Computer Science Jobs in London

Computer Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +6 +9 +7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,540 2,433 4,955
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.54% 6.78% 7.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.16% 7.11% 7.83%
Number of salaries quoted 1,069 1,459 1,879
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £105,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £126,500 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,516 34,227 63,269
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.41% 95.40% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 16,047 24,462 34,372
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,750 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,487 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,001 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
Central London +32 276 £80,000 -5.88% 66
South London +3 24 £78,250 +7.93% 5
West London -28 19 £64,000 +5.09% 28
East London +18 9 £93,750 +70.45% 19
North London -11 2 £76,250 +8.93% 3
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 124 (8.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 59 (3.83%) Apache Spark
3 36 (2.34%) SharePoint
4 32 (2.08%) Apache
5 26 (1.69%) CMS
6 20 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (1.17%) Confluence
8 13 (0.84%) SAS
9 12 (0.78%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.52%) Apache Pig
11 7 (0.45%) IIS
11 7 (0.45%) WordPress
12 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.13%) Drupal
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.13%) Moodle
14 1 (0.065%) Hyperledger
14 1 (0.065%) nginx
Applications
1 31 (2.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.84%) Photoshop
4 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.52%) SPSS
5 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.19%) Sketch
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
9 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.065%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.43%) SDL Web 8
2 17 (1.10%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.32%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.19%) Endur
4 3 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.065%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.065%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.065%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.065%) Primavera
6 1 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 391 (25.39%) AWS
2 362 (23.51%) Azure
3 173 (11.23%) Microsoft 365
4 136 (8.83%) GCP
5 109 (7.08%) Power Platform
6 77 (5.00%) SaaS
7 59 (3.83%) Serverless
8 56 (3.64%) Cloud Computing
9 38 (2.47%) AWS Lambda
9 38 (2.47%) GitHub
10 36 (2.34%) PowerApps
11 29 (1.88%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (1.62%) Amazon S3
12 25 (1.62%) IaaS
12 25 (1.62%) Power Automate
13 24 (1.56%) PaaS
14 23 (1.49%) WhatsApp
15 14 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (0.91%) Entra ID
15 14 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 118 (7.66%) WAN
2 112 (7.27%) Wireless
3 108 (7.01%) WebEx
4 107 (6.95%) Cisco IOS
4 107 (6.95%) SD-WAN
5 49 (3.18%) Network Security
6 37 (2.40%) Firewall
7 23 (1.49%) TCP/IP
8 22 (1.43%) DNS
9 21 (1.36%) VPN
10 19 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (0.97%) Internet
12 12 (0.78%) DHCP
12 12 (0.78%) LAN
13 10 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
14 8 (0.52%) SAN
15 6 (0.39%) DKIM
16 5 (0.32%) HTTP
16 5 (0.32%) VLAN
17 3 (0.19%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 156 (10.13%) SQL Server
2 95 (6.17%) Power BI
3 59 (3.83%) Big Data
4 57 (3.70%) Relational Database
5 56 (3.64%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (3.51%) MySQL
7 53 (3.44%) Redis
8 48 (3.12%) Data Warehouse
9 44 (2.86%) Tableau
10 41 (2.66%) NoSQL
11 40 (2.60%) Hadoop
12 31 (2.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 27 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 26 (1.69%) MongoDB
15 25 (1.62%) Data Lake
16 20 (1.30%) Apache Hive
17 13 (0.84%) Amazon Redshift
17 13 (0.84%) RDBMS
18 12 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
18 12 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 152 (9.87%) Git
2 67 (4.35%) JIRA
3 46 (2.99%) GitLab
4 36 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 30 (1.95%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.82%) Burp Suite
6 28 (1.82%) Metasploit
7 25 (1.62%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.56%) Moq
8 24 (1.56%) NUnit
9 16 (1.04%) JUnit
9 16 (1.04%) Sourcetree
10 15 (0.97%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (0.91%) SpecFlow
12 13 (0.84%) git-flow
13 10 (0.65%) Maven
14 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.52%) Checkstyle
14 8 (0.52%) SonarQube
14 8 (0.52%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 787 (51.10%) Social Skills
2 393 (25.52%) Finance
3 331 (21.49%) Analytical Skills
4 97 (6.30%) Marketing
5 79 (5.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 58 (3.77%) Front Office
7 57 (3.70%) Banking
8 56 (3.64%) Public Sector
9 53 (3.44%) Presentation Skills
10 52 (3.38%) Retail
11 38 (2.47%) Legal
12 36 (2.34%) Games
13 34 (2.21%) Telecoms
14 32 (2.08%) Back Office
15 31 (2.01%) Law
16 27 (1.75%) Manufacturing
17 26 (1.69%) Electronics
17 26 (1.69%) Investment Banking
18 21 (1.36%) Billing
19 20 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 407 (26.43%) Developer
2 269 (17.47%) Senior
3 172 (11.17%) Lead
4 128 (8.31%) Software Engineer
5 119 (7.73%) Analyst
6 114 (7.40%) IT Support
7 110 (7.14%) Support Specialist
8 109 (7.08%) IT Support Specialist
9 105 (6.82%) Architect
10 97 (6.30%) Senior Developer
11 69 (4.48%) Java Developer
12 56 (3.64%) Data Scientist
13 52 (3.38%) Data Engineer
14 51 (3.31%) Full Stack Developer
