Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 57 44
Rank change year-on-year +18 -13 +13
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,191 4,738 9,063
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.91% 5.13% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 5.36% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 3,054 2,711 3,450
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +0.63%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £104,625 £115,000 £105,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,201 88,357 126,755
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.80% 95.62% 95.68%
Number of salaries quoted 53,948 52,208 73,866
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,291 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,783 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,185 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Salary trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 6 months to 3 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +7 1,539 £77,500 -3.13% 828
South East +8 1,027 £60,000 +9.09% 248
North of England +86 634 £48,000 -8.57% 219
Midlands +22 369 £50,000 -4.76% 150
North West +75 352 £50,000 -9.09% 126
South West +17 349 £50,000 -9.09% 107
West Midlands +32 253 £52,500 -4.55% 80
East of England -1 249 £45,000 -6.74% 160
Yorkshire +91 222 £45,000 -14.29% 60
East Midlands -8 110 £42,500 -5.56% 70
North East +9 60 £52,500 +27.27% 35
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 136 (3.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (1.91%) Apache Spark
3 78 (1.86%) SharePoint
4 42 (1.00%) Apache
5 39 (0.93%) CMS
5 39 (0.93%) Confluence
6 30 (0.72%) SAS
7 24 (0.57%) IIS
8 23 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
8 23 (0.55%) WordPress
9 12 (0.29%) Jupyter
9 12 (0.29%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
11 8 (0.19%) Apache Pig
11 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
12 7 (0.17%) nginx
13 6 (0.14%) Moodle
14 4 (0.095%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 3 (0.072%) Luigi
15 3 (0.072%) WildFly
Applications
1 98 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (0.93%) Simulink
4 24 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 9 (0.21%) MS Visio
7 9 (0.21%) SPSS
8 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
9 3 (0.072%) Sketch
9 3 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.048%) InVision
10 2 (0.048%) Stateflow
10 2 (0.048%) TargetLink
10 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
11 1 (0.024%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.024%) GNU Octave
11 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
11 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.095%) Magento
9 4 (0.095%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.095%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.072%) Endur
10 3 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.072%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.072%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.048%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.048%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 780 (18.61%) AWS
2 763 (18.21%) Azure
3 257 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
4 233 (5.56%) Power Platform
5 232 (5.54%) GCP
6 165 (3.94%) SaaS
7 139 (3.32%) Serverless
8 109 (2.60%) GitHub
9 104 (2.48%) AWS Lambda
10 101 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
11 87 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
12 82 (1.96%) Amazon S3
13 57 (1.36%) PowerApps
14 53 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
15 49 (1.17%) Power Automate
16 40 (0.95%) IaaS
17 36 (0.86%) PaaS
18 35 (0.84%) Amazon Kinesis
19 32 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
20 31 (0.74%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 169 (4.03%) WAN
2 153 (3.65%) Network Security
3 146 (3.48%) Firewall
4 133 (3.17%) Wireless
5 126 (3.01%) SD-WAN
6 100 (2.39%) WebEx
7 98 (2.34%) Cisco IOS
8 86 (2.05%) TCP/IP
9 82 (1.96%) DNS
10 76 (1.81%) VPN
11 56 (1.34%) Internet
12 46 (1.10%) LAN
13 45 (1.07%) Wi-Fi
14 44 (1.05%) HTTP
15 41 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
16 37 (0.88%) DHCP
17 26 (0.62%) VLAN
