Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science 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 51 70 46
Rank change year-on-year +19 -24 +16
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,290 2,701 4,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.70% 4.37% 5.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% 4.57% 6.15%
Number of salaries quoted 2,186 1,315 1,606
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,572 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,000 £34,810
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,625 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,145 59,105 66,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.43% 95.64% 94.05%
Number of salaries quoted 40,986 30,311 41,402
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%

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 27 April 2024.

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 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 +4 1,012 £60,000 +9.09% 231
North of England +100 632 £47,500 - 202
Scotland +6 595 £52,500 -0.94% 51
Midlands +21 369 £50,000 -1.96% 119
North West +92 348 £50,000 -6.98% 114
South West +19 338 £48,750 -7.14% 105
West Midlands +35 251 £51,431 -3.87% 64
East of England -5 247 £46,000 -1.08% 157
Yorkshire +96 224 £45,000 -12.62% 55
East Midlands -6 112 £42,500 -5.56% 55
North East +12 60 £50,617 +26.54% 34
Wales -47 44 £34,000 -40.87% 20
Northern Ireland +27 41 £40,000 -13.04% 27
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 3
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 57 (1.73%) SharePoint
2 44 (1.34%) FileNet
3 33 (1.00%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
5 22 (0.67%) Confluence
6 17 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
6 17 (0.52%) IIS
6 17 (0.52%) SAS
7 16 (0.49%) WordPress
8 15 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 13 (0.40%) CMS
10 12 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 10 (0.30%) Apache
12 6 (0.18%) nginx
13 4 (0.12%) Moodle
13 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
14 3 (0.091%) WildFly
15 2 (0.061%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.061%) Appian
15 2 (0.061%) Documentum
Applications
1 96 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 67 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (1.25%) Simulink
4 28 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.43%) Trello
6 7 (0.21%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.091%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.061%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.061%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.061%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.030%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.030%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.67%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.27%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.24%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Odoo
7 4 (0.12%) Magento
7 4 (0.12%) Sage 200
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
8 3 (0.091%) Sage 300 ERP
8 3 (0.091%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.061%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.030%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.030%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 508 (15.44%) AWS
2 452 (13.74%) Azure
3 127 (3.86%) Power Platform
4 120 (3.65%) GitHub
5 112 (3.40%) GCP
6 110 (3.34%) Microsoft 365
7 108 (3.28%) Amazon S3
8 106 (3.22%) SaaS
9 80 (2.43%) Serverless
10 78 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
12 56 (1.70%) Cloud Computing
13 48 (1.46%) Amazon EC2
14 23 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
15 22 (0.67%) Power Automate
16 21 (0.64%) PowerApps
17 20 (0.61%) IaaS
18 19 (0.58%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (0.58%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 126 (3.83%) Firewall
2 123 (3.74%) Network Security
3 84 (2.55%) Wireless
4 80 (2.43%) TCP/IP
5 69 (2.10%) WAN
6 67 (2.04%) DNS
7 66 (2.01%) VPN
8 59 (1.79%) HTTP
