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

6 months to
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 64 104 149
Rank change year-on-year +40 +45 -35
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,176 1,132 1,320
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.16% 2.39% 1.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 2.66% 2.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 721 770 865
10th Percentile £313 £363 £355
25th Percentile £410 £486 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £557 £590
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -5.68% +7.27%
75th Percentile £663 £725 £725
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £563 £590
% change year-on-year -6.67% -4.66% +12.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 39 56
10th Percentile £21.30 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £40.63 £28.88 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +17.56%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £55.45
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £62.13
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £45.25
% change year-on-year - +21.55% +4.85%

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 31,896 42,584 64,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.63% 89.97% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,753 29,899 46,066
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £444 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,340 1,520 1,731
10th Percentile £12.82 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +44.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.90 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.67% +39.80% +10.64%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +23 683 £550 -7.56% 748
North of England +83 131 £523 +7.51% 185
South East +10 124 £450 -14.29% 218
Midlands +49 87 £538 +5.39% 168
West Midlands +48 75 £525 - 83
North West +47 69 £520 +7.00% 110
South West +14 61 £588 +6.82% 90
Yorkshire +36 51 £517 -6.00% 50
East of England +36 50 £500 - 102
North East +21 13 £600 - 28
East Midlands +5 12 £650 +30.00% 85
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 37 (3.15%) Confluence
2 23 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.45%) Apache Spark
3 17 (1.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.28%) Apache
5 13 (1.11%) SAS
6 11 (0.94%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.51%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.34%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.34%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.34%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.26%) Gunicorn
9 3 (0.26%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 44 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 21 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 21 (1.79%) Simulink
4 20 (1.70%) Stateflow
5 13 (1.11%) Chatbot
6 11 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 10 (0.85%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.34%) SPSS
9 3 (0.26%) Windchill
10 2 (0.17%) Stata
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Captivate
11 1 (0.085%) Adobe Illustrator
11 1 (0.085%) CATIA
11 1 (0.085%) InVision
11 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Project
11 1 (0.085%) OmniGraffle
11 1 (0.085%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.085%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 14 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.60%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.26%) Endur
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 (0.17%) Primavera
5 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.17%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.17%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.17%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 290 (24.66%) Azure
2 196 (16.67%) AWS
3 127 (10.80%) GCP
4 64 (5.44%) Power Platform
5 62 (5.27%) Azure DevOps
6 40 (3.40%) Microsoft 365
7 39 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
8 33 (2.81%) GitHub
8 33 (2.81%) Serverless
9 29 (2.47%) SaaS
10 27 (2.30%) PaaS
11 21 (1.79%) Amazon S3
11 21 (1.79%) Snowflake
12 20 (1.70%) Entra ID
13 18 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
14 17 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
14 17 (1.45%) PowerApps
