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 22 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 44 38
Rank change year-on-year +15 -6 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 52 43 18
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 4.99% 4.44% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.20% 5.06% 3.85%
Number of salaries quoted 33 27 14
10th Percentile £25,350 £30,750 £47,950
25th Percentile £31,750 £39,956 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -16.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £60,750 £85,000 -
90th Percentile £107,000 £100,250 £68,375
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +7.57%

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 839 850 468
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 80.44% 87.72% 94.16%
Number of salaries quoted 548 383 407
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,050 £28,344
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,497 £50,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.01% +2.04% -2.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £82,318 £85,000 £73,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 22 December 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 22 December 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 +13 48 £47,500 - 23
Durham +4 4 - - 2
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 (3.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.92%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Chatbot
1 3 (5.77%) Siemens NX
2 2 (3.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.77%) Teamcenter
2 2 (3.85%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (1.92%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (51.92%) Azure
2 16 (30.77%) AWS
3 12 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.92%) Azure Stack
6 1 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.23%) VPN
2 8 (15.38%) DNS
2 8 (15.38%) Firewall
2 8 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (11.54%) Asterisk PBX
3 6 (11.54%) PSTN
3 6 (11.54%) VoIP
4 4 (7.69%) SAN
5 2 (3.85%) BGP
5 2 (3.85%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (3.85%) EIGRP
5 2 (3.85%) LAN
5 2 (3.85%) OSPF
5 2 (3.85%) SNMP
5 2 (3.85%) VLAN
5 2 (3.85%) WAAS
5 2 (3.85%) WAN
5 2 (3.85%) Wireless
5 2 (3.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (44.23%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.85%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.92%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.92%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.92%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.92%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Bitbucket
1 10 (19.23%) JIRA
2 7 (13.46%) Git
3 3 (5.77%) Artifactory
3 3 (5.77%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (5.77%) SonarQube
3 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 23 (44.23%) Finance
3 10 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (15.38%) Marketing
5 7 (13.46%) Advertising
6 6 (11.54%) Telecoms
7 4 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (5.77%) Retail
9 2 (3.85%) Back Office
9 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.92%) Front Office
10 1 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.92%) Police
10 1 (1.92%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (15.38%) Coordinator
2 7 (13.46%) Analyst
2 7 (13.46%) Applications Support
2 7 (13.46%) Applications Support Analyst
2 7 (13.46%) Support Analyst
3 6 (11.54%) Support Specialist
4 5 (9.62%) Support Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Support
4 5 (9.62%) Technical Support Engineer
5 4 (7.69%) Developer
5 4 (7.69%) Head of IT
5 4 (7.69%) Head of IT Security
5 4 (7.69%) Head of Security
6 3 (5.77%) Administrator
6 3 (5.77%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (5.77%) Head of Engineering
6 3 (5.77%) Technology Consultant
6 3 (5.77%) Trainee
6 3 (5.77%) Trainee Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (11.54%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (5.77%) Elastic Stack
2 3 (5.77%) Itk
3 2 (3.85%) .NET
3 2 (3.85%) XML
4 1 (1.92%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.92%) CSS
4 1 (1.92%) jQuery
4 1 (1.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.38%) LIMS
2 6 (11.54%) Management Information System
3 5 (9.62%) NHS
4 4 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.85%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.92%) EPoS
6 1 (1.92%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.92%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (40.38%) Windows
2 18 (34.62%) Linux
3 8 (15.38%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.77%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (23.08%) Cybersecurity
2 12 (23.08%) ITIL
3 11 (21.15%) Business Continuity
4 10 (19.23%) Change Management
4 10 (19.23%) Containerisation
4 10 (19.23%) DevOps
5 9 (17.31%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (15.38%) Agile
7 7 (13.46%) Task Automation
8 6 (11.54%) Customer Requirements
8 6 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (9.62%) High Availability
10 4 (7.69%) Identity Access Management
10 4 (7.69%) Security Operations
10 4 (7.69%) Strategic Roadmap
10 4 (7.69%) Technology Roadmap
10 4 (7.69%) Threat Detection
10 4 (7.69%) Threat Management
10 4 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) Python
2 16 (30.77%) SQL
3 7 (13.46%) C#
3 7 (13.46%) Java
3 7 (13.46%) PowerShell
4 6 (11.54%) Bash
5 3 (5.77%) Tcl
6 2 (3.85%) C
7 1 (1.92%) C++
7 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 43 (82.69%) Degree
2 20 (38.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 11 (21.15%) HNC
3 11 (21.15%) HND
4 8 (15.38%) CCNP
4 8 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (15.38%) Master's Degree
5 6 (11.54%) CompTIA Security+
5 6 (11.54%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (11.54%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
6 4 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (5.77%) PhD
8 2 (3.85%) CCIE
9 1 (1.92%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.92%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 2 (3.85%) ISO 9001
2 2 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (3.85%) PMO
3 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 8 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.77%) Docker
3 3 (5.77%) Hyper-V
3 3 (5.77%) vSphere
4 2 (3.85%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 10 (19.23%) Control-M
1 10 (19.23%) Grafana
1 10 (19.23%) Kubernetes
2 7 (13.46%) Prometheus
3 3 (5.77%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (5.77%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.38%) Cisco
3 6 (11.54%) VMware
4 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
4 3 (5.77%) PayPal
4 3 (5.77%) Siemens
5 2 (3.85%) Blue Coat
5 2 (3.85%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.85%) F5
5 2 (3.85%) Google
5 2 (3.85%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.85%) Motorola
5 2 (3.85%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.85%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.92%) Databricks
6 1 (1.92%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (1.92%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) UiPath