Computer Science Jobs in the South East

Computer Science
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 31 36
Rank change year-on-year +10 +5 -4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 666 1,013 974
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 7.87% 6.08% 6.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.65% 7.17% 6.88%
Number of salaries quoted 421 754 479
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £87,500 £92,600
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and 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 7,701 14,120 14,157
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 90.96% 84.78% 94.48%
Number of salaries quoted 4,100 9,922 8,230
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the South East

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

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 30 April 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 -10 209 £55,783 -7.03% 150
Berkshire +8 165 £56,673 -19.04% 70
Isle of Wight - 159 £60,000 - 4
Hampshire +18 106 £55,000 +10.00% 72
Surrey +22 62 £55,000 -12.00% 66
West Sussex +10 48 £70,000 +9.38% 26
Middlesex +12 30 £60,000 -9.43% 15
East Sussex +18 29 £33,500 -33.00% 29
Oxfordshire -14 26 £60,000 +14.29% 39
Kent +10 21 £40,101 -38.31% 14
Buckinghamshire -47 18 £45,000 +9.76% 57
Sussex +7 1 £66,500 +10.83% 42
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 30 (4.50%) SharePoint
2 12 (1.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.20%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.45%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.30%) Apache
5 2 (0.30%) ThingWorx
6 1 (0.15%) CMS
6 1 (0.15%) Confluence
6 1 (0.15%) Joomla!
6 1 (0.15%) SAS
6 1 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 35 (5.26%) Simulink
2 4 (0.60%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 35 (5.26%) Teamcenter
2 4 (0.60%) SAP Business One
3 2 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.15%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.15%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.15%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.15%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.15%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.15%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 96 (14.41%) Azure
2 65 (9.76%) AWS
3 32 (4.80%) Power Platform
4 30 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (3.90%) Power Automate
5 26 (3.90%) PowerApps
6 24 (3.60%) PaaS
7 22 (3.30%) GCP
8 21 (3.15%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 18 (2.70%) GitHub
10 16 (2.40%) SaaS
11 11 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
12 9 (1.35%) Amazon Kinesis
13 8 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
13 8 (1.20%) Cloud Computing
14 7 (1.05%) IaaS
15 5 (0.75%) Collibra
15 5 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
16 4 (0.60%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (0.60%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 18 (2.70%) Network Security
2 16 (2.40%) Firewall
3 15 (2.25%) TCP/IP
4 12 (1.80%) NAS
4 12 (1.80%) SAN
5 6 (0.90%) Internet
6 5 (0.75%) Wireless
7 4 (0.60%) HTTP
7 4 (0.60%) HTTPS
8 3 (0.45%) 3G
8 3 (0.45%) GPRS
8 3 (0.45%) LTE
8 3 (0.45%) Modbus
8 3 (0.45%) VoIP
9 2 (0.30%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (0.30%) VPN
9 2 (0.30%) Wi-Fi
10 1 (0.15%) DMZ
10 1 (0.15%) DNS
10 1 (0.15%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (6.16%) SQL Server
2 32 (4.80%) Big Data
2 32 (4.80%) Power BI
3 30 (4.50%) Data Lake
4 27 (4.05%) Tableau
5 25 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 21 (3.15%) NoSQL
7 7 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
9 5 (0.75%) Hadoop
10 4 (0.60%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.45%) Metadata
11 3 (0.45%) MySQL
11 3 (0.45%) Pinecone
11 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 3 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.45%) Weaviate
12 2 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
12 2 (0.30%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 55 (8.26%) Git
2 35 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
3 31 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 22 (3.30%) JIRA
5 12 (1.80%) Cucumber
6 10 (1.50%) Selenium
7 9 (1.35%) Artifactory
7 9 (1.35%) Gradle
7 9 (1.35%) Visual Studio
8 8 (1.20%) git-flow
8 8 (1.20%) JUnit
9 7 (1.05%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.75%) Gatling
11 4 (0.60%) Mockito
11 4 (0.60%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.60%) TestRail
12 3 (0.45%) CMake
12 3 (0.45%) MLflow
13 2 (0.30%) Moq
13 2 (0.30%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 229 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 113 (16.97%) Law
3 60 (9.01%) Analytical Skills
4 56 (8.41%) Finance
5 47 (7.06%) Electronics
6 40 (6.01%) Aerospace
7 30 (4.50%) Marketing
8 22 (3.30%) Banking
9 21 (3.15%) Legal
9 21 (3.15%) Retail
10 18 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (2.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 17 (2.55%) Telecoms
12 16 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.90%) Aviation
13 6 (0.90%) Games
14 5 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.60%) Advertising
15 4 (0.60%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 172 (25.83%) Senior
2 151 (22.67%) Software Engineer
3 112 (16.82%) Lead
4 65 (9.76%) Senior Software Engineer
5 62 (9.31%) Principal Engineer
6 61 (9.16%) Developer
7 45 (6.76%) Junior
