Computer Science Degree Job Trends 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 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 103 89
Rank change year-on-year -21 -14 +50
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 20 45 77
As % of all permanent jobs in Scotland 0.72% 1.47% 3.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.55% 6.24% 13.77%
Number of salaries quoted 11 21 65
10th Percentile £45,000 £36,250 £43,000
25th Percentile £45,625 £41,250 £48,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £52,865 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +22.95% -11.89% +13.74%
75th Percentile £85,700 £87,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - £91,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 563 721 559
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 20.38% 23.59% 22.48%
Number of salaries quoted 229 268 376
10th Percentile £26,450 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £42,500 £39,714
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.09% +4.76% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £68,114 £65,063
90th Percentile £83,000 £80,000 £78,857
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

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 9 December 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
Glasgow +2 10 £51,250 -39.71% 6
Edinburgh -20 4 £55,500 +9.90% 10
East Ayrshire - 3 £85,700 -
South Ayrshire - 2 £85,700 -
Moray - 1 - -
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) MS Visio
1 1 (5.00%) Weka
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
1 5 (25.00%) GitHub
1 5 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 802.11
1 1 (5.00%) BGP
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
1 1 (5.00%) HSRP
1 1 (5.00%) IPsec
1 1 (5.00%) OSPF
1 1 (5.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (5.00%) VPN
1 1 (5.00%) WAN
1 1 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Git
1 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Back Office
3 2 (10.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Developer
2 6 (30.00%) Architect
2 6 (30.00%) Software Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Oracle Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) React Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Java Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) SaaS Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (5.00%) Information Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) IT Director
6 1 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Lead Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Security Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Oracle Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Middleware
2 4 (20.00%) Spring
3 3 (15.00%) Hibernate
3 3 (15.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (10.00%) XML
5 1 (5.00%) 802.1X
5 1 (5.00%) ADO
5 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) jQuery
5 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
5 1 (5.00%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.00%) NHS
3 1 (5.00%) Cyberattack
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (55.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (45.00%) Design Patterns
4 9 (45.00%) DevOps
4 9 (45.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) Configuration Management
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (35.00%) SDLC
6 6 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
6 6 (30.00%) Open Source
6 6 (30.00%) UML
6 6 (30.00%) Waterfall
7 5 (25.00%) AI
7 5 (25.00%) Analytics
7 5 (25.00%) OOP
7 5 (25.00%) Risk Management
8 4 (20.00%) CI/CD
8 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
9 3 (15.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) C#
4 2 (10.00%) C
5 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (30.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 6 (30.00%) Chartered Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) CISM
3 2 (10.00%) CISSP
4 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) CCNP
4 1 (5.00%) CEH
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) CSSLP
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (10.00%) ISO 9001
4 1 (5.00%) GxP
4 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
1 1 (5.00%) Firmware
1 1 (5.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Oracle
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco