Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 43 49 47
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 2,668 6,635 7,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 5.66% 6.05% 6.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.03% 6.32% 6.49%
Number of salaries quoted 1,885 2,737 3,422
10th Percentile £36,450 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £43,162 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £122,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44,211 104,960 108,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.85% 95.74% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 32,691 65,530 73,158
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - +9.09%

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 1 December 2023.

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 1 December 2023. 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 +17 1,257 £85,000 +13.33% 960
South East -4 502 £60,000 +14.29% 422
North of England +43 331 £57,500 +21.69% 248
Midlands +1 212 £55,000 +12.24% 141
South West -25 195 £60,000 +20.00% 118
Yorkshire +29 171 £57,125 +8.81% 85
North West +76 141 £57,500 +27.78% 140
West Midlands +16 136 £55,000 +12.24% 97
East of England -12 129 £65,000 +18.18% 176
East Midlands -6 76 £57,500 +27.78% 44
North East -9 19 £60,000 +50.00% 26
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
1 100 (3.75%) SAS
2 90 (3.37%) MS Exchange
3 52 (1.95%) Apache Spark
4 41 (1.54%) SharePoint
5 36 (1.35%) Apache
6 35 (1.31%) Apache Airflow
7 32 (1.20%) Confluence
8 21 (0.79%) Jupyter
9 13 (0.49%) CMS
9 13 (0.49%) Tomcat
10 10 (0.37%) Luigi
10 10 (0.37%) WordPress
11 9 (0.34%) Anypoint
12 8 (0.30%) IIS
12 8 (0.30%) OpenEdge
13 6 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 5 (0.19%) ColdFusion
14 5 (0.19%) nginx
14 5 (0.19%) ThingWorx
15 3 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 54 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 6 (0.22%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.19%) Simulink
6 5 (0.19%) Trello
7 4 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.11%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.11%) Blender
8 3 (0.11%) Maya
8 3 (0.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 3 (0.11%) Sketch
9 2 (0.075%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.075%) Fireworks
9 2 (0.075%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.075%) RoboHelp
9 2 (0.075%) SPSS
9 2 (0.075%) UXPin
9 2 (0.075%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 21 (0.79%) NetSuite
2 19 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.34%) ProductWriter
4 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
6 3 (0.11%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.037%) Alphatax
7 1 (0.037%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.037%) Endur
7 1 (0.037%) Magento
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle 11i
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (0.037%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.037%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.037%) SAP HCM
7 1 (0.037%) SAP PP
7 1 (0.037%) SAP SCM
7 1 (0.037%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 540 (20.24%) AWS
1 540 (20.24%) Azure
2 218 (8.17%) GCP
3 175 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (5.06%) Power Platform
5 114 (4.27%) SaaS
6 87 (3.26%) Azure DevOps
7 82 (3.07%) GitHub
8 79 (2.96%) Cloud Computing
9 78 (2.92%) Serverless
10 53 (1.99%) PaaS
11 50 (1.87%) IaaS
12 44 (1.65%) Dynamics 365
12 44 (1.65%) PowerApps
13 38 (1.42%) Power Automate
14 37 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
15 35 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 26 (0.97%) Entra ID
17 25 (0.94%) Azure Cosmos DB
18 24 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 126 (4.72%) WAN
2 110 (4.12%) Wireless
3 109 (4.09%) SD-WAN
4 107 (4.01%) Firewall
5 104 (3.90%) WebEx
6 94 (3.52%) Cisco IOS
7 67 (2.51%) Internet
8 55 (2.06%) Network Security
9 53 (1.99%) VPN
10 45 (1.69%) TCP/IP
11 43 (1.61%) DNS
12 37 (1.39%) DHCP
13 31 (1.16%) Intrusion Detection
14 28 (1.05%) VoIP
