Computer Science Jobs in London

Computer Science
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 30 37 48
Rank change year-on-year +7 +11 +4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,525 2,348 5,066
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 6.46% 6.84% 7.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.08% 7.18% 7.75%
Number of salaries quoted 1,066 1,446 1,815
10th Percentile £42,250 £45,000 £40,750
25th Percentile £58,750 £56,250 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £80,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +6.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £97,500 £105,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £122,500 £130,000 £120,000
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
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 21,533 32,716 65,399
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 91.15% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of salaries quoted 15,983 23,548 34,024
10th Percentile £37,719 £43,411 £42,500
25th Percentile £51,858 £55,000 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,555 £75,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% +7.14% -
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £92,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £115,000 £111,250
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 London

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in London.

Salary trend for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in London

Computer Science
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the London region over the 6 months to 10 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
Central London +28 281 £80,000 -5.88% 86
South London +1 24 £78,250 +28.60% 11
West London -27 20 £64,000 +5.18% 41
East London +14 9 £93,750 +70.45% 23
North London -11 2 £76,250 +8.93% 3
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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
1 107 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 58 (3.80%) Apache Spark
3 34 (2.23%) SharePoint
4 28 (1.84%) Apache
5 26 (1.70%) CMS
6 22 (1.44%) Apache Airflow
7 18 (1.18%) Confluence
8 14 (0.92%) SAS
9 12 (0.79%) Jupyter
10 8 (0.52%) Apache Pig
10 8 (0.52%) IIS
11 6 (0.39%) Oracle Workflow
11 6 (0.39%) WordPress
12 2 (0.13%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 2 (0.13%) Cloud Foundry
12 2 (0.13%) Drupal
12 2 (0.13%) Luigi
12 2 (0.13%) Moodle
13 1 (0.066%) Hyperledger
13 1 (0.066%) Umbraco
Applications
1 30 (1.97%) Microsoft Excel
2 15 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
3 13 (0.85%) Photoshop
4 9 (0.59%) MS Visio
4 9 (0.59%) SPSS
5 6 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
7 2 (0.13%) Sketch
7 2 (0.13%) Zeplin
8 1 (0.066%) InVision
8 1 (0.066%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.066%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 22 (1.44%) SDL Web 8
2 17 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.33%) Distributed Ledger
4 3 (0.20%) Endur
4 3 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.13%) Payment Gateway
5 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.13%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.066%) JDE EnterpriseOne
6 1 (0.066%) MetaTrader
6 1 (0.066%) MIS ActiveH
6 1 (0.066%) Primavera
6 1 (0.066%) Raiser’s Edge
6 1 (0.066%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.066%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.066%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 381 (24.98%) AWS
2 361 (23.67%) Azure
3 157 (10.30%) Microsoft 365
4 139 (9.11%) GCP
5 110 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 76 (4.98%) SaaS
7 55 (3.61%) Cloud Computing
8 54 (3.54%) Serverless
9 37 (2.43%) GitHub
10 36 (2.36%) PowerApps
11 33 (2.16%) AWS Lambda
12 28 (1.84%) Azure DevOps
13 25 (1.64%) Power Automate
14 24 (1.57%) IaaS
15 23 (1.51%) PaaS
15 23 (1.51%) WhatsApp
16 22 (1.44%) Amazon S3
17 16 (1.05%) Entra ID
18 14 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
19 13 (0.85%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 100 (6.56%) WAN
2 94 (6.16%) Wireless
3 91 (5.97%) WebEx
4 90 (5.90%) Cisco IOS
4 90 (5.90%) SD-WAN
5 47 (3.08%) Network Security
