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 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 119 231 331
Rank change year-on-year +112 +100 -18
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 815 637 708
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.14% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.33% 4.18% 3.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 519 441 460
10th Percentile £308 £350 £363
25th Percentile £413 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £645 £738 £656
90th Percentile £775 £900 £838
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £510 £475
% change year-on-year +0.49% +7.37% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 12 16
10th Percentile £25.10 £27.38 £18.38
25th Percentile £38.75 £46.13 £31.44
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +18.92% +6.32%
75th Percentile £74.69 £66.81 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £56.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £44.48
% change year-on-year -6.64% +35.47% +17.04%

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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 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
England +99 674 £525 -8.70% 831
London +78 410 £525 -12.50% 417
UK excluding London +122 277 £513 +0.49% 439
Work from Home +111 235 £550 -4.35% 369
South East +28 74 £475 -5.00% 103
North of England +60 56 £400 -20.00% 98
Midlands +44 53 £550 +10.00% 80
West Midlands +38 46 £525 -2.33% 47
East of England +27 34 £500 -13.04% 50
Scotland +46 27 £555 +5.71% 36
North West +36 26 £165 -67.00% 51
South West +11 25 £588 -10.31% 63
Yorkshire +29 19 £525 +42.37% 34
North East - 11 £600 - 16
East Midlands +10 7 £748 +49.50% 33
Wales +22 5 £403 - 6
Northern Ireland +5 4 - - 11

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 25 (3.07%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 15 (1.84%) Confluence
4 11 (1.35%) Apache
4 11 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 7 (0.86%) CMS
6 5 (0.61%) Drupal
6 5 (0.61%) WordPress
7 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 3 (0.37%) SAS
8 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
8 2 (0.25%) Hyperledger
8 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
8 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.12%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 34 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (3.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.96%) Chatbot
4 13 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.47%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.49%) CPLEX
7 3 (0.37%) SPSS
7 3 (0.37%) Windchill
8 2 (0.25%) Simulink
8 2 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
9 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
9 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
9 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 10 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.74%) Magento
3 4 (0.49%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.37%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.37%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 218 (26.75%) Azure
2 175 (21.47%) AWS
3 118 (14.48%) GCP
4 46 (5.64%) Power Platform
5 34 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.80%) Cloud Computing
6 31 (3.80%) Serverless
7 29 (3.56%) GitHub
8 28 (3.44%) Azure DevOps
9 19 (2.33%) Amazon S3
9 19 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.96%) Amazon EC2
10 16 (1.96%) Azure Sentinel
10 16 (1.96%) PowerApps
11 14 (1.72%) Azure Data Factory
11 14 (1.72%) SaaS
12 13 (1.60%) Amazon EKS
12 13 (1.60%) Dynamics 365
12 13 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
12 13 (1.60%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 42 (5.15%) Firewall
2 33 (4.05%) Network Security
3 26 (3.19%) DNS
4 17 (2.09%) VoIP
4 17 (2.09%) VPN
5 15 (1.84%) CTI
6 14 (1.72%) 5G
7 12 (1.47%) TCP/IP
8 11 (1.35%) WAN
8 11 (1.35%) Wireshark
9 10 (1.23%) DHCP
9 10 (1.23%) Internet
9 10 (1.23%) LAN
9 10 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (1.10%) VLAN
