Computer Science Jobs in the South East

Computer Science
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 29 36 33
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,019 1,005 1,615
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 6.13% 6.66% 8.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.22% 7.05% 8.67%
Number of salaries quoted 760 485 675
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,900 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,111 14,259 18,617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 84.82% 94.49% 94.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,939 8,272 12,089
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,265 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,750 £86,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 26 April 2024.

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 26 April 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
Thames Valley +12 529 £60,000 -9.43% 102
Berkshire +20 254 £70,000 - 47
Buckinghamshire +53 172 £41,000 -11.83% 21
Hampshire -10 160 £50,000 +25.00% 34
Surrey -13 124 £62,500 -1.96% 44
Oxfordshire -12 103 £52,500 +5.00% 37
West Sussex +7 73 £64,000 -8.57% 8
East Sussex +34 57 £50,000 - 7
Kent -4 51 £65,000 +128.07% 11
Sussex - 14 £60,000 - 2
Middlesex - 6 £66,250 - 1
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 10 (0.98%) OpenStack
2 8 (0.79%) CMS
2 8 (0.79%) SAS
3 7 (0.69%) IIS
4 6 (0.59%) Apache
4 6 (0.59%) Confluence
4 6 (0.59%) nginx
4 6 (0.59%) Tomcat
5 3 (0.29%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 2 (0.20%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.098%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.098%) WordPress
Applications
1 33 (3.24%) Simulink
2 18 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.20%) Stateflow
5 2 (0.20%) TargetLink
6 1 (0.098%) Mathematica
6 1 (0.098%) Photoshop
6 1 (0.098%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 16 (1.57%) NetSuite
2 13 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.49%) Odoo
4 4 (0.39%) SDL Web 8
Cloud Services
1 137 (13.44%) Azure
2 115 (11.29%) AWS
3 43 (4.22%) SaaS
4 36 (3.53%) Serverless
5 35 (3.43%) AWS Lambda
6 30 (2.94%) Microsoft 365
7 28 (2.75%) Power Platform
8 24 (2.36%) GCP
9 22 (2.16%) GitHub
10 20 (1.96%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.47%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.47%) IaaS
12 13 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 13 (1.28%) CloudFront
12 13 (1.28%) Route 53
12 13 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 12 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (0.98%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (4.02%) Firewall
2 36 (3.53%) Network Security
3 27 (2.65%) Intrusion Detection
4 20 (1.96%) HTTP
5 19 (1.86%) TCP/IP
6 18 (1.77%) VPN
7 16 (1.57%) Internet
7 16 (1.57%) Wireless
8 10 (0.98%) LAN
8 10 (0.98%) SSL
8 10 (0.98%) WAN
9 9 (0.88%) DNS
10 7 (0.69%) BGP
10 7 (0.69%) IPsec
10 7 (0.69%) OSPF
11 6 (0.59%) VLAN
12 5 (0.49%) NGFW
13 3 (0.29%) RS-485
13 3 (0.29%) SAN
13 3 (0.29%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 110 (10.79%) SQL Server
2 94 (9.22%) NoSQL
3 44 (4.32%) PostgreSQL
4 37 (3.63%) Relational Database
5 28 (2.75%) MySQL
5 28 (2.75%) Power BI
6 16 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
6 16 (1.57%) MongoDB
7 15 (1.47%) Tableau
8 14 (1.37%) DynamoDB
9 10 (0.98%) Redis
10 9 (0.88%) GIS
11 8 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
12 7 (0.69%) Big Data
13 6 (0.59%) EDMS
14 5 (0.49%) Hadoop
15 4 (0.39%) Amazon Athena
