Computer Science Jobs in the West Midlands

Computer Science
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 94 87
Rank change year-on-year +31 -7 +2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 267 204 255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.57% 3.26% 3.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.34% 3.37% 3.62%
Number of salaries quoted 182 102 126
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,900 £27,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,431 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £67,313
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,157 6,052 7,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.42% 96.80% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 4,566 3,147 4,742
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,713 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £64,375 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the West Midlands

Computer Science
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 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
Birmingham +10 93 £57,500 -8.00% 37
Warwickshire +39 50 £57,500 +12.20% 7
Worcestershire +1 31 £52,500 -22.22% 11
Staffordshire -9 23 £55,000 -8.33% 12
Shropshire - 17 £50,000 - 2
Solihull +4 11 £50,000 +11.11% 3
Wolverhampton +25 10 £26,000 -57.24% 1
Coventry +17 4 - - 15
Sutton Coldfield - 3 £27,000 - 2
Walsall +15 2 £39,649 -
Herefordshire -12 1 - - 2
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 21 (7.87%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.75%) WordPress
3 6 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.75%) Appian
4 2 (0.75%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.37%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.37%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.37%) Captiva
5 1 (0.37%) Documentum
Applications
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.87%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.75%) Simulink
4 1 (0.37%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.37%) Fusion 360
4 1 (0.37%) Revit
Business Applications
1 8 (3.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (1.87%) Shopify
3 4 (1.50%) Magento
4 3 (1.12%) Sage 200
4 3 (1.12%) Sage 300 ERP
5 2 (0.75%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 60 (22.47%) Azure
2 32 (11.99%) Power Platform
3 20 (7.49%) AWS
4 16 (5.99%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (4.87%) Power Automate
5 13 (4.87%) PowerApps
6 11 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (2.62%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.62%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.62%) GCP
8 6 (2.25%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (2.25%) OneDrive
9 5 (1.87%) Entra ID
10 4 (1.50%) Amazon Kinesis
10 4 (1.50%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.12%) SaaS
11 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.12%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 2 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (0.75%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.12%) Firewall
1 11 (4.12%) WAN
2 8 (3.00%) Network Security
3 7 (2.62%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.25%) LAN
5 5 (1.87%) DHCP
5 5 (1.87%) DNS
5 5 (1.87%) Intranet
5 5 (1.87%) SD-WAN
5 5 (1.87%) WLAN
6 4 (1.50%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (1.50%) iSCSI
6 4 (1.50%) MPLS
6 4 (1.50%) SNMP
6 4 (1.50%) VPN
7 2 (0.75%) VLAN
7 2 (0.75%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (0.75%) Wireless
8 1 (0.37%) BGP
8 1 (0.37%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (11.99%) Power BI
2 28 (10.49%) SQL Server
3 20 (7.49%) Data Warehouse
4 15 (5.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 12 (4.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (4.12%) MySQL
6 11 (4.12%) Relational Database
7 7 (2.62%) Power Query
7 7 (2.62%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 7 (2.62%) Tableau
8 6 (2.25%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (2.25%) Elasticsearch
8 6 (2.25%) Looker
8 6 (2.25%) Redis
9 4 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (1.50%) NoSQL
9 4 (1.50%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.75%) BusinessObjects
10 2 (0.75%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.75%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.12%) Git
2 17 (6.37%) JIRA
3 6 (2.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 5 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 4 (1.50%) Postman
5 4 (1.50%) Xcode
6 1 (0.37%) CMake
6 1 (0.37%) Moq
6 1 (0.37%) NUnit
6 1 (0.37%) Sourcetree
General
1 88 (32.96%) Social Skills
2 62 (23.22%) Analytical Skills
3 34 (12.73%) Finance
4 33 (12.36%) Manufacturing
5 28 (10.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (7.49%) Automotive
6 20 (7.49%) Retail
7 11 (4.12%) Electronics
8 5 (1.87%) Digital Healthcare
8 5 (1.87%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.50%) Games
9 4 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.50%) Marketing
9 4 (1.50%) Public Sector
10 2 (0.75%) Local Government
