Computer Science Degree Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 158 105 174
Rank change year-on-year -53 +69 -30
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 128 124 89
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 1.86% 2.88% 1.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.53% 8.95% 5.02%
Number of salaries quoted 58 56 9
10th Percentile £32,500 £39,750 £44,500
25th Percentile £36,563 £42,688 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,250 £60,800 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% +5.74% +9.52%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £84,400 £80,000 £81,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +4.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 advertised in Scotland with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,216 1,386 1,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 17.66% 32.17% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 553 413 532
10th Percentile £26,750 £28,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,754 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,920 £77,715 £81,125
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Scotland

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

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Scotland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Scotland over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region 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
Glasgow -98 60 £64,250 +16.82% 10
Edinburgh +15 28 £69,500 +14.22% 13
Aberdeen +4 19 £35,500 -41.61% 3
Dundee -2 12 £50,000 +9.29%
Lanarkshire -7 5 £42,500 -5.56% 2
Renfrewshire - 2 £52,500 -
East Ayrshire - 1 £25,000 - 1
Midlothian - 1 £35,000 - 7
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 29 (22.66%) FileNet
2 4 (3.13%) OpenEdge
3 2 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) IIS
Applications
1 9 (7.03%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.78%) Amazon S3
2 31 (24.22%) GitHub
3 16 (12.50%) AWS
4 15 (11.72%) Azure
5 10 (7.81%) SaaS
6 8 (6.25%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (5.47%) Amazon MSK
7 7 (5.47%) Datadog
8 5 (3.91%) Serverless
9 4 (3.13%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (3.13%) GCP
10 3 (2.34%) MailChimp
10 3 (2.34%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.34%) Route 53
10 3 (2.34%) Zapier
11 2 (1.56%) IaaS
11 2 (1.56%) OCI
11 2 (1.56%) PaaS
12 1 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.38%) Network Security
2 11 (8.59%) LAN
2 11 (8.59%) WAN
3 6 (4.69%) Cisco IOS
3 6 (4.69%) HTTP
3 6 (4.69%) MQTT
3 6 (4.69%) VLAN
4 5 (3.91%) Wireless
5 3 (2.34%) DHCP
5 3 (2.34%) DNS
5 3 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.56%) Firewall
6 2 (1.56%) SAN
6 2 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (24.22%) NoSQL
2 29 (22.66%) Apache Cassandra
2 29 (22.66%) Elasticsearch
3 16 (12.50%) SQL Server
4 11 (8.59%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (8.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 8 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 6 (4.69%) Amazon RDS
7 5 (3.91%) OLAP
7 5 (3.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 4 (3.13%) MySQL
9 3 (2.34%) Power BI
10 2 (1.56%) Hadoop
10 2 (1.56%) Oracle Database
10 2 (1.56%) Relational Database
11 1 (0.78%) MongoDB
11 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
11 1 (0.78%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (25.78%) Jenkins
2 29 (22.66%) Jasmine
2 29 (22.66%) JUnit
2 29 (22.66%) Mockito
3 16 (12.50%) Git
4 4 (3.13%) GitLab
5 1 (0.78%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.78%) JMeter
5 1 (0.78%) Postman
5 1 (0.78%) Selenium
General
1 52 (40.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 51 (39.84%) Finance
3 45 (35.16%) Social Skills
4 44 (34.38%) Law
5 29 (22.66%) Marketing
6 18 (14.06%) Legal
7 15 (11.72%) Manufacturing
8 8 (6.25%) Public Sector
9 7 (5.47%) Analytical Skills
10 6 (4.69%) Electronics
10 6 (4.69%) Telecoms
11 5 (3.91%) Banking
11 5 (3.91%) Games
12 2 (1.56%) Financial Institution
12 2 (1.56%) Front Office
12 2 (1.56%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (41.41%) Software Engineer
2 29 (22.66%) Developer
3 13 (10.16%) Senior
