Computer Science Jobs

Computer Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 41 56 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,140 5,110 12,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.88% 5.39% 7.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.84% 5.65% 7.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,428 2,967 3,660
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,150 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,188 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £106,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,980 90,493 162,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.59% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,356 54,578 82,967
10th Percentile £29,284 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the UK 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
England +12 4,302 £60,000 -7.69% 1,807
UK excluding London +18 3,448 £52,500 -4.55% 919
London +4 1,526 £75,000 -6.25% 942
Work from Home +16 1,497 £60,000 -11.11% 785
South East +12 1,057 £60,000 +3.45% 246
North of England +70 670 £47,500 -13.64% 198
Scotland +3 588 £52,500 -4.55% 71
Midlands +22 411 £50,000 -9.09% 166
North West +62 383 £50,000 -16.67% 122
South West +15 364 £52,500 -11.30% 100
West Midlands +32 274 £50,000 -9.09% 82
East of England -6 255 £45,000 -10.00% 123
Yorkshire +83 224 £42,000 -20.00% 51
East Midlands +1 131 £42,500 -15.00% 84
North East +2 63 £48,000 +12.94% 28
Northern Ireland +13 47 £40,000 -20.00% 20
Wales -57 41 £34,000 -40.87% 12
Isle of Man - 14 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

Computer Science
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
1 113 (2.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 108 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 98 (1.91%) Apache Spark
4 49 (0.95%) Apache
5 48 (0.93%) CMS
6 45 (0.88%) FileNet
7 42 (0.82%) Confluence
8 34 (0.66%) IIS
9 31 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
10 28 (0.54%) SAS
11 19 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
11 19 (0.37%) WordPress
12 16 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.19%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.18%) nginx
16 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
17 7 (0.14%) Luigi
17 7 (0.14%) Moodle
18 6 (0.12%) Apache Pig
Applications
1 118 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
2 112 (2.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 63 (1.23%) Simulink
4 39 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.41%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.27%) Trello
7 11 (0.21%) SPSS
8 10 (0.19%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.16%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.058%) Sketch
13 2 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.039%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.039%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.039%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.019%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.019%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.019%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.019%) Revit
Business Applications
1 52 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.68%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.43%) NetSuite
3 22 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
4 11 (0.21%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
6 8 (0.16%) Shopify
7 7 (0.14%) Ripple
8 5 (0.097%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.097%) Endur
8 5 (0.097%) Odoo
9 4 (0.078%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.078%) Magento
9 4 (0.078%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.078%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.078%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.058%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.058%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.058%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 976 (18.99%) AWS
2 927 (18.04%) Azure
3 301 (5.86%) Power Platform
4 279 (5.43%) GCP
5 267 (5.19%) Microsoft 365
6 172 (3.35%) SaaS
7 155 (3.02%) GitHub
8 137 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
8 137 (2.67%) Serverless
9 134 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 111 (2.16%) Azure DevOps
11 102 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
12 72 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 62 (1.21%) Power Automate
14 60 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
15 53 (1.03%) Amazon Kinesis
16 43 (0.84%) IaaS
17 42 (0.82%) PaaS
18 41 (0.80%) Dynamics 365
