Computer Science Jobs in Essex

Computer Science
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Essex 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 44 53
Rank change year-on-year +24 +9 -39
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 46 32 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 9.09% 3.54% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.31% 4.46% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 31 31 8
10th Percentile - £43,500 £38,275
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £47,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% -21.88% +21.60%
75th Percentile £55,625 £76,250 £65,674
90th Percentile £67,000 - £83,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 446 717 753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Essex 88.14% 79.23% 92.62%
Number of salaries quoted 200 586 348
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,759 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £31,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,000 £45,000 £47,480
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.22% -0.04%
75th Percentile £58,750 £62,500 £66,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
East of England median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Essex

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Essex

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in Essex

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Essex

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Essex over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Essex

Computer Science
Job Locations in Essex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Essex region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Epping - 8 £32,500 - 1
Basildon +7 5 £75,000 +57.89% 12
Chelmsford - 5 £67,000 - 3
Colchester - 4 £27,500 - 3
Southend-on-Sea - 2 £41,773 - 1
Hockley - 2 - -
Saffron Walden - 1 £55,000 - 2
Chigwell - 1 - -
Billericay - 1 £52,500 - 3
Braintree - 1 £35,000 -
Computer Science
East of England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Essex 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 3 (6.52%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.17%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.26%) Azure
2 3 (6.52%) Amazon S3
2 3 (6.52%) AWS
2 3 (6.52%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (6.52%) dbt
2 3 (6.52%) Serverless
2 3 (6.52%) Snowflake
3 2 (4.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (2.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) Broadband
2 1 (2.17%) Internet
2 1 (2.17%) Network Security
2 1 (2.17%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 9 (19.57%) MySQL
3 3 (6.52%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (6.52%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle Database
3 3 (6.52%) RDBMS
3 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.35%) LabVIEW
General
1 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Finance
3 3 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.52%) Electronics
4 2 (4.35%) Games
4 2 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (2.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) Graduate
2 14 (30.43%) Developer
3 10 (21.74%) Graduate Developer
3 10 (21.74%) IT Graduate
4 8 (17.39%) Implementation Manager
4 8 (17.39%) Support Manager
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Implementation Manager
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Manager
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support
4 8 (17.39%) Technical Support Manager
5 5 (10.87%) Graduate Support Manager
5 5 (10.87%) Graduate Technical Support
5 5 (10.87%) Software Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) Principal Software Engineer
7 3 (6.52%) Engineering Manager
7 3 (6.52%) Full-Stack Developer
7 3 (6.52%) Support Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Data Engineer
8 2 (4.35%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (34.78%) .NET
2 14 (30.43%) ASP.NET
3 13 (28.26%) CSS
4 10 (21.74%) jQuery
5 3 (6.52%) HTML
5 3 (6.52%) REST
6 2 (4.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
6 2 (4.35%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (4.35%) JSON
6 2 (4.35%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (4.35%) React
6 2 (4.35%) Vue
7 1 (2.17%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (2.17%) Bootstrap
7 1 (2.17%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.52%) Algorithms
1 3 (6.52%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.35%) Robotics
2 2 (4.35%) Video\Live Streaming
3 1 (2.17%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
2 1 (2.17%) Android
2 1 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (67.39%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (32.61%) Software Engineering
3 13 (28.26%) MVC
4 11 (23.91%) Agile
4 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (23.91%) OO
5 9 (19.57%) Roadmaps
6 8 (17.39%) High Availability
6 8 (17.39%) System Testing
6 8 (17.39%) Task Automation
7 7 (15.22%) OOP
8 6 (13.04%) Mentoring
9 5 (10.87%) Broadcast Engineering
9 5 (10.87%) Product Management
10 4 (8.70%) ETL
10 4 (8.70%) Full-Stack Development
10 4 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
10 4 (8.70%) UML
11 3 (6.52%) Data Engineering
11 3 (6.52%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 20 (43.48%) C#
2 18 (39.13%) Java
3 16 (34.78%) Python
4 10 (21.74%) C++
4 10 (21.74%) PHP
5 7 (15.22%) SQL
6 4 (8.70%) Ada
6 4 (8.70%) Ada 95
6 4 (8.70%) C
6 4 (8.70%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.17%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (97.83%) Degree
2 37 (80.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
3 4 (8.70%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.17%) CCNA
5 1 (2.17%) CCNP
5 1 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.17%) LPIC
5 1 (2.17%) MCP
5 1 (2.17%) MCSE
5 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.17%) PhD
5 1 (2.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.17%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (6.52%) Oracle
1 3 (6.52%) StreamSets
2 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 2 (4.35%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.17%) Cisco
3 1 (2.17%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.17%) PayPal