Computer Science Degree Jobs in England

Computer Science Degree
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 104 159
Rank change year-on-year +35 +55 -17
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,831 2,215 1,985
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.79% 2.51% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.49% 9.00% 6.89%
Number of salaries quoted 650 1,696 1,293
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,938 £81,250 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,575 £95,000 £107,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +8.33% -1.48% +1.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,455 24,619 28,799
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.55% 27.84% 33.07%
Number of salaries quoted 9,689 15,756 13,179
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,793 £54,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.54% -9.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £68,750 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.85% -10.00% +9.09%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in England

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the England region over the 6 months to 28 May 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
London +22 597 £75,000 - 1,058
South East +10 362 £70,000 +16.67% 414
North of England -36 221 £57,500 +15.00% 199
Midlands +40 196 £35,000 -30.00% 148
West Midlands +62 141 £35,000 -36.36% 100
East of England +43 125 £52,000 +30.00% 140
Yorkshire +17 105 £60,000 +30.43% 54
North West -86 95 £58,500 +17.00% 106
South West +40 67 £55,000 +15.79% 65
East Midlands +21 52 £35,000 -26.32% 43
North East +48 21 £56,500 +7.62% 43
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 24 (1.31%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.26%) Jupyter
3 18 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
4 16 (0.87%) Apache Spark
4 16 (0.87%) CMS
5 14 (0.76%) WordPress
6 12 (0.66%) Apache
7 9 (0.49%) IIS
8 8 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
9 6 (0.33%) SAS
10 5 (0.27%) Luigi
11 4 (0.22%) Confluence
12 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
12 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
12 2 (0.11%) Umbraco
13 1 (0.055%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 23 (1.26%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.38%) Revit
4 6 (0.33%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.33%) MS Visio
5 3 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) Blender
6 2 (0.11%) Maya
7 1 (0.055%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.055%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.055%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.055%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 12 (0.66%) Shopify
2 8 (0.44%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (0.44%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
4 5 (0.27%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.055%) Adaptiv
8 1 (0.055%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.055%) Endur
8 1 (0.055%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.055%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.055%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 307 (16.77%) Azure
2 214 (11.69%) AWS
3 91 (4.97%) GCP
4 62 (3.39%) SaaS
5 54 (2.95%) Power Platform
6 49 (2.68%) Azure DevOps
7 47 (2.57%) Serverless
8 46 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
9 39 (2.13%) GitHub
10 31 (1.69%) AWS Lambda
11 24 (1.31%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
12 23 (1.26%) Azure Data Factory
12 23 (1.26%) Dynamics 365
12 23 (1.26%) PaaS
13 22 (1.20%) Entra ID
14 20 (1.09%) Cloud Computing
15 19 (1.04%) Azure Monitor
15 19 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
16 17 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
17 16 (0.87%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 636 (34.74%) Broadband
2 88 (4.81%) Firewall
3 79 (4.31%) Network Security
4 42 (2.29%) WLAN
5 39 (2.13%) Internet
6 38 (2.08%) DNS
7 37 (2.02%) TCP/IP
8 24 (1.31%) SAN
9 21 (1.15%) DHCP
10 19 (1.04%) VPN
11 18 (0.98%) BGP
