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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 32 48
Rank change year-on-year -51 +16 -3
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 63 46 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.87% 4.85% 3.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.64% 6.04% 3.91%
Number of salaries quoted 53 29 27
10th Percentile £37,500 £25,000 £28,950
25th Percentile £53,750 £28,250 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -6.25% -33.33%
75th Percentile £120,000 £65,000 £52,250
90th Percentile - £112,500 £77,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% -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 2,389 762 1,126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.06% 80.30% 79.24%
Number of salaries quoted 1,765 486 663
10th Percentile £32,000 £25,086 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,600 £28,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £43,750 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -2.78% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £61,250 £61,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 57 £75,000 +100.00% 46
Durham -12 2 £89,250 +213.16% 3
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 3 (4.76%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.59%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.59%) Apache
2 1 (1.59%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.59%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.59%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 18 (28.57%) Azure
2 15 (23.81%) AWS
3 9 (14.29%) IaaS
3 9 (14.29%) PaaS
4 7 (11.11%) SaaS
5 5 (7.94%) GCP
6 4 (6.35%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.35%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.76%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.17%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.17%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub
8 2 (3.17%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.17%) npm
8 2 (3.17%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 2 (3.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.35%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.35%) GIS
1 4 (6.35%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.35%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.59%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.59%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.59%) Power BI
2 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.70%) Git
2 4 (6.35%) JIRA
3 3 (4.76%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.76%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.76%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.76%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.76%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (50.79%) Finance
2 13 (20.63%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.87%) Financial Institution
4 6 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.94%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (4.76%) Banking
7 2 (3.17%) Billing
7 2 (3.17%) General Ledger
7 2 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.17%) Law
7 2 (3.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.59%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 23 (36.51%) Developer
2 16 (25.40%) Software Engineer
3 14 (22.22%) Software Developer
4 11 (17.46%) C++ Software Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Rust Engineer
4 11 (17.46%) Rust Software Engineer
5 10 (15.87%) Architect
6 9 (14.29%) C++ Developer
6 9 (14.29%) C++ Software Developer
6 9 (14.29%) Rust Developer
7 8 (12.70%) Graduate
7 8 (12.70%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (12.70%) Principal Software Engineer
7 8 (12.70%) Senior
8 6 (9.52%) Lead
8 6 (9.52%) Lead Architect
8 6 (9.52%) Principal Developer
8 6 (9.52%) Principal Software Developer
9 5 (7.94%) Computer Engineer
9 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Graduate
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (14.29%) .NET
2 7 (11.11%) Middleware
3 6 (9.52%) React
4 4 (6.35%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.35%) Ajax
4 4 (6.35%) CSS
4 4 (6.35%) Flask
4 4 (6.35%) HTML
4 4 (6.35%) Jinja
4 4 (6.35%) jQuery
4 4 (6.35%) OpenLayers
4 4 (6.35%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.76%) SignalR
5 3 (4.76%) Terraform
5 3 (4.76%) WebSockets
6 2 (3.17%) boto
6 2 (3.17%) CSS3
6 2 (3.17%) HTML5
6 2 (3.17%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 7 (11.11%) Algorithms
2 7 (11.11%) Data Structures
2 7 (11.11%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.35%) Client/Server
3 4 (6.35%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.35%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.17%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.17%) Web Conferencing
5 1 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.59%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (39.68%) Linux
2 5 (7.94%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (52.38%) Software Engineering
2 30 (47.62%) AI
3 27 (42.86%) Mathematics
4 20 (31.75%) Physics
4 20 (31.75%) Requirements Management
5 17 (26.98%) Fintech
5 17 (26.98%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (26.98%) Workflow
6 15 (23.81%) Analytics
7 14 (22.22%) Technical Debt
8 13 (20.63%) Mentoring
9 12 (19.05%) DevOps
10 11 (17.46%) Agile
10 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
10 11 (17.46%) SDLC
11 8 (12.70%) Commercial Awareness
11 8 (12.70%) Microservices
11 8 (12.70%) Risk Management
11 8 (12.70%) Roadmaps
11 8 (12.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (36.51%) C++
2 20 (31.75%) Rust
3 17 (26.98%) Python
4 12 (19.05%) SQL
5 8 (12.70%) C#
5 8 (12.70%) Java
6 6 (9.52%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.35%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 58 (92.06%) Degree
2 32 (50.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.94%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.59%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.17%) QA
System Software
1 7 (11.11%) Docker
2 3 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.76%) Ansible
2 3 (4.76%) Control-M
2 3 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (4.76%) Grafana
3 1 (1.59%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 16 (25.40%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.94%) Sage
3 3 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.76%) Foundry
3 3 (4.76%) VMware
4 2 (3.17%) Aderant
4 2 (3.17%) Infor
4 2 (3.17%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) Databricks
5 1 (1.59%) IBM
5 1 (1.59%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle