Computer Science Contracts in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 26 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 108 158
Rank change year-on-year +45 +50 -39
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 1,136 1,132 1,285
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 3.11% 2.36% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.61% 2.62% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 769 833
10th Percentile £313 £377 £350
25th Percentile £400 £488 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £585
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -1.71% +6.36%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £725
90th Percentile £800 £875 £850
UK median daily rate £525 £573 £585
% change year-on-year -8.30% -2.14% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 40 60
10th Percentile £21.79 £19.00 £19.52
25th Percentile £41.25 £25.84 £32.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £54.44 £47.11
Median % change year-on-year +1.04% +15.56% +16.58%
75th Percentile £66.25 £65.00 £52.41
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.38 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £54.44 £45.00
% change year-on-year +1.04% +20.97% +11.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,427 43,202 64,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.97% 90.01% 90.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,583 30,310 45,616
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,283 1,523 1,720
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.93 £15.86 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +9.28%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 26 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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
London +25 681 £550 -8.33% 1,372
South East +11 126 £450 -14.29% 744
North of England +75 108 £500 +2.88% 203
Midlands +60 80 £519 +3.75% 188
West Midlands +56 69 £513 -2.38% 86
North West +50 56 £500 +2.88% 113
South West +8 55 £588 +6.82% 104
East of England +39 47 £500 - 180
Yorkshire +36 43 £484 -10.05% 56
North East +20 11 £600 - 37
East Midlands +9 11 £625 +25.00% 96
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 29 (2.55%) Confluence
2 22 (1.94%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 14 (1.23%) Apache Spark
5 13 (1.14%) Apache
5 13 (1.14%) SAS
6 12 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
7 5 (0.44%) Jupyter
8 4 (0.35%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2003
8 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2007
8 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (0.35%) Exchange Server 2013
8 4 (0.35%) Skype for Business
9 3 (0.26%) CMS
9 3 (0.26%) Ethereum
9 3 (0.26%) Gunicorn
9 3 (0.26%) Hyperledger
9 3 (0.26%) nginx
9 3 (0.26%) Oracle Self-Service HR
Applications
1 47 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
2 27 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 22 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 21 (1.85%) Simulink
5 20 (1.76%) Stateflow
6 12 (1.06%) Chatbot
7 11 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 9 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
9 4 (0.35%) SPSS
10 3 (0.26%) Windchill
11 2 (0.18%) Stata
12 1 (0.088%) Adobe Illustrator
12 1 (0.088%) CATIA
12 1 (0.088%) InVision
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Project
12 1 (0.088%) OmniGraffle
12 1 (0.088%) Photoshop
12 1 (0.088%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 13 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 7 (0.62%) Teamcenter
3 6 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.26%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.26%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle 11i
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle EBS R12
4 3 (0.26%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (0.26%) Orchestrade
4 3 (0.26%) R3 Corda
4 3 (0.26%) SAP MDG
4 3 (0.26%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.18%) Endur
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.18%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.18%) SAP Payroll
5 2 (0.18%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 270 (23.77%) Azure
2 183 (16.11%) AWS
3 120 (10.56%) GCP
4 64 (5.63%) Azure DevOps
5 52 (4.58%) Power Platform
6 38 (3.35%) Cloud Computing
7 36 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
8 33 (2.90%) GitHub
8 33 (2.90%) Serverless
9 24 (2.11%) PaaS
