Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 56 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 -11 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,269 4,583 9,724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.80% 5.29% 6.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.71% 5.54% 7.24%
Number of salaries quoted 3,070 2,697 3,383
10th Percentile £32,000 £36,900 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 74,781 82,738 134,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 84.16% 95.57% 95.95%
Number of salaries quoted 54,521 49,312 73,714
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,329 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

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
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +5 1,518 £75,000 -6.25% 861
South East +11 1,050 £60,000 +3.45% 236
North of England +74 663 £47,750 -13.18% 184
Midlands +26 404 £50,000 -4.76% 178
North West +64 376 £50,000 -16.67% 102
South West +12 361 £52,250 -11.73% 103
West Midlands +31 272 £50,000 -9.09% 84
East of England -3 255 £45,000 -10.00% 131
Yorkshire +86 227 £45,000 -14.29% 54
East Midlands -2 126 £42,500 -10.53% 94
North East +5 60 £48,734 +14.67% 31
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
1 114 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.12%) Apache
5 46 (1.08%) CMS
6 42 (0.98%) Confluence
7 31 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
8 28 (0.66%) SAS
9 25 (0.59%) IIS
10 19 (0.45%) WordPress
11 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.26%) OpenStack
13 10 (0.23%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.16%) Luigi
15 7 (0.16%) Moodle
15 7 (0.16%) nginx
16 6 (0.14%) Apache Pig
17 3 (0.070%) Appian
17 3 (0.070%) WildFly
Applications
1 104 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 75 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (1.24%) Simulink
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.45%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.070%) Sketch
10 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.047%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.023%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.023%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.77%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Endur
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.094%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.094%) Magento
9 4 (0.094%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.094%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.070%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.070%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.070%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 804 (18.83%) Azure
2 800 (18.74%) AWS
3 250 (5.86%) Power Platform
4 245 (5.74%) Microsoft 365
5 240 (5.62%) GCP
6 158 (3.70%) SaaS
7 127 (2.97%) Serverless
8 104 (2.44%) GitHub
9 100 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 98 (2.30%) AWS Lambda
11 97 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
12 82 (1.92%) Amazon S3
13 62 (1.45%) PowerApps
14 54 (1.26%) Power Automate
15 53 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (1.17%) Amazon Kinesis
17 36 (0.84%) IaaS
17 36 (0.84%) Snowflake
18 35 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
19 33 (0.77%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 169 (3.96%) Network Security
2 145 (3.40%) Firewall
3 144 (3.37%) WAN
4 106 (2.48%) Wireless
5 100 (2.34%) SD-WAN
6 93 (2.18%) TCP/IP
7 78 (1.83%) DNS
8 77 (1.80%) VPN
9 74 (1.73%) WebEx
10 72 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
11 56 (1.31%) Internet
12 47 (1.10%) LAN
13 45 (1.05%) HTTP
13 45 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
14 37 (0.87%) Intrusion Detection
15 36 (0.84%) DHCP
16 25 (0.59%) Ethernet
16 25 (0.59%) VLAN
17 23 (0.54%) SAN
18 21 (0.49%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 412 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 233 (5.46%) Power BI
3 194 (4.54%) NoSQL
4 172 (4.03%) MySQL
