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 20 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 106 148
Rank change year-on-year +23 +42 -41
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,879 2,641 2,190
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 3.34% 2.36% 2.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.26% 9.18% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 753 1,870 1,461
10th Percentile £30,100 £32,500 £36,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £60,000 £60,899
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £91,250 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year +13.00% -17.76% +21.60%

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 25,867 28,758 31,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 46.03% 25.75% 34.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,568 17,313 14,190
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,771 £38,734 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,281 £70,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +8.25%

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 20 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 18 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 20 June 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 +28 1,756 £62,500 +4.17% 6,164
Work from Home +70 1,066 £57,500 -4.17% 2,393
UK excluding London -10 950 £56,500 +13.00% 3,318
London +29 603 £75,000 +1.69% 3,277
South East +23 409 £73,000 +21.67% 901
North of England -75 158 £56,500 +14.72% 683
Midlands -12 128 £35,000 -30.00% 486
East of England +28 126 £52,500 +31.25% 467
North West -71 100 £55,000 +10.00% 376
West Midlands -10 90 £40,367 -21.24% 284
South West +37 71 £52,500 +10.53% 331
East Midlands -6 35 £35,000 -25.28% 202
Yorkshire -47 35 £60,000 +33.33% 242
North East +48 23 £55,750 +31.18% 65
Scotland +10 22 £51,914 -13.48% 284
Wales +38 20 £73,000 +114.71% 99
Northern Ireland +40 15 £110,000 +171.60% 79
Isle of Man +5 1 - -

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 25 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.22%) Jupyter
3 22 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 19 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
5 18 (0.96%) Apache
6 14 (0.75%) CMS
6 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
7 10 (0.53%) WordPress
8 9 (0.48%) IIS
9 5 (0.27%) Confluence
9 5 (0.27%) Luigi
9 5 (0.27%) SAS
10 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
11 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
11 2 (0.11%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
12 1 (0.053%) nginx
Applications
1 24 (1.28%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
3 6 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.32%) Revit
4 4 (0.21%) Adobe XD
4 4 (0.21%) Sketch
5 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 15 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
4 8 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (0.43%) SAP Business One
4 8 (0.43%) Shopify
5 5 (0.27%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Aladdin
7 2 (0.11%) Bloomberg AIM
7 2 (0.11%) Magento
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) SAP GRC
8 1 (0.053%) Adaptiv
8 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.053%) Endur
8 1 (0.053%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.053%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.053%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 368 (19.58%) Azure
2 240 (12.77%) AWS
3 110 (5.85%) GCP
4 73 (3.89%) Power Platform
5 60 (3.19%) SaaS
6 56 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (2.71%) Microsoft 365
7 51 (2.71%) Serverless
8 41 (2.18%) GitHub
9 36 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
10 32 (1.70%) Dynamics 365
11 31 (1.65%) Cloud Computing
12 28 (1.49%) Azure Data Factory
12 28 (1.49%) Entra ID
13 25 (1.33%) Amazon S3
13 25 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (1.33%) PaaS
14 24 (1.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 22 (1.17%) Snowflake
16 21 (1.12%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 637 (33.90%) Broadband
2 73 (3.89%) Firewall
3 50 (2.66%) Network Security
4 34 (1.81%) DNS
5 33 (1.76%) TCP/IP
6 23 (1.22%) SAN
