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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 188 105
Rank change year-on-year -60 -83 0
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 120 120 288
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.50% 1.27% 2.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.58% 3.35% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 88 82 178
10th Percentile £31,250 £25,000 £32,125
25th Percentile £39,250 £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 £65,938
90th Percentile £120,000 £77,375 £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 3,355 3,581 3,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 13.98% 37.98% 24.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,865 1,042 1,328
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £62,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £91,250 £75,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,525
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.70% -5.79%

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 24 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 24 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 -36 49 £56,250 +2.27% 77
Yorkshire -44 38 £62,500 +11.11% 34
North East -48 33 £110,000 +113.59% 15
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 (3.33%) CMS
1 4 (3.33%) WordPress
2 3 (2.50%) 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 2 (1.67%) SAP CRM
1 2 (1.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.83%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 46 (38.33%) Azure
2 23 (19.17%) AWS
3 12 (10.00%) GCP
4 10 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (8.33%) SaaS
5 9 (7.50%) Serverless
6 8 (6.67%) Azure Data Factory
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Functions
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Logic Apps
7 7 (5.83%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (4.17%) Azure AI
9 4 (3.33%) Azure Databricks
9 4 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
9 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
10 3 (2.50%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (2.50%) IaaS
10 3 (2.50%) PaaS
10 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.67%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.33%) Network Security
2 2 (1.67%) HTTP
3 1 (0.83%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (0.83%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.50%) SQL Server
2 10 (8.33%) Spark SQL
3 9 (7.50%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.17%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.33%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.50%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.50%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (2.50%) Power BI
6 3 (2.50%) Redis
7 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.67%) Metadata
7 2 (1.67%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.83%) Chroma
8 1 (0.83%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.83%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Git
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 2 (1.67%) GitLab
3 2 (1.67%) Postman
4 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
4 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (28.33%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.00%) Finance
3 16 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (6.67%) Marketing
5 6 (5.00%) Banking
5 6 (5.00%) Legal
5 6 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (3.33%) Advertising
7 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (1.67%) Electronics
8 2 (1.67%) Games
8 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.83%) Military
9 1 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 35 (29.17%) Developer
2 24 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 17 (14.17%) Software Developer
4 16 (13.33%) Architect
5 15 (12.50%) Senior
6 13 (10.83%) Principal Engineer
7 12 (10.00%) Graduate
7 12 (10.00%) Lead
8 11 (9.17%) C++ Software Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) Data Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) Rust Engineer
8 11 (9.17%) Rust Software Engineer
9 10 (8.33%) Principal Software Engineer
10 9 (7.50%) C++ Developer
10 9 (7.50%) C++ Software Developer
10 9 (7.50%) Rust Developer
11 8 (6.67%) Lead Data Engineer
12 7 (5.83%) Azure Platform Engineer
12 7 (5.83%) Databricks Data Engineer
12 7 (5.83%) Databricks Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (20.83%) .NET
2 18 (15.00%) REST
3 11 (9.17%) PySpark
3 11 (9.17%) React
4 7 (5.83%) ARM Templates
4 7 (5.83%) Terraform
5 6 (5.00%) RESTful
6 5 (4.17%) CSS
6 5 (4.17%) Kafka
7 4 (3.33%) AngularJS
7 4 (3.33%) Vue
8 3 (2.50%) Node.js
8 3 (2.50%) SignalR
8 3 (2.50%) WebSockets
8 3 (2.50%) WPF
9 2 (1.67%) .NET Core
9 2 (1.67%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.67%) Celery
9 2 (1.67%) Django
9 2 (1.67%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.83%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.33%) AI Agents
2 4 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
2 4 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.50%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.50%) Cloud Native
3 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (1.67%) CMDB
4 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (1.67%) Data Structures
4 2 (1.67%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.83%) FMCG
5 1 (0.83%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.83%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.83%) Online Gambling
5 1 (0.83%) Product Ownership
5 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.83%) Robotics
5 1 (0.83%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.00%) Linux
2 7 (5.83%) Windows
3 2 (1.67%) Mac OS
3 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (98.33%) Computer Science
2 64 (53.33%) AI
3 42 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 37 (30.83%) Problem-Solving
5 32 (26.67%) DevOps
6 31 (25.83%) CI/CD
7 26 (21.67%) Mathematics
8 24 (20.00%) Agile
9 22 (18.33%) Physics
10 21 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (17.50%) Technical Debt
11 20 (16.67%) Requirements Management
12 19 (15.83%) Workflow
13 15 (12.50%) Data Modelling
13 15 (12.50%) Full-Stack Development
13 15 (12.50%) Roadmaps
13 15 (12.50%) Test Automation
14 14 (11.67%) Analytics
14 14 (11.67%) Data Science
15 13 (10.83%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 29 (24.17%) Python
2 26 (21.67%) SQL
3 23 (19.17%) C++
4 22 (18.33%) C#
5 20 (16.67%) Rust
6 11 (9.17%) Java
7 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
8 9 (7.50%) TypeScript
9 6 (5.00%) PHP
10 4 (3.33%) Delphi
11 3 (2.50%) T-SQL
12 2 (1.67%) C
13 1 (0.83%) Go
13 1 (0.83%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
13 1 (0.83%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.83%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 5 (4.17%) Security Cleared
4 4 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (3.33%) CCSP
4 4 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (3.33%) CISSP
4 4 (3.33%) MBA
4 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (2.50%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (1.67%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.67%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.67%) 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 7 (5.83%) GDPR
2 6 (5.00%) QA
3 4 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.33%) NIST
4 3 (2.50%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.83%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.83%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.50%) SCCM
3 2 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.83%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 17 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 13 (10.83%) Databricks
3 4 (3.33%) Adobe
3 4 (3.33%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.50%) Oracle
4 3 (2.50%) Sage
5 2 (1.67%) Infor
5 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.67%) SAP
6 1 (0.83%) Cisco
6 1 (0.83%) Google
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) ION Trading