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

6 months to
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 25 60
Rank change year-on-year -48 +35 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 26 44 60
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.44% 7.93% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.97% 8.66% 3.81%
Number of salaries quoted 10 35 54
10th Percentile £28,825 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £40,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +7.62% +31.25%
75th Percentile £89,063 £78,750 £68,438
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,250 £73,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year - -1.64% -6.15%

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 1,323 508 1,575
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 73.42% 91.53% 86.73%
Number of salaries quoted 911 329 1,289
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,950 £27,873
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -2.06%
75th Percentile £68,125 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,250 £82,500 £75,772
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +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 April 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 April 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 -56 15 £60,000 +6.19% 15
Durham -7 9 - - 2
Northumberland - 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 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (3.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (30.77%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.85%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 19 (73.08%) Azure
2 16 (61.54%) AWS
3 3 (11.54%) GCP
4 2 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.85%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.85%) IaaS
5 1 (3.85%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) BGP
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco ASA
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Wireless
1 8 (30.77%) EIGRP
1 8 (30.77%) Firewall
1 8 (30.77%) LAN
1 8 (30.77%) Network Security
1 8 (30.77%) OSPF
1 8 (30.77%) SNMP
1 8 (30.77%) VLAN
1 8 (30.77%) VPN
1 8 (30.77%) WAAS
1 8 (30.77%) WAN
1 8 (30.77%) Wireless
1 8 (30.77%) Wireless Security
2 2 (7.69%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 2 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (3.85%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.85%) Data Mining
3 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.85%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Bitbucket
1 2 (7.69%) Git
1 2 (7.69%) JIRA
1 2 (7.69%) LabVIEW
2 1 (3.85%) Artifactory
2 1 (3.85%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (3.85%) SonarQube
2 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (46.15%) Finance
2 9 (34.62%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (30.77%) Social Skills
4 4 (15.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Electronics
5 2 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.85%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 8 (30.77%) Network Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Graduate
3 3 (11.54%) Graduate Software Engineer
3 3 (11.54%) Software Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Graduate
4 2 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Head of IT
4 2 (7.69%) Head of IT Security
4 2 (7.69%) Head of Security
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Electronics Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (7.69%) Software Developer
4 2 (7.69%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.85%) Software Engineering Team Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.85%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 6 (23.08%) Hedge funds
3 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (11.54%) Algorithms
4 3 (11.54%) Client/Server
4 3 (11.54%) Data Structures
5 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
5 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (3.85%) EPoS
6 1 (3.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Linux
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (30.77%) Analytical Thinking
2 8 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (30.77%) Kalman Filter
2 8 (30.77%) Load Balancing
2 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (30.77%) Project Delivery
2 8 (30.77%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (30.77%) Software Engineering
2 8 (30.77%) WAN Optimisation
3 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Fintech
4 4 (15.38%) ITIL
5 3 (11.54%) Business Continuity
5 3 (11.54%) High Availability
5 3 (11.54%) Mathematics
5 3 (11.54%) OOP
5 3 (11.54%) Risk Management
5 3 (11.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 17 (65.38%) Python
2 5 (19.23%) C#
2 5 (19.23%) Java
3 4 (15.38%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 2 (7.69%) VB
5 1 (3.85%) C++
Qualifications
1 25 (96.15%) Degree
2 16 (61.54%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (30.77%) CCIE
3 8 (30.77%) CCNP
3 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (15.38%) Master's Degree
5 3 (11.54%) Azure Certification
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Certification
6 2 (7.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (7.69%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (3.85%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) PMO
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) ProxySG
2 1 (3.85%) Docker
2 1 (3.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (7.69%) Control-M
1 2 (7.69%) Grafana
1 2 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Ansible
2 1 (3.85%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (3.85%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (30.77%) Blue Coat
1 8 (30.77%) CheckPoint
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco
1 8 (30.77%) F5
1 8 (30.77%) Infoblox
1 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 8 (30.77%) Motorola
1 8 (30.77%) ServiceNow
1 8 (30.77%) SolarWinds
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.85%) Nimble Storage
2 1 (3.85%) PayPal
2 1 (3.85%) VMware