Computer Science Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 41 44 85
Rank change year-on-year +3 +41 -23
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 588 259 219
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 8.59% 5.96% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.47% 6.31% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 206 96 54
10th Percentile £27,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,750 £40,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +11.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £68,275
90th Percentile £81,250 £78,857 £75,000
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
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,209 4,103 5,548
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 90.71% 94.39% 91.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,483 2,060 2,859
10th Percentile £28,000 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% +14.58%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £83,000
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Scotland

Computer Science
Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Scotland 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
Glasgow -11 393 £42,500 -22.73% 25
Edinburgh +35 104 £60,000 - 22
Aberdeen +21 51 £35,000 -33.84% 5
Lanarkshire -5 8 £42,500 +21.43% 7
Aberdeenshire +11 7 £30,000 +5.26% 1
Dundee -8 7 £50,000 +9.29%
West Lothian - 6 £37,500 -
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 - 1
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 14
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 45 (7.65%) FileNet
2 17 (2.89%) Cloud Foundry
3 11 (1.87%) Apache Spark
4 8 (1.36%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.68%) OpenEdge
6 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.17%) IIS
Applications
1 20 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (1.19%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.19%) Simulink
3 4 (0.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 124 (21.09%) AWS
2 49 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 48 (8.16%) Azure
4 47 (7.99%) GitHub
5 24 (4.08%) GCP
6 18 (3.06%) Cloud Computing
7 17 (2.89%) Power Platform
8 9 (1.53%) SaaS
9 7 (1.19%) Amazon MSK
9 7 (1.19%) Datadog
10 4 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.68%) BlazeMeter
10 4 (0.68%) Google Docs
10 4 (0.68%) Serverless
11 3 (0.51%) Asana
11 3 (0.51%) Entra ID
11 3 (0.51%) MailChimp
11 3 (0.51%) Slack
11 3 (0.51%) Zapier
Communications & Networking
1 44 (7.48%) Wireless
2 17 (2.89%) Kerberos
3 12 (2.04%) Network Security
4 8 (1.36%) LAN
4 8 (1.36%) WAN
5 7 (1.19%) HTTP
5 7 (1.19%) MQTT
6 6 (1.02%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (0.85%) VPN
8 3 (0.51%) DHCP
8 3 (0.51%) DNS
9 2 (0.34%) Firewall
9 2 (0.34%) SAN
10 1 (0.17%) MPLS
10 1 (0.17%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (17.52%) NoSQL
2 45 (7.65%) Apache Cassandra
2 45 (7.65%) Elasticsearch
3 22 (3.74%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.89%) Amazon Aurora
4 17 (2.89%) CockroachDB
4 17 (2.89%) Power BI
4 17 (2.89%) SQL Server
5 12 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (1.87%) Apache Hive
6 11 (1.87%) Big Data
7 9 (1.53%) MS Access
7 9 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 7 (1.19%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
9 6 (1.02%) OLAP
9 6 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 4 (0.68%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.68%) MySQL
11 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 49 (8.33%) JUnit
2 45 (7.65%) Jasmine
2 45 (7.65%) Mockito
3 21 (3.57%) Git
4 15 (2.55%) LabVIEW
5 7 (1.19%) JIRA
6 4 (0.68%) GitLab
7 3 (0.51%) Selenium
8 2 (0.34%) Appium
9 1 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.17%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.17%) JMeter
9 1 (0.17%) MSTest
9 1 (0.17%) Postman
9 1 (0.17%) TestComplete
General
1 440 (74.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 364 (61.90%) Finance
3 352 (59.86%) Law
4 231 (39.29%) Marketing
5 169 (28.74%) Social Skills
6 139 (23.64%) Financial Institution
7 84 (14.29%) Banking
8 76 (12.93%) Legal
9 66 (11.22%) Investment Banking
10 38 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
11 33 (5.61%) Manufacturing
12 29 (4.93%) Electronics
13 25 (4.25%) Games
13 25 (4.25%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (2.55%) Private Banking
15 14 (2.38%) Telecoms
16 12 (2.04%) Public Sector
17 6 (1.02%) Automotive
18 4 (0.68%) Tech for Good
19 3 (0.51%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 206 (35.03%) Software Engineer
