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

6 months to
29 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 5,122 5,218 12,102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.96% 5.37% 7.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.90% 5.62% 7.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3,432 2,982 3,664
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,750 £32,075
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £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 £82,000 £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 86,886 92,843 159,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.13% 95.56% 95.90%
Number of salaries quoted 60,763 54,795 82,800
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 29 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 29 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 4,281 £60,000 -7.69% 1,737
UK excluding London +21 3,439 £52,500 -4.55% 912
London +5 1,516 £75,000 -6.25% 868
Work from Home +16 1,487 £60,000 -11.11% 754
South East +10 1,054 £60,000 +1.79% 228
North of England +75 665 £47,500 -13.64% 187
Scotland +6 591 £52,500 -4.55% 62
Midlands +20 408 £50,000 -4.76% 173
North West +66 378 £50,000 -16.67% 106
South West +11 364 £52,500 -11.30% 104
West Midlands +38 275 £50,000 -9.09% 82
East of England 0 256 £45,000 -10.00% 140
Yorkshire +89 227 £45,000 -14.29% 54
East Midlands -13 127 £42,500 -15.00% 91
North East +9 60 £48,734 +14.67% 30
Northern Ireland +16 46 £40,000 -20.00% 23
Wales -60 41 £34,000 -40.87% 15
Isle of Man - 14 £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
1 121 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 107 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 99 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 49 (0.96%) Apache
5 47 (0.92%) CMS
6 45 (0.88%) FileNet
7 42 (0.82%) Confluence
8 33 (0.64%) 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
1 117 (2.28%) Microsoft Office
2 110 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (1.15%) Simulink
4 39 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (0.39%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.27%) Trello
7 11 (0.21%) 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%) Acrobat
14 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
14 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
14 1 (0.020%) Revit
Business Applications
1 51 (1.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 34 (0.66%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.21%) 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
1 966 (18.86%) AWS
2 915 (17.86%) Azure
3 295 (5.76%) Power Platform
4 275 (5.37%) GCP
5 273 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
6 173 (3.38%) SaaS
7 156 (3.05%) GitHub
8 137 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
9 136 (2.66%) Serverless
10 133 (2.60%) Amazon S3
11 113 (2.21%) Azure DevOps
12 102 (1.99%) AWS Lambda
13 71 (1.39%) PowerApps
14 61 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 59 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
16 51 (1.00%) Amazon Kinesis
17 44 (0.86%) IaaS
18 42 (0.82%) Entra ID
18 42 (0.82%) PaaS
19 40 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 197 (3.85%) Network Security
2 165 (3.22%) Firewall
3 157 (3.07%) WAN
4 154 (3.01%) Wireless
5 119 (2.32%) TCP/IP
6 99 (1.93%) SD-WAN
7 90 (1.76%) VPN
8 88 (1.72%) DNS
9 73 (1.43%) Cisco IOS
10 72 (1.41%) WebEx
11 70 (1.37%) HTTP
12 63 (1.23%) Internet
12 63 (1.23%) LAN
13 51 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
14 45 (0.88%) DHCP
15 44 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
16 32 (0.62%) SAN
17 30 (0.59%) Ethernet
17 30 (0.59%) VLAN
18 24 (0.47%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 459 (8.96%) SQL Server
2 310 (6.05%) NoSQL
3 272 (5.31%) Power BI
4 194 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 188 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
6 183 (3.57%) MySQL
7 175 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
8 133 (2.60%) Redis
9 127 (2.48%) Big Data
