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 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 37 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -6 +6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 840 1,537 2,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.57% 6.52% 6.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.84% 7.14% 7.18%
Number of salaries quoted 515 1,071 1,464
10th Percentile £45,950 £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 £98,750 £105,000
90th Percentile £120,750 £126,250 £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 12,274 21,538 33,919
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.03% 91.36% 95.39%
Number of salaries quoted 7,479 16,079 24,258
10th Percentile £42,500 £38,000 £43,750
25th Percentile £56,250 £52,475 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,555 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.30% -5.93% +7.14%
75th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £122,500 £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 30 April 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 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
Central London +7 253 £70,000 -12.50% 84
South London +11 23 £60,000 -23.32% 8
East London +1 13 £54,750 -41.60% 15
West London +35 12 £61,250 -4.30% 46
North London +10 5 £68,500 -10.16% 6
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 25 (2.98%) Apache Spark
2 24 (2.86%) SharePoint
3 19 (2.26%) Confluence
4 13 (1.55%) Apache Airflow
5 9 (1.07%) Apache
6 6 (0.71%) Liferay
7 5 (0.60%) Luigi
7 5 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.48%) SAS
9 3 (0.36%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.24%) Appian
10 2 (0.24%) IIS
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 40 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 16 (1.90%) Chatbot
4 5 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.48%) Maya
5 4 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 2 (0.24%) Blender
8 1 (0.12%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.12%) Final Cut Pro
8 1 (0.12%) Stata
8 1 (0.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.48%) Remedy ITSM
3 3 (0.36%) Endur
4 2 (0.24%) SAP Business One
4 2 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.12%) iTrent
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
Cloud Services
1 229 (27.26%) Azure
2 210 (25.00%) AWS
3 88 (10.48%) GCP
4 74 (8.81%) SaaS
5 64 (7.62%) Power Platform
6 46 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
6 46 (5.48%) Serverless
7 35 (4.17%) GitHub
8 31 (3.69%) Entra ID
9 30 (3.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 27 (3.21%) AWS Lambda
11 26 (3.10%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.98%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.62%) Azure Synapse Analytics
13 22 (2.62%) PaaS
14 19 (2.26%) Dynamics 365
14 19 (2.26%) GitHub Actions
15 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 16 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
17 15 (1.79%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 51 (6.07%) Firewall
2 41 (4.88%) HTTP
3 37 (4.40%) Network Security
4 16 (1.90%) VPN
5 14 (1.67%) DNS
6 11 (1.31%) Multicast
7 9 (1.07%) TCP/IP
8 7 (0.83%) VLAN
8 7 (0.83%) WAN
9 6 (0.71%) Bluetooth
9 6 (0.71%) Wireless
10 5 (0.60%) BGP
10 5 (0.60%) VoIP
11 4 (0.48%) Internet
11 4 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
11 4 (0.48%) ISDN
11 4 (0.48%) LAN
11 4 (0.48%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.36%) DHCP
12 3 (0.36%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 69 (8.21%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.83%) Relational Database
3 45 (5.36%) Power BI
4 40 (4.76%) NoSQL
5 33 (3.93%) Tableau
6 28 (3.33%) DynamoDB
7 27 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
