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

6 months to
28 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 52 40
Rank change year-on-year -10 -12 +31
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 17 41 29
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.28% 3.74% 4.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.92% 15.19% 11.60%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 17
10th Percentile £37,750 £59,000 £43,850
25th Percentile £41,875 £64,375 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £70,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +15.13% +52.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,500 £92,500
East of England median annual salary £45,000 £58,500 £60,800
% change year-on-year -23.08% -3.78% +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 287 270 250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 38.52% 24.66% 41.60%
Number of salaries quoted 136 103 110
10th Percentile - £38,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £48,750 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,113 £65,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -49.06% +11.11% +23.16%
75th Percentile £50,625 £78,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £68,750 £80,000 £85,750
East of England median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend 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 28 October 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 28 October 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 -3 10 £50,000 - 27
Huntingdon - 4 - -
Peterborough -9 1 £60,000 -19.46% 3
Computer Science Degree
East of England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 8 (47.06%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.88%) GCP
3 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 1 (5.88%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Big Data
1 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) GitLab
1 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.88%) CircleCI
2 1 (5.88%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
2 1 (5.88%) Moq
2 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Law
2 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Electronics
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (5.88%) Marketing
3 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (23.53%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (23.53%) Technical Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Junior
2 3 (17.65%) Machine Learning Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Product Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Developer
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Embedded Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Performance Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Product Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Embedded Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Google JAX
1 3 (17.65%) JAX
1 3 (17.65%) PyTorch
1 3 (17.65%) TensorFlow
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
3 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Core
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) FHIR
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) Node.js
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth
3 1 (5.88%) OAuth2
3 1 (5.88%) React
3 1 (5.88%) REST
3 1 (5.88%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (29.41%) Management Information System
2 4 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Storage
3 3 (17.65%) CUDA
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (5.88%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
4 1 (5.88%) Life Science
4 1 (5.88%) Omics
4 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 9 (52.94%) AI
2 9 (52.94%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (35.29%) Agile
4 5 (29.41%) DevOps
4 5 (29.41%) Information Security
4 5 (29.41%) Mathematics
4 5 (29.41%) Physics
5 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
5 4 (23.53%) Business Continuity
5 4 (23.53%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (23.53%) High Availability
5 4 (23.53%) IT Governance
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
5 4 (23.53%) Machine Learning
5 4 (23.53%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) Java
3 1 (5.88%) C
3 1 (5.88%) C++
3 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.88%) R
3 1 (5.88%) Rust
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 14 (82.35%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) CSPO
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) CDISC
1 1 (5.88%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.88%) DICOM
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HIPAA
1 1 (5.88%) HL7
1 1 (5.88%) QA
1 1 (5.88%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory
1 4 (23.53%) Hyper-V
1 4 (23.53%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (23.53%) vSphere
2 2 (11.76%) Docker
3 1 (5.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.88%) Ansible
3 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (23.53%) Dell
2 4 (23.53%) Fortinet
2 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
2 4 (23.53%) Veeam
2 4 (23.53%) VMware
3 1 (5.88%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.88%) Google
3 1 (5.88%) SAP
3 1 (5.88%) Splunk