Computer Science Degree Jobs

Computer Science Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 160 120
Rank change year-on-year +54 -40 +42
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,479 2,296 5,145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.48% 2.31% 3.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.01% 6.99% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 1,856 1,431 1,532
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £105,000 £99,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +20.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,500 32,829 43,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.52% 33.01% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 17,231 14,784 19,165
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
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 Degree within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +65 2,207 £60,000 -4.00% 1,010
UK excluding London +34 1,547 £52,500 -12.50% 599
London +55 825 £75,000 -3.23% 542
Work from Home +108 767 £60,000 -7.69% 448
South East +35 532 £60,000 -1.32% 206
North of England +92 370 £50,000 -16.67% 121
Midlands -1 199 £50,000 -17.76% 88
North West +39 189 £50,000 -16.67% 62
Yorkshire +143 160 £46,000 -24.34% 41
South West -15 151 £45,000 -25.99% 57
West Midlands +47 130 £54,500 -12.80% 55
Scotland -64 126 £57,500 +4.55% 34
East of England +21 118 £40,000 -32.38% 72
East Midlands -38 67 £46,188 -2.76% 33
Wales -18 23 £34,000 -24.44% 11
North East -3 21 £52,500 +11.70% 20
Northern Ireland +19 19 £40,500 -7.43% 15
Isle of Man - 9 £37,500 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

Computer Science Degree
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
1 121 (4.88%) Microsoft Exchange
2 73 (2.94%) SharePoint
3 32 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.17%) FileNet
5 24 (0.97%) Apache
6 22 (0.89%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.81%) Confluence
8 15 (0.61%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.61%) WordPress
9 14 (0.56%) IIS
10 8 (0.32%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) Luigi
11 4 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.12%) SAS
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WildFly
13 2 (0.081%) Adobe Experience Manager
13 2 (0.081%) Drupal
13 2 (0.081%) Moodle
Applications
1 60 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 45 (1.82%) Simulink
3 42 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 12 (0.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.040%) Autodesk Inventor
8 1 (0.040%) Fusion 360
8 1 (0.040%) Revit
8 1 (0.040%) Sketch
8 1 (0.040%) Trello
8 1 (0.040%) UXPin
8 1 (0.040%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 27 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.32%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Odoo
5 4 (0.16%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.16%) Magento
5 4 (0.16%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.12%) Relativity
6 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.081%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.081%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.040%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.040%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.040%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.040%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.040%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 518 (20.90%) Azure
2 488 (19.69%) AWS
3 203 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
4 169 (6.82%) GCP
5 129 (5.20%) Power Platform
6 108 (4.36%) Amazon S3
7 102 (4.11%) SaaS
8 93 (3.75%) GitHub
9 86 (3.47%) Cloud Computing
10 85 (3.43%) Serverless
11 66 (2.66%) AWS Lambda
12 63 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
13 59 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
14 56 (2.26%) PowerApps
15 44 (1.77%) Power Automate
16 43 (1.73%) Amazon Kinesis
17 31 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
18 29 (1.17%) Snowflake
19 28 (1.13%) AWS CloudFormation
19 28 (1.13%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 141 (5.69%) WAN
2 132 (5.32%) Network Security
3 117 (4.72%) Firewall
4 112 (4.52%) Wireless
5 95 (3.83%) Cisco IOS
