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

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 36 62
Rank change year-on-year -31 +26 -15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 65 39 37
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 2.17% 4.31% 2.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.98% 5.26% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 55 24 30
10th Percentile £35,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £53,750 £26,938 £33,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £37,500 £44,612
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -15.94% -26.14%
75th Percentile £116,250 £65,000 £55,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £114,250 £88,625
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -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 2,183 742 1,193
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 72.77% 82.08% 80.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,630 470 854
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £28,204 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £45,000 £47,324
Median % change year-on-year +22.22% -4.91% -5.35%
75th Percentile £73,140 £62,500 £62,200
90th Percentile £92,613 £80,000 £74,925
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 18 August 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 August 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 -36 58 £70,000 +86.67% 48
Durham -8 4 £89,250 +213.16% 6
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 (6.15%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.54%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.54%) Apache
2 1 (1.54%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (1.54%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.08%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (1.54%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 20 (30.77%) Azure
2 18 (27.69%) AWS
3 8 (12.31%) IaaS
3 8 (12.31%) PaaS
4 6 (9.23%) SaaS
5 5 (7.69%) GCP
6 4 (6.15%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (6.15%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (4.62%) Azure AI
7 3 (4.62%) Power Platform
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (3.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (3.08%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (3.08%) GitHub Copilot
8 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (3.08%) npm
8 2 (3.08%) Power Automate
8 2 (3.08%) Serverless
8 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.15%) Firewall
2 2 (3.08%) BGP
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (3.08%) Cisco Wireless
2 2 (3.08%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.08%) LAN
2 2 (3.08%) Network Security
2 2 (3.08%) OSPF
2 2 (3.08%) SNMP
2 2 (3.08%) VLAN
2 2 (3.08%) VPN
2 2 (3.08%) WAAS
2 2 (3.08%) WAN
2 2 (3.08%) Wireless
2 2 (3.08%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (6.15%) GIS
1 4 (6.15%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (6.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
2 1 (1.54%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Git
2 4 (6.15%) JIRA
3 3 (4.62%) Artifactory
3 3 (4.62%) Bitbucket
3 3 (4.62%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (4.62%) SonarQube
3 3 (4.62%) TeamCity
General
1 32 (49.23%) Finance
2 14 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 8 (12.31%) Financial Institution
4 6 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (4.62%) Banking
7 2 (3.08%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Developer
2 18 (27.69%) Software Engineer
3 14 (21.54%) Software Developer
4 11 (16.92%) C++ Software Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Rust Engineer
4 11 (16.92%) Rust Software Engineer
5 10 (15.38%) Graduate
5 10 (15.38%) Senior
6 9 (13.85%) Architect
6 9 (13.85%) C++ Developer
6 9 (13.85%) C++ Software Developer
6 9 (13.85%) Rust Developer
7 8 (12.31%) Principal Engineer
7 8 (12.31%) Principal Software Engineer
8 7 (10.77%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Computer Engineer
9 6 (9.23%) Computer Science Graduate
9 6 (9.23%) Principal Developer
9 6 (9.23%) Principal Software Developer
10 5 (7.69%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.38%) .NET
2 6 (9.23%) Middleware
2 6 (9.23%) React
3 5 (7.69%) .NET Core
4 4 (6.15%) Ajax
4 4 (6.15%) CSS
4 4 (6.15%) Flask
4 4 (6.15%) HTML
4 4 (6.15%) Jinja
4 4 (6.15%) jQuery
4 4 (6.15%) OpenLayers
4 4 (6.15%) SQLAlchemy
5 3 (4.62%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (4.62%) SignalR
5 3 (4.62%) WebSockets
6 2 (3.08%) boto
6 2 (3.08%) CSS3
6 2 (3.08%) HTML5
6 2 (3.08%) Node.js
7 1 (1.54%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Hedge funds
2 8 (12.31%) Algorithms
3 7 (10.77%) Data Structures
4 5 (7.69%) Client/Server
4 5 (7.69%) Product Ownership
5 4 (6.15%) Cloud Native
5 4 (6.15%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
6 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Cloud
6 2 (3.08%) Low-Code
6 2 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (3.08%) Web Conferencing
7 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.54%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 25 (38.46%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Software Engineering
2 30 (46.15%) AI
3 28 (43.08%) Mathematics
4 21 (32.31%) Physics
5 20 (30.77%) Requirements Management
6 19 (29.23%) Fintech
7 18 (27.69%) Workflow
8 16 (24.62%) Problem-Solving
9 14 (21.54%) Analytics
9 14 (21.54%) Technical Debt
10 13 (20.00%) Mentoring
11 12 (18.46%) DevOps
12 11 (16.92%) CI/CD
12 11 (16.92%) SDLC
13 9 (13.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 8 (12.31%) Agile
15 7 (10.77%) Commercial Awareness
15 7 (10.77%) Microservices
15 7 (10.77%) Risk Management
15 7 (10.77%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (36.92%) C++
2 21 (32.31%) Python
3 20 (30.77%) Rust
4 11 (16.92%) SQL
5 9 (13.85%) C#
5 9 (13.85%) Java
6 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
7 4 (6.15%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.62%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 59 (90.77%) Degree
2 35 (53.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 5 (7.69%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.62%) Azure Certification
5 2 (3.08%) CCIE
5 2 (3.08%) CCNP
5 2 (3.08%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.08%) PMO
2 1 (1.54%) QA
System Software
1 7 (10.77%) Docker
2 3 (4.62%) vSphere
3 2 (3.08%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 7 (10.77%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.62%) Ansible
2 3 (4.62%) Control-M
2 3 (4.62%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (4.62%) Grafana
2 3 (4.62%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 18 (27.69%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.69%) Sage
3 3 (4.62%) Atlassian
3 3 (4.62%) Foundry
3 3 (4.62%) VMware
4 2 (3.08%) Blue Coat
4 2 (3.08%) CheckPoint
4 2 (3.08%) Cisco
4 2 (3.08%) F5
4 2 (3.08%) Infoblox
4 2 (3.08%) Infor
4 2 (3.08%) Motorola
4 2 (3.08%) MuleSoft
4 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.08%) ServiceNow
4 2 (3.08%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.54%) Databricks
5 1 (1.54%) IBM
5 1 (1.54%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle