Computer Science Jobs in the City of London

Computer Science
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 58 61
Rank change year-on-year +33 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 259 248 328
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.71% 5.23% 4.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.35% 5.50% 4.87%
Number of salaries quoted 210 226 255
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £37,700
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £85,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +9.68% +10.71%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,750
90th Percentile £123,000 £137,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £80,000 £85,000 £67,500
% change year-on-year -5.88% +25.93% -3.57%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,103 4,512 6,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.38% 95.13% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,472 3,784 5,617
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £112,500 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £72,500 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -3.33% +3.45% +3.57%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the City of London.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the City of London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the City of London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 28 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
London Bridge - 1 £35,000 -
Computer Science
Central London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 12 (4.63%) CMS
2 11 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (4.25%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.32%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.16%) SAS
5 2 (0.77%) Jupyter
5 2 (0.77%) Moodle
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.39%) Hyperledger
6 1 (0.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (3.09%) Photoshop
2 7 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.16%) SPSS
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.63%) SDL Web 8
2 3 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 72 (27.80%) Azure
2 48 (18.53%) AWS
3 23 (8.88%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.95%) Power Platform
4 18 (6.95%) SaaS
5 15 (5.79%) GCP
6 12 (4.63%) Cloud Computing
6 12 (4.63%) WhatsApp
7 8 (3.09%) Adobe Creative Cloud
7 8 (3.09%) NuGet
7 8 (3.09%) Serverless
8 6 (2.32%) Azure App Service
8 6 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.93%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.93%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.54%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.16%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.16%) PowerApps
12 2 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.77%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.32%) Network Security
2 5 (1.93%) DKIM
2 5 (1.93%) Firewall
3 4 (1.54%) DNS
4 3 (1.16%) Cisco ISE
4 3 (1.16%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.77%) DHCP
5 2 (0.77%) HTTP
5 2 (0.77%) Internet
5 2 (0.77%) VPN
6 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.39%) DMARC
6 1 (0.39%) LAN
6 1 (0.39%) WAN
6 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 56 (21.62%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.34%) Redis
3 16 (6.18%) Power BI
4 13 (5.02%) MySQL
4 13 (5.02%) Tableau
5 9 (3.47%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.70%) Big Data
6 7 (2.70%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.70%) Relational Database
7 6 (2.32%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (1.93%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.54%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.77%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.39%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.39%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 32 (12.36%) Git
2 14 (5.41%) Moq
3 13 (5.02%) JIRA
3 13 (5.02%) NUnit
3 13 (5.02%) TeamCity
4 10 (3.86%) GitLab
5 9 (3.47%) Visual Studio
6 8 (3.09%) git-flow
6 8 (3.09%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (3.09%) Sourcetree
6 8 (3.09%) SpecFlow
7 7 (2.70%) Maven
8 3 (1.16%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.16%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.77%) MSTest
9 2 (0.77%) RStudio
10 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.39%) IntelliJ
General
1 123 (47.49%) Social Skills
2 52 (20.08%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (18.15%) Finance
4 20 (7.72%) Marketing
5 14 (5.41%) Games
6 13 (5.02%) Front Office
7 11 (4.25%) Banking
8 8 (3.09%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.09%) Retail
9 7 (2.70%) Advertising
9 7 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.93%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.54%) Law
12 3 (1.16%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Digital Economy
14 1 (0.39%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Health Technology
14 1 (0.39%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.39%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 88 (33.98%) Developer
2 66 (25.48%) Senior
3 34 (13.13%) Lead
3 34 (13.13%) Software Engineer
4 31 (11.97%) Senior Developer
5 24 (9.27%) Software Developer
6 18 (6.95%) Data Scientist
