England Computer Science Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Computer Science (Computing Science) skills within the England 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 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Computer Science (Computing Science)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alcester Aldershot Altrincham Amersham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Berkhamsted Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chippenham Church Stretton City of London Clapham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Crewkerne Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Dunfermline Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Egham Ellesmere Port England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Harrow Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Horsham Hounslow Hull Humberside Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingswinford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Aycliffe Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oldham Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Penicuik Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Romsey Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough Smethwick Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stanmore Stevenage Stockport Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Teddington Thame Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warminster Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Widnes Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	118	89
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching permanent IT job ads	3219	4866
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.695 %	1.996 %
As % of the category below	8.399 %	8.756 %
Salaries quoted	2717	3807
Average minimum salary	£34,481	£36,511
Average salary	£38,710	£40,176
% change on same period last year	-3.64 %
Average maximum salary	£42,939	£43,841
UK excluding London average salary	£33,573	£32,204
% change on same period last year	+4.25 %
Miscellaneous England
Matching permanent IT job ads	38325	55571
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	20.18 %	22.79 %
Salaries quoted	31504	42299
Average minimum salary	£44,265	£48,639
Average salary	£49,055	£53,704
% change on same period last year	-8.65 %
Average maximum salary	£53,846	£58,769
UK excluding London average salary	£38,000	£39,211
% change on same period last year	-3.08 %
Computer Science UK

Computer Science
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Computer Science across the England 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 citing Computer Science across the England region.

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

Computer Science
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-39	1341	£46,042	-4.21 %
South East	-5	713	£36,336	+1.83 %
East of England	+11	597	£34,620	+9.15 %
South West	-24	202	£29,477	-3.36 %
West Midlands	+10	132	£32,344	+17.14 %
Yorkshire	-21	102	£29,182	+5.59 %
North West	-49	79	£31,264	+18.88 %
East Midlands	+1	46	£36,154	+28.14 %
Midlands	+25	15	£34,400	-23.93 %
North East	+4	12	£26,136	-3.06 %
Humberside	-	1	£25,000	-

Computer Science UK

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 5544 (77.14 %) Degree 2 2360 (32.84 %) Java 3 2137 (29.73 %) C++ 4 1863 (25.92 %) SQL 5 1795 (24.98 %) .NET 6 1704 (23.71 %) C# 7 1523 (21.19 %) Finance 8 1398 (19.45 %) Mathematics 9 1292 (17.98 %) SQL Server 10 1133 (15.76 %) C 11 1126 (15.67 %) Windows 12 990 (13.77 %) Oracle 13 989 (13.76 %) OO 14 960 (13.36 %) UNIX 15 955 (13.29 %) Linux

16 941 (13.09 %) XML 17 843 (11.73 %) JavaScript 18 826 (11.49 %) Microsoft 19 805 (11.20 %) Software Engineering 20 793 (11.03 %) ASP.NET 21 791 (11.01 %) HTML 22 688 (9.573 %) J2EE 23 663 (9.225 %) Education 24 600 (8.348 %) CSS 25 599 (8.334 %) Physics 26 537 (7.472 %) Banking 27 474 (6.595 %) VB 28 473 (6.581 %) Front Office 29 431 (5.997 %) MS Excel 30 417 (5.802 %) Pensions

