Computer Science Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 47 73 42
Rank change year-on-year +26 -31 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 3,560 2,490 4,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.48% 4.49% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.54% 4.70% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 2,269 1,341 1,591
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £64,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £77,500
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
UK excluding London

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 64,298 52,969 71,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 80.94% 95.48% 94.30%
Number of salaries quoted 43,599 28,416 41,329
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £80,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +13 1,078 £60,000 +4.35% 212
North of England +71 687 £47,500 -13.64% 182
Scotland +5 571 £52,500 -4.55% 59
Midlands +31 491 £50,000 -9.09% 165
North West +64 396 £50,000 -16.67% 105
South West +16 365 £52,500 -12.50% 97
West Midlands +42 331 £50,000 -13.04% 84
East of England -5 264 £45,000 -14.29% 95
Yorkshire +79 225 £41,500 -20.95% 51
East Midlands +1 154 £42,500 -15.00% 81
North East +5 66 £48,367 +13.80% 29
Northern Ireland +9 47 £40,000 -20.00% 21
Wales -52 42 £34,000 -40.87% 12
Isle of Man - 14 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 -
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 62 (1.74%) SharePoint
2 45 (1.26%) FileNet
3 35 (0.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 27 (0.76%) Apache Spark
5 22 (0.62%) Confluence
6 18 (0.51%) IIS
7 17 (0.48%) Cloud Foundry
7 17 (0.48%) WordPress
8 16 (0.45%) Apache
8 16 (0.45%) CMS
8 16 (0.45%) OpenStack
9 15 (0.42%) SAS
10 9 (0.25%) Tomcat
11 6 (0.17%) nginx
12 5 (0.14%) Apache Airflow
12 5 (0.14%) Luigi
12 5 (0.14%) Moodle
13 4 (0.11%) OpenEdge
14 3 (0.084%) WildFly
15 2 (0.056%) Appian
Applications
1 101 (2.84%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 69 (1.94%) Simulink
4 32 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.39%) Trello
6 8 (0.22%) InfoPath
7 3 (0.084%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.084%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.084%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.084%) Photoshop
7 3 (0.084%) Revit
8 2 (0.056%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.056%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.056%) Stateflow
8 2 (0.056%) TargetLink
9 1 (0.028%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.028%) GNU Octave
9 1 (0.028%) Mathematica
9 1 (0.028%) MS Visio
9 1 (0.028%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 35 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
2 22 (0.62%) NetSuite
3 19 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 10 (0.28%) SAP ERP
5 9 (0.25%) SAP CX
6 8 (0.22%) Shopify
7 5 (0.14%) Odoo
8 4 (0.11%) CA PPM
8 4 (0.11%) Magento
8 4 (0.11%) SAP CO
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI
8 4 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
8 4 (0.11%) SDL Web 8
9 3 (0.084%) Sage 200
9 3 (0.084%) Sage 300 ERP
9 3 (0.084%) SAP Business One
10 2 (0.056%) Dynamics NAV
10 2 (0.056%) Oracle ERP
11 1 (0.028%) SAP HR
11 1 (0.028%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 580 (16.29%) AWS
2 519 (14.58%) Azure
3 166 (4.66%) Power Platform
4 131 (3.68%) GCP
5 120 (3.37%) Microsoft 365
6 118 (3.31%) GitHub
7 110 (3.09%) Amazon S3
8 99 (2.78%) SaaS
9 81 (2.28%) Serverless
10 76 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
11 69 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
11 69 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
12 49 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
13 47 (1.32%) Amazon Kinesis
14 25 (0.70%) Power Automate
15 24 (0.67%) PowerApps
16 22 (0.62%) Snowflake
17 21 (0.59%) AWS CloudFormation
17 21 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
18 20 (0.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 203 (5.70%) Network Security
2 137 (3.85%) Firewall
3 109 (3.06%) Internet
4 91 (2.56%) TCP/IP
5 80 (2.25%) WLAN