7 21 (1.12%) DHCP
7 21 (1.12%) VLAN
8 20 (1.06%) VPN
9 17 (0.90%) WAN
10 14 (0.75%) BGP
10 14 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.69%) OSPF
12 12 (0.64%) LAN
13 11 (0.59%) Internet
14 10 (0.53%) HTTP
14 10 (0.53%) WLAN
15 9 (0.48%) Intrusion Detection
15 9 (0.48%) NAS
15 9 (0.48%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 112 (5.96%) SQL Server
2 69 (3.67%) MySQL
3 54 (2.87%) Data Warehouse
4 50 (2.66%) Power BI
5 49 (2.61%) Big Data
6 42 (2.24%) NoSQL
7 39 (2.08%) Data Lake
8 37 (1.97%) Relational Database
9 23 (1.22%) Hadoop
10 22 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
11 19 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
12 18 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
13 17 (0.90%) BigQuery
14 16 (0.85%) Amazon Redshift
15 15 (0.80%) MongoDB
15 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 12 (0.64%) Amazon Athena
16 12 (0.64%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
17 11 (0.59%) Oracle Database
17 11 (0.59%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (5.22%) Git
2 48 (2.55%) JIRA
3 26 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 12 (0.64%) Gradle
5 11 (0.59%) Moq
5 11 (0.59%) SpecFlow
6 10 (0.53%) Maven
7 9 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 8 (0.43%) SonarQube
9 7 (0.37%) Burp Suite
10 6 (0.32%) GitLab
10 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
10 6 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
10 6 (0.32%) Vite
11 5 (0.27%) Bitbucket
11 5 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 5 (0.27%) Cypress.io
11 5 (0.27%) Metasploit
11 5 (0.27%) TeamCity
11 5 (0.27%) webpack
General
1 1,191 (63.38%) Social Skills
2 281 (14.95%) Finance
3 186 (9.90%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (9.74%) Law
5 105 (5.59%) Games
6 83 (4.42%) Multimedia
7 80 (4.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 61 (3.25%) Marketing
9 57 (3.03%) Retail
10 48 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 46 (2.45%) Legal
12 25 (1.33%) Banking
13 21 (1.12%) Electronics
14 20 (1.06%) Front Office
15 19 (1.01%) Pharmaceutical
16 18 (0.96%) Advertising
17 17 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
17 17 (0.90%) Public Sector
17 17 (0.90%) Telecoms
18 16 (0.85%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 378 (20.12%) Lead
2 268 (14.26%) Senior
3 252 (13.41%) Developer
4 250 (13.30%) Architect
5 174 (9.26%) Engineering Manager
6 168 (8.94%) Systems Engineer
7 106 (5.64%) Senior Manager
8 98 (5.22%) Software Engineer
9 95 (5.06%) Software Architect
10 87 (4.63%) Team Leader
11 82 (4.36%) Graduate
12 79 (4.20%) ServiceNow Manager
13 78 (4.15%) Senior Service Manager
14 70 (3.73%) Solutions Architect
15 64 (3.41%) Analyst
16 62 (3.30%) Graduate Developer
17 49 (2.61%) IT Graduate
18 46 (2.45%) Data Engineer
19 40 (2.13%) Senior Architect
19 40 (2.13%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (7.40%) .NET
2 135 (7.18%) HTML
3 125 (6.65%) Middleware
4 120 (6.39%) CSS
5 67 (3.57%) React
5 67 (3.57%) REST
6 58 (3.09%) jQuery
7 57 (3.03%) ASP.NET
8 43 (2.29%) Kafka
9 38 (2.02%) AngularJS
10 35 (1.86%) RESTful
11 29 (1.54%) .NET Framework
11 29 (1.54%) Node.js
11 29 (1.54%) SOAP
12 27 (1.44%) HTML5
13 26 (1.38%) .NET Core
13 26 (1.38%) Lightning Web Components
14 22 (1.17%) PyTorch
14 22 (1.17%) TensorFlow
15 21 (1.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 189 (10.06%) Management Information System
2 107 (5.69%) Product Ownership
3 79 (4.20%) Video\Live Streaming
4 59 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 53 (2.82%) Enterprise Software
6 47 (2.50%) Security Posture
7 41 (2.18%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (1.44%) Mobile App
10 24 (1.28%) Cyberattack
10 24 (1.28%) Virtual Team
11 23 (1.22%) Hedge funds
12 20 (1.06%) Legacy Systems
12 20 (1.06%) Onboarding
13 18 (0.96%) Mobile Games
14 16 (0.85%) Data Centre
15 12 (0.64%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
15 12 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (0.64%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 105 (5.59%) Windows
2 93 (4.95%) Linux
3 32 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 19 (1.01%) Android
5 17 (0.90%) Apple iOS
