Computer Science Jobs in Southampton

Computer Science
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Southampton 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 52 38
Rank change year-on-year +22 -14 -5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 14 26 40
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 4.27% 2.95% 5.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.70% 3.62% 5.49%
Number of salaries quoted 12 23 34
10th Percentile £32,750 £27,500 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £28,625 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £42,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% +6.25% -
75th Percentile £59,375 £57,500 £45,313
90th Percentile £71,750 - £60,800
Hampshire median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +25.00% -14.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 298 719 729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Southampton 90.85% 81.70% 95.54%
Number of salaries quoted 218 615 537
10th Percentile £30,350 £28,750 £28,350
25th Percentile £40,313 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £46,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% -7.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £80,000
Hampshire median annual salary £54,125 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -9.09% +4.76%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Southampton.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Southampton

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Southampton

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Southampton.

Salary trend for Computer Science in Southampton

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Southampton

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Southampton over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Southampton

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Southampton 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:

Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Key Vault
2 2 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (14.29%) IaaS
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
2 2 (14.29%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (7.14%) Figma
3 1 (7.14%) Serverless
3 1 (7.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Git
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) Azure Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Graduate
4 2 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
4 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Trainer
5 1 (7.14%) Delphi Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
5 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Graduate Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Graduate Software Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) React
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) CSS
3 1 (7.14%) GraphQL
3 1 (7.14%) Next.js
3 1 (7.14%) Node.js
3 1 (7.14%) Spring
3 1 (7.14%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Acoustics
2 1 (7.14%) BBC
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Software Engineering
2 5 (35.71%) Agile
3 4 (28.57%) Mathematics
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Issue Tracking
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Cloud Security
5 2 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 2 (14.29%) Conversational UI
5 2 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 2 (14.29%) High Availability
5 2 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (14.29%) SDLC
5 2 (14.29%) Statistics
5 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
1 4 (28.57%) Java
1 4 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (21.43%) C
2 3 (21.43%) C++
2 3 (21.43%) Delphi
2 3 (21.43%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Ada
3 2 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) Embedded C
4 1 (7.14%) Embedded C++
4 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Degree
2 8 (57.14%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (14.29%) Azure Certification
3 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (14.29%) CEH
3 2 (14.29%) CISSP
3 2 (14.29%) Master's Degree
3 2 (14.29%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) GDPR
2 2 (14.29%) HIPAA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) PayPal