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 24 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 56 47
Rank change year-on-year -18 -9 -7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 131 156 266
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.06% 5.03% 3.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.93% 5.48% 5.04%
Number of salaries quoted 94 103 189
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £31,875 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,250 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +11.11% -18.18%
75th Percentile £55,690 £57,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £64,625 £73,700 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,565 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% -7.39% -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 4,476 2,848 5,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.37% 91.84% 77.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3,085 1,439 3,946
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,359 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.72% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,200 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 -10 46 £25,000 -23.08% 9
Cambridgeshire -37 32 £59,450 +39.88% 28
Hertfordshire -24 29 £50,000 -11.11% 9
Bedfordshire +6 16 £35,750 -32.55% 2
Suffolk +2 5 £46,750 -15.00% 1
Norfolk -22 3 £56,000 -6.74% 1
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 8 (6.11%) SAS
2 3 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.53%) Luigi
3 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.76%) Apache
4 1 (0.76%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.76%) Confluence
4 1 (0.76%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 38 (29.01%) Azure
2 25 (19.08%) AWS
3 10 (7.63%) Power Platform
3 10 (7.63%) Serverless
4 6 (4.58%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.58%) SaaS
5 3 (2.29%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.29%) GCP
5 3 (2.29%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.29%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.53%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.53%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.53%) GitHub
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (0.76%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.76%) Datadog
7 1 (0.76%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.76%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.82%) Firewall
2 4 (3.05%) WAN
3 3 (2.29%) DNS
3 3 (2.29%) SSL
3 3 (2.29%) Wireless
4 2 (1.53%) DHCP
4 2 (1.53%) LAN
4 2 (1.53%) Network Security
4 2 (1.53%) SD-WAN
4 2 (1.53%) TCP/IP
4 2 (1.53%) VLAN
4 2 (1.53%) VPN
5 1 (0.76%) AMQP
5 1 (0.76%) Bluetooth
5 1 (0.76%) Broadband
5 1 (0.76%) LTE
5 1 (0.76%) VoIP
5 1 (0.76%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.63%) Power BI
3 9 (6.87%) Big Data
4 8 (6.11%) MySQL
5 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.53%) Redis
6 1 (0.76%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.76%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.76%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.76%) Metadata
6 1 (0.76%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.76%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.11%) JIRA
2 4 (3.05%) Git
3 3 (2.29%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.76%) Zephyr
General
1 40 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 26 (19.85%) Finance
3 10 (7.63%) Electronics
4 8 (6.11%) Law
5 6 (4.58%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.82%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.05%) Legal
8 2 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.53%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.76%) Games
9 1 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.76%) Marketing
9 1 (0.76%) Retail
9 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.76%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (23.66%) Developer
2 27 (20.61%) Graduate
3 25 (19.08%) Software Developer
4 22 (16.79%) Graduate Developer
4 22 (16.79%) Graduate Software Developer
5 19 (14.50%) SQL Developer
6 18 (13.74%) Analyst
7 17 (12.98%) C# Developer
7 17 (12.98%) C# Software Developer
7 17 (12.98%) Graduate C# Developer
7 17 (12.98%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 17 (12.98%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 16 (12.21%) Lead
9 15 (11.45%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 15 (11.45%) PHP Developer
9 15 (11.45%) Software Engineer
10 10 (7.63%) IT Support
10 10 (7.63%) Product Analyst
10 10 (7.63%) Products Support Analyst
10 10 (7.63%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.92%) CSS
2 10 (7.63%) jQuery
3 7 (5.34%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.34%) React
3 7 (5.34%) REST
3 7 (5.34%) TensorFlow
4 5 (3.82%) Node.js
4 5 (3.82%) SOAP
5 4 (3.05%) Google JAX
5 4 (3.05%) HTML
5 4 (3.05%) JAX
5 4 (3.05%) JSON
6 3 (2.29%) AngularJS
6 3 (2.29%) OAuth
6 3 (2.29%) Vue
6 3 (2.29%) XML
7 2 (1.53%) .NET
7 2 (1.53%) Keras
7 2 (1.53%) OpenCV
7 2 (1.53%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 16 (12.21%) Onboarding
2 12 (9.16%) Low-Code
3 10 (7.63%) Algorithms
4 6 (4.58%) Driving Licence
4 6 (4.58%) Embedded Systems
5 4 (3.05%) CUDA
5 4 (3.05%) Virtual Team
6 3 (2.29%) Device Driver
6 3 (2.29%) IoT
6 3 (2.29%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.29%) Robotics
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.53%) Fat Client
7 2 (1.53%) FMCG
7 2 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.53%) PMI
7 2 (1.53%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.76%) Cyber Threat
8 1 (0.76%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 13 (9.92%) Linux
1 13 (9.92%) Windows
2 5 (3.82%) Embedded Linux
3 3 (2.29%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.53%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.76%) Android
5 1 (0.76%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.76%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.76%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (38.93%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (22.90%) Agile
3 28 (21.37%) Software Engineering
4 18 (13.74%) Mentoring
5 16 (12.21%) MVC
6 15 (11.45%) OOP
7 14 (10.69%) Cybersecurity
7 14 (10.69%) DevOps
8 12 (9.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 12 (9.16%) Customer Service
8 12 (9.16%) Data Engineering
9 11 (8.40%) ITSM
9 11 (8.40%) Machine Learning
9 11 (8.40%) Mathematics
10 10 (7.63%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (7.63%) Collaborative Working
11 9 (6.87%) CI/CD
11 9 (6.87%) Data Integration
11 9 (6.87%) Data Management
11 9 (6.87%) OO
Programming Languages
1 34 (25.95%) SQL
2 31 (23.66%) Python
3 29 (22.14%) C#
4 24 (18.32%) PHP
5 21 (16.03%) C++
6 20 (15.27%) Java
7 10 (7.63%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.11%) C
9 3 (2.29%) Embedded C
9 3 (2.29%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.29%) Shell Script
9 3 (2.29%) TypeScript
10 2 (1.53%) Embedded C++
10 2 (1.53%) Rust
10 2 (1.53%) Scala
11 1 (0.76%) Bash
11 1 (0.76%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.76%) Erlang
11 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 97 (74.05%) Degree
2 56 (42.75%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (11.45%) Master's Degree
4 12 (9.16%) DBS Check
5 7 (5.34%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.82%) HND
7 4 (3.05%) CCNA
7 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (2.29%) HNC
8 3 (2.29%) ISTQB
8 3 (2.29%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.29%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.53%) CCNP
9 2 (1.53%) CISSP
9 2 (1.53%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.53%) PhD
10 1 (0.76%) ISEB
10 1 (0.76%) PMP
10 1 (0.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.40%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.82%) SLA
3 4 (3.05%) QA
4 2 (1.53%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.76%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (6.11%) Firmware
2 6 (4.58%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.05%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.29%) Docker
5 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.82%) FTK
2 4 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.53%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.76%) Grafana
4 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (3.82%) Cellebrite
2 5 (3.82%) Oracle
3 3 (2.29%) Databricks
3 3 (2.29%) Splunk
4 2 (1.53%) Cisco
4 2 (1.53%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.53%) MuleSoft
4 2 (1.53%) Pega
4 2 (1.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.53%) SAP
4 2 (1.53%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.76%) Dell
5 1 (0.76%) Jitterbit
5 1 (0.76%) MikroTik
5 1 (0.76%) NVIDIA
5 1 (0.76%) SnapLogic