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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 38 34
Rank change year-on-year -6 -4 +17
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 10 25 25
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 2.59% 4.18% 5.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.24% 15.63% 13.97%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 17
10th Percentile £36,000 £39,050 £43,850
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,125 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year - -17.76% +73.71%
75th Percentile £77,500 £57,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £60,550 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £47,500 £70,000 £60,800
% change year-on-year -32.14% +15.13% +62.13%

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 191 160 179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 49.48% 26.76% 41.72%
Number of salaries quoted 100 80 84
10th Percentile - £38,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £48,750 £44,450
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,113 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £47,188 £78,750 £79,063
90th Percentile £62,500 £80,000 £87,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £33,113 £65,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -49.06% +11.11% +17.00%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend 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 24 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Cambridge

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 3 (30.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (10.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (10.00%) GitLab
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
1 1 (10.00%) Moq
1 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Law
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Consultant
1 3 (30.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Junior
2 2 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) DevOps Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Product Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Product Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Google JAX
1 3 (30.00%) JAX
1 3 (30.00%) PyTorch
1 3 (30.00%) TensorFlow
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
2 1 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 1 (10.00%) FHIR
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) Node.js
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth
2 1 (10.00%) OAuth2
2 1 (10.00%) React
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) CUDA
2 1 (10.00%) Biopharmaceutical
2 1 (10.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
2 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Omics
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 5 (50.00%) AI
2 5 (50.00%) Mathematics
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Machine Learning
3 4 (40.00%) Physics
3 4 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (30.00%) Agile
4 3 (30.00%) Computer Vision
4 3 (30.00%) Prototyping
4 3 (30.00%) Rapid Prototyping
5 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (10.00%) Data Science
6 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
6 1 (10.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) R
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) Degree
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (10.00%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) CDISC
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (10.00%) DICOM
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
1 1 (10.00%) HIPAA
1 1 (10.00%) HL7
1 1 (10.00%) QA
1 1 (10.00%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Ansible
2 1 (10.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Google
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft