The first table below looks at the demand for the Computer Scientist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Computer Scientist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Computer Scientist
Rank 849 893 868
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Computer Scientist 9 3 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.002% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.003% 0.003%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 3
Average salary £92,500 £85,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.82% +70.00%
UK excluding London average salary £21,500 - £50,000
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Computer Scientist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Computer Scientist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Computer Scientist Jobs Demand Trend

Computer Scientist
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Computer Scientist within the UK.

Computer Scientist Salary Trend

Computer Scientist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Computer Scientist over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Computer Scientist Salary Histogram

Computer Scientist
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Scientist within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +39 9 £92,500 +8.82%
London +36 8 £92,500 +8.82%
South West - 1 £21,500 -
Wiltshire - 1 £21,500 -
Swindon - 1 £21,500 -

Computer Scientist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Computer Scientist in their job title 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 with Computer Scientist in their job title.

1 16 (88.89%) C++
2 15 (83.33%) Python
3 14 (77.78%) Java
3 14 (77.78%) Computer Science
3 14 (77.78%) C#
4 11 (61.11%) Dependency Injection
4 11 (61.11%) Scala
4 11 (61.11%) Clojure
4 11 (61.11%) Back Office
4 11 (61.11%) Haskell
4 11 (61.11%) KDB
5 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) PhD
6 3 (16.67%) JMS
6 3 (16.67%) TIBCO
6 3 (16.67%) Linux
6 3 (16.67%) Spring
6 3 (16.67%) Guice
6 3 (16.67%) Google
6 3 (16.67%) TIBCO EMS
6 3 (16.67%) Degree
6 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
6 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
6 3 (16.67%) R
6 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
6 3 (16.67%) Open Source
6 3 (16.67%) Facebook
6 3 (16.67%) Big Data
6 3 (16.67%) Analytics

Computer Scientist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Computer Scientist in their job title 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 with Computer Scientist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (16.67%) JMS
1 3 (16.67%) Spring
1 3 (16.67%) Guice
2 1 (5.556%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.556%) WCF
2 1 (5.556%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) KDB
2 3 (16.67%) Hadoop
2 3 (16.67%) MongoDB
2 3 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (16.67%) NoSQL
2 3 (16.67%) Big Data
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Ant
General
1 11 (61.11%) Back Office
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (5.556%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 14 (77.78%) Computer Science
2 3 (16.67%) Open Source
3 2 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (5.556%) Physics
4 1 (5.556%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (5.556%) Hedge funds
4 1 (5.556%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 3 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Dependency Injection
2 3 (16.67%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) OOD
4 1 (5.556%) Quality Management
4 1 (5.556%) Web Design
4 1 (5.556%) TDD
4 1 (5.556%) Data Management
4 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
4 1 (5.556%) Software Engineering
4 1 (5.556%) Image Processing
4 1 (5.556%) OOP
4 1 (5.556%) Portfolio Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (88.89%) C++
2 15 (83.33%) Python
3 14 (77.78%) Java
3 14 (77.78%) C#
4 11 (61.11%) Haskell
4 11 (61.11%) Scala
4 11 (61.11%) Clojure
5 3 (16.67%) R
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (5.556%) T-SQL
7 1 (5.556%) VB
7 1 (5.556%) VB.NET
7 1 (5.556%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) PhD
2 3 (16.67%) Degree
Vendors
1 3 (16.67%) TIBCO
1 3 (16.67%) Google
1 3 (16.67%) Facebook
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle
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