8 26 (3.10%) PostgreSQL
9 24 (2.86%) Amazon Aurora
10 23 (2.74%) MySQL
11 21 (2.50%) Data Lake
12 18 (2.14%) Big Data
13 16 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
14 14 (1.67%) MongoDB
14 14 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 11 (1.31%) Oracle Reports
15 11 (1.31%) Power Query
16 10 (1.19%) Neo4j
17 9 (1.07%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.95%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 81 (9.64%) Git
2 48 (5.71%) JIRA
3 27 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 15 (1.79%) Gradle
5 12 (1.43%) GitLab
6 10 (1.19%) Visual Studio
7 9 (1.07%) SonarQube
8 8 (0.95%) Maven
9 7 (0.83%) SpecFlow
10 6 (0.71%) Moq
11 5 (0.60%) Selenium
12 4 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
12 4 (0.48%) webpack
13 3 (0.36%) JMeter
13 3 (0.36%) TestRail
14 2 (0.24%) Babel
14 2 (0.24%) CircleCI
14 2 (0.24%) Cypress.io
14 2 (0.24%) Plastic SCM
14 2 (0.24%) PowerBuilder
General
1 386 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 266 (31.67%) Finance
3 172 (20.48%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (13.45%) Law
5 88 (10.48%) Banking
6 57 (6.79%) Retail
7 53 (6.31%) Games
8 51 (6.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 44 (5.24%) Legal
10 31 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
11 29 (3.45%) Advertising
12 27 (3.21%) Financial Institution
13 26 (3.10%) Front Office
13 26 (3.10%) Marketing
14 23 (2.74%) Pharmaceutical
14 23 (2.74%) Telecoms
15 16 (1.90%) Public Sector
16 14 (1.67%) Investment Banking
17 12 (1.43%) Manufacturing
17 12 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 190 (22.62%) Senior
2 130 (15.48%) Developer
3 122 (14.52%) Software Engineer
4 118 (14.05%) Analyst
5 92 (10.95%) Architect
6 80 (9.52%) Lead
7 59 (7.02%) Solutions Architect
8 58 (6.90%) Senior Software Engineer
9 42 (5.00%) Data Engineer
10 34 (4.05%) Senior Developer
11 30 (3.57%) IT Manager
12 25 (2.98%) Data Analyst
13 24 (2.86%) Senior Architect
13 24 (2.86%) Senior Solutions Architect
13 24 (2.86%) Support Analyst
14 23 (2.74%) Lead Data Engineer
14 23 (2.74%) Software Developer
15 22 (2.62%) Senior Analyst
16 19 (2.26%) ServiceNow Architect
17 18 (2.14%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (7.74%) React
2 61 (7.26%) .NET
3 57 (6.79%) CSS
4 55 (6.55%) Kafka
5 54 (6.43%) HTML
6 50 (5.95%) AngularJS
7 46 (5.48%) Node.js
8 34 (4.05%) Spring
9 27 (3.21%) Elastic Stack
10 26 (3.10%) RESTful
11 25 (2.98%) REST
11 25 (2.98%) Spring Boot
12 20 (2.38%) HTML5
13 19 (2.26%) .NET Framework
14 18 (2.14%) TensorFlow
15 17 (2.02%) FIX Protocol
15 17 (2.02%) Pandas
16 16 (1.90%) JSON
17 15 (1.79%) ASP.NET
17 15 (1.79%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 110 (13.10%) Management Information System
2 68 (8.10%) Algorithms
3 46 (5.48%) Distributed Systems
4 45 (5.36%) Cloud Native
5 28 (3.33%) Mobile App
6 24 (2.86%) Hedge funds
7 23 (2.74%) Fixed Income
8 21 (2.50%) Equities
8 21 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
8 21 (2.50%) Life Science
8 21 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 21 (2.50%) Robotics
8 21 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (2.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 20 (2.38%) Mobile Games
9 20 (2.38%) Product Ownership
10 17 (2.02%) Derivative
11 16 (1.90%) Security Posture
12 15 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (1.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 97 (11.55%) Linux
2 81 (9.64%) Windows
3 29 (3.45%) Unix
4 19 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 13 (1.55%) Android
6 12 (1.43%) Apple iOS
7 10 (1.19%) Ubuntu
8 7 (0.83%) Windows 10
9 5 (0.60%) Robot Operating System
10 4 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.36%) Rocky
11 3 (0.36%) VMS
11 3 (0.36%) Windows Vista
