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

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 55 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -10 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,302 4,486 9,913
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.71% 5.32% 7.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.65% 5.58% 7.30%
Number of salaries quoted 3,068 2,683 3,366
10th Percentile £31,850 £37,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,500
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 £89,375 £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% +9.09%

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 76,200 80,466 135,750
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 83.51% 95.48% 95.97%
Number of salaries quoted 55,193 48,975 73,419
10th Percentile £29,022 £34,324 £33,262
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +4 1,526 £75,000 -6.25% 942
South East +12 1,057 £60,000 +3.45% 246
North of England +70 670 £47,500 -13.64% 198
Midlands +22 411 £50,000 -9.09% 166
North West +62 383 £50,000 -16.67% 122
South West +15 364 £52,500 -11.30% 100
West Midlands +32 274 £50,000 -9.09% 82
East of England -6 255 £45,000 -10.00% 123
Yorkshire +83 224 £42,000 -20.00% 51
East Midlands +1 131 £42,500 -15.00% 84
North East +2 63 £48,000 +12.94% 28
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
1 104 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 88 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 48 (1.12%) Apache
4 48 (1.12%) CMS
5 42 (0.98%) Confluence
6 31 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
7 28 (0.65%) SAS
8 26 (0.60%) IIS
9 19 (0.44%) WordPress
10 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
11 11 (0.26%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.23%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.16%) Luigi
14 7 (0.16%) Moodle
14 7 (0.16%) nginx
15 6 (0.14%) Apache Pig
16 3 (0.070%) Appian
16 3 (0.070%) WildFly
Applications
1 106 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (1.79%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (1.30%) Simulink
4 28 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.49%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.093%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.070%) Sketch
10 3 (0.070%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.046%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.046%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.046%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.046%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.023%) Acrobat
12 1 (0.023%) AutoCAD
12 1 (0.023%) InfoPath
12 1 (0.023%) Mathematica
12 1 (0.023%) Revit
Business Applications
1 52 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 35 (0.81%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 20 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 11 (0.26%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 7 (0.16%) Ripple
9 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
9 5 (0.12%) Endur
9 5 (0.12%) Odoo
10 4 (0.093%) CA PPM
10 4 (0.093%) Magento
10 4 (0.093%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.093%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.093%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.070%) Sage 200
11 3 (0.070%) Sage 300 ERP
11 3 (0.070%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 822 (19.11%) Azure
2 810 (18.83%) AWS
3 259 (6.02%) Power Platform
4 242 (5.63%) GCP
5 240 (5.58%) Microsoft 365
6 157 (3.65%) SaaS
7 127 (2.95%) Serverless
8 103 (2.39%) GitHub
9 99 (2.30%) Azure DevOps
10 97 (2.25%) AWS Lambda
11 94 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
12 81 (1.88%) Amazon S3
13 63 (1.46%) PowerApps
14 55 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 53 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
15 53 (1.23%) Amazon Kinesis
16 36 (0.84%) Dynamics 365
16 36 (0.84%) Snowflake
17 35 (0.81%) IaaS
18 34 (0.79%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 170 (3.95%) Network Security
2 148 (3.44%) Firewall
3 134 (3.11%) WAN
4 97 (2.25%) TCP/IP
5 96 (2.23%) Wireless
6 91 (2.12%) SD-WAN
7 80 (1.86%) VPN
8 78 (1.81%) DNS
9 64 (1.49%) WebEx
10 62 (1.44%) Cisco IOS
11 61 (1.42%) Internet
12 48 (1.12%) LAN
