Computer Science
UK

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 56 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,025 5,410 11,130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.10% 5.21% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.93% 5.45% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,412 3,017 3,762
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £113,750 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,683 99,249 149,267
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,831 58,284 83,142
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,182 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 2 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
England +18 4,189 £60,000 -7.69% 1,809
UK excluding London +22 3,317 £52,500 -4.55% 964
London +7 1,542 £77,500 -3.13% 871
Work from Home +8 1,401 £60,000 -11.11% 810
South East +4 1,026 £60,000 +9.09% 245
North of England +89 631 £48,000 -8.57% 223
Scotland +10 599 £52,500 -0.94% 42
Midlands +21 369 £50,000 -4.76% 151
North West +78 350 £50,000 -9.09% 133
South West +17 347 £50,000 -9.09% 108
West Midlands +34 253 £52,500 -4.55% 84
East of England +2 250 £45,500 -2.15% 162
Yorkshire +96 222 £45,000 -14.29% 56
East Midlands -14 110 £42,500 -5.56% 67
North East +6 59 £50,617 +22.71% 36
Wales -45 42 £33,500 -41.74% 19
Northern Ireland +31 41 £40,000 -16.67% 26
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 3

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 146 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 97 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 45 (0.90%) FileNet
5 43 (0.86%) Apache
6 39 (0.78%) CMS
7 38 (0.76%) Confluence
8 31 (0.62%) IIS
9 30 (0.60%) SAS
10 23 (0.46%) WordPress
11 22 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
12 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
14 12 (0.24%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.16%) nginx
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.12%) Moodle
17 4 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 109 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.90%) Simulink
4 35 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.28%) Trello
7 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.18%) SPSS
9 7 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.060%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.040%) InVision
12 2 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.040%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.040%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.020%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 51 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.100%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.100%) Odoo
9 4 (0.080%) Magento
9 4 (0.080%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.060%) Endur
10 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.060%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.060%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.040%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 940 (18.71%) AWS
2 866 (17.23%) Azure
3 286 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
4 264 (5.25%) GCP
5 263 (5.23%) Power Platform
6 187 (3.72%) SaaS
7 160 (3.18%) GitHub
8 149 (2.97%) Serverless
9 137 (2.73%) Amazon S3
10 125 (2.49%) Cloud Computing
11 114 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
12 111 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 61 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (1.07%) Power Automate
16 50 (1.00%) IaaS
17 46 (0.92%) PaaS
18 39 (0.78%) Entra ID
19 35 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
19 35 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 188 (3.74%) Wireless
2 187 (3.72%) WAN
3 174 (3.46%) Network Security
4 163 (3.24%) Firewall
5 131 (2.61%) SD-WAN
6 107 (2.13%) TCP/IP
7 102 (2.03%) Cisco IOS
8 101 (2.01%) WebEx
9 93 (1.85%) DNS
10 89 (1.77%) VPN
11 66 (1.31%) HTTP
12 63 (1.25%) Internet
13 61 (1.21%) LAN
14 53 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
15 47 (0.94%) DHCP
15 47 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
16 34 (0.68%) SAN
17 31 (0.62%) VLAN
18 28 (0.56%) Ethernet
19 25 (0.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 280 (5.57%) NoSQL
