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 7 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 63 32
Rank change year-on-year -26 -31 -4
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 130 128 209
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.56% 3.84% 4.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 4.45% 6.31%
Number of salaries quoted 94 78 95
10th Percentile £24,300 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £28,438 £30,313 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,891 £44,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.30% -16.19% -13.65%
75th Percentile £59,000 £53,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £71,375 £63,250 £78,750
England median annual salary £59,511 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.20% -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 5,824 2,877 3,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.03% 86.24% 75.64%
Number of salaries quoted 4,275 1,521 1,563
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £31,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £45,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.56% -18.18% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £60,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,205 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.64%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 -23 41 £47,500 +11.76% 187
Essex -27 31 £25,000 -17.36% 19
Hertfordshire -28 28 £60,000 +36.36% 31
Bedfordshire +2 18 £37,500 -16.67% 16
Norfolk -20 9 £47,500 - 8
Suffolk -5 3 £50,000 +6.95% 10
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 (2.31%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.31%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.54%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.54%) IIS
2 2 (1.54%) Luigi
Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 32 (24.62%) Azure
2 9 (6.92%) AWS
3 8 (6.15%) Entra ID
3 8 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.85%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (3.08%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.31%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.54%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.54%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.54%) GCP
7 2 (1.54%) GitHub
7 2 (1.54%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.54%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.54%) Google Workspace
7 2 (1.54%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.15%) DHCP
1 8 (6.15%) DNS
2 7 (5.38%) TCP/IP
3 4 (3.08%) Ethernet
3 4 (3.08%) Firewall
3 4 (3.08%) Wireless
4 3 (2.31%) LAN
4 3 (2.31%) VLAN
4 3 (2.31%) VPN
4 3 (2.31%) WAN
5 1 (0.77%) 5G
5 1 (0.77%) Broadband
5 1 (0.77%) Kerberos
5 1 (0.77%) LTE
5 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.77%) Software-Defined Radio
5 1 (0.77%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.62%) MySQL
2 6 (4.62%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.08%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.08%) Power BI
4 3 (2.31%) SQLite
5 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.77%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.15%) Git
2 3 (2.31%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.77%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 18 (13.85%) Electronics
3 14 (10.77%) Finance
4 13 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.38%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.62%) Automotive
7 5 (3.85%) Legal
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Games
9 3 (2.31%) Multimedia
9 3 (2.31%) Retail
9 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.54%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.77%) Law
11 1 (0.77%) Military
11 1 (0.77%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 26 (20.00%) Developer
2 22 (16.92%) Graduate
2 22 (16.92%) Software Engineer
3 17 (13.08%) Software Developer
4 13 (10.00%) Graduate Developer
4 13 (10.00%) Lead
4 13 (10.00%) Senior
5 12 (9.23%) Junior
6 11 (8.46%) C# Developer
6 11 (8.46%) Graduate C# Developer
7 10 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
7 10 (7.69%) Graduate Software Developer
8 9 (6.92%) IT Support
9 8 (6.15%) C# Software Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 8 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (6.15%) SQL Developer
10 7 (5.38%) PHP Developer
10 7 (5.38%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) .NET
1 10 (7.69%) CSS
2 8 (6.15%) ASP.NET
3 7 (5.38%) HTML
4 6 (4.62%) .NET Framework
4 6 (4.62%) ASP.NET MVC
4 6 (4.62%) PyTorch
4 6 (4.62%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.62%) Yocto
5 5 (3.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 5 (3.85%) Google JAX
5 5 (3.85%) JAX
6 4 (3.08%) jQuery
6 4 (3.08%) Keras
6 4 (3.08%) React
6 4 (3.08%) REST
7 3 (2.31%) CSS3
7 3 (2.31%) Entity Framework
7 3 (2.31%) HTML5
7 3 (2.31%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.15%) Algorithms
2 10 (7.69%) Embedded Systems
3 9 (6.92%) FPGA
3 9 (6.92%) IoT
4 8 (6.15%) Onboarding
5 7 (5.38%) Robotics
6 6 (4.62%) Device Driver
7 5 (3.85%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (3.08%) Fat Client
8 4 (3.08%) FMCG
8 4 (3.08%) Linux Command Line
8 4 (3.08%) Mobile App
8 4 (3.08%) PMI
8 4 (3.08%) Thin Client
9 3 (2.31%) Data Structures
9 3 (2.31%) Handset
9 3 (2.31%) PCIe
9 3 (2.31%) Raspberry Pi
10 2 (1.54%) Low-Code
10 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 22 (16.92%) Linux
1 22 (16.92%) Windows
2 12 (9.23%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (3.08%) Android
3 4 (3.08%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.77%) CentOS
5 1 (0.77%) Debian
5 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.77%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.77%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.77%) Unix
5 1 (0.77%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (41.54%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (33.08%) Software Engineering
3 25 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (16.92%) Mentoring
5 18 (13.85%) AI
6 16 (12.31%) Agile
7 15 (11.54%) OO
7 15 (11.54%) OOP
8 14 (10.77%) Mathematics
8 14 (10.77%) MVC
9 13 (10.00%) Physics
10 12 (9.23%) Machine Learning
11 11 (8.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 9 (6.92%) Code Quality
12 9 (6.92%) Cybersecurity
13 8 (6.15%) Project Delivery
13 8 (6.15%) Roadmaps
13 8 (6.15%) User Experience
14 7 (5.38%) Clean Code
14 7 (5.38%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 27 (20.77%) C++
1 27 (20.77%) SQL
2 26 (20.00%) C#
2 26 (20.00%) Python
3 14 (10.77%) C
4 12 (9.23%) PHP
5 11 (8.46%) Java
5 11 (8.46%) JavaScript
6 9 (6.92%) Embedded C++
7 8 (6.15%) PowerShell
8 6 (4.62%) Embedded C
9 5 (3.85%) Rust
9 5 (3.85%) Shell Script
10 2 (1.54%) Scala
11 1 (0.77%) Bash
11 1 (0.77%) Erlang
11 1 (0.77%) Fortran
11 1 (0.77%) MATLAB
11 1 (0.77%) SystemVerilog
11 1 (0.77%) VB
Qualifications
1 101 (77.69%) Degree
2 52 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (10.00%) Security Cleared
4 9 (6.92%) Master's Degree
5 8 (6.15%) HND
6 7 (5.38%) DBS Check
7 6 (4.62%) DV Cleared
7 6 (4.62%) HNC
7 6 (4.62%) PhD
8 4 (3.08%) ISTQB
8 4 (3.08%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.31%) CCNA
9 3 (2.31%) CCNP
9 3 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (1.54%) CISSP
10 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.54%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.15%) QA
2 7 (5.38%) SLA
3 4 (3.08%) GDPR
3 4 (3.08%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.54%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.54%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (7.69%) Firmware
2 9 (6.92%) Active Directory
3 4 (3.08%) Docker
4 3 (2.31%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (1.54%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.77%) Ceph
6 1 (0.77%) Lustre
6 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.77%) NFS
6 1 (0.77%) Samba
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (1.54%) Ansible
2 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.77%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (0.77%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.08%) Apple
2 4 (3.08%) Oracle
3 2 (1.54%) Databricks
3 2 (1.54%) Google
3 2 (1.54%) Tenable
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat