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 24 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 104 71
Rank change year-on-year -44 -33 +8
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 57 70 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.70% 2.08% 2.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 5.45% 10.03%
Number of salaries quoted 44 40 50
10th Percentile £24,000 - £32,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £44,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £44,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.77% -20.00% -9.54%
75th Percentile £56,000 £54,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,638 £60,925 £75,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 1,358 1,284 1,176
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 16.65% 38.10% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 750 496 427
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,750 £30,750 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £41,526 £50,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.82% -17.77% -8.18%
75th Percentile £65,000 £55,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -5.79%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -28 23 £25,000 -23.08% 6
Cambridgeshire -31 13 £64,025 +28.05% 54
Bedfordshire -7 6 £37,500 -16.67% 5
Hertfordshire -34 6 £53,750 +5.91% 6
Norfolk - 6 £47,500 - 3
Suffolk +5 3 £50,000 -
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 2 (3.51%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (3.51%) IIS
1 2 (3.51%) Luigi
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 28 (49.12%) Azure
2 11 (19.30%) AWS
3 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
3 4 (7.02%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.51%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (3.51%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.51%) Serverless
6 1 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.75%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.75%) GCP
6 1 (1.75%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) DHCP
1 5 (8.77%) DNS
2 4 (7.02%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.51%) Firewall
4 1 (1.75%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.75%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (1.75%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.75%) SSL
4 1 (1.75%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.53%) Relational Database
3 3 (5.26%) MySQL
3 3 (5.26%) Power BI
4 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Git
2 1 (1.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (14.04%) Electronics
3 7 (12.28%) Finance
4 6 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.75%) Law
7 1 (1.75%) Legal
7 1 (1.75%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.75%) Retail
7 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 25 (43.86%) Developer
2 19 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 18 (31.58%) Graduate
4 12 (21.05%) Graduate Developer
4 12 (21.05%) Graduate Software Developer
5 7 (12.28%) C# Developer
5 7 (12.28%) C# Software Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Graduate C# Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Graduate C# Software Developer
5 7 (12.28%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 7 (12.28%) SQL Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Developer
6 6 (10.53%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 6 (10.53%) IT Graduate
6 6 (10.53%) PHP Developer
7 5 (8.77%) IT Support
8 4 (7.02%) Embedded Linux Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) IT Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) Linux Engineer
8 4 (7.02%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) CSS
2 7 (12.28%) .NET
2 7 (12.28%) HTML
3 6 (10.53%) jQuery
3 6 (10.53%) Yocto
4 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET
4 5 (8.77%) ASP.NET Core
5 3 (5.26%) .NET Core
5 3 (5.26%) .NET Framework
5 3 (5.26%) ASP.NET MVC
5 3 (5.26%) CSS3
5 3 (5.26%) Entity Framework
5 3 (5.26%) HTML5
5 3 (5.26%) JSON
5 3 (5.26%) React
5 3 (5.26%) REST
5 3 (5.26%) RESTful
6 2 (3.51%) AngularJS
6 2 (3.51%) KnockoutJS
6 2 (3.51%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 11 (19.30%) Algorithms
2 7 (12.28%) Embedded Systems
2 7 (12.28%) Robotics
3 6 (10.53%) Device Driver
3 6 (10.53%) IoT
4 4 (7.02%) Cyber Threat
4 4 (7.02%) FPGA
5 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
6 2 (3.51%) Management Information System
6 2 (3.51%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.51%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.75%) Molecular Biology
7 1 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.75%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.04%) Linux
2 7 (12.28%) Windows
3 6 (10.53%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.75%) CentOS
4 1 (1.75%) Debian
4 1 (1.75%) Mac OS X
4 1 (1.75%) Robot Operating System
4 1 (1.75%) Unix
4 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (98.25%) Computer Science
2 24 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (28.07%) MVC
4 14 (24.56%) Software Engineering
5 12 (21.05%) Agile
6 11 (19.30%) Continuous Improvement
6 11 (19.30%) Mentoring
7 9 (15.79%) Clean Code
8 8 (14.04%) DevOps
9 7 (12.28%) AI
9 7 (12.28%) CI/CD
9 7 (12.28%) OOP
9 7 (12.28%) User Experience
9 7 (12.28%) UX Design
9 7 (12.28%) Web Development
10 6 (10.53%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (10.53%) OO
11 5 (8.77%) Code Quality
11 5 (8.77%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (8.77%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (40.35%) C#
2 21 (36.84%) SQL
3 16 (28.07%) Python
4 15 (26.32%) C++
5 13 (22.81%) PHP
6 8 (14.04%) JavaScript
7 7 (12.28%) C
8 6 (10.53%) Embedded C
8 6 (10.53%) Embedded C++
8 6 (10.53%) Java
9 5 (8.77%) PowerShell
10 2 (3.51%) Bash
10 2 (3.51%) Scala
11 1 (1.75%) Erlang
11 1 (1.75%) Fortran
11 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
11 1 (1.75%) Shell Script
11 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (15.79%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.02%) CISSP
3 4 (7.02%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.51%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.51%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.51%) HND
4 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.75%) CCNA
5 1 (1.75%) CISM
5 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.75%) GSEC
5 1 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
5 1 (1.75%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.53%) QA
2 4 (7.02%) GDPR
2 4 (7.02%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (5.26%) NIST
4 2 (3.51%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.75%) SLA
5 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 5 (8.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (7.02%) Docker
3 2 (3.51%) Firmware
4 1 (1.75%) Ceph
4 1 (1.75%) Lustre
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.75%) NFS
4 1 (1.75%) Samba
4 1 (1.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.75%) Oracle ZFS
Vendors
1 19 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.51%) Databricks
2 2 (3.51%) Tenable
3 1 (1.75%) Apple
3 1 (1.75%) Cisco
3 1 (1.75%) Fortinet
3 1 (1.75%) Google
3 1 (1.75%) Red Hat
3 1 (1.75%) Splunk