Computer Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 56 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,988 5,447 10,988
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.09% 5.20% 7.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 5.44% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,379 2,978 3,768
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England +18 4,154 £60,000 -7.69% 1,651
UK excluding London +19 3,290 £52,500 - 891
London +6 1,534 £77,500 -3.13% 817
Work from Home +10 1,393 £60,000 -11.11% 776
South East +4 1,012 £60,000 +9.09% 231
North of England +100 632 £47,500 - 203
Scotland +6 595 £52,500 -0.94% 52
Midlands +21 369 £50,000 -1.96% 118
North West +92 348 £50,000 -6.98% 115
South West +19 338 £48,750 -7.14% 101
West Midlands +35 251 £51,431 -3.87% 63
East of England -5 247 £46,000 -1.08% 157
Yorkshire +96 224 £45,000 -12.62% 55
East Midlands -6 112 £42,500 -5.56% 55
North East +12 60 £50,617 +26.54% 34
Wales -47 44 £34,000 -40.87% 20
Northern Ireland +27 41 £40,000 -13.04% 28
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 3

Computer Science
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
1 152 (3.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 44 (0.88%) FileNet
5 43 (0.86%) Apache
6 40 (0.80%) Confluence
7 39 (0.78%) CMS
8 32 (0.64%) SAS
9 31 (0.62%) IIS
10 23 (0.46%) WordPress
11 20 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
12 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
14 12 (0.24%) Tomcat
15 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
15 8 (0.16%) nginx
15 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
16 6 (0.12%) Moodle
17 4 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 110 (2.21%) Microsoft Office
2 102 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
3 41 (0.82%) Simulink
4 34 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.28%) Trello
7 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.18%) SPSS
9 7 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.060%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.040%) InVision
12 2 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.040%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.040%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.020%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 52 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.10%) Odoo
9 4 (0.080%) Magento
9 4 (0.080%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.060%) Endur
10 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.060%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.060%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.040%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 927 (18.58%) AWS
2 856 (17.16%) Azure
3 290 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
4 257 (5.15%) GCP
5 252 (5.05%) Power Platform
6 193 (3.87%) SaaS
7 162 (3.25%) GitHub
8 147 (2.95%) Serverless
9 137 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 125 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
11 115 (2.31%) Azure DevOps
12 111 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
13 64 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 62 (1.24%) PowerApps
15 52 (1.04%) Power Automate
16 51 (1.02%) IaaS
17 47 (0.94%) PaaS
18 39 (0.78%) Entra ID
19 35 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
20 34 (0.68%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 194 (3.89%) Wireless
2 189 (3.79%) WAN
3 174 (3.49%) Network Security
4 163 (3.27%) Firewall
5 134 (2.69%) SD-WAN
6 108 (2.17%) Cisco IOS
7 107 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 107 (2.15%) WebEx
8 91 (1.82%) DNS
9 87 (1.74%) VPN
10 66 (1.32%) HTTP
11 63 (1.26%) Internet
12 60 (1.20%) LAN
13 53 (1.06%) Wi-Fi
14 47 (0.94%) DHCP
14 47 (0.94%) Intrusion Detection
15 34 (0.68%) SAN
16 31 (0.62%) VLAN
17 28 (0.56%) Ethernet
18 23 (0.46%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 441 (8.84%) SQL Server
2 277 (5.55%) NoSQL
3 231 (4.63%) Power BI
4 193 (3.87%) MySQL
5 188 (3.77%) Relational Database
6 168 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 145 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
