Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 174 41 144
Rank change year-on-year -133 +103 +29
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 52 341 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 5.76% 1.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 14.73% 6.81%
Number of salaries quoted 37 90 118
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £26,600
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £35,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -36.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £57,500 £48,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £77,500 £68,000 £91,250
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,813 2,315 2,042
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 31.62% 39.10% 24.36%
Number of salaries quoted 766 687 1,584
10th Percentile £27,694 £31,250 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,750 £37,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £53,688 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.18% +13.03% -5.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £73,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 18 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 18 February 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
West Midlands -109 35 £41,250 +17.86% 24
East Midlands -81 20 £55,000 +57.14% 11
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 6 (11.54%) IIS
2 2 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.92%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.77%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.85%) AutoCAD
3 2 (3.85%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 21 (40.38%) AWS
2 14 (26.92%) Azure
3 11 (21.15%) Amazon S3
3 11 (21.15%) AWS Lambda
3 11 (21.15%) Serverless
4 9 (17.31%) SaaS
5 6 (11.54%) Power Platform
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (5.77%) Firebase
7 3 (5.77%) GCP
7 3 (5.77%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (5.77%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.77%) PowerApps
8 2 (3.85%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
9 1 (1.92%) Azure Machine Learning
9 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.92%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.85%) Firewall
1 2 (3.85%) Modbus
2 1 (1.92%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (21.15%) Amazon Redshift
2 10 (19.23%) SQL Server
3 7 (13.46%) MySQL
4 3 (5.77%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (5.77%) Power BI
4 3 (5.77%) Relational Database
5 2 (3.85%) Data Mining
5 2 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
5 2 (3.85%) Tableau
6 1 (1.92%) Big Data
6 1 (1.92%) Hadoop
6 1 (1.92%) Pentaho
6 1 (1.92%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 7 (13.46%) JIRA
2 5 (9.62%) Git
3 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) TestRail
4 1 (1.92%) Maven
4 1 (1.92%) MLflow
4 1 (1.92%) PHPUnit
4 1 (1.92%) Selenium
4 1 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 25 (48.08%) Social Skills
2 22 (42.31%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (5.77%) Finance
3 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (3.85%) Advertising
4 2 (3.85%) Legal
4 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
4 2 (3.85%) Retail
5 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.92%) Law
5 1 (1.92%) Marketing
5 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
5 1 (1.92%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (32.69%) Developer
2 12 (23.08%) Senior
3 11 (21.15%) Full-Stack Developer
4 8 (15.38%) Senior Developer
5 7 (13.46%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 6 (11.54%) Software Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Support Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Technical Engineer
6 6 (11.54%) Technical Support
6 6 (11.54%) Technical Support Engineer
7 5 (9.62%) Lead
8 4 (7.69%) Architect
8 4 (7.69%) Lead Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (7.69%) Python Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Analyst
9 3 (5.77%) Development Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Junior
9 3 (5.77%) PHP Software Engineer
9 3 (5.77%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (32.69%) CSS
1 17 (32.69%) HTML
2 16 (30.77%) React
3 14 (26.92%) Node.js
4 7 (13.46%) .NET
5 4 (7.69%) Laravel
6 3 (5.77%) Middleware
6 3 (5.77%) Next.js
6 3 (5.77%) React Native
6 3 (5.77%) Vue
7 2 (3.85%) JSON
7 2 (3.85%) Playwright
7 2 (3.85%) Spring
7 2 (3.85%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.85%) XML
8 1 (1.92%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.92%) PySpark
8 1 (1.92%) RAML
8 1 (1.92%) scikit-learn
8 1 (1.92%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.77%) Management Information System
1 3 (5.77%) Mobile App
1 3 (5.77%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.85%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (3.85%) SCADA
3 1 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (1.92%) IoT
3 1 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.92%) NHS
3 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (1.92%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 32 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 16 (30.77%) Full-Stack Development
4 11 (21.15%) API Development
4 11 (21.15%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (19.23%) Agile
6 9 (17.31%) Mentoring
6 9 (17.31%) Software Engineering
7 8 (15.38%) CRM
7 8 (15.38%) DevOps
8 6 (11.54%) Analytics
8 6 (11.54%) Project Management
8 6 (11.54%) SDLC
8 6 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 5 (9.62%) AI
9 5 (9.62%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (7.69%) Configuration Management
10 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
10 4 (7.69%) Machine Learning
10 4 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (44.23%) Python
2 21 (40.38%) JavaScript
3 19 (36.54%) SQL
4 14 (26.92%) PHP
5 11 (21.15%) Java
6 8 (15.38%) C#
7 3 (5.77%) VBA
8 2 (3.85%) C++
8 2 (3.85%) T-SQL
9 1 (1.92%) Bash
9 1 (1.92%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (1.92%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 52 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (13.46%) Master's Degree
3 4 (7.69%) CISSP
3 4 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.77%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.77%) Chartered Engineer
4 3 (5.77%) CISM
5 2 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) CCSP
6 1 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.92%) CITP
6 1 (1.92%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.92%) MySQL Certification
6 1 (1.92%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (11.54%) NIST
3 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (5.77%) GDPR
3 3 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 3 (5.77%) QA
4 2 (3.85%) HIPAA
4 2 (3.85%) IEC 61131
4 2 (3.85%) NIST 800
5 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.92%) Grafana
Vendors
1 16 (30.77%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Oracle
3 1 (1.92%) Denodo
3 1 (1.92%) Meraki
3 1 (1.92%) MuleSoft
3 1 (1.92%) OpenAI
3 1 (1.92%) Splunk
3 1 (1.92%) Talend
3 1 (1.92%) WatchGuard
3 1 (1.92%) Zend