Computer Science Jobs in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 20 42 37
Rank change year-on-year +22 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 550 348 537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.50% 6.22% 7.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.03% 6.56% 7.67%
Number of salaries quoted 351 154 218
10th Percentile £37,500 £36,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +28.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £76,250 £95,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £92,500 £97,500 £77,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,088 5,305 7,003
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 82.98% 94.75% 93.34%
Number of salaries quoted 3,994 2,985 3,920
10th Percentile £29,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,000 £41,939
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £88,750 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +10.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the Thames Valley

Computer Science
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +28 262 £67,500 -15.63% 55
Buckinghamshire +59 180 £42,500 -30.10% 19
Oxfordshire -15 108 £52,500 - 24
Computer Science
South East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 8 (1.45%) SAS
2 3 (0.55%) Confluence
3 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.18%) Apache
4 1 (0.18%) CMS
4 1 (0.18%) IIS
4 1 (0.18%) nginx
4 1 (0.18%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 10 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.18%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 3 (0.55%) NetSuite
2 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 52 (9.45%) Azure
2 33 (6.00%) AWS
3 16 (2.91%) Power Platform
4 15 (2.73%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (2.36%) Azure Sentinel
6 10 (1.82%) SaaS
7 8 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 8 (1.45%) GCP
8 7 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 6 (1.09%) Snowflake
10 5 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
10 5 (0.91%) Serverless
11 4 (0.73%) GitHub
11 4 (0.73%) IaaS
12 3 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
13 2 (0.36%) Amazon EMR
13 2 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
13 2 (0.36%) Entra ID
13 2 (0.36%) Power Automate
13 2 (0.36%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 26 (4.73%) Firewall
2 22 (4.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 20 (3.64%) Network Security
4 9 (1.64%) VPN
5 7 (1.27%) Internet
6 6 (1.09%) TCP/IP
7 4 (0.73%) NAS
7 4 (0.73%) SAN
8 2 (0.36%) DNS
8 2 (0.36%) Ethernet
8 2 (0.36%) SNMP
9 1 (0.18%) BGP
9 1 (0.18%) DHCP
9 1 (0.18%) IPsec
9 1 (0.18%) OSPF
9 1 (0.18%) RTP
9 1 (0.18%) VLAN
9 1 (0.18%) VoIP
9 1 (0.18%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (0.18%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (9.27%) NoSQL
2 40 (7.27%) SQL Server
3 16 (2.91%) Power BI
3 16 (2.91%) Relational Database
4 14 (2.55%) PostgreSQL
5 7 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
6 5 (0.91%) GIS
7 4 (0.73%) Amazon Athena
7 4 (0.73%) Big Data
8 3 (0.55%) Impala
8 3 (0.55%) Tableau
9 2 (0.36%) Amazon Redshift
9 2 (0.36%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.36%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.36%) Hadoop
9 2 (0.36%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.36%) Oracle BI EE
9 2 (0.36%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.36%) SSDT
9 2 (0.36%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 81 (14.73%) Git
2 33 (6.00%) Selenium
3 31 (5.64%) Cypress.io
4 18 (3.27%) Visual Studio
5 16 (2.91%) GitLab
6 11 (2.00%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.55%) JIRA
7 3 (0.55%) Rational DOORS
8 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
8 2 (0.36%) ERwin
8 2 (0.36%) SoapUI
8 2 (0.36%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.18%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.18%) Gradle
9 1 (0.18%) IntelliJ
9 1 (0.18%) JUnit
9 1 (0.18%) Maven
9 1 (0.18%) Moq
9 1 (0.18%) MSTest
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Framework
General
1 108 (19.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 100 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 82 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (4.55%) Finance
5 21 (3.82%) Electronics
6 12 (2.18%) Public Sector
7 11 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 11 (2.00%) Telecoms
8 8 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (1.27%) Law
9 7 (1.27%) Military
9 7 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (0.91%) Aerospace
11 4 (0.73%) Aeronautics
12 3 (0.55%) Banking
12 3 (0.55%) Marketing
12 3 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.55%) Retail
13 1 (0.18%) Back Office
13 1 (0.18%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 129 (23.45%) Developer
2 119 (21.64%) Data Scientist
3 117 (21.27%) Senior
4 74 (13.45%) Software Engineer
5 54 (9.82%) Software Developer
6 40 (7.27%) Senior Developer
7 31 (5.64%) Analyst
7 31 (5.64%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
7 31 (5.64%) Junior
8 25 (4.55%) Architect
8 25 (4.55%) Lead
9 21 (3.82%) Senior Software Developer
10 20 (3.64%) Senior Software Engineer
