Computer Science Jobs in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 57 46
Rank change year-on-year +16 -11 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,205 4,705 9,057
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.89% 5.22% 6.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.73% 5.46% 7.10%
Number of salaries quoted 3,054 2,746 3,394
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,500
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 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £102,500 £115,000 £105,000
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
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 73,438 86,230 127,539
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.62% 95.76%
Number of salaries quoted 53,979 51,187 72,943
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
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 England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +5 1,531 £77,500 -3.13% 890
South East +7 1,026 £60,000 +4.68% 259
North of England +84 636 £48,000 -8.57% 208
Midlands +18 382 £50,000 -4.76% 161
North West +71 356 £50,000 -9.09% 115
South West +16 356 £50,000 -14.08% 97
West Midlands +40 262 £50,181 -8.76% 88
East of England -1 251 £46,000 -8.00% 144
Yorkshire +86 221 £45,000 -14.29% 59
East Midlands -7 114 £42,500 -10.53% 73
North East +3 59 £48,734 +14.67% 35
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 130 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.83%) Apache Spark
4 40 (0.95%) Apache
5 38 (0.90%) Confluence
6 37 (0.88%) CMS
7 31 (0.74%) SAS
8 26 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 25 (0.59%) IIS
10 22 (0.52%) WordPress
11 12 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.19%) Apache Pig
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.17%) nginx
15 6 (0.14%) Moodle
16 5 (0.12%) Luigi
17 3 (0.071%) Appian
17 3 (0.071%) WildFly
Applications
1 99 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 69 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (1.05%) Simulink
4 26 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.048%) Sketch
11 2 (0.048%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.048%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.048%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.024%) Fusion 360
12 1 (0.024%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.095%) Magento
9 4 (0.095%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.095%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.071%) CA PPM
10 3 (0.071%) Endur
10 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.071%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 780 (18.55%) AWS
2 770 (18.31%) Azure
3 255 (6.06%) Microsoft 365
4 233 (5.54%) GCP
4 233 (5.54%) Power Platform
5 165 (3.92%) SaaS
6 133 (3.16%) Serverless
7 107 (2.54%) GitHub
8 101 (2.40%) AWS Lambda
9 99 (2.35%) Azure DevOps
10 89 (2.12%) Cloud Computing
11 83 (1.97%) Amazon S3
12 58 (1.38%) PowerApps
13 52 (1.24%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (1.19%) Power Automate
15 41 (0.98%) IaaS
16 38 (0.90%) PaaS
17 36 (0.86%) Amazon Kinesis
18 35 (0.83%) Snowflake
19 33 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 161 (3.83%) WAN
2 156 (3.71%) Network Security
3 142 (3.38%) Firewall
4 123 (2.93%) Wireless
5 118 (2.81%) SD-WAN
6 92 (2.19%) WebEx
7 90 (2.14%) Cisco IOS
7 90 (2.14%) TCP/IP
8 82 (1.95%) DNS
9 78 (1.85%) VPN
10 56 (1.33%) Internet
11 46 (1.09%) LAN
11 46 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
12 45 (1.07%) HTTP
13 38 (0.90%) DHCP
13 38 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
14 26 (0.62%) VLAN
15 24 (0.57%) Ethernet
16 22 (0.52%) RS-232
16 22 (0.52%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (9.39%) SQL Server
2 216 (5.14%) Power BI
3 175 (4.16%) MySQL
3 175 (4.16%) NoSQL
4 166 (3.95%) Relational Database
5 149 (3.54%) PostgreSQL
6 137 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
7 114 (2.71%) Redis
8 107 (2.54%) Big Data
9 82 (1.95%) Tableau
10 62 (1.47%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 61 (1.45%) Hadoop
12 57 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
13 52 (1.24%) Amazon Redshift
14 48 (1.14%) MongoDB
14 48 (1.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 41 (0.98%) RDBMS
16 40 (0.95%) Data Lake
17 33 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
18 29 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 489 (11.63%) Git
2 162 (3.85%) JIRA
3 81 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 78 (1.85%) Visual Studio
5 75 (1.78%) GitLab
6 52 (1.24%) Selenium
7 45 (1.07%) Cypress.io
8 42 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 41 (0.98%) Moq
9 41 (0.98%) NUnit
10 39 (0.93%) Subversion
11 33 (0.78%) CMake
12 30 (0.71%) Burp Suite
12 30 (0.71%) Postman
13 28 (0.67%) Metasploit
14 26 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 23 (0.55%) JUnit
16 22 (0.52%) Maven
17 19 (0.45%) Sourcetree
18 17 (0.40%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,757 (41.78%) Social Skills
2 811 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
3 659 (15.67%) Finance
4 293 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 206 (4.90%) Manufacturing
6 202 (4.80%) Marketing
7 190 (4.52%) Electronics
8 127 (3.02%) Retail
9 114 (2.71%) Legal
10 112 (2.66%) Games
11 110 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
12 109 (2.59%) Public Sector
13 88 (2.09%) Telecoms
14 86 (2.05%) Law
15 82 (1.95%) Banking
15 82 (1.95%) Organisational Skills
16 70 (1.66%) Automotive
17 65 (1.55%) Aerospace
18 62 (1.47%) Military
19 58 (1.38%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,083 (25.76%) Developer
2 697 (16.58%) Senior
3 498 (11.84%) Software Engineer
4 388 (9.23%) Lead
5 264 (6.28%) Analyst
6 259 (6.16%) Software Developer
7 248 (5.90%) Architect
8 243 (5.78%) Senior Developer
9 213 (5.07%) Data Scientist
10 149 (3.54%) Junior
11 138 (3.28%) Senior Software Engineer
12 128 (3.04%) Graduate
12 128 (3.04%) IT Support
13 125 (2.97%) .NET Developer
14 110 (2.62%) Full Stack Developer
15 98 (2.33%) Support Specialist
16 95 (2.26%) C# Developer
17 92 (2.19%) IT Support Specialist
18 90 (2.14%) Data Engineer
19 87 (2.07%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 634 (15.08%) .NET
2 402 (9.56%) React
3 392 (9.32%) HTML
4 373 (8.87%) CSS
5 253 (6.02%) AngularJS
6 165 (3.92%) .NET Core
7 161 (3.83%) ASP.NET
8 159 (3.78%) Node.js
9 144 (3.42%) RESTful
10 136 (3.23%) .NET Framework
11 130 (3.09%) REST
12 128 (3.04%) HTML5
13 120 (2.85%) Web Services
14 113 (2.69%) Kafka
15 103 (2.45%) JSON
16 101 (2.40%) Spring
17 91 (2.16%) Vue
18 90 (2.14%) XML
19 85 (2.02%) jQuery
20 77 (1.83%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 482 (11.46%) Algorithms
2 392 (9.32%) Management Information System
3 241 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 202 (4.80%) Data Structures
5 149 (3.54%) Client/Server
6 123 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 104 (2.47%) Onboarding
8 96 (2.28%) Greenfield Project
8 96 (2.28%) Mobile App
9 94 (2.24%) Video Conferencing
10 90 (2.14%) Wiki
11 77 (1.83%) Cloud Native
12 74 (1.76%) Data Centre
13 71 (1.69%) IoT
14 64 (1.52%) Virtual Team
15 56 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
16 52 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.21%) FPGA
17 51 (1.21%) Security Posture
18 49 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 531 (12.63%) Windows
2 490 (11.65%) Linux
3 174 (4.14%) Android
4 135 (3.21%) Windows 10
5 98 (2.33%) Windows Server
6 80 (1.90%) Unix
7 63 (1.50%) Apple iOS
8 56 (1.33%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.78%) Kali Linux
10 30 (0.71%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.52%) CentOS
11 22 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 21 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.26%) Debian
15 8 (0.19%) VMS
16 4 (0.095%) Mac OS X
16 4 (0.095%) SUSE
16 4 (0.095%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,654 (39.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1,088 (25.87%) Agile
