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 2 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 46 44 46
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,018 7,937 8,244
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.66% 6.33% 6.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 6.62% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 2,112 3,063 3,827
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £50,000 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £88,750 £85,813 £80,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £110,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% +5.26% -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 50,205 119,980 123,470
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 94.09% 95.73% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 36,305 73,101 82,277
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £99,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% +4.17%

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 2 December 2023.

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 2 December 2023. 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 +5 2,652 £65,000 +4.00% 1,962
UK excluding London -11 1,602 £60,000 +20.00% 1,219
London +18 1,252 £85,000 +11.15% 958
Work from Home -10 1,022 £65,000 +4.00% 1,434
South East -4 497 £60,000 +14.29% 413
North of England +50 326 £57,500 +27.78% 248
Midlands +6 212 £55,000 +12.24% 140
South West -30 196 £60,000 +20.00% 111
Yorkshire +27 167 £56,750 +8.10% 83
Scotland -17 160 £55,000 - 100
North West +76 140 £57,500 +27.78% 140
West Midlands +10 136 £55,000 +12.24% 97
East of England -9 128 £65,000 +18.18% 172
East Midlands -7 76 £57,500 +27.78% 43
Wales -29 60 £42,500 -2.08% 40
Northern Ireland -25 28 £55,000 +29.41% 21
North East -7 19 £60,000 +50.00% 28
Channel Islands - 1 - -

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
1 100 (3.31%) SAS
2 93 (3.08%) MS Exchange
3 52 (1.72%) Apache Spark
4 45 (1.49%) SharePoint
5 42 (1.39%) Confluence
6 35 (1.16%) Apache
7 34 (1.13%) Apache Airflow
8 21 (0.70%) Jupyter
9 14 (0.46%) Tomcat
10 13 (0.43%) CMS
11 10 (0.33%) Luigi
11 10 (0.33%) WordPress
12 9 (0.30%) Anypoint
13 8 (0.27%) IIS
13 8 (0.27%) OpenEdge
14 6 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
15 5 (0.17%) ColdFusion
15 5 (0.17%) nginx
15 5 (0.17%) ThingWorx
16 4 (0.13%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 59 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
4 8 (0.27%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 7 (0.23%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.17%) Simulink
6 5 (0.17%) Trello
7 4 (0.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 4 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.099%) 3ds Max
8 3 (0.099%) Blender
8 3 (0.099%) Maya
8 3 (0.099%) Sketch
9 2 (0.066%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.066%) ArcView
9 2 (0.066%) Mathcad
9 2 (0.066%) Photoshop
9 2 (0.066%) SPSS
9 2 (0.066%) UXPin
9 2 (0.066%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 21 (0.70%) NetSuite
2 20 (0.66%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.30%) ProductWriter
4 6 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.13%) Dynamics AX
5 4 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 3 (0.099%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 3 (0.099%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.066%) SAP SCM
8 1 (0.033%) Magento
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle E-Business Tax
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.033%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.033%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.033%) SAP HCM
8 1 (0.033%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 646 (21.40%) AWS
2 640 (21.21%) Azure
3 270 (8.95%) GCP
4 185 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
5 151 (5.00%) SaaS
6 148 (4.90%) Power Platform
7 125 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
7 125 (4.14%) GitHub
8 88 (2.92%) Cloud Computing
9 85 (2.82%) Serverless
10 60 (1.99%) PaaS
11 58 (1.92%) IaaS
12 46 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
13 45 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
14 44 (1.46%) PowerApps
15 41 (1.36%) Figma
16 38 (1.26%) Amazon S3
16 38 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