18 24 (0.57%) SAN
19 23 (0.55%) Ethernet
20 22 (0.52%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 216 (5.15%) Power BI
3 177 (4.22%) MySQL
4 170 (4.06%) NoSQL
5 166 (3.96%) Relational Database
6 141 (3.36%) PostgreSQL
7 133 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
8 107 (2.55%) Redis
9 99 (2.36%) Big Data
10 81 (1.93%) Tableau
11 63 (1.50%) Hadoop
11 63 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 56 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
13 50 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
13 50 (1.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 48 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 41 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 38 (0.91%) Data Lake
17 31 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 488 (11.64%) Git
2 163 (3.89%) JIRA
3 82 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 74 (1.77%) Visual Studio
5 71 (1.69%) GitLab
6 54 (1.29%) Selenium
7 46 (1.10%) Cypress.io
8 42 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 41 (0.98%) NUnit
9 41 (0.98%) Subversion
10 39 (0.93%) Moq
11 33 (0.79%) CMake
12 31 (0.74%) Burp Suite
13 30 (0.72%) Postman
14 29 (0.69%) Metasploit
15 25 (0.60%) Bitbucket
16 23 (0.55%) JUnit
16 23 (0.55%) Maven
17 19 (0.45%) Sourcetree
18 17 (0.41%) Appium
General
1 1,748 (41.71%) Social Skills
2 788 (18.80%) Analytical Skills
3 652 (15.56%) Finance
4 292 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 203 (4.84%) Marketing
6 202 (4.82%) Manufacturing
7 188 (4.49%) Electronics
8 127 (3.03%) Retail
9 111 (2.65%) Games
10 110 (2.62%) Public Sector
11 109 (2.60%) Legal
11 109 (2.60%) Presentation Skills
12 91 (2.17%) Telecoms
13 82 (1.96%) Banking
13 82 (1.96%) Law
13 82 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
14 69 (1.65%) Automotive
15 65 (1.55%) Aerospace
16 63 (1.50%) Military
17 61 (1.46%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,082 (25.82%) Developer
2 696 (16.61%) Senior
3 498 (11.88%) Software Engineer
4 392 (9.35%) Lead
5 259 (6.18%) Analyst
6 258 (6.16%) Software Developer
7 244 (5.82%) Architect
8 242 (5.77%) Senior Developer
9 207 (4.94%) Data Scientist
10 148 (3.53%) Junior
11 139 (3.32%) Senior Software Engineer
12 135 (3.22%) IT Support
13 131 (3.13%) Graduate
14 123 (2.93%) .NET Developer
15 111 (2.65%) Full Stack Developer
16 106 (2.53%) Support Specialist
17 100 (2.39%) IT Support Specialist
18 94 (2.24%) Data Engineer
19 93 (2.22%) C# Developer
20 89 (2.12%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 635 (15.15%) .NET
2 407 (9.71%) React
3 391 (9.33%) HTML
4 373 (8.90%) CSS
5 255 (6.08%) AngularJS
6 168 (4.01%) .NET Core
7 162 (3.87%) ASP.NET
8 159 (3.79%) Node.js
9 145 (3.46%) RESTful
10 134 (3.20%) .NET Framework
11 129 (3.08%) REST
12 128 (3.05%) HTML5
13 114 (2.72%) Web Services
14 113 (2.70%) Kafka
15 104 (2.48%) Spring
16 101 (2.41%) JSON
17 91 (2.17%) Vue
18 89 (2.12%) XML
19 83 (1.98%) jQuery
20 76 (1.81%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 475 (11.33%) Algorithms
2 387 (9.23%) Management Information System
3 239 (5.70%) Self-Motivation
4 200 (4.77%) Data Structures
5 146 (3.48%) Client/Server
6 123 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 102 (2.43%) Video Conferencing
8 99 (2.36%) Greenfield Project
9 98 (2.34%) Wiki
10 97 (2.31%) Mobile App
11 95 (2.27%) Onboarding
12 77 (1.84%) Cloud Native
13 74 (1.77%) Data Centre
14 70 (1.67%) IoT
15 68 (1.62%) Virtual Team
16 60 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
17 56 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
18 51 (1.22%) Security Posture
19 50 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
19 50 (1.19%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 539 (12.86%) Windows
2 486 (11.60%) Linux
3 179 (4.27%) Android
4 143 (3.41%) Windows 10
5 101 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 80 (1.91%) Unix
7 62 (1.48%) Apple iOS
8 56 (1.34%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.79%) Kali Linux
10 28 (0.67%) Ubuntu
11 20 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 20 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
11 20 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
12 19 (0.45%) CentOS
13 18 (0.43%) Embedded Linux
