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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,061 5,341 11,440
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.07% 5.39% 7.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 5.63% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,417 3,022 3,698
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,500
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 £87,500 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £112,500 £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 85,135 94,784 153,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.22% 95.58% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 59,872 55,911 82,488
10th Percentile £29,089 £34,000 £33,635
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
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 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Top 19 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 18 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 +15 4,229 £60,000 -7.69% 1,996
UK excluding London +22 3,369 £52,500 -4.55% 1,146
London +5 1,528 £75,000 -6.25% 1,074
Work from Home +14 1,444 £60,000 -11.11% 867
South East +8 1,029 £60,000 +4.35% 424
North of England +74 650 £48,000 -12.73% 206
Scotland +5 591 £52,500 -4.55% 57
Midlands +16 390 £50,000 -5.66% 165
North West +63 364 £50,000 -16.67% 108
South West +15 359 £50,000 -15.53% 105
West Midlands +31 267 £51,431 -6.49% 94
East of England +1 254 £46,000 -8.00% 155
Yorkshire +93 226 £45,000 -14.29% 64
East Midlands -5 117 £42,500 -15.00% 71
North East +1 60 £48,734 +14.67% 36
Northern Ireland +12 44 £40,000 -13.04% 18
Wales -54 39 £34,000 -40.87% 29
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 4
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

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
1 135 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 105 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 97 (1.92%) Apache Spark
4 45 (0.89%) FileNet
5 43 (0.85%) Apache
6 41 (0.81%) Confluence
7 40 (0.79%) CMS
8 32 (0.63%) IIS
9 30 (0.59%) SAS
10 28 (0.55%) Apache Airflow
11 21 (0.41%) WordPress
12 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 11 (0.22%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.18%) nginx
17 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
17 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
18 7 (0.14%) Moodle
19 5 (0.099%) Luigi
Applications
1 111 (2.19%) Microsoft Office
2 107 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (1.09%) Simulink
4 38 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (0.34%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.28%) Trello
7 11 (0.22%) SPSS
8 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
9 8 (0.16%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.079%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.040%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.040%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.040%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.020%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.020%) AutoCAD
13 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.020%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 28 (0.55%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.43%) NetSuite
4 19 (0.38%) 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 (0.079%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.079%) Magento
9 4 (0.079%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.079%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.079%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.059%) Endur
10 3 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.059%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.059%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.059%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.040%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 948 (18.73%) AWS
2 891 (17.61%) Azure
3 286 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
4 279 (5.51%) Power Platform
5 269 (5.32%) GCP
6 182 (3.60%) SaaS
7 160 (3.16%) GitHub
8 142 (2.81%) Serverless
9 135 (2.67%) Amazon S3
10 132 (2.61%) Cloud Computing
11 116 (2.29%) Azure DevOps
12 104 (2.05%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 58 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 58 (1.15%) Power Automate
15 47 (0.93%) IaaS
16 44 (0.87%) PaaS
17 42 (0.83%) Entra ID
18 40 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
