The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 22 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 61 53 69
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +16
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 89 97 44
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 3.374% 4.550% 2.438%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.08% 14.46% 9.565%
Number of salaries quoted 57 91 44
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +3.17%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,800 £40,000 £37,200
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
632 671 460
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 23.96% 31.47% 25.48%
Number of salaries quoted 499 600 382
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,800 £24,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%
Computer Science
West Yorkshire

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Leeds Computer Science Salary Histogram

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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.

1 135 (98.54%) Degree
2 72 (52.55%) SQL Server
3 64 (46.72%) SQL Server 2008
4 59 (43.07%) C#
4 59 (43.07%) SQL
5 58 (42.34%) .NET
6 54 (39.42%) Finance
7 52 (37.96%) ASP.NET
8 50 (36.50%) SQL Server 2005
9 46 (33.58%) Agile Software Development
10 42 (30.66%) MVC
11 38 (27.74%) Service Management
11 38 (27.74%) OO
12 37 (27.01%) VB.NET
13 31 (22.63%) QA
14 29 (21.17%) Visual Studio
15 28 (20.44%) Web Services
15 28 (20.44%) Java
15 28 (20.44%) E-Commerce
16 25 (18.25%) WCF
16 25 (18.25%) Software Engineering
17 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
18 23 (16.79%) XAML
18 23 (16.79%) Razor View Engine
19 21 (15.33%) IIS
20 20 (14.60%) MS Excel
21 18 (13.14%) Spring
22 17 (12.41%) Linux
22 17 (12.41%) JavaScript
23 15 (10.95%) MySQL

