Computer Science Degree Contracts in England

Computer Science Degree
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 121 228 320
Rank change year-on-year +107 +92 +2
Contract jobs citing Computer Science Degree 706 544 604
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.88% 1.16% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.16% 4.23% 3.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 454 390 415
10th Percentile £310 £330 £363
25th Percentile £413 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £653
90th Percentile £775 £900 £844
UK median daily rate £538 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -6.52% +4.55% +8.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 12 18
10th Percentile £35.50 £27.00 £17.81
25th Percentile £38.75 £29.81 £29.31
Median hourly rate £55.63 £54.44 £46.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% +17.70% +13.50%
75th Percentile £75.00 £65.19 £49.57
90th Percentile £83.75 £69.58 £55.88
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
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,463 12,852 15,408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.56% 27.32% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,093 8,593 10,289
10th Percentile £313 £350 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £652 £638
90th Percentile £738 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,006 655 691
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.35 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.00 £21.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.66 £55.00 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.07% +32.99% +14.88%
75th Percentile £64.25 £70.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.25 £68.00
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

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

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree within the England 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
London +76 415 £531 -11.46% 397
South East +30 74 £459 -8.25% 92
North of England +65 67 £490 -2.00% 103
Midlands +41 58 £550 +10.00% 87
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
North East - 12 £600 - 20
East Midlands +4 7 £748 +48.02% 35
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
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 19 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 14 (1.98%) Confluence
2 14 (1.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 12 (1.70%) Apache
4 11 (1.56%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.42%) CMS
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 2 (0.28%) Ethereum
7 2 (0.28%) Hyperledger
7 2 (0.28%) MQSeries
8 1 (0.14%) Drupal
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.14%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.14%) JBoss
8 1 (0.14%) Mendix
8 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
8 1 (0.14%) Tomcat
8 1 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.14%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.56%) MS Visio
4 10 (1.42%) Chatbot
5 9 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.42%) Windchill
7 2 (0.28%) Simulink
7 2 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Captivate
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.14%) OmniGraffle
8 1 (0.14%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.14%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 8 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (0.57%) Endur
2 4 (0.57%) Teamcenter
3 3 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
3 3 (0.42%) ENOVIA
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle 11i
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
3 3 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.28%) Magento
4 2 (0.28%) R3 Corda
4 2 (0.28%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 2 (0.28%) SAP Payroll
4 2 (0.28%) SAP SD
4 2 (0.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 1 (0.14%) BusinessWorks
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.14%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 179 (25.35%) Azure
2 143 (20.25%) AWS
3 93 (13.17%) GCP
4 48 (6.80%) Power Platform
5 29 (4.11%) Serverless
6 28 (3.97%) Microsoft 365
7 25 (3.54%) Cloud Computing
8 21 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
9 20 (2.83%) GitHub
10 17 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
