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

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 56 45
Rank change year-on-year +13 -11 +8
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,442 4,357 10,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.72% 5.27% 7.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.69% 5.52% 7.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3,073 2,638 3,389
10th Percentile £31,500 £37,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £41,250
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 £85,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £108,750
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 78,129 78,899 137,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.94% 95.45% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 55,773 48,272 73,854
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,309 £33,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,750 £44,186
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 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +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 9 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 9 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 1,548 £75,000 -6.25% 744
South East +15 1,073 £60,000 +4.35% 218
North of England +65 686 £47,500 -13.64% 185
Midlands +31 490 £50,000 -9.09% 167
North West +61 395 £50,000 -16.67% 106
South West +12 362 £52,500 -12.50% 97
West Midlands +43 331 £50,000 -13.04% 84
East of England -6 264 £45,000 -14.29% 102
Yorkshire +74 225 £41,500 -20.95% 53
East Midlands -1 153 £42,500 -15.00% 83
North East +3 66 £48,367 +13.80% 29
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 99 (2.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 92 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 82 (1.85%) Apache Spark
4 51 (1.15%) CMS
5 48 (1.08%) Apache
6 42 (0.95%) Confluence
7 31 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
8 27 (0.61%) IIS
8 27 (0.61%) SAS
9 21 (0.47%) WordPress
10 11 (0.25%) Jupyter
10 11 (0.25%) OpenStack
11 9 (0.20%) Tomcat
12 8 (0.18%) Oracle Workflow
13 7 (0.16%) Luigi
13 7 (0.16%) Moodle
13 7 (0.16%) nginx
14 5 (0.11%) Apache Pig
15 3 (0.068%) Appian
15 3 (0.068%) WildFly
Applications
1 107 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (1.26%) Simulink
4 28 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 21 (0.47%) Photoshop
6 15 (0.34%) Trello
7 11 (0.25%) SPSS
8 10 (0.23%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.090%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.068%) AutoCAD
10 3 (0.068%) Autodesk Inventor
10 3 (0.068%) Fusion 360
10 3 (0.068%) Revit
10 3 (0.068%) Sketch
10 3 (0.068%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.045%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.045%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.045%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.045%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.023%) GNU Octave
Business Applications
1 55 (1.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 36 (0.81%) SDL Web 8
3 23 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 22 (0.50%) NetSuite
5 13 (0.29%) Ripple
6 11 (0.25%) SAP ERP
7 9 (0.20%) SAP CX
8 8 (0.18%) Shopify
9 5 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
9 5 (0.11%) Endur
9 5 (0.11%) Odoo
10 4 (0.090%) CA PPM
10 4 (0.090%) Magento
10 4 (0.090%) SAP CO
10 4 (0.090%) SAP FI
10 4 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
11 3 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
11 3 (0.068%) Sage 200
11 3 (0.068%) Sage 300 ERP
11 3 (0.068%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 846 (19.05%) Azure
2 827 (18.62%) AWS
3 271 (6.10%) Power Platform
4 248 (5.58%) GCP
5 239 (5.38%) Microsoft 365
6 158 (3.56%) SaaS
7 124 (2.79%) Serverless
8 103 (2.32%) Azure DevOps
9 102 (2.30%) GitHub
10 95 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
11 94 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
12 82 (1.85%) Amazon S3
13 67 (1.51%) PowerApps
14 59 (1.33%) Power Automate
15 55 (1.24%) Amazon Kinesis
16 53 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
17 40 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
18 36 (0.81%) Snowflake
19 34 (0.77%) IaaS
