Computer Science Job Trends in South Wales

Computer Science
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -13 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 14 28 29
As % of all permanent jobs in South Wales 1.70% 4.19% 5.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 5.16% 5.73%
Number of salaries quoted 8 14 18
10th Percentile £48,375 £45,000 £29,400
25th Percentile £75,938 £46,563 £32,620
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £64,625 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +31.53% +26.10% -2.38%
75th Percentile £88,125 £67,500 £74,375
90th Percentile £97,500 £78,375 £87,500
Wales median annual salary £85,000 £64,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +32.81% +50.59% -15.12%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 629 543 506
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in South Wales 76.52% 81.29% 92.50%
Number of salaries quoted 444 292 386
10th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,839
25th Percentile £31,125 £36,250 £40,770
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £49,375 £50,467
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% -2.16% +0.93%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £72,500
Wales median annual salary £48,122 £49,104 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +3.38% -2.06%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in South Wales

Computer Science
Salary Trend in South Wales

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in South Wales

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in South Wales over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in South Wales

Computer Science
Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Newport -14 7 £95,000 +80.95% 46
Gwent +6 4 £85,000 +74.36%
Torfaen - 2 £51,250 -
Cardiff -4 1 - - 37
Computer Science
Wales

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Sage X3
2 1 (7.14%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) GCP
1 4 (28.57%) Google Workspace
1 4 (28.57%) SaaS
1 4 (28.57%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Bluetooth
1 4 (28.57%) DNS
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) Intrusion Detection
1 4 (28.57%) Modbus
1 4 (28.57%) Network Security
1 4 (28.57%) SSL
1 4 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 4 (28.57%) VLAN
1 4 (28.57%) Wireshark
1 4 (28.57%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Burp Suite
1 4 (28.57%) Metasploit
2 2 (14.29%) Git
General
1 7 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (42.86%) Aerospace
2 6 (42.86%) Social Skills
3 4 (28.57%) Law
4 2 (14.29%) Automotive
4 2 (14.29%) Aviation
4 2 (14.29%) Electronics
4 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Head of Cybersecurity
1 4 (28.57%) Head of IT
2 2 (14.29%) Firmware Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Business Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Business Systems Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Integration Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Sage Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) CAN bus
1 4 (28.57%) Cyber Threat
1 4 (28.57%) Digital Media
1 4 (28.57%) IoT
1 4 (28.57%) Onboarding
1 4 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 4 (28.57%) SCADA
2 2 (14.29%) FPGA
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Android
1 4 (28.57%) Kali Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
1 4 (28.57%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Cloud Security
1 8 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (50.00%) Decision-Making
3 5 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (35.71%) Roadmaps
4 4 (28.57%) Cognitive Science
4 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
4 4 (28.57%) Data Science
4 4 (28.57%) Incident Response
4 4 (28.57%) Innovative Thinking
4 4 (28.57%) IT Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) Machine Learning
4 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
4 4 (28.57%) Security Monitoring
4 4 (28.57%) SIEM
4 4 (28.57%) Smart Manufacturing
4 4 (28.57%) Tech Ops
4 4 (28.57%) Threat Detection
4 4 (28.57%) User Experience
4 4 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) C++
2 4 (28.57%) Java
2 4 (28.57%) Python
2 4 (28.57%) R
2 4 (28.57%) Rust
3 2 (14.29%) C
4 1 (7.14%) Ada
4 1 (7.14%) Ada 95
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (35.71%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (28.57%) CEH
4 4 (28.57%) CISM
4 4 (28.57%) CISSP
4 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
4 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
5 1 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) GDPR
1 4 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (28.57%) NIST
1 4 (28.57%) SOC 2
2 2 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (14.29%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Nessus
1 4 (28.57%) Nmap
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco
1 4 (28.57%) Google
1 4 (28.57%) Qualtrics
1 4 (28.57%) Red Hat
1 4 (28.57%) Splunk
2 3 (21.43%) SAP
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) Sage