Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 27 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 39 56
Rank change year-on-year +4 +17 -11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 2,755 4,171 4,807
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.00% 4.91% 5.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.41% 5.72% 5.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,617 3,034 2,684
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £83,750 £91,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £105,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 42,970 72,959 89,283
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.55% 85.89% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 23,877 53,883 52,697
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,560 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £101,250
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -11.29% +3.33%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Salary trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2025. 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 -7 843 £75,000 -3.23% 3,702
South East +7 653 £58,000 -3.33% 681
North of England -9 451 £52,132 +9.18% 425
Midlands +44 421 £45,000 -10.00% 262
West Midlands +36 292 £45,362 -9.93% 158
North West -40 223 £55,000 +10.00% 244
South West +36 207 £40,101 -17.74% 148
Yorkshire +24 187 £42,000 -6.67% 123
East of England +14 171 £53,000 +15.22% 326
East Midlands +44 123 £40,101 -5.65% 99
North East +25 45 £56,500 +7.62% 61
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 62 (2.25%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.52%) Apache Spark
2 42 (1.52%) Confluence
3 31 (1.13%) Jupyter
4 22 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
5 20 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
6 19 (0.69%) WordPress
7 18 (0.65%) CMS
8 17 (0.62%) Apache
9 14 (0.51%) SAS
10 7 (0.25%) IIS
11 6 (0.22%) Liferay
12 5 (0.18%) Luigi
13 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.073%) Appian
14 2 (0.073%) nginx
14 2 (0.073%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.073%) ThingWorx
15 1 (0.036%) GemFire
15 1 (0.036%) Joomla!
Applications
1 106 (3.85%) Simulink
2 93 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (2.72%) Chatbot
4 53 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
6 15 (0.54%) Trello
7 13 (0.47%) MS Visio
8 8 (0.29%) Revit
9 6 (0.22%) Adobe XD
9 6 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
10 4 (0.15%) Maya
10 4 (0.15%) Sketch
11 2 (0.073%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.073%) Blender
12 1 (0.036%) Camtasia
12 1 (0.036%) Final Cut Pro
12 1 (0.036%) Stata
12 1 (0.036%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 103 (3.74%) Teamcenter
2 14 (0.51%) Shopify
3 9 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
6 6 (0.22%) Infor M3
6 6 (0.22%) SAP Business One
7 5 (0.18%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.15%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
9 3 (0.11%) Endur
9 3 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
9 3 (0.11%) SAP MM
10 2 (0.073%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.073%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.073%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.036%) Sage 200
11 1 (0.036%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 500 (18.15%) Azure
2 404 (14.66%) AWS
3 145 (5.26%) Power Platform
4 136 (4.94%) GCP
5 116 (4.21%) SaaS
6 75 (2.72%) GitHub
6 75 (2.72%) Serverless
7 74 (2.69%) Microsoft 365
8 69 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
9 56 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
10 48 (1.74%) PaaS
11 41 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 40 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 39 (1.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 39 (1.42%) Entra ID
14 38 (1.38%) Dynamics 365
15 32 (1.16%) Power Automate
16 30 (1.09%) PowerApps
17 25 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
18 24 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 169 (6.13%) Network Security
2 122 (4.43%) Firewall
3 113 (4.10%) Internet
4 112 (4.07%) WLAN
5 68 (2.47%) TCP/IP
