Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the North East

Computer Science Degree
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 23 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 61 60
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 +26
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 19 22 21
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.74% 2.43% 2.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.64% 8.76% 8.71%
Number of salaries quoted 12 18 17
10th Percentile - £38,711 £41,250
25th Percentile £42,250 £45,125 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £56,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% +2.73% +17.02%
75th Percentile £110,000 £70,000 £60,000
90th Percentile - £104,375 £68,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 337 251 241
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 30.78% 27.73% 24.34%
Number of salaries quoted 147 103 194
10th Percentile - £30,850 £30,000
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,000 £35,313
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £59,430 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +18.86% +6.38%
75th Percentile £55,000 £80,625 £62,500
90th Percentile £73,127 £95,000 £75,000
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 North East

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the North East

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the North East over the 6 months to 23 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North East

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 23 January 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
Tyne and Wear -4 15 £51,500 -10.43% 24
Durham +11 4 - - 1
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 4 (21.05%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (100.00%) Azure
2 10 (52.63%) AWS
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (10.53%) GCP
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (21.05%) BGP
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco ASA
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (21.05%) Cisco Wireless
1 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
1 4 (21.05%) Firewall
1 4 (21.05%) LAN
1 4 (21.05%) Network Security
1 4 (21.05%) OSPF
1 4 (21.05%) SNMP
1 4 (21.05%) VLAN
1 4 (21.05%) VPN
1 4 (21.05%) WAAS
1 4 (21.05%) WAN
1 4 (21.05%) Wireless
1 4 (21.05%) Wireless Security
2 3 (15.79%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (57.89%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.26%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.26%) MySQL
2 1 (5.26%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Bitbucket
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 7 (36.84%) Git
3 2 (10.53%) Artifactory
3 2 (10.53%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (10.53%) SonarQube
3 2 (10.53%) TeamCity
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
1 11 (57.89%) Social Skills
2 6 (31.58%) Advertising
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Analyst
1 7 (36.84%) Applications Support
1 7 (36.84%) Applications Support Analyst
1 7 (36.84%) Support Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Head of IT
2 4 (21.05%) Head of IT Security
2 4 (21.05%) Head of Security
2 4 (21.05%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate C# Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Graduate SQL Developer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Graduate
5 1 (5.26%) PHP Developer
5 1 (5.26%) SQL DBA
5 1 (5.26%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (5.26%) .NET
2 1 (5.26%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Management Information System
2 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 4 (21.05%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 9 (47.37%) Linux
1 9 (47.37%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 12 (63.16%) ITIL
3 11 (57.89%) Business Continuity
4 9 (47.37%) Containerisation
5 8 (42.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (36.84%) Change Management
7 6 (31.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (26.32%) High Availability
9 4 (21.05%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (21.05%) Identity Access Management
9 4 (21.05%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (21.05%) Load Balancing
9 4 (21.05%) Problem Management
9 4 (21.05%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
9 4 (21.05%) Threat Detection
9 4 (21.05%) Threat Management
9 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
9 4 (21.05%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) C#
2 3 (15.79%) Java
2 3 (15.79%) PowerShell
3 2 (10.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.26%) C++
4 1 (5.26%) PHP
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (31.58%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Certification
3 4 (21.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Azure Certification
3 4 (21.05%) CCIE
3 4 (21.05%) CCNP
3 4 (21.05%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (21.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (21.05%) Master's Degree
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (21.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (21.05%) PMO
2 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 4 (21.05%) ProxySG
2 2 (10.53%) Docker
2 2 (10.53%) vSphere
3 1 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (47.37%) Control-M
1 9 (47.37%) Grafana
1 9 (47.37%) Kubernetes
2 7 (36.84%) Prometheus
3 2 (10.53%) Ansible
3 2 (10.53%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (10.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Blue Coat
2 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
2 4 (21.05%) Cisco
2 4 (21.05%) F5
2 4 (21.05%) Infoblox
2 4 (21.05%) Motorola
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 4 (21.05%) SolarWinds
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) Google
4 1 (5.26%) Nimble Storage