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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 64 31
Rank change year-on-year -24 -33 +1
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 131 132 203
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.61% 3.94% 4.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.31% 4.57% 6.16%
Number of salaries quoted 99 79 100
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £29,875 £43,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £44,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -12.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £55,380 £53,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £61,100 £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 5,683 2,889 3,295
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 69.85% 86.29% 74.77%
Number of salaries quoted 4,170 1,533 1,700
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £37,313 £31,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -16.67% -1.82%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £75,000 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -5.17% -6.94%

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 23 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 23 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 -30 41 £47,500 +11.76% 167
Essex -21 34 £25,000 -13.04% 17
Hertfordshire -34 28 £53,750 +22.16% 36
Bedfordshire +1 16 £37,500 -16.67% 11
Norfolk - 9 £47,500 - 9
Suffolk -8 3 £50,000 +6.95% 8
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 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (2.29%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.53%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.53%) IIS
2 2 (1.53%) Luigi
3 1 (0.76%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 39 (29.77%) Azure
2 13 (9.92%) AWS
3 9 (6.87%) Entra ID
3 9 (6.87%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.82%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (3.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.29%) GCP
6 3 (2.29%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.29%) Serverless
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Functions
7 2 (1.53%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (1.53%) ChatGPT
7 2 (1.53%) GitHub
7 2 (1.53%) Google Gemini
7 2 (1.53%) Google Sheets
7 2 (1.53%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.76%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.11%) DHCP
1 8 (6.11%) DNS
2 7 (5.34%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.82%) Firewall
4 4 (3.05%) WAN
4 4 (3.05%) Wireless
5 3 (2.29%) Ethernet
5 3 (2.29%) LAN
5 3 (2.29%) VLAN
5 3 (2.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.76%) 5G
6 1 (0.76%) Broadband
6 1 (0.76%) Kerberos
6 1 (0.76%) LTE
6 1 (0.76%) Network Security
6 1 (0.76%) Remote Desktop
6 1 (0.76%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.76%) Software-Defined Radio
6 1 (0.76%) SSL
6 1 (0.76%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.45%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.58%) MySQL
2 6 (4.58%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.05%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (3.05%) Power BI
4 3 (2.29%) SQLite
5 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.53%) Azure SQL Database
5 2 (1.53%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.76%) Big Data
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (6.11%) Git
2 3 (2.29%) LabVIEW
3 1 (0.76%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 45 (34.35%) Social Skills
2 17 (12.98%) Finance
3 16 (12.21%) Electronics
4 12 (9.16%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.58%) Automotive
6 5 (3.82%) Legal
6 5 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (3.05%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.29%) Games
8 3 (2.29%) Multimedia
8 3 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.76%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.76%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Military
10 1 (0.76%) Social Housing
10 1 (0.76%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 32 (24.43%) Developer
2 27 (20.61%) Graduate
3 22 (16.79%) Software Developer
4 21 (16.03%) Software Engineer
5 18 (13.74%) Graduate Developer
6 15 (11.45%) Graduate Software Developer
7 14 (10.69%) Lead
8 13 (9.92%) C# Developer
8 13 (9.92%) Graduate C# Developer
9 12 (9.16%) Junior
10 11 (8.40%) IT Support
