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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 57 45
Rank change year-on-year +15 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,044 5,312 11,362
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.09% 5.33% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.95% 5.57% 7.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,406 3,004 3,688
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,375
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 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 84,815 95,319 153,046
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.51% 95.59% 95.74%
Number of salaries quoted 59,706 56,021 82,390
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,645
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 15 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 15 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 4,211 £60,000 -7.69% 1,731
UK excluding London +21 3,349 £52,500 -4.55% 920
London +5 1,527 £75,000 -6.25% 848
Work from Home +9 1,422 £60,000 -11.11% 782
South East +7 1,018 £60,000 +4.35% 248
North of England +75 647 £48,000 -8.57% 206
Scotland +8 591 £52,500 -4.55% 39
Midlands +22 387 £50,000 -4.76% 156
North West +70 361 £50,000 -11.11% 114
South West +17 358 £50,000 -15.53% 104
West Midlands +34 264 £51,431 -6.49% 89
East of England +1 252 £46,000 -4.66% 136
Yorkshire +93 226 £45,000 -14.29% 57
East Midlands -11 117 £42,500 -10.53% 66
North East +4 60 £48,734 +14.67% 36
Northern Ireland +22 44 £40,000 -20.00% 18
Wales -51 39 £34,000 -40.87% 25
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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
1 137 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 103 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.90%) Apache Spark
4 45 (0.89%) FileNet
5 42 (0.83%) Apache
6 40 (0.79%) CMS
7 39 (0.77%) Confluence
8 32 (0.63%) IIS
9 31 (0.61%) SAS
10 27 (0.54%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.42%) WordPress
12 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
14 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
15 9 (0.18%) nginx
16 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
16 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
17 7 (0.14%) Moodle
18 5 (0.099%) Luigi
Applications
1 111 (2.20%) Microsoft Office
2 105 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (0.99%) Simulink
4 38 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.28%) Trello
7 11 (0.22%) MS Visio
7 11 (0.22%) SPSS
8 8 (0.16%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
11 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.040%) Sketch
11 2 (0.040%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.040%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.040%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.020%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.020%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.56%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 19 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.099%) Odoo
9 4 (0.079%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.079%) Magento
9 4 (0.079%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.079%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.059%) Endur
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
10 3 (0.059%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 940 (18.64%) AWS
2 882 (17.49%) Azure
3 283 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
4 274 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 270 (5.35%) GCP
6 184 (3.65%) SaaS
7 159 (3.15%) GitHub
8 142 (2.82%) Serverless
9 135 (2.68%) Amazon S3
10 130 (2.58%) Cloud Computing
11 116 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (1.33%) PowerApps
14 58 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 58 (1.15%) Power Automate
15 49 (0.97%) IaaS
16 46 (0.91%) PaaS
17 43 (0.85%) Entra ID
18 38 (0.75%) Amazon Kinesis
18 38 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.57%) Network Security
2 174 (3.45%) WAN
3 173 (3.43%) Wireless
4 157 (3.11%) Firewall
5 118 (2.34%) SD-WAN
6 113 (2.24%) TCP/IP
7 91 (1.80%) Cisco IOS
7 91 (1.80%) DNS
8 90 (1.78%) WebEx
9 88 (1.74%) VPN
10 67 (1.33%) HTTP
11 61 (1.21%) LAN
12 60 (1.19%) Internet
13 53 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
14 46 (0.91%) DHCP