18 41 (0.80%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 194 (3.77%) Network Security
2 165 (3.21%) Firewall
3 148 (2.88%) WAN
4 146 (2.84%) Wireless
5 123 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 92 (1.79%) VPN
7 91 (1.77%) SD-WAN
8 87 (1.69%) DNS
9 73 (1.42%) HTTP
10 67 (1.30%) Internet
11 65 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
12 64 (1.25%) LAN
12 64 (1.25%) WebEx
13 51 (0.99%) Wi-Fi
14 45 (0.88%) DHCP
15 43 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
16 34 (0.66%) SAN
17 31 (0.60%) Ethernet
17 31 (0.60%) VLAN
18 25 (0.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 463 (9.01%) SQL Server
2 310 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 277 (5.39%) Power BI
4 195 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 189 (3.68%) Data Warehouse
6 186 (3.62%) MySQL
7 178 (3.46%) PostgreSQL
8 134 (2.61%) Redis
9 125 (2.43%) Big Data
10 84 (1.63%) Tableau
11 81 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
12 80 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 69 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
14 66 (1.28%) Hadoop
15 61 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 54 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
17 53 (1.03%) MongoDB
18 51 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
19 50 (0.97%) Data Lake
20 44 (0.86%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 544 (10.58%) Git
2 181 (3.52%) JIRA
3 144 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 94 (1.83%) GitLab
5 93 (1.81%) Visual Studio
6 73 (1.42%) JUnit
7 56 (1.09%) Selenium
8 53 (1.03%) Moq
9 52 (1.01%) Mockito
10 51 (0.99%) Jasmine
10 51 (0.99%) TeamCity
11 50 (0.97%) NUnit
12 41 (0.80%) Cypress.io
13 38 (0.74%) Subversion
14 34 (0.66%) CMake
15 30 (0.58%) Burp Suite
15 30 (0.58%) Postman
16 28 (0.54%) Bitbucket
16 28 (0.54%) Metasploit
17 26 (0.51%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,122 (41.28%) Social Skills
2 1,072 (20.86%) Finance
3 909 (17.68%) Analytical Skills
4 752 (14.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 465 (9.05%) Marketing
6 454 (8.83%) Law
7 260 (5.06%) Manufacturing
8 258 (5.02%) Electronics
9 200 (3.89%) Legal
10 185 (3.60%) Financial Institution
11 177 (3.44%) Banking
12 145 (2.82%) Games
13 144 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 144 (2.80%) Retail
14 126 (2.45%) Public Sector
15 111 (2.16%) Telecoms
16 90 (1.75%) Investment Banking
17 88 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
18 83 (1.61%) Automotive
19 63 (1.23%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,222 (23.77%) Developer
2 900 (17.51%) Senior
3 785 (15.27%) Software Engineer
4 436 (8.48%) Lead
5 304 (5.91%) Architect
6 300 (5.84%) Software Developer
7 292 (5.68%) Analyst
8 281 (5.47%) Senior Developer
9 219 (4.26%) Senior Software Engineer
10 217 (4.22%) Data Scientist
11 187 (3.64%) Junior
12 184 (3.58%) Engineering Manager
13 173 (3.37%) Graduate
14 165 (3.21%) Software Engineering Manager
15 144 (2.80%) Full Stack Developer
16 131 (2.55%) .NET Developer
17 117 (2.28%) IT Support
18 108 (2.10%) C# Developer
19 106 (2.06%) Data Engineer
20 104 (2.02%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (13.75%) .NET
2 515 (10.02%) React
3 479 (9.32%) HTML
4 421 (8.19%) CSS
5 371 (7.22%) AngularJS
6 238 (4.63%) Spring
7 231 (4.49%) RESTful
8 210 (4.09%) Node.js
9 195 (3.79%) ASP.NET
10 191 (3.72%) Kafka
11 184 (3.58%) REST
12 178 (3.46%) Web Services
13 177 (3.44%) .NET Core
14 170 (3.31%) HTML5
15 150 (2.92%) .NET Framework
16 110 (2.14%) XML
17 109 (2.12%) JSON
18 106 (2.06%) Spring Boot
19 102 (1.98%) jQuery
20 101 (1.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 569 (11.07%) Algorithms
2 464 (9.03%) Management Information System
3 366 (7.12%) Cloud Native
4 257 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (4.26%) Data Structures
6 150 (2.92%) Client/Server
7 144 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 136 (2.65%) Product Ownership
9 112 (2.18%) Greenfield Project
10 99 (1.93%) Mobile App
11 92 (1.79%) IoT
12 91 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 82 (1.60%) Distributed Systems
14 69 (1.34%) Market Risk
15 68 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
15 68 (1.32%) Virtual Team
16 63 (1.23%) Wiki
17 57 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
18 56 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
18 56 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 578 (11.25%) Linux
2 545 (10.60%) Windows
3 160 (3.11%) Android
4 104 (2.02%) Windows 10
5 100 (1.95%) Unix
6 99 (1.93%) Windows Server
7 68 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 63 (1.23%) Mac OS
