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 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 58 49
Rank change year-on-year -13 -9 -11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 136 157 263
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 2.09% 4.84% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.95% 5.33% 5.10%
Number of salaries quoted 98 104 190
10th Percentile £24,000 £25,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £33,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +8.70% -16.36%
75th Percentile £55,690 £57,500 £63,438
90th Percentile £64,125 £73,550 £77,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,565 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.98% -7.39% -7.69%

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 4,605 2,945 5,160
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 70.79% 90.84% 77.14%
Number of salaries quoted 3,192 1,510 3,851
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,250 £26,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,681 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,100 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -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 1 July 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 1 July 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 47 £25,000 -23.08% 10
Hertfordshire -20 32 £49,429 -10.13% 15
Cambridgeshire -38 31 £59,450 +39.88% 56
Bedfordshire +8 18 £35,750 -32.55% 3
Suffolk +6 5 £46,750 -15.00% 2
Norfolk -23 3 £56,000 -6.74% 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 8 (5.88%) SAS
2 3 (2.21%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.47%) Luigi
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (3.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 39 (28.68%) Azure
2 25 (18.38%) AWS
3 10 (7.35%) Power Platform
3 10 (7.35%) Serverless
4 6 (4.41%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.41%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (4.41%) SaaS
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.21%) GCP
5 3 (2.21%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.21%) Power Automate
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.47%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.47%) GitHub
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (0.74%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.74%) Datadog
7 1 (0.74%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.74%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.41%) Firewall
2 5 (3.68%) WAN
3 4 (2.94%) DNS
3 4 (2.94%) Wireless
4 3 (2.21%) DHCP
4 3 (2.21%) LAN
4 3 (2.21%) SSL
4 3 (2.21%) TCP/IP
4 3 (2.21%) VLAN
4 3 (2.21%) VPN
5 2 (1.47%) Network Security
5 2 (1.47%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.74%) AMQP
6 1 (0.74%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.74%) Broadband
6 1 (0.74%) LTE
6 1 (0.74%) VoIP
6 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (11.03%) SQL Server
2 10 (7.35%) Power BI
3 9 (6.62%) Big Data
4 8 (5.88%) MySQL
5 2 (1.47%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.47%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.74%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.74%) Metadata
6 1 (0.74%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.74%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.74%) Redis
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (5.15%) JIRA
2 4 (2.94%) Git
3 3 (2.21%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.47%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.74%) Zephyr
General
1 42 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 27 (19.85%) Finance
3 12 (8.82%) Electronics
4 8 (5.88%) Law
5 7 (5.15%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (4.41%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.68%) Analytical Skills
7 5 (3.68%) Legal
8 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.74%) Games
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Marketing
9 1 (0.74%) Military
9 1 (0.74%) Retail
9 1 (0.74%) Social Housing
9 1 (0.74%) Tech for Good
9 1 (0.74%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 31 (22.79%) Developer
2 28 (20.59%) Graduate
3 25 (18.38%) Software Developer
4 22 (16.18%) Graduate Developer
4 22 (16.18%) Graduate Software Developer
5 19 (13.97%) SQL Developer
6 18 (13.24%) Analyst
7 17 (12.50%) C# Developer
7 17 (12.50%) C# Software Developer
7 17 (12.50%) Graduate C# Developer