9 48 (1.46%) LAN
10 43 (1.31%) Internet
11 35 (1.06%) DHCP
11 35 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
12 34 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
13 27 (0.82%) Ethernet
14 26 (0.79%) VLAN
15 25 (0.76%) SD-WAN
16 21 (0.64%) RS-232
17 20 (0.61%) MQTT
18 19 (0.58%) 5G
18 19 (0.58%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 259 (7.87%) SQL Server
2 234 (7.11%) NoSQL
3 134 (4.07%) MySQL
4 123 (3.74%) Power BI
5 121 (3.68%) Relational Database
6 104 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
7 82 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
8 62 (1.88%) Elasticsearch
9 60 (1.82%) Amazon RDS
10 53 (1.61%) Big Data
11 52 (1.58%) Redis
12 46 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
13 42 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 35 (1.06%) Amazon Redshift
14 35 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (0.97%) Tableau
16 29 (0.88%) RDBMS
17 23 (0.70%) GIS
17 23 (0.70%) MongoDB
18 22 (0.67%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 356 (10.82%) Git
2 105 (3.19%) JIRA
3 99 (3.01%) Jenkins
4 57 (1.73%) JUnit
5 56 (1.70%) Selenium
6 48 (1.46%) Mockito
7 46 (1.40%) Jasmine
8 45 (1.37%) Cypress.io
9 43 (1.31%) Visual Studio
10 42 (1.28%) Subversion
11 28 (0.85%) GitLab
12 26 (0.79%) CMake
13 25 (0.76%) LabVIEW
14 23 (0.70%) Postman
15 18 (0.55%) Appium
16 17 (0.52%) NUnit
16 17 (0.52%) TeamCity
17 16 (0.49%) Bitbucket
17 16 (0.49%) Maven
18 14 (0.43%) Moq
General
1 1,146 (34.83%) Social Skills
2 658 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 632 (19.21%) Finance
4 501 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 402 (12.22%) Law
6 335 (10.18%) Marketing
7 220 (6.69%) Manufacturing
8 201 (6.11%) Electronics
9 158 (4.80%) Financial Institution
10 143 (4.35%) Legal
11 106 (3.22%) Banking
12 103 (3.13%) Games
13 87 (2.64%) Telecoms
14 82 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
15 79 (2.40%) Retail
16 70 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
17 66 (2.01%) Investment Banking
18 65 (1.98%) Public Sector
19 63 (1.91%) Automotive
20 62 (1.88%) Military
Job Titles
1 745 (22.64%) Developer
2 594 (18.05%) Software Engineer
3 555 (16.87%) Senior
4 256 (7.78%) Lead
5 240 (7.29%) Software Developer
6 175 (5.32%) Engineering Manager
7 166 (5.05%) Senior Developer
8 162 (4.92%) Software Engineering Manager
9 157 (4.77%) Analyst
10 156 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
11 148 (4.50%) Data Scientist
12 140 (4.26%) Architect
12 140 (4.26%) Graduate
12 140 (4.26%) Junior
13 93 (2.83%) Java Engineer
14 91 (2.77%) Java Software Engineer
15 85 (2.58%) Full Stack Developer
16 84 (2.55%) Embedded Engineer
17 74 (2.25%) .NET Developer
17 74 (2.25%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 422 (12.83%) .NET
2 404 (12.28%) React
3 299 (9.09%) AngularJS
4 296 (9.00%) HTML
5 243 (7.39%) CSS
6 182 (5.53%) Spring
7 164 (4.98%) Node.js
8 154 (4.68%) RESTful
9 130 (3.95%) Kafka
10 127 (3.86%) .NET Core
11 125 (3.80%) HTML5
12 100 (3.04%) REST
13 87 (2.64%) ASP.NET
14 83 (2.52%) JSON
15 82 (2.49%) Spring Boot
16 80 (2.43%) .NET Framework
17 78 (2.37%) NumPy
17 78 (2.37%) Vue
18 69 (2.10%) Pandas
19 66 (2.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 408 (12.40%) Algorithms
2 343 (10.43%) Cloud Native
3 287 (8.72%) Management Information System
4 171 (5.20%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (3.59%) Data Structures
6 93 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 89 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 72 (2.19%) Data Centre
9 71 (2.16%) Mobile App
10 65 (1.98%) Market Risk
11 59 (1.79%) Client/Server
12 58 (1.76%) IoT
13 54 (1.64%) Embedded Systems
14 51 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
15 42 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (1.28%) FPGA
16 40 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
16 40 (1.22%) Driving Licence
17 38 (1.16%) CUDA
17 38 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 379 (11.52%) Linux
2 365 (11.09%) Windows
3 72 (2.19%) Unix
4 69 (2.10%) Windows Server
5 65 (1.98%) Android