11 8 (0.98%) Wireless
12 7 (0.86%) OSPF
13 6 (0.74%) 3G
13 6 (0.74%) GGSN
13 6 (0.74%) RANAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (6.26%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.77%) Relational Database
3 42 (5.15%) Power BI
4 32 (3.93%) Data Warehouse
5 31 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
6 28 (3.44%) MySQL
7 23 (2.82%) Big Data
7 23 (2.82%) Tableau
8 20 (2.45%) NoSQL
9 19 (2.33%) BigQuery
9 19 (2.33%) Oracle Database
10 16 (1.96%) MongoDB
11 14 (1.72%) Data Mining
12 13 (1.60%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.47%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.47%) Metadata
14 11 (1.35%) Couchbase
15 10 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
16 9 (1.10%) Elasticsearch
16 9 (1.10%) Qlik Sense
Development Applications
1 87 (10.67%) Git
2 54 (6.63%) Jenkins
3 40 (4.91%) JIRA
4 36 (4.42%) GitLab
5 15 (1.84%) Gradle
6 13 (1.60%) JUnit
6 13 (1.60%) Selenium
7 12 (1.47%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 11 (1.35%) Oracle APEX
9 7 (0.86%) CircleCI
10 6 (0.74%) Maven
10 6 (0.74%) MLflow
11 5 (0.61%) Subversion
11 5 (0.61%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.49%) JMeter
12 4 (0.49%) Mercurial
12 4 (0.49%) Robot Framework
12 4 (0.49%) Sourcetree
12 4 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 467 (57.30%) Social Skills
2 237 (29.08%) Analytical Skills
3 156 (19.14%) Finance
4 69 (8.47%) Banking
5 38 (4.66%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 28 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
8 25 (3.07%) Retail
9 22 (2.70%) Front Office
9 22 (2.70%) Legal
10 18 (2.21%) Documentation Skills
10 18 (2.21%) Marketing
11 14 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 14 (1.72%) Multimedia
12 13 (1.60%) Electronics
13 12 (1.47%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 9 (1.10%) Financial Institution
16 7 (0.86%) Automotive
16 7 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 152 (18.65%) Developer
2 122 (14.97%) Architect
3 69 (8.47%) Senior
4 49 (6.01%) Analyst
4 49 (6.01%) Lead
5 47 (5.77%) Software Engineer
6 44 (5.40%) DevOps Engineer
7 39 (4.79%) Solutions Architect
8 36 (4.42%) Consultant
9 33 (4.05%) Java Developer
10 29 (3.56%) Data Engineer
10 29 (3.56%) Network Engineer
11 21 (2.58%) Senior Developer
12 20 (2.45%) Data Scientist
13 18 (2.21%) Security Engineer
14 17 (2.09%) Azure Engineer
14 17 (2.09%) Project Manager
14 17 (2.09%) Python Developer
14 17 (2.09%) Technical Architect
15 15 (1.84%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 68 (8.34%) CSS
2 65 (7.98%) HTML
3 54 (6.63%) React
4 36 (4.42%) .NET
4 36 (4.42%) AngularJS
5 35 (4.29%) REST
6 33 (4.05%) Spring
7 29 (3.56%) RESTful
7 29 (3.56%) Web Services
8 24 (2.94%) Kafka
9 22 (2.70%) Node.js
10 18 (2.21%) XML
11 17 (2.09%) JSON
11 17 (2.09%) Middleware
12 15 (1.84%) .NET Framework
12 15 (1.84%) Spring Boot
13 14 (1.72%) .NET Core
13 14 (1.72%) ASP.NET
13 14 (1.72%) Elastic Stack
14 12 (1.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.04%) Management Information System
2 53 (6.50%) Algorithms
3 37 (4.54%) Data Centre
4 36 (4.42%) Self-Motivation
5 32 (3.93%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.45%) Derivative
7 19 (2.33%) Distributed Systems
7 19 (2.33%) Legacy Systems
7 19 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 18 (2.21%) Security Posture
8 18 (2.21%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 17 (2.09%) Mobile App
10 16 (1.96%) IVR
11 15 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
12 13 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
12 13 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.60%) Fixed Income
12 13 (1.60%) Legacy Code
13 12 (1.47%) CMDB
14 11 (1.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 65 (7.98%) Linux
2 57 (6.99%) Windows
3 26 (3.19%) Unix
4 24 (2.94%) Android
5 17 (2.09%) Windows Server
6 9 (1.10%) Solaris
7 7 (0.86%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.86%) VMS
7 7 (0.86%) Windows 7
8 6 (0.74%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.74%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.61%) Windows 8
