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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 102 124
Rank change year-on-year -128 +22 +139
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 92 218 357
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.50% 2.99% 2.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 6.69% 10.19%
Number of salaries quoted 63 117 273
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £32,388 £40,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £98,350 £80,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £61,103 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.47% +1.84% -4.00%

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 4,977 3,257 3,503
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.80% 44.62% 21.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,516 1,322 2,576
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,750 £26,250
25th Percentile £32,300 £37,500 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -10.38%
75th Percentile £65,000 £64,775 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,673 £55,000
% change year-on-year +5.87% +3.04% -7.56%

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 6 May 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 6 May 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 -85 52 £75,000 +27.66% 14
North West -90 23 £52,500 -4.55% 21
North East -32 17 £67,500 +22.73% 12
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 3 (3.26%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (65.22%) Azure
2 42 (45.65%) AWS
3 22 (23.91%) Serverless
4 10 (10.87%) GCP
5 9 (9.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 8 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Functions
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Logic Apps
6 8 (8.70%) Azure Monitor
7 6 (6.52%) SaaS
8 5 (5.43%) Azure AI
9 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (3.26%) Power Platform
11 2 (2.17%) IaaS
11 2 (2.17%) PaaS
12 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
12 1 (1.09%) Firebase
12 1 (1.09%) Google App Engine
12 1 (1.09%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (10.87%) Network Security
2 9 (9.78%) Firewall
2 9 (9.78%) LAN
2 9 (9.78%) VLAN
2 9 (9.78%) WAN
2 9 (9.78%) Wireless
3 8 (8.70%) BGP
3 8 (8.70%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (8.70%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (8.70%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (8.70%) EIGRP
3 8 (8.70%) OSPF
3 8 (8.70%) SNMP
3 8 (8.70%) VPN
3 8 (8.70%) WAAS
3 8 (8.70%) Wireless Security
4 2 (2.17%) SAN
5 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
5 1 (1.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 10 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (10.87%) Spark SQL
3 6 (6.52%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.35%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.35%) Metadata
5 3 (3.26%) ClickHouse
5 3 (3.26%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.26%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.26%) Power BI
6 2 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (2.17%) Big Data
6 2 (2.17%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.17%) Data Lake
6 2 (2.17%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.17%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.09%) MySQL
7 1 (1.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Git
2 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.17%) JIRA
3 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.09%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
General
1 47 (51.09%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Retail
4 11 (11.96%) Finance
5 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.43%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.35%) Marketing
6 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (3.26%) Legal
8 2 (2.17%) Advertising
8 2 (2.17%) Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Electronics
9 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (27.17%) Architect
2 16 (17.39%) Graduate
2 16 (17.39%) Software Engineer
3 12 (13.04%) Developer
4 11 (11.96%) Data Engineer
4 11 (11.96%) Lead
5 10 (10.87%) Senior
6 9 (9.78%) Graduate Developer
6 9 (9.78%) Graduate Software Developer
6 9 (9.78%) Lead Data Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Network Engineer
6 9 (9.78%) Software Developer
7 8 (8.70%) Azure Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Platform Engineer
7 8 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Applications Architect
8 7 (7.61%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 7 (7.61%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.87%) PySpark
2 9 (9.78%) REST
3 8 (8.70%) .NET
3 8 (8.70%) ARM Templates
4 5 (5.43%) React
5 4 (4.35%) Django
5 4 (4.35%) RESTful
6 3 (3.26%) Celery
6 3 (3.26%) CSS
6 3 (3.26%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.26%) Flask
6 3 (3.26%) Vue
7 2 (2.17%) jQuery
8 1 (1.09%) 802.1X
8 1 (1.09%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (1.09%) Laravel
8 1 (1.09%) Node.js
8 1 (1.09%) Redux
8 1 (1.09%) Sass
8 1 (1.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.70%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.61%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.43%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.35%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.35%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.35%) Onboarding
6 2 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.17%) CMDB
6 2 (2.17%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.17%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.17%) Robotics
6 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.17%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.09%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.09%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.09%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.70%) Linux
2 5 (5.43%) Windows
3 2 (2.17%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (95.65%) Computer Science
2 29 (31.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 27 (29.35%) Data Modelling
4 25 (27.17%) DevOps
5 22 (23.91%) CI/CD
6 21 (22.83%) Mentoring
6 21 (22.83%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (21.74%) Software Engineering
8 17 (18.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (17.39%) AI
9 16 (17.39%) Application Security
9 16 (17.39%) Migration
10 15 (16.30%) Microservices
11 14 (15.22%) Architectural Patterns
11 14 (15.22%) Data Engineering
11 14 (15.22%) EAI
11 14 (15.22%) Enterprise Architecture
11 14 (15.22%) TOGAF
12 13 (14.13%) Agile
12 13 (14.13%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 49 (53.26%) Python
2 29 (31.52%) SQL
3 28 (30.43%) C#
4 27 (29.35%) Java
5 16 (17.39%) JavaScript
5 16 (17.39%) TypeScript
6 11 (11.96%) PHP
7 9 (9.78%) C++
8 7 (7.61%) C
9 5 (5.43%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
10 2 (2.17%) Scala
11 1 (1.09%) Go
Qualifications
1 92 (100.00%) Degree
2 18 (19.57%) AWS Certification
2 18 (19.57%) Azure Certification
2 18 (19.57%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (17.39%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 14 (15.22%) TOGAF Certification
5 11 (11.96%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (8.70%) CCIE
6 8 (8.70%) CCNP
6 8 (8.70%) Security Cleared
7 7 (7.61%) SC Cleared
8 6 (6.52%) Master's Degree
9 5 (5.43%) CISSP
10 3 (3.26%) CISM
10 3 (3.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 2 (2.17%) A+ Certification
11 2 (2.17%) CCSP
11 2 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) GDPR
2 8 (8.70%) PMO
3 5 (5.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (5.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (5.43%) NIST
3 5 (5.43%) QA
4 4 (4.35%) Data Quality
5 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
5 2 (2.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (2.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.70%) ProxySG
2 4 (4.35%) Docker
3 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (9.78%) Terraform
2 5 (5.43%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.17%) Control-M
3 2 (2.17%) Grafana
3 2 (2.17%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.17%) SCCM
4 1 (1.09%) Ansible
4 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.09%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 28 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.13%) Databricks
3 9 (9.78%) CheckPoint
4 8 (8.70%) Blue Coat
4 8 (8.70%) Cisco
4 8 (8.70%) F5
4 8 (8.70%) Infoblox
4 8 (8.70%) Motorola
4 8 (8.70%) ServiceNow
4 8 (8.70%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.09%) Aruba
5 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.09%) Ekahau
5 1 (1.09%) Google
5 1 (1.09%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (1.09%) Palo Alto
5 1 (1.09%) VMware