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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 193 165
Rank change year-on-year +56 -28 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,499 1,121 1,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.14% 1.81% 2.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.73% 4.95% 7.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,184 650 733
10th Percentile £30,650 £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 19,391 22,667 22,129
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.67% 36.53% 31.39%
Number of salaries quoted 12,235 8,323 10,236
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,181 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £64,000
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -

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 25 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 25 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 +32 520 £60,000 +4.35% 121
North of England +143 358 £50,000 -4.76% 113
Midlands +20 183 £50,000 -6.54% 71
North West +82 180 £50,000 -4.76% 65
Yorkshire +163 157 £45,000 -14.29% 34
South West +12 138 £45,000 -4.51% 43
Scotland -39 130 £57,500 +4.55% 30
West Midlands +48 119 £52,500 -16.00% 36
East of England +35 115 £40,000 -20.00% 62
East Midlands -33 62 £46,188 +2.64% 35
Wales -2 29 £34,000 -24.44% 9
North East +5 21 £52,500 +23.53% 14
Northern Ireland +17 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 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
10 4 (0.27%) Tomcat
11 3 (0.20%) SAS
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 (3.27%) 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 (0.53%) 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
1 252 (16.81%) Azure
2 246 (16.41%) AWS
3 87 (5.80%) Amazon S3
4 72 (4.80%) GitHub
5 61 (4.07%) Microsoft 365
5 61 (4.07%) SaaS
6 54 (3.60%) GCP
7 52 (3.47%) Power Platform
8 51 (3.40%) Serverless
9 48 (3.20%) Amazon EC2
10 45 (3.00%) AWS Lambda
11 40 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
12 35 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
13 23 (1.53%) Amazon Kinesis
14 19 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.27%) Route 53
15 18 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 17 (1.13%) IaaS
17 16 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 105 (7.00%) Firewall
2 86 (5.74%) Network Security
3 51 (3.40%) WAN
4 48 (3.20%) TCP/IP
5 46 (3.07%) DNS
5 46 (3.07%) LAN
6 36 (2.40%) DHCP
6 36 (2.40%) VPN
7 35 (2.33%) HTTP
8 29 (1.93%) VLAN
9 25 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
10 24 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.53%) Wireless
12 17 (1.13%) NAS
13 16 (1.07%) Internet
13 16 (1.07%) SAN
14 12 (0.80%) MPLS
14 12 (0.80%) MQTT
14 12 (0.80%) SSL
15 11 (0.73%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 193 (12.88%) SQL Server
2 147 (9.81%) NoSQL
3 103 (6.87%) MySQL
4 70 (4.67%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (4.40%) Relational Database
6 60 (4.00%) Amazon RDS
7 49 (3.27%) Power BI
8 44 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
9 38 (2.54%) Elasticsearch
10 30 (2.00%) Apache Cassandra
11 28 (1.87%) Amazon Redshift
12 26 (1.73%) RDBMS
13 24 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 23 (1.53%) Big Data
14 23 (1.53%) MongoDB
15 20 (1.33%) Redis
16 17 (1.13%) MS Access
16 17 (1.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 16 (1.07%) Azure SQL Database
18 13 (0.87%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 236 (15.74%) Git
2 60 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.74%) 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
11 14 (0.93%) 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
1 655 (43.70%) Social Skills
2 236 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
3 189 (12.61%) Finance
4 107 (7.14%) Manufacturing
5 88 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 76 (5.07%) Marketing
7 67 (4.47%) Law
8 60 (4.00%) Electronics
9 46 (3.07%) Legal
9 46 (3.07%) Retail
10 44 (2.94%) Games
11 43 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
12 35 (2.33%) Military
13 33 (2.20%) Public Sector
14 32 (2.13%) Telecoms
15 30 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
16 23 (1.53%) Aerospace
17 16 (1.07%) Publishing
18 15 (1.00%) Automotive
18 15 (1.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 474 (31.62%) Developer
2 219 (14.61%) Software Engineer
3 217 (14.48%) Senior
4 148 (9.87%) Software Developer
5 140 (9.34%) Lead
6 87 (5.80%) Senior Developer
7 85 (5.67%) Architect
8 74 (4.94%) Analyst
9 73 (4.87%) Junior
10 56 (3.74%) .NET Developer
11 55 (3.67%) Full Stack Developer
12 53 (3.54%) Support Engineer
13 51 (3.40%) C++ Software Engineer
14 48 (3.20%) Graduate
14 48 (3.20%) Senior Software Developer
15 42 (2.80%) Network Engineer
16 40 (2.67%) Lead Developer
16 40 (2.67%) Senior Software Engineer