11 15 (2.12%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.98%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (1.84%) PowerApps
14 12 (1.70%) Vertex AI
15 11 (1.56%) Entra ID
16 10 (1.42%) Azure Data Factory
16 10 (1.42%) GitHub Actions
16 10 (1.42%) Google Compute Engine
16 10 (1.42%) Power Automate
16 10 (1.42%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.25%) Firewall
2 21 (2.97%) Network Security
3 20 (2.83%) DNS
4 16 (2.27%) 5G
5 11 (1.56%) VPN
5 11 (1.56%) Wireshark
6 10 (1.42%) Internet
6 10 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.27%) LAN
7 9 (1.27%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.27%) VoIP
8 8 (1.13%) 4G
9 7 (0.99%) CTI
9 7 (0.99%) WAN
9 7 (0.99%) Wireless
10 6 (0.85%) 3G
10 6 (0.85%) DHCP
10 6 (0.85%) OSPF
10 6 (0.85%) Radio Access Network
10 6 (0.85%) RANAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (7.08%) Relational Database
2 45 (6.37%) Power BI
2 45 (6.37%) SQL Server
3 30 (4.25%) MySQL
4 25 (3.54%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (3.40%) PostgreSQL
6 21 (2.97%) Big Data
7 20 (2.83%) Tableau
8 18 (2.55%) BigQuery
8 18 (2.55%) NoSQL
9 17 (2.41%) Qlik Sense
10 14 (1.98%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.84%) Hadoop
12 12 (1.70%) Data Mining
13 10 (1.42%) Data Lake
13 10 (1.42%) Oracle Database
14 7 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
15 6 (0.85%) Couchbase
15 6 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
15 6 (0.85%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 70 (9.92%) Git
2 41 (5.81%) Jenkins
3 34 (4.82%) JIRA
4 22 (3.12%) GitLab
5 11 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 10 (1.42%) Gradle
7 9 (1.27%) JUnit
8 6 (0.85%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 6 (0.85%) CircleCI
8 6 (0.85%) Maven
9 5 (0.71%) MLflow
9 5 (0.71%) Selenium
10 4 (0.57%) Mercurial
10 4 (0.57%) Sourcetree
10 4 (0.57%) Subversion
10 4 (0.57%) Visual Studio
11 3 (0.42%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.42%) ERwin
11 3 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
11 3 (0.42%) Travis CI
General
1 382 (54.11%) Social Skills
2 182 (25.78%) Analytical Skills
3 147 (20.82%) Finance
4 64 (9.07%) Banking
5 37 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 28 (3.97%) Front Office
7 27 (3.82%) Telecoms
8 23 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
9 19 (2.69%) Legal
9 19 (2.69%) Retail
10 18 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 15 (2.12%) Marketing
12 14 (1.98%) Multimedia
13 13 (1.84%) Investment Banking
14 11 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 10 (1.42%) Financial Institution
16 8 (1.13%) Aerospace
16 8 (1.13%) Electronics
17 6 (0.85%) Automotive
17 6 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 126 (17.85%) Developer
2 104 (14.73%) Architect
3 51 (7.22%) Senior
4 43 (6.09%) Lead
4 43 (6.09%) Software Engineer
5 41 (5.81%) Analyst
6 38 (5.38%) DevOps Engineer
7 32 (4.53%) Data Engineer
8 31 (4.39%) Java Developer
9 28 (3.97%) Consultant
9 28 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
10 26 (3.68%) Network Engineer
11 22 (3.12%) Data Scientist
12 18 (2.55%) Senior Developer
13 17 (2.41%) Security Engineer
14 16 (2.27%) Azure Engineer
15 14 (1.98%) AWS Engineer
15 14 (1.98%) Project Manager
15 14 (1.98%) Technical Architect
16 13 (1.84%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (9.07%) CSS
2 60 (8.50%) HTML
3 40 (5.67%) React
4 38 (5.38%) AngularJS
5 31 (4.39%) .NET
5 31 (4.39%) REST
5 31 (4.39%) Spring
6 25 (3.54%) Kafka
6 25 (3.54%) RESTful
7 20 (2.83%) Web Services
8 13 (1.84%) JSON
9 12 (1.70%) Node.js
9 12 (1.70%) Spring Boot
10 11 (1.56%) jQuery
10 11 (1.56%) Middleware
10 11 (1.56%) XML
11 10 (1.42%) .NET Framework
11 10 (1.42%) ASP.NET
11 10 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
11 10 (1.42%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 65 (9.21%) Management Information System
2 51 (7.22%) Algorithms
3 32 (4.53%) Data Centre
4 31 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 29 (4.11%) Self-Motivation
6 22 (3.12%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 20 (2.83%) Derivative
8 18 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
9 17 (2.41%) Virtual Team
10 16 (2.27%) Fixed Income
11 13 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
12 12 (1.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 12 (1.70%) Mobile App
12 12 (1.70%) Security Posture
13 11 (1.56%) CMDB
13 11 (1.56%) Product Ownership
14 10 (1.42%) Cyber Defence
14 10 (1.42%) Legacy Code
14 10 (1.42%) Onboarding
