Computer Science Degree Job Trends in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 37 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 +2 +6
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 12 27 20
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 3.46% 4.28% 4.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.23% 14.67% 10.47%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £43,175
25th Percentile £36,875 £35,875 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,400
Median % change year-on-year - -17.22% +80.30%
75th Percentile £72,500 £53,706 £76,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £58,878 £79,625
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £47,500 £66,250 £60,400
% change year-on-year -28.30% +9.69% +80.30%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 166 184 191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 47.84% 29.16% 43.81%
Number of salaries quoted 89 115 79
10th Percentile - £33,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £38,000 £44,600
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,113 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.80% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £52,500 £71,650 £75,625
90th Percentile £65,500 £80,000 £85,750
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £33,113 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -39.80% -8.33% +20.00%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Cambridge

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Cambridge over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (8.33%) Big Data
1 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (8.33%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
1 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) CircleCI
1 1 (8.33%) GitLab
1 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Moq
1 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Law
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Military
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Consultant
1 3 (25.00%) Developer
1 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Junior
2 2 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Agile Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C# Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C++ Developer
3 1 (8.33%) C++ Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Graduate
3 1 (8.33%) Graduate Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Graduate
3 1 (8.33%) PHP Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
3 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) .NET
1 3 (25.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (25.00%) JAX
1 3 (25.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (25.00%) TensorFlow
2 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) FastAPI
3 1 (8.33%) FHIR
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) jQuery
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth
3 1 (8.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (8.33%) React
3 1 (8.33%) REST
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
3 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) CUDA
2 2 (16.67%) Data Structures
3 1 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (8.33%) Biopharmaceutical
3 1 (8.33%) Life Science
3 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (8.33%) Omics
3 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 5 (41.67%) Mathematics
4 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 4 (33.33%) DevOps
4 4 (33.33%) Machine Learning
4 4 (33.33%) Physics
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Vision
5 3 (25.00%) Prototyping
5 3 (25.00%) Rapid Prototyping
6 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
6 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
7 1 (8.33%) Data Science
7 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) C++
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) PHP
3 1 (8.33%) R
3 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (8.33%) VC++
Qualifications
1 9 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (8.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) CDISC
1 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
1 1 (8.33%) DICOM
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
1 1 (8.33%) HIPAA
1 1 (8.33%) HL7
1 1 (8.33%) QA
1 1 (8.33%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Google