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 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 32 30 34
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 978 1,521 2,278
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 7.65% 6.33% 7.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.95% 7.01% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 442 1,049 1,426
10th Percentile £46,250 £41,250 £45,000
25th Percentile £56,250 £57,500 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £76,250 £75,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -6.25% +6.67%
75th Percentile £100,000 £97,500 £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 12,300 21,691 30,657
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 96.24% 90.27% 95.26%
Number of salaries quoted 6,989 15,892 22,392
10th Percentile £41,750 £37,500 £42,750
25th Percentile £55,500 £51,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £70,000 £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 £116,250
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 31 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 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
Central London -1 245 £70,000 -12.50% 91
West London +55 80 £61,250 -4.30% 48
South London +37 76 £60,000 -17.24% 8
North London +6 22 £68,500 -10.16% 5
East London -8 18 £78,500 -16.27% 22
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 (2.45%) Apache Spark
2 20 (2.04%) Confluence
2 20 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.64%) Apache Airflow
4 10 (1.02%) Apache
5 5 (0.51%) Liferay
5 5 (0.51%) Luigi
6 4 (0.41%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.41%) nginx
6 4 (0.41%) SAS
7 2 (0.20%) IIS
7 2 (0.20%) Jupyter
Applications
1 35 (3.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 24 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
3 17 (1.74%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.31%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.20%) Blender
6 2 (0.20%) Maya
6 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.20%) Sketch
7 1 (0.10%) Camtasia
7 1 (0.10%) Final Cut Pro
7 1 (0.10%) Stata
7 1 (0.10%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 3 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (0.31%) Endur
2 3 (0.31%) SAP Business One
2 3 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.10%) Adaptiv
4 1 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.10%) iTrent
4 1 (0.10%) Magento
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
1 207 (21.17%) Azure
2 173 (17.69%) AWS
3 78 (7.98%) GCP
4 65 (6.65%) SaaS
5 63 (6.44%) Power Platform
6 40 (4.09%) Serverless
7 36 (3.68%) Microsoft 365
8 32 (3.27%) GitHub
9 31 (3.17%) Entra ID
10 29 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 26 (2.66%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (2.56%) Cloud Computing
13 22 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (2.15%) Dynamics 365
15 20 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
16 18 (1.84%) PaaS
17 17 (1.74%) GitHub Actions
18 16 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
18 16 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 208 (21.27%) Broadband
2 48 (4.91%) Firewall
3 31 (3.17%) HTTP
4 30 (3.07%) Network Security
5 16 (1.64%) VPN
6 10 (1.02%) DNS
6 10 (1.02%) Multicast
7 8 (0.82%) WAN
8 7 (0.72%) VLAN
9 6 (0.61%) VoIP
10 5 (0.51%) BGP
10 5 (0.51%) Internet
10 5 (0.51%) TCP/IP
11 4 (0.41%) ISDN
11 4 (0.41%) LAN
11 4 (0.41%) Unified Communications
12 3 (0.31%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.31%) DHCP
12 3 (0.31%) SAN
12 3 (0.31%) Telnet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 57 (5.83%) SQL Server
2 46 (4.70%) Relational Database
3 38 (3.89%) Power BI
4 31 (3.17%) Data Warehouse
