Computer Science Degree Jobs

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 178 121
Rank change year-on-year +71 -57 +43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,455 2,144 4,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.50% 2.06% 3.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.99% 6.30% 11.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,838 1,317 1,583
10th Percentile £32,350 £35,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £81,250 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £108,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -6.54% +7.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,308 34,050 41,646
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.84% 32.73% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,248 15,235 18,977
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,803 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +75 2,177 £60,000 -4.00% 865
UK excluding London +54 1,495 £50,000 -6.54% 459
London +73 850 £75,000 -3.23% 434
Work from Home +100 730 £60,000 -4.00% 402
South East +32 516 £60,000 +4.35% 114
North of England +149 357 £50,000 -4.76% 114
Midlands +10 182 £50,000 -5.66% 70
North West +86 180 £50,000 -9.09% 67
Yorkshire +170 157 £45,000 -14.29% 31
South West +18 142 £45,000 -5.26% 45
Scotland -40 129 £57,500 +4.55% 23
West Midlands +56 118 £53,250 -18.08% 41
East of England +23 115 £40,000 -23.81% 60
East Midlands -31 62 £46,188 +2.64% 29
Wales +6 28 £34,000 -24.44% 10
North East 0 20 £52,500 +23.53% 16
Northern Ireland +23 18 £40,000 -5.88% 24
Isle of Man - 9 £37,500 - 2

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 136 (5.54%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (2.69%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.18%) FileNet
5 24 (0.98%) Apache
6 18 (0.73%) Confluence
6 18 (0.73%) WordPress
7 16 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.57%) IIS
10 9 (0.37%) CMS
11 5 (0.20%) SAS
12 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 4 (0.16%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.12%) Appian
13 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.12%) WildFly
14 2 (0.081%) Drupal
14 2 (0.081%) Luigi
14 2 (0.081%) Moodle
Applications
1 57 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.26%) Simulink
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.29%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.041%) Sketch
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
8 1 (0.041%) UXPin
8 1 (0.041%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 30 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.33%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Odoo
5 4 (0.16%) Magento
6 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.12%) Relativity
6 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.081%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.041%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.041%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.041%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 489 (19.92%) Azure
2 474 (19.31%) AWS
3 213 (8.68%) Microsoft 365
4 156 (6.35%) GCP
5 114 (4.64%) Amazon S3
6 113 (4.60%) SaaS
7 111 (4.52%) Power Platform
8 98 (3.99%) GitHub
9 89 (3.63%) Serverless
10 85 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
11 72 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
12 64 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
13 60 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
14 51 (2.08%) PowerApps
15 39 (1.59%) Power Automate
16 34 (1.38%) Amazon Kinesis
17 31 (1.26%) IaaS
18 29 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (1.18%) PaaS
19 28 (1.14%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 155 (6.31%) WAN
2 133 (5.42%) Network Security
3 130 (5.30%) Wireless
4 119 (4.85%) Firewall
5 112 (4.56%) Cisco IOS
6 111 (4.52%) SD-WAN
7 105 (4.28%) WebEx
8 59 (2.40%) DNS
9 58 (2.36%) TCP/IP
10 49 (2.00%) LAN
11 46 (1.87%) VPN
12 43 (1.75%) DHCP
13 38 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
14 36 (1.47%) HTTP
15 34 (1.38%) VLAN
16 31 (1.26%) SAN
17 27 (1.10%) Internet