15 13 (1.11%) GitHub Actions
15 13 (1.11%) Vertex AI
16 12 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 46 (3.91%) Firewall
2 41 (3.49%) DNS
3 27 (2.30%) Network Security
4 23 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 22 (1.87%) DHCP
5 22 (1.87%) WAN
6 21 (1.79%) Internet
6 21 (1.79%) VPN
7 19 (1.62%) LAN
7 19 (1.62%) Wireless
8 16 (1.36%) Wireshark
9 15 (1.28%) 5G
10 13 (1.11%) VoIP
11 12 (1.02%) Cisco Nexus
11 12 (1.02%) HTTP
11 12 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 9 (0.77%) OSPF
12 9 (0.77%) SAN
13 8 (0.68%) BGP
13 8 (0.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 63 (5.36%) Relational Database
3 58 (4.93%) Power BI
4 52 (4.42%) Big Data
5 47 (4.00%) Tableau
6 45 (3.83%) Data Warehouse
7 42 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
8 41 (3.49%) NoSQL
9 33 (2.81%) MySQL
10 22 (1.87%) Hadoop
11 20 (1.70%) BigQuery
12 17 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.45%) Qlik Sense
13 16 (1.36%) Data Lake
14 14 (1.19%) Data Mining
15 12 (1.02%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 10 (0.85%) KDB
16 10 (0.85%) RDBMS
17 9 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 105 (8.93%) Git
2 78 (6.63%) JIRA
3 58 (4.93%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.64%) GitLab
5 28 (2.38%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.19%) Gradle
7 10 (0.85%) JUnit
8 9 (0.77%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 9 (0.77%) Subversion
9 8 (0.68%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.60%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.60%) ERwin
10 7 (0.60%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.60%) Selenium
11 6 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.51%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.51%) Postman
11 6 (0.51%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.43%) Maven
12 5 (0.43%) MLflow
General
1 555 (47.19%) Social Skills
2 286 (24.32%) Analytical Skills
3 262 (22.28%) Finance
4 87 (7.40%) Banking
5 72 (6.12%) Public Sector
6 58 (4.93%) Front Office
7 53 (4.51%) Legal
8 52 (4.42%) Telecoms
9 39 (3.32%) Marketing
10 36 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.47%) Retail
12 26 (2.21%) Automotive
13 23 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
14 21 (1.79%) Electronics
14 21 (1.79%) Investment Banking
15 19 (1.62%) Manufacturing
16 17 (1.45%) Financial Institution
17 15 (1.28%) Aerospace
17 15 (1.28%) Multimedia
18 12 (1.02%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 211 (17.94%) Developer
2 168 (14.29%) Architect
3 126 (10.71%) Senior
4 101 (8.59%) Analyst
5 90 (7.65%) Software Engineer
6 70 (5.95%) Solutions Architect
7 55 (4.68%) Java Developer
7 55 (4.68%) Lead
8 48 (4.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 45 (3.83%) Consultant
10 44 (3.74%) Data Engineer
11 39 (3.32%) Network Engineer
12 33 (2.81%) Data Scientist
13 29 (2.47%) Python Developer
14 27 (2.30%) Data Analyst
15 25 (2.13%) Senior Developer
16 23 (1.96%) Security Engineer
17 22 (1.87%) Azure Engineer
17 22 (1.87%) Business Analyst
18 19 (1.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (6.55%) CSS
2 75 (6.38%) HTML
3 67 (5.70%) .NET
4 52 (4.42%) React
5 43 (3.66%) REST
6 42 (3.57%) Kafka
7 40 (3.40%) AngularJS
8 38 (3.23%) Spring
9 33 (2.81%) RESTful
10 24 (2.04%) Pandas
10 24 (2.04%) XML
11 22 (1.87%) JSON
11 22 (1.87%) Node.js
11 22 (1.87%) Web Services
12 20 (1.70%) NumPy
13 18 (1.53%) .NET Framework
14 17 (1.45%) Middleware
15 16 (1.36%) PyTorch
16 15 (1.28%) Django
16 15 (1.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 113 (9.61%) Algorithms
2 110 (9.35%) Management Information System
3 56 (4.76%) Data Structures
4 53 (4.51%) Self-Motivation
5 49 (4.17%) Data Centre
6 42 (3.57%) Derivative
7 35 (2.98%) Product Ownership
8 33 (2.81%) Fixed Income
9 28 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
10 26 (2.21%) Virtual Team
11 22 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
12 20 (1.70%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 19 (1.62%) Security Posture
14 18 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
14 18 (1.53%) Social Media
15 17 (1.45%) CMDB
15 17 (1.45%) Mobile App
16 16 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 16 (1.36%) Onboarding
16 16 (1.36%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (9.61%) Linux
2 103 (8.76%) Windows
