Computer Science Degree Contracts in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 124 181
Rank change year-on-year +41 +57 -25
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 58 34 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.97% 1.06% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.10% 3.91% 2.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 29 18
10th Percentile £304 £278 £363
25th Percentile £450 £363 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +8.11% -26.00%
75th Percentile £603 £738 £498
90th Percentile £645 £758 £500
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £32.09 - -
25th Percentile £47.62 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 - £14.00
75th Percentile £60.94 - £14.50
90th Percentile £69.38 - -
England median hourly rate £55.63 £54.44 £46.25
% change year-on-year +2.19% +17.70% +13.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 951 869 1,031
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 32.26% 27.00% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 596 563 702
10th Percentile £255 £313 £205
25th Percentile £337 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +16.67% +8.43%
75th Percentile £589 £625 £550
90th Percentile £688 £700 £638
England median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 49 33
10th Percentile £13.30 £10.77 £11.60
25th Percentile £17.00 £12.50 £13.75
Median hourly rate £24.65 £20.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.25% - +23.08%
75th Percentile £42.50 £40.25 £25.25
90th Percentile £58.25 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
West Midlands +46 51 £538 - 51
East Midlands +4 7 £748 +48.02% 36
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (6.90%) Apache
2 2 (3.45%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.72%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Simulink
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.72%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.72%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.59%) Azure
2 5 (8.62%) AWS
2 5 (8.62%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.90%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (6.90%) Serverless
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Functions
4 3 (5.17%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (3.45%) Amazon S3
5 2 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (3.45%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.72%) AWS Step Functions
6 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.72%) dbt
6 1 (1.72%) GCP
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) Matillion
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
3 1 (1.72%) DHCP
3 1 (1.72%) DNS
3 1 (1.72%) NGFW
3 1 (1.72%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.72%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.72%) VoIP
3 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.62%) Data Mining
1 5 (8.62%) Power BI
2 3 (5.17%) NoSQL
2 3 (5.17%) Relational Database
3 2 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.45%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.45%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.72%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.72%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.72%) Big Data
4 1 (1.72%) Flink
4 1 (1.72%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.72%) SAP HANA
4 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.90%) Git
2 4 (6.90%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Artifactory
3 2 (3.45%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.72%) JIRA
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 20 (34.48%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.17%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Back Office
7 1 (1.72%) Electronics
7 1 (1.72%) German Language
7 1 (1.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.72%) Local Government
7 1 (1.72%) Marketing
7 1 (1.72%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Police
7 1 (1.72%) Publishing
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (22.41%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (17.24%) Architect
2 10 (17.24%) Developer
3 6 (10.34%) Data Engineer
3 6 (10.34%) Java Developer
3 6 (10.34%) Senior
4 5 (8.62%) Data Architect
5 4 (6.90%) Analyst
6 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Consultant
7 2 (3.45%) Cybersecurity Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Full Stack Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Lead
7 2 (3.45%) Network Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Security Architect
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Developer
7 2 (3.45%) Senior Java Developer
7 2 (3.45%) SOC Analyst
7 2 (3.45%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.34%) Spring
2 4 (6.90%) Kafka
3 3 (5.17%) AngularJS
3 3 (5.17%) React
3 3 (5.17%) REST
4 2 (3.45%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (3.45%) CSS
4 2 (3.45%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (1.72%) Dask
5 1 (1.72%) Guice
5 1 (1.72%) Keras
5 1 (1.72%) NumPy
5 1 (1.72%) Pandas
5 1 (1.72%) PySpark
5 1 (1.72%) PyTorch
5 1 (1.72%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.72%) SOAP
5 1 (1.72%) Web Services
5 1 (1.72%) Yii
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.79%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.62%) Algorithms
2 5 (8.62%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (6.90%) Cyber Defence
3 4 (6.90%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (5.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (5.17%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 2 (3.45%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (3.45%) Security Operations Centre
5 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (1.72%) FPGA
6 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.72%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Windows
2 2 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (98.28%) Computer Science
2 25 (43.10%) DevOps
3 21 (36.21%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (31.03%) Software Engineering
5 12 (20.69%) Decision-Making
6 11 (18.97%) User Experience
6 11 (18.97%) Workflow
7 10 (17.24%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.52%) Agile
8 9 (15.52%) Migration
9 8 (13.79%) Analytics
10 7 (12.07%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (12.07%) Data Science
11 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 6 (10.34%) Microservices
11 6 (10.34%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence
12 5 (8.62%) Data Engineering
12 5 (8.62%) Information Security
12 5 (8.62%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 11 (18.97%) Python
2 10 (17.24%) SQL
3 9 (15.52%) Java
4 5 (8.62%) JavaScript
4 5 (8.62%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.45%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (3.45%) MATLAB
5 2 (3.45%) Perl
5 2 (3.45%) Scala
6 1 (1.72%) C
6 1 (1.72%) C#
6 1 (1.72%) C++
6 1 (1.72%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.72%) PHP
6 1 (1.72%) R
6 1 (1.72%) Rust
6 1 (1.72%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (100.00%) Degree
2 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
3 12 (20.69%) DV Cleared
4 8 (13.79%) Master's Degree
5 6 (10.34%) CISSP
6 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.17%) TOGAF Certification
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.45%) CCNA
8 2 (3.45%) CEH
8 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (1.72%) CCNP
9 1 (1.72%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.69%) QA
2 3 (5.17%) NIST
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.72%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (5.17%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.17%) SysTrack
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) Ansible
3 2 (3.45%) Kibana
3 2 (3.45%) logstash
Vendors
1 12 (20.69%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) Citrix
2 3 (5.17%) New Relic
2 3 (5.17%) OpenAI
3 2 (3.45%) Confluent
3 2 (3.45%) Informatica
3 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Google
4 1 (1.72%) Mitel
4 1 (1.72%) Oracle
4 1 (1.72%) Sage
4 1 (1.72%) Xilinx