15 9 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 63 (8.92%) Linux
2 51 (7.22%) Windows
3 23 (3.26%) Unix
4 21 (2.97%) Android
5 16 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 8 (1.13%) Apple iOS
6 8 (1.13%) Solaris
7 7 (0.99%) VMS
8 6 (0.85%) Oracle Linux
8 6 (0.85%) Windows 10
8 6 (0.85%) Windows 7
9 4 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.57%) Windows 8
10 3 (0.42%) Embedded Linux
10 3 (0.42%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.28%) HPUX
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2003
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
12 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (98.73%) Computer Science
2 328 (46.46%) Problem-Solving
3 189 (26.77%) Agile
4 129 (18.27%) DevOps
5 103 (14.59%) Software Engineering
6 92 (13.03%) CI/CD
7 80 (11.33%) Data Science
8 79 (11.19%) Data Modelling
9 76 (10.76%) Migration
10 71 (10.06%) Analytics
11 65 (9.21%) Machine Learning
12 60 (8.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 60 (8.50%) ITIL
13 59 (8.36%) Project Management
14 56 (7.93%) Artificial Intelligence
14 56 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
15 52 (7.37%) Roadmaps
16 51 (7.22%) Microservices
16 51 (7.22%) Scrum
17 49 (6.94%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 171 (24.22%) Python
2 138 (19.55%) SQL
3 110 (15.58%) Java
4 88 (12.46%) JavaScript
5 43 (6.09%) C#
6 40 (5.67%) PowerShell
7 37 (5.24%) C++
8 31 (4.39%) Bash
9 23 (3.26%) TypeScript
10 20 (2.83%) C
11 18 (2.55%) R
12 17 (2.41%) Scala
13 14 (1.98%) Kotlin
14 12 (1.70%) Perl
15 11 (1.56%) Go
15 11 (1.56%) Shell Script
16 10 (1.42%) PL/SQL
17 8 (1.13%) VBA
18 7 (0.99%) MATLAB
18 7 (0.99%) PHP
Qualifications
1 706 (100.00%) Degree
2 131 (18.56%) Master's Degree
3 101 (14.31%) Security Cleared
4 67 (9.49%) SC Cleared
5 35 (4.96%) CISSP
6 32 (4.53%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (3.97%) Azure Certification
8 26 (3.68%) DV Cleared
9 23 (3.26%) PMI Certification
9 23 (3.26%) PMP
10 20 (2.83%) CCNP
11 19 (2.69%) CCNA
11 19 (2.69%) CEH
12 18 (2.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.98%) ITIL Certification
14 13 (1.84%) PhD
15 12 (1.70%) CISM
16 11 (1.56%) AWS Certification
16 11 (1.56%) CCIE
17 9 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (7.51%) QA
2 36 (5.10%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.42%) NIST
4 9 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 9 (1.27%) GDPR
4 9 (1.27%) SLA
5 7 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.71%) HIPAA
7 4 (0.57%) SOC 2
8 3 (0.42%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.42%) GRC
8 3 (0.42%) HL7
8 3 (0.42%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.28%) COBIT
9 2 (0.28%) ISO 22301
9 2 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.28%) MiFID
9 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 39 (5.52%) Docker
2 26 (3.68%) Active Directory
3 24 (3.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.56%) vSphere
5 9 (1.27%) KVM
5 9 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.71%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.57%) vCloud
8 4 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.28%) Firmware
9 2 (0.28%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (0.14%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.14%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.14%) Xen
Systems Management
1 52 (7.37%) Terraform
2 50 (7.08%) Kubernetes
3 16 (2.27%) Ansible
4 8 (1.13%) PingFederate
5 7 (0.99%) Grafana
5 7 (0.99%) Kibana
5 7 (0.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 7 (0.99%) vCenter Server
6 6 (0.85%) logstash
7 5 (0.71%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.71%) SCCM
8 4 (0.57%) Nessus
9 3 (0.42%) Docker Swarm
9 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.42%) Puppet
9 3 (0.42%) SysTrack
10 2 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.28%) vRealize
10 2 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.14%) Consul
Vendors
1 132 (18.70%) Microsoft
2 52 (7.37%) Oracle
3 48 (6.80%) Google
4 40 (5.67%) ServiceNow
5 33 (4.67%) VMware
6 23 (3.26%) SAP
7 22 (3.12%) Cisco
8 15 (2.12%) Databricks
9 13 (1.84%) Red Hat
10 12 (1.70%) IBM
10 12 (1.70%) Salesforce
11 10 (1.42%) Genesys
11 10 (1.42%) Juniper
12 8 (1.13%) Qualys
13 7 (0.99%) Arista
13 7 (0.99%) Foundry
13 7 (0.99%) ION Trading
13 7 (0.99%) Palantir
13 7 (0.99%) SolarWinds
14 6 (0.85%) NetScout
960 Computer Science Degree jobs Nationwide