Computer Science
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 57 45
Rank change year-on-year +14 -12 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,984 5,263 11,182
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.06% 5.18% 7.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.91% 5.42% 7.43%
Number of salaries quoted 3,389 2,967 3,699
10th Percentile £31,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
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 £90,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £105,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,403 97,101 150,579
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.70% 95.61% 95.65%
Number of salaries quoted 59,565 57,006 82,680
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,515
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK

Computer Science
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +17 4,149 £60,000 -7.69% 1,938
UK excluding London +21 3,306 £52,500 -4.55% 1,075
London +6 1,514 £77,500 -3.13% 904
Work from Home +7 1,389 £60,000 -11.11% 934
South East +8 1,013 £60,000 +9.09% 290
North of England +91 630 £48,000 -6.80% 235
Scotland +9 597 £52,500 -0.94% 44
Midlands +18 372 £50,000 -4.76% 175
North West +79 351 £50,000 -9.09% 138
South West +18 350 £50,000 -9.09% 117
West Midlands +35 254 £52,500 -4.55% 99
East of England -1 248 £45,500 -2.15% 183
Yorkshire +95 220 £45,000 -14.29% 62
East Midlands -9 112 £42,500 -5.56% 76
North East +6 59 £48,734 +14.67% 37
Northern Ireland +30 43 £40,000 -20.00% 22
Wales -50 40 £34,000 -40.87% 26
Isle of Man - 13 £37,000 - 2
Channel Islands - 1 £67,500 - 1

Computer Science
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
1 142 (2.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 99 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 96 (1.93%) Apache Spark
4 45 (0.90%) FileNet
5 40 (0.80%) Apache
6 38 (0.76%) CMS
6 38 (0.76%) Confluence
7 31 (0.62%) IIS
8 29 (0.58%) SAS
9 23 (0.46%) Apache Airflow
10 22 (0.44%) WordPress
11 19 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
12 15 (0.30%) OpenStack
13 12 (0.24%) Jupyter
13 12 (0.24%) Tomcat
14 8 (0.16%) Apache Pig
14 8 (0.16%) nginx
14 8 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.12%) Moodle
16 4 (0.080%) OpenEdge
Applications
1 108 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 103 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 45 (0.90%) Simulink
4 36 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.32%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.28%) Trello
7 10 (0.20%) MS Visio
8 9 (0.18%) SPSS
9 8 (0.16%) InfoPath
10 7 (0.14%) Spreadsheet
11 4 (0.080%) Microsoft Project
12 2 (0.040%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.040%) Sketch
12 2 (0.040%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.040%) TargetLink
12 2 (0.040%) Zeplin
13 1 (0.020%) GNU Octave
13 1 (0.020%) InVision
13 1 (0.020%) Mathematica
13 1 (0.020%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 51 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.52%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.44%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.20%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.18%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.16%) Shopify
8 5 (0.10%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.10%) Odoo
9 4 (0.080%) Magento
9 4 (0.080%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.080%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.080%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.060%) Endur
10 3 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.060%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.060%) SAP Business One
10 3 (0.060%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
11 2 (0.040%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 927 (18.60%) AWS
2 860 (17.26%) Azure
3 281 (5.64%) Microsoft 365
4 264 (5.30%) GCP
4 264 (5.30%) Power Platform
5 183 (3.67%) SaaS
6 159 (3.19%) GitHub
7 141 (2.83%) Serverless
8 132 (2.65%) Amazon S3
9 123 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
10 111 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
11 106 (2.13%) AWS Lambda
12 63 (1.26%) PowerApps
13 57 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
14 54 (1.08%) Power Automate
15 48 (0.96%) IaaS
16 44 (0.88%) PaaS
17 40 (0.80%) Entra ID
18 36 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
