80%) Data Quality
4 4 (3.20%) JTAG
5 3 (2.40%) HL7
5 3 (2.40%) ISO 9001
5 3 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (1.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.80%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (8.00%) Docker
2 9 (7.20%) Active Directory
2 9 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (7.20%) vSphere
3 7 (5.60%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (4.00%) Firmware
5 4 (3.20%) Embedded Firmware
5 4 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 4 (3.20%) VirtualBox
6 2 (1.60%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (7.20%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.20%) SCCM
2 4 (3.20%) WSUS
3 3 (2.40%) Ansible
3 3 (2.40%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.40%) SCOM
4 2 (1.60%) Oracle ZFS
4 2 (1.60%) Red Hat Satellite
4 2 (1.60%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.60%) vRealize
4 2 (1.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (1.60%) yum
5 1 (0.80%) Backup Exec
5 1 (0.80%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.80%) Grafana
5 1 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (0.80%) Kibana
5 1 (0.80%) Nessus
5 1 (0.80%) SolarWinds Orion
5 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (16.80%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.00%) VMware
3 11 (8.80%) SAP
4 10 (8.00%) Oracle
5 8 (6.40%) ServiceNow
6 7 (5.60%) Cisco
7 6 (4.80%) Empirix
7 6 (4.80%) NetScout
8 5 (4.00%) Juniper
8 5 (4.00%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.20%) Alteryx
9 4 (3.20%) EMC
9 4 (3.20%) Micro Focus
9 4 (3.20%) Veritas
10 3 (2.40%) CA Agile Central
10 3 (2.40%) F5
10 3 (2.40%) Palo Alto
11 2 (1.60%) Adobe
11 2 (1.60%) Qualys
11 2 (1.60%) SolarWinds