Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 48 71 44
Rank change year-on-year +23 -27 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,424 2,621 4,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.63% 4.51% 5.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 4.72% 6.33%
Number of salaries quoted 2,254 1,369 1,603
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £64,375
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 61,033 55,511 69,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.47% 95.56% 94.27%
Number of salaries quoted 42,006 28,806 41,464
10th Percentile £27,336 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South East +11 1,050 £60,000 +3.45% 234
North of England +74 663 £47,750 -13.18% 184
Scotland +8 592 £52,500 -4.55% 60
Midlands +26 404 £50,000 -4.76% 177
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% 83
East of England -3 255 £45,000 -10.00% 129
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
Northern Ireland +13 46 £40,000 -20.00% 25
Wales -61 40 £34,000 -40.87% 15
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 62 (1.81%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.31%) FileNet
3 34 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 31 (0.91%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.61%) Confluence
6 18 (0.53%) IIS
7 17 (0.50%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (0.47%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.44%) Apache
9 15 (0.44%) SAS
9 15 (0.44%) WordPress
10 13 (0.38%) CMS
11 10 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.18%) nginx
13 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.15%) Luigi
13 5 (0.15%) Moodle
14 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
15 3 (0.088%) WildFly
16 2 (0.058%) Appian
Applications
1 98 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (1.72%) Simulink
4 32 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.41%) Trello
6 8 (0.23%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.088%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.058%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.058%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.029%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.029%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.029%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.029%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.029%) Revit
9 1 (0.029%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.26%) SAP CX
6 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 5 (0.15%) Odoo
8 4 (0.12%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.12%) Magento
8 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
9 3 (0.088%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.088%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.088%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.029%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.029%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 560 (16.36%) AWS
2 490 (14.31%) Azure
3 152 (4.44%) Power Platform
4 127 (3.71%) GCP
5 119 (3.48%) GitHub
6 115 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 110 (3.21%) Amazon S3
8 94 (2.75%) SaaS
9 80 (2.34%) Serverless
10 73 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (2.02%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
13 48 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
14 40 (1.17%) Amazon Kinesis
15 25 (0.73%) Power Automate
16 23 (0.67%) PowerApps
17 22 (0.64%) Snowflake
18 21 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
20 19 (0.55%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 135 (3.94%) Network Security
2 132 (3.86%) Firewall
3 85 (2.48%) TCP/IP
4 80 (2.34%) Wireless
5 75 (2.19%) WAN
6 70 (2.04%) VPN
7 67 (1.96%) DNS
8 61 (1.78%) HTTP
9 51 (1.49%) LAN
10 43 (1.26%) Internet
11 35 (1.02%) DHCP
11 35 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
12 34 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
13 28 (0.82%) SD-WAN
14 27 (0.79%) VLAN
15 26 (0.76%) Ethernet
16 23 (0.67%) MQTT
17 21 (0.61%) 5G