7 17 (12.50%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 17 (12.50%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 17 (12.50%) Lead
8 16 (11.76%) Software Engineer
9 15 (11.03%) Graduate PHP Developer
9 15 (11.03%) PHP Developer
10 10 (7.35%) IT Support
10 10 (7.35%) Product Analyst
10 10 (7.35%) Products Support Analyst
10 10 (7.35%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (9.56%) CSS
2 10 (7.35%) jQuery
3 7 (5.15%) PyTorch
3 7 (5.15%) REST
3 7 (5.15%) TensorFlow
4 6 (4.41%) React
5 5 (3.68%) SOAP
6 4 (2.94%) Google JAX
6 4 (2.94%) HTML
6 4 (2.94%) JAX
6 4 (2.94%) JSON
6 4 (2.94%) Node.js
7 3 (2.21%) OAuth
7 3 (2.21%) XML
7 3 (2.21%) Yocto
8 2 (1.47%) .NET
8 2 (1.47%) AngularJS
8 2 (1.47%) Keras
8 2 (1.47%) OpenCV
8 2 (1.47%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.76%) Onboarding
2 12 (8.82%) Low-Code
3 11 (8.09%) Algorithms
4 8 (5.88%) Embedded Systems
5 6 (4.41%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.94%) CUDA
6 4 (2.94%) Device Driver
6 4 (2.94%) IoT
6 4 (2.94%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (2.94%) Robotics
6 4 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 3 (2.21%) FMCG
7 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 2 (1.47%) Fat Client
8 2 (1.47%) FPGA
8 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.47%) PMI
8 2 (1.47%) Thin Client
9 1 (0.74%) NB-IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (11.76%) Linux
2 14 (10.29%) Windows
3 7 (5.15%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.21%) Mac OS
4 3 (2.21%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.74%) Android
5 1 (0.74%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.74%) FreeRTOS
5 1 (0.74%) Robot Operating System
5 1 (0.74%) ThreadX
5 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (38.97%) Problem-Solving
2 30 (22.06%) Agile
2 30 (22.06%) Software Engineering
3 18 (13.24%) Mentoring
4 16 (11.76%) MVC
4 16 (11.76%) OOP
5 15 (11.03%) Cybersecurity
6 14 (10.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (10.29%) DevOps
7 12 (8.82%) Customer Service
7 12 (8.82%) Data Engineering
8 11 (8.09%) ITSM
9 10 (7.35%) Business Intelligence
9 10 (7.35%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (7.35%) Machine Learning
9 10 (7.35%) Mathematics
9 10 (7.35%) OO
10 9 (6.62%) CI/CD
10 9 (6.62%) Data Integration
10 9 (6.62%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (25.74%) SQL
2 31 (22.79%) Python
3 29 (21.32%) C#
4 24 (17.65%) PHP
5 22 (16.18%) C++
6 20 (14.71%) Java
7 10 (7.35%) C
8 9 (6.62%) JavaScript
9 4 (2.94%) Embedded C
9 4 (2.94%) PowerShell
9 4 (2.94%) Shell Script
10 3 (2.21%) Embedded C++
10 3 (2.21%) Rust
10 3 (2.21%) TypeScript
11 2 (1.47%) Scala
12 1 (0.74%) Bash
12 1 (0.74%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 1 (0.74%) Erlang
12 1 (0.74%) MATLAB
12 1 (0.74%) VB
Qualifications
1 100 (73.53%) Degree
2 56 (41.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 16 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 13 (9.56%) DBS Check
5 7 (5.15%) Security Cleared
6 6 (4.41%) HND
7 5 (3.68%) CCNA
7 5 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (2.94%) HNC
9 3 (2.21%) CCNP
9 3 (2.21%) ISTQB
9 3 (2.21%) PMI Certification
9 3 (2.21%) Postgraduate
10 2 (1.47%) CISSP
10 2 (1.47%) DV Cleared
10 2 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.47%) PhD
11 1 (0.74%) ISEB
11 1 (0.74%) PMP
11 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.09%) Data Quality
2 5 (3.68%) SLA
3 4 (2.94%) QA
4 2 (1.47%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.74%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (5.88%) Firmware
2 6 (4.41%) Active Directory
3 4 (2.94%) Embedded Firmware
4 3 (2.21%) Docker
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.68%) FTK
2 3 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (1.47%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.74%) Grafana
4 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (10.29%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.41%) Oracle
3 5 (3.68%) Cellebrite
4 3 (2.21%) Databricks
4 3 (2.21%) Splunk
5 2 (1.47%) Cisco
5 2 (1.47%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.47%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.47%) Pega
5 2 (1.47%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.47%) SAP
5 2 (1.47%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.74%) Dell
6 1 (0.74%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.74%) MikroTik
6 1 (0.74%) NVIDIA
6 1 (0.74%) SnapLogic