10 84 (1.64%) Tableau
11 81 (1.58%) Elasticsearch
12 80 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 68 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
14 66 (1.29%) Hadoop
15 61 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 53 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
16 53 (1.03%) MongoDB
17 51 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
17 51 (1.00%) Data Lake
18 42 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 543 (10.60%) Git
2 182 (3.55%) JIRA
3 144 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 92 (1.80%) GitLab
5 91 (1.78%) Visual Studio
6 74 (1.44%) JUnit
7 58 (1.13%) Selenium
8 52 (1.02%) Mockito
8 52 (1.02%) Moq
9 51 (1.00%) Jasmine
10 50 (0.98%) TeamCity
11 49 (0.96%) NUnit
12 43 (0.84%) Cypress.io
13 38 (0.74%) Subversion
14 34 (0.66%) CMake
15 30 (0.59%) Burp Suite
15 30 (0.59%) Postman
16 28 (0.55%) Bitbucket
16 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
17 26 (0.51%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,113 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 1,061 (20.71%) Finance
3 902 (17.61%) Analytical Skills
4 762 (14.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 465 (9.08%) Marketing
6 449 (8.77%) Law
7 260 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 256 (5.00%) Electronics
9 191 (3.73%) Legal
10 178 (3.48%) Financial Institution
11 173 (3.38%) Banking
12 143 (2.79%) Games
12 143 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
12 143 (2.79%) Retail
13 125 (2.44%) Public Sector
14 111 (2.17%) Telecoms
15 90 (1.76%) Investment Banking
16 88 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
17 83 (1.62%) Automotive
18 67 (1.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,219 (23.80%) Developer
2 893 (17.43%) Senior
3 773 (15.09%) Software Engineer
4 435 (8.49%) Lead
5 303 (5.92%) Architect
6 299 (5.84%) Software Developer
7 289 (5.64%) Analyst
8 278 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 218 (4.26%) Data Scientist
10 216 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
11 186 (3.63%) Engineering Manager
12 184 (3.59%) Junior
13 172 (3.36%) Graduate
14 167 (3.26%) Software Engineering Manager
15 144 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
16 132 (2.58%) .NET Developer
17 125 (2.44%) IT Support
18 107 (2.09%) C# Developer
19 106 (2.07%) Data Engineer
20 105 (2.05%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 708 (13.82%) .NET
2 518 (10.11%) React
3 476 (9.29%) HTML
4 419 (8.18%) CSS
5 369 (7.20%) AngularJS
6 237 (4.63%) Spring
7 227 (4.43%) RESTful
8 212 (4.14%) Node.js
9 193 (3.77%) ASP.NET
10 190 (3.71%) Kafka
11 180 (3.51%) REST
12 176 (3.44%) .NET Core
12 176 (3.44%) Web Services
13 170 (3.32%) HTML5
14 151 (2.95%) .NET Framework
15 109 (2.13%) JSON
15 109 (2.13%) XML
16 107 (2.09%) Spring Boot
17 104 (2.03%) Vue
18 100 (1.95%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 570 (11.13%) Algorithms
2 461 (9.00%) Management Information System
3 368 (7.18%) Cloud Native
4 254 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
5 220 (4.30%) Data Structures
6 149 (2.91%) Client/Server
7 142 (2.77%) Onboarding
8 133 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 113 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 96 (1.87%) Mobile App
11 91 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 91 (1.78%) IoT
12 78 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
13 76 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
14 71 (1.39%) Wiki
15 70 (1.37%) Market Risk
16 69 (1.35%) Virtual Team
17 57 (1.11%) Cyber Threat
18 56 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
19 55 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 573 (11.19%) Linux
2 551 (10.76%) Windows
3 163 (3.18%) Android
4 111 (2.17%) Windows 10
5 99 (1.93%) Unix
5 99 (1.93%) Windows Server
6 65 (1.27%) Apple iOS
7 61 (1.19%) Mac OS
8 39 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
9 38 (0.74%) Ubuntu
10 33 (0.64%) Kali Linux
11 27 (0.53%) CentOS
11 27 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
