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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 40 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 2,776 4,169 4,747
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 6.01% 4.90% 5.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.42% 5.71% 5.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,619 3,036 2,680
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 £82,671 £91,250
90th Percentile £101,250 £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 43,207 73,044 88,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.58% 85.86% 95.64%
Number of salaries quoted 23,811 53,922 52,315
10th Percentile £30,625 £29,000 £34,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -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 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

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 30 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 30 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 -6 840 £75,000 -3.23% 1,720
South East +10 666 £57,500 -4.17% 406
North of England -6 458 £50,000 +4.71% 371
Midlands +44 420 £45,000 -10.00% 220
West Midlands +34 291 £45,362 -9.93% 132
North West -40 230 £52,500 +5.00% 207
South West +33 208 £40,101 -21.37% 94
Yorkshire +27 187 £42,000 -6.67% 108
East of England +1 175 £53,000 +16.48% 199
East Midlands +46 122 £40,101 -5.65% 87
North East +28 45 £56,500 +11.62% 58
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 64 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 42 (1.51%) Apache Spark
3 41 (1.48%) Confluence
4 31 (1.12%) Jupyter
5 22 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
6 20 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 19 (0.68%) WordPress
8 17 (0.61%) Apache
8 17 (0.61%) CMS
9 14 (0.50%) SAS
10 7 (0.25%) IIS
11 6 (0.22%) Liferay
12 5 (0.18%) Luigi
13 3 (0.11%) OpenStack
14 2 (0.072%) Appian
14 2 (0.072%) nginx
14 2 (0.072%) NServiceBus
14 2 (0.072%) ThingWorx
15 1 (0.036%) GemFire
15 1 (0.036%) Joomla!
Applications
1 106 (3.82%) Simulink
2 93 (3.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 75 (2.70%) Chatbot
4 53 (1.91%) Microsoft Office
5 22 (0.79%) 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 (0.14%) Maya
10 4 (0.14%) Sketch
11 2 (0.072%) AutoCAD
11 2 (0.072%) 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 (3.71%) Teamcenter
2 14 (0.50%) Shopify
3 9 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 7 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 7 (0.25%) SAP Business One
6 6 (0.22%) Infor M3
7 5 (0.18%) Markit EDM
8 4 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
8 4 (0.14%) 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 (0.072%) NetSuite
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle Applications
10 2 (0.072%) Oracle EBS R12
10 2 (0.072%) SAP GRC
11 1 (0.036%) Dynamics GP
11 1 (0.036%) JDE EnterpriseOne
Cloud Services
1 500 (18.01%) Azure
2 402 (14.48%) AWS
3 145 (5.22%) Power Platform
4 136 (4.90%) GCP
5 116 (4.18%) SaaS
6 76 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
7 75 (2.70%) Serverless
8 74 (2.67%) GitHub
9 72 (2.59%) Azure DevOps
10 57 (2.05%) Cloud Computing
11 48 (1.73%) PaaS
12 41 (1.48%) Azure Data Factory
13 40 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
14 39 (1.40%) Entra ID
15 38 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
16 37 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 32 (1.15%) Power Automate
18 30 (1.08%) PowerApps
19 24 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
19 24 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 168 (6.05%) Network Security
2 122 (4.39%) Firewall
3 113 (4.07%) Internet
4 112 (4.03%) WLAN
5 67 (2.41%) TCP/IP
6 45 (1.62%) DNS
6 45 (1.62%) HTTP
7 32 (1.15%) VPN
8 31 (1.12%) WAN
9 30 (1.08%) BGP
10 26 (0.94%) DHCP
10 26 (0.94%) VLAN
11 21 (0.76%) OSPF
12 20 (0.72%) Intrusion Detection
12 20 (0.72%) SAN
13 16 (0.58%) LAN
