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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 206 81 124
Rank change year-on-year -125 +43 +154
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 85 219 320
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.57% 3.27% 2.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.83% 7.65% 9.68%
Number of salaries quoted 61 110 242
10th Percentile £30,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,750 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £109,375 £78,625
England median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £62,250
% change year-on-year +3.85% +4.42% +2.22%

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 4,655 2,861 3,305
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 31.32% 42.77% 21.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1,435 1,308 2,410
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,750
25th Percentile £28,375 £38,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £62,499 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £56,638 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.60% +9.09% -4.35%

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 23 March 2026.

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 23 March 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
Yorkshire -92 44 £70,000 +51.69% 15
North West -85 21 £55,000 - 27
North East -23 20 £51,500 -8.85% 4
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 2 (2.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 51 (60.00%) Azure
2 45 (52.94%) AWS
3 20 (23.53%) Serverless
4 10 (11.76%) GCP
5 5 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.18%) Firebase
6 1 (1.18%) Google App Engine
6 1 (1.18%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (12.94%) Firewall
2 9 (10.59%) LAN
2 9 (10.59%) Network Security
2 9 (10.59%) VLAN
2 9 (10.59%) WAN
2 9 (10.59%) Wireless
3 8 (9.41%) BGP
3 8 (9.41%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (9.41%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (9.41%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (9.41%) EIGRP
3 8 (9.41%) OSPF
3 8 (9.41%) SNMP
3 8 (9.41%) VPN
3 8 (9.41%) WAAS
3 8 (9.41%) Wireless Security
4 2 (2.35%) SAN
5 1 (1.18%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (1.18%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (12.94%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.24%) NoSQL
3 5 (5.88%) MongoDB
3 5 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.35%) Big Data
4 2 (2.35%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.35%) Hadoop
4 2 (2.35%) Metadata
5 1 (1.18%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.18%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.18%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.18%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
5 1 (1.18%) MySQL
5 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.18%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 6 (7.06%) Bitbucket
1 6 (7.06%) Git
1 6 (7.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.18%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (1.18%) SonarQube
2 1 (1.18%) TeamCity
General
1 57 (67.06%) Social Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (16.47%) Finance
2 14 (16.47%) Retail
3 7 (8.24%) Manufacturing
3 7 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (4.71%) Advertising
5 3 (3.53%) Legal
5 3 (3.53%) Marketing
6 2 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Electronics
7 1 (1.18%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (25.88%) Architect
2 18 (21.18%) Software Engineer
3 13 (15.29%) Graduate
4 12 (14.12%) Senior
5 10 (11.76%) Applications Architect
5 10 (11.76%) Developer
6 9 (10.59%) Analyst
6 9 (10.59%) Graduate Software Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) Network Engineer
6 9 (10.59%) Software Architect
7 8 (9.41%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Linux Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Logistics Engineer
8 7 (8.24%) Software Engineering Graduate
9 5 (5.88%) Applications Support
9 5 (5.88%) Applications Support Analyst
9 5 (5.88%) Python Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Support Analyst
10 4 (4.71%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) React
2 6 (7.06%) Django
2 6 (7.06%) RESTful
3 5 (5.88%) Celery
3 5 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 5 (5.88%) Flask
3 5 (5.88%) Vue
4 3 (3.53%) CSS
5 2 (2.35%) .NET
5 2 (2.35%) jQuery
5 2 (2.35%) REST
6 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
6 1 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.18%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.18%) HTML
6 1 (1.18%) Laravel
6 1 (1.18%) Node.js
6 1 (1.18%) PySpark
6 1 (1.18%) Sass
6 1 (1.18%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (22.35%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.41%) Data Centre
4 7 (8.24%) Driving Licence
5 6 (7.06%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.53%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.35%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.35%) CMDB
7 2 (2.35%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.35%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.35%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.35%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.35%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.18%) Operational Technology
8 1 (1.18%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (16.47%) Linux
2 10 (11.76%) Windows
3 2 (2.35%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.35%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.18%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (92.94%) Computer Science
2 33 (38.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 23 (27.06%) Mentoring
4 22 (25.88%) Application Security
4 22 (25.88%) Data Modelling
4 22 (25.88%) Migration
4 22 (25.88%) Software Engineering
5 20 (23.53%) Microservices
6 19 (22.35%) Architectural Patterns
6 19 (22.35%) EAI
6 19 (22.35%) Enterprise Architecture
6 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
6 19 (22.35%) TOGAF
7 13 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (15.29%) DevOps
8 12 (14.12%) ITIL
9 11 (12.94%) CI/CD
9 11 (12.94%) Containerisation
10 10 (11.76%) Collaborative Culture
10 10 (11.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (50.59%) Python
2 34 (40.00%) Java
3 24 (28.24%) C#
4 20 (23.53%) JavaScript
4 20 (23.53%) TypeScript
5 18 (21.18%) SQL
6 10 (11.76%) C++
7 8 (9.41%) C
8 7 (8.24%) PL/SQL
9 5 (5.88%) PHP
10 3 (3.53%) Delphi
10 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
11 2 (2.35%) Scala
12 1 (1.18%) Go
Qualifications
1 85 (100.00%) Degree
2 24 (28.24%) AWS Certification
2 24 (28.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 22 (25.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 22 (25.88%) Azure Certification
4 19 (22.35%) TOGAF Certification
5 9 (10.59%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (9.41%) CCIE
6 8 (9.41%) CCNP
7 6 (7.06%) ITIL Certification
8 5 (5.88%) Master's Degree
9 4 (4.71%) CISSP
9 4 (4.71%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (3.53%) A+ Certification
10 3 (3.53%) CISM
10 3 (3.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 3 (3.53%) SC Cleared
10 3 (3.53%) Security Cleared
11 2 (2.35%) DBS Check
12 1 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.41%) PMO
2 6 (7.06%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (3.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 3 (3.53%) GDPR
4 3 (3.53%) NIST
4 3 (3.53%) QA
5 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
6 1 (1.18%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.18%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (9.41%) ProxySG
2 6 (7.06%) Docker
3 1 (1.18%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.18%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (12.94%) Kubernetes
2 6 (7.06%) Control-M
2 6 (7.06%) Grafana
3 5 (5.88%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.35%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (2.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.35%) SCCM
4 2 (2.35%) Terraform
5 1 (1.18%) Ansible
5 1 (1.18%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 31 (36.47%) Microsoft
2 9 (10.59%) CheckPoint
3 8 (9.41%) Blue Coat
3 8 (9.41%) Cisco
3 8 (9.41%) F5
3 8 (9.41%) Infoblox
3 8 (9.41%) Motorola
3 8 (9.41%) ServiceNow
3 8 (9.41%) SolarWinds
4 2 (2.35%) VMware
5 1 (1.18%) Aruba
5 1 (1.18%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) Ekahau
5 1 (1.18%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.18%) Palo Alto