Computer Science Degree Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 146 93 134
Rank change year-on-year -53 +41 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 112 128 122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.97% 3.37% 2.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.29% 10.17% 7.17%
Number of salaries quoted 50 73 13
10th Percentile £36,000 £39,750 -
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,800 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.32% +5.74% +12.20%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £84,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 992 1,258 1,701
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.41% 33.16% 27.93%
Number of salaries quoted 467 426 550
10th Percentile £27,950 £29,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,091 £32,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,629
90th Percentile £81,550 £79,375 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Glasgow -58 61 £85,000 +54.55% 5
Edinburgh +6 27 £67,875 -3.04% 5
Aberdeen -1 12 £40,500 -32.95%
Lanarkshire -7 5 £42,500 -5.56% 3
Dundee -2 4 - -
Stirling - 1 £47,500 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 4
Renfrewshire - 1 £52,500 - 1
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (25.89%) FileNet
2 3 (2.68%) IIS
3 2 (1.79%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.89%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 9 (8.04%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (29.46%) Amazon S3
2 31 (27.68%) GitHub
3 17 (15.18%) AWS
4 14 (12.50%) Azure
5 7 (6.25%) Amazon MSK
5 7 (6.25%) Datadog
5 7 (6.25%) GCP
6 6 (5.36%) Cloud Computing
7 5 (4.46%) Serverless
8 4 (3.57%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.57%) SaaS
9 3 (2.68%) MailChimp
9 3 (2.68%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.68%) Route 53
9 3 (2.68%) Zapier
10 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.89%) ChatGPT
10 1 (0.89%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 11 (9.82%) Network Security
2 8 (7.14%) LAN
2 8 (7.14%) WAN
3 5 (4.46%) Wireless
4 3 (2.68%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (2.68%) DHCP
4 3 (2.68%) DNS
4 3 (2.68%) VLAN
4 3 (2.68%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (1.79%) Firewall
5 2 (1.79%) SAN
5 2 (1.79%) VPN
6 1 (0.89%) HTTP
6 1 (0.89%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (27.68%) NoSQL
2 29 (25.89%) Apache Cassandra
2 29 (25.89%) Elasticsearch
3 15 (13.39%) SQL Server
4 11 (9.82%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (9.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (7.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (5.36%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (4.46%) OLAP
7 5 (4.46%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 3 (2.68%) MySQL
8 3 (2.68%) Oracle Database
8 3 (2.68%) Power BI
9 2 (1.79%) Hadoop
9 2 (1.79%) Relational Database
10 1 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
10 1 (0.89%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.89%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.89%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 32 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 29 (25.89%) Jasmine
2 29 (25.89%) JUnit
2 29 (25.89%) Mockito
3 11 (9.82%) Git
4 3 (2.68%) GitLab
4 3 (2.68%) JMeter
4 3 (2.68%) Selenium
5 2 (1.79%) Oracle APEX
6 1 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.89%) Postman
General
1 50 (44.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 47 (41.96%) Finance
3 43 (38.39%) Law
4 38 (33.93%) Social Skills
5 24 (21.43%) Marketing
6 17 (15.18%) Legal
7 10 (8.93%) Manufacturing
8 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
9 7 (6.25%) Banking
10 5 (4.46%) Public Sector
11 4 (3.57%) Financial Institution
12 3 (2.68%) Front Office
12 3 (2.68%) Games
12 3 (2.68%) Investment Banking
13 2 (1.79%) Local Government
14 1 (0.89%) Electronics
14 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 49 (43.75%) Software Engineer
2 19 (16.96%) Developer
3 11 (9.82%) Database Engineer
4 10 (8.93%) Senior
5 9 (8.04%) Lead
6 8 (7.14%) Senior Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) C Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Data Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Lead Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Senior C Software Engineer
7 7 (6.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 6 (5.36%) Full Stack Developer
9 5 (4.46%) Full Stack Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Full Stack Software Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Java Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Java Software Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Principal Engineer
9 5 (4.46%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (33.93%) Spring
2 37 (33.04%) Kafka
3 36 (32.14%) React
4 32 (28.57%) AngularJS
5 29 (25.89%) GraphQL
5 29 (25.89%) Hibernate
5 29 (25.89%) J2EE
5 29 (25.89%) Spring Integration
6 8 (7.14%) JPA
7 5 (4.46%) .NET
7 5 (4.46%) CSS
7 5 (4.46%) HTML
8 4 (3.57%) Django
9 3 (2.68%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.68%) RESTful
9 3 (2.68%) Web Services
10 2 (1.79%) DPDK
10 2 (1.79%) OpenCV
10 2 (1.79%) OpenVINO
10 2 (1.79%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 30 (26.79%) Cloud Native
2 11 (9.82%) Algorithms
3 8 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (6.25%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.57%) Data Centre
5 4 (3.57%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (2.68%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.79%) IoT
7 2 (1.79%) PKI
7 2 (1.79%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.89%) Arduino
8 1 (0.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.89%) Raspberry Pi
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.29%) Linux
2 11 (9.82%) Windows
3 4 (3.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (3.57%) Ubuntu
4 3 (2.68%) Android
4 3 (2.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (96.43%) Computer Science
2 51 (45.54%) Software Engineering
3 47 (41.96%) Agile
4 43 (38.39%) SDLC
5 38 (33.93%) Machine Learning
6 36 (32.14%) CI/CD
7 34 (30.36%) Artificial Intelligence
8 32 (28.57%) Decision-Making
9 30 (26.79%) Microservices
9 30 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
10 29 (25.89%) AOP
10 29 (25.89%) Document Management
10 29 (25.89%) Regtech
10 29 (25.89%) Unit Testing
11 26 (23.21%) Full Stack Development
12 13 (11.61%) ETL
13 12 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 12 (10.71%) Performance Optimisation
14 10 (8.93%) Analytics
14 10 (8.93%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (50.00%) SQL
2 45 (40.18%) Java
3 16 (14.29%) Python
4 12 (10.71%) C++
4 12 (10.71%) T-SQL
5 9 (8.04%) JavaScript
6 7 (6.25%) C
6 7 (6.25%) C#
7 5 (4.46%) PowerShell
7 5 (4.46%) VBA
8 4 (3.57%) PL/SQL
9 3 (2.68%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.89%) Go
10 1 (0.89%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.89%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.89%) PHP
10 1 (0.89%) VB
Qualifications
1 112 (100.00%) Degree
2 43 (38.39%) Master's Degree
3 6 (5.36%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.57%) CCNA
4 4 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.68%) OCP
5 3 (2.68%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (2.68%) PhD
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.36%) QA
2 2 (1.79%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.89%) GDPR
System Software
1 13 (11.61%) Docker
2 5 (4.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.79%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.89%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 45 (40.18%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.57%) Ansible
2 4 (3.57%) Terraform
3 3 (2.68%) Autotask
Vendors
1 33 (29.46%) Oracle
2 15 (13.39%) Microsoft
3 10 (8.93%) Splunk
4 7 (6.25%) Cisco
4 7 (6.25%) Google
5 5 (4.46%) VMware
6 4 (3.57%) Juniper
6 4 (3.57%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.68%) Apple
7 3 (2.68%) Facebook
7 3 (2.68%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.89%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.89%) NVIDIA
8 1 (0.89%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.89%) SAP