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 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 57 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,109 5,224 12,096
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.98% 5.37% 7.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 5.62% 7.55%
Number of salaries quoted 3,432 2,983 3,676
10th Percentile £31,275 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,000 £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 £82,500 £87,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £105,000
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 86,445 93,025 160,114
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.24% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,550 54,985 83,280
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 28 May 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 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
England +15 4,269 £60,000 -7.69% 1,729
UK excluding London +23 3,424 £52,500 -4.55% 916
London +5 1,518 £75,000 -6.25% 861
Work from Home +15 1,475 £60,000 -11.11% 743
South East +11 1,050 £60,000 +3.45% 233
North of England +74 663 £47,750 -13.18% 186
Scotland +8 592 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Midlands +26 404 £50,000 -4.76% 175
North West +64 376 £50,000 -16.67% 104
South West +12 361 £52,250 -11.73% 105
West Midlands +31 272 £50,000 -9.09% 81
East of England -3 255 £45,000 -10.00% 136
Yorkshire +86 227 £45,000 -14.29% 55
East Midlands -2 126 £42,500 -10.53% 94
North East +5 60 £48,734 +14.67% 30
Northern Ireland +13 46 £40,000 -20.00% 25
Wales -61 40 £34,000 -40.87% 14
Isle of Man - 13 £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
1 123 (2.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 106 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 99 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 49 (0.96%) Apache
5 46 (0.90%) CMS
6 45 (0.88%) FileNet
7 42 (0.82%) Confluence
8 33 (0.65%) IIS
9 31 (0.61%) Apache Airflow
10 28 (0.55%) SAS
11 19 (0.37%) Cloud Foundry
11 19 (0.37%) WordPress
12 16 (0.31%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.23%) Jupyter
14 10 (0.20%) 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
1 115 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 109 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (1.15%) Simulink
4 39 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 19 (0.37%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.27%) Trello
7 11 (0.22%) SPSS
8 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.16%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
12 3 (0.059%) Sketch
13 2 (0.039%) Adobe Illustrator
13 2 (0.039%) Stateflow
13 2 (0.039%) TargetLink
13 2 (0.039%) Zeplin
14 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
14 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.020%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 33 (0.65%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.098%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.098%) Endur
8 5 (0.098%) 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 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.059%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.059%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.059%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.039%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 965 (18.89%) AWS
2 911 (17.83%) Azure
3 292 (5.72%) Power Platform
4 277 (5.42%) GCP
5 273 (5.34%) Microsoft 365
6 175 (3.43%) SaaS
7 156 (3.05%) GitHub
8 139 (2.72%) Cloud Computing
9 136 (2.66%) Serverless
10 134 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 114 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
13 70 (1.37%) PowerApps
14 61 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 59 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
16 50 (0.98%) Amazon Kinesis
17 44 (0.86%) IaaS
18 42 (0.82%) Entra ID
19 41 (0.80%) PaaS
20 40 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 193 (3.78%) Network Security
2 162 (3.17%) Firewall
3 158 (3.09%) WAN
4 156 (3.05%) Wireless
5 118 (2.31%) TCP/IP
6 100 (1.96%) SD-WAN
7 89 (1.74%) VPN
8 87 (1.70%) DNS
9 75 (1.47%) Cisco IOS
10 74 (1.45%) WebEx
11 70 (1.37%) HTTP
12 63 (1.23%) LAN
13 62 (1.21%) Internet
14 51 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
15 44 (0.86%) DHCP
16 43 (0.84%) Intrusion Detection
