Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 49 71 47
Rank change year-on-year +22 -24 +13
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,357 2,664 4,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.70% 4.50% 5.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.62% 4.70% 6.19%
Number of salaries quoted 2,224 1,377 1,603
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,486 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,475
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 59,715 56,667 67,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.64% 95.62% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 41,241 29,107 41,040
10th Percentile £27,250 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,000
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +8 1,020 £60,000 +4.35% 250
North of England +76 650 £48,000 -12.73% 203
Scotland +7 591 £52,500 -4.55% 54
Midlands +20 389 £50,000 -4.76% 161
North West +66 363 £50,000 -16.67% 113
South West +11 357 £50,000 -15.53% 109
West Midlands +30 266 £50,362 -8.43% 91
East of England -2 254 £46,000 -4.66% 129
Yorkshire +92 227 £45,000 -14.29% 59
East Midlands -8 117 £42,500 -12.82% 70
North East 0 60 £48,734 +14.67% 32
Northern Ireland +21 44 £40,000 -13.04% 20
Wales -55 39 £34,000 -40.87% 28
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 63 (1.88%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.34%) FileNet
3 32 (0.95%) Apache Spark
3 32 (0.95%) Microsoft Exchange
4 21 (0.63%) Confluence
5 17 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 17 (0.51%) IIS
6 16 (0.48%) WordPress
7 15 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 15 (0.45%) SAS
8 12 (0.36%) Apache
8 12 (0.36%) CMS
9 11 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.18%) nginx
11 5 (0.15%) Moodle
12 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
13 3 (0.089%) Luigi
13 3 (0.089%) WildFly
14 2 (0.060%) Appian
Applications
1 96 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
2 72 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.49%) Simulink
4 32 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.42%) Trello
6 8 (0.24%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.089%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.060%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.060%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.030%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.030%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.030%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.030%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.030%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.030%) Revit
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 33 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.27%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.24%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Odoo
7 4 (0.12%) CA PPM
7 4 (0.12%) Magento
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
8 3 (0.089%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.089%) Sage 300 ERP
8 3 (0.089%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.030%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 537 (16.00%) AWS
2 473 (14.09%) Azure
3 141 (4.20%) Power Platform
4 121 (3.60%) GCP
5 117 (3.49%) GitHub
6 116 (3.46%) Microsoft 365
7 109 (3.25%) Amazon S3
8 98 (2.92%) SaaS
9 80 (2.38%) Serverless
10 74 (2.20%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
14 30 (0.89%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (0.71%) Power Automate
16 22 (0.66%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.66%) Snowflake
17 20 (0.60%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (0.57%) IaaS
18 19 (0.57%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 131 (3.90%) Network Security
2 129 (3.84%) Firewall
3 83 (2.47%) TCP/IP
4 81 (2.41%) Wireless
5 75 (2.23%) WAN
6 70 (2.09%) VPN
7 68 (2.03%) DNS
8 59 (1.76%) HTTP
9 51 (1.52%) LAN
10 43 (1.28%) Internet
11 35 (1.04%) DHCP
11 35 (1.04%) Intrusion Detection
11 35 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 27 (0.80%) Ethernet
