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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 27 58 61
Rank change year-on-year +31 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 253 255 326
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 7.54% 5.19% 4.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.15% 5.44% 4.89%
Number of salaries quoted 203 234 252
10th Percentile £42,500 £42,500 £38,075
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £82,500 £86,250 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +11.29% +14.81%
75th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £100,750
90th Percentile £126,500 £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 3,105 4,689 6,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the City of London 92.52% 95.34% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,487 3,953 5,615
10th Percentile £41,250 £43,750 £45,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £56,250 £57,342
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% -
75th Percentile £96,250 £97,500 £93,750
90th Percentile £113,750 £112,500 £110,000
Central London median annual salary £73,000 £75,000 £72,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% +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 19 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 19 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 (4.74%) CMS
2 11 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (3.95%) SharePoint
4 6 (2.37%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.19%) SAS
6 2 (0.79%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.40%) Hyperledger
7 1 (0.40%) Moodle
Applications
1 8 (3.16%) Photoshop
2 7 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.19%) SPSS
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 12 (4.74%) SDL Web 8
2 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 69 (27.27%) Azure
2 48 (18.97%) AWS
3 22 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (7.51%) SaaS
5 15 (5.93%) Power Platform
6 14 (5.53%) GCP
7 12 (4.74%) WhatsApp
8 11 (4.35%) Cloud Computing
9 8 (3.16%) Adobe Creative Cloud
9 8 (3.16%) NuGet
9 8 (3.16%) Serverless
10 5 (1.98%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (1.98%) Azure App Service
10 5 (1.98%) Azure DevOps
10 5 (1.98%) Mimecast
11 3 (1.19%) Azure Functions
11 3 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
11 3 (1.19%) Entra ID
12 2 (0.79%) Oracle CX
12 2 (0.79%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.37%) Network Security
2 5 (1.98%) DKIM
3 4 (1.58%) DNS
4 3 (1.19%) Firewall
4 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
5 2 (0.79%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (0.79%) DHCP
5 2 (0.79%) HTTP
5 2 (0.79%) Internet
5 2 (0.79%) VPN
5 2 (0.79%) WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (0.40%) DMARC
6 1 (0.40%) LAN
6 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.40%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (20.95%) SQL Server
2 19 (7.51%) Redis
3 13 (5.14%) Power BI
3 13 (5.14%) Tableau
4 12 (4.74%) MySQL
5 9 (3.56%) MongoDB
6 7 (2.77%) Big Data
6 7 (2.77%) NoSQL
7 6 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
7 6 (2.37%) Relational Database
8 5 (1.98%) Neo4j
9 4 (1.58%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
11 2 (0.79%) Elasticsearch
11 2 (0.79%) KDB
11 2 (0.79%) Kdb+
11 2 (0.79%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 1 (0.40%) Data Mining
12 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (13.04%) Git
2 14 (5.53%) Moq
3 13 (5.14%) JIRA
3 13 (5.14%) NUnit
3 13 (5.14%) TeamCity
4 10 (3.95%) GitLab
5 9 (3.56%) Visual Studio
6 8 (3.16%) git-flow
6 8 (3.16%) Octopus Deploy
6 8 (3.16%) Sourcetree
6 8 (3.16%) SpecFlow
7 7 (2.77%) Maven
8 3 (1.19%) Jenkins
8 3 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.79%) MSTest
9 2 (0.79%) RStudio
10 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.40%) IntelliJ
General
1 118 (46.64%) Social Skills
2 48 (18.97%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (18.18%) Finance
4 20 (7.91%) Marketing
5 14 (5.53%) Games
6 13 (5.14%) Front Office
7 12 (4.74%) Banking
8 8 (3.16%) Investment Banking
8 8 (3.16%) Retail
9 6 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (1.98%) Advertising
10 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.58%) Law
12 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Public Sector
13 1 (0.40%) Digital Economy
13 1 (0.40%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Influencing Skills
13 1 (0.40%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (35.18%) Developer
2 62 (24.51%) Senior
3 34 (13.44%) Lead
4 33 (13.04%) Software Engineer
5 29 (11.46%) Senior Developer
6 22 (8.70%) Software Developer
7 18 (7.11%) Data Scientist
8 16 (6.32%) C# Developer