6 46 (1.67%) DNS
7 45 (1.63%) HTTP
8 33 (1.20%) VPN
9 31 (1.13%) WAN
10 30 (1.09%) BGP
11 27 (0.98%) DHCP
12 26 (0.94%) VLAN
13 21 (0.76%) OSPF
14 20 (0.73%) Intrusion Detection
14 20 (0.73%) SAN
15 16 (0.58%) LAN
16 14 (0.51%) NAS
16 14 (0.51%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.47%) Modbus
18 12 (0.44%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 191 (6.93%) SQL Server
2 114 (4.14%) Power BI
3 111 (4.03%) Big Data
4 103 (3.74%) Relational Database
5 83 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 77 (2.79%) MySQL
7 69 (2.50%) Tableau
8 68 (2.47%) Data Lake
9 57 (2.07%) Data Warehouse
10 46 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.20%) DynamoDB
12 29 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
13 28 (1.02%) MongoDB
14 24 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
15 22 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (0.51%) Hadoop
17 13 (0.47%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
18 12 (0.44%) Metadata
18 12 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 182 (6.61%) Git
2 132 (4.79%) JIRA
3 103 (3.74%) Rational DOORS
4 65 (2.36%) Jenkins
5 34 (1.23%) Selenium
6 24 (0.87%) Gradle
7 23 (0.83%) Visual Studio
8 20 (0.73%) GitLab
9 13 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 13 (0.47%) SpecFlow
10 12 (0.44%) Artifactory
11 11 (0.40%) Cypress.io
12 10 (0.36%) JUnit
12 10 (0.36%) Moq
12 10 (0.36%) SonarQube
13 9 (0.33%) git-flow
14 8 (0.29%) Maven
14 8 (0.29%) webpack
15 7 (0.25%) TestRail
16 6 (0.22%) Babel
General
1 996 (36.15%) Social Skills
2 565 (20.51%) Finance
3 393 (14.26%) Analytical Skills
4 237 (8.60%) Law
5 170 (6.17%) Electronics
6 140 (5.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 130 (4.72%) Banking
7 130 (4.72%) Retail
8 118 (4.28%) Aerospace
9 102 (3.70%) Manufacturing
10 92 (3.34%) Marketing
11 76 (2.76%) Legal
12 69 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
13 63 (2.29%) Games
14 61 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
15 54 (1.96%) Advertising
16 48 (1.74%) Telecoms
17 46 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
18 37 (1.34%) Automotive
19 33 (1.20%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 525 (19.06%) Senior
2 368 (13.36%) Software Engineer
3 348 (12.63%) Developer
4 256 (9.29%) Lead
5 197 (7.15%) Analyst
6 182 (6.61%) IT Manager
7 177 (6.42%) Architect
8 152 (5.52%) Senior Software Engineer
9 147 (5.34%) Systems Engineer
10 142 (5.15%) Junior
11 138 (5.01%) IT Support
12 133 (4.83%) IT Engineer
13 132 (4.79%) Support Engineer
14 113 (4.10%) IT Support Engineer
15 103 (3.74%) Junior Systems Engineer
16 87 (3.16%) Data Scientist
17 79 (2.87%) Graduate
17 79 (2.87%) Software Developer
18 77 (2.79%) Security Engineer
19 76 (2.76%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 232 (8.42%) .NET
2 155 (5.63%) CSS
2 155 (5.63%) React
3 131 (4.75%) HTML
4 90 (3.27%) AngularJS
5 89 (3.23%) Node.js
6 82 (2.98%) Kafka
7 73 (2.65%) REST
8 70 (2.54%) ASP.NET
9 59 (2.14%) RESTful
10 51 (1.85%) jQuery
10 51 (1.85%) Spring
11 49 (1.78%) .NET Framework
12 45 (1.63%) Spring Boot
13 40 (1.45%) HTML5
14 38 (1.38%) Middleware
15 36 (1.31%) .NET Core
15 36 (1.31%) TensorFlow
16 33 (1.20%) PyTorch
17 32 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 218 (7.91%) Management Information System
2 201 (7.30%) Algorithms
3 106 (3.85%) Social Media
4 104 (3.77%) Driving Licence
5 83 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
6 62 (2.25%) Cloud Native
7 57 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 54 (1.96%) Product Ownership
9 53 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
10 52 (1.89%) Distributed Systems
11 49 (1.78%) Data Structures
12 47 (1.71%) Cyberattack
12 47 (1.71%) Robotics
12 47 (1.71%) Security Posture
13 43 (1.56%) SCADA
14 40 (1.45%) Hedge funds
15 38 (1.38%) Onboarding
16 31 (1.13%) Public Cloud
17 28 (1.02%) Data Centre
17 28 (1.02%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 373 (13.54%) Windows
2 308 (11.18%) Linux
3 94 (3.41%) Windows Vista
4 50 (1.81%) Unix
5 49 (1.78%) Windows Server
6 40 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 39 (1.42%) Android
8 27 (0.98%) Ubuntu
9 25 (0.91%) Windows 10
