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

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 54 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 -9 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 5,057 5,326 11,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.06% 5.39% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.94% 5.64% 7.46%
Number of salaries quoted 3,407 3,007 3,706
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
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 £113,750 £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 85,129 94,506 156,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.14% 95.59% 95.79%
Number of salaries quoted 59,760 55,709 83,161
10th Percentile £29,078 £34,000 £33,618
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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% +10.53%

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 21 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 21 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 +13 4,223 £60,000 -7.69% 2,031
UK excluding London +21 3,376 £52,500 -4.55% 1,225
London +5 1,516 £75,000 -6.25% 1,077
Work from Home +8 1,440 £60,000 -11.11% 897
South East +7 1,027 £60,000 +4.35% 455
North of England +75 651 £48,000 -12.73% 210
Scotland +4 592 £52,500 -4.55% 73
Midlands +17 393 £50,000 -4.76% 179
North West +63 366 £50,000 -16.67% 108
South West +16 362 £52,250 -11.73% 108
West Midlands +33 267 £51,431 -6.49% 101
East of England +1 255 £46,000 -8.00% 161
Yorkshire +86 225 £45,000 -14.29% 68
East Midlands -2 120 £42,500 -12.82% 78
North East +1 60 £48,734 +14.67% 37
Northern Ireland +19 44 £40,000 -16.67% 27
Wales -59 39 £34,000 -40.87% 24
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
1 136 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 104 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 100 (1.98%) Apache Spark
4 48 (0.95%) Apache
5 45 (0.89%) FileNet
6 44 (0.87%) CMS
7 42 (0.83%) Confluence
8 33 (0.65%) IIS
9 32 (0.63%) Apache Airflow
10 30 (0.59%) SAS
11 20 (0.40%) WordPress
12 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
13 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
14 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
15 10 (0.20%) Tomcat
16 9 (0.18%) nginx
17 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
18 7 (0.14%) Apache Pig
18 7 (0.14%) Luigi
18 7 (0.14%) Moodle
Applications
1 114 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
2 108 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (1.09%) Simulink
4 39 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.36%) 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%) Autodesk Inventor
13 1 (0.020%) Fusion 360
13 1 (0.020%) InVision
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 50 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.63%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.44%) 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%) Endur
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%) 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
1 949 (18.77%) AWS
2 892 (17.64%) Azure
3 286 (5.66%) Microsoft 365
4 279 (5.52%) Power Platform
5 274 (5.42%) GCP
6 179 (3.54%) SaaS
7 158 (3.12%) GitHub
8 139 (2.75%) Serverless
9 136 (2.69%) Amazon S3
10 133 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
11 114 (2.25%) Azure DevOps
12 103 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
13 67 (1.32%) PowerApps
14 59 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
15 58 (1.15%) Power Automate
16 46 (0.91%) IaaS
17 44 (0.87%) Amazon Kinesis
18 43 (0.85%) PaaS
19 41 (0.81%) Entra ID
20 38 (0.75%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 181 (3.58%) Network Security
2 172 (3.40%) WAN
3 169 (3.34%) Wireless
4 157 (3.10%) Firewall
5 115 (2.27%) SD-WAN
6 114 (2.25%) TCP/IP
7 90 (1.78%) DNS
8 89 (1.76%) Cisco IOS
8 89 (1.76%) VPN
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 45 (0.89%) DHCP
14 41 (0.81%) Intrusion Detection
15 31 (0.61%) SAN
16 30 (0.59%) VLAN
17 29 (0.57%) Ethernet
