Computer Science Degree Job Trends in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 98 91
Rank change year-on-year -13 -7 +111
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 39 84 75
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.67% 2.17% 2.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.15% 8.95% 10.84%
Number of salaries quoted 32 42 56
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,375 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,857 £45,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £56,875 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -5.21% +23.08%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,438 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,875 £87,875 £70,625
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +26.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 758 939 692
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 32.37% 24.31% 26.48%
Number of salaries quoted 316 392 490
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,775 £36,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £39,563 £43,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,068 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% -12.50% +9.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £84,375 £79,178 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,000 £50,055 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.10% -12.95% +15.00%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in Manchester

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 October 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
Wigan 0 2 £33,302 -29.89% 3
Stockport - 2 £48,750 - 2
Computer Science Degree
North West

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (2.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (20.51%) Azure
2 6 (15.38%) Power Platform
2 6 (15.38%) SaaS
3 5 (12.82%) AWS
4 4 (10.26%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.13%) GCP
5 2 (5.13%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.56%) Amazon S3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.82%) Relational Database
2 4 (10.26%) Data Lake
2 4 (10.26%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.69%) MongoDB
3 3 (7.69%) NoSQL
3 3 (7.69%) Power BI
4 2 (5.13%) Big Data
5 1 (2.56%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (2.56%) GIS
5 1 (2.56%) MySQL
5 1 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (10.26%) Git
2 2 (5.13%) JIRA
2 2 (5.13%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.56%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 17 (43.59%) Finance
3 7 (17.95%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (10.26%) Law
5 2 (5.13%) Advertising
5 2 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (5.13%) Cantonese Language
5 2 (5.13%) Mandarin Language
5 2 (5.13%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.13%) Marketing
5 2 (5.13%) Retail
5 2 (5.13%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.56%) Games
6 1 (2.56%) Health Technology
6 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (35.90%) Developer
2 9 (23.08%) Senior
3 5 (12.82%) Senior Developer
3 5 (12.82%) Technical Support
4 4 (10.26%) Backend Developer
4 4 (10.26%) Senior Backend Developer
5 3 (7.69%) Delphi Developer
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) C# Developer
6 2 (5.13%) Junior
6 2 (5.13%) Junior DevOps
6 2 (5.13%) Junior DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Junior Support Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Lead
6 2 (5.13%) Lecturer
6 2 (5.13%) Platform Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Senior Manager
7 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.56%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (12.82%) RESTful
2 4 (10.26%) Spring
2 4 (10.26%) Spring Boot
2 4 (10.26%) Web Services
3 2 (5.13%) .NET
3 2 (5.13%) Kafka
3 2 (5.13%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (5.13%) WinForms
4 1 (2.56%) Celery
4 1 (2.56%) D3.js
4 1 (2.56%) FastAPI
4 1 (2.56%) Flask
4 1 (2.56%) Plotly
4 1 (2.56%) PyTorch
4 1 (2.56%) React
4 1 (2.56%) React Native
4 1 (2.56%) REST
4 1 (2.56%) scikit-learn
4 1 (2.56%) TensorFlow
4 1 (2.56%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.13%) Algorithms
2 2 (5.13%) Tandem
3 1 (2.56%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.56%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.56%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.56%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.56%) Online Games
3 1 (2.56%) PropTech
3 1 (2.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.69%) Linux
2 2 (5.13%) Windows
3 1 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (92.31%) Computer Science
2 12 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (28.21%) Agile
3 11 (28.21%) DevOps
3 11 (28.21%) Software Engineering
4 8 (20.51%) CI/CD
5 6 (15.38%) CRM
5 6 (15.38%) Customer Service
5 6 (15.38%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (15.38%) Scrum
5 6 (15.38%) Visualisation
6 4 (10.26%) AI
6 4 (10.26%) Analytics
6 4 (10.26%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (10.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (10.26%) Mathematics
6 4 (10.26%) Mentoring
6 4 (10.26%) OO
6 4 (10.26%) OOP
6 4 (10.26%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.95%) C#
1 7 (17.95%) SQL
2 5 (12.82%) Java
3 4 (10.26%) Python
4 3 (7.69%) Delphi
4 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.56%) Bash
5 1 (2.56%) C
5 1 (2.56%) C++
5 1 (2.56%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.56%) Perl
5 1 (2.56%) Ruby
5 1 (2.56%) X++
Qualifications
1 39 (100.00%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (12.82%) SC Cleared
2 5 (12.82%) Security Cleared
3 3 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
4 2 (5.13%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (5.13%) DBS Check
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.56%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (2.56%) SAP Certification
5 1 (2.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.56%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.56%) GDPR
1 1 (2.56%) QA
1 1 (2.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (20.51%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.26%) AppDynamics
2 4 (10.26%) IBM
2 4 (10.26%) Moogsoft
2 4 (10.26%) Splunk
3 3 (7.69%) Bloomberg
4 2 (5.13%) UiPath
5 1 (2.56%) Concur
5 1 (2.56%) Dell
5 1 (2.56%) Google
5 1 (2.56%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.56%) SAP