Computer Science Job Trends in the South East

Computer Science
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 31 25
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 313 457 1,015
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.32% 6.80% 6.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 7.56% 7.76%
Number of salaries quoted 190 252 713
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £37,574 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £76,250
90th Percentile £92,000 £82,500 £92,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,976 6,041 13,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 73.94% 89.84% 84.83%
Number of salaries quoted 6,438 3,276 9,571
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £41,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,455 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the South East

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the South East over the 6 months to 7 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the South East region over the 6 months to 7 April 2026. 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
Thames Valley -25 145 £58,000 -3.33% 64
Berkshire -29 66 £60,000 - 24
Buckinghamshire +3 52 £62,500 +25.00% 17
Surrey -41 49 £41,872 -23.87% 19
Hampshire -45 43 £70,000 +27.27% 34
Kent -20 29 £60,000 +17.07% 12
Oxfordshire -7 27 £47,500 -26.92% 23
East Sussex -25 20 £47,500 +41.79% 12
Isle of Wight 0 12 £42,500 -29.17% 1
West Sussex -39 11 £70,000 +64.71% 4
Middlesex +5 4 - - 8
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 11 (3.51%) IIS
2 2 (0.64%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.64%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.64%) WordPress
3 1 (0.32%) Camunda
3 1 (0.32%) CMS
3 1 (0.32%) Confluence
3 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (3.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (1.28%) InDesign
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
4 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 9 (2.88%) SAP CO
2 4 (1.28%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (1.28%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 70 (22.36%) Azure
2 45 (14.38%) AWS
3 31 (9.90%) GCP
4 18 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
5 17 (5.43%) Power Platform
6 13 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 12 (3.83%) PaaS
8 10 (3.19%) GitHub
9 9 (2.88%) IaaS
10 7 (2.24%) SaaS
11 5 (1.60%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (1.60%) Snowflake
12 4 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
12 4 (1.28%) iPaaS
13 3 (0.96%) Azure Machine Learning
14 2 (0.64%) Amazon EKS
14 2 (0.64%) AWS CodePipeline
14 2 (0.64%) AWS Data Pipeline
14 2 (0.64%) Entra ID
14 2 (0.64%) Prefect
Communications & Networking
1 12 (3.83%) Internet
2 7 (2.24%) Firewall
3 6 (1.92%) VPN
4 5 (1.60%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.28%) MQTT
5 4 (1.28%) VLAN
6 3 (0.96%) DHCP
6 3 (0.96%) DNS
6 3 (0.96%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (0.96%) Unified Communications
6 3 (0.96%) VoIP
7 2 (0.64%) HTTP
7 2 (0.64%) LAN
7 2 (0.64%) Multicast
7 2 (0.64%) WAN
8 1 (0.32%) Asterisk PBX
8 1 (0.32%) Modbus
8 1 (0.32%) Network Security
8 1 (0.32%) Radio Access Network
8 1 (0.32%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (11.50%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.79%) Power BI
3 12 (3.83%) MySQL
4 10 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.56%) NoSQL
6 7 (2.24%) Metadata
6 7 (2.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (2.24%) Tableau
7 6 (1.92%) Hadoop
8 5 (1.60%) Big Data
8 5 (1.60%) Data Mining
9 4 (1.28%) Relational Database
10 3 (0.96%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.96%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.64%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.64%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.32%) Couchbase
12 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
12 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
12 1 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 18 (5.75%) Git
2 10 (3.19%) GitLab
3 9 (2.88%) JIRA
4 6 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.92%) Visual Studio
5 5 (1.60%) Selenium
6 4 (1.28%) Visual Studio Code
7 3 (0.96%) MLflow
8 2 (0.64%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.64%) Polyspace
8 2 (0.64%) VectorCAST
8 2 (0.64%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.32%) CMake
9 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
9 1 (0.32%) JMeter
9 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
General
1 113 (36.10%) Social Skills
2 58 (18.53%) Finance
3 45 (14.38%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (10.22%) Pharmaceutical
5 25 (7.99%) Manufacturing
6 17 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (4.47%) Marketing
8 13 (4.15%) Electronics
9 12 (3.83%) Public Sector
10 11 (3.51%) Law
11 9 (2.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.60%) Military
14 4 (1.28%) Banking
14 4 (1.28%) Police
15 3 (0.96%) Automotive
15 3 (0.96%) Games
15 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
16 2 (0.64%) Aerospace
16 2 (0.64%) Legal
Job Titles
1 56 (17.89%) Software Engineer
2 43 (13.74%) Senior
3 37 (11.82%) Developer
3 37 (11.82%) Lead
4 25 (7.99%) Architect
5 19 (6.07%) Support Engineer
6 14 (4.47%) Senior Software Engineer
7 13 (4.15%) Graduate
7 13 (4.15%) IT Support
8 12 (3.83%) Analyst
8 12 (3.83%) Web Developer
9 11 (3.51%) Associate Director