8 44 (6.61%) Principal Software Engineer
9 41 (6.16%) Systems Engineer
10 40 (6.01%) Architect
11 37 (5.56%) Test Engineer
12 36 (5.41%) Senior Software Test Engineer
12 36 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
12 36 (5.41%) Software Test Engineer
13 35 (5.26%) Junior Systems Engineer
14 24 (3.60%) Security Engineer
15 22 (3.30%) Enterprise Architect
15 22 (3.30%) Software Developer
16 21 (3.15%) Salesforce Architect
17 19 (2.85%) Applications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.91%) .NET
2 34 (5.11%) React
3 33 (4.95%) Middleware
4 28 (4.20%) HTML
4 28 (4.20%) REST
5 22 (3.30%) CSS
5 22 (3.30%) Kafka
5 22 (3.30%) SOAP
6 21 (3.15%) Lightning Web Components
7 19 (2.85%) Node.js
8 16 (2.40%) Spring Boot
9 12 (1.80%) RabbitMQ
10 11 (1.65%) AngularJS
10 11 (1.65%) Spring
10 11 (1.65%) YAML
11 10 (1.50%) HTML5
12 9 (1.35%) RESTful
13 8 (1.20%) CSS3
13 8 (1.20%) Drools
13 8 (1.20%) Jest
Miscellaneous
1 47 (7.06%) Enterprise Software
1 47 (7.06%) Management Information System
2 31 (4.65%) Algorithms
3 23 (3.45%) Social Media
4 18 (2.70%) Acoustics
5 16 (2.40%) Mobile App
5 16 (2.40%) Security Posture
5 16 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
6 15 (2.25%) Cloud Native
6 15 (2.25%) Public Cloud
7 14 (2.10%) Product Ownership
8 11 (1.65%) Clustering
9 10 (1.50%) Data Centre
9 10 (1.50%) Digital Media
9 10 (1.50%) IoT
10 9 (1.35%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.35%) Operational Technology
11 7 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
11 7 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 6 (0.90%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 61 (9.16%) Windows
2 41 (6.16%) Linux
3 22 (3.30%) Windows Vista
4 16 (2.40%) Android
5 14 (2.10%) Apple iOS
5 14 (2.10%) Unix
6 6 (0.90%) Windows Server
7 4 (0.60%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 255 (38.29%) Agile
2 186 (27.93%) Software Engineering
3 157 (23.57%) UML
4 132 (19.82%) Problem-Solving
5 123 (18.47%) Waterfall
6 119 (17.87%) Project Management
7 107 (16.07%) Test Automation
8 99 (14.86%) Continuous Improvement
9 97 (14.56%) CI/CD
10 96 (14.41%) Mathematics
10 96 (14.41%) Software Testing
11 92 (13.81%) Configuration Management
12 88 (13.21%) DevOps
13 84 (12.61%) Analytics
14 83 (12.46%) Mentoring
15 82 (12.31%) Stakeholder Management
16 75 (11.26%) Data Management
17 66 (9.91%) Microservices
18 64 (9.61%) Physics
18 64 (9.61%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 90 (13.51%) Python
2 73 (10.96%) C#
3 66 (9.91%) Java
4 50 (7.51%) Ada
5 48 (7.21%) C++
5 48 (7.21%) SQL
6 46 (6.91%) JavaScript
7 43 (6.46%) MATLAB
8 33 (4.95%) PowerShell
9 31 (4.65%) TypeScript
10 27 (4.05%) C
11 24 (3.60%) Apex Code
12 17 (2.55%) Kotlin
13 16 (2.40%) Fortran
14 14 (2.10%) PHP
15 12 (1.80%) Bash
16 11 (1.65%) Rust
17 6 (0.90%) Go
17 6 (0.90%) T-SQL
18 4 (0.60%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 585 (87.84%) Degree
2 208 (31.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 139 (20.87%) BPSS Clearance
4 79 (11.86%) Master's Degree
5 68 (10.21%) Chartered Engineer
6 32 (4.80%) Security Cleared
7 26 (3.90%) DBS Check
8 24 (3.60%) SC Cleared
9 17 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 17 (2.55%) PhD
10 13 (1.95%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.80%) CISSP
12 10 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (1.50%) Numerate Degree
13 9 (1.35%) Azure Certification
13 9 (1.35%) OCP
13 9 (1.35%) Oracle Certification
14 8 (1.20%) Cisco Certification
15 7 (1.05%) CCNP
15 7 (1.05%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (11.71%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 54 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 26 (3.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.30%) QA
5 15 (2.25%) NIST
6 13 (1.95%) Accessibility
7 12 (1.80%) GDPR
8 11 (1.65%) NCSC
9 10 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (1.05%) SLA
11 6 (0.90%) WCAG
12 5 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.45%) GRC
13 3 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 2 (0.30%) COBIT
14 2 (0.30%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.30%) PCI DSS
15 1 (0.15%) CDISC
15 1 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 35 (5.26%) Docker
2 17 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 15 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.45%) HDFS
4 3 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.30%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 67 (10.06%) Kubernetes
2 24 (3.60%) Ansible
3 22 (3.30%) Terraform
4 7 (1.05%) Puppet
5 5 (0.75%) ArcSight ESM
5 5 (0.75%) QRadar
6 3 (0.45%) Kubeflow
6 3 (0.45%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.30%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.30%) Grafana
7 2 (0.30%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.15%) Argo
8 1 (0.15%) Progress Chef
8 1 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize
8 1 (0.15%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 83 (12.46%) Microsoft
2 35 (5.26%) IBM
3 26 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 24 (3.60%) Salesforce
5 21 (3.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 15 (2.25%) VMware
7 10 (1.50%) SAP
8 7 (1.05%) Informatica
9 5 (0.75%) ArcSight
9 5 (0.75%) Google
9 5 (0.75%) LogLogic
9 5 (0.75%) McAfee
9 5 (0.75%) Splunk
10 4 (0.60%) PayPal
11 3 (0.45%) Cisco
11 3 (0.45%) Oracle
11 3 (0.45%) Rockwell
11 3 (0.45%) Siemens
12 2 (0.30%) Dell
12 2 (0.30%) Extreme Networks