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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 164 157
Rank change year-on-year +36 -7 +13
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,588 1,234 1,781
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.09% 2.18% 2.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.97% 5.79% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 1,219 755 721
10th Percentile £31,250 £33,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,800 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.65% +21.60% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £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 19,915 21,308 23,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.21% 37.69% 32.42%
Number of salaries quoted 12,282 7,936 10,537
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £28,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.38% +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 1 June 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 1 June 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 +30 534 £60,000 -1.32% 101
North of England +84 386 £50,000 -16.67% 97
Midlands +7 209 £50,000 -17.76% 80
North West +43 206 £50,000 -16.67% 50
Yorkshire +116 159 £45,000 -18.18% 34
South West -12 159 £47,500 -21.88% 63
West Midlands +25 134 £52,500 -16.00% 47
Scotland -53 129 £57,500 -2.79% 35
East of England +13 117 £40,000 -32.38% 50
East Midlands -26 73 £46,844 -3.91% 33
Wales -19 24 £34,000 -24.44% 6
North East -11 21 £52,500 +17.32% 16
Northern Ireland +10 19 £40,500 -10.00% 11
Isle of Man - 10 £37,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
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 32 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 29 (1.83%) FileNet
3 22 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.01%) OpenStack
5 12 (0.76%) Confluence
5 12 (0.76%) WordPress
6 8 (0.50%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.50%) IIS
7 6 (0.38%) Apache
8 5 (0.31%) CMS
9 4 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
9 4 (0.25%) Luigi
9 4 (0.25%) OpenEdge
10 3 (0.19%) Tomcat
10 3 (0.19%) WildFly
11 2 (0.13%) Appian
11 2 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.13%) SAS
12 1 (0.063%) JBoss
12 1 (0.063%) Site Server
Applications
1 54 (3.40%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (3.09%) Simulink
3 37 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.50%) InfoPath
6 2 (0.13%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.13%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.13%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.063%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.063%) Autodesk Inventor
7 1 (0.063%) Fusion 360
7 1 (0.063%) Revit
7 1 (0.063%) Trello
Business Applications
1 19 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (1.13%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.50%) Shopify
4 5 (0.31%) Odoo
5 4 (0.25%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.25%) Magento
6 3 (0.19%) 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 (0.063%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.063%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.063%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.063%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.063%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 299 (18.83%) AWS
2 290 (18.26%) Azure
3 89 (5.60%) Amazon S3
4 71 (4.47%) GitHub
5 69 (4.35%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.22%) GCP
6 67 (4.22%) Microsoft 365
7 54 (3.40%) SaaS
8 53 (3.34%) Serverless
9 49 (3.09%) Amazon EC2
10 48 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
11 42 (2.64%) Amazon Kinesis
12 39 (2.46%) Cloud Computing
13 37 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
14 21 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (1.26%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (1.26%) Snowflake
16 19 (1.20%) Route 53
17 17 (1.07%) IaaS
18 16 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 107 (6.74%) Firewall
2 91 (5.73%) Network Security
3 55 (3.46%) WAN
4 49 (3.09%) LAN
5 48 (3.02%) TCP/IP
6 46 (2.90%) DNS
7 38 (2.39%) VPN
8 36 (2.27%) DHCP
