Computer Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 56 44
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,028 5,432 11,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.10% 5.22% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 5.46% 7.45%
Number of salaries quoted 3,409 3,030 3,763
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £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 £88,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,625 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,697 99,477 149,043
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.97% 95.62% 95.60%
Number of salaries quoted 59,840 58,401 83,209
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,025 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,330
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +18 4,192 £60,000 -7.69% 2,089
UK excluding London +21 3,317 £52,500 -4.55% 1,067
London +7 1,545 £77,500 -3.13% 1,060
Work from Home +11 1,402 £60,000 -11.11% 937
South East +4 1,023 £60,000 +9.09% 287
North of England +90 630 £48,000 -8.57% 232
Scotland +5 599 £52,500 -0.94% 50
Midlands +22 371 £50,000 -4.76% 166
North West +74 349 £50,000 -9.09% 141
South West +18 349 £50,000 -9.09% 117
West Midlands +35 252 £51,431 -6.49% 88
East of England -4 250 £45,500 -5.70% 180
Yorkshire +89 222 £45,000 -14.29% 57
East Midlands -5 113 £42,500 -5.56% 78
North East +9 59 £50,617 +22.71% 36
Wales -50 42 £33,500 -41.74% 18
Northern Ireland +29 41 £40,000 -16.67% 29
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 3

Computer Science
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
1 147 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 98 (1.95%) SharePoint
3 97 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 45 (0.89%) FileNet
5 44 (0.88%) Apache
6 39 (0.78%) CMS
6 39 (0.78%) Confluence
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
7 31 (0.62%) SAS
8 23 (0.46%) WordPress
9 22 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
10 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
11 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
12 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
12 12 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
13 8 (0.16%) nginx
13 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
14 6 (0.12%) Moodle
15 4 (0.080%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 109 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (2.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.89%) Simulink
4 35 (0.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.28%) Trello
7 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.18%) SPSS
9 7 (0.14%) InfoPath
9 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
10 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
11 3 (0.060%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.040%) InVision
12 2 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.040%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.040%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.020%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
Business Applications
1 51 (1.01%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.099%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.099%) Odoo
9 4 (0.080%) Magento
9 4 (0.080%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.060%) Endur
10 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.060%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.060%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.040%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 941 (18.72%) AWS
2 866 (17.22%) Azure
3 286 (5.69%) Microsoft 365
4 263 (5.23%) GCP
5 260 (5.17%) Power Platform
6 188 (3.74%) SaaS
7 161 (3.20%) GitHub
8 149 (2.96%) Serverless
9 138 (2.74%) Amazon S3
10 127 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
11 115 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 111 (2.21%) AWS Lambda
13 63 (1.25%) PowerApps
14 62 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
15 54 (1.07%) Power Automate
16 50 (0.99%) IaaS
17 46 (0.91%) PaaS
18 39 (0.78%) Entra ID
19 35 (0.70%) Dynamics 365
20 34 (0.68%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 189 (3.76%) Wireless
2 187 (3.72%) WAN
3 172 (3.42%) Network Security
4 164 (3.26%) Firewall
5 132 (2.63%) SD-WAN
6 108 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 103 (2.05%) Cisco IOS
