Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 51 73
Rank change year-on-year +15 +22 -26
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 2,081 3,307 2,641
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 5.64% 4.71% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.11% 5.58% 4.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,188 2,197 1,311
10th Percentile £31,750 £30,000 £31,680
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,500 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,802 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £77,800 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 34,033 59,306 58,730
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.22% 84.45% 95.63%
Number of salaries quoted 17,718 41,097 30,138
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £66,038 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.57% +2.50%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
South East +10 666 £57,500 -4.17% 406
North of England -6 458 £50,000 +4.71% 371
Midlands +44 420 £45,000 -10.00% 220
West Midlands +34 291 £45,362 -9.93% 132
North West -40 230 £52,500 +5.00% 207
South West +33 208 £40,101 -21.37% 94
Yorkshire +27 187 £42,000 -6.67% 108
East of England +1 175 £53,000 +16.48% 199
East Midlands +46 122 £40,101 -5.65% 87
Scotland -34 79 £40,101 -23.62% 109
Wales +51 70 £60,000 +76.47% 39
North East +28 45 £56,500 +11.62% 58
Northern Ireland +20 23 £57,500 +43.75% 44
Isle of Man +5 2 £43,000 +16.22% 8
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 41 (1.97%) SharePoint
2 28 (1.35%) Jupyter
3 27 (1.30%) Confluence
4 19 (0.91%) WordPress
5 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
6 17 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 17 (0.82%) CMS
7 9 (0.43%) SAS
8 8 (0.38%) Apache
9 5 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.24%) IIS
10 3 (0.14%) OpenStack
11 2 (0.096%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.096%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.096%) ThingWorx
12 1 (0.048%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 1 (0.048%) GemFire
12 1 (0.048%) Joomla!
12 1 (0.048%) nginx
Applications
1 141 (6.78%) Simulink
2 69 (3.32%) Chatbot
3 56 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 33 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
5 18 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
6 14 (0.67%) Trello
7 8 (0.38%) MS Visio
7 8 (0.38%) Revit
8 6 (0.29%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
9 4 (0.19%) Sketch
10 2 (0.096%) AutoCAD
11 1 (0.048%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 138 (6.63%) Teamcenter
2 14 (0.67%) Shopify
3 6 (0.29%) Dynamics NAV
3 6 (0.29%) Infor M3
4 5 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.24%) Markit EDM
4 5 (0.24%) SAP Business One
5 3 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (0.14%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.096%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.096%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.096%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.048%) JDE EnterpriseOne
7 1 (0.048%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.048%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.048%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.048%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.048%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.048%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 283 (13.60%) Azure
2 194 (9.32%) AWS
3 78 (3.75%) Power Platform
4 52 (2.50%) GCP
5 47 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 41 (1.97%) SaaS
7 38 (1.83%) GitHub
8 36 (1.73%) Microsoft 365
9 35 (1.68%) Cloud Computing
10 31 (1.49%) Serverless
11 30 (1.44%) Power Automate
12 27 (1.30%) PowerApps
13 26 (1.25%) PaaS
14 21 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 17 (0.82%) Google Workspace
16 16 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
16 16 (0.77%) Dynamics 365
17 15 (0.72%) Azure Synapse Analytics
17 15 (0.72%) Slack
18 14 (0.67%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 136 (6.54%) Network Security
2 111 (5.33%) WLAN
3 110 (5.29%) Internet