15 43 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
16 30 (0.59%) SAN
17 29 (0.57%) Ethernet
17 29 (0.57%) VLAN
18 23 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (8.78%) SQL Server
2 288 (5.71%) NoSQL
3 250 (4.96%) Power BI
4 190 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 187 (3.71%) MySQL
6 178 (3.53%) Data Warehouse
7 157 (3.11%) PostgreSQL
8 125 (2.48%) Big Data
9 116 (2.30%) Redis
10 87 (1.72%) Tableau
11 79 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
11 79 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 65 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
13 64 (1.27%) Hadoop
14 61 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 52 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
15 52 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
16 49 (0.97%) MongoDB
17 48 (0.95%) Data Lake
18 42 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 526 (10.43%) Git
2 179 (3.55%) JIRA
3 140 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 86 (1.70%) Visual Studio
5 84 (1.67%) GitLab
6 73 (1.45%) JUnit
7 55 (1.09%) Selenium
8 52 (1.03%) Jasmine
8 52 (1.03%) Mockito
9 44 (0.87%) TeamCity
10 43 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 43 (0.85%) Moq
10 43 (0.85%) NUnit
11 40 (0.79%) Subversion
12 34 (0.67%) CMake
13 32 (0.63%) Postman
14 30 (0.59%) Burp Suite
15 28 (0.56%) Metasploit
16 27 (0.54%) Bitbucket
17 25 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,066 (40.96%) Social Skills
2 1,065 (21.11%) Finance
3 888 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 758 (15.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 467 (9.26%) Marketing
6 450 (8.92%) Law
7 258 (5.11%) Manufacturing
8 240 (4.76%) Electronics
9 192 (3.81%) Legal
10 181 (3.59%) Financial Institution
11 173 (3.43%) Banking
12 146 (2.89%) Games
13 142 (2.82%) Presentation Skills
13 142 (2.82%) Retail
14 127 (2.52%) Public Sector
15 120 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 92 (1.82%) Investment Banking
17 89 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
18 79 (1.57%) Automotive
19 67 (1.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,190 (23.59%) Developer
2 873 (17.31%) Senior
3 741 (14.69%) Software Engineer
4 433 (8.58%) Lead
5 295 (5.85%) Architect
6 292 (5.79%) Software Developer
7 289 (5.73%) Analyst
8 271 (5.37%) Senior Developer
9 216 (4.28%) Data Scientist
10 208 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
11 188 (3.73%) Engineering Manager
12 181 (3.59%) Junior
13 169 (3.35%) Software Engineering Manager
14 167 (3.31%) Graduate
15 135 (2.68%) Full Stack Developer
15 135 (2.68%) IT Support
16 127 (2.52%) .NET Developer
17 112 (2.22%) Support Specialist
18 105 (2.08%) Java Engineer
19 103 (2.04%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (13.66%) .NET
2 519 (10.29%) React
3 454 (9.00%) HTML
4 399 (7.91%) CSS
5 364 (7.22%) AngularJS
6 242 (4.80%) Spring
7 216 (4.28%) RESTful
8 208 (4.12%) Node.js
9 190 (3.77%) Kafka
10 182 (3.61%) ASP.NET
11 171 (3.39%) .NET Core
12 170 (3.37%) REST
13 166 (3.29%) HTML5
14 149 (2.95%) Web Services
15 142 (2.82%) .NET Framework
16 111 (2.20%) JSON
17 109 (2.16%) Spring Boot
18 100 (1.98%) XML
19 99 (1.96%) Vue
20 96 (1.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 560 (11.10%) Algorithms
2 448 (8.88%) Management Information System
3 367 (7.28%) Cloud Native
4 259 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 220 (4.36%) Data Structures
6 149 (2.95%) Client/Server
7 142 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 138 (2.74%) Product Ownership
9 114 (2.26%) Greenfield Project
10 96 (1.90%) Mobile App
11 92 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
12 91 (1.80%) Data Centre
13 88 (1.74%) Wiki
14 87 (1.72%) IoT
15 71 (1.41%) Market Risk
16 70 (1.39%) Distributed Systems
17 69 (1.37%) Virtual Team
18 61 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
19 55 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
20 54 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 565 (11.20%) Windows
2 548 (10.86%) Linux
3 175 (3.47%) Android
4 135 (2.68%) Windows 10
5 102 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 90 (1.78%) Unix
7 65 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 60 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
9 33 (0.65%) Kali Linux
10 31 (0.61%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.44%) CentOS
