Computer Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent remote or hybrid work 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 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 57 79 52
Rank change year-on-year +22 -27 +5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,212 1,310 4,993
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.34% 3.99% 6.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 4.16% 6.55%
Number of salaries quoted 881 1,066 1,846
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £50,000 £41,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £68,823 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +14.71% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £94,313 £82,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £115,000 £102,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 24,720 31,469 76,283
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 88.48% 95.89% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,624 23,346 43,834
10th Percentile £35,000 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,965 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +9.09%

Computer Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science.

Computer Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 26 July 2024.

Computer Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 38 (3.14%) SharePoint
2 20 (1.65%) IIS
2 20 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 13 (1.07%) OpenStack
4 12 (0.99%) Apache
4 12 (0.99%) Confluence
5 10 (0.83%) nginx
6 9 (0.74%) Apache Spark
7 7 (0.58%) Apache Airflow
7 7 (0.58%) CMS
8 5 (0.41%) Luigi
9 3 (0.25%) Apache Solr
9 3 (0.25%) Moodle
10 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
10 2 (0.17%) Ethereum
10 2 (0.17%) SAS
10 2 (0.17%) Sitecore CMS
10 2 (0.17%) Umbraco
10 2 (0.17%) WordPress
11 1 (0.083%) Appian
Applications
1 77 (6.35%) Simulink
2 21 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.25%) Sketch
5 3 (0.25%) Trello
6 2 (0.17%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.17%) Autodesk Inventor
6 2 (0.17%) Fusion 360
6 2 (0.17%) Revit
6 2 (0.17%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.083%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.083%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.083%) CPLEX
7 1 (0.083%) InVision
7 1 (0.083%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.083%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.083%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 10 (0.83%) NEC Housing
2 10 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 7 (0.58%) Odoo
4 5 (0.41%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.33%) SAP CX
6 2 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.17%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.083%) Endur
7 1 (0.083%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.083%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.083%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.083%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 360 (29.70%) Azure
2 245 (20.21%) AWS
3 106 (8.75%) Power Platform
4 73 (6.02%) GCP
5 71 (5.86%) Microsoft 365
6 53 (4.37%) SaaS
7 47 (3.88%) Cloud Computing
7 47 (3.88%) Serverless
8 45 (3.71%) PowerApps
9 43 (3.55%) Power Automate
10 36 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
10 36 (2.97%) GitHub
11 31 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
12 22 (1.82%) Azure Data Factory
13 20 (1.65%) AWS CloudFormation
14 19 (1.57%) Snowflake
15 18 (1.49%) Dynamics 365
16 17 (1.40%) Amazon S3
16 17 (1.40%) Azure Synapse Analytics
16 17 (1.40%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 48 (3.96%) Firewall
2 47 (3.88%) Network Security
3 45 (3.71%) VPN
4 42 (3.47%) TCP/IP
5 35 (2.89%) Wireless
6 24 (1.98%) HTTP
7 23 (1.90%) Wi-Fi
8 22 (1.82%) DNS
9 20 (1.65%) LAN
9 20 (1.65%) WAN
10 17 (1.40%) VLAN
11 15 (1.24%) DHCP
12 14 (1.16%) Ethernet
13 13 (1.07%) Internet
14 12 (0.99%) BGP
15 10 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
16 9 (0.74%) SAN
16 9 (0.74%) SSL
17 8 (0.66%) VoIP
18 6 (0.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 111 (9.16%) SQL Server
