Computer Science Jobs in the South East

Computer Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 43 32
Rank change year-on-year +12 -11 +2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,057 844 1,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 5.91% 6.13% 8.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.13% 6.50% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 769 449 639
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +16.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,831 12,988 19,581
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 94.36% 94.67%
Number of salaries quoted 10,186 7,705 11,814
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,550 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,339 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the South East.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley +20 543 £60,000 -7.69% 97
Berkshire +26 258 £67,500 -15.63% 52
Buckinghamshire +51 177 £42,500 -30.10% 22
Hampshire +1 166 £50,000 +25.00% 32
Surrey -7 137 £58,500 -10.00% 33
Oxfordshire -11 108 £52,500 +2.44% 24
West Sussex +6 72 £64,000 -9.86% 16
East Sussex +19 61 £50,000 - 25
Kent -7 51 £65,000 +128.07% 17
Sussex - 14 £60,000 - 3
Middlesex - 8 £62,500 - 1
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 10 (0.95%) OpenStack
2 8 (0.76%) SAS
3 7 (0.66%) CMS
3 7 (0.66%) IIS
4 6 (0.57%) Apache
4 6 (0.57%) nginx
5 5 (0.47%) Confluence
6 4 (0.38%) Tomcat
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.19%) SharePoint
8 1 (0.095%) JBoss
8 1 (0.095%) Sitecore CMS
8 1 (0.095%) Umbraco
Applications
1 55 (5.20%) Simulink
2 18 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.04%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.19%) Stateflow
5 2 (0.19%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.095%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.095%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.095%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.51%) NetSuite
2 10 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.47%) Odoo
4 4 (0.38%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 161 (15.23%) Azure
2 133 (12.58%) AWS
3 41 (3.88%) SaaS
4 40 (3.78%) Power Platform
5 34 (3.22%) Serverless
6 33 (3.12%) AWS Lambda
7 31 (2.93%) Microsoft 365
8 25 (2.37%) GCP
9 20 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 20 (1.89%) GitHub
10 15 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 15 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
11 14 (1.32%) IaaS
12 13 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (1.23%) CloudFront
12 13 (1.23%) Route 53
12 13 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
13 12 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 44 (4.16%) Firewall
2 36 (3.41%) Network Security
3 27 (2.55%) Intrusion Detection
4 19 (1.80%) VPN
5 18 (1.70%) TCP/IP
6 17 (1.61%) HTTP
6 17 (1.61%) Internet
7 16 (1.51%) Wireless
8 10 (0.95%) LAN
8 10 (0.95%) SSL
8 10 (0.95%) WAN
9 7 (0.66%) DNS
10 6 (0.57%) BGP
10 6 (0.57%) IPsec
10 6 (0.57%) OSPF
10 6 (0.57%) VLAN
11 5 (0.47%) NGFW
11 5 (0.47%) SAN
12 4 (0.38%) NAS
13 3 (0.28%) RS-485
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (10.79%) SQL Server
2 95 (8.99%) NoSQL
3 45 (4.26%) PostgreSQL
4 40 (3.78%) Relational Database
5 39 (3.69%) Power BI
6 28 (2.65%) MySQL
7 18 (1.70%) MongoDB
8 17 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
9 16 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
10 15 (1.42%) Tableau
11 12 (1.14%) DynamoDB
12 11 (1.04%) GIS
13 10 (0.95%) Redis
14 9 (0.85%) Big Data
15 7 (0.66%) Hadoop
16 6 (0.57%) EDMS
17 4 (0.38%) Amazon Athena
17 4 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
17 4 (0.38%) Data Lake
