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 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 88 154 184
Rank change year-on-year +66 +30 -38
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 480 369 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.30% 1.62% 1.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 1.82% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 230 252
10th Percentile £281 £349 £183
25th Percentile £407 £463 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -1.04%
75th Percentile £600 £631 £600
90th Percentile £675 £738 £688
UK median daily rate £525 £565 £589
% change year-on-year -7.08% -4.03% +12.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 27 30
10th Percentile £20.12 £18.19 £17.00
25th Percentile £33.13 £19.00 £18.57
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £31.93
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +56.59% -35.49%
75th Percentile £65.00 £61.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £64.55 £58.16
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
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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
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 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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
South East +16 125 £450 -14.29% 235
North of England +70 114 £517 +6.38% 187
Midlands +50 82 £525 +3.96% 161
West Midlands +53 70 £525 - 82
North West +46 57 £500 +2.88% 112
South West +6 56 £588 +6.82% 98
East of England +33 49 £500 - 114
Yorkshire +41 47 £521 -3.07% 52
Scotland +32 47 £525 - 64
North East +21 12 £600 - 26
East Midlands +7 12 £650 +30.00% 79
Wales +17 11 £403 -26.82% 14
Northern Ireland +4 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 22 (4.58%) Confluence
2 14 (2.92%) Apache Airflow
3 10 (2.08%) Apache
3 10 (2.08%) SAS
4 6 (1.25%) SharePoint
5 5 (1.04%) Apache Spark
6 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.21%) Appian
7 1 (0.21%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.21%) IIS
7 1 (0.21%) JBoss
7 1 (0.21%) MTS
Applications
1 33 (6.88%) Microsoft Office
2 15 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (3.13%) Simulink
3 14 (2.92%) Stateflow
4 11 (2.29%) MS Visio
5 10 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (1.04%) SPSS
7 3 (0.63%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.21%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.21%) CATIA
8 1 (0.21%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.21%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.21%) Stata
Business Applications
1 6 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.63%) SAP MDG
3 2 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.42%) SAP CO
3 2 (0.42%) SAP ERP
3 2 (0.42%) SAP FI
3 2 (0.42%) SAP FI/CO
3 2 (0.42%) SAP MM
3 2 (0.42%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.21%) Magento
4 1 (0.21%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Business One
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.21%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 87 (18.13%) Azure
2 64 (13.33%) AWS
3 27 (5.63%) GCP
4 22 (4.58%) Power Platform
5 20 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (2.92%) Snowflake
7 12 (2.50%) PaaS
8 11 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
8 11 (2.29%) SaaS
9 10 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.88%) Amazon S3
11 8 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.46%) OpenShift
13 6 (1.25%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.25%) GitHub
13 6 (1.25%) Serverless
14 5 (1.04%) IaaS
15 4 (0.83%) Azure Functions
15 4 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (0.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.58%) DNS
2 20 (4.17%) Firewall
3 15 (3.13%) DHCP
3 15 (3.13%) WAN
3 15 (3.13%) Wireless
3 15 (3.13%) Wireshark
4 14 (2.92%) 5G
5 12 (2.50%) TCP/IP
5 12 (2.50%) VPN
6 11 (2.29%) SAN
7 10 (2.08%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.88%) LAN
9 7 (1.46%) 3G
9 7 (1.46%) 4G
9 7 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (1.25%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (1.25%) Junos
