Computer Science Degree Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Science Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 154 255 151
Rank change year-on-year +101 -104 +20
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 726 584 1,733
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.15% 1.33% 2.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.70% 5.20% 11.48%
Number of salaries quoted 584 476 700
10th Percentile £32,963 £35,000 £30,988
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,426 11,235 15,102
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 27.93% 25.57% 22.84%
Number of salaries quoted 5,936 6,811 8,573
10th Percentile £32,500 £34,664 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,291 £60,000 £59,313
Median % change year-on-year -4.52% +1.16% +7.84%
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £76,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £54,000 £57,810 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.59% +5.11% -

Computer Science Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Computer Science Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree.

Computer Science Degree salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Computer Science Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
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 15 (2.07%) OpenStack
2 14 (1.93%) SharePoint
3 11 (1.52%) IIS
4 7 (0.96%) Confluence
5 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 5 (0.69%) WordPress
6 4 (0.55%) OpenEdge
7 3 (0.41%) Apache
7 3 (0.41%) CMS
8 2 (0.28%) SAS
9 1 (0.14%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.14%) Appian
9 1 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.14%) Moodle
9 1 (0.14%) Mule
9 1 (0.14%) NServiceBus
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 24 (3.31%) Simulink
2 9 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.28%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.28%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.28%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.14%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.14%) Sketch
5 1 (0.14%) UXPin
5 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.83%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.69%) Odoo
4 4 (0.55%) Magento
4 4 (0.55%) Shopify
5 3 (0.41%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.14%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.14%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.14%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.14%) SAP Payroll
6 1 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 210 (28.93%) Azure
2 174 (23.97%) AWS
3 57 (7.85%) GCP
4 51 (7.02%) Power Platform
5 48 (6.61%) SaaS
6 41 (5.65%) Cloud Computing
7 32 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
7 32 (4.41%) PowerApps
8 29 (3.99%) Serverless
9 27 (3.72%) Power Automate
10 26 (3.58%) AWS Lambda
11 25 (3.44%) GitHub
12 24 (3.31%) Amazon S3
13 23 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
14 19 (2.62%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (2.48%) AWS CloudFormation
16 15 (2.07%) Snowflake
17 14 (1.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
17 14 (1.93%) Entra ID
17 14 (1.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 37 (5.10%) Network Security
2 34 (4.68%) Firewall
3 22 (3.03%) TCP/IP
4 18 (2.48%) LAN
4 18 (2.48%) WAN
5 16 (2.20%) DNS
5 16 (2.20%) VPN
6 13 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
7 12 (1.65%) DHCP
8 11 (1.52%) Intrusion Detection
8 11 (1.52%) SAN
9 9 (1.24%) MQTT
9 9 (1.24%) VLAN
10 8 (1.10%) HTTP
10 8 (1.10%) SSL
10 8 (1.10%) Wireless
10 8 (1.10%) WLAN
11 7 (0.96%) MPLS
12 6 (0.83%) Internet
13 5 (0.69%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (11.57%) SQL Server
2 48 (6.61%) Power BI
3 41 (5.65%) Relational Database
4 37 (5.10%) NoSQL
5 30 (4.13%) MySQL
6 26 (3.58%) Redis
7 24 (3.31%) PostgreSQL
