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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 118 246 341
Rank change year-on-year +128 +95 -30
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 805 624 704
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.89% 1.09% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.30% 4.01% 3.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 510 442 442
10th Percentile £300 £363 £363
25th Percentile £413 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £643 £743 £650
90th Percentile £775 £900 £825
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 11 22
10th Percentile £25.70 £20.00 £18.98
25th Percentile £38.75 £41.00 £33.44
Median hourly rate £53.75 £55.00 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +18.92% +13.50%
75th Percentile £68.13 £67.88 £49.50
90th Percentile £83.75 £70.00 £49.58
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.25 £60.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -6.64% +33.89% +18.42%

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 12,775 15,576 19,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 27.20% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,956 10,400 12,640
10th Percentile £308 £330 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 771 774
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.95
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +5.26%

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 20 May 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 20 May 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 20 May 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 +109 665 £525 -8.70% 1,009
London +79 413 £525 -12.50% 534
UK excluding London +130 264 £500 - 601
Work from Home +110 235 £550 -8.33% 442
South East +38 74 £475 -5.00% 205
North of England +62 49 £339 -24.72% 125
Midlands +39 49 £525 +5.00% 89
West Midlands +47 43 £525 +7.14% 56
East of England +28 31 £500 -13.04% 68
Scotland +53 28 £560 +6.67% 32
North West +32 25 £165 -67.00% 66
South West +16 25 £588 -10.31% 61
Yorkshire +26 15 £358 -3.05% 41
North East - 9 £600 - 20
East Midlands +14 6 £650 +30.00% 33
Wales +24 5 £403 - 11
Northern Ireland +6 4 - - 15

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 24 (2.98%) SharePoint
2 16 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.61%) Confluence
4 11 (1.37%) Apache
5 10 (1.24%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.87%) CMS
7 5 (0.62%) Drupal
7 5 (0.62%) WordPress
8 3 (0.37%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 3 (0.37%) SAS
9 2 (0.25%) EPiServer
9 2 (0.25%) Ethereum
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (0.25%) Hyperledger
9 2 (0.25%) MQSeries
9 2 (0.25%) Skype for Business
9 2 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.25%) WebSphere
Applications
1 33 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 25 (3.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 15 (1.86%) Chatbot
4 13 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (1.24%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.37%) CPLEX
6 3 (0.37%) SPSS
6 3 (0.37%) Windchill
7 2 (0.25%) Simulink
8 1 (0.12%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.12%) InfoPath
8 1 (0.12%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.12%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.12%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 10 (1.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (0.75%) Magento
3 4 (0.50%) Teamcenter
4 3 (0.37%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.37%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.37%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 3 (0.37%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.25%) Endur
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle 11i
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.25%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.25%) R3 Corda
5 2 (0.25%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.25%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.25%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 208 (25.84%) Azure
2 171 (21.24%) AWS
3 110 (13.66%) GCP
4 43 (5.34%) Power Platform
5 32 (3.98%) Microsoft 365
6 31 (3.85%) Serverless
7 30 (3.73%) GitHub
8 29 (3.60%) Azure DevOps
8 29 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
