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 17 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 72 94
Rank change year-on-year -53 +22 +28
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 28 108 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.59% 3.28% 2.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.00% 7.74% 7.85%
Number of salaries quoted 23 50 74
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,100 £26,250
25th Percentile £27,000 £50,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +32.50% -11.11%
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,438 £77,188
90th Percentile £71,250 £78,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 1,397 1,395 1,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 29.59% 42.35% 30.80%
Number of salaries quoted 539 526 962
10th Percentile £29,250 £36,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £47,500 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 17 February 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 17 February 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 -11 10 £25,000 -16.67% 4
Cambridgeshire -10 9 £30,000 -50.00% 13
Hertfordshire -23 8 £58,750 +11.90% 10
Bedfordshire +3 1 £45,000 -15.09% 4
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 6 (21.43%) Confluence
1 6 (21.43%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.57%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (3.57%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) Azure
2 10 (35.71%) AWS
3 5 (17.86%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (14.29%) Entra ID
4 4 (14.29%) OneDrive
5 3 (10.71%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (10.71%) Power Automate
5 3 (10.71%) SaaS
6 2 (7.14%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (7.14%) H2O.ai
6 2 (7.14%) OpenShift
6 2 (7.14%) Serverless
7 1 (3.57%) Amazon S3
7 1 (3.57%) dbt
7 1 (3.57%) GitHub
7 1 (3.57%) OCI
7 1 (3.57%) PaaS
7 1 (3.57%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) AMQP
1 1 (3.57%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (21.43%) MySQL
3 2 (7.14%) Data Lake
3 2 (7.14%) Metadata
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
4 1 (3.57%) Oracle Database
4 1 (3.57%) RDBMS
4 1 (3.57%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 1 (3.57%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) LoadRunner
General
1 11 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 10 (35.71%) Finance
3 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.71%) Law
3 3 (10.71%) Manufacturing
4 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.14%) Electronics
4 2 (7.14%) Marketing
4 2 (7.14%) Retail
5 1 (3.57%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Developer
2 6 (21.43%) Graduate
2 6 (21.43%) Graduate Developer
3 4 (14.29%) .NET Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Azure Developer
3 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
3 4 (14.29%) C# Software Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Graduate C# Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Graduate C# Software Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Graduate Software Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support
3 4 (14.29%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) PHP Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Developer
3 4 (14.29%) SQL Developer
3 4 (14.29%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (35.71%) CSS
2 8 (28.57%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) REST
3 6 (21.43%) ASP.NET
3 6 (21.43%) jQuery
4 5 (17.86%) .NET Core
5 4 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (14.29%) React
6 3 (10.71%) SOAP
7 2 (7.14%) .NET Framework
7 2 (7.14%) Keras
7 2 (7.14%) PyTorch
7 2 (7.14%) TensorFlow
8 1 (3.57%) Kafka
8 1 (3.57%) Middleware
8 1 (3.57%) Node.js
8 1 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (3.57%) RESTful
8 1 (3.57%) Spring
8 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Data Centre
1 3 (10.71%) Low-Code
1 3 (10.71%) Management Information System
2 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.57%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
2 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 10 (35.71%) MVC
3 9 (32.14%) Agile
4 7 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (25.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (21.43%) OOP
6 5 (17.86%) Code Quality
6 5 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
7 4 (14.29%) Coaching
7 4 (14.29%) ETL
7 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven
7 4 (14.29%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (14.29%) Integration Patterns
7 4 (14.29%) OWASP
7 4 (14.29%) Product Management
7 4 (14.29%) Software Engineering
7 4 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) C#
2 7 (25.00%) C++
2 7 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 7 (25.00%) SQL
3 6 (21.43%) Java
3 6 (21.43%) PHP
3 6 (21.43%) Python
4 1 (3.57%) Rust
4 1 (3.57%) Shell Script
4 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 28 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) PMI Certification
3 3 (10.71%) PMP
4 2 (7.14%) Master's Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (3.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) Data Quality
1 3 (10.71%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) SAP
3 3 (10.71%) Dell
3 3 (10.71%) MuleSoft
3 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 3 (10.71%) Pega
3 3 (10.71%) Salesforce
3 3 (10.71%) ServiceNow
4 2 (7.14%) Databricks
4 2 (7.14%) NVIDIA
4 2 (7.14%) VMware
5 1 (3.57%) CrowdStrike
5 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
5 1 (3.57%) Fortinet
5 1 (3.57%) Jitterbit
5 1 (3.57%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.57%) SnapLogic
5 1 (3.57%) Splunk
5 1 (3.57%) StreamSets
5 1 (3.57%) Veeam