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 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 66 38
Rank change year-on-year -11 -28 -2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 140 139 192
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.83% 3.99% 4.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.60% 4.59% 5.67%
Number of salaries quoted 108 91 113
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,625
25th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £58,125 £57,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,841 £67,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 5,386 3,027 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.22% 86.98% 73.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3,952 1,640 2,055
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 2 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 2 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 -29 41 £47,500 +11.76% 156
Essex -19 40 £25,000 -18.03% 23
Hertfordshire -18 31 £55,000 -2.22% 33
Bedfordshire -1 16 £37,500 -16.67% 16
Norfolk -17 9 £47,500 -40.63%
Suffolk -10 3 £50,000 +3.36% 6
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 7 (5.00%) SAS
2 3 (2.14%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.14%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.43%) IIS
3 2 (1.43%) Luigi
4 1 (0.71%) Apache
4 1 (0.71%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 45 (32.14%) Azure
2 23 (16.43%) AWS
3 10 (7.14%) Serverless
4 9 (6.43%) Entra ID
4 9 (6.43%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.57%) GCP
5 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Copilot
5 5 (3.57%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.14%) GitHub
7 3 (2.14%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.14%) SaaS
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Data Factory
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Functions
8 2 (1.43%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (1.43%) ChatGPT
8 2 (1.43%) Google Gemini
8 2 (1.43%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.43%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.71%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.00%) DHCP
1 7 (5.00%) DNS
1 7 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (4.29%) Firewall
3 5 (3.57%) WAN
3 5 (3.57%) Wireless
4 3 (2.14%) Ethernet
4 3 (2.14%) LAN
4 3 (2.14%) SSL
4 3 (2.14%) VLAN
4 3 (2.14%) VPN
5 2 (1.43%) LTE
5 2 (1.43%) Network Security
5 2 (1.43%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.71%) 5G
6 1 (0.71%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.71%) Broadband
6 1 (0.71%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.71%) VoIP
6 1 (0.71%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (11.43%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.71%) Big Data
3 6 (4.29%) MySQL
3 6 (4.29%) Relational Database
4 5 (3.57%) Power BI
5 3 (2.14%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.14%) SQLite
6 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.71%) Amazon Redshift
7 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 1 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (6.43%) Git
2 5 (3.57%) JIRA
3 3 (2.14%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.71%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.71%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 24 (17.14%) Finance
3 17 (12.14%) Electronics
4 12 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.29%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (3.57%) Legal
6 5 (3.57%) Manufacturing
7 4 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.14%) Automotive
8 3 (2.14%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.71%) Games
10 1 (0.71%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Law
10 1 (0.71%) Military
10 1 (0.71%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
10 1 (0.71%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 34 (24.29%) Developer
2 32 (22.86%) Graduate
3 25 (17.86%) Software Developer
4 22 (15.71%) Graduate Developer
5 20 (14.29%) Lead
5 20 (14.29%) Software Engineer
6 19 (13.57%) Graduate Software Developer
7 17 (12.14%) C# Developer
7 17 (12.14%) Graduate C# Developer
8 14 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
8 14 (10.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 14 (10.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 14 (10.00%) SQL Developer
9 12 (8.57%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 12 (8.57%) IT Support
9 12 (8.57%) PHP Developer
10 11 (7.86%) Junior
11 9 (6.43%) Embedded Engineer
12 8 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (5.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.29%) CSS
2 10 (7.14%) .NET
3 8 (5.71%) ASP.NET
4 7 (5.00%) HTML
4 7 (5.00%) jQuery
5 6 (4.29%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.29%) ASP.NET MVC
6 5 (3.57%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (3.57%) JSON
6 5 (3.57%) PyTorch
6 5 (3.57%) REST
6 5 (3.57%) TensorFlow
7 4 (2.86%) Google JAX
7 4 (2.86%) JAX
7 4 (2.86%) React
7 4 (2.86%) Yocto
8 3 (2.14%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.14%) ASP.NET Web API
8 3 (2.14%) CSS3
8 3 (2.14%) Keras
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.14%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.43%) Embedded Systems
3 7 (5.00%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.29%) FPGA
5 5 (3.57%) Device Driver
5 5 (3.57%) IoT
5 5 (3.57%) Robotics
6 4 (2.86%) Cyber Threat
6 4 (2.86%) Fat Client
6 4 (2.86%) FMCG
6 4 (2.86%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.86%) PMI
6 4 (2.86%) Thin Client
6 4 (2.86%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.14%) Data Structures
7 3 (2.14%) Handset
8 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.43%) PCIe
8 2 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (17.14%) Windows
2 16 (11.43%) Linux
3 8 (5.71%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.14%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.71%) Android
6 1 (0.71%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.71%) FreeRTOS
6 1 (0.71%) Robot Operating System
6 1 (0.71%) ThreadX
6 1 (0.71%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (30.71%) Software Engineering
3 31 (22.14%) Agile
4 22 (15.71%) Mentoring
5 21 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (14.29%) MVC
7 18 (12.86%) OOP
8 15 (10.71%) DevOps
8 15 (10.71%) OO
9 14 (10.00%) Mathematics
10 12 (8.57%) AI
10 12 (8.57%) Collaborative Working
11 11 (7.86%) Cybersecurity
11 11 (7.86%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 10 (7.14%) Data Engineering
12 10 (7.14%) Machine Learning
12 10 (7.14%) Physics
13 9 (6.43%) Clean Code
13 9 (6.43%) User Experience
14 8 (5.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 37 (26.43%) SQL
2 35 (25.00%) C#
3 26 (18.57%) C++
4 24 (17.14%) Python
5 21 (15.00%) PHP
6 12 (8.57%) C
7 11 (7.86%) Java
7 11 (7.86%) JavaScript
8 8 (5.71%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.57%) Embedded C
10 4 (2.86%) Embedded C++
10 4 (2.86%) Shell Script
11 3 (2.14%) Rust
12 2 (1.43%) Scala
13 1 (0.71%) Bash
13 1 (0.71%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.71%) Erlang
13 1 (0.71%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.71%) VB
Qualifications
1 109 (77.86%) Degree
2 63 (45.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (10.00%) DBS Check
3 14 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 12 (8.57%) Security Cleared
5 8 (5.71%) HND
6 6 (4.29%) DV Cleared
6 6 (4.29%) HNC
7 5 (3.57%) CCNA
7 5 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.57%) ISTQB
8 4 (2.86%) CISSP
8 4 (2.86%) PhD
8 4 (2.86%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (2.14%) CCNP
10 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.43%) SC Cleared
11 1 (0.71%) ISEB
11 1 (0.71%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (7.14%) SLA
2 9 (6.43%) Data Quality
3 8 (5.71%) QA
4 4 (2.86%) GDPR
4 4 (2.86%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.43%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (1.43%) NIST
System Software
1 11 (7.86%) Firmware
2 9 (6.43%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.86%) Docker
3 4 (2.86%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (1.43%) FortiGate
1 2 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.71%) Grafana
2 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 27 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (2.86%) Oracle
3 3 (2.14%) Splunk
4 2 (1.43%) Cisco
4 2 (1.43%) Databricks
4 2 (1.43%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.43%) Google
4 2 (1.43%) Tenable