Computer Science Jobs in London

Computer Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 30 35 49
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,518 2,320 5,437
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.36% 7.05% 7.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.03% 7.40% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,049 1,432 1,806
10th Percentile £41,315 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £57,875 £56,250 £52,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,250 £130,000 £122,500
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
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,583 31,348 70,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 90.41% 95.32% 97.11%
Number of salaries quoted 15,843 22,594 34,368
10th Percentile £37,500 £42,874 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,576 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £110,000
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 London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in London

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

Salary histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the London 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
Central London +27 292 £80,000 -5.88% 65
South London +1 22 £81,500 +34.05% 10
West London -31 19 £64,000 +5.09% 36
East London +22 9 £93,750 +70.45% 15
North London -5 2 £76,250 +8.93% 3
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 89 (5.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 64 (4.22%) Apache Spark
3 38 (2.50%) SharePoint
4 33 (2.17%) Apache
4 33 (2.17%) CMS
5 25 (1.65%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (1.38%) Confluence
7 12 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 12 (0.79%) SAS
8 8 (0.53%) IIS
9 6 (0.40%) Apache Pig
9 6 (0.40%) Oracle Workflow
10 4 (0.26%) WordPress
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
11 2 (0.13%) Drupal
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) Moodle
12 1 (0.066%) Hyperledger
12 1 (0.066%) nginx
Applications
1 33 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.05%) Photoshop
4 10 (0.66%) SPSS
5 9 (0.59%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
8 3 (0.20%) Sketch
9 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
10 1 (0.066%) Adobe XD
10 1 (0.066%) InVision
10 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.066%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.91%) SDL Web 8
2 16 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
3 5 (0.33%) Endur
4 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.066%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.066%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.066%) Primavera
6 1 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.066%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.066%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 382 (25.16%) AWS
2 376 (24.77%) Azure
3 144 (9.49%) Microsoft 365
4 141 (9.29%) GCP
5 115 (7.58%) Power Platform
6 72 (4.74%) SaaS
7 59 (3.89%) Cloud Computing
8 50 (3.29%) Serverless
9 39 (2.57%) PowerApps
10 32 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (2.11%) GitHub
11 29 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
12 28 (1.84%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 22 (1.45%) WhatsApp
15 19 (1.25%) IaaS
16 18 (1.19%) PaaS
17 16 (1.05%) Adobe Creative Cloud
17 16 (1.05%) NuGet
18 15 (0.99%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 83 (5.47%) WAN
2 76 (5.01%) Wireless
3 73 (4.81%) WebEx
4 72 (4.74%) Cisco IOS
4 72 (4.74%) SD-WAN
5 56 (3.69%) Network Security
6 30 (1.98%) Firewall
7 29 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.25%) VPN
9 18 (1.19%) DNS
10 16 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (0.92%) Internet
12 12 (0.79%) LAN
13 9 (0.59%) DHCP
14 7 (0.46%) HTTP
14 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
15 5 (0.33%) DKIM
15 5 (0.33%) SAN
16 4 (0.26%) Ethernet
17 3 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 170 (11.20%) SQL Server
2 104 (6.85%) Power BI
