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 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 51 70 47
Rank change year-on-year +19 -23 +16
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,318 2,653 4,088
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.71% 4.32% 5.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.59% 4.52% 6.12%
Number of salaries quoted 2,209 1,351 1,618
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,973 £28,963
25th Percentile £37,500 £38,304 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £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 59,360 58,686 66,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 95.63% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 41,074 30,149 41,547
10th Percentile £27,041 £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 £61,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +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 4 May 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 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 +6 1,027 £60,000 +9.09% 248
North of England +88 633 £48,000 -8.57% 216
Scotland +10 598 £52,500 -0.94% 41
Midlands +23 369 £50,000 -4.76% 151
North West +84 352 £50,000 -9.09% 121
South West +21 349 £50,000 -9.09% 109
West Midlands +33 253 £52,500 -4.55% 81
East of England -1 249 £45,000 -3.23% 166
Yorkshire +97 221 £45,000 -14.29% 61
East Midlands -7 110 £42,500 -5.56% 70
North East +10 60 £48,734 +18.14% 36
Northern Ireland +23 41 £40,000 -20.00% 20
Wales -49 40 £34,000 -40.87% 22
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 (1.72%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.36%) FileNet
3 33 (0.99%) Apache Spark
4 30 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 21 (0.63%) Confluence
6 17 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
6 17 (0.51%) IIS
7 16 (0.48%) WordPress
8 15 (0.45%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.45%) SAS
9 13 (0.39%) CMS
10 12 (0.36%) Tomcat
11 11 (0.33%) Apache
12 6 (0.18%) nginx
13 4 (0.12%) Moodle
13 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
14 3 (0.090%) WildFly
15 2 (0.060%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 2 (0.060%) Appian
15 2 (0.060%) Documentum
Applications
1 95 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (1.36%) Simulink
4 29 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.42%) Trello
6 7 (0.21%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.090%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.060%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.060%) 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 33 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) Sage 300 ERP
8 3 (0.090%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.060%) CA PPM
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.030%) Dynamics NAV
10 1 (0.030%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 519 (15.64%) AWS
2 455 (13.71%) Azure
3 134 (4.04%) Power Platform
4 118 (3.56%) GitHub
5 117 (3.53%) GCP
6 109 (3.29%) Amazon S3
6 109 (3.29%) Microsoft 365
7 100 (3.01%) SaaS
8 81 (2.44%) Serverless
9 74 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
10 70 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
11 55 (1.66%) Cloud Computing
12 46 (1.39%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (0.72%) Amazon Kinesis
14 23 (0.69%) Power Automate
15 21 (0.63%) PowerApps
16 19 (0.57%) Dynamics 365
16 19 (0.57%) IaaS
16 19 (0.57%) Route 53
16 19 (0.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 128 (3.86%) Firewall
2 125 (3.77%) Network Security
3 84 (2.53%) Wireless
4 80 (2.41%) TCP/IP
5 74 (2.23%) WAN
6 68 (2.05%) DNS
6 68 (2.05%) VPN
7 59 (1.78%) HTTP
8 50 (1.51%) LAN
9 44 (1.33%) Internet
10 36 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
11 35 (1.05%) DHCP
12 34 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
13 28 (0.84%) SD-WAN
14 27 (0.81%) Ethernet
15 26 (0.78%) VLAN
16 21 (0.63%) 5G