18 20 (0.58%) RS-232
18 20 (0.58%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 260 (7.59%) NoSQL
2 258 (7.54%) SQL Server
3 146 (4.26%) Power BI
4 123 (3.59%) MySQL
5 121 (3.53%) Relational Database
6 115 (3.36%) Data Warehouse
7 106 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
8 77 (2.25%) Redis
9 70 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
10 60 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
11 57 (1.66%) Big Data
12 47 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 44 (1.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (1.11%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 35 (1.02%) DynamoDB
16 34 (0.99%) Amazon Aurora
16 34 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
17 32 (0.93%) Tableau
18 29 (0.85%) RDBMS
19 27 (0.79%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 370 (10.81%) Git
2 105 (3.07%) JIRA
3 103 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.69%) JUnit
5 53 (1.55%) Selenium
5 53 (1.55%) Visual Studio
6 49 (1.43%) Mockito
7 47 (1.37%) Jasmine
8 43 (1.26%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.14%) Subversion
10 36 (1.05%) GitLab
11 26 (0.76%) CMake
11 26 (0.76%) LabVIEW
12 23 (0.67%) Postman
13 19 (0.55%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.53%) Appium
14 18 (0.53%) Vagrant
15 17 (0.50%) Gatling
15 17 (0.50%) NUnit
15 17 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 1,241 (36.24%) Social Skills
2 658 (19.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 644 (18.81%) Finance
4 521 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 411 (12.00%) Law
6 342 (9.99%) Marketing
7 227 (6.63%) Electronics
8 222 (6.48%) Manufacturing
9 159 (4.64%) Financial Institution
10 141 (4.12%) Legal
11 109 (3.18%) Banking
12 105 (3.07%) Games
13 87 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
14 82 (2.39%) Retail
15 78 (2.28%) Telecoms
16 70 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
17 68 (1.99%) Investment Banking
18 66 (1.93%) Automotive
19 62 (1.81%) Public Sector
20 60 (1.75%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 778 (22.72%) Developer
2 628 (18.34%) Software Engineer
3 567 (16.56%) Senior
4 260 (7.59%) Lead
5 249 (7.27%) Software Developer
6 176 (5.14%) Engineering Manager
7 164 (4.79%) Senior Software Engineer
8 163 (4.76%) Software Engineering Manager
9 161 (4.70%) Senior Developer
10 159 (4.64%) Analyst
11 158 (4.61%) Data Scientist
12 157 (4.59%) Architect
13 148 (4.32%) Junior
14 139 (4.06%) Graduate
15 94 (2.75%) Java Engineer
16 92 (2.69%) Java Software Engineer
17 86 (2.51%) Full Stack Developer
18 84 (2.45%) Embedded Engineer
19 82 (2.39%) .NET Developer
20 71 (2.07%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 438 (12.79%) .NET
2 383 (11.19%) React
3 305 (8.91%) HTML
4 303 (8.85%) AngularJS
5 249 (7.27%) CSS
6 181 (5.29%) Spring
7 169 (4.94%) Node.js
8 159 (4.64%) RESTful
9 135 (3.94%) Kafka
10 133 (3.88%) .NET Core
11 126 (3.68%) HTML5
12 117 (3.42%) REST
13 93 (2.72%) Web Services
14 90 (2.63%) ASP.NET
15 87 (2.54%) .NET Framework
16 84 (2.45%) GraphQL
17 83 (2.42%) JSON
17 83 (2.42%) Spring Boot
18 78 (2.28%) NumPy
18 78 (2.28%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 418 (12.21%) Algorithms
2 346 (10.11%) Cloud Native
3 297 (8.67%) Management Information System
4 174 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
5 117 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.75%) Product Ownership
7 86 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 70 (2.04%) Mobile App
10 65 (1.90%) Market Risk
11 62 (1.81%) IoT
12 61 (1.78%) Client/Server
13 52 (1.52%) Distributed Applications
13 52 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
14 48 (1.40%) FPGA
15 42 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (1.23%) Public Cloud
16 40 (1.17%) CUDA
16 40 (1.17%) Distributed Systems
17 39 (1.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 426 (12.44%) Linux
2 366 (10.69%) Windows
3 78 (2.28%) Unix
4 74 (2.16%) Android
5 64 (1.87%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.40%) Mac OS