15 24 (0.90%) Wi-Fi
16 23 (0.86%) VLAN
17 22 (0.82%) Unified Communications
18 21 (0.79%) SAN
19 17 (0.64%) LAN
20 15 (0.56%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 174 (6.52%) SQL Server
2 118 (4.42%) Power BI
3 117 (4.39%) Big Data
4 103 (3.86%) MySQL
5 97 (3.64%) NoSQL
6 93 (3.49%) Data Warehouse
7 86 (3.22%) PostgreSQL
8 83 (3.11%) Base SAS
9 82 (3.07%) Metadata
10 77 (2.89%) Relational Database
11 75 (2.81%) Data Lake
12 55 (2.06%) Tableau
13 39 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
14 38 (1.42%) Hadoop
15 31 (1.16%) MongoDB
16 25 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 24 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
17 24 (0.90%) Redis
17 24 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 21 (0.79%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 262 (9.82%) Git
2 97 (3.64%) Jenkins
3 82 (3.07%) JIRA
4 40 (1.50%) Selenium
5 36 (1.35%) GitLab
6 34 (1.27%) Maven
7 28 (1.05%) Cypress.io
8 16 (0.60%) Bitbucket
9 15 (0.56%) CMake
9 15 (0.56%) Postman
9 15 (0.56%) Visual Studio
10 14 (0.52%) Subversion
11 13 (0.49%) Cucumber
12 9 (0.34%) Artifactory
13 8 (0.30%) IntelliJ
13 8 (0.30%) Sonatype Nexus
14 7 (0.26%) JUnit
14 7 (0.26%) Rational DOORS
14 7 (0.26%) TeamCity
14 7 (0.26%) Xcode
General
1 1,050 (39.36%) Social Skills
2 568 (21.29%) Finance
3 436 (16.34%) Analytical Skills
4 176 (6.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 142 (5.32%) Telecoms
6 133 (4.99%) Marketing
7 115 (4.31%) Manufacturing
8 96 (3.60%) Pharmaceutical
9 93 (3.49%) Public Sector
10 91 (3.41%) Electronics
11 76 (2.85%) Banking
11 76 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
12 71 (2.66%) Legal
13 67 (2.51%) Retail
14 60 (2.25%) Front Office
15 51 (1.91%) Games
16 47 (1.76%) Financial Institution
17 39 (1.46%) Automotive
18 38 (1.42%) Law
19 27 (1.01%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 651 (24.40%) Developer
2 532 (19.94%) Senior
3 214 (8.02%) Software Engineer
4 212 (7.95%) Analyst
5 209 (7.83%) Lead
6 195 (7.31%) Architect
7 153 (5.73%) Project Manager
8 144 (5.40%) Senior Developer
9 140 (5.25%) Java Developer
10 122 (4.57%) Data Engineer
11 119 (4.46%) Senior Manager
12 117 (4.39%) Software Developer
13 110 (4.12%) Senior Project Manager
14 105 (3.94%) Solutions Architect
15 100 (3.75%) IT Support
16 96 (3.60%) Support Specialist
17 91 (3.41%) IT Support Specialist
18 83 (3.11%) Programmer
19 81 (3.04%) Data Scientist
19 81 (3.04%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 274 (10.27%) HTML
2 254 (9.52%) .NET
3 227 (8.51%) CSS
4 197 (7.38%) React
5 146 (5.47%) RESTful
6 110 (4.12%) XML
7 108 (4.05%) AngularJS
8 72 (2.70%) Spring
9 70 (2.62%) HTML5
10 68 (2.55%) ASP.NET
11 60 (2.25%) .NET Framework
11 60 (2.25%) REST
12 59 (2.21%) JSON
13 58 (2.17%) Node.js
14 55 (2.06%) Web Services
15 51 (1.91%) CSS3
16 49 (1.84%) Kafka
17 48 (1.80%) Spring Boot
18 45 (1.69%) Vue
19 44 (1.65%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 272 (10.19%) Management Information System
2 225 (8.43%) Algorithms
3 143 (5.36%) Virtual Team
4 135 (5.06%) Greenfield Project
5 133 (4.99%) Onboarding
6 123 (4.61%) Self-Motivation
7 100 (3.75%) Life Science
8 95 (3.56%) Data Structures
9 92 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
9 92 (3.45%) Wiki
10 69 (2.59%) Product Ownership
11 65 (2.44%) Hedge funds
12 62 (2.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 54 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
13 54 (2.02%) IoT
14 50 (1.87%) Fixed Income
15 44 (1.65%) Mobile App
16 43 (1.61%) Cyberattack
16 43 (1.61%) Smartphone
17 42 (1.57%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 310 (11.62%) Windows
2 254 (9.52%) Linux
3 159 (5.96%) Android
4 128 (4.80%) Windows 10
5 63 (2.36%) Windows Server
6 50 (1.87%) Unix
7 25 (0.94%) Apple iOS
8 23 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 20 (0.75%) Mac OS
10 18 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (0.49%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.30%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.22%) VMS
15 5 (0.19%) Windows 2000