8 116 (2.33%) Big Data
9 105 (2.11%) Redis
10 82 (1.64%) Tableau
11 80 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 74 (1.48%) Elasticsearch
13 68 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
14 66 (1.32%) Hadoop
15 64 (1.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 52 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
17 49 (0.98%) MongoDB
18 48 (0.96%) Amazon Redshift
19 43 (0.86%) Data Lake
20 42 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 519 (10.40%) Git
2 177 (3.55%) JIRA
3 140 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.62%) Visual Studio
5 77 (1.54%) GitLab
6 73 (1.46%) JUnit
7 60 (1.20%) Selenium
8 51 (1.02%) Jasmine
8 51 (1.02%) Mockito
9 45 (0.90%) Cypress.io
10 42 (0.84%) Subversion
10 42 (0.84%) TeamCity
11 41 (0.82%) NUnit
12 38 (0.76%) Moq
13 33 (0.66%) CMake
14 32 (0.64%) Burp Suite
14 32 (0.64%) Postman
15 30 (0.60%) Metasploit
16 26 (0.52%) Maven
17 25 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,026 (40.62%) Social Skills
2 1,042 (20.89%) Finance
3 853 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 750 (15.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 456 (9.14%) Marketing
6 433 (8.68%) Law
7 254 (5.09%) Manufacturing
8 230 (4.61%) Electronics
9 185 (3.71%) Legal
10 181 (3.63%) Financial Institution
11 163 (3.27%) Banking
12 142 (2.85%) Games
13 140 (2.81%) Retail
14 139 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
15 130 (2.61%) Public Sector
16 128 (2.57%) Telecoms
17 92 (1.84%) Investment Banking
18 91 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
19 77 (1.54%) Automotive
20 70 (1.40%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,185 (23.76%) Developer
2 863 (17.30%) Senior
3 739 (14.82%) Software Engineer
4 435 (8.72%) Lead
5 292 (5.85%) Software Developer
6 284 (5.69%) Analyst
7 277 (5.55%) Architect
8 268 (5.37%) Senior Developer
9 210 (4.21%) Senior Software Engineer
10 207 (4.15%) Data Scientist
11 185 (3.71%) Engineering Manager
12 181 (3.63%) Junior
13 171 (3.43%) Graduate
14 166 (3.33%) Software Engineering Manager
15 149 (2.99%) IT Support
16 136 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
17 129 (2.59%) Support Specialist
18 123 (2.47%) .NET Developer
19 115 (2.31%) IT Support Specialist
20 108 (2.17%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 672 (13.47%) .NET
2 536 (10.75%) React
3 452 (9.06%) HTML
4 397 (7.96%) CSS
5 370 (7.42%) AngularJS
6 244 (4.89%) Spring
7 217 (4.35%) RESTful
8 207 (4.15%) Node.js
9 190 (3.81%) Kafka
10 180 (3.61%) ASP.NET
11 172 (3.45%) .NET Core
12 168 (3.37%) REST
13 167 (3.35%) HTML5
14 136 (2.73%) Web Services
15 134 (2.69%) .NET Framework
16 112 (2.25%) Spring Boot
17 109 (2.19%) JSON
18 103 (2.06%) Vue
19 96 (1.92%) XML
20 95 (1.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 548 (10.99%) Algorithms
2 435 (8.72%) Management Information System
3 361 (7.24%) Cloud Native
4 259 (5.19%) Self-Motivation
5 217 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 145 (2.91%) Client/Server
7 137 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 131 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 123 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 109 (2.19%) Video Conferencing
11 105 (2.11%) Wiki
12 97 (1.94%) Mobile App
13 90 (1.80%) Data Centre
14 84 (1.68%) IoT
15 74 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
16 72 (1.44%) Virtual Team
17 70 (1.40%) Market Risk
18 67 (1.34%) Cyber Threat
19 57 (1.14%) Embedded Systems
20 55 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 578 (11.59%) Windows
2 528 (10.59%) Linux
3 188 (3.77%) Android
4 154 (3.09%) Windows 10
5 106 (2.13%) Windows Server
6 90 (1.80%) Unix
7 67 (1.34%) Apple iOS
8 60 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.66%) Kali Linux
10 27 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 26 (0.52%) Embedded Linux
12 24 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
13 21 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
14 18 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (0.34%) CentOS
16 12 (0.24%) Debian
17 10 (0.20%) VMS