15 50 (3.25%) C# Developer
16 48 (3.12%) .NET Developer
16 48 (3.12%) Software Developer
17 40 (2.60%) Senior Software Engineer
18 37 (2.40%) Junior
18 37 (2.40%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 213 (13.83%) .NET
2 144 (9.35%) HTML
3 142 (9.22%) CSS
4 127 (8.25%) React
5 76 (4.94%) ASP.NET
6 67 (4.35%) AngularJS
7 61 (3.96%) Web Services
8 60 (3.90%) Kafka
8 60 (3.90%) REST
9 58 (3.77%) RESTful
10 57 (3.70%) Spring
11 50 (3.25%) .NET Framework
12 41 (2.66%) HTML5
13 40 (2.60%) .NET Core
13 40 (2.60%) ASP.NET MVC
13 40 (2.60%) SOAP
14 39 (2.53%) Node.js
14 39 (2.53%) XML
15 37 (2.40%) TensorFlow
16 36 (2.34%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 136 (8.83%) Algorithms
2 124 (8.05%) Management Information System
3 109 (7.08%) Video Conferencing
4 107 (6.95%) Wiki
5 99 (6.43%) Data Structures
6 90 (5.84%) Greenfield Project
7 86 (5.58%) Client/Server
8 76 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (3.31%) Hedge funds
10 47 (3.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 43 (2.79%) Product Ownership
12 42 (2.73%) Onboarding
13 35 (2.27%) Fixed Income
14 34 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
14 34 (2.21%) Security Posture
15 32 (2.08%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.75%) Blockchain
16 27 (1.75%) Equities
17 26 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
17 26 (1.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 208 (13.51%) Windows
2 137 (8.90%) Linux
3 123 (7.99%) Windows 10
4 122 (7.92%) Android
5 37 (2.40%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.82%) Kali Linux
7 20 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 18 (1.17%) Unix
9 11 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.65%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.19%) CentOS
13 2 (0.13%) VMS
14 1 (0.065%) Debian
14 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
14 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
14 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 532 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
2 377 (24.48%) Agile
3 374 (24.29%) Software Engineering
4 223 (14.48%) Mathematics
5 222 (14.42%) Machine Learning
6 205 (13.31%) Data Science
7 180 (11.69%) Analytics
8 172 (11.17%) Artificial Intelligence
9 169 (10.97%) DevOps
10 162 (10.52%) Mentoring
11 146 (9.48%) Statistics
12 143 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
13 129 (8.38%) CI/CD
14 128 (8.31%) Full Stack Development
15 121 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
16 117 (7.60%) Roadmaps
17 115 (7.47%) Business Continuity
18 114 (7.40%) Microservices
19 111 (7.21%) Contract Negotiation
19 111 (7.21%) Fintech
Programming Languages
1 429 (27.86%) Python
2 388 (25.19%) SQL
3 300 (19.48%) C#
4 229 (14.87%) Java
5 218 (14.16%) JavaScript
6 82 (5.32%) C++
7 76 (4.94%) TypeScript
8 54 (3.51%) R
9 51 (3.31%) PowerShell
10 46 (2.99%) C
11 43 (2.79%) T-SQL
12 39 (2.53%) PHP
13 35 (2.27%) Scala
14 27 (1.75%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.62%) Go
16 20 (1.30%) XPath
17 18 (1.17%) Bash
18 16 (1.04%) MATLAB
19 14 (0.91%) Rust
20 12 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,350 (87.66%) Degree
2 850 (55.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 405 (26.30%) Master's Degree
4 80 (5.19%) CISSP
5 78 (5.06%) PhD
6 58 (3.77%) CISM
6 58 (3.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 41 (2.66%) Security Cleared
8 35 (2.27%) SC Cleared
9 31 (2.01%) Azure Certification
10 28 (1.82%) AWS Certification
11 25 (1.62%) CISA
11 25 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.23%) (ISC)2 CCSP
13 18 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
14 16 (1.04%) PMI Certification
15 15 (0.97%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.84%) PMP
17 12 (0.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 11 (0.71%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.39%) QA
2 53 (3.44%) Data Quality
3 41 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (2.47%) GDPR
5 33 (2.14%) NIST
6 19 (1.23%) Accessibility
7 16 (1.04%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.58%) SLA
10 7 (0.45%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.39%) COBIT
12 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
12 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
12 4 (0.26%) GRC
12 4 (0.26%) NCSC
12 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 3 (0.19%) CDISC
14 2 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
14 2 (0.13%) WAI
System Software
1 146 (9.48%) Active Directory
2 130 (8.44%) Docker
3 109 (7.08%) VMware ESXi
4 107 (6.95%) Microsoft App-V
4 107 (6.95%) XenApp
4 107 (6.95%) XenDesktop
5 17 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.97%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.65%) HDFS
7 10 (0.65%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) KVM
9 2 (0.13%) LXC
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 113 (7.34%) SCCM
2 107 (6.95%) AirWatch
3 83 (5.39%) Kubernetes
4 63 (4.09%) Terraform
5 20 (1.30%) Ansible
6 17 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.45%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.32%) Argo
9 5 (0.32%) CASB
9 5 (0.32%) DatAdvantage
9 5 (0.32%) QRadar
10 4 (0.26%) Grafana
11 3 (0.19%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.19%) WSUS
12 2 (0.13%) Nagios
12 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 343 (22.27%) Microsoft
2 133 (8.64%) Cisco
3 108 (7.01%) Citrix
4 79 (5.13%) Google
5 37 (2.40%) Oracle
6 28 (1.82%) SAP
7 24 (1.56%) Adobe
7 24 (1.56%) Databricks
7 24 (1.56%) VMware
8 13 (0.84%) Cognizant
9 12 (0.78%) Charles River
10 11 (0.71%) Salesforce
11 9 (0.58%) Apple
11 9 (0.58%) MuleSoft
11 9 (0.58%) Splunk
12 8 (0.52%) Atlassian
12 8 (0.52%) OpenAI
13 7 (0.45%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.39%) Juniper
14 6 (0.39%) Sybase