Computer Science Job Trends in the City of London

Computer Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 25 36
Rank change year-on-year -11 +11 +36
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 103 232 171
As % of all permanent jobs in the City of London 4.91% 8.55% 6.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 8.96% 6.32%
Number of salaries quoted 82 172 149
10th Percentile £33,750 £52,050 £47,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £86,750 £75,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.67% -11.76% -
75th Percentile £113,750 £115,000 £120,000
90th Percentile £140,000 £130,000 £145,000
Central London median annual salary £95,000 £75,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year +26.67% -11.76% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,837 2,590 2,707
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 87.64% 95.47% 95.12%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 1,691 2,434
10th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £40,750
25th Percentile £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% - -
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £96,250
90th Percentile £115,000 £117,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the City of London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the City of London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Computer Science

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 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the City of London

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 16 (15.53%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.91%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.97%) Confluence
4 1 (0.97%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.97%) Luigi
Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.88%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (0.97%) Magento
2 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 45 (43.69%) Azure
2 24 (23.30%) AWS
3 20 (19.42%) GCP
4 18 (17.48%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (15.53%) Power Platform
6 10 (9.71%) Dynamics 365
6 10 (9.71%) Power Automate
6 10 (9.71%) PowerApps
7 8 (7.77%) Azure DevOps
7 8 (7.77%) GitHub
8 5 (4.85%) PaaS
9 4 (3.88%) OneDrive
10 2 (1.94%) Alation
10 2 (1.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (1.94%) Datadog
10 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
10 2 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (1.94%) Google Workspace
10 2 (1.94%) OpenShift
10 2 (1.94%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.83%) DHCP
1 6 (5.83%) DNS
1 6 (5.83%) Firewall
1 6 (5.83%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.85%) Network Security
3 4 (3.88%) LAN
3 4 (3.88%) WAN
4 3 (2.91%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (1.94%) VPN
6 1 (0.97%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (14.56%) Power BI
2 8 (7.77%) BigQuery
3 7 (6.80%) Relational Database
4 6 (5.83%) Elasticsearch
4 6 (5.83%) Oracle Database
4 6 (5.83%) Oracle Exadata
5 4 (3.88%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.91%) Metadata
6 3 (2.91%) Tableau
7 2 (1.94%) DataStage
7 2 (1.94%) Hadoop
7 2 (1.94%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.94%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (1.94%) QlikView
8 1 (0.97%) Apache Cassandra
8 1 (0.97%) Big Data
8 1 (0.97%) KDB
8 1 (0.97%) SAP HANA
8 1 (0.97%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.91%) JIRA
2 2 (1.94%) ER Studio
2 2 (1.94%) ERwin
2 2 (1.94%) PowerDesigner
3 1 (0.97%) GitLab
3 1 (0.97%) Gradle
3 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (35.92%) Finance
2 23 (22.33%) Social Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (17.48%) Front Office
5 12 (11.65%) Banking
5 12 (11.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (8.74%) Law
6 9 (8.74%) Public Sector
7 8 (7.77%) Financial Institution
8 5 (4.85%) Health Technology
9 4 (3.88%) Wholesale Banking
10 3 (2.91%) Retail
11 2 (1.94%) Legal
11 2 (1.94%) Retail Banking
12 1 (0.97%) Back Office
12 1 (0.97%) International Banking
12 1 (0.97%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.97%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (26.21%) Developer
2 20 (19.42%) Senior
3 11 (10.68%) Lead
3 11 (10.68%) Software Engineer
4 10 (9.71%) Architect
4 10 (9.71%) Power Platform Developer
4 10 (9.71%) Support Engineer
5 9 (8.74%) Senior Developer
6 7 (6.80%) Senior Software Engineer
7 6 (5.83%) Database Architect
7 6 (5.83%) Oracle Architect
