Computer Science Jobs in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 20 32
Rank change year-on-year -10 +12 +4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 209 526 424
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 6.88% 7.80% 6.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.39% 9.15% 7.31%
Number of salaries quoted 86 359 178
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £34,875
25th Percentile £46,563 £42,500 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,783 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -7.69% +25.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £91,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £112,500 £97,500
South East median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,830 5,747 5,804
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 93.09% 85.19% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,225 4,024 3,153
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,750 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +8 165 £56,673 -19.04% 79
Oxfordshire -17 26 £60,000 +14.29% 43
Buckinghamshire -44 18 £45,000 +9.76% 66
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 30 (14.35%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.39%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 1 (0.48%) Confluence
4 1 (0.48%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.91%) SAP Business One
2 1 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.48%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.48%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 45 (21.53%) Azure
2 28 (13.40%) Power Platform
3 26 (12.44%) Power Automate
3 26 (12.44%) PowerApps
4 21 (10.05%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 15 (7.18%) AWS
6 10 (4.78%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.31%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.87%) GCP
9 5 (2.39%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (2.39%) Collibra
9 5 (2.39%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.91%) GitHub
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon EMR
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon S3
11 2 (0.96%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.96%) IaaS
12 1 (0.48%) Azure Synapse Analytics
12 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
12 1 (0.48%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (5.26%) Network Security
2 6 (2.87%) Firewall
3 4 (1.91%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.44%) Internet
5 2 (0.96%) VPN
6 1 (0.48%) DMZ
6 1 (0.48%) DVB
6 1 (0.48%) DWDM
6 1 (0.48%) LAN
6 1 (0.48%) MPLS
6 1 (0.48%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.48%) WAN
6 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.48%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (14.35%) Data Lake
2 29 (13.88%) Big Data
3 28 (13.40%) Power BI
4 27 (12.92%) Tableau
5 25 (11.96%) SQL Server
6 17 (8.13%) NoSQL
7 9 (4.31%) Relational Database
8 6 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (2.39%) Hadoop
10 3 (1.44%) Pinecone
10 3 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (1.44%) Weaviate
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
11 2 (0.96%) Metadata
11 2 (0.96%) MySQL
11 2 (0.96%) RDBMS
12 1 (0.48%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.48%) Impala
12 1 (0.48%) MongoDB
12 1 (0.48%) PowerCenter
Development Applications
1 26 (12.44%) Git
2 11 (5.26%) JIRA
3 7 (3.35%) Visual Studio
4 6 (2.87%) Cypress.io
4 6 (2.87%) Selenium
5 3 (1.44%) MLflow
6 2 (0.96%) Moq
6 2 (0.96%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.48%) Babel
7 1 (0.48%) ERwin
7 1 (0.48%) GitLab
7 1 (0.48%) JUnit
7 1 (0.48%) Vite
7 1 (0.48%) webpack
General
1 98 (46.89%) Law
2 96 (45.93%) Social Skills
3 24 (11.48%) Marketing
4 20 (9.57%) Finance
4 20 (9.57%) Legal
5 18 (8.61%) Influencing Skills
6 17 (8.13%) Analytical Skills
7 11 (5.26%) Retail
8 8 (3.83%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 5 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.91%) Electronics
12 2 (0.96%) Advertising
12 2 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.96%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.48%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.48%) Banking
13 1 (0.48%) Games
13 1 (0.48%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 78 (37.32%) Lead
2 57 (27.27%) Senior
3 27 (12.92%) Developer
4 25 (11.96%) Architect
4 25 (11.96%) Software Engineer
5 21 (10.05%) Enterprise Architect
5 21 (10.05%) Salesforce Architect
6 17 (8.13%) Senior Developer
7 16 (7.66%) Software Developer
8 9 (4.31%) IT Manager
8 9 (4.31%) Senior Software Developer
9 8 (3.83%) Senior Software Engineer
10 6 (2.87%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
