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 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 106 155 115
Rank change year-on-year +49 -40 +43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 2,617 2,195 5,546
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.41% 2.36% 3.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.17% 6.96% 11.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,865 1,453 1,467
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £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 £91,250 £105,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,800 £50,000
% change year-on-year -17.76% +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 28,550 31,536 47,076
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.33% 33.88% 27.39%
Number of salaries quoted 17,234 14,336 19,350
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,000 £30,874
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,535
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% +0.10%

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 9 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 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
England +50 2,337 £60,000 -4.00% 760
UK excluding London +37 1,693 £50,000 -17.76% 423
Work from Home +102 846 £60,000 -7.69% 364
London +44 815 £75,000 -4.76% 362
South East +45 546 £60,000 -1.32% 90
North of England +76 396 £50,000 -16.67% 105
Midlands +32 285 £50,000 -17.76% 85
North West +45 216 £50,000 -16.67% 56
West Midlands +57 190 £50,000 -20.00% 49
Yorkshire +114 159 £45,000 -18.18% 32
South West -15 159 £47,500 -21.88% 57
Scotland -53 128 £59,250 -2.55% 30
East of England +9 124 £40,000 -34.21% 44
East Midlands -21 93 £47,500 -2.56% 36
Wales -14 25 £34,000 -24.44% 5
North East -16 21 £52,500 +1.65% 20
Northern Ireland +7 19 £40,500 -11.96% 15
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 92 (3.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (3.06%) SharePoint
3 33 (1.26%) Apache Spark
4 29 (1.11%) FileNet
5 28 (1.07%) Apache
6 25 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
7 20 (0.76%) Confluence
8 17 (0.65%) IIS
8 17 (0.65%) WordPress
9 16 (0.61%) OpenStack
10 10 (0.38%) CMS
11 6 (0.23%) Luigi
12 4 (0.15%) Appian
12 4 (0.15%) OpenEdge
13 3 (0.11%) SAS
13 3 (0.11%) Tomcat
13 3 (0.11%) WildFly
14 2 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
14 2 (0.076%) Drupal
14 2 (0.076%) Moodle
Applications
1 67 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (2.03%) Simulink
3 47 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 14 (0.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 8 (0.31%) InfoPath
6 4 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.11%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.11%) Fusion 360
7 3 (0.11%) Revit
7 3 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.076%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.076%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.076%) Trello
9 1 (0.038%) Sketch
9 1 (0.038%) UXPin
9 1 (0.038%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 31 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 18 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 8 (0.31%) Shopify
4 5 (0.19%) Odoo
4 5 (0.19%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.15%) CA PPM
5 4 (0.15%) Magento
6 3 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.11%) Relativity
6 3 (0.11%) SAP Business One
6 3 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
7 2 (0.076%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.076%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 1 (0.038%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.038%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.038%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.038%) SAP HR
8 1 (0.038%) SAP Oil and Gas
8 1 (0.038%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 574 (21.93%) Azure
2 520 (19.87%) AWS
3 180 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
4 170 (6.50%) GCP
5 153 (5.85%) Power Platform
6 103 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 98 (3.74%) SaaS
8 89 (3.40%) GitHub
9 87 (3.32%) Cloud Computing
10 81 (3.10%) Serverless
11 65 (2.48%) Azure DevOps
12 63 (2.41%) AWS Lambda
12 63 (2.41%) PowerApps
13 60 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
14 55 (2.10%) Amazon Kinesis
15 50 (1.91%) Power Automate
