Computer Science Degree Contracts in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 153 269 301
Rank change year-on-year +116 +32 -13
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 299 163 215
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.40% 0.72% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.91% 2.21% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 110 137
10th Percentile £257 £312 £206
25th Percentile £379 £428 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £515 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.94% +8.42% -3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £667 £594
90th Percentile £672 £754 £652
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 8
10th Percentile £22.75 £25.60 £16.65
25th Percentile £35.50 £44.50 £18.57
Median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £44.48
Median % change year-on-year -6.64% +35.47% +17.04%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.81 £49.50
90th Percentile £78.00 £68.73 -
UK median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -2.27% +18.92% +4.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,648 7,386 8,107
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.86% 32.55% 26.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,425 4,873 5,318
10th Percentile £275 £305 £263
25th Percentile £425 £425 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +10.50%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £600
90th Percentile £713 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 571 539
10th Percentile £13.69 £13.88 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.90 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.40% +50.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £67.25 £56.14
90th Percentile £77.50 £79.19 £67.60
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +34.85%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree within the UK excluding London 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
South East +30 74 £459 -8.25% 92
North of England +65 67 £490 -2.00% 103
Midlands +41 58 £550 +10.00% 88
West Midlands +46 51 £538 - 52
South West +17 35 £606 -7.44% 55
East of England +26 33 £483 -17.87% 45
Yorkshire +34 28 £525 +42.37% 30
North West +31 27 £165 -67.00% 55
Scotland +54 23 £560 +6.67% 31
North East - 12 £600 - 20
East Midlands +4 7 £748 +48.02% 36
Wales +26 6 £403 - 6
Northern Ireland 0 4 - - 15
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
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 8 (2.68%) Apache
2 6 (2.01%) Confluence
3 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.00%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.67%) SAS
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.33%) JBoss
Applications
1 22 (7.36%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (3.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (2.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.67%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.67%) Simulink
5 2 (0.67%) SPSS
6 1 (0.33%) Adobe Illustrator
6 1 (0.33%) InfoPath
6 1 (0.33%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.33%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 4 (1.34%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.33%) Magento
3 1 (0.33%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.33%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.33%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.33%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.33%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.33%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.33%) SAP SD
3 1 (0.33%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.33%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 52 (17.39%) Azure
2 41 (13.71%) AWS
3 22 (7.36%) GCP
3 22 (7.36%) Power Platform
4 9 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
5 8 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (2.01%) Amazon S3
6 6 (2.01%) Serverless
7 5 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
7 5 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.67%) GitHub
8 4 (1.34%) Azure Functions
8 4 (1.34%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.00%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
9 3 (1.00%) IaaS
10 2 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.67%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.67%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (5.69%) 5G
2 13 (4.35%) Firewall
3 12 (4.01%) DNS
4 10 (3.34%) Wi-Fi
4 10 (3.34%) Wireshark
5 8 (2.68%) 4G
5 8 (2.68%) Network Security
5 8 (2.68%) Wireless
6 7 (2.34%) VPN
7 6 (2.01%) 3G
7 6 (2.01%) BGP
7 6 (2.01%) Diameter Protocol
7 6 (2.01%) GGSN
7 6 (2.01%) LTE
7 6 (2.01%) OSPF
7 6 (2.01%) Radio Access Network
7 6 (2.01%) RANAP
7 6 (2.01%) SGSN
7 6 (2.01%) VoLTE
8 5 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (8.36%) Relational Database
2 22 (7.36%) Power BI
3 19 (6.35%) MySQL
4 14 (4.68%) Qlik Sense
5 10 (3.34%) Metadata
5 10 (3.34%) Oracle Database
6 9 (3.01%) PostgreSQL
7 8 (2.68%) Data Mining
7 8 (2.68%) SQL Server
8 7 (2.34%) Big Data
9 5 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (1.67%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.67%) NoSQL
10 3 (1.00%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.67%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.67%) Apache Cassandra
11 2 (0.67%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.67%) Informix
11 2 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (9.03%) Git
2 16 (5.35%) JIRA
3 15 (5.02%) Jenkins
4 10 (3.34%) Oracle APEX
5 8 (2.68%) GitLab
6 5 (1.67%) JUnit
7 4 (1.34%) Gradle
7 4 (1.34%) JMeter
7 4 (1.34%) Mercurial
7 4 (1.34%) Selenium
8 3 (1.00%) Artifactory
8 3 (1.00%) Bitbucket
8 3 (1.00%) Subversion
8 3 (1.00%) Travis CI
9 2 (0.67%) CircleCI
9 2 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.33%) CMake
10 1 (0.33%) Cucumber
10 1 (0.33%) GoogleTest
10 1 (0.33%) Maven
General
1 142 (47.49%) Social Skills
2 77 (25.75%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (10.37%) Finance
4 19 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.02%) Banking
5 18 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 12 (4.01%) Multimedia
6 12 (4.01%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (2.68%) Retail
8 6 (2.01%) Automotive
8 6 (2.01%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.01%) Electronics
8 6 (2.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.01%) Legal
