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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 54 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 -8 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,223 4,675 9,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.88% 5.32% 6.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 5.56% 7.16%
Number of salaries quoted 3,052 2,718 3,403
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £46,250 £42,000
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 £107,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

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 73,580 84,075 131,640
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.02% 95.61% 95.85%
Number of salaries quoted 53,859 49,932 73,641
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,125 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +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 21 May 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 21 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
London +5 1,516 £75,000 -6.25% 845
South East +7 1,027 £60,000 +4.35% 249
North of England +75 651 £48,000 -12.73% 187
Midlands +17 393 £50,000 -4.76% 167
North West +63 366 £50,000 -16.67% 103
South West +16 362 £52,250 -11.73% 93
West Midlands +33 267 £51,431 -6.49% 89
East of England +1 255 £46,000 -8.00% 122
Yorkshire +86 225 £45,000 -14.29% 55
East Midlands -2 120 £42,500 -12.82% 78
North East +1 60 £48,734 +14.67% 32
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
1 127 (3.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 84 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 83 (1.97%) Apache Spark
4 47 (1.11%) Apache
5 44 (1.04%) CMS
6 42 (0.99%) Confluence
7 32 (0.76%) Apache Airflow
8 30 (0.71%) SAS
9 25 (0.59%) IIS
10 20 (0.47%) WordPress
11 12 (0.28%) Jupyter
12 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
12 10 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.17%) Apache Pig
14 7 (0.17%) Luigi
14 7 (0.17%) Moodle
14 7 (0.17%) nginx
15 3 (0.071%) Appian
15 3 (0.071%) WildFly
Applications
1 103 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
2 74 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (1.16%) Simulink
4 28 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 18 (0.43%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 11 (0.26%) SPSS
8 10 (0.24%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.095%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.071%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.047%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.047%) Sketch
11 2 (0.047%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.047%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.047%) Zeplin
12 1 (0.024%) Autodesk Inventor
12 1 (0.024%) Fusion 360
12 1 (0.024%) GNU Octave
12 1 (0.024%) InVision
12 1 (0.024%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 50 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 32 (0.76%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.52%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.21%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.095%) CA PPM
9 4 (0.095%) Endur
9 4 (0.095%) Magento
9 4 (0.095%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.095%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 200
10 3 (0.071%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.071%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.047%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 787 (18.64%) Azure
2 786 (18.61%) AWS
3 258 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
4 240 (5.68%) Power Platform
5 238 (5.64%) GCP
6 161 (3.81%) SaaS
7 130 (3.08%) Serverless
8 106 (2.51%) GitHub
9 100 (2.37%) Azure DevOps
10 99 (2.34%) AWS Lambda
11 93 (2.20%) Cloud Computing
12 84 (1.99%) Amazon S3
13 59 (1.40%) PowerApps
14 53 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
15 51 (1.21%) Power Automate
16 44 (1.04%) Amazon Kinesis
17 38 (0.90%) IaaS
18 37 (0.88%) Snowflake
19 35 (0.83%) PaaS
20 32 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 159 (3.77%) Network Security
2 158 (3.74%) WAN
3 141 (3.34%) Firewall
4 120 (2.84%) Wireless
5 114 (2.70%) SD-WAN
6 91 (2.15%) TCP/IP
7 88 (2.08%) WebEx
8 86 (2.04%) Cisco IOS
9 81 (1.92%) DNS
10 78 (1.85%) VPN
