The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Computer Science in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Science over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Science (Computing Science)
Rank 43 22 40
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +18
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 66 78 53
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 5.156% 7.871% 5.475%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.65% 26.26% 17.10%
Number of salaries quoted 56 74 47
Average salary £37,500 £28,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.92% -13.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £19,300 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £46,500 £41,000 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
374 297 310
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 29.22% 29.97% 32.02%
Number of salaries quoted 302 261 269
Average salary £40,000 £35,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.67% +9.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £23,650
10% offered a salary of more than £55,100 £47,350 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +6.66%
Computer Science
Buckinghamshire

Computer Science
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes 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 Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Computer Science Salary Trend

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Science across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Milton Keynes Computer Science Salary Histogram

Computer Science
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

1 151 (86.29%) Degree
2 64 (36.57%) Microsoft
2 64 (36.57%) C#
3 57 (32.57%) Java
4 55 (31.43%) SQL
5 53 (30.29%) JavaScript
6 44 (25.14%) SQL Server
7 40 (22.86%) .NET
8 38 (21.71%) Agile Software Development
9 35 (20.00%) Windows
10 33 (18.86%) Ajax
10 33 (18.86%) Linux
11 31 (17.71%) Software Engineering
12 30 (17.14%) Project Management
12 30 (17.14%) Oracle
13 27 (15.43%) Microsoft Certification
14 26 (14.86%) ASP.NET
14 26 (14.86%) JSP
15 25 (14.29%) C++
15 25 (14.29%) OO
16 24 (13.71%) CSS
16 24 (13.71%) SharePoint
16 24 (13.71%) NUnit
17 23 (13.14%) jQuery
17 23 (13.14%) UNIX
18 22 (12.57%) C
18 22 (12.57%) SQL Server 2008
19 21 (12.00%) Spring
19 21 (12.00%) Hibernate
20 20 (11.43%) SQL Server 2005

