Computer Science Job Trends in London

Computer Science
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 49 39 29
Rank change year-on-year -10 -10 +5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 825 799 1,552
As % of all permanent jobs in London 3.87% 6.54% 6.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.76% 6.83% 7.09%
Number of salaries quoted 528 427 1,042
10th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
25th Percentile £56,250 £56,250 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% - -6.25%
75th Percentile £100,000 £100,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £120,000 £121,125
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,745 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.74% -5.43% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,336 11,706 21,878
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 81.41% 95.83% 89.33%
Number of salaries quoted 11,848 6,956 16,038
10th Percentile £40,750 £41,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £55,000 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -6.67%
75th Percentile £98,750 £100,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 12 June 2026. 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
Central London -31 127 £82,500 +17.86% 49
West London +2 29 £49,935 -20.10% 35
East London +15 23 £45,204 -51.13% 12
South London +25 13 £55,000 -8.33% 5
North London +11 8 £55,000 -19.71% 1
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 30 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 22 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 15 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.21%) Jupyter
5 9 (1.09%) Apache
6 7 (0.85%) Confluence
7 5 (0.61%) Kinematics
7 5 (0.61%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.48%) Ethereum
9 1 (0.12%) Apache Pulsar
9 1 (0.12%) GeoServer
9 1 (0.12%) WordPress
Applications
1 21 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.06%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (0.61%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.24%) Chatbot
5 2 (0.24%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.12%) Maya
6 1 (0.12%) Sketch
6 1 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.48%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.36%) Magento
2 3 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (0.36%) SAP CAR
2 3 (0.36%) SAP EWM
2 3 (0.36%) SAP MM
2 3 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.36%) SAP SD
2 3 (0.36%) Temenos T24
3 2 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
3 2 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.12%) Misys Equation
4 1 (0.12%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 214 (25.94%) Azure
2 191 (23.15%) AWS
3 105 (12.73%) GCP
4 65 (7.88%) SaaS
5 57 (6.91%) Microsoft 365
6 41 (4.97%) GitHub
7 34 (4.12%) Power Platform
8 26 (3.15%) PaaS
9 18 (2.18%) Entra ID
9 18 (2.18%) IaaS
10 17 (2.06%) Serverless
11 16 (1.94%) GitHub Actions
11 16 (1.94%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (1.58%) Snowflake
14 12 (1.45%) Datadog
14 12 (1.45%) LangSmith
14 12 (1.45%) Power Automate
15 11 (1.33%) dbt
15 11 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 45 (5.45%) Firewall
2 28 (3.39%) Network Security
3 23 (2.79%) TCP/IP
4 21 (2.55%) DNS
5 19 (2.30%) Multicast
6 18 (2.18%) WAN
7 16 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (1.82%) DHCP
8 15 (1.82%) LAN
8 15 (1.82%) VPN
9 12 (1.45%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (1.21%) Cisco ASA
11 9 (1.09%) BGP
11 9 (1.09%) OSPF
12 7 (0.85%) Kerberos
13 6 (0.73%) SAN
13 6 (0.73%) SD-WAN
13 6 (0.73%) VLAN
14 5 (0.61%) DMVPN
14 5 (0.61%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.88%) BigQuery
2 31 (3.76%) Big Data
3 28 (3.39%) Data Warehouse