9 33 (2.08%) VLAN
10 32 (2.02%) HTTP
11 24 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
11 24 (1.51%) Wireless
12 23 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (1.01%) SAN
14 15 (0.94%) NAS
15 14 (0.88%) Internet
16 12 (0.76%) SSL
17 11 (0.69%) MPLS
17 11 (0.69%) MQTT
17 11 (0.69%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 185 (11.65%) SQL Server
2 169 (10.64%) NoSQL
3 93 (5.86%) MySQL
4 80 (5.04%) Data Warehouse
5 71 (4.47%) PostgreSQL
6 67 (4.22%) Relational Database
7 65 (4.09%) Amazon RDS
7 65 (4.09%) Power BI
8 45 (2.83%) Redis
9 42 (2.64%) Elasticsearch
10 37 (2.33%) DynamoDB
11 31 (1.95%) Big Data
12 30 (1.89%) Apache Cassandra
12 30 (1.89%) MongoDB
13 28 (1.76%) Amazon Redshift
14 26 (1.64%) RDBMS
15 25 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 23 (1.45%) Amazon Aurora
17 19 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
18 17 (1.07%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 248 (15.62%) Git
2 59 (3.72%) Jenkins
3 55 (3.46%) JIRA
4 32 (2.02%) JUnit
5 29 (1.83%) Jasmine
5 29 (1.83%) Mockito
5 29 (1.83%) Subversion
6 22 (1.39%) Postman
7 21 (1.32%) CMake
7 21 (1.32%) Visual Studio
8 19 (1.20%) Gatling
9 18 (1.13%) Vagrant
10 16 (1.01%) Appium
11 14 (0.88%) GitLab
12 12 (0.76%) NUnit
12 12 (0.76%) Selenium
13 11 (0.69%) LabVIEW
13 11 (0.69%) Team Foundation Server
14 10 (0.63%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 9 (0.57%) Moq
General
1 724 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 249 (15.68%) Analytical Skills
3 197 (12.41%) Finance
4 105 (6.61%) Manufacturing
5 90 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 82 (5.16%) Marketing
7 81 (5.10%) Electronics
8 69 (4.35%) Law
9 49 (3.09%) Retail
10 48 (3.02%) Legal
11 45 (2.83%) Games
12 44 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
13 36 (2.27%) Public Sector
14 33 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
15 31 (1.95%) Military
16 25 (1.57%) Telecoms
17 23 (1.45%) Aerospace
17 23 (1.45%) Billing
18 17 (1.07%) Banking
19 16 (1.01%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 497 (31.30%) Developer
2 244 (15.37%) Software Engineer
3 226 (14.23%) Senior
4 145 (9.13%) Software Developer
5 144 (9.07%) Lead
6 92 (5.79%) Architect
7 84 (5.29%) Senior Developer
8 75 (4.72%) Analyst
9 69 (4.35%) Junior
10 58 (3.65%) Full Stack Developer
11 57 (3.59%) .NET Developer
12 53 (3.34%) Support Engineer
13 48 (3.02%) Graduate
14 47 (2.96%) Network Engineer
15 45 (2.83%) C++ Software Engineer
16 44 (2.77%) Senior Software Developer
17 40 (2.52%) Senior Software Engineer
18 39 (2.46%) 2nd Line Engineer
18 39 (2.46%) Lead Developer
19 37 (2.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 245 (15.43%) .NET
2 207 (13.04%) React
3 158 (9.95%) HTML
4 135 (8.50%) CSS
5 124 (7.81%) AngularJS
6 76 (4.79%) Spring
7 64 (4.03%) JSON
8 62 (3.90%) Node.js
9 60 (3.78%) .NET Framework
10 58 (3.65%) Kafka
11 56 (3.53%) REST
12 54 (3.40%) GraphQL
13 52 (3.27%) .NET Core
14 50 (3.15%) Vue
15 49 (3.09%) Web Services
16 43 (2.71%) RESTful
17 42 (2.64%) HTML5
18 39 (2.46%) ASP.NET
19 37 (2.33%) XML
20 33 (2.08%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 174 (10.96%) Management Information System
2 96 (6.05%) Algorithms
3 87 (5.48%) Self-Motivation
4 84 (5.29%) Cloud Native
5 57 (3.59%) Data Centre
6 55 (3.46%) Mobile App
7 47 (2.96%) Product Ownership
8 41 (2.58%) Distributed Systems
8 41 (2.58%) Onboarding
9 36 (2.27%) IoT
10 34 (2.14%) Driving Licence
11 28 (1.76%) Cyber Threat
12 27 (1.70%) Enterprise Software
13 24 (1.51%) Client/Server
13 24 (1.51%) Data Structures
14 21 (1.32%) Blog
15 20 (1.26%) Replication
16 19 (1.20%) Media Streaming
17 18 (1.13%) Public Cloud
18 17 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 262 (16.50%) Windows
2 248 (15.62%) Linux
3 72 (4.53%) Android
4 64 (4.03%) Windows Server
5 45 (2.83%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.27%) Apple iOS
7 33 (2.08%) Ubuntu
8 30 (1.89%) Unix
9 25 (1.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 23 (1.45%) Windows 10
11 19 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
12 18 (1.13%) CentOS
13 12 (0.76%) Windows Server 2019
14 10 (0.63%) Debian