5 95 (3.83%) SD-WAN
6 88 (3.55%) WebEx
7 58 (2.34%) DNS
7 58 (2.34%) TCP/IP
8 51 (2.06%) LAN
9 45 (1.82%) VPN
10 41 (1.65%) DHCP
11 36 (1.45%) Wi-Fi
12 33 (1.33%) HTTP
12 33 (1.33%) VLAN
13 28 (1.13%) SAN
14 26 (1.05%) Internet
14 26 (1.05%) Intrusion Detection
15 17 (0.69%) NAS
16 12 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (10.81%) SQL Server
2 191 (7.70%) NoSQL
3 120 (4.84%) MySQL
4 117 (4.72%) Relational Database
5 113 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
6 110 (4.44%) Power BI
7 87 (3.51%) PostgreSQL
8 66 (2.66%) Amazon RDS
9 65 (2.62%) Redis
10 54 (2.18%) Big Data
11 50 (2.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 47 (1.90%) MongoDB
13 42 (1.69%) Elasticsearch
13 42 (1.69%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 36 (1.45%) Amazon Redshift
15 35 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
16 33 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
16 33 (1.33%) RDBMS
17 28 (1.13%) Tableau
18 27 (1.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 337 (13.59%) Git
2 90 (3.63%) Jenkins
3 80 (3.23%) JIRA
4 54 (2.18%) GitLab
5 35 (1.41%) Jasmine
5 35 (1.41%) JUnit
6 32 (1.29%) Subversion
6 32 (1.29%) Visual Studio
7 31 (1.25%) Postman
8 29 (1.17%) Mockito
9 28 (1.13%) Burp Suite
9 28 (1.13%) Metasploit
10 21 (0.85%) CMake
11 17 (0.69%) Selenium
11 17 (0.69%) Vagrant
12 16 (0.65%) Appium
13 14 (0.56%) Moq
14 13 (0.52%) NUnit
15 12 (0.48%) Bitbucket
16 11 (0.44%) LabVIEW
General
1 1,236 (49.86%) Social Skills
2 446 (17.99%) Analytical Skills
3 430 (17.35%) Finance
4 141 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 127 (5.12%) Manufacturing
6 124 (5.00%) Marketing
7 94 (3.79%) Electronics
8 92 (3.71%) Law
9 84 (3.39%) Public Sector
10 80 (3.23%) Retail
11 74 (2.99%) Legal
12 54 (2.18%) Banking
13 53 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (2.10%) Organisational Skills
15 49 (1.98%) Telecoms
16 45 (1.82%) Games
17 36 (1.45%) Billing
18 34 (1.37%) Military
19 29 (1.17%) Back Office
20 26 (1.05%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 673 (27.15%) Developer
2 358 (14.44%) Senior
3 324 (13.07%) Software Engineer
4 231 (9.32%) Lead
5 208 (8.39%) Architect
6 160 (6.45%) Software Developer
7 123 (4.96%) Analyst
8 122 (4.92%) Senior Developer
9 109 (4.40%) IT Support
10 98 (3.95%) Junior
11 93 (3.75%) IT Support Specialist
11 93 (3.75%) Support Specialist
12 79 (3.19%) .NET Developer
13 73 (2.94%) Senior Software Engineer
14 71 (2.86%) Full Stack Developer
14 71 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
15 66 (2.66%) Support Engineer
16 63 (2.54%) Data Engineer
17 61 (2.46%) Graduate
18 53 (2.14%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 360 (14.52%) .NET
2 292 (11.78%) React
3 224 (9.04%) HTML
4 206 (8.31%) CSS
5 169 (6.82%) AngularJS
6 113 (4.56%) Spring
7 96 (3.87%) Node.js
8 94 (3.79%) REST
9 90 (3.63%) .NET Framework
10 87 (3.51%) ASP.NET
11 83 (3.35%) JSON
12 76 (3.07%) Web Services
13 74 (2.99%) Kafka
14 73 (2.94%) Vue
15 72 (2.90%) RESTful
16 69 (2.78%) .NET Core
17 55 (2.22%) XML
18 52 (2.10%) GraphQL
19 51 (2.06%) HTML5
20 46 (1.86%) Hibernate
Miscellaneous
1 272 (10.97%) Management Information System
2 143 (5.77%) Self-Motivation
3 119 (4.80%) Algorithms
4 90 (3.63%) Cloud Native
5 88 (3.55%) Video Conferencing
6 86 (3.47%) Wiki
7 72 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 69 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 69 (2.78%) Mobile App
9 64 (2.58%) Product Ownership
10 49 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
11 48 (1.94%) Data Structures
12 44 (1.77%) IoT
13 42 (1.69%) Cyber Threat
14 40 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
15 37 (1.49%) Driving Licence
15 37 (1.49%) Greenfield Project
16 28 (1.13%) Life Science
16 28 (1.13%) Security Posture
17 26 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 392 (15.81%) Windows
2 337 (13.59%) Linux
3 158 (6.37%) Android
4 114 (4.60%) Windows 10
5 81 (3.27%) Windows Server
6 49 (1.98%) Mac OS
7 39 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 39 (1.57%) Unix
8 29 (1.17%) Kali Linux
9 28 (1.13%) Ubuntu
10 23 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 19 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.73%) Embedded Linux
13 16 (0.65%) CentOS