3 62 (4.08%) Big Data
3 62 (4.08%) Relational Database
4 59 (3.89%) PostgreSQL
5 55 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
5 55 (3.62%) MySQL
5 55 (3.62%) Redis
6 47 (3.10%) NoSQL
7 46 (3.03%) Tableau
8 37 (2.44%) Hadoop
9 30 (1.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 26 (1.71%) Data Lake
11 25 (1.65%) MongoDB
12 23 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 20 (1.32%) Apache Hive
14 16 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
15 14 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.86%) RDBMS
17 12 (0.79%) Presto
Development Applications
1 156 (10.28%) Git
2 72 (4.74%) JIRA
3 55 (3.62%) GitLab
4 40 (2.64%) Jenkins
5 36 (2.37%) Moq
6 33 (2.17%) Visual Studio
7 32 (2.11%) TeamCity
8 31 (2.04%) NUnit
9 28 (1.84%) Burp Suite
9 28 (1.84%) Metasploit
10 19 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
10 19 (1.25%) Sourcetree
11 17 (1.12%) SpecFlow
12 16 (1.05%) git-flow
12 16 (1.05%) JUnit
13 9 (0.59%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.53%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.53%) CMake
14 8 (0.53%) Maven
15 7 (0.46%) MSTest
General
1 769 (50.66%) Social Skills
2 401 (26.42%) Finance
3 349 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (6.72%) Marketing
5 91 (5.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 65 (4.28%) Banking
7 57 (3.75%) Public Sector
8 56 (3.69%) Retail
9 52 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
10 46 (3.03%) Legal
11 45 (2.96%) Front Office
12 38 (2.50%) Law
13 35 (2.31%) Games
13 35 (2.31%) Manufacturing
14 32 (2.11%) Telecoms
15 29 (1.91%) Back Office
15 29 (1.91%) Electronics
15 29 (1.91%) Pharmaceutical
16 22 (1.45%) Investment Banking
17 19 (1.25%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 399 (26.28%) Developer
2 282 (18.58%) Senior
3 168 (11.07%) Lead
4 129 (8.50%) Software Engineer
5 123 (8.10%) Analyst
6 113 (7.44%) Architect
7 110 (7.25%) Senior Developer
8 79 (5.20%) IT Support
9 75 (4.94%) Support Specialist
10 74 (4.87%) IT Support Specialist
11 59 (3.89%) C# Developer
12 56 (3.69%) Full Stack Developer
13 55 (3.62%) Data Scientist
13 55 (3.62%) Java Developer
14 51 (3.36%) Data Engineer
15 50 (3.29%) .NET Developer
16 47 (3.10%) Software Developer
17 42 (2.77%) Senior Software Engineer
18 38 (2.50%) Python Developer
19 35 (2.31%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 226 (14.89%) .NET
2 155 (10.21%) HTML
3 154 (10.14%) CSS
4 126 (8.30%) React
5 85 (5.60%) ASP.NET
6 70 (4.61%) Web Services
7 62 (4.08%) RESTful
8 60 (3.95%) AngularJS
9 59 (3.89%) .NET Framework
10 55 (3.62%) Kafka
10 55 (3.62%) REST
11 52 (3.43%) jQuery
11 52 (3.43%) XML
12 51 (3.36%) Spring
13 49 (3.23%) ASP.NET MVC
14 47 (3.10%) Entity Framework
15 46 (3.03%) SOAP
16 43 (2.83%) HTML5
17 40 (2.64%) Node.js
18 39 (2.57%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 147 (9.68%) Algorithms
2 135 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 102 (6.72%) Data Structures
4 87 (5.73%) Client/Server
5 86 (5.67%) Greenfield Project
6 74 (4.87%) Video Conferencing
7 72 (4.74%) Wiki
8 70 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
9 54 (3.56%) Onboarding
10 42 (2.77%) Hedge funds
11 40 (2.64%) Product Ownership
12 38 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 33 (2.17%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.98%) Legacy Code
15 29 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
16 28 (1.84%) IoT
16 28 (1.84%) Life Science
16 28 (1.84%) Security Posture
17 25 (1.65%) Mobile App
18 24 (1.58%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 177 (11.66%) Windows
2 136 (8.96%) Linux
3 87 (5.73%) Android
4 81 (5.34%) Windows 10
5 34 (2.24%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.84%) Kali Linux
7 22 (1.45%) Unix
8 16 (1.05%) Apple iOS
9 13 (0.86%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
10 8 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.20%) CentOS
12 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.066%) Debian
13 1 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (35.97%) Problem-Solving
