Computer Science Job Trends in the South West

Computer Science
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 35 59
Rank change year-on-year -76 +24 +20
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 100 179 368
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.28% 6.33% 3.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 7.07% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 83 83 248
10th Percentile £28,000 £27,500 £32,200
25th Percentile £30,625 £31,750 £38,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £33,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +41.79% -36.19% -13.08%
75th Percentile £66,250 £56,498 £72,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,525 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.19% -5.83% -7.69%

All Process & 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 5,435 2,531 8,167
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 69.63% 89.53% 78.89%
Number of salaries quoted 3,635 1,585 5,980
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,058 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.72% -0.86% -4.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,114 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the South West

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the South West over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

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 17 June 2026. 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
Somerset +11 54 £42,500 +21.43% 4
Bristol -35 23 £62,500 +13.64% 40
Gloucestershire -63 11 £50,000 +69.49% 23
Devon -62 8 £55,000 +64.18% 33
Dorset -13 4 £45,000 +12.50% 37
Wiltshire -31 2 - - 4
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.00%) IIS
3 1 (1.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 34 (34.00%) Azure
2 11 (11.00%) GCP
3 9 (9.00%) AWS
3 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.00%) GitHub
4 6 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 6 (6.00%) Azure Functions
4 6 (6.00%) Azure Key Vault
4 6 (6.00%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (6.00%) IaaS
4 6 (6.00%) PaaS
4 6 (6.00%) Serverless
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.00%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.00%) VPN
2 2 (2.00%) Firewall
2 2 (2.00%) LAN
2 2 (2.00%) WAN
3 1 (1.00%) Broadband
3 1 (1.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.00%) Modbus
3 1 (1.00%) NAS
3 1 (1.00%) Network Security
3 1 (1.00%) Profibus
3 1 (1.00%) SAN
3 1 (1.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.00%) VLAN
3 1 (1.00%) VoIP
3 1 (1.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.00%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (6.00%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (5.00%) Relational Database
4 3 (3.00%) MariaDB
4 3 (3.00%) MySQL
4 3 (3.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.00%) GIS
5 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 25 (25.00%) Git
2 12 (12.00%) Eclipse
3 11 (11.00%) Subversion
4 7 (7.00%) JUnit
5 3 (3.00%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.00%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.00%) GoogleTest
6 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
6 1 (1.00%) JIRA
6 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.00%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 28 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (11.00%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (10.00%) Finance
5 8 (8.00%) Retail
6 7 (7.00%) Electronics
6 7 (7.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (6.00%) Law
8 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.00%) Humanities
9 2 (2.00%) Social Science
10 1 (1.00%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.00%) Police
10 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (27.00%) Developer
2 22 (22.00%) Senior
3 15 (15.00%) Analyst
4 13 (13.00%) Lecturer
5 12 (12.00%) .NET Developer
5 12 (12.00%) Java Developer
6 11 (11.00%) Software Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Junior
7 10 (10.00%) Junior Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Junior Java Developer
7 10 (10.00%) Software Engineer
8 8 (8.00%) .NET Software Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Backend Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Graduate
8 8 (8.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
9 6 (6.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (5.00%) C# Developer
10 5 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Engineering Manager
11 4 (4.00%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 26 (26.00%) RESTful
2 15 (15.00%) React
3 12 (12.00%) .NET
3 12 (12.00%) .NET Core
4 11 (11.00%) J2EE
4 11 (11.00%) Struts
4 11 (11.00%) Web Services
5 7 (7.00%) HTML
6 5 (5.00%) AngularJS
7 4 (4.00%) FastAPI
7 4 (4.00%) REST
8 3 (3.00%) CSS
8 3 (3.00%) CSS3
8 3 (3.00%) Django
8 3 (3.00%) Flask
8 3 (3.00%) HTML5
8 3 (3.00%) jQuery
8 3 (3.00%) Playwright
8 3 (3.00%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (3.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.00%) Security Posture
2 6 (6.00%) Cloud Native
2 6 (6.00%) Podcast
2 6 (6.00%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.00%) Algorithms
4 4 (4.00%) CUDA
5 3 (3.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.00%) NHS
7 1 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
7 1 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.00%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.00%) Replication
7 1 (1.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.00%) Linux
2 6 (6.00%) VMS
2 6 (6.00%) Windows
3 4 (4.00%) Unix
4 1 (1.00%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (1.00%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.00%) AI
2 29 (29.00%) CI/CD
3 27 (27.00%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 24 (24.00%) Machine Learning
6 23 (23.00%) Natural Language Processing
6 23 (23.00%) Reinforcement Learning
7 16 (16.00%) Containerisation
7 16 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (15.00%) Agile
8 15 (15.00%) Mentoring
8 15 (15.00%) SDLC
9 13 (13.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 12 (12.00%) API Design
10 12 (12.00%) API Integration
10 12 (12.00%) DevOps
10 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 10 (10.00%) Analytics
12 8 (8.00%) Observability
12 8 (8.00%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.00%) C#
2 21 (21.00%) Python
3 16 (16.00%) C++
3 16 (16.00%) Java
3 16 (16.00%) JavaScript
4 12 (12.00%) SQL
5 10 (10.00%) Perl
6 7 (7.00%) Bash
7 6 (6.00%) Bicep
7 6 (6.00%) Kusto Query Language
7 6 (6.00%) PHP
7 6 (6.00%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.00%) C
9 2 (2.00%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.00%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.00%) R
10 1 (1.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (63.00%) Degree
2 46 (46.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (7.00%) ISTQB
4 6 (6.00%) Azure Certification
4 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 6 (6.00%) Security Cleared
5 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
6 4 (4.00%) DBS Check
6 4 (4.00%) PhD
6 4 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.00%) CCNP
7 1 (1.00%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.00%) VCAP
7 1 (1.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.00%) QA
2 8 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.00%) ISO 9001
4 4 (4.00%) Automotive SPICE
4 4 (4.00%) ISO 26262
5 3 (3.00%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.00%) ISO 20022
6 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.00%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (20.00%) Docker
2 7 (7.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (7.00%) vSphere
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.00%) Firmware
5 1 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 24 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 11 (11.00%) Terraform
3 3 (3.00%) Grafana
3 3 (3.00%) Plesk
3 3 (3.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.00%) VMware
3 6 (6.00%) ScienceLogic
4 3 (3.00%) Google
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle
5 1 (1.00%) Cisco
5 1 (1.00%) Cribl.io
5 1 (1.00%) NetApp
5 1 (1.00%) Splunk
5 1 (1.00%) TOWER Software