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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 188 167
Rank change year-on-year +53 -21 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,501 1,142 1,650
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.13% 1.86% 2.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.73% 5.14% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 687 734
10th Percentile £31,000 £32,800 £29,225
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +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 19,411 22,227 22,309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.58% 36.22% 31.40%
Number of salaries quoted 12,214 8,226 10,352
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +0.41%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -

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 4 May 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 4 May 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 +32 526 £60,000 - 110
North of England +127 358 £50,000 -9.09% 113
North West +77 182 £50,000 -9.09% 64
Midlands +26 182 £50,000 -16.67% 87
Yorkshire +168 156 £46,250 -15.91% 33
South West +9 144 £45,000 -16.28% 52
Scotland -50 126 £55,750 +1.36% 15
West Midlands +47 120 £54,000 -15.29% 53
East of England +28 115 £40,000 -27.60% 58
East Midlands -35 60 £45,000 - 34
Wales -1 24 £34,000 -27.27% 12
North East -2 20 £52,500 +23.53% 17
Northern Ireland +22 18 £40,000 -5.88% 16
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 (1.93%) FileNet
2 27 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (1.00%) OpenStack
5 12 (0.80%) Confluence
5 12 (0.80%) WordPress
6 9 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.47%) IIS
8 5 (0.33%) CMS
9 4 (0.27%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.20%) WildFly
11 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 2 (0.13%) Apache
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.067%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.067%) Mule
12 1 (0.067%) Site Server
Applications
1 49 (3.26%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (2.33%) Simulink
3 31 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.47%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.067%) Trello
Business Applications
1 20 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.20%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.53%) 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
1 255 (16.99%) Azure
2 252 (16.79%) AWS
3 87 (5.80%) Amazon S3
4 69 (4.60%) GitHub
5 60 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
6 59 (3.93%) GCP
7 57 (3.80%) SaaS
8 54 (3.60%) Power Platform
9 51 (3.40%) Serverless
10 46 (3.06%) Amazon EC2
10 46 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
11 37 (2.47%) Azure DevOps
12 33 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
13 24 (1.60%) Amazon Kinesis
14 19 (1.27%) Route 53
15 18 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
15 18 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 16 (1.07%) IaaS
17 16 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 105 (7.00%) Firewall
2 85 (5.66%) Network Security
3 53 (3.53%) WAN
4 47 (3.13%) LAN
4 47 (3.13%) TCP/IP
5 46 (3.06%) DNS
6 37 (2.47%) VPN
7 36 (2.40%) DHCP
8 34 (2.27%) HTTP
9 29 (1.93%) VLAN
10 25 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
11 24 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
12 23 (1.53%) Wireless
13 16 (1.07%) NAS
13 16 (1.07%) SAN
14 14 (0.93%) Internet
15 12 (0.80%) MQTT
15 12 (0.80%) SSL
16 11 (0.73%) MPLS
16 11 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 190 (12.66%) SQL Server
2 146 (9.73%) NoSQL
3 99 (6.60%) MySQL
4 71 (4.73%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (4.40%) Relational Database
6 58 (3.86%) Amazon RDS
7 51 (3.40%) Power BI
8 44 (2.93%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.53%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 29 (1.93%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 23 (1.53%) Big Data
13 23 (1.53%) MongoDB
13 23 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 20 (1.33%) Redis
15 17 (1.13%) MS Access
16 16 (1.07%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 15 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
18 14 (0.93%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 238 (15.86%) Git
2 61 (4.06%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.73%) JIRA
4 33 (2.20%) Subversion
5 31 (2.07%) JUnit
6 30 (2.00%) Jasmine
7 29 (1.93%) Mockito
8 22 (1.47%) Postman
9 21 (1.40%) CMake
9 21 (1.40%) Visual Studio
10 16 (1.07%) Appium
11 14 (0.93%) GitLab
12 13 (0.87%) Selenium
13 12 (0.80%) NUnit
13 12 (0.80%) Vagrant
14 10 (0.67%) LabVIEW
14 10 (0.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (0.60%) Moq
15 9 (0.60%) Team Foundation Server
16 6 (0.40%) UI Automator
General
1 657 (43.77%) Social Skills
2 236 (15.72%) Analytical Skills
3 192 (12.79%) Finance
4 106 (7.06%) Manufacturing
5 90 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 79 (5.26%) Marketing
7 69 (4.60%) Law
8 61 (4.06%) Electronics
9 48 (3.20%) Legal
10 47 (3.13%) Retail
11 44 (2.93%) Games
12 43 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
13 35 (2.33%) Military
14 33 (2.20%) Public Sector
15 30 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
15 30 (2.00%) Telecoms
16 23 (1.53%) Aerospace
17 16 (1.07%) Publishing
18 15 (1.00%) Automotive
18 15 (1.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 475 (31.65%) Developer
2 222 (14.79%) Software Engineer
3 216 (14.39%) Senior
4 148 (9.86%) Software Developer
5 140 (9.33%) Lead
6 88 (5.86%) Architect
7 87 (5.80%) Senior Developer
8 71 (4.73%) Analyst
8 71 (4.73%) Junior
9 57 (3.80%) .NET Developer
10 55 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
11 53 (3.53%) Support Engineer