18 9 (0.18%) Mac OS X
19 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
20 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,853 (37.15%) Problem-Solving
2 1,599 (32.06%) Software Engineering
3 1,424 (28.55%) Agile
4 1,028 (20.61%) Mathematics
5 671 (13.45%) Artificial Intelligence
6 604 (12.11%) Machine Learning
7 577 (11.57%) CI/CD
8 570 (11.43%) Mentoring
9 550 (11.03%) SDLC
10 539 (10.81%) DevOps
11 520 (10.43%) Decision-Making
12 509 (10.20%) Analytics
13 508 (10.18%) Cybersecurity
14 462 (9.26%) Data Science
15 423 (8.48%) Project Management
16 384 (7.70%) Data Analysis
17 354 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
17 354 (7.10%) Full Stack Development
18 348 (6.98%) Coaching
19 344 (6.90%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,162 (23.30%) Python
2 1,107 (22.19%) SQL
3 944 (18.93%) C#
4 825 (16.54%) JavaScript
5 742 (14.88%) Java
6 393 (7.88%) C++
7 388 (7.78%) C
8 364 (7.30%) TypeScript
9 160 (3.21%) PHP
10 133 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 102 (2.04%) R
12 101 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 98 (1.96%) Bash
14 78 (1.56%) Embedded C
14 78 (1.56%) Go
15 74 (1.48%) Fortran
16 58 (1.16%) Kotlin
17 57 (1.14%) MATLAB
18 55 (1.10%) Scala
19 49 (0.98%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,236 (84.92%) Degree
2 2,393 (47.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 810 (16.24%) Master's Degree
4 267 (5.35%) Security Cleared
5 242 (4.85%) PhD
6 169 (3.39%) CISSP
7 161 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 142 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 107 (2.15%) CISM
10 103 (2.06%) Cisco Certification
11 88 (1.76%) AWS Certification
12 77 (1.54%) Azure Certification
13 67 (1.34%) PMI Certification
14 60 (1.20%) PMP
15 57 (1.14%) CCNA
16 55 (1.10%) CCNP
17 51 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
18 46 (0.92%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 45 (0.90%) A+ Certification
20 43 (0.86%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (5.75%) QA
2 109 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 102 (2.04%) Data Quality
4 101 (2.02%) GDPR
5 85 (1.70%) NIST
6 80 (1.60%) Accessibility
7 42 (0.84%) PMO
8 35 (0.70%) PCI DSS
9 34 (0.68%) WCAG
10 30 (0.60%) SLA
11 29 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.46%) ISO 13485
13 22 (0.44%) HIPAA
14 18 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 14 (0.28%) COBIT
15 14 (0.28%) GRC
15 14 (0.28%) NCSC
15 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 455 (9.12%) Docker
2 256 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 137 (2.75%) Firmware
4 112 (2.25%) VMware ESXi
5 109 (2.19%) XenApp
6 105 (2.11%) Microsoft App-V
6 105 (2.11%) XenDesktop
7 80 (1.60%) VMware Infrastructure
8 45 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
9 38 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
10 35 (0.70%) Hyper-V
11 12 (0.24%) HDFS
12 9 (0.18%) vSphere
13 8 (0.16%) KVM
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.080%) pfSense
15 2 (0.040%) LXC
15 2 (0.040%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 410 (8.22%) Kubernetes
2 175 (3.51%) Terraform
3 122 (2.45%) SCCM
4 105 (2.11%) AirWatch
5 64 (1.28%) Ansible
6 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.38%) Grafana
8 17 (0.34%) Puppet
9 14 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 12 (0.24%) WSUS
11 10 (0.20%) Nagios
12 9 (0.18%) Nessus
13 8 (0.16%) Prometheus
14 7 (0.14%) CASB
14 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.14%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.14%) SCOM
15 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
15 6 (0.12%) QRadar
Vendors
1 763 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 201 (4.03%) Cisco
3 196 (3.93%) Google
4 165 (3.31%) Oracle
5 112 (2.25%) Citrix
6 104 (2.09%) SAP
7 97 (1.94%) VMware
8 75 (1.50%) Salesforce
9 47 (0.94%) IBM
10 38 (0.76%) Databricks
11 31 (0.62%) Adobe
12 29 (0.58%) Juniper
12 29 (0.58%) Splunk
12 29 (0.58%) Xilinx
13 28 (0.56%) Apple
14 26 (0.52%) Atlassian
15 24 (0.48%) Facebook
16 23 (0.46%) ServiceNow
17 20 (0.40%) F5
18 19 (0.38%) Xamarin