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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 172 120
Rank change year-on-year +65 -52 +44
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,468 2,190 4,918
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.50% 2.11% 3.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.00% 6.48% 11.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,859 1,373 1,583
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,625 £85,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £107,250 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 27,433 33,803 42,122
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.82% 32.57% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,326 15,201 19,033
10th Percentile £28,290 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% -

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 3 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK

Computer Science Degree
Top 18 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 3 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 +75 2,195 £60,000 -4.00% 830
UK excluding London +51 1,503 £50,000 -9.09% 443
London +67 853 £75,000 -3.23% 389
Work from Home +99 737 £60,000 -4.00% 386
South East +27 526 £60,000 - 106
North of England +141 359 £50,000 -9.09% 108
North West +68 182 £50,000 -9.09% 65
Midlands +20 182 £50,000 -16.67% 81
Yorkshire +155 156 £46,250 -15.91% 29
South West +8 144 £45,000 -16.28% 50
Scotland -51 126 £55,750 +1.36% 16
West Midlands +44 120 £54,000 -15.29% 49
East of England +21 115 £40,000 -27.93% 56
East Midlands -31 60 £45,000 - 32
Wales -6 25 £33,250 -28.88% 10
North East -2 21 £52,500 +23.53% 15
Northern Ireland +25 18 £40,000 -5.88% 15
Isle of Man - 9 £37,500 - 2

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
1 131 (5.31%) Microsoft Exchange
2 66 (2.67%) SharePoint
3 31 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.18%) FileNet
5 23 (0.93%) Apache
6 18 (0.73%) Confluence
6 18 (0.73%) WordPress
7 16 (0.65%) Apache Airflow
8 15 (0.61%) OpenStack
9 14 (0.57%) IIS
10 9 (0.36%) CMS
11 4 (0.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 4 (0.16%) OpenEdge
11 4 (0.16%) SAS
12 3 (0.12%) Appian
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WildFly
13 2 (0.081%) Drupal
13 2 (0.081%) Luigi
13 2 (0.081%) Moodle
Applications
1 57 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 39 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.42%) Simulink
4 10 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (0.28%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.081%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.081%) MS Visio
7 2 (0.081%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.041%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.041%) Sketch
8 1 (0.041%) Trello
8 1 (0.041%) UXPin
8 1 (0.041%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 29 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.73%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.32%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Odoo
5 4 (0.16%) Magento
6 3 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.12%) Relativity
6 3 (0.12%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.12%) SAP ERP
6 3 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
6 3 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.081%) CA PPM
7 2 (0.081%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.041%) Dynamics NAV
8 1 (0.041%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.041%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.041%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.041%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.041%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.041%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 496 (20.10%) Azure
2 479 (19.41%) AWS
3 207 (8.39%) Microsoft 365
4 164 (6.65%) GCP
5 117 (4.74%) Power Platform
6 112 (4.54%) Amazon S3
7 107 (4.34%) SaaS
8 95 (3.85%) GitHub
9 89 (3.61%) Serverless
10 82 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
11 71 (2.88%) AWS Lambda
12 61 (2.47%) Amazon EC2
13 60 (2.43%) Azure DevOps
14 52 (2.11%) PowerApps
15 40 (1.62%) Power Automate
16 35 (1.42%) Amazon Kinesis
