Computer Science Degree Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 48 47
Rank change year-on-year -6 -1 +25
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 18 42 24
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.67% 3.56% 3.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.06% 14.74% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 14
10th Percentile £30,250 £36,550 £43,175
25th Percentile £39,063 £47,500 £48,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £66,250 £60,400
Median % change year-on-year -28.30% +9.69% +80.30%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £76,875
90th Percentile £79,375 - £79,625
East of England median annual salary £43,250 £54,225 £60,800
% change year-on-year -20.24% -10.81% +35.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 255 285 279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 37.78% 24.13% 42.86%
Number of salaries quoted 123 152 104
10th Percentile - £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £38,000 £42,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,113 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -39.80% -8.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53,000 £72,500 £69,438
90th Percentile £68,500 £78,750 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £41,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -18.00% -9.09% +10.00%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Cambridgeshire

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Cambridge -7 12 £50,000 - 27
Huntingdon - 4 - -
Computer Science Degree
East of England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 7 (38.89%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) SAN
2 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.56%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) GitLab
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.56%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.56%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Moq
2 1 (5.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 6 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Law
3 2 (11.11%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Electronics
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Marketing
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Tech for Good
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (22.22%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (22.22%) Technical Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Developer
2 3 (16.67%) Junior
2 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Product Specialist
4 1 (5.56%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (5.56%) C++ Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Graduate C# Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Graduate Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Graduate PHP Developer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Graduate
4 1 (5.56%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) .NET
1 3 (16.67%) Google JAX
1 3 (16.67%) JAX
1 3 (16.67%) PyTorch
1 3 (16.67%) TensorFlow
2 2 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.56%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.56%) CSS
3 1 (5.56%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.56%) FHIR
3 1 (5.56%) HTML
3 1 (5.56%) jQuery
3 1 (5.56%) Node.js
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth
3 1 (5.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.56%) React
3 1 (5.56%) REST
3 1 (5.56%) RESTful
3 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (16.67%) CUDA
4 2 (11.11%) Data Structures
5 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
5 1 (5.56%) Biopharmaceutical
5 1 (5.56%) Life Science
5 1 (5.56%) Omics
5 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
4 6 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (27.78%) DevOps
5 5 (27.78%) Information Security
5 5 (27.78%) Mathematics
5 5 (27.78%) Performance Tuning
5 5 (27.78%) Physics
6 4 (22.22%) Budgeting
6 4 (22.22%) Business Continuity
6 4 (22.22%) Change Management
6 4 (22.22%) Cost Control
6 4 (22.22%) Data Centre Operations
6 4 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (22.22%) IT Governance
6 4 (22.22%) ITIL
6 4 (22.22%) ITSM
6 4 (22.22%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Python
2 3 (16.67%) C++
2 3 (16.67%) Java
3 2 (11.11%) C#
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.56%) C
4 1 (5.56%) JavaScript
4 1 (5.56%) PHP
4 1 (5.56%) R
4 1 (5.56%) Rust
4 1 (5.56%) TypeScript
4 1 (5.56%) VC++
Qualifications
1 15 (83.33%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.56%) CSPO
4 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) CDISC
1 1 (5.56%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.56%) DICOM
1 1 (5.56%) GDPR
1 1 (5.56%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.56%) HL7
1 1 (5.56%) QA
1 1 (5.56%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 4 (22.22%) Hyper-V
1 4 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (22.22%) vSphere
2 2 (11.11%) Docker
3 1 (5.56%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (22.22%) Dell
2 4 (22.22%) Fortinet
2 4 (22.22%) Palo Alto
2 4 (22.22%) Veeam
2 4 (22.22%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Google
3 1 (5.56%) SAP