6 79 (2.22%) Wireless
7 75 (2.11%) WAN
8 74 (2.08%) VPN
9 67 (1.88%) DNS
10 61 (1.71%) HTTP
11 52 (1.46%) LAN
12 36 (1.01%) DHCP
12 36 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
13 33 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
14 32 (0.90%) VLAN
15 29 (0.81%) SD-WAN
16 25 (0.70%) Ethernet
16 25 (0.70%) SAN
17 23 (0.65%) MQTT
18 21 (0.59%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 268 (7.53%) SQL Server
2 264 (7.42%) NoSQL
3 158 (4.44%) Power BI
4 126 (3.54%) MySQL
5 122 (3.43%) Relational Database
6 118 (3.31%) Data Warehouse
7 116 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
8 84 (2.36%) Redis
9 72 (2.02%) Elasticsearch
10 63 (1.77%) Amazon RDS
11 58 (1.63%) Big Data
12 47 (1.32%) Apache Cassandra
12 47 (1.32%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 42 (1.18%) DynamoDB
14 40 (1.12%) Amazon Aurora
15 39 (1.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 32 (0.90%) Amazon Redshift
17 31 (0.87%) Tableau
18 29 (0.81%) MongoDB
18 29 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 377 (10.59%) Git
2 102 (2.87%) Jenkins
2 102 (2.87%) JIRA
3 55 (1.54%) Visual Studio
4 53 (1.49%) JUnit
5 52 (1.46%) Selenium
6 49 (1.38%) Mockito
7 46 (1.29%) Jasmine
8 42 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 39 (1.10%) Subversion
10 38 (1.07%) GitLab
11 27 (0.76%) LabVIEW
12 26 (0.73%) CMake
13 25 (0.70%) Gatling
14 23 (0.65%) Postman
15 22 (0.62%) Vagrant
16 20 (0.56%) Appium
16 20 (0.56%) Bitbucket
17 17 (0.48%) NUnit
17 17 (0.48%) TeamCity
General
1 1,288 (36.18%) Social Skills
2 634 (17.81%) Finance
3 627 (17.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 527 (14.80%) Analytical Skills
5 390 (10.96%) Law
6 338 (9.49%) Marketing
7 242 (6.80%) Electronics
8 224 (6.29%) Manufacturing
9 148 (4.16%) Financial Institution
10 145 (4.07%) Legal
11 111 (3.12%) Games
12 98 (2.75%) Banking
13 86 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
14 84 (2.36%) Retail
15 77 (2.16%) Telecoms
16 69 (1.94%) Automotive
16 69 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
17 67 (1.88%) Investment Banking
18 65 (1.83%) Public Sector
19 58 (1.63%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 790 (22.19%) Developer
2 652 (18.31%) Software Engineer
3 579 (16.26%) Senior
4 266 (7.47%) Lead
5 247 (6.94%) Software Developer
6 166 (4.66%) Data Scientist
7 165 (4.63%) Engineering Manager
7 165 (4.63%) Senior Software Engineer
8 164 (4.61%) Analyst
9 161 (4.52%) Architect
10 160 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 159 (4.47%) Junior
12 152 (4.27%) Software Engineering Manager
13 146 (4.10%) Graduate
14 133 (3.74%) Support Engineer
15 114 (3.20%) IT Support
16 89 (2.50%) Java Engineer
17 87 (2.44%) Java Software Engineer
18 86 (2.42%) Embedded Engineer
19 83 (2.33%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 446 (12.53%) .NET
2 373 (10.48%) React
3 315 (8.85%) HTML
4 300 (8.43%) AngularJS
5 257 (7.22%) CSS
6 171 (4.80%) Spring
7 168 (4.72%) Node.js
8 164 (4.61%) RESTful
9 138 (3.88%) Kafka
10 137 (3.85%) .NET Core
11 125 (3.51%) HTML5
12 121 (3.40%) REST
13 102 (2.87%) Web Services
14 96 (2.70%) ASP.NET
15 93 (2.61%) GraphQL
16 86 (2.42%) .NET Framework
17 85 (2.39%) JSON
18 78 (2.19%) Spring Boot
18 78 (2.19%) Vue
19 76 (2.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 422 (11.85%) Algorithms
2 335 (9.41%) Cloud Native
3 302 (8.48%) Management Information System
4 176 (4.94%) Self-Motivation
5 152 (4.27%) Onboarding
6 110 (3.09%) Data Structures
6 110 (3.09%) Driving Licence
7 100 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 76 (2.13%) Mobile App
9 75 (2.11%) Data Centre
10 62 (1.74%) Client/Server
10 62 (1.74%) IoT
11 59 (1.66%) Market Risk
12 57 (1.60%) Embedded Systems
13 52 (1.46%) Distributed Applications
14 49 (1.38%) FPGA
15 42 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
15 42 (1.18%) Public Cloud
16 41 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
17 40 (1.12%) CUDA
Operating Systems
1 511 (14.35%) Linux
2 435 (12.22%) Windows
3 82 (2.30%) Android
4 81 (2.28%) Unix
5 64 (1.80%) Windows Server
6 49 (1.38%) Apple iOS
7 48 (1.35%) Mac OS
8 43 (1.21%) Embedded Linux
