Computer Science Degree Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Science Degree
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 242 141
Rank change year-on-year +107 -101 +22
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 792 575 2,028
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 2.31% 1.45% 2.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.22% 5.57% 11.95%
Number of salaries quoted 633 483 697
10th Percentile £34,200 £35,000 £30,725
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £105,000 £95,000
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 9,632 10,325 16,967
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 28.04% 25.96% 23.15%
Number of salaries quoted 5,895 6,199 8,867
10th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £78,125 £77,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

Computer Science Degree
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science Degree trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree.

Computer Science Degree salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Computer Science Degree salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 20 (2.53%) SharePoint
2 16 (2.02%) OpenStack
3 12 (1.52%) IIS
4 9 (1.14%) Confluence
5 7 (0.88%) Apache
6 6 (0.76%) WordPress
7 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Exchange
8 4 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
8 4 (0.51%) CMS
8 4 (0.51%) Luigi
8 4 (0.51%) OpenEdge
9 2 (0.25%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.25%) Moodle
9 2 (0.25%) SAS
10 1 (0.13%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.13%) Appian
10 1 (0.13%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.13%) Mule
10 1 (0.13%) Umbraco
Applications
1 47 (5.93%) Simulink
2 8 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.51%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.25%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (0.25%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.13%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.13%) Sketch
5 1 (0.13%) UXPin
5 1 (0.13%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 14 (1.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (0.76%) NetSuite
3 5 (0.63%) Odoo
4 4 (0.51%) Magento
4 4 (0.51%) Shopify
5 3 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.13%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.13%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.13%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.13%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 260 (32.83%) Azure
2 201 (25.38%) AWS
3 74 (9.34%) GCP
4 67 (8.46%) Power Platform
5 47 (5.93%) Cloud Computing
6 43 (5.43%) SaaS
7 38 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
7 38 (4.80%) PowerApps
8 33 (4.17%) Power Automate
9 31 (3.91%) Serverless
10 26 (3.28%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (3.03%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.90%) AWS CloudFormation
12 23 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
12 23 (2.90%) GitHub
13 20 (2.53%) Snowflake
14 19 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
15 14 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 14 (1.77%) Route 53
15 14 (1.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 39 (4.92%) Network Security
2 38 (4.80%) Firewall
3 23 (2.90%) TCP/IP
4 20 (2.53%) LAN
4 20 (2.53%) WAN
5 18 (2.27%) VPN
6 17 (2.15%) DNS
7 14 (1.77%) Intrusion Detection
8 13 (1.64%) DHCP
8 13 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
9 11 (1.39%) SAN
9 11 (1.39%) VLAN
10 9 (1.14%) MQTT
11 8 (1.01%) HTTP
11 8 (1.01%) SSL
11 8 (1.01%) WLAN
12 7 (0.88%) MPLS
12 7 (0.88%) Wireless
13 5 (0.63%) BGP
13 5 (0.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 65 (8.21%) Power BI
3 55 (6.94%) NoSQL
4 52 (6.57%) Relational Database
5 32 (4.04%) PostgreSQL
5 32 (4.04%) Redis
6 27 (3.41%) Data Warehouse
6 27 (3.41%) MySQL
7 23 (2.90%) Big Data
8 20 (2.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 17 (2.15%) Amazon RDS
