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 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 49 69 44
Rank change year-on-year +20 -25 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,442 2,558 4,467
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.53% 4.52% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.53% 4.74% 6.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2,250 1,357 1,602
10th Percentile £30,500 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £71,250 £65,000
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 62,202 53,975 69,729
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.87% 95.46% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 42,597 28,532 41,279
10th Percentile £27,300 £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 £80,000
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 1 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 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 +11 1,053 £60,000 +3.45% 235
North of England +72 668 £47,500 -13.64% 187
Scotland +7 588 £52,500 -4.55% 64
Midlands +23 410 £50,000 -9.09% 161
North West +63 382 £50,000 -16.67% 112
South West +15 365 £52,500 -11.30% 98
West Midlands +30 274 £50,000 -9.09% 82
East of England -3 255 £45,000 -10.00% 114
Yorkshire +80 224 £42,000 -20.00% 52
East Midlands 0 130 £42,500 -15.00% 79
North East +2 62 £48,000 +12.94% 26
Northern Ireland +13 47 £40,000 -20.00% 18
Wales -56 41 £34,000 -40.87% 14
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 (1.80%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.31%) FileNet
3 34 (0.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 30 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 21 (0.61%) Confluence
6 18 (0.52%) IIS
7 17 (0.49%) Cloud Foundry
8 16 (0.46%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.44%) Apache
9 15 (0.44%) SAS
9 15 (0.44%) WordPress
10 14 (0.41%) CMS
11 10 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 6 (0.17%) nginx
13 5 (0.15%) Apache Airflow
13 5 (0.15%) Luigi
13 5 (0.15%) Moodle
14 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
15 3 (0.087%) WildFly
16 2 (0.058%) Appian
Applications
1 100 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 59 (1.71%) Simulink
4 32 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.41%) Trello
6 8 (0.23%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.087%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.058%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.058%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.058%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.029%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.029%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.029%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.029%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.029%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.029%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.029%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.029%) Revit
9 1 (0.029%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 34 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.64%) NetSuite
3 16 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.29%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.26%) SAP CX
6 8 (0.23%) Shopify
7 5 (0.15%) Odoo
8 4 (0.12%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.12%) Magento
8 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
9 3 (0.087%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.087%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.087%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.058%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.058%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.029%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.029%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 567 (16.47%) AWS
2 498 (14.47%) Azure
3 157 (4.56%) Power Platform
4 127 (3.69%) GCP
5 119 (3.46%) GitHub
6 118 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
7 111 (3.22%) Amazon S3
8 93 (2.70%) SaaS
9 82 (2.38%) Serverless
10 72 (2.09%) Azure DevOps
11 70 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
12 67 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
13 49 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
14 42 (1.22%) Amazon Kinesis