14 15 (0.61%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.40%) Debian
16 6 (0.24%) VMS
17 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
18 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
19 3 (0.12%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,414 (97.38%) Computer Science
2 1,069 (43.12%) Problem-Solving
3 678 (27.35%) Agile
4 636 (25.66%) Software Engineering
5 410 (16.54%) DevOps
6 307 (12.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 299 (12.06%) CI/CD
8 275 (11.09%) Mentoring
9 255 (10.29%) Machine Learning
10 218 (8.79%) Cybersecurity
11 214 (8.63%) Mathematics
12 204 (8.23%) Analytics
13 202 (8.15%) SDLC
14 193 (7.79%) Project Management
15 186 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
16 184 (7.42%) Data Modelling
17 179 (7.22%) Roadmaps
18 176 (7.10%) Microservices
19 173 (6.98%) Test Automation
20 170 (6.86%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 548 (22.11%) SQL
2 547 (22.07%) Python
3 481 (19.40%) C#
4 469 (18.92%) JavaScript
5 376 (15.17%) Java
6 187 (7.54%) TypeScript
7 183 (7.38%) C++
8 125 (5.04%) C
9 102 (4.11%) PHP
10 79 (3.19%) PowerShell
11 51 (2.06%) Bash
12 47 (1.90%) Scala
13 44 (1.77%) Kotlin
14 39 (1.57%) Go
14 39 (1.57%) R
15 38 (1.53%) T-SQL
16 17 (0.69%) MATLAB
16 17 (0.69%) Rust
17 15 (0.61%) Shell Script
17 15 (0.61%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2,479 (100.00%) Degree
2 440 (17.75%) Master's Degree
3 178 (7.18%) Security Cleared
4 131 (5.28%) SC Cleared
5 124 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 90 (3.63%) CISSP
7 89 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
8 77 (3.11%) AWS Certification
9 69 (2.78%) Azure Certification
10 59 (2.38%) CCNA
11 53 (2.14%) CCNP
12 51 (2.06%) PhD
13 46 (1.86%) CISM
14 40 (1.61%) DBS Check
15 39 (1.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 36 (1.45%) MCP
17 33 (1.33%) A+ Certification
17 33 (1.33%) PMI Certification
18 28 (1.13%) CompTIA Security+
18 28 (1.13%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (7.18%) QA
2 76 (3.07%) Data Quality
3 50 (2.02%) GDPR
4 44 (1.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 33 (1.33%) NIST
6 28 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 24 (0.97%) SLA
8 18 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.56%) PCI DSS
10 13 (0.52%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 12 (0.48%) HIPAA
11 12 (0.48%) PMO
12 10 (0.40%) COBIT
13 7 (0.28%) ISO 13485
14 6 (0.24%) NCSC
14 6 (0.24%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.081%) WAI
System Software
1 307 (12.38%) Docker
2 186 (7.50%) Active Directory
3 90 (3.63%) VMware ESXi
4 89 (3.59%) XenApp
5 86 (3.47%) Microsoft App-V
5 86 (3.47%) XenDesktop
6 39 (1.57%) VMware Infrastructure
7 28 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.69%) Firmware
9 16 (0.65%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.36%) vSphere
11 6 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
12 5 (0.20%) pfSense
13 4 (0.16%) KVM
14 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.081%) HDFS
15 2 (0.081%) LXC
16 1 (0.040%) OpenAM
16 1 (0.040%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 278 (11.21%) Kubernetes
2 144 (5.81%) Terraform
3 102 (4.11%) SCCM
4 86 (3.47%) AirWatch
5 56 (2.26%) Ansible
6 19 (0.77%) Puppet
7 18 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.48%) Grafana
8 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
9 10 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 9 (0.36%) Progress Chef
11 8 (0.32%) Nagios
12 7 (0.28%) SCOM
12 7 (0.28%) WSUS
13 6 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 5 (0.20%) Argo
14 5 (0.20%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.20%) Kubeflow
14 5 (0.20%) Nessus
14 5 (0.20%) Rancher
Vendors
1 512 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 162 (6.53%) Cisco
3 131 (5.28%) Google
4 93 (3.75%) Oracle
5 92 (3.71%) Citrix
6 56 (2.26%) SAP
7 51 (2.06%) VMware
8 49 (1.98%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.53%) IBM
10 36 (1.45%) Xilinx
11 35 (1.41%) Databricks
12 23 (0.93%) Juniper
12 23 (0.93%) Splunk
13 22 (0.89%) Apple
14 20 (0.81%) Facebook
15 16 (0.65%) F5
16 15 (0.61%) Sony
17 14 (0.56%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.56%) Fortinet
17 14 (0.56%) Xamarin