Computer Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Computer Science
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 52 58 71
Rank change year-on-year +6 +13 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 242 157 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 4.28% 4.35% 4.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.25% 4.66% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 92 135 152
10th Percentile £26,375 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £34,556
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £38,000 £57,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% +17.35% +5.38%
75th Percentile £58,813 £70,000 £65,625
90th Percentile £68,625 £71,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,612 3,368 7,966
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 81.66% 93.40% 96.86%
Number of salaries quoted 2,189 2,649 4,817
10th Percentile £31,200 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £68,000 £65,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,950 £80,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.32% +1.33% +4.35%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 October 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 -3 87 £32,500 -48.00% 19
Staffordshire +9 41 £35,000 +34.62% 24
Warwickshire -15 30 £50,000 +66.67% 15
Worcestershire +5 25 £38,750 -24.39% 6
Coventry -1 17 £52,500 -14.63% 5
Solihull +4 5 £70,000 +161.68%
Sutton Coldfield - 5 £27,000 -
Wednesbury - 4 - -
Brierley Hill - 4 £26,000 -
Wolverhampton -2 2 £45,000 -25.50% 3
Herefordshire -7 2 - -
Walsall - 2 - -
Halesowen 0 1 - -
Kingswinford - 1 - -
Rowley Regis - 1 - -
Smethwick - 1 - -
Dudley - 1 - -
Bilston - 1 - -
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Willenhall - 1 - -
Tipton - 1 - - 1
Stourbridge - 1 - -
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 (3.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.48%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.65%) Confluence
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) CMS
5 1 (0.41%) Apache
5 1 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.41%) Appian
5 1 (0.41%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 24 (9.92%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (7.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (4.13%) Simulink
3 10 (4.13%) Stateflow
4 3 (1.24%) AutoCAD
4 3 (1.24%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (1.24%) Fusion 360
4 3 (1.24%) Revit
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.83%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.41%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.46%) Azure
2 20 (8.26%) AWS
3 17 (7.02%) Google Workspace
3 17 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 7 (2.89%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.65%) GCP
7 3 (1.24%) DigitalOcean
7 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 3 (1.24%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Storage
8 2 (0.83%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 2 (0.83%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.83%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.41%) AWS CloudTrail
9 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.41%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 67 (27.69%) WLAN
2 56 (23.14%) Network Security
3 54 (22.31%) Internet
4 32 (13.22%) Firewall
5 27 (11.16%) TCP/IP
6 24 (9.92%) DHCP
6 24 (9.92%) DNS
7 22 (9.09%) VLAN
8 21 (8.68%) BGP
8 21 (8.68%) OSPF
9 11 (4.55%) Ethernet
10 10 (4.13%) FlexRay
11 6 (2.48%) SAN
11 6 (2.48%) VPN
12 5 (2.07%) SNMP
13 4 (1.65%) HTTP
13 4 (1.65%) LAN
13 4 (1.65%) SMTP
14 3 (1.24%) Intrusion Detection
15 2 (0.83%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (9.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (6.61%) Power BI
3 12 (4.96%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.65%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.65%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 4 (1.65%) Tableau
6 3 (1.24%) BusinessObjects
6 3 (1.24%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.83%) Big Data
7 2 (0.83%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.83%) MySQL
7 2 (0.83%) Power Query
7 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.83%) Spotfire
7 2 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.41%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.41%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.41%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.13%) Git
1 10 (4.13%) Visual Studio
2 9 (3.72%) JIRA
3 4 (1.65%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.41%) CMake
4 1 (0.41%) GitLab
4 1 (0.41%) Postman
4 1 (0.41%) PowerBuilder
General
1 113 (46.69%) Social Skills
2 36 (14.88%) Automotive
3 34 (14.05%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (11.57%) Retail
5 19 (7.85%) Legal
6 17 (7.02%) Finance
7 15 (6.20%) Manufacturing
8 7 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.48%) Back Office
10 5 (2.07%) Games
10 5 (2.07%) Marketing
11 4 (1.65%) Electronics
11 4 (1.65%) Public Sector
11 4 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.24%) Law
12 3 (1.24%) Local Government
13 2 (0.83%) Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.83%) Social Science
Job Titles