8 18 (2.48%) Data Warehouse
8 18 (2.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (2.34%) Amazon RDS
9 17 (2.34%) Big Data
10 12 (1.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 12 (1.65%) Data Lake
11 11 (1.52%) MongoDB
11 11 (1.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 10 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
13 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Analysis Services
14 8 (1.10%) Power Query
15 6 (0.83%) MS Access
15 6 (0.83%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 98 (13.50%) Git
2 21 (2.89%) JIRA
2 21 (2.89%) Visual Studio
3 16 (2.20%) CMake
3 16 (2.20%) Subversion
4 15 (2.07%) Jenkins
5 9 (1.24%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 8 (1.10%) Vagrant
7 7 (0.96%) GitLab
8 6 (0.83%) Selenium
9 5 (0.69%) InstallShield
9 5 (0.69%) Maven
9 5 (0.69%) Xcode
10 4 (0.55%) JUnit
11 3 (0.41%) MSTest
11 3 (0.41%) Visual Studio Code
12 2 (0.28%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.28%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.28%) GDB
12 2 (0.28%) gulp
General
1 331 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 126 (17.36%) Finance
3 115 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
4 50 (6.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 35 (4.82%) Marketing
7 28 (3.86%) Retail
8 24 (3.31%) Legal
9 21 (2.89%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (2.75%) Law
11 19 (2.62%) Military
11 19 (2.62%) Telecoms
12 17 (2.34%) Games
13 15 (2.07%) Back Office
13 15 (2.07%) Electronics
14 13 (1.79%) Manufacturing
15 7 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
15 7 (0.96%) Tech for Good
16 6 (0.83%) Advertising
16 6 (0.83%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 250 (34.44%) Developer
2 150 (20.66%) Senior
3 98 (13.50%) Software Engineer
4 68 (9.37%) Architect
5 62 (8.54%) Lead
6 55 (7.58%) Software Developer
7 47 (6.47%) .NET Developer
7 47 (6.47%) Senior Developer
8 44 (6.06%) Junior
9 39 (5.37%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (5.10%) Analyst
10 37 (5.10%) C++ Software Engineer
11 35 (4.82%) PHP Developer
12 31 (4.27%) Junior Developer
13 29 (3.99%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
14 28 (3.86%) Technical Architect
15 27 (3.72%) Full Stack Developer
16 25 (3.44%) Consultant
16 25 (3.44%) DevOps Engineer
17 23 (3.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (16.12%) .NET
2 104 (14.33%) HTML
3 89 (12.26%) CSS
4 66 (9.09%) React
5 57 (7.85%) AngularJS
6 46 (6.34%) REST
7 41 (5.65%) ASP.NET
8 36 (4.96%) XML
9 34 (4.68%) .NET Framework
10 32 (4.41%) .NET Core
11 29 (3.99%) HTML5
11 29 (3.99%) Web Services
12 27 (3.72%) Laravel
12 27 (3.72%) Spring
13 26 (3.58%) Node.js
14 22 (3.03%) RESTful
14 22 (3.03%) Vue
15 20 (2.75%) JSON
16 19 (2.62%) STL
16 19 (2.62%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 68 (9.37%) Management Information System
2 49 (6.75%) Algorithms
3 48 (6.61%) Data Centre
4 34 (4.68%) Self-Motivation
5 29 (3.99%) Greenfield Project
6 22 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
6 22 (3.03%) IoT
7 21 (2.89%) Data Structures
8 18 (2.48%) Mobile App
9 16 (2.20%) Cloud Native
10 14 (1.93%) Life Science
10 14 (1.93%) Product Ownership
11 10 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (1.38%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.38%) Replication
12 9 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 9 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (1.24%) Embedded Systems
12 9 (1.24%) Legacy Systems
12 9 (1.24%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 116 (15.98%) Linux
2 95 (13.09%) Windows
3 36 (4.96%) Android
4 26 (3.58%) Windows Server
5 25 (3.44%) Apple iOS
6 11 (1.52%) Unix
6 11 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 10 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 9 (1.24%) Embedded Linux
8 9 (1.24%) Mac OS X
9 8 (1.10%) CentOS
9 8 (1.10%) Ubuntu