6 31 (2.03%) Firewall
7 27 (1.77%) TCP/IP
8 21 (1.38%) DNS
9 19 (1.25%) VPN
10 17 (1.11%) Wi-Fi
11 13 (0.85%) Internet
12 11 (0.72%) DHCP
12 11 (0.72%) LAN
13 7 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.39%) HTTP
14 6 (0.39%) SAN
15 5 (0.33%) DKIM
16 3 (0.20%) VLAN
16 3 (0.20%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 159 (10.43%) SQL Server
2 98 (6.43%) Power BI
3 62 (4.07%) Big Data
4 59 (3.87%) Relational Database
5 57 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
6 54 (3.54%) MySQL
6 54 (3.54%) Redis
7 50 (3.28%) Data Warehouse
8 46 (3.02%) Tableau
9 42 (2.75%) NoSQL
10 39 (2.56%) Hadoop
11 30 (1.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 25 (1.64%) Data Lake
12 25 (1.64%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 24 (1.57%) MongoDB
14 19 (1.25%) Apache Hive
15 14 (0.92%) Amazon Redshift
16 13 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
16 13 (0.85%) RDBMS
17 11 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 153 (10.03%) Git
2 66 (4.33%) JIRA
3 49 (3.21%) GitLab
4 35 (2.30%) Jenkins
5 30 (1.97%) Visual Studio
6 28 (1.84%) Burp Suite
6 28 (1.84%) Metasploit
7 27 (1.77%) Moq
8 25 (1.64%) TeamCity
9 24 (1.57%) NUnit
10 16 (1.05%) JUnit
10 16 (1.05%) Sourcetree
11 15 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
12 14 (0.92%) SpecFlow
13 13 (0.85%) git-flow
14 8 (0.52%) Bitbucket
14 8 (0.52%) CircleCI
14 8 (0.52%) Maven
14 8 (0.52%) Postman
14 8 (0.52%) SonarQube
General
1 772 (50.62%) Social Skills
2 403 (26.43%) Finance
3 339 (22.23%) Analytical Skills
4 96 (6.30%) Marketing
5 84 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 62 (4.07%) Banking
7 56 (3.67%) Public Sector
8 53 (3.48%) Retail
9 51 (3.34%) Front Office
9 51 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
10 44 (2.89%) Legal
11 38 (2.49%) Games
12 37 (2.43%) Law
13 31 (2.03%) Telecoms
14 30 (1.97%) Back Office
14 30 (1.97%) Manufacturing
15 25 (1.64%) Electronics
15 25 (1.64%) Investment Banking
16 24 (1.57%) Pharmaceutical
17 20 (1.31%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 401 (26.30%) Developer
2 273 (17.90%) Senior
3 171 (11.21%) Lead
4 124 (8.13%) Software Engineer
5 122 (8.00%) Analyst
6 110 (7.21%) Architect
7 102 (6.69%) Senior Developer
8 97 (6.36%) IT Support
9 93 (6.10%) Support Specialist
10 92 (6.03%) IT Support Specialist
11 62 (4.07%) Java Developer
12 58 (3.80%) Data Scientist
13 53 (3.48%) C# Developer
14 50 (3.28%) Full Stack Developer
15 49 (3.21%) .NET Developer
15 49 (3.21%) Data Engineer
16 47 (3.08%) Software Developer
17 41 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
18 35 (2.30%) Lead Developer
19 34 (2.23%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 218 (14.30%) .NET
2 144 (9.44%) HTML
3 142 (9.31%) CSS
4 126 (8.26%) React
5 78 (5.11%) ASP.NET
6 64 (4.20%) Web Services
7 62 (4.07%) AngularJS
8 57 (3.74%) Kafka
8 57 (3.74%) RESTful
9 56 (3.67%) REST
10 55 (3.61%) Spring
11 52 (3.41%) .NET Framework
12 43 (2.82%) XML
13 42 (2.75%) ASP.NET MVC
13 42 (2.75%) HTML5
14 40 (2.62%) .NET Core
14 40 (2.62%) SOAP
15 39 (2.56%) jQuery
15 39 (2.56%) TensorFlow
16 38 (2.49%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 141 (9.25%) Algorithms
2 125 (8.20%) Management Information System
3 102 (6.69%) Data Structures
4 92 (6.03%) Video Conferencing
5 90 (5.90%) Wiki
6 88 (5.77%) Client/Server
7 86 (5.64%) Greenfield Project
8 75 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
9 51 (3.34%) Onboarding
10 48 (3.15%) Hedge funds
11 43 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 42 (2.75%) Product Ownership
13 31 (2.03%) Virtual Team
14 30 (1.97%) Distributed Systems
14 30 (1.97%) Fixed Income
14 30 (1.97%) Security Posture
15 26 (1.70%) Blockchain
15 26 (1.70%) IoT
16 25 (1.64%) Equities
16 25 (1.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 195 (12.79%) Windows
2 135 (8.85%) Linux
3 105 (6.89%) Windows 10
4 104 (6.82%) Android
5 37 (2.43%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.84%) Kali Linux
7 20 (1.31%) Unix
8 19 (1.25%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.72%) Mac OS
9 11 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
9 11 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
10 3 (0.20%) CentOS