8 5 (4.85%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.85%) Security Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Data Engineer
9 4 (3.88%) Technical Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Analyst
10 3 (2.91%) Junior
10 3 (2.91%) Principal Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Principal Software Engineer
10 3 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (13.59%) Kafka
2 9 (8.74%) HTML5 Canvas
2 9 (8.74%) Java Concurrency
2 9 (8.74%) React
3 8 (7.77%) FIX Protocol
4 6 (5.83%) .NET
4 6 (5.83%) AngularJS
4 6 (5.83%) Django
4 6 (5.83%) Vue
5 5 (4.85%) Web Services
6 4 (3.88%) RESTful
6 4 (3.88%) YAML
7 3 (2.91%) Node.js
8 2 (1.94%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.94%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (1.94%) PyTorch
8 2 (1.94%) TensorFlow
8 2 (1.94%) Universal Windows Platform
8 2 (1.94%) WinUI
8 2 (1.94%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 27 (26.21%) Algorithms
2 20 (19.42%) Cloud Native
3 14 (13.59%) Data Structures
3 14 (13.59%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (12.62%) Equities
5 8 (7.77%) Greenfield Project
5 8 (7.77%) Onboarding
6 7 (6.80%) Derivative
6 7 (6.80%) Management Information System
6 7 (6.80%) Reinsurance
7 4 (3.88%) Blockchain
7 4 (3.88%) CCTV
7 4 (3.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (3.88%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.91%) Distributed Architecture
8 3 (2.91%) Product Ownership
8 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.94%) Data Centre
9 2 (1.94%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.62%) Windows
2 3 (2.91%) Linux
3 2 (1.94%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.94%) Unix
4 1 (0.97%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.16%) AI
2 28 (27.18%) Software Engineering
3 26 (25.24%) Mathematics
3 26 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (24.27%) Agile
5 24 (23.30%) Analytics
6 21 (20.39%) SDLC
7 18 (17.48%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (17.48%) DevOps
8 16 (15.53%) Electronic Trading
8 16 (15.53%) Low Latency
8 16 (15.53%) Mentoring
9 15 (14.56%) Business Intelligence
10 14 (13.59%) Machine Learning
11 13 (12.62%) CI/CD
11 13 (12.62%) Cybersecurity
11 13 (12.62%) Microservices
12 12 (11.65%) Data Science
12 12 (11.65%) Quantitative Research
12 12 (11.65%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 39 (37.86%) Python
2 22 (21.36%) Java
3 18 (17.48%) C#
4 12 (11.65%) JavaScript
5 8 (7.77%) SQL
6 7 (6.80%) PowerShell
7 4 (3.88%) Bash
8 2 (1.94%) C++
8 2 (1.94%) Scala
9 1 (0.97%) R
9 1 (0.97%) RPG
9 1 (0.97%) Ruby
9 1 (0.97%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (88.35%) Degree
2 58 (56.31%) Computer Science Degree
3 20 (19.42%) Master's Degree
4 12 (11.65%) PhD
5 11 (10.68%) Security Cleared
6 10 (9.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 10 (9.71%) SC Cleared
7 6 (5.83%) OCP
7 6 (5.83%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (5.83%) Postgraduate
8 3 (2.91%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.91%) CCNA
8 3 (2.91%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.91%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.94%) A+ Certification
9 2 (1.94%) CISM
9 2 (1.94%) CISSP
9 2 (1.94%) CompTIA CySA+
9 2 (1.94%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (1.94%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (6.80%) NIST
3 4 (3.88%) NCSC
4 3 (2.91%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.91%) GDPR
5 2 (1.94%) ITGC
5 2 (1.94%) QA
5 2 (1.94%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.97%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (5.83%) Active Directory
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle RAC
2 4 (3.88%) BitLocker
2 4 (3.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) Data Guard
1 6 (5.83%) Microsoft Intune
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (3.88%) Nagios
2 4 (3.88%) SCCM
2 4 (3.88%) Terraform
3 3 (2.91%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.94%) Ansible
4 2 (1.94%) ArcSight ESM
4 2 (1.94%) Argo
4 2 (1.94%) Grafana
4 2 (1.94%) Prometheus
4 2 (1.94%) QRadar
5 1 (0.97%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.97%) Puppet
Vendors
1 29 (28.16%) Microsoft
2 12 (11.65%) Google
3 6 (5.83%) Delphix
3 6 (5.83%) Oracle
4 4 (3.88%) Cisco
4 4 (3.88%) Fortinet
4 4 (3.88%) IBM
4 4 (3.88%) Symantec
5 3 (2.91%) Databricks
5 3 (2.91%) Splunk
6 2 (1.94%) Apple
6 2 (1.94%) ArcSight
6 2 (1.94%) Informatica
6 2 (1.94%) LogLogic
6 2 (1.94%) McAfee
6 2 (1.94%) SAP
6 2 (1.94%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.94%) Syncfusion
6 2 (1.94%) Telerik
7 1 (0.97%) Dell