17 27 (1.10%) Intrusion Detection
18 19 (0.77%) NAS
19 13 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 276 (11.24%) SQL Server
2 174 (7.09%) NoSQL
3 132 (5.38%) MySQL
4 115 (4.68%) Relational Database
5 103 (4.20%) Data Warehouse
6 93 (3.79%) Power BI
7 75 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
8 68 (2.77%) Amazon RDS
9 52 (2.12%) Redis
10 51 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 49 (2.00%) Big Data
12 48 (1.96%) MongoDB
13 43 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 41 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
15 38 (1.55%) Amazon Redshift
16 35 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
17 33 (1.34%) RDBMS
18 32 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
19 28 (1.14%) Tableau
20 25 (1.02%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 330 (13.44%) Git
2 90 (3.67%) Jenkins
3 77 (3.14%) JIRA
4 51 (2.08%) GitLab
5 35 (1.43%) Jasmine
6 34 (1.38%) JUnit
7 33 (1.34%) Subversion
8 32 (1.30%) Visual Studio
9 31 (1.26%) Postman
10 30 (1.22%) Burp Suite
10 30 (1.22%) Metasploit
11 29 (1.18%) Mockito
12 21 (0.86%) CMake
13 18 (0.73%) Selenium
14 16 (0.65%) Appium
15 14 (0.57%) Maven
16 13 (0.53%) NUnit
17 11 (0.45%) Moq
17 11 (0.45%) Vagrant
18 10 (0.41%) Bitbucket
General
1 1,231 (50.14%) Social Skills
2 441 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
3 428 (17.43%) Finance
4 139 (5.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 129 (5.25%) Manufacturing
6 122 (4.97%) Marketing
7 90 (3.67%) Law
8 83 (3.38%) Public Sector
9 81 (3.30%) Electronics
10 74 (3.01%) Retail
11 71 (2.89%) Legal
12 55 (2.24%) Telecoms
13 53 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
13 53 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
14 50 (2.04%) Banking
15 46 (1.87%) Games
16 36 (1.47%) Military
17 33 (1.34%) Back Office
18 31 (1.26%) Front Office
19 30 (1.22%) Billing
Job Titles
1 681 (27.74%) Developer
2 355 (14.46%) Senior
3 307 (12.51%) Software Engineer
4 230 (9.37%) Lead
5 203 (8.27%) Architect
6 160 (6.52%) Software Developer
7 124 (5.05%) Analyst
7 124 (5.05%) IT Support
8 121 (4.93%) Senior Developer
9 110 (4.48%) IT Support Specialist
9 110 (4.48%) Support Specialist
10 103 (4.20%) Junior
11 76 (3.10%) .NET Developer
12 75 (3.05%) Full Stack Developer
13 72 (2.93%) Senior Software Engineer
14 68 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
15 66 (2.69%) Data Engineer
15 66 (2.69%) Support Engineer
16 61 (2.48%) Graduate
17 55 (2.24%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 350 (14.26%) .NET
2 300 (12.22%) React
3 226 (9.21%) HTML
4 209 (8.51%) CSS
5 176 (7.17%) AngularJS
6 119 (4.85%) Spring
7 96 (3.91%) Node.js
8 87 (3.54%) REST
9 85 (3.46%) .NET Framework
9 85 (3.46%) ASP.NET
10 81 (3.30%) JSON
11 79 (3.22%) Kafka
12 77 (3.14%) Vue
13 76 (3.10%) RESTful
14 69 (2.81%) .NET Core
15 67 (2.73%) Web Services
16 52 (2.12%) XML
17 51 (2.08%) HTML5
18 48 (1.96%) Hibernate
18 48 (1.96%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 264 (10.75%) Management Information System
2 149 (6.07%) Self-Motivation
3 116 (4.73%) Algorithms
4 105 (4.28%) Video Conferencing
5 103 (4.20%) Wiki
6 93 (3.79%) Cloud Native
7 71 (2.89%) Mobile App
8 69 (2.81%) Onboarding
9 68 (2.77%) Data Centre
10 66 (2.69%) Product Ownership
11 51 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
12 49 (2.00%) Data Structures
13 44 (1.79%) IoT
14 43 (1.75%) Cyber Threat
14 43 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
15 37 (1.51%) Enterprise Software
16 36 (1.47%) Driving Licence
17 31 (1.26%) Security Posture
18 30 (1.22%) Life Science
19 27 (1.10%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 413 (16.82%) Windows
2 322 (13.12%) Linux
3 170 (6.92%) Android
4 135 (5.50%) Windows 10
5 85 (3.46%) Windows Server
6 50 (2.04%) Mac OS
7 42 (1.71%) Apple iOS
8 39 (1.59%) Unix
9 31 (1.26%) Kali Linux
10 22 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
11 21 (0.86%) Ubuntu
12 18 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
13 16 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 12 (0.49%) Embedded Linux
15 10 (0.41%) CentOS
16 9 (0.37%) Debian
