Computer Science Jobs in the South West

Computer Science
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 78 43
Rank change year-on-year +20 -35 +17
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 318 247 641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 3.62% 3.97% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.68% 4.19% 7.32%
Number of salaries quoted 198 200 217
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,680 £28,650
25th Percentile £39,438 £38,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +21.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £86,250 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,800 5,890 8,753
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 77.33% 94.65% 95.66%
Number of salaries quoted 4,670 3,616 5,274
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,188 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +4.35%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the South West

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the South West

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the South West over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the South West

Computer Science
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 within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Bristol +17 139 £59,500 -15.00% 20
Devon +22 72 £35,000 -12.50% 2
Gloucestershire +24 46 £50,000 -16.67% 6
Wiltshire -16 20 £45,772 -34.61% 8
Dorset -19 17 £53,750 +40.52% 2
Somerset +3 14 £37,500 -37.50% 4
Cornwall -16 4 - - 2
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 8 (2.52%) Apache
2 6 (1.89%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (1.89%) Apache Spark
2 6 (1.89%) Luigi
3 5 (1.57%) Confluence
4 3 (0.94%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (0.63%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.31%) SAS
6 1 (0.31%) SharePoint
Applications
1 16 (5.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.31%) GNU Octave
2 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.31%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 51 (16.04%) AWS
2 47 (14.78%) Azure
3 22 (6.92%) GCP
4 15 (4.72%) GitHub
5 13 (4.09%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.09%) SaaS
6 11 (3.46%) npm
6 11 (3.46%) Serverless
7 10 (3.14%) Azure DevOps
7 10 (3.14%) Firebase
8 9 (2.83%) Azure Functions
8 9 (2.83%) Power Platform
9 8 (2.52%) Snowflake
10 6 (1.89%) IaaS
11 4 (1.26%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.26%) PaaS
12 3 (0.94%) GitHub Actions
12 3 (0.94%) Sentry
13 2 (0.63%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.63%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 28 (8.81%) WAN
2 23 (7.23%) Network Security
2 23 (7.23%) SD-WAN
3 19 (5.97%) 5G
4 16 (5.03%) Firewall
5 13 (4.09%) DNS
5 13 (4.09%) TCP/IP
6 11 (3.46%) Wi-Fi
7 10 (3.14%) HTTP
8 8 (2.52%) Internet
8 8 (2.52%) LAN
8 8 (2.52%) SMTP
9 7 (2.20%) VLAN
10 6 (1.89%) VPN
11 4 (1.26%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (0.94%) MPLS
12 3 (0.94%) NetScaler
12 3 (0.94%) PABX
12 3 (0.94%) RS-232
12 3 (0.94%) VSAT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (5.35%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.40%) Big Data
3 13 (4.09%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.77%) Relational Database
5 11 (3.46%) Redis
6 8 (2.52%) Power BI
7 7 (2.20%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (1.89%) Bigtable
8 6 (1.89%) CouchDB
8 6 (1.89%) RethinkDB
9 5 (1.57%) MySQL
9 5 (1.57%) Tableau
10 3 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.63%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.63%) Flink
11 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
11 2 (0.63%) Looker
11 2 (0.63%) NoSQL
12 1 (0.31%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 44 (13.84%) Git
2 17 (5.35%) Jenkins
3 14 (4.40%) Visual Studio
4 11 (3.46%) JIRA
5 10 (3.14%) Storybook
6 3 (0.94%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.94%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.63%) Maven
7 2 (0.63%) Oracle Forms
7 2 (0.63%) Rational DOORS
7 2 (0.63%) Rational Team Concert
7 2 (0.63%) Selenium
8 1 (0.31%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.31%) GitLab
8 1 (0.31%) JUnit
8 1 (0.31%) Subversion
8 1 (0.31%) WebDriver
General
1 141 (44.34%) Social Skills
2 78 (24.53%) Analytical Skills
3 42 (13.21%) Finance
4 34 (10.69%) Marketing
5 32 (10.06%) Electronics
6 20 (6.29%) Presentation Skills
7 13 (4.09%) Financial Institution
7 13 (4.09%) Law
8 12 (3.77%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (2.52%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.20%) Military
11 7 (2.20%) Public Sector
12 6 (1.89%) Aviation
12 6 (1.89%) Games
13 5 (1.57%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.94%) Legal
15 2 (0.63%) Local Government
15 2 (0.63%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 78 (24.53%) Senior
2 73 (22.96%) Developer
3 44 (13.84%) Software Engineer
4 33 (10.38%) Lead
5 32 (10.06%) Senior Software Engineer
6 19 (5.97%) Data Scientist
7 18 (5.66%) Systems Engineer
8 17 (5.35%) Linux Engineer
9 15 (4.72%) Architect
