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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 38 40 28
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 9 3 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 3.093% 0.917% 2.538%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.716% 3.488% 6.173%
Number of salaries quoted 7 3 4
Average salary £77,500 £50,000 £90,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+55.00% -44.44%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
134 86 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 46.05% 26.30% 41.12%
Number of salaries quoted 97 66 56
Average salary £80,000 £80,000 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £57,500 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £110,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,625 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-3.43% +6.66%
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

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

Canary Wharf Computer Science Salary Histogram

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 12 (54.55%) C++
3 8 (36.36%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) C#
3 8 (36.36%) Degree
4 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
4 6 (27.27%) WPF
5 5 (22.73%) Banking
5 5 (22.73%) Investment Banking
5 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 5 (22.73%) OO
5 5 (22.73%) Hedge funds
6 4 (18.18%) F#
6 4 (18.18%) Open Source
6 4 (18.18%) UNIX
6 4 (18.18%) Linux
6 4 (18.18%) .NET
6 4 (18.18%) C
6 4 (18.18%) Tandem
7 3 (13.64%) Physics
7 3 (13.64%) Credit Risk
7 3 (13.64%) Release Management
7 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
7 3 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
7 3 (13.64%) Change Management
7 3 (13.64%) STL
7 3 (13.64%) Python
7 3 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
7 3 (13.64%) Boost C++ Libraries
7 3 (13.64%) MVVM

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 6 (27.27%) WPF
2 4 (18.18%) .NET
3 3 (13.64%) STL
3 3 (13.64%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 2 (9.091%) Silverlight
5 1 (4.545%) Guice
5 1 (4.545%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (4.545%) SciPy
5 1 (4.545%) NumPy
5 1 (4.545%) PyQt
5 1 (4.545%) Java Concurrency
5 1 (4.545%) Lucene
5 1 (4.545%) WCF
5 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.545%) Apache Solr
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (4.545%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) JIRA
General
1 13 (59.09%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
2 5 (22.73%) Investment Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Games
3 1 (4.545%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) C++ Developer
2 4 (18.18%) C# Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Graduate Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Analyst Programmer
3 3 (13.64%) Graduate
3 3 (13.64%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Graduate Analyst Programmer
4 2 (9.091%) .NET Developer
4 2 (9.091%) C++ Quantitative Developer
4 2 (9.091%) Quantitative Developer
5 1 (4.545%) C++ Programmer
5 1 (4.545%) Risk Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Information Manager
5 1 (4.545%) C Developer
5 1 (4.545%) C Programmer
5 1 (4.545%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Information Risk Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Mathematics
2 5 (22.73%) Hedge funds
3 4 (18.18%) Open Source
3 4 (18.18%) Tandem
4 3 (13.64%) Physics
4 3 (13.64%) Credit Risk
5 2 (9.091%) Applied Mathematics
5 2 (9.091%) Statistics
5 2 (9.091%) Fixed Income
5 2 (9.091%) Equities
6 1 (4.545%) Chemistry
6 1 (4.545%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) UNIX
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) OO
2 3 (13.64%) Change Management
2 3 (13.64%) Multithreading
2 3 (13.64%) Electronic Trading
2 3 (13.64%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (13.64%) MVVM
2 3 (13.64%) Release Management
2 3 (13.64%) Analytics
3 2 (9.091%) Data Analysis
4 1 (4.545%) Software Engineering
4 1 (4.545%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (4.545%) Project Management
4 1 (4.545%) MVC
4 1 (4.545%) Risk Management
4 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.545%) Information Security
4 1 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.545%) OOP
4 1 (4.545%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (4.545%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (54.55%) C++
2 8 (36.36%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) C#
3 5 (22.73%) SQL
4 4 (18.18%) F#
4 4 (18.18%) C
5 3 (13.64%) Python
6 2 (9.091%) Scala
7 1 (4.545%) Clojure
7 1 (4.545%) Cython
7 1 (4.545%) Haskell
7 1 (4.545%) Erlang
7 1 (4.545%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (4.545%) Cognos
1 1 (4.545%) Perforce
1 1 (4.545%) Google