12 17 (0.93%) OSPF
13 16 (0.87%) WAN
14 14 (0.76%) VLAN
15 11 (0.60%) HTTP
15 11 (0.60%) LAN
15 11 (0.60%) VoIP
16 9 (0.49%) Intrusion Detection
16 9 (0.49%) NAS
17 7 (0.38%) DWDM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.19%) SQL Server
2 57 (3.11%) MySQL
3 47 (2.57%) NoSQL
4 43 (2.35%) Big Data
5 40 (2.18%) Data Warehouse
5 40 (2.18%) Power BI
6 34 (1.86%) Relational Database
7 28 (1.53%) Data Lake
8 25 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
9 17 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 17 (0.93%) MongoDB
10 13 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 12 (0.66%) Amazon RDS
11 12 (0.66%) Hadoop
12 11 (0.60%) Oracle Database
13 9 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
13 9 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 9 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 8 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
14 8 (0.44%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 85 (4.64%) Git
2 25 (1.37%) JIRA
3 18 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.76%) Gradle
5 11 (0.60%) Moq
5 11 (0.60%) SpecFlow
6 8 (0.44%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.38%) Maven
8 6 (0.33%) Sonatype Nexus
9 5 (0.27%) GitLab
9 5 (0.27%) Vite
10 4 (0.22%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.22%) Cypress.io
10 4 (0.22%) Octopus Deploy
11 3 (0.16%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.16%) MLflow
11 3 (0.16%) Selenium
11 3 (0.16%) Subversion
11 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 1,083 (59.15%) Social Skills
2 237 (12.94%) Finance
3 157 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
4 133 (7.26%) Law
5 103 (5.63%) Games
6 83 (4.53%) Multimedia
7 61 (3.33%) Retail
8 54 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 43 (2.35%) Manufacturing
9 43 (2.35%) Marketing
10 39 (2.13%) Legal
11 22 (1.20%) Electronics
12 18 (0.98%) Advertising
12 18 (0.98%) Automotive
13 17 (0.93%) Front Office
14 16 (0.87%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.82%) Banking
16 14 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
16 14 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 363 (19.83%) Lead
2 237 (12.94%) Senior
3 201 (10.98%) Developer
4 188 (10.27%) Architect
5 176 (9.61%) Systems Engineer
6 173 (9.45%) Engineering Manager
7 155 (8.47%) IT Manager
8 96 (5.24%) Senior Manager
9 86 (4.70%) Software Engineer
9 86 (4.70%) Team Leader
10 79 (4.31%) ServiceNow Manager
11 78 (4.26%) Senior Service Manager
12 67 (3.66%) Analyst
13 64 (3.50%) Solutions Architect
14 55 (3.00%) Graduate
15 50 (2.73%) IT Engineer
16 48 (2.62%) Software Architect
17 43 (2.35%) Support Engineer
18 41 (2.24%) IT Support
19 40 (2.18%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 125 (6.83%) .NET
2 120 (6.55%) HTML
3 96 (5.24%) CSS
4 72 (3.93%) Middleware
5 61 (3.33%) React
6 54 (2.95%) REST
7 44 (2.40%) Kafka
8 43 (2.35%) ASP.NET
9 39 (2.13%) jQuery
10 34 (1.86%) RESTful
11 30 (1.64%) AngularJS
12 26 (1.42%) .NET Framework
12 26 (1.42%) Elastic Stack
13 25 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
13 25 (1.37%) SOAP
14 24 (1.31%) .NET Core
15 20 (1.09%) Node.js
16 17 (0.93%) RabbitMQ
16 17 (0.93%) WinForms
16 17 (0.93%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 182 (9.94%) Management Information System
2 104 (5.68%) Product Ownership
3 79 (4.31%) Video\Live Streaming
4 58 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 40 (2.18%) Cloud Native
6 39 (2.13%) Security Posture
7 36 (1.97%) Enterprise Software
8 31 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.58%) Driving Licence
10 26 (1.42%) Hedge funds
11 24 (1.31%) Cyberattack
12 23 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
14 17 (0.93%) Mobile Games
15 15 (0.82%) Onboarding
15 15 (0.82%) Robotics
16 13 (0.71%) Cyber Threat
16 13 (0.71%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.66%) Data Centre
17 12 (0.66%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 137 (7.48%) Windows
2 122 (6.66%) Linux
3 34 (1.86%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.98%) Ubuntu
4 18 (0.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 17 (0.93%) Android
