Computer Science Job Trends in the East of England

Computer Science
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 86 65 32
Rank change year-on-year -21 -33 +3
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 133 135 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.67% 3.98% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.39% 4.60% 6.24%
Number of salaries quoted 100 82 104
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £28,875 £43,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £56,000 £53,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £60,550 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,350 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.91% -8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,576 2,937 3,300
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.89% 86.64% 74.21%
Number of salaries quoted 4,084 1,562 1,783
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £53,250
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -15.49% -1.39%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £89,850 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -7.26%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the East of England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the East of England over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the East of England

Computer Science
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 within the East of England region over the 6 months to 16 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
Cambridgeshire -20 41 £47,500 +11.76% 208
Essex -24 36 £25,000 -9.09% 29
Hertfordshire -30 28 £53,750 +22.16% 46
Bedfordshire -1 16 £37,500 -16.67% 24
Norfolk - 9 £47,500 - 3
Suffolk -1 3 £50,000 +6.95% 12
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.50%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.50%) IIS
2 2 (1.50%) Luigi
2 2 (1.50%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 41 (30.83%) Azure
2 16 (12.03%) AWS
3 9 (6.77%) Entra ID
3 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.01%) GCP
5 4 (3.01%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.01%) Serverless
6 3 (2.26%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.50%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.50%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.50%) GitHub
7 2 (1.50%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.50%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.50%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.50%) SaaS
8 1 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) DHCP
1 7 (5.26%) DNS
1 7 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 5 (3.76%) Firewall
3 4 (3.01%) WAN
3 4 (3.01%) Wireless
4 3 (2.26%) Ethernet
4 3 (2.26%) LAN
4 3 (2.26%) VLAN
4 3 (2.26%) VPN
5 2 (1.50%) SSL
6 1 (0.75%) 5G
6 1 (0.75%) Broadband
6 1 (0.75%) LTE
6 1 (0.75%) Network Security
6 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.03%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.51%) MySQL
2 6 (4.51%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.01%) Power BI
4 3 (2.26%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.26%) SQLite
5 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.50%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.50%) Big Data
5 2 (1.50%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Git
2 3 (2.26%) LabVIEW
3 2 (1.50%) JIRA
4 1 (0.75%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.75%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (33.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.29%) Finance
3 16 (12.03%) Electronics
4 12 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.51%) Automotive
6 5 (3.76%) Legal
6 5 (3.76%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.26%) Games
8 3 (2.26%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.75%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.75%) Law
10 1 (0.75%) Military
10 1 (0.75%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.75%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 33 (24.81%) Developer
2 28 (21.05%) Graduate
3 23 (17.29%) Software Developer
4 21 (15.79%) Software Engineer
5 19 (14.29%) Graduate Developer
6 16 (12.03%) Graduate Software Developer
7 15 (11.28%) Lead
8 14 (10.53%) C# Developer
8 14 (10.53%) Graduate C# Developer
9 12 (9.02%) IT Support
10 11 (8.27%) C# Software Developer
10 11 (8.27%) Graduate C# Software Developer
10 11 (8.27%) Graduate SQL Developer
10 11 (8.27%) Junior
10 11 (8.27%) SQL Developer
11 9 (6.77%) Embedded Engineer
11 9 (6.77%) Graduate PHP Developer
11 9 (6.77%) PHP Developer
12 8 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (6.02%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.77%) CSS
2 10 (7.52%) .NET
3 8 (6.02%) ASP.NET
4 7 (5.26%) HTML
4 7 (5.26%) jQuery
5 6 (4.51%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.51%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (3.76%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (3.76%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.76%) REST
6 5 (3.76%) TensorFlow
6 5 (3.76%) Yocto
7 4 (3.01%) Google JAX
7 4 (3.01%) JAX
7 4 (3.01%) JSON
7 4 (3.01%) Keras
7 4 (3.01%) React
8 3 (2.26%) CSS3
8 3 (2.26%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.26%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 19 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.77%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (6.77%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.02%) IoT
4 7 (5.26%) FPGA
5 6 (4.51%) Robotics
6 5 (3.76%) Device Driver
7 4 (3.01%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.01%) Fat Client
7 4 (3.01%) FMCG
7 4 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.01%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.01%) PMI
7 4 (3.01%) Thin Client
7 4 (3.01%) Virtual Team
8 3 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.26%) Handset
8 3 (2.26%) Raspberry Pi
9 2 (1.50%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 23 (17.29%) Windows
2 20 (15.04%) Linux
3 11 (8.27%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.01%) Android
4 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.75%) Robot Operating System
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.35%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (33.08%) Software Engineering
3 22 (16.54%) Mentoring
4 21 (15.79%) Agile
4 21 (15.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (15.04%) MVC
6 18 (13.53%) AI
6 18 (13.53%) OO
6 18 (13.53%) OOP
7 14 (10.53%) Mathematics
8 11 (8.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 11 (8.27%) Machine Learning
8 11 (8.27%) Physics
9 10 (7.52%) Clean Code
9 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
10 9 (6.77%) DevOps
10 9 (6.77%) User Experience
11 8 (6.02%) Collaborative Working
11 8 (6.02%) Presales
11 8 (6.02%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 33 (24.81%) SQL
2 32 (24.06%) C#
3 30 (22.56%) C++
4 26 (19.55%) Python
5 18 (13.53%) PHP
6 14 (10.53%) Java
7 12 (9.02%) C
8 11 (8.27%) JavaScript
9 8 (6.02%) Embedded C++
9 8 (6.02%) PowerShell
10 5 (3.76%) Embedded C
11 4 (3.01%) Rust
11 4 (3.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (1.50%) Scala
13 1 (0.75%) Bash
13 1 (0.75%) Erlang
13 1 (0.75%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.75%) VB
Qualifications
1 105 (78.95%) Degree
2 57 (42.86%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.02%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.77%) DBS Check
5 8 (6.02%) HND
5 8 (6.02%) Master's Degree
6 6 (4.51%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.51%) HNC
7 4 (3.01%) CCNA
7 4 (3.01%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.01%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.01%) PhD
7 4 (3.01%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.26%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.26%) CCNP
8 3 (2.26%) CISSP
9 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.77%) SLA
2 8 (6.02%) QA
3 4 (3.01%) Data Quality
3 4 (3.01%) GDPR
3 4 (3.01%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.50%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.50%) NIST
System Software
1 9 (6.77%) Active Directory
1 9 (6.77%) Firmware
2 4 (3.01%) Docker
3 3 (2.26%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.75%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.75%) Slurm Workload Manager
4 1 (0.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.75%) Ansible
2 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.75%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.01%) Oracle
3 3 (2.26%) Apple
4 2 (1.50%) Databricks
4 2 (1.50%) Google
4 2 (1.50%) Splunk
4 2 (1.50%) Tenable
5 1 (0.75%) Cisco
5 1 (0.75%) Fortinet