3 1,064 (25.30%) Software Engineering
4 709 (16.86%) Mathematics
5 515 (12.25%) Mentoring
6 499 (11.87%) Artificial Intelligence
7 497 (11.82%) DevOps
8 473 (11.25%) Cybersecurity
9 461 (10.96%) Data Science
10 447 (10.63%) Machine Learning
11 402 (9.56%) Analytics
12 381 (9.06%) Decision-Making
13 374 (8.89%) Project Management
14 360 (8.56%) Data Analysis
15 324 (7.71%) CI/CD
16 310 (7.37%) Roadmaps
17 282 (6.71%) Full Stack Development
18 275 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
19 268 (6.37%) Continuous Improvement
20 260 (6.18%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,003 (23.85%) Python
2 904 (21.50%) SQL
3 874 (20.78%) C#
4 771 (18.34%) JavaScript
5 492 (11.70%) Java
6 345 (8.20%) C++
7 324 (7.71%) TypeScript
8 289 (6.87%) C
9 150 (3.57%) PHP
10 121 (2.88%) PowerShell
11 105 (2.50%) R
12 78 (1.85%) Bash
13 77 (1.83%) Fortran
13 77 (1.83%) T-SQL
14 72 (1.71%) Go
15 61 (1.45%) Kotlin
16 55 (1.31%) MATLAB
17 53 (1.26%) Scala
18 38 (0.90%) Perl
19 34 (0.81%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,825 (90.96%) Degree
2 2,148 (51.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 704 (16.74%) Master's Degree
4 279 (6.63%) Security Cleared
5 218 (5.18%) PhD
6 166 (3.95%) SC Cleared
7 153 (3.64%) CISSP
8 135 (3.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 94 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
10 91 (2.16%) CISM
11 78 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 74 (1.76%) Azure Certification
13 63 (1.50%) PMI Certification
14 56 (1.33%) PMP
15 53 (1.26%) CCNP
16 52 (1.24%) CCNA
17 49 (1.17%) Numerate Degree
18 48 (1.14%) CISA
19 43 (1.02%) A+ Certification
20 40 (0.95%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 248 (5.90%) QA
2 105 (2.50%) Data Quality
2 105 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 92 (2.19%) GDPR
4 76 (1.81%) Accessibility
5 70 (1.66%) NIST
6 41 (0.98%) PMO
7 39 (0.93%) PCI DSS
8 33 (0.78%) WCAG
9 25 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
10 24 (0.57%) SLA
11 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 15 (0.36%) GRC
13 15 (0.36%) ISO 13485
13 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.33%) NCSC
15 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 12 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 408 (9.70%) Docker
2 219 (5.21%) Active Directory
3 96 (2.28%) VMware ESXi
4 93 (2.21%) XenApp
5 90 (2.14%) Microsoft App-V
5 90 (2.14%) XenDesktop
6 73 (1.74%) Firmware
7 68 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
8 35 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (0.71%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.29%) HDFS
12 10 (0.24%) vSphere
13 9 (0.21%) Virtual Desktop
14 7 (0.17%) KVM
14 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.095%) pfSense
16 2 (0.048%) LXC
16 2 (0.048%) NFS
17 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 310 (7.37%) Kubernetes
2 153 (3.64%) Terraform
3 101 (2.40%) SCCM
4 90 (2.14%) AirWatch
5 60 (1.43%) Ansible
6 20 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 17 (0.40%) Puppet
8 15 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 14 (0.33%) Grafana
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
10 11 (0.26%) WSUS
11 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.19%) Nessus
12 8 (0.19%) SCOM
13 7 (0.17%) CASB
13 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.17%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 688 (16.36%) Microsoft
2 179 (4.26%) Cisco
3 154 (3.66%) Google
4 107 (2.54%) Oracle
5 96 (2.28%) Citrix
6 90 (2.14%) SAP
7 83 (1.97%) VMware
8 62 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 39 (0.93%) Xilinx
10 36 (0.86%) Databricks
11 30 (0.71%) Juniper
12 29 (0.69%) Adobe
13 25 (0.59%) Apple
14 23 (0.55%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.55%) ServiceNow
15 22 (0.52%) IBM
16 21 (0.50%) Splunk
17 19 (0.45%) F5
17 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
18 15 (0.36%) Veeam