Computer Science Degree Jobs

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 168 117
Rank change year-on-year +61 -51 +48
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,458 2,228 5,064
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.48% 2.22% 3.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.97% 6.76% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,851 1,422 1,551
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,401 32,956 42,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.67% 32.84% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17,264 14,877 18,994
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,277 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +2.04%

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 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 19 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 14 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
England +66 2,186 £60,000 -1.48% 906
UK excluding London +43 1,521 £52,500 -12.50% 470
London +64 827 £75,000 -6.25% 448
Work from Home +94 745 £60,000 -4.00% 420
South East +25 524 £60,000 -1.32% 98
North of England +108 361 £50,000 -16.67% 119
Midlands +20 195 £50,000 -17.76% 96
North West +56 184 £50,000 -16.67% 68
Yorkshire +157 157 £47,500 -21.88% 34
South West 0 149 £45,000 -25.00% 53
West Midlands +36 128 £54,000 -13.60% 60
Scotland -44 125 £57,500 +4.55% 17
East of England +10 116 £40,000 -34.21% 63
East Midlands -33 65 £46,188 -0.13% 36
Wales -8 23 £34,000 -25.89% 13
North East -9 20 £52,500 +11.70% 18
Northern Ireland +24 19 £40,500 -4.71% 13
Isle of Man - 9 £37,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 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
1 122 (4.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 69 (2.81%) SharePoint
3 29 (1.18%) FileNet
4 28 (1.14%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.85%) Apache
6 19 (0.77%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.69%) Confluence
8 16 (0.65%) WordPress
9 15 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 14 (0.57%) IIS
11 7 (0.28%) CMS
12 4 (0.16%) Appian
12 4 (0.16%) Luigi
12 4 (0.16%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.12%) SAS
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) WildFly
14 2 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
14 2 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.081%) Drupal
Applications
1 58 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 40 (1.63%) Simulink
4 12 (0.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.081%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.041%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.041%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.041%) Revit
8 1 (0.041%) Sketch
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
8 1 (0.041%) UXPin
8 1 (0.041%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 28 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.33%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Odoo
5 4 (0.16%) Magento
5 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) CA PPM
6 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.12%) Relativity
6 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.041%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.041%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 500 (20.34%) Azure
2 473 (19.24%) AWS
3 200 (8.14%) Microsoft 365
4 165 (6.71%) GCP
5 123 (5.00%) Power Platform
6 107 (4.35%) Amazon S3
7 103 (4.19%) SaaS
8 93 (3.78%) GitHub
9 84 (3.42%) Cloud Computing
9 84 (3.42%) Serverless
10 66 (2.69%) AWS Lambda
11 60 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
12 58 (2.36%) Amazon EC2
13 54 (2.20%) PowerApps
14 42 (1.71%) Power Automate
15 37 (1.51%) Amazon Kinesis
16 31 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.18%) Snowflake
18 28 (1.14%) IaaS
19 27 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 143 (5.82%) WAN
2 132 (5.37%) Network Security
3 116 (4.72%) Firewall
4 114 (4.64%) Wireless
5 97 (3.95%) Cisco IOS
5 97 (3.95%) SD-WAN
6 90 (3.66%) WebEx
7 58 (2.36%) DNS
8 57 (2.32%) TCP/IP
9 51 (2.07%) LAN
10 45 (1.83%) VPN
11 41 (1.67%) DHCP
12 36 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (1.34%) HTTP
