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 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 40 52 57
Rank change year-on-year +12 +5 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 456 207 290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.00% 5.46% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.11% 5.69% 5.15%
Number of salaries quoted 158 106 56
10th Percentile £27,500 £39,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £43,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £79,625
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

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 5,004 3,640 5,626
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 87.82% 95.94% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 2,133 1,969 3,041
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,555 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,548 £83,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

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 26 July 2024.

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 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 +20 317 £53,250 -3.18% 9
Edinburgh +18 71 £62,500 +4.17% 12
Aberdeen +15 35 £32,500 -38.10% 2
Aberdeenshire +1 9 £30,000 -16.67% 3
Lanarkshire -7 6 £42,500 +21.43% 4
West Lothian - 6 £37,500 -
Dundee -2 4 £47,500 +3.83%
Stirling - 2 £47,500 -
Renfrewshire -3 1 £52,500 +10.53% 1
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 10
South Ayrshire - 1 £40,101 - 2
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 45 (9.87%) FileNet
2 17 (3.73%) Cloud Foundry
3 8 (1.75%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.66%) IIS
4 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.22%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 16 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (1.75%) Simulink
3 7 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.22%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Oracle Applications
2 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 96 (21.05%) AWS
2 49 (10.75%) Amazon S3
3 47 (10.31%) GitHub
4 45 (9.87%) Azure
5 27 (5.92%) GCP
6 22 (4.82%) Power Platform
7 11 (2.41%) Cloud Computing
8 7 (1.54%) Amazon MSK
8 7 (1.54%) Datadog
9 5 (1.10%) SaaS
10 4 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.88%) Google Docs
10 4 (0.88%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (0.88%) Serverless
11 3 (0.66%) Asana
11 3 (0.66%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.66%) Route 53
11 3 (0.66%) Slack
11 3 (0.66%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 26 (5.70%) Wireless
2 17 (3.73%) Kerberos
3 11 (2.41%) Network Security
4 10 (2.19%) LAN
4 10 (2.19%) WAN
5 6 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (1.10%) VPN
7 3 (0.66%) DHCP
7 3 (0.66%) DNS
8 2 (0.44%) Firewall
8 2 (0.44%) SAN
9 1 (0.22%) HTTP
9 1 (0.22%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (17.76%) NoSQL
2 45 (9.87%) Apache Cassandra
2 45 (9.87%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (4.82%) Power BI
4 21 (4.61%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (3.73%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (3.73%) CockroachDB
6 16 (3.51%) MS Access
6 16 (3.51%) SQL Server
7 11 (2.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 6 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (1.10%) OLAP
10 5 (1.10%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 4 (0.88%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.66%) MySQL
12 3 (0.66%) Oracle Database
12 3 (0.66%) Relational Database
13 2 (0.44%) Hadoop
13 2 (0.44%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 49 (10.75%) Jenkins
2 45 (9.87%) Jasmine
2 45 (9.87%) JUnit
2 45 (9.87%) Mockito
3 15 (3.29%) Git
3 15 (3.29%) LabVIEW
4 4 (0.88%) Selenium
5 3 (0.66%) GitLab
5 3 (0.66%) JMeter
6 2 (0.44%) Oracle APEX
6 2 (0.44%) Postman
7 1 (0.22%) Appium
7 1 (0.22%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.22%) JIRA
7 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 332 (72.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 278 (60.96%) Finance
3 271 (59.43%) Law
4 179 (39.25%) Marketing
5 144 (31.58%) Social Skills
6 94 (20.61%) Financial Institution
7 69 (15.13%) Legal
8 61 (13.38%) Banking
9 57 (12.50%) Investment Banking
10 47 (10.31%) Analytical Skills
11 27 (5.92%) Manufacturing
12 24 (5.26%) Electronics
13 23 (5.04%) Games
14 20 (4.39%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.97%) Public Sector
16 7 (1.54%) Automotive
17 4 (0.88%) Tech for Good
18 3 (0.66%) Front Office
18 3 (0.66%) Publishing
18 3 (0.66%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 167 (36.62%) Software Engineer
2 102 (22.37%) Engineering Manager
2 102 (22.37%) Software Engineering Manager