11 22 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 21 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
13 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.24%) Debian
15 8 (0.16%) VMS
16 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
17 4 (0.079%) SUSE
17 4 (0.079%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,878 (37.23%) Problem-Solving
2 1,620 (32.12%) Software Engineering
3 1,445 (28.65%) Agile
4 1,045 (20.72%) Mathematics
5 693 (13.74%) Artificial Intelligence
6 627 (12.43%) Machine Learning
7 587 (11.64%) CI/CD
8 572 (11.34%) Mentoring
9 556 (11.02%) SDLC
10 554 (10.98%) DevOps
11 550 (10.90%) Analytics
12 536 (10.63%) Decision-Making
13 512 (10.15%) Cybersecurity
14 490 (9.71%) Data Science
15 424 (8.41%) Project Management
16 400 (7.93%) Data Analysis
17 357 (7.08%) Continuous Improvement
17 357 (7.08%) Microservices
18 354 (7.02%) Full Stack Development
19 350 (6.94%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,192 (23.63%) Python
2 1,139 (22.58%) SQL
3 956 (18.95%) C#
4 816 (16.18%) JavaScript
5 757 (15.01%) Java
6 413 (8.19%) C++
7 393 (7.79%) C
8 354 (7.02%) TypeScript
9 154 (3.05%) PHP
10 143 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 111 (2.20%) R
12 102 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 97 (1.92%) Bash
14 80 (1.59%) Go
15 78 (1.55%) Embedded C
15 78 (1.55%) Fortran
16 63 (1.25%) Kotlin
17 61 (1.21%) MATLAB
18 58 (1.15%) Scala
19 53 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,298 (85.21%) Degree
2 2,397 (47.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 796 (15.78%) Master's Degree
4 289 (5.73%) Security Cleared
5 254 (5.04%) PhD
6 171 (3.39%) SC Cleared
7 166 (3.29%) CISSP
8 148 (2.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 105 (2.08%) CISM
10 100 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 86 (1.70%) AWS Certification
12 79 (1.57%) Azure Certification
13 68 (1.35%) PMI Certification
14 61 (1.21%) PMP
15 59 (1.17%) CCNA
15 59 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
16 57 (1.13%) CCNP
17 48 (0.95%) CISA
18 45 (0.89%) A+ Certification
19 42 (0.83%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (5.69%) QA
2 109 (2.16%) Data Quality
2 109 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 97 (1.92%) GDPR
4 81 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 81 (1.61%) NIST
5 43 (0.85%) PMO
6 40 (0.79%) PCI DSS
7 31 (0.61%) WCAG
8 30 (0.59%) SLA
9 28 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
10 23 (0.46%) ISO 13485
11 22 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 15 (0.30%) GRC
12 15 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 15 (0.30%) SOC 2
13 14 (0.28%) COBIT
13 14 (0.28%) NCSC
14 13 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 13 (0.26%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 440 (8.72%) Docker
2 233 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 140 (2.78%) Firmware
4 95 (1.88%) VMware ESXi
5 91 (1.80%) XenApp
6 88 (1.74%) Microsoft App-V
6 88 (1.74%) XenDesktop
7 73 (1.45%) VMware Infrastructure
8 46 (0.91%) Embedded Firmware
9 40 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
10 32 (0.63%) Hyper-V
11 12 (0.24%) HDFS
12 10 (0.20%) vSphere
13 9 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
14 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.14%) KVM
16 4 (0.079%) pfSense
17 2 (0.040%) LXC
17 2 (0.040%) NFS
18 1 (0.020%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 400 (7.93%) Kubernetes
2 181 (3.59%) Terraform
3 105 (2.08%) SCCM
4 88 (1.74%) AirWatch
5 68 (1.35%) Ansible
6 24 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.42%) Grafana
8 20 (0.40%) Puppet
9 15 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 11 (0.22%) Nagios
11 11 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 11 (0.22%) WSUS
12 10 (0.20%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.16%) CASB
13 8 (0.16%) Nessus
13 8 (0.16%) SCOM
14 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.14%) QRadar
14 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 774 (15.34%) Microsoft
2 205 (4.06%) Google
3 185 (3.67%) Cisco
4 167 (3.31%) Oracle
5 101 (2.00%) SAP
6 94 (1.86%) Citrix
7 88 (1.74%) VMware
8 78 (1.55%) Salesforce
9 49 (0.97%) IBM
10 43 (0.85%) Databricks
11 39 (0.77%) Xilinx
12 36 (0.71%) Splunk
13 31 (0.61%) Juniper
14 30 (0.59%) Adobe
15 28 (0.56%) Apple
16 24 (0.48%) Facebook
16 24 (0.48%) ServiceNow
17 23 (0.46%) Atlassian
18 19 (0.38%) F5
18 19 (0.38%) Xamarin