Computer Science Degree Jobs

Computer Science Degree
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered 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 105 104 180
Rank change year-on-year -1 +76 -59
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,375 2,465 2,138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.64% 2.51% 2.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.40% 9.01% 6.28%
Number of salaries quoted 764 1,848 1,316
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £64,750 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.92% -4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £105,875 £95,000 £108,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -6.54% +7.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 17 Job Locations

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 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
England +2 1,270 £65,000 +8.33% 1,473
UK excluding London +9 858 £55,000 +10.00% 772
London -14 448 £76,250 +1.67% 805
Work from Home +32 406 £60,000 - 905
Midlands +78 242 £35,000 -30.00% 142
North of England -8 218 £55,750 +11.50% 204
South East -27 212 £65,000 +8.33% 207
West Midlands +72 180 £35,000 -34.27% 85
Yorkshire +26 100 £58,750 +30.56% 60
North West -44 98 £57,000 +14.00% 116
East of England +23 80 £53,000 +32.50% 82
East Midlands +45 59 £35,000 -24.22% 57
South West +36 54 £56,745 +26.10% 30
North East +52 20 £55,000 +4.76% 29
Scotland +25 20 £50,957 -11.38% 53
Northern Ireland +37 19 £110,000 +175.00% 29
Wales +25 13 £68,500 +101.47% 26

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.67%) Jupyter
3 19 (1.38%) CMS
4 18 (1.31%) WordPress
5 17 (1.24%) Apache Airflow
6 15 (1.09%) Apache Spark
7 14 (1.02%) Apache
8 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Exchange
9 8 (0.58%) Confluence
9 8 (0.58%) IIS
10 6 (0.44%) SAS
11 5 (0.36%) Luigi
12 3 (0.22%) OpenStack
13 2 (0.15%) Appian
13 2 (0.15%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.15%) SharePoint Server
13 2 (0.15%) ThingWorx
14 1 (0.073%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 1 (0.073%) Liferay
14 1 (0.073%) nginx
Applications
1 30 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 26 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.58%) Revit
4 7 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
5 6 (0.44%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.44%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.29%) Sketch
7 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Blender
7 2 (0.15%) Maya
8 1 (0.073%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.073%) Simulink
8 1 (0.073%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 16 (1.16%) Shopify
2 9 (0.65%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.51%) Dynamics NAV
3 7 (0.51%) SAP Business One
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.29%) Remedy ITSM
5 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP ERP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.15%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
7 1 (0.073%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.073%) Relativity
7 1 (0.073%) Sage 200
7 1 (0.073%) SAP EWM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP WM
7 1 (0.073%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 346 (25.16%) Azure
2 241 (17.53%) AWS
3 96 (6.98%) GCP
4 80 (5.82%) SaaS
5 69 (5.02%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.73%) Serverless
7 64 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
8 53 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (3.64%) GitHub
10 40 (2.91%) AWS Lambda
11 34 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
12 29 (2.11%) Entra ID
13 27 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
14 26 (1.89%) Amazon S3
14 26 (1.89%) Azure Data Factory
15 22 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
16 20 (1.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 20 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
16 20 (1.45%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 161 (11.71%) Network Security
2 118 (8.58%) Firewall
3 112 (8.15%) WLAN
4 108 (7.85%) Internet
5 52 (3.78%) DNS
6 45 (3.27%) TCP/IP
