Computer Science Jobs in Berkshire

Computer Science
South East > Berkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 45 39
Rank change year-on-year +20 -6 -16
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 254 209 223
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 8.19% 6.57% 6.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 6.90% 7.15%
Number of salaries quoted 224 122 90
10th Percentile £42,500 £34,875 £27,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year - +33.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £112,500 £97,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,681 3,031 3,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.48% 95.31% 91.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 1,669 1,992
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £71,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £82,425
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Berkshire

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Berkshire over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Berkshire

Computer Science
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Bracknell +3 160 £75,000 -9.09% 8
Reading +10 79 £55,000 +27.17% 22
Maidenhead 0 4 - - 1
Slough +26 3 £47,500 +15.15% 6
Newbury +14 2 £34,000 -
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 3 (1.18%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.39%) Apache
2 1 (0.39%) Confluence
2 1 (0.39%) IIS
2 1 (0.39%) nginx
2 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.09%) Azure
2 15 (5.91%) AWS
3 8 (3.15%) Power Platform
4 6 (2.36%) SaaS
5 5 (1.97%) IaaS
6 3 (1.18%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.18%) GCP
6 3 (1.18%) GitHub
7 2 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.39%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.39%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.39%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (5.91%) Network Security
2 6 (2.36%) VPN
3 5 (1.97%) Firewall
4 3 (1.18%) DNS
4 3 (1.18%) Internet
4 3 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (0.79%) BGP
5 2 (0.79%) IPsec
5 2 (0.79%) OSPF
5 2 (0.79%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.39%) DHCP
6 1 (0.39%) MQTT
6 1 (0.39%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.39%) RS-485
6 1 (0.39%) VLAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (24.80%) NoSQL
2 40 (15.75%) SQL Server
3 9 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.15%) Power BI
5 3 (1.18%) GIS
5 3 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.18%) Tableau
6 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle BI EE
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (0.79%) SSDT
6 2 (0.79%) Star Schema
7 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.39%) Qlik Sense
7 1 (0.39%) Redis
Development Applications
1 87 (34.25%) Git
2 38 (14.96%) Cypress.io
2 38 (14.96%) Selenium
3 9 (3.54%) Visual Studio
4 8 (3.15%) GitLab
5 6 (2.36%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.79%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.79%) SoapUI
6 2 (0.79%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.39%) Gradle
7 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
7 1 (0.39%) JIRA
7 1 (0.39%) JUnit
General
1 28 (11.02%) Social Skills
2 15 (5.91%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (4.33%) Finance
3 11 (4.33%) Telecoms
4 5 (1.97%) Electronics
5 4 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
6 2 (0.79%) Marketing
6 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
6 2 (0.79%) Retail
7 1 (0.39%) Back Office
7 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.39%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (46.46%) Developer
2 63 (24.80%) Senior
2 63 (24.80%) Software Developer
3 44 (17.32%) Senior Developer
4 37 (14.57%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 31 (12.20%) Software Engineer
6 27 (10.63%) Lead
7 25 (9.84%) Senior Software Developer
8 22 (8.66%) Lead Developer
8 22 (8.66%) Lead Software Developer
9 19 (7.48%) Senior Front-End Developer
10 18 (7.09%) Development Director
10 18 (7.09%) Software Development Director
11 16 (6.30%) C++ Software Engineer
12 15 (5.91%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