16 9 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
17 8 (0.33%) Mac OS X
18 6 (0.24%) VMS
19 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,391 (97.39%) Computer Science
2 1,062 (43.26%) Problem-Solving
3 653 (26.60%) Agile
4 617 (25.13%) Software Engineering
5 389 (15.85%) DevOps
6 291 (11.85%) CI/CD
7 285 (11.61%) Artificial Intelligence
8 272 (11.08%) Mentoring
9 226 (9.21%) Machine Learning
10 222 (9.04%) Cybersecurity
11 212 (8.64%) Mathematics
12 202 (8.23%) SDLC
13 190 (7.74%) Project Management
14 183 (7.45%) Analytics
14 183 (7.45%) Continuous Improvement
15 177 (7.21%) Data Modelling
16 173 (7.05%) Test Automation
17 172 (7.01%) Full Stack Development
18 169 (6.88%) Microservices
19 168 (6.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 541 (22.04%) SQL
2 526 (21.43%) Python
3 478 (19.47%) C#
4 473 (19.27%) JavaScript
5 363 (14.79%) Java
6 188 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 172 (7.01%) C++
8 119 (4.85%) C
9 104 (4.24%) PHP
10 80 (3.26%) PowerShell
11 53 (2.16%) Bash
12 41 (1.67%) Go
13 37 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 37 (1.51%) R
13 37 (1.51%) T-SQL
14 36 (1.47%) Scala
15 17 (0.69%) Swift
16 16 (0.65%) Objective-C
17 15 (0.61%) Rust
17 15 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,455 (100.00%) Degree
2 462 (18.82%) Master's Degree
3 155 (6.31%) Security Cleared
4 119 (4.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 117 (4.77%) SC Cleared
6 92 (3.75%) CISSP
7 89 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
8 79 (3.22%) AWS Certification
9 71 (2.89%) Azure Certification
10 58 (2.36%) CCNA
11 51 (2.08%) CCNP
12 49 (2.00%) CISM
12 49 (2.00%) PhD
13 40 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 40 (1.63%) DBS Check
14 36 (1.47%) MCP
15 33 (1.34%) A+ Certification
16 29 (1.18%) PMI Certification
17 27 (1.10%) CompTIA Security+
18 25 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (7.25%) QA
2 71 (2.89%) Data Quality
3 53 (2.16%) GDPR
3 53 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 38 (1.55%) NIST
5 28 (1.14%) Accessibility
6 26 (1.06%) SLA
7 19 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
8 13 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 12 (0.49%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 10 (0.41%) COBIT
10 10 (0.41%) PMO
11 7 (0.29%) ISO 13485
12 6 (0.24%) NCSC
12 6 (0.24%) Web Application Security Consortium
13 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
14 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
15 2 (0.081%) GRC
System Software
1 322 (13.12%) Docker
2 209 (8.51%) Active Directory
3 106 (4.32%) VMware ESXi
3 106 (4.32%) XenApp
4 103 (4.20%) Microsoft App-V
4 103 (4.20%) XenDesktop
5 44 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
6 25 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (0.73%) Hyper-V
8 17 (0.69%) Firmware
9 9 (0.37%) vSphere
10 5 (0.20%) pfSense
11 4 (0.16%) KVM
11 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.081%) HDFS
13 2 (0.081%) LXC
14 1 (0.041%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.041%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 287 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 133 (5.42%) Terraform
3 119 (4.85%) SCCM
4 103 (4.20%) AirWatch
5 49 (2.00%) Ansible
6 16 (0.65%) Puppet
7 15 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
9 8 (0.33%) Grafana
9 8 (0.33%) Nagios
10 7 (0.29%) Prometheus
10 7 (0.29%) SCOM
10 7 (0.29%) WSUS
11 6 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.24%) Progress Chef
12 5 (0.20%) Argo
12 5 (0.20%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
12 5 (0.20%) Nessus
12 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 517 (21.06%) Microsoft
2 177 (7.21%) Cisco
3 126 (5.13%) Google
4 109 (4.44%) Citrix
5 94 (3.83%) Oracle
6 58 (2.36%) VMware
7 56 (2.28%) SAP
8 46 (1.87%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.55%) IBM
10 27 (1.10%) Databricks
11 22 (0.90%) Juniper
11 22 (0.90%) Xilinx
12 21 (0.86%) Apple
13 20 (0.81%) Facebook
14 19 (0.77%) Splunk
15 17 (0.69%) F5
16 16 (0.65%) Atlassian
17 15 (0.61%) Sony
18 14 (0.57%) Fortinet
18 14 (0.57%) Xamarin