Computer Science Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 129 172 160
Rank change year-on-year +43 -12 +18
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,521 1,203 1,685
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.15% 2.02% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.83% 5.52% 7.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,201 734 734
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £28,825
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,428 21,804 22,663
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.42% 36.57% 31.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,209 8,120 10,332
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,418 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,800 £80,000 £76,250
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
South East +25 524 £60,000 -1.32% 100
North of England +108 361 £50,000 -16.67% 116
Midlands +20 195 £50,000 -17.76% 96
North West +56 184 £50,000 -16.67% 66
Yorkshire +157 157 £47,500 -21.88% 33
South West 0 149 £45,000 -25.00% 50
West Midlands +36 128 £54,000 -13.60% 61
Scotland -44 125 £57,500 +4.55% 19
East of England +10 116 £40,000 -34.21% 61
East Midlands -33 65 £46,188 -0.13% 34
Wales -8 23 £34,000 -25.89% 13
North East -9 20 £52,500 +11.70% 18
Northern Ireland +24 19 £40,500 -4.71% 12
Isle of Man - 9 £37,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 31 (2.04%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.91%) FileNet
3 21 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.99%) OpenStack
5 12 (0.79%) WordPress
6 11 (0.72%) Confluence
7 8 (0.53%) Apache Spark
8 7 (0.46%) IIS
9 4 (0.26%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.20%) Apache
10 3 (0.20%) CMS
10 3 (0.20%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.20%) WildFly
11 2 (0.13%) Apache Airflow
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) Luigi
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.066%) Mule
12 1 (0.066%) Site Server
Applications
1 50 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.63%) Simulink
3 34 (2.24%) Microsoft Excel
4 11 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.53%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.066%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.066%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.066%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.066%) Revit
7 1 (0.066%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.18%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.53%) Shopify
4 5 (0.33%) Odoo
5 4 (0.26%) Magento
6 3 (0.20%) CA PPM
6 3 (0.20%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.13%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.066%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.066%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.066%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.066%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.066%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 263 (17.29%) Azure
2 261 (17.16%) AWS
3 87 (5.72%) Amazon S3
4 68 (4.47%) GitHub
5 64 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
6 61 (4.01%) GCP
7 58 (3.81%) Power Platform
8 54 (3.55%) SaaS
9 51 (3.35%) Serverless
10 47 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
11 46 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
12 37 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
13 36 (2.37%) Cloud Computing
14 27 (1.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 19 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
15 19 (1.25%) Route 53
16 18 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
16 18 (1.18%) Snowflake
17 17 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
18 16 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 103 (6.77%) Firewall
2 86 (5.65%) Network Security
3 54 (3.55%) WAN
4 48 (3.16%) LAN
5 46 (3.02%) DNS
5 46 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 37 (2.43%) VPN
7 36 (2.37%) DHCP
8 32 (2.10%) HTTP
9 29 (1.91%) VLAN
10 24 (1.58%) Intrusion Detection
10 24 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.51%) Wireless
12 14 (0.92%) NAS
