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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 174 121
Rank change year-on-year +66 -53 +43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,449 2,143 4,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.47% 2.11% 3.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.91% 6.46% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,848 1,355 1,550
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £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 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £107,500 £97,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 27,491 33,185 42,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.72% 32.68% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,282 14,890 18,866
10th Percentile £28,254 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

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 8 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 8 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 +71 2,177 £60,000 -4.00% 892
UK excluding London +48 1,503 £50,000 -9.09% 464
London +71 838 £75,000 -4.76% 435
Work from Home +95 735 £60,000 -4.00% 414
South East +29 520 £60,000 - 106
North of England +133 357 £50,000 -9.09% 110
Midlands +16 186 £50,000 -16.67% 92
North West +69 181 £50,000 -9.09% 62
Yorkshire +160 156 £46,250 -15.91% 32
South West +9 147 £45,000 -18.18% 51
Scotland -44 126 £57,500 +4.55% 15
West Midlands +42 122 £53,250 -16.47% 58
East of England +23 115 £40,000 -27.93% 64
East Midlands -34 62 £45,000 - 34
Wales -8 24 £34,000 -24.44% 12
North East -2 20 £52,500 +23.53% 17
Northern Ireland +23 19 £40,500 -4.71% 15
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
1 127 (5.19%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 30 (1.22%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.18%) FileNet
5 23 (0.94%) Apache
6 19 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
7 17 (0.69%) Confluence
7 17 (0.69%) WordPress
8 15 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.57%) IIS
10 8 (0.33%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Luigi
11 4 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 3 (0.12%) Appian
12 3 (0.12%) SAS
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WildFly
13 2 (0.082%) Drupal
13 2 (0.082%) Moodle
Applications
1 57 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (1.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.43%) Simulink
4 11 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.33%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.082%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.082%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.082%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.082%) 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
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%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.082%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.082%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.041%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
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
1 493 (20.13%) Azure
2 469 (19.15%) AWS
3 201 (8.21%) Microsoft 365
4 165 (6.74%) GCP
5 117 (4.78%) Power Platform
6 108 (4.41%) Amazon S3
7 105 (4.29%) SaaS
8 93 (3.80%) GitHub
9 83 (3.39%) Serverless
10 81 (3.31%) Cloud Computing
11 67 (2.74%) AWS Lambda
12 58 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
13 57 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
14 51 (2.08%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.59%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.43%) Amazon Kinesis
17 29 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
17 29 (1.18%) Snowflake
18 28 (1.14%) IaaS
19 26 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 147 (6.00%) WAN
2 131 (5.35%) Network Security
3 118 (4.82%) Wireless
4 116 (4.74%) Firewall
5 102 (4.16%) Cisco IOS
5 102 (4.16%) SD-WAN
6 95 (3.88%) WebEx
7 58 (2.37%) DNS
8 57 (2.33%) TCP/IP
9 50 (2.04%) LAN
10 45 (1.84%) VPN
11 41 (1.67%) DHCP