4 12 (9.38%) Software Developer
5 11 (8.59%) Database Engineer
6 10 (7.81%) Full Stack Developer
7 9 (7.03%) Lead
7 9 (7.03%) Senior Software Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) C Software Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) C/C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) Senior C Software Engineer
8 8 (6.25%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Data Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Full Stack Python Developer
9 7 (5.47%) IT Support
9 7 (5.47%) Lead Software Engineer
9 7 (5.47%) Python Developer
10 6 (4.69%) Java Engineer
10 6 (4.69%) Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (35.16%) React
2 40 (31.25%) AngularJS
3 38 (29.69%) Spring
4 37 (28.91%) Kafka
5 29 (22.66%) GraphQL
5 29 (22.66%) Hibernate
5 29 (22.66%) J2EE
5 29 (22.66%) Spring Integration
6 11 (8.59%) Django
6 11 (8.59%) HTML
7 10 (7.81%) CSS
8 8 (6.25%) JPA
9 6 (4.69%) Flask
10 5 (3.91%) .NET
11 4 (3.13%) Node.js
11 4 (3.13%) RESTful
12 3 (2.34%) .NET Core
12 3 (2.34%) OpenCV
12 3 (2.34%) OpenVINO
13 2 (1.56%) DPDK
Miscellaneous
1 32 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 13 (10.16%) Algorithms
3 9 (7.03%) Distributed Systems
4 7 (5.47%) IoT
4 7 (5.47%) Management Information System
5 6 (4.69%) Arduino
5 6 (4.69%) Raspberry Pi
6 4 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.56%) Life Science
7 2 (1.56%) PKI
7 2 (1.56%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.78%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.78%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 16 (12.50%) Linux
2 14 (10.94%) Windows
3 7 (5.47%) Windows Server
4 6 (4.69%) Android
5 2 (1.56%) Unix
6 1 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.78%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 120 (93.75%) Computer Science
2 63 (49.22%) Software Engineering
3 47 (36.72%) Machine Learning
4 46 (35.94%) Agile
5 45 (35.16%) SDLC
6 41 (32.03%) Artificial Intelligence
7 36 (28.13%) Problem-Solving
8 35 (27.34%) CI/CD
9 34 (26.56%) Full Stack Development
10 32 (25.00%) Decision-Making
11 30 (23.44%) Microservices
12 29 (22.66%) AOP
12 29 (22.66%) Document Management
12 29 (22.66%) Regtech
12 29 (22.66%) Unit Testing
13 17 (13.28%) Performance Optimisation
14 15 (11.72%) Analytics
15 13 (10.16%) ETL
16 12 (9.38%) Mentoring
17 11 (8.59%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 60 (46.88%) SQL
2 47 (36.72%) Java
3 23 (17.97%) Python
4 18 (14.06%) JavaScript
5 15 (11.72%) TypeScript
6 13 (10.16%) C++
7 12 (9.38%) T-SQL
8 8 (6.25%) C
8 8 (6.25%) C#
9 5 (3.91%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.91%) VBA
10 3 (2.34%) PHP
10 3 (2.34%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.56%) Ruby
12 1 (0.78%) Bash
12 1 (0.78%) Go
12 1 (0.78%) Kotlin
12 1 (0.78%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 128 (100.00%) Degree
2 41 (32.03%) Master's Degree
3 6 (4.69%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.13%) PhD
5 3 (2.34%) CCNA
5 3 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (2.34%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.56%) OCP
6 2 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.78%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (0.78%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.47%) QA
2 2 (1.56%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (11.72%) Docker
2 8 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.69%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.69%) Firmware
4 2 (1.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.78%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 44 (34.38%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.34%) Autotask
3 2 (1.56%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.56%) Puppet
4 1 (0.78%) Ansible
4 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 32 (25.00%) Oracle
2 13 (10.16%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.81%) Splunk
4 9 (7.03%) Cisco
5 8 (6.25%) VMware
6 6 (4.69%) NVIDIA
6 6 (4.69%) SAP
7 4 (3.13%) Apple
7 4 (3.13%) Google
8 3 (2.34%) Facebook
8 3 (2.34%) HubSpot
8 3 (2.34%) Juniper
8 3 (2.34%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.78%) ForgeRock
9 1 (0.78%) OpenAI
9 1 (0.78%) TP-LINK