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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 43 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 44 45 34
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.09% 4.96% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.29% 5.56% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27 29 28
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,750 £40,800
25th Percentile £31,750 £42,123 £47,156
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £56,500 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year -15.93% -3.83% +46.88%
75th Percentile £60,750 £85,000 £67,813
90th Percentile £110,000 £99,500 £73,250
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% -7.41% +3.85%

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 831 809 800
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 77.16% 89.20% 89.09%
Number of salaries quoted 563 321 686
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £29,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £49,750
Median % change year-on-year - +0.50% -0.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £69,914 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £85,000 £75,313
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +2.56% -6.40%

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 January 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 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 0 39 £47,500 -20.83% 31
Durham +12 5 - - 5
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 1 (2.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (9.09%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.82%) Siemens NX
3 1 (2.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Teamcenter
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (61.36%) Azure
2 17 (38.64%) AWS
3 12 (27.27%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (27.27%) VPN
2 10 (22.73%) Firewall
3 8 (18.18%) DNS
3 8 (18.18%) TCP/IP
3 8 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (13.64%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (13.64%) PSTN
4 6 (13.64%) VoIP
5 4 (9.09%) BGP
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (9.09%) EIGRP
5 4 (9.09%) LAN
5 4 (9.09%) OSPF
5 4 (9.09%) SNMP
5 4 (9.09%) VLAN
5 4 (9.09%) WAAS
5 4 (9.09%) WAN
5 4 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.55%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (2.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.27%) Data Mining
3 1 (2.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.27%) MySQL
3 1 (2.27%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.27%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (20.45%) Bitbucket
1 9 (20.45%) JIRA
2 7 (15.91%) Git
3 2 (4.55%) Artifactory
3 2 (4.55%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (4.55%) SonarQube
3 2 (4.55%) TeamCity
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 21 (47.73%) Finance
3 12 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (18.18%) Marketing
5 6 (13.64%) Advertising
5 6 (13.64%) Telecoms
6 4 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (6.82%) Retail
8 1 (2.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.27%) Police
8 1 (2.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (18.18%) Coordinator
2 7 (15.91%) Analyst
2 7 (15.91%) Applications Support
2 7 (15.91%) Applications Support Analyst
2 7 (15.91%) Support Analyst
3 6 (13.64%) Support Specialist
4 4 (9.09%) Head of IT
4 4 (9.09%) Head of IT Security
4 4 (9.09%) Head of Security
4 4 (9.09%) Network Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Senior
4 4 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Administrator
5 3 (6.82%) Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Head of Engineering
5 3 (6.82%) Technology Consultant
5 3 (6.82%) Trainee
5 3 (6.82%) Trainee Consultant
6 2 (4.55%) Developer
6 2 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (13.64%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (6.82%) Itk
3 2 (4.55%) .NET
3 2 (4.55%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (2.27%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.27%) CSS
4 1 (2.27%) jQuery
4 1 (2.27%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.18%) LIMS
2 6 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 4 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.09%) Onboarding
4 3 (6.82%) NHS
5 1 (2.27%) EPoS
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (45.45%) Windows
2 17 (38.64%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Mac OS
4 3 (6.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.82%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (27.27%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (27.27%) ITIL
3 11 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 10 (22.73%) Change Management
5 9 (20.45%) Containerisation
5 9 (20.45%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (18.18%) Agile
6 8 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 7 (15.91%) DevOps
7 7 (15.91%) Task Automation
8 6 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
9 5 (11.36%) High Availability
10 4 (9.09%) Analytical Thinking
10 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Working
10 4 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (9.09%) Threat Management
10 4 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
10 4 (9.09%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 17 (38.64%) Python
2 15 (34.09%) SQL
3 6 (13.64%) Bash
3 6 (13.64%) PowerShell
4 4 (9.09%) C#
4 4 (9.09%) Java
5 3 (6.82%) Tcl
6 1 (2.27%) C++
6 1 (2.27%) PHP
Qualifications
1 39 (88.64%) Degree
2 19 (43.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (25.00%) HNC
3 11 (25.00%) HND
4 10 (22.73%) CCNP
4 10 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (13.64%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (13.64%) Master's Degree
5 6 (13.64%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Certification
6 4 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.09%) Azure Certification
6 4 (9.09%) CCIE
6 4 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (2.27%) PhD
7 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (9.09%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 4 (9.09%) PMO
2 1 (2.27%) QA
System Software
1 8 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.09%) ProxySG
2 4 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.55%) Docker
4 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (20.45%) Control-M
1 9 (20.45%) Grafana
1 9 (20.45%) Kubernetes
2 7 (15.91%) Prometheus
3 2 (4.55%) Ansible
3 2 (4.55%) Docker Swarm
3 2 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (34.09%) Microsoft
2 10 (22.73%) Cisco
3 5 (11.36%) VMware
4 4 (9.09%) Blue Coat
4 4 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 4 (9.09%) F5
4 4 (9.09%) Infoblox
4 4 (9.09%) Motorola
4 4 (9.09%) ServiceNow
4 4 (9.09%) SolarWinds
5 3 (6.82%) Siemens
6 2 (4.55%) Atlassian
7 1 (2.27%) Google
7 1 (2.27%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (2.27%) Oracle
7 1 (2.27%) PayPal
7 1 (2.27%) UiPath