13 27 (0.80%) VLAN
14 21 (0.63%) 5G
14 21 (0.63%) MQTT
14 21 (0.63%) RS-232
15 19 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 246 (7.33%) NoSQL
3 136 (4.05%) Power BI
4 127 (3.78%) MySQL
5 120 (3.57%) Relational Database
6 109 (3.25%) Data Warehouse
7 94 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
8 68 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
9 64 (1.91%) Redis
10 59 (1.76%) Amazon RDS
11 56 (1.67%) Big Data
12 46 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 43 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 37 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 35 (1.04%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.98%) Tableau
17 29 (0.86%) RDBMS
18 26 (0.77%) DynamoDB
19 25 (0.74%) MS Access
20 24 (0.71%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 359 (10.69%) Git
2 106 (3.16%) JIRA
3 102 (3.04%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.73%) JUnit
5 51 (1.52%) Selenium
6 49 (1.46%) Mockito
6 49 (1.46%) Visual Studio
7 47 (1.40%) Jasmine
8 43 (1.28%) Cypress.io
9 41 (1.22%) Subversion
10 33 (0.98%) GitLab
11 26 (0.77%) CMake
11 26 (0.77%) LabVIEW
12 23 (0.69%) Postman
13 19 (0.57%) Bitbucket
14 18 (0.54%) Appium
15 17 (0.51%) NUnit
15 17 (0.51%) TeamCity
16 14 (0.42%) Moq
16 14 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 1,196 (35.63%) Social Skills
2 660 (19.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 645 (19.21%) Finance
4 515 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
5 414 (12.33%) Law
6 345 (10.28%) Marketing
7 221 (6.58%) Manufacturing
8 215 (6.40%) Electronics
9 161 (4.80%) Financial Institution
10 142 (4.23%) Legal
11 110 (3.28%) Banking
12 105 (3.13%) Games
13 87 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
14 83 (2.47%) Telecoms
15 82 (2.44%) Retail
16 70 (2.09%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (2.00%) Investment Banking
18 64 (1.91%) Automotive
19 63 (1.88%) Public Sector
20 60 (1.79%) Military
Job Titles
1 755 (22.49%) Developer
2 603 (17.96%) Software Engineer
3 553 (16.47%) Senior
4 259 (7.72%) Lead
5 243 (7.24%) Software Developer
6 178 (5.30%) Engineering Manager
7 165 (4.92%) Software Engineering Manager
8 161 (4.80%) Senior Developer
9 159 (4.74%) Analyst
10 154 (4.59%) Data Scientist
10 154 (4.59%) Senior Software Engineer
11 151 (4.50%) Architect
12 146 (4.35%) Junior
13 137 (4.08%) Graduate
14 94 (2.80%) Java Engineer
15 92 (2.74%) Java Software Engineer
16 84 (2.50%) Embedded Engineer
16 84 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
17 77 (2.29%) .NET Developer
18 71 (2.11%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 427 (12.72%) .NET
2 385 (11.47%) React
3 297 (8.85%) AngularJS
4 295 (8.79%) HTML
5 242 (7.21%) CSS
6 183 (5.45%) Spring
7 167 (4.97%) Node.js
8 154 (4.59%) RESTful
9 134 (3.99%) Kafka
10 126 (3.75%) .NET Core
11 123 (3.66%) HTML5
12 108 (3.22%) REST
13 85 (2.53%) .NET Framework
13 85 (2.53%) ASP.NET
14 83 (2.47%) JSON
14 83 (2.47%) Spring Boot
15 79 (2.35%) NumPy
16 78 (2.32%) Web Services
17 74 (2.20%) GraphQL
17 74 (2.20%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 412 (12.27%) Algorithms
2 347 (10.34%) Cloud Native
3 294 (8.76%) Management Information System
4 173 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (3.52%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.80%) Product Ownership
7 86 (2.56%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.23%) Data Centre
9 71 (2.11%) Mobile App
10 66 (1.97%) Market Risk
11 61 (1.82%) Client/Server
12 59 (1.76%) IoT
13 52 (1.55%) Distributed Applications
13 52 (1.55%) Embedded Systems
14 47 (1.40%) FPGA
15 42 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
15 42 (1.25%) Public Cloud
16 39 (1.16%) CUDA
16 39 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
16 39 (1.16%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 400 (11.92%) Linux
2 366 (10.90%) Windows
3 70 (2.09%) Unix
4 69 (2.06%) Android
5 66 (1.97%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.43%) Mac OS
7 43 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 33 (0.98%) Windows 10
9 32 (0.95%) Embedded Linux