5 30 (3.07%) NoSQL
6 28 (2.86%) Tableau
7 25 (2.56%) Data Lake
8 21 (2.15%) PostgreSQL
9 20 (2.04%) MySQL
10 14 (1.43%) Big Data
10 14 (1.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 13 (1.33%) MongoDB
12 12 (1.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 12 (1.23%) Power Query
13 10 (1.02%) DynamoDB
13 10 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
14 8 (0.82%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.82%) KDB
14 8 (0.82%) Neo4j
15 7 (0.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 74 (7.57%) Git
2 46 (4.70%) JIRA
3 27 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.43%) Gradle
5 9 (0.92%) Visual Studio
6 8 (0.82%) GitLab
6 8 (0.82%) Maven
6 8 (0.82%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.72%) SpecFlow
8 6 (0.61%) Moq
8 6 (0.61%) webpack
9 4 (0.41%) Babel
10 3 (0.31%) Cypress.io
10 3 (0.31%) gulp
10 3 (0.31%) PowerBuilder
10 3 (0.31%) Selenium
11 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.20%) JMeter
11 2 (0.20%) Subversion
11 2 (0.20%) WebDriver
General
1 542 (55.42%) Social Skills
2 253 (25.87%) Finance
3 168 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 137 (14.01%) Law
5 90 (9.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 78 (7.98%) Banking
7 68 (6.95%) Games
8 44 (4.50%) Retail
9 41 (4.19%) Legal
10 39 (3.99%) Marketing
11 29 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (2.76%) Multimedia
13 22 (2.25%) Front Office
13 22 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 19 (1.94%) Investment Banking
15 18 (1.84%) Advertising
15 18 (1.84%) Telecoms
16 12 (1.23%) Organisational Skills
16 12 (1.23%) Public Sector
17 8 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 210 (21.47%) Senior
2 184 (18.81%) Lead
3 119 (12.17%) Developer
4 115 (11.76%) Analyst
5 111 (11.35%) Software Engineer
6 93 (9.51%) Architect
7 64 (6.54%) Solutions Architect
8 57 (5.83%) Engineering Manager
9 55 (5.62%) Senior Software Engineer
9 55 (5.62%) Systems Engineer
10 43 (4.40%) Data Engineer
11 36 (3.68%) Senior Manager
12 35 (3.58%) Senior Developer
13 34 (3.48%) Lead Software Engineer
13 34 (3.48%) Senior Architect
13 34 (3.48%) Senior Solutions Architect
14 30 (3.07%) ServiceNow Architect
15 27 (2.76%) Team Leader
16 26 (2.66%) IT Manager
17 25 (2.56%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.52%) CSS
2 53 (5.42%) HTML
3 49 (5.01%) Kafka
4 48 (4.91%) .NET
5 47 (4.81%) React
6 30 (3.07%) REST
7 25 (2.56%) AngularJS
8 24 (2.45%) Node.js
9 23 (2.35%) FIX Protocol
10 20 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
10 20 (2.04%) RESTful
11 19 (1.94%) HTML5
12 18 (1.84%) .NET Framework
13 14 (1.43%) ARM Templates
13 14 (1.43%) OAuth
14 12 (1.23%) ASP.NET
14 12 (1.23%) Pandas
14 12 (1.23%) pytest
15 11 (1.12%) JSON
16 10 (1.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 123 (12.58%) Management Information System
2 61 (6.24%) Algorithms
3 52 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 46 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 35 (3.58%) Distributed Systems
6 25 (2.56%) Equities
6 25 (2.56%) Video\Live Streaming
7 23 (2.35%) Fixed Income
8 22 (2.25%) Derivative
9 21 (2.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 21 (2.15%) Legacy Systems
10 20 (2.04%) Hedge funds
11 18 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.84%) Life Science
11 18 (1.84%) Mobile App
11 18 (1.84%) Onboarding
11 18 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.74%) Mobile Games
13 16 (1.64%) Robotics
14 14 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 83 (8.49%) Linux
2 70 (7.16%) Windows
3 26 (2.66%) Unix
4 13 (1.33%) Windows Server
5 10 (1.02%) Android
5 10 (1.02%) Apple iOS
6 9 (0.92%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.31%) Robot Operating System
8 3 (0.31%) Rocky
