Computer Science Degree Jobs in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 117 202
Rank change year-on-year +26 +85 -43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 161 111 124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.30% 2.19% 1.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.11% 5.45% 4.34%
Number of salaries quoted 74 85 66
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,050 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,688 £58,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +10.64% +11.90%
75th Percentile £59,688 £71,250 £76,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,984 2,035 2,860
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 28.36% 40.09% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 956 990 1,587
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,250 £29,256
25th Percentile £33,750 £38,750 £35,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £47,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% -3.74%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £76,375 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 July 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
Birmingham -24 42 £57,500 -11.54% 13
Staffordshire -3 23 £35,000 -44.00% 7
Warwickshire +32 21 - - 1
Worcestershire -3 20 £47,500 +5.56% 4
Solihull +12 12 £50,000 +88.68% 2
Coventry +15 7 £62,500 +2.71% 2
Shropshire - 6 £50,000 -
Wednesbury - 4 - -
Wolverhampton +6 3 £57,500 -5.43%
Walsall - 2 - -
Bilston - 1 - -
Brierley Hill - 1 - -
Herefordshire - 1 - - 3
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 - -
Halesowen - 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Smethwick - 1 - -
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 - -
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 8 (4.97%) SharePoint
2 5 (3.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.24%) Appian
3 2 (1.24%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.62%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.86%) AutoCAD
2 3 (1.86%) Autodesk Inventor
2 3 (1.86%) Fusion 360
2 3 (1.86%) Revit
Business Applications
1 9 (5.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.24%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.62%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.62%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 30 (18.63%) Azure
2 19 (11.80%) Power Platform
3 15 (9.32%) AWS
4 9 (5.59%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
5 7 (4.35%) Power Automate
5 7 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon EC2
6 6 (3.73%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.73%) Google Workspace
7 5 (3.11%) OneDrive
8 4 (2.48%) Amazon Kinesis
8 4 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (2.48%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.86%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.86%) GCP
9 3 (1.86%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.86%) Serverless
10 2 (1.24%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 58 (36.02%) WLAN
2 54 (33.54%) Network Security
3 50 (31.06%) Internet
4 14 (8.70%) Firewall
5 10 (6.21%) DHCP
5 10 (6.21%) DNS
6 9 (5.59%) TCP/IP
6 9 (5.59%) WAN
7 7 (4.35%) VLAN
8 6 (3.73%) BGP
8 6 (3.73%) OSPF
9 5 (3.11%) SD-WAN
10 4 (2.48%) Fibre Channel
10 4 (2.48%) iSCSI
10 4 (2.48%) LAN
10 4 (2.48%) SNMP
11 2 (1.24%) MPLS
11 2 (1.24%) VPN
11 2 (1.24%) Wireless
12 1 (0.62%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (11.80%) Power BI
2 15 (9.32%) Data Warehouse
2 15 (9.32%) SQL Server
3 11 (6.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 8 (4.97%) Power Query
4 8 (4.97%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 6 (3.73%) MySQL
6 5 (3.11%) Amazon RDS
6 5 (3.11%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (2.48%) DynamoDB
7 4 (2.48%) NoSQL
7 4 (2.48%) RDBMS
7 4 (2.48%) Relational Database
7 4 (2.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (1.86%) BusinessObjects
8 3 (1.86%) MongoDB
8 3 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (1.86%) Semantic Layer
9 2 (1.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.62%) Amazon Aurora
Development Applications
1 7 (4.35%) Git
2 6 (3.73%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 5 (3.11%) Postman
4 2 (1.24%) JIRA
5 1 (0.62%) CMake
5 1 (0.62%) GitLab
5 1 (0.62%) PowerBuilder
5 1 (0.62%) Visual Studio
General
1 65 (40.37%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.36%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (12.42%) Retail
4 11 (6.83%) Finance
5 8 (4.97%) Manufacturing
6 7 (4.35%) Automotive
7 5 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (3.11%) Marketing
8 4 (2.48%) Legal
8 4 (2.48%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.86%) Local Government
10 2 (1.24%) Electronics
10 2 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.24%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.62%) Games