12 2 (0.24%) CentOS
12 2 (0.24%) Debian
12 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
12 2 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (29.64%) Problem-Solving
2 220 (26.19%) Software Engineering
3 205 (24.40%) Agile
4 169 (20.12%) Analytics
5 138 (16.43%) Data Science
6 128 (15.24%) Mentoring
7 126 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
8 125 (14.88%) Mathematics
9 120 (14.29%) DevOps
10 114 (13.57%) CI/CD
11 112 (13.33%) Roadmaps
12 107 (12.74%) Machine Learning
13 97 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
14 89 (10.60%) Statistics
15 81 (9.64%) Technical Leadership
16 79 (9.40%) Microservices
17 73 (8.69%) Visualisation
18 72 (8.57%) Data Modelling
18 72 (8.57%) SDLC
18 72 (8.57%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 317 (37.74%) Python
2 217 (25.83%) SQL
3 140 (16.67%) Java
4 97 (11.55%) C#
4 97 (11.55%) JavaScript
5 63 (7.50%) C++
6 47 (5.60%) TypeScript
7 44 (5.24%) Scala
8 42 (5.00%) PowerShell
9 28 (3.33%) C
10 26 (3.10%) T-SQL
11 19 (2.26%) Rust
12 18 (2.14%) R
13 16 (1.90%) Bash
13 16 (1.90%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 12 (1.43%) Kotlin
15 10 (1.19%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.19%) Swift
16 9 (1.07%) Go
16 9 (1.07%) PHP
Qualifications
1 733 (87.26%) Degree
2 427 (50.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 172 (20.48%) Master's Degree
4 67 (7.98%) PhD
5 46 (5.48%) CISSP
6 45 (5.36%) Azure Certification
7 33 (3.93%) Security Cleared
8 32 (3.81%) AWS Certification
9 30 (3.57%) SC Cleared
10 24 (2.86%) PMI Certification
11 21 (2.50%) PMP
12 19 (2.26%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 19 (2.26%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (1.79%) CISM
15 13 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
16 12 (1.43%) OSCP
17 10 (1.19%) GCIH
18 9 (1.07%) CCNP
18 9 (1.07%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (6.67%) QA
2 49 (5.83%) GDPR
3 31 (3.69%) Data Quality
4 29 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (3.21%) NIST
6 22 (2.62%) HIPAA
7 16 (1.90%) SLA
8 15 (1.79%) Accessibility
9 12 (1.43%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
11 5 (0.60%) GRC
12 4 (0.48%) CDISC
12 4 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.36%) COBIT
13 3 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.36%) PMO
13 3 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.24%) NCSC
System Software
1 96 (11.43%) Docker
2 45 (5.36%) Active Directory
3 9 (1.07%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.60%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.36%) vSphere
7 2 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.12%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.12%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 98 (11.67%) Kubernetes
2 67 (7.98%) Terraform
3 28 (3.33%) Prometheus
4 20 (2.38%) Ansible
4 20 (2.38%) Grafana
5 6 (0.71%) Argo
5 6 (0.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
7 4 (0.48%) CSIRT
7 4 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
8 3 (0.36%) Puppet
8 3 (0.36%) SCCM
9 2 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 2 (0.24%) Nagios
9 2 (0.24%) Packer
9 2 (0.24%) Progress Chef
9 2 (0.24%) RSA Archer
9 2 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
10 1 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.12%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 173 (20.60%) Microsoft
2 86 (10.24%) Google
3 47 (5.60%) ServiceNow
4 37 (4.40%) Oracle
5 22 (2.62%) Apple
6 19 (2.26%) Cisco
6 19 (2.26%) VMware
7 18 (2.14%) Databricks
7 18 (2.14%) OpenAI
7 18 (2.14%) Salesforce
7 18 (2.14%) SAP
8 15 (1.79%) New Relic
9 13 (1.55%) Adobe
10 11 (1.31%) Workday
11 9 (1.07%) Fortinet
12 8 (0.95%) CheckPoint
12 8 (0.95%) Red Hat
12 8 (0.95%) SolarWinds
13 7 (0.83%) Omniture
14 6 (0.71%) F5