14 32 (1.30%) VLAN
15 27 (1.10%) SAN
16 26 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
17 25 (1.02%) Internet
18 16 (0.65%) NAS
19 12 (0.49%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (10.86%) SQL Server
2 181 (7.36%) NoSQL
3 121 (4.92%) MySQL
4 116 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 108 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
6 104 (4.23%) Power BI
7 81 (3.30%) PostgreSQL
8 65 (2.64%) Amazon RDS
9 59 (2.40%) Redis
10 53 (2.16%) Big Data
11 49 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (1.91%) MongoDB
13 42 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 41 (1.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 36 (1.46%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
17 33 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
17 33 (1.34%) RDBMS
18 28 (1.14%) Tableau
19 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 334 (13.59%) Git
2 86 (3.50%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.13%) JIRA
4 51 (2.07%) GitLab
5 35 (1.42%) Jasmine
6 34 (1.38%) JUnit
7 32 (1.30%) Visual Studio
8 31 (1.26%) Postman
8 31 (1.26%) Subversion
9 29 (1.18%) Mockito
10 28 (1.14%) Burp Suite
10 28 (1.14%) Metasploit
11 21 (0.85%) CMake
12 16 (0.65%) Appium
12 16 (0.65%) Selenium
13 15 (0.61%) Vagrant
14 14 (0.57%) Moq
15 13 (0.53%) NUnit
16 12 (0.49%) Bitbucket
17 10 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,224 (49.80%) Social Skills
2 444 (18.06%) Analytical Skills
3 429 (17.45%) Finance
4 140 (5.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (5.13%) Manufacturing
6 124 (5.04%) Marketing
7 92 (3.74%) Law
8 86 (3.50%) Electronics
9 83 (3.38%) Public Sector
10 78 (3.17%) Retail
11 75 (3.05%) Legal
12 55 (2.24%) Banking
13 53 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 52 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
15 51 (2.07%) Telecoms
16 46 (1.87%) Games
17 35 (1.42%) Military
18 32 (1.30%) Billing
19 30 (1.22%) Back Office
20 26 (1.06%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 675 (27.46%) Developer
2 353 (14.36%) Senior
3 311 (12.65%) Software Engineer
4 229 (9.32%) Lead
5 210 (8.54%) Architect
6 161 (6.55%) Software Developer
7 125 (5.09%) Analyst
8 123 (5.00%) Senior Developer
9 109 (4.43%) IT Support
10 98 (3.99%) Junior
11 95 (3.86%) IT Support Specialist
11 95 (3.86%) Support Specialist
12 78 (3.17%) .NET Developer
13 72 (2.93%) Full Stack Developer
14 71 (2.89%) Senior Software Engineer
14 71 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
15 67 (2.73%) Support Engineer
16 62 (2.52%) Data Engineer
17 59 (2.40%) Graduate
18 53 (2.16%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (14.56%) .NET
2 293 (11.92%) React
3 224 (9.11%) HTML
4 205 (8.34%) CSS
5 169 (6.88%) AngularJS
6 116 (4.72%) Spring
7 95 (3.86%) Node.js
8 90 (3.66%) .NET Framework
9 88 (3.58%) REST
10 87 (3.54%) ASP.NET
11 84 (3.42%) JSON
12 75 (3.05%) Kafka
12 75 (3.05%) RESTful
13 73 (2.97%) Vue
14 71 (2.89%) Web Services
15 69 (2.81%) .NET Core
16 55 (2.24%) XML
17 51 (2.07%) HTML5
18 46 (1.87%) GraphQL
18 46 (1.87%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 267 (10.86%) Management Information System
2 142 (5.78%) Self-Motivation
3 118 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 90 (3.66%) Cloud Native
4 90 (3.66%) Video Conferencing
5 88 (3.58%) Wiki
6 72 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 70 (2.85%) Mobile App
8 68 (2.77%) Data Centre
9 65 (2.64%) Product Ownership
10 48 (1.95%) Data Structures
11 46 (1.87%) Distributed Systems
12 44 (1.79%) IoT
13 42 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
14 39 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
16 37 (1.51%) Driving Licence
17 29 (1.18%) Security Posture
18 28 (1.14%) Life Science
19 26 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 393 (15.99%) Windows
2 331 (13.47%) Linux
3 158 (6.43%) Android
4 117 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 81 (3.30%) Windows Server
6 49 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 40 (1.63%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.55%) Unix
9 29 (1.18%) Kali Linux
10 25 (1.02%) Ubuntu
11 20 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
13 16 (0.65%) Embedded Linux