4 27 (3.27%) Elasticsearch
4 27 (3.27%) Power BI
5 24 (2.91%) SQL Server
6 20 (2.42%) Data Lake
7 16 (1.94%) Relational Database
8 15 (1.82%) Metadata
9 11 (1.33%) NoSQL
10 10 (1.21%) PostgreSQL
10 10 (1.21%) Tableau
11 7 (0.85%) Delta Lake
11 7 (0.85%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.85%) Redis
12 6 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
13 5 (0.61%) MySQL
13 5 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
14 4 (0.48%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.48%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 57 (6.91%) Git
2 36 (4.36%) JIRA
3 27 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 9 (1.09%) Gradle
5 7 (0.85%) MLflow
6 6 (0.73%) Chocolatey
7 5 (0.61%) GitLab
8 4 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.48%) Bitbucket
8 4 (0.48%) Postman
8 4 (0.48%) Selenium
9 3 (0.36%) Maven
10 2 (0.24%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.24%) JUnit
10 2 (0.24%) Oracle APEX
10 2 (0.24%) Subversion
10 2 (0.24%) TestNG
11 1 (0.12%) Cypress.io
11 1 (0.12%) Storybook
11 1 (0.12%) TeamCity
General
1 307 (37.21%) Finance
2 266 (32.24%) Social Skills
3 145 (17.58%) Analytical Skills
4 77 (9.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 75 (9.09%) Banking
6 52 (6.30%) Law
6 52 (6.30%) Public Sector
7 35 (4.24%) Front Office
8 27 (3.27%) Legal
9 26 (3.15%) Financial Institution
9 26 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
9 26 (3.15%) Retail
10 16 (1.94%) Marketing
10 16 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
11 15 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 13 (1.58%) Manufacturing
13 11 (1.33%) Games
14 10 (1.21%) Mandarin Language
15 8 (0.97%) Back Office
15 8 (0.97%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 162 (19.64%) Senior
2 134 (16.24%) Developer
3 90 (10.91%) Software Engineer
4 59 (7.15%) Analyst
5 49 (5.94%) Python Engineer
6 44 (5.33%) Architect
7 37 (4.48%) Lead
8 35 (4.24%) Data Engineer
9 34 (4.12%) C++ Software Engineer
9 34 (4.12%) Senior Software Engineer
10 30 (3.64%) Azure Engineer
11 29 (3.52%) Senior Developer
12 27 (3.27%) Security Engineer
13 26 (3.15%) Python Software Engineer
14 24 (2.91%) Software Developer
15 23 (2.79%) Graduate
16 22 (2.67%) IT Support
17 21 (2.55%) IT Engineer
18 20 (2.42%) AWS Engineer
18 20 (2.42%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (8.00%) React
2 58 (7.03%) RESTful
3 44 (5.33%) Kafka
4 42 (5.09%) Node.js
5 40 (4.85%) FIX Protocol
6 38 (4.61%) REST
7 31 (3.76%) CSS
7 31 (3.76%) HTML
8 28 (3.39%) Django
9 25 (3.03%) PyTorch
10 23 (2.79%) .NET
11 21 (2.55%) OAuth
12 20 (2.42%) LangChain
12 20 (2.42%) pytest
13 18 (2.18%) Boost C++ Libraries
13 18 (2.18%) Spring
14 15 (1.82%) Middleware
14 15 (1.82%) OpenID
14 15 (1.82%) SAML
14 15 (1.82%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 85 (10.30%) Algorithms
2 77 (9.33%) Management Information System
3 69 (8.36%) Cloud Native
4 54 (6.55%) Distributed Systems
5 46 (5.58%) Data Structures
6 37 (4.48%) Greenfield Project
7 35 (4.24%) AI Agents
8 34 (4.12%) Equities
9 29 (3.52%) Derivative
9 29 (3.52%) Self-Motivation
10 28 (3.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 26 (3.15%) Onboarding
11 26 (3.15%) Product Ownership
12 22 (2.67%) Data Centre
12 22 (2.67%) Fixed Income
13 21 (2.55%) Cyber Threat
14 16 (1.94%) Distributed Architecture
14 16 (1.94%) Security Posture
14 16 (1.94%) Virtual Team
15 14 (1.70%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 76 (9.21%) Linux
2 60 (7.27%) Windows
3 18 (2.18%) Unix
4 15 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 7 (0.85%) Android
6 5 (0.61%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.48%) CentOS
7 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.36%) AIX
