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 18 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 68 71
Rank change year-on-year -49 +3 +18
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 37 127 56
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.90% 3.46% 2.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.77% 9.44% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 23 57 35
10th Percentile - £42,500 £51,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £58,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -48.28% -10.77% +44.44%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £77,500 £84,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - - +13.04%

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 1,335 1,346 726
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 32.62% 36.63% 38.51%
Number of salaries quoted 498 418 449
10th Percentile £27,500 £32,675 £28,633
25th Percentile £31,250 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,149 £53,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -19.35% -2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

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 18 December 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 18 December 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
Cambridgeshire -8 16 £47,500 -32.14% 39
Essex -11 15 £25,000 -56.90% 28
Hertfordshire -14 4 £25,000 -52.38% 31
Bedfordshire +12 2 £52,250 -1.42% 20
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 (10.81%) Confluence
1 4 (10.81%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (2.70%) IIS
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (45.95%) Azure
2 11 (29.73%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.41%) OneDrive
4 2 (5.41%) Serverless
5 1 (2.70%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.70%) dbt
5 1 (2.70%) H2O.ai
5 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.81%) SAN
2 1 (2.70%) DHCP
2 1 (2.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.70%) Firewall
2 1 (2.70%) FTP
2 1 (2.70%) Internet
2 1 (2.70%) Network Security
2 1 (2.70%) NGFW
2 1 (2.70%) SSL
2 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (35.14%) SQL Server
2 12 (32.43%) MySQL
3 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.41%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.70%) Big Data
4 1 (2.70%) Data Lake
4 1 (2.70%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.70%) Metadata
4 1 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Database
4 1 (2.70%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.81%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) GitLab
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) LoadRunner
General
1 17 (45.95%) Social Skills
2 13 (35.14%) Finance
3 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.81%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.11%) Electronics
6 2 (5.41%) Law
6 2 (5.41%) Marketing
6 2 (5.41%) Public Sector
6 2 (5.41%) Retail
6 2 (5.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (40.54%) Developer
2 11 (29.73%) Graduate
2 11 (29.73%) Graduate Developer
3 7 (18.92%) IT Graduate
4 6 (16.22%) Technical Manager
5 5 (13.51%) Azure Developer
5 5 (13.51%) C# Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Graduate C# Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 5 (13.51%) PHP Developer
5 5 (13.51%) Senior
5 5 (13.51%) SQL Developer
6 4 (10.81%) .NET Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Infrastructure Manager
6 4 (10.81%) React Developer
6 4 (10.81%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (40.54%) CSS
2 12 (32.43%) .NET
3 11 (29.73%) ASP.NET
3 11 (29.73%) jQuery
4 5 (13.51%) REST
5 4 (10.81%) .NET Core
5 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (10.81%) PyTorch
5 4 (10.81%) React
5 4 (10.81%) TensorFlow
6 3 (8.11%) Google JAX
6 3 (8.11%) JAX
7 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
7 1 (2.70%) EDI
7 1 (2.70%) FHIR
7 1 (2.70%) HTML
7 1 (2.70%) Keras
7 1 (2.70%) Node.js
7 1 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.22%) Enterprise Software
1 6 (16.22%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.51%) Data Centre
3 4 (10.81%) Enterprise Storage
4 3 (8.11%) CUDA
4 3 (8.11%) Virtual Team
5 2 (5.41%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.70%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (2.70%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (2.70%) Life Science
6 1 (2.70%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.70%) Omics
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.92%) Linux
1 7 (18.92%) Windows
2 5 (13.51%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 20 (54.05%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (43.24%) Agile
4 15 (40.54%) MVC
5 11 (29.73%) OOP
6 9 (24.32%) AI
7 7 (18.92%) OO
8 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
9 5 (13.51%) Continuous Improvement
9 5 (13.51%) Cybersecurity
9 5 (13.51%) High Availability
9 5 (13.51%) Information Security
9 5 (13.51%) Machine Learning
9 5 (13.51%) Mathematics
9 5 (13.51%) Physics
9 5 (13.51%) SDLC
10 4 (10.81%) OWASP
10 4 (10.81%) Performance Tuning
10 4 (10.81%) Process Improvement
10 4 (10.81%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 15 (40.54%) C#
2 13 (35.14%) C++
3 11 (29.73%) Java
3 11 (29.73%) PHP
4 10 (27.03%) SQL
5 8 (21.62%) Python
6 4 (10.81%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.41%) Rust
8 1 (2.70%) C
8 1 (2.70%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.70%) R
8 1 (2.70%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 34 (91.89%) Degree
2 5 (13.51%) Security Cleared
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (10.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.41%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.41%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.41%) PMP
4 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (2.70%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.70%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.70%) CEH
5 1 (2.70%) CISA
5 1 (2.70%) CISM
5 1 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (2.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) GDPR
3 1 (2.70%) CDISC
3 1 (2.70%) DICOM
3 1 (2.70%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.70%) HL7
3 1 (2.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.70%) NIST
3 1 (2.70%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (18.92%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.81%) Hyper-V
3 4 (10.81%) vSphere
4 2 (5.41%) Docker
5 1 (2.70%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (10.81%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (5.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.70%) CSIRT
3 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.51%) Dell
2 5 (13.51%) VMware
3 4 (10.81%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (10.81%) Fortinet
3 4 (10.81%) Palo Alto
3 4 (10.81%) Veeam
4 2 (5.41%) SAP
5 1 (2.70%) Databricks
5 1 (2.70%) Dynatrace
5 1 (2.70%) NVIDIA
5 1 (2.70%) Oracle
5 1 (2.70%) Splunk
5 1 (2.70%) StreamSets