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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 105 159
Rank change year-on-year +36 +54 -20
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,885 2,232 1,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 3.82% 2.48% 2.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.63% 8.99% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 675 1,692 1,294
10th Percentile £31,750 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,000 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £80,000 £80,313 £86,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £93,750 £105,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +4.17% -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 24,705 24,823 28,496
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 50.10% 27.64% 33.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,849 15,767 12,989
10th Percentile £31,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,399 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.11% -9.34% +9.09%
75th Percentile £69,000 £71,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +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 31 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 31 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 +23 608 £75,000 - 1,001
South East +15 389 £70,000 +16.67% 230
North of England -39 226 £56,500 +13.00% 177
Midlands +40 202 £35,000 -30.00% 139
West Midlands +57 148 £35,000 -33.33% 94
East of England +44 128 £52,000 +30.00% 106
Yorkshire +13 105 £60,000 +33.33% 45
North West -82 99 £55,000 +10.00% 107
South West +35 67 £55,000 +15.79% 59
East Midlands +23 51 £35,000 -25.28% 45
North East +52 22 £56,500 +7.62% 29
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 25 (1.33%) SharePoint
2 23 (1.22%) Jupyter
3 19 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 17 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 16 (0.85%) CMS
6 14 (0.74%) Apache
7 13 (0.69%) WordPress
8 10 (0.53%) IIS
9 9 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
10 6 (0.32%) SAS
11 5 (0.27%) Confluence
11 5 (0.27%) Luigi
12 3 (0.16%) Umbraco
13 2 (0.11%) NServiceBus
13 2 (0.11%) ThingWorx
14 1 (0.053%) nginx
Applications
1 22 (1.17%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (0.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (0.37%) Revit
4 6 (0.32%) Chatbot
4 6 (0.32%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.11%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.11%) Blender
6 2 (0.11%) Maya
6 2 (0.11%) Sketch
7 1 (0.053%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.053%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (0.58%) Shopify
2 8 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (0.42%) SAP Business One
3 7 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.21%) Remedy ITSM
6 3 (0.16%) NetSuite
6 3 (0.16%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Applications
7 2 (0.11%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MM
8 1 (0.053%) Dynamics GP
8 1 (0.053%) Endur
8 1 (0.053%) Magento
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.053%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.053%) Sage 200
8 1 (0.053%) SAP EWM
8 1 (0.053%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 324 (17.19%) Azure
2 225 (11.94%) AWS
3 98 (5.20%) GCP
4 63 (3.34%) SaaS
5 59 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 53 (2.81%) Azure DevOps
7 50 (2.65%) Serverless
8 45 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
9 41 (2.18%) GitHub
10 32 (1.70%) AWS Lambda
11 27 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (1.38%) Azure Data Factory
13 24 (1.27%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (1.27%) PaaS
13 24 (1.27%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 23 (1.22%) Entra ID
15 21 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
16 20 (1.06%) Microsoft Copilot
17 18 (0.95%) Amazon S3
17 18 (0.95%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 636 (33.74%) Broadband
2 81 (4.30%) Firewall
3 78 (4.14%) Network Security
4 41 (2.18%) WLAN
5 39 (2.07%) Internet
6 37 (1.96%) DNS
7 36 (1.91%) TCP/IP
8 26 (1.38%) SAN
9 21 (1.11%) DHCP
10 19 (1.01%) VPN
