Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 72 47
Rank change year-on-year +22 -25 +15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,330 2,589 4,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.70% 4.30% 5.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.59% 4.50% 6.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,213 1,333 1,595
10th Percentile £30,550 £31,739 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £76,250
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,550 57,521 66,624
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.98% 95.64% 94.06%
Number of salaries quoted 41,216 29,548 40,995
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +7 1,024 £60,000 +9.09% 246
North of England +91 633 £48,000 -6.80% 198
Scotland +8 597 £52,500 -0.94% 32
Midlands +18 379 £50,000 -4.76% 160
North West +79 354 £50,000 -9.09% 112
South West +22 353 £50,000 -9.09% 101
West Midlands +30 260 £50,362 -8.43% 90
East of England 0 248 £46,000 -1.08% 157
Yorkshire +97 220 £45,000 -14.29% 51
East Midlands -6 113 £42,500 -5.56% 70
North East +4 59 £48,734 +14.67% 36
Northern Ireland +26 43 £40,000 -20.00% 20
Wales -55 40 £34,000 -40.87% 23
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 59 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.35%) FileNet
3 32 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 32 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.60%) Confluence
5 17 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 17 (0.51%) IIS
6 16 (0.48%) WordPress
7 15 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 15 (0.45%) SAS
8 12 (0.36%) Apache
8 12 (0.36%) Tomcat
9 11 (0.33%) CMS
10 6 (0.18%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Moodle
11 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.090%) Luigi
12 3 (0.090%) WildFly
13 2 (0.060%) Appian
Applications
1 94 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.50%) Simulink
4 30 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.42%) Trello
6 8 (0.24%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.090%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.060%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.060%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.030%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.030%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.030%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.030%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.030%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.030%) Revit
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 33 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.27%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.24%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Odoo
7 4 (0.12%) Magento
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
8 3 (0.090%) Sage 300 ERP
8 3 (0.090%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.060%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.030%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.030%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 524 (15.74%) AWS
2 465 (13.96%) Azure
3 136 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 118 (3.54%) GCP
5 117 (3.51%) GitHub
6 112 (3.36%) Microsoft 365
7 108 (3.24%) Amazon S3
8 100 (3.00%) SaaS
9 80 (2.40%) Serverless
10 73 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
12 58 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
13 46 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (0.72%) Power Automate
15 23 (0.69%) Amazon Kinesis
16 22 (0.66%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.66%) Snowflake
17 20 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (0.57%) IaaS
18 19 (0.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 130 (3.90%) Firewall
2 128 (3.84%) Network Security
3 82 (2.46%) Wireless
4 81 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 74 (2.22%) WAN
6 70 (2.10%) VPN
7 68 (2.04%) DNS
8 59 (1.77%) HTTP
9 50 (1.50%) LAN
10 44 (1.32%) Internet
11 36 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
12 35 (1.05%) DHCP
12 35 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (0.84%) SD-WAN
14 27 (0.81%) Ethernet
15 26 (0.78%) VLAN
16 21 (0.63%) 5G
16 21 (0.63%) RS-232
17 20 (0.60%) MQTT
18 19 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 240 (7.21%) NoSQL
3 131 (3.93%) Power BI
4 130 (3.90%) MySQL
5 121 (3.63%) Relational Database
6 106 (3.18%) Data Warehouse
7 85 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
8 66 (1.98%) Elasticsearch
9 58 (1.74%) Amazon RDS
10 56 (1.68%) Big Data
11 55 (1.65%) Redis
12 46 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 41 (1.23%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.05%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 33 (0.99%) Tableau
16 29 (0.87%) RDBMS
17 24 (0.72%) GIS
17 24 (0.72%) MongoDB
17 24 (0.72%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 359 (10.78%) Git
2 104 (3.12%) JIRA
3 100 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.74%) JUnit
5 54 (1.62%) Selenium
6 49 (1.47%) Mockito
7 47 (1.41%) Jasmine
8 46 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 45 (1.35%) Cypress.io
10 40 (1.20%) Subversion
11 29 (0.87%) GitLab
12 25 (0.75%) CMake
12 25 (0.75%) LabVIEW
13 23 (0.69%) Postman
14 19 (0.57%) Bitbucket
15 18 (0.54%) Appium
16 17 (0.51%) NUnit
16 17 (0.51%) TeamCity
17 14 (0.42%) Maven
17 14 (0.42%) Moq
General
1 1,169 (35.11%) Social Skills
2 665 (19.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 643 (19.31%) Finance
4 511 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
5 413 (12.40%) Law
6 343 (10.30%) Marketing
7 218 (6.55%) Manufacturing
8 206 (6.19%) Electronics
9 161 (4.83%) Financial Institution
10 144 (4.32%) Legal
11 107 (3.21%) Banking
12 104 (3.12%) Games
13 86 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 84 (2.52%) Telecoms
15 80 (2.40%) Retail
16 71 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (2.01%) Investment Banking
18 64 (1.92%) Automotive
19 63 (1.89%) Public Sector
