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 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 109 153 118
Rank change year-on-year +44 -35 +44
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,518 2,233 5,451
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.39% 2.36% 3.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.01% 6.97% 11.91%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 1,454 1,475
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,663 £30,925
25th Percentile £41,188 £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 £91,275 £105,000 £99,500
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 27,942 32,039 45,768
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.55% 33.80% 27.07%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,523 19,205
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,524 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,818 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +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 2 June 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 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
England +53 2,239 £60,000 -4.00% 919
UK excluding London +32 1,594 £52,500 -13.65% 496
Work from Home +102 817 £60,000 -7.69% 393
London +47 816 £75,000 -3.23% 448
South East +34 538 £60,000 -1.32% 108
North of England +87 387 £50,000 -16.67% 105
Midlands +11 210 £50,000 -17.76% 122
North West +33 207 £50,000 -16.67% 58
Yorkshire +118 159 £45,000 -18.18% 34
South West -13 159 £47,500 -21.88% 62
West Midlands +24 134 £52,500 -16.00% 80
Scotland -57 129 £57,500 -2.79% 36
East of England +9 117 £40,000 -32.38% 53
East Midlands -22 74 £47,500 -2.56% 42
Wales -23 24 £34,000 -24.44% 5
North East -12 21 £52,500 +17.32% 16
Northern Ireland +9 19 £40,500 -10.00% 13
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 97 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 76 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 34 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.15%) Apache
4 29 (1.15%) FileNet
5 25 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
6 21 (0.83%) Confluence
7 16 (0.64%) IIS
7 16 (0.64%) OpenStack
8 15 (0.60%) WordPress
9 8 (0.32%) 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 (0.079%) BizTalk Server
13 2 (0.079%) Drupal
13 2 (0.079%) Moodle
Applications
1 65 (2.58%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (2.10%) Simulink
3 46 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.32%) InfoPath
6 3 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.079%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.079%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.079%) 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 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.71%) 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 (0.079%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.079%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.079%) 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
1 551 (21.88%) Azure
2 515 (20.45%) AWS
3 181 (7.19%) Microsoft 365
4 171 (6.79%) GCP
5 143 (5.68%) Power Platform
6 106 (4.21%) Amazon S3
7 97 (3.85%) SaaS
8 90 (3.57%) GitHub
9 87 (3.46%) Cloud Computing
10 83 (3.30%) Serverless
11 65 (2.58%) AWS Lambda
12 60 (2.38%) Amazon EC2
12 60 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
13 59 (2.34%) PowerApps
14 53 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
15 46 (1.83%) Power Automate
16 33 (1.31%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (1.23%) Snowflake
18 28 (1.11%) AWS CloudFormation
19 25 (0.99%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (5.64%) Network Security
2 122 (4.85%) Firewall
3 119 (4.73%) WAN
4 89 (3.53%) Wireless
5 72 (2.86%) SD-WAN
6 71 (2.82%) Cisco IOS
7 64 (2.54%) WebEx
8 60 (2.38%) TCP/IP
9 56 (2.22%) DNS
10 53 (2.10%) LAN
11 44 (1.75%) VPN
12 39 (1.55%) DHCP
13 34 (1.35%) VLAN