9 1 (0.12%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.12%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (26.18%) Problem-Solving
2 200 (24.24%) Software Engineering
3 182 (22.06%) Agile
4 175 (21.21%) AI
5 115 (13.94%) CI/CD
5 115 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
6 108 (13.09%) Mathematics
7 105 (12.73%) SDLC
8 103 (12.48%) DevOps
9 101 (12.24%) Analytics
10 97 (11.76%) Microservices
11 96 (11.64%) Machine Learning
12 90 (10.91%) Cybersecurity
13 81 (9.82%) Mentoring
14 80 (9.70%) Decision-Making
15 77 (9.33%) Roadmaps
16 72 (8.73%) Technical Leadership
17 68 (8.24%) Low Latency
18 64 (7.76%) Fintech
18 64 (7.76%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 255 (30.91%) Python
2 114 (13.82%) SQL
3 85 (10.30%) C++
4 72 (8.73%) Java
5 59 (7.15%) JavaScript
6 53 (6.42%) C#
7 52 (6.30%) TypeScript
8 37 (4.48%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.39%) Rust
10 22 (2.67%) Bash
11 20 (2.42%) Go
12 19 (2.30%) C
13 10 (1.21%) R
14 6 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.61%) VBA
16 4 (0.48%) Ada
16 4 (0.48%) PHP
17 3 (0.36%) MATLAB
17 3 (0.36%) Scala
17 3 (0.36%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 619 (75.03%) Degree
2 372 (45.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 88 (10.67%) Master's Degree
4 78 (9.45%) Security Cleared
5 58 (7.03%) CISSP
6 55 (6.67%) SC Cleared
7 48 (5.82%) PhD
8 40 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 34 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
10 26 (3.15%) Azure Certification
11 25 (3.03%) CISM
12 23 (2.79%) CCNP
13 22 (2.67%) DBS Check
14 19 (2.30%) CCNA
15 16 (1.94%) A+ Certification
15 16 (1.94%) AWS Certification
15 16 (1.94%) CCIE
15 16 (1.94%) CISA
15 16 (1.94%) SANS
16 14 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (5.70%) QA
2 30 (3.64%) Data Quality
2 30 (3.64%) GDPR
3 29 (3.52%) NIST
4 20 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 11 (1.33%) COBIT
6 10 (1.21%) SLA
7 9 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 9 (1.09%) GRC
7 9 (1.09%) PMO
8 7 (0.85%) PERC
9 6 (0.73%) NIST 800
10 5 (0.61%) MiFID
10 5 (0.61%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 2 (0.24%) GxP
12 2 (0.24%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.24%) NCSC
12 2 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 48 (5.82%) Docker
2 35 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (0.61%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.36%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.36%) IAG
4 3 (0.36%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (0.36%) VMware Server
5 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle RAC
6 1 (0.12%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.12%) vSphere
6 1 (0.12%) Xen
6 1 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 52 (6.30%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.06%) Terraform
3 27 (3.27%) Ansible
4 15 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (1.33%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (1.21%) FortiGate
6 10 (1.21%) SCCM
7 6 (0.73%) Grafana
7 6 (0.73%) Prometheus
8 5 (0.61%) RSA Archer
9 4 (0.48%) Argo
9 4 (0.48%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 3 (0.36%) CSIRT
11 2 (0.24%) OpenView
11 2 (0.24%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.12%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 127 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 38 (4.61%) Google
3 26 (3.15%) Databricks
4 21 (2.55%) Cisco
5 19 (2.30%) Fortinet
6 15 (1.82%) VMware
7 14 (1.70%) CheckPoint
8 11 (1.33%) OpenAI
8 11 (1.33%) Oracle
9 9 (1.09%) Palo Alto
10 8 (0.97%) Dynatrace
10 8 (0.97%) Okta
10 8 (0.97%) ServiceNow
10 8 (0.97%) Solace
10 8 (0.97%) Splunk
11 7 (0.85%) Foundry
12 6 (0.73%) AppDynamics
12 6 (0.73%) F5
12 6 (0.73%) Tenable
13 5 (0.61%) Arista