10 4 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
11 3 (0.37%) Mac OS
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2003
11 3 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.25%) HPUX
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 807 (99.02%) Computer Science
2 403 (49.45%) Problem-Solving
3 227 (27.85%) Agile
4 153 (18.77%) DevOps
5 116 (14.23%) CI/CD
5 116 (14.23%) Software Engineering
6 99 (12.15%) Analytics
7 85 (10.43%) Migration
8 83 (10.18%) Data Modelling
9 81 (9.94%) Data Science
10 71 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
11 68 (8.34%) Machine Learning
11 68 (8.34%) Project Management
12 63 (7.73%) Microservices
13 61 (7.48%) Artificial Intelligence
13 61 (7.48%) Stakeholder Management
14 59 (7.24%) Roadmaps
15 58 (7.12%) Scrum
16 57 (6.99%) Business Intelligence
17 56 (6.87%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 197 (24.17%) Python
2 150 (18.40%) SQL
3 130 (15.95%) Java
4 103 (12.64%) JavaScript
5 46 (5.64%) C#
6 45 (5.52%) PowerShell
7 39 (4.79%) C++
8 37 (4.54%) Bash
9 24 (2.94%) Perl
9 24 (2.94%) TypeScript
10 22 (2.70%) PL/SQL
11 21 (2.58%) R
12 20 (2.45%) Go
12 20 (2.45%) Scala
13 17 (2.09%) Kotlin
14 16 (1.96%) C
15 12 (1.47%) Shell Script
16 7 (0.86%) MATLAB
16 7 (0.86%) PHP
16 7 (0.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 815 (100.00%) Degree
2 146 (17.91%) Master's Degree
3 115 (14.11%) Security Cleared
4 82 (10.06%) SC Cleared
5 53 (6.50%) CISSP
6 41 (5.03%) Cisco Certification
7 40 (4.91%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.68%) Microsoft Certification
9 27 (3.31%) CCNA
9 27 (3.31%) CEH
10 24 (2.94%) DV Cleared
11 23 (2.82%) CCNP
12 20 (2.45%) CISM
13 19 (2.33%) PMP
14 18 (2.21%) AWS Certification
15 15 (1.84%) ITIL Certification
15 15 (1.84%) PMI Certification
16 14 (1.72%) PhD
17 12 (1.47%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (1.47%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 67 (8.22%) QA
2 38 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 16 (1.96%) GDPR
4 15 (1.84%) NIST
5 12 (1.47%) PCI DSS
6 10 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.10%) HIPAA
7 9 (1.10%) SLA
8 8 (0.98%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 4 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
11 3 (0.37%) GRC
11 3 (0.37%) HL7
11 3 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
12 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
12 2 (0.25%) COBIT
12 2 (0.25%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 44 (5.40%) Docker
2 27 (3.31%) Active Directory
3 25 (3.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.35%) vSphere
6 9 (1.10%) KVM
7 7 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 6 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (0.74%) VMware NSX
9 4 (0.49%) vCloud
9 4 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.25%) Firmware
10 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
11 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (7.48%) Kubernetes
1 61 (7.48%) Terraform
2 18 (2.21%) Ansible
3 12 (1.47%) Grafana
4 10 (1.23%) Kibana
5 9 (1.10%) logstash
6 8 (0.98%) PingFederate
7 6 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.74%) vCenter Server
8 5 (0.61%) SCCM
9 4 (0.49%) Nessus
9 4 (0.49%) Prometheus
10 3 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.37%) Puppet
10 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize
11 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 2 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 163 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 71 (8.71%) Oracle
3 69 (8.47%) Google
4 35 (4.29%) ServiceNow
5 33 (4.05%) VMware
6 29 (3.56%) Cisco
6 29 (3.56%) SAP
7 19 (2.33%) Databricks
7 19 (2.33%) Genesys
8 18 (2.21%) Salesforce
9 13 (1.60%) IBM
9 13 (1.60%) Red Hat
10 10 (1.23%) Avaya
10 10 (1.23%) Juniper
11 8 (0.98%) Adobe
11 8 (0.98%) Qualys
12 7 (0.86%) Arista
12 7 (0.86%) Atlassian
12 7 (0.86%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.74%) Okta
973 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide