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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 71 43
Rank change year-on-year +23 -28 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,553 2,492 4,679
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.50% 4.48% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.54% 4.69% 6.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,260 1,342 1,597
10th Percentile £30,725 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +9.09%

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 64,107 53,150 71,511
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.14% 95.49% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,360 28,415 41,497
10th Percentile £27,500 £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 £80,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 June 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 9 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 +15 1,073 £60,000 +4.35% 218
North of England +65 686 £47,500 -13.64% 185
Scotland +10 574 £52,500 -4.55% 59
Midlands +31 490 £50,000 -9.09% 167
North West +61 395 £50,000 -16.67% 106
South West +12 362 £52,500 -12.50% 97
West Midlands +43 331 £50,000 -13.04% 84
East of England -6 264 £45,000 -14.29% 102
Yorkshire +74 225 £41,500 -20.95% 53
East Midlands -1 153 £42,500 -15.00% 83
North East +3 66 £48,367 +13.80% 29
Northern Ireland +10 47 £40,000 -20.00% 21
Wales -50 42 £34,000 -40.87% 12
Isle of Man - 14 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
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 62 (1.75%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.27%) FileNet
3 35 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 28 (0.79%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.62%) Confluence
6 18 (0.51%) IIS
7 17 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.48%) WordPress
8 16 (0.45%) Apache
8 16 (0.45%) CMS
8 16 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.42%) SAS
10 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.17%) nginx
12 5 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.14%) Luigi
12 5 (0.14%) Moodle
13 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
14 3 (0.084%) WildFly
15 2 (0.056%) Appian
Applications
1 101 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 64 (1.80%) Simulink
4 32 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.39%) Trello
6 8 (0.23%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.084%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.084%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.084%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.084%) Revit
8 2 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.056%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.056%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.028%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.028%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.028%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.028%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.028%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 19 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.25%) SAP CX
6 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 5 (0.14%) Odoo
8 4 (0.11%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
9 3 (0.084%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.084%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.084%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.028%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.028%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 577 (16.24%) AWS
2 517 (14.55%) Azure
3 166 (4.67%) Power Platform
4 131 (3.69%) GCP
5 120 (3.38%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.32%) GitHub
7 110 (3.10%) Amazon S3
8 98 (2.76%) SaaS
9 80 (2.25%) Serverless
10 76 (2.14%) Azure DevOps
11 68 (1.91%) AWS Lambda
11 68 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
13 46 (1.29%) Amazon Kinesis
14 25 (0.70%) Power Automate
15 24 (0.68%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.62%) Snowflake
17 21 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (0.53%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 203 (5.71%) Network Security
2 136 (3.83%) Firewall
3 109 (3.07%) Internet
4 91 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 80 (2.25%) WLAN
6 79 (2.22%) Wireless
7 75 (2.11%) WAN
8 73 (2.05%) VPN
9 67 (1.89%) DNS
10 61 (1.72%) HTTP
11 52 (1.46%) LAN
12 36 (1.01%) DHCP
12 36 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
14 32 (0.90%) VLAN
15 29 (0.82%) SD-WAN
16 25 (0.70%) Ethernet
16 25 (0.70%) SAN
17 23 (0.65%) MQTT
18 21 (0.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (7.54%) SQL Server
2 262 (7.37%) NoSQL
3 158 (4.45%) Power BI
4 126 (3.55%) MySQL
5 122 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 118 (3.32%) Data Warehouse
7 115 (3.24%) PostgreSQL
8 83 (2.34%) Redis
9 72 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 63 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 59 (1.66%) Big Data
12 47 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 47 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 41 (1.15%) DynamoDB
14 39 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
14 39 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 32 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
16 31 (0.87%) Tableau
17 29 (0.82%) MongoDB
17 29 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 373 (10.50%) Git
2 103 (2.90%) JIRA
3 102 (2.87%) Jenkins
4 55 (1.55%) Visual Studio
5 53 (1.49%) JUnit
6 52 (1.46%) Selenium
7 49 (1.38%) Mockito
8 46 (1.29%) Jasmine
9 42 (1.18%) Cypress.io
10 39 (1.10%) Subversion
11 38 (1.07%) GitLab
12 27 (0.76%) LabVIEW
13 26 (0.73%) CMake
14 24 (0.68%) Gatling
15 23 (0.65%) Postman
16 20 (0.56%) Appium
16 20 (0.56%) Bitbucket
16 20 (0.56%) Vagrant
17 17 (0.48%) NUnit
17 17 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 1,283 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 637 (17.93%) Finance
3 630 (17.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 527 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
5 393 (11.06%) Law
6 340 (9.57%) Marketing
7 241 (6.78%) Electronics
8 224 (6.30%) Manufacturing
9 149 (4.19%) Financial Institution
10 145 (4.08%) Legal
11 111 (3.12%) Games
12 99 (2.79%) Banking
13 86 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
14 84 (2.36%) Retail
15 77 (2.17%) Telecoms
16 69 (1.94%) Automotive
16 69 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.89%) Investment Banking
18 65 (1.83%) Public Sector
19 58 (1.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 789 (22.21%) Developer
2 651 (18.32%) Software Engineer
3 578 (16.27%) Senior
4 266 (7.49%) Lead
5 245 (6.90%) Software Developer
6 166 (4.67%) Engineering Manager
7 165 (4.64%) Senior Software Engineer
8 164 (4.62%) Data Scientist
9 163 (4.59%) Analyst
10 161 (4.53%) Architect
11 160 (4.50%) Senior Developer
12 159 (4.48%) Junior
13 153 (4.31%) Software Engineering Manager
14 146 (4.11%) Graduate
15 133 (3.74%) Support Engineer
16 114 (3.21%) IT Support
17 90 (2.53%) Java Engineer
18 88 (2.48%) Java Software Engineer
19 86 (2.42%) Embedded Engineer
20 83 (2.34%) Full Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (12.55%) .NET
2 373 (10.50%) React
3 315 (8.87%) HTML
4 301 (8.47%) AngularJS
5 257 (7.23%) CSS
6 172 (4.84%) Spring
7 168 (4.73%) Node.js
8 164 (4.62%) RESTful
9 138 (3.88%) Kafka
10 137 (3.86%) .NET Core
11 125 (3.52%) HTML5
12 120 (3.38%) REST
13 101 (2.84%) Web Services
14 96 (2.70%) ASP.NET
15 92 (2.59%) GraphQL
16 86 (2.42%) .NET Framework
17 85 (2.39%) JSON
18 78 (2.20%) Spring Boot
18 78 (2.20%) Vue
19 74 (2.08%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 422 (11.88%) Algorithms
2 336 (9.46%) Cloud Native
3 302 (8.50%) Management Information System
4 176 (4.95%) Self-Motivation
5 152 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 111 (3.12%) Data Structures
7 110 (3.10%) Driving Licence
8 99 (2.79%) Product Ownership
9 76 (2.14%) Mobile App
10 75 (2.11%) Data Centre
11 62 (1.75%) Client/Server
11 62 (1.75%) IoT
12 60 (1.69%) Market Risk
13 57 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
14 52 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
15 49 (1.38%) FPGA
16 42 (1.18%) Public Cloud
17 41 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
17 41 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
18 40 (1.13%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 507 (14.27%) Linux
2 435 (12.24%) Windows
3 81 (2.28%) Unix
4 80 (2.25%) Android
