Computer Science Job Trends in Manchester

Computer Science
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -57 -3 +15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 81 102 141
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 1.06% 4.30% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 4.82% 4.21%
Number of salaries quoted 36 80 76
10th Percentile £24,000 £33,175 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £33,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £34,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -37.27% -8.33%
75th Percentile £60,000 £64,063 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £89,375
North West median annual salary £42,454 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +6.13% -20.00% -16.67%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,821 2,115 3,353
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 76.15% 89.17% 84.23%
Number of salaries quoted 4,371 1,188 1,652
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,250 £52,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.31% -5.00% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £70,000 £69,800
90th Percentile £97,500 £85,000 £84,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Manchester

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Manchester

Computer Science
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 within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 October 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
Stockport -4 4 £50,000 +2.56% 2
Salford - 3 - - 5
Cheadle - 2 £34,500 -
Computer Science
North West

Computer Science
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 5 (6.17%) Confluence
2 3 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (3.70%) Jupyter
3 1 (1.23%) CMS
3 1 (1.23%) Kentico
3 1 (1.23%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (30.86%) Azure
2 22 (27.16%) AWS
3 11 (13.58%) GCP
4 7 (8.64%) GitHub
5 5 (6.17%) Amazon ECS
5 5 (6.17%) Amazon S3
5 5 (6.17%) AWS CloudFormation
5 5 (6.17%) AWS Fargate
5 5 (6.17%) AWS Lambda
5 5 (6.17%) Serverless
6 4 (4.94%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.94%) Azure Databricks
6 4 (4.94%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (3.70%) Anthropic Claude
8 2 (2.47%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (2.47%) ChatGPT
8 2 (2.47%) Google Sheets
8 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (2.47%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.70%) Internet
2 1 (1.23%) 5G
2 1 (1.23%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (14.81%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.17%) DynamoDB
3 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.70%) Oracle Database
4 2 (2.47%) Data Hub
4 2 (2.47%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.47%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.47%) Redis
5 1 (1.23%) Big Data
5 1 (1.23%) Chroma
5 1 (1.23%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.23%) Pinecone
5 1 (1.23%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.23%) Spark SQL
5 1 (1.23%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 7 (8.64%) JIRA
2 5 (6.17%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 5 (6.17%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.94%) Git
4 3 (3.70%) GitLab
5 1 (1.23%) Claude Code
General
1 32 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 31 (38.27%) Finance
3 18 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.94%) Marketing
5 3 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Banking
6 2 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.47%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.23%) Back Office
7 1 (1.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (18.52%) Developer
2 13 (16.05%) Senior
3 12 (14.81%) Graduate
4 9 (11.11%) Architect
5 8 (9.88%) Software Engineer
6 6 (7.41%) Analyst
6 6 (7.41%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Applications Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Consultant
7 5 (6.17%) Graduate Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Graduate Software Developer
7 5 (6.17%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Software Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Architect
8 4 (4.94%) Azure Consultant
8 4 (4.94%) Delphi Developer
8 4 (4.94%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Junior
8 4 (4.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) .NET
1 7 (8.64%) AngularJS
1 7 (8.64%) Node.js
1 7 (8.64%) Spring
2 5 (6.17%) React
2 5 (6.17%) Spring Boot
3 4 (4.94%) CSS
3 4 (4.94%) HTML
3 4 (4.94%) Kafka
3 4 (4.94%) PySpark
3 4 (4.94%) Vue
4 3 (3.70%) Ajax
4 3 (3.70%) CSS3
4 3 (3.70%) HTML5
4 3 (3.70%) JSON
4 3 (3.70%) LDAP
5 2 (2.47%) Celery
5 2 (2.47%) Flask
5 2 (2.47%) REST
5 2 (2.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.64%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.17%) AI Agents
2 5 (6.17%) Algorithms
2 5 (6.17%) Cloud Native
2 5 (6.17%) Cybercrime
2 5 (6.17%) Management Information System
3 4 (4.94%) Marketing Technology
4 3 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.70%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.47%) CMDB
5 2 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.47%) Cyberattack
5 2 (2.47%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.47%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.23%) Autonomous Agent
6 1 (1.23%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.23%) Life Science
6 1 (1.23%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.17%) Windows
2 4 (4.94%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.47%) Linux
3 2 (2.47%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (50.62%) AI
2 30 (37.04%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (24.69%) Agile
4 18 (22.22%) Data Science
4 18 (22.22%) Software Engineering
5 14 (17.28%) CI/CD
5 14 (17.28%) DevOps
6 12 (14.81%) Collaborative Culture
6 12 (14.81%) Cybersecurity
6 12 (14.81%) Machine Learning
7 11 (13.58%) Full-Stack Development
7 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
8 10 (12.35%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (12.35%) Information Security
8 10 (12.35%) Microservices
8 10 (12.35%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (12.35%) Workflow
9 9 (11.11%) Observability
9 9 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 8 (9.88%) Business Strategy
Programming Languages
1 28 (34.57%) Python
2 22 (27.16%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) SQL
4 14 (17.28%) JavaScript
5 11 (13.58%) C#
6 8 (9.88%) PHP
7 7 (8.64%) TypeScript
8 4 (4.94%) Delphi
9 1 (1.23%) Ada
9 1 (1.23%) Go
9 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.23%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.23%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 72 (88.89%) Degree
2 43 (53.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 13 (16.05%) Master's Degree
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Certification
4 5 (6.17%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
4 5 (6.17%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.94%) MBA
5 4 (4.94%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.70%) DBS Check
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.47%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.47%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.47%) CSPO
7 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.94%) QA
3 1 (1.23%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.94%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (4.94%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.70%) SCCM
2 3 (3.70%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.47%) Nessus
Vendors
1 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.17%) Databricks
2 5 (6.17%) Splunk
3 4 (4.94%) Adobe
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle
4 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
4 2 (2.47%) BMC
4 2 (2.47%) Google
4 2 (2.47%) Palo Alto
4 2 (2.47%) Remedy
4 2 (2.47%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.23%) Capita
5 1 (1.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.23%) Thales