17 39 (2.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 38 (2.54%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 241 (16.08%) .NET
2 225 (15.01%) React
3 150 (10.01%) HTML
4 130 (8.67%) CSS
5 125 (8.34%) AngularJS
6 75 (5.00%) Spring
7 63 (4.20%) Node.js
8 62 (4.14%) JSON
9 60 (4.00%) .NET Framework
10 58 (3.87%) Kafka
11 52 (3.47%) 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 34 (2.27%) ASP.NET
15 34 (2.27%) GraphQL
16 33 (2.20%) Hibernate
17 31 (2.07%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 167 (11.14%) Management Information System
2 94 (6.27%) Algorithms
3 90 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 85 (5.67%) Cloud Native
5 56 (3.74%) Data Centre
6 51 (3.40%) Mobile App
7 47 (3.14%) Product Ownership
8 44 (2.94%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.33%) IoT
10 32 (2.13%) Distributed Systems
11 31 (2.07%) Driving Licence
12 28 (1.87%) Cyber Threat
13 24 (1.60%) Data Structures
14 23 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
15 21 (1.40%) Client/Server
16 19 (1.27%) Life Science
17 17 (1.13%) Security Operations Centre
18 16 (1.07%) Embedded Systems
19 15 (1.00%) CUDA
19 15 (1.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 267 (17.81%) Windows
2 219 (14.61%) Linux
3 67 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 60 (4.00%) Android
5 47 (3.14%) Mac OS
6 32 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 32 (2.13%) Unix
7 23 (1.53%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.33%) Ubuntu
9 16 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.67%) CentOS
13 9 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
14 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 8 (0.53%) 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 1,444 (96.33%) Computer Science
2 648 (43.23%) Problem-Solving
3 443 (29.55%) Agile
4 405 (27.02%) Software Engineering
5 253 (16.88%) DevOps
6 203 (13.54%) Artificial Intelligence
7 181 (12.07%) CI/CD
8 166 (11.07%) Mentoring
9 157 (10.47%) Mathematics
10 153 (10.21%) SDLC
11 144 (9.61%) Machine Learning
12 131 (8.74%) Project Management
13 118 (7.87%) Cybersecurity
14 115 (7.67%) Continuous Improvement
15 113 (7.54%) Full Stack Development
16 110 (7.34%) Analytics
16 110 (7.34%) Test Automation
17 108 (7.20%) ERP
18 105 (7.00%) Data Modelling
19 101 (6.74%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 347 (23.15%) JavaScript
2 340 (22.68%) SQL
3 323 (21.55%) Python
4 315 (21.01%) C#
5 224 (14.94%) Java
6 138 (9.21%) C++
7 136 (9.07%) TypeScript
8 104 (6.94%) C
9 71 (4.74%) PHP
10 47 (3.14%) PowerShell
11 41 (2.74%) Bash
12 29 (1.93%) Go
13 25 (1.67%) R
14 21 (1.40%) Kotlin
15 19 (1.27%) T-SQL
16 14 (0.93%) VB
17 12 (0.80%) MATLAB
17 12 (0.80%) PL/SQL
17 12 (0.80%) Scala
18 11 (0.73%) Rust
Qualifications
1 1,499 (100.00%) Degree
2 187 (12.47%) Master's Degree
3 115 (7.67%) Security Cleared
4 81 (5.40%) SC Cleared
5 73 (4.87%) Cisco Certification
6 59 (3.94%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (3.74%) CCNA
8 51 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 48 (3.20%) CCNP
10 42 (2.80%) CISSP
11 40 (2.67%) PhD
12 39 (2.60%) Azure Certification
13 35 (2.33%) DBS Check
14 32 (2.13%) MCP
15 29 (1.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.80%) A+ Certification
17 26 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
18 21 (1.40%) PMI Certification
19 20 (1.33%) CCIE
19 20 (1.33%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 112 (7.47%) QA
2 34 (2.27%) Data Quality
2 34 (2.27%) GDPR
3 23 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (1.33%) Accessibility
5 17 (1.13%) SLA
6 14 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
7 12 (0.80%) HIPAA
7 12 (0.80%) NIST
8 10 (0.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 10 (0.67%) PMO
9 7 (0.47%) ISO 13485
10 3 (0.20%) NCSC
11 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
11 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.13%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.067%) Good Clinical Practice
12 1 (0.067%) HL7
System Software
1 206 (13.74%) Docker
2 85 (5.67%) Active Directory
3 38 (2.54%) 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
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
1 212 (14.14%) Kubernetes
2 69 (4.60%) Terraform
3 40 (2.67%) Ansible
4 16 (1.07%) 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%) 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%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.20%) OfficeScan
Vendors
1 240 (16.01%) Microsoft
2 73 (4.87%) Oracle
3 65 (4.34%) Cisco
4 64 (4.27%) Google
5 45 (3.00%) VMware
6 36 (2.40%) SAP
7 26 (1.73%) Salesforce
8 22 (1.47%) Xilinx
9 19 (1.27%) Apple
10 18 (1.20%) Juniper
11 16 (1.07%) Atlassian
11 16 (1.07%) F5
12 14 (0.93%) Xamarin
13 13 (0.87%) Fortinet
13 13 (0.87%) NVIDIA
14 12 (0.80%) Veeam
15 11 (0.73%) Splunk
16 10 (0.67%) Dell
16 10 (0.67%) IBM
16 10 (0.67%) ServiceNow