11 17 (0.90%) BGP
12 16 (0.85%) OSPF
12 16 (0.85%) WAN
13 13 (0.69%) VLAN
14 12 (0.64%) HTTP
15 11 (0.58%) LAN
15 11 (0.58%) VoIP
16 10 (0.53%) NAS
17 7 (0.37%) DWDM
17 7 (0.37%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.36%) SQL Server
2 62 (3.29%) MySQL
3 48 (2.55%) NoSQL
4 44 (2.33%) Big Data
5 43 (2.28%) Data Warehouse
6 40 (2.12%) Power BI
7 37 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 30 (1.59%) Data Lake
9 27 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
10 18 (0.95%) Azure SQL Database
11 17 (0.90%) MongoDB
12 15 (0.80%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 13 (0.69%) Hadoop
14 12 (0.64%) Amazon RDS
15 11 (0.58%) Oracle Database
16 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 9 (0.48%) Amazon Redshift
17 9 (0.48%) BigQuery
18 8 (0.42%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
18 8 (0.42%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 94 (4.99%) Git
2 32 (1.70%) JIRA
3 19 (1.01%) Jenkins
4 14 (0.74%) Gradle
5 11 (0.58%) Moq
5 11 (0.58%) SpecFlow
6 9 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 7 (0.37%) Maven
8 6 (0.32%) Octopus Deploy
8 6 (0.32%) Sonatype Nexus
8 6 (0.32%) Visual Studio
8 6 (0.32%) Vite
9 5 (0.27%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.27%) GitLab
10 4 (0.21%) Artifactory
10 4 (0.21%) Bitbucket
10 4 (0.21%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.21%) Visual Studio Code
11 3 (0.16%) MLflow
11 3 (0.16%) webpack
General
1 1,112 (58.99%) Social Skills
2 255 (13.53%) Finance
3 160 (8.49%) Analytical Skills
4 149 (7.90%) Law
5 105 (5.57%) Games
6 83 (4.40%) Multimedia
7 60 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 60 (3.18%) Retail
8 50 (2.65%) Marketing
9 46 (2.44%) Legal
10 45 (2.39%) Manufacturing
11 22 (1.17%) Electronics
12 19 (1.01%) Advertising
13 17 (0.90%) Automotive
13 17 (0.90%) Front Office
14 16 (0.85%) Banking
14 16 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (0.85%) Telecoms
15 15 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
16 14 (0.74%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 366 (19.42%) Lead
2 247 (13.10%) Senior
3 225 (11.94%) Developer
4 199 (10.56%) Architect
5 175 (9.28%) Systems Engineer
6 174 (9.23%) Engineering Manager
7 154 (8.17%) IT Manager
8 103 (5.46%) Senior Manager
9 88 (4.67%) Software Engineer
10 86 (4.56%) Team Leader
11 79 (4.19%) ServiceNow Manager
12 78 (4.14%) Senior Service Manager
13 65 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
14 64 (3.40%) Analyst
15 60 (3.18%) Graduate
16 58 (3.08%) Software Architect
17 50 (2.65%) IT Engineer
18 45 (2.39%) Support Engineer
19 44 (2.33%) Graduate Developer
20 42 (2.23%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (7.06%) .NET
2 128 (6.79%) HTML
3 106 (5.62%) CSS
4 83 (4.40%) Middleware
5 64 (3.40%) React
6 59 (3.13%) REST
7 46 (2.44%) ASP.NET
8 44 (2.33%) Kafka
9 41 (2.18%) jQuery
10 39 (2.07%) RESTful
11 32 (1.70%) AngularJS
12 28 (1.49%) .NET Framework
13 27 (1.43%) .NET Core
14 25 (1.33%) Lightning Web Components
14 25 (1.33%) SOAP
15 24 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
15 24 (1.27%) Node.js
16 21 (1.11%) PyTorch
16 21 (1.11%) TensorFlow
17 19 (1.01%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 177 (9.39%) Management Information System
2 106 (5.62%) Product Ownership
3 79 (4.19%) Video\Live Streaming
4 60 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 40 (2.12%) Cloud Native
6 37 (1.96%) Security Posture
7 36 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (1.75%) Mobile App
9 29 (1.54%) Driving Licence
10 25 (1.33%) Hedge funds
11 24 (1.27%) Cyberattack
11 24 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
13 18 (0.95%) Mobile Games
14 16 (0.85%) Onboarding
14 16 (0.85%) Virtual Team
15 15 (0.80%) Robotics
16 14 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
17 11 (0.58%) Cyber Threat
17 11 (0.58%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 135 (7.16%) Windows
2 123 (6.53%) Linux
3 32 (1.70%) Windows Server
4 18 (0.95%) Android
5 17 (0.90%) Ubuntu
5 17 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 16 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 15 (0.80%) Windows 10
8 14 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
