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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 164 97
Rank change year-on-year +24 -67 +77
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 20 128 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.67% 1.91% 2.84%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.55% 10.59% 9.24%
Number of salaries quoted 13 58 55
10th Percentile £41,500 £32,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,563 £43,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% +4.55% -
75th Percentile £61,250 £74,688 £70,000
90th Percentile - £80,600 £77,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.48% +1.50%

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 1,288 1,209 1,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 42.88% 18.02% 30.69%
Number of salaries quoted 636 542 427
10th Percentile £37,574 £26,700 £28,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £34,680 £38,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.66% +15.22%
75th Percentile £60,265 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £80,000 £77,715
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +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 22 May 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 22 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
Edinburgh +7 9 £51,914 -20.13% 37
Glasgow +118 6 £72,000 +2.86% 29
Aberdeen +14 2 - - 17
Fife - 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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (45.00%) Azure
2 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (10.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (10.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.00%) Serverless
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon EMR
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon MSK
5 1 (5.00%) Amazon SageMaker
5 1 (5.00%) AWS IoT
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) DHCP
1 2 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (5.00%) Bluetooth
2 1 (5.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (5.00%) LoRaWAN
2 1 (5.00%) Modbus
2 1 (5.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) MySQL
1 2 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (5.00%) Flink
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (10.00%) Git
2 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) GitLab
3 1 (5.00%) Maven
General
1 10 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Law
4 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
5 2 (10.00%) Agriculture
5 2 (10.00%) Electronics
5 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (5.00%) Banking
6 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.00%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 5 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Embedded Software Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 4 (20.00%) Senior
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Senior Java Developer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (5.00%) C++ Developer
6 1 (5.00%) C++ Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Computer Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Consultant
6 1 (5.00%) Database Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Software Developer
6 1 (5.00%) Java Software Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Platform Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Programmer
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.00%) gRPC
2 1 (5.00%) HTML
2 1 (5.00%) jQuery
2 1 (5.00%) Node.js
2 1 (5.00%) OpenCV
2 1 (5.00%) OpenVINO
2 1 (5.00%) React
2 1 (5.00%) REST
2 1 (5.00%) Spring
2 1 (5.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Life Science
1 3 (15.00%) Self-Motivation
1 3 (15.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (10.00%) Algorithms
2 2 (10.00%) IoT
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) ARM Cortex
3 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.00%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (5.00%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
2 2 (10.00%) Linux
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (45.00%) Software Engineering
4 7 (35.00%) Agile
5 5 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 5 (25.00%) Scrum
6 4 (20.00%) DevOps
7 3 (15.00%) Code Quality
7 3 (15.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
7 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
8 2 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (10.00%) Computer Vision
8 2 (10.00%) Containerisation
8 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (10.00%) Data Science
8 2 (10.00%) Decision-Making
8 2 (10.00%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (10.00%) Machine Learning
8 2 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (10.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 11 (55.00%) C++
2 8 (40.00%) Java
3 7 (35.00%) Python
4 4 (20.00%) C
5 3 (15.00%) PowerShell
6 2 (10.00%) Bash
6 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (5.00%) Bicep
7 1 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 20 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (15.00%) Master's Degree
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.00%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) JTAG
System Software
1 3 (15.00%) Docker
2 2 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (5.00%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (5.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) NVIDIA
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle