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

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 107 155 118
Rank change year-on-year +48 -37 +43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,511 2,238 5,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.42% 2.34% 3.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.01% 6.95% 11.85%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 1,445 1,484
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £31,000
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 £91,600 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £60,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year -13.65% +21.60% -

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 27,860 32,185 45,420
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.87% 33.60% 27.18%
Number of salaries quoted 17,264 14,482 19,180
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 30 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 30 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 +54 2,232 £60,000 -4.00% 808
UK excluding London +39 1,584 £52,500 -13.65% 445
London +51 819 £75,000 -3.23% 385
Work from Home +105 803 £60,000 -7.69% 345
South East +34 538 £60,000 -1.32% 91
North of England +95 381 £50,000 -16.67% 108
Midlands +8 209 £50,000 -17.76% 84
North West +51 203 £50,000 -16.67% 53
Yorkshire +137 158 £45,000 -18.18% 40
South West -10 156 £47,500 -21.88% 63
West Midlands +35 134 £52,500 -16.00% 50
Scotland -66 129 £57,500 -2.79% 30
East of England +16 117 £40,000 -32.38% 57
East Midlands -37 73 £46,844 -3.91% 34
Wales -14 24 £34,000 -24.44% 7
North East -14 20 £52,500 +17.32% 18
Northern Ireland +12 19 £40,500 -10.00% 14
Isle of Man - 10 £37,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -

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
1 103 (4.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.15%) Apache
4 29 (1.15%) FileNet
5 25 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.84%) Confluence
7 16 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.60%) IIS
8 15 (0.60%) WordPress
9 7 (0.28%) CMS
10 6 (0.24%) Luigi
11 4 (0.16%) Appian
11 4 (0.16%) OpenEdge
12 3 (0.12%) SAS
12 3 (0.12%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.12%) WildFly
13 2 (0.080%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.080%) Drupal
13 2 (0.080%) Moodle
Applications
1 64 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 49 (1.95%) Simulink
3 45 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.080%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.080%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.080%) 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 28 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.72%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.32%) Shopify
4 5 (0.20%) Odoo
4 5 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.16%) CA PPM
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
7 2 (0.080%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.080%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.080%) 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
1 544 (21.66%) Azure
2 510 (20.31%) AWS
3 185 (7.37%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (6.81%) GCP
5 142 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 106 (4.22%) Amazon S3
7 94 (3.74%) SaaS
8 91 (3.62%) GitHub
9 87 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
10 83 (3.31%) Serverless
11 66 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (2.39%) Amazon EC2
12 60 (2.39%) Azure DevOps
13 59 (2.35%) PowerApps
14 52 (2.07%) Amazon Kinesis
15 46 (1.83%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (1.23%) Snowflake
18 29 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
19 24 (0.96%) Amazon CloudWatch
Communications & Networking
1 141 (5.62%) Network Security
2 125 (4.98%) WAN
3 122 (4.86%) Firewall
4 95 (3.78%) Wireless
5 78 (3.11%) SD-WAN
6 77 (3.07%) Cisco IOS
7 70 (2.79%) WebEx
8 59 (2.35%) TCP/IP
9 56 (2.23%) DNS
10 52 (2.07%) LAN
11 43 (1.71%) VPN
12 39 (1.55%) DHCP
13 34 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
