Computer Science Job Trends in Birmingham

Computer Science
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 46 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 +14 +27
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 36 92 38
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.08% 4.91% 3.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 5.31% 3.44%
Number of salaries quoted 29 31 37
10th Percentile £26,000 £25,500 -
25th Percentile £39,959 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -25.93% +13.68%
75th Percentile £63,000 £48,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,000 £60,500 £70,000
West Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% -7.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,381 1,733 1,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 79.78% 92.48% 89.98%
Number of salaries quoted 975 814 935
10th Percentile £30,200 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,290 £43,750 £41,119
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -2.65%
75th Percentile £70,000 £73,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £88,750 £82,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Birmingham

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.78%) NetSuite
1 1 (2.78%) Odoo
1 1 (2.78%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 17 (47.22%) Azure
2 12 (33.33%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 4 (11.11%) SaaS
4 3 (8.33%) Firebase
4 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
5 2 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.78%) ChatGPT
6 1 (2.78%) Copilot Studio
6 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (2.78%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.78%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) MySQL
2 3 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 3 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 3 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 3 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.78%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.78%) Power Query
3 1 (2.78%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (11.11%) Git
2 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) Maven
3 2 (5.56%) JUnit
3 2 (5.56%) Mockito
4 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.78%) MLflow
4 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 18 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (36.11%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 7 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (8.33%) Law
5 3 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Legal
6 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.78%) Advertising
7 1 (2.78%) Back Office
7 1 (2.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 7 (19.44%) Lead
2 6 (16.67%) Developer
3 5 (13.89%) Lecturer
4 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Architect
5 3 (8.33%) Graduate
5 3 (8.33%) Graduate Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Junior
5 3 (8.33%) Junior Software Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.33%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Credit Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Graduate Software Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 2 (5.56%) PHP Developer
6 2 (5.56%) Risk Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) EDI
2 5 (13.89%) CSS
3 4 (11.11%) HTML
3 4 (11.11%) React
4 3 (8.33%) Laravel
4 3 (8.33%) Next.js
4 3 (8.33%) Node.js
4 3 (8.33%) React Native
4 3 (8.33%) REST
4 3 (8.33%) Vue
5 2 (5.56%) jQuery
5 2 (5.56%) PyTorch
5 2 (5.56%) TensorFlow
6 1 (2.78%) .NET
6 1 (2.78%) ActiveMQ
6 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET
6 1 (2.78%) scikit-learn
6 1 (2.78%) SOAP
6 1 (2.78%) Spring
6 1 (2.78%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 3 (8.33%) Mobile App
3 2 (5.56%) Algorithms
3 2 (5.56%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.78%) FMCG
4 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.78%) NHS
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (36.11%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) Agile
3 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
4 7 (19.44%) Machine Learning
5 6 (16.67%) Analytics
5 6 (16.67%) Data Management
5 6 (16.67%) Data Science
5 6 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
5 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (13.89%) AI
6 5 (13.89%) Data Governance
6 5 (13.89%) Project Management
7 4 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
7 4 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (11.11%) CRM
7 4 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
7 4 (11.11%) Data Strategy
7 4 (11.11%) Mentoring
7 4 (11.11%) Service Delivery
7 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.00%) SQL
2 8 (22.22%) Java
3 6 (16.67%) PHP
3 6 (16.67%) Python
4 4 (11.11%) R
5 3 (8.33%) Bash
5 3 (8.33%) C#
5 3 (8.33%) C++
5 3 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.56%) C
6 2 (5.56%) PL/SQL
7 1 (2.78%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 20 (55.56%) Degree
2 18 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (16.67%) CITP
4 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
4 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) CISM
5 3 (8.33%) CISSP
5 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.78%) CBAP
7 1 (2.78%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.78%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (8.33%) NIST
2 3 (8.33%) QA
3 2 (5.56%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.56%) GDPR
4 1 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
4 1 (2.78%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) Salesforce
3 3 (8.33%) Oracle
3 3 (8.33%) Planon
4 2 (5.56%) OpenAI
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) MuleSoft
5 1 (2.78%) Pegasus
5 1 (2.78%) SAP