Computer Science Job Trends in England

Computer Science
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in England requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 34 36
Rank change year-on-year -36 +2 +19
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 1,673 2,719 3,671
As % of all permanent jobs in England 2.89% 6.04% 5.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.62% 6.56% 6.30%
Number of salaries quoted 1,015 1,291 2,579
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £44,444
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £63,652 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% -2.07% -
75th Percentile £89,375 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £111,250 £112,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £63,776 £62,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +2.04% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
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 England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,216 41,458 58,251
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 79.82% 92.03% 88.17%
Number of salaries quoted 28,077 20,221 46,108
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £38,750 £46,250 £40,879
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +12.73% -12.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £75,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £102,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in England over the 6 months to 10 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in England

Computer Science
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 10 February 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
London -1 792 £85,000 +13.33% 298
South East -34 319 £55,000 -8.33% 227
North of England -67 223 £51,500 -6.36% 90
Yorkshire -51 112 £50,000 -2.44% 21
Midlands -104 110 £44,543 +11.36% 84
East of England -29 103 £46,750 -19.40% 72
South West -20 96 £55,000 - 54
West Midlands -84 84 £41,817 +4.54% 61
North West -58 68 £57,500 +4.55% 50
North East -5 43 £47,500 -15.93% 19
East Midlands -84 29 £55,000 +50.67% 23
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 50 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 41 (2.45%) Apache Spark
3 26 (1.55%) IIS
4 21 (1.26%) Confluence
5 13 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 10 (0.60%) Jupyter
7 9 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
8 8 (0.48%) Apache
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 5 (0.30%) Apache Pulsar
10 5 (0.30%) WordPress
11 4 (0.24%) CMS
11 4 (0.24%) SAS
12 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
12 2 (0.12%) Headless CMS
12 2 (0.12%) nginx
13 1 (0.060%) Camunda
13 1 (0.060%) FactoryTalk
13 1 (0.060%) Kinematics
13 1 (0.060%) WinCC
Applications
1 53 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 42 (2.51%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.91%) MS Visio
4 23 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (0.84%) Chatbot
6 13 (0.78%) Maya
7 10 (0.60%) InDesign
8 8 (0.48%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.48%) SOLIDWORKS
9 6 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
10 4 (0.24%) Siemens NX
11 3 (0.18%) Simulink
11 3 (0.18%) Sketch
12 2 (0.12%) Stata
12 2 (0.12%) Windchill
13 1 (0.060%) Adobe Creative Suite
13 1 (0.060%) Adobe Illustrator
13 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
13 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.54%) SAP CO
2 8 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
2 8 (0.48%) Endur
3 6 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.36%) NetSuite
4 5 (0.30%) Teamcenter
5 4 (0.24%) Distributed Ledger
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) Payment Gateway
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.060%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.060%) Magento
7 1 (0.060%) Misys Equation
7 1 (0.060%) Shopify
7 1 (0.060%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 529 (31.62%) Azure
2 404 (24.15%) AWS
3 154 (9.21%) GCP
4 145 (8.67%) Power Platform
5 108 (6.46%) Microsoft 365
6 102 (6.10%) SaaS
7 84 (5.02%) GitHub
8 71 (4.24%) Serverless
9 64 (3.83%) Azure DevOps
10 51 (3.05%) PaaS
11 31 (1.85%) Vertex AI
12 30 (1.79%) AWS Lambda
12 30 (1.79%) IaaS