9 24 (2.11%) SaaS
10 21 (1.85%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.67%) AWS Lambda
12 18 (1.58%) Entra ID
13 17 (1.50%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.41%) PowerApps
15 15 (1.32%) Snowflake
15 15 (1.32%) Vertex AI
16 13 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
17 12 (1.06%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 44 (3.87%) Firewall
2 40 (3.52%) DNS
3 26 (2.29%) Network Security
4 22 (1.94%) Internet
4 22 (1.94%) VPN
4 22 (1.94%) WAN
5 21 (1.85%) TCP/IP
6 20 (1.76%) DHCP
6 20 (1.76%) LAN
6 20 (1.76%) Wireless
7 16 (1.41%) Wireshark
8 14 (1.23%) Cisco Nexus
9 12 (1.06%) 5G
9 12 (1.06%) VoIP
10 11 (0.97%) HTTP
10 11 (0.97%) OSPF
10 11 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (0.79%) BGP
11 9 (0.79%) MPLS
12 8 (0.70%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 51 (4.49%) Relational Database
3 48 (4.23%) Big Data
4 46 (4.05%) Power BI
4 46 (4.05%) Tableau
5 45 (3.96%) Data Warehouse
6 41 (3.61%) PostgreSQL
7 38 (3.35%) NoSQL
8 26 (2.29%) MySQL
9 21 (1.85%) BigQuery
9 21 (1.85%) Hadoop
10 17 (1.50%) MongoDB
11 15 (1.32%) Data Lake
11 15 (1.32%) Data Mining
12 12 (1.06%) KDB
12 12 (1.06%) Oracle Database
13 10 (0.88%) Amazon RDS
13 10 (0.88%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
14 9 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 101 (8.89%) Git
2 70 (6.16%) JIRA
3 61 (5.37%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.64%) GitLab
5 20 (1.76%) Bitbucket
6 14 (1.23%) Gradle
7 10 (0.88%) JUnit
8 9 (0.79%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 9 (0.79%) Subversion
9 8 (0.70%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.62%) Artifactory
10 7 (0.62%) ERwin
10 7 (0.62%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (0.62%) Selenium
11 6 (0.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (0.53%) Cypress.io
11 6 (0.53%) Postman
11 6 (0.53%) Visual Studio
12 5 (0.44%) MLflow
12 5 (0.44%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 544 (47.89%) Social Skills
2 262 (23.06%) Analytical Skills
3 250 (22.01%) Finance
4 83 (7.31%) Banking
5 65 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 58 (5.11%) Front Office
7 52 (4.58%) Telecoms
8 50 (4.40%) Legal
9 41 (3.61%) Marketing
10 40 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (2.55%) Retail
12 26 (2.29%) Automotive
13 22 (1.94%) Electronics
14 21 (1.85%) Investment Banking
15 20 (1.76%) Financial Institution
15 20 (1.76%) Manufacturing
16 19 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
17 16 (1.41%) Aerospace
18 15 (1.32%) Multimedia
19 12 (1.06%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 210 (18.49%) Developer
2 163 (14.35%) Architect
3 122 (10.74%) Senior
4 94 (8.27%) Analyst
5 84 (7.39%) Software Engineer
6 71 (6.25%) Solutions Architect
7 56 (4.93%) Java Developer
8 49 (4.31%) Lead
9 45 (3.96%) DevOps Engineer
10 43 (3.79%) Data Engineer
11 41 (3.61%) Consultant
11 41 (3.61%) Network Engineer
12 27 (2.38%) Data Analyst
12 27 (2.38%) Python Developer
13 25 (2.20%) Data Scientist
13 25 (2.20%) Senior Developer
14 23 (2.02%) Azure Engineer
15 22 (1.94%) Business Analyst
16 20 (1.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 18 (1.58%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (5.81%) CSS
2 65 (5.72%) HTML
3 64 (5.63%) .NET
4 51 (4.49%) React
5 42 (3.70%) REST
6 38 (3.35%) Kafka
7 37 (3.26%) Spring
8 36 (3.17%) RESTful
9 30 (2.64%) AngularJS
10 24 (2.11%) JSON
10 24 (2.11%) XML
11 23 (2.02%) Node.js
11 23 (2.02%) Pandas
12 21 (1.85%) Web Services
13 20 (1.76%) NumPy
14 16 (1.41%) PyTorch
15 15 (1.32%) Django
15 15 (1.32%) Middleware
16 14 (1.23%) .NET Framework
16 14 (1.23%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 120 (10.56%) Algorithms
2 108 (9.51%) Management Information System
3 56 (4.93%) Data Structures
4 55 (4.84%) Self-Motivation
5 50 (4.40%) Data Centre
6 41 (3.61%) Derivative
7 34 (2.99%) Product Ownership
8 31 (2.73%) Fixed Income
9 29 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
10 27 (2.38%) Virtual Team
11 23 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
12 19 (1.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 18 (1.58%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (1.58%) Mobile App
14 17 (1.50%) CMDB
14 17 (1.50%) Social Media
15 16 (1.41%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 16 (1.41%) Onboarding
16 14 (1.23%) Security Posture
17 13 (1.14%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 105 (9.24%) Linux
2 96 (8.45%) Windows