18 22 (0.44%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 450 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 301 (5.95%) NoSQL
3 257 (5.08%) Power BI
4 192 (3.80%) Relational Database
5 185 (3.66%) MySQL
6 184 (3.64%) Data Warehouse
7 166 (3.28%) PostgreSQL
8 125 (2.47%) Big Data
9 124 (2.45%) Redis
10 87 (1.72%) Tableau
11 81 (1.60%) Elasticsearch
11 81 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 67 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
13 65 (1.29%) Hadoop
14 64 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 53 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
16 52 (1.03%) Amazon Redshift
17 50 (0.99%) Data Lake
18 49 (0.97%) MongoDB
19 42 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 536 (10.60%) Git
2 184 (3.64%) JIRA
3 146 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 91 (1.80%) GitLab
5 87 (1.72%) Visual Studio
6 74 (1.46%) JUnit
7 60 (1.19%) Selenium
8 52 (1.03%) Jasmine
8 52 (1.03%) Mockito
9 49 (0.97%) TeamCity
10 47 (0.93%) Moq
10 47 (0.93%) NUnit
11 45 (0.89%) Cypress.io
12 41 (0.81%) Subversion
13 34 (0.67%) CMake
14 32 (0.63%) Postman
15 30 (0.59%) Burp Suite
16 28 (0.55%) Metasploit
17 27 (0.53%) Bitbucket
18 26 (0.51%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,084 (41.21%) Social Skills
2 1,060 (20.96%) Finance
3 896 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 759 (15.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 468 (9.25%) Marketing
6 450 (8.90%) Law
7 258 (5.10%) Manufacturing
8 247 (4.88%) Electronics
9 190 (3.76%) Legal
10 181 (3.58%) Financial Institution
11 171 (3.38%) Banking
12 144 (2.85%) Presentation Skills
13 143 (2.83%) Games
14 142 (2.81%) Retail
15 127 (2.51%) Public Sector
16 115 (2.27%) Telecoms
17 89 (1.76%) Investment Banking
18 87 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
19 79 (1.56%) Automotive
20 66 (1.31%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,188 (23.49%) Developer
2 878 (17.36%) Senior
3 752 (14.87%) Software Engineer
4 429 (8.48%) Lead
5 296 (5.85%) Software Developer
6 295 (5.83%) Architect
7 289 (5.71%) Analyst
8 273 (5.40%) Senior Developer
9 218 (4.31%) Data Scientist
10 208 (4.11%) Senior Software Engineer
11 188 (3.72%) Engineering Manager
12 182 (3.60%) Junior
13 169 (3.34%) Software Engineering Manager
14 168 (3.32%) Graduate
15 138 (2.73%) Full Stack Developer
16 136 (2.69%) IT Support
17 127 (2.51%) .NET Developer
18 110 (2.18%) Support Specialist
19 106 (2.10%) Data Engineer
19 106 (2.10%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 693 (13.70%) .NET
2 519 (10.26%) React
3 459 (9.08%) HTML
4 405 (8.01%) CSS
5 362 (7.16%) AngularJS
6 239 (4.73%) Spring
7 218 (4.31%) RESTful
8 208 (4.11%) Node.js
9 190 (3.76%) Kafka
10 185 (3.66%) ASP.NET
11 176 (3.48%) REST
12 170 (3.36%) .NET Core
13 168 (3.32%) HTML5
14 160 (3.16%) Web Services
15 146 (2.89%) .NET Framework
16 110 (2.18%) JSON
17 108 (2.14%) Spring Boot
18 102 (2.02%) XML
19 99 (1.96%) Vue
20 96 (1.90%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 563 (11.13%) Algorithms
2 451 (8.92%) Management Information System
3 368 (7.28%) Cloud Native
4 259 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
5 220 (4.35%) Data Structures
6 148 (2.93%) Client/Server
7 141 (2.79%) Onboarding
8 136 (2.69%) Product Ownership
9 112 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
10 94 (1.86%) Mobile App
11 91 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
12 90 (1.78%) Data Centre
13 88 (1.74%) IoT
14 86 (1.70%) Wiki
15 75 (1.48%) Distributed Systems
16 71 (1.40%) Market Risk
17 70 (1.38%) Virtual Team
18 58 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
19 55 (1.09%) Embedded Systems
19 55 (1.09%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 565 (11.17%) Windows
2 556 (10.99%) Linux
3 175 (3.46%) Android
4 130 (2.57%) Windows 10
5 100 (1.98%) Windows Server
6 92 (1.82%) Unix
7 64 (1.27%) Apple iOS
8 60 (1.19%) Mac OS
9 36 (0.71%) Embedded Linux
10 34 (0.67%) Ubuntu
11 33 (0.65%) Kali Linux
12 25 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 24 (0.47%) CentOS
14 21 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
