Computer Science Jobs in South London

Computer Science
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in South London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 66 67
Rank change year-on-year +34 +1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 76 22 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 10.63% 2.53% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.01% 2.67% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 10 21 10
10th Percentile - £29,750 £39,550
25th Percentile £46,500 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £81,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -26.38% +34.05% +21.60%
75th Percentile £63,750 £103,750 £72,412
90th Percentile £69,000 £107,500 £79,125
London median annual salary £77,500 £75,000 £80,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.25% +6.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 690 824 649
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South London 96.50% 94.60% 92.71%
Number of salaries quoted 147 376 361
10th Percentile £34,950 £27,733 £31,250
25th Percentile £47,250 £38,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.91% +3.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £87,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in South London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in South London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in South London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in South London

Computer Science
Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Merton +14 26 £46,500 +52.46%
Kingston Upon Thames +33 17 £46,500 -25.00%
Croydon +14 17 - - 1
Bromley 0 11 - - 7
Sutton +16 6 - -
Wandsworth -4 2 - - 1
Computer Science
London

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (5.26%) AWS
2 3 (3.95%) AWS CloudFormation
2 3 (3.95%) AWS KMS
2 3 (3.95%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (3.95%) Serverless
3 2 (2.63%) Azure
3 2 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 66 (86.84%) Broadband
2 3 (3.95%) Network Security
General
1 70 (92.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Multimedia
3 6 (7.89%) Games
Job Titles
1 26 (34.21%) Lead
2 16 (21.05%) Systems Engineer
3 15 (19.74%) Engineering Manager
4 8 (10.53%) Team Leader
5 6 (7.89%) Senior
5 6 (7.89%) Senior Manager
5 6 (7.89%) Senior Service Manager
5 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow Manager
6 4 (5.26%) Architect
6 4 (5.26%) Software Engineer
7 3 (3.95%) AWS Architect
7 3 (3.95%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (2.63%) Principal Engineer
9 1 (1.32%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.95%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (3.95%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Management Information System
2 6 (7.89%) Product Ownership
2 6 (7.89%) Video\Live Streaming
3 4 (5.26%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (88.16%) Roadmaps
2 66 (86.84%) Mentoring
3 63 (82.89%) High Availability
3 63 (82.89%) Product Management
4 60 (78.95%) Broadcast Engineering
4 60 (78.95%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (19.74%) Software Engineering
6 9 (11.84%) Deployment Automation
7 6 (7.89%) Agile
7 6 (7.89%) Change Management
7 6 (7.89%) Incident Management
7 6 (7.89%) ITSM
7 6 (7.89%) Mathematics
7 6 (7.89%) Problem Management
7 6 (7.89%) Service Delivery
7 6 (7.89%) Software Delivery
7 6 (7.89%) Validation
8 5 (6.58%) CI/CD
8 5 (6.58%) DevOps
8 5 (6.58%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.84%) Java
2 6 (7.89%) Python
2 6 (7.89%) Rust
3 2 (2.63%) C
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (92.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certification
4 3 (3.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (2.63%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) GDPR
2 3 (3.95%) HIPAA
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.95%) Grafana
1 3 (3.95%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.95%) Prometheus
1 3 (3.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.89%) ServiceNow
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft