Computer Science Jobs in the South West

Computer Science
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 79 49 85
Rank change year-on-year -30 +36 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 196 504 281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 4.17% 6.22% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 6.51% 4.02%
Number of salaries quoted 106 155 144
10th Percentile £29,875 £30,800 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,250 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £72,433 £63,125 £56,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £73,250 £68,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,443 7,743 6,984
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 94.59% 95.51% 95.48%
Number of salaries quoted 3,101 4,538 4,607
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,800 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,548 £78,750 £76,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +19 87 £56,000 +1.82% 15
Bristol -29 61 £70,000 +21.74% 56
Devon -21 15 £55,000 +22.22% 7
Dorset +30 12 £36,500 +8.31% 11
Somerset +14 10 £33,250 -45.04% 14
Wiltshire -53 7 £65,000 +30.00% 9
Cornwall +25 3 - - 1
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 12 (6.12%) Jupyter
2 7 (3.57%) Apache Spark
3 6 (3.06%) Apache
4 4 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (2.04%) Luigi
5 1 (0.51%) Confluence
5 1 (0.51%) GeoServer
5 1 (0.51%) IIS
5 1 (0.51%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.51%) Mathcad
1 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (0.51%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 58 (29.59%) AWS
2 45 (22.96%) GCP
3 35 (17.86%) Azure
4 13 (6.63%) OpenShift
5 12 (6.12%) Power Platform
6 9 (4.59%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (2.04%) dbt
7 4 (2.04%) Fivetran
7 4 (2.04%) Google Analytics
7 4 (2.04%) Google Tag Manager
7 4 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (2.04%) SaaS
7 4 (2.04%) Serverless
7 4 (2.04%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.53%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.53%) GitHub
8 3 (1.53%) npm
9 2 (1.02%) IaaS
9 2 (1.02%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.16%) Firewall
2 13 (6.63%) TCP/IP
3 11 (5.61%) WAN
4 10 (5.10%) IPv4
4 10 (5.10%) Network Security
5 9 (4.59%) 5G
5 9 (4.59%) DHCP
5 9 (4.59%) DNS
5 9 (4.59%) SD-WAN
5 9 (4.59%) VLAN
5 9 (4.59%) VPN
6 6 (3.06%) Wireless
7 4 (2.04%) SNMP
8 3 (1.53%) Intrusion Detection
9 2 (1.02%) Internet
9 2 (1.02%) LAN
9 2 (1.02%) Unified Communications
9 2 (1.02%) Wireless Security
10 1 (0.51%) J1939
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (26.53%) Big Data
2 16 (8.16%) Relational Database
3 15 (7.65%) Data Warehouse
4 12 (6.12%) SQL Server
5 11 (5.61%) Power BI
6 9 (4.59%) BigQuery
7 8 (4.08%) Apache Accumulo
7 8 (4.08%) Data Lake
8 7 (3.57%) Tableau
9 6 (3.06%) Delta Lake
9 6 (3.06%) Hadoop
9 6 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
10 5 (2.55%) Flink
10 5 (2.55%) Redis
11 4 (2.04%) Bigtable
11 4 (2.04%) CouchDB
11 4 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
11 4 (2.04%) Looker
11 4 (2.04%) RethinkDB
12 2 (1.02%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 14 (7.14%) Git
2 8 (4.08%) Jenkins
2 8 (4.08%) Visual Studio
3 7 (3.57%) JIRA
4 5 (2.55%) Oracle Forms
5 4 (2.04%) Visual Website Optimizer
6 3 (1.53%) Eclipse
6 3 (1.53%) GitLab
7 2 (1.02%) Babel
7 2 (1.02%) Burp Suite
7 2 (1.02%) Metasploit
7 2 (1.02%) Selenium
7 2 (1.02%) webpack
8 1 (0.51%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.51%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.51%) Jasmine
8 1 (0.51%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (0.51%) Storybook
8 1 (0.51%) Subversion
8 1 (0.51%) WebDriver
General
1 68 (34.69%) Finance
2 52 (26.53%) Social Skills
3 42 (21.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 19 (9.69%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (9.69%) Telecoms
5 17 (8.67%) Aerospace
6 11 (5.61%) Retail
7 9 (4.59%) Marketing
7 9 (4.59%) Military
8 8 (4.08%) Manufacturing
8 8 (4.08%) Public Sector
9 6 (3.06%) Banking
9 6 (3.06%) Electronics
9 6 (3.06%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.55%) Aviation
11 4 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.53%) Legal
13 2 (1.02%) Games
13 2 (1.02%) Law
Job Titles
1 45 (22.96%) Senior
2 38 (19.39%) Data Engineer
3 29 (14.80%) Data Scientist
4 24 (12.24%) Lead
5 20 (10.20%) Developer
5 20 (10.20%) Project Manager
6 18 (9.18%) Lead Data Engineer
6 18 (9.18%) Senior Data Scientist
7 15 (7.65%) Senior Manager
7 15 (7.65%) Senior Project Manager
8 14 (7.14%) Analyst
9 13 (6.63%) Software Engineer
10 12 (6.12%) Lead Data Scientist
10 12 (6.12%) Senior Data Engineer
11 11 (5.61%) Administrator
12 9 (4.59%) Architect
12 9 (4.59%) DevOps Engineer
12 9 (4.59%) Systems Administrator
13 8 (4.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (22.96%) HTML
2 20 (10.20%) Pandas
3 18 (9.18%) PyTorch
4 16 (8.16%) scikit-learn
5 8 (4.08%) CSS
6 7 (3.57%) PySpark
7 6 (3.06%) Kafka
8 5 (2.55%) Apache Beam
8 5 (2.55%) RESTful
8 5 (2.55%) Web Services
9 4 (2.04%) ModSecurity
9 4 (2.04%) React
9 4 (2.04%) SpaCy
9 4 (2.04%) SQLAlchemy
9 4 (2.04%) TensorFlow
9 4 (2.04%) XML
10 3 (1.53%) .NET
10 3 (1.53%) AngularJS
10 3 (1.53%) Node.js
10 3 (1.53%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 49 (25.00%) Algorithms
2 39 (19.90%) Cyberattack
3 15 (7.65%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.14%) Virtual Team
5 11 (5.61%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (4.59%) Reinsurance
7 8 (4.08%) Public Cloud
8 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
9 5 (2.55%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.04%) Arduino
10 4 (2.04%) GNSS
10 4 (2.04%) Raspberry Pi
10 4 (2.04%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 3 (1.53%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.53%) Embedded Systems
11 3 (1.53%) Mobile App
11 3 (1.53%) Oculus
12 2 (1.02%) Distributed Systems
12 2 (1.02%) Low-Code
12 2 (1.02%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 37 (18.88%) Linux
2 28 (14.29%) Windows
3 5 (2.55%) Unix
4 2 (1.02%) Kali Linux
5 1 (0.51%) CentOS
5 1 (0.51%) Debian
5 1 (0.51%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.51%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (35.20%) Mathematics
2 66 (33.67%) Problem-Solving
3 64 (32.65%) Machine Learning
4 60 (30.61%) Data Science
5 59 (30.10%) Software Engineering
6 49 (25.00%) DevOps
6 49 (25.00%) Visualisation
7 47 (23.98%) Data Analysis
8 45 (22.96%) Statistics
9 44 (22.45%) Artificial Intelligence
10 42 (21.43%) Agile
11 41 (20.92%) Exploratory Data Analysis
12 39 (19.90%) Mentoring
13 33 (16.84%) Cybersecurity
14 28 (14.29%) Analytics
14 28 (14.29%) Decision-Making
15 27 (13.78%) Scrum
15 27 (13.78%) Tradecraft
16 26 (13.27%) Project Management
16 26 (13.27%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 110 (56.12%) Python
2 46 (23.47%) Java
3 39 (19.90%) JavaScript
4 34 (17.35%) SQL
5 30 (15.31%) Bash
6 26 (13.27%) R
7 22 (11.22%) C#
7 22 (11.22%) PowerShell
8 17 (8.67%) C++
9 10 (5.10%) Perl
10 9 (4.59%) C
11 8 (4.08%) Embedded C
11 8 (4.08%) Go
12 5 (2.55%) Groovy
12 5 (2.55%) Ruby
12 5 (2.55%) Scala
13 4 (2.04%) Ada
13 4 (2.04%) Embedded C++
13 4 (2.04%) Rust
14 3 (1.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 173 (88.27%) Degree
2 109 (55.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 69 (35.20%) Security Cleared
4 50 (25.51%) DV Cleared
5 20 (10.20%) SC Cleared
6 19 (9.69%) Numerate Degree
7 9 (4.59%) Master's Degree
8 7 (3.57%) CISSP
8 7 (3.57%) HND
8 7 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
9 6 (3.06%) AWS Certification
9 6 (3.06%) PMP
10 5 (2.55%) PhD
11 4 (2.04%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 3 (1.53%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
12 3 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.53%) ISTQB
12 3 (1.53%) Postgraduate
13 2 (1.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (1.02%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (3.06%) Data Quality
1 6 (3.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.55%) PMO
2 5 (2.55%) QA
3 4 (2.04%) JSP 440
3 4 (2.04%) MISRA
3 4 (2.04%) RMADS
4 3 (1.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.53%) DO-254
4 3 (1.53%) NIST
4 3 (1.53%) SLA
5 2 (1.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (1.02%) ISO 9001
5 2 (1.02%) SOC 2
6 1 (0.51%) GDPR
6 1 (0.51%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.51%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 55 (28.06%) Docker
2 10 (5.10%) Firmware
3 3 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (1.02%) KVM
5 1 (0.51%) QEMU
Systems Management
1 55 (28.06%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.63%) Ansible
3 12 (6.12%) Puppet
4 6 (3.06%) Terraform
5 2 (1.02%) Nmap
Vendors
1 21 (10.71%) Google
2 14 (7.14%) NEC
2 14 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 8 (4.08%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.08%) Oracle
4 7 (3.57%) Databricks
5 6 (3.06%) SAP
5 6 (3.06%) Teradata
6 4 (2.04%) Cisco
6 4 (2.04%) Optimizely
6 4 (2.04%) VMware
7 3 (1.53%) Sparx
8 2 (1.02%) Dataiku
8 2 (1.02%) Parasoft
8 2 (1.02%) Red Hat
9 1 (0.51%) Alteryx
9 1 (0.51%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.51%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.51%) Citrix
9 1 (0.51%) Fortinet