13 12 (4.72%) Architect
13 12 (4.72%) Data Scientist
13 12 (4.72%) Mobile Developer
13 12 (4.72%) Research Engineer
13 12 (4.72%) Research Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (48.03%) React
2 83 (32.68%) .NET
3 39 (15.35%) HTML
4 38 (14.96%) Jest
5 37 (14.57%) CSS
6 36 (14.17%) CSS3
6 36 (14.17%) HTML5
7 17 (6.69%) React Native
8 6 (2.36%) Kafka
8 6 (2.36%) OpenMP
9 3 (1.18%) Dask
9 3 (1.18%) Django
9 3 (1.18%) Flask
9 3 (1.18%) Middleware
9 3 (1.18%) Web Services
10 2 (0.79%) Leaflet
10 2 (0.79%) OpenLayers
10 2 (0.79%) Sass
10 2 (0.79%) Seaborn
10 2 (0.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (11.81%) Algorithms
2 19 (7.48%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.36%) CUDA
5 5 (1.97%) Data Centre
5 5 (1.97%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.18%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.79%) PKI
7 2 (0.79%) Product Ownership
7 2 (0.79%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.39%) Augmented Reality
8 1 (0.39%) Distributed Computing
8 1 (0.39%) IoT
8 1 (0.39%) Mixed Reality
8 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 22 (8.66%) Windows
2 18 (7.09%) Linux
3 13 (5.12%) Unix
4 4 (1.57%) Mac OS
5 3 (1.18%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.79%) VMS
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.39%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (57.87%) Agile
2 129 (50.79%) Artificial Intelligence
3 119 (46.85%) Propensity Modelling
4 48 (18.90%) Software Engineering
5 42 (16.54%) Mathematics
6 38 (14.96%) Physics
7 37 (14.57%) Front End Development
7 37 (14.57%) Machine Learning
8 25 (9.84%) Software Testing
9 21 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
10 17 (6.69%) Multithreading
11 16 (6.30%) SDLC
12 15 (5.91%) Application Security
13 14 (5.51%) Cybersecurity
13 14 (5.51%) Test Automation
14 13 (5.12%) Monte Carlo Method
14 13 (5.12%) Penetration Testing
14 13 (5.12%) Vulnerability Management
15 12 (4.72%) Continuous Improvement
15 12 (4.72%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 152 (59.84%) C#
2 120 (47.24%) JavaScript
3 118 (46.46%) TypeScript
4 56 (22.05%) Python
5 40 (15.75%) C++
6 38 (14.96%) PHP
7 30 (11.81%) C
8 27 (10.63%) SQL
9 26 (10.24%) Fortran
10 13 (5.12%) Bash
10 13 (5.12%) R
11 10 (3.94%) Java
12 7 (2.76%) Go
12 7 (2.76%) Perl
12 7 (2.76%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.97%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.97%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.18%) T-SQL
15 1 (0.39%) Haskell
15 1 (0.39%) Rust
Qualifications
1 244 (96.06%) Degree
2 127 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (11.42%) Security Cleared
4 28 (11.02%) Master's Degree
5 23 (9.06%) PhD
6 14 (5.51%) CISSP
7 8 (3.15%) CISM
7 8 (3.15%) GIAC
7 8 (3.15%) GPEN
8 3 (1.18%) A+ Certification
8 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) CCNA
8 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (1.18%) SC Cleared
9 2 (0.79%) CCNP
9 2 (0.79%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (14.17%) WCAG
2 10 (3.94%) NIST
3 8 (3.15%) GRC
3 8 (3.15%) QA
4 7 (2.76%) GDPR
5 6 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (2.36%) NIST 800
6 4 (1.57%) PCI DSS
7 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 1 (0.39%) PMO
System Software
1 133 (52.36%) Docker
2 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.18%) Firmware
4 2 (0.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 124 (48.82%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.15%) Nessus
3 6 (2.36%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 3 (1.18%) Suricata
5 2 (0.79%) Grafana
5 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds Orion
5 2 (0.79%) Terraform
5 2 (0.79%) WSUS
6 1 (0.39%) Ansible
6 1 (0.39%) Puppet
Vendors
1 41 (16.14%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.72%) Xamarin
3 6 (2.36%) Qualys
4 5 (1.97%) Cisco
4 5 (1.97%) Juniper
5 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.18%) Palo Alto
6 3 (1.18%) Splunk
7 2 (0.79%) Dell
7 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds
7 2 (0.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.39%) AVEVA
8 1 (0.39%) Google
8 1 (0.39%) Oracle
8 1 (0.39%) SAP