Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 56 46
Rank change year-on-year +16 -10 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,227 4,681 9,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.89% 5.30% 6.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.75% 5.54% 7.11%
Number of salaries quoted 3,064 2,725 3,384
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,350 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £82,500 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,950
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,550 84,427 129,395
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.14% 95.61% 95.81%
Number of salaries quoted 53,945 50,142 73,031
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,250 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in England.

Salary trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 6 months to 17 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
London +7 1,526 £75,000 -6.25% 835
South East +9 1,029 £60,000 +4.35% 253
North of England +75 650 £48,000 -12.73% 201
Midlands +19 390 £50,000 -4.76% 159
North West +58 364 £50,000 -16.67% 113
South West +20 359 £50,000 -15.53% 107
West Midlands +33 267 £51,431 -6.49% 90
East of England +2 254 £46,000 -8.00% 127
Yorkshire +86 226 £45,000 -14.29% 58
East Midlands -10 117 £42,500 -15.00% 69
North East +3 60 £48,734 +14.67% 32
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 126 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
2 85 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 80 (1.89%) Apache Spark
4 42 (0.99%) Apache
5 41 (0.97%) Confluence
6 40 (0.95%) CMS
7 30 (0.71%) SAS
8 28 (0.66%) Apache Airflow
9 25 (0.59%) IIS
10 21 (0.50%) WordPress
11 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.19%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.17%) Moodle
15 7 (0.17%) nginx
16 5 (0.12%) Luigi
17 3 (0.071%) Appian
17 3 (0.071%) WildFly
Applications
1 100 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (1.73%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (1.16%) Simulink
4 27 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.40%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 2 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.047%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.024%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.66%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.095%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.095%) Magento
9 4 (0.095%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.071%) Endur
10 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.071%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 786 (18.59%) AWS
1 786 (18.59%) Azure
2 259 (6.13%) Microsoft 365
3 241 (5.70%) Power Platform
4 234 (5.54%) GCP
5 164 (3.88%) SaaS
6 133 (3.15%) Serverless
7 108 (2.56%) GitHub
8 102 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
9 100 (2.37%) AWS Lambda
10 93 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
11 83 (1.96%) Amazon S3
12 59 (1.40%) PowerApps
13 52 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
14 51 (1.21%) Power Automate
15 40 (0.95%) Amazon Kinesis
16 39 (0.92%) IaaS
17 36 (0.85%) PaaS
18 35 (0.83%) Snowflake
19 31 (0.73%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 160 (3.79%) Network Security
2 158 (3.74%) WAN
3 141 (3.34%) Firewall
4 120 (2.84%) Wireless
5 114 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 92 (2.18%) TCP/IP
7 88 (2.08%) WebEx
8 86 (2.03%) Cisco IOS
9 82 (1.94%) DNS
10 79 (1.87%) VPN
11 56 (1.32%) Internet
12 47 (1.11%) LAN
12 47 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.06%) HTTP
14 38 (0.90%) DHCP
15 36 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
16 27 (0.64%) VLAN
17 24 (0.57%) Ethernet
18 23 (0.54%) SAN
19 21 (0.50%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 399 (9.44%) SQL Server
2 224 (5.30%) Power BI
3 181 (4.28%) NoSQL
4 175 (4.14%) MySQL
5 168 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 153 (3.62%) PostgreSQL
7 144 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
8 119 (2.82%) Redis
9 106 (2.51%) Big Data
10 81 (1.92%) Tableau
11 64 (1.51%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 57 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
14 52 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 50 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 48 (1.14%) MongoDB
17 41 (0.97%) Data Lake
17 41 (0.97%) RDBMS
18 34 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
19 29 (0.69%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 492 (11.64%) Git
2 167 (3.95%) JIRA
3 86 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 82 (1.94%) GitLab
4 82 (1.94%) Visual Studio
5 51 (1.21%) Selenium
6 45 (1.06%) TeamCity
7 43 (1.02%) Cypress.io
7 43 (1.02%) Moq
7 43 (1.02%) NUnit
8 40 (0.95%) Subversion
9 34 (0.80%) CMake
10 30 (0.71%) Burp Suite
10 30 (0.71%) Postman
11 28 (0.66%) Metasploit
12 26 (0.62%) Bitbucket
13 23 (0.54%) JUnit
14 20 (0.47%) Maven
14 20 (0.47%) Sourcetree
15 18 (0.43%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,785 (42.23%) Social Skills
2 820 (19.40%) Analytical Skills
3 658 (15.57%) Finance
4 294 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 207 (4.90%) Marketing
6 206 (4.87%) Manufacturing
7 195 (4.61%) Electronics
8 128 (3.03%) Retail
9 113 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 112 (2.65%) Games
10 112 (2.65%) Legal
11 109 (2.58%) Public Sector
12 87 (2.06%) Banking
12 87 (2.06%) Law
13 86 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 81 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 71 (1.68%) Automotive
16 65 (1.54%) Aerospace
17 61 (1.44%) Military
18 52 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,080 (25.55%) Developer
2 700 (16.56%) Senior
3 508 (12.02%) Software Engineer
4 386 (9.13%) Lead
5 263 (6.22%) Analyst
6 258 (6.10%) Software Developer
7 250 (5.91%) Architect
8 242 (5.73%) Senior Developer
9 212 (5.02%) Data Scientist
10 150 (3.55%) Junior
11 140 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 130 (3.08%) Graduate
