Edinburgh Computer Science Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Computer Science (Computing Science) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Miscellaneous category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer Science (Computing Science)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Beaconsfield Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Bermondsey Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bridgwater Brighton Bristol Bromley Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Channel Islands Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester County Antrim County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Dagenham Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunfermline Durham Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Fife Glasgow Glenrothes Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Gosport Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Hastings Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highland Horsham Hounslow Hull Humberside Hungerford Inverclyde Inverness Ipswich Jersey Kent Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liphook Liverpool Livingston London Lowestoft Luton Lutterworth Maidenhead Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newport Newport Pagnell Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Renfrewshire Rochdale Romsey Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Sittingbourne Skipton Slough Somerset South Croydon South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stamford Stanmore Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Teddington Tewkesbury Thame Thames Valley Twickenham UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Widnes Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	41
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	82	78
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.040 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	27.42 %	15.45 %
Salaries quoted	77	52
Average minimum salary	£24,883	£24,827
Average salary	£28,045	£28,361
% change on same period last year	-1.11 %
Average maximum salary	£31,208	£31,894
UK excluding London average salary	£32,863	£33,965
% change on same period last year	-3.24 %
Miscellaneous Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	299	505
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.147 %	0.224 %
Salaries quoted	224	390
Average minimum salary	£29,901	£32,830
Average salary	£32,538	£35,627
% change on same period last year	-8.66 %
Average maximum salary	£35,176	£38,423
UK excluding London average salary	£38,553	£39,119
% change on same period last year	-1.44 %
Computer Science Scotland

Computer Science
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Computer Science across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Edinburgh region over the past 3 months.

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Computer Science also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Computer Science.

1 111 (70.70 %) Degree 2 68 (43.31 %) C++ 3 60 (38.22 %) .NET 4 56 (35.67 %) Software Engineering 5 46 (29.30 %) SQL 5 46 (29.30 %) Windows 6 45 (28.66 %) C 6 45 (28.66 %) Java 7 44 (28.03 %) Linux 8 42 (26.75 %) C# 8 42 (26.75 %) Education 9 36 (22.93 %) XML 10 23 (14.65 %) Unix 10 23 (14.65 %) Microsoft 11 22 (14.01 %) ASP.NET

12 20 (12.74 %) OO 13 19 (12.10 %) SQL Server 13 19 (12.10 %) J2EE 14 18 (11.46 %) Pensions 15 17 (10.83 %) Oracle 15 17 (10.83 %) Insurance 16 16 (10.19 %) Mathematics 16 16 (10.19 %) Health 17 15 (9.554 %) Finance 18 14 (8.917 %) Visual Studio 19 13 (8.280 %) Client/Server 19 13 (8.280 %) Physics 20 12 (7.643 %) JavaScript 20 12 (7.643 %) GIS 21 11 (7.006 %) HTML