20 61 (1.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 754 (22.64%) Developer
2 599 (17.99%) Software Engineer
3 555 (16.67%) Senior
4 258 (7.75%) Lead
5 244 (7.33%) Software Developer
6 178 (5.35%) Engineering Manager
7 165 (4.95%) Senior Developer
7 165 (4.95%) Software Engineering Manager
8 158 (4.74%) Analyst
9 155 (4.65%) Senior Software Engineer
10 154 (4.62%) Data Scientist
11 147 (4.41%) Architect
12 143 (4.29%) Junior
13 135 (4.05%) Graduate
14 94 (2.82%) Java Engineer
15 92 (2.76%) Java Software Engineer
16 84 (2.52%) Embedded Engineer
16 84 (2.52%) Full Stack Developer
17 75 (2.25%) .NET Developer
18 72 (2.16%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 423 (12.70%) .NET
2 397 (11.92%) React
3 297 (8.92%) AngularJS
3 297 (8.92%) HTML
4 242 (7.27%) CSS
5 184 (5.53%) Spring
6 166 (4.98%) Node.js
7 153 (4.59%) RESTful
8 133 (3.99%) Kafka
9 126 (3.78%) .NET Core
10 125 (3.75%) HTML5
11 101 (3.03%) REST
12 86 (2.58%) ASP.NET
13 84 (2.52%) .NET Framework
14 83 (2.49%) JSON
14 83 (2.49%) Spring Boot
15 79 (2.37%) NumPy
16 74 (2.22%) Vue
17 73 (2.19%) Pandas
18 70 (2.10%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 410 (12.31%) Algorithms
2 347 (10.42%) Cloud Native
3 296 (8.89%) Management Information System
4 170 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 88 (2.64%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 71 (2.13%) Mobile App
10 66 (1.98%) Market Risk
11 61 (1.83%) Client/Server
12 59 (1.77%) IoT
13 52 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
13 52 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
14 46 (1.38%) FPGA
15 41 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
15 41 (1.23%) Public Cloud
16 39 (1.17%) CUDA
16 39 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
17 38 (1.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 397 (11.92%) Linux
2 366 (10.99%) Windows
3 70 (2.10%) Unix
4 69 (2.07%) Android
5 68 (2.04%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 43 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 33 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 31 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
10 30 (0.90%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.57%) CentOS
13 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.33%) Debian
15 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.24%) VMS
17 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
18 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
19 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,270 (38.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1,187 (35.65%) Software Engineering
3 1,035 (31.08%) Agile
4 800 (24.02%) Mathematics
5 493 (14.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 461 (13.84%) SDLC
7 428 (12.85%) Decision-Making
8 414 (12.43%) CI/CD
9 393 (11.80%) Mentoring
10 390 (11.71%) Machine Learning
11 355 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
12 341 (10.24%) DevOps
13 325 (9.76%) Analytics
14 311 (9.34%) Coaching
15 291 (8.74%) Project Management
16 277 (8.32%) Data Analysis
17 261 (7.84%) Continuous Improvement
18 257 (7.72%) Data Science
19 236 (7.09%) Physics
20 232 (6.97%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 719 (21.59%) Python
2 686 (20.60%) SQL
3 613 (18.41%) C#
4 581 (17.45%) JavaScript
5 511 (15.35%) Java
6 344 (10.33%) C
7 322 (9.67%) C++
8 283 (8.50%) TypeScript
9 116 (3.48%) PHP
10 79 (2.37%) Embedded C
11 76 (2.28%) Bash
11 76 (2.28%) Fortran
11 76 (2.28%) PowerShell
12 52 (1.56%) R
13 50 (1.50%) Go
14 47 (1.41%) T-SQL
15 43 (1.29%) MATLAB
16 38 (1.14%) Rust
17 36 (1.08%) Kotlin
18 35 (1.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,767 (83.09%) Degree
2 1,453 (43.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 372 (11.17%) Master's Degree
4 233 (7.00%) Security Cleared
5 164 (4.92%) PhD
6 125 (3.75%) SC Cleared
7 84 (2.52%) CISSP
8 78 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 62 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 54 (1.62%) CCNA
12 53 (1.59%) CCNP
13 50 (1.50%) PMI Certification
14 46 (1.38%) Azure Certification
14 46 (1.38%) PMP
15 42 (1.26%) CISM
16 38 (1.14%) A+ Certification
16 38 (1.14%) DV Cleared
17 35 (1.05%) MCP
18 34 (1.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 187 (5.62%) QA
2 65 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.74%) GDPR
4 56 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 53 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 47 (1.41%) NIST
7 40 (1.20%) PMO
8 33 (0.99%) WCAG
9 22 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.63%) ISO 13485
11 18 (0.54%) SLA
12 16 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.30%) GRC
14 10 (0.30%) NCSC
14 10 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.27%) JTAG
16 8 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 304 (9.13%) Docker
2 138 (4.14%) Firmware
3 103 (3.09%) Active Directory
4 62 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
5 46 (1.38%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) pfSense
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.060%) HDFS
13 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 308 (9.25%) Kubernetes
2 108 (3.24%) Terraform
3 44 (1.32%) Ansible
4 17 (0.51%) Puppet
5 14 (0.42%) Grafana
6 13 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.33%) SCCM
8 9 (0.27%) Nagios
8 9 (0.27%) WSUS
9 8 (0.24%) Nessus
10 7 (0.21%) SCOM
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
12 5 (0.15%) Suricata
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.090%) OfficeScan
14 3 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 400 (12.01%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.66%) Oracle
3 115 (3.45%) Google
4 73 (2.19%) Cisco
5 72 (2.16%) VMware
6 71 (2.13%) SAP
7 51 (1.53%) Salesforce
8 39 (1.17%) Xilinx
9 25 (0.75%) Juniper
10 22 (0.66%) Splunk
11 19 (0.57%) Apple
11 19 (0.57%) IBM
11 19 (0.57%) ServiceNow
11 19 (0.57%) Xamarin
12 18 (0.54%) Databricks
13 16 (0.48%) F5
14 15 (0.45%) Atlassian
15 14 (0.42%) Fortinet
16 13 (0.39%) NVIDIA
17 12 (0.36%) Veeam