9 40 (1.12%) Ubuntu
10 33 (0.93%) Windows 10
11 31 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 28 (0.79%) CentOS
13 13 (0.37%) Debian
14 12 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
15 10 (0.28%) Windows Server 2019
16 9 (0.25%) FreeRTOS
17 7 (0.20%) VMS
18 5 (0.14%) Kali Linux
18 5 (0.14%) SUSE
19 4 (0.11%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,407 (39.52%) Problem-Solving
2 1,244 (34.94%) Software Engineering
3 1,083 (30.42%) Agile
4 810 (22.75%) Mathematics
5 509 (14.30%) Artificial Intelligence
6 496 (13.93%) Mentoring
7 463 (13.01%) SDLC
8 424 (11.91%) Decision-Making
9 410 (11.52%) Machine Learning
10 399 (11.21%) CI/CD
11 392 (11.01%) DevOps
12 361 (10.14%) Cybersecurity
13 359 (10.08%) Analytics
14 327 (9.19%) Coaching
15 291 (8.17%) Project Management
16 285 (8.01%) Data Analysis
17 273 (7.67%) Data Science
18 267 (7.50%) Physics
19 262 (7.36%) Continuous Improvement
20 258 (7.25%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 791 (22.22%) Python
2 759 (21.32%) SQL
3 638 (17.92%) C#
4 596 (16.74%) JavaScript
5 542 (15.22%) Java
6 372 (10.45%) C++
7 364 (10.22%) C
8 265 (7.44%) TypeScript
9 117 (3.29%) PHP
10 92 (2.58%) Fortran
11 91 (2.56%) Bash
12 82 (2.30%) Embedded C
13 77 (2.16%) PowerShell
14 53 (1.49%) Go
15 52 (1.46%) R
16 49 (1.38%) MATLAB
16 49 (1.38%) T-SQL
17 48 (1.35%) Kotlin
18 43 (1.21%) Scala
19 39 (1.10%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3,009 (84.52%) Degree
2 1,644 (46.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 401 (11.26%) Master's Degree
4 283 (7.95%) Security Cleared
5 180 (5.06%) PhD
6 152 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
6 152 (4.27%) Microsoft Certification
7 142 (3.99%) SC Cleared
8 125 (3.51%) CCNA
8 125 (3.51%) CCNP
9 102 (2.87%) MCP
10 85 (2.39%) CISSP
11 81 (2.28%) MCSE
12 67 (1.88%) LPIC
13 63 (1.77%) AWS Certification
14 54 (1.52%) Azure Certification
15 51 (1.43%) PMI Certification
16 47 (1.32%) DV Cleared
16 47 (1.32%) PMP
17 41 (1.15%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 193 (5.42%) QA
2 65 (1.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (1.74%) GDPR
4 60 (1.69%) Data Quality
5 56 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 46 (1.29%) NIST
7 42 (1.18%) PMO
8 29 (0.81%) WCAG
9 23 (0.65%) PCI DSS
10 21 (0.59%) ISO 13485
11 19 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 18 (0.51%) SLA
13 16 (0.45%) HIPAA
14 13 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 11 (0.31%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 10 (0.28%) GRC
16 10 (0.28%) NCSC
17 9 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
17 9 (0.25%) JTAG
18 8 (0.22%) CDISC
System Software
1 288 (8.09%) Docker
2 150 (4.21%) Firmware
3 106 (2.98%) Active Directory
4 61 (1.71%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (1.26%) Embedded Firmware
6 24 (0.67%) Hyper-V
7 23 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
9 7 (0.20%) vSphere
10 6 (0.17%) KVM
10 6 (0.17%) VMware ESXi
11 4 (0.11%) pfSense
11 4 (0.11%) XenApp
12 2 (0.056%) HDFS
13 1 (0.028%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.028%) VMware NSX
13 1 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 300 (8.43%) Kubernetes
2 122 (3.43%) Terraform
3 55 (1.54%) Ansible
4 20 (0.56%) Puppet
5 13 (0.37%) ZABBIX
6 12 (0.34%) SCCM
7 10 (0.28%) Grafana
8 9 (0.25%) Nagios
8 9 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 8 (0.22%) WSUS
10 7 (0.20%) Nessus
10 7 (0.20%) SCOM
11 6 (0.17%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.17%) Prometheus
12 5 (0.14%) HP ALM
12 5 (0.14%) Microsoft Intune
12 5 (0.14%) Rancher
12 5 (0.14%) Suricata
13 4 (0.11%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 3 (0.084%) Autotask
Vendors
1 522 (14.66%) Microsoft
2 147 (4.13%) Cisco
3 132 (3.71%) Google
4 122 (3.43%) Oracle
5 72 (2.02%) SAP
6 67 (1.88%) VMware
7 57 (1.60%) Xilinx
8 51 (1.43%) Salesforce
9 30 (0.84%) Databricks
10 26 (0.73%) Juniper
11 21 (0.59%) Apple
12 20 (0.56%) F5
13 19 (0.53%) ServiceNow
13 19 (0.53%) Splunk
14 18 (0.51%) Xamarin
15 17 (0.48%) IBM
16 15 (0.42%) Atlassian
17 14 (0.39%) Fortinet
18 13 (0.37%) Red Hat
19 12 (0.34%) Veeam