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 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 31 40
Rank change year-on-year -41 +9 -8
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 93 213 122
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.25% 6.06% 4.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 6.95% 5.76%
Number of salaries quoted 64 102 58
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £35,125
25th Percentile £28,313 £47,188 £57,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £58,000 £68,250
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% -15.02% +18.70%
75th Percentile £51,250 £76,875 £82,188
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £91,625
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 3,069 3,066 2,118
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 74.40% 87.23% 86.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,797 1,192 1,583
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £42,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% -1.82%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,700 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 12 January 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 12 January 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 -2 27 £27,500 -52.59% 39
Cambridgeshire -22 27 £45,000 -37.93% 70
Suffolk -4 17 £46,750 -15.00% 30
Hertfordshire -21 17 £47,500 -5.00% 42
Bedfordshire +6 4 £45,000 -10.00% 29
Norfolk +2 1 - - 28
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 6 (6.45%) Confluence
1 6 (6.45%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.08%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.23%) InDesign
3 3 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.23%) Simulink
4 2 (2.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.08%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.35%) Azure
2 17 (18.28%) Power Platform
3 10 (10.75%) AWS
4 8 (8.60%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (5.38%) Entra ID
6 4 (4.30%) OneDrive
6 4 (4.30%) SaaS
7 2 (2.15%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.08%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.08%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.08%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.08%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.08%) dbt
8 1 (1.08%) H2O.ai
8 1 (1.08%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.08%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.30%) SAN
2 3 (3.23%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.15%) FTP
3 2 (2.15%) Internet
3 2 (2.15%) SSL
4 1 (1.08%) DHCP
4 1 (1.08%) DNS
4 1 (1.08%) Firewall
4 1 (1.08%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.08%) Network Security
4 1 (1.08%) NGFW
4 1 (1.08%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.28%) Power BI
2 12 (12.90%) SQL Server
3 10 (10.75%) MySQL
4 3 (3.23%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.23%) Redis
5 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.15%) Metadata
6 1 (1.08%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.08%) Cognos Connection
6 1 (1.08%) Cognos Event Studio
6 1 (1.08%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (1.08%) Data Lake
6 1 (1.08%) OLAP
6 1 (1.08%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.08%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.08%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.45%) JIRA
2 1 (1.08%) Git
2 1 (1.08%) GitLab
2 1 (1.08%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.08%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.08%) Postman
2 1 (1.08%) SoapUI
General
1 25 (26.88%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (17.20%) Finance
3 6 (6.45%) Marketing
3 6 (6.45%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.38%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.38%) Electronics
5 3 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.15%) Law
6 2 (2.15%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.15%) Retail
7 1 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.08%) Legal
7 1 (1.08%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (24.73%) Analyst
2 17 (18.28%) Business Analyst
2 17 (18.28%) Graduate
3 16 (17.20%) Developer
4 11 (11.83%) Graduate Developer
5 10 (10.75%) IT Graduate
6 9 (9.68%) IT Support
7 8 (8.60%) C# Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Graduate C# Developer
7 8 (8.60%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 8 (8.60%) PHP Developer
8 7 (7.53%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Consultant
8 7 (7.53%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Graduate Software Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 7 (7.53%) Machine Learning Consultant
8 7 (7.53%) Senior
8 7 (7.53%) Software Developer
8 7 (7.53%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.98%) CSS
2 10 (10.75%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.68%) .NET
4 8 (8.60%) ASP.NET
4 8 (8.60%) jQuery
4 8 (8.60%) PyTorch
4 8 (8.60%) React
5 7 (7.53%) Google JAX
5 7 (7.53%) JAX
5 7 (7.53%) REST
6 4 (4.30%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.30%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.30%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (4.30%) Vue
7 3 (3.23%) Keras
7 3 (3.23%) Node.js
7 3 (3.23%) SOAP
8 2 (2.15%) EDI
8 2 (2.15%) XML
9 1 (1.08%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.28%) Driving Licence
2 10 (10.75%) Algorithms
3 7 (7.53%) CUDA
3 7 (7.53%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.45%) Cyber Threat
4 6 (6.45%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.38%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.30%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.30%) Social Media
7 3 (3.23%) Arduino
7 3 (3.23%) Life Science
7 3 (3.23%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.23%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (3.23%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.15%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (2.15%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.08%) Verilog
9 1 (1.08%) VHDL
9 1 (1.08%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.75%) Linux
2 7 (7.53%) Windows
3 5 (5.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.08%) Android
4 1 (1.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (30.11%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (26.88%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (21.51%) Agile
4 19 (20.43%) AI
5 18 (19.35%) Physics
6 17 (18.28%) Mathematics
7 16 (17.20%) Software Engineering
8 13 (13.98%) Machine Learning
9 12 (12.90%) MVC
10 9 (9.68%) Computer Vision
10 9 (9.68%) SDLC
11 8 (8.60%) OOP
11 8 (8.60%) User Experience
12 7 (7.53%) Customer Service
12 7 (7.53%) Full-Stack Development
12 7 (7.53%) Innovative Thinking
12 7 (7.53%) Prototyping
12 7 (7.53%) Rapid Prototyping
12 7 (7.53%) Roadmaps
13 6 (6.45%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.81%) Python
2 16 (17.20%) C++
3 15 (16.13%) C#
3 15 (16.13%) Java
4 12 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.83%) C
5 11 (11.83%) PHP
6 10 (10.75%) SQL
7 3 (3.23%) Ada
7 3 (3.23%) Ada 95
7 3 (3.23%) Assembly Language
7 3 (3.23%) MATLAB
7 3 (3.23%) Objective-C
7 3 (3.23%) Swift
8 2 (2.15%) Rust
9 1 (1.08%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.08%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 85 (91.40%) Degree
2 34 (36.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (15.05%) Security Cleared
4 13 (13.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (9.68%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.30%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (4.30%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.23%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (2.15%) Master's Degree
8 2 (2.15%) PhD
8 2 (2.15%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.15%) PMP
9 1 (1.08%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.08%) CEH
9 1 (1.08%) CISA
9 1 (1.08%) CISM
9 1 (1.08%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.08%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.23%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.23%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.15%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.08%) NIST
4 1 (1.08%) QA
System Software
1 10 (10.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.45%) Firmware
3 5 (5.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.30%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.30%) vSphere
5 1 (1.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (4.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.08%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 13 (13.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.38%) Dell
2 5 (5.38%) VMware
3 4 (4.30%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (4.30%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.30%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.30%) Veeam
4 3 (3.23%) Adobe
4 3 (3.23%) Cisco
4 3 (3.23%) SAP
4 3 (3.23%) Zoho
5 1 (1.08%) Cognos
5 1 (1.08%) Google
5 1 (1.08%) Huawei
5 1 (1.08%) IBM
5 1 (1.08%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.08%) Oracle
5 1 (1.08%) Pega
5 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow