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 2 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 134 96 107
Rank change year-on-year -38 +11 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 57 82 128
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.88% 2.50% 1.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.86% 5.83% 8.09%
Number of salaries quoted 47 61 96
10th Percentile £24,000 - £27,250
25th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £33,594
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £51,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% +28.75% -33.33%
75th Percentile £63,725 £58,750 £59,063
90th Percentile £66,750 £80,000 £76,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 1,174 1,407 1,583
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 18.03% 42.86% 23.66%
Number of salaries quoted 572 554 1,074
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% +14.74% -13.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £66,225 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,250 £73,025 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 2 July 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 2 July 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 -25 21 £25,000 -23.08% 6
Cambridgeshire -29 16 £59,450 +18.90% 20
Hertfordshire -26 14 £52,500 -8.70% 6
Bedfordshire +3 3 £37,500 -29.25% 1
Norfolk -23 2 £56,000 -30.00% 1
Suffolk +12 1 £47,739 - 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 (14.04%) SAS
2 3 (5.26%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (3.51%) Luigi
4 1 (1.75%) Apache
4 1 (1.75%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.75%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 27 (47.37%) Azure
2 26 (45.61%) AWS
3 10 (17.54%) Serverless
4 5 (8.77%) SaaS
5 4 (7.02%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.26%) Azure Logic Apps
6 3 (5.26%) GCP
6 3 (5.26%) Power Automate
7 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (3.51%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.51%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.51%) GitHub
8 1 (1.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.75%) H2O.ai
8 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.75%) OCI
8 1 (1.75%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.26%) Firewall
1 3 (5.26%) SSL
2 2 (3.51%) Network Security
2 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
2 2 (3.51%) WAN
3 1 (1.75%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 9 (15.79%) Big Data
3 8 (14.04%) MySQL
4 4 (7.02%) Power BI
5 2 (3.51%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.75%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.75%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.75%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (1.75%) Metadata
6 1 (1.75%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.75%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (5.26%) Git
3 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 16 (28.07%) Finance
2 15 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.02%) Electronics
4 3 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.26%) Law
4 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Manufacturing
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Games
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Marketing
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 24 (42.11%) Developer
2 19 (33.33%) Software Developer
3 18 (31.58%) Graduate
4 16 (28.07%) Graduate Developer
4 16 (28.07%) Graduate Software Developer
5 13 (22.81%) SQL Developer
6 11 (19.30%) C# Developer
6 11 (19.30%) C# Software Developer
6 11 (19.30%) Graduate C# Developer
6 11 (19.30%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 11 (19.30%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 9 (15.79%) Azure Developer
7 9 (15.79%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 9 (15.79%) Lead
7 9 (15.79%) PHP Developer
8 8 (14.04%) Delivery Manager
8 8 (14.04%) Technical Delivery Manager
8 8 (14.04%) Technical Leader
8 8 (14.04%) Technical Manager
9 3 (5.26%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (22.81%) CSS
2 10 (17.54%) jQuery
3 7 (12.28%) REST
4 5 (8.77%) SOAP
5 4 (7.02%) HTML
5 4 (7.02%) JSON
5 4 (7.02%) React
6 3 (5.26%) Node.js
6 3 (5.26%) OAuth
6 3 (5.26%) XML
6 3 (5.26%) Yocto
7 2 (3.51%) .NET
7 2 (3.51%) NestJS
7 2 (3.51%) Next.js
8 1 (1.75%) .NET Core
8 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.75%) ASP.NET Core
8 1 (1.75%) Keras
8 1 (1.75%) PyTorch
8 1 (1.75%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (12.28%) Algorithms
2 4 (7.02%) Embedded Systems
2 4 (7.02%) Robotics
2 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
3 3 (5.26%) Device Driver
3 3 (5.26%) IoT
3 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 3 (5.26%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.51%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.51%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.75%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.75%) FPGA
5 1 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.02%) Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (1.75%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (98.25%) Computer Science
2 23 (40.35%) Agile
3 21 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (28.07%) MVC
5 15 (26.32%) DevOps
6 13 (22.81%) Software Engineering
7 12 (21.05%) Data Engineering
8 11 (19.30%) OOP
9 10 (17.54%) CI/CD
9 10 (17.54%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (17.54%) Mentoring
10 9 (15.79%) Data Integration
10 9 (15.79%) Data Management
11 8 (14.04%) Change Control
11 8 (14.04%) Server Management
11 8 (14.04%) Storage Management
12 7 (12.28%) Clean Code
13 6 (10.53%) Code Quality
13 6 (10.53%) SDLC
13 6 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (42.11%) SQL
2 21 (36.84%) C#
3 17 (29.82%) PHP
4 16 (28.07%) C++
4 16 (28.07%) Python
5 10 (17.54%) Java
6 7 (12.28%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.26%) C
7 3 (5.26%) Embedded C
7 3 (5.26%) Embedded C++
7 3 (5.26%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.51%) Bash
8 2 (3.51%) Scala
9 1 (1.75%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.75%) Erlang
9 1 (1.75%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 57 (100.00%) Degree
2 15 (26.32%) Master's Degree
3 8 (14.04%) DBS Check
4 3 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.26%) CISSP
4 3 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.51%) CCNA
5 2 (3.51%) HND
5 2 (3.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (3.51%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 1 (1.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.75%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (1.75%) ISEB
6 1 (1.75%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
6 1 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.75%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (19.30%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.02%) QA
3 3 (5.26%) SLA
4 2 (3.51%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.75%) GDPR
5 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.75%) NIST
5 1 (1.75%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (5.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.75%) Firmware
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (3.51%) FortiGate
1 2 (3.51%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.51%) Terraform
2 1 (1.75%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.26%) Databricks
2 3 (5.26%) Splunk
3 2 (3.51%) Cisco
3 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
3 2 (3.51%) MuleSoft
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle
3 2 (3.51%) Pega
3 2 (3.51%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.51%) SAP
3 2 (3.51%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.75%) Dell
4 1 (1.75%) Google
4 1 (1.75%) Jitterbit
4 1 (1.75%) NVIDIA
4 1 (1.75%) SnapLogic