20 33 (0.74%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 239 (5.38%) Network Security
2 149 (3.35%) Firewall
3 132 (2.97%) Internet
4 128 (2.88%) WAN
5 103 (2.32%) TCP/IP
6 93 (2.09%) Wireless
7 85 (1.91%) SD-WAN
8 84 (1.89%) VPN
9 79 (1.78%) WLAN
10 76 (1.71%) DNS
11 58 (1.31%) WebEx
12 56 (1.26%) Cisco IOS
13 52 (1.17%) HTTP
14 48 (1.08%) LAN
15 45 (1.01%) Wi-Fi
16 37 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
17 36 (0.81%) DHCP
18 29 (0.65%) Ethernet
18 29 (0.65%) VLAN
19 27 (0.61%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 429 (9.66%) SQL Server
2 251 (5.65%) Power BI
3 195 (4.39%) NoSQL
4 176 (3.96%) PostgreSQL
5 175 (3.94%) MySQL
6 173 (3.89%) Relational Database
7 156 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
8 134 (3.02%) Redis
9 114 (2.57%) Big Data
10 85 (1.91%) Tableau
11 68 (1.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 62 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
13 59 (1.33%) Hadoop
14 57 (1.28%) Amazon Redshift
15 52 (1.17%) MongoDB
16 48 (1.08%) DynamoDB
16 48 (1.08%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 44 (0.99%) Data Lake
18 40 (0.90%) RDBMS
19 38 (0.86%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 511 (11.50%) Git
2 172 (3.87%) JIRA
3 91 (2.05%) GitLab
4 89 (2.00%) Visual Studio
5 85 (1.91%) Jenkins
6 55 (1.24%) Moq
7 53 (1.19%) Selenium
8 52 (1.17%) TeamCity
9 51 (1.15%) NUnit
10 42 (0.95%) Cypress.io
11 38 (0.86%) Subversion
12 34 (0.77%) CMake
13 32 (0.72%) Burp Suite
14 30 (0.68%) Metasploit
15 27 (0.61%) Bitbucket
15 27 (0.61%) Postman
16 24 (0.54%) Gatling
16 24 (0.54%) Sourcetree
17 23 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
18 21 (0.47%) Vagrant
General
1 1,860 (41.87%) Social Skills
2 843 (18.98%) Analytical Skills
3 689 (15.51%) Finance
4 297 (6.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 222 (5.00%) Electronics
6 214 (4.82%) Manufacturing
6 214 (4.82%) Marketing
7 136 (3.06%) Retail
8 131 (2.95%) Legal
9 116 (2.61%) Presentation Skills
10 114 (2.57%) Games
11 111 (2.50%) Public Sector
12 106 (2.39%) Law
13 96 (2.16%) Banking
14 84 (1.89%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.82%) Organisational Skills
16 72 (1.62%) Automotive
17 65 (1.46%) Aerospace
18 53 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
19 51 (1.15%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,121 (25.24%) Developer
2 743 (16.73%) Senior
3 571 (12.85%) Software Engineer
4 385 (8.67%) Lead
5 280 (6.30%) Analyst
6 260 (5.85%) Architect
7 259 (5.83%) Software Developer
8 253 (5.70%) Senior Developer
9 214 (4.82%) Data Scientist
10 171 (3.85%) IT Support
11 163 (3.67%) Junior
12 157 (3.53%) Senior Software Engineer
13 152 (3.42%) Support Engineer
14 143 (3.22%) Graduate
15 134 (3.02%) .NET Developer
16 124 (2.79%) Full Stack Developer
17 102 (2.30%) C# Developer
18 92 (2.07%) IT Manager
19 91 (2.05%) IT Engineer
20 89 (2.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 664 (14.95%) .NET
2 426 (9.59%) HTML
3 405 (9.12%) CSS
4 395 (8.89%) React
5 259 (5.83%) AngularJS
6 180 (4.05%) ASP.NET
7 171 (3.85%) .NET Core
8 157 (3.53%) RESTful
9 156 (3.51%) Node.js
10 152 (3.42%) REST
11 150 (3.38%) .NET Framework
12 148 (3.33%) Web Services
13 129 (2.90%) HTML5
14 113 (2.54%) Kafka
15 105 (2.36%) jQuery
16 101 (2.27%) XML
17 99 (2.23%) JSON
18 98 (2.21%) Spring
19 93 (2.09%) Vue
20 87 (1.96%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 502 (11.30%) Algorithms
2 410 (9.23%) Management Information System
3 237 (5.34%) Self-Motivation
4 195 (4.39%) Data Structures
5 181 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 150 (3.38%) Client/Server
7 123 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 111 (2.50%) Driving Licence
9 106 (2.39%) Mobile App
10 93 (2.09%) Greenfield Project
11 80 (1.80%) Cloud Native
12 74 (1.67%) IoT
13 72 (1.62%) Data Centre
14 66 (1.49%) Virtual Team
15 64 (1.44%) Distributed Systems
16 62 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
17 57 (1.28%) Wiki
18 55 (1.24%) Life Science
19 54 (1.22%) FPGA
20 52 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 598 (13.46%) Linux
2 568 (12.79%) Windows
3 151 (3.40%) Android
4 95 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 93 (2.09%) Windows 10
6 92 (2.07%) Unix
7 65 (1.46%) Apple iOS
8 62 (1.40%) Mac OS