19 36 (0.71%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 182 (3.60%) Network Security
2 172 (3.40%) WAN
3 171 (3.38%) Wireless
4 158 (3.12%) Firewall
5 115 (2.27%) SD-WAN
5 115 (2.27%) TCP/IP
6 91 (1.80%) DNS
7 90 (1.78%) VPN
8 89 (1.76%) Cisco IOS
9 88 (1.74%) WebEx
10 68 (1.34%) HTTP
11 62 (1.23%) Internet
11 62 (1.23%) LAN
12 53 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
13 46 (0.91%) DHCP
14 42 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
15 31 (0.61%) SAN
16 30 (0.59%) VLAN
17 29 (0.57%) Ethernet
18 22 (0.43%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 445 (8.79%) SQL Server
2 294 (5.81%) NoSQL
3 256 (5.06%) Power BI
4 192 (3.79%) Relational Database
5 187 (3.69%) MySQL
6 183 (3.62%) Data Warehouse
7 160 (3.16%) PostgreSQL
8 124 (2.45%) Big Data
9 119 (2.35%) Redis
10 86 (1.70%) Tableau
11 80 (1.58%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 79 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 65 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
14 64 (1.26%) Hadoop
15 63 (1.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 52 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
16 52 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
17 49 (0.97%) Data Lake
17 49 (0.97%) MongoDB
18 42 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 529 (10.45%) Git
2 181 (3.58%) JIRA
3 144 (2.85%) Jenkins
4 88 (1.74%) GitLab
5 87 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 74 (1.46%) JUnit
7 56 (1.11%) Selenium
8 52 (1.03%) Jasmine
8 52 (1.03%) Mockito
9 45 (0.89%) TeamCity
10 43 (0.85%) Cypress.io
10 43 (0.85%) Moq
10 43 (0.85%) NUnit
11 41 (0.81%) Subversion
12 34 (0.67%) CMake
13 32 (0.63%) Postman
14 30 (0.59%) Burp Suite
15 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
16 27 (0.53%) Bitbucket
17 26 (0.51%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,082 (41.14%) Social Skills
2 1,066 (21.06%) Finance
3 893 (17.64%) Analytical Skills
4 759 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 467 (9.23%) Marketing
6 451 (8.91%) Law
7 258 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 242 (4.78%) Electronics
9 190 (3.75%) Legal
10 181 (3.58%) Financial Institution
11 174 (3.44%) Banking
12 145 (2.87%) Games
13 144 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
14 140 (2.77%) Retail
15 128 (2.53%) Public Sector
16 117 (2.31%) Telecoms
17 91 (1.80%) Investment Banking
18 88 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
19 79 (1.56%) Automotive
20 66 (1.30%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,194 (23.59%) Developer
2 874 (17.27%) Senior
3 747 (14.76%) Software Engineer
4 435 (8.60%) Lead
5 295 (5.83%) Architect
5 295 (5.83%) Software Developer
6 287 (5.67%) Analyst
7 272 (5.37%) Senior Developer
8 215 (4.25%) Data Scientist
9 208 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
10 188 (3.71%) Engineering Manager
11 183 (3.62%) Junior
12 169 (3.34%) Software Engineering Manager
13 168 (3.32%) Graduate
14 136 (2.69%) IT Support
15 135 (2.67%) Full Stack Developer
16 127 (2.51%) .NET Developer
17 110 (2.17%) Support Specialist
18 105 (2.07%) Java Engineer
19 103 (2.04%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 689 (13.61%) .NET
2 518 (10.24%) React
3 455 (8.99%) HTML
4 400 (7.90%) CSS
5 364 (7.19%) AngularJS
6 241 (4.76%) Spring
7 215 (4.25%) RESTful
8 208 (4.11%) Node.js
9 190 (3.75%) Kafka
10 182 (3.60%) ASP.NET
11 172 (3.40%) REST
12 171 (3.38%) .NET Core
13 167 (3.30%) HTML5
14 152 (3.00%) Web Services
15 142 (2.81%) .NET Framework
16 110 (2.17%) JSON
17 108 (2.13%) Spring Boot
18 100 (1.98%) Vue
18 100 (1.98%) XML
19 96 (1.90%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 563 (11.12%) Algorithms
2 450 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 367 (7.25%) Cloud Native
4 259 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
5 220 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 149 (2.94%) Client/Server
7 142 (2.81%) Onboarding
8 139 (2.75%) Product Ownership
9 111 (2.19%) Greenfield Project
10 96 (1.90%) Mobile App
11 90 (1.78%) Data Centre
11 90 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
12 88 (1.74%) IoT
13 86 (1.70%) Wiki
14 71 (1.40%) Distributed Systems
14 71 (1.40%) Market Risk
15 68 (1.34%) Virtual Team
16 59 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
17 55 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
18 54 (1.07%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 566 (11.18%) Windows
2 553 (10.93%) Linux
3 175 (3.46%) Android
4 132 (2.61%) Windows 10
5 102 (2.02%) Windows Server