5 64 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 49 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 48 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 41 (1.15%) Embedded Linux
9 38 (1.07%) Ubuntu
10 33 (0.93%) Windows 10
11 29 (0.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 26 (0.73%) CentOS
13 13 (0.37%) Debian
14 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
17 7 (0.20%) VMS
18 5 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.14%) SUSE
19 4 (0.11%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,401 (39.43%) Problem-Solving
2 1,242 (34.96%) Software Engineering
3 1,083 (30.48%) Agile
4 810 (22.80%) Mathematics
5 505 (14.21%) Artificial Intelligence
6 494 (13.90%) Mentoring
7 465 (13.09%) SDLC
8 425 (11.96%) Decision-Making
9 404 (11.37%) Machine Learning
10 401 (11.29%) CI/CD
11 389 (10.95%) DevOps
12 360 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
13 359 (10.10%) Analytics
14 326 (9.18%) Coaching
15 292 (8.22%) Project Management
16 285 (8.02%) Data Analysis
17 271 (7.63%) Data Science
18 267 (7.51%) Physics
19 264 (7.43%) Continuous Improvement
20 256 (7.21%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 785 (22.09%) Python
2 756 (21.28%) SQL
3 638 (17.96%) C#
4 594 (16.72%) JavaScript
5 538 (15.14%) Java
6 367 (10.33%) C++
7 362 (10.19%) C
8 265 (7.46%) TypeScript
9 117 (3.29%) PHP
10 92 (2.59%) Fortran
11 91 (2.56%) Bash
12 82 (2.31%) Embedded C
13 77 (2.17%) PowerShell
14 53 (1.49%) Go
15 52 (1.46%) R
16 49 (1.38%) T-SQL
17 48 (1.35%) MATLAB
18 46 (1.29%) Kotlin
19 42 (1.18%) Scala
20 39 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,001 (84.46%) Degree
2 1,634 (45.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 400 (11.26%) Master's Degree
4 278 (7.82%) Security Cleared
5 180 (5.07%) PhD
6 152 (4.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 151 (4.25%) Cisco Certification
8 139 (3.91%) SC Cleared
9 125 (3.52%) CCNA
9 125 (3.52%) CCNP
10 102 (2.87%) MCP
11 84 (2.36%) CISSP
12 81 (2.28%) MCSE
13 67 (1.89%) LPIC
14 62 (1.75%) AWS Certification
15 53 (1.49%) Azure Certification
16 51 (1.44%) PMI Certification
17 47 (1.32%) PMP
18 45 (1.27%) DV Cleared
19 40 (1.13%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.43%) QA
2 65 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (1.75%) GDPR
4 58 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.58%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.29%) NIST
7 42 (1.18%) PMO
8 29 (0.82%) WCAG
9 23 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.59%) ISO 13485
11 19 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.51%) SLA
13 16 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.28%) GRC
16 10 (0.28%) NCSC
17 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.25%) JTAG
18 8 (0.23%) CDISC
System Software
1 288 (8.11%) Docker
2 150 (4.22%) Firmware
3 106 (2.98%) Active Directory
4 61 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 24 (0.68%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 10 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 6 (0.17%) KVM
10 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.11%) pfSense
11 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.056%) HDFS
13 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.028%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 300 (8.44%) Kubernetes
2 120 (3.38%) Terraform
3 53 (1.49%) Ansible
4 20 (0.56%) Puppet
5 13 (0.37%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.34%) SCCM
7 10 (0.28%) Grafana
8 9 (0.25%) Nagios
8 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.23%) WSUS
10 7 (0.20%) Nessus
10 7 (0.20%) SCOM
11 6 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.17%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.14%) Rancher
12 5 (0.14%) Suricata
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.084%) Autotask
Vendors
1 521 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 147 (4.14%) Cisco
3 132 (3.72%) Google
4 122 (3.43%) Oracle
5 72 (2.03%) SAP
6 67 (1.89%) VMware
7 52 (1.46%) Xilinx
8 51 (1.44%) Salesforce
9 28 (0.79%) Databricks
10 26 (0.73%) Juniper
11 21 (0.59%) Apple
12 20 (0.56%) F5
13 19 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.53%) Splunk
14 18 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 17 (0.48%) IBM
16 15 (0.42%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.39%) Fortinet
18 13 (0.37%) Red Hat
19 12 (0.34%) Veeam