14 14 (0.50%) NAS
14 14 (0.50%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.47%) Modbus
16 12 (0.43%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (6.84%) SQL Server
2 114 (4.11%) Power BI
3 111 (4.00%) Big Data
4 104 (3.75%) Relational Database
5 82 (2.95%) NoSQL
6 77 (2.77%) MySQL
7 70 (2.52%) Tableau
8 67 (2.41%) Data Lake
9 56 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
10 45 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
11 33 (1.19%) DynamoDB
12 29 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
13 28 (1.01%) MongoDB
14 24 (0.86%) Azure SQL Database
15 23 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 14 (0.50%) Hadoop
17 13 (0.47%) BigQuery
17 13 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
18 12 (0.43%) RDBMS
18 12 (0.43%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 179 (6.45%) Git
2 132 (4.76%) JIRA
3 103 (3.71%) Rational DOORS
4 65 (2.34%) Jenkins
5 33 (1.19%) Selenium
6 24 (0.86%) Gradle
7 23 (0.83%) Visual Studio
8 20 (0.72%) GitLab
9 14 (0.50%) SpecFlow
10 13 (0.47%) Cucumber
11 12 (0.43%) Artifactory
12 11 (0.40%) Moq
13 10 (0.36%) Cypress.io
13 10 (0.36%) JUnit
13 10 (0.36%) SonarQube
14 9 (0.32%) git-flow
15 8 (0.29%) Maven
15 8 (0.29%) webpack
16 7 (0.25%) TestRail
17 6 (0.22%) Babel
General
1 1,009 (36.35%) Social Skills
2 562 (20.24%) Finance
3 392 (14.12%) Analytical Skills
4 250 (9.01%) Law
5 171 (6.16%) Electronics
6 139 (5.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 132 (4.76%) Retail
8 126 (4.54%) Banking
9 118 (4.25%) Aerospace
10 103 (3.71%) Manufacturing
11 90 (3.24%) Marketing
12 77 (2.77%) Legal
13 68 (2.45%) Presentation Skills
14 63 (2.27%) Games
14 63 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
15 54 (1.95%) Advertising
16 46 (1.66%) Telecoms
17 45 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
18 37 (1.33%) Automotive
19 33 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 522 (18.80%) Senior
2 367 (13.22%) Software Engineer
3 344 (12.39%) Developer
4 267 (9.62%) Lead
5 198 (7.13%) Analyst
6 182 (6.56%) IT Manager
7 177 (6.38%) Architect
8 152 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
9 147 (5.30%) Systems Engineer
10 142 (5.12%) Junior
11 138 (4.97%) IT Support
12 133 (4.79%) IT Engineer
12 133 (4.79%) Support Engineer
13 113 (4.07%) IT Support Engineer
14 103 (3.71%) Junior Systems Engineer
15 86 (3.10%) Data Scientist
16 79 (2.85%) Graduate
17 78 (2.81%) Principal Engineer
18 76 (2.74%) Security Engineer
18 76 (2.74%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 229 (8.25%) .NET
2 153 (5.51%) CSS
3 151 (5.44%) React
4 129 (4.65%) HTML
5 90 (3.24%) AngularJS
6 89 (3.21%) Node.js
7 82 (2.95%) Kafka
8 73 (2.63%) REST
9 69 (2.49%) ASP.NET
10 60 (2.16%) RESTful
11 51 (1.84%) Spring
12 50 (1.80%) jQuery
13 49 (1.77%) .NET Framework
14 45 (1.62%) Spring Boot
15 39 (1.40%) HTML5
16 38 (1.37%) Middleware
17 36 (1.30%) .NET Core
17 36 (1.30%) TensorFlow
18 33 (1.19%) PyTorch
19 32 (1.15%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 219 (7.89%) Management Information System
2 202 (7.28%) Algorithms
3 115 (4.14%) Social Media
4 107 (3.85%) Driving Licence
5 83 (2.99%) Self-Motivation
6 65 (2.34%) Enterprise Software
7 61 (2.20%) Cloud Native
8 56 (2.02%) Mobile App
9 54 (1.95%) Product Ownership
10 51 (1.84%) Distributed Systems
11 50 (1.80%) Data Structures
12 49 (1.77%) Security Posture
13 47 (1.69%) Cyberattack
13 47 (1.69%) Robotics
14 45 (1.62%) SCADA
15 40 (1.44%) Hedge funds
16 38 (1.37%) Onboarding
17 31 (1.12%) Public Cloud
18 29 (1.04%) Life Science
18 29 (1.04%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 383 (13.80%) Windows
2 307 (11.06%) Linux
3 103 (3.71%) Windows Vista
4 50 (1.80%) Unix
4 50 (1.80%) Windows Server
5 39 (1.40%) Apple iOS
6 38 (1.37%) Android
7 27 (0.97%) Ubuntu
8 24 (0.86%) Windows 10
9 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 16 (0.58%) Mac OS X
11 12 (0.43%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 5 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
