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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 181 92
Rank change year-on-year -59 -89 +29
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 121 116 306
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.51% 1.24% 2.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.69% 3.27% 9.09%
Number of salaries quoted 90 78 194
10th Percentile £28,150 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £120,000 £80,875 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 3,275 3,545 3,367
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.90% 37.78% 23.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,810 1,053 1,386
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £36,963
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,011 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £75,000 £79,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,180
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.10% -4.78%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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
North West -30 51 £40,000 -27.27% 92
Yorkshire -33 38 £62,500 +8.70% 33
North East -44 32 £110,000 +163.47% 20
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 4 (3.31%) CMS
1 4 (3.31%) WordPress
2 3 (2.48%) Confluence
3 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.83%) Apache
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.83%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.83%) Infor M3
1 1 (0.83%) SAP CRM
1 1 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (42.98%) Azure
2 24 (19.83%) AWS
3 13 (10.74%) GCP
4 11 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 10 (8.26%) Serverless
6 9 (7.44%) Azure Data Factory
7 8 (6.61%) Azure Functions
7 8 (6.61%) Azure Logic Apps
7 8 (6.61%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (6.61%) SaaS
8 5 (4.13%) Azure AI
9 4 (3.31%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (3.31%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.31%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.48%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (2.48%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.48%) IaaS
10 3 (2.48%) PaaS
10 3 (2.48%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.65%) GitHub Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) Network Security
2 2 (1.65%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.36%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.09%) Spark SQL
3 10 (8.26%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.13%) NoSQL
5 3 (2.48%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (2.48%) Power BI
5 3 (2.48%) Redis
6 2 (1.65%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.65%) Data Lake
6 2 (1.65%) Metadata
6 2 (1.65%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.83%) MySQL
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.83%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Git
2 3 (2.48%) JIRA
3 2 (1.65%) GitLab
4 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.83%) Postman
General
1 33 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.53%) Finance
3 15 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.61%) Marketing
5 6 (4.96%) Banking
5 6 (4.96%) Legal
5 6 (4.96%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.31%) Advertising
7 3 (2.48%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.48%) Retail
8 2 (1.65%) Electronics
8 2 (1.65%) Games
8 2 (1.65%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 37 (30.58%) Developer
2 23 (19.01%) Software Engineer
3 19 (15.70%) Software Developer
4 16 (13.22%) Architect
5 15 (12.40%) Graduate
6 13 (10.74%) Data Engineer
6 13 (10.74%) Lead
6 13 (10.74%) Principal Engineer
6 13 (10.74%) Senior
7 11 (9.09%) C++ Software Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) Rust Engineer
7 11 (9.09%) Rust Software Engineer
8 10 (8.26%) Principal Software Engineer
9 9 (7.44%) C++ Developer
9 9 (7.44%) C++ Software Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Graduate Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Graduate Software Developer
9 9 (7.44%) Lead Data Engineer
9 9 (7.44%) Rust Developer
10 8 (6.61%) Azure Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.18%) .NET
2 18 (14.88%) REST
3 12 (9.92%) PySpark
4 9 (7.44%) React
5 8 (6.61%) ARM Templates
5 8 (6.61%) Terraform
6 7 (5.79%) CSS
7 6 (4.96%) RESTful
8 5 (4.13%) Kafka
9 4 (3.31%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.31%) Vue
10 3 (2.48%) Node.js
10 3 (2.48%) SignalR
10 3 (2.48%) WebSockets
10 3 (2.48%) WPF
11 2 (1.65%) ASP.NET
11 2 (1.65%) Celery
11 2 (1.65%) Django
11 2 (1.65%) Flask
11 2 (1.65%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.31%) AI Agents
2 4 (3.31%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (3.31%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.48%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.48%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.65%) CMDB
4 2 (1.65%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.65%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.65%) Enterprise Cloud
4 2 (1.65%) Robotics
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Team
5 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.83%) FMCG
5 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.83%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.83%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 23 (19.01%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Windows
3 2 (1.65%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (98.35%) Computer Science
2 60 (49.59%) AI
3 39 (32.23%) Software Engineering
4 34 (28.10%) DevOps
5 33 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (24.79%) CI/CD
7 25 (20.66%) Agile
8 23 (19.01%) Mathematics
9 21 (17.36%) Continuous Improvement
9 21 (17.36%) Physics
9 21 (17.36%) Technical Debt
10 20 (16.53%) Requirements Management
11 19 (15.70%) Workflow
12 16 (13.22%) Data Modelling
12 16 (13.22%) Test Automation
13 15 (12.40%) Roadmaps
14 14 (11.57%) ETL
14 14 (11.57%) Mentoring
14 14 (11.57%) Observability
15 13 (10.74%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.45%) Python
2 27 (22.31%) SQL
3 26 (21.49%) C++
4 24 (19.83%) C#
5 20 (16.53%) Rust
6 13 (10.74%) Java
7 10 (8.26%) PHP
8 9 (7.44%) TypeScript
9 8 (6.61%) JavaScript
10 4 (3.31%) Delphi
11 3 (2.48%) C
12 1 (0.83%) Go
12 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
12 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 121 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (4.96%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.13%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.31%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (3.31%) CCSP
4 4 (3.31%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.31%) CISSP
4 4 (3.31%) MBA
4 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.48%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.65%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.65%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.65%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.83%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (0.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.61%) GDPR
2 6 (4.96%) QA
3 4 (3.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.31%) NIST
4 3 (2.48%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (3.31%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.48%) SCCM
3 2 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 17 (14.05%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.40%) Databricks
3 4 (3.31%) Adobe
3 4 (3.31%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.48%) Oracle
4 3 (2.48%) Sage
5 2 (1.65%) Infor
5 2 (1.65%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.65%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
6 1 (0.83%) SAP