10 6 (1.25%) LTE
10 6 (1.25%) Network Security
10 6 (1.25%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (4.58%) Power BI
2 16 (3.33%) MySQL
2 16 (3.33%) Relational Database
2 16 (3.33%) Tableau
3 14 (2.92%) SQL Server
4 11 (2.29%) Metadata
4 11 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
5 10 (2.08%) Oracle Database
5 10 (2.08%) Qlik Sense
6 9 (1.88%) Big Data
7 8 (1.67%) Data Mining
8 6 (1.25%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (1.25%) NoSQL
9 5 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.04%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
10 4 (0.83%) BusinessObjects
10 4 (0.83%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.83%) MS Access
11 3 (0.63%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 43 (8.96%) Git
1 43 (8.96%) JIRA
2 21 (4.38%) Jenkins
3 11 (2.29%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.08%) Oracle APEX
5 9 (1.88%) GitLab
6 8 (1.67%) Subversion
7 7 (1.46%) Artifactory
7 7 (1.46%) Rational DOORS
8 6 (1.25%) Selenium
9 5 (1.04%) JUnit
10 4 (0.83%) Gradle
10 4 (0.83%) JMeter
10 4 (0.83%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.83%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 3 (0.63%) Travis CI
11 3 (0.63%) Visual Studio
12 2 (0.42%) CMake
12 2 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.42%) LoadRunner
General
1 200 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 111 (23.13%) Analytical Skills
3 49 (10.21%) Finance
4 39 (8.13%) Telecoms
5 38 (7.92%) Public Sector
6 26 (5.42%) Legal
7 21 (4.38%) Banking
8 19 (3.96%) Automotive
9 17 (3.54%) Electronics
10 16 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
11 13 (2.71%) Multimedia
11 13 (2.71%) Retail
12 12 (2.50%) Marketing
13 11 (2.29%) Manufacturing
14 10 (2.08%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.25%) German Language
15 6 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 6 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
15 6 (1.25%) Law
15 6 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (15.42%) Architect
2 55 (11.46%) Senior
3 52 (10.83%) Software Engineer
4 50 (10.42%) Analyst
5 46 (9.58%) Developer
6 37 (7.71%) Solutions Architect
7 24 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
8 23 (4.79%) Network Engineer
9 18 (3.75%) Data Engineer
10 17 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 17 (3.54%) Lead
11 14 (2.92%) Data Analyst
12 13 (2.71%) Senior Software Engineer
13 11 (2.29%) AWS Engineer
13 11 (2.29%) Data Scientist
13 11 (2.29%) Java Developer
13 11 (2.29%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.08%) Senior Analyst
15 9 (1.88%) Linux Engineer
15 9 (1.88%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (5.00%) HTML
2 20 (4.17%) .NET
2 20 (4.17%) CSS
3 16 (3.33%) AngularJS
4 13 (2.71%) Kafka
4 13 (2.71%) React
4 13 (2.71%) Spring
5 11 (2.29%) .NET Framework
5 11 (2.29%) REST
5 11 (2.29%) RESTful
6 10 (2.08%) XML
7 9 (1.88%) Flash
7 9 (1.88%) Middleware
8 7 (1.46%) Web Services
9 6 (1.25%) GraphQL
9 6 (1.25%) NumPy
9 6 (1.25%) RabbitMQ
9 6 (1.25%) SOAP
10 5 (1.04%) OpenGL ES
10 5 (1.04%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 48 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 39 (8.13%) Algorithms
3 30 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 21 (4.38%) Self-Motivation
5 17 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
5 17 (3.54%) Distributed Systems
6 15 (3.13%) Data Structures
7 14 (2.92%) Legacy Systems
8 10 (2.08%) CMDB
9 9 (1.88%) PKI
9 9 (1.88%) Product Ownership
10 8 (1.67%) Virtual Team
11 7 (1.46%) Public Cloud
11 7 (1.46%) Security Posture
12 6 (1.25%) Clustering
12 6 (1.25%) Life Science
13 5 (1.04%) Driving Licence
13 5 (1.04%) IoT
13 5 (1.04%) SCADA
13 5 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 63 (13.13%) Windows
2 58 (12.08%) Linux
3 38 (7.92%) Unix
4 19 (3.96%) Windows Server
5 13 (2.71%) Android
6 8 (1.67%) Embedded Linux
7 5 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 5 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.04%) Windows 7
8 4 (0.83%) Solaris
