Computer Science Jobs with Work from Home Options

Computer Science
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 69 78 54
Rank change year-on-year +9 -24 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,413 1,668 4,153
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 4.18% 4.04% 6.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.57% 4.21% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,127 1,293 1,671
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £48,402 £41,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% +12.50% +4.35%
75th Percentile £80,000 £91,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £102,500 £113,750 £100,000
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 30,902 39,630 66,571
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 91.40% 96.09% 96.98%
Number of salaries quoted 23,451 27,583 41,127
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £47,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,190 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.12% +1.98% +9.09%

Computer Science
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Computer Science trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Computer Science.

Computer Science salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Computer Science over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Computer Science salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 25 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 24 (1.70%) IIS
3 15 (1.06%) OpenStack
4 13 (0.92%) Apache Spark
5 12 (0.85%) Apache
6 11 (0.78%) Confluence
6 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
7 7 (0.50%) nginx
7 7 (0.50%) WordPress
8 6 (0.42%) Moodle
8 6 (0.42%) Tomcat
9 5 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 5 (0.35%) CMS
10 4 (0.28%) OpenEdge
11 3 (0.21%) Luigi
12 2 (0.14%) SAS
12 2 (0.14%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.071%) BizTalk Server
13 1 (0.071%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.071%) Mule
Applications
1 38 (2.69%) Simulink
2 21 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.42%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.21%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) Adobe Illustrator
6 2 (0.14%) MS Visio
6 2 (0.14%) Photoshop
6 2 (0.14%) Sketch
6 2 (0.14%) Zeplin
7 1 (0.071%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.071%) GNU Octave
7 1 (0.071%) InVision
7 1 (0.071%) Mathematica
7 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.071%) UXPin
Business Applications
1 14 (0.99%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.64%) SAP CX
4 6 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 5 (0.35%) Odoo
6 4 (0.28%) Magento
6 4 (0.28%) Shopify
7 1 (0.071%) Dynamics NAV
7 1 (0.071%) Endur
7 1 (0.071%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.071%) Raiser’s Edge
7 1 (0.071%) Remedy ITSM
7 1 (0.071%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.071%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.071%) SAP HR
7 1 (0.071%) SAP Payroll
7 1 (0.071%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 353 (24.98%) Azure
2 332 (23.50%) AWS
3 98 (6.94%) GCP
4 87 (6.16%) Power Platform
5 69 (4.88%) SaaS
6 64 (4.53%) Serverless
7 57 (4.03%) AWS Lambda
7 57 (4.03%) Cloud Computing
7 57 (4.03%) GitHub
8 54 (3.82%) Microsoft 365
9 50 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
10 34 (2.41%) PowerApps
11 31 (2.19%) Power Automate
12 26 (1.84%) Entra ID
13 24 (1.70%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (1.42%) Snowflake
16 18 (1.27%) Amazon EC2
17 15 (1.06%) IaaS
17 15 (1.06%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 52 (3.68%) Wireless
2 46 (3.26%) Firewall
3 45 (3.18%) Network Security
4 32 (2.26%) TCP/IP
5 29 (2.05%) VPN
6 27 (1.91%) DNS
7 22 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
8 21 (1.49%) WAN
9 18 (1.27%) DHCP
9 18 (1.27%) Ethernet
9 18 (1.27%) LAN
10 15 (1.06%) HTTP
11 14 (0.99%) Internet
12 13 (0.92%) VLAN