11 56 (1.33%) Internet
12 47 (1.11%) LAN
12 47 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
13 45 (1.07%) HTTP
14 37 (0.88%) DHCP
15 35 (0.83%) Intrusion Detection
16 27 (0.64%) VLAN
17 24 (0.57%) Ethernet
18 23 (0.54%) SAN
19 21 (0.50%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 403 (9.54%) SQL Server
2 224 (5.30%) Power BI
3 188 (4.45%) NoSQL
4 173 (4.10%) MySQL
5 168 (3.98%) Relational Database
6 159 (3.77%) PostgreSQL
7 145 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
8 124 (2.94%) Redis
9 107 (2.53%) Big Data
10 82 (1.94%) Tableau
11 65 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 60 (1.42%) Hadoop
13 59 (1.40%) Amazon RDS
14 52 (1.23%) Amazon Redshift
15 51 (1.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 48 (1.14%) MongoDB
17 43 (1.02%) Data Lake
18 41 (0.97%) RDBMS
19 36 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
20 32 (0.76%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 499 (11.82%) Git
2 170 (4.03%) JIRA
3 88 (2.08%) Jenkins
4 85 (2.01%) GitLab
5 82 (1.94%) Visual Studio
6 54 (1.28%) Selenium
7 49 (1.16%) TeamCity
8 47 (1.11%) Moq
8 47 (1.11%) NUnit
9 45 (1.07%) Cypress.io
10 40 (0.95%) Subversion
11 34 (0.81%) CMake
12 30 (0.71%) Burp Suite
12 30 (0.71%) Postman
13 28 (0.66%) Metasploit
14 26 (0.62%) Bitbucket
15 23 (0.54%) JUnit
16 21 (0.50%) Sourcetree
17 19 (0.45%) Maven
17 19 (0.45%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,791 (42.41%) Social Skills
2 823 (19.49%) Analytical Skills
3 650 (15.39%) Finance
4 295 (6.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 208 (4.93%) Marketing
6 207 (4.90%) Manufacturing
7 200 (4.74%) Electronics
8 130 (3.08%) Retail
9 113 (2.68%) Presentation Skills
10 112 (2.65%) Legal
11 110 (2.60%) Games
12 107 (2.53%) Public Sector
13 86 (2.04%) Law
14 84 (1.99%) Banking
14 84 (1.99%) Telecoms
15 81 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
16 71 (1.68%) Automotive
17 65 (1.54%) Aerospace
18 60 (1.42%) Military
19 52 (1.23%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,074 (25.43%) Developer
2 702 (16.62%) Senior
3 513 (12.15%) Software Engineer
4 380 (9.00%) Lead
5 265 (6.28%) Analyst
6 259 (6.13%) Software Developer
7 252 (5.97%) Architect
8 243 (5.75%) Senior Developer
9 215 (5.09%) Data Scientist
10 149 (3.53%) Junior
11 139 (3.29%) Senior Software Engineer
12 130 (3.08%) Graduate
13 128 (3.03%) IT Support
14 126 (2.98%) .NET Developer
15 114 (2.70%) Full Stack Developer
16 95 (2.25%) C# Developer
17 94 (2.23%) Support Specialist
18 93 (2.20%) Data Engineer
19 89 (2.11%) Solutions Architect
20 88 (2.08%) IT Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 638 (15.11%) .NET
2 397 (9.40%) HTML
3 395 (9.35%) React
4 381 (9.02%) CSS
5 248 (5.87%) AngularJS
6 165 (3.91%) ASP.NET
7 164 (3.88%) .NET Core
8 157 (3.72%) Node.js
9 145 (3.43%) RESTful
10 142 (3.36%) .NET Framework
11 137 (3.24%) REST
12 130 (3.08%) Web Services
13 128 (3.03%) HTML5
14 112 (2.65%) Kafka
15 101 (2.39%) JSON
16 96 (2.27%) Spring
17 93 (2.20%) XML
18 91 (2.15%) jQuery
19 90 (2.13%) Vue
20 83 (1.97%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 486 (11.51%) Algorithms
2 399 (9.45%) Management Information System
3 242 (5.73%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.76%) Data Structures
5 148 (3.50%) Client/Server
6 121 (2.87%) Product Ownership
7 103 (2.44%) Onboarding
8 95 (2.25%) Greenfield Project
9 94 (2.23%) Mobile App
10 91 (2.15%) Video Conferencing
11 86 (2.04%) Wiki
12 78 (1.85%) Cloud Native
13 72 (1.70%) Data Centre
14 71 (1.68%) IoT
15 66 (1.56%) Virtual Team
16 57 (1.35%) Distributed Systems
17 53 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
17 53 (1.26%) FPGA
18 51 (1.21%) Life Science
19 49 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 528 (12.50%) Windows
2 500 (11.84%) Linux
3 172 (4.07%) Android
4 127 (3.01%) Windows 10
5 95 (2.25%) Windows Server
6 82 (1.94%) Unix
7 61 (1.44%) Apple iOS
8 57 (1.35%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.78%) Kali Linux
10 32 (0.76%) Ubuntu
11 25 (0.59%) Embedded Linux
12 24 (0.57%) CentOS
12 24 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 18 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 18 (0.43%) Windows Server 2019
14 12 (0.28%) Debian
15 8 (0.19%) VMS
16 4 (0.095%) SUSE
16 4 (0.095%) Windows Vista
