Computer Science Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 39 46
Rank change year-on-year -41 +7 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 103 544 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.16% 8.42% 5.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.60% 9.49% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 43 202 105
10th Percentile - £27,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.86% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £66,250 £81,925 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £58,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -10.77% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,862 5,732 3,910
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.71% 88.74% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,375 2,470 2,061
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £32,951 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £52,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.63% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £67,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,249
% change year-on-year - -8.71% +0.42%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 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
Glasgow -13 32 £62,500 +19.05% 36
Edinburgh -31 21 £51,914 -13.48% 37
Fife - 9 £40,101 - 2
Moray - 8 £40,101 - 1
Highlands - 7 - - 2
East Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 - 1
South Ayrshire - 7 £40,101 - 1
Aberdeen +1 5 - - 5
Dundee +9 3 - - 4
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 (1.94%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.97%) SharePoint
Applications
1 24 (23.30%) Chatbot
1 24 (23.30%) Simulink
2 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.97%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 24 (23.30%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.94%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.45%) AWS
2 14 (13.59%) Azure
3 7 (6.80%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (6.80%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.80%) GitHub
3 7 (6.80%) Serverless
4 6 (5.83%) Amazon S3
4 6 (5.83%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon ECS
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon EMR
5 4 (3.88%) Amazon MSK
5 4 (3.88%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.91%) Amazon SageMaker
6 3 (2.91%) GCP
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.94%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.94%) Bluetooth
1 2 (1.94%) DHCP
1 2 (1.94%) DNS
1 2 (1.94%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.94%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (1.94%) Modbus
1 2 (1.94%) MQTT
2 1 (0.97%) 802.11
2 1 (0.97%) BGP
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) HSRP
2 1 (0.97%) IPsec
2 1 (0.97%) Multicast
2 1 (0.97%) OSPF
2 1 (0.97%) RTP
2 1 (0.97%) RTSP
2 1 (0.97%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.97%) VPN
2 1 (0.97%) WAN
2 1 (0.97%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.71%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.77%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.85%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.88%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (3.88%) KDB
4 4 (3.88%) Kdb+
5 3 (2.91%) SQL Server
6 1 (0.97%) Amazon Aurora
6 1 (0.97%) Big Data
6 1 (0.97%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.97%) Flink
6 1 (0.97%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.97%) MySQL
6 1 (0.97%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.97%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 24 (23.30%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (7.77%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.80%) Git
4 4 (3.88%) Maven
5 3 (2.91%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.97%) JIRA
6 1 (0.97%) Subversion
General
1 41 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 29 (28.16%) Electronics
3 28 (27.18%) Finance
4 24 (23.30%) Aerospace
5 22 (21.36%) Law
6 19 (18.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (13.59%) Banking
8 10 (9.71%) Analytical Skills
9 9 (8.74%) Marketing
10 5 (4.85%) Telecoms
11 4 (3.88%) Front Office
11 4 (3.88%) Manufacturing
11 4 (3.88%) Private Banking
11 4 (3.88%) Public Sector
12 3 (2.91%) Agriculture
12 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (1.94%) Back Office
14 1 (0.97%) Games
14 1 (0.97%) Mandarin Language
14 1 (0.97%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 30 (29.13%) Software Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) Junior
2 24 (23.30%) Junior Systems Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) Systems Engineer
2 24 (23.30%) Trainer
3 19 (18.45%) Developer
4 18 (17.48%) Senior
5 14 (13.59%) Lead
6 13 (12.62%) Lead Software Engineer
7 12 (11.65%) Java Engineer
7 12 (11.65%) Java Software Engineer
7 12 (11.65%) Senior Software Engineer
8 11 (10.68%) Java Developer
8 11 (10.68%) Software Developer
9 9 (8.74%) Developer/Software Engineer
10 8 (7.77%) Java Software Developer
10 8 (7.77%) Lead Java Engineer
11 7 (6.80%) Senior Developer
11 7 (6.80%) Senior Java Developer
12 5 (4.85%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.74%) RESTful
2 8 (7.77%) Spring
2 8 (7.77%) Spring Boot
3 5 (4.85%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.85%) HTML
3 5 (4.85%) Kafka
3 5 (4.85%) React
4 4 (3.88%) jQuery
5 2 (1.94%) Node.js
5 2 (1.94%) XML
6 1 (0.97%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.97%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.97%) GraphQL
6 1 (0.97%) gRPC
6 1 (0.97%) PyTorch
6 1 (0.97%) REST
6 1 (0.97%) scikit-learn
6 1 (0.97%) TensorFlow
6 1 (0.97%) WinForms
6 1 (0.97%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (15.53%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.88%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.88%) Derivative
2 4 (3.88%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (3.88%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (3.88%) IoT
3 3 (2.91%) Life Science
3 3 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.91%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.94%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (1.94%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.94%) NHS
5 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.97%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.97%) IPTV
5 1 (0.97%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.97%) Management Information System
5 1 (0.97%) PCIe
5 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.97%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.85%) Windows
2 2 (1.94%) Linux
2 2 (1.94%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (1.94%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.97%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Rocky
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (68.93%) Mathematics
2 55 (53.40%) Problem-Solving
3 37 (35.92%) Software Engineering
4 31 (30.10%) Artificial Intelligence
5 30 (29.13%) Agile
6 28 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (24.27%) Project Management
8 24 (23.30%) Conversational UI
8 24 (23.30%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 24 (23.30%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 24 (23.30%) Physics
8 24 (23.30%) PLM
8 24 (23.30%) Statistics
8 24 (23.30%) SysML
8 24 (23.30%) Systems Engineering
8 24 (23.30%) UML
9 16 (15.53%) CI/CD
10 14 (13.59%) Decision-Making
10 14 (13.59%) Operational Stability
11 12 (11.65%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.24%) Java
2 24 (23.30%) MATLAB
2 24 (23.30%) Python
3 16 (15.53%) C++
4 9 (8.74%) C
5 7 (6.80%) SQL
6 6 (5.83%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.85%) Rust
8 3 (2.91%) C#
8 3 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.94%) Bash
9 2 (1.94%) Objective-C
10 1 (0.97%) Bicep
10 1 (0.97%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.97%) Perl
10 1 (0.97%) PHP
10 1 (0.97%) Swift
10 1 (0.97%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 87 (84.47%) Degree
2 29 (28.16%) Master's Degree
3 27 (26.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 25 (24.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 25 (24.27%) PhD
5 6 (5.83%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.83%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.97%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.97%) CCNA
8 1 (0.97%) CCNP
8 1 (0.97%) CEH
8 1 (0.97%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.97%) CISM
8 1 (0.97%) CISSP
8 1 (0.97%) CSSLP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.94%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.94%) JTAG
3 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.97%) GDPR
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.91%) Firmware
2 2 (1.94%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.94%) Docker
2 2 (1.94%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (6.80%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.83%) Terraform
3 4 (3.88%) Grafana
3 4 (3.88%) Netcool
3 4 (3.88%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 4 (3.88%) Tivoli
4 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.97%) Ansible
Vendors
1 28 (27.18%) IBM
2 24 (23.30%) PayPal
3 11 (10.68%) Microsoft
4 9 (8.74%) Oracle
5 4 (3.88%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.88%) SAP
5 4 (3.88%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.88%) Splunk
6 2 (1.94%) Google
6 2 (1.94%) NVIDIA
7 1 (0.97%) Cisco
7 1 (0.97%) Red Hat