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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 31 27
Rank change year-on-year -35 -4 +2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 310 594 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 2.95% 6.60% 7.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.69% 7.47% 8.34%
Number of salaries quoted 173 332 415
10th Percentile £30,702 £31,300 £34,429
25th Percentile £39,250 £45,000 £47,695
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,065 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.56% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,625
90th Percentile £91,600 £85,000 £92,500
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.40% -7.41% +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 8,407 7,951 8,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 80.06% 88.32% 87.86%
Number of salaries quoted 5,028 3,762 5,832
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,775 £29,750
25th Percentile £34,828 £45,000 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £58,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.53% +11.43% -4.55%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 17 January 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 17 January 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 -22 152 £47,510 -26.91% 163
Berkshire -23 91 £47,520 -26.89% 117
Surrey -25 62 £44,000 -26.67% 33
Buckinghamshire +20 48 £47,500 -29.63% 20
Hampshire -40 38 £62,500 +6.84% 56
Kent -2 26 £72,850 +28.94% 28
Isle of Wight -3 15 £43,750 -27.08% 15
Oxfordshire -22 13 £50,000 -16.67% 26
Middlesex -1 8 - - 2
West Sussex -17 6 £70,000 +47.37% 17
East Sussex -4 3 £80,000 +68.42% 20
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 19 (6.13%) IIS
2 4 (1.29%) Confluence
3 2 (0.65%) WordPress
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.32%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.32%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 15 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.29%) InDesign
4 3 (0.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.32%) Adobe Illustrator
5 1 (0.32%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 7 (2.26%) SAP CO
2 3 (0.97%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.32%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.97%) Azure
2 31 (10.00%) AWS
3 28 (9.03%) Power Platform
4 26 (8.39%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (5.16%) GCP
6 11 (3.55%) GitHub
7 8 (2.58%) Microsoft 365
8 7 (2.26%) PaaS
8 7 (2.26%) SaaS
9 5 (1.61%) Snowflake
10 4 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (0.97%) Azure Machine Learning
11 3 (0.97%) Collibra
11 3 (0.97%) iPaaS
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
12 2 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
12 2 (0.65%) Cloud Computing
12 2 (0.65%) IaaS
13 1 (0.32%) Azure Data Factory
13 1 (0.32%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 9 (2.90%) LAN
1 9 (2.90%) Unified Communications
2 8 (2.58%) VoIP
2 8 (2.58%) VPN
3 6 (1.94%) Firewall
3 6 (1.94%) SD-WAN
3 6 (1.94%) WAN
3 6 (1.94%) Wi-Fi
4 4 (1.29%) MQTT
4 4 (1.29%) TCP/IP
4 4 (1.29%) VLAN
5 2 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (0.65%) DNS
5 2 (0.65%) Modbus
6 1 (0.32%) DHCP
6 1 (0.32%) GPRS
6 1 (0.32%) HTTP
6 1 (0.32%) Internet
6 1 (0.32%) Intranet
6 1 (0.32%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.39%) Power BI
2 17 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 15 (4.84%) Metadata
4 13 (4.19%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (3.55%) Data Lake
6 9 (2.90%) Tableau
7 8 (2.58%) Data Mining
7 8 (2.58%) NoSQL
8 6 (1.94%) Big Data
8 6 (1.94%) Hadoop
9 5 (1.61%) MySQL
10 4 (1.29%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
11 3 (0.97%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.97%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.65%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.65%) Relational Database
13 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
13 1 (0.32%) Redis
13 1 (0.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (3.87%) JIRA
2 9 (2.90%) Git
3 7 (2.26%) Selenium
4 6 (1.94%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.29%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.29%) GitLab
5 4 (1.29%) Jenkins
5 4 (1.29%) MLflow
5 4 (1.29%) WebDriver
6 3 (0.97%) ERwin
6 3 (0.97%) PowerDesigner
7 1 (0.32%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.32%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.32%) JMeter
7 1 (0.32%) LabVIEW
General
1 106 (34.19%) Social Skills
2 85 (27.42%) Finance
3 48 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (12.58%) Pharmaceutical
5 27 (8.71%) Marketing
6 21 (6.77%) Manufacturing
7 16 (5.16%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (3.23%) Electronics
9 9 (2.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.90%) Telecoms
10 8 (2.58%) Law
11 6 (1.94%) Public Sector
12 4 (1.29%) Automotive
12 4 (1.29%) Banking
12 4 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.97%) Military
13 3 (0.97%) Publishing
14 1 (0.32%) Advertising
14 1 (0.32%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 52 (16.77%) Lead
2 41 (13.23%) Software Engineer
3 35 (11.29%) Senior
4 27 (8.71%) Developer
5 22 (7.10%) Analyst
6 17 (5.48%) Architect