10 3 (0.20%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.066%) Debian
11 1 (0.066%) Embedded Linux
11 1 (0.066%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 528 (34.62%) Problem-Solving
2 373 (24.46%) Software Engineering
3 370 (24.26%) Agile
4 229 (15.02%) Mathematics
5 226 (14.82%) Machine Learning
6 218 (14.30%) Data Science
7 189 (12.39%) Analytics
8 179 (11.74%) Artificial Intelligence
9 162 (10.62%) DevOps
10 155 (10.16%) Statistics
11 152 (9.97%) Mentoring
12 138 (9.05%) Cybersecurity
13 135 (8.85%) CI/CD
14 128 (8.39%) Business Intelligence
15 125 (8.20%) Full Stack Development
16 120 (7.87%) Roadmaps
17 116 (7.61%) Data Modelling
18 114 (7.48%) Fintech
19 112 (7.34%) Microservices
20 109 (7.15%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 433 (28.39%) Python
2 389 (25.51%) SQL
3 305 (20.00%) C#
4 221 (14.49%) Java
5 215 (14.10%) JavaScript
6 80 (5.25%) C++
7 75 (4.92%) TypeScript
8 57 (3.74%) R
9 52 (3.41%) PowerShell
10 46 (3.02%) C
11 43 (2.82%) T-SQL
12 37 (2.43%) PHP
13 32 (2.10%) Scala
14 26 (1.70%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.64%) Go
16 20 (1.31%) XPath
17 18 (1.18%) MATLAB
18 16 (1.05%) Bash
19 14 (0.92%) Rust
20 12 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1,344 (88.13%) Degree
2 824 (54.03%) Computer Science Degree
3 389 (25.51%) Master's Degree
4 83 (5.44%) PhD
5 73 (4.79%) CISSP
6 61 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 53 (3.48%) CISM
8 46 (3.02%) Security Cleared
9 38 (2.49%) SC Cleared
10 29 (1.90%) Azure Certification
11 27 (1.77%) CISA
12 25 (1.64%) AWS Certification
13 21 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
14 20 (1.31%) Numerate Degree
15 16 (1.05%) PMI Certification
16 15 (0.98%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 13 (0.85%) PMP
18 12 (0.79%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
19 11 (0.72%) CREST Certified
19 11 (0.72%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 83 (5.44%) QA
2 54 (3.54%) Data Quality
3 39 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 35 (2.30%) GDPR
5 28 (1.84%) NIST
6 19 (1.25%) Accessibility
7 17 (1.11%) PCI DSS
8 9 (0.59%) SLA
8 9 (0.59%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.39%) COBIT
9 6 (0.39%) HIPAA
10 5 (0.33%) GRC
11 4 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
11 4 (0.26%) Good Clinical Practice
11 4 (0.26%) NCSC
11 4 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.20%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.20%) CDISC
12 3 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 2 (0.13%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 130 (8.52%) Docker
2 128 (8.39%) Active Directory
3 91 (5.97%) VMware ESXi
4 90 (5.90%) Microsoft App-V
4 90 (5.90%) XenApp
4 90 (5.90%) XenDesktop
5 15 (0.98%) Virtual Machines
5 15 (0.98%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (0.66%) HDFS
7 8 (0.52%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.20%) Firmware
8 3 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.13%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.13%) LXC
9 2 (0.13%) NFS
10 1 (0.066%) KVM
10 1 (0.066%) OpenAM
10 1 (0.066%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 95 (6.23%) SCCM
2 90 (5.90%) AirWatch
3 86 (5.64%) Kubernetes
4 68 (4.46%) Terraform
5 20 (1.31%) Ansible
6 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.46%) Kubeflow
7 7 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
8 6 (0.39%) CloudHub
8 6 (0.39%) Grafana
9 5 (0.33%) Argo
9 5 (0.33%) CASB
9 5 (0.33%) QRadar
10 4 (0.26%) DatAdvantage
10 4 (0.26%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (0.26%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.20%) ITRS Geneos
12 2 (0.13%) Progress Chef
12 2 (0.13%) WSUS
12 2 (0.13%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 325 (21.31%) Microsoft
2 112 (7.34%) Cisco
3 91 (5.97%) Citrix
4 77 (5.05%) Google
5 38 (2.49%) Oracle
6 28 (1.84%) SAP
7 24 (1.57%) Adobe
8 22 (1.44%) Databricks
9 20 (1.31%) VMware
10 13 (0.85%) Cognizant
10 13 (0.85%) Splunk
11 11 (0.72%) Salesforce
12 10 (0.66%) Charles River
13 9 (0.59%) Apple
13 9 (0.59%) MuleSoft
14 8 (0.52%) Atlassian
14 8 (0.52%) OpenAI
15 7 (0.46%) Bloomberg
16 6 (0.39%) Juniper
16 6 (0.39%) Sybase