3 61 (5.19%) Unix
4 31 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 30 (2.55%) Android
6 12 (1.02%) Apple iOS
7 10 (0.85%) Solaris
8 8 (0.68%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.60%) VMS
10 6 (0.51%) Oracle Linux
10 6 (0.51%) Windows 10
10 6 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.43%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2003
12 4 (0.34%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.34%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 446 (37.93%) Problem-Solving
2 338 (28.74%) Agile
3 193 (16.41%) DevOps
4 188 (15.99%) Software Engineering
5 150 (12.76%) CI/CD
6 139 (11.82%) Analytics
7 132 (11.22%) Migration
8 126 (10.71%) Data Science
8 126 (10.71%) Mathematics
9 125 (10.63%) Data Modelling
10 116 (9.86%) Test Automation
11 112 (9.52%) Machine Learning
12 98 (8.33%) ITIL
13 97 (8.25%) Scrum
14 92 (7.82%) Roadmaps
15 88 (7.48%) Decision-Making
15 88 (7.48%) Project Management
16 87 (7.40%) Artificial Intelligence
17 85 (7.23%) Business Intelligence
17 85 (7.23%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 306 (26.02%) Python
2 258 (21.94%) SQL
3 182 (15.48%) Java
4 115 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 89 (7.57%) C#
6 71 (6.04%) C++
7 60 (5.10%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.74%) Bash
9 31 (2.64%) R
10 30 (2.55%) C
10 30 (2.55%) MATLAB
11 26 (2.21%) TypeScript
12 22 (1.87%) Go
12 22 (1.87%) Rust
13 21 (1.79%) Perl
14 20 (1.70%) Scala
14 20 (1.70%) Shell Script
15 18 (1.53%) Kotlin
15 18 (1.53%) PL/SQL
16 13 (1.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,060 (90.14%) Degree
2 687 (58.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 209 (17.77%) Master's Degree
4 139 (11.82%) Security Cleared
5 102 (8.67%) SC Cleared
6 54 (4.59%) Cisco Certification
7 44 (3.74%) PhD
8 42 (3.57%) CISSP
9 37 (3.15%) Azure Certification
9 37 (3.15%) DV Cleared
10 31 (2.64%) CCNA
10 31 (2.64%) CCNP
11 30 (2.55%) PMI Certification
11 30 (2.55%) PMP
12 28 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
13 24 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
14 19 (1.62%) CEH
15 15 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (1.19%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (7.82%) QA
2 64 (5.44%) Data Quality
3 20 (1.70%) SLA
4 18 (1.53%) NIST
5 15 (1.28%) Accessibility
6 14 (1.19%) GDPR
7 9 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 8 (0.68%) HIPAA
9 7 (0.60%) Actionable Recommendations
9 7 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 7 (0.60%) MiFID
10 6 (0.51%) GRC
10 6 (0.51%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.34%) Dodd-Frank
11 4 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 4 (0.34%) 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 65 (5.53%) Docker
2 46 (3.91%) Active Directory
3 43 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.45%) vSphere
6 14 (1.19%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.02%) Hyper-V
8 10 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
9 9 (0.77%) KVM
10 6 (0.51%) Firmware
11 5 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.34%) Embedded Firmware
12 4 (0.34%) vCloud
12 4 (0.34%) VirtualBox
13 3 (0.26%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.26%) NFS
14 2 (0.17%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.085%) Microsoft App-V
15 1 (0.085%) Terminal Services
15 1 (0.085%) Xen
Systems Management
1 83 (7.06%) Kubernetes
2 65 (5.53%) Terraform
3 25 (2.13%) Ansible
4 13 (1.11%) PingFederate
5 12 (1.02%) vCenter Server
6 10 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (0.85%) SCCM
6 10 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
7 8 (0.68%) Kibana
7 8 (0.68%) Nessus
8 7 (0.60%) CSIRT
8 7 (0.60%) Grafana
8 7 (0.60%) logstash
9 5 (0.43%) OpenView
9 5 (0.43%) PowerCLI
9 5 (0.43%) Prometheus
10 4 (0.34%) OPNET
10 4 (0.34%) Puppet
10 4 (0.34%) SCOM
10 4 (0.34%) WSUS
Vendors
1 212 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 78 (6.63%) Oracle
3 70 (5.95%) Google
4 57 (4.85%) ServiceNow
5 56 (4.76%) SAP
6 55 (4.68%) Cisco
6 55 (4.68%) VMware
7 32 (2.72%) Databricks
8 21 (1.79%) Atlassian
9 20 (1.70%) IBM
10 19 (1.62%) Salesforce
11 18 (1.53%) Juniper
12 15 (1.28%) Red Hat
13 13 (1.11%) ION Trading
13 13 (1.11%) Splunk
14 12 (1.02%) Genesys
15 11 (0.94%) Citrix
15 11 (0.94%) Foundry
15 11 (0.94%) Palantir
15 11 (0.94%) Palo Alto