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 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 104 88
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +112
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 40 68 62
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.66% 1.90% 2.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.01% 7.05% 9.73%
Number of salaries quoted 33 33 43
10th Percentile £24,500 £33,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £30,857 £48,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £63,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £77,500 £70,000
North West median annual salary £56,250 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +12.50% -9.09% +10.00%

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 799 964 637
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 33.25% 26.95% 27.12%
Number of salaries quoted 337 375 451
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £36,750
25th Percentile £30,857 £41,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £82,500
North West median annual salary £48,000 £50,055 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.10% -8.99% +10.00%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 +4 2 £33,302 -29.89% 1
Stockport - 2 £48,750 -
Altrincham - 1 £31,500 - 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 6 (15.00%) SaaS
4 5 (12.50%) GCP
5 4 (10.00%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.50%) Firebase
6 1 (2.50%) Google App Engine
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Firewall
1 1 (2.50%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) MongoDB
1 6 (15.00%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) Data Lake
3 3 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (7.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Big Data
4 1 (2.50%) BigQuery
4 1 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Git
2 2 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
General
1 21 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.00%) Banking
4 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (5.00%) Marketing
4 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.50%) Advertising
5 1 (2.50%) Cantonese Language
5 1 (2.50%) Games
5 1 (2.50%) Health Technology
5 1 (2.50%) Law
5 1 (2.50%) Mandarin Language
5 1 (2.50%) Retail
5 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Developer
2 8 (20.00%) Senior
3 6 (15.00%) Delphi Developer
4 5 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 5 (12.50%) Technical Support
5 4 (10.00%) Python Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Python Software Engineer
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Backend Developer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Backend Developer
7 2 (5.00%) C# Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Lecturer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) C++ Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Graduate Developer
8 1 (2.50%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) Linux Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) Security Specialist
8 1 (2.50%) Systems Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (17.50%) RESTful
2 5 (12.50%) Django
2 5 (12.50%) React
3 4 (10.00%) Celery
3 4 (10.00%) FastAPI
3 4 (10.00%) Flask
3 4 (10.00%) Vue
4 3 (7.50%) Spring
4 3 (7.50%) Spring Boot
4 3 (7.50%) Web Services
5 2 (5.00%) .NET
5 2 (5.00%) Kafka
5 2 (5.00%) RabbitMQ
5 2 (5.00%) WinForms
6 1 (2.50%) D3.js
6 1 (2.50%) Node.js
6 1 (2.50%) Plotly
6 1 (2.50%) React Native
6 1 (2.50%) Redux
6 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (5.00%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.50%) Learning Management System
3 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.50%) Online Games
3 1 (2.50%) Tandem
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 3 (7.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 14 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (32.50%) Software Engineering
4 10 (25.00%) Agile
4 10 (25.00%) DevOps
5 8 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 7 (17.50%) OO
6 7 (17.50%) OOP
7 6 (15.00%) CRM
7 6 (15.00%) Data Science
7 6 (15.00%) Data Visualisation
7 6 (15.00%) Visualisation
8 5 (12.50%) AI
8 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Culture
8 5 (12.50%) Containerisation
8 5 (12.50%) Customer Service
9 4 (10.00%) B2B
9 4 (10.00%) B2C
9 4 (10.00%) Scrum
9 4 (10.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 9 (22.50%) SQL
2 6 (15.00%) C#
2 6 (15.00%) Delphi
2 6 (15.00%) Python
3 5 (12.50%) Java
4 2 (5.00%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) C
5 1 (2.50%) C++
5 1 (2.50%) Go
5 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Azure Certification
2 2 (5.00%) DBS Check
2 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) A+ Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (2.50%) CISSP
3 1 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Numerate Degree
3 1 (2.50%) Postgraduate
3 1 (2.50%) SAP Certification
3 1 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (2.50%) GDPR
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) AppDynamics
2 3 (7.50%) IBM
2 3 (7.50%) Moogsoft
2 3 (7.50%) Splunk
3 2 (5.00%) Bloomberg
3 2 (5.00%) UiPath
4 1 (2.50%) Concur
4 1 (2.50%) Dell
4 1 (2.50%) Red Hat
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) VMware