14 33 (1.31%) HTTP
14 33 (1.31%) VLAN
15 30 (1.19%) Intrusion Detection
16 28 (1.12%) SAN
17 27 (1.08%) Internet
18 17 (0.68%) NAS
19 12 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 266 (10.59%) SQL Server
2 206 (8.20%) NoSQL
3 124 (4.94%) Power BI
4 120 (4.78%) Data Warehouse
5 119 (4.74%) MySQL
5 119 (4.74%) Relational Database
6 103 (4.10%) PostgreSQL
7 77 (3.07%) Redis
8 69 (2.75%) Amazon RDS
9 60 (2.39%) Big Data
10 53 (2.11%) MongoDB
11 48 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 44 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
13 39 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 38 (1.51%) DynamoDB
15 36 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
15 36 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
15 36 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
16 33 (1.31%) RDBMS
17 30 (1.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 340 (13.54%) Git
2 90 (3.58%) Jenkins
3 73 (2.91%) JIRA
4 54 (2.15%) GitLab
5 38 (1.51%) JUnit
6 34 (1.35%) Jasmine
7 32 (1.27%) Visual Studio
8 29 (1.15%) Mockito
8 29 (1.15%) Postman
8 29 (1.15%) Subversion
9 28 (1.12%) Burp Suite
9 28 (1.12%) Metasploit
10 21 (0.84%) CMake
11 19 (0.76%) Gatling
11 19 (0.76%) Vagrant
12 18 (0.72%) Selenium
13 16 (0.64%) Appium
13 16 (0.64%) Moq
14 13 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 1,255 (49.98%) Social Skills
2 459 (18.28%) Analytical Skills
3 434 (17.28%) Finance
4 147 (5.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (5.10%) Manufacturing
6 123 (4.90%) Marketing
7 102 (4.06%) Electronics
8 90 (3.58%) Law
9 85 (3.39%) Public Sector
10 82 (3.27%) Retail
11 74 (2.95%) Legal
12 57 (2.27%) Banking
13 54 (2.15%) Organisational Skills
13 54 (2.15%) Presentation Skills
14 46 (1.83%) Games
15 45 (1.79%) Telecoms
16 43 (1.71%) Billing
17 32 (1.27%) Military
18 27 (1.08%) Automotive
19 25 (1.00%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 686 (27.32%) Developer
2 359 (14.30%) Senior
3 333 (13.26%) Software Engineer
4 234 (9.32%) Lead
5 213 (8.48%) Architect
6 157 (6.25%) Software Developer
7 124 (4.94%) Analyst
7 124 (4.94%) Senior Developer
8 98 (3.90%) Junior
9 93 (3.70%) IT Support
10 76 (3.03%) .NET Developer
10 76 (3.03%) Full Stack Developer
11 75 (2.99%) IT Support Specialist
11 75 (2.99%) Support Specialist
12 71 (2.83%) Senior Software Engineer
13 69 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
14 66 (2.63%) Support Engineer
15 65 (2.59%) Data Engineer
16 62 (2.47%) Graduate
17 55 (2.19%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 359 (14.30%) .NET
2 287 (11.43%) React
3 236 (9.40%) HTML
4 216 (8.60%) CSS
5 168 (6.69%) AngularJS
6 114 (4.54%) Spring
7 100 (3.98%) REST
8 96 (3.82%) Node.js
9 90 (3.58%) ASP.NET
10 88 (3.50%) .NET Framework
11 85 (3.39%) Web Services
12 83 (3.31%) JSON
13 75 (2.99%) RESTful
14 74 (2.95%) Kafka
14 74 (2.95%) Vue
15 70 (2.79%) .NET Core
16 61 (2.43%) GraphQL
16 61 (2.43%) XML
17 54 (2.15%) HTML5
18 53 (2.11%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 282 (11.23%) Management Information System
2 138 (5.50%) Self-Motivation
3 119 (4.74%) Algorithms
4 92 (3.66%) Cloud Native
5 75 (2.99%) Onboarding
6 72 (2.87%) Video Conferencing
7 71 (2.83%) Mobile App
8 69 (2.75%) Data Centre
9 68 (2.71%) Wiki
10 62 (2.47%) Product Ownership
11 56 (2.23%) Distributed Systems
12 48 (1.91%) Data Structures
13 45 (1.79%) IoT
14 42 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
15 41 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
16 38 (1.51%) Driving Licence
17 36 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
18 28 (1.12%) Life Science
18 28 (1.12%) Security Posture
19 27 (1.08%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 371 (14.77%) Windows
2 345 (13.74%) Linux
3 144 (5.73%) Android
4 92 (3.66%) Windows 10
5 79 (3.15%) Windows Server
6 51 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 39 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.51%) Unix
9 33 (1.31%) Ubuntu
10 29 (1.15%) Kali Linux
11 25 (1.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 20 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
