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 30 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 96 91
Rank change year-on-year -59 -5 +62
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 30 74 151
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.48% 3.15% 2.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.73% 9.31% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 24 63 105
10th Percentile £24,000 £37,650 £36,250
25th Percentile £24,750 £40,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,188 £77,500 £72,750
90th Percentile £82,750 £120,000 £80,000
North West median annual salary £40,000 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -30.43% +15.00% -16.67%

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 805 795 1,181
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 12.81% 33.86% 20.52%
Number of salaries quoted 563 393 827
10th Percentile £31,000 £25,480 £27,500
25th Percentile £46,250 £33,250 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £53,835 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.55% +0.11% -13.04%

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 30 June 2026.

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 30 June 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
Cheadle +2 2 £34,500 -54.00% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 19 (63.33%) Azure
2 9 (30.00%) AWS
3 6 (20.00%) GCP
4 4 (13.33%) Azure AI
5 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (6.67%) SaaS
6 1 (3.33%) Anthropic Claude
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (13.33%) NoSQL
3 3 (10.00%) MongoDB
3 3 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (6.67%) Redis
5 1 (3.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (3.33%) Pinecone
5 1 (3.33%) Spark SQL
5 1 (3.33%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Claude Code
1 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (13.33%) Marketing
3 3 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.00%) Finance
4 2 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Graduate
2 8 (26.67%) Graduate Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Graduate Software Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Software Developer
3 6 (20.00%) Architect
4 5 (16.67%) Software Engineer
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Architect
5 4 (13.33%) Azure Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Consultant
5 4 (13.33%) Delphi Developer
6 3 (10.00%) C# Developer
6 3 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Graduate C# Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Graduate C# Software Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Python Engineer
6 3 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Deskside Support
7 2 (6.67%) Principal Software Engineer
7 2 (6.67%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.67%) Vue
2 3 (10.00%) Celery
2 3 (10.00%) Django
2 3 (10.00%) FastAPI
2 3 (10.00%) Flask
2 3 (10.00%) React
2 3 (10.00%) RESTful
3 2 (6.67%) .NET
3 2 (6.67%) Kafka
3 2 (6.67%) Node.js
4 1 (3.33%) CrewAI
4 1 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (3.33%) Faiss
4 1 (3.33%) jQuery
4 1 (3.33%) LangChain
4 1 (3.33%) LangGraph
4 1 (3.33%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (3.33%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (3.33%) PySpark
4 1 (3.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.67%) CMDB
2 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.67%) Marketing Technology
2 2 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Mac OS
1 2 (6.67%) Windows
1 2 (6.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (43.33%) AI
3 10 (33.33%) DevOps
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (26.67%) Software Engineering
5 6 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (20.00%) Data Science
5 6 (20.00%) OO
5 6 (20.00%) OOP
6 5 (16.67%) Agile
6 5 (16.67%) B2B
6 5 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 5 (16.67%) Fintech
7 4 (13.33%) Data Transformation
7 4 (13.33%) Full-Stack Development
7 4 (13.33%) Microservices
7 4 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
8 3 (10.00%) Asynchronous Programming
8 3 (10.00%) B2C
8 3 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Python
2 8 (26.67%) C#
2 8 (26.67%) PHP
3 7 (23.33%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) Delphi
4 4 (13.33%) Java
5 3 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (10.00%) TypeScript
6 1 (3.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (6.67%) A+ Certification
4 2 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 2 (6.67%) MBA
5 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (6.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (16.67%) Databricks
3 2 (6.67%) Adobe