Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 158 127 99
Rank change year-on-year -31 -28 +156
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 108 213 234
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 1.74% 3.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 6.15% 11.70%
Number of salaries quoted 85 118 179
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £63,125
90th Percentile £76,500 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +16.07%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,594 3,464 2,000
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.45% 28.36% 26.35%
Number of salaries quoted 1,168 1,161 1,261
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £29,000
25th Percentile £29,000 £40,273 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -7.73% +8.50%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,800 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.46% +2.26% +3.41%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the North of England over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North of England

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the North of England region over the 6 months to 18 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
North West -41 45 £56,250 +12.50% 32
Yorkshire 0 43 £62,500 +35.44% 22
North East +5 20 £51,500 +14.44% 11
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (0.93%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.93%) Confluence
1 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.56%) AutoCAD
1 6 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (5.56%) MS Visio
1 6 (5.56%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 53 (49.07%) Azure
2 34 (31.48%) AWS
3 16 (14.81%) Serverless
4 11 (10.19%) SaaS
5 10 (9.26%) GCP
6 5 (4.63%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.70%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.85%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.85%) GitHub
8 2 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.63%) SAN
2 3 (2.78%) Firewall
3 2 (1.85%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.22%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.19%) MySQL
3 7 (6.48%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.56%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.63%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.70%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (3.70%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.78%) Power BI
8 2 (1.85%) Big Data
9 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.93%) GIS
9 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (12.96%) JIRA
2 12 (11.11%) Git
3 11 (10.19%) Bitbucket
4 4 (3.70%) Artifactory
4 4 (3.70%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (3.70%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.70%) TeamCity
5 2 (1.85%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
General
1 65 (60.19%) Social Skills
2 40 (37.04%) Finance
3 17 (15.74%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.33%) Retail
5 7 (6.48%) Advertising
6 6 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.70%) Banking
7 4 (3.70%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.78%) Games
8 3 (2.78%) Marketing
9 2 (1.85%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.85%) Back Office
9 2 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
10 1 (0.93%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 33 (30.56%) Developer
2 18 (16.67%) Architect
3 14 (12.96%) Graduate
4 10 (9.26%) Graduate Developer
5 9 (8.33%) Analyst
5 9 (8.33%) Applications Architect
5 9 (8.33%) IT Graduate
6 8 (7.41%) Senior
6 8 (7.41%) Software Engineer
7 7 (6.48%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.48%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (6.48%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Delphi Developer
8 6 (5.56%) Software Architect
9 5 (4.63%) C# Developer
9 5 (4.63%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Technical Support
10 4 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.70%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.52%) CSS
2 12 (11.11%) .NET
3 10 (9.26%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.33%) jQuery
5 8 (7.41%) RESTful
6 7 (6.48%) React
7 6 (5.56%) Web Services
8 5 (4.63%) HTML
9 4 (3.70%) Celery
9 4 (3.70%) Django
9 4 (3.70%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (3.70%) FastAPI
9 4 (3.70%) Flask
9 4 (3.70%) REST
9 4 (3.70%) Vue
10 3 (2.78%) Kafka
10 3 (2.78%) Micronaut
10 3 (2.78%) Spring
10 3 (2.78%) Spring Boot
11 2 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.81%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (9.26%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 4 (3.70%) Driving Licence
5 3 (2.78%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.78%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.85%) FMCG
6 2 (1.85%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.85%) NHS
6 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.85%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 1 (0.93%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) Online Games
7 1 (0.93%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (17.59%) Linux
2 16 (14.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 104 (96.30%) Computer Science
2 34 (31.48%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (24.07%) Continuous Improvement
3 26 (24.07%) DevOps
4 24 (22.22%) Agile
5 23 (21.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 22 (20.37%) Mentoring
7 21 (19.44%) OOP
7 21 (19.44%) Software Engineering
8 19 (17.59%) CI/CD
8 19 (17.59%) OO
9 17 (15.74%) Migration
10 16 (14.81%) Application Security
10 16 (14.81%) Containerisation
10 16 (14.81%) Microservices
11 15 (13.89%) Architectural Patterns
11 15 (13.89%) Data Modelling
11 15 (13.89%) Enterprise Architecture
11 15 (13.89%) TOGAF
12 14 (12.96%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 41 (37.96%) Java
2 39 (36.11%) C#
3 26 (24.07%) Python
4 21 (19.44%) SQL
5 20 (18.52%) JavaScript
6 15 (13.89%) TypeScript
7 14 (12.96%) C++
8 10 (9.26%) PHP
9 7 (6.48%) C
10 6 (5.56%) Delphi
10 6 (5.56%) PowerShell
11 4 (3.70%) PL/SQL
12 2 (1.85%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.93%) Bash
Qualifications
1 108 (100.00%) Degree
2 18 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 18 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (15.74%) AWS Certification
3 17 (15.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (13.89%) TOGAF Certification
5 7 (6.48%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.85%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.85%) MBA
7 2 (1.85%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.85%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.56%) IEC 61131
2 4 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.78%) GDPR
4 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.85%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.85%) NCSC
4 2 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) NIST
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.33%) Docker
2 4 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.70%) vSphere
3 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.19%) Control-M
2 11 (10.19%) Grafana
3 7 (6.48%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.63%) Terraform
5 4 (3.70%) Ansible
5 4 (3.70%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 36 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.63%) VMware
3 4 (3.70%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.70%) Google
4 3 (2.78%) AppDynamics
4 3 (2.78%) IBM
4 3 (2.78%) Moogsoft
4 3 (2.78%) Splunk
5 2 (1.85%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.85%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.85%) UiPath
6 1 (0.93%) Concur
6 1 (0.93%) Databricks
6 1 (0.93%) Dell
6 1 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle
6 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.93%) SAP