13 28 (1.67%) Azure AI
14 26 (1.55%) GitHub Actions
14 26 (1.55%) Power Automate
15 25 (1.49%) Amazon S3
16 24 (1.43%) Dynamics 365
17 23 (1.37%) Amazon SageMaker
17 23 (1.37%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 91 (5.44%) Firewall
2 50 (2.99%) VPN
2 50 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
3 45 (2.69%) WAN
4 44 (2.63%) LAN
5 40 (2.39%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.27%) DNS
7 34 (2.03%) Network Security
8 30 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
9 27 (1.61%) DHCP
10 25 (1.49%) VLAN
11 21 (1.26%) Wireless
12 20 (1.20%) BGP
12 20 (1.20%) OSPF
13 16 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
13 16 (0.96%) VoIP
14 15 (0.90%) EIGRP
15 14 (0.84%) SAN
16 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 127 (7.59%) Power BI
2 106 (6.34%) SQL Server
3 60 (3.59%) Data Warehouse
4 54 (3.23%) Data Lake
5 47 (2.81%) Metadata
6 43 (2.57%) Big Data
7 42 (2.51%) NoSQL
8 35 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
9 34 (2.03%) BigQuery
10 33 (1.97%) MySQL
11 30 (1.79%) Tableau
12 25 (1.49%) Relational Database
13 23 (1.37%) Elasticsearch
14 22 (1.32%) Hadoop
15 21 (1.26%) Redis
16 20 (1.20%) Amazon Redshift
17 19 (1.14%) MongoDB
18 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
19 13 (0.78%) Data Mining
20 10 (0.60%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 110 (6.58%) JIRA
2 77 (4.60%) Git
3 34 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.37%) GitLab
5 21 (1.26%) Cypress.io
5 21 (1.26%) Selenium
6 15 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 12 (0.72%) Maven
8 11 (0.66%) LabVIEW
8 11 (0.66%) MLflow
9 10 (0.60%) WebDriver
10 9 (0.54%) Chocolatey
11 8 (0.48%) Postman
12 7 (0.42%) ERwin
12 7 (0.42%) PowerDesigner
13 6 (0.36%) JUnit
13 6 (0.36%) Visual Studio
14 5 (0.30%) ER Studio
14 5 (0.30%) Gradle
14 5 (0.30%) TestNG
General
1 712 (42.56%) Social Skills
2 512 (30.60%) Finance
3 356 (21.28%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (6.69%) Banking
5 99 (5.92%) Marketing
6 90 (5.38%) Law
7 85 (5.08%) Manufacturing
8 72 (4.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 69 (4.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 68 (4.06%) Public Sector
11 66 (3.95%) Retail
12 57 (3.41%) Telecoms
13 51 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
14 45 (2.69%) Legal
15 35 (2.09%) Electronics
16 34 (2.03%) Presentation Skills
17 30 (1.79%) Front Office
18 24 (1.43%) Games
19 19 (1.14%) Aerospace
19 19 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 315 (18.83%) Senior
2 262 (15.66%) Developer
3 172 (10.28%) Lead
4 146 (8.73%) Software Engineer
5 140 (8.37%) Analyst
6 126 (7.53%) Architect
7 74 (4.42%) Graduate
8 57 (3.41%) IT Support
9 52 (3.11%) Consultant
10 51 (3.05%) Azure Engineer
10 51 (3.05%) Software Developer
10 51 (3.05%) Support Engineer
11 46 (2.75%) Senior Developer
12 45 (2.69%) Senior Software Engineer
13 44 (2.63%) Solutions Architect
14 41 (2.45%) IT Engineer
14 41 (2.45%) Python Engineer
15 39 (2.33%) Data Engineer
15 39 (2.33%) IT Manager
16 38 (2.27%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (7.41%) React
2 111 (6.63%) .NET
3 108 (6.46%) CSS
4 83 (4.96%) REST
5 77 (4.60%) HTML
6 74 (4.42%) Node.js
7 62 (3.71%) RESTful
8 61 (3.65%) Kafka
9 54 (3.23%) Middleware
10 48 (2.87%) PyTorch
11 44 (2.63%) TensorFlow
12 31 (1.85%) ASP.NET
13 30 (1.79%) AngularJS
14 28 (1.67%) Vue
15 27 (1.61%) FIX Protocol
16 26 (1.55%) .NET Framework
17 24 (1.43%) Spring
18 22 (1.32%) Django
19 21 (1.26%) gRPC
19 21 (1.26%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 165 (9.86%) Management Information System
2 125 (7.47%) Algorithms
3 89 (5.32%) Distributed Systems
4 86 (5.14%) Cloud Native
4 86 (5.14%) Onboarding
5 85 (5.08%) Life Science
6 70 (4.18%) Enterprise Software
7 67 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (3.47%) Data Structures
9 51 (3.05%) Data Centre
10 44 (2.63%) Driving Licence
11 43 (2.57%) Product Ownership
12 37 (2.21%) Greenfield Project
13 36 (2.15%) Social Media
14 30 (1.79%) AI Agents
14 30 (1.79%) Security Posture
15 29 (1.73%) Equities
16 28 (1.67%) Low-Code
17 27 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
17 27 (1.61%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 156 (9.32%) Windows
2 152 (9.09%) Linux
3 37 (2.21%) Android
