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 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 97 91
Rank change year-on-year -38 -6 +12
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 64 83 88
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.90% 2.40% 1.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.32% 6.43% 8.19%
Number of salaries quoted 55 55 63
10th Percentile £24,000 - £32,625
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -16.67%
75th Percentile £61,863 £58,125 £71,875
90th Percentile £63,750 £73,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 1,203 1,290 1,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.99% 37.32% 22.81%
Number of salaries quoted 591 516 576
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,181
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% -11.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £75,000
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 of England

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend 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 6 August 2026.

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 6 August 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
Essex -20 25 £25,000 -23.08% 6
Cambridgeshire -27 16 £59,450 +18.90% 32
Hertfordshire -26 10 £48,750 -13.33% 4
Norfolk -18 6 £47,500 -40.63% 2
Bedfordshire -4 4 £37,500 -29.25% 2
Suffolk +11 3 £50,000 - 2
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 8 (12.50%) SAS
2 3 (4.69%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.13%) IIS
3 2 (3.13%) Luigi
4 1 (1.56%) Apache
4 1 (1.56%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 32 (50.00%) Azure
2 26 (40.63%) AWS
3 11 (17.19%) Serverless
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.69%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) SaaS
6 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Functions
6 2 (3.13%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.56%) Datadog
7 1 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) Firewall
1 3 (4.69%) SSL
2 2 (3.13%) DHCP
2 2 (3.13%) DNS
2 2 (3.13%) Network Security
2 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.13%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (28.13%) SQL Server
2 9 (14.06%) Big Data
3 8 (12.50%) MySQL
4 6 (9.38%) Relational Database
5 4 (6.25%) Power BI
6 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (1.56%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.50%) Git
2 6 (9.38%) JIRA
3 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 14 (21.88%) Finance
3 6 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Electronics
4 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.56%) Games
6 1 (1.56%) Law
6 1 (1.56%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.56%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 29 (45.31%) Developer
2 24 (37.50%) Software Developer
3 21 (32.81%) Graduate
4 16 (25.00%) Graduate Developer
4 16 (25.00%) Graduate Software Developer
5 13 (20.31%) SQL Developer
6 11 (17.19%) C# Developer
6 11 (17.19%) C# Software Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Graduate C# Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 11 (17.19%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 9 (14.06%) Azure Developer
7 9 (14.06%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 9 (14.06%) Lead
7 9 (14.06%) PHP Developer
8 8 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (12.50%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 8 (12.50%) Technical Leader
8 8 (12.50%) Technical Manager
9 4 (6.25%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (28.13%) CSS
2 10 (15.63%) jQuery
3 9 (14.06%) HTML
4 7 (10.94%) .NET
5 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET
5 5 (7.81%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (7.81%) JSON
5 5 (7.81%) React
5 5 (7.81%) REST
6 4 (6.25%) Yocto
7 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
7 3 (4.69%) .NET Framework
7 3 (4.69%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (4.69%) CSS3
7 3 (4.69%) Entity Framework
7 3 (4.69%) HTML5
7 3 (4.69%) OAuth
7 3 (4.69%) RESTful
7 3 (4.69%) SOAP
7 3 (4.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.50%) Algorithms
2 5 (7.81%) Embedded Systems
2 5 (7.81%) Robotics
3 4 (6.25%) Device Driver
3 4 (6.25%) IoT
3 4 (6.25%) Virtual Team
4 3 (4.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.13%) FPGA
5 2 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.81%) Linux
1 5 (7.81%) Windows
2 4 (6.25%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (98.44%) Computer Science
2 28 (43.75%) Agile
2 28 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (31.25%) MVC
4 19 (29.69%) DevOps
5 14 (21.88%) Software Engineering
6 13 (20.31%) Collaborative Working
7 11 (17.19%) Clean Code
7 11 (17.19%) Data Engineering
7 11 (17.19%) Mentoring
7 11 (17.19%) OOP
8 9 (14.06%) CI/CD
9 8 (12.50%) Change Control
9 8 (12.50%) Data Integration
9 8 (12.50%) Data Management
9 8 (12.50%) Server Management
9 8 (12.50%) Storage Management
9 8 (12.50%) Web Development
10 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (10.94%) OO
Programming Languages
1 28 (43.75%) SQL
2 27 (42.19%) C#
3 17 (26.56%) C++
3 17 (26.56%) PHP
4 14 (21.88%) Python
5 10 (15.63%) Java
5 10 (15.63%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.25%) C
6 4 (6.25%) Embedded C
6 4 (6.25%) Embedded C++
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.13%) Bash
8 2 (3.13%) Scala
8 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.56%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.56%) Erlang
9 1 (1.56%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.56%) VB
Qualifications
1 64 (100.00%) Degree
2 15 (23.44%) Master's Degree
3 8 (12.50%) DBS Check
4 4 (6.25%) ISTQB
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.69%) CISSP
6 2 (3.13%) CCNA
6 2 (3.13%) HND
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.56%) CISM
7 1 (1.56%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.56%) GSEC
7 1 (1.56%) ISEB
7 1 (1.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.56%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) Data Quality
2 5 (7.81%) QA
3 4 (6.25%) GDPR
4 3 (4.69%) SLA
4 3 (4.69%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) NIST
5 1 (1.56%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (6.25%) Docker
2 2 (3.13%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Firmware
3 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) FortiGate
1 2 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Grafana
Vendors
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) Splunk
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco
3 2 (3.13%) Databricks
3 2 (3.13%) Fortinet
4 1 (1.56%) Google