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 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 41 56 46
Rank change year-on-year +15 -10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,234 4,706 9,374
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.90% 5.32% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.76% 5.56% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,060 2,739 3,402
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,450 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,000
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 £100,000 £115,000 £107,500
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 73,567 84,580 131,290
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.06% 95.60% 95.84%
Number of salaries quoted 53,896 50,324 73,626
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £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 £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 20 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 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
London +5 1,527 £75,000 -6.25% 1,108
South East +7 1,033 £60,000 +3.45% 453
North of England +72 650 £48,000 -12.73% 218
Midlands +15 391 £50,000 -4.76% 174
North West +61 365 £50,000 -16.67% 118
South West +15 359 £50,000 -15.53% 111
West Midlands +34 267 £51,431 -6.49% 99
East of England +2 255 £46,000 -8.00% 163
Yorkshire +86 225 £45,000 -14.29% 66
East Midlands -11 118 £42,500 -12.82% 75
North East +6 60 £48,734 +14.67% 36
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
1 127 (3.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 86 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.94%) Apache Spark
4 44 (1.04%) CMS
5 43 (1.02%) Apache
6 41 (0.97%) Confluence
7 30 (0.71%) SAS
8 29 (0.68%) Apache Airflow
9 25 (0.59%) IIS
10 20 (0.47%) WordPress
11 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 11 (0.26%) Tomcat
13 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
14 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
15 7 (0.17%) Apache Pig
15 7 (0.17%) Moodle
15 7 (0.17%) nginx
16 5 (0.12%) Luigi
17 3 (0.071%) Appian
17 3 (0.071%) WildFly
Applications
1 101 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
2 73 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (1.16%) Simulink
4 27 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.094%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 2 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.047%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.024%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.024%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.024%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.024%) Revit
Business Applications
1 50 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.76%) 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 (0.094%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.094%) Endur
9 4 (0.094%) Magento
9 4 (0.094%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.094%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.094%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.071%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.047%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 790 (18.66%) AWS
2 789 (18.63%) Azure
3 260 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
4 241 (5.69%) Power Platform
5 236 (5.57%) GCP
6 164 (3.87%) SaaS
7 132 (3.12%) Serverless
8 107 (2.53%) GitHub
9 102 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
10 100 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
11 92 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
12 84 (1.98%) Amazon S3
13 60 (1.42%) PowerApps
14 53 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
15 52 (1.23%) Power Automate
16 43 (1.02%) Amazon Kinesis
17 39 (0.92%) IaaS
18 36 (0.85%) PaaS
19 35 (0.83%) Snowflake
20 32 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 161 (3.80%) Network Security
2 158 (3.73%) WAN
3 142 (3.35%) Firewall
4 120 (2.83%) Wireless
5 114 (2.69%) SD-WAN
6 92 (2.17%) TCP/IP
7 88 (2.08%) WebEx
8 86 (2.03%) Cisco IOS
9 82 (1.94%) DNS
10 79 (1.87%) VPN
11 57 (1.35%) Internet
12 47 (1.11%) LAN
12 47 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.06%) HTTP
14 38 (0.90%) DHCP