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England 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 1795 (24.98 %) .NET 2 941 (13.09 %) XML 3 793 (11.03 %) ASP.NET 4 791 (11.01 %) HTML 5 688 (9.573 %) J2EE 6 600 (8.348 %) CSS 7 394 (5.482 %) AJAX 8 384 (5.343 %) WebServices 9 289 (4.021 %) JSP 10 277 (3.854 %) ASP 11 275 (3.826 %) XHTML 12 253 (3.520 %) Spring 13 223 (3.103 %) Hibernate 14 193 (2.685 %) STL 15 174 (2.421 %) WinForms 16 165 (2.296 %) Servlets 17 149 (2.073 %) J2SE 17 149 (2.073 %) .NET Framework 18 145 (2.018 %) XSLT 19 139 (1.934 %) MFC	Application Platforms 1 189 (2.630 %) Apache 2 135 (1.878 %) WebLogic 3 130 (1.809 %) Tomcat 4 112 (1.558 %) SharePoint 4 112 (1.558 %) JBoss 5 105 (1.461 %) MS Exchange 6 85 (1.183 %) IIS 7 67 (0.932 %) CMS 8 56 (0.779 %) MQSeries 9 55 (0.765 %) BizTalk Server 10 50 (0.696 %) SAS 11 46 (0.640 %) ColdFusion 12 40 (0.557 %) Exchange Server 2000 13 34 (0.473 %) Exchange Server 2003 14 27 (0.376 %) Rendezvous 14 27 (0.376 %) Smallworld 15 23 (0.320 %) SharePoint Server 2007 16 17 (0.237 %) SharePoint Portal Server 17 11 (0.153 %) WebSphere Application Server 18 9 (0.125 %) ESB
Applications 1 431 (5.997 %) MS Excel 2 109 (1.517 %) Photoshop 3 107 (1.489 %) MS Office 4 90 (1.252 %) MATLAB 5 75 (1.044 %) MS Visio 6 47 (0.654 %) Adobe Illustrator 7 38 (0.529 %) 3ds Max 8 28 (0.390 %) Spreadsheet 9 27 (0.376 %) MS PowerPoint 10 24 (0.334 %) Maya 11 13 (0.181 %) SPSS 12 10 (0.139 %) S-PLUS 13 9 (0.125 %) PrintSoft PReS 14 8 (0.111 %) Pro/ENGINEER 14 8 (0.111 %) MS Project 15 7 (0.097 %) Paint Shop Pro 16 6 (0.083 %) Fireworks 17 5 (0.070 %) AutoCAD 17 5 (0.070 %) DOC1 17 5 (0.070 %) InfoPath	Business Applications 1 23 (0.320 %) Oracle Financials 2 11 (0.153 %) Cognos Planning 3 8 (0.111 %) Cognos Business Intelligence 4 6 (0.083 %) FRONT ARENA 5 5 (0.070 %) Microsoft CRM 5 5 (0.070 %) Great Plains 5 5 (0.070 %) Oracle Applications 6 4 (0.056 %) Navision 7 3 (0.042 %) Oracle ERP 7 3 (0.042 %) Summit 7 3 (0.042 %) Dynamics AX 7 3 (0.042 %) Dynamics GP 7 3 (0.042 %) Dynamics NAV 7 3 (0.042 %) Hyperion Planning 8 2 (0.028 %) Dynamics CRM 8 2 (0.028 %) Line 50 8 2 (0.028 %) SAP Business One 8 2 (0.028 %) SAP ERP 8 2 (0.028 %) Oracle Clinical 8 2 (0.028 %) Remedy AR System
Communications & Networking 1 395 (5.496 %) Internet 2 276 (3.840 %) TCP/IP 3 195 (2.713 %) Wireless 4 124 (1.725 %) HTTP 5 83 (1.155 %) VoIP 6 81 (1.127 %) Ethernet 7 80 (1.113 %) LAN 8 79 (1.099 %) Firewall 9 74 (1.030 %) Intranet 9 74 (1.030 %) WAN 10 72 (1.002 %) GSM 11 69 (0.960 %) DNS 12 58 (0.807 %) Broadband 13 56 (0.779 %) VPN 14 55 (0.765 %) ISDN 15 54 (0.751 %) UMTS 16 49 (0.682 %) SAN 17 46 (0.640 %) PBX 18 45 (0.626 %) GPRS 19 39 (0.543 %) H.323	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1292 (17.98 %) SQL Server 2 325 (4.522 %) MySQL 3 222 (3.089 %) SQL Server 2005 4 187 (2.602 %) SQL Server 2000 5 180 (2.505 %) RDBMS 6 110 (1.531 %) DB2 7 91 (1.266 %) Oracle 10g 8 77 (1.071 %) GIS 9 76 (1.057 %) Datawarehouse 10 69 (0.960 %) ETL 10 69 (0.960 %) SQL Server 7 11 66 (0.918 %) MS Access 12 52 (0.724 %) Oracle 9i 13 49 (0.682 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 38 (0.529 %) BusinessObjects 15 34 (0.473 %) Data Mining 16 31 (0.431 %) Crystal Reports 17 29 (0.404 %) OLAP 18 27 (0.376 %) DTS 19 26 (0.362 %) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 164 (2.282 %) Visual Studio 2 127 (1.767 %) Eclipse 3 122 (1.698 %) Flash 4 119 (1.656 %) JUnit 5 105 (1.461 %) Subversion 6 66 (0.918 %) Ant 7 56 (0.779 %) ClearCase 8 52 (0.724 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 33 (0.459 %) Selenium 10 31 (0.431 %) FitNesse 11 26 (0.362 %) QuickTest Pro 12 25 (0.348 %) TestDirector 13 22 (0.306 %) NUnit 13 22 (0.306 %) IntelliJ 14 19 (0.264 %) Dreamweaver 14 19 (0.264 %) InstallShield 15 18 (0.250 %) LoadRunner 16 10 (0.139 %) WinRunner 16 10 (0.139 %) PVCS 17 8 (0.111 %) PowerBuilder	General 1 1523 (21.19 %) Finance 2 663 (9.225 %) Education 3 537 (7.472 %) Banking 4 473 (6.581 %) Front Office 5 417 (5.802 %) Pensions 6 370 (5.148 %) Health 7 369 (5.134 %) Telecoms 8 323 (4.494 %) Investment Banking 9 298 (4.146 %) Games 10 265 (3.687 %) Electronics 11 241 (3.353 %) Marketing 12 190 (2.644 %) Retail 13 186 (2.588 %) Insurance 14 102 (1.419 %) Electric 14 102 (1.419 %) Pharmaceutical 15 96 (1.336 %) Publishing 16 87 (1.211 %) Government 17 82 (1.141 %) Back Office 18 79 (1.099 %) Manufacturing 19 76 (1.057 %) Financial Institution
Job Titles 1 3289 (45.76 %) Developer 2 890 (12.38 %) Graduate 3 873 (12.15 %) Java Developer 4 868 (12.08 %) Software Engineer 5 715 (9.949 %) Analyst 6 562 (7.820 %) Software Developer 7 529 (7.361 %) .NET Developer 8 506 (7.040 %) C# Developer 9 465 (6.470 %) Junior 10 422 (5.872 %) C++ Developer 11 421 (5.858 %) Web Developer 12 397 (5.524 %) Programmer 13 363 (5.051 %) Consultant 14 351 (4.884 %) Graduate Developer 15 317 (4.411 %) Senior Developer 16 300 (4.174 %) Junior Developer 17 197 (2.741 %) Java/J2EE Developer 18 179 (2.491 %) C++ Software Engineer 19 177 (2.463 %) Architect 20 165 (2.296 %) J2EE Developer	Miscellaneous 1 1398 (19.45 %) Mathematics 2 599 (8.334 %) Physics 3 413 (5.746 %) Derivative 4 206 (2.866 %) Equities 5 202 (2.811 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 144 (2.004 %) Multithreading 7 135 (1.878 %) Equity Derivative 8 119 (1.656 %) Fixed Income 9 95 (1.322 %) Management Information System 10 94 (1.308 %) Statistics 11 81 (1.127 %) Client/Server 12 79 (1.099 %) W3C 13 76 (1.057 %) Credit Derivative 14 71 (0.988 %) Device Driver 15 62 (0.863 %) German Language 16 60 (0.835 %) Economics 17 58 (0.807 %) VHDL 18 56 (0.779 %) French Language 19 49 (0.682 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 20 47 (0.654 %) Interest Rate Derivative
Operating Systems 1 1126 (15.67 %) Windows 2 960 (13.36 %) UNIX 3 955 (13.29 %) Linux 4 134 (1.864 %) Windows XP 4 134 (1.864 %) Solaris 5 104 (1.447 %) Windows 2000 6 69 (0.960 %) Windows Server 2003 7 60 (0.835 %) Windows Mobile 8 58 (0.807 %) Windows NT 9 51 (0.710 %) Windows CE 10 40 (0.557 %) Embedded Linux 11 38 (0.529 %) AIX 12 23 (0.320 %) HPUX 13 22 (0.306 %) VxWorks 14 20 (0.278 %) Symbian OS 15 15 (0.209 %) Debian 16 11 (0.153 %) FreeBSD 17 8 (0.111 %) OpenVMS 17 8 (0.111 %) Fedora 18 6 (0.083 %) SUSE	Processes & Methodologies 1 989 (13.76 %) OO 2 805 (11.20 %) Software Engineering 3 337 (4.689 %) UML 4 284 (3.952 %) E-Commerce 5 278 (3.868 %) Project Management 6 274 (3.812 %) Agile Software Development 7 236 (3.284 %) Web Development 8 224 (3.117 %) OOD 9 154 (2.143 %) Business Intelligence 10 152 (2.115 %) Unit Testing 11 147 (2.045 %) Risk Management 12 143 (1.990 %) OOP 13 125 (1.739 %) CRM 14 110 (1.531 %) Data Modelling 15 105 (1.461 %) Business Analysis 16 102 (1.419 %) Scrum 17 100 (1.391 %) Web Design 18 96 (1.336 %) RUP 19 95 (1.322 %) CAD 20 91 (1.266 %) Asset Management