17 3 (0.071%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,668 (39.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1,114 (26.38%) Agile
3 1,080 (25.57%) Software Engineering
4 704 (16.67%) Mathematics
5 523 (12.38%) DevOps
6 520 (12.31%) Mentoring
7 501 (11.86%) Artificial Intelligence
8 469 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 465 (11.01%) Data Science
10 455 (10.77%) Machine Learning
11 418 (9.90%) Analytics
12 387 (9.16%) Decision-Making
13 377 (8.93%) Project Management
14 365 (8.64%) Data Analysis
15 334 (7.91%) CI/CD
16 316 (7.48%) Roadmaps
17 282 (6.68%) Full Stack Development
18 280 (6.63%) Business Intelligence
19 272 (6.44%) Continuous Improvement
20 262 (6.20%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,012 (23.96%) Python
2 918 (21.74%) SQL
3 871 (20.63%) C#
4 770 (18.23%) JavaScript
5 500 (11.84%) Java
6 353 (8.36%) C++
7 320 (7.58%) TypeScript
8 290 (6.87%) C
9 148 (3.50%) PHP
10 116 (2.75%) PowerShell
11 106 (2.51%) R
12 83 (1.97%) T-SQL
13 79 (1.87%) Bash
13 79 (1.87%) Fortran
14 73 (1.73%) Go
15 66 (1.56%) Kotlin
16 65 (1.54%) Scala
17 58 (1.37%) MATLAB
18 38 (0.90%) Perl
19 34 (0.81%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,854 (91.26%) Degree
2 2,170 (51.39%) Computer Science Degree
3 697 (16.50%) Master's Degree
4 286 (6.77%) Security Cleared
5 215 (5.09%) PhD
6 169 (4.00%) SC Cleared
7 151 (3.58%) CISSP
8 140 (3.32%) Microsoft Certification
9 93 (2.20%) CISM
10 92 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
11 78 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 73 (1.73%) Azure Certification
13 66 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 57 (1.35%) PMP
15 54 (1.28%) CCNP
16 53 (1.26%) CCNA
17 48 (1.14%) CISA
18 47 (1.11%) Numerate Degree
19 44 (1.04%) A+ Certification
20 42 (0.99%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 245 (5.80%) QA
2 109 (2.58%) Data Quality
3 100 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (2.18%) GDPR
5 77 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 67 (1.59%) NIST
7 42 (0.99%) PMO
8 38 (0.90%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.78%) WCAG
10 26 (0.62%) SLA
11 23 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 22 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 15 (0.36%) GRC
13 15 (0.36%) ISO 13485
13 15 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 14 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 14 (0.33%) NCSC
15 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
15 13 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 405 (9.59%) Docker
2 216 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 92 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
4 89 (2.11%) XenApp
5 86 (2.04%) Microsoft App-V
5 86 (2.04%) XenDesktop
6 76 (1.80%) Firmware
7 66 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
8 40 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 28 (0.66%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
11 11 (0.26%) HDFS
12 10 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
13 9 (0.21%) vSphere
14 7 (0.17%) KVM
14 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
15 4 (0.095%) pfSense
16 2 (0.047%) LXC
16 2 (0.047%) NFS
17 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 309 (7.32%) Kubernetes
2 163 (3.86%) Terraform
3 98 (2.32%) SCCM
4 86 (2.04%) AirWatch
5 65 (1.54%) Ansible
6 22 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (0.45%) Puppet
8 17 (0.40%) Grafana
9 15 (0.36%) ZABBIX
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
11 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
11 10 (0.24%) WSUS
12 9 (0.21%) Progress Chef
13 8 (0.19%) CASB
13 8 (0.19%) Nessus
13 8 (0.19%) SCOM
14 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
14 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
14 7 (0.17%) QRadar
14 7 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 700 (16.58%) Microsoft
2 178 (4.22%) Cisco
3 164 (3.88%) Google
4 110 (2.60%) Oracle
5 92 (2.18%) Citrix
6 85 (2.01%) SAP
7 80 (1.89%) VMware
8 62 (1.47%) Salesforce
9 45 (1.07%) Databricks
10 44 (1.04%) Xilinx
11 34 (0.81%) Adobe
12 30 (0.71%) Juniper
13 26 (0.62%) Apple
14 23 (0.54%) Atlassian
14 23 (0.54%) ServiceNow
15 22 (0.52%) IBM
15 22 (0.52%) Splunk
16 19 (0.45%) F5
16 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
17 16 (0.38%) Cognizant