15 18 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
16 13 (0.26%) Debian
17 8 (0.16%) VMS
18 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
19 4 (0.079%) SUSE
19 4 (0.079%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,892 (37.41%) Problem-Solving
2 1,628 (32.19%) Software Engineering
3 1,471 (29.09%) Agile
4 1,040 (20.57%) Mathematics
5 698 (13.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 637 (12.60%) Machine Learning
7 595 (11.77%) CI/CD
8 577 (11.41%) Mentoring
9 570 (11.27%) DevOps
10 562 (11.11%) Analytics
11 552 (10.92%) SDLC
12 542 (10.72%) Decision-Making
13 510 (10.09%) Cybersecurity
14 491 (9.71%) Data Science
15 427 (8.44%) Project Management
16 406 (8.03%) Data Analysis
17 365 (7.22%) Microservices
18 361 (7.14%) Continuous Improvement
19 354 (7.00%) Full Stack Development
20 353 (6.98%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,202 (23.77%) Python
2 1,153 (22.80%) SQL
3 960 (18.98%) C#
4 822 (16.25%) JavaScript
5 761 (15.05%) Java
6 416 (8.23%) C++
7 391 (7.73%) C
8 358 (7.08%) TypeScript
9 154 (3.05%) PHP
10 140 (2.77%) PowerShell
11 112 (2.21%) R
12 107 (2.12%) T-SQL
13 96 (1.90%) Bash
14 81 (1.60%) Go
15 79 (1.56%) Fortran
16 76 (1.50%) Embedded C
17 67 (1.32%) Kotlin
17 67 (1.32%) Scala
18 64 (1.27%) MATLAB
19 52 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,318 (85.39%) Degree
2 2,418 (47.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 794 (15.70%) Master's Degree
4 294 (5.81%) Security Cleared
5 252 (4.98%) PhD
6 173 (3.42%) SC Cleared
7 164 (3.24%) CISSP
8 150 (2.97%) Microsoft Certification
9 106 (2.10%) CISM
10 98 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 88 (1.74%) AWS Certification
12 78 (1.54%) Azure Certification
13 70 (1.38%) PMI Certification
14 61 (1.21%) PMP
15 59 (1.17%) CCNA
16 58 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
17 57 (1.13%) CCNP
18 48 (0.95%) CISA
19 46 (0.91%) A+ Certification
20 44 (0.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 285 (5.64%) QA
2 113 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 104 (2.06%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 98 (1.94%) GDPR
5 82 (1.62%) Accessibility
6 79 (1.56%) NIST
7 43 (0.85%) PMO
8 39 (0.77%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.65%) WCAG
10 31 (0.61%) SLA
11 26 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.45%) ISO 13485
13 22 (0.44%) 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
16 13 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
16 13 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 443 (8.76%) Docker
2 233 (4.61%) Active Directory
3 141 (2.79%) 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 73 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
8 45 (0.89%) Embedded Firmware
9 43 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
10 31 (0.61%) Hyper-V
11 11 (0.22%) HDFS
12 10 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.18%) vSphere
14 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 7 (0.14%) KVM
16 4 (0.079%) pfSense
17 2 (0.040%) LXC
17 2 (0.040%) NFS
18 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 404 (7.99%) Kubernetes
2 190 (3.76%) Terraform
3 103 (2.04%) SCCM
4 86 (1.70%) AirWatch
5 73 (1.44%) Ansible
6 24 (0.47%) Grafana
6 24 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.42%) Puppet
8 15 (0.30%) ZABBIX
9 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 11 (0.22%) Nagios
10 11 (0.22%) Progress Chef
10 11 (0.22%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.20%) WSUS
12 8 (0.16%) CASB
12 8 (0.16%) Nessus
12 8 (0.16%) SCOM
13 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.14%) QRadar
13 7 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 780 (15.42%) Microsoft
2 211 (4.17%) Google
3 184 (3.64%) Cisco
4 170 (3.36%) Oracle
5 97 (1.92%) SAP
6 92 (1.82%) Citrix
7 87 (1.72%) VMware
8 78 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 50 (0.99%) Databricks
10 48 (0.95%) IBM
11 44 (0.87%) Xilinx
12 38 (0.75%) Splunk
13 34 (0.67%) Adobe
14 31 (0.61%) Juniper
15 29 (0.57%) 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