Computer Science Jobs in London

Computer Science
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 30 36
Rank change year-on-year -4 +6 +12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 967 1,522 2,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.48% 6.45% 6.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 7.08% 7.25%
Number of salaries quoted 489 1,059 1,460
10th Percentile £45,600 £42,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £58,750 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £77,500 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -3.13% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £98,125 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £122,500 £130,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and 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 12,444 21,505 32,733
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.25% 91.16% 95.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,259 15,937 23,598
10th Percentile £42,000 £37,500 £43,411
25th Percentile £56,250 £51,524 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,001 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £123,750 £115,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

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 14 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
Central London +5 255 £70,000 -12.50% 134
West London +58 76 £61,250 -4.30% 52
South London +37 75 £60,000 -23.32% 12
North London +12 20 £68,500 -10.16% 8
East London -3 16 £64,500 -31.20% 18
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 24 (2.48%) Apache Spark
2 21 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 19 (1.96%) Confluence
4 14 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 8 (0.83%) Apache
6 6 (0.62%) Liferay
7 5 (0.52%) Luigi
7 5 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.41%) SAS
9 3 (0.31%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.31%) nginx
10 2 (0.21%) Appian
10 2 (0.21%) IIS
Applications
1 36 (3.72%) Microsoft Excel
2 23 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.76%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.41%) Maya
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.21%) Blender
7 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.10%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.10%) Stata
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.31%) Endur
2 3 (0.31%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.21%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.10%) iTrent
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle Applications
4 1 (0.10%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.10%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.10%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 221 (22.85%) Azure
2 186 (19.23%) AWS
3 84 (8.69%) GCP
4 70 (7.24%) SaaS
5 61 (6.31%) Power Platform
6 43 (4.45%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (3.93%) Serverless
8 32 (3.31%) GitHub
9 31 (3.21%) Entra ID
10 29 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 24 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 22 (2.28%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (2.28%) Cloud Computing
13 21 (2.17%) PaaS
14 20 (2.07%) Azure Synapse Analytics
15 19 (1.96%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.86%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
17 17 (1.76%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 183 (18.92%) Broadband
2 50 (5.17%) Firewall
3 36 (3.72%) HTTP
4 35 (3.62%) Network Security
5 16 (1.65%) VPN
6 13 (1.34%) DNS
7 11 (1.14%) Multicast
8 7 (0.72%) VLAN
8 7 (0.72%) WAN
9 6 (0.62%) TCP/IP
9 6 (0.62%) VoIP
10 5 (0.52%) BGP
10 5 (0.52%) Bluetooth
11 4 (0.41%) Internet
11 4 (0.41%) ISDN
11 4 (0.41%) LAN
11 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
11 4 (0.41%) Wireless
12 3 (0.31%) DHCP
12 3 (0.31%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (6.51%) SQL Server
2 41 (4.24%) Power BI
3 40 (4.14%) Relational Database
4 37 (3.83%) NoSQL
5 30 (3.10%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.10%) Tableau
6 25 (2.59%) Data Lake
7 22 (2.28%) MySQL
8 21 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (1.76%) Big Data
10 16 (1.65%) DynamoDB
11 14 (1.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 14 (1.45%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 11 (1.14%) Power Query
14 10 (1.03%) Neo4j
14 10 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
15 9 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
16 8 (0.83%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 7 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 78 (8.07%) Git
2 47 (4.86%) JIRA
3 29 (3.00%) Jenkins
4 13 (1.34%) Gradle
5 11 (1.14%) GitLab
6 10 (1.03%) Visual Studio
7 8 (0.83%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.72%) Maven
8 7 (0.72%) SpecFlow
9 6 (0.62%) Moq
9 6 (0.62%) webpack
10 4 (0.41%) Babel
10 4 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
10 4 (0.41%) TestRail
11 3 (0.31%) gulp
11 3 (0.31%) JMeter
11 3 (0.31%) PowerBuilder
12 2 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 2 (0.21%) Plastic SCM
12 2 (0.21%) Selenium
General
1 538 (55.64%) Social Skills
2 237 (24.51%) Finance
3 167 (17.27%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (10.44%) Law
5 65 (6.72%) Banking
6 54 (5.58%) Retail
7 52 (5.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 47 (4.86%) Games
9 41 (4.24%) Legal
10 33 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
11 27 (2.79%) Advertising
11 27 (2.79%) Multimedia
12 26 (2.69%) Marketing
13 22 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 22 (2.28%) Telecoms
14 17 (1.76%) Front Office
15 15 (1.55%) Public Sector
16 14 (1.45%) Organisational Skills
17 12 (1.24%) Financial Institution
18 11 (1.14%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 184 (19.03%) Senior
2 159 (16.44%) Lead
3 122 (12.62%) Developer
4 117 (12.10%) Analyst
5 103 (10.65%) Software Engineer
6 91 (9.41%) Architect
7 59 (6.10%) Solutions Architect
8 56 (5.79%) Systems Engineer