12 36 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
13 34 (1.39%) HTTP
14 32 (1.31%) VLAN
15 29 (1.18%) SAN
16 26 (1.06%) Intrusion Detection
17 25 (1.02%) Internet
18 18 (0.73%) NAS
19 12 (0.49%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 270 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 175 (7.15%) NoSQL
3 126 (5.14%) MySQL
4 117 (4.78%) Relational Database
5 107 (4.37%) Data Warehouse
6 100 (4.08%) Power BI
7 77 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
8 64 (2.61%) Amazon RDS
9 55 (2.25%) Big Data
10 54 (2.20%) Redis
11 48 (1.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (1.92%) MongoDB
13 42 (1.71%) Elasticsearch
14 40 (1.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 38 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
17 33 (1.35%) Azure SQL Database
17 33 (1.35%) RDBMS
18 28 (1.14%) Tableau
19 27 (1.10%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 331 (13.52%) Git
2 85 (3.47%) Jenkins
3 76 (3.10%) JIRA
4 49 (2.00%) GitLab
5 35 (1.43%) Jasmine
6 34 (1.39%) JUnit
7 32 (1.31%) Visual Studio
8 31 (1.27%) Postman
8 31 (1.27%) Subversion
9 29 (1.18%) Mockito
10 28 (1.14%) Burp Suite
10 28 (1.14%) Metasploit
11 20 (0.82%) CMake
12 17 (0.69%) Selenium
13 16 (0.65%) Appium
14 13 (0.53%) Moq
14 13 (0.53%) NUnit
14 13 (0.53%) Vagrant
15 12 (0.49%) Bitbucket
16 10 (0.41%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 1,217 (49.69%) Social Skills
2 445 (18.17%) Analytical Skills
3 430 (17.56%) Finance
4 140 (5.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 126 (5.14%) Manufacturing
6 123 (5.02%) Marketing
7 93 (3.80%) Law
8 81 (3.31%) Public Sector
9 80 (3.27%) Electronics
10 77 (3.14%) Retail
11 75 (3.06%) Legal
12 55 (2.25%) Banking
13 53 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
14 52 (2.12%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 46 (1.88%) Games
16 35 (1.43%) Military
17 30 (1.22%) Back Office
18 28 (1.14%) Billing
19 25 (1.02%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 671 (27.40%) Developer
2 350 (14.29%) Senior
3 309 (12.62%) Software Engineer
4 234 (9.55%) Lead
5 207 (8.45%) Architect
6 159 (6.49%) Software Developer
7 124 (5.06%) Analyst
8 121 (4.94%) Senior Developer
9 114 (4.65%) IT Support
10 100 (4.08%) IT Support Specialist
10 100 (4.08%) Support Specialist
11 99 (4.04%) Junior
12 77 (3.14%) .NET Developer
13 73 (2.98%) Full Stack Developer
14 71 (2.90%) Senior Software Engineer
14 71 (2.90%) Solutions Architect
15 67 (2.74%) Support Engineer
16 64 (2.61%) Data Engineer
17 60 (2.45%) Graduate
18 53 (2.16%) Lead Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 356 (14.54%) .NET
2 294 (12.00%) React
3 225 (9.19%) HTML
4 206 (8.41%) CSS
5 168 (6.86%) AngularJS
6 116 (4.74%) Spring
7 97 (3.96%) Node.js
8 89 (3.63%) .NET Framework
9 87 (3.55%) ASP.NET
10 85 (3.47%) REST
11 83 (3.39%) JSON
12 75 (3.06%) Kafka
13 74 (3.02%) RESTful
14 73 (2.98%) Vue
15 69 (2.82%) .NET Core
15 69 (2.82%) Web Services
16 54 (2.20%) XML
17 51 (2.08%) HTML5
18 46 (1.88%) Hibernate
19 45 (1.84%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 267 (10.90%) Management Information System
2 142 (5.80%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (4.74%) Algorithms
4 95 (3.88%) Video Conferencing
5 93 (3.80%) Wiki
6 90 (3.67%) Cloud Native
7 73 (2.98%) Onboarding
8 70 (2.86%) Mobile App
9 68 (2.78%) Data Centre
10 65 (2.65%) Product Ownership
11 49 (2.00%) Data Structures
12 48 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
13 44 (1.80%) IoT
14 42 (1.71%) Cyber Threat
15 38 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
15 38 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
16 36 (1.47%) Driving Licence
17 29 (1.18%) Security Posture
18 28 (1.14%) Life Science
19 26 (1.06%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 399 (16.29%) Windows
2 328 (13.39%) Linux
3 161 (6.57%) Android
4 123 (5.02%) Windows 10
5 83 (3.39%) Windows Server
6 49 (2.00%) Mac OS
7 40 (1.63%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.55%) Unix
9 29 (1.18%) Kali Linux
10 23 (0.94%) Ubuntu
11 20 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 16 (0.65%) Windows Server 2016