12 14 (0.92%) SAN
13 13 (0.85%) Internet
14 12 (0.79%) SSL
15 11 (0.72%) MPLS
15 11 (0.72%) MQTT
15 11 (0.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 187 (12.29%) SQL Server
2 151 (9.93%) NoSQL
3 94 (6.18%) MySQL
4 74 (4.87%) Data Warehouse
5 66 (4.34%) Relational Database
6 59 (3.88%) Amazon RDS
7 55 (3.62%) Power BI
8 50 (3.29%) PostgreSQL
9 40 (2.63%) Elasticsearch
10 29 (1.91%) Apache Cassandra
11 28 (1.84%) Amazon Redshift
12 27 (1.78%) Redis
13 26 (1.71%) Big Data
13 26 (1.71%) RDBMS
14 24 (1.58%) MongoDB
14 24 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
15 18 (1.18%) DynamoDB
15 18 (1.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 17 (1.12%) MS Access
17 15 (0.99%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 238 (15.65%) Git
2 59 (3.88%) Jenkins
3 56 (3.68%) JIRA
4 31 (2.04%) JUnit
4 31 (2.04%) Subversion
5 30 (1.97%) Jasmine
6 29 (1.91%) Mockito
7 22 (1.45%) Postman
8 21 (1.38%) CMake
8 21 (1.38%) Visual Studio
9 16 (1.05%) Appium
10 14 (0.92%) GitLab
10 14 (0.92%) Vagrant
11 12 (0.79%) NUnit
11 12 (0.79%) Selenium
12 10 (0.66%) LabVIEW
12 10 (0.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 9 (0.59%) Moq
13 9 (0.59%) Team Foundation Server
14 6 (0.39%) UI Automator
General
1 672 (44.18%) Social Skills
2 240 (15.78%) Analytical Skills
3 191 (12.56%) Finance
4 105 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 89 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 80 (5.26%) Marketing
7 69 (4.54%) Law
8 67 (4.40%) Electronics
9 49 (3.22%) Legal
9 49 (3.22%) Retail
10 44 (2.89%) Games
11 43 (2.83%) Organisational Skills
12 34 (2.24%) Military
12 34 (2.24%) Public Sector
13 30 (1.97%) Presentation Skills
14 29 (1.91%) Telecoms
15 23 (1.51%) Aerospace
16 16 (1.05%) Banking
16 16 (1.05%) Publishing
17 15 (0.99%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 477 (31.36%) Developer
2 226 (14.86%) Software Engineer
3 217 (14.27%) Senior
4 151 (9.93%) Software Developer
5 140 (9.20%) Lead
6 88 (5.79%) Architect
7 85 (5.59%) Senior Developer
8 72 (4.73%) Analyst
9 69 (4.54%) Junior
10 58 (3.81%) .NET Developer
11 54 (3.55%) Full Stack Developer
12 53 (3.48%) Support Engineer
13 49 (3.22%) C++ Software Engineer
14 47 (3.09%) Senior Software Developer
15 45 (2.96%) Graduate
16 43 (2.83%) Network Engineer
17 40 (2.63%) Lead Developer
18 39 (2.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 39 (2.56%) Senior Software Engineer
19 38 (2.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (16.11%) .NET
2 215 (14.14%) React
3 151 (9.93%) HTML
4 129 (8.48%) CSS
5 123 (8.09%) AngularJS
6 75 (4.93%) Spring
7 63 (4.14%) .NET Framework
7 63 (4.14%) Node.js
8 62 (4.08%) JSON
9 58 (3.81%) Kafka
10 50 (3.29%) .NET Core
11 48 (3.16%) Vue
12 41 (2.70%) REST
13 39 (2.56%) HTML5
14 38 (2.50%) GraphQL
15 37 (2.43%) RESTful
16 36 (2.37%) XML
17 35 (2.30%) ASP.NET
18 34 (2.24%) Web Services
19 33 (2.17%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 168 (11.05%) Management Information System
2 97 (6.38%) Algorithms
3 85 (5.59%) Self-Motivation
4 83 (5.46%) Cloud Native
5 55 (3.62%) Data Centre
6 52 (3.42%) Mobile App
7 47 (3.09%) Product Ownership
8 41 (2.70%) Onboarding
9 35 (2.30%) IoT
10 32 (2.10%) Driving Licence
11 31 (2.04%) Distributed Systems
12 28 (1.84%) Cyber Threat
13 25 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
14 23 (1.51%) Client/Server
14 23 (1.51%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.18%) Public Cloud
16 17 (1.12%) Life Science
16 17 (1.12%) Replication
16 17 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
17 16 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 263 (17.29%) Windows
2 229 (15.06%) Linux
3 64 (4.21%) Android
3 64 (4.21%) Windows Server
4 45 (2.96%) Mac OS
5 31 (2.04%) Apple iOS
6 30 (1.97%) Unix
7 24 (1.58%) Ubuntu
8 23 (1.51%) Windows 10
9 20 (1.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.99%) Embedded Linux
11 14 (0.92%) CentOS
12 10 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
13 8 (0.53%) Debian
14 6 (0.39%) VMS
14 6 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
15 5 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
16 4 (0.26%) Windows Vista