2 94 (7.76%) Power BI
3 78 (6.44%) Relational Database
4 74 (6.11%) NoSQL
5 53 (4.37%) PostgreSQL
6 49 (4.04%) Data Warehouse
7 43 (3.55%) MySQL
8 40 (3.30%) Redis
9 34 (2.81%) Big Data
10 29 (2.39%) Elasticsearch
11 20 (1.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 16 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
12 16 (1.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 15 (1.24%) MongoDB
13 15 (1.24%) Oracle Database
14 14 (1.16%) Power Query
15 12 (0.99%) Data Lake
16 11 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 10 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
17 10 (0.83%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 133 (10.97%) Git
2 37 (3.05%) JIRA
3 32 (2.64%) Vagrant
4 25 (2.06%) Jenkins
5 16 (1.32%) GitLab
6 14 (1.16%) Visual Studio
7 13 (1.07%) Bitbucket
7 13 (1.07%) Selenium
8 11 (0.91%) Oracle APEX
9 10 (0.83%) CMake
10 8 (0.66%) Cypress.io
10 8 (0.66%) Subversion
11 7 (0.58%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 7 (0.58%) TeamCity
12 6 (0.50%) JUnit
13 5 (0.41%) JMeter
13 5 (0.41%) MSTest
13 5 (0.41%) SonarQube
13 5 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.33%) CircleCI
General
1 655 (54.04%) Social Skills
2 252 (20.79%) Finance
3 216 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (9.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 63 (5.20%) Public Sector
6 57 (4.70%) Pharmaceutical
7 54 (4.46%) Marketing
8 51 (4.21%) Retail
9 45 (3.71%) Legal
10 37 (3.05%) Games
11 36 (2.97%) Electronics
12 30 (2.48%) Banking
13 28 (2.31%) Manufacturing
14 24 (1.98%) Advertising
14 24 (1.98%) Automotive
14 24 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
15 19 (1.57%) Telecoms
16 17 (1.40%) Law
17 14 (1.16%) Local Government
18 13 (1.07%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 372 (30.69%) Developer
2 211 (17.41%) Senior
3 186 (15.35%) Software Engineer
4 105 (8.66%) Software Developer
5 84 (6.93%) Analyst
6 73 (6.02%) Lead
7 61 (5.03%) Architect
7 61 (5.03%) Senior Developer
8 55 (4.54%) .NET Developer
9 51 (4.21%) Graduate
9 51 (4.21%) Junior
10 50 (4.13%) Senior Software Engineer
11 44 (3.63%) Data Scientist
12 43 (3.55%) Consultant
13 33 (2.72%) Senior Data Scientist
14 32 (2.64%) Embedded Developer
14 32 (2.64%) Embedded Software Developer
14 32 (2.64%) PHP Developer
14 32 (2.64%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
15 31 (2.56%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (15.59%) .NET
2 135 (11.14%) HTML
3 129 (10.64%) CSS
4 87 (7.18%) React
5 81 (6.68%) AngularJS
6 55 (4.54%) REST
7 54 (4.46%) Node.js
8 52 (4.29%) ASP.NET
9 48 (3.96%) .NET Core
10 47 (3.88%) RESTful
11 39 (3.22%) Middleware
12 36 (2.97%) XML
13 33 (2.72%) Kafka
14 32 (2.64%) Vue
15 30 (2.48%) Web Services
16 29 (2.39%) .NET Framework
16 29 (2.39%) JSON
17 26 (2.15%) jQuery
17 26 (2.15%) SOAP
18 24 (1.98%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 132 (10.89%) Algorithms
2 94 (7.76%) Management Information System
3 61 (5.03%) Data Structures
4 52 (4.29%) Life Science
5 51 (4.21%) Self-Motivation
6 43 (3.55%) Client/Server
7 33 (2.72%) Distributed Systems
8 32 (2.64%) Data Centre
9 31 (2.56%) Mobile App
9 31 (2.56%) NHS
10 26 (2.15%) Greenfield Project
11 24 (1.98%) Onboarding
11 24 (1.98%) Product Ownership
11 24 (1.98%) Virtual Team
12 21 (1.73%) IoT
13 16 (1.32%) Driving Licence
14 14 (1.16%) Public Cloud
14 14 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
15 12 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.99%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 173 (14.27%) Linux
2 111 (9.16%) Windows
3 60 (4.95%) Android
4 41 (3.38%) Ubuntu
5 37 (3.05%) CentOS
6 34 (2.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (2.72%) Embedded Linux
8 30 (2.48%) Apple iOS
9 23 (1.90%) Windows 10
9 23 (1.90%) Windows Server
10 12 (0.99%) Unix
10 12 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 11 (0.91%) Mac OS
12 8 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.41%) SUSE
14 4 (0.33%) FreeRTOS
14 4 (0.33%) Kali Linux
15 3 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