10 2 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.75%) Social Science
11 1 (0.37%) German Language
11 1 (0.37%) Health Technology
11 1 (0.37%) Law
Job Titles
1 65 (24.34%) Developer
2 28 (10.49%) Analyst
2 28 (10.49%) Senior
3 24 (8.99%) Lead
4 23 (8.61%) Software Engineer
5 21 (7.87%) Software Developer
6 20 (7.49%) Data Scientist
7 15 (5.62%) Architect
8 14 (5.24%) Full Stack Developer
8 14 (5.24%) Junior
9 13 (4.87%) Business Intelligence Analyst
10 12 (4.49%) Junior Developer
10 12 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 11 (4.12%) Project Manager
12 9 (3.37%) Administrator
13 8 (3.00%) Software Manager
13 8 (3.00%) Technical Leader
14 6 (2.25%) Senior Business Intelligence Analyst
14 6 (2.25%) Senior Software Developer
14 6 (2.25%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (11.99%) .NET
2 20 (7.49%) AngularJS
3 19 (7.12%) RESTful
4 18 (6.74%) CSS
4 18 (6.74%) HTML
5 13 (4.87%) .NET Core
6 10 (3.75%) Node.js
7 9 (3.37%) SOAP
8 8 (3.00%) Kafka
9 7 (2.62%) PyTorch
9 7 (2.62%) TensorFlow
10 6 (2.25%) Vue
10 6 (2.25%) XML
11 5 (1.87%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.87%) React
11 5 (1.87%) WinForms
11 5 (1.87%) WPF
12 4 (1.50%) OpenAPI
12 4 (1.50%) Spring Boot
12 4 (1.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 34 (12.73%) Algorithms
2 22 (8.24%) Management Information System
3 19 (7.12%) Mobile App
4 16 (5.99%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (5.24%) Product Ownership
6 13 (4.87%) Virtual Team
7 6 (2.25%) Augmented Reality
7 6 (2.25%) Embedded Systems
7 6 (2.25%) Industrial Internet of Things
7 6 (2.25%) Industry 4.0
7 6 (2.25%) PMI
7 6 (2.25%) Replication
7 6 (2.25%) SCADA
7 6 (2.25%) Virtual Reality
8 5 (1.87%) CUDA
8 5 (1.87%) Infotainment
8 5 (1.87%) IoT
8 5 (1.87%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.50%) Cloud Native
9 4 (1.50%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.36%) Windows
2 20 (7.49%) Linux
3 8 (3.00%) Windows Server
4 6 (2.25%) Windows 10
5 4 (1.50%) VMS
6 3 (1.12%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) Android
8 1 (0.37%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
8 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 136 (50.94%) Problem-Solving
2 74 (27.72%) Agile
3 55 (20.60%) Software Engineering
4 47 (17.60%) Cybersecurity
4 47 (17.60%) Mathematics
5 45 (16.85%) Mentoring
6 43 (16.10%) Data Analysis
7 41 (15.36%) Decision-Making
8 39 (14.61%) Business Intelligence
9 36 (13.48%) SDLC
10 33 (12.36%) Analytics
10 33 (12.36%) Project Management
11 31 (11.61%) Data Science
12 28 (10.49%) Full Stack Development
13 26 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (9.36%) Artificial Intelligence
15 23 (8.61%) DevOps
15 23 (8.61%) Test Strategy
16 22 (8.24%) Data Management
16 22 (8.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 58 (21.72%) SQL
2 47 (17.60%) JavaScript
3 38 (14.23%) C#
4 29 (10.86%) Python
5 17 (6.37%) TypeScript
6 14 (5.24%) Java
7 11 (4.12%) C++
8 10 (3.75%) PHP
8 10 (3.75%) T-SQL
9 5 (1.87%) C
10 4 (1.50%) Embedded C
11 3 (1.12%) Apex Code
11 3 (1.12%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.75%) MATLAB
12 2 (0.75%) R
Qualifications
1 250 (93.63%) Degree
2 130 (48.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (10.49%) Master's Degree
4 14 (5.24%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.49%) SC Cleared
6 11 (4.12%) CISM
6 11 (4.12%) CISSP
6 11 (4.12%) PMI Certification
7 9 (3.37%) Azure Certification
8 8 (3.00%) CCNA
8 8 (3.00%) CCNP
8 8 (3.00%) CISA
8 8 (3.00%) Cisco Certification
8 8 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (2.62%) PhD
10 5 (1.87%) CAPM
10 5 (1.87%) ISEB
10 5 (1.87%) ISTQB
10 5 (1.87%) PCI QSA
10 5 (1.87%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.24%) QA
2 11 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.62%) PCI DSS
4 6 (2.25%) Actionable Recommendations
4 6 (2.25%) NIST
5 5 (1.87%) Data Quality
6 4 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.75%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.75%) SLA
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 17025
System Software
1 11 (4.12%) Active Directory
2 10 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (2.62%) Docker
4 4 (1.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.50%) pfSense
5 3 (1.12%) Firmware
6 1 (0.37%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.37%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.62%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.87%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.87%) Terraform
3 1 (0.37%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.37%) SCCM
3 1 (0.37%) VxRail
Vendors
1 53 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 14 (5.24%) Cisco
3 10 (3.75%) VMware
4 8 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.25%) Dell
5 6 (2.25%) Salesforce
6 5 (1.87%) Fortinet
6 5 (1.87%) HP
6 5 (1.87%) NVIDIA
6 5 (1.87%) Ubiquiti
6 5 (1.87%) Xamarin
7 4 (1.50%) BroadSoft
7 4 (1.50%) Brocade
7 4 (1.50%) Databricks
7 4 (1.50%) Dell Compellent
7 4 (1.50%) DevExpress
7 4 (1.50%) Juniper
7 4 (1.50%) QNAP
7 4 (1.50%) Veeam
7 4 (1.50%) Zerto