8 102 (2.03%) WebEx
9 93 (1.85%) DNS
10 88 (1.75%) VPN
11 66 (1.31%) HTTP
12 64 (1.27%) Internet
13 60 (1.19%) LAN
14 52 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
15 47 (0.93%) DHCP
15 47 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
16 35 (0.70%) SAN
17 31 (0.62%) VLAN
18 28 (0.56%) Ethernet
19 25 (0.50%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 444 (8.83%) SQL Server
2 281 (5.59%) NoSQL
3 239 (4.75%) Power BI
4 191 (3.80%) MySQL
5 190 (3.78%) Relational Database
6 168 (3.34%) Data Warehouse
7 148 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
8 116 (2.31%) Big Data
9 107 (2.13%) Redis
10 84 (1.67%) Tableau
11 80 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 76 (1.51%) Elasticsearch
13 67 (1.33%) Hadoop
14 66 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
15 63 (1.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 53 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
17 49 (0.97%) Amazon Redshift
17 49 (0.97%) MongoDB
18 44 (0.88%) Data Lake
19 42 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 526 (10.46%) Git
2 177 (3.52%) JIRA
3 142 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.61%) Visual Studio
5 79 (1.57%) GitLab
6 74 (1.47%) JUnit
7 61 (1.21%) Selenium
8 53 (1.05%) Mockito
9 52 (1.03%) Jasmine
10 46 (0.91%) Cypress.io
11 42 (0.84%) Subversion
11 42 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 41 (0.82%) NUnit
13 38 (0.76%) Moq
14 33 (0.66%) CMake
15 32 (0.64%) Burp Suite
15 32 (0.64%) Postman
16 30 (0.60%) Metasploit
17 26 (0.52%) Bitbucket
18 25 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,040 (40.57%) Social Skills
2 1,060 (21.08%) Finance
3 860 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 764 (15.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 463 (9.21%) Marketing
6 446 (8.87%) Law
7 254 (5.05%) Manufacturing
8 234 (4.65%) Electronics
9 187 (3.72%) Legal
10 183 (3.64%) Financial Institution
11 167 (3.32%) Banking
12 143 (2.84%) Games
13 141 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
13 141 (2.80%) Retail
14 131 (2.61%) Public Sector
15 126 (2.51%) Telecoms
16 92 (1.83%) Investment Banking
16 92 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
17 77 (1.53%) Automotive
18 70 (1.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,192 (23.71%) Developer
2 870 (17.30%) Senior
3 747 (14.86%) Software Engineer
4 441 (8.77%) Lead
5 294 (5.85%) Software Developer
6 286 (5.69%) Analyst
7 284 (5.65%) Architect
8 269 (5.35%) Senior Developer
9 212 (4.22%) Senior Software Engineer
10 210 (4.18%) Data Scientist
11 188 (3.74%) Engineering Manager
12 182 (3.62%) Junior
13 169 (3.36%) Graduate
13 169 (3.36%) Software Engineering Manager
14 145 (2.88%) IT Support
15 136 (2.70%) Full Stack Developer
16 124 (2.47%) .NET Developer
16 124 (2.47%) Support Specialist
17 110 (2.19%) IT Support Specialist
18 108 (2.15%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 681 (13.54%) .NET
2 538 (10.70%) React
3 453 (9.01%) HTML
4 398 (7.92%) CSS
5 368 (7.32%) AngularJS
6 247 (4.91%) Spring
7 216 (4.30%) RESTful
8 207 (4.12%) Node.js
9 191 (3.80%) Kafka
10 182 (3.62%) ASP.NET
11 174 (3.46%) .NET Core
12 168 (3.34%) HTML5
13 167 (3.32%) REST
14 138 (2.74%) Web Services
15 136 (2.70%) .NET Framework
16 112 (2.23%) Spring Boot
17 109 (2.17%) JSON
18 101 (2.01%) Vue
19 97 (1.93%) NumPy
20 96 (1.91%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 552 (10.98%) Algorithms
2 439 (8.73%) Management Information System
3 368 (7.32%) Cloud Native
4 259 (5.15%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (4.36%) Data Structures
6 146 (2.90%) Client/Server
7 138 (2.74%) Product Ownership
8 132 (2.63%) Onboarding
9 123 (2.45%) Greenfield Project
10 104 (2.07%) Video Conferencing
11 100 (1.99%) Wiki
12 98 (1.95%) Mobile App
13 91 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 85 (1.69%) IoT
15 74 (1.47%) Distributed Systems
16 71 (1.41%) Market Risk
17 70 (1.39%) Virtual Team
18 65 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
19 57 (1.13%) Embedded Systems
20 56 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 579 (11.52%) Windows
2 541 (10.76%) Linux
3 185 (3.68%) Android
4 149 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 108 (2.15%) Windows Server
6 91 (1.81%) Unix
7 66 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 58 (1.15%) Mac OS
9 34 (0.68%) Kali Linux