9 39 (0.88%) Ubuntu
10 35 (0.79%) Kali Linux
11 31 (0.70%) Embedded Linux
12 29 (0.65%) CentOS
13 28 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 18 (0.41%) Windows Server 2019
15 17 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
16 13 (0.29%) Debian
17 7 (0.16%) VMS
18 5 (0.11%) SUSE
19 4 (0.090%) FreeRTOS
19 4 (0.090%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,813 (40.81%) Problem-Solving
2 1,179 (26.54%) Agile
3 1,155 (26.00%) Software Engineering
4 734 (16.52%) Mathematics
5 620 (13.96%) Mentoring
6 545 (12.27%) DevOps
7 499 (11.23%) Artificial Intelligence
8 469 (10.56%) Cybersecurity
9 467 (10.51%) Data Science
10 466 (10.49%) Machine Learning
11 454 (10.22%) Analytics
12 392 (8.82%) Decision-Making
13 382 (8.60%) Data Analysis
14 381 (8.58%) Project Management
15 326 (7.34%) CI/CD
16 324 (7.29%) Roadmaps
17 305 (6.87%) Business Intelligence
18 289 (6.51%) Full Stack Development
19 285 (6.42%) Continuous Improvement
19 285 (6.42%) Physics
Programming Languages
1 1,081 (24.34%) Python
2 985 (22.17%) SQL
3 902 (20.31%) C#
4 811 (18.26%) JavaScript
5 528 (11.89%) Java
6 386 (8.69%) C++
7 315 (7.09%) C
7 315 (7.09%) TypeScript
8 150 (3.38%) PHP
9 121 (2.72%) PowerShell
10 108 (2.43%) R
11 93 (2.09%) Bash
12 92 (2.07%) Fortran
13 90 (2.03%) T-SQL
14 80 (1.80%) Go
15 77 (1.73%) Scala
16 73 (1.64%) Kotlin
17 60 (1.35%) MATLAB
18 46 (1.04%) Rust
19 40 (0.90%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 4,057 (91.33%) Degree
2 2,294 (51.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 703 (15.83%) Master's Degree
4 328 (7.38%) Security Cleared
5 235 (5.29%) PhD
6 220 (4.95%) Microsoft Certification
7 185 (4.16%) SC Cleared
8 170 (3.83%) Cisco Certification
9 154 (3.47%) CISSP
10 132 (2.97%) CCNP
11 126 (2.84%) CCNA
12 109 (2.45%) MCP
13 96 (2.16%) CISM
14 92 (2.07%) MCSE
15 81 (1.82%) Azure Certification
16 78 (1.76%) AWS Certification
17 67 (1.51%) LPIC
18 66 (1.49%) PMI Certification
19 57 (1.28%) PMP
20 49 (1.10%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (5.52%) QA
2 109 (2.45%) Data Quality
3 102 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 96 (2.16%) GDPR
5 77 (1.73%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.51%) NIST
7 42 (0.95%) PMO
8 38 (0.86%) PCI DSS
9 29 (0.65%) WCAG
10 23 (0.52%) SLA
11 22 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 22 (0.50%) HIPAA
12 17 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 15 (0.34%) GRC
13 15 (0.34%) ISO 13485
14 14 (0.32%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 12 (0.27%) NCSC
16 11 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
16 11 (0.25%) CDISC
16 11 (0.25%) SOC 2
System Software
1 393 (8.85%) Docker
2 185 (4.16%) Active Directory
3 89 (2.00%) Firmware
4 68 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
5 63 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
6 60 (1.35%) XenApp
7 57 (1.28%) XenDesktop
8 56 (1.26%) Microsoft App-V
9 46 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
10 28 (0.63%) Embedded Firmware
11 27 (0.61%) Hyper-V
12 14 (0.32%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.20%) HDFS
13 9 (0.20%) KVM
14 8 (0.18%) vSphere
15 7 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.090%) pfSense
17 2 (0.045%) LXC
18 1 (0.023%) OpenAM
18 1 (0.023%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 307 (6.91%) Kubernetes
2 170 (3.83%) Terraform
3 71 (1.60%) Ansible
4 65 (1.46%) SCCM
5 56 (1.26%) AirWatch
6 27 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.47%) Puppet
8 18 (0.41%) Grafana
9 15 (0.34%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.25%) Nagios
10 11 (0.25%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.23%) Prometheus
12 9 (0.20%) Nessus
12 9 (0.20%) WSUS
13 8 (0.18%) CASB
13 8 (0.18%) Jamf Pro
13 8 (0.18%) QRadar
13 8 (0.18%) SCOM
14 7 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
Vendors
1 781 (17.58%) Microsoft
2 219 (4.93%) Cisco
3 168 (3.78%) Google
4 108 (2.43%) Oracle
5 88 (1.98%) SAP
6 76 (1.71%) VMware
7 64 (1.44%) Citrix
8 63 (1.42%) Salesforce
9 52 (1.17%) Xilinx
10 49 (1.10%) Databricks
11 34 (0.77%) Adobe
12 29 (0.65%) Juniper
12 29 (0.65%) ServiceNow
13 27 (0.61%) Apple
14 26 (0.59%) Splunk
15 25 (0.56%) F5
16 23 (0.52%) Atlassian
17 22 (0.50%) IBM
18 19 (0.43%) Cognizant
19 18 (0.41%) Xamarin