Computer Science Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 51 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +27 -11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 592 260 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.83% 5.44% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.50% 5.78% 4.31%
Number of salaries quoted 208 99 61
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £41,750 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,275
90th Percentile £80,375 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,233 4,500 5,174
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.95% 94.16% 91.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,427 2,259 2,770
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £58,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.48% +10.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 24 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 -11 386 £42,500 -26.09% 20
Edinburgh +44 110 £60,000 +13.21% 25
Aberdeen +24 54 £36,000 -2.37% 8
Dundee -4 9 £50,000 +20.48%
Lanarkshire -2 7 £42,500 -5.56% 11
West Lothian - 6 £37,500 -
Aberdeenshire +10 5 £28,500 - 3
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 11
North Lanarkshire - 1 £26,000 -
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 44 (7.43%) FileNet
2 17 (2.87%) Cloud Foundry
3 13 (2.20%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.35%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.68%) Confluence
5 4 (0.68%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.01%) Simulink
4 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 120 (20.27%) AWS
2 51 (8.61%) Azure
3 47 (7.94%) Amazon S3
3 47 (7.94%) GitHub
4 23 (3.89%) GCP
5 17 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (2.03%) Power Platform
7 11 (1.86%) SaaS
8 7 (1.18%) Amazon MSK
8 7 (1.18%) Datadog
9 6 (1.01%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.68%) Google Docs
10 4 (0.68%) Microsoft 365
11 3 (0.51%) Asana
11 3 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
11 3 (0.51%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.51%) Route 53
11 3 (0.51%) Slack
11 3 (0.51%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 47 (7.94%) Wireless
2 17 (2.87%) Kerberos
3 12 (2.03%) Network Security
4 8 (1.35%) HTTP
4 8 (1.35%) MQTT
5 6 (1.01%) LAN
5 6 (1.01%) WAN
5 6 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (0.51%) DHCP
6 3 (0.51%) DNS
6 3 (0.51%) VPN
7 2 (0.34%) MPLS
8 1 (0.17%) Firewall
8 1 (0.17%) Internet
8 1 (0.17%) Junos
8 1 (0.17%) OSPF
8 1 (0.17%) RSVP
8 1 (0.17%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.23%) NoSQL
2 44 (7.43%) Apache Cassandra
2 44 (7.43%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (3.72%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.04%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.87%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (2.87%) CockroachDB
6 13 (2.20%) Apache Hive
6 13 (2.20%) Big Data
7 12 (2.03%) Power BI
7 12 (2.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 9 (1.52%) Relational Database
8 9 (1.52%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.01%) OLAP
9 6 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (0.84%) MySQL
11 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.68%) MS Access
12 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 50 (8.45%) JUnit
2 49 (8.28%) Jenkins
3 45 (7.60%) Jasmine
4 44 (7.43%) Mockito
5 23 (3.89%) Git
6 15 (2.53%) LabVIEW
7 13 (2.20%) JIRA
8 4 (0.68%) GitLab
9 2 (0.34%) Appium
9 2 (0.34%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.17%) IntelliJ
10 1 (0.17%) Maven
10 1 (0.17%) MSTest
10 1 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) TestComplete
General
1 443 (74.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 361 (60.98%) Finance
3 351 (59.29%) Law
4 228 (38.51%) Marketing
5 162 (27.36%) Social Skills
6 138 (23.31%) Financial Institution
7 85 (14.36%) Banking
8 74 (12.50%) Legal
9 63 (10.64%) Investment Banking
10 36 (6.08%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (5.74%) Manufacturing
12 27 (4.56%) Electronics
13 26 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
14 24 (4.05%) Games
15 19 (3.21%) Private Banking
16 15 (2.53%) Telecoms
17 12 (2.03%) Public Sector
18 5 (0.84%) Automotive
19 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
20 3 (0.51%) Retail
Job Titles
1 214 (36.15%) Software Engineer
2 154 (26.01%) Engineering Manager
2 154 (26.01%) Software Engineering Manager
3 120 (20.27%) Senior
4 84 (14.19%) Java Engineer
4 84 (14.19%) Java Software Engineer
5 65 (10.98%) Developer
6 52 (8.78%) Senior Software Engineer
7 43 (7.26%) Lead
7 43 (7.26%) Senior Manager