17 32 (0.63%) SAN
18 30 (0.59%) Ethernet
19 28 (0.55%) VLAN
20 24 (0.47%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 458 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 308 (6.03%) NoSQL
3 269 (5.27%) Power BI
4 193 (3.78%) Relational Database
5 187 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
6 183 (3.58%) MySQL
7 173 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
8 132 (2.58%) Redis
9 124 (2.43%) Big Data
10 84 (1.64%) Tableau
11 81 (1.59%) Elasticsearch
11 81 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 68 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
13 65 (1.27%) Hadoop
14 62 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 53 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
16 51 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
16 51 (1.00%) Data Lake
17 50 (0.98%) MongoDB
18 42 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 541 (10.59%) Git
2 182 (3.56%) JIRA
3 146 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.80%) GitLab
5 90 (1.76%) Visual Studio
6 74 (1.45%) JUnit
7 59 (1.15%) Selenium
8 52 (1.02%) Jasmine
8 52 (1.02%) Mockito
9 51 (1.00%) Moq
10 49 (0.96%) TeamCity
11 48 (0.94%) NUnit
12 43 (0.84%) Cypress.io
13 39 (0.76%) Subversion
14 34 (0.67%) CMake
15 31 (0.61%) Postman
16 30 (0.59%) Burp Suite
17 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
18 27 (0.53%) Bitbucket
19 26 (0.51%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,106 (41.22%) Social Skills
2 1,060 (20.75%) Finance
3 896 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 762 (14.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 464 (9.08%) Marketing
6 449 (8.79%) Law
7 262 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 257 (5.03%) Electronics
9 191 (3.74%) Legal
10 178 (3.48%) Financial Institution
11 174 (3.41%) Banking
12 143 (2.80%) Games
12 143 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
12 143 (2.80%) Retail
13 126 (2.47%) Public Sector
14 114 (2.23%) Telecoms
15 90 (1.76%) Investment Banking
16 87 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
17 81 (1.59%) Automotive
18 67 (1.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,216 (23.80%) Developer
2 889 (17.40%) Senior
3 769 (15.05%) Software Engineer
4 435 (8.51%) Lead
5 303 (5.93%) Architect
6 300 (5.87%) Software Developer
7 290 (5.68%) Analyst
8 277 (5.42%) Senior Developer
9 216 (4.23%) Data Scientist
10 215 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
11 186 (3.64%) Engineering Manager
12 185 (3.62%) Junior
13 172 (3.37%) Graduate
14 167 (3.27%) Software Engineering Manager
15 142 (2.78%) Full Stack Developer
16 132 (2.58%) .NET Developer
17 123 (2.41%) IT Support
18 108 (2.11%) Data Engineer
19 106 (2.07%) C# Developer
20 105 (2.06%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 707 (13.84%) .NET
2 518 (10.14%) React
3 474 (9.28%) HTML
4 417 (8.16%) CSS
5 370 (7.24%) AngularJS
6 237 (4.64%) Spring
7 226 (4.42%) RESTful
8 212 (4.15%) Node.js
9 192 (3.76%) ASP.NET
10 190 (3.72%) Kafka
11 180 (3.52%) REST
12 177 (3.46%) .NET Core
13 173 (3.39%) Web Services
14 170 (3.33%) HTML5
15 150 (2.94%) .NET Framework
16 108 (2.11%) JSON
17 107 (2.09%) Spring Boot
17 107 (2.09%) XML
18 104 (2.04%) Vue
19 99 (1.94%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 569 (11.14%) Algorithms
2 459 (8.98%) Management Information System
3 368 (7.20%) Cloud Native
4 256 (5.01%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (4.29%) Data Structures
6 148 (2.90%) Client/Server
7 141 (2.76%) Onboarding
8 135 (2.64%) Product Ownership
9 112 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 95 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 91 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 91 (1.78%) IoT
12 78 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
13 77 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
14 73 (1.43%) Wiki
15 70 (1.37%) Market Risk
16 69 (1.35%) Virtual Team
17 57 (1.12%) Cyber Threat
18 55 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
18 55 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 572 (11.20%) Linux
2 549 (10.75%) Windows
3 164 (3.21%) Android
4 113 (2.21%) Windows 10
5 100 (1.96%) Unix
6 98 (1.92%) Windows Server
7 64 (1.25%) Apple iOS
8 61 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 39 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
10 38 (0.74%) Ubuntu
11 33 (0.65%) Kali Linux