15 36 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
16 27 (0.64%) VLAN
17 24 (0.57%) Ethernet
18 23 (0.54%) SAN
19 21 (0.50%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 404 (9.54%) SQL Server
2 224 (5.29%) Power BI
3 185 (4.37%) NoSQL
4 174 (4.11%) MySQL
5 168 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 155 (3.66%) PostgreSQL
7 144 (3.40%) Data Warehouse
8 121 (2.86%) Redis
9 106 (2.50%) Big Data
10 81 (1.91%) Tableau
11 65 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 59 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
14 52 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 51 (1.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 48 (1.13%) MongoDB
17 43 (1.02%) Data Lake
18 41 (0.97%) RDBMS
19 34 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
20 32 (0.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 499 (11.79%) Git
2 171 (4.04%) JIRA
3 86 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 85 (2.01%) GitLab
5 83 (1.96%) Visual Studio
6 53 (1.25%) Selenium
7 49 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 47 (1.11%) Moq
8 47 (1.11%) NUnit
9 45 (1.06%) Cypress.io
10 40 (0.94%) Subversion
11 34 (0.80%) CMake
12 30 (0.71%) Burp Suite
12 30 (0.71%) Postman
13 28 (0.66%) Metasploit
14 26 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 22 (0.52%) JUnit
16 21 (0.50%) Sourcetree
17 20 (0.47%) Maven
18 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,789 (42.25%) Social Skills
2 822 (19.41%) Analytical Skills
3 658 (15.54%) Finance
4 295 (6.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 211 (4.98%) Marketing
6 208 (4.91%) Manufacturing
7 199 (4.70%) Electronics
8 130 (3.07%) Retail
9 113 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
10 112 (2.65%) Legal
11 111 (2.62%) Games
12 109 (2.57%) Public Sector
13 87 (2.05%) Law
14 86 (2.03%) Telecoms
15 85 (2.01%) Banking
16 81 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
17 71 (1.68%) Automotive
18 65 (1.54%) Aerospace
19 61 (1.44%) Military
20 52 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,080 (25.51%) Developer
2 705 (16.65%) Senior
3 511 (12.07%) Software Engineer
4 386 (9.12%) Lead
5 265 (6.26%) Analyst
6 259 (6.12%) Software Developer
7 252 (5.95%) Architect
8 244 (5.76%) Senior Developer
9 212 (5.01%) Data Scientist
10 150 (3.54%) Junior
11 140 (3.31%) Senior Software Engineer
12 130 (3.07%) Graduate
13 128 (3.02%) IT Support
14 126 (2.98%) .NET Developer
15 114 (2.69%) Full Stack Developer
16 96 (2.27%) C# Developer
17 94 (2.22%) Support Specialist
18 91 (2.15%) Data Engineer
19 88 (2.08%) IT Support Specialist
19 88 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 641 (15.14%) .NET
2 399 (9.42%) HTML
3 398 (9.40%) React
4 382 (9.02%) CSS
5 250 (5.90%) AngularJS
6 166 (3.92%) ASP.NET
7 165 (3.90%) .NET Core
8 158 (3.73%) Node.js
9 146 (3.45%) RESTful
10 142 (3.35%) .NET Framework
11 136 (3.21%) REST
12 129 (3.05%) HTML5
12 129 (3.05%) Web Services
13 112 (2.65%) Kafka
14 101 (2.39%) JSON
15 96 (2.27%) Spring
16 92 (2.17%) XML
17 91 (2.15%) jQuery
17 91 (2.15%) Vue
18 83 (1.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 486 (11.48%) Algorithms
2 399 (9.42%) Management Information System
3 241 (5.69%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.75%) Data Structures
5 148 (3.50%) Client/Server
6 121 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 104 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 95 (2.24%) Greenfield Project
8 95 (2.24%) Mobile App
9 90 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
10 86 (2.03%) Wiki
11 77 (1.82%) Cloud Native
12 73 (1.72%) Data Centre
13 71 (1.68%) IoT
14 65 (1.54%) Virtual Team
15 55 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
16 54 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
17 52 (1.23%) FPGA
18 51 (1.20%) Life Science
19 49 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 529 (12.49%) Windows
2 498 (11.76%) Linux
3 172 (4.06%) Android
4 128 (3.02%) Windows 10
5 96 (2.27%) Windows Server
6 81 (1.91%) Unix
7 62 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 57 (1.35%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.78%) Kali Linux
10 32 (0.76%) Ubuntu
11 24 (0.57%) CentOS
11 24 (0.57%) Embedded Linux
11 24 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
