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 17 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 61 71
Rank change year-on-year -5 +10 +75
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 87 133 98
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 3.82% 3.50% 3.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.31% 4.13% 3.98%
Number of salaries quoted 67 68 75
10th Percentile £30,300 £35,125 £39,659
25th Percentile £33,250 £43,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -37.27% -8.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,813 £70,000
90th Percentile £73,000 £87,875 £72,500
North West median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +43.00%

All Process and 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 2,017 3,224 2,460
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 88.46% 84.86% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1,185 1,509 1,995
10th Percentile £28,350 £31,250 £35,700
25th Percentile £35,000 £41,000 £44,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £69,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% +4.76%

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 17 October 2025.

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 17 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 +10 14 £34,500 -23.33% 2
Bolton +16 11 £34,500 +23.21% 9
Stockport +8 6 £48,750 -11.36% 2
Rochdale - 4 - -
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 1 (1.15%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (1.15%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (16.09%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.09%) Azure
2 9 (10.34%) Power Platform
3 7 (8.05%) AWS
4 5 (5.75%) SaaS
5 4 (4.60%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.60%) GCP
6 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.15%) Azure Machine Learning
7 1 (1.15%) dbt
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (9.20%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (6.90%) Power BI
3 5 (5.75%) Relational Database
4 4 (4.60%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.60%) Data Lake
4 4 (4.60%) MongoDB
4 4 (4.60%) NoSQL
5 2 (2.30%) Big Data
5 2 (2.30%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.15%) GIS
6 1 (1.15%) MySQL
6 1 (1.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (4.60%) Git
2 2 (2.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.15%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.15%) MLflow
General
1 24 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.69%) Finance
3 8 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.20%) Marketing
4 7 (8.05%) Retail
5 4 (4.60%) Law
6 2 (2.30%) Advertising
6 2 (2.30%) Banking
6 2 (2.30%) Cantonese Language
6 2 (2.30%) Mandarin Language
6 2 (2.30%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.30%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.15%) Games
7 1 (1.15%) Health Technology
7 1 (1.15%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (18.39%) Senior
2 14 (16.09%) Developer
2 14 (16.09%) Trainer
3 6 (6.90%) Senior Developer
4 5 (5.75%) Data Engineer
4 5 (5.75%) Senior Data Engineer
4 5 (5.75%) Technical Support
5 4 (4.60%) Backend Developer
5 4 (4.60%) Senior Backend Developer
6 3 (3.45%) Consultant
6 3 (3.45%) Delphi Developer
6 3 (3.45%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (3.45%) Lead
6 3 (3.45%) Senior Consultant
6 3 (3.45%) Support Engineer
7 2 (2.30%) Analyst
7 2 (2.30%) C# Developer
7 2 (2.30%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 2 (2.30%) Junior
7 2 (2.30%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.90%) RESTful
2 4 (4.60%) Spring
2 4 (4.60%) Spring Boot
2 4 (4.60%) Web Services
3 2 (2.30%) Celery
3 2 (2.30%) Django
3 2 (2.30%) FastAPI
3 2 (2.30%) Flask
3 2 (2.30%) Kafka
3 2 (2.30%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.30%) React
3 2 (2.30%) TensorFlow
3 2 (2.30%) Vue
3 2 (2.30%) WinForms
4 1 (1.15%) .NET
4 1 (1.15%) CSS
4 1 (1.15%) HTML
4 1 (1.15%) Plotly
4 1 (1.15%) PyTorch
4 1 (1.15%) SwiftUI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (31.03%) Social Media
2 2 (2.30%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.30%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.30%) Tandem
3 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.15%) iPad
3 1 (1.15%) iPhone
3 1 (1.15%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.15%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.15%) Multi-touch
3 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.15%) Online Games
3 1 (1.15%) PropTech
3 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.15%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (3.45%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.84%) AI
1 19 (21.84%) Mathematics
2 17 (19.54%) Statistics
3 16 (18.39%) Software Engineering
4 15 (17.24%) DevOps
5 14 (16.09%) Conversational UI
6 13 (14.94%) CI/CD
6 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (12.64%) Agile
8 9 (10.34%) CRM
8 9 (10.34%) Data Science
9 8 (9.20%) Data Visualisation
9 8 (9.20%) Visualisation
10 7 (8.05%) Analytics
10 7 (8.05%) Business Intelligence
11 6 (6.90%) Customer Service
12 5 (5.75%) Collaborative Culture
12 5 (5.75%) Data Pipeline
12 5 (5.75%) Project Delivery
12 5 (5.75%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.39%) SQL
2 9 (10.34%) Python
3 6 (6.90%) C#
4 5 (5.75%) Java
5 3 (3.45%) Delphi
5 3 (3.45%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.15%) Bash
6 1 (1.15%) C
6 1 (1.15%) C++
6 1 (1.15%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.15%) Perl
6 1 (1.15%) R
6 1 (1.15%) Ruby
6 1 (1.15%) Swift
Qualifications
1 82 (94.25%) Degree
2 34 (39.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 27 (31.03%) DBS Check
4 21 (24.14%) Master's Degree
5 16 (18.39%) PhD
6 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.30%) Azure Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (2.30%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.15%) SAP Certification
8 1 (1.15%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.30%) GDPR
2 1 (1.15%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.15%) QA
2 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) PayPal
2 8 (9.20%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.60%) AppDynamics
3 4 (4.60%) IBM
3 4 (4.60%) Moogsoft
3 4 (4.60%) Splunk
4 3 (3.45%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.30%) UiPath
6 1 (1.15%) Concur
6 1 (1.15%) Dell
6 1 (1.15%) Google
6 1 (1.15%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.15%) SAP