2 387 (25.49%) Agile
3 381 (25.10%) Software Engineering
4 227 (14.95%) Machine Learning
5 222 (14.62%) Mathematics
6 218 (14.36%) Data Science
7 193 (12.71%) Analytics
8 173 (11.40%) Artificial Intelligence
9 169 (11.13%) DevOps
10 159 (10.47%) Statistics
11 155 (10.21%) Mentoring
12 138 (9.09%) CI/CD
13 135 (8.89%) Business Intelligence
14 134 (8.83%) Cybersecurity
15 125 (8.23%) Full Stack Development
16 124 (8.17%) Roadmaps
17 123 (8.10%) Data Modelling
18 118 (7.77%) Data Analysis
19 114 (7.51%) Microservices
20 109 (7.18%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 442 (29.12%) Python
2 397 (26.15%) SQL
3 312 (20.55%) C#
4 226 (14.89%) JavaScript
5 218 (14.36%) Java
6 78 (5.14%) C++
7 76 (5.01%) TypeScript
8 60 (3.95%) R
9 54 (3.56%) PowerShell
10 51 (3.36%) T-SQL
11 47 (3.10%) C
12 36 (2.37%) PHP
13 34 (2.24%) Scala
14 29 (1.91%) Kotlin
15 27 (1.78%) Go
16 23 (1.52%) XPath
17 19 (1.25%) MATLAB
18 16 (1.05%) Bash
18 16 (1.05%) VBA
19 15 (0.99%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,351 (89.00%) Degree
2 813 (53.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 372 (24.51%) Master's Degree
4 80 (5.27%) PhD
5 74 (4.87%) CISSP
6 63 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (3.82%) CISM
8 52 (3.43%) Security Cleared
9 44 (2.90%) SC Cleared
10 28 (1.84%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.78%) CISA
12 26 (1.71%) AWS Certification
13 22 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
14 18 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
14 18 (1.19%) PMI Certification
15 13 (0.86%) PMP
16 11 (0.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 11 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 11 (0.72%) CREST Certified
16 11 (0.72%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.27%) QA
2 57 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 35 (2.31%) GDPR
3 35 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (1.58%) NIST
5 21 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 15 (0.99%) PCI DSS
7 8 (0.53%) SLA
8 6 (0.40%) COBIT
8 6 (0.40%) HIPAA
8 6 (0.40%) SOC 2
9 5 (0.33%) GRC
10 4 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
10 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.20%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 3 (0.20%) CDISC
11 3 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.20%) NCSC
11 3 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 124 (8.17%) Docker
2 108 (7.11%) Active Directory
3 74 (4.87%) VMware ESXi
4 72 (4.74%) Microsoft App-V
4 72 (4.74%) XenApp
4 72 (4.74%) XenDesktop
5 23 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
6 14 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
7 8 (0.53%) HDFS
8 5 (0.33%) Hyper-V
9 4 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.20%) Firmware
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.13%) KVM
11 2 (0.13%) LXC
12 1 (0.066%) NFS
12 1 (0.066%) OpenAM
12 1 (0.066%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 83 (5.47%) Kubernetes
2 75 (4.94%) SCCM
3 72 (4.74%) AirWatch
3 72 (4.74%) Terraform
4 22 (1.45%) Ansible
5 17 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (0.53%) Grafana
7 7 (0.46%) CASB
7 7 (0.46%) QRadar
7 7 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.40%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.40%) Kubeflow
9 5 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.26%) Argo
10 4 (0.26%) DatAdvantage
10 4 (0.26%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.20%) Puppet
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 305 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.32%) Cisco
3 80 (5.27%) Google
4 73 (4.81%) Citrix
5 41 (2.70%) Oracle
6 29 (1.91%) Adobe
7 27 (1.78%) SAP
8 25 (1.65%) Databricks
9 17 (1.12%) VMware
10 16 (1.05%) Cognizant
11 15 (0.99%) Splunk
12 12 (0.79%) Salesforce
13 9 (0.59%) Apple
14 8 (0.53%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.53%) Charles River
14 8 (0.53%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.53%) OpenAI
14 8 (0.53%) ServiceNow
15 7 (0.46%) Kenna
15 7 (0.46%) Rapid7