4 81 (3.89%) Firewall
5 58 (2.79%) TCP/IP
6 37 (1.78%) DNS
7 25 (1.20%) BGP
7 25 (1.20%) DHCP
8 24 (1.15%) WAN
9 20 (0.96%) OSPF
9 20 (0.96%) VLAN
10 18 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
10 18 (0.86%) SAN
11 17 (0.82%) VPN
12 13 (0.62%) Modbus
12 13 (0.62%) NAS
12 13 (0.62%) SD-WAN
13 12 (0.58%) 5G
13 12 (0.58%) LAN
14 9 (0.43%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 122 (5.86%) SQL Server
2 96 (4.61%) Big Data
3 68 (3.27%) Power BI
4 60 (2.88%) MySQL
5 59 (2.84%) Relational Database
6 47 (2.26%) Data Lake
7 43 (2.07%) NoSQL
8 37 (1.78%) Tableau
9 31 (1.49%) Data Warehouse
10 22 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
11 14 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 13 (0.62%) Hadoop
13 11 (0.53%) RDBMS
14 9 (0.43%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 8 (0.38%) Azure SQL Database
15 8 (0.38%) Oracle Database
15 8 (0.38%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 7 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
16 7 (0.34%) Metadata
17 6 (0.29%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 138 (6.63%) Rational DOORS
2 100 (4.81%) Git
3 94 (4.52%) JIRA
4 39 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 28 (1.35%) Selenium
6 16 (0.77%) Visual Studio
7 13 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 10 (0.48%) JUnit
9 9 (0.43%) GitLab
9 9 (0.43%) Gradle
10 8 (0.38%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.38%) git-flow
11 7 (0.34%) SpecFlow
12 6 (0.29%) Burp Suite
12 6 (0.29%) Sonatype Nexus
13 5 (0.24%) Gatling
13 5 (0.24%) Metasploit
13 5 (0.24%) Moq
14 4 (0.19%) Subversion
General
1 691 (33.21%) Social Skills
2 297 (14.27%) Finance
3 219 (10.52%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (10.00%) Electronics
5 153 (7.35%) Aerospace
6 137 (6.58%) Law
7 95 (4.57%) Manufacturing
8 92 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 78 (3.75%) Retail
10 68 (3.27%) Marketing
11 51 (2.45%) Organisational Skills
12 41 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
13 38 (1.83%) Banking
14 37 (1.78%) Legal
15 34 (1.63%) Automotive
16 27 (1.30%) Telecoms
17 25 (1.20%) Advertising
18 24 (1.15%) Esports
19 23 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
20 22 (1.06%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 364 (17.49%) Senior
2 282 (13.55%) Software Engineer
3 225 (10.81%) Developer
4 188 (9.03%) Lead
5 167 (8.02%) Systems Engineer
6 163 (7.83%) Junior
7 156 (7.50%) IT Manager
8 138 (6.63%) Junior Systems Engineer
9 126 (6.05%) IT Support
10 125 (6.01%) Support Engineer
11 121 (5.81%) IT Engineer
12 112 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
13 104 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
14 93 (4.47%) Architect
15 86 (4.13%) Analyst
16 83 (3.99%) Principal Engineer
17 74 (3.56%) Data Scientist
18 70 (3.36%) Security Engineer
19 68 (3.27%) Trainer
20 65 (3.12%) Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 168 (8.07%) .NET
2 97 (4.66%) CSS
3 89 (4.28%) React
4 81 (3.89%) HTML
5 55 (2.64%) REST
6 54 (2.59%) ASP.NET
7 49 (2.35%) Node.js
8 45 (2.16%) AngularJS
9 39 (1.87%) jQuery
10 38 (1.83%) Middleware
11 36 (1.73%) RESTful
12 29 (1.39%) .NET Framework
13 28 (1.35%) Kafka
14 25 (1.20%) .NET Core
14 25 (1.20%) SOAP
15 23 (1.11%) HTML5
16 22 (1.06%) Laravel
17 21 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
17 21 (1.01%) WinForms
18 20 (0.96%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 144 (6.92%) Algorithms
2 117 (5.62%) Management Information System
3 115 (5.53%) Social Media
4 106 (5.09%) Driving Licence
5 68 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
6 50 (2.40%) Enterprise Software
7 49 (2.35%) Cyberattack
8 44 (2.11%) Data Structures
9 39 (1.87%) SCADA
10 37 (1.78%) Security Posture
11 35 (1.68%) Product Ownership
12 31 (1.49%) Operational Technology
13 28 (1.35%) Mobile App
14 23 (1.11%) Cloud Native
14 23 (1.11%) Robotics
14 23 (1.11%) Virtual Team
15 22 (1.06%) Data Centre
16 18 (0.86%) Acoustics
16 18 (0.86%) Public Cloud
17 16 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 314 (15.09%) Windows
2 225 (10.81%) Linux
3 100 (4.81%) Windows Vista
4 34 (1.63%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.30%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.20%) Android
7 22 (1.06%) Unix
8 21 (1.01%) Ubuntu
9 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 18 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.82%) Windows 10
11 16 (0.77%) Mac OS X
12 9 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 8 (0.38%) Mac OS
14 4 (0.19%) CentOS
15 3 (0.14%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.048%) Rocky
16 1 (0.048%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 705 (33.88%) Problem-Solving
2 496 (23.83%) Agile
3 437 (21.00%) Software Engineering
4 433 (20.81%) Mathematics
5 328 (15.76%) Project Management
6 317 (15.23%) Continuous Improvement
7 299 (14.37%) Mentoring
8 291 (13.98%) UML
9 238 (11.44%) Artificial Intelligence
10 218 (10.48%) Cybersecurity
11 208 (10.00%) Physics
11 208 (10.00%) Test Automation
12 205 (9.85%) Analytics
13 191 (9.18%) DevOps
14 177 (8.51%) Data Science
14 177 (8.51%) Systems Engineering
15 173 (8.31%) CI/CD
16 166 (7.98%) PLM
17 164 (7.88%) Waterfall
18 156 (7.50%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 336 (16.15%) Python
2 256 (12.30%) Java
3 230 (11.05%) C#
4 219 (10.52%) SQL
5 171 (8.22%) C++
6 156 (7.50%) MATLAB
7 142 (6.82%) JavaScript
8 80 (3.84%) C
8 80 (3.84%) PHP
9 78 (3.75%) TypeScript
10 77 (3.70%) PowerShell
11 63 (3.03%) Ada
12 45 (2.16%) Rust
13 30 (1.44%) Bash
14 25 (1.20%) R
15 24 (1.15%) Apex Code
16 22 (1.06%) Kotlin
17 16 (0.77%) Fortran
18 14 (0.67%) PL/SQL
19 13 (0.62%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,862 (89.48%) Degree
2 853 (40.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 334 (16.05%) BPSS Clearance
4 218 (10.48%) Master's Degree
5 135 (6.49%) Microsoft Certification
6 133 (6.39%) DBS Check
7 130 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
8 125 (6.01%) Security Cleared
9 120 (5.77%) PhD
10 117 (5.62%) MCSE
11 110 (5.29%) CCNA
12 109 (5.24%) CCNP
13 96 (4.61%) MCP
14 95 (4.57%) LPIC
15 84 (4.04%) Chartered Engineer
16 68 (3.27%) DV Cleared
17 60 (2.88%) SC Cleared
18 47 (2.26%) CISSP
19 40 (1.92%) HND
20 37 (1.78%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 92 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 73 (3.51%) Data Quality
3 68 (3.27%) QA
4 61 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 51 (2.45%) GDPR
6 43 (2.07%) NIST
7 23 (1.11%) Accessibility
8 14 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 14 (0.67%) NCSC
9 12 (0.58%) PMO
10 11 (0.53%) SLA
11 8 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 8 (0.38%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.29%) GxP
12 6 (0.29%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.29%) WCAG
13 5 (0.24%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.24%) COBIT
13 5 (0.24%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 88 (4.23%) Docker
2 49 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 28 (1.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (0.67%) Firmware
5 11 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
6 10 (0.48%) Hyper-V
7 8 (0.38%) vSphere
8 6 (0.29%) VMware NSX
9 5 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.14%) HDFS
12 1 (0.048%) KVM
12 1 (0.048%) RHEV
Systems Management
1 129 (6.20%) Kubernetes
2 47 (2.26%) Terraform
3 39 (1.87%) Ansible
4 21 (1.01%) Grafana
5 15 (0.72%) Prometheus
6 11 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 10 (0.48%) Puppet
8 6 (0.29%) BMC PATROL
9 5 (0.24%) ArcSight ESM
9 5 (0.24%) QRadar
10 4 (0.19%) Kibana
10 4 (0.19%) Nessus
11 3 (0.14%) Kubeflow
11 3 (0.14%) ZABBIX
12 2 (0.096%) CASB
12 2 (0.096%) Docker Swarm
12 2 (0.096%) FortiGate
12 2 (0.096%) Jamf Pro
12 2 (0.096%) Nmap
13 1 (0.048%) logstash
Vendors
1 298 (14.32%) Microsoft
2 138 (6.63%) IBM
3 135 (6.49%) Cisco
4 69 (3.32%) PayPal
5 39 (1.87%) Google
6 32 (1.54%) Salesforce
7 31 (1.49%) ServiceNow
8 30 (1.44%) Oracle
8 30 (1.44%) VMware
9 27 (1.30%) SAP
10 21 (1.01%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 20 (0.96%) Databricks
11 20 (0.96%) Dell
12 19 (0.91%) Fortinet
13 17 (0.82%) Apple
14 16 (0.77%) Ubiquiti
15 15 (0.72%) WooCommerce
16 11 (0.53%) ANSYS
17 9 (0.43%) Informatica
17 9 (0.43%) Xilinx