12 51 (3.40%) C++ Software Engineer
13 48 (3.20%) Senior Software Developer
14 46 (3.06%) Graduate
15 42 (2.80%) Network Engineer
16 40 (2.66%) Lead Developer
16 40 (2.66%) Senior Software Engineer
17 39 (2.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 38 (2.53%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 242 (16.12%) .NET
2 220 (14.66%) React
3 151 (10.06%) HTML
4 130 (8.66%) CSS
5 122 (8.13%) AngularJS
6 75 (5.00%) Spring
7 63 (4.20%) Node.js
8 62 (4.13%) .NET Framework
8 62 (4.13%) JSON
9 58 (3.86%) Kafka
10 50 (3.33%) .NET Core
11 48 (3.20%) Vue
12 38 (2.53%) HTML5
13 37 (2.47%) REST
13 37 (2.47%) RESTful
13 37 (2.47%) XML
14 35 (2.33%) ASP.NET
15 34 (2.27%) GraphQL
16 33 (2.20%) Hibernate
17 31 (2.07%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.19%) Management Information System
2 95 (6.33%) Algorithms
3 87 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.53%) Cloud Native
5 55 (3.66%) Data Centre
6 53 (3.53%) Mobile App
7 47 (3.13%) Product Ownership
8 42 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.33%) IoT
10 32 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (2.07%) Driving Licence
12 27 (1.80%) Cyber Threat
13 24 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.53%) Data Structures
15 22 (1.47%) Client/Server
16 17 (1.13%) Life Science
16 17 (1.13%) Replication
16 17 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
17 16 (1.07%) Public Cloud
18 15 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 266 (17.72%) Windows
2 226 (15.06%) Linux
3 66 (4.40%) Windows Server
4 62 (4.13%) Android
5 45 (3.00%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.07%) Apple iOS
6 31 (2.07%) Unix
7 23 (1.53%) Windows 10
8 22 (1.47%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 13 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
11 12 (0.80%) CentOS
12 11 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
15 6 (0.40%) VMS
16 4 (0.27%) Windows Vista
17 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,445 (96.27%) Computer Science
2 641 (42.70%) Problem-Solving
3 444 (29.58%) Agile
4 412 (27.45%) Software Engineering
5 253 (16.86%) DevOps
6 209 (13.92%) Artificial Intelligence
7 179 (11.93%) CI/CD
8 168 (11.19%) Mentoring
9 156 (10.39%) Mathematics
10 154 (10.26%) SDLC
11 151 (10.06%) Machine Learning
12 131 (8.73%) Project Management
13 115 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
13 115 (7.66%) Cybersecurity
14 114 (7.59%) Full Stack Development
15 111 (7.40%) Test Automation
16 108 (7.20%) Analytics
17 106 (7.06%) Decision-Making
18 105 (7.00%) Data Modelling
19 104 (6.93%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 346 (23.05%) JavaScript
2 339 (22.58%) SQL
3 324 (21.59%) Python
4 313 (20.85%) C#
5 229 (15.26%) Java
6 144 (9.59%) C++
7 135 (8.99%) TypeScript
8 110 (7.33%) C
9 71 (4.73%) PHP
10 47 (3.13%) PowerShell
11 40 (2.66%) Bash
12 29 (1.93%) Go
13 28 (1.87%) R
14 23 (1.53%) Kotlin
15 19 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 15 (1.00%) VB
17 14 (0.93%) Scala
18 13 (0.87%) Rust
19 12 (0.80%) MATLAB
19 12 (0.80%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,501 (100.00%) Degree
2 183 (12.19%) Master's Degree
3 123 (8.19%) Security Cleared
4 85 (5.66%) SC Cleared
5 75 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (3.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (3.73%) CCNA
8 53 (3.53%) AWS Certification
9 50 (3.33%) CCNP
10 43 (2.86%) CISSP
11 40 (2.66%) PhD
12 38 (2.53%) Azure Certification
13 33 (2.20%) DBS Check
14 32 (2.13%) MCP
15 30 (2.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.80%) A+ Certification
17 26 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
18 24 (1.60%) DV Cleared
19 22 (1.47%) CCIE
20 21 (1.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (7.40%) QA
2 36 (2.40%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.20%) GDPR
4 21 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.33%) Accessibility
6 16 (1.07%) SLA
7 14 (0.93%) NIST
8 13 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials
9 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
10 11 (0.73%) PMO
11 10 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 7 (0.47%) ISO 13485
13 3 (0.20%) NCSC
14 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
14 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
14 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
15 1 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
15 1 (0.067%) JSP 440
System Software
1 201 (13.39%) Docker
2 83 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 37 (2.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.13%) 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
9 4 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.20%) KVM
10 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
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
1 205 (13.66%) Kubernetes
2 68 (4.53%) Terraform
3 39 (2.60%) Ansible
4 17 (1.13%) Puppet
5 12 (0.80%) ZABBIX
6 11 (0.73%) SCCM
7 8 (0.53%) Nagios
8 7 (0.47%) SCOM
8 7 (0.47%) WSUS
9 6 (0.40%) Grafana
9 6 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 6 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.33%) Nessus
10 5 (0.33%) Rancher
11 3 (0.20%) Autotask
11 3 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.20%) OfficeScan
11 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 240 (15.99%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.80%) Oracle
3 66 (4.40%) Cisco
4 64 (4.26%) Google
5 44 (2.93%) VMware
6 37 (2.47%) SAP
7 27 (1.80%) Salesforce
8 26 (1.73%) Xilinx
9 19 (1.27%) Apple
10 17 (1.13%) Juniper
11 16 (1.07%) F5
12 14 (0.93%) Atlassian
12 14 (0.93%) Fortinet
12 14 (0.93%) Xamarin
13 13 (0.87%) NVIDIA
14 12 (0.80%) Veeam
15 11 (0.73%) Databricks
15 11 (0.73%) Splunk
16 10 (0.67%) IBM
16 10 (0.67%) ServiceNow