Computer Science Contracts in the West Midlands

Computer Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 97 130
Rank change year-on-year +53 +33 -30
Contract jobs citing Computer Science 76 32 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.79% 1.45% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 1.65% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 24 25
10th Percentile £309 £366 £290
25th Percentile £425 £461 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £659 £688
90th Percentile £645 £738 £796
England median daily rate £525 £550 £590
% change year-on-year -4.55% -6.78% +7.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £22.33 £24.63 £13.50
Median hourly rate £56.25 £25.25 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +122.77% +80.36% -
75th Percentile £72.50 £25.88 £14.50
90th Percentile £73.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £55.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +10.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,649 1,938 3,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.24% 87.65% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 1,313 2,350
10th Percentile £263 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £495
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.00% +16.53%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £586
90th Percentile £734 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 118 51 58
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £12.18
25th Percentile £14.31 £14.03 £13.90
Median hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year - +30.43% +15.00%
75th Percentile £40.38 £28.75 £19.97
90th Percentile £58.75 £47.50 £24.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 9 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
Birmingham +27 23 £450 -6.25% 35
Warwickshire +7 22 £450 -25.00% 7
Worcestershire +16 14 £550 -8.33% 10
Solihull -7 4 - - 3
Staffordshire +9 3 £115 -75.79% 17
Coventry - 3 £300 - 5
Herefordshire - 1 £400 - 1
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (3.95%) Apache
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.32%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.32%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.21%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.63%) Simulink
3 1 (1.32%) Stateflow
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.32%) SAP ERP
1 1 (1.32%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Azure
2 4 (5.26%) Azure Sentinel
2 4 (5.26%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.95%) AWS
3 3 (3.95%) Azure Functions
3 3 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (3.95%) Serverless
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.63%) Amazon S3
4 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.63%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.32%) Azure App Service
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.32%) dbt
5 1 (1.32%) GitHub
5 1 (1.32%) IaaS
5 1 (1.32%) Matillion
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.32%) PaaS
5 1 (1.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.89%) DHCP
1 6 (7.89%) DNS
2 5 (6.58%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (6.58%) Ethereal
2 5 (6.58%) Ethernet
2 5 (6.58%) LAN
2 5 (6.58%) WAN
2 5 (6.58%) Wireless
2 5 (6.58%) Wireshark
3 3 (3.95%) Firewall
4 2 (2.63%) Network Security
4 2 (2.63%) SAN
5 1 (1.32%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.32%) Unified Communications
5 1 (1.32%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.58%) Data Mining
2 4 (5.26%) Power BI
3 3 (3.95%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.63%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.63%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.63%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.63%) Tableau
5 1 (1.32%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (1.32%) Big Data
5 1 (1.32%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.32%) Flink
5 1 (1.32%) Hadoop
5 1 (1.32%) Presto
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Git
1 5 (6.58%) Jenkins
2 4 (5.26%) GitLab
3 2 (2.63%) Artifactory
3 2 (2.63%) Travis CI
4 1 (1.32%) JIRA
4 1 (1.32%) NUnit
4 1 (1.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 43 (56.58%) Social Skills
2 31 (40.79%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.58%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.26%) German Language
4 4 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Electronics
6 2 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.63%) Law
6 2 (2.63%) Retail
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Marketing
7 1 (1.32%) Multimedia
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 12 (15.79%) DevOps Engineer
2 11 (14.47%) Architect
3 10 (13.16%) Developer
4 8 (10.53%) Analyst
4 8 (10.53%) Senior
5 6 (7.89%) Java Developer
5 6 (7.89%) Network Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Data Architect
6 5 (6.58%) Data Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Network Support
6 5 (6.58%) Network Support Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Enterprise Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Lead
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.95%) Systems Analyst
9 2 (2.63%) Data Centre Engineer
9 2 (2.63%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.89%) Spring
2 5 (6.58%) Middleware
3 3 (3.95%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.95%) Kafka
3 3 (3.95%) React
3 3 (3.95%) REST
4 2 (2.63%) Apache NiFi
4 2 (2.63%) CSS
4 2 (2.63%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.63%) HTML
5 1 (1.32%) .NET
5 1 (1.32%) Dask
5 1 (1.32%) Guice
5 1 (1.32%) Keras
5 1 (1.32%) NumPy
5 1 (1.32%) PySpark
5 1 (1.32%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.32%) SAP PI
5 1 (1.32%) SOAP
5 1 (1.32%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.11%) Data Centre
2 10 (13.16%) Management Information System
3 8 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (7.89%) Algorithms
5 5 (6.58%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (6.58%) SCADA
6 4 (5.26%) Cyber Defence
7 3 (3.95%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.95%) Industry 4.0
7 3 (3.95%) IoT
7 3 (3.95%) Virtual Team
8 2 (2.63%) CCTV
8 2 (2.63%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.63%) Data Structures
8 2 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
8 2 (2.63%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (2.63%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Unix
2 6 (7.89%) Windows
3 4 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (32.89%) DevOps
3 18 (23.68%) Decision-Making
3 18 (23.68%) Software Engineering
4 13 (17.11%) Agile
5 11 (14.47%) User Experience
6 10 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 10 (13.16%) ITIL
6 10 (13.16%) Migration
6 10 (13.16%) Workflow
7 8 (10.53%) Analytical Thinking
7 8 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.53%) Service Management
8 7 (9.21%) Analytics
8 7 (9.21%) Data Science
9 6 (7.89%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (7.89%) Microservices
9 6 (7.89%) User Acceptance Testing
10 5 (6.58%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.47%) Python
2 10 (13.16%) SQL
3 8 (10.53%) Java
4 5 (6.58%) PowerShell
5 4 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.63%) C#
6 2 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (2.63%) MATLAB
6 2 (2.63%) Perl
7 1 (1.32%) PHP
7 1 (1.32%) Scala
Qualifications
1 73 (96.05%) Degree
2 49 (64.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 21 (27.63%) Security Cleared
4 11 (14.47%) DV Cleared
5 10 (13.16%) Master's Degree
6 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
7 6 (7.89%) CCNA
7 6 (7.89%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (5.26%) CISSP
9 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (3.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 2 (2.63%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.63%) CEH
10 2 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 1 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.32%) PhD
11 1 (1.32%) PMI Certification
11 1 (1.32%) PMP
11 1 (1.32%) SAP Certification
11 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.47%) QA
2 2 (2.63%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.32%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (5.26%) Virtual Desktop
2 3 (3.95%) Docker
2 3 (3.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) vSphere
4 1 (1.32%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.58%) OpenView
2 3 (3.95%) SysTrack
2 3 (3.95%) Terraform
3 2 (2.63%) Ansible
3 2 (2.63%) Kibana
3 2 (2.63%) logstash
Vendors
1 15 (19.74%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.89%) SAP
3 5 (6.58%) BMC
3 5 (6.58%) Cisco
4 3 (3.95%) Citrix
4 3 (3.95%) New Relic
4 3 (3.95%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.95%) VMware
5 2 (2.63%) Confluent
5 2 (2.63%) Informatica
5 2 (2.63%) NVIDIA
5 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.32%) Mitel
6 1 (1.32%) Oracle
6 1 (1.32%) Splunk
6 1 (1.32%) Teradata
6 1 (1.32%) Xilinx