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 11 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 34 29
Rank change year-on-year -41 -5 -8
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 97 225 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.51% 5.73% 6.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.21% 6.86% 6.92%
Number of salaries quoted 66 108 69
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -7.69% +18.18%
75th Percentile £53,438 £78,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £85,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

All Process and 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 3,024 3,282 1,836
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.12% 83.53% 92.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,804 1,395 1,283
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,100 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% - -
75th Percentile £63,750 £73,750 £69,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £85,000
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 11 December 2025.

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 11 December 2025. 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 +1 35 £27,500 -52.79% 23
Cambridgeshire -32 23 £55,000 -21.43% 65
Hertfordshire -22 19 £47,500 - 31
Suffolk -12 15 £46,750 -23.05% 8
Bedfordshire +5 4 £45,000 -10.00% 9
Norfolk +8 1 - - 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 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.06%) Confluence
2 2 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.03%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.03%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.19%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.09%) InDesign
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.09%) Simulink
4 2 (2.06%) Chatbot
4 2 (2.06%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 23 (23.71%) Azure
2 16 (16.49%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.37%) AWS
4 5 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.12%) SaaS
6 2 (2.06%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.06%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.06%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.06%) Serverless
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.03%) BigCommerce
7 1 (1.03%) dbt
7 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.03%) GCP
7 1 (1.03%) H2O.ai
7 1 (1.03%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) SAN
2 3 (3.09%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.06%) FTP
3 2 (2.06%) Internet
3 2 (2.06%) SSL
4 1 (1.03%) DHCP
4 1 (1.03%) DNS
4 1 (1.03%) Firewall
4 1 (1.03%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.03%) Network Security
4 1 (1.03%) NGFW
4 1 (1.03%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.49%) Power BI
1 16 (16.49%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.40%) MySQL
3 3 (3.09%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.06%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.06%) Metadata
4 2 (2.06%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.03%) Cognos Connection
5 1 (1.03%) Cognos Event Studio
5 1 (1.03%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (1.03%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.03%) OLAP
5 1 (1.03%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.03%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.03%) Redis
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 3 (3.09%) JIRA
2 2 (2.06%) GitLab
2 2 (2.06%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.03%) CircleCI
3 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
3 1 (1.03%) Postman
3 1 (1.03%) SoapUI
General
1 32 (32.99%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Finance
3 14 (14.43%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.19%) Marketing
4 6 (6.19%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.15%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.12%) Electronics
6 4 (4.12%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.09%) Retail
8 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.06%) Law
8 2 (2.06%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.06%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.03%) Automotive
9 1 (1.03%) Legal
9 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.68%) Analyst
2 21 (21.65%) Graduate
3 19 (19.59%) Developer
4 15 (15.46%) Business Analyst
5 14 (14.43%) Graduate Developer
6 13 (13.40%) IT Graduate
7 8 (8.25%) C# Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Graduate C# Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 8 (8.25%) PHP Developer
7 8 (8.25%) Senior
8 7 (7.22%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Graduate Software Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Software Developer
8 7 (7.22%) SQL Developer
8 7 (7.22%) Technical Manager
9 6 (6.19%) IT Support
10 5 (5.15%) Graduate Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.49%) CSS
2 12 (12.37%) .NET
3 11 (11.34%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.34%) jQuery
4 6 (6.19%) REST
4 6 (6.19%) TensorFlow
5 5 (5.15%) PyTorch
5 5 (5.15%) React
6 4 (4.12%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.12%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (4.12%) Google JAX
6 4 (4.12%) JAX
7 2 (2.06%) EDI
7 2 (2.06%) HTML
7 2 (2.06%) Keras
7 2 (2.06%) Node.js
7 2 (2.06%) SOAP
7 2 (2.06%) XML
8 1 (1.03%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.03%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 15 (15.46%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.34%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.25%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.15%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.12%) CUDA
6 4 (4.12%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.12%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.12%) Social Media
7 3 (3.09%) Arduino
7 3 (3.09%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.09%) Life Science
7 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.09%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (3.09%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.09%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.03%) MISP
9 1 (1.03%) Omics
9 1 (1.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.28%) Linux
2 7 (7.22%) Windows
3 5 (5.15%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.03%) Android
4 1 (1.03%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.03%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (31.96%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (25.77%) Agile
3 24 (24.74%) Business Intelligence
4 20 (20.62%) AI
5 17 (17.53%) Mathematics
6 15 (15.46%) MVC
6 15 (15.46%) Software Engineering
7 14 (14.43%) Physics
8 11 (11.34%) OOP
9 10 (10.31%) OO
10 8 (8.25%) Machine Learning
11 7 (7.22%) Customer Service
11 7 (7.22%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (7.22%) Innovative Thinking
11 7 (7.22%) SDLC
12 6 (6.19%) Analytics
12 6 (6.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (6.19%) Mentoring
12 6 (6.19%) Roadmaps
12 6 (6.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.62%) C++
1 20 (20.62%) Python
2 19 (19.59%) Java
3 18 (18.56%) C#
4 14 (14.43%) PHP
4 14 (14.43%) SQL
5 11 (11.34%) C
6 8 (8.25%) JavaScript
7 3 (3.09%) Ada
7 3 (3.09%) Ada 95
7 3 (3.09%) Assembly Language
7 3 (3.09%) MATLAB
7 3 (3.09%) Objective-C
7 3 (3.09%) Swift
8 1 (1.03%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.03%) R
8 1 (1.03%) Rust
Qualifications
1 85 (87.63%) Degree
2 38 (39.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.40%) BPSS Clearance
3 13 (13.40%) Security Cleared
4 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
5 6 (6.19%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.12%) PhD
6 4 (4.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.09%) Chartered Engineer
8 2 (2.06%) Numerate Degree
9 1 (1.03%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.03%) CISA
9 1 (1.03%) CISM
9 1 (1.03%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.03%) CSPO
9 1 (1.03%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.03%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.03%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.09%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.09%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) QA
4 1 (1.03%) CDISC
4 1 (1.03%) DICOM
4 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.03%) HL7
4 1 (1.03%) NIST
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 7 (7.22%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.19%) Firmware
3 5 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.12%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.12%) vSphere
5 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.03%) Ansible
3 1 (1.03%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.03%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.15%) Dell
2 5 (5.15%) VMware
3 4 (4.12%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (4.12%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.12%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.12%) Veeam
4 3 (3.09%) Adobe
4 3 (3.09%) Cisco
4 3 (3.09%) Zoho
5 2 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Oracle
5 2 (2.06%) PayPal
5 2 (2.06%) SAP
6 1 (1.03%) Cognos
6 1 (1.03%) Databricks
6 1 (1.03%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.03%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.03%) Splunk
6 1 (1.03%) StreamSets