Computer Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 68 79 55
Rank change year-on-year +11 -24 +12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,412 1,681 4,188
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.19% 4.07% 6.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.58% 4.23% 6.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 1,299 1,680
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,402 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,125 £113,750 £100,075
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,803 39,731 67,272
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.37% 96.08% 97.00%
Number of salaries quoted 23,360 27,643 41,432
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%

Computer Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science.

Computer Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Computer Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 26 (1.84%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.70%) IIS
3 15 (1.06%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.85%) Apache
6 11 (0.78%) Confluence
6 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.50%) nginx
7 7 (0.50%) WordPress
8 6 (0.42%) Moodle
9 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.35%) CMS
9 5 (0.35%) Tomcat
10 4 (0.28%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.071%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.071%) Mule
Applications
1 38 (2.69%) Simulink
2 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 2 (0.14%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.071%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.071%) InVision
7 1 (0.071%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.071%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 15 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.64%) SAP CX
4 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.35%) Odoo
6 4 (0.28%) Magento
6 4 (0.28%) Shopify
7 2 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.071%) Endur
8 1 (0.071%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
8 1 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
8 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.071%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.071%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.071%) SAP Payroll
8 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (25.00%) Azure
2 330 (23.37%) AWS
3 97 (6.87%) GCP
4 87 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 69 (4.89%) SaaS
6 63 (4.46%) Serverless
7 57 (4.04%) Cloud Computing
8 56 (3.97%) AWS Lambda
8 56 (3.97%) GitHub
9 54 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
10 50 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
11 34 (2.41%) PowerApps
12 31 (2.20%) Power Automate
13 26 (1.84%) Entra ID
14 24 (1.70%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
16 20 (1.42%) Snowflake
17 18 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
18 15 (1.06%) IaaS
18 15 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (3.61%) Wireless
2 46 (3.26%) Firewall
2 46 (3.26%) Network Security
3 32 (2.27%) TCP/IP
4 29 (2.05%) VPN
5 27 (1.91%) DNS
6 22 (1.56%) WAN
6 22 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
7 19 (1.35%) LAN
8 18 (1.27%) DHCP
8 18 (1.27%) Ethernet
9 15 (1.06%) HTTP
10 13 (0.92%) Internet
10 13 (0.92%) VLAN
11 12 (0.85%) RS-232
12 11 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (0.78%) SAN
13 9 (0.64%) BGP
13 9 (0.64%) MQTT
13 9 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (9.42%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.88%) Power BI
3 81 (5.74%) Relational Database
4 66 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 62 (4.39%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (4.25%) Redis
7 55 (3.90%) MySQL
8 48 (3.40%) NoSQL
9 41 (2.90%) Big Data
10 34 (2.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (1.06%) Hadoop
14 15 (1.06%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.99%) Tableau
16 12 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.85%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 149 (10.55%) Git
2 39 (2.76%) JIRA
3 23 (1.63%) CMake
3 23 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 18 (1.27%) Subversion
6 14 (0.99%) Vagrant
7 13 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.85%) GitLab
9 8 (0.57%) GDB
9 8 (0.57%) Maven
10 7 (0.50%) Bitbucket
10 7 (0.50%) CircleCI
10 7 (0.50%) JUnit
10 7 (0.50%) Selenium
10 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
12 5 (0.35%) DTrace
12 5 (0.35%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 653 (46.25%) Social Skills
2 244 (17.28%) Finance
3 209 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (10.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (5.38%) Marketing
6 64 (4.53%) Public Sector
7 59 (4.18%) Legal
8 58 (4.11%) Electronics
9 48 (3.40%) Games
10 47 (3.33%) Retail
11 45 (3.19%) Manufacturing
12 39 (2.76%) Telecoms
13 33 (2.34%) Military
14 30 (2.12%) Law
15 28 (1.98%) Tech for Good
16 27 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (1.70%) Automotive
18 21 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
19 19 (1.35%) Aerospace
19 19 (1.35%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 430 (30.45%) Developer
2 294 (20.82%) Senior
3 231 (16.36%) Software Engineer
4 112 (7.93%) Software Developer
5 106 (7.51%) Lead
6 98 (6.94%) Senior Developer
7 77 (5.45%) .NET Developer
7 77 (5.45%) Architect
8 76 (5.38%) Junior
9 74 (5.24%) Analyst
10 73 (5.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 70 (4.96%) Graduate