14 14 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.49%) CentOS
16 9 (0.37%) Debian
17 7 (0.29%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.24%) VMS
19 4 (0.16%) Mac OS X
19 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,382 (97.26%) Computer Science
2 1,054 (43.04%) Problem-Solving
3 655 (26.75%) Agile
4 621 (25.36%) Software Engineering
5 385 (15.72%) DevOps
6 294 (12.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 289 (11.80%) CI/CD
8 268 (10.94%) Mentoring
9 238 (9.72%) Machine Learning
10 220 (8.98%) Cybersecurity
11 214 (8.74%) Mathematics
12 202 (8.25%) SDLC
13 191 (7.80%) Project Management
14 189 (7.72%) Analytics
15 185 (7.55%) Continuous Improvement
16 181 (7.39%) Data Modelling
17 173 (7.06%) Test Automation
18 171 (6.98%) Full Stack Development
19 170 (6.94%) Roadmaps
20 164 (6.70%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 543 (22.17%) SQL
2 529 (21.60%) Python
3 480 (19.60%) C#
4 466 (19.03%) JavaScript
5 360 (14.70%) Java
6 188 (7.68%) TypeScript
7 174 (7.10%) C++
8 121 (4.94%) C
9 102 (4.16%) PHP
10 82 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 50 (2.04%) Bash
12 39 (1.59%) Go
12 39 (1.59%) R
13 38 (1.55%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.51%) T-SQL
15 35 (1.43%) Scala
16 17 (0.69%) Rust
17 16 (0.65%) Swift
18 15 (0.61%) Objective-C
19 14 (0.57%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,449 (100.00%) Degree
2 451 (18.42%) Master's Degree
3 165 (6.74%) Security Cleared
4 122 (4.98%) SC Cleared
5 119 (4.86%) Microsoft Certification
6 90 (3.67%) Cisco Certification
6 90 (3.67%) CISSP
7 77 (3.14%) AWS Certification
8 68 (2.78%) Azure Certification
9 58 (2.37%) CCNA
10 52 (2.12%) CCNP
11 51 (2.08%) PhD
12 46 (1.88%) CISM
13 39 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 38 (1.55%) DBS Check
15 36 (1.47%) MCP
16 33 (1.35%) A+ Certification
17 30 (1.22%) PMI Certification
18 27 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
19 26 (1.06%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (7.23%) QA
2 76 (3.10%) Data Quality
3 49 (2.00%) GDPR
4 46 (1.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 36 (1.47%) NIST
6 28 (1.14%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.02%) SLA
8 18 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.49%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.49%) PMO
11 10 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.41%) COBIT
12 7 (0.29%) ISO 13485
13 6 (0.24%) NCSC
13 6 (0.24%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 4 (0.16%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.082%) WAI
System Software
1 310 (12.66%) Docker
2 194 (7.92%) Active Directory
3 97 (3.96%) VMware ESXi
4 96 (3.92%) XenApp
5 93 (3.80%) Microsoft App-V
5 93 (3.80%) XenDesktop
6 42 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.69%) Hyper-V
9 16 (0.65%) Firmware
10 9 (0.37%) vSphere
11 5 (0.20%) pfSense
12 4 (0.16%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.082%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.082%) HDFS
14 2 (0.082%) LXC
15 1 (0.041%) OpenAM
15 1 (0.041%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 278 (11.35%) Kubernetes
2 132 (5.39%) Terraform
3 108 (4.41%) SCCM
4 93 (3.80%) AirWatch
5 49 (2.00%) Ansible
6 17 (0.69%) Puppet
7 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
9 10 (0.41%) Grafana
10 9 (0.37%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.33%) Nagios
12 7 (0.29%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.29%) SCOM
12 7 (0.29%) 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
1 505 (20.62%) Microsoft
2 167 (6.82%) Cisco
3 127 (5.19%) Google
4 99 (4.04%) Citrix
5 93 (3.80%) Oracle
6 56 (2.29%) SAP
7 54 (2.20%) VMware
8 48 (1.96%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.55%) IBM
10 30 (1.22%) Databricks
11 26 (1.06%) Xilinx
12 23 (0.94%) Juniper
13 22 (0.90%) Splunk
14 21 (0.86%) Apple
15 20 (0.82%) Facebook
16 16 (0.65%) F5
17 15 (0.61%) Sony
18 14 (0.57%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.57%) Fortinet
18 14 (0.57%) Xamarin