13 12 (0.28%) Debian
14 8 (0.19%) VMS
15 4 (0.094%) SUSE
15 4 (0.094%) Windows Vista
16 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,665 (39.32%) Problem-Solving
2 1,111 (26.24%) Agile
3 1,080 (25.51%) Software Engineering
4 707 (16.70%) Mathematics
5 521 (12.31%) DevOps
5 521 (12.31%) Mentoring
6 504 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
7 469 (11.08%) Cybersecurity
8 466 (11.01%) Data Science
9 453 (10.70%) Machine Learning
10 417 (9.85%) Analytics
11 385 (9.09%) Decision-Making
12 377 (8.90%) Project Management
13 363 (8.57%) Data Analysis
14 332 (7.84%) CI/CD
15 316 (7.46%) Roadmaps
16 284 (6.71%) Full Stack Development
17 281 (6.64%) Business Intelligence
18 271 (6.40%) Continuous Improvement
19 263 (6.21%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,014 (23.95%) Python
2 919 (21.71%) SQL
3 879 (20.76%) C#
4 774 (18.28%) JavaScript
5 501 (11.83%) Java
6 356 (8.41%) C++
7 320 (7.56%) TypeScript
8 292 (6.90%) C
9 150 (3.54%) PHP
10 119 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 106 (2.50%) R
12 83 (1.96%) T-SQL
13 81 (1.91%) Bash
14 79 (1.87%) Fortran
15 72 (1.70%) Go
16 65 (1.54%) Kotlin
17 63 (1.49%) Scala
18 58 (1.37%) MATLAB
19 39 (0.92%) Perl
20 34 (0.80%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,862 (91.21%) Degree
2 2,168 (51.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 699 (16.51%) Master's Degree
4 287 (6.78%) Security Cleared
5 217 (5.13%) PhD
6 170 (4.02%) SC Cleared
7 152 (3.59%) CISSP
8 139 (3.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 94 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
10 93 (2.20%) CISM
11 77 (1.82%) AWS Certification
12 73 (1.72%) Azure Certification
13 66 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 57 (1.35%) PMP
15 55 (1.30%) CCNP
16 54 (1.28%) CCNA
17 48 (1.13%) CISA
18 46 (1.09%) Numerate Degree
19 44 (1.04%) A+ Certification
20 42 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (5.79%) QA
2 105 (2.48%) Data Quality
3 101 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (2.17%) GDPR
5 76 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 68 (1.61%) NIST
7 42 (0.99%) PMO
8 38 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.78%) WCAG
10 26 (0.61%) SLA
11 23 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.35%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
13 15 (0.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 14 (0.33%) NCSC
14 14 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 405 (9.57%) Docker
2 217 (5.13%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.17%) VMware ESXi
4 89 (2.10%) XenApp
5 86 (2.03%) Microsoft App-V
5 86 (2.03%) XenDesktop
6 75 (1.77%) Firmware
7 67 (1.58%) VMware Infrastructure
8 39 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
9 29 (0.68%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.61%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.26%) HDFS
12 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.21%) vSphere
14 7 (0.17%) KVM
14 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.094%) pfSense
16 2 (0.047%) LXC
16 2 (0.047%) NFS
17 1 (0.024%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 310 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 163 (3.85%) Terraform
3 98 (2.31%) SCCM
4 86 (2.03%) AirWatch
5 64 (1.51%) Ansible
6 21 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.45%) Puppet
8 16 (0.38%) Grafana
9 15 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
11 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.24%) WSUS
12 9 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.19%) CASB
13 8 (0.19%) Nessus
13 8 (0.19%) SCOM
14 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.17%) QRadar
14 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 702 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 178 (4.20%) Cisco
3 161 (3.80%) Google
4 109 (2.57%) Oracle
5 92 (2.17%) Citrix
6 88 (2.08%) SAP
7 81 (1.91%) VMware
8 62 (1.46%) Salesforce
9 44 (1.04%) Xilinx
10 41 (0.97%) Databricks
11 33 (0.78%) Adobe
12 30 (0.71%) Juniper
13 26 (0.61%) Apple
14 23 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 22 (0.52%) IBM
16 21 (0.50%) Splunk
17 19 (0.45%) F5
17 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
18 16 (0.38%) Cognizant