14 3 (0.11%) Rocky
14 3 (0.11%) VMS
15 2 (0.072%) CentOS
15 2 (0.072%) Debian
15 2 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 905 (32.60%) Problem-Solving
2 662 (23.85%) Agile
3 614 (22.12%) Software Engineering
4 495 (17.83%) Mathematics
5 421 (15.17%) Mentoring
6 370 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 368 (13.26%) Analytics
8 345 (12.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 330 (11.89%) Project Management
10 314 (11.31%) Data Science
11 307 (11.06%) DevOps
12 273 (9.83%) CI/CD
13 271 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
14 247 (8.90%) UML
15 233 (8.39%) Statistics
15 233 (8.39%) Test Automation
16 231 (8.32%) Machine Learning
17 220 (7.93%) Physics
18 219 (7.89%) Roadmaps
19 196 (7.06%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 624 (22.48%) Python
2 432 (15.56%) SQL
3 378 (13.62%) Java
4 319 (11.49%) C#
5 240 (8.65%) JavaScript
6 207 (7.46%) C++
7 124 (4.47%) TypeScript
8 122 (4.39%) MATLAB
9 116 (4.18%) PowerShell
10 90 (3.24%) C
11 87 (3.13%) PHP
12 57 (2.05%) Ada
13 54 (1.95%) Rust
14 49 (1.77%) Scala
15 43 (1.55%) R
16 41 (1.48%) Bash
17 37 (1.33%) T-SQL
18 32 (1.15%) Kotlin
19 25 (0.90%) Apex Code
20 24 (0.86%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2,448 (88.18%) Degree
2 1,244 (44.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 369 (13.29%) Master's Degree
4 286 (10.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 171 (6.16%) PhD
6 158 (5.69%) Security Cleared
7 155 (5.58%) Microsoft Certification
8 139 (5.01%) Cisco Certification
9 138 (4.97%) DBS Check
10 119 (4.29%) MCSE
11 116 (4.18%) CCNP
12 114 (4.11%) CCNA
13 96 (3.46%) MCP
14 95 (3.42%) LPIC
15 89 (3.21%) SC Cleared
16 86 (3.10%) CISSP
17 74 (2.67%) Chartered Engineer
18 69 (2.49%) Azure Certification
18 69 (2.49%) DV Cleared
19 59 (2.13%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (4.03%) QA
2 104 (3.75%) Data Quality
3 95 (3.42%) GDPR
4 89 (3.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 78 (2.81%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 69 (2.49%) NIST
7 36 (1.30%) Accessibility
8 27 (0.97%) HIPAA
8 27 (0.97%) 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 12 (0.43%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.29%) COBIT
11 8 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.29%) GRC
11 8 (0.29%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.25%) Software Quality Assurance
12 7 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 177 (6.38%) Docker
2 91 (3.28%) Active Directory
3 33 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (0.47%) Hyper-V
4 13 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
5 12 (0.43%) Firmware
6 10 (0.36%) Embedded Firmware
7 7 (0.25%) vSphere
8 6 (0.22%) VMware NSX
9 3 (0.11%) HDFS
10 2 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.036%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.036%) KVM
11 1 (0.036%) RHEV
11 1 (0.036%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 221 (7.96%) Kubernetes
2 113 (4.07%) Terraform
3 59 (2.13%) Ansible
4 43 (1.55%) Prometheus
5 41 (1.48%) Grafana
6 14 (0.50%) 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 (0.14%) CSIRT
11 4 (0.14%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (0.14%) SCCM
12 3 (0.11%) Kubeflow
12 3 (0.11%) Progress Chef
12 3 (0.11%) ZABBIX
13 2 (0.072%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 464 (16.71%) Microsoft
2 151 (5.44%) Cisco
3 124 (4.47%) Google
4 104 (3.75%) IBM
5 76 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 66 (2.38%) Oracle
7 60 (2.16%) PayPal
8 50 (1.80%) Salesforce
9 46 (1.66%) SAP
10 44 (1.59%) VMware
11 40 (1.44%) Databricks
12 39 (1.40%) Apple
13 28 (1.01%) Fortinet
14 23 (0.83%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
15 21 (0.76%) Dell
16 20 (0.72%) Adobe
17 19 (0.68%) OpenAI
18 16 (0.58%) Ubiquiti
19 15 (0.54%) New Relic
19 15 (0.54%) WooCommerce