3 242 (4.82%) Power BI
4 190 (3.78%) Relational Database
5 189 (3.76%) MySQL
6 170 (3.38%) Data Warehouse
7 148 (2.95%) PostgreSQL
8 116 (2.31%) Big Data
9 107 (2.13%) Redis
10 85 (1.69%) Tableau
11 79 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 76 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 67 (1.33%) Hadoop
14 66 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
15 62 (1.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 53 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
17 50 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 49 (0.98%) MongoDB
19 44 (0.88%) Data Lake
20 42 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 526 (10.47%) Git
2 176 (3.50%) JIRA
3 142 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.61%) Visual Studio
5 79 (1.57%) GitLab
6 74 (1.47%) JUnit
7 61 (1.21%) Selenium
8 53 (1.05%) Mockito
9 52 (1.03%) Jasmine
10 46 (0.92%) Cypress.io
11 42 (0.84%) Subversion
11 42 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 41 (0.82%) NUnit
13 39 (0.78%) Moq
14 33 (0.66%) CMake
15 32 (0.64%) Postman
16 31 (0.62%) Burp Suite
17 29 (0.58%) Metasploit
18 26 (0.52%) Bitbucket
19 25 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,040 (40.60%) Social Skills
2 1,063 (21.15%) Finance
3 858 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
4 764 (15.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 463 (9.21%) Marketing
6 446 (8.88%) Law
7 253 (5.03%) Manufacturing
8 235 (4.68%) Electronics
9 188 (3.74%) Legal
10 183 (3.64%) Financial Institution
11 168 (3.34%) Banking
12 144 (2.87%) Games
13 142 (2.83%) Retail
14 140 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
15 131 (2.61%) Public Sector
16 126 (2.51%) Telecoms
17 92 (1.83%) Investment Banking
17 92 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
18 77 (1.53%) Automotive
19 69 (1.37%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,193 (23.74%) Developer
2 871 (17.33%) Senior
3 746 (14.85%) Software Engineer
4 440 (8.76%) Lead
5 294 (5.85%) Software Developer
6 285 (5.67%) Architect
7 284 (5.65%) Analyst
8 271 (5.39%) Senior Developer
9 212 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 210 (4.18%) Data Scientist
11 188 (3.74%) Engineering Manager
12 183 (3.64%) Junior
13 169 (3.36%) Graduate
13 169 (3.36%) Software Engineering Manager
14 144 (2.87%) IT Support
15 136 (2.71%) Full Stack Developer
16 124 (2.47%) .NET Developer
17 123 (2.45%) Support Specialist
18 109 (2.17%) IT Support Specialist
19 107 (2.13%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 682 (13.57%) .NET
2 538 (10.71%) React
3 455 (9.05%) HTML
4 399 (7.94%) CSS
5 368 (7.32%) AngularJS
6 247 (4.92%) Spring
7 217 (4.32%) RESTful
8 207 (4.12%) Node.js
9 190 (3.78%) Kafka
10 183 (3.64%) ASP.NET
11 174 (3.46%) .NET Core
12 168 (3.34%) HTML5
13 167 (3.32%) REST
14 139 (2.77%) Web Services
15 137 (2.73%) .NET Framework
16 112 (2.23%) Spring Boot
17 110 (2.19%) JSON
18 101 (2.01%) Vue
19 97 (1.93%) NumPy
19 97 (1.93%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 552 (10.99%) Algorithms
2 438 (8.72%) Management Information System
3 367 (7.30%) Cloud Native
4 258 (5.13%) Self-Motivation
5 218 (4.34%) Data Structures
6 146 (2.91%) Client/Server
7 138 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 131 (2.61%) Onboarding
9 119 (2.37%) Greenfield Project
10 103 (2.05%) Video Conferencing
11 99 (1.97%) Wiki
12 97 (1.93%) Mobile App
13 91 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 85 (1.69%) IoT
15 74 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
16 71 (1.41%) Market Risk
16 71 (1.41%) Virtual Team
17 65 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
18 56 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
19 55 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 578 (11.50%) Windows
2 541 (10.77%) Linux
3 184 (3.66%) Android
4 149 (2.97%) Windows 10
5 106 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 90 (1.79%) Unix
7 66 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 59 (1.17%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.66%) Kali Linux
10 29 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
10 29 (0.58%) Ubuntu
11 23 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
12 20 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
