Computer Science Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 48 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +31 -10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 599 251 215
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.89% 5.34% 3.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.58% 5.66% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 209 99 56
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,000 £42,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £68,275
90th Percentile £81,250 £80,000 £75,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,252 4,431 5,264
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 92.79% 94.24% 90.87%
Number of salaries quoted 2,423 2,224 2,815
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,491 £30,465
25th Percentile £40,500 £42,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +8.49% +7.61%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -8 397 £42,500 -22.73% 9
Edinburgh +45 107 £60,000 +13.21% 12
Aberdeen +23 54 £36,000 -20.00% 7
Dundee -5 9 £50,000 +20.48%
Lanarkshire -1 7 £42,500 -5.56% 1
Aberdeenshire +13 6 £29,250 +2.63% 5
West Lothian - 6 £37,500 - 1
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 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 (7.51%) FileNet
2 17 (2.84%) Cloud Foundry
3 13 (2.17%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.34%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.67%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 20 (3.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.00%) Simulink
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 124 (20.70%) AWS
2 51 (8.51%) Azure
3 48 (8.01%) Amazon S3
4 47 (7.85%) GitHub
5 23 (3.84%) GCP
6 18 (3.01%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (2.34%) Power Platform
8 10 (1.67%) SaaS
9 7 (1.17%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (1.17%) Datadog
10 6 (1.00%) BlazeMeter
11 4 (0.67%) Google Docs
11 4 (0.67%) Microsoft 365
12 3 (0.50%) Asana
12 3 (0.50%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.50%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.50%) MailChimp
12 3 (0.50%) Route 53
12 3 (0.50%) Serverless
12 3 (0.50%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 48 (8.01%) Wireless
2 17 (2.84%) Kerberos
3 9 (1.50%) Network Security
4 8 (1.34%) HTTP
4 8 (1.34%) MQTT
5 7 (1.17%) LAN
5 7 (1.17%) WAN
6 6 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (0.67%) VPN
8 3 (0.50%) DHCP
8 3 (0.50%) DNS
9 1 (0.17%) Firewall
9 1 (0.17%) MPLS
9 1 (0.17%) SAN
9 1 (0.17%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (17.36%) NoSQL
2 45 (7.51%) Apache Cassandra
2 45 (7.51%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (3.67%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (3.01%) SQL Server
5 17 (2.84%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (2.84%) CockroachDB
6 14 (2.34%) Power BI
7 13 (2.17%) Apache Hive
7 13 (2.17%) Big Data
8 12 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (1.50%) Relational Database
9 9 (1.50%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 6 (1.00%) MS Access
10 6 (1.00%) OLAP
10 6 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.83%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.67%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.67%) MySQL
13 2 (0.33%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 51 (8.51%) JUnit
2 49 (8.18%) Jenkins
3 46 (7.68%) Jasmine
4 45 (7.51%) Mockito
5 22 (3.67%) Git
6 15 (2.50%) LabVIEW
7 9 (1.50%) JIRA
8 4 (0.67%) GitLab
9 2 (0.33%) Appium
9 2 (0.33%) Selenium
10 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
10 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 1 (0.17%) MSTest
10 1 (0.17%) Postman
10 1 (0.17%) TestComplete
General
1 454 (75.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 372 (62.10%) Finance
3 361 (60.27%) Law
4 236 (39.40%) Marketing
5 167 (27.88%) Social Skills
6 142 (23.71%) Financial Institution
7 87 (14.52%) Banking
8 76 (12.69%) Legal
9 65 (10.85%) Investment Banking
10 36 (6.01%) Analytical Skills
11 34 (5.68%) Manufacturing
12 28 (4.67%) Electronics
13 27 (4.51%) Presentation Skills
14 25 (4.17%) Games
15 19 (3.17%) Private Banking
16 15 (2.50%) Telecoms
17 12 (2.00%) Public Sector
18 5 (0.83%) Automotive
19 4 (0.67%) Tech for Good
20 3 (0.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 215 (35.89%) Software Engineer
2 159 (26.54%) Engineering Manager
2 159 (26.54%) Software Engineering Manager
3 116 (19.37%) Senior
4 85 (14.19%) Java Engineer
4 85 (14.19%) Java Software Engineer
5 66 (11.02%) Developer
6 51 (8.51%) Senior Software Engineer
7 45 (7.51%) Senior Manager
8 42 (7.01%) Embedded Engineer
8 42 (7.01%) Lead
