Computer Science Jobs in London

Computer Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 36 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,531 2,416 5,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.50% 6.86% 7.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.12% 7.20% 7.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1,071 1,463 1,858
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £98,750 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £120,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,515 33,562 64,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.30% 95.35% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 16,011 24,064 34,411
10th Percentile £38,000 £43,477 £42,500
25th Percentile £52,000 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 May 2024. 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 +33 271 £80,000 -5.88% 74
South London +4 24 £78,250 +28.60% 14
West London -35 20 £64,000 +5.09% 50
East London +14 9 £93,750 +70.45% 22
North London -9 2 £76,250 +8.93% 5
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
1 114 (7.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 60 (3.92%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.22%) SharePoint
4 30 (1.96%) Apache
5 26 (1.70%) CMS
6 21 (1.37%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (1.18%) Confluence
8 13 (0.85%) SAS
9 12 (0.78%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.52%) Apache Pig
11 7 (0.46%) IIS
11 7 (0.46%) WordPress
12 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
13 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
13 2 (0.13%) Drupal
13 2 (0.13%) Luigi
13 2 (0.13%) Moodle
14 1 (0.065%) Hyperledger
14 1 (0.065%) Umbraco
Applications
1 31 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 14 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.85%) Photoshop
4 8 (0.52%) MS Visio
4 8 (0.52%) SPSS
5 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.20%) Sketch
8 2 (0.13%) InVision
8 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
9 1 (0.065%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.065%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.44%) SDL Web 8
2 17 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.20%) Endur
4 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.065%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.065%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.065%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.065%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.065%) Primavera
6 1 (0.065%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.065%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.065%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.065%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 389 (25.41%) AWS
2 361 (23.58%) Azure
3 161 (10.52%) Microsoft 365
4 140 (9.14%) GCP
5 110 (7.18%) Power Platform
6 75 (4.90%) SaaS
7 57 (3.72%) Serverless
8 56 (3.66%) Cloud Computing
9 37 (2.42%) GitHub
10 35 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
10 35 (2.29%) PowerApps
11 28 (1.83%) Azure DevOps
12 24 (1.57%) Power Automate
13 23 (1.50%) IaaS
13 23 (1.50%) WhatsApp
14 22 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 22 (1.44%) PaaS
15 14 (0.91%) Entra ID
15 14 (0.91%) GitHub Actions
16 13 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.99%) WAN
2 101 (6.60%) Wireless
3 98 (6.40%) WebEx
4 97 (6.34%) Cisco IOS
4 97 (6.34%) SD-WAN
5 46 (3.00%) Network Security
6 33 (2.16%) Firewall
7 23 (1.50%) TCP/IP
8 20 (1.31%) DNS
9 18 (1.18%) VPN
10 17 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.85%) Internet
12 11 (0.72%) LAN
13 10 (0.65%) DHCP
14 9 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
15 6 (0.39%) SAN
16 5 (0.33%) DKIM
16 5 (0.33%) HTTP
17 3 (0.20%) VLAN
17 3 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 157 (10.25%) SQL Server
2 98 (6.40%) Power BI
3 59 (3.85%) Big Data
3 59 (3.85%) Relational Database
4 57 (3.72%) PostgreSQL