13 12 (0.85%) RS-232
14 11 (0.78%) Intrusion Detection
14 11 (0.78%) SAN
15 9 (0.64%) BGP
15 9 (0.64%) MQTT
15 9 (0.64%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 133 (9.41%) SQL Server
2 83 (5.87%) Power BI
3 81 (5.73%) Relational Database
4 66 (4.67%) PostgreSQL
5 61 (4.32%) Data Warehouse
6 60 (4.25%) Redis
7 56 (3.96%) MySQL
8 47 (3.33%) NoSQL
9 41 (2.90%) Big Data
10 33 (2.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 27 (1.91%) Data Lake
12 22 (1.56%) Elasticsearch
13 16 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
14 15 (1.06%) Hadoop
15 14 (0.99%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 14 (0.99%) Tableau
16 12 (0.85%) BigQuery
16 12 (0.85%) MongoDB
16 12 (0.85%) SQL Server Analysis Services
17 11 (0.78%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 150 (10.62%) Git
2 39 (2.76%) JIRA
3 23 (1.63%) CMake
3 23 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.56%) Visual Studio
5 18 (1.27%) Subversion
6 14 (0.99%) Vagrant
7 13 (0.92%) TeamCity
8 12 (0.85%) GitLab
9 9 (0.64%) Maven
10 8 (0.57%) GDB
11 7 (0.50%) Bitbucket
11 7 (0.50%) CircleCI
11 7 (0.50%) JUnit
11 7 (0.50%) Selenium
11 7 (0.50%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 6 (0.42%) Cypress.io
13 5 (0.35%) DTrace
13 5 (0.35%) InstallShield
13 5 (0.35%) Xcode
General
1 653 (46.21%) Social Skills
2 245 (17.34%) Finance
3 207 (14.65%) Analytical Skills
4 156 (11.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 76 (5.38%) Marketing
6 64 (4.53%) Public Sector
7 58 (4.10%) Electronics
7 58 (4.10%) Legal
8 48 (3.40%) Games
9 47 (3.33%) Retail
10 45 (3.18%) Manufacturing
11 39 (2.76%) Telecoms
12 33 (2.34%) Military
13 30 (2.12%) Law
14 28 (1.98%) Tech for Good
15 27 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
16 24 (1.70%) Automotive
17 19 (1.34%) Aerospace
17 19 (1.34%) Back Office
17 19 (1.34%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 430 (30.43%) Developer
2 294 (20.81%) Senior
3 232 (16.42%) Software Engineer
4 112 (7.93%) Software Developer
5 107 (7.57%) Lead
6 99 (7.01%) Senior Developer
7 76 (5.38%) .NET Developer
7 76 (5.38%) Architect
7 76 (5.38%) Junior
8 73 (5.17%) Analyst
9 72 (5.10%) Senior Software Engineer
10 70 (4.95%) Graduate
11 51 (3.61%) Embedded Engineer
12 40 (2.83%) C# Developer
12 40 (2.83%) C++ Software Engineer
12 40 (2.83%) Consultant
12 40 (2.83%) Data Engineer
12 40 (2.83%) Full Stack Developer
12 40 (2.83%) Senior Software Developer
13 38 (2.69%) C# Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (18.12%) .NET
2 141 (9.98%) HTML
3 130 (9.20%) CSS
4 127 (8.99%) React
5 109 (7.71%) AngularJS
6 94 (6.65%) .NET Core
7 84 (5.94%) ASP.NET
8 80 (5.66%) Node.js
9 62 (4.39%) RESTful
10 58 (4.10%) REST
11 41 (2.90%) ASP.NET MVC
12 40 (2.83%) Vue
13 39 (2.76%) .NET Framework
14 38 (2.69%) Web Services
15 36 (2.55%) XML
16 34 (2.41%) Kafka
16 34 (2.41%) Laravel
16 34 (2.41%) SOAP
17 33 (2.34%) Spring
18 28 (1.98%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 153 (10.83%) Algorithms
2 128 (9.06%) Management Information System
3 122 (8.63%) Data Structures
4 115 (8.14%) Client/Server
5 61 (4.32%) Self-Motivation
6 54 (3.82%) Greenfield Project
7 49 (3.47%) Virtual Team
8 48 (3.40%) Data Centre
9 39 (2.76%) Product Ownership
10 30 (2.12%) IoT
11 28 (1.98%) Distributed Systems
12 26 (1.84%) Life Science
12 26 (1.84%) Mobile App
13 25 (1.77%) Cloud Native
14 17 (1.20%) Onboarding
15 16 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 15 (1.06%) Blockchain
17 13 (0.92%) Hedge funds
18 12 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 190 (13.45%) Linux
2 143 (10.12%) Windows
3 49 (3.47%) Android
4 40 (2.83%) Apple iOS
5 34 (2.41%) Windows Server
6 23 (1.63%) Unix
7 21 (1.49%) Windows 10
8 20 (1.42%) Ubuntu
9 18 (1.27%) CentOS
10 16 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (1.06%) Embedded Linux
12 10 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.57%) Mac OS
14 5 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.28%) FreeRTOS