16 3 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
16 3 (0.29%) Impala
16 3 (0.29%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 166 (16.29%) Git
2 39 (3.83%) Cypress.io
3 38 (3.73%) Selenium
4 33 (3.24%) Subversion
5 21 (2.06%) CMake
6 20 (1.96%) JIRA
7 19 (1.86%) GitLab
8 17 (1.67%) Visual Studio
9 15 (1.47%) Jenkins
10 11 (1.08%) Bitbucket
11 10 (0.98%) Vagrant
12 7 (0.69%) Maven
13 6 (0.59%) NUnit
14 4 (0.39%) Moq
14 4 (0.39%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.39%) TeamCity
14 4 (0.39%) TestRail
15 3 (0.29%) Babel
15 3 (0.29%) GDB
15 3 (0.29%) webpack
General
1 287 (28.16%) Social Skills
2 119 (11.68%) Analytical Skills
2 119 (11.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 78 (7.65%) Finance
4 50 (4.91%) Manufacturing
5 48 (4.71%) Electronics
6 42 (4.12%) Military
7 40 (3.93%) Marketing
8 26 (2.55%) Legal
9 25 (2.45%) Public Sector
10 23 (2.26%) Telecoms
11 21 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
12 20 (1.96%) Retail
13 19 (1.86%) Aviation
14 15 (1.47%) Games
15 14 (1.37%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.08%) Publishing
18 10 (0.98%) Law
19 6 (0.59%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 295 (28.95%) Developer
2 188 (18.45%) Senior
3 155 (15.21%) Software Engineer
4 133 (13.05%) Software Developer
5 120 (11.78%) Data Scientist
6 85 (8.34%) Senior Developer
7 69 (6.77%) Lead
8 53 (5.20%) Graduate
9 50 (4.91%) Junior
10 46 (4.51%) Architect
11 45 (4.42%) Senior Software Developer
12 42 (4.12%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
13 41 (4.02%) C++ Software Engineer
14 39 (3.83%) Analyst
15 33 (3.24%) Senior Software Engineer
16 32 (3.14%) Graduate Developer
17 26 (2.55%) Lead Developer
18 24 (2.36%) ERP Developer
18 24 (2.36%) Full Stack Developer
19 23 (2.26%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (19.04%) React
2 190 (18.65%) .NET
3 111 (10.89%) HTML
4 96 (9.42%) CSS
5 71 (6.97%) HTML5
6 69 (6.77%) AngularJS
7 61 (5.99%) CSS3
8 48 (4.71%) .NET Core
9 38 (3.73%) Jest
10 35 (3.43%) ASP.NET
11 33 (3.24%) XML
12 30 (2.94%) Node.js
13 27 (2.65%) Kafka
14 24 (2.36%) RESTful
15 23 (2.26%) .NET Framework
15 23 (2.26%) jQuery
16 22 (2.16%) Qt
17 21 (2.06%) ASP.NET MVC
17 21 (2.06%) React Native
18 20 (1.96%) OpenMP
Miscellaneous
1 245 (24.04%) Algorithms
2 86 (8.44%) Management Information System
3 47 (4.61%) Data Structures
4 43 (4.22%) Self-Motivation
5 39 (3.83%) Product Ownership
6 37 (3.63%) Data Centre
7 26 (2.55%) CUDA
8 21 (2.06%) Cyber Threat
8 21 (2.06%) IoT
9 19 (1.86%) Analytical Mindset
10 18 (1.77%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
12 15 (1.47%) Client/Server
13 13 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
14 12 (1.18%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
15 9 (0.88%) Taxonomies
15 9 (0.88%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
16 8 (0.79%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 138 (13.54%) Windows
2 131 (12.86%) Linux
3 31 (3.04%) Unix
4 29 (2.85%) Android
5 22 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 11 (1.08%) Embedded Linux
7 11 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.08%) Ubuntu
8 10 (0.98%) CentOS
9 5 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 3 (0.29%) Kali Linux
11 2 (0.20%) VMS
11 2 (0.20%) Windows 10
11 2 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.098%) Solaris
12 1 (0.098%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (37.19%) Problem-Solving
2 346 (33.95%) Agile
3 289 (28.36%) Mathematics
4 253 (24.83%) Software Engineering
5 214 (21.00%) Artificial Intelligence
6 190 (18.65%) Mentoring