5 54 (3.53%) MySQL
5 54 (3.53%) Redis
6 49 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
7 45 (2.94%) Tableau
8 42 (2.74%) NoSQL
9 41 (2.68%) Hadoop
10 31 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 26 (1.70%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 25 (1.63%) Data Lake
12 25 (1.63%) MongoDB
13 20 (1.31%) Apache Hive
14 13 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
14 13 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
14 13 (0.85%) RDBMS
15 12 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 152 (9.93%) Git
2 67 (4.38%) JIRA
3 48 (3.14%) GitLab
4 35 (2.29%) Jenkins
5 30 (1.96%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.83%) Burp Suite
6 28 (1.83%) Metasploit
7 25 (1.63%) Moq
7 25 (1.63%) TeamCity
8 24 (1.57%) NUnit
9 16 (1.05%) JUnit
9 16 (1.05%) Sourcetree
10 15 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
11 14 (0.91%) SpecFlow
12 13 (0.85%) git-flow
13 9 (0.59%) Maven
14 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.52%) Checkstyle
14 8 (0.52%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 778 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 400 (26.13%) Finance
3 330 (21.55%) Analytical Skills
4 95 (6.21%) Marketing
5 83 (5.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 62 (4.05%) Banking
7 55 (3.59%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.46%) Front Office
8 53 (3.46%) Retail
9 51 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
10 40 (2.61%) Legal
11 37 (2.42%) Games
12 34 (2.22%) Law
13 31 (2.02%) Back Office
13 31 (2.02%) Telecoms
14 27 (1.76%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.63%) Electronics
15 25 (1.63%) Investment Banking
16 20 (1.31%) Billing
16 20 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 403 (26.32%) Developer
2 272 (17.77%) Senior
3 173 (11.30%) Lead
4 129 (8.43%) Software Engineer
5 120 (7.84%) Analyst
6 110 (7.18%) Architect
7 104 (6.79%) IT Support
8 100 (6.53%) Senior Developer
8 100 (6.53%) Support Specialist
9 99 (6.47%) IT Support Specialist
10 67 (4.38%) Java Developer
11 56 (3.66%) Data Scientist
12 51 (3.33%) C# Developer
12 51 (3.33%) Data Engineer
12 51 (3.33%) Full Stack Developer
13 48 (3.14%) .NET Developer
14 47 (3.07%) Software Developer
15 42 (2.74%) Senior Software Engineer
16 35 (2.29%) Junior
16 35 (2.29%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 217 (14.17%) .NET
2 143 (9.34%) HTML
3 141 (9.21%) CSS
4 127 (8.30%) React
5 77 (5.03%) ASP.NET
6 63 (4.11%) AngularJS
6 63 (4.11%) Web Services
7 58 (3.79%) Spring
8 57 (3.72%) Kafka
8 57 (3.72%) REST
9 56 (3.66%) RESTful
10 51 (3.33%) .NET Framework
11 41 (2.68%) ASP.NET MVC
11 41 (2.68%) HTML5
11 41 (2.68%) XML
12 40 (2.61%) .NET Core
12 40 (2.61%) SOAP
13 39 (2.55%) Node.js
13 39 (2.55%) TensorFlow
14 37 (2.42%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 137 (8.95%) Algorithms
2 124 (8.10%) Management Information System
3 101 (6.60%) Data Structures
4 99 (6.47%) Video Conferencing
5 97 (6.34%) Wiki
6 88 (5.75%) Greenfield Project
7 86 (5.62%) Client/Server
8 75 (4.90%) Self-Motivation
9 48 (3.14%) Hedge funds
10 46 (3.00%) Onboarding
11 44 (2.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 43 (2.81%) Product Ownership
13 33 (2.16%) Security Posture
14 32 (2.09%) Distributed Systems
15 31 (2.02%) Fixed Income
15 31 (2.02%) Virtual Team
16 27 (1.76%) Blockchain
17 26 (1.70%) IoT
18 25 (1.63%) Cyber Threat
18 25 (1.63%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 199 (13.00%) Windows
2 136 (8.88%) Linux
3 112 (7.32%) Windows 10
4 111 (7.25%) Android
5 37 (2.42%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.83%) Kali Linux
7 19 (1.24%) Apple iOS
7 19 (1.24%) Unix
8 11 (0.72%) Mac OS
8 11 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
8 11 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
9 4 (0.26%) Mac OS X
10 3 (0.20%) CentOS
11 1 (0.065%) Debian