Computer Science
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 40 (22.86%) .NET
2 33 (18.86%) Ajax
3 26 (14.86%) ASP.NET
3 26 (14.86%) JSP
4 24 (13.71%) CSS
5 23 (13.14%) jQuery
6 21 (12.00%) Spring
6 21 (12.00%) Hibernate
7 17 (9.714%) HTML
8 15 (8.571%) WCF
9 14 (8.000%) J2EE
9 14 (8.000%) WPF
10 13 (7.429%) Dojo
10 13 (7.429%) MooTools
11 11 (6.286%) Web Services
11 11 (6.286%) XML
12 9 (5.143%) SAP XI
12 9 (5.143%) Flash
12 9 (5.143%) XHTML
12 9 (5.143%) Servlets
Application Platforms
1 24 (13.71%) SharePoint
2 20 (11.43%) Apache
3 15 (8.571%) Tomcat
4 14 (8.000%) SharePoint 2010
5 13 (7.429%) concrete5
6 7 (4.000%) Lync
7 4 (2.286%) IBM Notes
8 2 (1.143%) Gentran
8 2 (1.143%) MS Exchange
8 2 (1.143%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (6.286%) MS Office
2 9 (5.143%) MS Excel
3 3 (1.714%) 3ds Max
Business Applications
1 1 (0.571%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 15 (8.571%) TCP/IP
2 14 (8.000%) VoIP
3 13 (7.429%) DNS
4 10 (5.714%) IP Telephony
5 8 (4.571%) Internet
5 8 (4.571%) SS7
6 7 (4.000%) SNMP
6 7 (4.000%) Unified Communications
7 6 (3.429%) VPN
7 6 (3.429%) Firewall
8 5 (2.857%) SAN
9 4 (2.286%) NAS
9 4 (2.286%) Network Security
9 4 (2.286%) IPv6
10 3 (1.714%) DHCP
10 3 (1.714%) HTTP
11 2 (1.143%) Fibre Channel
11 2 (1.143%) iSCSI
11 2 (1.143%) HTTPS
11 2 (1.143%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (25.14%) SQL Server
2 22 (12.57%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (11.43%) SQL Server 2005
3 20 (11.43%) MySQL
4 12 (6.857%) BusinessObjects
5 9 (5.143%) BusinessObjects XI
5 9 (5.143%) Xcelsius
6 5 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (2.286%) SAP Data Services
7 4 (2.286%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
8 3 (1.714%) QlikView
9 2 (1.143%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (1.143%) MOLAP
9 2 (1.143%) ROLAP
9 2 (1.143%) Microsoft Analysis Services
9 2 (1.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (1.143%) Essbase
10 1 (0.571%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.571%) DB2
10 1 (0.571%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (13.71%) NUnit
2 19 (10.86%) Selenium
3 13 (7.429%) Redmine
3 13 (7.429%) Basecamp
3 13 (7.429%) Ant
4 9 (5.143%) Subversion
5 8 (4.571%) JUnit
5 8 (4.571%) IntelliJ
5 8 (4.571%) Maven
6 6 (3.429%) WebDriver
6 6 (3.429%) JIRA
7 2 (1.143%) GNU Toolchain
8 1 (0.571%) Oracle Forms
General
1 17 (9.714%) Marketing
2 15 (8.571%) Automotive
3 12 (6.857%) Finance
4 5 (2.857%) Games
5 3 (1.714%) Multimedia
6 2 (1.143%) Legal
7 1 (0.571%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (49.71%) Developer
2 38 (21.71%) Graduate
3 37 (21.14%) Software Engineer
4 34 (19.43%) .NET Developer
5 32 (18.29%) Analyst
5 32 (18.29%) C# Developer
5 32 (18.29%) C# .NET Developer
6 31 (17.71%) Software Developer
7 28 (16.00%) Java Developer
8 26 (14.86%) C# Software Developer
8 26 (14.86%) .NET Software Developer
9 24 (13.71%) ASP.NET Developer
9 24 (13.71%) C# ASP.NET Developer
10 19 (10.86%) Senior Developer
11 16 (9.143%) Web Developer
11 16 (9.143%) C Software Engineer
12 14 (8.000%) Graduate Developer
13 13 (7.429%) PHP Web Developer
13 13 (7.429%) PHP Developer
14 11 (6.286%) Graduate Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (9.143%) iPhone
2 13 (7.429%) Inversion of Control
3 11 (6.286%) Management Information System
4 9 (5.143%) Enterprise Software
5 6 (3.429%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.857%) Mathematics
7 3 (1.714%) Replication
7 3 (1.714%) 3D Graphics
7 3 (1.714%) Animation
7 3 (1.714%) Mainframe
7 3 (1.714%) iPad
7 3 (1.714%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.143%) Embedded Systems
8 2 (1.143%) TRADACOMS
8 2 (1.143%) EqualLogic
8 2 (1.143%) Firmware
8 2 (1.143%) Physics
8 2 (1.143%) Artificial Intelligence
8 2 (1.143%) Device Driver
9 1 (0.571%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 35 (20.00%) Windows
2 33 (18.86%) Linux
3 23 (13.14%) UNIX
4 5 (2.857%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (1.714%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (1.714%) Android
5 3 (1.714%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.143%) VxWorks
6 2 (1.143%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.571%) Solaris
7 1 (0.571%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (21.71%) Agile Software Development
2 31 (17.71%) Software Engineering
3 30 (17.14%) Project Management
4 25 (14.29%) OO
5 19 (10.86%) TDD
6 18 (10.29%) Waterfall
7 15 (8.571%) Web Development
8 13 (7.429%) Dependency Injection
8 13 (7.429%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (7.429%) User Stories
8 13 (7.429%) Workflow
9 12 (6.857%) Business Intelligence
9 12 (6.857%) Change Control
10 11 (6.286%) E-Commerce
11 9 (5.143%) Content Management
11 9 (5.143%) Information Security
11 9 (5.143%) MVC
11 9 (5.143%) Continuous Integration
12 8 (4.571%) Test Scripting
12 8 (4.571%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 64 (36.57%) C#
2 57 (32.57%) Java
3 55 (31.43%) SQL
4 53 (30.29%) JavaScript
5 25 (14.29%) C++
6 22 (12.57%) C
7 20 (11.43%) T-SQL
8 17 (9.714%) Python
9 15 (8.571%) PHP
10 11 (6.286%) ActionScript
11 8 (4.571%) Shell Script
12 7 (4.000%) PowerShell
13 4 (2.286%) C-shell
13 4 (2.286%) Bash shell
13 4 (2.286%) PL/SQL
14 3 (1.714%) Objective-C
15 2 (1.143%) ActionScript 2.0
15 2 (1.143%) Perl
15 2 (1.143%) COBOL
15 2 (1.143%) XPath
Qualifications
1 151 (86.29%) Degree
2 27 (15.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (6.286%) MCP
3 11 (6.286%) MCAD
3 11 (6.286%) MCSD
4 9 (5.143%) MCDBA
5 7 (4.000%) MCITP
6 6 (3.429%) PhD
6 6 (3.429%) Postgraduate
7 4 (2.286%) RHCE
7 4 (2.286%) Sun Certification
7 4 (2.286%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.714%) CCIE
9 1 (0.571%) SCJP
9 1 (0.571%) SCJD
9 1 (0.571%) SCJA
9 1 (0.571%) CCNP
9 1 (0.571%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (7.429%) QA
2 2 (1.143%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.143%) RosettaNet
3 1 (0.571%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (6.857%) Active Directory
2 7 (4.000%) Terminal Services
3 5 (2.857%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.286%) NFS
4 4 (2.286%) Samba
5 3 (1.714%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (1.714%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 5 (2.857%) WMI
2 3 (1.714%) SCCM
3 2 (1.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 64 (36.57%) Microsoft
2 30 (17.14%) Oracle
3 14 (8.000%) SAP
4 13 (7.429%) Zend
5 12 (6.857%) Business Objects
6 11 (6.286%) BT
7 9 (5.143%) Sage
8 6 (3.429%) HP
9 5 (2.857%) Cisco
10 4 (2.286%) Lotus
11 3 (1.714%) VMware
11 3 (1.714%) Cognos
11 3 (1.714%) Hyperion
11 3 (1.714%) MicroStrategy
12 2 (1.143%) SEEBURGER
12 2 (1.143%) IBM
12 2 (1.143%) Juniper
12 2 (1.143%) Dell
12 2 (1.143%) Citrix
13 1 (0.571%) Sun
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
QA/Test/Quality Assurance/Test Analyst/ TestEngineer/Agile/Selenium/Webdriver/Java/JIRA/UNIX/SQL) (QA/Test/Quality Assurance/Test Analyst/ TestEngineer/Agile/Selenium/Webdriver/Java/JIRA/UNIX/SQL)...
Burns Sheehan
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013