15 7 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
16 6 (0.38%) VMS
17 5 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
18 4 (0.25%) Windows Vista
19 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,528 (96.22%) Computer Science
2 687 (43.26%) Problem-Solving
3 484 (30.48%) Agile
4 440 (27.71%) Software Engineering
5 291 (18.32%) DevOps
6 217 (13.66%) Artificial Intelligence
7 181 (11.40%) Mentoring
8 178 (11.21%) CI/CD
9 171 (10.77%) Machine Learning
10 166 (10.45%) Mathematics
11 160 (10.08%) SDLC
12 144 (9.07%) Analytics
13 135 (8.50%) Project Management
14 124 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
15 121 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
16 120 (7.56%) Full Stack Development
17 115 (7.24%) Roadmaps
18 114 (7.18%) Microservices
19 111 (6.99%) Data Modelling
19 111 (6.99%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 377 (23.74%) SQL
2 363 (22.86%) Python
3 352 (22.17%) JavaScript
4 314 (19.77%) C#
5 259 (16.31%) Java
6 156 (9.82%) C++
7 127 (8.00%) TypeScript
8 115 (7.24%) C
9 73 (4.60%) PHP
10 50 (3.15%) PowerShell
11 41 (2.58%) Bash
12 32 (2.02%) Scala
13 31 (1.95%) Kotlin
14 29 (1.83%) R
15 26 (1.64%) Go
16 20 (1.26%) T-SQL
17 14 (0.88%) MATLAB
17 14 (0.88%) PL/SQL
17 14 (0.88%) Rust
17 14 (0.88%) VB
Qualifications
1 1,588 (100.00%) Degree
2 191 (12.03%) Master's Degree
3 138 (8.69%) Security Cleared
4 96 (6.05%) SC Cleared
5 79 (4.97%) Cisco Certification
6 61 (3.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (3.65%) CCNA
8 54 (3.40%) AWS Certification
9 53 (3.34%) CCNP
10 45 (2.83%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.77%) CISSP
12 42 (2.64%) PhD
13 36 (2.27%) DBS Check
14 32 (2.02%) MCP
15 31 (1.95%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 30 (1.89%) DV Cleared
17 27 (1.70%) A+ Certification
17 27 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
18 23 (1.45%) CCIE
19 22 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (6.74%) QA
2 41 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 34 (2.14%) GDPR
4 22 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (1.26%) Accessibility
6 14 (0.88%) NIST
6 14 (0.88%) SLA
7 13 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
8 12 (0.76%) HIPAA
8 12 (0.76%) PMO
9 10 (0.63%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 7 (0.44%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.25%) PCI DSS
12 3 (0.19%) 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 (0.063%) GMP
14 1 (0.063%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 190 (11.96%) Docker
2 81 (5.10%) Active Directory
3 35 (2.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.13%) Firmware
5 16 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
6 13 (0.82%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.57%) vSphere
8 8 (0.50%) Virtual Desktop
9 5 (0.31%) pfSense
9 5 (0.31%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (0.25%) XenApp
11 3 (0.19%) KVM
11 3 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
12 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
12 2 (0.13%) HDFS
13 1 (0.063%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.063%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.063%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 198 (12.47%) Kubernetes
2 81 (5.10%) Terraform
3 47 (2.96%) Ansible
4 18 (1.13%) Puppet
5 12 (0.76%) SCCM
5 12 (0.76%) ZABBIX
6 9 (0.57%) Grafana
7 8 (0.50%) Nagios
8 7 (0.44%) Progress Chef
8 7 (0.44%) SCOM
8 7 (0.44%) WSUS
9 6 (0.38%) Prometheus
10 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
10 5 (0.31%) Microsoft Intune
10 5 (0.31%) Nessus
10 5 (0.31%) Rancher
11 3 (0.19%) Autotask
11 3 (0.19%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.19%) OfficeScan
11 3 (0.19%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 258 (16.25%) Microsoft
2 71 (4.47%) Cisco
2 71 (4.47%) Google
2 71 (4.47%) Oracle
3 42 (2.64%) VMware
4 40 (2.52%) Xilinx
5 35 (2.20%) SAP
6 29 (1.83%) Salesforce
7 21 (1.32%) Databricks
8 20 (1.26%) Apple
9 18 (1.13%) Juniper
10 16 (1.01%) F5
11 14 (0.88%) Fortinet
11 14 (0.88%) Splunk
11 14 (0.88%) Xamarin
12 13 (0.82%) Atlassian
13 12 (0.76%) NVIDIA
13 12 (0.76%) Veeam
14 10 (0.63%) IBM
14 10 (0.63%) ServiceNow