Computer Science Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 196 166
Rank change year-on-year +61 -30 +7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,495 1,115 1,639
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 1.80% 2.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.72% 4.94% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,179 646 729
10th Percentile £30,900 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £38,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,361 22,582 22,148
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.64% 36.54% 31.37%
Number of salaries quoted 12,186 8,272 10,253
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,181 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,150
UK median annual salary £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
South East +33 516 £60,000 +4.35% 103
North of England +159 357 £50,000 -4.76% 108
Midlands +17 182 £50,000 -6.54% 66
North West +83 180 £50,000 -4.76% 63
Yorkshire +171 157 £45,000 -14.29% 30
South West +30 141 £45,000 -5.26% 43
Scotland -42 130 £57,500 +4.55% 24
West Midlands +54 118 £53,250 -16.47% 37
East of England +24 115 £40,000 -23.81% 61
East Midlands -31 62 £46,188 +2.64% 29
Wales +5 28 £34,000 -24.44% 9
North East +2 20 £52,500 +23.53% 15
Northern Ireland +27 18 £40,000 -5.88% 18
Isle of Man - 9 £37,500 - 2
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 29 (1.94%) FileNet
2 27 (1.81%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 13 (0.87%) Confluence
6 12 (0.80%) WordPress
7 9 (0.60%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.47%) IIS
9 5 (0.33%) CMS
10 4 (0.27%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
11 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.20%) WildFly
12 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.13%) Apache
12 2 (0.13%) Appian
13 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.067%) Mule
13 1 (0.067%) Site Server
Applications
1 49 (3.28%) Microsoft Office
2 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 31 (2.07%) Simulink
3 9 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.47%) InfoPath
5 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
5 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
5 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 21 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.54%) Shopify
4 5 (0.33%) Odoo
5 4 (0.27%) Magento
6 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.13%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.067%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.067%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.067%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.067%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.067%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.067%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 253 (16.92%) Azure
2 248 (16.59%) AWS
3 87 (5.82%) Amazon S3
4 72 (4.82%) GitHub
5 61 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (4.08%) SaaS
6 55 (3.68%) GCP
7 51 (3.41%) Power Platform
7 51 (3.41%) Serverless
8 48 (3.21%) Amazon EC2
9 45 (3.01%) AWS Lambda
10 40 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
11 35 (2.34%) Cloud Computing
12 23 (1.54%) Amazon Kinesis
13 19 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
13 19 (1.27%) Route 53
14 18 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
15 17 (1.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 17 (1.14%) IaaS
16 16 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 104 (6.96%) Firewall
2 87 (5.82%) Network Security
3 51 (3.41%) WAN
4 48 (3.21%) TCP/IP
5 46 (3.08%) DNS
5 46 (3.08%) LAN
6 36 (2.41%) DHCP
6 36 (2.41%) VPN
7 35 (2.34%) HTTP
8 29 (1.94%) VLAN
9 25 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 24 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.54%) Wireless
12 17 (1.14%) NAS
13 16 (1.07%) SAN
14 15 (1.00%) Internet
15 12 (0.80%) MQTT
15 12 (0.80%) SSL
16 11 (0.74%) MPLS
16 11 (0.74%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 194 (12.98%) SQL Server
2 144 (9.63%) NoSQL
3 103 (6.89%) MySQL
4 69 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (4.41%) Relational Database
6 60 (4.01%) Amazon RDS
7 48 (3.21%) Power BI
8 44 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.01%) Apache Cassandra
11 28 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.74%) RDBMS
13 24 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (1.54%) Big Data
14 23 (1.54%) MongoDB
15 20 (1.34%) Redis
16 17 (1.14%) MS Access
16 17 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 236 (15.79%) Git
2 60 (4.01%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.75%) JIRA
4 33 (2.21%) Subversion
5 31 (2.07%) JUnit
6 30 (2.01%) Jasmine
7 29 (1.94%) Mockito
8 22 (1.47%) Postman
9 21 (1.40%) CMake
9 21 (1.40%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.07%) Appium
11 14 (0.94%) GitLab
11 14 (0.94%) Selenium
12 12 (0.80%) NUnit
13 10 (0.67%) LabVIEW
13 10 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 10 (0.67%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (0.67%) Vagrant
14 9 (0.60%) Moq
15 6 (0.40%) UI Automator
General
1 654 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 238 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
3 190 (12.71%) Finance
4 107 (7.16%) Manufacturing
5 89 (5.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (5.15%) Marketing
7 68 (4.55%) Law
8 60 (4.01%) Electronics
9 47 (3.14%) Legal
10 46 (3.08%) Retail
11 44 (2.94%) Games
12 43 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.34%) Military
14 33 (2.21%) Public Sector
15 31 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 30 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
17 23 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 16 (1.07%) Publishing
19 15 (1.00%) Automotive
19 15 (1.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 473 (31.64%) Developer
2 218 (14.58%) Software Engineer
3 217 (14.52%) Senior
4 146 (9.77%) Software Developer
5 139 (9.30%) Lead
6 86 (5.75%) Senior Developer
7 85 (5.69%) Architect
8 73 (4.88%) Analyst
8 73 (4.88%) Junior
9 56 (3.75%) .NET Developer
10 55 (3.68%) Full Stack Developer
11 53 (3.55%) Support Engineer
12 50 (3.34%) C++ Software Engineer
13 48 (3.21%) Senior Software Developer
14 47 (3.14%) Graduate
15 40 (2.68%) Network Engineer
15 40 (2.68%) Senior Software Engineer
16 39 (2.61%) 2nd Line Engineer