6 91 (1.80%) Unix
7 65 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 60 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 35 (0.69%) Embedded Linux
10 33 (0.65%) Kali Linux
10 33 (0.65%) Ubuntu
11 24 (0.47%) CentOS
11 24 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 19 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.26%) Debian
15 8 (0.16%) VMS
16 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
17 4 (0.079%) SUSE
17 4 (0.079%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,887 (37.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1,629 (32.19%) Software Engineering
3 1,457 (28.79%) Agile
4 1,048 (20.71%) Mathematics
5 699 (13.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 633 (12.51%) Machine Learning
7 593 (11.72%) CI/CD
8 576 (11.38%) Mentoring
9 562 (11.10%) DevOps
10 556 (10.99%) Analytics
10 556 (10.99%) SDLC
11 539 (10.65%) Decision-Making
12 509 (10.06%) Cybersecurity
13 493 (9.74%) Data Science
14 428 (8.46%) Project Management
15 402 (7.94%) Data Analysis
16 360 (7.11%) Continuous Improvement
16 360 (7.11%) Microservices
17 354 (6.99%) Full Stack Development
18 352 (6.96%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,199 (23.69%) Python
2 1,148 (22.68%) SQL
3 959 (18.95%) C#
4 818 (16.16%) JavaScript
5 762 (15.06%) Java
6 419 (8.28%) C++
7 395 (7.80%) C
8 354 (6.99%) TypeScript
9 154 (3.04%) PHP
10 140 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 112 (2.21%) R
12 102 (2.02%) T-SQL
13 98 (1.94%) Bash
14 80 (1.58%) Go
15 79 (1.56%) Fortran
16 78 (1.54%) Embedded C
17 66 (1.30%) Kotlin
18 64 (1.26%) MATLAB
19 60 (1.19%) Scala
20 53 (1.05%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,315 (85.26%) Degree
2 2,409 (47.60%) Computer Science Degree
3 794 (15.69%) Master's Degree
4 296 (5.85%) Security Cleared
5 254 (5.02%) PhD
6 175 (3.46%) SC Cleared
7 165 (3.26%) CISSP
8 148 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
9 106 (2.09%) CISM
10 100 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
11 87 (1.72%) AWS Certification
12 77 (1.52%) Azure Certification
13 70 (1.38%) PMI Certification
14 61 (1.21%) PMP
15 60 (1.19%) CCNA
16 58 (1.15%) CCNP
16 58 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
17 48 (0.95%) CISA
18 46 (0.91%) A+ Certification
19 43 (0.85%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 288 (5.69%) QA
2 108 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 106 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (1.94%) GDPR
5 81 (1.60%) Accessibility
6 80 (1.58%) NIST
7 43 (0.85%) PMO
8 39 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 31 (0.61%) WCAG
10 30 (0.59%) SLA
11 27 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.45%) ISO 13485
13 22 (0.43%) HIPAA
14 15 (0.30%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 15 (0.30%) GRC
14 15 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 14 (0.28%) COBIT
15 14 (0.28%) NCSC
15 14 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 13 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 442 (8.73%) Docker
2 233 (4.60%) Active Directory
3 142 (2.81%) Firmware
4 93 (1.84%) VMware ESXi
5 89 (1.76%) XenApp
6 86 (1.70%) Microsoft App-V
6 86 (1.70%) XenDesktop
7 74 (1.46%) VMware Infrastructure
8 47 (0.93%) Embedded Firmware
9 41 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
10 32 (0.63%) Hyper-V
11 12 (0.24%) HDFS
12 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.20%) vSphere
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.14%) KVM
15 4 (0.079%) pfSense
16 2 (0.040%) LXC
16 2 (0.040%) NFS
17 1 (0.020%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 402 (7.94%) Kubernetes
2 188 (3.71%) Terraform
3 103 (2.04%) SCCM
4 86 (1.70%) AirWatch
5 71 (1.40%) Ansible
6 23 (0.45%) Microsoft Intune
7 22 (0.43%) Grafana
8 21 (0.41%) Puppet
9 15 (0.30%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 11 (0.22%) Nagios
11 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.22%) Prometheus
12 10 (0.20%) WSUS
13 8 (0.16%) CASB
13 8 (0.16%) Nessus
13 8 (0.16%) SCOM
14 7 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 779 (15.39%) Microsoft
2 206 (4.07%) Google
3 184 (3.64%) Cisco
4 168 (3.32%) Oracle
5 100 (1.98%) SAP
6 92 (1.82%) Citrix
7 89 (1.76%) VMware
8 78 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 49 (0.97%) IBM
10 45 (0.89%) Databricks
11 44 (0.87%) Xilinx
12 36 (0.71%) Splunk
13 32 (0.63%) Adobe
14 31 (0.61%) Juniper
15 28 (0.55%) Apple
16 25 (0.49%) Facebook
17 24 (0.47%) ServiceNow
18 23 (0.45%) Atlassian
19 19 (0.38%) F5
19 19 (0.38%) Xamarin