15 25 (0.73%) Power Automate
16 24 (0.70%) PowerApps
17 22 (0.64%) Snowflake
18 21 (0.61%) AWS CloudFormation
19 20 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
20 19 (0.55%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 136 (3.95%) Network Security
2 134 (3.89%) Firewall
3 88 (2.56%) TCP/IP
4 80 (2.32%) Wireless
5 75 (2.18%) WAN
6 71 (2.06%) VPN
7 67 (1.95%) DNS
8 62 (1.80%) HTTP
9 52 (1.51%) LAN
10 42 (1.22%) Internet
11 36 (1.05%) DHCP
12 35 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
14 30 (0.87%) VLAN
15 29 (0.84%) SD-WAN
16 25 (0.73%) Ethernet
17 24 (0.70%) MQTT
18 21 (0.61%) 5G
18 21 (0.61%) SAN
19 20 (0.58%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 262 (7.61%) SQL Server
2 260 (7.55%) NoSQL
3 150 (4.36%) Power BI
4 124 (3.60%) MySQL
5 122 (3.54%) Relational Database
6 116 (3.37%) Data Warehouse
7 108 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
8 79 (2.30%) Redis
9 70 (2.03%) Elasticsearch
10 61 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 59 (1.71%) Big Data
12 47 (1.37%) Apache Cassandra
13 44 (1.28%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 38 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 37 (1.07%) DynamoDB
16 36 (1.05%) Amazon Aurora
17 34 (0.99%) Amazon Redshift
18 32 (0.93%) Tableau
19 29 (0.84%) RDBMS
20 27 (0.78%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 367 (10.66%) Git
2 102 (2.96%) Jenkins
2 102 (2.96%) JIRA
3 57 (1.66%) JUnit
4 54 (1.57%) Visual Studio
5 50 (1.45%) Selenium
6 49 (1.42%) Mockito
7 46 (1.34%) Jasmine
8 41 (1.19%) Cypress.io
9 38 (1.10%) Subversion
10 37 (1.07%) GitLab
11 26 (0.76%) CMake
11 26 (0.76%) LabVIEW
12 23 (0.67%) Postman
13 20 (0.58%) Bitbucket
14 19 (0.55%) Gatling
15 18 (0.52%) Appium
15 18 (0.52%) Vagrant
16 17 (0.49%) NUnit
16 17 (0.49%) TeamCity
General
1 1,252 (36.37%) Social Skills
2 649 (18.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 646 (18.77%) Finance
4 526 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
5 408 (11.85%) Law
6 342 (9.94%) Marketing
7 228 (6.62%) Electronics
8 220 (6.39%) Manufacturing
9 157 (4.56%) Financial Institution
10 143 (4.15%) Legal
11 107 (3.11%) Banking
11 107 (3.11%) Games
12 87 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
13 83 (2.41%) Retail
14 76 (2.21%) Telecoms
15 71 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
16 68 (1.98%) Automotive
16 68 (1.98%) Investment Banking
17 63 (1.83%) Public Sector
18 57 (1.66%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 780 (22.66%) Developer
2 632 (18.36%) Software Engineer
3 569 (16.53%) Senior
4 263 (7.64%) Lead
5 247 (7.18%) Software Developer
6 174 (5.06%) Engineering Manager
7 163 (4.74%) Senior Software Engineer
8 162 (4.71%) Analyst
9 161 (4.68%) Data Scientist
9 161 (4.68%) Software Engineering Manager
10 160 (4.65%) Senior Developer
11 159 (4.62%) Architect
12 151 (4.39%) Junior
13 140 (4.07%) Graduate
14 93 (2.70%) Java Engineer
15 91 (2.64%) Java Software Engineer
16 86 (2.50%) Full Stack Developer
17 84 (2.44%) Embedded Engineer
18 79 (2.30%) .NET Developer
19 71 (2.06%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 435 (12.64%) .NET
2 373 (10.84%) React
3 306 (8.89%) HTML
4 302 (8.77%) AngularJS
5 249 (7.23%) CSS
6 179 (5.20%) Spring
7 167 (4.85%) Node.js
8 162 (4.71%) RESTful
9 136 (3.95%) Kafka
10 134 (3.89%) .NET Core
11 125 (3.63%) HTML5
12 119 (3.46%) REST
13 95 (2.76%) Web Services
14 92 (2.67%) ASP.NET
15 87 (2.53%) GraphQL
16 85 (2.47%) JSON
17 84 (2.44%) .NET Framework
18 82 (2.38%) Spring Boot
19 77 (2.24%) NumPy
20 75 (2.18%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 419 (12.17%) Algorithms
2 344 (9.99%) Cloud Native
3 299 (8.69%) Management Information System
4 176 (5.11%) Self-Motivation
5 117 (3.40%) Data Structures
6 95 (2.76%) Product Ownership
7 86 (2.50%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.18%) Data Centre
9 73 (2.12%) Mobile App
10 64 (1.86%) Market Risk
11 63 (1.83%) IoT
12 62 (1.80%) Client/Server
13 53 (1.54%) Embedded Systems
14 52 (1.51%) Distributed Applications
15 48 (1.39%) FPGA
16 42 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
16 42 (1.22%) Public Cloud
17 41 (1.19%) Distributed Systems
17 41 (1.19%) Driving Licence
18 40 (1.16%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 428 (12.43%) Linux
2 368 (10.69%) Windows
3 79 (2.30%) Unix
4 77 (2.24%) Android
