The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 65 40 44
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 25 44 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 2.343% 4.938% 3.560%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.446% 14.43% 10.41%
Number of salaries quoted 20 40 31
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +9.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £51,600
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
296 305 317
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 27.74% 34.23% 34.20%
Number of salaries quoted 268 250 291
Average salary £41,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.52% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £25,600 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Bedfordshire Computer Science Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Science
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Bedfordshire Computer Science Salary Histogram

Computer Science
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton -8 14 £53,750 +31.09%
Bedford -24 3 £24,000 -20.00% 1
Dunstable -13 1 - -
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Computer Science also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Computer Science.

1 50 (92.59%) Degree
2 31 (57.41%) Windows
3 30 (55.56%) TCP/IP
4 29 (53.70%) Linux
5 20 (37.04%) SQL
6 17 (31.48%) C++
6 17 (31.48%) Change Management
7 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
8 15 (27.78%) C#
8 15 (27.78%) MySQL
8 15 (27.78%) Oracle
8 15 (27.78%) ITIL
9 14 (25.93%) IIS
9 14 (25.93%) Apache
9 14 (25.93%) Cisco
9 14 (25.93%) Service Management
9 14 (25.93%) VMware
9 14 (25.93%) VMware ESX
9 14 (25.93%) Problem Management
9 14 (25.93%) iSCSI
9 14 (25.93%) vSphere
9 14 (25.93%) SaaS
10 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
10 13 (24.07%) C
10 13 (24.07%) Java
11 11 (20.37%) OO
12 10 (18.52%) Python
13 8 (14.81%) IP Telephony
13 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
13 8 (14.81%) HTML

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Computer Science also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (14.81%) HTML
2 7 (12.96%) CSS
3 4 (7.407%) jQuery
4 2 (3.704%) .NET
4 2 (3.704%) MFC
4 2 (3.704%) XHTML
4 2 (3.704%) CSS3
5 1 (1.852%) WPF
5 1 (1.852%) Silverlight
5 1 (1.852%) HTML5
5 1 (1.852%) Web Services
5 1 (1.852%) COM
Application Platforms
1 14 (25.93%) IIS
1 14 (25.93%) Apache
2 2 (3.704%) CMS
2 2 (3.704%) Drupal
3 1 (1.852%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.852%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 30 (55.56%) TCP/IP
2 14 (25.93%) iSCSI
3 8 (14.81%) IP Telephony
3 8 (14.81%) SS7
3 8 (14.81%) VoIP
4 7 (12.96%) Wireless
5 5 (9.259%) 2G
5 5 (9.259%) GSM
5 5 (9.259%) 3G
5 5 (9.259%) DNS
6 4 (7.407%) 3GPP
6 4 (7.407%) UTRAN
6 4 (7.407%) GPRS
6 4 (7.407%) 2.5G
6 4 (7.407%) NAS
7 3 (5.556%) DHCP
8 2 (3.704%) VPN
8 2 (3.704%) 802.11
8 2 (3.704%) LAN
8 2 (3.704%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (27.78%) MySQL
2 1 (1.852%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (9.259%) Telecoms
2 3 (5.556%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (3.704%) Games
3 2 (3.704%) Electronics
4 1 (1.852%) Finance
Job Titles
1 17 (31.48%) Graduate
2 15 (27.78%) Software Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) Systems Engineer
3 13 (24.07%) Linux Engineer
4 12 (22.22%) Developer
5 10 (18.52%) Support Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) C Software Engineer
6 8 (14.81%) Software Support Engineer
7 7 (12.96%) Software Developer
8 5 (9.259%) Administrator
8 5 (9.259%) Web Developer
9 4 (7.407%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (7.407%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (7.407%) Team Leader
9 4 (7.407%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 3 (5.556%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 3 (5.556%) Software Team Leader
10 3 (5.556%) Product Consultant
10 3 (5.556%) Graduate Developer
10 3 (5.556%) Junior Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (25.93%) SaaS
2 3 (5.556%) Mathematics
2 3 (5.556%) Physics
3 2 (3.704%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (1.852%) Life Science
4 1 (1.852%) Statistics
4 1 (1.852%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.852%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 31 (57.41%) Windows
2 29 (53.70%) Linux
3 5 (9.259%) UNIX
4 1 (1.852%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Change Management
2 15 (27.78%) ITIL
3 14 (25.93%) Service Management
3 14 (25.93%) Problem Management
4 13 (24.07%) Software Engineering
5 11 (20.37%) OO
6 4 (7.407%) Requirements Analysis
6 4 (7.407%) Performance Management
7 3 (5.556%) Web Application Development
7 3 (5.556%) Software Architecture
8 2 (3.704%) E-Commerce
8 2 (3.704%) Web Design
8 2 (3.704%) Migration
8 2 (3.704%) Web Development
8 2 (3.704%) Incident Management
8 2 (3.704%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (3.704%) Image Processing
8 2 (3.704%) Change Control
8 2 (3.704%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (3.704%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 20 (37.04%) SQL
2 17 (31.48%) C++
3 15 (27.78%) C#
4 13 (24.07%) C
4 13 (24.07%) Java
5 10 (18.52%) Python
6 8 (14.81%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.407%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.407%) C-shell
7 4 (7.407%) Bash shell
8 3 (5.556%) PHP
9 1 (1.852%) COBOL
9 1 (1.852%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 50 (92.59%) Degree
2 5 (9.259%) Postgraduate
3 4 (7.407%) RHCE
4 2 (3.704%) CCNP
4 2 (3.704%) CCNA
4 2 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.852%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.407%) ISO 9000
2 2 (3.704%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.852%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) VMware ESX
1 14 (25.93%) vSphere
2 4 (7.407%) NFS
2 4 (7.407%) Samba
Vendors
1 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (27.78%) Oracle
3 14 (25.93%) Cisco
3 14 (25.93%) VMware
4 2 (3.704%) Twitter
5 1 (1.852%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.852%) Salesforce.com
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