6 17 (5.48%) Support Engineer
7 15 (4.84%) IT Support
8 14 (4.52%) Data Analyst
8 14 (4.52%) Head of IT
9 13 (4.19%) IT Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Commercial Analyst
10 12 (3.87%) Commercial Data Analyst
10 12 (3.87%) IT Support Engineer
10 12 (3.87%) Procurement Analyst
10 12 (3.87%) Software Support Engineer
11 10 (3.23%) Senior Manager
12 9 (2.90%) Business Intelligence Developer
12 9 (2.90%) Graduate
12 9 (2.90%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (10.32%) .NET
2 19 (6.13%) WinForms
3 17 (5.48%) Middleware
3 17 (5.48%) REST
4 15 (4.84%) .NET Framework
4 15 (4.84%) ASP.NET
5 12 (3.87%) Entity Framework
6 10 (3.23%) CSS
6 10 (3.23%) FHIR
6 10 (3.23%) React
7 9 (2.90%) SOAP
7 9 (2.90%) XML
8 8 (2.58%) Blazor
8 8 (2.58%) JSON
9 7 (2.26%) HTML
9 7 (2.26%) SAP CO-PA
9 7 (2.26%) WPF
10 6 (1.94%) Vue
11 5 (1.61%) jQuery
11 5 (1.61%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 55 (17.74%) Life Science
2 22 (7.10%) Management Information System
3 21 (6.77%) Algorithms
4 18 (5.81%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (5.81%) Social Media
5 12 (3.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (3.87%) Distributed Systems
5 12 (3.87%) FMCG
5 12 (3.87%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.55%) Operational Technology
7 10 (3.23%) Omics
8 8 (2.58%) Data Centre
9 7 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.26%) Low-Code
9 7 (2.26%) Product Ownership
10 5 (1.61%) Hackathon
10 5 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.61%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 4 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.29%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 38 (12.26%) Windows
2 26 (8.39%) Linux
3 8 (2.58%) Android
3 8 (2.58%) Unix
4 4 (1.29%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.32%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.32%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 112 (36.13%) Agile
2 102 (32.90%) Analytics
3 92 (29.68%) AI
4 87 (28.06%) Machine Learning
5 85 (27.42%) Problem-Solving
6 68 (21.94%) Data Science
7 58 (18.71%) DevOps
8 56 (18.06%) Decision-Making
9 51 (16.45%) Software Engineering
10 49 (15.81%) Continuous Improvement
10 49 (15.81%) Hematology
10 49 (15.81%) Immunology
10 49 (15.81%) Roadmaps
11 45 (14.52%) Generative AI
12 42 (13.55%) Mathematics
13 41 (13.23%) Use Case
14 36 (11.61%) Deployment Automation
15 35 (11.29%) Thought Leadership
16 34 (10.97%) Enterprise Architecture
17 32 (10.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 68 (21.94%) SQL
2 51 (16.45%) Python
3 36 (11.61%) C#
4 31 (10.00%) Java
5 24 (7.74%) C++
6 13 (4.19%) T-SQL
7 10 (3.23%) C
7 10 (3.23%) R
8 9 (2.90%) JavaScript
8 9 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 8 (2.58%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (2.26%) TypeScript
11 6 (1.94%) Bash
12 5 (1.61%) PHP
12 5 (1.61%) Scala
13 4 (1.29%) Ada
13 4 (1.29%) Ada 95
13 4 (1.29%) Fortran
13 4 (1.29%) Go
14 3 (0.97%) Rust
Qualifications
1 254 (81.94%) Degree
2 109 (35.16%) Computer Science Degree
3 81 (26.13%) Master's Degree
4 44 (14.19%) PhD
5 24 (7.74%) DBS Check
6 16 (5.16%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (4.52%) Security Cleared
8 13 (4.19%) Chartered Engineer
9 10 (3.23%) Azure Certification
9 10 (3.23%) SC Cleared
10 9 (2.90%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.90%) PMP
11 8 (2.58%) AWS Certification
11 8 (2.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 7 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
13 6 (1.94%) A+ Certification
13 6 (1.94%) CCNP
14 5 (1.61%) MBA
15 4 (1.29%) TOGAF Certification
16 3 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (13.87%) GxP
2 27 (8.71%) Accessibility
3 21 (6.77%) QA
4 15 (4.84%) NIST
5 13 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 12 (3.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 10 (3.23%) CDISC
7 10 (3.23%) HL7
8 8 (2.58%) GDPR
9 7 (2.26%) Data Quality
10 5 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
10 5 (1.61%) NCSC
11 4 (1.29%) ISO 9001
12 3 (0.97%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 2 (0.65%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.65%) ECSS
13 2 (0.65%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.32%) GRC
14 1 (0.32%) JTAG
14 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (6.45%) Docker
2 5 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (0.97%) Hyper-V
4 3 (0.97%) KVM
5 2 (0.65%) Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 12 (3.87%) Terraform
2 9 (2.90%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.29%) Nagios
3 4 (1.29%) Prometheus
3 4 (1.29%) SCCM
3 4 (1.29%) vCenter Server
3 4 (1.29%) ZABBIX
4 3 (0.97%) FortiGate
4 3 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.65%) Ansible
5 2 (0.65%) Grafana
5 2 (0.65%) Kibana
6 1 (0.32%) Control-M
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) Puppet
Vendors
1 38 (12.26%) Microsoft
2 13 (4.19%) SAP
3 12 (3.87%) Sage
3 12 (3.87%) Xamarin
4 11 (3.55%) Cisco
5 8 (2.58%) Zoho
6 7 (2.26%) Google
7 6 (1.94%) Databricks
7 6 (1.94%) VMware
8 5 (1.61%) BT
9 4 (1.29%) Adobe
9 4 (1.29%) Fortinet
9 4 (1.29%) Palo Alto
9 4 (1.29%) ServiceNow
10 3 (0.97%) Agilent
10 3 (0.97%) Arista
10 3 (0.97%) Extreme Networks
11 2 (0.65%) IFS
11 2 (0.65%) NVIDIA
11 2 (0.65%) Oracle