9 53 (5.48%) Senior Software Engineer
10 38 (3.93%) Data Engineer
11 32 (3.31%) Engineering Manager
11 32 (3.31%) Senior Developer
12 29 (3.00%) IT Manager
13 27 (2.79%) Senior Architect
13 27 (2.79%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 27 (2.79%) Team Leader
14 26 (2.69%) Data Analyst
14 26 (2.69%) Support Analyst
15 23 (2.38%) Lead Data Engineer
15 23 (2.38%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (5.69%) .NET
2 54 (5.58%) CSS
3 53 (5.48%) Kafka
4 52 (5.38%) HTML
5 50 (5.17%) React
6 33 (3.41%) Node.js
7 32 (3.31%) AngularJS
8 30 (3.10%) REST
9 25 (2.59%) RESTful
10 24 (2.48%) Elastic Stack
11 19 (1.96%) .NET Framework
11 19 (1.96%) FIX Protocol
12 18 (1.86%) HTML5
12 18 (1.86%) Spring
13 15 (1.55%) ASP.NET
13 15 (1.55%) TensorFlow
14 14 (1.45%) ARM Templates
14 14 (1.45%) PyTorch
15 13 (1.34%) Pandas
15 13 (1.34%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 108 (11.17%) Management Information System
2 67 (6.93%) Algorithms
3 38 (3.93%) Cloud Native
3 38 (3.93%) Distributed Systems
4 25 (2.59%) Mobile App
5 23 (2.38%) Fixed Income
6 22 (2.28%) Hedge funds
7 21 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (2.07%) Equities
9 19 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
9 19 (1.96%) Life Science
9 19 (1.96%) Onboarding
10 18 (1.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 18 (1.86%) Product Ownership
11 17 (1.76%) Mobile Games
11 17 (1.76%) Robotics
12 16 (1.65%) Derivative
13 15 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
13 15 (1.55%) Security Posture
14 13 (1.34%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 92 (9.51%) Linux
2 75 (7.76%) Windows
3 25 (2.59%) Unix
4 15 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 12 (1.24%) Android
6 11 (1.14%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.14%) Ubuntu
7 6 (0.62%) Windows 10
8 5 (0.52%) Robot Operating System
9 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.31%) Rocky
10 3 (0.31%) VMS
10 3 (0.31%) Windows Vista
11 2 (0.21%) CentOS
11 2 (0.21%) Debian
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
11 2 (0.21%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 413 (42.71%) Problem-Solving
2 293 (30.30%) Roadmaps
3 290 (29.99%) Mentoring
4 221 (22.85%) Product Management
5 215 (22.23%) High Availability
6 195 (20.17%) Software Engineering
7 183 (18.92%) Broadcast Engineering
8 174 (17.99%) Agile
9 152 (15.72%) Analytics
10 138 (14.27%) Data Science
11 134 (13.86%) Artificial Intelligence
12 122 (12.62%) DevOps
13 117 (12.10%) Mathematics
14 110 (11.38%) Machine Learning
15 107 (11.07%) CI/CD
16 81 (8.38%) Continuous Improvement
17 78 (8.07%) Statistics
18 76 (7.86%) User Experience
19 68 (7.03%) Microservices
20 67 (6.93%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 294 (30.40%) Python
2 199 (20.58%) SQL
3 112 (11.58%) Java
4 88 (9.10%) JavaScript
5 86 (8.89%) C#
6 59 (6.10%) C++
7 45 (4.65%) TypeScript
8 41 (4.24%) Scala
9 40 (4.14%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.59%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.28%) C
12 17 (1.76%) Bash
12 17 (1.76%) Rust
13 15 (1.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 15 (1.55%) R
14 10 (1.03%) Kotlin
15 9 (0.93%) PHP
15 9 (0.93%) PL/SQL
15 9 (0.93%) Swift
16 7 (0.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 876 (90.59%) Degree
2 581 (60.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 168 (17.37%) Master's Degree
4 66 (6.83%) PhD
5 45 (4.65%) CISSP
6 44 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.41%) Security Cleared
8 32 (3.31%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.10%) SC Cleared
10 25 (2.59%) PMI Certification
11 22 (2.28%) PMP
12 18 (1.86%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 16 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.45%) CISM
14 14 (1.45%) Numerate Degree
15 13 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
15 13 (1.34%) OSCP
16 11 (1.14%) GCIH
17 9 (0.93%) CCNP
17 9 (0.93%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (5.79%) QA
2 45 (4.65%) GDPR
3 34 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 28 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (2.69%) NIST
6 22 (2.28%) HIPAA
7 12 (1.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (1.03%) Accessibility
8 10 (1.03%) SLA
9 6 (0.62%) NIST 800
9 6 (0.62%) Software Quality Assurance
10 5 (0.52%) GRC
11 4 (0.41%) CDISC
12 3 (0.31%) COBIT
12 3 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.31%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.31%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.21%) NCSC
14 1 (0.10%) Cyber Essentials
14 1 (0.10%) ITGC
System Software
1 79 (8.17%) Docker
2 41 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.93%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.52%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.31%) vSphere
7 2 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 84 (8.69%) Kubernetes
2 66 (6.83%) Terraform
3 29 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 22 (2.28%) Grafana
5 18 (1.86%) Ansible
6 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.52%) Argo
8 5 (0.52%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
10 3 (0.31%) Puppet
10 3 (0.31%) SCCM
11 2 (0.21%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.21%) Packer
11 2 (0.21%) Progress Chef
11 2 (0.21%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.21%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 1 (0.10%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 1 (0.10%) Istio
12 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 165 (17.06%) Microsoft
2 82 (8.48%) Google
3 50 (5.17%) ServiceNow
4 31 (3.21%) Oracle
5 20 (2.07%) Apple
5 20 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 19 (1.96%) OpenAI
6 19 (1.96%) SAP
6 19 (1.96%) VMware
7 18 (1.86%) Cisco
8 15 (1.55%) Databricks
9 13 (1.34%) Adobe
9 13 (1.34%) New Relic
10 11 (1.14%) Workday
11 10 (1.03%) SolarWinds
12 9 (0.93%) Fortinet
13 8 (0.83%) Red Hat
14 7 (0.72%) CheckPoint
14 7 (0.72%) Omniture
15 6 (0.62%) Bloomberg