3 92 (20.18%) Senior
4 64 (14.04%) Java Engineer
4 64 (14.04%) Java Software Engineer
5 47 (10.31%) Senior Software Engineer
6 42 (9.21%) Lead
7 41 (8.99%) Developer
8 40 (8.77%) Lead Software Engineer
9 37 (8.11%) Senior Manager
10 31 (6.80%) Principal Engineer
11 29 (6.36%) Software Engineering Director
12 27 (5.92%) Junior
12 27 (5.92%) Python Engineer
12 27 (5.92%) Python Software Engineer
13 22 (4.82%) Full Stack Engineer
13 22 (4.82%) Full Stack Software Engineer
14 20 (4.39%) Principal Software Engineer
15 19 (4.17%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (22.59%) Spring
2 84 (18.42%) React
3 71 (15.57%) AngularJS
4 70 (15.35%) Kafka
5 62 (13.60%) GraphQL
6 45 (9.87%) Hibernate
6 45 (9.87%) J2EE
6 45 (9.87%) Spring Integration
7 36 (7.89%) RESTful
8 34 (7.46%) NumPy
8 34 (7.46%) Pandas
9 33 (7.24%) Spring Boot
10 29 (6.36%) HTML
11 27 (5.92%) .NET
12 25 (5.48%) HTML5
12 25 (5.48%) Node.js
13 23 (5.04%) Drools
13 23 (5.04%) jBPM
13 23 (5.04%) Middleware
13 23 (5.04%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 225 (49.34%) Cloud Native
2 44 (9.65%) Algorithms
3 34 (7.46%) Market Risk
4 31 (6.80%) Distributed Applications
5 26 (5.70%) Onboarding
6 19 (4.17%) Management Information System
7 17 (3.73%) Public Cloud
8 12 (2.63%) Product Ownership
9 8 (1.75%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.10%) Greenfield Project
12 4 (0.88%) Data Centre
12 4 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.66%) Self-Motivation
14 2 (0.44%) IoT
14 2 (0.44%) PKI
14 2 (0.44%) Video\Live Streaming
15 1 (0.22%) Arduino
15 1 (0.22%) Augmented Reality
15 1 (0.22%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (5.26%) Linux
2 18 (3.95%) Windows
3 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (0.88%) Ubuntu
3 4 (0.88%) Unix
4 3 (0.66%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 342 (75.00%) Software Engineering
2 243 (53.29%) Agile
3 221 (48.46%) Mathematics
4 210 (46.05%) SDLC
5 155 (33.99%) CI/CD
6 140 (30.70%) Machine Learning
7 135 (29.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 134 (29.39%) Decision-Making
9 113 (24.78%) Problem-Solving
10 78 (17.11%) Microservices
11 77 (16.89%) Coaching
12 71 (15.57%) Analytics
13 66 (14.47%) Operational Stability
14 53 (11.62%) Visualisation
15 49 (10.75%) Risk Management
16 46 (10.09%) Unit Testing
17 45 (9.87%) AOP
17 45 (9.87%) Document Management
17 45 (9.87%) Regtech
18 44 (9.65%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 179 (39.25%) Java
2 142 (31.14%) SQL
3 105 (23.03%) Python
4 58 (12.72%) C#
5 55 (12.06%) C
6 43 (9.43%) C++
7 25 (5.48%) Embedded C
8 12 (2.63%) T-SQL
9 11 (2.41%) JavaScript
10 9 (1.97%) MATLAB
10 9 (1.97%) TypeScript
11 8 (1.75%) Rust
12 6 (1.32%) GLSL
13 5 (1.10%) PowerShell
13 5 (1.10%) Ruby
13 5 (1.10%) VBA
14 4 (0.88%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.66%) Haskell
16 1 (0.22%) PHP
16 1 (0.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 197 (43.20%) Degree
2 108 (23.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (10.96%) Master's Degree
4 10 (2.19%) PhD
5 7 (1.54%) Security Cleared
6 4 (0.88%) CCNA
6 4 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (0.88%) SC Cleared
7 3 (0.66%) OCP
7 3 (0.66%) Oracle Certification
8 2 (0.44%) AWS Certification
8 2 (0.44%) MBA
8 2 (0.44%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.44%) PMP
9 1 (0.22%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 1 (0.22%) CISA
9 1 (0.22%) CISM
9 1 (0.22%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.22%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.22%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.54%) QA
2 4 (0.88%) DICOM
2 4 (0.88%) HL7
2 4 (0.88%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.44%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.44%) GDPR
4 1 (0.22%) FedRAMP
4 1 (0.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.22%) NIST
4 1 (0.22%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 26 (5.70%) Firmware
2 13 (2.85%) Docker
3 11 (2.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 5 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.66%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.66%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.44%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 78 (17.11%) Kubernetes
2 21 (4.61%) Terraform
3 4 (0.88%) Ansible
4 3 (0.66%) Autotask
Vendors
1 50 (10.96%) Oracle
2 27 (5.92%) Google
3 21 (4.61%) Microsoft
4 10 (2.19%) Splunk
5 5 (1.10%) VMware
6 4 (0.88%) BeyondTrust
6 4 (0.88%) Cisco
6 4 (0.88%) CyberArk
6 4 (0.88%) Databricks
6 4 (0.88%) Juniper
6 4 (0.88%) Palo Alto
7 3 (0.66%) Apple
7 3 (0.66%) Facebook
7 3 (0.66%) HubSpot
8 1 (0.22%) Adobe
8 1 (0.22%) ANSYS
8 1 (0.22%) ForgeRock
8 1 (0.22%) IBM
8 1 (0.22%) SAP
8 1 (0.22%) Xamarin