10 19 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
11 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
12 16 (0.58%) Mac OS X
13 12 (0.44%) Mac OS
14 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 5 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
16 3 (0.11%) Rocky
16 3 (0.11%) VMS
17 2 (0.073%) CentOS
17 2 (0.073%) Debian
17 2 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (32.85%) Problem-Solving
2 665 (24.14%) Agile
3 614 (22.29%) Software Engineering
4 495 (17.97%) Mathematics
5 419 (15.21%) Mentoring
6 366 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 357 (12.96%) Analytics
8 346 (12.56%) Artificial Intelligence
9 332 (12.05%) Project Management
10 314 (11.40%) Data Science
11 302 (10.96%) DevOps
12 271 (9.84%) CI/CD
13 268 (9.73%) Cybersecurity
14 247 (8.97%) UML
15 233 (8.46%) Statistics
15 233 (8.46%) Test Automation
16 231 (8.38%) Machine Learning
17 218 (7.91%) Physics
17 218 (7.91%) Roadmaps
18 191 (6.93%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 624 (22.65%) Python
2 430 (15.61%) SQL
3 380 (13.79%) Java
4 323 (11.72%) C#
5 244 (8.86%) JavaScript
6 209 (7.59%) C++
7 128 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 122 (4.43%) MATLAB
9 116 (4.21%) PowerShell
10 90 (3.27%) C
11 88 (3.19%) PHP
12 57 (2.07%) Ada
13 54 (1.96%) Rust
14 50 (1.81%) Scala
15 44 (1.60%) R
16 41 (1.49%) Bash
17 36 (1.31%) T-SQL
18 33 (1.20%) Kotlin
19 26 (0.94%) Apex Code
20 24 (0.87%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,430 (88.20%) Degree
2 1,250 (45.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 371 (13.47%) Master's Degree
4 286 (10.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 170 (6.17%) PhD
6 158 (5.74%) Security Cleared
7 153 (5.55%) Microsoft Certification
8 140 (5.08%) Cisco Certification
9 128 (4.65%) DBS Check
10 119 (4.32%) MCSE
11 117 (4.25%) CCNP
12 114 (4.14%) CCNA
13 95 (3.45%) LPIC
13 95 (3.45%) MCP
14 89 (3.23%) SC Cleared
15 85 (3.09%) CISSP
16 74 (2.69%) Chartered Engineer
17 69 (2.50%) DV Cleared
18 68 (2.47%) Azure Certification
19 58 (2.11%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.07%) QA
2 104 (3.77%) Data Quality
3 96 (3.48%) GDPR
4 87 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 69 (2.50%) NIST
7 36 (1.31%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.98%) HIPAA
8 27 (0.98%) SLA
9 15 (0.54%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 15 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.54%) NCSC
9 15 (0.54%) PMO
10 13 (0.47%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.36%) GRC
12 9 (0.33%) NIST 800
13 8 (0.29%) COBIT
13 8 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.29%) WCAG
14 7 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 179 (6.50%) Docker
2 91 (3.30%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 12 (0.44%) Firmware
6 11 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.25%) vSphere
9 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.11%) HDFS
11 2 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.036%) KVM
12 1 (0.036%) RHEV
12 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 224 (8.13%) Kubernetes
2 114 (4.14%) Terraform
3 59 (2.14%) Ansible
4 43 (1.56%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.49%) Grafana
6 15 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
7 13 (0.47%) Puppet
8 7 (0.25%) Argo
9 6 (0.22%) BMC PATROL
9 6 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (0.18%) ArcSight ESM
10 5 (0.18%) Kibana
10 5 (0.18%) QRadar
11 4 (0.15%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.15%) SCCM
12 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.073%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 461 (16.73%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.48%) Cisco
3 125 (4.54%) Google
4 104 (3.77%) IBM
5 76 (2.76%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.40%) Oracle
7 60 (2.18%) PayPal
8 52 (1.89%) Salesforce
9 45 (1.63%) SAP
10 44 (1.60%) VMware
11 41 (1.49%) Databricks
12 39 (1.42%) Apple
13 28 (1.02%) Fortinet
14 23 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 21 (0.76%) Dell
16 19 (0.69%) Adobe
16 19 (0.69%) OpenAI
17 16 (0.58%) Ubiquiti
18 15 (0.54%) New Relic
18 15 (0.54%) WooCommerce