The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 20 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 26 36 34
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 81 48 40
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 9.951% 6.704% 7.505%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 26.82% 16.55% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 79 44 34
Average salary £30,000 £38,250 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.56% +14.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £28,600 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
302 290 140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 37.10% 40.50% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 288 250 127
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +4.47%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Computer Science
East Sussex

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Brighton Computer Science Salary Histogram

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 74 (64.35%) .NET
2 72 (62.61%) C#
3 53 (46.09%) XML
4 48 (41.74%) TDD
5 46 (40.00%) ASP.NET
6 45 (39.13%) Degree
7 44 (38.26%) Java
8 43 (37.39%) XSLT
9 41 (35.65%) SQL
10 38 (33.04%) WCF
11 37 (32.17%) Software Engineering
11 37 (32.17%) HTML
11 37 (32.17%) Web Services
12 33 (28.70%) BDD
13 32 (27.83%) Linux
14 27 (23.48%) Windows
14 27 (23.48%) Mathematics
15 26 (22.61%) JavaScript
16 25 (21.74%) C++
16 25 (21.74%) Refactoring
17 22 (19.13%) MVC
18 21 (18.26%) OO
18 21 (18.26%) CSS
19 20 (17.39%) PHP
19 20 (17.39%) Python
20 19 (16.52%) Digital Media
21 18 (15.65%) Integration Testing
22 17 (14.78%) Agile Software Development
23 16 (13.91%) Spring
23 16 (13.91%) OOD

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 74 (64.35%) .NET
2 53 (46.09%) XML
3 46 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 43 (37.39%) XSLT
5 38 (33.04%) WCF
6 37 (32.17%) HTML
6 37 (32.17%) Web Services
7 21 (18.26%) CSS
8 16 (13.91%) Spring
8 16 (13.91%) RabbitMQ
9 12 (10.43%) MSMQ
9 12 (10.43%) HTML5
10 10 (8.696%) .NET Framework
11 9 (7.826%) ASP.NET MVC
11 9 (7.826%) jQuery
11 9 (7.826%) Hibernate
12 7 (6.087%) JPA
12 7 (6.087%) Servlets
13 6 (5.217%) SOAP
14 5 (4.348%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 8 (6.957%) Apache
1 8 (6.957%) Tomcat
2 7 (6.087%) Jetty
3 6 (5.217%) Drupal
4 3 (2.609%) CMS
5 2 (1.739%) Joomla!
5 2 (1.739%) Force.com
5 2 (1.739%) Confluence
6 1 (0.870%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.870%) Moodle
6 1 (0.870%) Magento
Applications
1 7 (6.087%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.870%) SNMP
1 1 (0.870%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (13.91%) MySQL
2 14 (12.17%) SQL Server
3 8 (6.957%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (4.348%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.739%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.870%) Big Data
6 1 (0.870%) Couchbase
6 1 (0.870%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (12.17%) Git (software)
2 11 (9.565%) Subversion
3 7 (6.087%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.870%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.870%) PEAR
4 1 (0.870%) TeamCity
4 1 (0.870%) JIRA
4 1 (0.870%) NetBeans
General
1 3 (2.609%) Games
2 2 (1.739%) Electronics
2 2 (1.739%) Finance
2 2 (1.739%) Publishing
3 1 (0.870%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 102 (88.70%) Developer
2 48 (41.74%) Graduate
3 43 (37.39%) Graduate Developer
4 37 (32.17%) .NET Developer
5 23 (20.00%) Junior
6 22 (19.13%) Junior Developer
7 15 (13.04%) Graduate .NET Developer
7 15 (13.04%) Java Developer
8 14 (12.17%) Software Developer
9 11 (9.565%) C# Developer
10 10 (8.696%) C# .NET Developer
11 8 (6.957%) Web Developer
12 6 (5.217%) PHP Developer
12 6 (5.217%) ASP.NET Developer
12 6 (5.217%) Graduate Web Developer
13 5 (4.348%) Senior Developer
13 5 (4.348%) Analyst
13 5 (4.348%) Test Analyst
13 5 (4.348%) QA Test Analyst
13 5 (4.348%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 27 (23.48%) Mathematics
2 19 (16.52%) Digital Media
3 7 (6.087%) Inversion of Control
3 7 (6.087%) Open Source
3 7 (6.087%) Social Media
4 5 (4.348%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.348%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (1.739%) SCORM
5 2 (1.739%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.870%) SCADA
6 1 (0.870%) CCTV
6 1 (0.870%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 32 (27.83%) Linux
2 27 (23.48%) Windows
3 7 (6.087%) Android
3 7 (6.087%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.739%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.870%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (41.74%) TDD
2 37 (32.17%) Software Engineering
3 33 (28.70%) BDD
4 25 (21.74%) Refactoring
5 22 (19.13%) MVC
6 21 (18.26%) OO
7 18 (15.65%) Integration Testing
8 17 (14.78%) Agile Software Development
9 16 (13.91%) OOD
10 13 (11.30%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (11.30%) Scrum
11 11 (9.565%) Web Development
12 8 (6.957%) Change Management
13 7 (6.087%) Project Management
13 7 (6.087%) Requirements Analysis
14 3 (2.609%) Waterfall
15 2 (1.739%) PRINCE2
15 2 (1.739%) Migration
15 2 (1.739%) Technical Architecture
16 1 (0.870%) Game Development
Programming Languages
1 72 (62.61%) C#
2 44 (38.26%) Java
3 41 (35.65%) SQL
4 26 (22.61%) JavaScript
5 25 (21.74%) C++
6 20 (17.39%) PHP
6 20 (17.39%) Python
7 8 (6.957%) VB.NET
7 8 (6.957%) F#
8 7 (6.087%) XQuery
8 7 (6.087%) XPath
9 6 (5.217%) PHP5
10 5 (4.348%) Objective-C
11 2 (1.739%) Ruby
11 2 (1.739%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.870%) Bash shell
12 1 (0.870%) Lua
12 1 (0.870%) VB6
12 1 (0.870%) C
12 1 (0.870%) Perl
Qualifications
1 45 (39.13%) Degree
2 5 (4.348%) ISEB
2 5 (4.348%) ISTQB
3 1 (0.870%) APMP
3 1 (0.870%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (0.870%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.870%) Security Cleared
3 1 (0.870%) PMP
3 1 (0.870%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (11.30%) QA
Vendors
1 10 (8.696%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.478%) Zend
3 2 (1.739%) Salesforce.com
3 2 (1.739%) Alias
4 1 (0.870%) Facebook
4 1 (0.870%) Google
4 1 (0.870%) Perforce
4 1 (0.870%) Apple
4 1 (0.870%) EMC