16 38 (1.26%) Power Automate
17 33 (1.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 148 (4.90%) WAN
2 131 (4.34%) SD-WAN
3 129 (4.27%) Wireless
4 112 (3.71%) Firewall
5 106 (3.51%) WebEx
6 96 (3.18%) Cisco IOS
7 69 (2.29%) Internet
8 66 (2.19%) Network Security
9 54 (1.79%) TCP/IP
9 54 (1.79%) VPN
10 48 (1.59%) DNS
11 42 (1.39%) DHCP
12 31 (1.03%) 5G
12 31 (1.03%) VoIP
13 30 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
14 24 (0.80%) VLAN
14 24 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
15 22 (0.73%) Unified Communications
16 21 (0.70%) SAN
17 19 (0.63%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (6.20%) SQL Server
2 130 (4.31%) Power BI
3 129 (4.27%) MySQL
4 128 (4.24%) Big Data
5 109 (3.61%) Data Warehouse
6 106 (3.51%) NoSQL
7 87 (2.88%) Data Lake
7 87 (2.88%) PostgreSQL
8 83 (2.75%) Base SAS
9 82 (2.72%) Relational Database
10 80 (2.65%) Metadata
11 67 (2.22%) Tableau
12 45 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
13 39 (1.29%) Amazon Redshift
14 38 (1.26%) Hadoop
15 34 (1.13%) MongoDB
16 30 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 28 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 27 (0.89%) Redis
19 24 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 310 (10.27%) Git
2 127 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 97 (3.21%) JIRA
4 56 (1.86%) Maven
5 44 (1.46%) Selenium
6 39 (1.29%) GitLab
7 28 (0.93%) Cypress.io
7 28 (0.93%) Visual Studio
8 27 (0.89%) IntelliJ
9 21 (0.70%) Team Foundation Server
10 17 (0.56%) Bitbucket
11 16 (0.53%) Subversion
12 15 (0.50%) CMake
12 15 (0.50%) Postman
12 15 (0.50%) Visual Studio Team System
13 14 (0.46%) Cucumber
14 9 (0.30%) Artifactory
14 9 (0.30%) Gradle
14 9 (0.30%) JUnit
15 8 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1,181 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 610 (20.21%) Finance
3 474 (15.71%) Analytical Skills
4 236 (7.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 196 (6.49%) Telecoms
6 144 (4.77%) Marketing
7 120 (3.98%) Manufacturing
8 108 (3.58%) Public Sector
9 96 (3.18%) Electronics
9 96 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
10 89 (2.95%) Retail
11 87 (2.88%) Presentation Skills
12 81 (2.68%) Banking
13 76 (2.52%) Legal
14 60 (1.99%) Front Office
15 55 (1.82%) Games
16 51 (1.69%) Financial Institution
17 47 (1.56%) Law
18 42 (1.39%) Aerospace
19 39 (1.29%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 725 (24.02%) Developer
2 623 (20.64%) Senior
3 293 (9.71%) Software Engineer
4 252 (8.35%) Architect
5 245 (8.12%) Lead
6 227 (7.52%) Analyst
7 169 (5.60%) Project Manager
7 169 (5.60%) Senior Developer
8 165 (5.47%) Java Developer
9 156 (5.17%) Solutions Architect
10 135 (4.47%) Senior Manager
11 131 (4.34%) Software Developer
12 122 (4.04%) Senior Project Manager
13 120 (3.98%) Data Engineer
14 103 (3.41%) IT Support
15 101 (3.35%) Junior
16 99 (3.28%) Support Specialist
17 96 (3.18%) Graduate
18 95 (3.15%) Enterprise Architect
19 93 (3.08%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 300 (9.94%) HTML
2 267 (8.85%) .NET
3 262 (8.68%) React
4 254 (8.42%) CSS
5 168 (5.57%) RESTful
6 156 (5.17%) AngularJS
7 110 (3.64%) XML
8 84 (2.78%) Vue
9 78 (2.58%) Spring
10 74 (2.45%) Web Services
11 70 (2.32%) ASP.NET
11 70 (2.32%) HTML5
12 67 (2.22%) REST
13 66 (2.19%) .NET Framework
14 62 (2.05%) Node.js
15 60 (1.99%) JSON
16 53 (1.76%) Kafka
17 52 (1.72%) Spring Boot
18 51 (1.69%) CSS3
19 47 (1.56%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 305 (10.11%) Management Information System
2 231 (7.65%) Algorithms
3 165 (5.47%) Greenfield Project
4 163 (5.40%) Self-Motivation
5 155 (5.14%) Virtual Team
6 131 (4.34%) Onboarding
7 99 (3.28%) Data Structures
7 99 (3.28%) Life Science
8 94 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
8 94 (3.11%) Wiki
9 74 (2.45%) Product Ownership
10 65 (2.15%) Hedge funds
11 63 (2.09%) Mobile App
12 62 (2.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 57 (1.89%) IoT
14 56 (1.86%) Distributed Systems
15 50 (1.66%) Fixed Income
16 47 (1.56%) Smartphone
17 43 (1.42%) Cyberattack
18 42 (1.39%) Equities
Operating Systems
1 324 (10.74%) Windows
2 282 (9.34%) Linux
3 161 (5.33%) Android
4 130 (4.31%) Windows 10
5 71 (2.35%) Windows Server
6 53 (1.76%) Unix
7 39 (1.29%) Mac OS
8 27 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
9 25 (0.83%) Apple iOS
