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

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 34 28
Rank change year-on-year -39 -6 -7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 98 231 127
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.57% 5.73% 6.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.29% 6.90% 6.94%
Number of salaries quoted 67 111 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 £53,125 £78,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £69,000 £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 2,980 3,347 1,829
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 78.05% 82.97% 92.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,791 1,434 1,274
10th Percentile £27,250 £31,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £43,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,160 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.07% - -
75th Percentile £62,500 £73,852 £68,750
90th Percentile £79,000 £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 4 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 4 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 36 £27,500 -52.79% 30
Cambridgeshire -28 23 £60,000 -14.29% 51
Hertfordshire -28 20 £47,500 - 24
Suffolk -11 14 £46,750 -23.05% 7
Bedfordshire +5 4 £45,000 -10.00% 12
Norfolk +8 1 - - 1
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 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.02%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) IIS
2 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.06%) InDesign
3 3 (3.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.06%) Simulink
4 2 (2.04%) Chatbot
4 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.02%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 26 (26.53%) Azure
2 15 (15.31%) Power Platform
3 13 (13.27%) AWS
4 4 (4.08%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.08%) SaaS
5 2 (2.04%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.04%) GCP
5 2 (2.04%) Serverless
6 1 (1.02%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.02%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.02%) dbt
6 1 (1.02%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.02%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.02%) H2O.ai
6 1 (1.02%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.08%) SAN
2 3 (3.06%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.04%) FTP
3 2 (2.04%) Internet
3 2 (2.04%) SSL
4 1 (1.02%) DHCP
4 1 (1.02%) DNS
4 1 (1.02%) Firewall
4 1 (1.02%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.02%) Network Security
4 1 (1.02%) NGFW
4 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (18.37%) SQL Server
2 15 (15.31%) MySQL
2 15 (15.31%) Power BI
3 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.04%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.04%) Metadata
4 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.02%) Cognos Connection
5 1 (1.02%) Cognos Event Studio
5 1 (1.02%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.02%) OLAP
5 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.02%) Redis
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 2 (2.04%) GitLab
1 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.04%) JIRA
2 1 (1.02%) CircleCI
2 1 (1.02%) Git
2 1 (1.02%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.02%) Postman
2 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
General
1 35 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 20 (20.41%) Finance
3 15 (15.31%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.12%) Marketing
4 6 (6.12%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.10%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.08%) Electronics
6 4 (4.08%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.06%) Retail
8 2 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.04%) Law
8 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.04%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.02%) Automotive
9 1 (1.02%) Legal
9 1 (1.02%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.02%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Graduate
2 21 (21.43%) Analyst
2 21 (21.43%) Developer
3 16 (16.33%) Graduate Developer
4 15 (15.31%) IT Graduate
5 14 (14.29%) Business Analyst
6 9 (9.18%) C# Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Graduate C# Developer
6 9 (9.18%) Graduate PHP Developer
6 9 (9.18%) PHP Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 8 (8.16%) Senior
7 8 (8.16%) SQL Developer
8 7 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Graduate Software Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Software Developer
8 7 (7.14%) Technical Manager
9 6 (6.12%) Azure Developer
10 5 (5.10%) Graduate IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.37%) CSS
2 14 (14.29%) .NET
3 13 (13.27%) ASP.NET
3 13 (13.27%) jQuery
4 7 (7.14%) TensorFlow
5 6 (6.12%) PyTorch
5 6 (6.12%) REST
6 5 (5.10%) React
7 4 (4.08%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.08%) ASP.NET Core
7 4 (4.08%) Google JAX
7 4 (4.08%) JAX
8 2 (2.04%) EDI
8 2 (2.04%) HTML
8 2 (2.04%) Keras
8 2 (2.04%) Node.js
8 2 (2.04%) SOAP
8 2 (2.04%) XML
9 1 (1.02%) .NET Framework
9 1 (1.02%) MDX
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.29%) Driving Licence
2 12 (12.24%) Algorithms
3 8 (8.16%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.10%) Data Centre
5 5 (5.10%) Data Structures
6 4 (4.08%) CUDA
6 4 (4.08%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.08%) Social Media
7 3 (3.06%) Arduino
7 3 (3.06%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (3.06%) Life Science
7 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.06%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.06%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.02%) MISP
9 1 (1.02%) Omics
9 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.18%) Linux
2 7 (7.14%) Windows
3 5 (5.10%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.02%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (34.69%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (26.53%) Agile
3 23 (23.47%) Business Intelligence
4 21 (21.43%) AI
5 18 (18.37%) Mathematics
6 17 (17.35%) MVC
7 15 (15.31%) Software Engineering
8 14 (14.29%) Physics
9 13 (13.27%) OOP
10 12 (12.24%) OO
11 9 (9.18%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.18%) Machine Learning
12 8 (8.16%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (7.14%) Customer Service
13 7 (7.14%) Innovative Thinking
13 7 (7.14%) Mentoring
13 7 (7.14%) SDLC
14 6 (6.12%) Computer Vision
14 6 (6.12%) Roadmaps
14 6 (6.12%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.45%) C++
2 21 (21.43%) Java
2 21 (21.43%) Python
3 20 (20.41%) C#
4 16 (16.33%) PHP
5 15 (15.31%) SQL
6 11 (11.22%) C
7 8 (8.16%) JavaScript
8 3 (3.06%) Assembly Language
8 3 (3.06%) MATLAB
8 3 (3.06%) Objective-C
8 3 (3.06%) Swift
9 2 (2.04%) Ada
9 2 (2.04%) Ada 95
10 1 (1.02%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.02%) R
10 1 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 85 (86.73%) Degree
2 39 (39.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (13.27%) Security Cleared
4 12 (12.24%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (9.18%) SC Cleared
6 7 (7.14%) Master's Degree
7 5 (5.10%) PhD
8 4 (4.08%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (4.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.04%) Chartered Engineer
9 2 (2.04%) Numerate Degree
10 1 (1.02%) A+ Certification
10 1 (1.02%) CEH
10 1 (1.02%) CISA
10 1 (1.02%) CISM
10 1 (1.02%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (1.02%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
10 1 (1.02%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.06%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.06%) ISO 9001
3 2 (2.04%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.04%) QA
4 1 (1.02%) CDISC
4 1 (1.02%) DICOM
4 1 (1.02%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.02%) HL7
4 1 (1.02%) NIST
4 1 (1.02%) SLA
4 1 (1.02%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Active Directory
1 6 (6.12%) Firmware
2 5 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.08%) Hyper-V
3 4 (4.08%) vSphere
4 3 (3.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.02%) Ansible
3 1 (1.02%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.20%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.10%) Dell
2 5 (5.10%) VMware
3 4 (4.08%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (4.08%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.08%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.08%) Veeam
4 3 (3.06%) Adobe
4 3 (3.06%) Cisco
4 3 (3.06%) Zoho
5 2 (2.04%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) Oracle
5 2 (2.04%) PayPal
5 2 (2.04%) SAP
6 1 (1.02%) Cognos
6 1 (1.02%) Databricks
6 1 (1.02%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.02%) NVIDIA
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) StreamSets