Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the East Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 128 89 127
Rank change year-on-year -39 +38 -41
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 30 47 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 0.65% 2.41% 1.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.25% 5.54% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 26 20 57
10th Percentile £25,000 £26,125 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,500 £32,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £35,000 £46,188
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -24.22% -2.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £40,313 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,250 £80,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 849 895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 19.91% 43.54% 20.71%
Number of salaries quoted 290 212 570
10th Percentile £26,750 £24,649 £25,225
25th Percentile £31,063 £31,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £41,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% -3.53% -10.53%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,933 £56,200
90th Percentile £78,875 £67,500 £67,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the East Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. 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
Northamptonshire +17 14 £55,000 +4.27% 3
Nottinghamshire -24 10 £26,000 -25.71% 6
Leicestershire -42 5 £45,750 - 3
Derbyshire -15 1 - - 1
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (53.33%) Azure
2 15 (50.00%) AWS
3 13 (43.33%) Serverless
4 12 (40.00%) Amazon S3
4 12 (40.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Functions
7 1 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (3.33%) Boomi
7 1 (3.33%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
7 1 (3.33%) Power Platform
7 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (3.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.00%) Bluetooth
1 3 (10.00%) MQTT
1 3 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
1 3 (10.00%) Wireless
1 3 (10.00%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (40.00%) Amazon Redshift
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
3 3 (10.00%) Relational Database
4 1 (3.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (3.33%) MySQL
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) GDB
2 3 (10.00%) Git
2 3 (10.00%) GitLab
2 3 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (10.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 12 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (23.33%) Law
3 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 3 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (6.67%) Legal
6 1 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.33%) Automotive
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Social Housing
6 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Developer
2 12 (40.00%) Full-Stack Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Senior
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Developer
3 8 (26.67%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 6 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 6 (20.00%) IT Support
5 5 (16.67%) Graduate
6 4 (13.33%) C# Developer
6 4 (13.33%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate C# Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate Software Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Lead
6 4 (13.33%) Lead Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Software Developer
6 4 (13.33%) Software Engineer
6 4 (13.33%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (50.00%) CSS
2 13 (43.33%) HTML
2 13 (43.33%) React
3 12 (40.00%) Node.js
4 3 (10.00%) jQuery
4 3 (10.00%) pytest
4 3 (10.00%) Unity DI Container
4 3 (10.00%) Yocto
5 1 (3.33%) JSON
5 1 (3.33%) Middleware
5 1 (3.33%) REST
5 1 (3.33%) SOAP
5 1 (3.33%) Web Services
5 1 (3.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) ARM Cortex
1 3 (10.00%) Device Driver
1 3 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
1 3 (10.00%) IoT
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Virtual Team
3 1 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (6.67%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) Solaris
3 1 (3.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 15 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (43.33%) Full-Stack Development
4 12 (40.00%) API Development
5 6 (20.00%) Service Management
5 6 (20.00%) Task Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
7 4 (13.33%) OOP
7 4 (13.33%) Software Engineering
8 3 (10.00%) BDD
8 3 (10.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (10.00%) DevOps
8 3 (10.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
8 3 (10.00%) MVC
8 3 (10.00%) OO
8 3 (10.00%) Software Delivery
8 3 (10.00%) Test Automation
8 3 (10.00%) Validation
9 2 (6.67%) Clean Code
9 2 (6.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) Python
1 18 (60.00%) SQL
2 13 (43.33%) JavaScript
3 7 (23.33%) C++
4 6 (20.00%) PowerShell
5 4 (13.33%) C#
5 4 (13.33%) PHP
6 3 (10.00%) Bash
6 3 (10.00%) C
6 3 (10.00%) Java
7 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) JTAG
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 7 (23.33%) Meraki
2 6 (20.00%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.33%) Databricks
4 1 (3.33%) Oracle
4 1 (3.33%) Sybase
4 1 (3.33%) WatchGuard