13 47 (1.09%) HTTP
14 45 (1.05%) Wi-Fi
15 37 (0.86%) DHCP
15 37 (0.86%) Intrusion Detection
16 28 (0.65%) VLAN
17 26 (0.60%) Ethernet
18 25 (0.58%) SAN
19 21 (0.49%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 420 (9.76%) SQL Server
2 241 (5.60%) Power BI
3 195 (4.53%) NoSQL
4 176 (4.09%) MySQL
5 173 (4.02%) Relational Database
6 171 (3.97%) PostgreSQL
7 151 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
8 134 (3.11%) Redis
9 109 (2.53%) Big Data
10 79 (1.84%) Tableau
11 64 (1.49%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
12 60 (1.39%) Hadoop
13 52 (1.21%) MongoDB
14 51 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
15 48 (1.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 43 (1.00%) Data Lake
16 43 (1.00%) DynamoDB
17 41 (0.95%) RDBMS
18 36 (0.84%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 505 (11.74%) Git
2 169 (3.93%) JIRA
3 89 (2.07%) Visual Studio
4 88 (2.05%) GitLab
5 86 (2.00%) Jenkins
6 53 (1.23%) Moq
7 52 (1.21%) Selenium
8 51 (1.19%) TeamCity
9 50 (1.16%) NUnit
10 41 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 37 (0.86%) Subversion
12 34 (0.79%) CMake
13 30 (0.70%) Burp Suite
14 28 (0.65%) Metasploit
14 28 (0.65%) Postman
15 27 (0.63%) Bitbucket
16 24 (0.56%) JUnit
16 24 (0.56%) Sourcetree
17 23 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
18 21 (0.49%) Vagrant
General
1 1,814 (42.17%) Social Skills
2 832 (19.34%) Analytical Skills
3 673 (15.64%) Finance
4 296 (6.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 210 (4.88%) Marketing
6 209 (4.86%) Electronics
7 208 (4.83%) Manufacturing
8 134 (3.11%) Retail
9 121 (2.81%) Legal
10 115 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
11 112 (2.60%) Games
12 106 (2.46%) Public Sector
13 99 (2.30%) Law
14 93 (2.16%) Banking
15 83 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
16 82 (1.91%) Telecoms
17 72 (1.67%) Automotive
18 63 (1.46%) Aerospace
19 55 (1.28%) Military
20 51 (1.19%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,104 (25.66%) Developer
2 726 (16.88%) Senior
3 550 (12.78%) Software Engineer
4 386 (8.97%) Lead
5 268 (6.23%) Analyst
6 263 (6.11%) Software Developer
7 257 (5.97%) Architect
8 250 (5.81%) Senior Developer
9 214 (4.97%) Data Scientist
10 154 (3.58%) Junior
11 152 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
12 135 (3.14%) Graduate
13 130 (3.02%) .NET Developer
14 121 (2.81%) Full Stack Developer
15 109 (2.53%) IT Support
16 102 (2.37%) C# Developer
17 91 (2.12%) Data Engineer
18 89 (2.07%) IT Manager
19 86 (2.00%) Solutions Architect
20 85 (1.98%) Senior Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 649 (15.09%) .NET
2 416 (9.67%) HTML
3 396 (9.21%) CSS
4 392 (9.11%) React
5 255 (5.93%) AngularJS
6 175 (4.07%) ASP.NET
7 170 (3.95%) .NET Core
8 157 (3.65%) Node.js
9 153 (3.56%) RESTful
10 147 (3.42%) REST
11 146 (3.39%) .NET Framework
12 143 (3.32%) Web Services
13 129 (3.00%) HTML5
14 110 (2.56%) Kafka
15 101 (2.35%) jQuery
16 100 (2.32%) XML
17 99 (2.30%) JSON
17 99 (2.30%) Spring
18 90 (2.09%) Vue
19 86 (2.00%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 494 (11.48%) Algorithms
2 409 (9.51%) Management Information System
3 242 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.67%) Data Structures
5 150 (3.49%) Client/Server
6 122 (2.84%) Product Ownership
7 106 (2.46%) Onboarding
8 99 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 96 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
10 80 (1.86%) Cloud Native
11 73 (1.70%) Data Centre
12 72 (1.67%) IoT
13 68 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
14 64 (1.49%) Distributed Systems
14 64 (1.49%) Virtual Team
15 63 (1.46%) Wiki
16 53 (1.23%) FPGA
17 52 (1.21%) Cyber Threat
17 52 (1.21%) Life Science
17 52 (1.21%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 522 (12.13%) Linux
2 507 (11.79%) Windows
3 157 (3.65%) Android
4 101 (2.35%) Windows 10
5 94 (2.19%) Windows Server
6 90 (2.09%) Unix
7 65 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 60 (1.39%) Mac OS
9 38 (0.88%) Ubuntu
10 33 (0.77%) Kali Linux
11 30 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
12 29 (0.67%) CentOS
13 28 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 18 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
15 17 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