10 14 (1.77%) Elasticsearch
11 13 (1.64%) Data Lake
11 13 (1.64%) MongoDB
11 13 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 11 (1.39%) Azure SQL Database
13 10 (1.26%) Power Query
14 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
15 6 (0.76%) MS Access
15 6 (0.76%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 117 (14.77%) Git
2 22 (2.78%) JIRA
3 21 (2.65%) Visual Studio
4 20 (2.53%) Jenkins
5 18 (2.27%) Vagrant
6 14 (1.77%) CMake
6 14 (1.77%) Subversion
7 11 (1.39%) GitLab
8 9 (1.14%) Selenium
8 9 (1.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 6 (0.76%) JUnit
10 5 (0.63%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.63%) Xcode
11 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
12 3 (0.38%) gulp
12 3 (0.38%) JMeter
12 3 (0.38%) MSTest
12 3 (0.38%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.38%) TestNG
12 3 (0.38%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 396 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 136 (17.17%) Finance
3 123 (15.53%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (6.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 51 (6.44%) Public Sector
6 34 (4.29%) Marketing
7 31 (3.91%) Retail
8 25 (3.16%) Legal
9 20 (2.53%) Law
9 20 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
10 18 (2.27%) Telecoms
11 17 (2.15%) Games
11 17 (2.15%) Military
12 16 (2.02%) Back Office
12 16 (2.02%) Electronics
13 15 (1.89%) Manufacturing
14 9 (1.14%) Banking
14 9 (1.14%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.01%) Advertising
16 6 (0.76%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 274 (34.60%) Developer
2 139 (17.55%) Senior
3 107 (13.51%) Software Engineer
4 74 (9.34%) Architect
5 68 (8.59%) Lead
6 60 (7.58%) Software Developer
7 52 (6.57%) .NET Developer
8 43 (5.43%) Junior
8 43 (5.43%) Senior Developer
9 38 (4.80%) Senior Software Engineer
10 37 (4.67%) Analyst
11 35 (4.42%) C++ Software Engineer
11 35 (4.42%) PHP Developer
12 31 (3.91%) Junior Developer
13 29 (3.66%) Consultant
13 29 (3.66%) Full Stack Developer
13 29 (3.66%) Technical Architect
14 27 (3.41%) DevOps Engineer
14 27 (3.41%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
15 23 (2.90%) Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 131 (16.54%) .NET
2 105 (13.26%) HTML
3 92 (11.62%) CSS
4 69 (8.71%) React
5 56 (7.07%) AngularJS
6 45 (5.68%) REST
7 43 (5.43%) ASP.NET
8 37 (4.67%) .NET Framework
9 36 (4.55%) XML
10 34 (4.29%) .NET Core
11 30 (3.79%) Web Services
12 28 (3.54%) Node.js
13 27 (3.41%) HTML5
13 27 (3.41%) Laravel
14 26 (3.28%) Middleware
14 26 (3.28%) Spring
15 23 (2.90%) RESTful
15 23 (2.90%) Vue
16 20 (2.53%) Twitter Bootstrap
17 19 (2.40%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 70 (8.84%) Management Information System
2 48 (6.06%) Algorithms
2 48 (6.06%) Data Centre
3 34 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
4 23 (2.90%) Greenfield Project
5 22 (2.78%) IoT
6 20 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 20 (2.53%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.15%) Mobile App
8 14 (1.77%) Life Science
8 14 (1.77%) NHS
8 14 (1.77%) Product Ownership
9 13 (1.64%) Cloud Native
9 13 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
10 11 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
10 11 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 10 (1.26%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.26%) Virtual Team
12 9 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 140 (17.68%) Linux
2 89 (11.24%) Windows
3 46 (5.81%) Android
4 26 (3.28%) Apple iOS
5 22 (2.78%) Windows Server
6 20 (2.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 19 (2.40%) Embedded Linux
7 19 (2.40%) Ubuntu
8 18 (2.27%) CentOS
9 12 (1.52%) Unix
10 6 (0.76%) Windows 10
11 4 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.38%) Windows 7
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (0.25%) Alpine Linux
13 2 (0.25%) Debian
