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 12 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 145 93
Rank change year-on-year +2 -52 +41
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 27 128 129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.83% 1.99% 3.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.63% 11.46% 9.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15 58 70
10th Percentile £41,750 £32,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £43,875 £39,750 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -1.32% +1.33%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £90,375 £80,500
UK median annual salary £63,150 £57,500 £60,899
% change year-on-year +9.83% -5.58% +5.91%

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 1,027 1,117 1,317
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 31.46% 17.36% 32.46%
Number of salaries quoted 525 525 434
10th Percentile £31,750 £27,500 £28,825
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,700 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% - +9.26%
75th Percentile £60,265 £66,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £81,250 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +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 12 July 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 12 July 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
Edinburgh +6 12 £51,914 -25.30% 25
Glasgow +80 9 £72,000 -15.29% 16
Aberdeen +17 2 - - 2
Fife - 1 £52,500 - 2
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 2 (7.41%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 11 (40.74%) Azure
2 8 (29.63%) AWS
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (18.52%) Amazon S3
3 5 (18.52%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (18.52%) Serverless
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (14.81%) Amazon MSK
4 4 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (14.81%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (7.41%) AWS IoT
6 2 (7.41%) Entra ID
6 2 (7.41%) GitHub
6 2 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 2 (7.41%) SaaS
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (3.70%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.41%) Bluetooth
1 2 (7.41%) DHCP
1 2 (7.41%) DNS
1 2 (7.41%) Ethernet
1 2 (7.41%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (7.41%) Modbus
1 2 (7.41%) MQTT
2 1 (3.70%) 802.11
2 1 (3.70%) BGP
2 1 (3.70%) Firewall
2 1 (3.70%) HSRP
2 1 (3.70%) IPsec
2 1 (3.70%) OSPF
2 1 (3.70%) SD-WAN
2 1 (3.70%) VPN
2 1 (3.70%) WAN
2 1 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (14.81%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (14.81%) Electronic Patient Records
2 2 (7.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.70%) Flink
3 1 (3.70%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.70%) MySQL
3 1 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (22.22%) Git
2 4 (14.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (14.81%) Maven
3 3 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 10 (37.04%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (33.33%) Finance
4 6 (22.22%) Law
5 4 (14.81%) Banking
5 4 (14.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
6 3 (11.11%) Agriculture
6 3 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (11.11%) Electronics
6 3 (11.11%) Manufacturing
6 3 (11.11%) Marketing
6 3 (11.11%) Public Sector
7 2 (7.41%) Back Office
8 1 (3.70%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (3.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Developer
2 9 (33.33%) Software Engineer
3 7 (25.93%) Java Developer
4 6 (22.22%) Software Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Embedded Engineer
5 5 (18.52%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (14.81%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (14.81%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 4 (14.81%) Java Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) Java Software Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (14.81%) React Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Senior
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Consultant
8 2 (7.41%) Dynamics NAV Developer
8 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.81%) AngularJS
1 4 (14.81%) HTML
1 4 (14.81%) jQuery
1 4 (14.81%) React
1 4 (14.81%) Spring
1 4 (14.81%) Spring Boot
2 2 (7.41%) XML
3 1 (3.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (3.70%) ADO
3 1 (3.70%) ARM Templates
3 1 (3.70%) GraphQL
3 1 (3.70%) gRPC
3 1 (3.70%) Node.js
3 1 (3.70%) REST
3 1 (3.70%) RESTful
3 1 (3.70%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (11.11%) IoT
2 3 (11.11%) Life Science
2 3 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (11.11%) Virtual Team
3 2 (7.41%) Algorithms
3 2 (7.41%) ARM Cortex
3 2 (7.41%) NHS
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.70%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.70%) Cyberattack
4 1 (3.70%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
4 1 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.70%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 16 (59.26%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (48.15%) Software Engineering
4 11 (40.74%) Agile
5 8 (29.63%) Scrum
6 7 (25.93%) DevOps
7 6 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 5 (18.52%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (18.52%) CI/CD
9 4 (14.81%) Code Quality
9 4 (14.81%) Front End Development
9 4 (14.81%) Kanban
9 4 (14.81%) Mentoring
9 4 (14.81%) Performance Tuning
9 4 (14.81%) Strategic Planning
9 4 (14.81%) System Integration Testing
9 4 (14.81%) TDD
9 4 (14.81%) User Acceptance Testing
10 3 (11.11%) Digital Marketing
10 3 (11.11%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (48.15%) Java
2 11 (40.74%) C++
3 7 (25.93%) C
3 7 (25.93%) Python
4 5 (18.52%) JavaScript
5 3 (11.11%) C#
5 3 (11.11%) PowerShell
6 2 (7.41%) Bash
7 1 (3.70%) Bicep
7 1 (3.70%) Kotlin
7 1 (3.70%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (14.81%) SC Cleared
2 4 (14.81%) Security Cleared
3 2 (7.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (7.41%) Master's Degree
3 2 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (3.70%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.70%) CCNA
4 1 (3.70%) CCNP
4 1 (3.70%) CEH
4 1 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.70%) CISM
4 1 (3.70%) CISSP
4 1 (3.70%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (7.41%) ISO 9001
2 2 (7.41%) JTAG
3 1 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (3.70%) GDPR
3 1 (3.70%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Firmware
2 2 (7.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.41%) Docker
2 2 (7.41%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (7.41%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.41%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.70%) Ansible
3 1 (3.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.81%) Oracle
3 3 (11.11%) SAP
4 2 (7.41%) Google
4 2 (7.41%) NVIDIA
5 1 (3.70%) Cisco