Computer Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Computer Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 63 95 86
Rank change year-on-year +32 -9 -4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 274 187 260
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.41% 3.21% 3.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.23% 3.32% 3.57%
Number of salaries quoted 183 110 130
10th Percentile £30,850 £29,525 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £42,500 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £75,000 £77,500
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
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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,474 5,639 7,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 80.61% 96.74% 95.78%
Number of salaries quoted 4,705 3,166 4,804
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £39,951 £38,637
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
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 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
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +2 97 £57,500 -8.00% 31
Warwickshire +33 49 £57,500 +112.96% 16
Worcestershire -1 34 £50,000 -2.44% 15
Staffordshire -7 23 £55,000 +10.00% 19
Shropshire - 17 £50,000 - 1
Solihull -2 11 £50,000 +11.11% 7
Wolverhampton +24 9 £26,000 -57.24% 2
Coventry +14 4 - - 7
Sutton Coldfield - 4 £27,000 - 1
Walsall +11 2 £39,649 - 1
Herefordshire -15 1 - - 2
Wednesbury - 1 - - 2
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 21 (7.66%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.65%) WordPress
3 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.73%) Appian
4 2 (0.73%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.36%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.36%) Fusion 360
4 1 (0.36%) Revit
4 1 (0.36%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.82%) Shopify
3 4 (1.46%) Magento
4 3 (1.09%) Sage 200
4 3 (1.09%) Sage 300 ERP
5 2 (0.73%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 63 (22.99%) Azure
2 34 (12.41%) Power Platform
3 21 (7.66%) AWS
4 16 (5.84%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.74%) Power Automate
5 13 (4.74%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.01%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.55%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.55%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.55%) GCP
8 6 (2.19%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.19%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.82%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.09%) SaaS
11 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.09%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.73%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 12 (4.38%) Firewall
2 11 (4.01%) WAN
3 9 (3.28%) Network Security
4 8 (2.92%) TCP/IP
5 6 (2.19%) DHCP
5 6 (2.19%) DNS
5 6 (2.19%) LAN
6 5 (1.82%) Intranet
6 5 (1.82%) SD-WAN
6 5 (1.82%) VPN
6 5 (1.82%) WLAN
7 4 (1.46%) Fibre Channel
7 4 (1.46%) iSCSI
7 4 (1.46%) MPLS
7 4 (1.46%) SNMP
8 2 (0.73%) VLAN
8 2 (0.73%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (0.73%) Wireless
9 1 (0.36%) BGP
9 1 (0.36%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (12.41%) Power BI
2 32 (11.68%) SQL Server
3 21 (7.66%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (4.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (4.01%) MySQL
6 11 (4.01%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.92%) Power Query
8 7 (2.55%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (2.55%) Tableau
9 6 (2.19%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (2.19%) Elasticsearch
9 6 (2.19%) Looker
9 6 (2.19%) Redis
10 4 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (1.46%) NoSQL
10 4 (1.46%) RDBMS
11 3 (1.09%) BusinessObjects
11 3 (1.09%) Semantic Layer
12 2 (0.73%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (6.93%) Git
2 17 (6.20%) JIRA
3 6 (2.19%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.46%) Postman
5 4 (1.46%) Xcode
6 1 (0.36%) CMake
6 1 (0.36%) Moq
6 1 (0.36%) NUnit
6 1 (0.36%) PowerBuilder
6 1 (0.36%) Sourcetree
General
1 94 (34.31%) Social Skills
2 63 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.41%) Finance
4 33 (12.04%) Manufacturing
5 28 (10.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (7.30%) Automotive
6 20 (7.30%) Retail
7 10 (3.65%) Electronics
8 5 (1.82%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (1.82%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.46%) Games
9 4 (1.46%) Marketing
9 4 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.09%) Local Government
11 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.73%) Social Science
12 1 (0.36%) German Language
12 1 (0.36%) Law
12 1 (0.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (26.64%) Developer
2 30 (10.95%) Analyst
3 29 (10.58%) Senior
4 24 (8.76%) Lead
4 24 (8.76%) Software Engineer
5 23 (8.39%) Software Developer
6 20 (7.30%) Data Scientist
7 17 (6.20%) Junior
8 15 (5.47%) Full Stack Developer
9 14 (5.11%) Junior Developer
