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 3 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 46 100
Rank change year-on-year -36 +54 -6
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 17 20 20
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.90% 3.54% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.77% 8.85% 5.31%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 17
10th Percentile - £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £32,468 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.73% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £110,000 £69,688 £58,750
90th Percentile - £70,000 £94,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £62,353 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.26% +3.92% -4.00%

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 451 226 377
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 23.90% 40.00% 20.51%
Number of salaries quoted 170 115 297
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,750 £55,000 £44,094
Median % change year-on-year -16.82% +24.73% -7.17%
75th Percentile £62,500 £69,375 £58,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £83,100 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,745 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.74% +3.17% -5.98%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -49 9 £67,500 +22.73% 7
Durham - 8 - - 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 8 (47.06%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (88.24%) Azure
2 11 (64.71%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) IaaS
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (11.76%) PaaS
4 1 (5.88%) Azure AI
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (5.88%) GCP
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (47.06%) BGP
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco ASA
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco Wireless
1 8 (47.06%) EIGRP
1 8 (47.06%) Firewall
1 8 (47.06%) LAN
1 8 (47.06%) Network Security
1 8 (47.06%) OSPF
1 8 (47.06%) SNMP
1 8 (47.06%) VLAN
1 8 (47.06%) VPN
1 8 (47.06%) WAAS
1 8 (47.06%) WAN
1 8 (47.06%) Wireless
1 8 (47.06%) Wireless Security
2 2 (11.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (11.76%) Data Lake
3 1 (5.88%) Power BI
3 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.88%) Git
2 1 (5.88%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (5.88%) SonarQube
2 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 8 (47.06%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (41.18%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Network Engineer
1 8 (47.06%) Senior
1 8 (47.06%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Azure Architect
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Computer Science Graduate
2 2 (11.76%) Graduate
2 2 (11.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) Head of IT
2 2 (11.76%) Head of IT Security
2 2 (11.76%) Head of Security
2 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Data Architect
3 1 (5.88%) DBA
3 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (5.88%) SQL DBA
3 1 (5.88%) SQL Server DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Data Centre
2 3 (17.65%) Management Information System
3 2 (11.76%) Hedge funds
3 2 (11.76%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 11 (64.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 8 (47.06%) Analytical Thinking
3 8 (47.06%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (47.06%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (47.06%) Load Balancing
3 8 (47.06%) Project Delivery
3 8 (47.06%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (47.06%) WAN Optimisation
4 5 (29.41%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) DevOps
5 4 (23.53%) ITIL
6 3 (17.65%) Business Continuity
6 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
6 3 (17.65%) High Availability
6 3 (17.65%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (17.65%) Risk Management
6 3 (17.65%) Roadmaps
7 2 (11.76%) Containerisation
7 2 (11.76%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 1 (5.88%) C#
3 1 (5.88%) Java
Qualifications
1 17 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (47.06%) CCIE
2 8 (47.06%) CCNP
2 8 (47.06%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certification
4 2 (11.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 2 (11.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 2 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) PMO
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (11.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) ProxySG
2 1 (5.88%) Docker
2 1 (5.88%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Control-M
1 2 (11.76%) Grafana
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (5.88%) Prometheus
2 1 (5.88%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (47.06%) Blue Coat
1 8 (47.06%) CheckPoint
1 8 (47.06%) Cisco
1 8 (47.06%) F5
1 8 (47.06%) Infoblox
1 8 (47.06%) Motorola
1 8 (47.06%) ServiceNow
1 8 (47.06%) SolarWinds
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) Atlassian
3 1 (5.88%) Nimble Storage
3 1 (5.88%) VMware