17 29 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
17 29 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
18 28 (1.13%) IaaS
19 26 (1.05%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 152 (6.16%) WAN
2 131 (5.31%) Network Security
3 125 (5.06%) Wireless
4 119 (4.82%) Firewall
5 107 (4.34%) Cisco IOS
5 107 (4.34%) SD-WAN
6 100 (4.05%) WebEx
7 58 (2.35%) DNS
8 57 (2.31%) TCP/IP
9 50 (2.03%) LAN
10 45 (1.82%) VPN
11 41 (1.66%) DHCP
12 36 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
13 35 (1.42%) HTTP
14 32 (1.30%) VLAN
15 29 (1.18%) SAN
16 27 (1.09%) Intrusion Detection
17 26 (1.05%) Internet
18 18 (0.73%) NAS
19 13 (0.53%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 272 (11.02%) SQL Server
2 176 (7.13%) NoSQL
3 129 (5.23%) MySQL
4 116 (4.70%) Relational Database
5 106 (4.29%) Data Warehouse
6 99 (4.01%) Power BI
7 76 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
8 66 (2.67%) Amazon RDS
9 53 (2.15%) Redis
10 49 (1.99%) Big Data
10 49 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 47 (1.90%) MongoDB
12 41 (1.66%) Elasticsearch
12 41 (1.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 38 (1.54%) Amazon Redshift
14 36 (1.46%) Apache Cassandra
15 33 (1.34%) Azure SQL Database
15 33 (1.34%) RDBMS
16 30 (1.22%) Tableau
17 26 (1.05%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 333 (13.49%) Git
2 90 (3.65%) Jenkins
3 78 (3.16%) JIRA
4 52 (2.11%) GitLab
5 35 (1.42%) Jasmine
6 34 (1.38%) JUnit
7 33 (1.34%) Subversion
8 32 (1.30%) Visual Studio
9 31 (1.26%) Postman
10 29 (1.18%) Burp Suite
10 29 (1.18%) Metasploit
10 29 (1.18%) Mockito
11 21 (0.85%) CMake
12 18 (0.73%) Selenium
13 16 (0.65%) Appium
14 13 (0.53%) NUnit
14 13 (0.53%) Vagrant
15 12 (0.49%) Bitbucket
15 12 (0.49%) Moq
16 11 (0.45%) Maven
General
1 1,234 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 438 (17.75%) Analytical Skills
3 435 (17.63%) Finance
4 140 (5.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 129 (5.23%) Manufacturing
6 122 (4.94%) Marketing
7 91 (3.69%) Law
8 83 (3.36%) Public Sector
9 82 (3.32%) Electronics
10 76 (3.08%) Retail
11 72 (2.92%) Legal
12 55 (2.23%) Telecoms
13 54 (2.19%) Banking
14 53 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
15 52 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
16 46 (1.86%) Games
17 36 (1.46%) Military
18 32 (1.30%) Back Office
19 29 (1.18%) Billing
20 27 (1.09%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 678 (27.47%) Developer
2 356 (14.42%) Senior
3 312 (12.64%) Software Engineer
4 234 (9.48%) Lead
5 209 (8.47%) Architect
6 160 (6.48%) Software Developer
7 124 (5.02%) Analyst
8 123 (4.98%) Senior Developer
9 119 (4.82%) IT Support
10 105 (4.25%) IT Support Specialist
10 105 (4.25%) Support Specialist
11 101 (4.09%) Junior
12 77 (3.12%) .NET Developer
13 75 (3.04%) Full Stack Developer
14 73 (2.96%) Senior Software Engineer
15 71 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
16 67 (2.71%) Support Engineer
17 64 (2.59%) Data Engineer
18 60 (2.43%) Graduate
19 55 (2.23%) C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 355 (14.38%) .NET
2 297 (12.03%) React
3 226 (9.16%) HTML
4 208 (8.43%) CSS
5 169 (6.85%) AngularJS
6 119 (4.82%) Spring
7 96 (3.89%) Node.js
8 88 (3.57%) .NET Framework
9 86 (3.48%) ASP.NET
9 86 (3.48%) REST
10 82 (3.32%) JSON
11 77 (3.12%) Kafka
12 74 (3.00%) RESTful
13 73 (2.96%) Vue
14 69 (2.80%) .NET Core
14 69 (2.80%) Web Services
15 54 (2.19%) XML
16 50 (2.03%) HTML5
17 47 (1.90%) Hibernate
18 46 (1.86%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 267 (10.82%) Management Information System
2 145 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
3 117 (4.74%) Algorithms
4 100 (4.05%) Video Conferencing
5 98 (3.97%) Wiki
6 90 (3.65%) Cloud Native
7 72 (2.92%) Onboarding
8 71 (2.88%) Mobile App
9 68 (2.76%) Data Centre
10 66 (2.67%) Product Ownership
11 50 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
12 49 (1.99%) Data Structures
13 44 (1.78%) IoT
14 42 (1.70%) Cyber Threat
15 40 (1.62%) Greenfield Project
16 38 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
17 36 (1.46%) Driving Licence
18 30 (1.22%) Security Posture
19 28 (1.13%) Life Science
20 26 (1.05%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 408 (16.53%) Windows
2 331 (13.41%) Linux