13 18 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
14 14 (0.27%) Debian
15 8 (0.16%) VMS
16 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
17 5 (0.098%) SUSE
18 4 (0.078%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,935 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
2 1,656 (32.33%) Software Engineering
3 1,497 (29.23%) Agile
4 1,052 (20.54%) Mathematics
5 701 (13.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 644 (12.57%) Machine Learning
7 592 (11.56%) Mentoring
8 588 (11.48%) CI/CD
9 583 (11.38%) DevOps
10 569 (11.11%) Analytics
11 560 (10.93%) SDLC
12 551 (10.76%) Decision-Making
13 517 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
14 492 (9.61%) Data Science
15 427 (8.34%) Project Management
16 415 (8.10%) Data Analysis
17 371 (7.24%) Microservices
18 365 (7.13%) Continuous Improvement
19 358 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
20 356 (6.95%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,237 (24.15%) Python
2 1,182 (23.08%) SQL
3 980 (19.13%) C#
4 842 (16.44%) JavaScript
5 773 (15.09%) Java
6 428 (8.36%) C++
7 404 (7.89%) C
8 357 (6.97%) TypeScript
9 156 (3.05%) PHP
10 147 (2.87%) PowerShell
11 112 (2.19%) R
12 111 (2.17%) T-SQL
13 106 (2.07%) Bash
14 92 (1.80%) Fortran
15 82 (1.60%) Go
16 77 (1.50%) Embedded C
17 74 (1.44%) Scala
18 71 (1.39%) Kotlin
19 63 (1.23%) MATLAB
20 53 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,376 (85.44%) Degree
2 2,443 (47.70%) Computer Science Degree
3 796 (15.54%) Master's Degree
4 316 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 262 (5.12%) PhD
6 181 (3.53%) SC Cleared
7 167 (3.26%) CISSP
8 153 (2.99%) Microsoft Certification
9 109 (2.13%) CISM
10 103 (2.01%) Cisco Certification
11 89 (1.74%) AWS Certification
12 78 (1.52%) Azure Certification
13 70 (1.37%) PMI Certification
14 63 (1.23%) CCNA
15 62 (1.21%) CCNP
16 61 (1.19%) PMP
17 58 (1.13%) Numerate Degree
18 48 (0.94%) CISA
19 47 (0.92%) A+ Certification
20 45 (0.88%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 284 (5.54%) QA
2 117 (2.28%) Data Quality
3 103 (2.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 99 (1.93%) GDPR
5 82 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 78 (1.52%) NIST
7 42 (0.82%) PMO
8 38 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.61%) WCAG
10 29 (0.57%) 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 (8.45%) Docker
2 217 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 145 (2.83%) Firmware
4 79 (1.54%) VMware ESXi
5 76 (1.48%) VMware Infrastructure
6 73 (1.43%) XenApp
7 70 (1.37%) Microsoft App-V
7 70 (1.37%) XenDesktop
8 46 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
8 46 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (0.59%) Hyper-V
10 12 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
11 10 (0.20%) HDFS
12 8 (0.16%) KVM
12 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
12 8 (0.16%) vSphere
13 4 (0.078%) pfSense
14 2 (0.039%) LXC
15 1 (0.020%) OpenAM
15 1 (0.020%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 400 (7.81%) Kubernetes
2 192 (3.75%) Terraform
3 85 (1.66%) SCCM
4 75 (1.46%) Ansible
5 70 (1.37%) AirWatch
6 25 (0.49%) Grafana
6 25 (0.49%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.43%) Puppet
8 15 (0.29%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 12 (0.23%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.21%) Nagios
10 11 (0.21%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.20%) WSUS
12 8 (0.16%) CASB
12 8 (0.16%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.16%) Nessus
12 8 (0.16%) QRadar
12 8 (0.16%) SCOM
13 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 785 (15.33%) Microsoft
2 214 (4.18%) Google
3 172 (3.36%) Oracle
4 171 (3.34%) Cisco
5 97 (1.89%) SAP
6 87 (1.70%) VMware
7 80 (1.56%) Salesforce
8 77 (1.50%) Citrix
9 52 (1.02%) Databricks
10 48 (0.94%) IBM
10 48 (0.94%) Xilinx
11 41 (0.80%) Splunk
12 34 (0.66%) Adobe
13 32 (0.62%) Juniper
14 29 (0.57%) Apple
14 29 (0.57%) ServiceNow
15 25 (0.49%) Facebook
16 23 (0.45%) Atlassian
17 20 (0.39%) F5
18 19 (0.37%) Xamarin