11 19 (3.45%) Computer Scientist
11 19 (3.45%) Research Scientist
12 17 (3.09%) Lead Developer
12 17 (3.09%) Lead Software Developer
12 17 (3.09%) Senior Front-End Developer
13 16 (2.91%) SOC Analyst
13 16 (2.91%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (20.55%) React
2 79 (14.36%) .NET
3 38 (6.91%) HTML
4 36 (6.55%) CSS
5 31 (5.64%) Jest
6 29 (5.27%) CSS3
6 29 (5.27%) HTML5
7 21 (3.82%) React Native
8 20 (3.64%) OpenMP
9 14 (2.55%) OpenACC
10 11 (2.00%) Kafka
11 9 (1.64%) XML
12 8 (1.45%) Spring
13 6 (1.09%) AngularJS
13 6 (1.09%) Web Services
14 5 (0.91%) ASP.NET
14 5 (0.91%) RESTful
15 4 (0.73%) .NET Framework
15 4 (0.73%) NumPy
15 4 (0.73%) Rendezvous
Miscellaneous
1 208 (37.82%) Algorithms
2 45 (8.18%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.36%) Self-Motivation
4 22 (4.00%) CUDA
4 22 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 17 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
5 17 (3.09%) Security Operations Centre
6 15 (2.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 13 (2.36%) Client/Server
8 9 (1.64%) Biopharmaceutical
9 8 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
10 7 (1.27%) Life Science
11 6 (1.09%) Data Centre
12 5 (0.91%) Cloud Native
12 5 (0.91%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (0.91%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.73%) Mobile App
13 4 (0.73%) Security Posture
14 3 (0.55%) IoT
14 3 (0.55%) Molecular Biology
Operating Systems
1 61 (11.09%) Linux
2 41 (7.45%) Unix
2 41 (7.45%) Windows
3 7 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 5 (0.91%) Kali Linux
5 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.18%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (0.18%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.18%) VMS
6 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 218 (39.64%) Mathematics
2 205 (37.27%) Problem-Solving
3 168 (30.55%) Agile
4 140 (25.45%) Cybersecurity
5 135 (24.55%) Data Science
6 127 (23.09%) Decision-Making
7 126 (22.91%) Artificial Intelligence
8 122 (22.18%) Physics
9 121 (22.00%) Mentoring
10 116 (21.09%) Coaching
11 115 (20.91%) Data Analysis
12 110 (20.00%) Red Team
13 109 (19.82%) Software Engineering
14 108 (19.64%) Statistical Modelling
15 102 (18.55%) Digital Forensics
16 97 (17.64%) Propensity Modelling
17 73 (13.27%) Machine Learning
18 56 (10.18%) Parallel Programming
19 52 (9.45%) Software Testing
20 37 (6.73%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 166 (30.18%) Python
2 150 (27.27%) C#
3 116 (21.09%) JavaScript
4 99 (18.00%) TypeScript
5 91 (16.55%) C++
6 87 (15.82%) Fortran
7 66 (12.00%) C
8 49 (8.91%) SQL
9 36 (6.55%) Java
10 30 (5.45%) PHP
11 26 (4.73%) Bash
12 18 (3.27%) Go
13 13 (2.36%) R
14 10 (1.82%) Kotlin
14 10 (1.82%) MATLAB
15 8 (1.45%) PowerShell
16 7 (1.27%) Perl
17 4 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 3 (0.55%) Haskell
18 3 (0.55%) Rust
Qualifications
1 522 (94.91%) Degree
2 186 (33.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 110 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 94 (17.09%) PhD
5 72 (13.09%) Security Cleared
6 33 (6.00%) CISSP
7 19 (3.45%) CompTIA Security+
8 14 (2.55%) SC Cleared
9 11 (2.00%) Numerate Degree
10 9 (1.64%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.45%) CISM
11 8 (1.45%) GIAC
11 8 (1.45%) GPEN
12 5 (0.91%) Azure Certification
13 4 (0.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 4 (0.73%) CCNA
13 4 (0.73%) Cisco Certification
13 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Certification
14 3 (0.55%) CCNP
14 3 (0.55%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (5.27%) WCAG
2 14 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (2.18%) GDPR
3 12 (2.18%) NIST
3 12 (2.18%) QA
4 9 (1.64%) Data Quality
5 8 (1.45%) GRC
6 7 (1.27%) Accessibility
6 7 (1.27%) CDISC
7 6 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
7 6 (1.09%) NIST 800
7 6 (1.09%) PCI DSS
8 5 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 4 (0.73%) SLA
10 3 (0.55%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.36%) GxP
11 2 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 2 (0.36%) Software Quality Assurance
12 1 (0.18%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 1 (0.18%) PMO
System Software
1 121 (22.00%) Docker
2 6 (1.09%) Firmware
3 3 (0.55%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.36%) HDFS
5 1 (0.18%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 103 (18.73%) Kubernetes
2 7 (1.27%) Nessus
3 6 (1.09%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
4 5 (0.91%) Suricata
5 2 (0.36%) Nagios
5 2 (0.36%) Netcool
5 2 (0.36%) Terraform
5 2 (0.36%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.18%) Ansible
6 1 (0.18%) Grafana
6 1 (0.18%) Puppet
6 1 (0.18%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.18%) WSUS
Vendors
1 81 (14.73%) Microsoft
2 11 (2.00%) Xamarin
3 7 (1.27%) Cisco
3 7 (1.27%) Google
3 7 (1.27%) Splunk
4 6 (1.09%) iManage
4 6 (1.09%) Juniper
4 6 (1.09%) Qualys
4 6 (1.09%) YouTube
5 5 (0.91%) Palo Alto
6 4 (0.73%) F5
6 4 (0.73%) ServiceNow
7 3 (0.55%) Cloudera
7 3 (0.55%) EMC
7 3 (0.55%) SolarWinds
8 2 (0.36%) IBM
8 2 (0.36%) Informatica
8 2 (0.36%) Oracle
8 2 (0.36%) SAP
8 2 (0.36%) WatchGuard