Computer Science Degree Jobs in Scotland

Computer Science Degree
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 144 152 105
Rank change year-on-year +8 -47 +51
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 22 131 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 0.71% 1.90% 2.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.92% 10.80% 9.10%
Number of salaries quoted 13 59 58
10th Percentile £41,500 £32,500 £39,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,125 £43,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,914 £60,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -13.48% -1.32% +3.49%
75th Percentile £61,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile - £90,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.17% -1.48% +1.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Scotland.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,148 1,213 1,384
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Scotland 37.14% 17.56% 32.47%
Number of salaries quoted 562 560 417
10th Percentile £37,507 £26,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £47,683 £35,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £48,250 £50,939
Median % change year-on-year +7.04% -5.28% +7.24%
75th Percentile £60,265 £64,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £63,000 £80,000 £78,129
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,150 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.48% -11.42% +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 16 June 2025.

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 16 June 2025. 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
Edinburgh +5 9 £51,914 -25.30% 169
Glasgow +90 7 £72,000 +2.86% 162
Aberdeen +18 2 - - 90
Fife - 1 £52,500 - 15
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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (45.45%) Azure
2 8 (36.36%) AWS
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
3 5 (22.73%) Amazon S3
3 5 (22.73%) AWS Lambda
3 5 (22.73%) Serverless
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon ECS
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon EMR
4 4 (18.18%) Amazon MSK
5 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (13.64%) GCP
5 3 (13.64%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (9.09%) AWS IoT
6 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
6 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
7 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Bluetooth
1 2 (9.09%) DHCP
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
1 2 (9.09%) Ethernet
1 2 (9.09%) LoRaWAN
1 2 (9.09%) Modbus
1 2 (9.09%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon Athena
1 4 (18.18%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (18.18%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (4.55%) Flink
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) MySQL
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Git
2 4 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
3 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (59.09%) Social Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (40.91%) Finance
3 6 (27.27%) Law
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (18.18%) Telecoms
5 3 (13.64%) Agriculture
5 3 (13.64%) Electronics
5 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
5 3 (13.64%) Marketing
5 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (4.55%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Developer
2 9 (40.91%) Software Engineer
3 7 (31.82%) Java Developer
4 6 (27.27%) Software Developer
5 5 (22.73%) Embedded Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) Embedded Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 4 (18.18%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
6 4 (18.18%) Front-End Java Developer (Client-Side Java Developer)
6 4 (18.18%) Java Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) Java Software Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Java Software Engineer
6 4 (18.18%) React Developer
6 4 (18.18%) Senior
7 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
7 3 (13.64%) Senior Java Developer
8 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 1 (4.55%) C++ Software Developer
9 1 (4.55%) Database Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 4 (18.18%) HTML
1 4 (18.18%) jQuery
1 4 (18.18%) React
1 4 (18.18%) Spring
1 4 (18.18%) Spring Boot
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.55%) gRPC
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) REST
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Embedded Systems
2 3 (13.64%) IoT
2 3 (13.64%) Life Science
2 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (13.64%) Virtual Team
3 2 (9.09%) Algorithms
3 2 (9.09%) ARM Cortex
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Computing
4 1 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (9.09%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (59.09%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (59.09%) Software Engineering
3 10 (45.45%) Agile
4 8 (36.36%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 4 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 4 (18.18%) DevOps
5 4 (18.18%) Front End Development
5 4 (18.18%) Kanban
5 4 (18.18%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (18.18%) Strategic Planning
5 4 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
5 4 (18.18%) TDD
5 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
5 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Data Science
6 3 (13.64%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (13.64%) Requirements Gathering
6 3 (13.64%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) C++
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 7 (31.82%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) C
3 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 3 (13.64%) PowerShell
5 2 (9.09%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Bicep
6 1 (4.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Certification
3 2 (9.09%) Master's Degree
3 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.55%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) JTAG
2 1 (4.55%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) Docker
1 2 (9.09%) Embedded Firmware
1 2 (9.09%) Firmware
1 2 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (9.09%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle
3 3 (13.64%) SAP
4 2 (9.09%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) NVIDIA
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