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

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 31 37
Rank change year-on-year -42 +6 -5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 96 224 118
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.27% 6.17% 5.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.01% 7.14% 6.25%
Number of salaries quoted 66 111 53
10th Percentile £25,000 £42,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £26,250 £46,250 £57,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,750 £60,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% -11.11% +17.39%
75th Percentile £51,250 £78,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £65,000 £78,750 £87,150
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.42% +6.15%

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 3,192 3,138 1,889
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 75.60% 86.45% 89.48%
Number of salaries quoted 1,868 1,259 1,364
10th Percentile £27,500 £30,900 £27,000
25th Percentile £33,500 £43,250 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £73,750 £68,875
90th Percentile £80,000 £83,750 £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 26 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 26 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 -11 30 £27,500 -52.59% 96
Cambridgeshire -27 26 £42,500 -40.35% 100
Hertfordshire -19 19 £47,500 - 114
Suffolk -6 16 £46,750 -28.95% 34
Bedfordshire +3 4 £45,000 -10.00% 48
Norfolk +2 1 - - 29
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 5 (5.21%) Confluence
1 5 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.04%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.04%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (3.13%) InDesign
3 3 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.13%) Simulink
4 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.04%) Cognos Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.04%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (22.92%) Azure
2 16 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 12 (12.50%) AWS
4 7 (7.29%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.17%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.17%) SaaS
6 3 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.08%) Serverless
8 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.04%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.04%) BigCommerce
8 1 (1.04%) dbt
8 1 (1.04%) H2O.ai
8 1 (1.04%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.04%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.17%) SAN
2 3 (3.13%) Unified Communications
3 2 (2.08%) FTP
3 2 (2.08%) Internet
3 2 (2.08%) SSL
4 1 (1.04%) DHCP
4 1 (1.04%) DNS
4 1 (1.04%) Firewall
4 1 (1.04%) Kerberos
4 1 (1.04%) Network Security
4 1 (1.04%) NGFW
4 1 (1.04%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (16.67%) Power BI
1 16 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.54%) MySQL
3 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (3.13%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (2.08%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (2.08%) Metadata
4 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.08%) Redis
4 2 (2.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.04%) Big Data
5 1 (1.04%) Cognos Connection
5 1 (1.04%) Cognos Event Studio
5 1 (1.04%) Cognos Framework Manager
5 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.04%) OLAP
5 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.04%) RDBMS
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (5.21%) JIRA
2 1 (1.04%) Git
2 1 (1.04%) GitLab
2 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
2 1 (1.04%) Postman
2 1 (1.04%) SoapUI
General
1 31 (32.29%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.75%) Finance
3 16 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.25%) Marketing
4 6 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.21%) Aerospace
5 5 (5.21%) Electronics
6 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.13%) Law
7 3 (3.13%) Retail
8 2 (2.08%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.04%) Legal
9 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.04%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Analyst
2 21 (21.88%) Graduate
3 19 (19.79%) Developer
4 16 (16.67%) Business Analyst
5 14 (14.58%) Graduate Developer
6 13 (13.54%) IT Graduate
7 9 (9.38%) Senior
8 8 (8.33%) C# Developer
8 8 (8.33%) Graduate C# Developer
8 8 (8.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 8 (8.33%) IT Support
8 8 (8.33%) PHP Developer
9 7 (7.29%) C# Software Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Graduate C# Software Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Graduate Software Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Graduate SQL Developer
9 7 (7.29%) Software Developer
9 7 (7.29%) SQL Developer
10 6 (6.25%) Consultant
10 6 (6.25%) Machine Learning Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (16.67%) CSS
2 12 (12.50%) .NET
3 11 (11.46%) ASP.NET
3 11 (11.46%) jQuery
4 9 (9.38%) TensorFlow
5 7 (7.29%) PyTorch
5 7 (7.29%) REST
6 6 (6.25%) Google JAX
6 6 (6.25%) JAX
6 6 (6.25%) React
7 4 (4.17%) .NET Core
7 4 (4.17%) ASP.NET Core
8 3 (3.13%) Keras
8 3 (3.13%) Node.js
8 3 (3.13%) SOAP
9 2 (2.08%) AngularJS
9 2 (2.08%) EDI
9 2 (2.08%) HTML
9 2 (2.08%) Vue
9 2 (2.08%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 10 (10.42%) Algorithms
3 7 (7.29%) Management Information System
4 6 (6.25%) CUDA
4 6 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
5 5 (5.21%) Cyber Threat
5 5 (5.21%) Data Centre
6 4 (4.17%) Enterprise Storage
6 4 (4.17%) Life Science
6 4 (4.17%) Social Media
7 3 (3.13%) Arduino
7 3 (3.13%) Onboarding
7 3 (3.13%) Raspberry Pi
7 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
7 3 (3.13%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (2.08%) 3D Graphics
8 2 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (1.04%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.04%) Verilog
9 1 (1.04%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.42%) Linux
2 7 (7.29%) Windows
3 5 (5.21%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.04%) Android
4 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (26.04%) Agile
3 24 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
4 19 (19.79%) AI
5 17 (17.71%) Mathematics
5 17 (17.71%) Physics
6 15 (15.63%) MVC
6 15 (15.63%) Software Engineering
7 12 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 11 (11.46%) OOP
9 10 (10.42%) SDLC
10 9 (9.38%) OO
11 8 (8.33%) Computer Vision
12 7 (7.29%) Customer Service
12 7 (7.29%) Innovative Thinking
12 7 (7.29%) Roadmaps
13 6 (6.25%) Analytics
13 6 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
13 6 (6.25%) Mentoring
13 6 (6.25%) Prototyping
Programming Languages
1 24 (25.00%) Python
2 19 (19.79%) C++
3 18 (18.75%) C#
4 17 (17.71%) Java
5 14 (14.58%) PHP
6 13 (13.54%) SQL
7 11 (11.46%) C
8 10 (10.42%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.13%) Ada
9 3 (3.13%) Ada 95
9 3 (3.13%) Assembly Language
9 3 (3.13%) MATLAB
9 3 (3.13%) Objective-C
9 3 (3.13%) Swift
10 2 (2.08%) Rust
11 1 (1.04%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.04%) R
11 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 87 (90.63%) Degree
2 39 (40.63%) Computer Science Degree
3 14 (14.58%) Security Cleared
4 13 (13.54%) BPSS Clearance
5 9 (9.38%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (3.13%) Chartered Engineer
7 3 (3.13%) Master's Degree
7 3 (3.13%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (2.08%) PhD
8 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.08%) PMP
9 1 (1.04%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.04%) CEH
9 1 (1.04%) CISA
9 1 (1.04%) CISM
9 1 (1.04%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.13%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.13%) ISO 9001
2 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) CDISC
4 1 (1.04%) DICOM
4 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.04%) HL7
4 1 (1.04%) NIST
4 1 (1.04%) QA
4 1 (1.04%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 9 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.25%) Firmware
3 5 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (4.17%) Hyper-V
4 4 (4.17%) vSphere
5 2 (2.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.04%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.21%) Dell
2 5 (5.21%) VMware
3 4 (4.17%) CrowdStrike
3 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
3 4 (4.17%) Palo Alto
3 4 (4.17%) Veeam
4 3 (3.13%) Adobe
4 3 (3.13%) Cisco
4 3 (3.13%) SAP
4 3 (3.13%) Zoho
5 2 (2.08%) Oracle
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.04%) Cognos
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) Huawei
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) Pega
6 1 (1.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.04%) StreamSets