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

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 50 71 47
Rank change year-on-year +21 -24 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,336 2,672 4,150
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.71% 4.45% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.61% 4.65% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,212 1,389 1,613
10th Percentile £30,775 £31,995 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,112 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,475
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

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 59,475 57,466 67,334
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.95% 95.60% 94.10%
Number of salaries quoted 41,116 29,651 41,279
10th Percentile £27,250 £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 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 13 May 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 13 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
South East +9 1,023 £60,000 +4.68% 262
North of England +84 635 £48,000 -8.57% 211
Scotland +8 592 £52,500 -4.55% 42
Midlands +14 384 £50,000 -4.76% 163
South West +19 356 £50,000 -14.08% 102
North West +73 355 £50,000 -9.09% 114
West Midlands +33 264 £51,431 -6.49% 87
East of England 0 251 £46,000 -8.00% 142
Yorkshire +89 221 £45,000 -14.29% 63
East Midlands -2 114 £42,500 -10.53% 76
North East +4 59 £48,734 +14.67% 35
Northern Ireland +24 43 £40,000 -20.00% 21
Wales -53 39 £34,000 -40.87% 26
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1
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 61 (1.83%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.35%) FileNet
3 32 (0.96%) Apache Spark
3 32 (0.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 20 (0.60%) Confluence
5 17 (0.51%) Cloud Foundry
5 17 (0.51%) IIS
6 16 (0.48%) WordPress
7 15 (0.45%) OpenStack
7 15 (0.45%) SAS
8 12 (0.36%) Apache
9 11 (0.33%) CMS
9 11 (0.33%) Tomcat
10 6 (0.18%) nginx
11 4 (0.12%) Moodle
11 4 (0.12%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
12 3 (0.090%) Luigi
12 3 (0.090%) WildFly
13 2 (0.060%) Appian
Applications
1 95 (2.85%) Microsoft Office
2 70 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 50 (1.50%) Simulink
4 31 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.42%) Trello
6 8 (0.24%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.090%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.060%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.060%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.030%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.030%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.030%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.030%) Fusion 360
9 1 (0.030%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.030%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.030%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.030%) Revit
9 1 (0.030%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 33 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.66%) NetSuite
3 15 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.27%) SAP CX
4 9 (0.27%) SAP ERP
5 8 (0.24%) Shopify
6 5 (0.15%) Odoo
7 4 (0.12%) Magento
7 4 (0.12%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
7 4 (0.12%) SDL Web 8
8 3 (0.090%) CA PPM
8 3 (0.090%) Sage 200
8 3 (0.090%) Sage 300 ERP
8 3 (0.090%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.060%) Dynamics NAV
9 2 (0.060%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.030%) SAP HR
10 1 (0.030%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 529 (15.86%) AWS
2 468 (14.03%) Azure
3 138 (4.14%) Power Platform
4 119 (3.57%) GCP
5 116 (3.48%) GitHub
6 114 (3.42%) Microsoft 365
7 109 (3.27%) Amazon S3
8 98 (2.94%) SaaS
9 80 (2.40%) Serverless
10 73 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (2.07%) AWS Lambda
12 59 (1.77%) Cloud Computing
13 47 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
14 26 (0.78%) Amazon Kinesis
15 24 (0.72%) Power Automate
16 22 (0.66%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.66%) Snowflake
17 20 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
18 19 (0.57%) AWS CloudFormation
