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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 55 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -11 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,981 5,516 10,952
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.10% 5.22% 7.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.92% 5.46% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,395 2,987 3,783
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 84,165 101,093 147,090
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.12% 95.64% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 59,702 59,212 83,288
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,496
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,600 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +2.67% +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 23 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 23 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 4,162 £60,000 -7.69% 1,652
UK excluding London +20 3,278 £52,500 - 924
London +8 1,538 £77,500 -3.13% 805
Work from Home +11 1,389 £60,000 -11.11% 734
South East +6 1,015 £60,000 +9.09% 248
North of England +89 635 £47,500 - 196
Scotland +6 578 £52,500 -0.94% 67
Midlands +27 371 £50,000 - 120
North West +85 345 £50,000 -6.98% 111
South West +14 331 £50,000 - 109
West Midlands +41 253 £50,181 -6.20% 67
East of England 0 250 £46,000 -1.08% 153
Yorkshire +93 230 £43,250 -16.83% 54
East Midlands -8 112 £42,500 -5.56% 53
North East +17 60 £52,500 +31.25% 32
Wales -53 46 £34,000 -40.87% 22
Northern Ireland +21 41 £38,750 -18.42% 25
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
1 156 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 43 (0.86%) FileNet
5 42 (0.84%) Apache
5 42 (0.84%) CMS
5 42 (0.84%) Confluence
6 32 (0.64%) SAS
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 24 (0.48%) WordPress
9 20 (0.40%) Apache Airflow
10 18 (0.36%) Cloud Foundry
11 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 13 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 11 (0.22%) Jupyter
14 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.16%) nginx
14 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
16 5 (0.10%) Moodle
Applications
1 111 (2.23%) Microsoft Office
2 101 (2.03%) 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%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.02%) 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%) Magento
8 5 (0.10%) Odoo
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
1 919 (18.45%) AWS
2 855 (17.17%) Azure
3 296 (5.94%) Microsoft 365
4 255 (5.12%) GCP
5 252 (5.06%) Power Platform
6 194 (3.89%) SaaS
7 160 (3.21%) GitHub
8 147 (2.95%) Serverless
9 137 (2.75%) Amazon S3
10 122 (2.45%) Cloud Computing
11 118 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
12 112 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
13 64 (1.28%) Amazon EC2
14 61 (1.22%) PowerApps
15 52 (1.04%) IaaS
15 52 (1.04%) Power Automate
16 47 (0.94%) PaaS
17 39 (0.78%) Entra ID
18 34 (0.68%) Amazon Kinesis
18 34 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 195 (3.91%) Wireless
2 193 (3.87%) WAN
3 171 (3.43%) Network Security
4 163 (3.27%) Firewall
5 138 (2.77%) SD-WAN
6 112 (2.25%) Cisco IOS
7 111 (2.23%) WebEx
8 104 (2.09%) TCP/IP
9 91 (1.83%) DNS
10 84 (1.69%) VPN
11 66 (1.33%) HTTP
11 66 (1.33%) Internet
12 61 (1.22%) LAN
13 55 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
14 47 (0.94%) DHCP
15 46 (0.92%) Intrusion Detection
16 37 (0.74%) SAN
17 31 (0.62%) VLAN
18 28 (0.56%) Ethernet
19 23 (0.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (8.89%) SQL Server
2 277 (5.56%) NoSQL
3 230 (4.62%) Power BI
4 193 (3.87%) MySQL
5 187 (3.75%) Relational Database
6 171 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
7 145 (2.91%) PostgreSQL
8 116 (2.33%) Big Data
9 105 (2.11%) Redis