5 17 (0.93%) Windows 10
6 16 (0.87%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 12 (0.66%) Mac OS X
9 9 (0.49%) Mac OS
10 8 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.44%) Unix
10 8 (0.44%) Windows Vista
11 3 (0.16%) Rocky
11 3 (0.16%) VMS
12 2 (0.11%) CentOS
12 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.055%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,806 (98.63%) Computer Science
2 966 (52.76%) Problem-Solving
3 782 (42.71%) Mentoring
4 754 (41.18%) Roadmaps
5 611 (33.37%) High Availability
6 609 (33.26%) Product Management
7 557 (30.42%) Broadcast Engineering
8 306 (16.71%) Agile
9 297 (16.22%) Software Engineering
10 274 (14.96%) DevOps
11 209 (11.41%) Artificial Intelligence
12 207 (11.31%) Continuous Improvement
13 164 (8.96%) CI/CD
14 141 (7.70%) Machine Learning
15 134 (7.32%) Customer-Centricity
16 127 (6.94%) ITSM
17 123 (6.72%) Service Delivery
18 120 (6.55%) Microservices
19 118 (6.44%) Design Patterns
20 113 (6.17%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 298 (16.28%) Python
2 269 (14.69%) SQL
3 240 (13.11%) Java
4 195 (10.65%) C#
5 186 (10.16%) JavaScript
6 117 (6.39%) TypeScript
7 116 (6.34%) C++
8 106 (5.79%) PHP
9 89 (4.86%) PowerShell
10 70 (3.82%) C
11 57 (3.11%) R
12 52 (2.84%) Rust
13 50 (2.73%) Ruby
14 49 (2.68%) Dart
14 49 (2.68%) MATLAB
15 26 (1.42%) Apex Code
16 22 (1.20%) Bash
17 19 (1.04%) Scala
18 16 (0.87%) Kotlin
19 14 (0.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,831 (100.00%) Degree
2 156 (8.52%) Master's Degree
3 86 (4.70%) Security Cleared
4 80 (4.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 66 (3.60%) BPSS Clearance
6 64 (3.50%) Azure Certification
7 60 (3.28%) Chartered Engineer
8 53 (2.89%) SC Cleared
9 52 (2.84%) Cisco Certification
9 52 (2.84%) CISSP
10 47 (2.57%) MCSE
11 41 (2.24%) AWS Certification
12 40 (2.18%) CCNP
13 39 (2.13%) CCNA
14 30 (1.64%) PMI Certification
15 29 (1.58%) LPIC
15 29 (1.58%) MCP
15 29 (1.58%) PMP
16 27 (1.47%) DV Cleared
17 22 (1.20%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (3.60%) GDPR
2 59 (3.22%) QA
3 52 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 48 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 45 (2.46%) NIST
6 27 (1.47%) HIPAA
7 21 (1.15%) California Consumer Privacy Act
8 17 (0.93%) NCSC
9 13 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.33%) CDISC
11 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.33%) SLA
12 5 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 5 (0.27%) Def Stans
13 4 (0.22%) GRC
13 4 (0.22%) PCI DSS
14 3 (0.16%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 105 (5.73%) Docker
2 49 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 22 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.27%) vSphere
6 4 (0.22%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.16%) HDFS
7 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.055%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.055%) Firmware
8 1 (0.055%) GPFS
8 1 (0.055%) KVM
8 1 (0.055%) Lustre
8 1 (0.055%) NFS
Systems Management
1 114 (6.23%) Kubernetes
2 73 (3.99%) Terraform
3 51 (2.79%) Prometheus
4 50 (2.73%) Grafana
5 18 (0.98%) Ansible
6 10 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.33%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.33%) Argo
7 6 (0.33%) QRadar
8 5 (0.27%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.27%) Kibana
9 4 (0.22%) Failover Clustering
9 4 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.16%) SCCM
11 2 (0.11%) Kubeflow
11 2 (0.11%) logstash
11 2 (0.11%) Nmap
11 2 (0.11%) Oracle RMAN
11 2 (0.11%) Puppet
11 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 221 (12.07%) Microsoft
2 127 (6.94%) ServiceNow
3 76 (4.15%) Google
4 66 (3.60%) Cisco
5 44 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.75%) SAP
7 30 (1.64%) VMware
8 25 (1.37%) Oracle
9 23 (1.26%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 22 (1.20%) OpenAI
11 16 (0.87%) Databricks
11 16 (0.87%) Dell
12 13 (0.71%) Fortinet
12 13 (0.71%) Workday
13 12 (0.66%) Apple
13 12 (0.66%) New Relic
13 12 (0.66%) Ubiquiti
14 11 (0.60%) WooCommerce
15 10 (0.55%) CrowdStrike
15 10 (0.55%) Splunk