3 58 (5.11%) Unix
4 31 (2.73%) Android
5 30 (2.64%) Windows Server
6 12 (1.06%) Apple iOS
7 11 (0.97%) Solaris
8 8 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
9 7 (0.62%) VMS
9 7 (0.62%) Windows 10
9 7 (0.62%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.53%) Oracle Linux
11 5 (0.44%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2003
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
12 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.35%) Windows 8
12 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2008
13 3 (0.26%) Mac OS
13 3 (0.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 326 (28.70%) Agile
3 187 (16.46%) DevOps
4 182 (16.02%) Software Engineering
5 149 (13.12%) CI/CD
6 135 (11.88%) Analytics
7 129 (11.36%) Migration
8 122 (10.74%) Mathematics
9 118 (10.39%) Data Science
10 117 (10.30%) Data Modelling
11 114 (10.04%) Machine Learning
12 104 (9.15%) Test Automation
13 88 (7.75%) ITIL
13 88 (7.75%) Scrum
14 87 (7.66%) Artificial Intelligence
15 85 (7.48%) Roadmaps
16 82 (7.22%) Decision-Making
17 80 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
18 78 (6.87%) Data Analysis
18 78 (6.87%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 302 (26.58%) Python
2 248 (21.83%) SQL
3 189 (16.64%) Java
4 107 (9.42%) JavaScript
5 91 (8.01%) C#
6 71 (6.25%) C++
7 60 (5.28%) PowerShell
8 44 (3.87%) Bash
9 31 (2.73%) R
10 30 (2.64%) MATLAB
11 28 (2.46%) TypeScript
12 27 (2.38%) C
13 24 (2.11%) Go
14 21 (1.85%) Rust
15 20 (1.76%) Scala
16 19 (1.67%) Kotlin
16 19 (1.67%) Perl
16 19 (1.67%) Shell Script
17 15 (1.32%) PL/SQL
18 13 (1.14%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1,020 (89.79%) Degree
2 656 (57.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 199 (17.52%) Master's Degree
4 128 (11.27%) Security Cleared
5 95 (8.36%) SC Cleared
6 59 (5.19%) Cisco Certification
7 48 (4.23%) PhD
8 40 (3.52%) CISSP
9 36 (3.17%) Azure Certification
10 35 (3.08%) CCNA
11 34 (2.99%) DV Cleared
12 33 (2.90%) CCNP
13 27 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 22 (1.94%) ITIL Certification
14 22 (1.94%) Numerate Degree
15 20 (1.76%) PMI Certification
15 20 (1.76%) PMP
16 18 (1.58%) CEH
17 14 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (1.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (7.92%) QA
2 61 (5.37%) Data Quality
3 19 (1.67%) SLA
4 14 (1.23%) Accessibility
4 14 (1.23%) NIST
5 13 (1.14%) GDPR
6 8 (0.70%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.62%) MiFID
8 6 (0.53%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.53%) GRC
9 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.35%) COBIT
10 4 (0.35%) Dodd-Frank
10 4 (0.35%) JTAG
10 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.26%) ISO 20022
11 3 (0.26%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 60 (5.28%) Docker
2 43 (3.79%) Active Directory
3 41 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (1.41%) vSphere
6 14 (1.23%) Hyper-V
6 14 (1.23%) VMware NSX
7 12 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.88%) KVM
9 6 (0.53%) Firmware
10 4 (0.35%) Embedded Firmware
10 4 (0.35%) NFS
10 4 (0.35%) vCloud
10 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.35%) VirtualBox
11 3 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.088%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.088%) Terminal Services
12 1 (0.088%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.088%) Xen
Systems Management
1 82 (7.22%) Kubernetes
2 64 (5.63%) Terraform
3 23 (2.02%) Ansible
4 13 (1.14%) PingFederate
5 12 (1.06%) vCenter Server
6 11 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
7 10 (0.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.88%) SCCM
8 8 (0.70%) Grafana
8 8 (0.70%) Kibana
9 7 (0.62%) logstash
9 7 (0.62%) Nessus
10 5 (0.44%) OpenView
10 5 (0.44%) Prometheus
11 4 (0.35%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.35%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.35%) Puppet
11 4 (0.35%) WSUS
12 3 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 3 (0.26%) SCOM
Vendors
1 205 (18.05%) Microsoft
2 75 (6.60%) Oracle
3 65 (5.72%) Google
4 55 (4.84%) Cisco
4 55 (4.84%) SAP
5 53 (4.67%) VMware
6 44 (3.87%) ServiceNow
7 30 (2.64%) Databricks
8 20 (1.76%) IBM
9 18 (1.58%) Juniper
10 15 (1.32%) Red Hat
11 14 (1.23%) Salesforce
12 13 (1.14%) Atlassian
12 13 (1.14%) Splunk
13 12 (1.06%) ION Trading
13 12 (1.06%) Palo Alto
14 11 (0.97%) Foundry
14 11 (0.97%) Genesys
14 11 (0.97%) Palantir
14 11 (0.97%) SolarWinds