Computer Science Degree Jobs in the South East

Computer Science Degree
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 81 114
Rank change year-on-year +15 +33 -24
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 383 538 398
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 3.98% 3.07% 2.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.89% 9.11% 7.12%
Number of salaries quoted 156 472 230
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,550 £33,750
25th Percentile £45,688 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -1.32% +21.60%
75th Percentile £73,000 £77,813 £82,500
90th Percentile £83,125 £85,000 £95,000
England median annual salary £63,750 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +6.25% -4.00% +8.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,559 5,907 5,588
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 57.70% 33.68% 39.79%
Number of salaries quoted 2,498 3,633 2,495
10th Percentile £34,988 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £38,125 £36,713
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £51,350
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +1.27% -1.25%
75th Percentile £70,600 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,875 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £54,897 £54,399 £60,000
% change year-on-year +0.92% -9.34% +9.09%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South East.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South East over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South East

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Thames Valley +17 116 £58,750 -2.08% 497
Surrey +33 88 £63,750 +27.50% 114
Berkshire +7 77 £70,000 - 324
Isle of Wight - 68 £73,000 - 2
Hampshire -16 33 £50,000 - 170
West Sussex +18 31 £70,000 +9.38% 59
Middlesex +10 30 £60,000 -4.00%
Buckinghamshire +10 24 £45,000 +12.50% 108
Oxfordshire +23 15 £65,000 +23.81% 68
East Sussex +20 8 £43,000 -14.00% 50
Kent +6 7 £37,500 -42.31% 98
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 12 (3.13%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (0.78%) CMS
3 3 (0.78%) IIS
3 3 (0.78%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.52%) Apache
4 2 (0.52%) ThingWorx
5 1 (0.26%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.04%) SAP Business One
2 2 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.26%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.26%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.26%) SAP EWM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.26%) SAP MM
3 1 (0.26%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 65 (16.97%) Azure
2 35 (9.14%) AWS
3 24 (6.27%) GCP
4 21 (5.48%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 20 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 18 (4.70%) PaaS
7 11 (2.87%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (2.09%) Power Platform
9 7 (1.83%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (1.31%) Collibra
10 5 (1.31%) Microsoft Purview
11 4 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
11 4 (1.04%) GitHub
11 4 (1.04%) SaaS
11 4 (1.04%) Serverless
12 3 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
12 3 (0.78%) Entra ID
12 3 (0.78%) Google Workspace
12 3 (0.78%) IaaS
12 3 (0.78%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 94 (24.54%) Broadband
2 13 (3.39%) Network Security
3 12 (3.13%) Firewall
4 8 (2.09%) NAS
4 8 (2.09%) SAN
4 8 (2.09%) TCP/IP
5 6 (1.57%) DHCP
5 6 (1.57%) DNS
6 5 (1.31%) IP Telephony
6 5 (1.31%) SNMP
7 3 (0.78%) Internet
7 3 (0.78%) iSCSI
7 3 (0.78%) VoIP
8 2 (0.52%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (0.52%) InfiniBand
9 1 (0.26%) MQTT
9 1 (0.26%) SD-WAN
9 1 (0.26%) VLAN
9 1 (0.26%) VoLTE
9 1 (0.26%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (5.22%) SQL Server
2 15 (3.92%) NoSQL
3 12 (3.13%) Hadoop
4 11 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.61%) Big Data
5 10 (2.61%) Data Lake
6 8 (2.09%) Power BI
7 4 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
7 4 (1.04%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.78%) MySQL
8 3 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
9 2 (0.52%) Pinecone
9 2 (0.52%) Weaviate
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.26%) Apache Iceberg
10 1 (0.26%) Delta Lake
10 1 (0.26%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.26%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 17 (4.44%) Git
2 6 (1.57%) JIRA
3 4 (1.04%) Visual Studio
3 4 (1.04%) Vite
4 3 (0.78%) Bitbucket
4 3 (0.78%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (0.78%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (0.52%) MLflow
5 2 (0.52%) Moq
5 2 (0.52%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.26%) Babel
6 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
6 1 (0.26%) CMake
6 1 (0.26%) Cypress.io
6 1 (0.26%) ERwin
6 1 (0.26%) ESLint
6 1 (0.26%) Gatling
6 1 (0.26%) GitLab
6 1 (0.26%) JMeter
6 1 (0.26%) webpack
General
1 205 (53.52%) Social Skills
2 49 (12.79%) Law
3 44 (11.49%) Finance
4 34 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (5.74%) Marketing
6 14 (3.66%) Multimedia
7 12 (3.13%) Legal
8 9 (2.35%) Games
8 9 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
10 7 (1.83%) Advertising
10 7 (1.83%) Aviation
11 6 (1.57%) Electronics
11 6 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.04%) Back Office
13 3 (0.78%) Banking