6 50 (1.52%) Mac OS
7 44 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.00%) Windows 10
9 26 (0.79%) Ubuntu
10 25 (0.76%) Embedded Linux
11 18 (0.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (0.43%) CentOS
13 13 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.33%) Debian
15 10 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.24%) VMS
17 7 (0.21%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
19 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
19 5 (0.15%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,250 (37.99%) Problem-Solving
2 1,176 (35.74%) Software Engineering
3 1,024 (31.12%) Agile
4 788 (23.95%) Mathematics
5 478 (14.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 460 (13.98%) SDLC
7 419 (12.74%) Decision-Making
8 416 (12.64%) CI/CD
9 389 (11.82%) Mentoring
10 371 (11.28%) Machine Learning
11 344 (10.46%) Cybersecurity
12 336 (10.21%) DevOps
13 312 (9.48%) Analytics
14 311 (9.45%) Coaching
15 294 (8.94%) Project Management
16 270 (8.21%) Data Analysis
17 259 (7.87%) Continuous Improvement
18 249 (7.57%) Data Science
19 231 (7.02%) Physics
20 223 (6.78%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 695 (21.12%) Python
2 671 (20.40%) SQL
3 610 (18.54%) C#
4 584 (17.75%) JavaScript
5 493 (14.98%) Java
6 337 (10.24%) C
7 303 (9.21%) C++
8 285 (8.66%) TypeScript
9 118 (3.59%) PHP
10 78 (2.37%) Embedded C
11 76 (2.31%) Bash
12 74 (2.25%) Fortran
13 72 (2.19%) PowerShell
14 51 (1.55%) Go
15 48 (1.46%) R
16 47 (1.43%) T-SQL
17 41 (1.25%) MATLAB
18 35 (1.06%) Rust
19 32 (0.97%) Perl
20 31 (0.94%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,736 (83.16%) Degree
2 1,440 (43.77%) Computer Science Degree
3 370 (11.25%) Master's Degree
4 220 (6.69%) Security Cleared
5 159 (4.83%) PhD
6 120 (3.65%) SC Cleared
7 80 (2.43%) CISSP
8 78 (2.37%) Microsoft Certification
9 76 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 57 (1.73%) AWS Certification
11 54 (1.64%) CCNA
12 51 (1.55%) CCNP
13 50 (1.52%) PMI Certification
14 46 (1.40%) PMP
15 43 (1.31%) Azure Certification
16 40 (1.22%) CISM
17 38 (1.16%) A+ Certification
18 36 (1.09%) DBS Check
19 35 (1.06%) MCP
20 33 (1.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 190 (5.78%) QA
2 64 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (1.79%) GDPR
4 55 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 48 (1.46%) Data Quality
6 44 (1.34%) NIST
7 38 (1.16%) PMO
8 34 (1.03%) WCAG
9 22 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.64%) ISO 13485
11 18 (0.55%) PCI DSS
12 17 (0.52%) SLA
13 15 (0.46%) HIPAA
14 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.30%) GRC
15 10 (0.30%) NCSC
15 10 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 9 (0.27%) JTAG
17 8 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 311 (9.45%) Docker
2 135 (4.10%) Firmware
3 105 (3.19%) Active Directory
4 63 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
5 43 (1.31%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.76%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
11 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.15%) VMware ESXi
12 4 (0.12%) pfSense
12 4 (0.12%) XenApp
13 2 (0.061%) HDFS
14 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 316 (9.60%) Kubernetes
2 107 (3.25%) Terraform
3 42 (1.28%) Ansible
4 16 (0.49%) Puppet
5 14 (0.43%) Grafana
6 12 (0.36%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.33%) SCCM
8 9 (0.27%) WSUS
9 8 (0.24%) Nagios
9 8 (0.24%) Nessus
10 7 (0.21%) SCOM
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize
13 4 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
14 3 (0.091%) Microsoft Clustering
Vendors
1 391 (11.88%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.71%) Oracle
3 112 (3.40%) Google
4 73 (2.22%) SAP
4 73 (2.22%) VMware
5 70 (2.13%) Cisco
6 49 (1.49%) Salesforce
7 29 (0.88%) Xilinx
8 23 (0.70%) Juniper
9 19 (0.58%) Apple
9 19 (0.58%) IBM
9 19 (0.58%) ServiceNow
9 19 (0.58%) Splunk
9 19 (0.58%) Xamarin
10 18 (0.55%) Atlassian
11 16 (0.49%) F5
12 14 (0.43%) NVIDIA
13 13 (0.40%) Databricks
13 13 (0.40%) Fortinet
14 12 (0.36%) Veeam