17 3 (0.20%) Windows 7
17 3 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,464 (96.25%) Computer Science
2 654 (43.00%) Problem-Solving
3 452 (29.72%) Agile
4 416 (27.35%) Software Engineering
5 262 (17.23%) DevOps
6 214 (14.07%) Artificial Intelligence
7 177 (11.64%) CI/CD
8 168 (11.05%) Mentoring
9 159 (10.45%) Machine Learning
9 159 (10.45%) Mathematics
10 153 (10.06%) SDLC
11 132 (8.68%) Project Management
12 120 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
13 118 (7.76%) Analytics
14 116 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
15 114 (7.50%) Full Stack Development
16 110 (7.23%) Test Automation
17 108 (7.10%) Roadmaps
18 107 (7.03%) Data Modelling
19 106 (6.97%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 345 (22.68%) JavaScript
2 343 (22.55%) SQL
3 334 (21.96%) Python
4 315 (20.71%) C#
5 237 (15.58%) Java
6 149 (9.80%) C++
7 133 (8.74%) TypeScript
8 110 (7.23%) C
9 70 (4.60%) PHP
10 48 (3.16%) PowerShell
11 40 (2.63%) Bash
12 29 (1.91%) R
13 27 (1.78%) Go
14 25 (1.64%) Kotlin
15 19 (1.25%) T-SQL
16 17 (1.12%) Scala
17 14 (0.92%) VB
18 13 (0.85%) MATLAB
18 13 (0.85%) Rust
19 12 (0.79%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,521 (100.00%) Degree
2 188 (12.36%) Master's Degree
3 128 (8.42%) Security Cleared
4 88 (5.79%) SC Cleared
5 76 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 58 (3.81%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (3.75%) CCNA
8 53 (3.48%) AWS Certification
9 51 (3.35%) CCNP
10 46 (3.02%) CISSP
11 42 (2.76%) PhD
12 40 (2.63%) Azure Certification
13 33 (2.17%) DBS Check
14 32 (2.10%) MCP
15 30 (1.97%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 27 (1.78%) A+ Certification
16 27 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
17 26 (1.71%) DV Cleared
18 23 (1.51%) CCIE
19 22 (1.45%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (7.10%) QA
2 38 (2.50%) Data Quality
3 33 (2.17%) GDPR
4 22 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.31%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.92%) NIST
6 14 (0.92%) SLA
7 13 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.79%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.79%) PMO
9 10 (0.66%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.46%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.20%) NCSC
13 2 (0.13%) IEC 61508
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 22301
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 9001
13 2 (0.13%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.066%) CDISC
14 1 (0.066%) HL7
System Software
1 198 (13.02%) Docker
2 81 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.05%) Firmware
4 16 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
5 13 (0.85%) Hyper-V
6 9 (0.59%) vSphere
7 5 (0.33%) pfSense
7 5 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.20%) KVM
9 3 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.20%) XenApp
10 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
10 2 (0.13%) HDFS
11 1 (0.066%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.066%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 202 (13.28%) Kubernetes
2 70 (4.60%) Terraform
3 42 (2.76%) Ansible
4 18 (1.18%) Puppet
5 12 (0.79%) ZABBIX
6 11 (0.72%) SCCM
7 8 (0.53%) Nagios
8 7 (0.46%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.46%) SCOM
8 7 (0.46%) WSUS
9 6 (0.39%) Grafana
9 6 (0.39%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.33%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.33%) Nessus
10 5 (0.33%) Rancher
11 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.20%) Autotask
12 3 (0.20%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.20%) OfficeScan
12 3 (0.20%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 245 (16.11%) Microsoft
2 72 (4.73%) Oracle
3 67 (4.40%) Cisco
4 66 (4.34%) Google
5 42 (2.76%) VMware
6 37 (2.43%) SAP
7 31 (2.04%) Xilinx
8 28 (1.84%) Salesforce
9 19 (1.25%) Apple
10 17 (1.12%) Juniper
11 16 (1.05%) F5
12 15 (0.99%) Databricks
13 14 (0.92%) Fortinet
13 14 (0.92%) Xamarin
14 13 (0.85%) Atlassian
15 12 (0.79%) NVIDIA
15 12 (0.79%) Veeam
16 11 (0.72%) Splunk
17 10 (0.66%) IBM
17 10 (0.66%) ServiceNow