11 1 (0.62%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (35.40%) IT Engineer
2 51 (31.68%) IT Support
2 51 (31.68%) Support Engineer
3 50 (31.06%) IT Support Engineer
4 32 (19.88%) Developer
5 14 (8.70%) Lead
6 10 (6.21%) Analyst
7 9 (5.59%) Senior
8 8 (4.97%) IT Manager
8 8 (4.97%) Technical Leader
9 7 (4.35%) Business Intelligence Analyst
9 7 (4.35%) Full Stack Developer
9 7 (4.35%) Systems Engineer
10 5 (3.11%) Architect
10 5 (3.11%) Data Engineer
11 4 (2.48%) .NET Developer
11 4 (2.48%) Administrator
11 4 (2.48%) IT Project Manager
11 4 (2.48%) Project Manager
11 4 (2.48%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (8.70%) .NET
2 6 (3.73%) CSS
2 6 (3.73%) HTML
3 5 (3.11%) JSON
3 5 (3.11%) React
4 4 (2.48%) Spring
4 4 (2.48%) Spring Boot
5 3 (1.86%) .NET Core
5 3 (1.86%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.86%) Lightning Web Components
5 3 (1.86%) Node.js
5 3 (1.86%) PyTorch
5 3 (1.86%) TensorFlow
5 3 (1.86%) Visualforce
5 3 (1.86%) XML
6 2 (1.24%) Vue
7 1 (0.62%) Express.js
7 1 (0.62%) Flask
7 1 (0.62%) HTML5 Canvas
7 1 (0.62%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 52 (32.30%) Onboarding
2 50 (31.06%) Driving Licence
3 22 (13.66%) Management Information System
4 17 (10.56%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (8.70%) Product Ownership
6 13 (8.07%) Mobile App
7 6 (3.73%) Smartphone
8 4 (2.48%) Algorithms
8 4 (2.48%) Cloud Native
8 4 (2.48%) Data Centre
8 4 (2.48%) FMCG
9 2 (1.24%) CUDA
9 2 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
9 2 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (1.24%) Public Cloud
9 2 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.62%) Distributed Computing
10 1 (0.62%) Legacy Systems
10 1 (0.62%) Replication
10 1 (0.62%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 64 (39.75%) Windows
2 63 (39.13%) Linux
3 10 (6.21%) Windows 10
3 10 (6.21%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.35%) Ubuntu
4 7 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (3.73%) Mac OS X
5 6 (3.73%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (2.48%) VMS
7 1 (0.62%) Amazon Linux
7 1 (0.62%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (96.89%) Computer Science
2 112 (69.57%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (44.72%) Mentoring
4 60 (37.27%) ITIL
5 54 (33.54%) Network Management
6 51 (31.68%) Asset Management
7 50 (31.06%) IT Asset Management
8 37 (22.98%) Agile
9 21 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (12.42%) Data Management
11 19 (11.80%) SDLC
12 17 (10.56%) Stakeholder Management
13 16 (9.94%) Data Modelling
14 15 (9.32%) Analytics
14 15 (9.32%) Software Engineering
14 15 (9.32%) Test Automation
15 14 (8.70%) CRM
15 14 (8.70%) Security Testing
15 14 (8.70%) Software Testing
15 14 (8.70%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 32 (19.88%) SQL
2 15 (9.32%) JavaScript
2 15 (9.32%) Python
3 11 (6.83%) C#
4 8 (4.97%) Java
5 7 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 5 (3.11%) PHP
7 4 (2.48%) TypeScript
8 3 (1.86%) Apex Code
8 3 (1.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.62%) Bash
9 1 (0.62%) C++
9 1 (0.62%) Delphi
9 1 (0.62%) R
9 1 (0.62%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.62%) SOQL
9 1 (0.62%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 161 (100.00%) Degree
2 57 (35.40%) Microsoft Certification
3 56 (34.78%) MCSE
4 55 (34.16%) CCNA
4 55 (34.16%) CCNP
4 55 (34.16%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (31.06%) LPIC
5 50 (31.06%) MCP
6 8 (4.97%) Master's Degree
7 7 (4.35%) Azure Certification
8 6 (3.73%) HNC
8 6 (3.73%) HND
9 4 (2.48%) CISSP
9 4 (2.48%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.48%) Security Cleared
10 3 (1.86%) CEH
10 3 (1.86%) CREST Certified
10 3 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (1.24%) CISA
11 2 (1.24%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (7.45%) QA
2 4 (2.48%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.48%) PMO
3 2 (1.24%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.62%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.62%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 6 (3.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.48%) Hyper-V
3 4 (2.48%) pfSense
4 1 (0.62%) Docker
4 1 (0.62%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.62%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (0.62%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.62%) SCCM
2 1 (0.62%) VxRail
Vendors
1 79 (49.07%) Microsoft
2 66 (40.99%) Cisco
3 11 (6.83%) Dell
4 10 (6.21%) Fortinet
4 10 (6.21%) Ubiquiti
5 8 (4.97%) Google
6 6 (3.73%) Apple
6 6 (3.73%) VMware
7 4 (2.48%) BroadSoft
7 4 (2.48%) Brocade
7 4 (2.48%) Databricks
7 4 (2.48%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (2.48%) QNAP
7 4 (2.48%) Veeam
7 4 (2.48%) Zerto
8 3 (1.86%) Autodesk
8 3 (1.86%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.86%) ServiceNow
8 3 (1.86%) UiPath
9 2 (1.24%) NVIDIA