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 20 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 29 57
Rank change year-on-year -48 +28 +5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 31 45 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.48% 7.33% 3.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.06% 7.87% 3.68%
Number of salaries quoted 18 35 55
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £48,688 £40,500 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,500 £48,734
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +15.94% +14.67%
75th Percentile £91,250 £78,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £113,000 £95,250 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1,504 572 1,629
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 71.58% 93.16% 86.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1,059 337 1,324
10th Percentile £29,000 £26,400 £27,911
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,851 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £48,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +2.63% -0.36%
75th Percentile £69,695 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £80,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - +9.09% -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 20 May 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 20 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 -55 21 £62,500 +10.62% 22
Durham -6 8 - -
Northumberland - 2 - - 1
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 2 (6.45%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (61.29%) Azure
2 18 (58.06%) AWS
3 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 3 (9.68%) IaaS
4 3 (9.68%) PaaS
5 2 (6.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.23%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (3.23%) Azure AI
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.23%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (3.23%) Power Platform
6 1 (3.23%) SaaS
6 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (29.03%) Firewall
2 8 (25.81%) BGP
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco ASA
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco Wireless
2 8 (25.81%) EIGRP
2 8 (25.81%) LAN
2 8 (25.81%) Network Security
2 8 (25.81%) OSPF
2 8 (25.81%) SNMP
2 8 (25.81%) VLAN
2 8 (25.81%) VPN
2 8 (25.81%) WAAS
2 8 (25.81%) WAN
2 8 (25.81%) Wireless
2 8 (25.81%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.23%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (3.23%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.23%) Data Lake
2 1 (3.23%) GIS
2 1 (3.23%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Git
2 2 (6.45%) Artifactory
2 2 (6.45%) Bitbucket
2 2 (6.45%) JIRA
2 2 (6.45%) LabVIEW
2 2 (6.45%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (6.45%) SonarQube
2 2 (6.45%) TeamCity
General
1 16 (51.61%) Finance
2 8 (25.81%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
4 4 (12.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (6.45%) Electronics
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.45%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Senior
2 8 (25.81%) Network Engineer
2 8 (25.81%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (19.35%) Software Engineer
4 5 (16.13%) Developer
5 4 (12.90%) Graduate
5 4 (12.90%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Azure Architect
6 3 (9.68%) Computer Engineer
6 3 (9.68%) Computer Science Graduate
7 2 (6.45%) C++ Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Data Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Electronics Test Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Head of IT
7 2 (6.45%) Rust Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Rust Software Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Electronics Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
7 2 (6.45%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (19.35%) .NET
2 2 (6.45%) .NET Core
2 2 (6.45%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (6.45%) React
2 2 (6.45%) SignalR
2 2 (6.45%) WebSockets
3 1 (3.23%) Ajax
3 1 (3.23%) boto
3 1 (3.23%) CSS
3 1 (3.23%) Flask
3 1 (3.23%) HTML
3 1 (3.23%) Jinja
3 1 (3.23%) jQuery
3 1 (3.23%) Node.js
3 1 (3.23%) OpenLayers
3 1 (3.23%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Data Centre
1 8 (25.81%) Hedge funds
2 5 (16.13%) Algorithms
2 5 (16.13%) Data Structures
3 4 (12.90%) Client/Server
4 2 (6.45%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.45%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.45%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.45%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (3.23%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Linux
2 4 (12.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (35.48%) Software Engineering
1 11 (35.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 9 (29.03%) Fintech
3 8 (25.81%) Analytical Thinking
3 8 (25.81%) Collaborative Working
3 8 (25.81%) Kalman Filter
3 8 (25.81%) Load Balancing
3 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (25.81%) Project Delivery
3 8 (25.81%) Root Cause Analysis
3 8 (25.81%) WAN Optimisation
4 6 (19.35%) CI/CD
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
5 4 (12.90%) Analytics
5 4 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (12.90%) Design Patterns
5 4 (12.90%) Mathematics
5 4 (12.90%) Mentoring
5 4 (12.90%) Risk Management
5 4 (12.90%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 20 (64.52%) Python
2 7 (22.58%) C#
2 7 (22.58%) Java
3 6 (19.35%) SQL
4 4 (12.90%) C++
5 2 (6.45%) PowerShell
5 2 (6.45%) Rust
5 2 (6.45%) TypeScript
5 2 (6.45%) VB
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 29 (93.55%) Degree
2 20 (64.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (25.81%) CCIE
3 8 (25.81%) CCNP
3 8 (25.81%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (16.13%) Azure Certification
5 3 (9.68%) AWS Certification
6 2 (6.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (6.45%) Master's Degree
6 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) PMO
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (6.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 8 (25.81%) ProxySG
2 3 (9.68%) Docker
3 2 (6.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 2 (6.45%) Ansible
2 2 (6.45%) Control-M
2 2 (6.45%) Docker Swarm
2 2 (6.45%) Grafana
2 2 (6.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (38.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Blue Coat
2 8 (25.81%) CheckPoint
2 8 (25.81%) Cisco
2 8 (25.81%) F5
2 8 (25.81%) Infoblox
2 8 (25.81%) Motorola
2 8 (25.81%) ServiceNow
2 8 (25.81%) SolarWinds
3 2 (6.45%) Atlassian
3 2 (6.45%) VMware