5 170 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 166 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
7 148 (3.47%) Data Warehouse
8 132 (3.09%) Redis
9 107 (2.51%) Big Data
10 79 (1.85%) Tableau
11 65 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
13 59 (1.38%) Hadoop
14 51 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 49 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 49 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 44 (1.03%) Data Lake
17 41 (0.96%) RDBMS
18 38 (0.89%) DynamoDB
19 36 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 502 (11.76%) Git
2 169 (3.96%) JIRA
3 88 (2.06%) Jenkins
4 86 (2.01%) GitLab
4 86 (2.01%) Visual Studio
5 54 (1.26%) Selenium
6 51 (1.19%) Moq
7 49 (1.15%) TeamCity
8 48 (1.12%) NUnit
9 43 (1.01%) Cypress.io
10 38 (0.89%) Subversion
11 34 (0.80%) CMake
12 30 (0.70%) Burp Suite
13 29 (0.68%) Postman
14 28 (0.66%) Metasploit
15 26 (0.61%) Bitbucket
16 24 (0.56%) JUnit
17 22 (0.52%) Sourcetree
18 21 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
19 20 (0.47%) Maven
General
1 1,802 (42.21%) Social Skills
2 820 (19.21%) Analytical Skills
3 657 (15.39%) Finance
4 300 (7.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 210 (4.92%) Manufacturing
6 208 (4.87%) Electronics
7 207 (4.85%) Marketing
8 133 (3.12%) Retail
9 113 (2.65%) Legal
9 113 (2.65%) Presentation Skills
10 110 (2.58%) Games
11 106 (2.48%) Public Sector
12 90 (2.11%) Law
13 88 (2.06%) Banking
14 84 (1.97%) Telecoms
15 82 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
16 72 (1.69%) Automotive
17 67 (1.57%) Aerospace
18 59 (1.38%) Military
19 52 (1.22%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,099 (25.74%) Developer
2 714 (16.73%) Senior
3 532 (12.46%) Software Engineer
4 385 (9.02%) Lead
5 266 (6.23%) Analyst
6 263 (6.16%) Software Developer
7 258 (6.04%) Architect
8 247 (5.79%) Senior Developer
9 213 (4.99%) Data Scientist
10 151 (3.54%) Junior
11 147 (3.44%) Senior Software Engineer
12 134 (3.14%) Graduate
13 131 (3.07%) .NET Developer
14 118 (2.76%) Full Stack Developer
15 115 (2.69%) IT Support
16 100 (2.34%) C# Developer
17 93 (2.18%) Data Engineer
18 89 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
19 88 (2.06%) IT Manager
20 86 (2.01%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 648 (15.18%) .NET
2 411 (9.63%) HTML
3 393 (9.21%) React
4 392 (9.18%) CSS
5 254 (5.95%) AngularJS
6 171 (4.01%) ASP.NET
7 170 (3.98%) .NET Core
8 159 (3.72%) Node.js
9 150 (3.51%) RESTful
10 146 (3.42%) .NET Framework
11 142 (3.33%) REST
12 140 (3.28%) Web Services
13 129 (3.02%) HTML5
14 110 (2.58%) Kafka
15 99 (2.32%) JSON
16 98 (2.30%) jQuery
16 98 (2.30%) XML
17 96 (2.25%) Spring
18 93 (2.18%) Vue
19 87 (2.04%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 494 (11.57%) Algorithms
2 404 (9.46%) Management Information System
3 240 (5.62%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.71%) Data Structures
5 148 (3.47%) Client/Server
6 120 (2.81%) Product Ownership
7 103 (2.41%) Onboarding
8 95 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
8 95 (2.23%) Mobile App
9 80 (1.87%) Cloud Native
10 77 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
11 73 (1.71%) Data Centre
11 73 (1.71%) Wiki
12 72 (1.69%) IoT
13 65 (1.52%) Virtual Team
14 60 (1.41%) Distributed Systems
15 53 (1.24%) FPGA
16 52 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
17 51 (1.19%) Life Science
17 51 (1.19%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 516 (12.09%) Linux
2 511 (11.97%) Windows
3 161 (3.77%) Android
4 110 (2.58%) Windows 10
5 93 (2.18%) Windows Server
6 90 (2.11%) Unix
7 61 (1.43%) Apple iOS
8 58 (1.36%) Mac OS
9 36 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 33 (0.77%) Kali Linux
11 28 (0.66%) Embedded Linux
12 27 (0.63%) CentOS
13 26 (0.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 17 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.30%) Debian
16 8 (0.19%) VMS
17 5 (0.12%) SUSE
18 4 (0.094%) Windows Vista
19 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,692 (39.63%) Problem-Solving
2 1,138 (26.66%) Agile
3 1,104 (25.86%) Software Engineering
4 713 (16.70%) Mathematics
5 532 (12.46%) DevOps
