Computer Science Jobs in the City of London

Computer Science
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 24 55
Rank change year-on-year -6 +31 +16
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 153 274 242
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.82% 8.16% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.12% 8.93% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 84 210 211
10th Percentile £43,250 £41,315 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,938 £58,750 £55,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £96,375 £100,000 £115,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £122,500 £137,500
Central London median annual salary £70,000 £80,000 £85,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.88% +21.43%

All Process and 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 1,885 3,069 4,221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 96.37% 91.45% 95.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1,417 2,350 3,490
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,315 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.45%
75th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £98,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £112,500 £115,000
Central London median annual salary £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%

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 10 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the City of 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 16 (10.46%) Apache Spark
2 4 (2.61%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.31%) Liferay
4 1 (0.65%) Apache
4 1 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.65%) Confluence
4 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.31%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.65%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 39 (25.49%) Azure
2 24 (15.69%) AWS
3 18 (11.76%) GCP
4 17 (11.11%) SaaS
5 9 (5.88%) Cloud Computing
5 9 (5.88%) Microsoft Copilot
5 9 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 6 (3.92%) Azure AI
7 4 (2.61%) Entra ID
8 3 (1.96%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 3 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (1.31%) Anthropic Claude
9 2 (1.31%) Asana
9 2 (1.31%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.31%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.31%) Google Gemini
9 2 (1.31%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.31%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.65%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 21 (13.73%) HTTP
2 4 (2.61%) Broadband
3 3 (1.96%) Multicast
3 3 (1.96%) WAN
4 2 (1.31%) Firewall
4 2 (1.31%) SAN
4 2 (1.31%) Telnet
4 2 (1.31%) Wireless
5 1 (0.65%) Internet
5 1 (0.65%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.65%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.65%) VoIP
5 1 (0.65%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.54%) NoSQL
2 8 (5.23%) SQL Server
3 5 (3.27%) Power BI
4 4 (2.61%) Relational Database
5 3 (1.96%) Big Data
5 3 (1.96%) Data Lake
5 3 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
5 3 (1.96%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.31%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.31%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (1.31%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.31%) MySQL
6 2 (1.31%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.31%) Power Query
6 2 (1.31%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (1.31%) Tableau
7 1 (0.65%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.65%) Kdb+
7 1 (0.65%) Parquet
7 1 (0.65%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (4.58%) JIRA
2 5 (3.27%) Git
3 2 (1.31%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.65%) Moq
4 1 (0.65%) SpecFlow
General
1 64 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 45 (29.41%) Finance
3 33 (21.57%) Law
4 24 (15.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 20 (13.07%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (13.07%) Retail
6 17 (11.11%) Advertising
6 17 (11.11%) Games
7 10 (6.54%) Banking
8 3 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.96%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Back Office
10 1 (0.65%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.65%) Electronics
10 1 (0.65%) Front Office
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.65%) Police
Job Titles
1 59 (38.56%) Senior
2 30 (19.61%) Architect
2 30 (19.61%) Solutions Architect
3 27 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 25 (16.34%) Analyst
5 22 (14.38%) Developer
6 21 (13.73%) Senior Software Engineer
