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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 50 43
Rank change year-on-year +16 -7 -21
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 55 42 19
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 5.12% 3.23% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.31% 4.08% 3.79%
Number of salaries quoted 37 21 15
10th Percentile £25,000 £34,000 £48,100
25th Percentile £28,250 £37,789 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £45,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -25.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £56,250 £63,750
90th Percentile £76,000 £102,500 £68,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +7.44%

All Process and 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 872 1,029 501
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.12% 79.21% 94.89%
Number of salaries quoted 598 497 414
10th Percentile £25,087 £24,984 £28,510
25th Percentile £28,500 £36,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £59,913 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +24 52 £37,500 -10.71% 26
Durham +5 3 £28,500 -45.71% 4
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 (3.64%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Chatbot
2 3 (5.45%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (5.45%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.64%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.82%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 24 (43.64%) Azure
2 12 (21.82%) AWS
3 10 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (7.27%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.64%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.64%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.82%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) DNS
1 8 (14.55%) TCP/IP
1 8 (14.55%) VPN
1 8 (14.55%) Wi-Fi
2 6 (10.91%) Asterisk PBX
2 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 6 (10.91%) PSTN
2 6 (10.91%) VoIP
3 4 (7.27%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (43.64%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) MySQL
3 3 (5.45%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (3.64%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.64%) Power BI
5 1 (1.82%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.82%) Metadata
5 1 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.82%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Bitbucket
1 9 (16.36%) JIRA
2 7 (12.73%) Git
3 3 (5.45%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.45%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (5.45%) SonarQube
3 3 (5.45%) TeamCity
General
1 26 (47.27%) Social Skills
2 23 (41.82%) Finance
3 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Marketing
4 7 (12.73%) Advertising
5 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.27%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.45%) Retail
8 2 (3.64%) Back Office
8 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.82%) Electronics
9 1 (1.82%) Front Office
9 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.82%) Police
9 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (14.55%) Analyst
1 8 (14.55%) Coordinator
2 7 (12.73%) Developer
3 6 (10.91%) Applications Support
3 6 (10.91%) Applications Support Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Support Analyst
3 6 (10.91%) Support Specialist
4 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Technical Support
4 5 (9.09%) Technical Support Engineer
4 5 (9.09%) Trainer
5 4 (7.27%) Graduate
6 3 (5.45%) Administrator
6 3 (5.45%) Consultant
6 3 (5.45%) Graduate Developer
6 3 (5.45%) Instructor
6 3 (5.45%) IT Graduate
6 3 (5.45%) Trainee
6 3 (5.45%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.91%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (7.27%) CSS
3 3 (5.45%) .NET
3 3 (5.45%) ASP.NET
3 3 (5.45%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (5.45%) Itk
3 3 (5.45%) jQuery
4 2 (3.64%) HTML
4 2 (3.64%) XML
5 1 (1.82%) CSS3
5 1 (1.82%) HTML5
5 1 (1.82%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.82%) RESTful
5 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) LIMS
2 5 (9.09%) NHS
3 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.82%) EPoS
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (36.36%) Windows
2 17 (30.91%) Linux
3 8 (14.55%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (18.18%) Agile
2 10 (18.18%) Change Management
2 10 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
2 10 (18.18%) DevOps
3 9 (16.36%) Containerisation
3 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (16.36%) ITIL
4 8 (14.55%) Business Continuity
5 7 (12.73%) Mathematics
5 7 (12.73%) Task Automation
6 6 (10.91%) AI
6 6 (10.91%) Customer Requirements
7 5 (9.09%) Conversational UI
7 5 (9.09%) OOP
7 5 (9.09%) Statistics
8 4 (7.27%) Business Intelligence
8 4 (7.27%) Data Integration
9 3 (5.45%) CAD
9 3 (5.45%) OO
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) SQL
2 15 (27.27%) Python
3 9 (16.36%) C#
3 9 (16.36%) Java
4 7 (12.73%) PowerShell
5 6 (10.91%) Bash
6 5 (9.09%) PHP
7 4 (7.27%) C++
8 3 (5.45%) C
8 3 (5.45%) Tcl
9 2 (3.64%) JavaScript
10 1 (1.82%) Dart
10 1 (1.82%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (1.82%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.82%) R
10 1 (1.82%) Ruby
10 1 (1.82%) Rust
10 1 (1.82%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 46 (83.64%) Degree
2 19 (34.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (20.00%) HNC
3 11 (20.00%) HND
4 8 (14.55%) Master's Degree
5 6 (10.91%) CCNP
5 6 (10.91%) Cisco Certification
5 6 (10.91%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (10.91%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (10.91%) Network+ Certification
6 5 (9.09%) PhD
7 3 (5.45%) Azure Certification
7 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
8 2 (3.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (3.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.82%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
1 2 (3.64%) ISO 9001
1 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 8 (14.55%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.45%) Docker
3 3 (5.45%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (16.36%) Control-M
1 9 (16.36%) Grafana
1 9 (16.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (10.91%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.45%) Ansible
3 3 (5.45%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (5.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Cisco
2 6 (10.91%) VMware
3 5 (9.09%) PayPal
4 3 (5.45%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.45%) Google
4 3 (5.45%) Siemens
5 2 (3.64%) Databricks
5 2 (3.64%) Oracle
6 1 (1.82%) Epicor
6 1 (1.82%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.82%) UiPath