6 531 (12.44%) Mentoring
7 503 (11.78%) Artificial Intelligence
8 471 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
9 465 (10.89%) Data Science
10 461 (10.80%) Machine Learning
11 423 (9.91%) Analytics
12 394 (9.23%) Decision-Making
13 379 (8.88%) Project Management
14 370 (8.67%) Data Analysis
15 329 (7.71%) CI/CD
16 321 (7.52%) Roadmaps
17 283 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
17 283 (6.63%) Full Stack Development
18 275 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
19 265 (6.21%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 1,042 (24.41%) Python
2 936 (21.93%) SQL
3 887 (20.78%) C#
4 784 (18.36%) JavaScript
5 511 (11.97%) Java
6 368 (8.62%) C++
7 318 (7.45%) TypeScript
8 303 (7.10%) C
9 150 (3.51%) PHP
10 122 (2.86%) PowerShell
11 106 (2.48%) R
12 91 (2.13%) Fortran
13 89 (2.08%) Bash
14 86 (2.01%) T-SQL
15 73 (1.71%) Go
16 70 (1.64%) Scala
17 69 (1.62%) Kotlin
18 57 (1.34%) MATLAB
19 39 (0.91%) Perl
20 35 (0.82%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,894 (91.22%) Degree
2 2,185 (51.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 694 (16.26%) Master's Degree
4 306 (7.17%) Security Cleared
5 221 (5.18%) PhD
6 175 (4.10%) SC Cleared
7 154 (3.61%) CISSP
8 143 (3.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 96 (2.25%) CISM
10 95 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
11 79 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 75 (1.76%) Azure Certification
13 66 (1.55%) PMI Certification
14 58 (1.36%) CCNP
15 57 (1.34%) PMP
16 56 (1.31%) CCNA
17 48 (1.12%) CISA
17 48 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
18 45 (1.05%) A+ Certification
19 44 (1.03%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (5.72%) QA
2 113 (2.65%) Data Quality
3 99 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (2.16%) GDPR
5 77 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 66 (1.55%) NIST
7 42 (0.98%) PMO
8 37 (0.87%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.73%) WCAG
10 25 (0.59%) SLA
11 22 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.35%) GRC
12 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
12 15 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 14 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 13 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.30%) NCSC
15 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 395 (9.25%) Docker
2 202 (4.73%) Active Directory
3 79 (1.85%) VMware ESXi
4 78 (1.83%) Firmware
5 75 (1.76%) XenApp
6 72 (1.69%) Microsoft App-V
6 72 (1.69%) XenDesktop
7 67 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
8 43 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
9 27 (0.63%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.23%) HDFS
13 8 (0.19%) KVM
13 8 (0.19%) vSphere
14 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.094%) pfSense
16 2 (0.047%) LXC
17 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
17 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 304 (7.12%) Kubernetes
2 165 (3.87%) Terraform
3 82 (1.92%) SCCM
4 72 (1.69%) AirWatch
5 67 (1.57%) Ansible
6 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.47%) Puppet
8 19 (0.45%) Grafana
9 15 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
11 10 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.23%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.23%) WSUS
12 8 (0.19%) CASB
12 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.19%) Nessus
12 8 (0.19%) QRadar
12 8 (0.19%) SCOM
13 7 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 703 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 165 (3.87%) Cisco
3 164 (3.84%) Google
4 109 (2.55%) Oracle
5 86 (2.01%) SAP
6 78 (1.83%) Citrix
6 78 (1.83%) VMware
7 62 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 48 (1.12%) Xilinx
9 44 (1.03%) Databricks
10 33 (0.77%) Adobe
11 30 (0.70%) Juniper
12 27 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 26 (0.61%) Apple
14 24 (0.56%) Splunk
15 23 (0.54%) Atlassian
16 22 (0.52%) IBM
17 20 (0.47%) F5
18 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
19 17 (0.40%) Cognizant