10 6 (2.87%) Graduate
10 6 (2.87%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 6 (2.87%) Junior
10 6 (2.87%) Senior Front-End Developer
11 5 (2.39%) C# Software Engineer
11 5 (2.39%) Junior Software Engineer
12 4 (1.91%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (11.48%) .NET
1 24 (11.48%) REST
2 23 (11.00%) React
3 21 (10.05%) Lightning Web Components
3 21 (10.05%) Middleware
3 21 (10.05%) SOAP
4 8 (3.83%) CSS
4 8 (3.83%) CSS3
4 8 (3.83%) HTML
4 8 (3.83%) HTML5
5 7 (3.35%) AngularJS
5 7 (3.35%) Jest
6 6 (2.87%) ASP.NET
6 6 (2.87%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (2.87%) Node.js
7 5 (2.39%) Kafka
8 4 (1.91%) .NET Framework
9 3 (1.44%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.44%) scikit-learn
9 3 (1.44%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 44 (21.05%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (9.57%) Algorithms
3 15 (7.18%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.83%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.83%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.87%) Virtual Team
6 5 (2.39%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.91%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.91%) Driving Licence
7 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.96%) Acoustics
8 2 (0.96%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.96%) IoT
8 2 (0.96%) LIMS
8 2 (0.96%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.48%) Distributed Applications
9 1 (0.48%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.48%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.48%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 19 (9.09%) Linux
2 13 (6.22%) Unix
3 8 (3.83%) Windows
4 4 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.96%) Android
6 2 (0.96%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (35.41%) Data Management
2 69 (33.01%) Stakeholder Management
3 64 (30.62%) Analytics
4 61 (29.19%) Agile
5 55 (26.32%) Project Management
6 50 (23.92%) Business Strategy
7 47 (22.49%) Data Modelling
8 46 (22.01%) Microservices
8 46 (22.01%) Technical Leadership
9 38 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
9 38 (18.18%) DevOps
9 38 (18.18%) Mentoring
10 36 (17.22%) Data Governance
10 36 (17.22%) Software Engineering
11 33 (15.79%) CI/CD
11 33 (15.79%) Data Science
12 32 (15.31%) Data Analysis
13 31 (14.83%) Business Intelligence
13 31 (14.83%) Mathematics
14 30 (14.35%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (17.70%) Python
2 35 (16.75%) C#
3 27 (12.92%) JavaScript
4 24 (11.48%) C++
5 22 (10.53%) TypeScript
6 21 (10.05%) Apex Code
7 17 (8.13%) SQL
8 12 (5.74%) Java
9 10 (4.78%) Bash
9 10 (4.78%) C
9 10 (4.78%) Fortran
10 6 (2.87%) PHP
11 5 (2.39%) MATLAB
12 3 (1.44%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.44%) R
13 2 (0.96%) Go
13 2 (0.96%) Ruby
13 2 (0.96%) Scala
13 2 (0.96%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 205 (98.09%) Degree
2 81 (38.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 54 (25.84%) Master's Degree
4 14 (6.70%) PhD
5 12 (5.74%) SC Cleared
5 12 (5.74%) Security Cleared
6 10 (4.78%) Numerate Degree
7 9 (4.31%) DV Cleared
8 7 (3.35%) Cisco Certification
9 6 (2.87%) CCNP
9 6 (2.87%) CISSP
9 6 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.39%) CCNA
10 5 (2.39%) MBA
10 5 (2.39%) MCSE
11 4 (1.91%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.91%) GCIA
11 4 (1.91%) MCSA
11 4 (1.91%) SANS
12 2 (0.96%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (25.84%) Data Quality
2 6 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.87%) WCAG
3 4 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.91%) QA
4 3 (1.44%) GDPR
5 2 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.48%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.48%) CDISC
6 1 (0.48%) NIST
System Software
1 29 (13.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.44%) HDFS
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 28 (13.40%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.91%) Terraform
3 3 (1.44%) Ansible
3 3 (1.44%) Kubeflow
3 3 (1.44%) Puppet
4 2 (0.96%) FortiGate
4 2 (0.96%) Grafana
4 2 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.48%) Argo
5 1 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 46 (22.01%) Microsoft
2 26 (12.44%) ServiceNow
3 21 (10.05%) Salesforce
3 21 (10.05%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 7 (3.35%) Informatica
5 5 (2.39%) SAP
6 3 (1.44%) PayPal
7 2 (0.96%) Arista
7 2 (0.96%) Extreme Networks
7 2 (0.96%) Google
7 2 (0.96%) Palo Alto
8 1 (0.48%) Cisco
8 1 (0.48%) Cloudera
8 1 (0.48%) Databricks
8 1 (0.48%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.48%) Sage
8 1 (0.48%) VMware
8 1 (0.48%) Workday