10 83 (1.67%) Tableau
11 81 (1.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 75 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 68 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
14 67 (1.35%) Hadoop
15 65 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 51 (1.02%) Apache Cassandra
17 49 (0.98%) Amazon Redshift
17 49 (0.98%) MongoDB
18 44 (0.88%) Data Lake
19 42 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 525 (10.54%) Git
2 180 (3.61%) JIRA
3 141 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 82 (1.65%) Visual Studio
5 76 (1.53%) GitLab
6 72 (1.45%) JUnit
7 62 (1.24%) Selenium
8 50 (1.00%) Jasmine
8 50 (1.00%) Mockito
9 47 (0.94%) 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%) Burp Suite
13 33 (0.66%) CMake
13 33 (0.66%) Postman
14 30 (0.60%) Metasploit
15 27 (0.54%) Maven
16 25 (0.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 2,019 (40.53%) Social Skills
2 1,017 (20.42%) Finance
3 842 (16.90%) Analytical Skills
4 729 (14.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 446 (8.95%) Marketing
6 413 (8.29%) Law
7 253 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 228 (4.58%) Electronics
9 181 (3.63%) Legal
10 177 (3.55%) Financial Institution
11 158 (3.17%) Banking
12 142 (2.85%) Games
12 142 (2.85%) Retail
13 139 (2.79%) Presentation Skills
14 131 (2.63%) Telecoms
15 130 (2.61%) Public Sector
16 92 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
17 88 (1.77%) Investment Banking
18 78 (1.57%) Automotive
19 70 (1.41%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,188 (23.85%) Developer
2 852 (17.10%) Senior
3 734 (14.74%) Software Engineer
4 437 (8.77%) Lead
5 296 (5.94%) Software Developer
6 286 (5.74%) Analyst
7 276 (5.54%) Architect
8 267 (5.36%) Senior Developer
9 209 (4.20%) Senior Software Engineer
10 206 (4.14%) Data Scientist
11 179 (3.59%) Junior
12 178 (3.57%) Engineering Manager
13 172 (3.45%) Graduate
14 158 (3.17%) Software Engineering Manager
15 154 (3.09%) IT Support
16 136 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
17 133 (2.67%) Support Specialist
18 123 (2.47%) .NET Developer
19 119 (2.39%) IT Support Specialist
20 107 (2.15%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 673 (13.51%) .NET
2 538 (10.80%) React
3 455 (9.13%) HTML
4 400 (8.03%) CSS
5 369 (7.41%) AngularJS
6 235 (4.72%) Spring
7 215 (4.32%) RESTful
8 203 (4.08%) Node.js
9 185 (3.71%) Kafka
10 179 (3.59%) ASP.NET
11 173 (3.47%) .NET Core
12 167 (3.35%) HTML5
13 166 (3.33%) REST
14 134 (2.69%) .NET Framework
14 134 (2.69%) Web Services
15 108 (2.17%) JSON
15 108 (2.17%) Spring Boot
16 104 (2.09%) Vue
17 95 (1.91%) XML
18 94 (1.89%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 547 (10.98%) Algorithms
2 435 (8.73%) Management Information System
3 347 (6.97%) Cloud Native
4 256 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
5 220 (4.42%) Data Structures
6 145 (2.91%) Client/Server
7 135 (2.71%) Product Ownership
8 131 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 123 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
10 113 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
11 109 (2.19%) Wiki
12 97 (1.95%) Mobile App
13 92 (1.85%) Data Centre
14 84 (1.69%) IoT
15 77 (1.55%) Virtual Team
16 73 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
17 69 (1.39%) Market Risk
18 65 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
19 58 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
20 55 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 583 (11.70%) Windows
2 523 (10.50%) Linux
3 192 (3.85%) Android
4 160 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 110 (2.21%) Windows Server
6 90 (1.81%) Unix
7 67 (1.35%) Apple iOS
8 60 (1.20%) Mac OS
9 32 (0.64%) Kali Linux
10 27 (0.54%) Ubuntu
11 26 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
12 25 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 23 (0.46%) Windows Server 2019