10 30 (0.89%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.57%) CentOS
13 12 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
14 11 (0.33%) Debian
15 9 (0.27%) Windows Server 2019
16 8 (0.24%) VMS
17 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
18 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
19 4 (0.12%) SUSE
19 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,277 (38.04%) Problem-Solving
2 1,194 (35.57%) Software Engineering
3 1,047 (31.19%) Agile
4 802 (23.89%) Mathematics
5 493 (14.69%) Artificial Intelligence
6 466 (13.88%) SDLC
7 430 (12.81%) Decision-Making
8 418 (12.45%) CI/CD
9 400 (11.92%) Mentoring
10 391 (11.65%) Machine Learning
11 358 (10.66%) Cybersecurity
12 355 (10.57%) DevOps
13 338 (10.07%) Analytics
14 313 (9.32%) Coaching
15 294 (8.76%) Project Management
16 278 (8.28%) Data Analysis
17 262 (7.80%) Continuous Improvement
18 261 (7.77%) Data Science
19 241 (7.18%) Microservices
20 239 (7.12%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 731 (21.78%) Python
2 694 (20.67%) SQL
3 615 (18.32%) C#
4 575 (17.13%) JavaScript
5 519 (15.46%) Java
6 342 (10.19%) C
7 328 (9.77%) C++
8 275 (8.19%) TypeScript
9 114 (3.40%) PHP
10 79 (2.35%) Bash
11 78 (2.32%) Embedded C
11 78 (2.32%) Fortran
12 77 (2.29%) PowerShell
13 53 (1.58%) R
14 51 (1.52%) Go
15 47 (1.40%) T-SQL
16 44 (1.31%) MATLAB
17 38 (1.13%) Rust
18 36 (1.07%) Kotlin
18 36 (1.07%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,797 (83.32%) Degree
2 1,472 (43.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 373 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 237 (7.06%) Security Cleared
5 165 (4.92%) PhD
6 127 (3.78%) SC Cleared
7 84 (2.50%) CISSP
8 79 (2.35%) Microsoft Certification
9 78 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
10 61 (1.82%) AWS Certification
11 55 (1.64%) CCNA
12 54 (1.61%) CCNP
13 51 (1.52%) PMI Certification
14 47 (1.40%) PMP
15 46 (1.37%) Azure Certification
16 42 (1.25%) CISM
17 39 (1.16%) A+ Certification
18 38 (1.13%) DV Cleared
19 36 (1.07%) DBS Check
20 35 (1.04%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (5.54%) QA
2 66 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.73%) GDPR
4 56 (1.67%) Accessibility
5 55 (1.64%) Data Quality
6 46 (1.37%) NIST
7 41 (1.22%) PMO
8 31 (0.92%) WCAG
9 22 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.63%) ISO 13485
11 17 (0.51%) SLA
12 16 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
13 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
14 10 (0.30%) GRC
14 10 (0.30%) NCSC
15 9 (0.27%) JTAG
16 8 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 300 (8.94%) Docker
2 139 (4.14%) Firmware
3 103 (3.07%) Active Directory
4 60 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.34%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.74%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) pfSense
12 3 (0.089%) XenApp
13 2 (0.060%) HDFS
14 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 305 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 110 (3.28%) Terraform
3 46 (1.37%) Ansible
4 19 (0.57%) Puppet
5 14 (0.42%) Grafana
6 13 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 12 (0.36%) SCCM
8 9 (0.27%) Nagios
8 9 (0.27%) WSUS
9 8 (0.24%) Nessus
9 8 (0.24%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.21%) SCOM
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
12 5 (0.15%) Suricata
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.089%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 413 (12.30%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.63%) Oracle
3 119 (3.54%) Google
4 75 (2.23%) Cisco
5 70 (2.09%) SAP
5 70 (2.09%) VMware
6 51 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 39 (1.16%) Xilinx
8 25 (0.74%) Juniper
9 22 (0.66%) Splunk
10 19 (0.57%) Apple
10 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 19 (0.57%) IBM
10 19 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.57%) Xamarin
11 16 (0.48%) F5
12 15 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.42%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.39%) NVIDIA
15 12 (0.36%) Veeam