5 64 (1.86%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.39%) Apple iOS
6 48 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 38 (1.10%) Embedded Linux
8 36 (1.05%) Ubuntu
9 33 (0.96%) Windows 10
10 27 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 24 (0.70%) CentOS
12 13 (0.38%) Debian
13 12 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 10 (0.29%) Windows Server 2019
15 7 (0.20%) VMS
16 6 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
17 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 5 (0.15%) SUSE
18 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,317 (38.26%) Problem-Solving
2 1,224 (35.56%) Software Engineering
3 1,077 (31.29%) Agile
4 814 (23.65%) Mathematics
5 503 (14.61%) Artificial Intelligence
6 474 (13.77%) SDLC
7 431 (12.52%) Decision-Making
8 418 (12.14%) Mentoring
9 413 (12.00%) CI/CD
10 401 (11.65%) Machine Learning
11 378 (10.98%) DevOps
12 361 (10.49%) Cybersecurity
13 357 (10.37%) Analytics
14 321 (9.33%) Coaching
15 294 (8.54%) Project Management
16 283 (8.22%) Data Analysis
17 269 (7.82%) Data Science
18 265 (7.70%) Continuous Improvement
19 260 (7.55%) Physics
20 252 (7.32%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 771 (22.40%) Python
2 743 (21.59%) SQL
3 626 (18.19%) C#
4 583 (16.94%) JavaScript
5 536 (15.57%) Java
6 353 (10.26%) C
7 352 (10.23%) C++
8 269 (7.82%) TypeScript
9 115 (3.34%) PHP
10 93 (2.70%) Fortran
11 90 (2.61%) Bash
12 78 (2.27%) Embedded C
12 78 (2.27%) PowerShell
13 52 (1.51%) Go
13 52 (1.51%) R
14 49 (1.42%) T-SQL
15 44 (1.28%) MATLAB
16 42 (1.22%) Kotlin
17 38 (1.10%) Rust
17 38 (1.10%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2,880 (83.67%) Degree
2 1,528 (44.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 393 (11.42%) Master's Degree
4 259 (7.52%) Security Cleared
5 178 (5.17%) PhD
6 132 (3.83%) SC Cleared
7 84 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 82 (2.38%) CISSP
9 80 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
10 62 (1.80%) AWS Certification
11 56 (1.63%) CCNA
11 56 (1.63%) CCNP
12 51 (1.48%) Azure Certification
12 51 (1.48%) PMI Certification
13 47 (1.37%) PMP
14 42 (1.22%) DV Cleared
15 40 (1.16%) A+ Certification
15 40 (1.16%) CISM
16 37 (1.07%) DBS Check
17 35 (1.02%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 191 (5.55%) QA
2 64 (1.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 59 (1.71%) GDPR
4 57 (1.66%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.63%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.34%) NIST
7 42 (1.22%) PMO
8 29 (0.84%) WCAG
9 22 (0.64%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.61%) ISO 13485
11 19 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (0.55%) SLA
12 16 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 12 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 10 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
15 10 (0.29%) GRC
15 10 (0.29%) NCSC
16 9 (0.26%) JTAG
17 8 (0.23%) CDISC
System Software
1 291 (8.45%) Docker
2 144 (4.18%) Firmware
3 104 (3.02%) Active Directory
4 60 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 24 (0.70%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.26%) 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 (0.12%) pfSense
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.058%) HDFS
13 1 (0.029%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.029%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.029%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 302 (8.77%) Kubernetes
2 117 (3.40%) Terraform
3 51 (1.48%) Ansible
4 19 (0.55%) Puppet
5 14 (0.41%) Grafana
6 13 (0.38%) ZABBIX
7 12 (0.35%) SCCM
8 9 (0.26%) Nagios
9 8 (0.23%) 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 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
12 5 (0.15%) Suricata
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.087%) Autotask
Vendors
1 447 (12.99%) Microsoft
2 128 (3.72%) Google
3 123 (3.57%) Oracle
4 77 (2.24%) Cisco
5 69 (2.00%) SAP
6 68 (1.98%) VMware
7 51 (1.48%) Salesforce
8 48 (1.39%) Xilinx
9 25 (0.73%) Databricks
9 25 (0.73%) Juniper
10 23 (0.67%) Splunk
11 20 (0.58%) Apple
12 19 (0.55%) ServiceNow
12 19 (0.55%) Xamarin
13 17 (0.49%) IBM
14 16 (0.46%) F5
15 15 (0.44%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.41%) Fortinet
17 13 (0.38%) NVIDIA
17 13 (0.38%) Red Hat