12 49 (3.47%) Embedded Engineer
13 40 (2.83%) C# Developer
13 40 (2.83%) C++ Software Engineer
13 40 (2.83%) Consultant
13 40 (2.83%) Data Engineer
13 40 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
13 40 (2.83%) Senior Software Developer
14 38 (2.69%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 257 (18.20%) .NET
2 141 (9.99%) HTML
3 130 (9.21%) CSS
4 126 (8.92%) React
5 109 (7.72%) AngularJS
6 94 (6.66%) .NET Core
7 84 (5.95%) ASP.NET
8 79 (5.59%) Node.js
9 62 (4.39%) RESTful
10 58 (4.11%) REST
11 41 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
12 40 (2.83%) Vue
13 39 (2.76%) .NET Framework
14 38 (2.69%) Web Services
15 36 (2.55%) XML
16 34 (2.41%) Kafka
16 34 (2.41%) Laravel
16 34 (2.41%) SOAP
17 32 (2.27%) Spring
18 28 (1.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 155 (10.98%) Algorithms
2 128 (9.07%) Management Information System
3 123 (8.71%) Data Structures
4 115 (8.14%) Client/Server
5 61 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 50 (3.54%) Virtual Team
8 48 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 40 (2.83%) Product Ownership
10 31 (2.20%) IoT
11 28 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
11 28 (1.98%) Life Science
12 26 (1.84%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.77%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.20%) Onboarding
15 16 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.06%) Blockchain
17 13 (0.92%) Hedge funds
17 13 (0.92%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 190 (13.46%) Linux
2 143 (10.13%) Windows
3 50 (3.54%) Android
4 41 (2.90%) Apple iOS
5 34 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.63%) Unix
7 20 (1.42%) Ubuntu
7 20 (1.42%) Windows 10
8 18 (1.27%) CentOS
9 16 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
11 9 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
13 4 (0.28%) SUSE
13 4 (0.28%) VxWorks
13 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
14 3 (0.21%) Windows 7
14 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (40.01%) Software Engineering
2 495 (35.06%) Problem-Solving
3 406 (28.75%) Agile
4 208 (14.73%) DevOps
5 182 (12.89%) Mathematics
5 182 (12.89%) Mentoring
6 181 (12.82%) Artificial Intelligence
7 147 (10.41%) CI/CD
8 146 (10.34%) Machine Learning
9 144 (10.20%) Analytics
10 136 (9.63%) OOP
11 124 (8.78%) Roadmaps
12 122 (8.64%) Project Management
13 118 (8.36%) Data Modelling
14 117 (8.29%) Decision-Making
15 113 (8.00%) Full Stack Development
16 112 (7.93%) Business Intelligence
17 111 (7.86%) Design Patterns
18 109 (7.72%) Microservices
19 108 (7.65%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 350 (24.79%) Python
2 317 (22.45%) C#
3 310 (21.95%) SQL
4 280 (19.83%) JavaScript
5 183 (12.96%) Java
6 120 (8.50%) TypeScript
7 115 (8.14%) C
7 115 (8.14%) C++
8 59 (4.18%) PHP
9 46 (3.26%) PowerShell
10 39 (2.76%) Embedded C
11 35 (2.48%) T-SQL
12 30 (2.12%) Go
13 26 (1.84%) Bash
13 26 (1.84%) Ruby
14 25 (1.77%) Kotlin
15 16 (1.13%) Scala
16 14 (0.99%) R
17 12 (0.85%) Rust
18 10 (0.71%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1,230 (87.11%) Degree
2 721 (51.06%) Computer Science Degree
3 206 (14.59%) Master's Degree
4 159 (11.26%) Security Cleared
5 110 (7.79%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.46%) PhD
7 46 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 43 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (2.97%) CISSP
10 32 (2.27%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 23 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.42%) CISM
13 20 (1.42%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.27%) CCNA
15 17 (1.20%) Numerate Degree
15 17 (1.20%) PMP
16 14 (0.99%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.88%) QA
2 26 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.35%) GDPR
4 19 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.92%) SLA
6 12 (0.85%) NIST
7 8 (0.57%) COBIT
8 7 (0.50%) DO-254
8 7 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.42%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.35%) PMO
11 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 170 (12.04%) Docker
2 64 (4.53%) Firmware
3 49 (3.47%) Active Directory
4 23 (1.63%) Embedded Firmware
5 22 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 17 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.42%) KVM
9 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.21%) XenApp
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 123 (8.71%) Kubernetes
2 72 (5.10%) Terraform
3 40 (2.83%) Ansible
4 15 (1.06%) Puppet
5 10 (0.71%) Grafana
5 10 (0.71%) ZABBIX
6 8 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.50%) WSUS
8 6 (0.42%) Nagios
8 6 (0.42%) SCCM
8 6 (0.42%) SCOM
9 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.28%) Nessus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.21%) OfficeScan
12 2 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.071%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 223 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.25%) Google
3 45 (3.19%) SAP
4 31 (2.20%) Oracle
4 31 (2.20%) Xilinx
5 25 (1.77%) VMware
6 20 (1.42%) Cisco
7 16 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 14 (0.99%) IBM
9 13 (0.92%) NVIDIA
10 12 (0.85%) Adobe
10 12 (0.85%) Databricks
10 12 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.57%) Juniper
12 7 (0.50%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.50%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.42%) Apple
13 6 (0.42%) Citrix
13 6 (0.42%) Teradata
13 6 (0.42%) Veeam