13 3 (0.78%) Military
14 2 (0.52%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.52%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 83 (21.67%) Architect
1 83 (21.67%) Lead
2 56 (14.62%) Software Architect
3 34 (8.88%) Senior
4 32 (8.36%) Developer
5 27 (7.05%) Systems Engineer
6 23 (6.01%) Engineering Manager
7 22 (5.74%) Enterprise Architect
7 22 (5.74%) Software Engineer
7 22 (5.74%) Team Leader
8 21 (5.48%) Salesforce Architect
9 19 (4.96%) Senior Manager
10 17 (4.44%) Security Engineer
11 12 (3.13%) Analyst
11 12 (3.13%) Software Team Leader
11 12 (3.13%) Test Leader
11 12 (3.13%) Test Team Leader
12 10 (2.61%) Graduate
13 9 (2.35%) Junior
13 9 (2.35%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 77 (20.10%) Middleware
2 28 (7.31%) HTML
3 26 (6.79%) REST
4 21 (5.48%) Lightning Web Components
4 21 (5.48%) SOAP
5 18 (4.70%) .NET
6 15 (3.92%) Kafka
6 15 (3.92%) YAML
7 13 (3.39%) PyTorch
7 13 (3.39%) React
7 13 (3.39%) TensorFlow
8 11 (2.87%) CSS
8 11 (2.87%) Hugging Face
8 11 (2.87%) LangChain
8 11 (2.87%) Node.js
9 8 (2.09%) .NET Framework
10 6 (1.57%) Flutter
11 5 (1.31%) .NET Core
12 4 (1.04%) XML
13 3 (0.78%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 40 (10.44%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.27%) Enterprise Software
3 20 (5.22%) Security Posture
4 18 (4.70%) Product Ownership
5 14 (3.66%) Cloud Native
6 9 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
7 8 (2.09%) Mobile App
8 7 (1.83%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.83%) Robotics
9 5 (1.31%) Blackberry
10 4 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.04%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.04%) IoT
11 3 (0.78%) Algorithms
11 3 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (0.78%) Industrial Internet of Things
11 3 (0.78%) Replication
11 3 (0.78%) SCADA
12 2 (0.52%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 23 (6.01%) Windows
2 15 (3.92%) Linux
3 9 (2.35%) Android
4 8 (2.09%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.83%) Apple iOS
6 3 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (98.69%) Computer Science
2 178 (46.48%) Mentoring
3 131 (34.20%) Agile
3 131 (34.20%) Problem-Solving
4 115 (30.03%) High Availability
5 112 (29.24%) DevOps
5 112 (29.24%) Roadmaps
6 102 (26.63%) Continuous Improvement
7 100 (26.11%) Product Management
8 85 (22.19%) Broadcast Engineering
9 78 (20.37%) Design Patterns
10 73 (19.06%) SDLC
11 68 (17.75%) Configuration Management
12 62 (16.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 58 (15.14%) CI/CD
13 58 (15.14%) Open Source
14 56 (14.62%) UML
14 56 (14.62%) Waterfall
15 55 (14.36%) Software Engineering
16 50 (13.05%) Data Privacy
Programming Languages
1 49 (12.79%) SQL
2 41 (10.70%) C#
3 38 (9.92%) JavaScript
4 35 (9.14%) Java
4 35 (9.14%) Python
5 33 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 32 (8.36%) C++
7 23 (6.01%) PowerShell
8 22 (5.74%) Apex Code
9 20 (5.22%) C
10 19 (4.96%) PHP
11 18 (4.70%) R
12 17 (4.44%) Rust
13 16 (4.18%) Dart
13 16 (4.18%) MATLAB
13 16 (4.18%) Ruby
14 10 (2.61%) Kotlin
15 5 (1.31%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.78%) Delphi
17 2 (0.52%) Perl
Qualifications
1 383 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (18.28%) Master's Degree
3 68 (17.75%) BPSS Clearance
3 68 (17.75%) Chartered Engineer
4 24 (6.27%) Security Cleared
5 20 (5.22%) SC Cleared
6 17 (4.44%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (4.18%) Azure Certification
8 11 (2.87%) AWS Certification
9 7 (1.83%) DBS Check
9 7 (1.83%) PMI Certification
9 7 (1.83%) PMP
10 6 (1.57%) CISSP
10 6 (1.57%) MCSE
11 5 (1.31%) HND
11 5 (1.31%) MBA
12 4 (1.04%) MCSA
13 3 (0.78%) CEH
13 3 (0.78%) CISA
14 2 (0.52%) LPIC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (14.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 29 (7.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 27 (7.05%) Data Quality
4 17 (4.44%) NIST
5 16 (4.18%) GDPR
6 15 (3.92%) NCSC
7 14 (3.66%) QA
8 9 (2.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (1.83%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 5 (1.31%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.78%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.26%) CDISC
14 1 (0.26%) GRC
14 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.26%) ITGC
14 1 (0.26%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (3.66%) Docker
2 13 (3.39%) Active Directory
3 9 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.78%) HDFS
4 3 (0.78%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.52%) GPFS
5 2 (0.52%) Lustre
5 2 (0.52%) NFS
6 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (3.66%) Grafana
1 14 (3.66%) Kubernetes
1 14 (3.66%) Prometheus
2 6 (1.57%) ArcSight ESM
2 6 (1.57%) QRadar
3 2 (0.52%) Kubeflow
4 1 (0.26%) Argo
4 1 (0.26%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 39 (10.18%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.74%) Salesforce
3 21 (5.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 12 (3.13%) OpenAI
5 11 (2.87%) McAfee
6 10 (2.61%) Google
7 9 (2.35%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.35%) VMware
8 8 (2.09%) Veeam
9 7 (1.83%) SAP
10 6 (1.57%) ArcSight
10 6 (1.57%) Informatica
10 6 (1.57%) LogLogic
10 6 (1.57%) Splunk
11 2 (0.52%) Cisco
12 1 (0.26%) Cloudera
12 1 (0.26%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.26%) Oracle
12 1 (0.26%) Sage
12 1 (0.26%) Workday