15 4 (0.28%) SUSE
15 4 (0.28%) VxWorks
16 3 (0.21%) Mac OS X
16 3 (0.21%) Windows 7
16 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 564 (39.92%) Software Engineering
2 495 (35.03%) Problem-Solving
3 406 (28.73%) Agile
4 208 (14.72%) DevOps
5 185 (13.09%) Mathematics
6 181 (12.81%) Artificial Intelligence
6 181 (12.81%) Mentoring
7 147 (10.40%) CI/CD
7 147 (10.40%) Machine Learning
8 142 (10.05%) Analytics
9 136 (9.62%) OOP
10 123 (8.70%) Roadmaps
11 121 (8.56%) Project Management
12 116 (8.21%) Decision-Making
13 115 (8.14%) Data Modelling
14 114 (8.07%) Full Stack Development
15 111 (7.86%) Business Intelligence
16 109 (7.71%) Design Patterns
16 109 (7.71%) Microservices
17 107 (7.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 352 (24.91%) Python
2 316 (22.36%) C#
3 310 (21.94%) SQL
4 281 (19.89%) JavaScript
5 184 (13.02%) Java
6 120 (8.49%) TypeScript
7 117 (8.28%) C
8 116 (8.21%) C++
9 59 (4.18%) PHP
10 47 (3.33%) PowerShell
11 41 (2.90%) Embedded C
12 35 (2.48%) T-SQL
13 29 (2.05%) Go
14 27 (1.91%) Bash
15 25 (1.77%) Kotlin
15 25 (1.77%) Ruby
16 16 (1.13%) Scala
17 14 (0.99%) R
18 12 (0.85%) Rust
19 10 (0.71%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1,230 (87.05%) Degree
2 720 (50.96%) Computer Science Degree
3 206 (14.58%) Master's Degree
4 159 (11.25%) Security Cleared
5 110 (7.78%) SC Cleared
6 63 (4.46%) PhD
7 46 (3.26%) AWS Certification
8 43 (3.04%) Microsoft Certification
9 42 (2.97%) CISSP
10 32 (2.26%) Azure Certification
11 25 (1.77%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 25 (1.77%) DV Cleared
12 22 (1.56%) Cisco Certification
13 20 (1.42%) CISM
13 20 (1.42%) PMI Certification
14 18 (1.27%) Numerate Degree
15 17 (1.20%) CCNA
15 17 (1.20%) PMP
16 13 (0.92%) ITIL Certification
17 12 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 82 (5.80%) QA
2 26 (1.84%) Data Quality
3 21 (1.49%) Accessibility
4 19 (1.34%) GDPR
4 19 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (0.92%) SLA
6 12 (0.85%) NIST
7 8 (0.57%) COBIT
8 7 (0.50%) DO-254
8 7 (0.50%) ISO 9001
9 6 (0.42%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.42%) Web Application Security Consortium
10 5 (0.35%) PMO
11 4 (0.28%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 4 (0.28%) ISO 13485
11 4 (0.28%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 3 (0.21%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.21%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.21%) GRC
System Software
1 171 (12.10%) Docker
2 66 (4.67%) Firmware
3 48 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 25 (1.77%) Embedded Firmware
5 23 (1.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (1.27%) Hyper-V
7 9 (0.64%) Virtual Desktop
8 6 (0.42%) KVM
9 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.28%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.21%) XenApp
11 2 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.071%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 122 (8.63%) Kubernetes
2 73 (5.17%) Terraform
3 40 (2.83%) Ansible
4 15 (1.06%) Puppet
5 10 (0.71%) Grafana
5 10 (0.71%) ZABBIX
6 8 (0.57%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
7 7 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (0.50%) Prometheus
7 7 (0.50%) WSUS
8 6 (0.42%) Nagios
8 6 (0.42%) SCCM
8 6 (0.42%) SCOM
9 5 (0.35%) Progress Chef
10 4 (0.28%) Nessus
10 4 (0.28%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.21%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.21%) OfficeScan
12 2 (0.14%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.071%) SCOrch
Vendors
1 223 (15.78%) Microsoft
2 60 (4.25%) Google
3 45 (3.18%) SAP
4 31 (2.19%) Oracle
4 31 (2.19%) Xilinx
5 26 (1.84%) VMware
6 19 (1.34%) Cisco
7 16 (1.13%) Salesforce
8 14 (0.99%) IBM
9 13 (0.92%) NVIDIA
10 12 (0.85%) Adobe
10 12 (0.85%) Databricks
10 12 (0.85%) ServiceNow
11 8 (0.57%) Juniper
12 7 (0.50%) Red Hat
12 7 (0.50%) SolarWinds
13 6 (0.42%) Apple
13 6 (0.42%) Citrix
13 6 (0.42%) Teradata
13 6 (0.42%) Veeam