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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 75 70
Rank change year-on-year -29 -5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 54 118 68
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.72% 2.81% 3.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.69% 9.81% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 36 46 47
10th Percentile - £46,000 £44,000
25th Percentile £25,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,250 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -19.83% -2.55% +35.11%
75th Percentile £59,250 £72,500 £79,375
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +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 949 1,203 762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 30.23% 28.69% 36.34%
Number of salaries quoted 516 357 451
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £31,207
25th Percentile £30,219 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 £71,250 £67,500
90th Percentile £74,125 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 +8 25 £32,500 -42.73% 7
Cambridgeshire -10 15 £60,000 -14.29% 42
Hertfordshire -14 9 £44,000 -8.81% 12
Bedfordshire +12 3 £45,000 -10.00% 2
Suffolk -21 2 - - 1
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 4 (7.41%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Apache
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) IIS
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 26 (48.15%) Azure
2 15 (27.78%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) Amazon S3
3 4 (7.41%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (7.41%) Serverless
4 3 (5.56%) dbt
4 3 (5.56%) Snowflake
5 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (3.70%) GCP
6 1 (1.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Functions
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.85%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.85%) H2O.ai
6 1 (1.85%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.41%) SAN
2 1 (1.85%) DHCP
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Firewall
2 1 (1.85%) FTP
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
2 1 (1.85%) Network Security
2 1 (1.85%) NGFW
2 1 (1.85%) SSL
2 1 (1.85%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (25.93%) SQL Server
2 13 (24.07%) MySQL
3 5 (9.26%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (7.41%) Amazon Redshift
4 4 (7.41%) Relational Database
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle Database
5 3 (5.56%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.85%) Big Data
6 1 (1.85%) BigQuery
6 1 (1.85%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.85%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.85%) Metadata
6 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.70%) GitLab
1 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
1 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 1 (1.85%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.85%) Git
2 1 (1.85%) LoadRunner
General
1 25 (46.30%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 7 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Electronics
4 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.56%) Law
5 3 (5.56%) Legal
6 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.70%) Marketing
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.70%) Retail
6 2 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (33.33%) Developer
2 13 (24.07%) Graduate
3 12 (22.22%) Graduate Developer
4 11 (20.37%) Technical Manager
5 10 (18.52%) IT Graduate
6 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.11%) Implementation Manager
6 6 (11.11%) Support Manager
6 6 (11.11%) Technical Implementation Manager
6 6 (11.11%) Technical Support
6 6 (11.11%) Technical Support Manager
7 5 (9.26%) Architect
8 4 (7.41%) .NET Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Azure Developer
8 4 (7.41%) C# Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 4 (7.41%) React Developer
8 4 (7.41%) Senior
8 4 (7.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (31.48%) CSS
2 16 (29.63%) .NET
3 15 (27.78%) ASP.NET
4 12 (22.22%) jQuery
5 6 (11.11%) REST
6 5 (9.26%) .NET Core
6 5 (9.26%) React
7 4 (7.41%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (7.41%) PyTorch
7 4 (7.41%) TensorFlow
8 3 (5.56%) Google JAX
8 3 (5.56%) JAX
9 2 (3.70%) HTML
10 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
10 1 (1.85%) EDI
10 1 (1.85%) FastAPI
10 1 (1.85%) FHIR
10 1 (1.85%) Keras
10 1 (1.85%) RESTful
10 1 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.26%) Data Centre
4 4 (7.41%) Enterprise Storage
5 3 (5.56%) CUDA
5 3 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.70%) Algorithms
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.85%) Biopharmaceutical
7 1 (1.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.85%) e-Learning
7 1 (1.85%) IoT
7 1 (1.85%) Life Science
7 1 (1.85%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.85%) Omics
7 1 (1.85%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Windows
2 9 (16.67%) Linux
3 5 (9.26%) Windows Server
4 3 (5.56%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 36 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (37.04%) Agile
4 16 (29.63%) MVC
5 12 (22.22%) OOP
6 10 (18.52%) AI
6 10 (18.52%) OO
7 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.81%) Task Automation
8 7 (12.96%) DevOps
8 7 (12.96%) High Availability
8 7 (12.96%) ITSM
8 7 (12.96%) Software Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Data Engineering
9 6 (11.11%) Data Pipeline
9 6 (11.11%) Full-Stack Development
9 6 (11.11%) Information Security
9 6 (11.11%) Machine Learning
9 6 (11.11%) System Testing
9 6 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (42.59%) Python
2 20 (37.04%) Java
3 17 (31.48%) C#
4 13 (24.07%) C++
5 12 (22.22%) PHP
5 12 (22.22%) SQL
6 6 (11.11%) JavaScript
7 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
8 3 (5.56%) Bash
9 1 (1.85%) C
9 1 (1.85%) R
9 1 (1.85%) Rust
9 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 51 (94.44%) Degree
2 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (7.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.70%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.70%) Master's Degree
4 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.85%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CEH
5 1 (1.85%) CISA
5 1 (1.85%) CISM
5 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.85%) CSPO
5 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) CDISC
3 1 (1.85%) DICOM
3 1 (1.85%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.85%) HL7
3 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.85%) NIST
3 1 (1.85%) QA
3 1 (1.85%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Active Directory
1 5 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (7.41%) Hyper-V
2 4 (7.41%) vSphere
3 2 (3.70%) Docker
4 1 (1.85%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (7.41%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.70%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) Ansible
4 1 (1.85%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
2 5 (9.26%) Dell
2 5 (9.26%) VMware
3 4 (7.41%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (7.41%) Fortinet
3 4 (7.41%) Palo Alto
3 4 (7.41%) Veeam
4 3 (5.56%) Oracle
4 3 (5.56%) StreamSets
5 2 (3.70%) Google
5 2 (3.70%) SAP
5 2 (3.70%) Veritas
6 1 (1.85%) Databricks
6 1 (1.85%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.85%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.85%) Splunk