Computer Science Degree Jobs in the South West

Computer Science Degree
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 132 118
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +3
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 75 176 149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 1.91% 1.75% 2.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.61% 5.34% 5.32%
Number of salaries quoted 34 138 129
10th Percentile £26,475 £31,425 £28,850
25th Percentile £34,500 £38,563 £41,071
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -21.88% +21.60%
75th Percentile £57,500 £64,625 £78,750
90th Percentile £73,750 £77,875 £86,500
England median annual salary £63,150 £57,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year +9.83% -8.00% +13.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,627 3,294 2,801
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 41.35% 32.81% 43.99%
Number of salaries quoted 943 2,128 1,425
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £34,500 £41,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,000 £72,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £54,125 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.62% -9.79% +9.09%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the South West

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the South West

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 16 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South West

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 July 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
Gloucestershire +55 27 £29,000 -44.76% 22
Devon +18 14 £52,500 +81.03% 5
Bristol +10 13 £58,750 +23.68% 14
Wiltshire +30 8 £56,745 +23.97% 4
Dorset +29 8 £33,750 -28.95% 4
Somerset +11 5 £35,000 +20.69% 3
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (26.67%) Jupyter
2 4 (5.33%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.67%) IIS
3 2 (2.67%) NServiceBus
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (6.67%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.67%) Azure
2 10 (13.33%) Power Platform
3 8 (10.67%) AWS
4 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.33%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.67%) GCP
5 2 (2.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.33%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.33%) Boomi
6 1 (1.33%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.33%) Broadband
2 2 (2.67%) Firewall
2 2 (2.67%) Internet
2 2 (2.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.33%) LAN
3 1 (1.33%) VPN
3 1 (1.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (26.67%) Big Data
2 15 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 10 (13.33%) Power BI
4 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 5 (6.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (5.33%) FileMaker
6 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 5 (6.67%) JIRA
2 4 (5.33%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Burp Suite
3 2 (2.67%) Metasploit
4 1 (1.33%) Postman
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 26 (34.67%) Finance
3 21 (28.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (6.67%) Games
6 4 (5.33%) Retail
7 3 (4.00%) Aerospace
7 3 (4.00%) Multimedia
8 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.33%) Aviation
9 1 (1.33%) Back Office
9 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.33%) Law
9 1 (1.33%) Legal
9 1 (1.33%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.33%) Military
9 1 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Senior
2 21 (28.00%) Data Scientist
3 20 (26.67%) Senior Data Scientist
4 11 (14.67%) Developer
5 10 (13.33%) Analyst
5 10 (13.33%) Graduate
6 9 (12.00%) IT Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) IT Support
6 9 (12.00%) IT Support Analyst
6 9 (12.00%) Lead
6 9 (12.00%) Support Analyst
7 6 (8.00%) Engineering Manager
7 6 (8.00%) Junior
8 5 (6.67%) Graduate Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Graduate IT Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Graduate IT Support
8 5 (6.67%) Graduate IT Support Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) Graduate Support Analyst
8 5 (6.67%) IT Graduate
9 4 (5.33%) Graduate Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.00%) HTML
2 6 (8.00%) .NET
3 5 (6.67%) CSS
4 4 (5.33%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.00%) ASP.NET
5 3 (4.00%) HTML5
5 3 (4.00%) RESTful
6 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.67%) RabbitMQ
6 2 (2.67%) React
7 1 (1.33%) ASP.NET Web Forms
7 1 (1.33%) Flask
7 1 (1.33%) Kafka
7 1 (1.33%) Node.js
7 1 (1.33%) Pandas
7 1 (1.33%) REST
7 1 (1.33%) scikit-learn
7 1 (1.33%) Swagger
7 1 (1.33%) TensorFlow
7 1 (1.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (28.00%) Algorithms
2 20 (26.67%) Cyberattack
3 5 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (4.00%) Reinsurance
4 3 (4.00%) Video\Live Streaming
5 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.67%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.67%) Robotics
6 1 (1.33%) Blockchain
6 1 (1.33%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.33%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.33%) FMCG
6 1 (1.33%) IoT
6 1 (1.33%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.33%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 50 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 42 (56.00%) Mentoring
4 32 (42.67%) Software Engineering
5 28 (37.33%) DevOps
6 24 (32.00%) Microservices
7 23 (30.67%) Artificial Intelligence
7 23 (30.67%) Data Science
7 23 (30.67%) Machine Learning
8 22 (29.33%) Product Management
9 21 (28.00%) LLM
9 21 (28.00%) Mathematics
9 21 (28.00%) Roadmaps
9 21 (28.00%) Statistics
10 20 (26.67%) Data Analysis
10 20 (26.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 20 (26.67%) Decision-Making
10 20 (26.67%) Exploratory Data Analysis
10 20 (26.67%) MLOps
10 20 (26.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 35 (46.67%) JavaScript
2 26 (34.67%) Python
3 22 (29.33%) Java
4 12 (16.00%) SQL
5 11 (14.67%) C#
6 5 (6.67%) T-SQL
7 4 (5.33%) PowerShell
8 2 (2.67%) Bash
8 2 (2.67%) C
8 2 (2.67%) PHP
8 2 (2.67%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.33%) Ada
Qualifications
1 75 (100.00%) Degree
2 22 (29.33%) Security Cleared
3 21 (28.00%) DV Cleared
4 5 (6.67%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.67%) Master's Degree
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.33%) Azure Certification
5 4 (5.33%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.67%) CHECK Team Member
6 2 (2.67%) CREST Certified
7 1 (1.33%) MBA
7 1 (1.33%) PhD
7 1 (1.33%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.33%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.33%) QA
2 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.67%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.67%) GDPR
4 1 (1.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.33%) Def Stans
4 1 (1.33%) DO-178B
4 1 (1.33%) IEC 61508
4 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 20 (26.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (26.67%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.67%) Nmap
3 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.33%) Ariba
3 1 (1.33%) Cisco
3 1 (1.33%) Databricks
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) Graphcore
3 1 (1.33%) Informatica
3 1 (1.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (1.33%) SAP
3 1 (1.33%) SnapLogic
3 1 (1.33%) Sparx