9 11 (3.51%) Business Intelligence Developer
10 10 (3.19%) Business Developer
10 10 (3.19%) Embedded Engineer
10 10 (3.19%) Power BI Developer
10 10 (3.19%) Senior Manager
10 10 (3.19%) Software Developer
11 9 (2.88%) Applications Support
11 9 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (11.82%) .NET
2 23 (7.35%) CSS
3 21 (6.71%) HTML
4 19 (6.07%) Middleware
5 15 (4.79%) jQuery
6 10 (3.19%) REST
7 9 (2.88%) .NET Framework
7 9 (2.88%) ASP.NET
7 9 (2.88%) SAP CO-PA
7 9 (2.88%) WinForms
8 8 (2.56%) React
9 7 (2.24%) XML
10 6 (1.92%) DirectX
10 6 (1.92%) Entity Framework
10 6 (1.92%) JSON
10 6 (1.92%) OpenGL
10 6 (1.92%) OpenGL ES
10 6 (1.92%) SOAP
10 6 (1.92%) Vulkan
11 5 (1.60%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 44 (14.06%) Life Science
2 25 (7.99%) Management Information System
3 23 (7.35%) Distributed Systems
4 15 (4.79%) Client/Server
5 14 (4.47%) Low-Code
6 13 (4.15%) Algorithms
6 13 (4.15%) Onboarding
7 12 (3.83%) Cloud Native
8 11 (3.51%) Hackathon
8 11 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (1.92%) Embedded Systems
9 6 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.92%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (1.28%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.96%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.96%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.96%) Product Ownership
11 3 (0.96%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (10.54%) Linux
2 24 (7.67%) Windows
3 14 (4.47%) Android
4 5 (1.60%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.96%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.64%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.64%) Unix
7 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.32%) Debian
7 1 (0.32%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (32.91%) Agile
2 93 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
3 78 (24.92%) Analytics
4 69 (22.04%) AI
4 69 (22.04%) Continuous Improvement
5 66 (21.09%) Software Engineering
6 56 (17.89%) Machine Learning
7 54 (17.25%) Data Science
8 53 (16.93%) DevOps
9 40 (12.78%) Hematology
9 40 (12.78%) Immunology
9 40 (12.78%) Use Case
10 39 (12.46%) Decision-Making
11 37 (11.82%) Roadmaps
12 34 (10.86%) Enterprise Architecture
13 33 (10.54%) Deployment Automation
14 32 (10.22%) CI/CD
15 27 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
15 27 (8.63%) Mathematics
15 27 (8.63%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.56%) SQL
2 79 (25.24%) Python
3 39 (12.46%) C#
4 35 (11.18%) C++
5 30 (9.58%) Java
6 23 (7.35%) C
7 22 (7.03%) JavaScript
8 17 (5.43%) PHP
9 13 (4.15%) PowerShell
9 13 (4.15%) Rust
10 10 (3.19%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 8 (2.56%) R
12 7 (2.24%) Bash
12 7 (2.24%) Scala
12 7 (2.24%) T-SQL
12 7 (2.24%) TypeScript
13 5 (1.60%) Bicep
14 3 (0.96%) MATLAB
14 3 (0.96%) Uniface
15 2 (0.64%) Ada
Qualifications
1 267 (85.30%) Degree
2 129 (41.21%) Computer Science Degree
3 67 (21.41%) Master's Degree
4 22 (7.03%) PhD
5 17 (5.43%) Security Cleared
6 16 (5.11%) SC Cleared
7 15 (4.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (3.51%) DBS Check
9 8 (2.56%) Chartered Engineer
10 6 (1.92%) A+ Certification
10 6 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
11 5 (1.60%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.60%) MBA
11 5 (1.60%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.28%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 4 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (0.96%) CISSP
13 3 (0.96%) DV Cleared
13 3 (0.96%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (11.18%) Accessibility
2 30 (9.58%) QA
3 23 (7.35%) GxP
4 15 (4.79%) GDPR
5 12 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 11 (3.51%) NIST
7 8 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 6 (1.92%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (1.92%) Data Quality
8 6 (1.92%) PCI DSS
9 5 (1.60%) SLA
10 4 (1.28%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.96%) GRC
11 3 (0.96%) NCSC
12 2 (0.64%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.64%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.64%) ECSS
12 2 (0.64%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.64%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.64%) SOC 2
System Software
1 23 (7.35%) Docker
2 15 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.47%) Active Directory
3 14 (4.47%) Hyper-V
4 13 (4.15%) KVM
5 5 (1.60%) Firmware
6 2 (0.64%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (4.15%) Kubernetes
2 12 (3.83%) Terraform
3 4 (1.28%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.96%) Ansible
4 3 (0.96%) Grafana
4 3 (0.96%) Nagios
4 3 (0.96%) SCCM
4 3 (0.96%) vCenter Server
4 3 (0.96%) ZABBIX
5 2 (0.64%) Kibana
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) CASB
6 1 (0.32%) Control-M
6 1 (0.32%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.32%) OpenView
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
6 1 (0.32%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 38 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 17 (5.43%) VMware
3 12 (3.83%) SAP
4 10 (3.19%) Google
4 10 (3.19%) Oracle
5 8 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 6 (1.92%) Sage
6 6 (1.92%) Xamarin
7 5 (1.60%) BT
7 5 (1.60%) Databricks
7 5 (1.60%) Zoho
8 4 (1.28%) Adobe
8 4 (1.28%) Cisco
8 4 (1.28%) Sparx
9 3 (0.96%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.64%) Agilent
10 2 (0.64%) Informatica
10 2 (0.64%) NVIDIA
11 1 (0.32%) Dynatrace
11 1 (0.32%) IFS