17 4 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 166 (15.70%) Git
2 33 (3.12%) Selenium
3 32 (3.03%) Cypress.io
4 29 (2.74%) Subversion
5 26 (2.46%) GitLab
6 25 (2.37%) Visual Studio
7 20 (1.89%) CMake
7 20 (1.89%) Vagrant
8 19 (1.80%) JIRA
9 13 (1.23%) Jenkins
10 12 (1.14%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.57%) NUnit
11 6 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (0.47%) Maven
12 5 (0.47%) Moq
12 5 (0.47%) TestRail
13 4 (0.38%) TeamCity
14 3 (0.28%) Babel
14 3 (0.28%) GDB
14 3 (0.28%) webpack
General
1 308 (29.14%) Social Skills
2 126 (11.92%) Analytical Skills
3 119 (11.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 85 (8.04%) Finance
5 45 (4.26%) Electronics
6 42 (3.97%) Manufacturing
7 40 (3.78%) Military
8 33 (3.12%) Marketing
9 26 (2.46%) Legal
10 23 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.99%) Public Sector
12 20 (1.89%) Retail
13 19 (1.80%) Aviation
13 19 (1.80%) Telecoms
14 16 (1.51%) Aerospace
15 15 (1.42%) Games
16 13 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.04%) Law
17 11 (1.04%) Publishing
18 7 (0.66%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 295 (27.91%) Developer
2 183 (17.31%) Senior
3 177 (16.75%) Software Engineer
4 135 (12.77%) Software Developer
5 121 (11.45%) Data Scientist
6 74 (7.00%) Senior Developer
7 64 (6.05%) Lead
8 56 (5.30%) Architect
9 53 (5.01%) Graduate
10 50 (4.73%) Junior
11 40 (3.78%) Analyst
12 39 (3.69%) Senior Software Developer
13 37 (3.50%) Senior Software Engineer
14 34 (3.22%) C++ Software Engineer
14 34 (3.22%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
15 29 (2.74%) Graduate Developer
16 25 (2.37%) Full Stack Developer
17 22 (2.08%) Lead Developer
17 22 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
18 21 (1.99%) ERP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (17.41%) .NET
2 164 (15.52%) React
3 112 (10.60%) HTML
4 97 (9.18%) CSS
5 70 (6.62%) AngularJS
6 66 (6.24%) HTML5
7 56 (5.30%) CSS3
8 52 (4.92%) .NET Core
9 36 (3.41%) ASP.NET
10 31 (2.93%) Jest
10 31 (2.93%) XML
11 28 (2.65%) Node.js
12 27 (2.55%) Kafka
12 27 (2.55%) Middleware
12 27 (2.55%) RESTful
13 24 (2.27%) .NET Framework
14 22 (2.08%) Qt
14 22 (2.08%) React Native
15 21 (1.99%) ASP.NET MVC
15 21 (1.99%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 255 (24.12%) Algorithms
2 93 (8.80%) Management Information System
3 48 (4.54%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.07%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (3.69%) Data Centre
5 39 (3.69%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.55%) CUDA
7 21 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 21 (1.99%) Cyber Threat
8 20 (1.89%) IoT
9 18 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
11 15 (1.42%) Client/Server
12 12 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
12 12 (1.14%) Mobile App
13 10 (0.95%) Hybrid Cloud
13 10 (0.95%) NHS
14 9 (0.85%) Distributed Systems
14 9 (0.85%) FMCG
14 9 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 162 (15.33%) Linux
2 130 (12.30%) Windows
3 40 (3.78%) Unix
4 39 (3.69%) Android
5 22 (2.08%) Windows Server
6 21 (1.99%) CentOS
6 21 (1.99%) Embedded Linux
6 21 (1.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 21 (1.99%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.47%) Kali Linux
8 5 (0.47%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.095%) Solaris
9 1 (0.095%) VMS
9 1 (0.095%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.095%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (37.94%) Problem-Solving
2 340 (32.17%) Agile
3 310 (29.33%) Mathematics
4 287 (27.15%) Software Engineering
5 224 (21.19%) Artificial Intelligence
6 191 (18.07%) Mentoring
7 176 (16.65%) DevOps
8 175 (16.56%) Cybersecurity
9 160 (15.14%) Decision-Making
