Computer Science Jobs in Manchester

Computer Science
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 145 118
Rank change year-on-year +87 -27 -11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 208 105 157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 4.06% 2.12% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 2.19% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 165 69 67
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +41.01%
75th Percentile £72,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,750 £80,000 £86,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,443 4,794 5,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.66% 96.63% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,390 2,559 3,630
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,378
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,600 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,725 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Manchester

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in Manchester

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Manchester

Computer Science
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 4 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
Oldham +37 8 £52,500 -13.72% 2
Bolton - 6 £70,500 - 1
Stockport +26 3 £55,000 -5.94% 2
Stalybridge - 3 £47,500 -
Bury - 2 £75,000 -
Rochdale - 2 £37,500 -
Sale - 1 £29,000 - 2
Computer Science
North West

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 4 (1.92%) Apache Spark
1 4 (1.92%) SAS
2 1 (0.48%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.48%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 2 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.63%) AWS
2 37 (17.79%) Azure
3 20 (9.62%) GCP
4 10 (4.81%) Google Play
5 8 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (3.37%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.40%) Amazon Kinesis
7 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
8 4 (1.92%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.96%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.96%) GitHub
9 2 (0.96%) SaaS
9 2 (0.96%) Serverless
10 1 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
10 1 (0.48%) Google Data Studio
10 1 (0.48%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.25%) VPN
2 11 (5.29%) DNS
2 11 (5.29%) Firewall
2 11 (5.29%) TCP/IP
3 10 (4.81%) Ethernet
3 10 (4.81%) RS-232
4 6 (2.88%) DHCP
5 5 (2.40%) IPsec
5 5 (2.40%) Network Security
5 5 (2.40%) SSL
6 2 (0.96%) Internet
6 2 (0.96%) LAN
6 2 (0.96%) WAN
7 1 (0.48%) Bluetooth
7 1 (0.48%) LTE
7 1 (0.48%) VLAN
7 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.48%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.73%) Data Warehouse
2 13 (6.25%) MySQL
3 10 (4.81%) Relational Database
4 9 (4.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.40%) PostgreSQL
6 5 (2.40%) Power BI
6 5 (2.40%) RDBMS
7 4 (1.92%) ActiveReports
7 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.92%) Big Data
7 4 (1.92%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.92%) Cognos Framework Manager
7 4 (1.92%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.92%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.92%) SQL Server
8 2 (0.96%) Amazon QuickSight
8 2 (0.96%) Cognos Report Studio
8 2 (0.96%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (12.02%) Git
2 10 (4.81%) Appium
3 5 (2.40%) JIRA
3 5 (2.40%) Subversion
4 4 (1.92%) CMake
4 4 (1.92%) GCC
4 4 (1.92%) GDB
4 4 (1.92%) IntelliJ
4 4 (1.92%) JUnit
4 4 (1.92%) Mockito
4 4 (1.92%) Postman
5 3 (1.44%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.44%) Visual Studio
6 2 (0.96%) Selenium
6 2 (0.96%) webpack
7 1 (0.48%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.48%) Jasmine
7 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 89 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.35%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (10.58%) Games
4 17 (8.17%) Finance
5 10 (4.81%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.33%) Electronics
7 7 (3.37%) Legal
8 6 (2.88%) Health Technology
8 6 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (2.40%) Retail
10 4 (1.92%) Automotive
10 4 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.92%) Marketing
11 3 (1.44%) Banking
11 3 (1.44%) Law
11 3 (1.44%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.96%) Cantonese Language
13 1 (0.48%) Advertising
13 1 (0.48%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 60 (28.85%) Senior
2 49 (23.56%) Developer
2 49 (23.56%) Software Engineer
3 19 (9.13%) Senior Software Engineer
4 16 (7.69%) Lead
4 16 (7.69%) Senior Developer