16 37 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
17 31 (1.18%) Snowflake
18 28 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
18 28 (1.07%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 213 (8.14%) Network Security
2 124 (4.74%) Firewall
3 113 (4.32%) WAN
4 95 (3.63%) Internet
5 83 (3.17%) Wireless
6 79 (3.02%) WLAN
7 66 (2.52%) SD-WAN
8 65 (2.48%) Cisco IOS
9 63 (2.41%) TCP/IP
10 58 (2.22%) WebEx
11 54 (2.06%) DNS
12 53 (2.03%) LAN
13 45 (1.72%) VPN
14 38 (1.45%) DHCP
15 35 (1.34%) VLAN
16 33 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
17 32 (1.22%) HTTP
18 30 (1.15%) Intrusion Detection
19 28 (1.07%) SAN
20 17 (0.65%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 273 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 208 (7.95%) NoSQL
3 132 (5.04%) Power BI
4 122 (4.66%) MySQL
5 121 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
6 117 (4.47%) Relational Database
7 111 (4.24%) PostgreSQL
8 78 (2.98%) Redis
9 73 (2.79%) Amazon RDS
10 62 (2.37%) Big Data
11 56 (2.14%) MongoDB
12 52 (1.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 46 (1.76%) Elasticsearch
14 45 (1.72%) DynamoDB
15 40 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
16 39 (1.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 35 (1.34%) Apache Cassandra
18 34 (1.30%) Amazon Redshift
19 32 (1.22%) RDBMS
20 30 (1.15%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 350 (13.37%) Git
2 90 (3.44%) Jenkins
3 75 (2.87%) JIRA
4 57 (2.18%) GitLab
5 37 (1.41%) JUnit
6 34 (1.30%) Jasmine
7 33 (1.26%) Visual Studio
8 30 (1.15%) Subversion
9 29 (1.11%) Mockito
10 28 (1.07%) Burp Suite
10 28 (1.07%) Metasploit
10 28 (1.07%) Postman
11 24 (0.92%) Gatling
12 21 (0.80%) CMake
12 21 (0.80%) Vagrant
13 19 (0.73%) Selenium
14 17 (0.65%) Appium
14 17 (0.65%) Moq
15 13 (0.50%) Bitbucket
15 13 (0.50%) MSTest
General
1 1,275 (48.72%) Social Skills
2 459 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
3 437 (16.70%) Finance
4 149 (5.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 130 (4.97%) Manufacturing
6 126 (4.81%) Marketing
7 107 (4.09%) Electronics
8 92 (3.52%) Law
9 88 (3.36%) Public Sector
10 83 (3.17%) Retail
11 76 (2.90%) Legal
12 58 (2.22%) Banking
13 56 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 52 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
15 48 (1.83%) Games
16 47 (1.80%) Billing
17 44 (1.68%) Telecoms
18 31 (1.18%) Military
19 27 (1.03%) Automotive
20 24 (0.92%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 706 (26.98%) Developer
2 369 (14.10%) Senior
3 343 (13.11%) Software Engineer
4 232 (8.87%) Lead
5 218 (8.33%) Architect
6 150 (5.73%) Software Developer
7 149 (5.69%) IT Support
8 133 (5.08%) Support Engineer
9 131 (5.01%) Senior Developer
10 127 (4.85%) Analyst
11 106 (4.05%) Junior
12 82 (3.13%) .NET Developer
13 79 (3.02%) IT Engineer
14 78 (2.98%) Full Stack Developer
15 72 (2.75%) Senior Software Engineer
16 71 (2.71%) IT Support Engineer
17 69 (2.64%) Solutions Architect
18 67 (2.56%) Graduate
19 64 (2.45%) IT Support Specialist
19 64 (2.45%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 371 (14.18%) .NET
2 282 (10.78%) React
3 247 (9.44%) HTML
4 226 (8.64%) CSS
5 169 (6.46%) AngularJS
6 111 (4.24%) Spring
7 109 (4.17%) REST
8 97 (3.71%) Node.js
9 96 (3.67%) ASP.NET
10 93 (3.55%) .NET Framework
11 92 (3.52%) Web Services
12 84 (3.21%) JSON
13 80 (3.06%) RESTful
14 76 (2.90%) Kafka
14 76 (2.90%) Vue
15 71 (2.71%) .NET Core
16 67 (2.56%) GraphQL
17 63 (2.41%) XML
18 58 (2.22%) jQuery
19 54 (2.06%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 285 (10.89%) Management Information System
2 141 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 134 (5.12%) Self-Motivation
4 122 (4.66%) Algorithms
5 108 (4.13%) Driving Licence
6 92 (3.52%) Cloud Native
7 79 (3.02%) Mobile App
8 69 (2.64%) Data Centre
9 63 (2.41%) Product Ownership
10 60 (2.29%) Video Conferencing
11 56 (2.14%) Wiki
12 55 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
13 45 (1.72%) Data Structures
14 43 (1.64%) IoT
15 41 (1.57%) Cyber Threat
16 40 (1.53%) Enterprise Software
17 36 (1.38%) Greenfield Project
18 28 (1.07%) Client/Server
18 28 (1.07%) Life Science
19 27 (1.03%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 427 (16.32%) Windows
2 422 (16.13%) Linux
3 138 (5.27%) Android
4 81 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 80 (3.06%) Windows 10
6 53 (2.03%) Mac OS
7 43 (1.64%) Apple iOS
8 38 (1.45%) Ubuntu
9 37 (1.41%) Unix
10 29 (1.11%) Kali Linux
11 27 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 22 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
13 20 (0.76%) CentOS
14 18 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
15 13 (0.50%) Windows Server 2016
16 11 (0.42%) Debian
17 6 (0.23%) VMS
18 5 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
19 4 (0.15%) Amazon Linux
19 4 (0.15%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,550 (97.44%) Computer Science
2 1,196 (45.70%) Problem-Solving
3 722 (27.59%) Agile
4 672 (25.68%) Software Engineering
5 433 (16.55%) DevOps
6 355 (13.57%) Mentoring
7 310 (11.85%) Artificial Intelligence
8 301 (11.50%) CI/CD
9 275 (10.51%) Machine Learning
10 234 (8.94%) Analytics
11 219 (8.37%) Cybersecurity
11 219 (8.37%) Mathematics
12 199 (7.60%) SDLC
13 198 (7.57%) Project Management
14 191 (7.30%) Continuous Improvement
14 191 (7.30%) Microservices
15 190 (7.26%) Data Modelling
16 186 (7.11%) ITIL
17 183 (6.99%) Roadmaps
18 177 (6.76%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 597 (22.81%) SQL
2 595 (22.74%) Python
3 492 (18.80%) JavaScript
4 491 (18.76%) C#
5 387 (14.79%) Java
6 194 (7.41%) C++
7 179 (6.84%) TypeScript
8 138 (5.27%) C
9 106 (4.05%) PHP
10 81 (3.10%) PowerShell
11 60 (2.29%) Scala
12 51 (1.95%) Bash
12 51 (1.95%) Kotlin
13 40 (1.53%) R
13 40 (1.53%) T-SQL
14 38 (1.45%) Go
15 18 (0.69%) MATLAB
15 18 (0.69%) Rust
16 17 (0.65%) VBA
17 16 (0.61%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2,617 (100.00%) Degree
2 419 (16.01%) Master's Degree
3 201 (7.68%) Microsoft Certification
3 201 (7.68%) Security Cleared
4 162 (6.19%) Cisco Certification
5 148 (5.66%) SC Cleared
6 129 (4.93%) CCNA
7 125 (4.78%) CCNP
8 107 (4.09%) MCP
9 91 (3.48%) CISSP
10 85 (3.25%) MCSE
11 78 (2.98%) AWS Certification
12 76 (2.90%) Azure Certification
13 67 (2.56%) LPIC
14 52 (1.99%) PhD
15 47 (1.80%) CISM
16 41 (1.57%) DBS Check
17 40 (1.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
18 37 (1.41%) A+ Certification
19 33 (1.26%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 174 (6.65%) QA
2 84 (3.21%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.06%) GDPR
4 44 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 32 (1.22%) NIST
6 29 (1.11%) Accessibility
7 19 (0.73%) SLA
8 18 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.53%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 14 (0.53%) PCI DSS
10 12 (0.46%) HIPAA
10 12 (0.46%) PMO
11 10 (0.38%) COBIT
12 7 (0.27%) ISO 13485
13 6 (0.23%) Web Application Security Consortium
14 5 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
15 4 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 4 (0.15%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.15%) NCSC
16 2 (0.076%) WAI
System Software
1 293 (11.20%) Docker
2 153 (5.85%) Active Directory
3 63 (2.41%) VMware ESXi
4 60 (2.29%) XenApp
5 57 (2.18%) XenDesktop
6 56 (2.14%) Microsoft App-V
7 40 (1.53%) VMware Infrastructure
8 33 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
9 19 (0.73%) Firmware
10 16 (0.61%) Hyper-V
11 10 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.34%) vSphere
13 6 (0.23%) KVM
14 5 (0.19%) pfSense
15 3 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
16 2 (0.076%) Embedded Firmware
16 2 (0.076%) HDFS
16 2 (0.076%) LXC
17 1 (0.038%) OpenAM
17 1 (0.038%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 268 (10.24%) Kubernetes
2 156 (5.96%) Terraform
3 69 (2.64%) SCCM
4 63 (2.41%) Ansible
5 56 (2.14%) AirWatch
6 24 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (0.80%) Puppet
8 14 (0.53%) Grafana
9 12 (0.46%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.42%) Progress Chef
11 10 (0.38%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.31%) Nagios
13 7 (0.27%) SCOM
13 7 (0.27%) WSUS
14 6 (0.23%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
15 5 (0.19%) HP ALM
15 5 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
15 5 (0.19%) Nessus
15 5 (0.19%) Rancher
16 4 (0.15%) Argo
Vendors
1 566 (21.63%) Microsoft
2 205 (7.83%) Cisco
3 132 (5.04%) Google
4 91 (3.48%) Oracle
5 64 (2.45%) Citrix
6 52 (1.99%) Salesforce
7 51 (1.95%) SAP
8 47 (1.80%) VMware
9 44 (1.68%) Xilinx
10 43 (1.64%) Databricks
11 38 (1.45%) IBM
12 30 (1.15%) Splunk
13 25 (0.96%) Juniper
14 23 (0.88%) Apple
15 20 (0.76%) F5
15 20 (0.76%) Facebook
16 17 (0.65%) ServiceNow
17 15 (0.57%) Sony
18 14 (0.53%) Atlassian
18 14 (0.53%) Fortinet