10 13 (4.74%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 13 (4.74%) Senior Developer
11 12 (4.38%) Architect
12 10 (3.65%) Project Manager
13 9 (3.28%) Administrator
14 8 (2.92%) Junior Software Developer
14 8 (2.92%) Software Manager
14 8 (2.92%) Technical Leader
15 6 (2.19%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
15 6 (2.19%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (12.77%) .NET
2 21 (7.66%) AngularJS
3 19 (6.93%) RESTful
4 18 (6.57%) CSS
4 18 (6.57%) HTML
5 14 (5.11%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.65%) Node.js
7 9 (3.28%) SOAP
8 8 (2.92%) Kafka
9 7 (2.55%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.55%) TensorFlow
9 7 (2.55%) Vue
10 6 (2.19%) .NET Framework
10 6 (2.19%) ASP.NET
10 6 (2.19%) React
10 6 (2.19%) WinForms
10 6 (2.19%) WPF
10 6 (2.19%) XML
11 4 (1.46%) jQuery
11 4 (1.46%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.41%) Algorithms
2 22 (8.03%) Management Information System
3 19 (6.93%) Mobile App
4 17 (6.20%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.11%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.74%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.19%) Augmented Reality
7 6 (2.19%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.19%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 6 (2.19%) Industry 4.0
7 6 (2.19%) PMI
7 6 (2.19%) Replication
7 6 (2.19%) SCADA
7 6 (2.19%) Virtual Reality
8 5 (1.82%) CUDA
8 5 (1.82%) Infotainment
8 5 (1.82%) IoT
8 5 (1.82%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.46%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 36 (13.14%) Windows
2 20 (7.30%) Linux
3 8 (2.92%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.19%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.46%) VMS
6 3 (1.09%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) Android
8 1 (0.36%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.36%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (27.74%) Agile
3 56 (20.44%) Software Engineering
4 48 (17.52%) Mathematics
5 45 (16.42%) Cybersecurity
6 44 (16.06%) Mentoring
7 43 (15.69%) Data Analysis
8 42 (15.33%) Decision-Making
9 41 (14.96%) Business Intelligence
10 37 (13.50%) SDLC
11 35 (12.77%) Analytics
12 32 (11.68%) Data Science
12 32 (11.68%) Project Management
13 29 (10.58%) Full Stack Development
14 26 (9.49%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (9.12%) Artificial Intelligence
16 23 (8.39%) DevOps
16 23 (8.39%) Test Strategy
17 22 (8.03%) Front End Development
17 22 (8.03%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 67 (24.45%) SQL
2 49 (17.88%) JavaScript
3 42 (15.33%) C#
4 30 (10.95%) Python
5 18 (6.57%) TypeScript
6 16 (5.84%) Java
7 12 (4.38%) C++
8 11 (4.01%) PHP
9 10 (3.65%) T-SQL
10 4 (1.46%) C
10 4 (1.46%) Embedded C
10 4 (1.46%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.09%) Apex Code
12 2 (0.73%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.73%) R
13 1 (0.36%) Delphi
13 1 (0.36%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.36%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 256 (93.43%) Degree
2 133 (48.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (10.58%) Master's Degree
4 14 (5.11%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.38%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.01%) PMI Certification
7 10 (3.65%) CISM
7 10 (3.65%) CISSP
8 9 (3.28%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 8 (2.92%) CCNA
9 8 (2.92%) CCNP
9 8 (2.92%) CISA
9 8 (2.92%) Cisco Certification
10 7 (2.55%) PhD
11 5 (1.82%) CAPM
11 5 (1.82%) ISEB
11 5 (1.82%) ISTQB
11 5 (1.82%) PCI QSA
11 5 (1.82%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.03%) QA
2 11 (4.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.55%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.19%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.19%) NIST
5 4 (1.46%) Accessibility
5 4 (1.46%) Data Quality
6 2 (0.73%) SLA
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.36%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 12 (4.38%) Active Directory
2 11 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.92%) Docker
4 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.46%) pfSense
5 3 (1.09%) Firmware
6 1 (0.36%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.36%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (2.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.82%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.36%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.36%) SCCM
3 1 (0.36%) VxRail
Vendors
1 57 (20.80%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.11%) Cisco
3 11 (4.01%) VMware
4 8 (2.92%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.19%) Dell
5 6 (2.19%) HP
5 6 (2.19%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.82%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.82%) NVIDIA
6 5 (1.82%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (1.82%) Xamarin
7 4 (1.46%) BroadSoft
7 4 (1.46%) Brocade
7 4 (1.46%) Databricks
7 4 (1.46%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (1.46%) DevExpress
7 4 (1.46%) Juniper
7 4 (1.46%) QNAP
7 4 (1.46%) Veeam
7 4 (1.46%) Zerto