8 42 (7.09%) Embedded Engineer
9 40 (6.76%) Lead Software Engineer
10 35 (5.91%) Full Stack Engineer
10 35 (5.91%) Full Stack Software Engineer
10 35 (5.91%) Graduate
11 34 (5.74%) Principal Engineer
12 31 (5.24%) Software Developer
13 26 (4.39%) Python Engineer
13 26 (4.39%) Python Software Engineer
13 26 (4.39%) Software Engineering Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (23.14%) Spring
2 121 (20.44%) React
3 100 (16.89%) AngularJS
4 69 (11.66%) Kafka
5 61 (10.30%) GraphQL
6 58 (9.80%) NumPy
6 58 (9.80%) Pandas
7 55 (9.29%) Spring Boot
8 52 (8.78%) RESTful
9 45 (7.60%) J2EE
10 44 (7.43%) Hibernate
10 44 (7.43%) HTML
10 44 (7.43%) Spring Integration
11 33 (5.57%) Node.js
12 32 (5.41%) HTML5
13 31 (5.24%) Drools
13 31 (5.24%) jBPM
13 31 (5.24%) Middleware
13 31 (5.24%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 24 (4.05%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 280 (47.30%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.33%) Algorithms
3 58 (9.80%) Market Risk
4 47 (7.94%) Distributed Applications
5 34 (5.74%) Onboarding
6 20 (3.38%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (3.04%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.87%) Public Cloud
9 16 (2.70%) Management Information System
10 14 (2.36%) Product Ownership
11 9 (1.52%) Distributed Systems
12 8 (1.35%) Arduino
12 8 (1.35%) IoT
12 8 (1.35%) Raspberry Pi
13 6 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
14 5 (0.84%) Distributed Computing
14 5 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
15 4 (0.68%) Enterprise Storage
15 4 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
15 4 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.38%) Linux
2 11 (1.86%) Windows
3 7 (1.18%) Unix
4 4 (0.68%) Mac OS X
5 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.17%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 480 (81.08%) Software Engineering
2 313 (52.87%) Agile
3 308 (52.03%) Mathematics
4 278 (46.96%) SDLC
5 223 (37.67%) CI/CD
6 170 (28.72%) Machine Learning
7 163 (27.53%) Artificial Intelligence
8 139 (23.48%) Decision-Making
9 127 (21.45%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (18.24%) Analytics
11 98 (16.55%) Microservices
12 79 (13.34%) Coaching
13 78 (13.18%) Continuous Delivery
13 78 (13.18%) Operational Stability
14 71 (11.99%) Visualisation
15 65 (10.98%) Full Stack Development
16 63 (10.64%) Physics
17 56 (9.46%) Continuous Improvement
17 56 (9.46%) Risk Management
18 52 (8.78%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 238 (40.20%) Java
2 166 (28.04%) SQL
3 142 (23.99%) Python
4 90 (15.20%) C
5 52 (8.78%) C++
6 46 (7.77%) Embedded C
7 45 (7.60%) C#
8 34 (5.74%) TypeScript
9 22 (3.72%) Ruby
10 20 (3.38%) JavaScript
11 19 (3.21%) Rust
12 16 (2.70%) GLSL
13 13 (2.20%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.18%) Haskell
15 6 (1.01%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.84%) Go
16 5 (0.84%) VBA
17 3 (0.51%) PHP
17 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
17 3 (0.51%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 249 (42.06%) Degree
2 120 (20.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (9.29%) Master's Degree
4 19 (3.21%) PhD
5 4 (0.68%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.51%) PMP
7 2 (0.34%) OCP
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.17%) JNCIA
8 1 (0.17%) JNCIE
8 1 (0.17%) JNCIP
8 1 (0.17%) JNCIS
8 1 (0.17%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.01%) QA
2 4 (0.68%) DICOM
2 4 (0.68%) HL7
2 4 (0.68%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 54 (9.12%) Firmware
2 21 (3.55%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (2.53%) Docker
4 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
4 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
4 3 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 78 (13.18%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.87%) Terraform
3 6 (1.01%) Grafana
4 4 (0.68%) Ansible
4 4 (0.68%) vRealize
4 4 (0.68%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 3 (0.51%) Autotask
6 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.34%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (8.28%) Oracle
2 23 (3.89%) Google
3 20 (3.38%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.36%) Splunk
5 8 (1.35%) NVIDIA
5 8 (1.35%) SAP
6 6 (1.01%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.68%) Atlassian
7 4 (0.68%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (0.68%) CyberArk
7 4 (0.68%) Databricks
7 4 (0.68%) Dell
8 3 (0.51%) Anaplan
8 3 (0.51%) Apple
8 3 (0.51%) Facebook
8 3 (0.51%) HubSpot
8 3 (0.51%) VMware
9 2 (0.34%) Juniper
9 2 (0.34%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.17%) Citrix