18 19 (0.57%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 129 (3.87%) Network Security
2 127 (3.81%) Firewall
3 81 (2.43%) TCP/IP
3 81 (2.43%) Wireless
4 75 (2.25%) WAN
5 70 (2.10%) VPN
6 68 (2.04%) DNS
7 58 (1.74%) HTTP
8 51 (1.53%) LAN
9 43 (1.29%) Internet
10 35 (1.05%) DHCP
10 35 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
10 35 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (0.84%) SD-WAN
12 27 (0.81%) Ethernet
13 26 (0.78%) VLAN
14 21 (0.63%) 5G
14 21 (0.63%) RS-232
15 20 (0.60%) MQTT
16 19 (0.57%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 253 (7.58%) SQL Server
2 243 (7.28%) NoSQL
3 133 (3.99%) Power BI
4 126 (3.78%) MySQL
5 121 (3.63%) Relational Database
6 109 (3.27%) Data Warehouse
7 90 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
8 67 (2.01%) Elasticsearch
9 60 (1.80%) Redis
10 59 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 56 (1.68%) Big Data
12 46 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
13 42 (1.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 36 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 35 (1.05%) Amazon Redshift
16 33 (0.99%) Tableau
17 29 (0.87%) RDBMS
18 24 (0.72%) GIS
18 24 (0.72%) MongoDB
18 24 (0.72%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 359 (10.76%) Git
2 105 (3.15%) JIRA
3 101 (3.03%) Jenkins
4 58 (1.74%) JUnit
5 53 (1.59%) Selenium
6 49 (1.47%) Mockito
7 48 (1.44%) Visual Studio
8 47 (1.41%) Jasmine
9 45 (1.35%) Cypress.io
10 40 (1.20%) Subversion
11 31 (0.93%) GitLab
12 26 (0.78%) CMake
13 25 (0.75%) LabVIEW
14 23 (0.69%) Postman
15 19 (0.57%) Bitbucket
16 18 (0.54%) Appium
17 17 (0.51%) NUnit
17 17 (0.51%) TeamCity
18 14 (0.42%) Moq
18 14 (0.42%) Vagrant
General
1 1,176 (35.25%) Social Skills
2 661 (19.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 643 (19.27%) Finance
4 511 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
5 413 (12.38%) Law
6 344 (10.31%) Marketing
7 218 (6.53%) Manufacturing
8 209 (6.26%) Electronics
9 161 (4.83%) Financial Institution
10 144 (4.32%) Legal
11 107 (3.21%) Banking
12 104 (3.12%) Games
13 86 (2.58%) Presentation Skills
14 83 (2.49%) Telecoms
15 81 (2.43%) Retail
16 71 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (2.01%) Investment Banking
18 64 (1.92%) Automotive
18 64 (1.92%) Public Sector
19 61 (1.83%) Military
Job Titles
1 754 (22.60%) Developer
2 601 (18.02%) Software Engineer
3 554 (16.61%) Senior
4 258 (7.73%) Lead
5 245 (7.34%) Software Developer
6 178 (5.34%) Engineering Manager
7 165 (4.95%) Software Engineering Manager
8 163 (4.89%) Senior Developer
9 156 (4.68%) Analyst
9 156 (4.68%) Senior Software Engineer
10 154 (4.62%) Data Scientist
11 149 (4.47%) Architect
12 142 (4.26%) Junior
13 134 (4.02%) Graduate
14 94 (2.82%) Java Engineer
15 92 (2.76%) Java Software Engineer
16 84 (2.52%) Full Stack Developer
17 82 (2.46%) Embedded Engineer
18 76 (2.28%) .NET Developer
19 72 (2.16%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 425 (12.74%) .NET
2 393 (11.78%) React
3 298 (8.93%) AngularJS
4 296 (8.87%) HTML
5 241 (7.22%) CSS
6 183 (5.49%) Spring
7 166 (4.98%) Node.js
8 153 (4.59%) RESTful
9 133 (3.99%) Kafka
10 126 (3.78%) .NET Core
11 125 (3.75%) HTML5
12 104 (3.12%) REST
13 86 (2.58%) ASP.NET
14 84 (2.52%) .NET Framework
15 83 (2.49%) JSON
15 83 (2.49%) Spring Boot
16 79 (2.37%) NumPy
17 74 (2.22%) Vue
18 73 (2.19%) Pandas
18 73 (2.19%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 411 (12.32%) Algorithms
2 347 (10.40%) Cloud Native
3 293 (8.78%) Management Information System
4 170 (5.10%) Self-Motivation
5 118 (3.54%) Data Structures
6 94 (2.82%) Product Ownership
7 86 (2.58%) Onboarding
8 75 (2.25%) Data Centre
9 71 (2.13%) Mobile App
10 66 (1.98%) Market Risk
11 61 (1.83%) Client/Server
12 59 (1.77%) IoT
13 52 (1.56%) Distributed Applications
13 52 (1.56%) Embedded Systems
14 46 (1.38%) FPGA
15 42 (1.26%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
17 39 (1.17%) CUDA
17 39 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
18 38 (1.14%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 398 (11.93%) Linux
2 366 (10.97%) Windows
3 70 (2.10%) Unix
4 69 (2.07%) Android
5 67 (2.01%) Windows Server
6 48 (1.44%) Mac OS
7 43 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 33 (0.99%) Windows 10
9 31 (0.93%) Embedded Linux
10 30 (0.90%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.57%) CentOS