13 19 (0.38%) CentOS
14 12 (0.24%) Debian
15 10 (0.20%) VMS
16 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
16 6 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 5 (0.100%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,862 (37.05%) Problem-Solving
2 1,621 (32.26%) Software Engineering
3 1,435 (28.56%) Agile
4 1,041 (20.72%) Mathematics
5 689 (13.71%) Artificial Intelligence
6 623 (12.40%) Machine Learning
7 586 (11.66%) CI/CD
8 572 (11.38%) Mentoring
9 552 (10.99%) SDLC
10 542 (10.79%) DevOps
11 530 (10.55%) Decision-Making
12 523 (10.41%) Analytics
13 508 (10.11%) Cybersecurity
14 470 (9.35%) Data Science
15 421 (8.38%) Project Management
16 396 (7.88%) Data Analysis
17 358 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 356 (7.08%) Full Stack Development
19 352 (7.00%) Microservices
20 350 (6.97%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,179 (23.46%) Python
2 1,115 (22.19%) SQL
3 955 (19.00%) C#
4 825 (16.42%) JavaScript
5 755 (15.02%) Java
6 403 (8.02%) C++
7 397 (7.90%) C
8 365 (7.26%) TypeScript
9 159 (3.16%) PHP
10 139 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 105 (2.09%) R
12 101 (2.01%) T-SQL
13 98 (1.95%) Bash
14 79 (1.57%) Embedded C
15 78 (1.55%) Go
16 74 (1.47%) Fortran
17 60 (1.19%) Kotlin
18 59 (1.17%) MATLAB
19 56 (1.11%) Scala
20 51 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,268 (84.94%) Degree
2 2,404 (47.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 804 (16.00%) Master's Degree
4 277 (5.51%) Security Cleared
5 244 (4.86%) PhD
6 168 (3.34%) CISSP
7 165 (3.28%) SC Cleared
8 143 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 106 (2.11%) CISM
10 104 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
11 91 (1.81%) AWS Certification
12 75 (1.49%) Azure Certification
13 67 (1.33%) PMI Certification
14 60 (1.19%) PMP
15 57 (1.13%) CCNA
15 57 (1.13%) CCNP
16 55 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
17 47 (0.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 45 (0.90%) A+ Certification
18 45 (0.90%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (5.73%) QA
2 107 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 106 (2.11%) Data Quality
4 99 (1.97%) GDPR
5 85 (1.69%) NIST
6 80 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.86%) PMO
8 37 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.70%) WCAG
10 29 (0.58%) SLA
11 28 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.46%) ISO 13485
13 22 (0.44%) HIPAA
14 18 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.30%) GRC
16 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.28%) COBIT
16 14 (0.28%) NCSC
16 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 458 (9.11%) Docker
2 248 (4.94%) Active Directory
3 141 (2.81%) Firmware
4 107 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 103 (2.05%) XenApp
6 99 (1.97%) Microsoft App-V
6 99 (1.97%) XenDesktop
7 79 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
8 48 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
9 38 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
10 35 (0.70%) Hyper-V
11 12 (0.24%) HDFS
12 9 (0.18%) vSphere
13 8 (0.16%) KVM
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.080%) pfSense
15 2 (0.040%) LXC
15 2 (0.040%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 414 (8.24%) Kubernetes
2 180 (3.58%) Terraform
3 117 (2.33%) SCCM
4 99 (1.97%) AirWatch
5 63 (1.25%) Ansible
6 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.42%) Grafana
8 18 (0.36%) Puppet
9 14 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 12 (0.24%) WSUS
11 10 (0.20%) Nagios
11 10 (0.20%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.18%) Nessus
13 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.14%) SCOM
15 6 (0.12%) CASB
15 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 764 (15.20%) Microsoft
2 197 (3.92%) Google
3 195 (3.88%) Cisco
4 165 (3.28%) Oracle
5 106 (2.11%) Citrix
6 105 (2.09%) SAP
7 96 (1.91%) VMware
8 76 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 47 (0.94%) IBM
10 40 (0.80%) Databricks
11 34 (0.68%) Xilinx
12 32 (0.64%) Splunk
13 31 (0.62%) Adobe
14 30 (0.60%) Juniper
15 28 (0.56%) Apple
16 24 (0.48%) Atlassian
16 24 (0.48%) Facebook
16 24 (0.48%) ServiceNow
17 20 (0.40%) F5
18 19 (0.38%) Xamarin