13 34 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
14 33 (1.31%) HTTP
15 29 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
16 28 (1.11%) SAN
17 27 (1.07%) Internet
18 17 (0.68%) NAS
19 12 (0.48%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 267 (10.60%) SQL Server
2 207 (8.22%) NoSQL
3 124 (4.92%) Power BI
4 122 (4.85%) MySQL
5 120 (4.77%) Data Warehouse
6 119 (4.73%) Relational Database
7 106 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
8 78 (3.10%) Redis
9 71 (2.82%) Amazon RDS
10 60 (2.38%) Big Data
11 55 (2.18%) MongoDB
12 48 (1.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 44 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
14 41 (1.63%) DynamoDB
15 39 (1.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 37 (1.47%) Azure SQL Database
17 36 (1.43%) Amazon Redshift
17 36 (1.43%) Apache Cassandra
18 33 (1.31%) RDBMS
19 30 (1.19%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 345 (13.70%) Git
2 90 (3.57%) Jenkins
3 75 (2.98%) JIRA
4 54 (2.14%) 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 (1.11%) Burp Suite
9 28 (1.11%) Metasploit
10 21 (0.83%) CMake
10 21 (0.83%) Vagrant
11 20 (0.79%) Gatling
12 18 (0.71%) Selenium
13 16 (0.64%) Appium
13 16 (0.64%) Moq
14 13 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 13 (0.52%) NUnit
General
1 1,256 (49.88%) Social Skills
2 459 (18.23%) Analytical Skills
3 435 (17.28%) Finance
4 147 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 128 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 124 (4.92%) Marketing
7 103 (4.09%) Electronics
8 91 (3.61%) Law
9 85 (3.38%) Public Sector
10 82 (3.26%) Retail
11 75 (2.98%) Legal
12 57 (2.26%) Banking
13 55 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
14 54 (2.14%) Organisational Skills
15 46 (1.83%) Games
16 45 (1.79%) Telecoms
17 44 (1.75%) Billing
18 32 (1.27%) Military
19 27 (1.07%) Automotive
20 25 (0.99%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 691 (27.44%) Developer
2 361 (14.34%) Senior
3 335 (13.30%) Software Engineer
4 234 (9.29%) Lead
5 216 (8.58%) Architect
6 155 (6.16%) Software Developer
7 126 (5.00%) Senior Developer
8 125 (4.96%) Analyst
9 98 (3.89%) Junior
10 87 (3.46%) IT Support
11 78 (3.10%) .NET Developer
12 76 (3.02%) Full Stack Developer
13 71 (2.82%) Senior Software Engineer
14 69 (2.74%) IT Support Specialist
14 69 (2.74%) Solutions Architect
14 69 (2.74%) Support Specialist
15 66 (2.62%) Support Engineer
16 65 (2.58%) Data Engineer
17 62 (2.46%) Graduate
18 55 (2.18%) Junior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 358 (14.22%) .NET
2 285 (11.32%) React
3 239 (9.49%) HTML
4 219 (8.70%) CSS
5 170 (6.75%) AngularJS
6 114 (4.53%) Spring
7 104 (4.13%) REST
8 96 (3.81%) Node.js
9 92 (3.65%) ASP.NET
10 89 (3.53%) .NET Framework
11 87 (3.46%) Web Services
12 84 (3.34%) JSON
13 77 (3.06%) RESTful
14 74 (2.94%) Kafka
14 74 (2.94%) Vue
15 70 (2.78%) .NET Core
16 63 (2.50%) GraphQL
17 62 (2.46%) XML
18 54 (2.14%) HTML5
18 54 (2.14%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 284 (11.28%) Management Information System
2 140 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 119 (4.73%) Algorithms
4 92 (3.65%) Cloud Native
5 75 (2.98%) Onboarding
6 74 (2.94%) Mobile App
7 70 (2.78%) Data Centre
8 66 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
9 63 (2.50%) Product Ownership
10 62 (2.46%) Wiki
11 56 (2.22%) 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 39 (1.55%) Driving Licence
17 36 (1.43%) Greenfield Project
18 28 (1.11%) Life Science
18 28 (1.11%) Replication
18 28 (1.11%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 365 (14.50%) Windows
2 351 (13.94%) Linux
3 143 (5.68%) Android
4 87 (3.46%) Windows 10
5 80 (3.18%) Windows Server
6 51 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 42 (1.67%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.51%) Unix
9 37 (1.47%) Ubuntu
10 29 (1.15%) Kali Linux
11 27 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