19 35 (0.70%) Amazon Kinesis
Communications & Networking
1 180 (3.61%) WAN
2 179 (3.59%) Wireless
3 174 (3.49%) Network Security
4 158 (3.17%) Firewall
5 124 (2.49%) SD-WAN
6 109 (2.19%) TCP/IP
7 96 (1.93%) Cisco IOS
8 95 (1.91%) WebEx
9 90 (1.81%) DNS
10 86 (1.73%) VPN
11 66 (1.32%) HTTP
12 61 (1.22%) LAN
13 60 (1.20%) Internet
14 52 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
15 45 (0.90%) DHCP
15 45 (0.90%) Intrusion Detection
16 32 (0.64%) SAN
17 29 (0.58%) VLAN
18 28 (0.56%) Ethernet
19 24 (0.48%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 440 (8.83%) SQL Server
2 281 (5.64%) NoSQL
3 243 (4.88%) Power BI
4 191 (3.83%) Relational Database
5 189 (3.79%) MySQL
6 172 (3.45%) Data Warehouse
7 148 (2.97%) PostgreSQL
8 117 (2.35%) Big Data
9 106 (2.13%) Redis
10 83 (1.67%) Tableau
11 78 (1.57%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 75 (1.50%) Elasticsearch
13 68 (1.36%) Hadoop
14 64 (1.28%) Amazon RDS
15 61 (1.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 52 (1.04%) Apache Cassandra
17 50 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
18 49 (0.98%) MongoDB
19 46 (0.92%) Data Lake
20 42 (0.84%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 520 (10.43%) Git
2 175 (3.51%) JIRA
3 137 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 81 (1.63%) Visual Studio
5 76 (1.52%) GitLab
6 74 (1.48%) JUnit
7 58 (1.16%) Selenium
8 53 (1.06%) Mockito
9 52 (1.04%) Jasmine
10 44 (0.88%) Cypress.io
11 42 (0.84%) TeamCity
12 41 (0.82%) NUnit
13 40 (0.80%) Moq
13 40 (0.80%) Subversion
14 32 (0.64%) CMake
14 32 (0.64%) Postman
15 30 (0.60%) Burp Suite
16 28 (0.56%) Metasploit
17 26 (0.52%) Bitbucket
18 25 (0.50%) LabVIEW
General
1 2,017 (40.47%) Social Skills
2 1,055 (21.17%) Finance
3 859 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
4 760 (15.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 462 (9.27%) Marketing
6 448 (8.99%) Law
7 250 (5.02%) Manufacturing
8 231 (4.63%) Electronics
9 190 (3.81%) Legal
10 181 (3.63%) Financial Institution
11 170 (3.41%) Banking
12 144 (2.89%) Games
13 141 (2.83%) Retail
14 140 (2.81%) Presentation Skills
15 126 (2.53%) Public Sector
16 121 (2.43%) Telecoms
17 92 (1.85%) Investment Banking
18 91 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
19 77 (1.54%) Automotive
20 68 (1.36%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,183 (23.74%) Developer
2 858 (17.22%) Senior
3 737 (14.79%) Software Engineer
4 440 (8.83%) Lead
5 291 (5.84%) Software Developer
6 285 (5.72%) Architect
7 281 (5.64%) Analyst
8 268 (5.38%) Senior Developer
9 210 (4.21%) Data Scientist
10 208 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
11 188 (3.77%) Engineering Manager
12 179 (3.59%) Junior
13 169 (3.39%) Software Engineering Manager
14 166 (3.33%) Graduate
15 138 (2.77%) IT Support
16 134 (2.69%) Full Stack Developer
17 124 (2.49%) .NET Developer
18 117 (2.35%) Support Specialist
19 105 (2.11%) Java Engineer
20 104 (2.09%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 680 (13.64%) .NET
2 528 (10.59%) React
3 452 (9.07%) HTML
4 395 (7.93%) CSS
5 364 (7.30%) AngularJS
6 244 (4.90%) Spring
7 214 (4.29%) RESTful
8 209 (4.19%) Node.js
9 188 (3.77%) Kafka
10 181 (3.63%) ASP.NET
11 171 (3.43%) .NET Core
12 167 (3.35%) HTML5
13 166 (3.33%) REST
14 142 (2.85%) Web Services
15 140 (2.81%) .NET Framework
16 111 (2.23%) JSON
17 110 (2.21%) Spring Boot
18 99 (1.99%) Vue
19 98 (1.97%) XML
20 97 (1.95%) NumPy
Miscellaneous
1 550 (11.04%) Algorithms
2 441 (8.85%) Management Information System
3 367 (7.36%) Cloud Native
4 256 (5.14%) Self-Motivation
5 219 (4.39%) Data Structures
6 147 (2.95%) Client/Server
7 137 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 132 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 115 (2.31%) Greenfield Project
10 97 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
11 96 (1.93%) Mobile App
12 93 (1.87%) Wiki
13 90 (1.81%) Data Centre
14 86 (1.73%) IoT
15 71 (1.42%) Distributed Systems
15 71 (1.42%) Market Risk
16 68 (1.36%) Virtual Team
17 64 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
18 54 (1.08%) Embedded Systems
18 54 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 565 (11.34%) Windows
2 538 (10.79%) Linux
3 177 (3.55%) Android
4 140 (2.81%) Windows 10
5 103 (2.07%) Windows Server
6 89 (1.79%) Unix
7 65 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 59 (1.18%) Mac OS
9 32 (0.64%) Kali Linux
10 30 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