9 41 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
10 40 (0.78%) Ubuntu
11 33 (0.64%) Kali Linux
12 29 (0.56%) CentOS
12 29 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 20 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
14 18 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.27%) Debian
16 7 (0.14%) VMS
17 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
18 5 (0.097%) SUSE
19 4 (0.078%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,951 (37.96%) Problem-Solving
2 1,667 (32.43%) Software Engineering
3 1,507 (29.32%) Agile
4 1,054 (20.51%) Mathematics
5 701 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
6 645 (12.55%) Machine Learning
7 600 (11.67%) Mentoring
8 587 (11.42%) DevOps
9 583 (11.34%) CI/CD
10 577 (11.23%) Analytics
11 560 (10.89%) SDLC
12 546 (10.62%) Decision-Making
13 511 (9.94%) Cybersecurity
14 492 (9.57%) Data Science
15 427 (8.31%) Project Management
16 415 (8.07%) Data Analysis
17 376 (7.32%) Microservices
18 363 (7.06%) Continuous Improvement
19 360 (7.00%) Full Stack Development
20 359 (6.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,249 (24.30%) Python
2 1,197 (23.29%) SQL
3 979 (19.05%) C#
4 849 (16.52%) JavaScript
5 784 (15.25%) Java
6 436 (8.48%) C++
7 408 (7.94%) C
8 353 (6.87%) TypeScript
9 154 (3.00%) PHP
10 146 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 113 (2.20%) T-SQL
12 112 (2.18%) R
13 107 (2.08%) Bash
14 93 (1.81%) Fortran
15 84 (1.63%) Go
16 78 (1.52%) Embedded C
16 78 (1.52%) Scala
17 72 (1.40%) Kotlin
18 64 (1.25%) MATLAB
19 59 (1.15%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,393 (85.47%) Degree
2 2,450 (47.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 793 (15.43%) Master's Degree
4 319 (6.21%) Security Cleared
5 266 (5.18%) PhD
6 183 (3.56%) SC Cleared
7 165 (3.21%) CISSP
8 157 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 107 (2.08%) CISM
10 106 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 88 (1.71%) AWS Certification
12 85 (1.65%) Azure Certification
13 70 (1.36%) PMI Certification
14 64 (1.25%) CCNA
14 64 (1.25%) CCNP
15 61 (1.19%) PMP
16 59 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
17 49 (0.95%) A+ Certification
18 48 (0.93%) CISA
19 46 (0.89%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (5.54%) QA
2 113 (2.20%) Data Quality
3 104 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 100 (1.95%) GDPR
5 82 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 79 (1.54%) NIST
7 42 (0.82%) PMO
8 38 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 30 (0.58%) SLA
10 29 (0.56%) WCAG
11 25 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.45%) ISO 13485
13 22 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 16 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 16 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 15 (0.29%) GRC
16 14 (0.27%) COBIT
17 13 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 13 (0.25%) NCSC
18 12 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 431 (8.39%) Docker
2 207 (4.03%) Active Directory
3 147 (2.86%) Firmware
4 75 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
5 70 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
6 66 (1.28%) XenApp
7 63 (1.23%) XenDesktop
8 62 (1.21%) Microsoft App-V
9 48 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
10 46 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
11 29 (0.56%) Hyper-V
12 14 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
13 10 (0.19%) HDFS
14 8 (0.16%) KVM
14 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 8 (0.16%) vSphere
15 4 (0.078%) pfSense
16 2 (0.039%) LXC
17 1 (0.019%) OpenAM
17 1 (0.019%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 400 (7.78%) Kubernetes
2 196 (3.81%) Terraform
3 78 (1.52%) Ansible
4 77 (1.50%) SCCM
5 62 (1.21%) AirWatch
6 26 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
7 23 (0.45%) Grafana
8 22 (0.43%) Puppet
9 15 (0.29%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.21%) Nagios
11 11 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.18%) WSUS
13 8 (0.16%) CASB
13 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.16%) QRadar
13 8 (0.16%) SCOM
14 7 (0.14%) Nessus
14 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 788 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 215 (4.18%) Google
3 170 (3.31%) Oracle
4 163 (3.17%) Cisco
5 97 (1.89%) SAP
6 86 (1.67%) VMware
7 81 (1.58%) Salesforce
8 70 (1.36%) Citrix
9 52 (1.01%) Databricks
9 52 (1.01%) Xilinx
10 48 (0.93%) IBM
11 40 (0.78%) Splunk
12 34 (0.66%) Adobe
13 31 (0.60%) Juniper
14 29 (0.56%) Apple
14 29 (0.56%) ServiceNow
15 26 (0.51%) Facebook
16 23 (0.45%) Atlassian
17 20 (0.39%) F5
18 19 (0.37%) Xamarin