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Computer Science also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Computer Science. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 60 (38.22 %) .NET 2 36 (22.93 %) XML 3 22 (14.01 %) ASP.NET 4 19 (12.10 %) J2EE 5 11 (7.006 %) HTML 6 9 (5.732 %) X-Windows 6 9 (5.732 %) WebSphere 7 8 (5.096 %) AJAX 7 8 (5.096 %) Motif 7 8 (5.096 %) CSS 7 8 (5.096 %) JSP 8 7 (4.459 %) jBPM 9 6 (3.822 %) Hibernate 9 6 (3.822 %) WMI 9 6 (3.822 %) .NET Framework 9 6 (3.822 %) COM 9 6 (3.822 %) ADO.NET 9 6 (3.822 %) XHTML 10 5 (3.185 %) Struts 10 5 (3.185 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 11 (7.006 %) JBoss 2 6 (3.822 %) Apache 3 4 (2.548 %) SAS 3 4 (2.548 %) WebLogic 4 2 (1.274 %) Tomcat 4 2 (1.274 %) SharePoint 5 1 (0.637 %) CMS
Applications 1 7 (4.459 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (0.637 %) Oracle Clinical
Communications & Networking 1 4 (2.548 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (2.548 %) Internet 2 2 (1.274 %) 3GPP 2 2 (1.274 %) Ethernet 3 1 (0.637 %) SDH 3 1 (0.637 %) SONET 3 1 (0.637 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 19 (12.10 %) SQL Server 2 12 (7.643 %) GIS 3 10 (6.369 %) MySQL 4 7 (4.459 %) SQL Server 2005 5 3 (1.911 %) RDBMS 5 3 (1.911 %) BusinessObjects 5 3 (1.911 %) SQL Server 2000 6 2 (1.274 %) Base SAS 7 1 (0.637 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 14 (8.917 %) Visual Studio 2 6 (3.822 %) VSS/SourceSafe 2 6 (3.822 %) Subversion 3 4 (2.548 %) Selenium 3 4 (2.548 %) JUnit 4 3 (1.911 %) Oracle Forms 5 2 (1.274 %) Flash 6 1 (0.637 %) Eclipse	General 1 42 (26.75 %) Education 2 18 (11.46 %) Pensions 3 17 (10.83 %) Insurance 4 16 (10.19 %) Health 5 15 (9.554 %) Finance 6 8 (5.096 %) Games 7 5 (3.185 %) Electric 8 4 (2.548 %) Telecoms 9 3 (1.911 %) Retail 10 2 (1.274 %) Legal 10 2 (1.274 %) Electronics 11 1 (0.637 %) Pharmaceutical 11 1 (0.637 %) Financial Institution 11 1 (0.637 %) Construction 11 1 (0.637 %) Manufacturing 11 1 (0.637 %) Home Office 11 1 (0.637 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 70 (44.59 %) Developer 2 46 (29.30 %) Software Engineer 3 19 (12.10 %) Java Developer 4 18 (11.46 %) Software Developer 5 15 (9.554 %) Programmer 6 13 (8.280 %) Graduate 7 12 (7.643 %) .NET Developer 8 11 (7.006 %) ASP.NET Developer 9 10 (6.369 %) Junior 9 10 (6.369 %) C Software Engineer 10 9 (5.732 %) Analyst 10 9 (5.732 %) C++ Software Engineer 11 8 (5.096 %) Junior Developer 11 8 (5.096 %) Linux Engineer 12 7 (4.459 %) C#/ASP.NET Developer 12 7 (4.459 %) Graduate Developer 12 7 (4.459 %) C# Developer 12 7 (4.459 %) Senior Developer 13 6 (3.822 %) Analyst Programmer 13 6 (3.822 %) C# Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 16 (10.19 %) Mathematics 2 13 (8.280 %) Physics 2 13 (8.280 %) Client/Server 3 5 (3.185 %) Dutch Language 3 5 (3.185 %) German Language 4 3 (1.911 %) Firmware 4 3 (1.911 %) VHDL 4 3 (1.911 %) Economics 5 2 (1.274 %) Verilog 5 2 (1.274 %) Smartcard 5 2 (1.274 %) ASIC 5 2 (1.274 %) CCTV 5 2 (1.274 %) Statistics 5 2 (1.274 %) French Language 6 1 (0.637 %) RIA 6 1 (0.637 %) Device Driver 6 1 (0.637 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 6 1 (0.637 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 46 (29.30 %) Windows 2 44 (28.03 %) Linux 3 23 (14.65 %) Unix 4 8 (5.096 %) VxWorks 5 2 (1.274 %) Debian 5 2 (1.274 %) Windows XP 5 2 (1.274 %) Windows CE	Processes & Methodologies 1 56 (35.67 %) Software Engineering 2 20 (12.74 %) OO 3 11 (7.006 %) Web Development 4 7 (4.459 %) Unit Testing 4 7 (4.459 %) UML 5 5 (3.185 %) OOP 5 5 (3.185 %) Business Analysis 6 4 (2.548 %) SOA 6 4 (2.548 %) Data Analysis 7 3 (1.911 %) CRM 8 2 (1.274 %) E-Commerce 8 2 (1.274 %) OOA/OOD 8 2 (1.274 %) CAE 9 1 (0.637 %) Service Delivery 9 1 (0.637 %) E-business 9 1 (0.637 %) Agile Software Development 9 1 (0.637 %) TDD 9 1 (0.637 %) Data Management 9 1 (0.637 %) Requirements Analysis 9 1 (0.637 %) Operations Research
Programming Languages 1 68 (43.31 %) C++ 2 46 (29.30 %) SQL 3 45 (28.66 %) C 3 45 (28.66 %) Java 4 42 (26.75 %) C# 5 12 (7.643 %) JavaScript 6 10 (6.369 %) Perl 7 8 (5.096 %) PHP 7 8 (5.096 %) PL/SQL 7 8 (5.096 %) Python 8 6 (3.822 %) VB.NET 9 5 (3.185 %) Transact-SQL 10 4 (2.548 %) XPath 11 2 (1.274 %) Tcl 11 2 (1.274 %) Fortran 12 1 (0.637 %) Embedded C 12 1 (0.637 %) ActionScript 12 1 (0.637 %) VBA 12 1 (0.637 %) VC++ 12 1 (0.637 %) VB	Qualifications 1 111 (70.70 %) Degree 2 3 (1.911 %) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (0.637 %) QA	System Software 1 4 (2.548 %) AquaLogic
Vendors 1 23 (14.65 %) Microsoft 2 17 (10.83 %) Oracle 3 6 (3.822 %) ESRI 4 4 (2.548 %) IBM 5 3 (1.911 %) Business Objects 6 2 (1.274 %) Sybase 6 2 (1.274 %) Sage 7 1 (0.637 %) Hyperion