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 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 110 68 67
Rank change year-on-year -42 -1 -4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 60 120 73
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.81% 2.89% 3.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.91% 10.62% 8.92%
Number of salaries quoted 39 47 52
10th Percentile £25,000 £35,200 £40,925
25th Percentile £25,625 £50,000 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -9.54% +35.11%
75th Percentile £58,750 £72,500 £77,500
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 1,223 1,130 818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 36.84% 27.24% 36.76%
Number of salaries quoted 491 376 467
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,500 £28,680
25th Percentile £30,063 £43,188 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,750 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -24.17% -4.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £78,750 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £57,800
% change year-on-year -4.45% -0.42% +5.09%

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 20 October 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 20 October 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 +10 28 £32,500 -42.73% 10
Cambridgeshire -9 16 £47,500 -32.14% 19
Hertfordshire -15 9 £50,750 +10.93% 25
Suffolk -23 4 - - 2
Bedfordshire -3 3 £45,000 -10.00% 5
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 (6.67%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.67%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 26 (43.33%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.67%) Amazon S3
4 4 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (6.67%) Serverless
5 3 (5.00%) dbt
5 3 (5.00%) Snowflake
6 2 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (3.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Composer
7 1 (1.67%) Cloud Functions
7 1 (1.67%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.67%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) SAN
2 1 (1.67%) DHCP
2 1 (1.67%) DNS
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) FTP
2 1 (1.67%) Internet
2 1 (1.67%) Intranet
2 1 (1.67%) Network Security
2 1 (1.67%) NGFW
2 1 (1.67%) SSL
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.33%) MySQL
1 11 (18.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.67%) Amazon Redshift
3 4 (6.67%) Relational Database
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle Database
4 3 (5.00%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.67%) Big Data
5 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.67%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) GitLab
1 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.67%) Git
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.67%) Moq
2 1 (1.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 28 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Electronics
5 3 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.00%) Law
5 3 (5.00%) Legal
5 3 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Marketing
6 2 (3.33%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.33%) Retail
6 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (26.67%) Developer
2 13 (21.67%) Graduate
3 12 (20.00%) Technical Manager
4 10 (16.67%) Graduate Developer
4 10 (16.67%) IT Graduate
5 8 (13.33%) Implementation Manager
5 8 (13.33%) Support Manager
5 8 (13.33%) Technical Implementation Manager
5 8 (13.33%) Technical Support
5 8 (13.33%) Technical Support Manager
6 7 (11.67%) Architect
7 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 6 (10.00%) Senior
8 4 (6.67%) .NET Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Full-Stack .NET Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Managed Services Architect
8 4 (6.67%) Platform Architect
8 4 (6.67%) React Developer
8 4 (6.67%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (26.67%) .NET
1 16 (26.67%) ASP.NET
2 15 (25.00%) CSS
3 10 (16.67%) jQuery
4 7 (11.67%) REST
5 5 (8.33%) .NET Core
5 5 (8.33%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (8.33%) React
6 3 (5.00%) Google JAX
6 3 (5.00%) JAX
6 3 (5.00%) PyTorch
6 3 (5.00%) TensorFlow
7 2 (3.33%) HTML
8 1 (1.67%) EDI
8 1 (1.67%) Node.js
8 1 (1.67%) OAuth
8 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
8 1 (1.67%) RESTful
8 1 (1.67%) SOAP
8 1 (1.67%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Algorithms
3 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.00%) CUDA
4 3 (5.00%) Data Structures
4 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
5 2 (3.33%) Robotics
6 1 (1.67%) Biopharmaceutical
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.67%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.67%) IoT
6 1 (1.67%) Life Science
6 1 (1.67%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.67%) Omics
6 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 10 (16.67%) Linux
3 4 (6.67%) Mac OS
3 4 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 43 (71.67%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (33.33%) Agile
4 14 (23.33%) MVC
5 11 (18.33%) AI
6 10 (16.67%) OO
6 10 (16.67%) OOP
6 10 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 10 (16.67%) Task Automation
7 9 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (15.00%) DevOps
8 8 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (13.33%) ITSM
8 8 (13.33%) System Testing
8 8 (13.33%) User Experience
9 7 (11.67%) High Availability
10 6 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
10 6 (10.00%) Information Security
11 5 (8.33%) Critical Thinking
11 5 (8.33%) Data Pipeline
Programming Languages
1 28 (46.67%) Python
2 22 (36.67%) Java
3 15 (25.00%) C#
4 11 (18.33%) C++
5 10 (16.67%) PHP
5 10 (16.67%) SQL
6 6 (10.00%) JavaScript
7 5 (8.33%) PowerShell
8 4 (6.67%) Bash
9 1 (1.67%) C
9 1 (1.67%) R
9 1 (1.67%) Rust
9 1 (1.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 57 (95.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.33%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.67%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.67%) CEH
5 1 (1.67%) CISA
5 1 (1.67%) CISM
5 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.67%) CSPO
5 1 (1.67%) MCP
5 1 (1.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.67%) CDISC
3 1 (1.67%) DICOM
3 1 (1.67%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.67%) HL7
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) NIST
3 1 (1.67%) QA
3 1 (1.67%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.67%) Hyper-V
3 4 (6.67%) vSphere
4 2 (3.33%) Docker
5 1 (1.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (6.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) Ansible
3 1 (1.67%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 11 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.33%) VMware
3 4 (6.67%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (6.67%) Dell
3 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
3 4 (6.67%) Palo Alto
3 4 (6.67%) Veeam
4 3 (5.00%) Oracle
4 3 (5.00%) StreamSets
5 2 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Veritas