11 1 (0.065%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.065%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.065%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.065%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 531 (34.68%) Problem-Solving
2 376 (24.56%) Software Engineering
3 372 (24.30%) Agile
4 228 (14.89%) Mathematics
5 226 (14.76%) Machine Learning
6 209 (13.65%) Data Science
7 186 (12.15%) Analytics
8 176 (11.50%) Artificial Intelligence
9 164 (10.71%) DevOps
10 155 (10.12%) Mentoring
11 146 (9.54%) Statistics
12 143 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
13 134 (8.75%) CI/CD
14 128 (8.36%) Full Stack Development
15 125 (8.16%) Business Intelligence
16 119 (7.77%) Roadmaps
17 115 (7.51%) Fintech
17 115 (7.51%) Microservices
18 110 (7.18%) Data Analysis
18 110 (7.18%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 435 (28.41%) Python
2 390 (25.47%) SQL
3 302 (19.73%) C#
4 226 (14.76%) Java
5 215 (14.04%) JavaScript
6 77 (5.03%) C++
7 75 (4.90%) TypeScript
8 54 (3.53%) R
9 52 (3.40%) PowerShell
10 44 (2.87%) C
11 43 (2.81%) T-SQL
12 37 (2.42%) PHP
13 34 (2.22%) Scala
14 27 (1.76%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.63%) Go
16 20 (1.31%) XPath
17 17 (1.11%) Bash
17 17 (1.11%) MATLAB
18 14 (0.91%) Rust
19 12 (0.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1,345 (87.85%) Degree
2 839 (54.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 394 (25.73%) Master's Degree
4 78 (5.09%) CISSP
4 78 (5.09%) PhD
5 59 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 57 (3.72%) CISM
7 45 (2.94%) Security Cleared
8 37 (2.42%) SC Cleared
9 28 (1.83%) Azure Certification
10 26 (1.70%) AWS Certification
10 26 (1.70%) CISA
11 23 (1.50%) Cisco Certification
12 19 (1.24%) Numerate Degree
13 18 (1.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 16 (1.05%) PMI Certification
15 14 (0.91%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
16 13 (0.85%) PMP
17 11 (0.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 11 (0.72%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.49%) QA
2 54 (3.53%) Data Quality
3 39 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 37 (2.42%) GDPR
5 31 (2.02%) NIST
6 19 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.65%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.59%) SLA
10 7 (0.46%) HIPAA
11 6 (0.39%) COBIT
12 5 (0.33%) GRC
13 4 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
13 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
13 4 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
13 4 (0.26%) NCSC
13 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 3 (0.20%) CDISC
15 2 (0.13%) SNOMED CT
15 2 (0.13%) WAI
System Software
1 133 (8.69%) Active Directory
2 132 (8.62%) Docker
3 98 (6.40%) VMware ESXi
4 97 (6.34%) Microsoft App-V
4 97 (6.34%) XenApp
4 97 (6.34%) XenDesktop
5 16 (1.05%) VMware Infrastructure
6 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
7 10 (0.65%) HDFS
8 9 (0.59%) Hyper-V
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) KVM
10 2 (0.13%) LXC
10 2 (0.13%) NFS
11 1 (0.065%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 102 (6.66%) SCCM
2 97 (6.34%) AirWatch
3 86 (5.62%) Kubernetes
4 68 (4.44%) Terraform
5 20 (1.31%) Ansible
6 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.46%) Kubeflow
8 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (0.33%) Argo
9 5 (0.33%) Grafana
10 4 (0.26%) CASB
10 4 (0.26%) DatAdvantage
10 4 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.26%) QRadar
11 3 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
11 3 (0.20%) Prometheus
12 2 (0.13%) cPanel
12 2 (0.13%) Graphite
12 2 (0.13%) PaperCut
Vendors
1 330 (21.55%) Microsoft
2 119 (7.77%) Cisco
3 98 (6.40%) Citrix
4 79 (5.16%) Google
5 37 (2.42%) Oracle
6 28 (1.83%) SAP
7 24 (1.57%) Adobe
8 23 (1.50%) Databricks
9 21 (1.37%) VMware
10 13 (0.85%) Cognizant
11 11 (0.72%) Charles River
11 11 (0.72%) Salesforce
11 11 (0.72%) Splunk
12 9 (0.59%) Apple
12 9 (0.59%) MuleSoft
13 8 (0.52%) Atlassian
13 8 (0.52%) OpenAI
14 7 (0.46%) Bloomberg
15 6 (0.39%) Alteryx
15 6 (0.39%) Sybase