11 10 (7.63%) C# Software Developer
11 10 (7.63%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 10 (7.63%) Graduate SQL Developer
11 10 (7.63%) SQL Developer
12 9 (6.87%) Embedded Engineer
12 9 (6.87%) Graduate PHP Developer
12 9 (6.87%) PHP Developer
13 8 (6.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (6.11%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.16%) CSS
2 10 (7.63%) .NET
3 8 (6.11%) ASP.NET
4 7 (5.34%) HTML
5 6 (4.58%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.58%) ASP.NET MVC
5 6 (4.58%) jQuery
5 6 (4.58%) PyTorch
5 6 (4.58%) TensorFlow
6 5 (3.82%) ASP.NET Core
6 5 (3.82%) Google JAX
6 5 (3.82%) JAX
6 5 (3.82%) Yocto
7 4 (3.05%) Keras
7 4 (3.05%) React
7 4 (3.05%) REST
8 3 (2.29%) CSS3
8 3 (2.29%) Entity Framework
8 3 (2.29%) HTML5
8 3 (2.29%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.27%) Algorithms
2 9 (6.87%) Embedded Systems
2 9 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 8 (6.11%) IoT
4 7 (5.34%) FPGA
5 6 (4.58%) Robotics
6 5 (3.82%) Device Driver
7 4 (3.05%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.05%) Fat Client
7 4 (3.05%) FMCG
7 4 (3.05%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (3.05%) Mobile App
7 4 (3.05%) PMI
7 4 (3.05%) Thin Client
8 3 (2.29%) Data Structures
8 3 (2.29%) Handset
8 3 (2.29%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (2.29%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.53%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.53%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 24 (18.32%) Windows
2 21 (16.03%) Linux
3 11 (8.40%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.05%) Android
4 4 (3.05%) Apple iOS
5 3 (2.29%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.53%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.76%) CentOS
7 1 (0.76%) Debian
7 1 (0.76%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.76%) Robot Operating System
7 1 (0.76%) Unix
7 1 (0.76%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (41.98%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (32.82%) Software Engineering
3 22 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
4 21 (16.03%) Mentoring
5 19 (14.50%) Agile
5 19 (14.50%) MVC
6 18 (13.74%) AI
7 17 (12.98%) OO
7 17 (12.98%) OOP
8 14 (10.69%) Mathematics
9 12 (9.16%) Machine Learning
10 11 (8.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 11 (8.40%) Physics
11 10 (7.63%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (6.87%) Clean Code
12 9 (6.87%) User Experience
13 8 (6.11%) Code Quality
13 8 (6.11%) DevOps
13 8 (6.11%) Presales
13 8 (6.11%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (24.43%) SQL
2 31 (23.66%) C#
3 29 (22.14%) C++
4 26 (19.85%) Python
5 17 (12.98%) PHP
6 13 (9.92%) C
6 13 (9.92%) Java
7 11 (8.40%) JavaScript
8 8 (6.11%) Embedded C++
8 8 (6.11%) PowerShell
9 5 (3.82%) Embedded C
9 5 (3.82%) Shell Script
10 4 (3.05%) Rust
11 2 (1.53%) Scala
12 1 (0.76%) Bash
12 1 (0.76%) Erlang
12 1 (0.76%) Fortran
12 1 (0.76%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.76%) VB
Qualifications
1 103 (78.63%) Degree
2 55 (41.98%) Computer Science Degree
3 12 (9.16%) Security Cleared
4 8 (6.11%) DBS Check
4 8 (6.11%) HND
4 8 (6.11%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.58%) DV Cleared
5 6 (4.58%) HNC
6 5 (3.82%) PhD
7 4 (3.05%) CCNA
7 4 (3.05%) Cisco Certification
7 4 (3.05%) ISTQB
7 4 (3.05%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (2.29%) CCNP
8 3 (2.29%) CISSP
9 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.11%) QA
1 8 (6.11%) SLA
2 4 (3.05%) GDPR
2 4 (3.05%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (2.29%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.53%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (7.63%) Active Directory
2 9 (6.87%) Firmware
3 4 (3.05%) Docker
4 3 (2.29%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (1.53%) Slurm Workload Manager
6 1 (0.76%) Ceph
6 1 (0.76%) Lustre
6 1 (0.76%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 1 (0.76%) NFS
6 1 (0.76%) Samba
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.76%) Ansible
2 1 (0.76%) FortiGate
2 1 (0.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.76%) Oracle ZFS
2 1 (0.76%) Podman
Vendors
1 26 (19.85%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.05%) Apple
2 4 (3.05%) Oracle
3 2 (1.53%) Databricks
3 2 (1.53%) Google
3 2 (1.53%) Tenable
4 1 (0.76%) Cisco
4 1 (0.76%) Fortinet
4 1 (0.76%) Red Hat
4 1 (0.76%) Splunk