9 15 (4.72%) Consultant
10 14 (4.40%) Analyst
10 14 (4.40%) Support Engineer
10 14 (4.40%) Tester
11 13 (4.09%) Linux Systems Engineer
11 13 (4.09%) Penetration Tester
12 12 (3.77%) Software Developer
12 12 (3.77%) Technical Leader
13 11 (3.46%) Project Leader
13 11 (3.46%) Security Consultant
13 11 (3.46%) Technical Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (13.21%) AngularJS
2 31 (9.75%) .NET
3 30 (9.43%) React
4 28 (8.81%) CSS
4 28 (8.81%) HTML
5 19 (5.97%) Node.js
6 17 (5.35%) REST
7 16 (5.03%) PySpark
8 15 (4.72%) ASP.NET
9 12 (3.77%) .NET Framework
10 10 (3.14%) ASP.NET Core
10 10 (3.14%) HTML5
10 10 (3.14%) Ionic Framework
10 10 (3.14%) Pandas
10 10 (3.14%) Sass
11 9 (2.83%) Lambda Expressions
12 8 (2.52%) .NET Core
12 8 (2.52%) ASP.NET Web API
12 8 (2.52%) Entity Framework
13 7 (2.20%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 39 (12.26%) Self-Motivation
2 34 (10.69%) Management Information System
3 28 (8.81%) GNSS
4 16 (5.03%) Mobile App
5 15 (4.72%) Cloud Native
5 15 (4.72%) Reinsurance
6 14 (4.40%) Product Ownership
7 13 (4.09%) Client/Server
8 12 (3.77%) FPGA
9 11 (3.46%) Algorithms
10 10 (3.14%) Onboarding
10 10 (3.14%) Public Cloud
10 10 (3.14%) Robotics
11 9 (2.83%) VHDL
12 8 (2.52%) Analytical Mindset
12 8 (2.52%) CUDA
12 8 (2.52%) MicroBlaze
12 8 (2.52%) Tandem
13 7 (2.20%) Team-Oriented Environment
14 6 (1.89%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 82 (25.79%) Linux
2 45 (14.15%) Windows
3 23 (7.23%) Unix
4 14 (4.40%) Android
5 13 (4.09%) Apple iOS
6 11 (3.46%) Debian
7 10 (3.14%) Mac OS
8 8 (2.52%) Ubuntu
9 4 (1.26%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.94%) Alpine Linux
10 3 (0.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.94%) Windows 7
10 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 151 (47.48%) Problem-Solving
2 83 (26.10%) Software Engineering
3 63 (19.81%) Agile
4 53 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 51 (16.04%) B2B
6 47 (14.78%) Cybersecurity
7 46 (14.47%) Project Management
8 44 (13.84%) Machine Learning
9 42 (13.21%) Mentoring
10 40 (12.58%) Requirements Analysis
11 39 (12.26%) Validation
12 38 (11.95%) Defect Tracking
13 37 (11.64%) Containerisation
13 37 (11.64%) Creative Thinking
14 32 (10.06%) CI/CD
15 29 (9.12%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (9.12%) DevOps
15 29 (9.12%) Innovative Thinking
16 27 (8.49%) Mathematics
16 27 (8.49%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 87 (27.36%) Python
2 74 (23.27%) SQL
3 58 (18.24%) JavaScript
4 51 (16.04%) C++
5 44 (13.84%) Java
6 34 (10.69%) C
6 34 (10.69%) C#
7 32 (10.06%) TypeScript
8 26 (8.18%) Perl
9 21 (6.60%) Bash
10 12 (3.77%) MATLAB
10 12 (3.77%) VB
11 10 (3.14%) Objective-C
11 10 (3.14%) Swift
12 8 (2.52%) Tcl
13 7 (2.20%) PHP
13 7 (2.20%) Scala
14 5 (1.57%) PowerShell
14 5 (1.57%) R
14 5 (1.57%) Rust
Qualifications
1 294 (92.45%) Degree
2 153 (48.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 50 (15.72%) Security Cleared
4 25 (7.86%) Master's Degree
5 15 (4.72%) SC Cleared
6 13 (4.09%) DV Cleared
7 12 (3.77%) CHECK Team Member
7 12 (3.77%) OSCP
8 11 (3.46%) DBS Check
8 11 (3.46%) PMP
9 10 (3.14%) A+ Certification
9 10 (3.14%) MCP
9 10 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (2.52%) CISSP
11 7 (2.20%) CISA
11 7 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
11 7 (2.20%) CISM
11 7 (2.20%) PMI Certification
12 6 (1.89%) PhD
13 5 (1.57%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (9.75%) PMO
2 15 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 11 (3.46%) QA
4 10 (3.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 8 (2.52%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (2.52%) NIST
6 5 (1.57%) SOC 1
6 5 (1.57%) SOC 2
7 3 (0.94%) Accessibility
7 3 (0.94%) JTAG
7 3 (0.94%) SLA
8 2 (0.63%) FedRAMP
9 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.31%) GDPR
9 1 (0.31%) IEC 61508
9 1 (0.31%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (6.92%) Firmware
2 21 (6.60%) Docker
3 18 (5.66%) Embedded Firmware
4 17 (5.35%) Active Directory
5 11 (3.46%) VMware Infrastructure
6 7 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.26%) Lustre
7 4 (1.26%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 3 (0.94%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (4.40%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.89%) Nagios
3 5 (1.57%) Rancher
3 5 (1.57%) Terraform
4 3 (0.94%) EMC VPLEX
4 3 (0.94%) Grafana
4 3 (0.94%) OfficeScan
4 3 (0.94%) WSUS
5 1 (0.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.31%) SCCM
Vendors
1 46 (14.47%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.97%) Databricks
3 14 (4.40%) Cisco
4 13 (4.09%) Oracle
5 11 (3.46%) VMware
6 8 (2.52%) Altera
6 8 (2.52%) Google
6 8 (2.52%) Green Hills
6 8 (2.52%) Motorola
6 8 (2.52%) Xilinx
7 7 (2.20%) Salesforce
8 6 (1.89%) Centreon
9 4 (1.26%) Atlassian
9 4 (1.26%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.94%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.94%) Coverity
10 3 (0.94%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.94%) SAP
10 3 (0.94%) Sybase
10 3 (0.94%) Veeam