4 34 (2.03%) Unix
5 33 (1.97%) Mac OS
6 21 (1.26%) Windows Server
7 9 (0.54%) Apple iOS
8 5 (0.30%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 2 (0.12%) AIX
10 2 (0.12%) Robot Operating System
11 1 (0.060%) CentOS
11 1 (0.060%) Debian
11 1 (0.060%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.060%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 524 (31.32%) Problem-Solving
2 441 (26.36%) Agile
3 416 (24.87%) AI
4 293 (17.51%) Software Engineering
5 288 (17.21%) Analytics
6 287 (17.15%) Machine Learning
7 285 (17.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 250 (14.94%) DevOps
9 227 (13.57%) CI/CD
10 203 (12.13%) Data Science
11 194 (11.60%) Mathematics
12 184 (11.00%) Microservices
13 177 (10.58%) Decision-Making
14 169 (10.10%) Mentoring
15 168 (10.04%) Cybersecurity
16 165 (9.86%) Roadmaps
17 159 (9.50%) SDLC
18 158 (9.44%) Business Intelligence
19 149 (8.91%) ITIL
20 122 (7.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 463 (27.67%) Python
2 307 (18.35%) SQL
3 224 (13.39%) Java
4 208 (12.43%) JavaScript
5 171 (10.22%) C#
6 120 (7.17%) C++
7 100 (5.98%) TypeScript
8 87 (5.20%) PowerShell
9 63 (3.77%) C
10 48 (2.87%) PHP
11 45 (2.69%) Bash
12 32 (1.91%) Go
12 32 (1.91%) R
13 22 (1.32%) Scala
14 18 (1.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 16 (0.96%) Kotlin
15 16 (0.96%) T-SQL
16 15 (0.90%) PL/SQL
16 15 (0.90%) Rust
17 14 (0.84%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1,377 (82.31%) Degree
2 781 (46.68%) Computer Science Degree
3 286 (17.10%) Master's Degree
4 119 (7.11%) Security Cleared
5 117 (6.99%) PhD
6 96 (5.74%) SC Cleared
7 77 (4.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 71 (4.24%) Azure Certification
9 66 (3.95%) CISSP
10 63 (3.77%) AWS Certification
11 60 (3.59%) Cisco Certification
12 57 (3.41%) DBS Check
13 45 (2.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 45 (2.69%) BPSS Clearance
13 45 (2.69%) CCNP
14 40 (2.39%) PMI Certification
14 40 (2.39%) PMP
15 39 (2.33%) TOGAF Certification
16 38 (2.27%) CISM
17 32 (1.91%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 95 (5.68%) QA
2 83 (4.96%) GDPR
3 79 (4.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 62 (3.71%) NIST
5 59 (3.53%) Data Quality
6 54 (3.23%) Accessibility
7 44 (2.63%) GxP
8 27 (1.61%) HIPAA
9 24 (1.43%) EU AI Act
10 21 (1.26%) PSD2
10 21 (1.26%) Solvency II
11 17 (1.02%) SLA
12 16 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 12207
13 15 (0.90%) NCSC
13 15 (0.90%) PMO
14 12 (0.72%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.66%) HL7
16 10 (0.60%) CDISC
16 10 (0.60%) GRC
17 9 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 97 (5.80%) Docker
2 71 (4.24%) Active Directory
3 30 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 21 (1.26%) Hyper-V
5 11 (0.66%) Firmware
6 10 (0.60%) ProxySG
7 7 (0.42%) Oracle RAC
8 4 (0.24%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.24%) KVM
8 4 (0.24%) vSphere
9 3 (0.18%) Embedded Firmware
9 3 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.060%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.060%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (0.060%) Xen
Systems Management
1 86 (5.14%) Kubernetes
2 61 (3.65%) Terraform
3 43 (2.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (1.73%) Ansible
5 27 (1.61%) Grafana
5 27 (1.61%) Prometheus
6 24 (1.43%) SCCM
7 15 (0.90%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.60%) Control-M
9 8 (0.48%) Nagios
9 8 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
10 7 (0.42%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 6 (0.36%) Data Guard
11 6 (0.36%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 6 (0.36%) Oracle RMAN
11 6 (0.36%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.30%) Kibana
12 5 (0.30%) logstash
13 4 (0.24%) FTK
13 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 288 (17.21%) Microsoft
2 101 (6.04%) Google
3 66 (3.95%) Oracle
4 63 (3.77%) Cisco
5 47 (2.81%) VMware
6 37 (2.21%) SAP
7 35 (2.09%) Databricks
8 33 (1.97%) Fortinet
9 28 (1.67%) ServiceNow
10 27 (1.61%) CheckPoint
11 25 (1.49%) Atlassian
12 22 (1.32%) Salesforce
13 17 (1.02%) Dell
13 17 (1.02%) SolarWinds
14 15 (0.90%) IBM
15 14 (0.84%) Adobe
15 14 (0.84%) Palo Alto
15 14 (0.84%) Software AG
15 14 (0.84%) Splunk
15 14 (0.84%) Zoho