7 45 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.11%) Embedded Linux
9 36 (1.05%) Ubuntu
10 32 (0.93%) Windows 10
11 27 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 24 (0.70%) CentOS
13 13 (0.38%) Debian
14 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
15 9 (0.26%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.23%) VMS
17 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
18 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.15%) SUSE
19 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,302 (38.03%) Problem-Solving
2 1,222 (35.69%) Software Engineering
3 1,073 (31.34%) Agile
4 810 (23.66%) Mathematics
5 506 (14.78%) Artificial Intelligence
6 474 (13.84%) SDLC
7 434 (12.68%) Decision-Making
8 417 (12.18%) CI/CD
9 413 (12.06%) Mentoring
10 401 (11.71%) Machine Learning
11 374 (10.92%) DevOps
12 362 (10.57%) Cybersecurity
13 353 (10.31%) Analytics
14 319 (9.32%) Coaching
15 296 (8.64%) Project Management
16 280 (8.18%) Data Analysis
17 265 (7.74%) Continuous Improvement
17 265 (7.74%) Data Science
18 255 (7.45%) Physics
19 251 (7.33%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 763 (22.28%) Python
2 728 (21.26%) SQL
3 629 (18.37%) C#
4 584 (17.06%) JavaScript
5 533 (15.57%) Java
6 351 (10.25%) C
7 348 (10.16%) C++
8 275 (8.03%) TypeScript
9 117 (3.42%) PHP
10 91 (2.66%) Fortran
11 89 (2.60%) Bash
12 80 (2.34%) PowerShell
13 77 (2.25%) Embedded C
14 52 (1.52%) R
15 51 (1.49%) Go
16 48 (1.40%) T-SQL
17 44 (1.29%) MATLAB
18 41 (1.20%) Kotlin
19 36 (1.05%) Perl
19 36 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2,859 (83.50%) Degree
2 1,517 (44.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 387 (11.30%) Master's Degree
4 257 (7.51%) Security Cleared
5 174 (5.08%) PhD
6 130 (3.80%) SC Cleared
7 84 (2.45%) CISSP
8 82 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 78 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
10 62 (1.81%) AWS Certification
11 56 (1.64%) CCNA
12 54 (1.58%) CCNP
13 51 (1.49%) PMI Certification
14 50 (1.46%) Azure Certification
15 47 (1.37%) PMP
16 42 (1.23%) CISM
16 42 (1.23%) DV Cleared
17 40 (1.17%) A+ Certification
18 37 (1.08%) DBS Check
19 36 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 189 (5.52%) QA
2 64 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 58 (1.69%) GDPR
4 56 (1.64%) Accessibility
5 46 (1.34%) NIST
6 42 (1.23%) PMO
7 31 (0.91%) WCAG
8 22 (0.64%) PCI DSS
9 21 (0.61%) ISO 13485
10 19 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 18 (0.53%) SLA
12 16 (0.47%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.29%) GRC
14 10 (0.29%) NCSC
15 9 (0.26%) JTAG
16 8 (0.23%) CDISC
System Software
1 297 (8.67%) Docker
2 142 (4.15%) Firmware
3 105 (3.07%) Active Directory
4 61 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.73%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 8 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
11 4 (0.12%) pfSense
12 3 (0.088%) XenApp
13 2 (0.058%) HDFS
14 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.029%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 307 (8.97%) Kubernetes
2 117 (3.42%) Terraform
3 51 (1.49%) Ansible
4 19 (0.55%) Puppet
5 16 (0.47%) Grafana
6 13 (0.38%) ZABBIX
7 12 (0.35%) SCCM
8 9 (0.26%) Nagios
8 9 (0.26%) WSUS
9 8 (0.23%) Nessus
9 8 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.20%) SCOM
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
12 5 (0.15%) Suricata
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.088%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 438 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 126 (3.68%) Google
3 122 (3.56%) Oracle
4 76 (2.22%) Cisco
5 69 (2.02%) SAP
5 69 (2.02%) VMware
6 50 (1.46%) Salesforce
7 48 (1.40%) Xilinx
8 26 (0.76%) Juniper
9 24 (0.70%) Splunk
10 23 (0.67%) Databricks
11 20 (0.58%) Apple
12 19 (0.55%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.55%) Xamarin
13 17 (0.50%) IBM
14 16 (0.47%) F5
15 15 (0.44%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.41%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.38%) NVIDIA
17 13 (0.38%) Red Hat