16 39 (2.61%) Lead Developer
17 38 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 240 (16.05%) .NET
2 224 (14.98%) React
3 151 (10.10%) HTML
4 131 (8.76%) CSS
5 126 (8.43%) AngularJS
6 75 (5.02%) Spring
7 63 (4.21%) Node.js
8 62 (4.15%) JSON
9 60 (4.01%) .NET Framework
10 58 (3.88%) Kafka
11 52 (3.48%) Vue
12 50 (3.34%) .NET Core
13 38 (2.54%) HTML5
14 37 (2.47%) REST
14 37 (2.47%) RESTful
14 37 (2.47%) XML
15 35 (2.34%) ASP.NET
16 34 (2.27%) GraphQL
17 33 (2.21%) Hibernate
18 31 (2.07%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 166 (11.10%) Management Information System
2 94 (6.29%) Algorithms
3 91 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
4 86 (5.75%) Cloud Native
5 55 (3.68%) Data Centre
6 52 (3.48%) Mobile App
7 47 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 44 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.34%) IoT
10 32 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (2.07%) Driving Licence
12 28 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
13 23 (1.54%) Data Structures
13 23 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
14 21 (1.40%) Client/Server
15 19 (1.27%) Life Science
16 17 (1.14%) Security Operations Centre
17 16 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
17 16 (1.07%) Replication
18 15 (1.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 266 (17.79%) Windows
2 218 (14.58%) Linux
3 67 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.01%) Android
5 47 (3.14%) Mac OS
6 32 (2.14%) Apple iOS
6 32 (2.14%) Unix
7 23 (1.54%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.34%) Ubuntu
9 16 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.74%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.67%) CentOS
13 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.54%) Debian
14 8 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.40%) VMS
16 5 (0.33%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.27%) Windows Vista
18 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,440 (96.32%) Computer Science
2 646 (43.21%) Problem-Solving
3 442 (29.57%) Agile
4 404 (27.02%) Software Engineering
5 253 (16.92%) DevOps
6 202 (13.51%) Artificial Intelligence
7 181 (12.11%) CI/CD
8 166 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 155 (10.37%) Mathematics
10 154 (10.30%) SDLC
11 144 (9.63%) Machine Learning
12 131 (8.76%) Project Management
13 118 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
14 115 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (7.63%) Full Stack Development
16 110 (7.36%) Test Automation
17 108 (7.22%) Analytics
18 106 (7.09%) ERP
19 104 (6.96%) Data Modelling
20 102 (6.82%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 347 (23.21%) JavaScript
2 339 (22.68%) SQL
3 324 (21.67%) Python
4 314 (21.00%) C#
5 225 (15.05%) Java
6 137 (9.16%) C++
7 134 (8.96%) TypeScript
8 104 (6.96%) C
9 71 (4.75%) PHP
10 47 (3.14%) PowerShell
11 41 (2.74%) Bash
12 29 (1.94%) Go
13 26 (1.74%) R
14 21 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 19 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 15 (1.00%) VB
17 13 (0.87%) Scala
18 12 (0.80%) MATLAB
18 12 (0.80%) PL/SQL
19 11 (0.74%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,495 (100.00%) Degree
2 187 (12.51%) Master's Degree
3 116 (7.76%) Security Cleared
4 82 (5.48%) SC Cleared
5 73 (4.88%) Cisco Certification
6 59 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (3.75%) CCNA
8 51 (3.41%) AWS Certification
9 48 (3.21%) CCNP
10 43 (2.88%) CISSP
11 40 (2.68%) PhD
12 39 (2.61%) Azure Certification
13 35 (2.34%) DBS Check
14 32 (2.14%) MCP
15 29 (1.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.81%) A+ Certification
17 26 (1.74%) CompTIA Security+
18 21 (1.40%) PMI Certification
19 20 (1.34%) CCIE
19 20 (1.34%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.49%) QA
2 34 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.27%) GDPR
3 23 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.34%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.14%) SLA
6 14 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (0.87%) NIST
8 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
9 10 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 10 (0.67%) PMO
10 7 (0.47%) ISO 13485
11 3 (0.20%) NCSC
12 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
12 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
12 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
12 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
13 1 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
13 1 (0.067%) RMADS
System Software
1 205 (13.71%) Docker
2 85 (5.69%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.14%) Firmware
5 16 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.87%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.60%) vSphere
8 5 (0.33%) pfSense
9 4 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.20%) KVM
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
10 3 (0.20%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.20%) XenApp
11 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
11 2 (0.13%) HDFS
12 1 (0.067%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.067%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.067%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 211 (14.11%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.62%) Terraform
3 40 (2.68%) Ansible
4 16 (1.07%) Puppet
5 12 (0.80%) ZABBIX
6 11 (0.74%) SCCM
7 8 (0.54%) Nagios
8 7 (0.47%) SCOM
8 7 (0.47%) WSUS
9 6 (0.40%) Grafana
9 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.33%) Nessus
10 5 (0.33%) Progress Chef
10 5 (0.33%) Rancher
11 4 (0.27%) vRealize
11 4 (0.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
12 3 (0.20%) Autotask
12 3 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.20%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 240 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.82%) Oracle
3 65 (4.35%) Cisco
4 64 (4.28%) Google
5 45 (3.01%) VMware
6 36 (2.41%) SAP
7 26 (1.74%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.47%) Xilinx
9 19 (1.27%) Apple
10 17 (1.14%) Juniper
11 16 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.07%) F5
12 14 (0.94%) Xamarin
13 13 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.87%) NVIDIA
14 12 (0.80%) Veeam
15 11 (0.74%) Splunk
16 10 (0.67%) Dell
16 10 (0.67%) IBM
16 10 (0.67%) ServiceNow