16 21 (0.63%) RS-232
17 20 (0.60%) MQTT
18 19 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 256 (7.72%) SQL Server
2 238 (7.17%) NoSQL
3 131 (3.95%) MySQL
4 130 (3.92%) Power BI
5 121 (3.65%) Relational Database
6 106 (3.19%) Data Warehouse
7 83 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
8 64 (1.93%) Elasticsearch
9 58 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
10 53 (1.60%) Big Data
10 53 (1.60%) Redis
11 47 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
12 41 (1.24%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 36 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
14 34 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 34 (1.02%) Tableau
15 29 (0.87%) RDBMS
16 24 (0.72%) GIS
16 24 (0.72%) MS Access
17 23 (0.69%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 360 (10.85%) Git
2 105 (3.16%) JIRA
3 102 (3.07%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.75%) JUnit
5 56 (1.69%) Selenium
6 49 (1.48%) Mockito
7 47 (1.42%) Jasmine
8 46 (1.39%) Cypress.io
9 44 (1.33%) Visual Studio
10 42 (1.27%) Subversion
11 28 (0.84%) GitLab
12 26 (0.78%) CMake
13 25 (0.75%) LabVIEW
14 23 (0.69%) Postman
15 18 (0.54%) Appium
15 18 (0.54%) Bitbucket
16 17 (0.51%) NUnit
16 17 (0.51%) TeamCity
17 14 (0.42%) Maven
17 14 (0.42%) Moq
General
1 1,159 (34.93%) Social Skills
2 666 (20.07%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 642 (19.35%) Finance
4 505 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
5 412 (12.42%) Law
6 343 (10.34%) Marketing
7 219 (6.60%) Manufacturing
8 206 (6.21%) Electronics
9 161 (4.85%) Financial Institution
10 144 (4.34%) Legal
11 107 (3.22%) Banking
12 104 (3.13%) Games
13 86 (2.59%) Telecoms
14 85 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
15 80 (2.41%) Retail
16 71 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (2.02%) Investment Banking
18 65 (1.96%) Public Sector
19 63 (1.90%) Automotive
20 62 (1.87%) Military
Job Titles
1 754 (22.72%) Developer
2 601 (18.11%) Software Engineer
3 555 (16.73%) Senior
4 259 (7.81%) Lead
5 243 (7.32%) Software Developer
6 178 (5.36%) Engineering Manager
7 166 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 165 (4.97%) Software Engineering Manager
9 157 (4.73%) Senior Software Engineer
10 155 (4.67%) Analyst
11 151 (4.55%) Data Scientist
12 144 (4.34%) Architect
13 142 (4.28%) Junior
14 138 (4.16%) Graduate
15 94 (2.83%) Java Engineer
16 92 (2.77%) Java Software Engineer
17 86 (2.59%) Embedded Engineer
18 85 (2.56%) Full Stack Developer
19 75 (2.26%) .NET Developer
20 73 (2.20%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 426 (12.84%) .NET
2 402 (12.12%) React
3 298 (8.98%) AngularJS
3 298 (8.98%) HTML
4 244 (7.35%) CSS
5 184 (5.55%) Spring
6 165 (4.97%) Node.js
7 153 (4.61%) RESTful
8 131 (3.95%) Kafka
9 129 (3.89%) .NET Core
10 126 (3.80%) HTML5
11 100 (3.01%) REST
12 88 (2.65%) ASP.NET
13 83 (2.50%) .NET Framework
13 83 (2.50%) JSON
13 83 (2.50%) Spring Boot
14 79 (2.38%) NumPy
15 74 (2.23%) Vue
16 71 (2.14%) Pandas
17 67 (2.02%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 411 (12.39%) Algorithms
2 347 (10.46%) Cloud Native
3 290 (8.74%) Management Information System
4 170 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (3.56%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 86 (2.59%) Onboarding
8 74 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 72 (2.17%) Mobile App
10 66 (1.99%) Market Risk
11 60 (1.81%) Client/Server
12 58 (1.75%) IoT
13 53 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
14 52 (1.57%) Distributed Applications
15 45 (1.36%) FPGA
16 42 (1.27%) Analytical Mindset
17 39 (1.18%) CUDA
17 39 (1.18%) Cyber Threat
17 39 (1.18%) Driving Licence
17 39 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 392 (11.81%) Linux
2 367 (11.06%) Windows
3 71 (2.14%) Unix
4 68 (2.05%) Windows Server
5 67 (2.02%) Android
6 48 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 43 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 33 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 28 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