9 15 (5.93%) Full Stack Developer
9 15 (5.93%) Junior
9 15 (5.93%) Senior Software Developer
9 15 (5.93%) Senior Software Engineer
10 12 (4.74%) Analyst
10 12 (4.74%) Information Manager
10 12 (4.74%) Information Security Manager
10 12 (4.74%) Java Developer
10 12 (4.74%) Security Manager
11 9 (3.56%) Messaging Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.56%) Senior C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 63 (24.90%) .NET
2 53 (20.95%) HTML
3 52 (20.55%) CSS
4 31 (12.25%) React
5 27 (10.67%) ASP.NET
6 22 (8.70%) .NET Framework
6 22 (8.70%) RESTful
7 21 (8.30%) HTML5
8 20 (7.91%) ASP.NET MVC
8 20 (7.91%) Entity Framework
8 20 (7.91%) Spring
8 20 (7.91%) WPF
9 18 (7.11%) Web Services
10 17 (6.72%) jQuery
11 13 (5.14%) XML
12 12 (4.74%) ASP.NET MVC 5
12 12 (4.74%) Semantic HTML
12 12 (4.74%) SOAP
13 10 (3.95%) Kafka
14 9 (3.56%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 25 (9.88%) Greenfield Project
2 19 (7.51%) Algorithms
3 12 (4.74%) Legacy Code
3 12 (4.74%) Security Posture
4 11 (4.35%) Cyber Threat
5 10 (3.95%) Fixed Income
5 10 (3.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (3.95%) Mobile App
6 9 (3.56%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.56%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.37%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.37%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.98%) Hedge funds
9 3 (1.19%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (1.19%) Equities
10 2 (0.79%) Blockchain
10 2 (0.79%) Distributed Architecture
10 2 (0.79%) Life Science
10 2 (0.79%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 30 (11.86%) Windows
2 10 (3.95%) Linux
3 5 (1.98%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.19%) Unix
5 2 (0.79%) Android
5 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.40%) Debian
6 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (32.81%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (25.30%) Agile
2 64 (25.30%) Software Engineering
3 41 (16.21%) Machine Learning
4 40 (15.81%) Collaborative Working
4 40 (15.81%) Data Science
5 39 (15.42%) Mathematics
6 35 (13.83%) Full Stack Development
7 34 (13.44%) Analytics
8 33 (13.04%) Statistics
9 29 (11.46%) Mentoring
10 28 (11.07%) Artificial Intelligence
11 27 (10.67%) Multithreading
12 26 (10.28%) OO
13 25 (9.88%) Microservices
14 22 (8.70%) MVC
15 21 (8.30%) DevOps
16 20 (7.91%) Multithreaded Programming
16 20 (7.91%) Scrum
16 20 (7.91%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 81 (32.02%) SQL
2 79 (31.23%) C#
3 74 (29.25%) Python
4 58 (22.92%) JavaScript
5 46 (18.18%) Java
6 34 (13.44%) C++
7 16 (6.32%) T-SQL
8 14 (5.53%) R
9 13 (5.14%) Scala
10 12 (4.74%) TypeScript
11 10 (3.95%) PowerShell
12 9 (3.56%) Clojure
12 9 (3.56%) F#
12 9 (3.56%) Haskell
13 8 (3.16%) XPath
14 5 (1.98%) C
14 5 (1.98%) Go
14 5 (1.98%) Kotlin
14 5 (1.98%) VBA
15 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 233 (92.09%) Degree
2 130 (51.38%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (21.74%) Master's Degree
4 17 (6.72%) PhD
5 16 (6.32%) CISSP
6 14 (5.53%) CISM
7 12 (4.74%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (2.37%) AWS Certification
9 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.58%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (1.19%) CREST Certified
11 2 (0.79%) CEH
12 1 (0.40%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.40%) BPSS Clearance
12 1 (0.40%) GSEC
12 1 (0.40%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
12 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.40%) MCITP
12 1 (0.40%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.77%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.98%) QA
4 3 (1.19%) NIST
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) SNOMED CT
6 1 (0.40%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.40%) COBIT
6 1 (0.40%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (3.16%) Docker
2 4 (1.58%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.40%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.40%) KVM
4 1 (0.40%) LXC
4 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (5.53%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.56%) Terraform
3 5 (1.98%) CASB
3 5 (1.98%) DatAdvantage
3 5 (1.98%) QRadar
4 1 (0.40%) Juju
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 44 (17.39%) Microsoft
2 15 (5.93%) Google
3 8 (3.16%) Adobe
3 8 (3.16%) Cognizant
4 6 (2.37%) Cisco
5 5 (1.98%) Darktrace
5 5 (1.98%) Varonis
6 4 (1.58%) Apple
6 4 (1.58%) Kenna
6 4 (1.58%) Rapid7
7 3 (1.19%) Alteryx
7 3 (1.19%) Oracle
8 2 (0.79%) F5
8 2 (0.79%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.40%) Intel
9 1 (0.40%) Meraki
9 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.40%) SAP
9 1 (0.40%) VMware
9 1 (0.40%) Workday