13 128 (3.03%) IT Support
14 126 (2.98%) .NET Developer
15 111 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
16 95 (2.25%) C# Developer
17 94 (2.22%) Support Specialist
18 90 (2.13%) Data Engineer
19 88 (2.08%) IT Support Specialist
20 87 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 635 (15.02%) .NET
2 394 (9.32%) HTML
2 394 (9.32%) React
3 377 (8.92%) CSS
4 250 (5.91%) AngularJS
5 165 (3.90%) .NET Core
6 162 (3.83%) ASP.NET
7 158 (3.74%) Node.js
8 142 (3.36%) RESTful
9 138 (3.26%) .NET Framework
10 133 (3.15%) REST
11 127 (3.00%) HTML5
12 123 (2.91%) Web Services
13 112 (2.65%) Kafka
14 101 (2.39%) JSON
15 98 (2.32%) Spring
16 91 (2.15%) Vue
16 91 (2.15%) XML
17 87 (2.06%) jQuery
18 79 (1.87%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 486 (11.50%) Algorithms
2 397 (9.39%) Management Information System
3 242 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 149 (3.52%) Client/Server
6 123 (2.91%) Product Ownership
7 104 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 96 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 94 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
10 90 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
11 86 (2.03%) Wiki
12 77 (1.82%) Cloud Native
13 73 (1.73%) Data Centre
14 70 (1.66%) IoT
15 64 (1.51%) Virtual Team
16 54 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
17 53 (1.25%) Distributed Systems
18 52 (1.23%) FPGA
19 51 (1.21%) Life Science
20 49 (1.16%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 530 (12.54%) Windows
2 499 (11.81%) Linux
3 172 (4.07%) Android
4 129 (3.05%) Windows 10
5 97 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 81 (1.92%) Unix
7 62 (1.47%) Apple iOS
8 57 (1.35%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.78%) Kali Linux
10 32 (0.76%) Ubuntu
11 24 (0.57%) CentOS
11 24 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
11 24 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.28%) Debian
14 8 (0.19%) VMS
15 4 (0.095%) SUSE
15 4 (0.095%) Windows Vista
16 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,664 (39.37%) Problem-Solving
2 1,100 (26.02%) Agile
3 1,081 (25.57%) Software Engineering
4 711 (16.82%) Mathematics
5 519 (12.28%) Mentoring
6 516 (12.21%) DevOps
7 501 (11.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 468 (11.07%) Cybersecurity
9 466 (11.02%) Data Science
10 450 (10.65%) Machine Learning
11 413 (9.77%) Analytics
12 383 (9.06%) Decision-Making
13 378 (8.94%) Project Management
14 361 (8.54%) Data Analysis
15 333 (7.88%) CI/CD
16 316 (7.48%) Roadmaps
17 282 (6.67%) Full Stack Development
18 281 (6.65%) Business Intelligence
19 271 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 261 (6.17%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 1,011 (23.92%) Python
2 916 (21.67%) SQL
3 872 (20.63%) C#
4 768 (18.17%) JavaScript
5 501 (11.85%) Java
6 356 (8.42%) C++
7 317 (7.50%) TypeScript
8 292 (6.91%) C
9 148 (3.50%) PHP
10 118 (2.79%) PowerShell
11 106 (2.51%) R
12 81 (1.92%) Bash
13 79 (1.87%) Fortran
14 78 (1.85%) T-SQL
15 72 (1.70%) Go
16 65 (1.54%) Kotlin
17 58 (1.37%) MATLAB
17 58 (1.37%) Scala
18 39 (0.92%) Perl
19 34 (0.80%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,851 (91.10%) Degree
2 2,164 (51.19%) Computer Science Degree
3 698 (16.51%) Master's Degree
4 288 (6.81%) Security Cleared
5 217 (5.13%) PhD
6 171 (4.05%) SC Cleared
7 151 (3.57%) CISSP
8 138 (3.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 93 (2.20%) Cisco Certification
10 92 (2.18%) CISM
11 77 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 72 (1.70%) Azure Certification
13 66 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 57 (1.35%) PMP
15 54 (1.28%) CCNA
15 54 (1.28%) CCNP
16 48 (1.14%) CISA
17 47 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
18 44 (1.04%) A+ Certification
19 42 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (5.87%) QA
2 104 (2.46%) Data Quality
3 102 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (2.18%) GDPR
5 76 (1.80%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.59%) NIST
7 42 (0.99%) PMO
8 38 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.73%) WCAG
10 25 (0.59%) SLA
11 24 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
13 15 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 14 (0.33%) NCSC
14 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 404 (9.56%) Docker
2 215 (5.09%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
4 89 (2.11%) XenApp
5 86 (2.03%) Microsoft App-V
5 86 (2.03%) XenDesktop
6 75 (1.77%) Firmware
7 67 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 38 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (0.69%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.28%) HDFS
12 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.24%) vSphere
13 7 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.095%) pfSense
15 2 (0.047%) LXC
15 2 (0.047%) NFS
16 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 308 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 162 (3.83%) Terraform
3 98 (2.32%) SCCM
4 86 (2.03%) AirWatch
5 64 (1.51%) Ansible
6 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.45%) Puppet
8 15 (0.35%) Grafana
8 15 (0.35%) ZABBIX
9 11 (0.26%) Nagios
10 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.24%) WSUS
11 9 (0.21%) Progress Chef
12 8 (0.19%) CASB
12 8 (0.19%) Nessus
12 8 (0.19%) SCOM
13 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.17%) QRadar
13 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 701 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 178 (4.21%) Cisco
3 160 (3.79%) Google
4 108 (2.56%) Oracle
5 92 (2.18%) Citrix
6 88 (2.08%) SAP
7 82 (1.94%) VMware
8 62 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 44 (1.04%) Xilinx
10 40 (0.95%) Databricks
11 32 (0.76%) Adobe
12 30 (0.71%) Juniper
13 25 (0.59%) Apple
14 23 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.54%) IBM
14 23 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 21 (0.50%) Splunk
16 19 (0.45%) F5
16 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
17 15 (0.35%) Cognizant