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 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 35 36
Rank change year-on-year -35 +1 -2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 100 200 193
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.28% 5.77% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.09% 6.57% 6.20%
Number of salaries quoted 70 92 110
10th Percentile £25,000 £41,375 £26,250
25th Percentile £26,250 £49,063 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £58,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -19.40% +22.11% -13.64%
75th Percentile £51,250 £75,625 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £87,500
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.80% -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 3,241 3,044 3,115
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 73.94% 87.77% 84.81%
Number of salaries quoted 1,913 1,187 2,460
10th Percentile £28,000 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £34,829 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -2 30 £26,250 -52.27% 30
Cambridgeshire -23 26 £45,000 -37.93% 54
Hertfordshire -24 20 £53,750 +2.38% 39
Suffolk +11 17 £46,750 -15.00% 26
Bedfordshire +6 6 £45,000 -15.09% 24
Norfolk +8 1 - - 21
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 6 (6.00%) Confluence
1 6 (6.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.00%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.00%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.00%) InDesign
3 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.00%) Simulink
4 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.00%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 20 (20.00%) Azure
2 17 (17.00%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.00%) AWS
4 8 (8.00%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (6.00%) SaaS
6 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 4 (4.00%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.00%) Azure Logic Apps
8 3 (3.00%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (2.00%) H2O.ai
9 2 (2.00%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
10 1 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (1.00%) BigCommerce
10 1 (1.00%) dbt
10 1 (1.00%) OCI
10 1 (1.00%) PaaS
10 1 (1.00%) Serverless
10 1 (1.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.00%) SAN
2 3 (3.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (1.00%) DHCP
3 1 (1.00%) DNS
3 1 (1.00%) Firewall
3 1 (1.00%) FTP
3 1 (1.00%) Internet
3 1 (1.00%) Kerberos
3 1 (1.00%) Network Security
3 1 (1.00%) NGFW
3 1 (1.00%) SSL
3 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (17.00%) Power BI
2 11 (11.00%) SQL Server
3 9 (9.00%) MySQL
4 3 (3.00%) Elasticsearch
4 3 (3.00%) Metadata
4 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (3.00%) Redis
5 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
5 2 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (1.00%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (1.00%) Cognos Connection
6 1 (1.00%) Cognos Event Studio
6 1 (1.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
6 1 (1.00%) OLAP
6 1 (1.00%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.00%) RDBMS
6 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (6.00%) JIRA
2 1 (1.00%) Git
2 1 (1.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.00%) Postman
2 1 (1.00%) SoapUI
General
1 29 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.00%) Finance
3 15 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (5.00%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.00%) Law
4 5 (5.00%) Marketing
4 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (4.00%) Electronics
6 3 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.00%) Manufacturing
6 3 (3.00%) Retail
7 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.00%) Legal
7 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 26 (26.00%) Analyst
2 17 (17.00%) Business Analyst
2 17 (17.00%) Graduate
3 16 (16.00%) Developer
4 11 (11.00%) Graduate Developer
5 10 (10.00%) IT Graduate
6 9 (9.00%) IT Support
7 8 (8.00%) C# Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Graduate C# Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Graduate PHP Developer
7 8 (8.00%) PHP Developer
7 8 (8.00%) Support Analyst
8 7 (7.00%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Consultant
8 7 (7.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Graduate Software Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Graduate SQL Developer
8 7 (7.00%) Machine Learning Consultant
8 7 (7.00%) Software Developer
8 7 (7.00%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) CSS
2 11 (11.00%) TensorFlow
3 9 (9.00%) .NET
3 9 (9.00%) PyTorch
4 8 (8.00%) ASP.NET
4 8 (8.00%) jQuery
4 8 (8.00%) React
4 8 (8.00%) REST
5 7 (7.00%) Google JAX
5 7 (7.00%) JAX
6 4 (4.00%) .NET Core
6 4 (4.00%) AngularJS
6 4 (4.00%) ASP.NET Core
6 4 (4.00%) Keras
6 4 (4.00%) SOAP
6 4 (4.00%) Vue
7 3 (3.00%) Node.js
8 2 (2.00%) XML
9 1 (1.00%) EDI
9 1 (1.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 17 (17.00%) Driving Licence
2 10 (10.00%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.00%) CUDA
5 6 (6.00%) Cyber Threat
5 6 (6.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.00%) Low-Code
5 6 (6.00%) Onboarding
6 5 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
7 4 (4.00%) Social Media
8 3 (3.00%) Arduino
8 3 (3.00%) Life Science
8 3 (3.00%) Raspberry Pi
8 3 (3.00%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (2.00%) 3D Graphics
10 1 (1.00%) MISP
10 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
10 1 (1.00%) Verilog
10 1 (1.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
2 6 (6.00%) Windows
3 5 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.00%) Android
4 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (23.00%) Business Intelligence
3 20 (20.00%) AI
4 19 (19.00%) Agile
5 17 (17.00%) Mathematics
5 17 (17.00%) Physics
5 17 (17.00%) Software Engineering
6 14 (14.00%) Machine Learning
7 12 (12.00%) MVC
8 10 (10.00%) Customer Service
9 9 (9.00%) Computer Vision
10 8 (8.00%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (8.00%) OOP
10 8 (8.00%) SDLC
10 8 (8.00%) User Experience
11 7 (7.00%) Analytics
11 7 (7.00%) ITSM
11 7 (7.00%) Prototyping
11 7 (7.00%) Rapid Prototyping
11 7 (7.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 27 (27.00%) Python
2 17 (17.00%) Java
3 15 (15.00%) C#
3 15 (15.00%) C++
4 14 (14.00%) JavaScript
5 11 (11.00%) PHP
6 10 (10.00%) C
6 10 (10.00%) SQL
7 3 (3.00%) Ada
7 3 (3.00%) Ada 95
7 3 (3.00%) Assembly Language
7 3 (3.00%) MATLAB
7 3 (3.00%) Objective-C
7 3 (3.00%) Swift
8 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.00%) Rust
8 1 (1.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 89 (89.00%) Degree
2 36 (36.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 12 (12.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 8 (8.00%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.00%) Numerate Degree
6 4 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.00%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.00%) PMI Certification
7 3 (3.00%) PMP
8 2 (2.00%) PhD
9 1 (1.00%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.00%) CEH
9 1 (1.00%) CISA
9 1 (1.00%) CISM
9 1 (1.00%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.00%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.00%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 3 (3.00%) QA
3 1 (1.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.00%) NIST
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.00%) Firmware
2 5 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.00%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.00%) vSphere
4 1 (1.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.00%) FTK
3 1 (1.00%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.00%) Dell
3 5 (5.00%) VMware
4 4 (4.00%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
4 4 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 4 (4.00%) SAP
4 4 (4.00%) Veeam
5 3 (3.00%) Adobe
5 3 (3.00%) Cisco
5 3 (3.00%) MuleSoft
5 3 (3.00%) Pega
5 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.00%) Zoho
6 2 (2.00%) Cellebrite
6 2 (2.00%) Databricks
6 2 (2.00%) NVIDIA
6 2 (2.00%) Oracle
7 1 (1.00%) StreamSets