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

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 41 58 44
Rank change year-on-year +17 -14 +12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 4,182 4,617 9,073
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 4.88% 5.11% 6.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.70% 5.35% 7.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,046 2,679 3,381
10th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £42,500
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 £91,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £115,000 £105,250
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 73,307 86,321 126,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.46% 95.63% 95.73%
Number of salaries quoted 53,944 51,052 72,863
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,308 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,075
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,332 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +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 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 9 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 +6 1,522 £77,500 -3.13% 809
South East +7 1,024 £60,000 +9.09% 244
North of England +91 633 £48,000 -6.80% 196
Midlands +18 379 £50,000 -4.76% 158
North West +79 354 £50,000 -9.09% 111
South West +22 353 £50,000 -9.09% 99
West Midlands +30 260 £50,362 -8.43% 89
East of England 0 248 £46,000 -1.08% 153
Yorkshire +97 220 £45,000 -14.29% 51
East Midlands -6 113 £42,500 -5.56% 69
North East +4 59 £48,734 +14.67% 35
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
1 131 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
2 79 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 77 (1.84%) Apache Spark
4 40 (0.96%) Apache
5 38 (0.91%) Confluence
6 37 (0.88%) CMS
7 30 (0.72%) SAS
8 26 (0.62%) Apache Airflow
9 24 (0.57%) IIS
10 22 (0.53%) WordPress
11 12 (0.29%) Jupyter
11 12 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 10 (0.24%) OpenStack
13 8 (0.19%) Apache Pig
13 8 (0.19%) Oracle Workflow
14 7 (0.17%) nginx
15 6 (0.14%) Moodle
16 5 (0.12%) Luigi
17 3 (0.072%) Appian
17 3 (0.072%) WildFly
Applications
1 97 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 68 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 44 (1.05%) Simulink
4 25 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (0.38%) Photoshop
6 14 (0.33%) Trello
7 10 (0.24%) SPSS
8 9 (0.22%) MS Visio
9 4 (0.096%) Microsoft Project
10 3 (0.072%) Spreadsheet
11 2 (0.048%) Adobe Illustrator
11 2 (0.048%) Sketch
11 2 (0.048%) Stateflow
11 2 (0.048%) TargetLink
11 2 (0.048%) 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 51 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 26 (0.62%) SDL Web 8
3 22 (0.53%) NetSuite
4 18 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 10 (0.24%) SAP ERP
6 9 (0.22%) SAP CX
7 8 (0.19%) Shopify
8 5 (0.12%) Distributed Ledger
8 5 (0.12%) Odoo
9 4 (0.096%) Magento
9 4 (0.096%) Sage 200
9 4 (0.096%) SAP CO
9 4 (0.096%) SAP FI
9 4 (0.096%) SAP FI/CO
10 3 (0.072%) Endur
10 3 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
10 3 (0.072%) Sage 300 ERP
10 3 (0.072%) SAP Business One
11 2 (0.048%) CA PPM
11 2 (0.048%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 772 (18.46%) AWS
2 768 (18.36%) Azure
3 254 (6.07%) Microsoft 365
4 232 (5.55%) GCP
4 232 (5.55%) Power Platform
5 166 (3.97%) SaaS
6 132 (3.16%) Serverless
7 107 (2.56%) GitHub
8 100 (2.39%) AWS Lambda
9 98 (2.34%) Azure DevOps
10 88 (2.10%) Cloud Computing
11 80 (1.91%) Amazon S3
12 58 (1.39%) PowerApps
13 51 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
14 50 (1.20%) Power Automate
15 40 (0.96%) IaaS
16 37 (0.88%) PaaS
17 35 (0.84%) Snowflake
18 33 (0.79%) Amazon Kinesis
18 33 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 162 (3.87%) WAN
2 156 (3.73%) Network Security
3 146 (3.49%) Firewall
4 124 (2.97%) Wireless
5 119 (2.85%) SD-WAN
6 93 (2.22%) WebEx
7 91 (2.18%) Cisco IOS
8 88 (2.10%) TCP/IP
9 81 (1.94%) DNS
10 77 (1.84%) VPN
11 55 (1.32%) Internet
12 46 (1.10%) LAN
12 46 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
13 44 (1.05%) HTTP
14 40 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