12 27 (0.53%) CentOS
12 27 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 20 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
14 17 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
15 14 (0.27%) Debian
16 8 (0.16%) VMS
17 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
18 5 (0.098%) SUSE
19 4 (0.078%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,923 (37.64%) Problem-Solving
2 1,650 (32.30%) Software Engineering
3 1,494 (29.24%) Agile
4 1,047 (20.49%) Mathematics
5 701 (13.72%) Artificial Intelligence
6 641 (12.55%) Machine Learning
7 590 (11.55%) Mentoring
8 589 (11.53%) CI/CD
9 580 (11.35%) DevOps
10 568 (11.12%) Analytics
11 558 (10.92%) SDLC
12 549 (10.75%) Decision-Making
13 513 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
14 491 (9.61%) Data Science
15 428 (8.38%) Project Management
16 412 (8.06%) Data Analysis
17 371 (7.26%) Microservices
18 363 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 357 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
20 356 (6.97%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,233 (24.13%) Python
2 1,177 (23.04%) SQL
3 980 (19.18%) C#
4 839 (16.42%) JavaScript
5 771 (15.09%) Java
6 428 (8.38%) C++
7 403 (7.89%) C
8 357 (6.99%) TypeScript
9 156 (3.05%) PHP
10 147 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 112 (2.19%) R
12 110 (2.15%) T-SQL
13 105 (2.06%) Bash
14 91 (1.78%) Fortran
15 81 (1.59%) Go
16 77 (1.51%) Embedded C
17 73 (1.43%) Scala
18 70 (1.37%) Kotlin
19 63 (1.23%) MATLAB
20 52 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,365 (85.44%) Degree
2 2,437 (47.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 795 (15.56%) Master's Degree
4 315 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 259 (5.07%) PhD
6 180 (3.52%) SC Cleared
7 167 (3.27%) CISSP
8 153 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 109 (2.13%) CISM
10 102 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
11 89 (1.74%) AWS Certification
12 80 (1.57%) Azure Certification
13 70 (1.37%) PMI Certification
14 63 (1.23%) CCNA
15 61 (1.19%) CCNP
15 61 (1.19%) PMP
16 59 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
17 48 (0.94%) CISA
18 47 (0.92%) A+ Certification
19 45 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (5.58%) QA
2 118 (2.31%) Data Quality
3 103 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (1.94%) GDPR
5 82 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 78 (1.53%) NIST
7 42 (0.82%) PMO
8 38 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.61%) WCAG
10 30 (0.59%) SLA
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
15 15 (0.29%) GRC
15 15 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 14 (0.27%) COBIT
17 13 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 13 (0.25%) NCSC
18 12 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 433 (8.48%) Docker
2 219 (4.29%) Active Directory
3 145 (2.84%) Firmware
4 81 (1.59%) VMware ESXi
5 75 (1.47%) VMware Infrastructure
5 75 (1.47%) XenApp
6 72 (1.41%) Microsoft App-V
6 72 (1.41%) XenDesktop
7 46 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
7 46 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 30 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
10 10 (0.20%) HDFS
11 8 (0.16%) KVM
11 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
11 8 (0.16%) vSphere
12 4 (0.078%) pfSense
13 2 (0.039%) LXC
14 1 (0.020%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 399 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 192 (3.76%) Terraform
3 87 (1.70%) SCCM
4 75 (1.47%) Ansible
5 72 (1.41%) AirWatch
6 25 (0.49%) Grafana
7 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
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 (0.22%) Nagios
11 11 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.20%) WSUS
13 8 (0.16%) CASB
13 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.16%) Nessus
13 8 (0.16%) QRadar
13 8 (0.16%) SCOM
14 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 785 (15.37%) Microsoft
2 214 (4.19%) Google
3 172 (3.37%) Cisco
4 170 (3.33%) Oracle
5 99 (1.94%) SAP
6 86 (1.68%) VMware
7 79 (1.55%) Salesforce
8 78 (1.53%) Citrix
9 50 (0.98%) Databricks
10 48 (0.94%) IBM
10 48 (0.94%) Xilinx
11 40 (0.78%) Splunk
12 33 (0.65%) Adobe
13 32 (0.63%) Juniper
14 29 (0.57%) Apple
15 28 (0.55%) ServiceNow
16 25 (0.49%) Facebook
17 23 (0.45%) Atlassian
18 20 (0.39%) F5
19 19 (0.37%) Xamarin