16 13 (0.30%) Debian
17 7 (0.16%) VMS
18 5 (0.12%) SUSE
19 4 (0.093%) Windows Vista
20 3 (0.070%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,719 (39.96%) Problem-Solving
2 1,153 (26.80%) Agile
3 1,124 (26.13%) Software Engineering
4 722 (16.78%) Mathematics
5 542 (12.60%) Mentoring
6 541 (12.58%) DevOps
7 503 (11.69%) Artificial Intelligence
8 468 (10.88%) Cybersecurity
9 466 (10.83%) Data Science
10 465 (10.81%) Machine Learning
11 433 (10.07%) Analytics
12 392 (9.11%) Decision-Making
13 379 (8.81%) Project Management
14 374 (8.69%) Data Analysis
15 326 (7.58%) CI/CD
16 320 (7.44%) Roadmaps
17 288 (6.69%) Business Intelligence
17 288 (6.69%) Full Stack Development
18 278 (6.46%) Continuous Improvement
19 273 (6.35%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 1,057 (24.57%) Python
2 956 (22.22%) SQL
3 888 (20.64%) C#
4 793 (18.43%) JavaScript
5 526 (12.23%) Java
6 374 (8.69%) C++
7 314 (7.30%) TypeScript
8 307 (7.14%) C
9 148 (3.44%) PHP
10 121 (2.81%) PowerShell
11 106 (2.46%) R
12 93 (2.16%) Fortran
13 91 (2.12%) Bash
14 90 (2.09%) T-SQL
15 76 (1.77%) Go
16 75 (1.74%) Scala
17 71 (1.65%) Kotlin
18 57 (1.32%) MATLAB
19 41 (0.95%) Rust
20 39 (0.91%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3,920 (91.12%) Degree
2 2,196 (51.05%) Computer Science Degree
3 689 (16.02%) Master's Degree
4 310 (7.21%) Security Cleared
5 227 (5.28%) PhD
6 178 (4.14%) SC Cleared
7 152 (3.53%) CISSP
8 147 (3.42%) Microsoft Certification
9 99 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
10 94 (2.19%) CISM
11 80 (1.86%) Azure Certification
12 78 (1.81%) AWS Certification
13 66 (1.53%) PMI Certification
14 61 (1.42%) CCNP
15 57 (1.32%) CCNA
15 57 (1.32%) PMP
16 48 (1.12%) CISA
16 48 (1.12%) Numerate Degree
17 47 (1.09%) A+ Certification
18 45 (1.05%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 244 (5.67%) QA
2 108 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 100 (2.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 93 (2.16%) GDPR
5 77 (1.79%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.56%) NIST
7 42 (0.98%) PMO
8 37 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.67%) WCAG
10 25 (0.58%) SLA
11 22 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.51%) HIPAA
12 16 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.35%) GRC
13 15 (0.35%) ISO 13485
14 14 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 13 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.30%) NCSC
16 12 (0.28%) SOC 2
17 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 392 (9.11%) Docker
2 191 (4.44%) Active Directory
3 80 (1.86%) Firmware
4 68 (1.58%) VMware ESXi
5 67 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
6 66 (1.53%) XenApp
7 63 (1.46%) XenDesktop
8 62 (1.44%) Microsoft App-V
9 45 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
10 26 (0.60%) Embedded Firmware
10 26 (0.60%) Hyper-V
11 14 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
12 10 (0.23%) HDFS
13 8 (0.19%) KVM
13 8 (0.19%) vSphere
14 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.093%) pfSense
16 2 (0.046%) LXC
17 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
17 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 304 (7.07%) Kubernetes
2 169 (3.93%) Terraform
3 72 (1.67%) SCCM
4 70 (1.63%) Ansible
5 62 (1.44%) AirWatch
6 24 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.46%) Puppet
8 18 (0.42%) Grafana
9 15 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
11 10 (0.23%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.23%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.21%) WSUS
13 8 (0.19%) CASB
13 8 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.19%) QRadar
13 8 (0.19%) SCOM
14 7 (0.16%) Nessus
14 7 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.14%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 706 (16.41%) Microsoft
2 164 (3.81%) Google
3 156 (3.63%) Cisco
4 108 (2.51%) Oracle
5 84 (1.95%) SAP
6 78 (1.81%) VMware
7 70 (1.63%) Citrix
8 64 (1.49%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.21%) Xilinx
10 46 (1.07%) Databricks
11 34 (0.79%) Adobe
12 29 (0.67%) Juniper
13 28 (0.65%) ServiceNow
14 26 (0.60%) Apple
15 25 (0.58%) Splunk
16 23 (0.53%) Atlassian
17 22 (0.51%) IBM
18 20 (0.46%) F5
19 19 (0.44%) Cognizant
19 19 (0.44%) Xamarin