9 28 (0.84%) Ubuntu
10 20 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 16 (0.48%) CentOS
12 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 11 (0.33%) Debian
14 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
15 8 (0.24%) VMS
16 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
17 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,255 (37.82%) Problem-Solving
2 1,192 (35.93%) Software Engineering
3 1,034 (31.16%) Agile
4 796 (23.99%) Mathematics
5 492 (14.83%) Artificial Intelligence
6 463 (13.95%) SDLC
7 427 (12.87%) Decision-Making
8 418 (12.60%) CI/CD
9 392 (11.81%) Mentoring
10 384 (11.57%) Machine Learning
11 345 (10.40%) Cybersecurity
12 335 (10.10%) DevOps
13 318 (9.58%) Analytics
14 312 (9.40%) Coaching
15 293 (8.83%) Project Management
16 275 (8.29%) Data Analysis
17 259 (7.81%) Continuous Improvement
18 254 (7.66%) Data Science
19 232 (6.99%) Physics
20 230 (6.93%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 704 (21.22%) Python
2 675 (20.34%) SQL
3 616 (18.57%) C#
4 583 (17.57%) JavaScript
5 504 (15.19%) Java
6 346 (10.43%) C
7 316 (9.52%) C++
8 287 (8.65%) TypeScript
9 119 (3.59%) PHP
10 79 (2.38%) Embedded C
11 76 (2.29%) Bash
12 74 (2.23%) Fortran
13 73 (2.20%) PowerShell
14 51 (1.54%) Go
15 50 (1.51%) R
16 47 (1.42%) T-SQL
17 42 (1.27%) MATLAB
18 37 (1.12%) Rust
19 35 (1.05%) Perl
20 33 (0.99%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,756 (83.06%) Degree
2 1,445 (43.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 368 (11.09%) Master's Degree
4 227 (6.84%) Security Cleared
5 160 (4.82%) PhD
6 123 (3.71%) SC Cleared
7 81 (2.44%) CISSP
8 78 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (2.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 61 (1.84%) AWS Certification
11 54 (1.63%) CCNA
12 53 (1.60%) CCNP
13 50 (1.51%) PMI Certification
14 46 (1.39%) PMP
15 43 (1.30%) Azure Certification
16 40 (1.21%) CISM
17 38 (1.15%) A+ Certification
18 36 (1.08%) DV Cleared
19 35 (1.05%) MCP
20 34 (1.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 188 (5.67%) QA
2 63 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.75%) GDPR
4 55 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 51 (1.54%) Data Quality
6 46 (1.39%) NIST
7 40 (1.21%) PMO
8 35 (1.05%) WCAG
9 21 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 21 (0.63%) ISO 13485
10 19 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 16 (0.48%) SLA
12 15 (0.45%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.30%) GRC
14 10 (0.30%) NCSC
14 10 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 9 (0.27%) JTAG
16 8 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 308 (9.28%) Docker
2 139 (4.19%) Firmware
3 103 (3.10%) Active Directory
4 62 (1.87%) VMware Infrastructure
5 46 (1.39%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
10 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 5 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.12%) pfSense
12 4 (0.12%) XenApp
13 2 (0.060%) HDFS
14 1 (0.030%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 312 (9.40%) Kubernetes
2 106 (3.19%) Terraform
3 41 (1.24%) Ansible
4 17 (0.51%) Puppet
5 14 (0.42%) 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%) Progress Chef
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.12%) Suricata
14 3 (0.090%) OfficeScan
14 3 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 394 (11.87%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.68%) Oracle
3 113 (3.41%) Google
4 74 (2.23%) SAP
5 72 (2.17%) Cisco
5 72 (2.17%) VMware
6 50 (1.51%) Salesforce
7 34 (1.02%) Xilinx
8 24 (0.72%) Juniper
9 20 (0.60%) Splunk
10 19 (0.57%) Apple
10 19 (0.57%) IBM
10 19 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.57%) Xamarin
11 16 (0.48%) Atlassian
11 16 (0.48%) F5
12 15 (0.45%) Databricks
13 14 (0.42%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.42%) NVIDIA
14 12 (0.36%) Veeam