Computer Science Job Trends in the North East

Computer Science
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 31 54
Rank change year-on-year -30 +23 +2
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 59 43 58
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.20% 5.12% 3.06%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.03% 6.19% 3.74%
Number of salaries quoted 50 30 50
10th Percentile £34,625 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £53,750 £27,313 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £48,000 £44,612
Median % change year-on-year +56.25% +7.59% -24.06%
75th Percentile £120,000 £65,000 £54,688
90th Percentile - £97,750 £73,250
England median annual salary £59,773 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.68% -8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,948 695 1,549
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.50% 82.74% 81.61%
Number of salaries quoted 1,469 449 1,198
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,188 £35,194
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £61,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £75,225
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the North East

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the North East

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

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

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North East over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the North East

Computer Science
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 within the North East region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 -35 51 £72,500 +51.04% 26
Durham -8 4 - - 1
Northumberland - 2 - -
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (6.78%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.69%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.69%) Apache
2 1 (1.69%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.69%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (6.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.69%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 16 (27.12%) AWS
1 16 (27.12%) Azure
2 5 (8.47%) GCP
2 5 (8.47%) IaaS
2 5 (8.47%) PaaS
3 3 (5.08%) SaaS
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (3.39%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (3.39%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.39%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 1 (1.69%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.69%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.69%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.17%) Firewall
2 4 (6.78%) BGP
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco Wireless
2 4 (6.78%) EIGRP
2 4 (6.78%) LAN
2 4 (6.78%) Network Security
2 4 (6.78%) OSPF
2 4 (6.78%) SNMP
2 4 (6.78%) VLAN
2 4 (6.78%) VPN
2 4 (6.78%) WAAS
2 4 (6.78%) WAN
2 4 (6.78%) Wireless
2 4 (6.78%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.39%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (3.39%) GIS
2 2 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.69%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.69%) Power BI
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) Git
2 4 (6.78%) JIRA
3 3 (5.08%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.08%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.08%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (5.08%) SonarQube
3 3 (5.08%) TeamCity
4 2 (3.39%) LabVIEW
General
1 26 (44.07%) Finance
2 11 (18.64%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.86%) Financial Institution
4 6 (10.17%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (5.08%) Banking
6 2 (3.39%) Electronics
6 2 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.39%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.39%) Retail
7 1 (1.69%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Developer
2 18 (30.51%) Software Engineer
3 14 (23.73%) Senior
3 14 (23.73%) Software Developer
4 11 (18.64%) C++ Software Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Rust Engineer
4 11 (18.64%) Rust Software Engineer
5 9 (15.25%) C++ Developer
5 9 (15.25%) C++ Software Developer
5 9 (15.25%) Rust Developer
6 8 (13.56%) Principal Engineer
6 8 (13.56%) Principal Software Engineer
7 7 (11.86%) Graduate
7 7 (11.86%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Architect
8 6 (10.17%) Computer Engineer
8 6 (10.17%) Computer Science Graduate
8 6 (10.17%) Principal Developer
8 6 (10.17%) Principal Software Developer
9 5 (8.47%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.86%) .NET
2 6 (10.17%) React
3 3 (5.08%) .NET Core
3 3 (5.08%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.08%) Middleware
3 3 (5.08%) SignalR
3 3 (5.08%) WebSockets
4 2 (3.39%) Ajax
4 2 (3.39%) boto
4 2 (3.39%) CSS
4 2 (3.39%) Flask
4 2 (3.39%) HTML
4 2 (3.39%) Jinja
4 2 (3.39%) jQuery
4 2 (3.39%) Node.js
4 2 (3.39%) OpenLayers
4 2 (3.39%) SQLAlchemy
5 1 (1.69%) Pandas
5 1 (1.69%) PySpark
5 1 (1.69%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Hedge funds
2 7 (11.86%) Algorithms
3 6 (10.17%) Data Structures
4 5 (8.47%) Client/Server
5 4 (6.78%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.39%) Cloud Native
6 2 (3.39%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.39%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.39%) Product Ownership
6 2 (3.39%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.39%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.39%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.69%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (42.37%) Linux
2 5 (8.47%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (57.63%) Software Engineering
2 25 (42.37%) AI
3 24 (40.68%) Mathematics
4 21 (35.59%) Physics
5 20 (33.90%) Requirements Management
6 18 (30.51%) Fintech
6 18 (30.51%) Workflow
7 16 (27.12%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (23.73%) Technical Debt
9 10 (16.95%) Analytics
10 9 (15.25%) CI/CD
11 8 (13.56%) DevOps
11 8 (13.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (11.86%) Data Pipeline
12 7 (11.86%) Mentoring
12 7 (11.86%) SDLC
13 5 (8.47%) Decision-Making
13 5 (8.47%) Design Patterns
13 5 (8.47%) Front End Development
13 5 (8.47%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.98%) C++
2 22 (37.29%) Python
3 20 (33.90%) Rust
4 11 (18.64%) SQL
5 8 (13.56%) C#
5 8 (13.56%) Java
6 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.08%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.39%) JavaScript
8 2 (3.39%) VB
Qualifications
1 53 (89.83%) Degree
2 35 (59.32%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.78%) CCIE
3 4 (6.78%) CCNP
3 4 (6.78%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.08%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.39%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.78%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) ProxySG
3 3 (5.08%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (8.47%) Kubernetes
2 3 (5.08%) Ansible
2 3 (5.08%) Control-M
2 3 (5.08%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (5.08%) Grafana
2 3 (5.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.69%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 16 (27.12%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.78%) Blue Coat
2 4 (6.78%) CheckPoint
2 4 (6.78%) Cisco
2 4 (6.78%) F5
2 4 (6.78%) Infoblox
2 4 (6.78%) Motorola
2 4 (6.78%) ServiceNow
2 4 (6.78%) SolarWinds
3 3 (5.08%) Atlassian
3 3 (5.08%) Foundry
3 3 (5.08%) VMware
4 2 (3.39%) Infor
4 2 (3.39%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.69%) Databricks
5 1 (1.69%) IBM
5 1 (1.69%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.69%) Oracle