1 69 (28.51%) IT Engineer
2 57 (23.55%) IT Support
3 52 (21.49%) Support Engineer
4 50 (20.66%) IT Support Engineer
5 44 (18.18%) Developer
6 24 (9.92%) Analyst
6 24 (9.92%) Software Engineer
7 22 (9.09%) Senior
8 20 (8.26%) Systems Engineer
9 18 (7.44%) Junior
10 14 (5.79%) Graduate
11 13 (5.37%) Junior Developer
12 11 (4.55%) IT Analyst
12 11 (4.55%) Software Developer
13 10 (4.13%) Embedded Engineer
13 10 (4.13%) Security Analyst
14 9 (3.72%) Data Scientist
14 9 (3.72%) Lead
15 8 (3.31%) Junior Software Developer
16 7 (2.89%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.68%) .NET
2 16 (6.61%) CSS
2 16 (6.61%) HTML
3 8 (3.31%) AngularJS
3 8 (3.31%) Vue
4 6 (2.48%) .NET Framework
4 6 (2.48%) Ajax
4 6 (2.48%) ASP.NET
4 6 (2.48%) React
5 5 (2.07%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 5 (2.07%) Entity Framework
5 5 (2.07%) Node.js
5 5 (2.07%) RESTful
5 5 (2.07%) Web Services
5 5 (2.07%) WinForms
5 5 (2.07%) WPF
6 4 (1.65%) .NET Core
6 4 (1.65%) HTML5
6 4 (1.65%) JSON
6 4 (1.65%) MFC
Miscellaneous
1 55 (22.73%) Driving Licence
1 55 (22.73%) Onboarding
2 29 (11.98%) Management Information System
3 17 (7.02%) Smartphone
4 9 (3.72%) Algorithms
5 7 (2.89%) Cyber Threat
6 6 (2.48%) Wiki
7 4 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.24%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.24%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.24%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.83%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.83%) Embedded Systems
9 2 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.83%) Life Science
10 1 (0.41%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.41%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 97 (40.08%) Windows
2 87 (35.95%) Linux
3 20 (8.26%) Windows Server
4 19 (7.85%) Windows 10
5 18 (7.44%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (7.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (7.02%) Mac OS X
6 17 (7.02%) Ubuntu
7 4 (1.65%) Unix
8 2 (0.83%) Android
8 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.83%) VMS
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (48.76%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (28.93%) Mentoring
3 63 (26.03%) ITIL
4 60 (24.79%) Asset Management
5 52 (21.49%) Network Management
6 50 (20.66%) IT Asset Management
7 44 (18.18%) Agile
8 31 (12.81%) Mathematics
9 30 (12.40%) Software Engineering
10 24 (9.92%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (9.09%) Analytics
12 20 (8.26%) Customer Service
13 19 (7.85%) Data Science
14 18 (7.44%) Business Case
14 18 (7.44%) Full-Stack Development
15 17 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
15 17 (7.02%) Systems Engineering
16 16 (6.61%) Information Security
16 16 (6.61%) Web Development
17 15 (6.20%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 77 (31.82%) SQL
2 38 (15.70%) Python
3 36 (14.88%) C#
4 31 (12.81%) C++
5 28 (11.57%) PowerShell
6 26 (10.74%) Java
7 25 (10.33%) JavaScript
8 12 (4.96%) C
9 10 (4.13%) MATLAB
10 9 (3.72%) TypeScript
11 8 (3.31%) PHP
12 7 (2.89%) R
13 5 (2.07%) PL/SQL
13 5 (2.07%) Shell Script
14 4 (1.65%) Perl
15 3 (1.24%) Apex Code
15 3 (1.24%) Go
16 2 (0.83%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.41%) Bash
17 1 (0.41%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 215 (88.84%) Degree
2 154 (63.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 77 (31.82%) Microsoft Certification
4 67 (27.69%) MCSE
5 57 (23.55%) Cisco Certification
6 55 (22.73%) CCNA
6 55 (22.73%) CCNP
7 50 (20.66%) LPIC
7 50 (20.66%) MCP
8 24 (9.92%) Master's Degree
9 18 (7.44%) HNC
9 18 (7.44%) HND
10 17 (7.02%) CISSP
11 11 (4.55%) CISM
12 9 (3.72%) CISA
13 8 (3.31%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (2.48%) MCSA
14 6 (2.48%) Security Cleared
15 5 (2.07%) SC Cleared
16 4 (1.65%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (4.55%) ISO 26262
3 9 (3.72%) NIST
4 6 (2.48%) GDPR
5 5 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (1.65%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.65%) QA
6 4 (1.65%) SLA
7 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
7 3 (1.24%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.83%) COBIT
9 1 (0.41%) Actionable Recommendations
9 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 26 (10.74%) Active Directory
2 15 (6.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (4.13%) Docker
4 2 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.83%) vSphere
5 1 (0.41%) pfSense
5 1 (0.41%) Terminal Services
5 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.41%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (2.89%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.41%) Ansible
2 1 (0.41%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.41%) SCCM
2 1 (0.41%) Terraform
2 1 (0.41%) VxRail
Vendors
1 101 (41.74%) Microsoft
2 73 (30.17%) Cisco
3 20 (8.26%) Google
4 19 (7.85%) Dell
5 18 (7.44%) Fortinet
5 18 (7.44%) Ubiquiti
6 17 (7.02%) Apple
7 15 (6.20%) VMware
8 6 (2.48%) HP
9 4 (1.65%) Databricks
9 4 (1.65%) Juniper
10 3 (1.24%) Autodesk
10 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
11 2 (0.83%) Atlassian
12 1 (0.41%) Brocade
12 1 (0.41%) Cellebrite
12 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
12 1 (0.41%) QNAP
12 1 (0.41%) Qualys
12 1 (0.41%) Zerto