2 155 (26.36%) Engineering Manager
2 155 (26.36%) Software Engineering Manager
3 112 (19.05%) Senior
4 83 (14.12%) Java Engineer
4 83 (14.12%) Java Software Engineer
5 64 (10.88%) Developer
6 49 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
7 45 (7.65%) Senior Manager
8 42 (7.14%) Lead
9 40 (6.80%) Lead Software Engineer
10 37 (6.29%) Embedded Engineer
11 34 (5.78%) Full Stack Engineer
11 34 (5.78%) Full Stack Software Engineer
12 33 (5.61%) Graduate
13 31 (5.27%) Principal Engineer
14 30 (5.10%) Software Developer
15 29 (4.93%) Software Engineering Director
16 28 (4.76%) Junior
17 27 (4.59%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 136 (23.13%) Spring
2 113 (19.22%) React
3 98 (16.67%) AngularJS
4 70 (11.90%) Kafka
5 62 (10.54%) GraphQL
6 57 (9.69%) NumPy
6 57 (9.69%) Pandas
7 55 (9.35%) Spring Boot
8 54 (9.18%) RESTful
9 45 (7.65%) Hibernate
9 45 (7.65%) J2EE
9 45 (7.65%) Spring Integration
10 42 (7.14%) HTML
11 33 (5.61%) Node.js
12 32 (5.44%) HTML5
13 31 (5.27%) Drools
13 31 (5.27%) jBPM
13 31 (5.27%) Middleware
13 31 (5.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
14 22 (3.74%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 280 (47.62%) Cloud Native
2 71 (12.07%) Algorithms
3 57 (9.69%) Market Risk
4 49 (8.33%) Distributed Applications
5 34 (5.78%) Onboarding
6 18 (3.06%) Management Information System
7 17 (2.89%) Public Cloud
8 16 (2.72%) Data Structures
8 16 (2.72%) Greenfield Project
9 13 (2.21%) Product Ownership
10 9 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
11 8 (1.36%) IoT
12 7 (1.19%) Arduino
12 7 (1.19%) Raspberry Pi
13 6 (1.02%) Embedded Systems
14 5 (0.85%) Distributed Computing
15 4 (0.68%) Legacy Systems
15 4 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
16 3 (0.51%) Self-Motivation
17 2 (0.34%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (3.91%) Linux
2 14 (2.38%) Windows
3 6 (1.02%) Unix
4 3 (0.51%) Windows 10
4 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.17%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (79.93%) Software Engineering
2 311 (52.89%) Agile
3 307 (52.21%) Mathematics
4 275 (46.77%) SDLC
5 218 (37.07%) CI/CD
6 171 (29.08%) Machine Learning
7 165 (28.06%) Artificial Intelligence
8 142 (24.15%) Decision-Making
9 129 (21.94%) Problem-Solving
10 105 (17.86%) Analytics
11 100 (17.01%) Microservices
12 84 (14.29%) Coaching
13 77 (13.10%) Operational Stability
14 73 (12.41%) Visualisation
15 71 (12.07%) Continuous Delivery
16 63 (10.71%) Full Stack Development
17 57 (9.69%) Physics
17 57 (9.69%) Risk Management
18 54 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
19 50 (8.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 237 (40.31%) Java
2 170 (28.91%) SQL
3 141 (23.98%) Python
4 84 (14.29%) C
5 51 (8.67%) C#
6 50 (8.50%) C++
7 42 (7.14%) Embedded C
8 32 (5.44%) TypeScript
9 20 (3.40%) JavaScript
10 18 (3.06%) Ruby
11 17 (2.89%) Rust
12 15 (2.55%) GLSL
13 13 (2.21%) T-SQL
14 7 (1.19%) MATLAB
15 6 (1.02%) Haskell
15 6 (1.02%) PowerShell
16 5 (0.85%) Go
16 5 (0.85%) VBA
17 3 (0.51%) PHP
17 3 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 245 (41.67%) Degree
2 120 (20.41%) Computer Science Degree
3 55 (9.35%) Master's Degree
4 18 (3.06%) PhD
5 5 (0.85%) Security Cleared
6 3 (0.51%) PMI Certification
6 3 (0.51%) PMP
7 2 (0.34%) AWS Certification
7 2 (0.34%) CCNA
7 2 (0.34%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (0.34%) OCP
7 2 (0.34%) Oracle Certification
7 2 (0.34%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.17%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
8 1 (0.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (1.19%) QA
2 4 (0.68%) DICOM
2 4 (0.68%) HL7
2 4 (0.68%) ISO 13485
3 2 (0.34%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 51 (8.67%) Firmware
2 20 (3.40%) Embedded Firmware
3 15 (2.55%) Docker
4 5 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (0.51%) Active Directory
5 3 (0.51%) Hyper-V
5 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 77 (13.10%) Kubernetes
2 18 (3.06%) Terraform
3 4 (0.68%) Grafana
4 3 (0.51%) Autotask
5 2 (0.34%) Progress Chef
5 2 (0.34%) Puppet
6 1 (0.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 49 (8.33%) Oracle
2 24 (4.08%) Google
3 20 (3.40%) Microsoft
4 14 (2.38%) Splunk
5 7 (1.19%) NVIDIA
5 7 (1.19%) SAP
6 5 (0.85%) VMware
7 4 (0.68%) BeyondTrust
7 4 (0.68%) CyberArk
7 4 (0.68%) Databricks
7 4 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 3 (0.51%) Anaplan
8 3 (0.51%) Apple
8 3 (0.51%) Facebook
8 3 (0.51%) HubSpot
9 2 (0.34%) Cisco
9 2 (0.34%) Juniper
9 2 (0.34%) Palo Alto
10 1 (0.17%) ForgeRock