13 20 (0.79%) CentOS
14 18 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.44%) Debian
17 6 (0.24%) VMS
18 5 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
19 4 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
19 4 (0.16%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,450 (97.30%) Computer Science
2 1,112 (44.16%) Problem-Solving
3 708 (28.12%) Agile
4 658 (26.13%) Software Engineering
5 428 (17.00%) DevOps
6 314 (12.47%) Artificial Intelligence
7 299 (11.87%) CI/CD
8 283 (11.24%) Mentoring
9 275 (10.92%) Machine Learning
10 225 (8.94%) Analytics
11 220 (8.74%) Cybersecurity
12 217 (8.62%) Mathematics
13 204 (8.10%) SDLC
14 197 (7.82%) Project Management
15 191 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
16 190 (7.55%) Microservices
17 188 (7.47%) Data Modelling
18 185 (7.35%) Roadmaps
19 175 (6.95%) Full Stack Development
19 175 (6.95%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 584 (23.19%) Python
2 583 (23.15%) SQL
3 483 (19.18%) JavaScript
4 481 (19.10%) C#
5 392 (15.57%) Java
6 187 (7.43%) C++
7 184 (7.31%) TypeScript
8 131 (5.20%) C
9 104 (4.13%) PHP
10 81 (3.22%) PowerShell
11 59 (2.34%) Scala
12 51 (2.03%) Bash
13 50 (1.99%) Kotlin
14 41 (1.63%) T-SQL
15 40 (1.59%) R
16 38 (1.51%) Go
17 18 (0.71%) Rust
18 17 (0.68%) Shell Script
19 16 (0.64%) MATLAB
19 16 (0.64%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2,518 (100.00%) Degree
2 421 (16.72%) Master's Degree
3 190 (7.55%) Security Cleared
4 141 (5.60%) SC Cleared
5 128 (5.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 93 (3.69%) Cisco Certification
7 90 (3.57%) CISSP
8 78 (3.10%) AWS Certification
9 75 (2.98%) Azure Certification
10 61 (2.42%) CCNA
11 56 (2.22%) CCNP
12 51 (2.03%) PhD
13 46 (1.83%) CISM
14 41 (1.63%) DBS Check
15 40 (1.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
16 38 (1.51%) MCP
17 35 (1.39%) A+ Certification
18 33 (1.31%) DV Cleared
18 33 (1.31%) PMI Certification
19 28 (1.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 173 (6.87%) QA
2 82 (3.26%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.07%) GDPR
4 44 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.27%) NIST
6 29 (1.15%) Accessibility
7 21 (0.83%) SLA
8 18 (0.71%) 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 (0.079%) WAI
System Software
1 297 (11.80%) Docker
2 159 (6.31%) Active Directory
3 68 (2.70%) VMware ESXi
4 66 (2.62%) XenApp
5 63 (2.50%) XenDesktop
6 62 (2.46%) Microsoft App-V
7 40 (1.59%) VMware Infrastructure
8 32 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
9 18 (0.71%) Firmware
10 15 (0.60%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.36%) vSphere
13 5 (0.20%) KVM
13 5 (0.20%) pfSense
14 3 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.079%) Embedded Firmware
15 2 (0.079%) HDFS
15 2 (0.079%) LXC
16 1 (0.040%) OpenAM
16 1 (0.040%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 271 (10.76%) Kubernetes
2 154 (6.12%) Terraform
3 76 (3.02%) SCCM
4 62 (2.46%) AirWatch
4 62 (2.46%) Ansible
5 21 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
6 20 (0.79%) Puppet
7 14 (0.56%) Grafana
8 12 (0.48%) ZABBIX
9 10 (0.40%) Progress Chef
9 10 (0.40%) Prometheus
10 8 (0.32%) Nagios
11 7 (0.28%) SCOM
11 7 (0.28%) WSUS
12 6 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
13 5 (0.20%) HP ALM
13 5 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.20%) Nessus
13 5 (0.20%) Rancher
14 4 (0.16%) Argo
Vendors
1 498 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 141 (5.60%) Cisco
3 133 (5.28%) Google
4 91 (3.61%) Oracle
5 70 (2.78%) Citrix
6 53 (2.10%) Salesforce
7 52 (2.07%) SAP
8 50 (1.99%) VMware
9 44 (1.75%) Xilinx
10 40 (1.59%) Databricks
11 38 (1.51%) IBM
12 29 (1.15%) Splunk
13 24 (0.95%) Juniper
14 22 (0.87%) Apple
15 20 (0.79%) Facebook
16 16 (0.64%) F5
16 16 (0.64%) ServiceNow
17 15 (0.60%) Sony
18 14 (0.56%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.56%) Fortinet