13 11 (0.33%) Debian
13 11 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.24%) VMS
14 8 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
15 6 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
16 5 (0.15%) Kali Linux
17 4 (0.12%) SUSE
17 4 (0.12%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,269 (38.04%) Problem-Solving
2 1,190 (35.67%) Software Engineering
3 1,044 (31.29%) Agile
4 799 (23.95%) Mathematics
5 495 (14.84%) Artificial Intelligence
6 464 (13.91%) SDLC
7 429 (12.86%) Decision-Making
8 416 (12.47%) CI/CD
9 394 (11.81%) Mentoring
10 391 (11.72%) Machine Learning
11 356 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
12 345 (10.34%) DevOps
13 330 (9.89%) Analytics
14 311 (9.32%) Coaching
15 294 (8.81%) Project Management
16 277 (8.30%) Data Analysis
17 260 (7.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 258 (7.73%) Data Science
19 236 (7.07%) Physics
20 235 (7.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 724 (21.70%) Python
2 686 (20.56%) SQL
3 615 (18.44%) C#
4 578 (17.33%) JavaScript
5 512 (15.35%) Java
6 341 (10.22%) C
7 324 (9.71%) C++
8 281 (8.42%) TypeScript
9 116 (3.48%) PHP
10 78 (2.34%) Bash
11 77 (2.31%) Embedded C
11 77 (2.31%) Fortran
12 76 (2.28%) PowerShell
13 52 (1.56%) R
14 51 (1.53%) Go
15 47 (1.41%) T-SQL
16 43 (1.29%) MATLAB
17 38 (1.14%) Rust
18 36 (1.08%) Kotlin
18 36 (1.08%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,776 (83.21%) Degree
2 1,460 (43.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 373 (11.18%) Master's Degree
4 235 (7.04%) Security Cleared
5 164 (4.92%) PhD
6 126 (3.78%) SC Cleared
7 84 (2.52%) CISSP
8 78 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
9 77 (2.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 62 (1.86%) AWS Certification
11 55 (1.65%) CCNA
12 54 (1.62%) CCNP
13 50 (1.50%) PMI Certification
14 46 (1.38%) Azure Certification
14 46 (1.38%) PMP
15 42 (1.26%) CISM
16 38 (1.14%) A+ Certification
16 38 (1.14%) DV Cleared
17 35 (1.05%) MCP
18 34 (1.02%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (5.58%) QA
2 66 (1.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (1.74%) GDPR
4 56 (1.68%) Accessibility
5 53 (1.59%) Data Quality
6 46 (1.38%) NIST
7 41 (1.23%) PMO
8 33 (0.99%) WCAG
9 22 (0.66%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
10 21 (0.63%) ISO 13485
11 16 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 16 (0.48%) SLA
12 11 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 11 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 10 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
13 10 (0.30%) GRC
13 10 (0.30%) NCSC
14 9 (0.27%) JTAG
15 8 (0.24%) CDISC
System Software
1 303 (9.08%) Docker
2 136 (4.08%) Firmware
3 102 (3.06%) Active Directory
4 60 (1.80%) VMware Infrastructure
5 44 (1.32%) Embedded Firmware
6 25 (0.75%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 9 (0.27%) vSphere
9 7 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
10 6 (0.18%) KVM
10 6 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 6 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.12%) pfSense
11 4 (0.12%) XenApp
12 2 (0.060%) HDFS
13 1 (0.030%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.030%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 308 (9.23%) Kubernetes
2 108 (3.24%) Terraform
3 45 (1.35%) Ansible
4 18 (0.54%) Puppet
5 14 (0.42%) Grafana
6 13 (0.39%) ZABBIX
7 11 (0.33%) SCCM
8 9 (0.27%) Nagios
8 9 (0.27%) WSUS
9 8 (0.24%) Nessus
10 7 (0.21%) Progress Chef
10 7 (0.21%) SCOM
11 6 (0.18%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.18%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.15%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.15%) Rancher
12 5 (0.15%) Suricata
13 4 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.090%) OfficeScan
14 3 (0.090%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 404 (12.11%) Microsoft
2 122 (3.66%) Oracle
3 115 (3.45%) Google
4 74 (2.22%) Cisco
5 70 (2.10%) SAP
5 70 (2.10%) VMware
6 51 (1.53%) Salesforce
7 39 (1.17%) Xilinx
8 25 (0.75%) Juniper
9 22 (0.66%) Splunk
10 19 (0.57%) Apple
10 19 (0.57%) Databricks
10 19 (0.57%) IBM
10 19 (0.57%) ServiceNow
10 19 (0.57%) Xamarin
11 16 (0.48%) F5
12 15 (0.45%) Atlassian
13 14 (0.42%) Fortinet
14 13 (0.39%) NVIDIA
15 12 (0.36%) Veeam