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds 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 58 (42.34%) .NET
2 52 (37.96%) ASP.NET
3 28 (20.44%) Web Services
4 25 (18.25%) WCF
5 23 (16.79%) Razor View Engine
6 18 (13.14%) Spring
7 14 (10.22%) HTML
8 12 (8.759%) .NET Framework
8 12 (8.759%) jQuery
9 11 (8.029%) Java EE
10 10 (7.299%) CSS
10 10 (7.299%) Symfony
11 9 (6.569%) J2EE
11 9 (6.569%) Hibernate
12 8 (5.839%) XML
12 8 (5.839%) ASP
12 8 (5.839%) NHibernate
13 7 (5.109%) WPF
14 6 (4.380%) WinForms
15 5 (3.650%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 21 (15.33%) IIS
2 14 (10.22%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.380%) WebLogic
4 5 (3.650%) Liferay
4 5 (3.650%) Oracle Workflow
5 4 (2.920%) Apache
5 4 (2.920%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.460%) CMS
6 2 (1.460%) ActiveMQ
7 1 (0.730%) Windows Azure
7 1 (0.730%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 20 (14.60%) MS Excel
2 3 (2.190%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.460%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (1.460%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (1.460%) Oracle SCM
1 2 (1.460%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 8 (5.839%) HTTP
2 6 (4.380%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.650%) DHCP
4 4 (2.920%) Intranet
4 4 (2.920%) Internet
5 1 (0.730%) Firewall
5 1 (0.730%) VPN
5 1 (0.730%) LAN
5 1 (0.730%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (52.55%) SQL Server
2 64 (46.72%) SQL Server 2008
3 50 (36.50%) SQL Server 2005
4 15 (10.95%) MySQL
5 9 (6.569%) Hadoop
6 7 (5.109%) Oracle 11g
7 6 (4.380%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 5 (3.650%) Oracle 8/8i
8 5 (3.650%) Oracle 9i
8 5 (3.650%) Oracle 10g
8 5 (3.650%) RDBMS
9 2 (1.460%) Oracle Reports
10 1 (0.730%) SQL Server 2012
10 1 (0.730%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 1 (0.730%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 1 (0.730%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.730%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 29 (21.17%) Visual Studio
2 5 (3.650%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (2.920%) MSBuild
3 4 (2.920%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.460%) Oracle Forms
4 2 (1.460%) TestDirector
4 2 (1.460%) TestComplete
4 2 (1.460%) DbUnit
4 2 (1.460%) Selenium
4 2 (1.460%) FitNesse
4 2 (1.460%) Hudson
5 1 (0.730%) Maven
5 1 (0.730%) Subversion
5 1 (0.730%) JUnit
General
1 54 (39.42%) Finance
2 8 (5.839%) Retail
3 5 (3.650%) Electronics
4 2 (1.460%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.460%) Manufacturing
4 2 (1.460%) Marketing
5 1 (0.730%) Games
5 1 (0.730%) Front Office
5 1 (0.730%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.730%) Law
Job Titles
1 83 (60.58%) Developer
2 21 (15.33%) Java Developer
3 20 (14.60%) Deployment Manager
4 18 (13.14%) Release Manager
5 17 (12.41%) Applications Developer
6 15 (10.95%) Graduate
6 15 (10.95%) Web Developer
6 15 (10.95%) Team Leader
7 12 (8.759%) Software Developer
8 10 (7.299%) PHP Developer
8 10 (7.299%) .NET Developer
9 9 (6.569%) C# Developer
9 9 (6.569%) Graduate Developer
9 9 (6.569%) .NET Team Leader
9 9 (6.569%) PHP Web Developer
9 9 (6.569%) Analyst
10 8 (5.839%) Software Engineer
11 6 (4.380%) Junior
11 6 (4.380%) Graduate Software Developer
11 6 (4.380%) Development Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.299%) Social Media
2 7 (5.109%) Open Source
3 6 (4.380%) Mathematics
4 3 (2.190%) Physics
5 2 (1.460%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.460%) iPhone
5 2 (1.460%) Wiki
6 1 (0.730%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.730%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.730%) Social Gaming
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.41%) Linux
2 12 (8.759%) UNIX
3 11 (8.029%) Windows
4 2 (1.460%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (1.460%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.730%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.730%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (33.58%) Agile Software Development
2 42 (30.66%) MVC
3 38 (27.74%) Service Management
3 38 (27.74%) OO
4 28 (20.44%) E-Commerce
5 25 (18.25%) Software Engineering
6 15 (10.95%) Service Delivery
7 14 (10.22%) Technical Architecture
8 8 (5.839%) Web Development
8 8 (5.839%) Content Management
9 5 (3.650%) AOP
9 5 (3.650%) Unit Testing
9 5 (3.650%) Dependency Injection
9 5 (3.650%) Workflow
9 5 (3.650%) B2B
9 5 (3.650%) B2C
10 4 (2.920%) SOA
10 4 (2.920%) Software Testing
10 4 (2.920%) Systems Analysis
11 3 (2.190%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 59 (43.07%) C#
1 59 (43.07%) SQL
2 37 (27.01%) VB.NET
3 28 (20.44%) Java
4 23 (16.79%) XAML
5 17 (12.41%) JavaScript
6 10 (7.299%) PHP
7 7 (5.109%) C++
8 6 (4.380%) C
9 5 (3.650%) T-SQL
10 2 (1.460%) VB
10 2 (1.460%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.730%) PHP5
11 1 (0.730%) ActionScript
Qualifications
1 135 (98.54%) Degree
2 12 (8.759%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (1.460%) ISEB
3 2 (1.460%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.730%) MCTS
4 1 (0.730%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.730%) DV Cleared
4 1 (0.730%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.730%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (0.730%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.730%) MCP
4 1 (0.730%) MCSE
4 1 (0.730%) MCSA
4 1 (0.730%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (22.63%) QA
2 1 (0.730%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.730%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.730%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 24 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 13 (9.489%) Oracle
3 7 (5.109%) JBoss
4 5 (3.650%) hybris
4 5 (3.650%) Cognizant
5 3 (2.190%) Omniture
5 3 (2.190%) EPiServer
6 2 (1.460%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.460%) Hitachi
6 2 (1.460%) Stellent
6 2 (1.460%) Terracotta
7 1 (0.730%) Twitter
7 1 (0.730%) Blue Coat
7 1 (0.730%) Zend
7 1 (0.730%) Proofpoint
7 1 (0.730%) Veeam
7 1 (0.730%) DevExpress
7 1 (0.730%) VMware
7 1 (0.730%) Citrix
7 1 (0.730%) NetApp
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