3 166 (6.73%) Android
4 129 (5.23%) Windows 10
5 85 (3.44%) Windows Server
6 49 (1.99%) Mac OS
7 40 (1.62%) Apple iOS
8 39 (1.58%) Unix
9 30 (1.22%) Kali Linux
10 23 (0.93%) Ubuntu
11 21 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
12 18 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 17 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
14 14 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
15 12 (0.49%) CentOS
16 9 (0.36%) Debian
17 7 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
18 6 (0.24%) VMS
19 5 (0.20%) Mac OS X
20 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,403 (97.37%) Computer Science
2 1,061 (42.99%) Problem-Solving
3 659 (26.70%) Agile
4 629 (25.49%) Software Engineering
5 392 (15.88%) DevOps
6 296 (11.99%) CI/CD
7 294 (11.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 274 (11.10%) Mentoring
9 236 (9.56%) Machine Learning
10 220 (8.91%) Cybersecurity
11 213 (8.63%) Mathematics
12 202 (8.18%) SDLC
13 193 (7.82%) Project Management
14 188 (7.62%) Analytics
14 188 (7.62%) Continuous Improvement
15 180 (7.29%) Data Modelling
16 175 (7.09%) Test Automation
17 173 (7.01%) Full Stack Development
18 170 (6.89%) Microservices
18 170 (6.89%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 541 (21.92%) SQL
2 531 (21.52%) Python
3 481 (19.49%) C#
4 470 (19.04%) JavaScript
5 366 (14.83%) Java
6 189 (7.66%) TypeScript
7 175 (7.09%) C++
8 124 (5.02%) C
9 104 (4.21%) PHP
10 83 (3.36%) PowerShell
11 54 (2.19%) Bash
12 41 (1.66%) Go
13 39 (1.58%) Kotlin
14 37 (1.50%) R
14 37 (1.50%) T-SQL
15 36 (1.46%) Scala
16 17 (0.69%) Rust
17 16 (0.65%) Swift
18 15 (0.61%) Objective-C
18 15 (0.61%) VB
Qualifications
1 2,468 (100.00%) Degree
2 459 (18.60%) Master's Degree
3 165 (6.69%) Security Cleared
4 122 (4.94%) SC Cleared
5 119 (4.82%) Microsoft Certification
6 91 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (3.65%) CISSP
8 80 (3.24%) AWS Certification
9 68 (2.76%) Azure Certification
10 58 (2.35%) CCNA
11 53 (2.15%) CCNP
12 49 (1.99%) PhD
13 47 (1.90%) CISM
14 40 (1.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
15 38 (1.54%) DBS Check
16 36 (1.46%) MCP
17 33 (1.34%) A+ Certification
18 30 (1.22%) PMI Certification
19 27 (1.09%) CompTIA Security+
20 26 (1.05%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 179 (7.25%) QA
2 73 (2.96%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.07%) GDPR
4 49 (1.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 37 (1.50%) NIST
6 28 (1.13%) Accessibility
7 25 (1.01%) SLA
8 18 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.53%) HIPAA
9 13 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 11 (0.45%) PMO
11 10 (0.41%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 10 (0.41%) COBIT
12 7 (0.28%) ISO 13485
13 6 (0.24%) NCSC
13 6 (0.24%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
15 3 (0.12%) Software Quality Assurance
16 2 (0.081%) GRC
System Software
1 321 (13.01%) Docker
2 200 (8.10%) Active Directory
3 102 (4.13%) VMware ESXi
4 101 (4.09%) XenApp
5 98 (3.97%) Microsoft App-V
5 98 (3.97%) XenDesktop
6 43 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 25 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.73%) Hyper-V
9 17 (0.69%) Firmware
10 9 (0.36%) vSphere
11 5 (0.20%) pfSense
12 4 (0.16%) KVM
12 4 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
14 2 (0.081%) Embedded Firmware
14 2 (0.081%) HDFS
14 2 (0.081%) LXC
15 1 (0.041%) BitLocker
15 1 (0.041%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 286 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 137 (5.55%) Terraform
3 113 (4.58%) SCCM
4 98 (3.97%) AirWatch
5 49 (1.99%) Ansible
6 17 (0.69%) Puppet
7 16 (0.65%) Microsoft Intune
8 12 (0.49%) ZABBIX
9 10 (0.41%) Grafana
10 9 (0.36%) Prometheus
11 8 (0.32%) Nagios
12 7 (0.28%) Progress Chef
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
1 513 (20.79%) Microsoft
2 173 (7.01%) Cisco
3 126 (5.11%) Google
4 104 (4.21%) Citrix
5 94 (3.81%) Oracle
6 58 (2.35%) SAP
7 55 (2.23%) VMware
8 47 (1.90%) Salesforce
9 38 (1.54%) IBM
10 27 (1.09%) Databricks
11 26 (1.05%) Xilinx
12 22 (0.89%) Juniper
13 21 (0.85%) Apple
13 21 (0.85%) Splunk
14 20 (0.81%) Facebook
15 17 (0.69%) F5
16 15 (0.61%) Atlassian
16 15 (0.61%) Fortinet
16 15 (0.61%) Sony
17 14 (0.57%) Xamarin