7 30 (2.18%) DHCP
8 23 (1.67%) BGP
8 23 (1.67%) Intrusion Detection
9 21 (1.53%) OSPF
9 21 (1.53%) VPN
10 20 (1.45%) VLAN
11 19 (1.38%) SAN
12 14 (1.02%) HTTP
12 14 (1.02%) WAN
13 10 (0.73%) LAN
13 10 (0.73%) VoIP
14 8 (0.58%) Wireless
15 7 (0.51%) DWDM
16 6 (0.44%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 114 (8.29%) SQL Server
2 68 (4.95%) MySQL
3 56 (4.07%) NoSQL
4 49 (3.56%) Power BI
5 48 (3.49%) Big Data
6 42 (3.05%) Relational Database
7 39 (2.84%) Data Warehouse
8 32 (2.33%) PostgreSQL
9 31 (2.25%) Data Lake
10 21 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
11 18 (1.31%) MongoDB
12 17 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 17 (1.24%) Tableau
13 16 (1.16%) BigQuery
14 15 (1.09%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 13 (0.95%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
16 11 (0.80%) Oracle Database
17 10 (0.73%) DynamoDB
18 9 (0.65%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 118 (8.58%) Git
2 34 (2.47%) JIRA
3 25 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 16 (1.16%) Gradle
5 11 (0.80%) Moq
5 11 (0.80%) SpecFlow
6 10 (0.73%) GitLab
7 9 (0.65%) SonarQube
8 7 (0.51%) Burp Suite
8 7 (0.51%) CircleCI
8 7 (0.51%) Maven
8 7 (0.51%) Selenium
8 7 (0.51%) TestRail
9 6 (0.44%) JUnit
9 6 (0.44%) Sonatype Nexus
10 5 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.36%) Metasploit
10 5 (0.36%) Visual Studio
10 5 (0.36%) webpack
11 4 (0.29%) Cypress.io
General
1 537 (39.05%) Social Skills
2 257 (18.69%) Finance
3 201 (14.62%) Analytical Skills
4 122 (8.87%) Law
5 81 (5.89%) Retail
6 58 (4.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 51 (3.71%) Manufacturing
8 43 (3.13%) Marketing
9 42 (3.05%) Legal
10 33 (2.40%) Games
11 32 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
12 27 (1.96%) Automotive
12 27 (1.96%) Banking
13 26 (1.89%) Electronics
13 26 (1.89%) Front Office
14 22 (1.60%) Advertising
14 22 (1.60%) Telecoms
15 20 (1.45%) Public Sector
16 18 (1.31%) Pharmaceutical
17 14 (1.02%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (18.62%) Developer
2 204 (14.84%) Senior
3 173 (12.58%) Architect
4 166 (12.07%) IT Manager
5 129 (9.38%) Lead
6 123 (8.95%) Software Engineer
7 117 (8.51%) IT Engineer
8 106 (7.71%) IT Support
9 105 (7.64%) Support Engineer
10 96 (6.98%) IT Support Engineer
11 79 (5.75%) Analyst
12 69 (5.02%) Graduate
13 63 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
14 50 (3.64%) Graduate Developer
15 47 (3.42%) Software Developer
16 45 (3.27%) Data Engineer
17 43 (3.13%) Senior Developer
18 39 (2.84%) Junior
18 39 (2.84%) Systems Engineer
19 35 (2.55%) IT Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 156 (11.35%) .NET
2 123 (8.95%) CSS
3 99 (7.20%) HTML
4 86 (6.25%) React
5 59 (4.29%) REST
6 50 (3.64%) RESTful
7 49 (3.56%) ASP.NET
8 44 (3.20%) jQuery
9 40 (2.91%) Middleware
10 39 (2.84%) Kafka
11 38 (2.76%) AngularJS
12 36 (2.62%) Node.js
13 31 (2.25%) .NET Framework
14 30 (2.18%) Elastic Stack
15 27 (1.96%) HTML5
16 26 (1.89%) JSON
17 25 (1.82%) .NET Core
17 25 (1.82%) SOAP
18 23 (1.67%) Laravel
19 22 (1.60%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 135 (9.82%) Management Information System
2 96 (6.98%) Driving Licence
3 70 (5.09%) Algorithms
4 53 (3.85%) Security Posture
5 51 (3.71%) Cloud Native
6 47 (3.42%) Mobile App
7 45 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
7 45 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
8 31 (2.25%) Product Ownership
9 29 (2.11%) Hedge funds
10 23 (1.67%) Cyberattack
10 23 (1.67%) Mobile Games
11 22 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
12 21 (1.53%) Social Media
12 21 (1.53%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 19 (1.38%) Distributed Systems
14 18 (1.31%) Virtual Team
15 17 (1.24%) Robotics
16 16 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
16 16 (1.16%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 230 (16.73%) Windows
2 214 (15.56%) Linux
3 52 (3.78%) Windows Server
4 27 (1.96%) Ubuntu
5 26 (1.89%) Android
6 23 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 23 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
7 20 (1.45%) Apple iOS
7 20 (1.45%) Windows Server 2019