10 29 (0.58%) Embedded Linux
10 29 (0.58%) Ubuntu
11 24 (0.48%) Windows Server 2016
12 21 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
13 20 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 19 (0.38%) CentOS
15 12 (0.24%) Debian
16 10 (0.20%) VMS
17 8 (0.16%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
18 6 (0.12%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,867 (37.13%) Problem-Solving
2 1,621 (32.24%) Software Engineering
3 1,434 (28.52%) Agile
4 1,039 (20.66%) Mathematics
5 689 (13.70%) Artificial Intelligence
6 623 (12.39%) Machine Learning
7 586 (11.65%) CI/CD
8 571 (11.36%) Mentoring
9 553 (11.00%) SDLC
10 542 (10.78%) DevOps
11 528 (10.50%) Decision-Making
12 521 (10.36%) Analytics
13 510 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
14 469 (9.33%) Data Science
15 423 (8.41%) Project Management
16 395 (7.86%) Data Analysis
17 358 (7.12%) Continuous Improvement
18 356 (7.08%) Full Stack Development
19 352 (7.00%) Microservices
20 350 (6.96%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,185 (23.57%) Python
2 1,114 (22.16%) SQL
3 955 (18.99%) C#
4 823 (16.37%) JavaScript
5 757 (15.06%) Java
6 405 (8.05%) C++
7 397 (7.90%) C
8 365 (7.26%) TypeScript
9 159 (3.16%) PHP
10 140 (2.78%) PowerShell
11 104 (2.07%) R
12 101 (2.01%) T-SQL
13 99 (1.97%) Bash
14 79 (1.57%) Embedded C
15 78 (1.55%) Go
16 74 (1.47%) Fortran
17 60 (1.19%) Kotlin
18 59 (1.17%) MATLAB
19 56 (1.11%) Scala
20 51 (1.01%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,271 (84.94%) Degree
2 2,409 (47.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 807 (16.05%) Master's Degree
4 277 (5.51%) Security Cleared
5 244 (4.85%) PhD
6 168 (3.34%) CISSP
7 165 (3.28%) SC Cleared
8 142 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 106 (2.11%) CISM
10 103 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 90 (1.79%) AWS Certification
12 77 (1.53%) Azure Certification
13 67 (1.33%) PMI Certification
14 60 (1.19%) PMP
15 57 (1.13%) CCNA
16 56 (1.11%) CCNP
17 55 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
18 46 (0.91%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
19 45 (0.89%) A+ Certification
19 45 (0.89%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (5.73%) QA
2 108 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 105 (2.09%) Data Quality
4 99 (1.97%) GDPR
5 85 (1.69%) NIST
6 80 (1.59%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.86%) PMO
8 37 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 35 (0.70%) WCAG
10 30 (0.60%) SLA
11 28 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.46%) ISO 13485
13 22 (0.44%) HIPAA
14 18 (0.36%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.30%) GRC
16 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.28%) COBIT
16 14 (0.28%) NCSC
16 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 461 (9.17%) Docker
2 251 (4.99%) Active Directory
3 141 (2.80%) Firmware
4 107 (2.13%) VMware ESXi
5 104 (2.07%) XenApp
6 100 (1.99%) Microsoft App-V
6 100 (1.99%) XenDesktop
7 80 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 48 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
9 38 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
10 35 (0.70%) Hyper-V
11 12 (0.24%) HDFS
12 9 (0.18%) vSphere
13 8 (0.16%) KVM
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.080%) pfSense
15 2 (0.040%) LXC
15 2 (0.040%) NFS
16 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 417 (8.29%) Kubernetes
2 182 (3.62%) Terraform
3 117 (2.33%) SCCM
4 100 (1.99%) AirWatch
5 64 (1.27%) Ansible
6 21 (0.42%) Grafana
6 21 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 18 (0.36%) Puppet
8 14 (0.28%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
9 12 (0.24%) WSUS
10 10 (0.20%) Nagios
10 10 (0.20%) Prometheus
11 9 (0.18%) Nessus
12 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.14%) SCOM
14 6 (0.12%) CASB
14 6 (0.12%) Jamf Pro
14 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 762 (15.16%) Microsoft
2 197 (3.92%) Google
3 196 (3.90%) Cisco
4 165 (3.28%) Oracle
5 107 (2.13%) Citrix
6 104 (2.07%) SAP
7 97 (1.93%) VMware
8 76 (1.51%) Salesforce
9 47 (0.93%) IBM
10 39 (0.78%) Databricks
11 34 (0.68%) Xilinx
12 32 (0.64%) Splunk
13 31 (0.62%) Adobe
14 30 (0.60%) Juniper
15 28 (0.56%) Apple
16 25 (0.50%) Atlassian
17 24 (0.48%) Facebook
17 24 (0.48%) ServiceNow
18 20 (0.40%) F5
19 19 (0.38%) Xamarin