14 11 (0.26%) Debian
15 10 (0.24%) VMS
16 6 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
17 5 (0.12%) Mac OS X
18 4 (0.095%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,640 (39.13%) Problem-Solving
2 1,085 (25.89%) Agile
3 1,062 (25.34%) Software Engineering
4 700 (16.70%) Mathematics
5 519 (12.38%) Mentoring
6 496 (11.83%) DevOps
7 494 (11.79%) Artificial Intelligence
8 468 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
9 445 (10.62%) Data Science
10 440 (10.50%) Machine Learning
11 388 (9.26%) Analytics
12 377 (9.00%) Decision-Making
13 370 (8.83%) Project Management
14 359 (8.57%) Data Analysis
15 328 (7.83%) CI/CD
16 303 (7.23%) Roadmaps
17 284 (6.78%) Full Stack Development
18 273 (6.51%) Business Intelligence
19 271 (6.47%) Continuous Improvement
20 260 (6.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 989 (23.60%) Python
2 891 (21.26%) SQL
3 874 (20.85%) C#
4 773 (18.44%) JavaScript
5 489 (11.67%) Java
6 335 (7.99%) C++
7 328 (7.83%) TypeScript
8 289 (6.90%) C
9 153 (3.65%) PHP
10 119 (2.84%) PowerShell
11 99 (2.36%) R
12 79 (1.88%) Bash
13 77 (1.84%) T-SQL
14 74 (1.77%) Fortran
15 71 (1.69%) Go
16 59 (1.41%) Kotlin
17 54 (1.29%) Scala
18 53 (1.26%) MATLAB
19 37 (0.88%) Perl
20 32 (0.76%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,806 (90.81%) Degree
2 2,157 (51.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 707 (16.87%) Master's Degree
4 270 (6.44%) Security Cleared
5 208 (4.96%) PhD
6 162 (3.87%) SC Cleared
7 155 (3.70%) CISSP
8 133 (3.17%) Microsoft Certification
9 98 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
10 93 (2.22%) CISM
11 80 (1.91%) AWS Certification
12 70 (1.67%) Azure Certification
13 63 (1.50%) PMI Certification
14 56 (1.34%) PMP
15 54 (1.29%) CCNP
16 51 (1.22%) CCNA
17 45 (1.07%) CISA
17 45 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
18 43 (1.03%) A+ Certification
19 40 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 250 (5.97%) QA
2 103 (2.46%) Data Quality
2 103 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 94 (2.24%) GDPR
4 75 (1.79%) Accessibility
5 73 (1.74%) NIST
6 40 (0.95%) PMO
7 36 (0.86%) PCI DSS
8 35 (0.84%) WCAG
9 25 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (0.57%) SLA
11 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 18 (0.43%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.36%) GRC
13 15 (0.36%) ISO 13485
14 14 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
14 14 (0.33%) NCSC
14 14 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 418 (9.97%) Docker
2 228 (5.44%) Active Directory
3 105 (2.51%) VMware ESXi
4 101 (2.41%) XenApp
5 98 (2.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 98 (2.34%) XenDesktop
6 72 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
7 71 (1.69%) Firmware
8 35 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 32 (0.76%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.29%) HDFS
12 9 (0.21%) vSphere
13 8 (0.19%) KVM
13 8 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.095%) pfSense
16 2 (0.048%) LXC
16 2 (0.048%) NFS
17 1 (0.024%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 316 (7.54%) Kubernetes
2 153 (3.65%) Terraform
3 109 (2.60%) SCCM
4 98 (2.34%) AirWatch
5 56 (1.34%) Ansible
6 20 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.38%) Puppet
8 14 (0.33%) Grafana
8 14 (0.33%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.29%) WSUS
10 10 (0.24%) Nagios
11 9 (0.21%) Nessus
11 9 (0.21%) Prometheus
12 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
12 7 (0.17%) SCOM
13 6 (0.14%) CloudHub
13 6 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 6 (0.14%) Progress Chef
13 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 688 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 188 (4.49%) Cisco
3 156 (3.72%) Google
4 106 (2.53%) Oracle
5 104 (2.48%) Citrix
6 94 (2.24%) SAP
7 87 (2.08%) VMware
8 61 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 34 (0.81%) Databricks
9 34 (0.81%) Xilinx
10 31 (0.74%) Adobe
11 29 (0.69%) Juniper
12 25 (0.60%) Apple
13 24 (0.57%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 21 (0.50%) IBM
16 20 (0.48%) F5
17 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
18 17 (0.41%) Splunk
19 15 (0.36%) Veeam