Computer Science Degree Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 161 119 156
Rank change year-on-year -42 +37 -15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 130 107 92
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.94% 2.26% 1.61%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.43% 7.82% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 56 50 14
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,750 £43,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £42,500 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +7.32%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,250 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,247 1,368 1,493
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 18.57% 28.88% 26.16%
Number of salaries quoted 557 413 509
10th Percentile £26,700 £29,000 £25,925
25th Percentile £34,000 £39,294 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,882 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.90% +21.96% -
75th Percentile £62,880 £69,649 £60,000
90th Percentile £78,000 £77,715 £81,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 27 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
Glasgow -94 55 £70,000 +16.67% 7
Edinburgh +39 32 £65,000 +22.64% 11
Aberdeen +7 20 £35,000 -22.22% 2
Dundee +2 15 £50,000 +20.48%
Lanarkshire -5 4 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 2
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (22.31%) FileNet
2 4 (3.08%) Confluence
2 4 (3.08%) OpenEdge
3 2 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.62%) Amazon S3
1 32 (24.62%) GitHub
2 17 (13.08%) AWS
2 17 (13.08%) Azure
3 11 (8.46%) SaaS
4 8 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
5 7 (5.38%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (5.38%) Datadog
6 6 (4.62%) Serverless
7 5 (3.85%) GCP
8 4 (3.08%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (2.31%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (2.31%) ChatGPT
9 3 (2.31%) MailChimp
9 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.31%) Route 53
9 3 (2.31%) Zapier
10 2 (1.54%) IaaS
10 2 (1.54%) OCI
10 2 (1.54%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.23%) Network Security
2 9 (6.92%) LAN
2 9 (6.92%) WAN
3 8 (6.15%) HTTP
3 8 (6.15%) MQTT
4 6 (4.62%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (4.62%) VLAN
5 3 (2.31%) DHCP
5 3 (2.31%) DNS
5 3 (2.31%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (2.31%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.31%) Apache Cassandra
1 29 (22.31%) Elasticsearch
1 29 (22.31%) NoSQL
2 16 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.46%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (6.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 6 (4.62%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.85%) MySQL
6 5 (3.85%) OLAP
6 5 (3.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 3 (2.31%) Power BI
8 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.54%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.77%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (26.15%) Jenkins
2 30 (23.08%) Jasmine
3 29 (22.31%) JUnit
3 29 (22.31%) Mockito
4 19 (14.62%) Git
5 4 (3.08%) GitLab
5 4 (3.08%) JIRA
6 1 (0.77%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.77%) IntelliJ
6 1 (0.77%) Maven
6 1 (0.77%) Postman
General
1 54 (41.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (39.23%) Finance
3 45 (34.62%) Law
4 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
5 30 (23.08%) Marketing
6 18 (13.85%) Legal
7 17 (13.08%) Manufacturing
8 11 (8.46%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (6.92%) Public Sector
10 8 (6.15%) Electronics
10 8 (6.15%) Telecoms
11 5 (3.85%) Games
12 4 (3.08%) Banking
13 3 (2.31%) Retail
14 2 (1.54%) Aviation
15 1 (0.77%) Financial Institution
15 1 (0.77%) Front Office
15 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.77%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 52 (40.00%) Software Engineer
2 34 (26.15%) Developer
3 18 (13.85%) Senior
4 13 (10.00%) Software Developer
5 11 (8.46%) Database Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (6.92%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 9 (6.92%) Lead
6 9 (6.92%) Principal Engineer
6 9 (6.92%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.15%) C Software Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior C Software Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (6.15%) Senior Software Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) IT Support
8 7 (5.38%) Lead Software Engineer
8 7 (5.38%) React Developer
9 6 (4.62%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (39.23%) React
2 42 (32.31%) AngularJS
3 38 (29.23%) Spring
4 37 (28.46%) Kafka
5 30 (23.08%) J2EE
6 29 (22.31%) GraphQL
6 29 (22.31%) Hibernate
6 29 (22.31%) Spring Integration
7 14 (10.77%) HTML
8 13 (10.00%) CSS
8 13 (10.00%) Django
9 8 (6.15%) Flask
9 8 (6.15%) JPA
10 4 (3.08%) .NET
10 4 (3.08%) RESTful
11 3 (2.31%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.31%) Node.js
11 3 (2.31%) OpenCV
11 3 (2.31%) OpenVINO
11 3 (2.31%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 36 (27.69%) Cloud Native
2 14 (10.77%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.92%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.15%) Arduino
4 8 (6.15%) IoT
4 8 (6.15%) Raspberry Pi
5 4 (3.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (3.08%) Onboarding
5 4 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.54%) Life Science
7 2 (1.54%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.54%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.77%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.00%) Linux
2 11 (8.46%) Windows
3 7 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.62%) Android
5 4 (3.08%) Mac OS X
6 2 (1.54%) Unix
7 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.77%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (92.31%) Computer Science
2 68 (52.31%) Software Engineering
3 50 (38.46%) Machine Learning
4 48 (36.92%) SDLC
5 46 (35.38%) Agile
6 44 (33.85%) Artificial Intelligence
7 38 (29.23%) CI/CD
8 37 (28.46%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (27.69%) Full Stack Development
10 31 (23.85%) Decision-Making
11 30 (23.08%) Microservices
12 29 (22.31%) AOP
12 29 (22.31%) Document Management
12 29 (22.31%) Regtech
12 29 (22.31%) Unit Testing
13 18 (13.85%) Analytics
13 18 (13.85%) Performance Optimisation
14 14 (10.77%) Front End Development
15 13 (10.00%) ETL
16 12 (9.23%) Computer Vision
Programming Languages
1 58 (44.62%) SQL
2 48 (36.92%) Java
3 28 (21.54%) Python
4 20 (15.38%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.85%) TypeScript
6 16 (12.31%) C++
7 12 (9.23%) T-SQL
8 8 (6.15%) C
9 6 (4.62%) C#
10 5 (3.85%) VBA
11 3 (2.31%) Go
11 3 (2.31%) PHP
11 3 (2.31%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.54%) Bash
12 2 (1.54%) PowerShell
12 2 (1.54%) Ruby
13 1 (0.77%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.77%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 130 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (31.54%) Master's Degree
3 4 (3.08%) PhD
3 4 (3.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (1.54%) OCP
4 2 (1.54%) Oracle Certification
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.77%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (0.77%) CCNA
5 1 (0.77%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.77%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.38%) QA
2 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.77%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.54%) Docker
2 8 (6.15%) Firmware
3 6 (4.62%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.62%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.77%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 46 (35.38%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.08%) Ansible
2 4 (3.08%) vRealize
2 4 (3.08%) vRealize Orchestrator
3 3 (2.31%) Autotask
4 2 (1.54%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.54%) Puppet
Vendors
1 32 (24.62%) Oracle
2 12 (9.23%) Microsoft
3 8 (6.15%) NVIDIA
3 8 (6.15%) SAP
3 8 (6.15%) Splunk
4 7 (5.38%) Cisco
5 6 (4.62%) VMware
6 5 (3.85%) Google
7 4 (3.08%) Apple
7 4 (3.08%) Atlassian
7 4 (3.08%) Dell
8 3 (2.31%) Facebook
8 3 (2.31%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.31%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.77%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.77%) Juniper
9 1 (0.77%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.77%) TP-LINK