15 3 (0.25%) Debian
15 3 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 468 (38.61%) Problem-Solving
2 457 (37.71%) Software Engineering
3 331 (27.31%) Agile
4 180 (14.85%) Artificial Intelligence
5 178 (14.69%) DevOps
6 173 (14.27%) Analytics
6 173 (14.27%) Machine Learning
7 134 (11.06%) Data Modelling
8 121 (9.98%) Mathematics
9 120 (9.90%) Mentoring
10 112 (9.24%) CI/CD
11 105 (8.66%) Visualisation
12 103 (8.50%) Roadmaps
13 102 (8.42%) Collaborative Working
14 99 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
15 98 (8.09%) Data Science
16 97 (8.00%) Business Intelligence
17 93 (7.67%) Project Management
18 92 (7.59%) Microservices
19 89 (7.34%) Data Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 335 (27.64%) Python
2 320 (26.40%) SQL
3 238 (19.64%) C#
4 234 (19.31%) JavaScript
5 191 (15.76%) Java
6 160 (13.20%) C++
7 108 (8.91%) C
8 73 (6.02%) TypeScript
9 45 (3.71%) PHP
9 45 (3.71%) PowerShell
10 36 (2.97%) Kotlin
11 26 (2.15%) T-SQL
12 22 (1.82%) Embedded C
13 19 (1.57%) Go
14 18 (1.49%) Ruby
15 15 (1.24%) Rust
16 14 (1.16%) Bash
16 14 (1.16%) MATLAB
17 13 (1.07%) VB.NET
18 11 (0.91%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,111 (91.67%) Degree
2 697 (57.51%) Computer Science Degree
3 189 (15.59%) Security Cleared
4 182 (15.02%) Master's Degree
5 115 (9.49%) SC Cleared
6 82 (6.77%) PhD
7 65 (5.36%) Microsoft Certification
8 48 (3.96%) DV Cleared
9 36 (2.97%) Azure Certification
10 33 (2.72%) CISSP
11 32 (2.64%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.82%) AWS Certification
13 19 (1.57%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.49%) DBS Check
15 17 (1.40%) CCNA
16 16 (1.32%) CCNP
16 16 (1.32%) CISM
16 16 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (1.32%) PMP
17 14 (1.16%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.04%) QA
2 26 (2.15%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.06%) Data Quality
4 18 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 16 (1.32%) GDPR
6 14 (1.16%) SLA
7 9 (0.74%) NIST
8 6 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 5 (0.41%) GRC
10 4 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
10 4 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.25%) COBIT
11 3 (0.25%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.25%) PMO
12 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.17%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.17%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.17%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 1 (0.083%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 113 (9.32%) Docker
2 53 (4.37%) Active Directory
3 36 (2.97%) Firmware
4 23 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (0.99%) Embedded Firmware
5 12 (0.99%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
7 7 (0.58%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.41%) KVM
8 5 (0.41%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.25%) XenApp
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.083%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.083%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 86 (7.10%) Terraform
2 82 (6.77%) Kubernetes
3 54 (4.46%) Ansible
4 14 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
4 14 (1.16%) Puppet
5 10 (0.83%) Grafana
5 10 (0.83%) ZABBIX
6 6 (0.50%) Nagios
6 6 (0.50%) Nessus
6 6 (0.50%) Prometheus
6 6 (0.50%) SCOM
7 4 (0.33%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 4 (0.33%) Nmap
7 4 (0.33%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.25%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.25%) OfficeScan
8 3 (0.25%) SCCM
8 3 (0.25%) WSUS
9 2 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
10 1 (0.083%) Packer
Vendors
1 227 (18.73%) Microsoft
2 72 (5.94%) Xilinx
3 60 (4.95%) Google
4 30 (2.48%) Oracle
5 27 (2.23%) Databricks
6 26 (2.15%) SAP
7 24 (1.98%) VMware
8 21 (1.73%) Cisco
9 17 (1.40%) Salesforce
10 14 (1.16%) Apple
11 12 (0.99%) ServiceNow
12 10 (0.83%) NEC
12 10 (0.83%) Veeam
13 9 (0.74%) UiPath
14 8 (0.66%) Meraki
15 7 (0.58%) Citrix
15 7 (0.58%) IBM
15 7 (0.58%) Red Hat
15 7 (0.58%) Splunk
16 6 (0.50%) Qualys