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

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 76 39 47
Rank change year-on-year -37 +8 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 109 551 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 3.39% 8.38% 6.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 9.45% 6.29%
Number of salaries quoted 49 205 104
10th Percentile - £27,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £42,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,101 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £66,250 £83,800 £80,000
UK median annual salary £58,000 £59,750 £65,000
% change year-on-year -2.93% -8.08% +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 2,861 5,830 3,974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 88.85% 88.66% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,333 2,542 2,032
10th Percentile £29,000 £27,750 £31,388
25th Percentile £35,000 £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 £62,342 £65,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £82,000 £80,000 £83,655
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,331
% change year-on-year - -8.84% +0.55%

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 2 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 2 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 -10 32 £62,500 +31.58% 159
Edinburgh -29 22 £52,207 -12.99% 135
Fife - 11 £40,101 - 6
Moray - 9 £40,101 -
East Ayrshire - 9 £40,101 -
South Ayrshire - 9 £40,101 - 1
Highlands - 7 - - 4
Aberdeen +2 5 - - 46
Dundee +14 3 - - 19
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 (1.83%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.92%) SharePoint
Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Simulink
2 24 (22.02%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.83%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.27%) AWS
2 16 (14.68%) Azure
3 7 (6.42%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (6.42%) AWS Lambda
3 7 (6.42%) Serverless
4 6 (5.50%) Amazon S3
5 5 (4.59%) GCP
5 5 (4.59%) GitHub
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon EMR
6 4 (3.67%) Amazon MSK
6 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (3.67%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (3.67%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.75%) Amazon SageMaker
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (2.75%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.83%) AWS IoT
8 2 (1.83%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.83%) Bluetooth
1 2 (1.83%) DHCP
1 2 (1.83%) DNS
1 2 (1.83%) Ethernet
1 2 (1.83%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (1.83%) Modbus
1 2 (1.83%) MQTT
2 1 (0.92%) 802.11
2 1 (0.92%) BGP
2 1 (0.92%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) HSRP
2 1 (0.92%) IPsec
2 1 (0.92%) Multicast
2 1 (0.92%) OSPF
2 1 (0.92%) RTP
2 1 (0.92%) RTSP
2 1 (0.92%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.92%) VPN
2 1 (0.92%) WAN
2 1 (0.92%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.17%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.34%) Amazon Athena
3 5 (4.59%) Relational Database
4 4 (3.67%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (3.67%) Electronic Patient Records
4 4 (3.67%) KDB
4 4 (3.67%) Kdb+
5 1 (0.92%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.92%) Big Data
5 1 (0.92%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.92%) Flink
5 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.92%) MySQL
5 1 (0.92%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.92%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 28 (25.69%) Rational DOORS
2 8 (7.34%) Jenkins
3 7 (6.42%) Git
4 4 (3.67%) Maven
5 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.92%) JIRA
6 1 (0.92%) Subversion
General
1 47 (43.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (30.28%) Electronics
3 28 (25.69%) Aerospace
3 28 (25.69%) Finance
4 22 (20.18%) Law
5 19 (17.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (12.84%) Banking
7 9 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (8.26%) Marketing
8 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
9 4 (3.67%) Front Office
9 4 (3.67%) Manufacturing
9 4 (3.67%) Private Banking
9 4 (3.67%) Public Sector
10 3 (2.75%) Agriculture
11 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.92%) Games
11 1 (0.92%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.92%) Military
