Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 71 87
Rank change year-on-year -36 +16 -22
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 72 114 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 2.13% 2.57% 2.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.64% 10.58% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 42 52 45
10th Percentile - £32,563 £41,450
25th Percentile £25,000 £43,313 £53,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £54,225 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% -10.81% +35.11%
75th Percentile £53,750 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £60,550 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,277 1,078 1,016
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 37.79% 24.32% 39.09%
Number of salaries quoted 490 446 465
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,526 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.95% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £55,000 £67,188 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,090 £76,875 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,762 £58,627
% change year-on-year -1.37% -4.89% +6.59%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the East of England

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

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

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the East of England

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Essex +7 29 £32,500 -55.17% 14
Cambridgeshire -5 18 £47,500 -28.30% 28
Hertfordshire -7 12 £50,750 +6.84% 8
Suffolk -21 10 - - 3
Bedfordshire -13 3 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.56%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.39%) Apache
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 30 (41.67%) Azure
2 14 (19.44%) AWS
3 6 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon S3
4 4 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (5.56%) Serverless
5 3 (4.17%) dbt
5 3 (4.17%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.78%) GCP
7 1 (1.39%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.39%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.39%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.39%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.56%) SAN
2 1 (1.39%) DHCP
2 1 (1.39%) DNS
2 1 (1.39%) Firewall
2 1 (1.39%) FTP
2 1 (1.39%) Internet
2 1 (1.39%) Intranet
2 1 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (1.39%) NGFW
2 1 (1.39%) SSL
2 1 (1.39%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (19.44%) SQL Server
2 12 (16.67%) MySQL
3 5 (6.94%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (5.56%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
5 3 (4.17%) Oracle Database
5 3 (4.17%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.39%) Big Data
6 1 (1.39%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.39%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.39%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) GitLab
1 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.39%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.39%) Git
2 1 (1.39%) JIRA
2 1 (1.39%) Moq
2 1 (1.39%) SpecFlow
General
1 38 (52.78%) Social Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Finance
3 12 (16.67%) Electronics
4 4 (5.56%) Law
4 4 (5.56%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (4.17%) Legal
5 3 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.78%) Marketing
6 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.78%) Retail
6 2 (2.78%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Graduate
2 16 (22.22%) Developer
3 14 (19.44%) Technical Manager
4 13 (18.06%) Architect
4 13 (18.06%) Graduate Developer
4 13 (18.06%) IT Graduate
5 10 (13.89%) Implementation Manager
5 10 (13.89%) Managed Services Architect
5 10 (13.89%) Platform Architect
5 10 (13.89%) Support Manager
5 10 (13.89%) Technical Implementation Manager
5 10 (13.89%) Technical Support
5 10 (13.89%) Technical Support Manager
6 6 (8.33%) Senior
6 6 (8.33%) Systems Manager
7 5 (6.94%) Graduate Support Manager
7 5 (6.94%) Graduate Technical Support
8 4 (5.56%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 4 (5.56%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (22.22%) .NET
2 15 (20.83%) ASP.NET
3 14 (19.44%) CSS
4 13 (18.06%) jQuery
5 3 (4.17%) Google JAX
5 3 (4.17%) JAX
5 3 (4.17%) PyTorch
5 3 (4.17%) REST
5 3 (4.17%) TensorFlow
6 2 (2.78%) HTML
7 1 (1.39%) .NET Core
7 1 (1.39%) ASP.NET Core
7 1 (1.39%) EDI
7 1 (1.39%) Node.js
7 1 (1.39%) OAuth
7 1 (1.39%) OAuth2
7 1 (1.39%) React
7 1 (1.39%) RESTful
7 1 (1.39%) SOAP
7 1 (1.39%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.94%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.94%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 4 (5.56%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.56%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (5.56%) Life Science
4 3 (4.17%) CUDA
4 3 (4.17%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.78%) Robotics
6 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.39%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.39%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.39%) IoT
6 1 (1.39%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.39%) Omics
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (15.28%) Windows
2 10 (13.89%) Linux
3 4 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 4 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 55 (76.39%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (40.28%) Agile
4 13 (18.06%) MVC
4 13 (18.06%) OO
4 13 (18.06%) OOP
4 13 (18.06%) Software Engineering
5 12 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 12 (16.67%) Task Automation
6 11 (15.28%) Artificial Intelligence
7 10 (13.89%) Architectural Design
7 10 (13.89%) Business Enablement
7 10 (13.89%) System Testing
7 10 (13.89%) User Experience
8 9 (12.50%) DevOps
9 8 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (11.11%) ITSM
10 7 (9.72%) High Availability
11 6 (8.33%) Information Security
11 6 (8.33%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 33 (45.83%) Python
2 27 (37.50%) Java
3 15 (20.83%) C#
3 15 (20.83%) C++
4 13 (18.06%) PHP
4 13 (18.06%) SQL
5 5 (6.94%) PowerShell
6 4 (5.56%) Bash
7 2 (2.78%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.39%) C
8 1 (1.39%) R
8 1 (1.39%) Rust
8 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.39%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.39%) VC++
Qualifications
1 69 (95.83%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (2.78%) DBS Check
4 2 (2.78%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.39%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) CEH
5 1 (1.39%) CISA
5 1 (1.39%) CISM
5 1 (1.39%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.39%) CSPO
5 1 (1.39%) MCP
5 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) GDPR
2 5 (6.94%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.17%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 3 (4.17%) Good Clinical Practice
4 1 (1.39%) CDISC
4 1 (1.39%) DICOM
4 1 (1.39%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.39%) HL7
4 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.39%) NIST
4 1 (1.39%) QA
4 1 (1.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 4 (5.56%) vSphere
4 2 (2.78%) Docker
5 1 (1.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (5.56%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.39%) Ansible
4 1 (1.39%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 12 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.94%) VMware
3 4 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (5.56%) Dell
3 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
3 4 (5.56%) Palo Alto
3 4 (5.56%) Veeam
4 3 (4.17%) Oracle
4 3 (4.17%) StreamSets
5 2 (2.78%) Google
5 2 (2.78%) SAP
5 2 (2.78%) Veritas