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 5 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 37 47
Rank change year-on-year -38 +10 -2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 115 145 250
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 1.99% 5.63% 4.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 6.09% 5.28%
Number of salaries quoted 89 100 177
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £28,650
25th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% +2.15%
75th Percentile £57,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £80,000 £87,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -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 4,148 2,379 4,731
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 71.70% 92.32% 82.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,442 1,395 3,568
10th Percentile £29,000 £28,500 £26,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -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 5 April 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 5 April 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 40 £25,000 -9.09% 27
Cambridgeshire -30 34 £47,500 -13.64% 34
Hertfordshire -26 20 £48,750 -17.37% 13
Suffolk +3 12 £46,750 -15.00% 8
Bedfordshire -6 8 £32,500 -38.68% 4
Norfolk -17 1 £32,500 -45.88% 3
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 (6.96%) SAS
2 6 (5.22%) Confluence
2 6 (5.22%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.87%) Apache
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.87%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.87%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (6.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.61%) InDesign
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.87%) Cognos Business Intelligence
Cloud Services
1 27 (23.48%) Azure
2 26 (22.61%) AWS
3 15 (13.04%) Power Platform
4 10 (8.70%) SaaS
4 10 (8.70%) Serverless
5 9 (7.83%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (5.22%) Entra ID
7 4 (3.48%) OneDrive
8 3 (2.61%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (2.61%) GCP
8 3 (2.61%) Power Automate
9 2 (1.74%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.74%) GitHub
9 2 (1.74%) H2O.ai
9 2 (1.74%) OpenShift
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon EMR
10 1 (0.87%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.87%) AWS CloudFormation
10 1 (0.87%) Datadog
10 1 (0.87%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.61%) SSL
1 3 (2.61%) Unified Communications
2 2 (1.74%) Firewall
2 2 (1.74%) Network Security
2 2 (1.74%) SD-WAN
2 2 (1.74%) WAN
3 1 (0.87%) AMQP
3 1 (0.87%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.87%) DNS
3 1 (0.87%) Internet
3 1 (0.87%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.87%) LTE
3 1 (0.87%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.87%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (13.04%) Power BI
2 14 (12.17%) SQL Server
3 9 (7.83%) Big Data
3 9 (7.83%) MySQL
4 3 (2.61%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (2.61%) Metadata
4 3 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.61%) Redis
5 2 (1.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.87%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.87%) Cognos Connection
6 1 (0.87%) Cognos Event Studio
6 1 (0.87%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (0.87%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.87%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.87%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.87%) OLAP
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 13 (11.30%) JIRA
2 4 (3.48%) Git
3 1 (0.87%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.87%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.87%) LoadRunner
3 1 (0.87%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (28.70%) Social Skills
2 23 (20.00%) Finance
3 8 (6.96%) Law
4 7 (6.09%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.48%) Electronics
5 4 (3.48%) Marketing
5 4 (3.48%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.61%) Manufacturing
7 2 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.87%) Games
8 1 (0.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.87%) Publishing
8 1 (0.87%) Retail
8 1 (0.87%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.87%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.87%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 26 (22.61%) Developer
2 25 (21.74%) Analyst
3 21 (18.26%) Graduate
3 21 (18.26%) Software Developer
4 19 (16.52%) Graduate Developer
4 19 (16.52%) Graduate Software Developer
5 17 (14.78%) SQL Developer
6 16 (13.91%) C# Developer
6 16 (13.91%) C# Software Developer
6 16 (13.91%) Graduate C# Developer
6 16 (13.91%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 15 (13.04%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 15 (13.04%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 15 (13.04%) PHP Developer
8 14 (12.17%) Business Analyst
9 10 (8.70%) Lead
9 10 (8.70%) Product Analyst
9 10 (8.70%) Products Support Analyst
9 10 (8.70%) Support Analyst
9 10 (8.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (13.04%) CSS
2 12 (10.43%) TensorFlow
3 10 (8.70%) jQuery
3 10 (8.70%) PyTorch
4 9 (7.83%) REST
5 8 (6.96%) React
6 7 (6.09%) Google JAX
6 7 (6.09%) JAX
7 6 (5.22%) Node.js
7 6 (5.22%) SOAP
8 5 (4.35%) Keras
8 5 (4.35%) XML
9 4 (3.48%) .NET
9 4 (3.48%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.48%) Vue
10 3 (2.61%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.61%) HTML
10 3 (2.61%) JSON
10 3 (2.61%) OAuth
11 2 (1.74%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 18 (15.65%) Onboarding
2 14 (12.17%) Driving Licence
3 13 (11.30%) Low-Code
4 7 (6.09%) CUDA
5 5 (4.35%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.48%) Algorithms
6 4 (3.48%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (2.61%) Social Media
7 3 (2.61%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.61%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (1.74%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.74%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.74%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.74%) Life Science
9 1 (0.87%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.87%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.87%) IoT
9 1 (0.87%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.35%) Windows
2 4 (3.48%) Linux
3 2 (1.74%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.87%) Android
4 1 (0.87%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.87%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.87%) FreeRTOS
4 1 (0.87%) ThreadX
4 1 (0.87%) Unix
4 1 (0.87%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (31.30%) Agile
2 35 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (16.52%) Business Intelligence
3 19 (16.52%) Software Engineering
4 15 (13.04%) Machine Learning
4 15 (13.04%) MVC
5 13 (11.30%) DevOps
6 11 (9.57%) Data Engineering
6 11 (9.57%) SDLC
7 10 (8.70%) Customer Service
7 10 (8.70%) Data Integration
7 10 (8.70%) Data Management
7 10 (8.70%) ITSM
7 10 (8.70%) Mathematics
7 10 (8.70%) OOP
7 10 (8.70%) Physics
8 9 (7.83%) AI
8 9 (7.83%) Collaborative Culture
8 9 (7.83%) Cybersecurity
9 8 (6.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 28 (24.35%) Python
2 23 (20.00%) SQL
3 21 (18.26%) C#
4 19 (16.52%) Java
4 19 (16.52%) PHP
5 14 (12.17%) C++
6 11 (9.57%) JavaScript
7 3 (2.61%) Ada
7 3 (2.61%) Ada 95
7 3 (2.61%) C
7 3 (2.61%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.87%) Embedded C
8 1 (0.87%) Rust
8 1 (0.87%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 93 (80.87%) Degree
2 47 (40.87%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (12.17%) Master's Degree
4 8 (6.96%) DBS Check
5 6 (5.22%) Security Cleared
6 5 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (3.48%) Numerate Degree
7 4 (3.48%) PhD
8 3 (2.61%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (2.61%) PMI Certification
8 3 (2.61%) PMP
8 3 (2.61%) Postgraduate
9 2 (1.74%) CCNA
9 2 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.74%) CISSP
10 1 (0.87%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.87%) ISEB
10 1 (0.87%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.70%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.61%) ISO 9001
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.61%) QA
2 3 (2.61%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (6.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (2.61%) Docker
3 2 (1.74%) Firmware
4 1 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (5.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (4.35%) FTK
3 2 (1.74%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.87%) Grafana
4 1 (0.87%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.87%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.30%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.35%) Cellebrite
2 5 (4.35%) Cisco
3 4 (3.48%) Splunk
4 3 (2.61%) Adobe
4 3 (2.61%) MuleSoft
4 3 (2.61%) Pega
4 3 (2.61%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.61%) SAP
4 3 (2.61%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.61%) Zoho
5 2 (1.74%) Databricks
5 2 (1.74%) Dell
5 2 (1.74%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.74%) NVIDIA
5 2 (1.74%) Oracle
6 1 (0.87%) Cognos
6 1 (0.87%) Huawei
6 1 (0.87%) IBM
6 1 (0.87%) MikroTik