Computer Science Degree Contracts in the South East

Computer Science Degree
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 154 170
Rank change year-on-year +27 +16 +2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 74 57 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.31% 1.01% 1.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.93% 2.74% 3.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 36 51
10th Percentile £263 £376 £157
25th Percentile £393 £453 £351
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +15.61% -11.78%
75th Percentile £611 £615 £600
90th Percentile £638 £681 £650
England median daily rate £525 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £27.05 £21.40 £23.80
25th Percentile £43.63 £34.00 £31.36
Median hourly rate £72.50 £55.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% +25.14% +29.25%
75th Percentile £76.88 £62.50 £44.48
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.00 £44.79
England median hourly rate £55.63 £55.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year +1.14% +18.92% +13.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 advertised in the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,524 2,081 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.70% 36.71% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,343 1,574
10th Percentile £350 £300 £307
25th Percentile £450 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £731 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 134 83
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £30.21 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.32 £57.21
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.62 £67.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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 +10 23 £469 -6.25% 37
West Sussex - 20 £444 - 8
Berkshire -21 18 £615 +20.59% 20
Surrey +16 14 £550 +10.00% 18
Hampshire 0 9 £500 -24.81% 20
Middlesex - 4 £275 -
Buckinghamshire +33 3 £356 - 10
Oxfordshire +4 2 £425 +63.46% 7
Sussex - 1 £350 -
Home Counties - 1 £475 -
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
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 2 (2.70%) Apache
1 2 (2.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.35%) JBoss
2 1 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (8.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.27%) AWS
1 15 (20.27%) Azure
2 5 (6.76%) GitHub
3 4 (5.41%) GitHub Actions
3 4 (5.41%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (4.05%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.05%) IaaS
5 2 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.70%) GCP
5 2 (2.70%) PaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.35%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.35%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.35%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.35%) SaaS
6 1 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.81%) DNS
2 6 (8.11%) 3G
2 6 (8.11%) 4G
2 6 (8.11%) 5G
2 6 (8.11%) Diameter Protocol
2 6 (8.11%) GGSN
2 6 (8.11%) LTE
2 6 (8.11%) Radio Access Network
2 6 (8.11%) RANAP
2 6 (8.11%) SGSN
2 6 (8.11%) VoLTE
2 6 (8.11%) Wireshark
3 5 (6.76%) Firewall
4 3 (4.05%) Network Security
4 3 (4.05%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (2.70%) SSL
5 2 (2.70%) VPN
6 1 (1.35%) DHCP
6 1 (1.35%) LAN
6 1 (1.35%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (10.81%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (4.05%) Couchbase
2 3 (4.05%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.05%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.70%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.35%) Big Data
4 1 (1.35%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.35%) MySQL
4 1 (1.35%) Power BI
4 1 (1.35%) QlikView
4 1 (1.35%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.35%) Star Schema
4 1 (1.35%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (16.22%) Git
2 11 (14.86%) Jenkins
3 7 (9.46%) JIRA
4 3 (4.05%) GitLab
4 3 (4.05%) JUnit
4 3 (4.05%) Subversion
5 2 (2.70%) CircleCI
5 2 (2.70%) Gradle
5 2 (2.70%) JMeter
5 2 (2.70%) Selenium
6 1 (1.35%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.35%) Cucumber
6 1 (1.35%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.35%) IntelliJ
6 1 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.35%) TestNG
6 1 (1.35%) Travis CI
6 1 (1.35%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 30 (40.54%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.57%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.86%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
4 7 (9.46%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Legal
5 6 (8.11%) Multimedia
5 6 (8.11%) Retail
6 4 (5.41%) Electronics
7 3 (4.05%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.70%) Automotive
8 2 (2.70%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.35%) Banking
9 1 (1.35%) German Language
9 1 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.35%) Law
9 1 (1.35%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.35%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (9.46%) Analyst
1 7 (9.46%) Software Engineer
2 6 (8.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 5 (6.76%) Network Engineer
3 5 (6.76%) Senior
3 5 (6.76%) Service Analyst
3 5 (6.76%) Service Management Analyst
4 4 (5.41%) Developer
4 4 (5.41%) Python Engineer