15 37 (0.88%) DHCP
16 26 (0.62%) VLAN
17 24 (0.57%) SAN
18 23 (0.55%) Ethernet
19 22 (0.53%) RS-232
Database & Business Intelligence
1 395 (9.45%) SQL Server
2 215 (5.14%) Power BI
3 177 (4.23%) MySQL
4 171 (4.09%) NoSQL
5 166 (3.97%) Relational Database
6 144 (3.44%) PostgreSQL
7 134 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
8 109 (2.61%) Redis
9 105 (2.51%) Big Data
10 80 (1.91%) Tableau
11 62 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 61 (1.46%) Hadoop
13 56 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
14 50 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
15 48 (1.15%) MongoDB
15 48 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 41 (0.98%) RDBMS
17 40 (0.96%) Data Lake
18 32 (0.77%) Elasticsearch
19 29 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 488 (11.67%) Git
2 161 (3.85%) JIRA
3 80 (1.91%) Jenkins
4 76 (1.82%) Visual Studio
5 73 (1.75%) GitLab
6 52 (1.24%) Selenium
7 45 (1.08%) Cypress.io
8 42 (1.00%) TeamCity
9 41 (0.98%) NUnit
10 40 (0.96%) Moq
11 39 (0.93%) Subversion
12 32 (0.77%) CMake
13 30 (0.72%) Burp Suite
13 30 (0.72%) Postman
14 28 (0.67%) Metasploit
15 26 (0.62%) Bitbucket
16 23 (0.55%) JUnit
17 22 (0.53%) Maven
18 19 (0.45%) Sourcetree
19 17 (0.41%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 1,738 (41.56%) Social Skills
2 801 (19.15%) Analytical Skills
3 652 (15.59%) Finance
4 293 (7.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 202 (4.83%) Manufacturing
6 200 (4.78%) Marketing
7 187 (4.47%) Electronics
8 127 (3.04%) Retail
9 112 (2.68%) Games
9 112 (2.68%) Legal
10 110 (2.63%) Presentation Skills
11 108 (2.58%) Public Sector
12 88 (2.10%) Telecoms
13 85 (2.03%) Law
14 82 (1.96%) Banking
14 82 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
15 70 (1.67%) Automotive
16 65 (1.55%) Aerospace
17 62 (1.48%) Military
18 58 (1.39%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 1,080 (25.82%) Developer
2 690 (16.50%) Senior
3 492 (11.76%) Software Engineer
4 389 (9.30%) Lead
5 263 (6.29%) Analyst
6 258 (6.17%) Software Developer
7 247 (5.91%) Architect
8 242 (5.79%) Senior Developer
9 211 (5.05%) Data Scientist
10 149 (3.56%) Junior
11 136 (3.25%) Senior Software Engineer
12 129 (3.08%) Graduate
12 129 (3.08%) IT Support
13 124 (2.97%) .NET Developer
14 110 (2.63%) Full Stack Developer
15 99 (2.37%) Support Specialist
16 94 (2.25%) C# Developer
17 93 (2.22%) IT Support Specialist
18 90 (2.15%) Data Engineer
19 87 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 633 (15.14%) .NET
2 402 (9.61%) React
3 391 (9.35%) HTML
4 372 (8.90%) CSS
5 252 (6.03%) AngularJS
6 165 (3.95%) .NET Core
7 160 (3.83%) ASP.NET
8 158 (3.78%) Node.js
9 143 (3.42%) RESTful
10 135 (3.23%) .NET Framework
11 128 (3.06%) HTML5
12 127 (3.04%) REST
13 116 (2.77%) Web Services
14 113 (2.70%) Kafka
15 102 (2.44%) JSON
16 101 (2.42%) Spring
17 91 (2.18%) Vue
18 89 (2.13%) XML
19 84 (2.01%) jQuery
20 76 (1.82%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 477 (11.41%) Algorithms
2 393 (9.40%) Management Information System
3 239 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
4 201 (4.81%) Data Structures
5 148 (3.54%) Client/Server
6 122 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 101 (2.42%) Onboarding
8 96 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
8 96 (2.30%) Mobile App
9 95 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
10 91 (2.18%) Wiki
11 77 (1.84%) Cloud Native
12 74 (1.77%) Data Centre
13 70 (1.67%) IoT
14 63 (1.51%) Virtual Team
15 58 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
16 52 (1.24%) Distributed Systems
17 51 (1.22%) FPGA
17 51 (1.22%) Security Posture
18 49 (1.17%) Embedded Systems
Operating Systems
1 531 (12.70%) Windows
2 488 (11.67%) Linux
3 174 (4.16%) Android
4 135 (3.23%) Windows 10
5 99 (2.37%) Windows Server
6 79 (1.89%) Unix
7 62 (1.48%) Apple iOS
8 56 (1.34%) Mac OS
9 33 (0.79%) Kali Linux
10 30 (0.72%) Ubuntu
11 22 (0.53%) CentOS
11 22 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 21 (0.50%) Embedded Linux
13 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
13 19 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
14 11 (0.26%) Debian
15 8 (0.19%) VMS