9 20 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 19 (2.36%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.99%) Amazon EC2
11 16 (1.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 15 (1.86%) PowerApps
13 14 (1.74%) SaaS
14 13 (1.61%) Amazon EKS
14 13 (1.61%) Azure Data Factory
14 13 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
14 13 (1.61%) Vertex AI
15 12 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 40 (4.97%) Firewall
2 34 (4.22%) Network Security
3 28 (3.48%) DNS
4 18 (2.24%) VPN
5 16 (1.99%) VoIP
6 14 (1.74%) CTI
7 13 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 12 (1.49%) 5G
9 11 (1.37%) DHCP
9 11 (1.37%) Internet
9 11 (1.37%) Wireshark
10 10 (1.24%) WAN
11 9 (1.12%) LAN
11 9 (1.12%) VLAN
11 9 (1.12%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (0.99%) Wireless
13 7 (0.87%) OSPF
14 6 (0.75%) 3G
14 6 (0.75%) GGSN
14 6 (0.75%) RANAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (6.09%) SQL Server
2 41 (5.09%) Relational Database
3 39 (4.84%) Power BI
4 35 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
6 26 (3.23%) Tableau
7 24 (2.98%) MySQL
8 23 (2.86%) Big Data
9 20 (2.48%) BigQuery
10 19 (2.36%) NoSQL
10 19 (2.36%) Oracle Database
11 16 (1.99%) MongoDB
12 15 (1.86%) Data Mining
13 12 (1.49%) Data Lake
13 12 (1.49%) Hadoop
13 12 (1.49%) Metadata
14 11 (1.37%) Couchbase
15 9 (1.12%) Azure SQL Database
15 9 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
16 6 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 83 (10.31%) Git
2 51 (6.34%) Jenkins
3 38 (4.72%) JIRA
4 33 (4.10%) GitLab
5 13 (1.61%) Bitbucket
5 13 (1.61%) Gradle
6 12 (1.49%) Selenium
7 11 (1.37%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 11 (1.37%) JUnit
7 11 (1.37%) Oracle APEX
8 7 (0.87%) CircleCI
9 6 (0.75%) MLflow
10 5 (0.62%) Maven
10 5 (0.62%) Subversion
10 5 (0.62%) Visual Studio
11 4 (0.50%) JMeter
11 4 (0.50%) Mercurial
11 4 (0.50%) Sourcetree
11 4 (0.50%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.37%) Robot Framework
General
1 468 (58.14%) Social Skills
2 237 (29.44%) Analytical Skills
3 158 (19.63%) Finance
4 68 (8.45%) Banking
5 35 (4.35%) Public Sector
6 32 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 26 (3.23%) Presentation Skills
8 24 (2.98%) Retail
9 23 (2.86%) Front Office
10 22 (2.73%) Legal
11 19 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
12 17 (2.11%) Marketing
13 14 (1.74%) Multimedia
14 13 (1.61%) Electronics
14 13 (1.61%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.49%) Investment Banking
16 11 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (1.24%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.87%) Automotive
19 6 (0.75%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 148 (18.39%) Developer
2 124 (15.40%) Architect
3 71 (8.82%) Senior
4 47 (5.84%) Analyst
4 47 (5.84%) Lead
5 45 (5.59%) Software Engineer
6 41 (5.09%) Solutions Architect
7 40 (4.97%) DevOps Engineer
8 33 (4.10%) Consultant
8 33 (4.10%) Java Developer
9 29 (3.60%) Data Engineer
9 29 (3.60%) Network Engineer
10 22 (2.73%) Senior Developer
11 18 (2.24%) Technical Architect
12 17 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (2.11%) Data Scientist
12 17 (2.11%) Security Engineer
13 16 (1.99%) AWS Engineer
13 16 (1.99%) Project Manager
14 14 (1.74%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (7.20%) CSS
2 56 (6.96%) HTML
3 53 (6.58%) React
4 37 (4.60%) .NET
5 32 (3.98%) REST
6 31 (3.85%) AngularJS
6 31 (3.85%) Spring
7 30 (3.73%) RESTful
8 28 (3.48%) Web Services
9 22 (2.73%) Kafka
10 20 (2.48%) Node.js
11 18 (2.24%) JSON
12 17 (2.11%) Middleware
13 15 (1.86%) .NET Framework
13 15 (1.86%) XML
14 14 (1.74%) .NET Core
14 14 (1.74%) ASP.NET
14 14 (1.74%) Elastic Stack
15 13 (1.61%) Spring Boot
16 12 (1.49%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 90 (11.18%) Management Information System
2 55 (6.83%) Algorithms
3 37 (4.60%) Data Centre
3 37 (4.60%) Self-Motivation
4 31 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 20 (2.48%) Derivative
6 19 (2.36%) Distributed Systems
6 19 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 19 (2.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 18 (2.24%) Mobile App
7 18 (2.24%) Virtual Team
8 17 (2.11%) Security Posture
9 15 (1.86%) IVR
10 14 (1.74%) Cyber Threat
10 14 (1.74%) Data Protection Act
10 14 (1.74%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.61%) CMDB
11 13 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