9 11 (0.58%) Mac OS X
10 9 (0.48%) Mac OS
10 9 (0.48%) Unix
11 8 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 6 (0.32%) Windows Vista
13 3 (0.16%) Rocky
13 3 (0.16%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) CentOS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.053%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,860 (98.67%) Computer Science
2 985 (52.25%) Problem-Solving
3 795 (42.18%) Mentoring
4 763 (40.48%) Roadmaps
5 620 (32.89%) High Availability
6 608 (32.25%) Product Management
7 557 (29.55%) Broadcast Engineering
8 328 (17.40%) Agile
9 312 (16.55%) Software Engineering
10 292 (15.49%) DevOps
11 227 (12.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 223 (11.83%) Artificial Intelligence
13 174 (9.23%) CI/CD
14 153 (8.12%) Machine Learning
15 134 (7.11%) Customer-Centricity
16 131 (6.95%) Service Delivery
17 130 (6.90%) Design Patterns
18 128 (6.79%) ITSM
19 124 (6.58%) Data Science
20 121 (6.42%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 304 (16.13%) Python
2 278 (14.75%) SQL
3 245 (13.00%) Java
4 209 (11.09%) C#
5 198 (10.50%) JavaScript
6 120 (6.37%) C++
7 117 (6.21%) TypeScript
8 109 (5.78%) PHP
9 91 (4.83%) PowerShell
10 72 (3.82%) C
11 57 (3.02%) R
12 52 (2.76%) Rust
13 50 (2.65%) Ruby
14 49 (2.60%) Dart
14 49 (2.60%) MATLAB
15 26 (1.38%) Apex Code
16 21 (1.11%) Bash
17 19 (1.01%) Scala
18 17 (0.90%) Kotlin
19 13 (0.69%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 1,885 (100.00%) Degree
2 163 (8.65%) Master's Degree
3 90 (4.77%) Security Cleared
4 82 (4.35%) Microsoft Certification
5 77 (4.08%) BPSS Clearance
6 70 (3.71%) Chartered Engineer
7 68 (3.61%) Azure Certification
8 55 (2.92%) SC Cleared
9 51 (2.71%) Cisco Certification
10 50 (2.65%) CISSP
11 47 (2.49%) MCSE
12 40 (2.12%) AWS Certification
12 40 (2.12%) CCNP
13 39 (2.07%) CCNA
14 32 (1.70%) PMI Certification
15 31 (1.64%) PMP
16 30 (1.59%) LPIC
17 29 (1.54%) MCP
18 27 (1.43%) DV Cleared
19 20 (1.06%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (3.45%) GDPR
2 62 (3.29%) QA
3 58 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 12207
4 54 (2.86%) Data Quality
5 52 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.28%) NIST
7 27 (1.43%) HIPAA
8 21 (1.11%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 17 (0.90%) NCSC
10 15 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.32%) CDISC
12 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 6 (0.32%) SLA
13 5 (0.27%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 5 (0.27%) Def Stans
14 4 (0.21%) GRC
14 4 (0.21%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.16%) Good Clinical Practice
System Software
1 105 (5.57%) Docker
2 47 (2.49%) Active Directory
3 24 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (0.37%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.32%) vSphere
6 5 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
6 5 (0.27%) VMware NSX
7 4 (0.21%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.16%) HDFS
8 3 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.11%) GPFS
9 2 (0.11%) Lustre
9 2 (0.11%) NFS
10 1 (0.053%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.053%) Firmware
10 1 (0.053%) KVM
Systems Management
1 113 (5.99%) Kubernetes
2 76 (4.03%) Terraform
3 58 (3.08%) Grafana
4 56 (2.97%) Prometheus
5 20 (1.06%) Ansible
6 10 (0.53%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.32%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.32%) Argo
7 6 (0.32%) QRadar
8 5 (0.27%) CSIRT
8 5 (0.27%) Kibana
9 4 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.16%) Docker Swarm
10 3 (0.16%) SCCM
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%) RSA Archer
11 2 (0.11%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 229 (12.15%) Microsoft
2 128 (6.79%) ServiceNow
3 76 (4.03%) Google
4 65 (3.45%) Cisco
5 46 (2.44%) Salesforce
6 32 (1.70%) SAP
7 29 (1.54%) OpenAI
7 29 (1.54%) VMware
8 25 (1.33%) Oracle
9 23 (1.22%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
10 17 (0.90%) Databricks
11 15 (0.80%) Dell
12 13 (0.69%) Splunk
12 13 (0.69%) Workday
13 12 (0.64%) Fortinet
13 12 (0.64%) New Relic
14 11 (0.58%) Apple
14 11 (0.58%) McAfee
14 11 (0.58%) Ubiquiti
14 11 (0.58%) Veeam