4 4 (5.41%) Test Manager
5 3 (4.05%) Android Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Configuration Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Graphics Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (4.05%) Machine Learning Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Network Configuration Engineer
5 3 (4.05%) Project Manager
6 2 (2.70%) Computer Engineer
6 2 (2.70%) Environment Analyst
6 2 (2.70%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.11%) Kafka
1 6 (8.11%) REST
2 5 (6.76%) DirectX
2 5 (6.76%) OpenGL
2 5 (6.76%) OpenGL ES
2 5 (6.76%) Vulkan
3 4 (5.41%) RabbitMQ
3 4 (5.41%) Web Services
4 3 (4.05%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.05%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.05%) gRPC
4 3 (4.05%) PyTorch
4 3 (4.05%) RESTful
4 3 (4.05%) TensorFlow
5 2 (2.70%) .NET
5 2 (2.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.70%) CSS
5 2 (2.70%) JSON
5 2 (2.70%) React
5 2 (2.70%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.76%) CMDB
3 4 (5.41%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.41%) Life Science
3 4 (5.41%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.05%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.05%) Photography
4 3 (4.05%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.70%) Animation
5 2 (2.70%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.70%) Legacy Code
5 2 (2.70%) Mixed Reality
5 2 (2.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.35%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.35%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.35%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.35%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.35%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 14 (18.92%) Linux
2 11 (14.86%) Windows
3 8 (10.81%) Android
4 6 (8.11%) Windows Server
5 5 (6.76%) Unix
6 3 (4.05%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (1.35%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.35%) VMS
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 25 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (21.62%) Agile
4 15 (20.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 13 (17.57%) DevOps
5 13 (17.57%) Software Engineering
6 12 (16.22%) Test Automation
7 11 (14.86%) Software Testing
8 10 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
9 9 (12.16%) Customer Service
9 9 (12.16%) SDLC
10 8 (10.81%) Customer Experience
10 8 (10.81%) Microservices
10 8 (10.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 7 (9.46%) Capacity Planning
11 7 (9.46%) Kanban
11 7 (9.46%) Machine Learning
11 7 (9.46%) Network Architecture
11 7 (9.46%) Scrum
11 7 (9.46%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 17 (22.97%) Python
2 9 (12.16%) Java
3 8 (10.81%) C++
4 7 (9.46%) C#
5 6 (8.11%) Go
6 5 (6.76%) Bash
6 5 (6.76%) PowerShell
7 3 (4.05%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.05%) Perl
7 3 (4.05%) SQL
8 2 (2.70%) GLSL
8 2 (2.70%) HLSL
8 2 (2.70%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.70%) R
9 1 (1.35%) C
9 1 (1.35%) PHP
9 1 (1.35%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.35%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 74 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (12.16%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.41%) Azure Certification
3 4 (5.41%) CCNA
3 4 (5.41%) CCNP
3 4 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.41%) ISTQB
3 4 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) CCDP
4 2 (2.70%) PhD
4 2 (2.70%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.70%) VCAP
4 2 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.35%) CISSP
5 1 (1.35%) HP ASE
5 1 (1.35%) IBM Certification
5 1 (1.35%) JNCIE
5 1 (1.35%) PCI QSA
5 1 (1.35%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.35%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.76%) SLA
2 3 (4.05%) HL7
2 3 (4.05%) QA
3 1 (1.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.35%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) Docker
2 6 (8.11%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.11%) vSphere
3 5 (6.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
5 1 (1.35%) Firmware
5 1 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.70%) vRealize
2 2 (2.70%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 1 (1.35%) Ansible
3 1 (1.35%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.35%) Grafana
3 1 (1.35%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.35%) Kibana
3 1 (1.35%) Nessus
3 1 (1.35%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.35%) SCCM
3 1 (1.35%) Terraform
3 1 (1.35%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (1.35%) vCenter Server
3 1 (1.35%) WSUS
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.81%) VMware
3 6 (8.11%) Empirix
3 6 (8.11%) NetScout
4 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
5 4 (5.41%) Juniper
6 3 (4.05%) CA Agile Central
6 3 (4.05%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.70%) Google
7 2 (2.70%) Oracle
7 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
7 2 (2.70%) SAP
8 1 (1.35%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.35%) Brocade
8 1 (1.35%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.35%) Isilon
8 1 (1.35%) NetApp
8 1 (1.35%) Qualys
8 1 (1.35%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.35%) Veritas
877 Computer Science Degree jobs in England