15 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.11%) Debian
16 3 (0.11%) Ubuntu
17 2 (0.075%) CentOS
17 2 (0.075%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 936 (35.08%) Problem-Solving
2 690 (25.86%) Agile
3 563 (21.10%) Mathematics
4 539 (20.20%) Software Engineering
5 377 (14.13%) DevOps
6 342 (12.82%) Project Management
7 279 (10.46%) Statistics
8 275 (10.31%) Analytics
9 268 (10.04%) SDLC
10 264 (9.90%) Machine Learning
11 261 (9.78%) Data Science
11 261 (9.78%) Mentoring
12 253 (9.48%) Scrum
13 242 (9.07%) Collaborative Working
14 235 (8.81%) Artificial Intelligence
14 235 (8.81%) Cybersecurity
15 215 (8.06%) Project Delivery
16 207 (7.76%) Decision-Making
17 206 (7.72%) Physics
18 205 (7.68%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 691 (25.90%) Python
2 533 (19.98%) SQL
3 454 (17.02%) JavaScript
4 420 (15.74%) Java
5 417 (15.63%) C#
6 320 (11.99%) C++
7 160 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 141 (5.28%) C
9 136 (5.10%) PowerShell
10 119 (4.46%) Bash
11 93 (3.49%) R
12 83 (3.11%) PHP
12 83 (3.11%) SAS Macro
13 67 (2.51%) Go
14 44 (1.65%) Rust
15 36 (1.35%) Scala
16 32 (1.20%) Kotlin
17 31 (1.16%) Ruby
18 28 (1.05%) MATLAB
18 28 (1.05%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2,448 (91.75%) Degree
2 1,512 (56.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 495 (18.55%) Master's Degree
4 218 (8.17%) Security Cleared
5 140 (5.25%) PhD
6 119 (4.46%) SC Cleared
7 79 (2.96%) Azure Certification
8 78 (2.92%) CISSP
9 71 (2.66%) Numerate Degree
10 67 (2.51%) DV Cleared
11 62 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
12 54 (2.02%) AWS Certification
13 52 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
14 45 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
15 40 (1.50%) CISM
16 34 (1.27%) PMP
17 30 (1.12%) PMI Certification
18 22 (0.82%) HNC
19 21 (0.79%) CEH
20 20 (0.75%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 217 (8.13%) QA
2 83 (3.11%) CDISC
3 70 (2.62%) Data Quality
3 70 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 65 (2.44%) NIST
5 41 (1.54%) GDPR
6 26 (0.97%) PCI DSS
7 22 (0.82%) WCAG
8 18 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.64%) SLA
10 16 (0.60%) NCSC
11 15 (0.56%) Accessibility
12 11 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 10 (0.37%) GRC
13 10 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.34%) JSP 440
14 9 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.30%) MISRA
16 7 (0.26%) IEC 61508
16 7 (0.26%) RMADS
System Software
1 311 (11.66%) Docker
2 183 (6.86%) Active Directory
3 99 (3.71%) VMware ESXi
4 90 (3.37%) Microsoft App-V
4 90 (3.37%) XenApp
4 90 (3.37%) XenDesktop
5 57 (2.14%) VMware Infrastructure
6 41 (1.54%) Firmware
7 27 (1.01%) Hyper-V
8 12 (0.45%) vSphere
9 7 (0.26%) KVM
9 7 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
10 5 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.075%) HDFS
12 2 (0.075%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.037%) NFS
13 1 (0.037%) QEMU
13 1 (0.037%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 262 (9.82%) Kubernetes
2 105 (3.94%) Terraform
3 104 (3.90%) SCCM
4 79 (2.96%) AirWatch
5 61 (2.29%) Ansible
6 18 (0.67%) Puppet
7 17 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
8 13 (0.49%) Cisco CUCM
9 12 (0.45%) Argo
9 12 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
9 12 (0.45%) Cisco UCCX
10 11 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.37%) Progress Chef
12 9 (0.34%) Grafana
13 7 (0.26%) Packer
14 6 (0.22%) WSUS
15 5 (0.19%) McAfee ePO
15 5 (0.19%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (0.19%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.15%) Nessus
Vendors
1 421 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 135 (5.06%) Cisco
3 130 (4.87%) Salesforce
4 105 (3.94%) Citrix
5 103 (3.86%) Google
6 94 (3.52%) NEC
7 79 (2.96%) VMware
8 70 (2.62%) Oracle
9 63 (2.36%) SAP
10 42 (1.57%) Databricks
11 25 (0.94%) Splunk
12 20 (0.75%) Adobe
12 20 (0.75%) Apple
13 16 (0.60%) MuleSoft
14 15 (0.56%) Bloomberg
15 14 (0.52%) Dynatrace
15 14 (0.52%) ServiceNow
16 12 (0.45%) Alteryx
16 12 (0.45%) LogicMonitor
17 11 (0.41%) JD Edwards