11 29 (0.58%) Ubuntu
12 22 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 20 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 19 (0.38%) CentOS
14 19 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
15 12 (0.24%) Debian
16 8 (0.16%) VMS
17 6 (0.12%) FreeRTOS
18 5 (0.10%) Windows Server 2012
19 4 (0.080%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,855 (37.22%) Problem-Solving
2 1,602 (32.14%) Software Engineering
3 1,425 (28.59%) Agile
4 1,037 (20.81%) Mathematics
5 688 (13.80%) Artificial Intelligence
6 619 (12.42%) Machine Learning
7 580 (11.64%) CI/CD
8 565 (11.34%) Mentoring
9 550 (11.04%) SDLC
10 533 (10.69%) Decision-Making
10 533 (10.69%) DevOps
11 524 (10.51%) Analytics
12 505 (10.13%) Cybersecurity
13 473 (9.49%) Data Science
14 417 (8.37%) Project Management
15 398 (7.99%) Data Analysis
16 357 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
17 353 (7.08%) Full Stack Development
18 349 (7.00%) Coaching
19 345 (6.92%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 1,167 (23.41%) Python
2 1,115 (22.37%) SQL
3 943 (18.92%) C#
4 816 (16.37%) JavaScript
5 744 (14.93%) Java
6 396 (7.95%) C++
7 391 (7.85%) C
8 361 (7.24%) TypeScript
9 156 (3.13%) PHP
10 139 (2.79%) PowerShell
11 105 (2.11%) R
12 101 (2.03%) T-SQL
13 94 (1.89%) Bash
14 79 (1.59%) Embedded C
15 76 (1.52%) Go
16 74 (1.48%) Fortran
17 59 (1.18%) Kotlin
17 59 (1.18%) MATLAB
18 55 (1.10%) Scala
19 51 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 4,234 (84.95%) Degree
2 2,373 (47.61%) Computer Science Degree
3 793 (15.91%) Master's Degree
4 277 (5.56%) Security Cleared
5 244 (4.90%) PhD
6 166 (3.33%) CISSP
7 165 (3.31%) SC Cleared
8 142 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 104 (2.09%) CISM
10 102 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
11 87 (1.75%) AWS Certification
12 75 (1.50%) Azure Certification
13 67 (1.34%) PMI Certification
14 60 (1.20%) PMP
15 58 (1.16%) Numerate Degree
16 57 (1.14%) CCNA
17 56 (1.12%) CCNP
18 46 (0.92%) CISA
19 45 (0.90%) A+ Certification
20 44 (0.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 287 (5.76%) QA
2 108 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 104 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 97 (1.95%) GDPR
5 83 (1.67%) NIST
6 80 (1.61%) Accessibility
7 43 (0.86%) PMO
8 37 (0.74%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.66%) WCAG
10 31 (0.62%) SLA
11 28 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 23 (0.46%) ISO 13485
13 21 (0.42%) HIPAA
14 17 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 15 (0.30%) GRC
16 14 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
16 14 (0.28%) COBIT
16 14 (0.28%) NCSC
16 14 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 12 (0.24%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 443 (8.89%) Docker
2 239 (4.80%) Active Directory
3 140 (2.81%) Firmware
4 99 (1.99%) VMware ESXi
5 97 (1.95%) XenApp
6 93 (1.87%) Microsoft App-V
6 93 (1.87%) XenDesktop
7 76 (1.52%) VMware Infrastructure
8 48 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
9 38 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
10 33 (0.66%) Hyper-V
11 12 (0.24%) HDFS
12 9 (0.18%) vSphere
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
13 8 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.14%) KVM
15 4 (0.080%) pfSense
16 2 (0.040%) LXC
16 2 (0.040%) NFS
17 1 (0.020%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 401 (8.05%) Kubernetes
2 176 (3.53%) Terraform
3 109 (2.19%) SCCM
4 93 (1.87%) AirWatch
5 63 (1.26%) Ansible
6 22 (0.44%) Microsoft Intune
7 20 (0.40%) Grafana
8 18 (0.36%) Puppet
9 14 (0.28%) ZABBIX
10 12 (0.24%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 11 (0.22%) WSUS
12 10 (0.20%) Nagios
12 10 (0.20%) Prometheus
13 8 (0.16%) Nessus
13 8 (0.16%) Progress Chef
14 7 (0.14%) CASB
14 7 (0.14%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.14%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.14%) SCOM
15 6 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 756 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 197 (3.95%) Google
3 187 (3.75%) Cisco
4 163 (3.27%) Oracle
5 101 (2.03%) SAP
6 100 (2.01%) Citrix
7 91 (1.83%) VMware
8 77 (1.54%) Salesforce
9 48 (0.96%) IBM
10 38 (0.76%) Databricks
11 34 (0.68%) Xilinx
12 33 (0.66%) Splunk
13 30 (0.60%) Adobe
13 30 (0.60%) Juniper
14 28 (0.56%) Apple
15 24 (0.48%) Facebook
16 23 (0.46%) Atlassian
16 23 (0.46%) ServiceNow
17 19 (0.38%) F5
17 19 (0.38%) Xamarin