9 3 (0.63%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.42%) Data ONTAP
10 2 (0.42%) HPUX
10 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.42%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
10 2 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.42%) zOS
11 1 (0.21%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 185 (38.54%) Problem-Solving
2 116 (24.17%) Agile
3 89 (18.54%) Software Engineering
4 85 (17.71%) DevOps
5 59 (12.29%) Migration
6 57 (11.88%) ITIL
7 48 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 45 (9.38%) Roadmaps
8 45 (9.38%) Scrum
9 44 (9.17%) Data Modelling
10 42 (8.75%) Decision-Making
11 41 (8.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 41 (8.54%) Data Science
12 39 (8.13%) Analytics
13 37 (7.71%) Data Management
14 35 (7.29%) Stakeholder Management
15 33 (6.88%) CI/CD
15 33 (6.88%) Mathematics
15 33 (6.88%) SDLC
16 31 (6.46%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 113 (23.54%) Python
2 78 (16.25%) SQL
3 67 (13.96%) Java
4 38 (7.92%) JavaScript
5 28 (5.83%) PowerShell
6 27 (5.63%) C#
6 27 (5.63%) C++
7 22 (4.58%) MATLAB
8 20 (4.17%) R
9 18 (3.75%) C
9 18 (3.75%) Perl
10 15 (3.13%) Scala
11 12 (2.50%) Bash
11 12 (2.50%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.67%) Shell Script
13 7 (1.46%) VB.NET
14 6 (1.25%) Go
15 5 (1.04%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.04%) Rust
16 4 (0.83%) F#
Qualifications
1 422 (87.92%) Degree
2 274 (57.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 73 (15.21%) Security Cleared
4 65 (13.54%) Master's Degree
5 47 (9.79%) SC Cleared
6 35 (7.29%) Cisco Certification
7 23 (4.79%) DV Cleared
8 22 (4.58%) CCNA
9 21 (4.38%) CCNP
10 17 (3.54%) PhD
11 14 (2.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 13 (2.71%) CISSP
13 12 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
13 12 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (2.08%) TOGAF Certification
15 9 (1.88%) HND
15 9 (1.88%) PMI Certification
15 9 (1.88%) PMP
16 7 (1.46%) Azure Certification
16 7 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (7.50%) QA
2 19 (3.96%) Data Quality
3 12 (2.50%) SLA
4 6 (1.25%) GDPR
5 4 (0.83%) JTAG
5 4 (0.83%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.63%) HL7
6 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 2 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 2 (0.42%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 8583
8 1 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 32 (6.67%) Docker
2 30 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.58%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 12 (2.50%) vSphere
5 10 (2.08%) VMware ESXi
6 9 (1.88%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.67%) Hyper-V
8 6 (1.25%) Firmware
9 5 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.83%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.63%) KVM
11 3 (0.63%) NFS
12 2 (0.42%) GPFS
12 2 (0.42%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.21%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.21%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.21%) Xen
Systems Management
1 36 (7.50%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.79%) Terraform
3 11 (2.29%) Ansible
3 11 (2.29%) vCenter Server
4 6 (1.25%) SCCM
5 5 (1.04%) OpenView
5 5 (1.04%) PowerCLI
6 4 (0.83%) OPNET
6 4 (0.83%) SCOM
6 4 (0.83%) WSUS
7 3 (0.63%) Kibana
7 3 (0.63%) NetBackup
7 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.63%) SysTrack
8 2 (0.42%) logstash
8 2 (0.42%) Nessus
8 2 (0.42%) Oracle ZFS
8 2 (0.42%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 2 (0.42%) vRealize
8 2 (0.42%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 84 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 37 (7.71%) VMware
3 30 (6.25%) Cisco
4 29 (6.04%) ServiceNow
5 28 (5.83%) SAP
6 25 (5.21%) Oracle
7 24 (5.00%) Google
8 15 (3.13%) IBM
9 13 (2.71%) Atlassian
9 13 (2.71%) Databricks
10 12 (2.50%) Juniper
11 10 (2.08%) Red Hat
12 7 (1.46%) Nokia
12 7 (1.46%) Palo Alto
12 7 (1.46%) SolarWinds
13 6 (1.25%) EMC
13 6 (1.25%) Empirix
13 6 (1.25%) F5
13 6 (1.25%) Splunk
13 6 (1.25%) Veritas