9 5 (1.67%) Marketing
10 4 (1.34%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.34%) Law
10 4 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Games
Job Titles
1 39 (13.04%) Architect
2 38 (12.71%) Developer
3 28 (9.36%) Senior
4 21 (7.02%) DevOps Engineer
4 21 (7.02%) Software Engineer
5 19 (6.35%) Analyst
6 16 (5.35%) Network Engineer
7 15 (5.02%) Data Scientist
8 14 (4.68%) Data Engineer
9 13 (4.35%) Lead
10 10 (3.34%) Enterprise Architect
11 8 (2.68%) Author
11 8 (2.68%) Java Developer
11 8 (2.68%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.68%) Technical Author
12 6 (2.01%) Machine Learning Engineer
12 6 (2.01%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.01%) Senior Developer
12 6 (2.01%) Technical Architect
13 5 (1.67%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (8.36%) HTML
2 24 (8.03%) CSS
3 20 (6.69%) AngularJS
4 13 (4.35%) React
5 12 (4.01%) Kafka
6 11 (3.68%) Spring
7 10 (3.34%) REST
8 7 (2.34%) .NET
9 5 (1.67%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.67%) DirectX
9 5 (1.67%) GraphQL
9 5 (1.67%) NumPy
9 5 (1.67%) OpenGL
9 5 (1.67%) OpenGL ES
9 5 (1.67%) Pandas
9 5 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
9 5 (1.67%) RESTful
9 5 (1.67%) Vulkan
9 5 (1.67%) Web Services
10 4 (1.34%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.03%) Management Information System
2 16 (5.35%) Algorithms
3 13 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
4 12 (4.01%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (3.68%) Data Structures
6 10 (3.34%) Data Centre
7 8 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.34%) CMDB
9 6 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.01%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.67%) Embedded Systems
11 4 (1.34%) Analytical Mindset
11 4 (1.34%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (1.34%) Life Science
11 4 (1.34%) Onboarding
11 4 (1.34%) Social Media
11 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
12 3 (1.00%) Legacy Code
12 3 (1.00%) Photography
12 3 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 36 (12.04%) Windows
2 30 (10.03%) Linux
3 14 (4.68%) Unix
4 11 (3.68%) Android
4 11 (3.68%) Windows Server
5 5 (1.67%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.00%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (1.00%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.67%) HPUX
7 2 (0.67%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.67%) Solaris
7 2 (0.67%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.33%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.33%) CentOS
8 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.33%) VMS
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 295 (98.66%) Computer Science
2 143 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (18.39%) Agile
4 54 (18.06%) DevOps
5 52 (17.39%) Software Engineering
6 39 (13.04%) Data Modelling
7 37 (12.37%) Data Science
8 35 (11.71%) ITIL
8 35 (11.71%) Scrum
9 31 (10.37%) Migration
10 29 (9.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (9.36%) Roadmaps
12 25 (8.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 24 (8.03%) Decision-Making
14 23 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
14 23 (7.69%) CI/CD
14 23 (7.69%) SDLC
15 22 (7.36%) Data Security
15 22 (7.36%) Test Automation
16 21 (7.02%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 59 (19.73%) Python
2 57 (19.06%) SQL
3 38 (12.71%) Java
3 38 (12.71%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.69%) C#
4 17 (5.69%) PowerShell
5 14 (4.68%) C++
6 12 (4.01%) PL/SQL
7 11 (3.68%) R
8 10 (3.34%) C
9 9 (3.01%) Perl
10 8 (2.68%) Bash
11 5 (1.67%) Kotlin
11 5 (1.67%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.34%) Go
12 4 (1.34%) Scala
12 4 (1.34%) TypeScript
12 4 (1.34%) VB.NET
13 3 (1.00%) PHP
13 3 (1.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 299 (100.00%) Degree
2 53 (17.73%) Security Cleared
3 50 (16.72%) Master's Degree
4 25 (8.36%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.02%) DV Cleared
6 19 (6.35%) PMI Certification
6 19 (6.35%) PMP
7 18 (6.02%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (5.02%) CCNP
9 12 (4.01%) CCNA
10 10 (3.34%) CISSP
11 7 (2.34%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (2.01%) Azure Certification
12 6 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (2.01%) VCAP
13 5 (1.67%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.34%) CCIE
14 4 (1.34%) CEH
14 4 (1.34%) ISTQB
14 4 (1.34%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.36%) QA
2 7 (2.34%) Data Quality
3 5 (1.67%) SLA
4 4 (1.34%) GDPR
5 3 (1.00%) HL7
5 3 (1.00%) NIST
6 2 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 1 (0.33%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.33%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (5.02%) Docker
2 14 (4.68%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.34%) vSphere
5 5 (1.67%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.67%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (1.00%) KVM
7 3 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.67%) Firmware
8 2 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.67%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.33%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.33%) Terminal Services
9 1 (0.33%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 20 (6.69%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.68%) Terraform
3 5 (1.67%) Ansible
3 5 (1.67%) vCenter Server
4 3 (1.00%) Kibana
4 3 (1.00%) SysTrack
5 2 (0.67%) Cacti
5 2 (0.67%) logstash
5 2 (0.67%) Nessus
5 2 (0.67%) vRealize
5 2 (0.67%) vRealize Orchestrator
6 1 (0.33%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.33%) NetBackup
6 1 (0.33%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.33%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) SCCM
6 1 (0.33%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 1 (0.33%) vMotion
6 1 (0.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 48 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 29 (9.70%) ServiceNow
3 16 (5.35%) VMware
4 15 (5.02%) Google
5 14 (4.68%) Oracle
6 11 (3.68%) SAP
7 8 (2.68%) Red Hat
8 7 (2.34%) SolarWinds
9 6 (2.01%) Empirix
9 6 (2.01%) NetScout
10 5 (1.67%) IBM
11 4 (1.34%) Citrix
11 4 (1.34%) F5
11 4 (1.34%) Juniper
11 4 (1.34%) LogicMonitor
12 3 (1.00%) Atlassian
12 3 (1.00%) CA
12 3 (1.00%) New Relic
12 3 (1.00%) OpenAI
12 3 (1.00%) Splunk