13 2 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 768 (96.97%) Computer Science
2 338 (42.68%) Problem-Solving
3 253 (31.94%) Software Engineering
4 245 (30.93%) Agile
5 161 (20.33%) DevOps
6 119 (15.03%) Mentoring
7 105 (13.26%) CI/CD
8 104 (13.13%) Artificial Intelligence
8 104 (13.13%) Machine Learning
9 82 (10.35%) Roadmaps
10 78 (9.85%) Containerisation
11 76 (9.60%) Analytics
12 73 (9.22%) Data Modelling
12 73 (9.22%) Technical Leadership
13 71 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
13 71 (8.96%) Microservices
14 69 (8.71%) Business Intelligence
14 69 (8.71%) Collaborative Working
15 68 (8.59%) Code Quality
16 64 (8.08%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 218 (27.53%) Python
2 205 (25.88%) SQL
3 185 (23.36%) C#
4 176 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 143 (18.06%) Java
6 100 (12.63%) C++
7 63 (7.95%) TypeScript
8 49 (6.19%) PHP
9 43 (5.43%) C
10 22 (2.78%) Bash
11 19 (2.40%) PowerShell
12 18 (2.27%) Kotlin
13 15 (1.89%) T-SQL
14 10 (1.26%) Objective-C
14 10 (1.26%) Swift
15 8 (1.01%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.01%) VB.NET
16 7 (0.88%) Go
16 7 (0.88%) VB
16 7 (0.88%) XPath
Qualifications
1 792 (100.00%) Degree
2 123 (15.53%) Security Cleared
3 105 (13.26%) Master's Degree
4 95 (11.99%) SC Cleared
5 45 (5.68%) AWS Certification
6 36 (4.55%) CISSP
7 35 (4.42%) Azure Certification
8 34 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
9 23 (2.90%) DV Cleared
10 22 (2.78%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 19 (2.40%) CISM
12 18 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
13 13 (1.64%) CCNA
13 13 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (1.52%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
15 10 (1.26%) CREST Certified
15 10 (1.26%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (1.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.14%) CCNP
16 9 (1.14%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (7.83%) QA
2 28 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 10 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.14%) SLA
5 7 (0.88%) GDPR
6 6 (0.76%) Accessibility
6 6 (0.76%) COBIT
6 6 (0.76%) NIST
6 6 (0.76%) Web Application Security Consortium
7 4 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
7 4 (0.51%) ISO 9001
8 3 (0.38%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 3 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
9 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
10 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.13%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.13%) JSP 440
10 1 (0.13%) RMADS
10 1 (0.13%) WCAG
System Software
1 125 (15.78%) Docker
2 29 (3.66%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.39%) Firmware
4 9 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (1.01%) Hyper-V
6 7 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.51%) KVM
8 3 (0.38%) XenApp
9 2 (0.25%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.25%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 89 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 60 (7.58%) Terraform
3 43 (5.43%) Ansible
4 16 (2.02%) Puppet
5 10 (1.26%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.01%) Grafana
7 6 (0.76%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 6 (0.76%) Nagios
7 6 (0.76%) Progress Chef
7 6 (0.76%) Prometheus
7 6 (0.76%) SCCM
8 5 (0.63%) Nessus
8 5 (0.63%) SCOM
9 3 (0.38%) EMC VPLEX
9 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
9 3 (0.38%) OfficeScan
9 3 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.38%) WSUS
10 1 (0.13%) cPanel
Vendors
1 141 (17.80%) Microsoft
2 46 (5.81%) Google
3 40 (5.05%) Xilinx
4 24 (3.03%) SAP
5 16 (2.02%) Cisco
6 15 (1.89%) Oracle
7 14 (1.77%) Databricks
7 14 (1.77%) IBM
8 13 (1.64%) ServiceNow
9 12 (1.52%) NVIDIA
9 12 (1.52%) Salesforce
9 12 (1.52%) VMware
10 7 (0.88%) UiPath
11 6 (0.76%) Centreon
11 6 (0.76%) Citrix
11 6 (0.76%) Juniper
11 6 (0.76%) Splunk
12 5 (0.63%) SolarWinds
13 4 (0.51%) Veeam
14 3 (0.38%) Coverity