14 18 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 17 (0.34%) CentOS
16 12 (0.24%) Debian
17 11 (0.22%) Mac OS X
18 10 (0.20%) VMS
18 10 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
19 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,850 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1,587 (31.86%) Software Engineering
3 1,419 (28.49%) Agile
4 1,010 (20.28%) Mathematics
5 668 (13.41%) Artificial Intelligence
6 600 (12.05%) Machine Learning
7 572 (11.48%) CI/CD
7 572 (11.48%) Mentoring
8 542 (10.88%) DevOps
9 540 (10.84%) SDLC
10 509 (10.22%) Decision-Making
11 506 (10.16%) Analytics
12 504 (10.12%) Cybersecurity
13 460 (9.24%) Data Science
14 428 (8.59%) Project Management
15 384 (7.71%) Data Analysis
16 356 (7.15%) Continuous Improvement
17 349 (7.01%) Full Stack Development
18 340 (6.83%) Coaching
18 340 (6.83%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,151 (23.11%) Python
2 1,110 (22.28%) SQL
3 949 (19.05%) C#
4 830 (16.66%) JavaScript
5 729 (14.64%) Java
6 393 (7.89%) C++
7 385 (7.73%) C
8 371 (7.45%) TypeScript
9 163 (3.27%) PHP
10 133 (2.67%) PowerShell
11 101 (2.03%) T-SQL
12 99 (1.99%) Bash
13 98 (1.97%) R
14 81 (1.63%) Go
15 78 (1.57%) Embedded C
16 74 (1.49%) Fortran
17 58 (1.16%) Kotlin
18 54 (1.08%) MATLAB
19 53 (1.06%) Scala
20 51 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,241 (85.14%) Degree
2 2,402 (48.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 815 (16.36%) Master's Degree
4 267 (5.36%) Security Cleared
5 242 (4.86%) PhD
6 164 (3.29%) CISSP
7 161 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 145 (2.91%) Microsoft Certification
9 103 (2.07%) CISM
10 102 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 89 (1.79%) AWS Certification
12 79 (1.59%) Azure Certification
13 67 (1.35%) PMI Certification
14 60 (1.20%) PMP
15 56 (1.12%) CCNA
16 54 (1.08%) CCNP
17 49 (0.98%) Numerate Degree
18 48 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 45 (0.90%) A+ Certification
20 43 (0.86%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 290 (5.82%) QA
2 105 (2.11%) Data Quality
2 105 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 100 (2.01%) GDPR
4 81 (1.63%) NIST
5 80 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 42 (0.84%) PMO
7 36 (0.72%) WCAG
8 34 (0.68%) PCI DSS
9 32 (0.64%) SLA
10 28 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 23 (0.46%) ISO 13485
12 22 (0.44%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
14 14 (0.28%) COBIT
14 14 (0.28%) GRC
14 14 (0.28%) NCSC
14 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 458 (9.19%) Docker
2 262 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 135 (2.71%) Firmware
4 116 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
5 113 (2.27%) XenApp
6 109 (2.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 109 (2.19%) XenDesktop
7 83 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
8 44 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
9 38 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
10 36 (0.72%) 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%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 410 (8.23%) Kubernetes
2 174 (3.49%) Terraform
3 127 (2.55%) SCCM
4 109 (2.19%) AirWatch
5 63 (1.26%) 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%) QRadar
15 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 772 (15.50%) Microsoft
2 204 (4.10%) Cisco
3 198 (3.98%) Google
4 162 (3.25%) Oracle
5 117 (2.35%) Citrix
6 106 (2.13%) SAP
7 101 (2.03%) VMware
8 75 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 47 (0.94%) IBM
10 39 (0.78%) Databricks
11 33 (0.66%) Adobe
12 28 (0.56%) Apple
12 28 (0.56%) Juniper
12 28 (0.56%) Xilinx
13 26 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 25 (0.50%) Splunk
15 24 (0.48%) Facebook
16 22 (0.44%) ServiceNow
17 20 (0.40%) F5
18 19 (0.38%) Xamarin