8 3 (0.31%) VMS
8 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 3 (0.31%) Windows Vista
9 2 (0.20%) CentOS
9 2 (0.20%) Debian
9 2 (0.20%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (43.46%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (32.82%) Roadmaps
3 278 (28.43%) Mentoring
4 232 (23.72%) Software Engineering
5 220 (22.49%) Product Management
6 212 (21.68%) High Availability
7 197 (20.14%) Agile
8 183 (18.71%) Broadcast Engineering
9 150 (15.34%) Artificial Intelligence
10 149 (15.24%) Analytics
11 145 (14.83%) Mathematics
12 129 (13.19%) Data Science
12 129 (13.19%) DevOps
13 120 (12.27%) CI/CD
14 109 (11.15%) Machine Learning
15 91 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
16 83 (8.49%) User Experience
17 77 (7.87%) SDLC
17 77 (7.87%) Statistics
18 74 (7.57%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 281 (28.73%) Python
2 192 (19.63%) SQL
3 115 (11.76%) Java
4 84 (8.59%) JavaScript
5 74 (7.57%) C#
6 57 (5.83%) C++
7 46 (4.70%) TypeScript
8 39 (3.99%) PowerShell
9 36 (3.68%) Scala
10 23 (2.35%) T-SQL
11 22 (2.25%) C
12 17 (1.74%) Rust
13 16 (1.64%) R
14 14 (1.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 12 (1.23%) Bash
16 9 (0.92%) PL/SQL
16 9 (0.92%) Swift
17 8 (0.82%) Go
17 8 (0.82%) Kotlin
18 7 (0.72%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 871 (89.06%) Degree
2 589 (60.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 161 (16.46%) Master's Degree
4 60 (6.13%) PhD
5 52 (5.32%) Azure Certification
6 35 (3.58%) CISSP
7 33 (3.37%) Security Cleared
8 30 (3.07%) SC Cleared
9 28 (2.86%) AWS Certification
10 26 (2.66%) PMI Certification
11 23 (2.35%) PMP
12 18 (1.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 15 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.43%) Numerate Degree
15 12 (1.23%) OSCP
16 11 (1.12%) DBS Check
16 11 (1.12%) GCIH
17 10 (1.02%) CISM
18 9 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
18 9 (0.92%) GCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (6.24%) QA
2 43 (4.40%) GDPR
3 32 (3.27%) Data Quality
4 29 (2.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 25 (2.56%) NIST
6 21 (2.15%) HIPAA
7 12 (1.23%) Accessibility
8 11 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 8 (0.82%) SLA
10 6 (0.61%) GRC
10 6 (0.61%) NIST 800
10 6 (0.61%) Software Quality Assurance
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
13 2 (0.20%) NCSC
13 2 (0.20%) SOC 2
14 1 (0.10%) ITGC
14 1 (0.10%) SOC 1
System Software
1 68 (6.95%) Docker
2 35 (3.58%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (0.31%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.31%) vSphere
6 2 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.10%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 75 (7.67%) Terraform
2 71 (7.26%) Kubernetes
3 29 (2.97%) Prometheus
4 24 (2.45%) Grafana
5 19 (1.94%) Ansible
6 7 (0.72%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (0.51%) Argo
8 5 (0.51%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.31%) Puppet
9 3 (0.31%) RSA Archer
10 2 (0.20%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 2 (0.20%) Failover Clustering
10 2 (0.20%) Packer
10 2 (0.20%) Progress Chef
10 2 (0.20%) SCCM
10 2 (0.20%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 1 (0.10%) Bugsnag
11 1 (0.10%) Istio
11 1 (0.10%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 159 (16.26%) Microsoft
2 81 (8.28%) ServiceNow
3 67 (6.85%) Google
4 32 (3.27%) Oracle
5 20 (2.04%) Salesforce
5 20 (2.04%) SAP
6 18 (1.84%) OpenAI
7 16 (1.64%) Adobe
7 16 (1.64%) Apple
8 15 (1.53%) Cisco
8 15 (1.53%) Databricks
9 13 (1.33%) New Relic
9 13 (1.33%) VMware
10 12 (1.23%) SolarWinds
11 11 (1.12%) Workday
12 8 (0.82%) Red Hat
13 7 (0.72%) Omniture
13 7 (0.72%) Splunk
14 6 (0.61%) Bloomberg
14 6 (0.61%) Fortinet