11 1 (0.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (30.28%) Software Engineer
2 28 (25.69%) Junior
2 28 (25.69%) Junior Systems Engineer
2 28 (25.69%) Systems Engineer
3 24 (22.02%) Trainer
4 21 (19.27%) Senior
5 17 (15.60%) Developer
6 15 (13.76%) Senior Software Engineer
7 14 (12.84%) Lead
8 13 (11.93%) Lead Software Engineer
9 12 (11.01%) Java Engineer
9 12 (11.01%) Java Software Engineer
10 11 (10.09%) Java Developer
10 11 (10.09%) Software Developer
11 9 (8.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
12 8 (7.34%) Java Software Developer
12 8 (7.34%) Lead Java Engineer
13 7 (6.42%) Senior Developer
13 7 (6.42%) Senior Java Developer
14 5 (4.59%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.17%) Spring
2 9 (8.26%) RESTful
3 8 (7.34%) Spring Boot
4 7 (6.42%) Kafka
5 5 (4.59%) AngularJS
5 5 (4.59%) HTML
5 5 (4.59%) React
6 4 (3.67%) jQuery
7 3 (2.75%) REST
8 2 (1.83%) JSON
8 2 (1.83%) Node.js
9 1 (0.92%) .NET
9 1 (0.92%) 802.1X
9 1 (0.92%) ADO
9 1 (0.92%) CSS
9 1 (0.92%) GraphQL
9 1 (0.92%) scikit-learn
9 1 (0.92%) TensorFlow
9 1 (0.92%) WinForms
9 1 (0.92%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.51%) Cloud Native
2 4 (3.67%) Algorithms
2 4 (3.67%) Derivative
2 4 (3.67%) Distributed Applications
2 4 (3.67%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (3.67%) IoT
3 3 (2.75%) Life Science
3 3 (2.75%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (2.75%) Virtual Team
4 2 (1.83%) ARM Cortex
4 2 (1.83%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (1.83%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.92%) Digital Signage
5 1 (0.92%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Low-Code
5 1 (0.92%) MPEG
5 1 (0.92%) PCIe
5 1 (0.92%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.92%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.59%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Linux
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.92%) Rocky
3 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (71.56%) Mathematics
2 58 (53.21%) Problem-Solving
3 40 (36.70%) Software Engineering
4 33 (30.28%) Agile
5 32 (29.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 31 (28.44%) Artificial Intelligence
7 29 (26.61%) Project Management
8 28 (25.69%) Creative Problem-Solving
8 28 (25.69%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 28 (25.69%) Physics
8 28 (25.69%) PLM
8 28 (25.69%) SysML
8 28 (25.69%) Systems Engineering
8 28 (25.69%) UML
9 24 (22.02%) Conversational UI
9 24 (22.02%) Statistics
10 19 (17.43%) CI/CD
11 14 (12.84%) Decision-Making
11 14 (12.84%) Operational Stability
12 12 (11.01%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 29 (26.61%) Java
1 29 (26.61%) Python
2 28 (25.69%) MATLAB
3 16 (14.68%) C++
4 8 (7.34%) Rust
5 7 (6.42%) C
5 7 (6.42%) SQL
6 6 (5.50%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.83%) Bash
8 2 (1.83%) Objective-C
9 1 (0.92%) Bicep
9 1 (0.92%) C#
9 1 (0.92%) Kotlin
9 1 (0.92%) Perl
9 1 (0.92%) PHP
9 1 (0.92%) Swift
9 1 (0.92%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 91 (83.49%) Degree
2 29 (26.61%) BPSS Clearance
2 29 (26.61%) Master's Degree
3 25 (22.94%) PhD
4 24 (22.02%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.50%) Security Cleared
6 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (1.83%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.92%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.92%) CCNA
8 1 (0.92%) CCNP
8 1 (0.92%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.75%) GDPR
1 3 (2.75%) QA
2 2 (1.83%) Data Quality
2 2 (1.83%) JTAG
3 1 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 3 (2.75%) Firmware
2 2 (1.83%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.83%) Docker
2 2 (1.83%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (1.83%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.50%) Terraform
3 4 (3.67%) Grafana
3 4 (3.67%) Netcool
3 4 (3.67%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 4 (3.67%) Tivoli
4 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.92%) Ansible
Vendors
1 32 (29.36%) IBM
2 24 (22.02%) PayPal
3 9 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.26%) Oracle
4 4 (3.67%) Dynatrace
4 4 (3.67%) SAP
4 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow
4 4 (3.67%) Splunk
5 2 (1.83%) Databricks
5 2 (1.83%) Google
5 2 (1.83%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.92%) Cisco
6 1 (0.92%) Red Hat