16 5 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
17 4 (0.096%) Mac OS X
17 4 (0.096%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,646 (39.36%) Problem-Solving
2 1,079 (25.80%) Agile
3 1,054 (25.20%) Software Engineering
4 705 (16.86%) Mathematics
5 514 (12.29%) Mentoring
6 499 (11.93%) Artificial Intelligence
7 493 (11.79%) DevOps
8 473 (11.31%) Cybersecurity
9 455 (10.88%) Data Science
10 447 (10.69%) Machine Learning
11 392 (9.37%) Analytics
12 376 (8.99%) Decision-Making
13 368 (8.80%) Project Management
14 360 (8.61%) Data Analysis
15 323 (7.72%) CI/CD
16 307 (7.34%) Roadmaps
17 283 (6.77%) Full Stack Development
18 271 (6.48%) Business Intelligence
19 268 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 259 (6.19%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 996 (23.82%) Python
2 899 (21.50%) SQL
3 871 (20.83%) C#
4 770 (18.41%) JavaScript
5 489 (11.69%) Java
6 341 (8.15%) C++
7 324 (7.75%) TypeScript
8 288 (6.89%) C
9 150 (3.59%) PHP
10 120 (2.87%) PowerShell
11 103 (2.46%) R
12 77 (1.84%) T-SQL
13 76 (1.82%) Bash
13 76 (1.82%) Fortran
14 70 (1.67%) Go
15 61 (1.46%) Kotlin
16 55 (1.32%) MATLAB
17 51 (1.22%) Scala
18 37 (0.88%) Perl
19 33 (0.79%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 3,801 (90.89%) Degree
2 2,140 (51.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 702 (16.79%) Master's Degree
4 277 (6.62%) Security Cleared
5 214 (5.12%) PhD
6 165 (3.95%) SC Cleared
7 154 (3.68%) CISSP
8 134 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 95 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
10 91 (2.18%) CISM
11 78 (1.87%) AWS Certification
12 73 (1.75%) Azure Certification
13 63 (1.51%) PMI Certification
14 56 (1.34%) PMP
15 53 (1.27%) CCNP
16 51 (1.22%) CCNA
17 48 (1.15%) CISA
17 48 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
18 43 (1.03%) A+ Certification
19 40 (0.96%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 247 (5.91%) QA
2 105 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 103 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 92 (2.20%) GDPR
5 76 (1.82%) Accessibility
6 71 (1.70%) NIST
7 40 (0.96%) PMO
8 39 (0.93%) PCI DSS
9 33 (0.79%) WCAG
10 26 (0.62%) SLA
11 25 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
12 22 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 18 (0.43%) SOC 2
14 15 (0.36%) GRC
14 15 (0.36%) ISO 13485
15 14 (0.33%) NCSC
15 14 (0.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 13 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
17 12 (0.29%) California Consumer Privacy Act
18 11 (0.26%) CDISC
System Software
1 408 (9.76%) Docker
2 221 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 96 (2.30%) VMware ESXi
4 94 (2.25%) XenApp
5 91 (2.18%) Microsoft App-V
5 91 (2.18%) XenDesktop
6 72 (1.72%) Firmware
7 69 (1.65%) VMware Infrastructure
8 35 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
9 30 (0.72%) Hyper-V
10 26 (0.62%) Embedded Firmware
11 12 (0.29%) HDFS
12 9 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
12 9 (0.22%) vSphere
13 7 (0.17%) KVM
13 7 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.096%) pfSense
15 2 (0.048%) LXC
15 2 (0.048%) NFS
16 1 (0.024%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 309 (7.39%) Kubernetes
2 153 (3.66%) Terraform
3 102 (2.44%) SCCM
4 91 (2.18%) AirWatch
5 59 (1.41%) Ansible
6 20 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
7 16 (0.38%) Puppet
8 15 (0.36%) ZABBIX
9 14 (0.33%) Grafana
10 11 (0.26%) Nagios
10 11 (0.26%) WSUS
11 10 (0.24%) Prometheus
12 8 (0.19%) Nessus
13 7 (0.17%) CASB
13 7 (0.17%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.17%) Kubeflow
13 7 (0.17%) SCOM
14 6 (0.14%) CloudHub
14 6 (0.14%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
14 6 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 686 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 180 (4.30%) Cisco
3 154 (3.68%) Google
4 106 (2.53%) Oracle
5 97 (2.32%) Citrix
6 90 (2.15%) SAP
7 84 (2.01%) VMware
8 62 (1.48%) Salesforce
9 39 (0.93%) Xilinx
10 36 (0.86%) Databricks
11 30 (0.72%) Juniper
12 29 (0.69%) Adobe
13 25 (0.60%) Apple
14 23 (0.55%) Atlassian
15 22 (0.53%) IBM
15 22 (0.53%) ServiceNow
16 21 (0.50%) Splunk
17 19 (0.45%) F5
17 19 (0.45%) Xamarin
18 15 (0.36%) Veeam