9 8 (1.10%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.41%) Windows 7
11 3 (0.41%) Windows Server 2008
12 2 (0.28%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.28%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 703 (96.83%) Computer Science
2 295 (40.63%) Problem-Solving
3 229 (31.54%) Agile
4 228 (31.40%) Software Engineering
5 147 (20.25%) DevOps
6 117 (16.12%) Mentoring
7 100 (13.77%) CI/CD
8 77 (10.61%) Containerisation
9 71 (9.78%) Artificial Intelligence
10 68 (9.37%) Data Modelling
11 67 (9.23%) Roadmaps
12 66 (9.09%) Analytics
12 66 (9.09%) Technical Leadership
13 65 (8.95%) Cybersecurity
13 65 (8.95%) Microservices
14 64 (8.82%) Machine Learning
15 61 (8.40%) Business Intelligence
16 59 (8.13%) Full Stack Development
17 57 (7.85%) OO
18 53 (7.30%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 180 (24.79%) Python
2 168 (23.14%) SQL
3 166 (22.87%) C#
4 163 (22.45%) JavaScript
5 120 (16.53%) Java
6 77 (10.61%) C++
7 61 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 49 (6.75%) PHP
9 30 (4.13%) C
10 28 (3.86%) Bash
11 21 (2.89%) PowerShell
12 13 (1.79%) T-SQL
13 10 (1.38%) Objective-C
13 10 (1.38%) Swift
14 9 (1.24%) Go
14 9 (1.24%) Kotlin
14 9 (1.24%) R
15 7 (0.96%) XPath
16 6 (0.83%) Bicep
16 6 (0.83%) VB
Qualifications
1 726 (100.00%) Degree
2 101 (13.91%) Master's Degree
3 93 (12.81%) Security Cleared
4 74 (10.19%) SC Cleared
5 40 (5.51%) AWS Certification
6 32 (4.41%) CISSP
7 30 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 28 (3.86%) Azure Certification
9 20 (2.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 16 (2.20%) CISM
11 15 (2.07%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (1.79%) DV Cleared
13 12 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
14 11 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
14 11 (1.52%) CREST Certified
14 11 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 10 (1.38%) CCNA
16 9 (1.24%) TOGAF Certification
17 8 (1.10%) GIAC
17 8 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (8.40%) QA
2 24 (3.31%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.38%) SLA
4 9 (1.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 6 (0.83%) COBIT
5 6 (0.83%) NIST
5 6 (0.83%) Web Application Security Consortium
6 5 (0.69%) GDPR
7 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.28%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.14%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.14%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.14%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.14%) JSP 440
9 1 (0.14%) RMADS
9 1 (0.14%) WCAG
System Software
1 129 (17.77%) Docker
2 28 (3.86%) Active Directory
3 13 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.65%) Hyper-V
5 11 (1.52%) Firmware
6 4 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
7 3 (0.41%) KVM
7 3 (0.41%) XenApp
8 2 (0.28%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.14%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 92 (12.67%) Kubernetes
2 50 (6.89%) Terraform
3 36 (4.96%) Ansible
4 15 (2.07%) Puppet
5 10 (1.38%) ZABBIX
6 6 (0.83%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
6 6 (0.83%) Nagios
6 6 (0.83%) SCCM
7 5 (0.69%) Grafana
7 5 (0.69%) Nessus
7 5 (0.69%) Progress Chef
7 5 (0.69%) Prometheus
7 5 (0.69%) SCOM
8 4 (0.55%) vRealize
8 4 (0.55%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 3 (0.41%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (0.41%) OfficeScan
9 3 (0.41%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.41%) WSUS
10 2 (0.28%) Nmap
Vendors
1 139 (19.15%) Microsoft
2 39 (5.37%) Google
3 25 (3.44%) SAP
4 17 (2.34%) Xilinx
5 16 (2.20%) Oracle
5 16 (2.20%) VMware
6 14 (1.93%) Cisco
6 14 (1.93%) IBM
7 12 (1.65%) NVIDIA
7 12 (1.65%) Salesforce
8 9 (1.24%) Databricks
8 9 (1.24%) ServiceNow
9 6 (0.83%) Centreon
9 6 (0.83%) Citrix
9 6 (0.83%) Juniper
9 6 (0.83%) UiPath
10 5 (0.69%) LogicMonitor
10 5 (0.69%) Okta
10 5 (0.69%) SolarWinds
11 4 (0.55%) Atlassian