9 40 (6.68%) Lead Software Engineer
10 36 (6.01%) Full Stack Engineer
10 36 (6.01%) Full Stack Software Engineer
11 34 (5.68%) Graduate
12 31 (5.18%) Principal Engineer
12 31 (5.18%) Software Developer
13 29 (4.84%) Software Engineering Director
14 27 (4.51%) Python Engineer
14 27 (4.51%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 140 (23.37%) Spring
2 121 (20.20%) React
3 100 (16.69%) AngularJS
4 70 (11.69%) Kafka
5 62 (10.35%) GraphQL
6 59 (9.85%) NumPy
6 59 (9.85%) Pandas
7 57 (9.52%) Spring Boot
8 54 (9.02%) RESTful
9 45 (7.51%) Hibernate
9 45 (7.51%) J2EE
9 45 (7.51%) Spring Integration
10 43 (7.18%) HTML
11 33 (5.51%) Node.js
12 32 (5.34%) HTML5
13 31 (5.18%) Drools
13 31 (5.18%) jBPM
13 31 (5.18%) Middleware
13 31 (5.18%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 24 (4.01%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 284 (47.41%) Cloud Native
2 73 (12.19%) Algorithms
3 59 (9.85%) Market Risk
4 49 (8.18%) Distributed Applications
5 34 (5.68%) Onboarding
6 19 (3.17%) Greenfield Project
7 18 (3.01%) Data Structures
8 17 (2.84%) Management Information System
8 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
9 14 (2.34%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.50%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.34%) Arduino
11 8 (1.34%) IoT
11 8 (1.34%) Raspberry Pi
12 6 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
13 5 (0.83%) Distributed Computing
13 5 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
14 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
15 3 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
16 2 (0.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 20 (3.34%) Linux
2 12 (2.00%) Windows
3 6 (1.00%) Unix
4 3 (0.50%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 485 (80.97%) Software Engineering
2 317 (52.92%) Agile
3 316 (52.75%) Mathematics
4 279 (46.58%) SDLC
5 223 (37.23%) CI/CD
6 174 (29.05%) Machine Learning
7 167 (27.88%) Artificial Intelligence
8 144 (24.04%) Decision-Making
9 126 (21.04%) Problem-Solving
10 108 (18.03%) Analytics
11 102 (17.03%) Microservices
12 82 (13.69%) Coaching
13 79 (13.19%) Operational Stability
14 75 (12.52%) Continuous Delivery
15 73 (12.19%) Visualisation
16 67 (11.19%) Full Stack Development
17 63 (10.52%) Physics
18 57 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
18 57 (9.52%) Risk Management
19 52 (8.68%) Community of Practice
Programming Languages
1 241 (40.23%) Java
2 168 (28.05%) SQL
3 141 (23.54%) Python
4 90 (15.03%) C
5 51 (8.51%) C++
6 47 (7.85%) C#
7 46 (7.68%) Embedded C
8 34 (5.68%) TypeScript
9 21 (3.51%) Ruby
10 20 (3.34%) JavaScript
11 19 (3.17%) Rust
12 16 (2.67%) GLSL
13 13 (2.17%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.17%) Haskell
15 6 (1.00%) MATLAB
16 5 (0.83%) Go
16 5 (0.83%) VBA
17 4 (0.67%) PowerShell
18 3 (0.50%) PHP
18 3 (0.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 247 (41.24%) Degree
2 117 (19.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 53 (8.85%) Master's Degree
4 19 (3.17%) PhD
5 4 (0.67%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.50%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.50%) PMP
7 2 (0.33%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.33%) OCP
7 2 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) CCNA
8 1 (0.17%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.17%) CompTIA CySA+
8 1 (0.17%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.17%) MCSE
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.17%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.17%) QA
2 4 (0.67%) DICOM
2 4 (0.67%) HL7
2 4 (0.67%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 55 (9.18%) Firmware
2 22 (3.67%) Embedded Firmware
3 14 (2.34%) Docker
4 4 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.50%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.17%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 75 (12.52%) Kubernetes
2 17 (2.84%) Terraform
3 6 (1.00%) Grafana
4 3 (0.50%) Autotask
5 2 (0.33%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 49 (8.18%) Oracle
2 23 (3.84%) Google
3 20 (3.34%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.34%) Splunk
5 8 (1.34%) NVIDIA
5 8 (1.34%) SAP
6 6 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 4 (0.67%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (0.67%) CyberArk
7 4 (0.67%) Databricks
7 4 (0.67%) VMware
8 3 (0.50%) Anaplan
8 3 (0.50%) Apple
8 3 (0.50%) Facebook
8 3 (0.50%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.33%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.17%) ConnectWise
10 1 (0.17%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.17%) Juniper
10 1 (0.17%) Rapid7