Computer Science Degree Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 157 100 170
Rank change year-on-year -57 +70 -27
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 129 129 81
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.91% 2.84% 1.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.77% 9.19% 5.03%
Number of salaries quoted 59 55 10
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,750 £44,750
25th Percentile £36,000 £43,875 £49,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year - +2.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £83,600 £77,000 £78,375
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
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,198 1,404 1,611
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.76% 30.86% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 535 418 509
10th Percentile £26,700 £28,750 £26,200
25th Percentile £34,000 £38,250 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,990 £50,939 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +10.74% +2.22%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £81,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 23 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
Glasgow -90 59 £70,000 +20.90% 9
Edinburgh +30 28 £67,000 +10.20% 14
Aberdeen +2 20 £35,000 -42.43% 4
Dundee 0 14 £50,000 +9.29%
Lanarkshire -2 4 £42,500 -5.56% 4
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 - 1
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 4
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (22.48%) FileNet
2 4 (3.10%) OpenEdge
3 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.81%) Amazon S3
2 31 (24.03%) GitHub
3 16 (12.40%) AWS
3 16 (12.40%) Azure
4 10 (7.75%) SaaS
5 9 (6.98%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (5.43%) Amazon MSK
6 7 (5.43%) Datadog
7 5 (3.88%) GCP
7 5 (3.88%) Serverless
8 3 (2.33%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (2.33%) MailChimp
8 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.33%) Route 53
8 3 (2.33%) Zapier
9 2 (1.55%) ChatGPT
9 2 (1.55%) IaaS
9 2 (1.55%) OCI
9 2 (1.55%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.75%) LAN
1 10 (7.75%) Network Security
1 10 (7.75%) WAN
2 7 (5.43%) HTTP
2 7 (5.43%) MQTT
3 6 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (4.65%) VLAN
4 4 (3.10%) Wireless
5 3 (2.33%) DHCP
5 3 (2.33%) DNS
5 3 (2.33%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.78%) Firewall
6 1 (0.78%) SAN
6 1 (0.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 29 (22.48%) Apache Cassandra
1 29 (22.48%) Elasticsearch
1 29 (22.48%) NoSQL
2 16 (12.40%) SQL Server
3 11 (8.53%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (8.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 8 (6.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 5 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (3.88%) OLAP
5 5 (3.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 4 (3.10%) MySQL
7 3 (2.33%) Power BI
8 2 (1.55%) Oracle Database
8 2 (1.55%) Relational Database
9 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (25.58%) Jenkins
2 30 (23.26%) Jasmine
3 29 (22.48%) JUnit
3 29 (22.48%) Mockito
4 17 (13.18%) Git
5 4 (3.10%) GitLab
6 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.78%) JMeter
6 1 (0.78%) Postman
6 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 55 (42.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 53 (41.09%) Finance
3 45 (34.88%) Law
4 44 (34.11%) Social Skills
5 30 (23.26%) Marketing
6 18 (13.95%) Legal
7 16 (12.40%) Manufacturing
8 9 (6.98%) Public Sector
9 8 (6.20%) Analytical Skills
10 7 (5.43%) Electronics
10 7 (5.43%) Telecoms
11 5 (3.88%) Banking
11 5 (3.88%) Games
12 3 (2.33%) Retail
13 2 (1.55%) Financial Institution
13 2 (1.55%) Front Office
13 2 (1.55%) Investment Banking
14 1 (0.78%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 53 (41.09%) Software Engineer
2 32 (24.81%) Developer
3 13 (10.08%) Senior
3 13 (10.08%) Software Developer
4 11 (8.53%) Database Engineer
5 10 (7.75%) Full Stack Developer
6 9 (6.98%) Lead
6 9 (6.98%) Senior Software Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) C Software Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) C/C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) C++ Software Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Python Developer
7 8 (6.20%) Senior C Software Engineer
7 8 (6.20%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
8 7 (5.43%) IT Support
8 7 (5.43%) Lead Software Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) IT Support Analyst
9 6 (4.65%) Java Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (37.21%) React
2 41 (31.78%) AngularJS
3 38 (29.46%) Spring
4 37 (28.68%) Kafka
5 29 (22.48%) GraphQL
5 29 (22.48%) Hibernate
5 29 (22.48%) J2EE
5 29 (22.48%) Spring Integration
6 12 (9.30%) Django
6 12 (9.30%) HTML
7 11 (8.53%) CSS
8 8 (6.20%) JPA
9 7 (5.43%) Flask
10 4 (3.10%) .NET
10 4 (3.10%) Node.js
10 4 (3.10%) RESTful
11 3 (2.33%) .NET Core
11 3 (2.33%) OpenCV
11 3 (2.33%) OpenVINO
12 2 (1.55%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 32 (24.81%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.08%) Algorithms
3 9 (6.98%) Distributed Systems
4 8 (6.20%) IoT
5 7 (5.43%) Arduino
5 7 (5.43%) Raspberry Pi
6 5 (3.88%) Management Information System
7 4 (3.10%) Onboarding
7 4 (3.10%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (1.55%) Life Science
8 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.55%) Video\Live Streaming
9 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.78%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.63%) Linux
2 13 (10.08%) Windows
3 7 (5.43%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.65%) Android
5 2 (1.55%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (93.02%) Computer Science
2 64 (49.61%) Software Engineering
3 48 (37.21%) Machine Learning
4 46 (35.66%) SDLC
5 44 (34.11%) Agile
6 42 (32.56%) Artificial Intelligence
7 35 (27.13%) CI/CD
7 35 (27.13%) Full Stack Development
7 35 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
8 32 (24.81%) Decision-Making
9 30 (23.26%) Microservices
10 29 (22.48%) AOP
10 29 (22.48%) Document Management
10 29 (22.48%) Regtech
10 29 (22.48%) Unit Testing
11 18 (13.95%) Performance Optimisation
12 15 (11.63%) Analytics
13 13 (10.08%) ETL
14 12 (9.30%) Front End Development
14 12 (9.30%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (44.96%) SQL
2 47 (36.43%) Java
3 23 (17.83%) Python
4 19 (14.73%) JavaScript
5 18 (13.95%) TypeScript
6 14 (10.85%) C++
7 12 (9.30%) T-SQL
8 8 (6.20%) C
9 7 (5.43%) C#
10 5 (3.88%) VBA
11 4 (3.10%) PowerShell
12 3 (2.33%) PHP
12 3 (2.33%) PL/SQL
13 2 (1.55%) Go
13 2 (1.55%) Ruby
14 1 (0.78%) Bash
14 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 129 (100.00%) Degree
2 40 (31.01%) Master's Degree
3 5 (3.88%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.10%) PhD
5 2 (1.55%) CCNA
5 2 (1.55%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.55%) OCP
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Certification
5 2 (1.55%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.43%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 14 (10.85%) Docker
2 7 (5.43%) Firmware
2 7 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) pfSense
4 1 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 43 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.33%) Autotask
3 2 (1.55%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.55%) Puppet
4 1 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (24.81%) Oracle
2 13 (10.08%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.98%) Splunk
4 8 (6.20%) Cisco
5 7 (5.43%) NVIDIA
5 7 (5.43%) SAP
5 7 (5.43%) VMware
6 5 (3.88%) Google
7 4 (3.10%) Apple
8 3 (2.33%) Facebook
8 3 (2.33%) HubSpot
9 2 (1.55%) Juniper
9 2 (1.55%) OpenAI
9 2 (1.55%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
10 1 (0.78%) TP-LINK