14 14 (0.57%) CentOS
14 14 (0.57%) Windows Server 2016
15 9 (0.37%) Debian
16 6 (0.24%) VMS
17 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
19 3 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,392 (97.31%) Computer Science
2 1,063 (43.25%) Problem-Solving
3 662 (26.93%) Agile
4 625 (25.43%) Software Engineering
5 393 (15.99%) DevOps
6 302 (12.29%) Artificial Intelligence
7 292 (11.88%) CI/CD
8 270 (10.98%) Mentoring
9 246 (10.01%) Machine Learning
10 219 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
11 213 (8.67%) Mathematics
12 199 (8.10%) SDLC
13 194 (7.89%) Analytics
14 191 (7.77%) Project Management
15 183 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
16 182 (7.40%) Data Modelling
17 175 (7.12%) Roadmaps
18 172 (7.00%) Test Automation
19 170 (6.92%) Full Stack Development
19 170 (6.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 540 (21.97%) SQL
2 534 (21.72%) Python
3 480 (19.53%) C#
4 467 (19.00%) JavaScript
5 366 (14.89%) Java
6 187 (7.61%) TypeScript
7 179 (7.28%) C++
8 123 (5.00%) C
9 102 (4.15%) PHP
10 81 (3.30%) PowerShell
11 50 (2.03%) Bash
12 40 (1.63%) Kotlin
13 39 (1.59%) Go
13 39 (1.59%) R
14 37 (1.51%) Scala
14 37 (1.51%) T-SQL
15 17 (0.69%) Rust
16 16 (0.65%) Swift
17 15 (0.61%) MATLAB
17 15 (0.61%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2,458 (100.00%) Degree
2 445 (18.10%) Master's Degree
3 171 (6.96%) Security Cleared
4 126 (5.13%) SC Cleared
5 122 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
6 91 (3.70%) CISSP
7 90 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (3.13%) AWS Certification
9 70 (2.85%) Azure Certification
10 59 (2.40%) CCNA
11 53 (2.16%) CCNP
12 51 (2.07%) PhD
13 46 (1.87%) CISM
14 39 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (1.55%) DBS Check
16 36 (1.46%) MCP
17 33 (1.34%) A+ Certification
18 31 (1.26%) PMI Certification
19 28 (1.14%) CompTIA Security+
20 27 (1.10%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 176 (7.16%) QA
2 76 (3.09%) Data Quality
3 49 (1.99%) GDPR
4 46 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 34 (1.38%) NIST
6 28 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 23 (0.94%) SLA
8 18 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 15 (0.61%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.49%) PMO
11 11 (0.45%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 10 (0.41%) COBIT
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.24%) NCSC
14 6 (0.24%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.081%) WAI
System Software
1 310 (12.61%) Docker
2 187 (7.61%) Active Directory
3 92 (3.74%) VMware ESXi
4 91 (3.70%) XenApp
5 88 (3.58%) Microsoft App-V
5 88 (3.58%) XenDesktop
6 39 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 16 (0.65%) Firmware
8 16 (0.65%) Hyper-V
9 9 (0.37%) vSphere
10 5 (0.20%) pfSense
10 5 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.16%) KVM
12 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.081%) HDFS
13 2 (0.081%) LXC
14 1 (0.041%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.041%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 279 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 134 (5.45%) Terraform
3 103 (4.19%) SCCM
4 88 (3.58%) AirWatch
5 52 (2.12%) Ansible
6 18 (0.73%) Puppet
7 17 (0.69%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
9 11 (0.45%) Grafana
10 10 (0.41%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.33%) Nagios
11 8 (0.33%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.28%) SCOM
12 7 (0.28%) WSUS
13 6 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 5 (0.20%) Argo
14 5 (0.20%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.20%) Nessus
14 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 507 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 163 (6.63%) Cisco
3 126 (5.13%) Google
4 94 (3.82%) Citrix
5 93 (3.78%) Oracle
6 57 (2.32%) SAP
7 51 (2.07%) VMware
8 49 (1.99%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.55%) IBM
10 31 (1.26%) Databricks
10 31 (1.26%) Xilinx
11 23 (0.94%) Juniper
11 23 (0.94%) Splunk
12 21 (0.85%) Apple
13 20 (0.81%) Facebook
14 16 (0.65%) F5
15 15 (0.61%) Sony
16 14 (0.57%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.57%) Fortinet
16 14 (0.57%) Xamarin