Programming Languages 1 2360 (32.84 %) Java 2 2137 (29.73 %) C++ 3 1863 (25.92 %) SQL 4 1704 (23.71 %) C# 5 1133 (15.76 %) C 6 843 (11.73 %) JavaScript 7 474 (6.595 %) VB 8 416 (5.788 %) Perl 9 415 (5.774 %) VB.NET 10 386 (5.371 %) PHP 11 217 (3.019 %) Python 12 182 (2.532 %) VBA 13 154 (2.143 %) VB6 14 139 (1.934 %) Transact-SQL 15 136 (1.892 %) VC++ 16 119 (1.656 %) PL/SQL 17 104 (1.447 %) ActionScript 18 97 (1.350 %) VBScript 19 83 (1.155 %) Shell Script 20 80 (1.113 %) DHTML	Qualifications 1 5544 (77.14 %) Degree 2 241 (3.353 %) PhD 3 140 (1.948 %) Microsoft Certification 4 83 (1.155 %) HND 5 71 (0.988 %) Cisco Certification 6 56 (0.779 %) ISEB 7 54 (0.751 %) Postgraduate 8 53 (0.737 %) MCSE 9 52 (0.724 %) CCNA 10 44 (0.612 %) MCAD 11 42 (0.584 %) MCSD 12 32 (0.445 %) MCP 13 25 (0.348 %) Sun Certification 14 21 (0.292 %) CCNP 15 18 (0.250 %) CISSP 16 15 (0.209 %) ITIL Certification 16 15 (0.209 %) MBA 17 14 (0.195 %) PMI Certification 17 14 (0.195 %) MCSA 17 14 (0.195 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 218 (3.033 %) QA 2 36 (0.501 %) WAI 3 33 (0.459 %) ISO9001 3 33 (0.459 %) SLA 4 29 (0.404 %) Basel II 5 12 (0.167 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 6 9 (0.125 %) HL7 6 9 (0.125 %) DICOM 7 7 (0.097 %) ISO27001 8 6 (0.083 %) CDISC 8 6 (0.083 %) GCP 9 4 (0.056 %) ISO9000 9 4 (0.056 %) ISO8583 9 4 (0.056 %) JTAG 10 3 (0.042 %) WCAG 10 3 (0.042 %) COBIT 11 2 (0.028 %) ISO17799 11 2 (0.028 %) TickIT 12 1 (0.014 %) GMP 12 1 (0.014 %) MiFID	System Software 1 92 (1.280 %) Active Directory 2 18 (0.250 %) NDS 3 13 (0.181 %) NFS 3 13 (0.181 %) ISA Server 3 13 (0.181 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 8 (0.111 %) Oracle RAC 5 6 (0.083 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 6 4 (0.056 %) Xen 6 4 (0.056 %) ClearTrust 7 3 (0.042 %) Citrix Presentation Server 8 2 (0.028 %) Squid 8 2 (0.028 %) Samba 9 1 (0.014 %) MetaFrame 9 1 (0.014 %) Terminal Services
Systems Management 1 29 (0.404 %) MOM 2 20 (0.278 %) SCOM 3 14 (0.195 %) Nagios 4 10 (0.139 %) OpenView 5 8 (0.111 %) Norton AntiVirus 6 7 (0.097 %) Tivoli 7 6 (0.083 %) Netcool/Proviso 7 6 (0.083 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 6 (0.083 %) Netcool 7 6 (0.083 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 8 3 (0.042 %) AutoSys 8 3 (0.042 %) CA SiteMinder 9 2 (0.028 %) CiscoWorks 9 2 (0.028 %) NNM	Vendors 1 990 (13.77 %) Oracle 2 826 (11.49 %) Microsoft 3 245 (3.409 %) Sybase 4 138 (1.920 %) Cisco 5 103 (1.433 %) TIBCO 6 87 (1.211 %) Adobe 7 58 (0.807 %) Symbian 7 58 (0.807 %) Cognos 8 52 (0.724 %) IBM 9 51 (0.710 %) Red Hat 10 44 (0.612 %) Sun 11 43 (0.598 %) HP 12 39 (0.543 %) SAP 13 38 (0.529 %) Business Objects 14 34 (0.473 %) Citrix 15 30 (0.417 %) BEA 16 28 (0.390 %) Bloomberg 17 26 (0.362 %) VMware 18 25 (0.348 %) JD Edwards 19 22 (0.306 %) Google