5 13 (6.25%) Network Engineer
6 11 (5.29%) Software Developer
6 11 (5.29%) Software Manager
7 10 (4.81%) Android Developer
7 10 (4.81%) PHP Developer
7 10 (4.81%) Senior Android Developer
8 9 (4.33%) .NET Developer
8 9 (4.33%) Analyst
8 9 (4.33%) Architect
8 9 (4.33%) Data Engineer
9 8 (3.85%) Project Manager
9 8 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (3.37%) C Software Engineer
10 7 (3.37%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (18.27%) .NET
2 24 (11.54%) JSON
3 22 (10.58%) HTML
3 22 (10.58%) Node.js
4 13 (6.25%) CSS
5 12 (5.77%) .NET Framework
6 11 (5.29%) Web Services
7 10 (4.81%) Android SDK
7 10 (4.81%) Electron
7 10 (4.81%) REST
8 9 (4.33%) RESTful
9 6 (2.88%) React
10 5 (2.40%) ASP.NET Web API
10 5 (2.40%) Spring
11 4 (1.92%) PySpark
11 4 (1.92%) RabbitMQ
11 4 (1.92%) Spring Boot
11 4 (1.92%) WCF
11 4 (1.92%) WinForms
12 3 (1.44%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.81%) Enterprise Software
1 10 (4.81%) Management Information System
1 10 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (3.85%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (3.37%) Onboarding
3 7 (3.37%) Video\Live Streaming
4 5 (2.40%) Algorithms
4 5 (2.40%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (2.40%) Cyber Threat
4 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.40%) Driving Licence
4 5 (2.40%) Social Media
5 4 (1.92%) Cloud Native
5 4 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (1.92%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.44%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.96%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.96%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (11.06%) Linux
2 11 (5.29%) Windows
3 10 (4.81%) Android
4 4 (1.92%) Windows Vista
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.48%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.48%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (35.58%) Software Engineering
3 46 (22.12%) Agile
4 32 (15.38%) Mathematics
4 32 (15.38%) Project Management
5 31 (14.90%) Mentoring
6 26 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 25 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (12.02%) Open Source
7 25 (12.02%) Software Testing
8 24 (11.54%) SDLC
9 23 (11.06%) CI/CD
10 22 (10.58%) Analytics
10 22 (10.58%) Design Patterns
11 21 (10.10%) Scrum
12 17 (8.17%) DevOps
13 16 (7.69%) Test Automation
14 15 (7.21%) Code Quality
14 15 (7.21%) Decision-Making
14 15 (7.21%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.63%) C#
2 43 (20.67%) Python
3 36 (17.31%) SQL
4 33 (15.87%) Java
5 30 (14.42%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.17%) C
7 14 (6.73%) PHP
7 14 (6.73%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.77%) C++
9 10 (4.81%) Kotlin
10 9 (4.33%) Embedded C
11 7 (3.37%) Rust
12 6 (2.88%) R
13 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
13 3 (1.44%) Scala
13 3 (1.44%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.48%) Assembly Language
14 1 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
14 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 203 (97.60%) Degree
2 112 (53.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (13.46%) Master's Degree
4 20 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (9.13%) CCNP
6 11 (5.29%) CISSP
7 10 (4.81%) CCNA
7 10 (4.81%) CISM
8 9 (4.33%) AWS Certification
8 9 (4.33%) Azure Certification
8 9 (4.33%) CCIE
9 7 (3.37%) PhD
10 6 (2.88%) CISA
10 6 (2.88%) PCI QSA
10 6 (2.88%) Security Cleared
11 5 (2.40%) CCNA CyberOps
12 4 (1.92%) CEH
12 4 (1.92%) Chartered Engineer
13 3 (1.44%) DBS Check
13 3 (1.44%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.65%) QA
2 16 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (4.81%) NIST
4 7 (3.37%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.92%) GDPR
5 4 (1.92%) PMO
6 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.96%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.48%) NCSC
8 1 (0.48%) SOC 2
System Software
1 8 (3.85%) Active Directory
1 8 (3.85%) Firmware
2 3 (1.44%) Docker
3 2 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.40%) Terraform
2 2 (0.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.48%) Ansible
Vendors
1 14 (6.73%) Cisco
2 11 (5.29%) Google
3 7 (3.37%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.88%) F5
5 5 (2.40%) Juniper
6 4 (1.92%) Cognos
6 4 (1.92%) IBM
7 2 (0.96%) Autodesk
7 2 (0.96%) SAP
7 2 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.96%) SYSPRO
7 2 (0.96%) VMware
8 1 (0.48%) Databricks
8 1 (0.48%) DataRobot
8 1 (0.48%) EMC
8 1 (0.48%) Renesas
8 1 (0.48%) Sage
8 1 (0.48%) Sitecore