11 13 (1.61%) Legacy Code
12 11 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 63 (7.83%) Linux
2 58 (7.20%) Windows
3 25 (3.11%) Android
3 25 (3.11%) Unix
4 18 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.12%) Apple iOS
5 9 (1.12%) Solaris
6 8 (0.99%) Windows 7
7 7 (0.87%) VMS
7 7 (0.87%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.75%) Oracle Linux
9 5 (0.62%) Windows 8
10 4 (0.50%) 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
1 796 (98.88%) Computer Science
2 404 (50.19%) Problem-Solving
3 223 (27.70%) Agile
4 149 (18.51%) DevOps
5 114 (14.16%) CI/CD
6 112 (13.91%) Software Engineering
7 95 (11.80%) Analytics
8 86 (10.68%) Migration
9 83 (10.31%) Data Modelling
10 75 (9.32%) Data Science
11 72 (8.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (8.57%) Machine Learning
13 68 (8.45%) Project Management
14 60 (7.45%) Microservices
15 58 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence
15 58 (7.20%) Roadmaps
15 58 (7.20%) Stakeholder Management
16 55 (6.83%) Business Intelligence
16 55 (6.83%) Infrastructure as Code
17 54 (6.71%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 193 (23.98%) Python
2 146 (18.14%) SQL
3 131 (16.27%) Java
4 94 (11.68%) JavaScript
5 47 (5.84%) C#
6 45 (5.59%) PowerShell
7 37 (4.60%) Bash
8 36 (4.47%) C++
9 25 (3.11%) TypeScript
10 24 (2.98%) Perl
11 22 (2.73%) PL/SQL
11 22 (2.73%) Scala
12 21 (2.61%) R
13 20 (2.48%) Go
14 17 (2.11%) Kotlin
15 15 (1.86%) C
16 11 (1.37%) Shell Script
17 7 (0.87%) MATLAB
17 7 (0.87%) Rust
17 7 (0.87%) VBA
Qualifications
1 805 (100.00%) Degree
2 142 (17.64%) Master's Degree
3 110 (13.66%) Security Cleared
4 81 (10.06%) SC Cleared
5 48 (5.96%) CISSP
6 42 (5.22%) Cisco Certification
7 41 (5.09%) Azure Certification
8 30 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (3.48%) CCNA
10 24 (2.98%) CEH
11 23 (2.86%) CCNP
12 20 (2.48%) DV Cleared
13 19 (2.36%) CISM
14 18 (2.24%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.99%) PhD
15 16 (1.99%) PMP
16 15 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (1.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 12 (1.49%) CCIE
17 12 (1.49%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (8.20%) QA
2 34 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 15 (1.86%) GDPR
4 12 (1.49%) NIST
5 11 (1.37%) PCI DSS
6 9 (1.12%) Accessibility
6 9 (1.12%) HIPAA
6 9 (1.12%) SLA
7 8 (0.99%) SOC 2
8 5 (0.62%) NIST 800
9 3 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.37%) Disclosure Scotland
9 3 (0.37%) GRC
9 3 (0.37%) HL7
9 3 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 3 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
10 2 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.25%) COBIT
10 2 (0.25%) ISO 22301
10 2 (0.25%) MiFID
System Software
1 43 (5.34%) Docker
2 27 (3.35%) Active Directory
3 26 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (1.61%) Virtual Machines
5 11 (1.37%) vSphere
6 10 (1.24%) KVM
7 8 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.75%) VMware NSX
10 4 (0.50%) vCloud
10 4 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.37%) VMware Workstation
12 2 (0.25%) Firmware
13 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 1 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.12%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.12%) Xen
Systems Management
1 59 (7.33%) Terraform
2 58 (7.20%) Kubernetes
3 18 (2.24%) Ansible
4 11 (1.37%) Grafana
5 10 (1.24%) Kibana
6 9 (1.12%) logstash
7 8 (0.99%) PingFederate
8 7 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
8 7 (0.87%) vCenter Server
9 6 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.62%) SCCM
11 4 (0.50%) Prometheus
12 3 (0.37%) Docker Swarm
12 3 (0.37%) Nessus
12 3 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.37%) Puppet
12 3 (0.37%) SysTrack
13 2 (0.25%) vRealize
13 2 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
13 2 (0.25%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 164 (20.37%) Microsoft
2 70 (8.70%) Oracle
3 63 (7.83%) Google
4 34 (4.22%) VMware
5 33 (4.10%) ServiceNow
6 31 (3.85%) SAP
7 29 (3.60%) Cisco
8 19 (2.36%) Salesforce
9 18 (2.24%) Databricks
9 18 (2.24%) Genesys
10 13 (1.61%) IBM
10 13 (1.61%) Red Hat
11 10 (1.24%) Avaya
11 10 (1.24%) Juniper
12 8 (0.99%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.87%) Adobe
13 7 (0.87%) Arista
13 7 (0.87%) CA
13 7 (0.87%) F5
13 7 (0.87%) Qualys