7 17 (6.56%) Senior Software Developer
8 16 (6.18%) C# Developer
9 15 (5.79%) Analyst
9 15 (5.79%) Full Stack Developer
9 15 (5.79%) Senior Software Engineer
10 14 (5.41%) Junior
11 12 (4.63%) Information Manager
11 12 (4.63%) Information Security Manager
11 12 (4.63%) Java Developer
11 12 (4.63%) Security Manager
12 10 (3.86%) Security Engineer
13 9 (3.47%) Quantitative Analyst
13 9 (3.47%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 67 (25.87%) .NET
2 56 (21.62%) HTML
3 55 (21.24%) CSS
4 31 (11.97%) React
5 29 (11.20%) ASP.NET
6 23 (8.88%) HTML5
7 22 (8.49%) .NET Framework
8 21 (8.11%) ASP.NET MVC
8 21 (8.11%) RESTful
8 21 (8.11%) WPF
9 20 (7.72%) Entity Framework
9 20 (7.72%) Spring
10 18 (6.95%) Web Services
11 17 (6.56%) jQuery
12 13 (5.02%) XML
13 12 (4.63%) ASP.NET MVC 5
13 12 (4.63%) Semantic HTML
13 12 (4.63%) SOAP
14 10 (3.86%) Kafka
15 9 (3.47%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.65%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (7.34%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.63%) Legacy Code
3 12 (4.63%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.25%) Cyber Threat
4 11 (4.25%) Management Information System
5 10 (3.86%) Fixed Income
5 10 (3.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.86%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.47%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.32%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.32%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.93%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.16%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.16%) Equities
10 2 (0.77%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.77%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.77%) Life Science
10 2 (0.77%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.74%) Windows
2 10 (3.86%) Linux
3 5 (1.93%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.16%) Unix
5 2 (0.77%) Android
5 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) Debian
6 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (32.82%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (25.10%) Software Engineering
3 62 (23.94%) Agile
4 41 (15.83%) Collaborative Working
4 41 (15.83%) Data Science
5 40 (15.44%) Machine Learning
5 40 (15.44%) Mathematics
6 35 (13.51%) Analytics
7 33 (12.74%) Full Stack Development
7 33 (12.74%) Statistics
8 29 (11.20%) Mentoring
8 29 (11.20%) Multithreading
9 27 (10.42%) Artificial Intelligence
10 25 (9.65%) Microservices
10 25 (9.65%) OO
11 23 (8.88%) DevOps
11 23 (8.88%) MVC
12 22 (8.49%) Multithreaded Programming
13 21 (8.11%) Risk Management
14 20 (7.72%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 83 (32.05%) SQL
2 82 (31.66%) C#
3 76 (29.34%) Python
4 62 (23.94%) JavaScript
5 46 (17.76%) Java
6 34 (13.13%) C++
7 16 (6.18%) T-SQL
8 15 (5.79%) R
9 12 (4.63%) PowerShell
9 12 (4.63%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.25%) Scala
11 8 (3.09%) XPath
12 7 (2.70%) Clojure
12 7 (2.70%) F#
12 7 (2.70%) Haskell
13 5 (1.93%) C
13 5 (1.93%) Go
13 5 (1.93%) Kotlin
13 5 (1.93%) VBA
14 4 (1.54%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 241 (93.05%) Degree
2 133 (51.35%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (21.24%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.56%) PhD
5 15 (5.79%) CISSP
6 14 (5.41%) CISM
7 12 (4.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.32%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.54%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.54%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.16%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.77%) CEH
11 2 (0.77%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.39%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.39%) CCNP
12 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
12 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.39%) MCITP
12 1 (0.39%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.32%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.32%) QA
3 2 (0.77%) GDPR
3 2 (0.77%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.77%) NIST
3 2 (0.77%) SLA
3 2 (0.77%) SNOMED CT
4 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.39%) COBIT
4 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.09%) Docker
2 4 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (0.77%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.39%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.39%) KVM
4 1 (0.39%) LXC
4 1 (0.39%) OpenAM
4 1 (0.39%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (5.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.47%) Terraform
3 5 (1.93%) CASB
3 5 (1.93%) DatAdvantage
3 5 (1.93%) QRadar
4 1 (0.39%) cPanel
4 1 (0.39%) Juju
4 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (16.99%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.18%) Google
3 8 (3.09%) Adobe
3 8 (3.09%) Cognizant
4 7 (2.70%) Cisco
5 5 (1.93%) Darktrace
5 5 (1.93%) Varonis
6 4 (1.54%) Apple
6 4 (1.54%) Kenna
6 4 (1.54%) Oracle
6 4 (1.54%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.16%) Alteryx
8 1 (0.39%) Aruba
8 1 (0.39%) F5
8 1 (0.39%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.39%) Meraki
8 1 (0.39%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.39%) Riverbed
8 1 (0.39%) SolarWinds
8 1 (0.39%) Splunk