10 152 (14.38%) Coaching
11 151 (14.29%) Physics
12 142 (13.43%) Machine Learning
13 141 (13.34%) Data Science
14 137 (12.96%) Data Analysis
15 112 (10.60%) Red Team
16 106 (10.03%) Statistical Modelling
17 102 (9.65%) Digital Forensics
18 100 (9.46%) Propensity Modelling
19 81 (7.66%) CI/CD
20 76 (7.19%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 349 (33.02%) Python
2 286 (27.06%) C#
3 272 (25.73%) JavaScript
4 191 (18.07%) C++
5 178 (16.84%) SQL
6 125 (11.83%) C
7 123 (11.64%) Java
8 113 (10.69%) TypeScript
9 93 (8.80%) Fortran
10 43 (4.07%) Bash
11 42 (3.97%) Go
12 41 (3.88%) PHP
13 31 (2.93%) Kotlin
14 22 (2.08%) PowerShell
15 21 (1.99%) R
16 18 (1.70%) MATLAB
17 9 (0.85%) T-SQL
18 8 (0.76%) Perl
19 7 (0.66%) Data Analysis Expressions
20 5 (0.47%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 1,006 (95.18%) Degree
2 529 (50.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 180 (17.03%) Master's Degree
4 155 (14.66%) Security Cleared
5 106 (10.03%) PhD
6 76 (7.19%) SC Cleared
7 37 (3.50%) CISSP
8 29 (2.74%) AWS Certification
9 21 (1.99%) CompTIA Security+
9 21 (1.99%) DV Cleared
9 21 (1.99%) Numerate Degree
10 17 (1.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (1.23%) Cisco Certification
12 12 (1.14%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
13 11 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 11 (1.04%) CISM
14 10 (0.95%) GIAC
14 10 (0.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 9 (0.85%) MBA
15 9 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (5.96%) QA
2 38 (3.60%) GDPR
3 32 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 29 (2.74%) WCAG
5 28 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 21 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 16 (1.51%) NIST
8 15 (1.42%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.95%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.95%) GRC
10 9 (0.85%) SLA
11 8 (0.76%) ISO 13485
12 7 (0.66%) CDISC
12 7 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 7 (0.66%) NIST 800
13 6 (0.57%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.47%) PMO
15 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
15 2 (0.19%) NCSC
System Software
1 185 (17.50%) Docker
2 11 (1.04%) Firmware
3 10 (0.95%) Active Directory
4 9 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.47%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.19%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.19%) HDFS
6 2 (0.19%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.19%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (0.095%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.095%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 150 (14.19%) Kubernetes
2 46 (4.35%) Terraform
3 38 (3.60%) Ansible
4 13 (1.23%) ZABBIX
5 11 (1.04%) Puppet
6 7 (0.66%) Nessus
7 6 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 5 (0.47%) Suricata
9 3 (0.28%) Grafana
9 3 (0.28%) Nagios
10 2 (0.19%) Functional Safety
10 2 (0.19%) Netcool
10 2 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 1 (0.095%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.095%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.095%) QRadar
11 1 (0.095%) Red Hat Satellite
11 1 (0.095%) SCCM
11 1 (0.095%) SolarWinds Orion
11 1 (0.095%) WSUS
Vendors
1 127 (12.02%) Microsoft
2 44 (4.16%) Xilinx
3 28 (2.65%) Google
4 20 (1.89%) SAP
5 13 (1.23%) Xamarin
6 11 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 11 (1.04%) Oracle
7 10 (0.95%) Apple
8 9 (0.85%) Juniper
8 9 (0.85%) Salesforce
8 9 (0.85%) Splunk
9 8 (0.76%) IFS
9 8 (0.76%) ServiceNow
10 7 (0.66%) Cisco
11 6 (0.57%) iManage
11 6 (0.57%) Qualys
11 6 (0.57%) YouTube
12 5 (0.47%) Darktrace
12 5 (0.47%) New Relic
12 5 (0.47%) Palo Alto