7 19 (12.42%) Senior Architect
7 19 (12.42%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 19 (12.42%) ServiceNow Architect
8 15 (9.80%) Qualitative Analyst
8 15 (9.80%) Quantitative Analyst
8 15 (9.80%) Senior Developer
9 12 (7.84%) Data Engineer
9 12 (7.84%) Lead
10 10 (6.54%) Senior Software Developer
10 10 (6.54%) Software Developer
11 9 (5.88%) Lead Data Engineer
12 8 (5.23%) Platform Engineer
13 7 (4.58%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.80%) Kafka
2 13 (8.50%) .NET
3 11 (7.19%) CSS
3 11 (7.19%) HTML
4 8 (5.23%) AngularJS
4 8 (5.23%) ARM Templates
5 7 (4.58%) JSON
6 6 (3.92%) FIX Protocol
6 6 (3.92%) HTML5
6 6 (3.92%) Pandas
6 6 (3.92%) REST
6 6 (3.92%) WPF
7 5 (3.27%) Puppeteer
7 5 (3.27%) React
7 5 (3.27%) Scrapy
8 3 (1.96%) Boost C++ Libraries
8 3 (1.96%) LangChain
8 3 (1.96%) OAuth2
8 3 (1.96%) PySpark
8 3 (1.96%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.11%) Distributed Systems
2 12 (7.84%) Management Information System
3 11 (7.19%) Algorithms
4 10 (6.54%) Onboarding
5 8 (5.23%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (3.92%) Derivative
6 6 (3.92%) Robotics
7 5 (3.27%) Fixed Income
7 5 (3.27%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (3.27%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (2.61%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.96%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.96%) Equities
9 3 (1.96%) Reference Data
9 3 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (1.31%) Hedge funds
10 2 (1.31%) Life Science
10 2 (1.31%) SCADA
10 2 (1.31%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.15%) Linux
2 13 (8.50%) Windows
3 3 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Robot Operating System
3 3 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.31%) Rocky
4 2 (1.31%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.65%) CentOS
5 1 (0.65%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (30.72%) Artificial Intelligence
2 44 (28.76%) Roadmaps
3 38 (24.84%) Agile
3 38 (24.84%) Data Science
3 38 (24.84%) Software Engineering
4 35 (22.88%) Machine Learning
5 33 (21.57%) Mathematics
6 30 (19.61%) User Experience
7 28 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (16.99%) Analytics
9 25 (16.34%) Product Roadmap
10 24 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (15.69%) Workflow
11 23 (15.03%) Service Delivery
12 22 (14.38%) Business Strategy
13 21 (13.73%) ITSM
14 20 (13.07%) Physics
15 19 (12.42%) Business Agility
15 19 (12.42%) CAD
15 19 (12.42%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 78 (50.98%) Python
2 30 (19.61%) C#
2 30 (19.61%) SQL
3 23 (15.03%) Scala
4 21 (13.73%) C++
5 18 (11.76%) Java
6 15 (9.80%) JavaScript
7 10 (6.54%) TypeScript
8 5 (3.27%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.96%) F#
9 3 (1.96%) MATLAB
10 2 (1.31%) Bash
10 2 (1.31%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.31%) R
11 1 (0.65%) C
11 1 (0.65%) Go
11 1 (0.65%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 148 (96.73%) Degree
2 71 (46.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (24.18%) Master's Degree
4 14 (9.15%) PhD
5 11 (7.19%) Azure Certification
6 6 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.96%) Numerate Degree
8 3 (1.96%) PMP
9 2 (1.31%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.65%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CISA
10 1 (0.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.65%) CISSP
10 1 (0.65%) MCSE
10 1 (0.65%) VCAP
10 1 (0.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.54%) QA
2 6 (3.92%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 6 (3.92%) GDPR
3 4 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.96%) SLA
5 2 (1.31%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.31%) NIST
5 2 (1.31%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.65%) CDISC
6 1 (0.65%) COBIT
6 1 (0.65%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.65%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (5.88%) Docker
2 5 (3.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (5.23%) Kubernetes
1 8 (5.23%) Terraform
2 2 (1.31%) Grafana
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 39 (25.49%) Microsoft
2 33 (21.57%) Google
3 26 (16.99%) ServiceNow
4 15 (9.80%) Apple
5 8 (5.23%) OpenAI
6 6 (3.92%) Oracle
6 6 (3.92%) SAP
6 6 (3.92%) Workday
7 3 (1.96%) Databricks
7 3 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 3 (1.96%) VMware
8 2 (1.31%) Atlassian
8 2 (1.31%) Cisco
9 1 (0.65%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.65%) FactSet
9 1 (0.65%) HP
9 1 (0.65%) ION Trading
9 1 (0.65%) Refinitiv
9 1 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.65%) WatchGuard