13 18 (0.72%) CentOS
13 18 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
14 13 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
15 11 (0.44%) 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 2,445 (97.37%) Computer Science
2 1,106 (44.05%) Problem-Solving
3 704 (28.04%) Agile
4 649 (25.85%) Software Engineering
5 425 (16.93%) DevOps
6 314 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 300 (11.95%) CI/CD
8 282 (11.23%) Mentoring
9 273 (10.87%) Machine Learning
10 223 (8.88%) Analytics
11 220 (8.76%) Cybersecurity
12 217 (8.64%) Mathematics
13 204 (8.12%) SDLC
14 196 (7.81%) Project Management
15 190 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
16 188 (7.49%) Data Modelling
17 186 (7.41%) Microservices
18 184 (7.33%) Roadmaps
19 174 (6.93%) Full Stack Development
19 174 (6.93%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 579 (23.06%) Python
2 578 (23.02%) SQL
3 483 (19.24%) C#
4 480 (19.12%) JavaScript
5 387 (15.41%) Java
6 187 (7.45%) TypeScript
7 184 (7.33%) C++
8 130 (5.18%) C
9 104 (4.14%) PHP
10 81 (3.23%) PowerShell
11 58 (2.31%) Scala
12 51 (2.03%) Bash
13 48 (1.91%) Kotlin
14 41 (1.63%) T-SQL
15 40 (1.59%) R
16 38 (1.51%) Go
17 18 (0.72%) Rust
18 17 (0.68%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.64%) MATLAB
19 16 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2,511 (100.00%) Degree
2 425 (16.93%) Master's Degree
3 186 (7.41%) Security Cleared
4 139 (5.54%) SC Cleared
5 128 (5.10%) Microsoft Certification
6 92 (3.66%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (3.58%) CISSP
8 79 (3.15%) AWS Certification
9 73 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 61 (2.43%) CCNA
11 55 (2.19%) CCNP
12 51 (2.03%) PhD
13 46 (1.83%) CISM
14 41 (1.63%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 41 (1.63%) DBS Check
15 38 (1.51%) MCP
16 35 (1.39%) A+ Certification
17 33 (1.31%) PMI Certification
18 31 (1.23%) DV Cleared
19 28 (1.12%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.93%) QA
2 82 (3.27%) Data Quality
3 51 (2.03%) GDPR
4 44 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.27%) NIST
6 29 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.84%) SLA
8 18 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 13 (0.52%) PCI DSS
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%) Web Application Security Consortium
15 5 (0.20%) NCSC
15 5 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
16 4 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.16%) ISO 9001
17 2 (0.080%) WAI
System Software
1 301 (11.99%) Docker
2 165 (6.57%) Active Directory
3 74 (2.95%) VMware ESXi
4 71 (2.83%) XenApp
5 68 (2.71%) Microsoft App-V
5 68 (2.71%) XenDesktop
6 40 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
7 31 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 18 (0.72%) Firmware
9 15 (0.60%) Hyper-V
10 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
10 9 (0.36%) vSphere
11 5 (0.20%) KVM
11 5 (0.20%) pfSense
12 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
13 2 (0.080%) Embedded Firmware
13 2 (0.080%) HDFS
13 2 (0.080%) LXC
14 1 (0.040%) OpenAM
14 1 (0.040%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 275 (10.95%) Kubernetes
2 149 (5.93%) Terraform
3 82 (3.27%) SCCM
4 68 (2.71%) AirWatch
5 60 (2.39%) Ansible
6 21 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.80%) Puppet
8 14 (0.56%) Grafana
9 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
10 10 (0.40%) Progress Chef
10 10 (0.40%) Prometheus
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%) HP ALM
14 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.20%) Nessus
14 5 (0.20%) Rancher
15 4 (0.16%) Argo
Vendors
1 501 (19.95%) Microsoft
2 146 (5.81%) Cisco
3 134 (5.34%) Google
4 91 (3.62%) Oracle
5 75 (2.99%) Citrix
6 52 (2.07%) Salesforce
6 52 (2.07%) SAP
7 50 (1.99%) VMware
8 40 (1.59%) Databricks
8 40 (1.59%) Xilinx
9 38 (1.51%) IBM
10 29 (1.15%) Splunk
11 24 (0.96%) Juniper
12 22 (0.88%) Apple
13 20 (0.80%) Facebook
14 16 (0.64%) F5
14 16 (0.64%) ServiceNow
15 15 (0.60%) Sony
16 14 (0.56%) Atlassian
16 14 (0.56%) Fortinet