10 22 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
11 20 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
12 17 (0.56%) Mac OS X
13 8 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
14 6 (0.20%) Debian
14 6 (0.20%) VMS
15 5 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 5 (0.17%) Windows 2000
15 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2003
16 2 (0.066%) CentOS
16 2 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,062 (35.19%) Problem-Solving
2 822 (27.24%) Agile
3 662 (21.94%) Software Engineering
4 656 (21.74%) Mathematics
5 478 (15.84%) DevOps
6 399 (13.22%) Project Management
7 323 (10.70%) Mentoring
8 312 (10.34%) Analytics
9 311 (10.30%) SDLC
10 301 (9.97%) Cybersecurity
11 293 (9.71%) Scrum
12 284 (9.41%) Machine Learning
13 277 (9.18%) Statistics
14 271 (8.98%) Physics
15 270 (8.95%) Data Science
16 256 (8.48%) CI/CD
17 250 (8.28%) Artificial Intelligence
18 248 (8.22%) Collaborative Working
19 242 (8.02%) Project Delivery
20 225 (7.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 765 (25.35%) Python
2 602 (19.95%) SQL
3 529 (17.53%) JavaScript
4 476 (15.77%) Java
5 472 (15.64%) C#
6 348 (11.53%) C++
7 168 (5.57%) C
7 168 (5.57%) TypeScript
8 153 (5.07%) Bash
9 150 (4.97%) PowerShell
10 94 (3.11%) R
11 86 (2.85%) PHP
12 83 (2.75%) SAS Macro
13 75 (2.49%) Go
14 48 (1.59%) Ruby
15 46 (1.52%) Rust
16 39 (1.29%) Perl
17 36 (1.19%) Scala
18 32 (1.06%) Kotlin
19 28 (0.93%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 2,744 (90.92%) Degree
2 1,712 (56.73%) Computer Science Degree
3 537 (17.79%) Master's Degree
4 256 (8.48%) Security Cleared
5 154 (5.10%) SC Cleared
6 141 (4.67%) PhD
7 99 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
8 86 (2.85%) Azure Certification
9 75 (2.49%) CISSP
10 71 (2.35%) Numerate Degree
11 67 (2.22%) DV Cleared
12 61 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 55 (1.82%) AWS Certification
14 44 (1.46%) Cisco Certification
15 38 (1.26%) CISM
16 37 (1.23%) PMP
17 32 (1.06%) PMI Certification
18 29 (0.96%) DBS Check
19 21 (0.70%) HNC
19 21 (0.70%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 229 (7.59%) QA
2 83 (2.75%) CDISC
3 69 (2.29%) Data Quality
3 69 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 61 (2.02%) NIST
5 41 (1.36%) GDPR
6 25 (0.83%) PCI DSS
7 24 (0.80%) PMO
8 22 (0.73%) WCAG
9 20 (0.66%) Accessibility
10 18 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
11 17 (0.56%) SLA
12 16 (0.53%) NCSC
13 11 (0.36%) HIPAA
14 9 (0.30%) GRC
14 9 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.30%) SOC 2
15 8 (0.27%) MISRA
16 7 (0.23%) IEC 61508
16 7 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 339 (11.23%) Docker
2 200 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 101 (3.35%) VMware ESXi
4 93 (3.08%) XenApp
5 92 (3.05%) Microsoft App-V
5 92 (3.05%) XenDesktop
6 63 (2.09%) VMware Infrastructure
7 60 (1.99%) Firmware
8 33 (1.09%) Hyper-V
9 12 (0.40%) vSphere
10 10 (0.33%) Embedded Firmware
11 9 (0.30%) Virtual Machines
12 7 (0.23%) KVM
13 5 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
14 3 (0.099%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.066%) HDFS
15 2 (0.066%) OpenSIPS
15 2 (0.066%) Virtual Servers
16 1 (0.033%) QEMU
16 1 (0.033%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 279 (9.24%) Kubernetes
2 110 (3.64%) Terraform
3 106 (3.51%) SCCM
4 81 (2.68%) AirWatch
5 71 (2.35%) Ansible
6 18 (0.60%) Puppet
7 17 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
8 15 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 13 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
10 12 (0.40%) Argo
10 12 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
10 12 (0.40%) Cisco UCCX
11 11 (0.36%) Grafana
12 10 (0.33%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.23%) Packer
14 6 (0.20%) WSUS
15 5 (0.17%) McAfee ePO
15 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Clustering
15 5 (0.17%) vCenter Server
16 4 (0.13%) vRealize
Vendors
1 449 (14.88%) Microsoft
2 148 (4.90%) Salesforce
3 137 (4.54%) Cisco
4 109 (3.61%) Citrix
4 109 (3.61%) Google
5 106 (3.51%) NEC
6 87 (2.88%) VMware
7 79 (2.62%) Oracle
8 72 (2.39%) SAP
9 42 (1.39%) Databricks
10 27 (0.89%) Splunk
11 20 (0.66%) Adobe
11 20 (0.66%) Apple
12 19 (0.63%) MuleSoft
12 19 (0.63%) ServiceNow
13 18 (0.60%) ESRI
14 16 (0.53%) Dynatrace
15 15 (0.50%) Bloomberg
16 13 (0.43%) Alteryx
17 12 (0.40%) LogicMonitor