7 171 (16.78%) Cybersecurity
8 158 (15.51%) Decision-Making
8 158 (15.51%) DevOps
9 151 (14.82%) Coaching
10 139 (13.64%) Data Science
11 135 (13.25%) Data Analysis
12 123 (12.07%) Machine Learning
13 120 (11.78%) Physics
14 119 (11.68%) Propensity Modelling
15 112 (10.99%) Red Team
16 105 (10.30%) Statistical Modelling
17 102 (10.01%) Digital Forensics
18 86 (8.44%) CI/CD
19 72 (7.07%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 298 (29.24%) Python
2 295 (28.95%) C#
3 281 (27.58%) JavaScript
4 161 (15.80%) C++
5 145 (14.23%) SQL
6 139 (13.64%) TypeScript
7 115 (11.29%) C
8 97 (9.52%) Java
9 74 (7.26%) Fortran
10 49 (4.81%) PHP
11 41 (4.02%) Go
12 32 (3.14%) Bash
13 20 (1.96%) Kotlin
13 20 (1.96%) PowerShell
14 19 (1.86%) R
15 16 (1.57%) MATLAB
16 9 (0.88%) Perl
16 9 (0.88%) T-SQL
17 5 (0.49%) Groovy
18 4 (0.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 971 (95.29%) Degree
2 511 (50.15%) Computer Science Degree
3 171 (16.78%) Master's Degree
4 116 (11.38%) Security Cleared
5 96 (9.42%) PhD
6 65 (6.38%) SC Cleared
7 35 (3.43%) CISSP
8 28 (2.75%) AWS Certification
9 21 (2.06%) CompTIA Security+
10 19 (1.86%) Numerate Degree
11 18 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 14 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (1.18%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (1.08%) CISM
14 11 (1.08%) DV Cleared
15 10 (0.98%) GIAC
15 10 (0.98%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (0.88%) MBA
17 8 (0.79%) CCNA
17 8 (0.79%) GPEN
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (6.48%) QA
2 37 (3.63%) GDPR
3 36 (3.53%) WCAG
4 32 (3.14%) Accessibility
5 27 (2.65%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 14 (1.37%) HIPAA
7 14 (1.37%) NIST
8 10 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (0.98%) GRC
9 8 (0.79%) ISO 13485
10 7 (0.69%) CDISC
10 7 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.69%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.49%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.49%) PMO
12 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
13 3 (0.29%) SLA
14 2 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
14 2 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 212 (20.80%) Docker
2 11 (1.08%) Active Directory
3 9 (0.88%) Virtual Machines
4 8 (0.79%) Firmware
5 5 (0.49%) Virtual Desktop
6 3 (0.29%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.20%) Embedded Firmware
7 2 (0.20%) HDFS
7 2 (0.20%) VMware Infrastructure
8 1 (0.098%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.098%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.098%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 172 (16.88%) Kubernetes
2 36 (3.53%) Terraform
3 27 (2.65%) Ansible
4 12 (1.18%) ZABBIX
5 11 (1.08%) Puppet
6 8 (0.79%) Nessus
7 6 (0.59%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
8 3 (0.29%) Grafana
8 3 (0.29%) Suricata
9 2 (0.20%) Functional Safety
9 2 (0.20%) Nagios
9 2 (0.20%) Netcool
9 2 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 2 (0.20%) SolarWinds Orion
9 2 (0.20%) WSUS
10 1 (0.098%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle ZFS
10 1 (0.098%) Prometheus
10 1 (0.098%) QRadar
10 1 (0.098%) SCCM
Vendors
1 104 (10.21%) Microsoft
2 28 (2.75%) Google
3 26 (2.55%) SAP
4 22 (2.16%) Xilinx
5 13 (1.28%) Xamarin
6 12 (1.18%) Atlassian
7 10 (0.98%) Apple
8 9 (0.88%) Oracle
8 9 (0.88%) Salesforce
9 8 (0.79%) IFS
9 8 (0.79%) Juniper
9 8 (0.79%) ServiceNow
10 6 (0.59%) Cisco
10 6 (0.59%) iManage
10 6 (0.59%) Qualys
10 6 (0.59%) VMware
10 6 (0.59%) YouTube
11 5 (0.49%) Darktrace
11 5 (0.49%) Splunk
12 4 (0.39%) New Relic