6 16 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.64%) Ubuntu
8 12 (0.64%) Unix
9 11 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (0.59%) Windows 10
10 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
11 8 (0.43%) Mac OS X
11 8 (0.43%) Windows Vista
12 5 (0.27%) VMS
13 4 (0.21%) Rocky
14 3 (0.16%) Kali Linux
15 2 (0.11%) CentOS
15 2 (0.11%) Oracle Linux
16 1 (0.053%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,853 (98.62%) Computer Science
2 1,008 (53.65%) Problem-Solving
3 816 (43.43%) Mentoring
4 766 (40.77%) Roadmaps
5 621 (33.05%) High Availability
6 614 (32.68%) Product Management
7 557 (29.64%) Broadcast Engineering
8 416 (22.14%) Agile
9 354 (18.84%) DevOps
10 339 (18.04%) Software Engineering
11 305 (16.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 229 (12.19%) Artificial Intelligence
13 202 (10.75%) CI/CD
14 175 (9.31%) SDLC
15 165 (8.78%) Machine Learning
16 163 (8.67%) Design Patterns
17 150 (7.98%) Service Delivery
18 144 (7.66%) ITSM
19 141 (7.50%) Data Science
20 125 (6.65%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 299 (15.91%) Python
2 284 (15.11%) SQL
3 272 (14.48%) Java
4 221 (11.76%) C#
5 209 (11.12%) JavaScript
6 142 (7.56%) C++
7 119 (6.33%) PHP
8 106 (5.64%) TypeScript
9 86 (4.58%) PowerShell
10 76 (4.04%) C
11 53 (2.82%) R
11 53 (2.82%) Rust
12 50 (2.66%) Ruby
13 49 (2.61%) Dart
13 49 (2.61%) MATLAB
14 27 (1.44%) Apex Code
15 23 (1.22%) Bash
16 20 (1.06%) Scala
17 17 (0.90%) Kotlin
17 17 (0.90%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,879 (100.00%) Degree
2 184 (9.79%) Master's Degree
3 117 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
4 109 (5.80%) Chartered Engineer
5 99 (5.27%) Security Cleared
6 73 (3.89%) Azure Certification
7 64 (3.41%) SC Cleared
8 60 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 44 (2.34%) CISSP
10 42 (2.24%) AWS Certification
11 33 (1.76%) PMI Certification
12 32 (1.70%) PMP
13 28 (1.49%) Cisco Certification
14 27 (1.44%) DV Cleared
15 23 (1.22%) DBS Check
16 21 (1.12%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 18 (0.96%) MCSE
18 16 (0.85%) CEH
19 15 (0.80%) CISM
19 15 (0.80%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.06%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 69 (3.67%) GDPR
3 68 (3.62%) QA
4 64 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 61 (3.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.45%) NIST
7 24 (1.28%) HIPAA
8 21 (1.12%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 20 (1.06%) NCSC
10 15 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.32%) CDISC
12 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.21%) GRC
14 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 103 (5.48%) Docker
2 41 (2.18%) Active Directory
3 25 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.48%) Virtual Machines
5 7 (0.37%) HDFS
5 7 (0.37%) vSphere
6 6 (0.32%) Hyper-V
7 5 (0.27%) VMware ESXi
7 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
8 3 (0.16%) Firmware
8 3 (0.16%) GPFS
8 3 (0.16%) Lustre
8 3 (0.16%) NFS
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.053%) Varnish
10 1 (0.053%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 108 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 81 (4.31%) Terraform
3 63 (3.35%) Grafana
4 56 (2.98%) Prometheus
5 23 (1.22%) Ansible
6 13 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.32%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.32%) QRadar
8 5 (0.27%) Argo
8 5 (0.27%) CSIRT
9 4 (0.21%) Kibana
9 4 (0.21%) SCCM
9 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.16%) Nessus
11 2 (0.11%) CASB
11 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.11%) Nmap
11 2 (0.11%) Packer
11 2 (0.11%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 230 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 133 (7.08%) ServiceNow
3 88 (4.68%) Google
4 46 (2.45%) SAP
5 43 (2.29%) Salesforce
6 34 (1.81%) Cisco
6 34 (1.81%) Oracle
7 31 (1.65%) VMware
8 29 (1.54%) OpenAI
9 25 (1.33%) Databricks
10 21 (1.12%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
11 17 (0.90%) Splunk
12 16 (0.85%) Remedy
13 13 (0.69%) Workday
14 11 (0.59%) BMC
14 11 (0.59%) Dell
14 11 (0.59%) McAfee
15 10 (0.53%) Informatica
15 10 (0.53%) New Relic
15 10 (0.53%) Veeam