7 20 (1.45%) Windows Vista
8 16 (1.16%) Mac OS X
8 16 (1.16%) Unix
9 9 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.36%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.29%) Rocky
12 3 (0.22%) Kali Linux
12 3 (0.22%) VMS
13 2 (0.15%) CentOS
13 2 (0.15%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.073%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,348 (98.04%) Computer Science
2 570 (41.45%) Problem-Solving
3 314 (22.84%) Agile
4 272 (19.78%) Software Engineering
5 271 (19.71%) Mentoring
6 252 (18.33%) DevOps
7 193 (14.04%) CI/CD
8 179 (13.02%) Continuous Improvement
9 158 (11.49%) Artificial Intelligence
10 152 (11.05%) ITIL
11 144 (10.47%) Microservices
12 138 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
13 133 (9.67%) Analytics
14 132 (9.60%) Customer-Centricity
15 119 (8.65%) Data Science
16 117 (8.51%) Roadmaps
17 111 (8.07%) Information Security
18 107 (7.78%) Asset Management
19 104 (7.56%) User Experience
20 102 (7.42%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 310 (22.55%) Python
2 265 (19.27%) SQL
3 225 (16.36%) Java
4 190 (13.82%) C#
5 179 (13.02%) JavaScript
6 99 (7.20%) PowerShell
7 96 (6.98%) C++
8 94 (6.84%) TypeScript
9 68 (4.95%) PHP
10 43 (3.13%) C
11 32 (2.33%) Bash
12 29 (2.11%) Kotlin
13 26 (1.89%) Apex Code
14 22 (1.60%) Scala
15 19 (1.38%) PL/SQL
16 17 (1.24%) Shell Script
17 16 (1.16%) R
17 16 (1.16%) T-SQL
18 12 (0.87%) Go
19 11 (0.80%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,375 (100.00%) Degree
2 178 (12.95%) Master's Degree
3 157 (11.42%) Microsoft Certification
4 141 (10.25%) Cisco Certification
5 118 (8.58%) MCSE
6 113 (8.22%) CCNP
7 111 (8.07%) CCNA
8 96 (6.98%) MCP
9 95 (6.91%) LPIC
10 90 (6.55%) Security Cleared
11 86 (6.25%) CISSP
12 61 (4.44%) Azure Certification
13 58 (4.22%) SC Cleared
14 36 (2.62%) AWS Certification
14 36 (2.62%) PMI Certification
15 35 (2.55%) CEH
15 35 (2.55%) CISM
15 35 (2.55%) PMP
16 34 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
17 29 (2.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.96%) GDPR
2 72 (5.24%) QA
3 68 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 56 (4.07%) NIST
5 55 (4.00%) Data Quality
6 27 (1.96%) HIPAA
7 15 (1.09%) Accessibility
7 15 (1.09%) NCSC
8 14 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 14 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 14 (1.02%) SLA
9 13 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.44%) CDISC
13 5 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.36%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.29%) COBIT
15 3 (0.22%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 131 (9.53%) Docker
2 67 (4.87%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.65%) vSphere
6 7 (0.51%) HDFS
6 7 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (0.44%) VMware NSX
8 5 (0.36%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.15%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.073%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.073%) Firmware
10 1 (0.073%) KVM
10 1 (0.073%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 137 (9.96%) Kubernetes
2 77 (5.60%) Terraform
3 41 (2.98%) Prometheus
4 40 (2.91%) Grafana
5 23 (1.67%) Ansible
6 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.51%) Argo
8 5 (0.36%) ArcSight ESM
8 5 (0.36%) Kibana
8 5 (0.36%) Puppet
8 5 (0.36%) QRadar
9 4 (0.29%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.29%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.29%) SCCM
10 3 (0.22%) Nessus
10 3 (0.22%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.15%) Nagios
11 2 (0.15%) Nmap
11 2 (0.15%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.15%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 323 (23.49%) Microsoft
2 142 (10.33%) Cisco
3 92 (6.69%) Google
4 48 (3.49%) Salesforce
5 45 (3.27%) SAP
5 45 (3.27%) ServiceNow
6 34 (2.47%) Oracle
7 33 (2.40%) VMware
8 28 (2.04%) Databricks
9 23 (1.67%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 21 (1.53%) Dell
11 20 (1.45%) Fortinet
12 17 (1.24%) OpenAI
13 16 (1.16%) Apple
13 16 (1.16%) Ubiquiti
14 15 (1.09%) WooCommerce
15 14 (1.02%) New Relic
16 13 (0.95%) Workday
17 11 (0.80%) Splunk
18 10 (0.73%) CrowdStrike