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

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 217 156 113
Rank change year-on-year -61 -43 +97
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 117 152 405
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.58% 1.84% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.57% 4.15% 10.48%
Number of salaries quoted 88 113 281
10th Percentile £27,450 £25,350 £28,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +16.49% -19.17%
75th Percentile £83,750 £72,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £96,550 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 3,281 3,661 3,865
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.39% 44.42% 19.44%
Number of salaries quoted 1,624 1,206 2,667
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £34,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -12.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £74,629 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

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 June 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 18 June 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 -24 47 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North West -45 37 £40,000 -27.27% 31
North East -33 33 £75,000 +34.53% 7
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 (3.42%) CMS
1 4 (3.42%) WordPress
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Spark
2 3 (2.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.85%) Anypoint
3 1 (0.85%) Apache
3 1 (0.85%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.85%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (5.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.85%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 57 (48.72%) Azure
2 32 (27.35%) AWS
3 13 (11.11%) Serverless
4 12 (10.26%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.40%) GCP
6 10 (8.55%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (7.69%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (7.69%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.98%) SaaS
9 6 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.27%) Azure AI
11 4 (3.42%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.56%) IaaS
12 3 (2.56%) PaaS
12 3 (2.56%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.85%) Anthropic Claude
13 1 (0.85%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.85%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.55%) Network Security
2 7 (5.98%) Firewall
2 7 (5.98%) LAN
2 7 (5.98%) VLAN
2 7 (5.98%) WAN
2 7 (5.98%) Wireless
3 6 (5.13%) BGP
3 6 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (5.13%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (5.13%) Cisco Wireless
3 6 (5.13%) EIGRP
3 6 (5.13%) OSPF
3 6 (5.13%) SNMP
3 6 (5.13%) VPN
3 6 (5.13%) WAAS
3 6 (5.13%) Wireless Security
4 1 (0.85%) HTTP
4 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.82%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.40%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (9.40%) Spark SQL
3 7 (5.98%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.42%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (3.42%) Metadata
5 3 (2.56%) ClickHouse
5 3 (2.56%) MongoDB
5 3 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (2.56%) Power BI
6 2 (1.71%) Big Data
6 2 (1.71%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
6 2 (1.71%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.71%) MySQL
6 2 (1.71%) Redis
7 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.85%) Pinecone
7 1 (0.85%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.85%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Git
2 3 (2.56%) JIRA
3 1 (0.85%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.85%) GitLab
3 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 18 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Finance
4 9 (7.69%) Marketing
5 7 (5.98%) Legal
5 7 (5.98%) Retail
6 6 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.42%) Advertising
7 4 (3.42%) Banking
8 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
9 2 (1.71%) Electronics
9 2 (1.71%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 34 (29.06%) Developer
2 22 (18.80%) Software Engineer
3 18 (15.38%) Architect
4 16 (13.68%) Software Developer
5 15 (12.82%) Senior
6 14 (11.97%) Lead
7 13 (11.11%) Data Engineer
8 12 (10.26%) Graduate
9 10 (8.55%) Lead Data Engineer
9 10 (8.55%) Principal Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Azure Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Azure Platform Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) C++ Software Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Cloud Platform Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Graduate Developer
10 9 (7.69%) Graduate Software Developer
10 9 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Rust Engineer
10 9 (7.69%) Rust Software Engineer
11 7 (5.98%) C++ Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.68%) REST
2 14 (11.97%) .NET
3 11 (9.40%) PySpark
4 9 (7.69%) ARM Templates
5 7 (5.98%) CSS
5 7 (5.98%) React
6 6 (5.13%) RESTful
7 4 (3.42%) Vue
8 3 (2.56%) Celery
8 3 (2.56%) Django
8 3 (2.56%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.56%) Flask
8 3 (2.56%) SignalR
8 3 (2.56%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.71%) jQuery
9 2 (1.71%) Kafka
10 1 (0.85%) JSON
10 1 (0.85%) Laravel
10 1 (0.85%) Node.js
10 1 (0.85%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.98%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.13%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.27%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.42%) CMDB
4 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.56%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.56%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.71%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (1.71%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.71%) Robotics
6 2 (1.71%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.71%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.85%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.85%) FMCG
7 1 (0.85%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 18 (15.38%) Linux
2 8 (6.84%) Windows
3 4 (3.42%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.42%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (97.44%) Computer Science
2 42 (35.90%) AI
3 37 (31.62%) Software Engineering
4 32 (27.35%) DevOps
5 30 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
6 28 (23.93%) CI/CD
7 23 (19.66%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (18.80%) Data Modelling
9 21 (17.95%) Agile
10 18 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 16 (13.68%) Data Engineering
11 16 (13.68%) Mathematics
11 16 (13.68%) Mentoring
11 16 (13.68%) Physics
11 16 (13.68%) Requirements Management
12 15 (12.82%) Technical Debt
12 15 (12.82%) Workflow
13 14 (11.97%) ETL
13 14 (11.97%) Observability
14 13 (11.11%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 37 (31.62%) Python
2 26 (22.22%) SQL
3 23 (19.66%) C#
4 21 (17.95%) C++
5 16 (13.68%) Rust
6 12 (10.26%) Java
7 11 (9.40%) PHP
7 11 (9.40%) TypeScript
8 9 (7.69%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.56%) Delphi
10 2 (1.71%) C
10 2 (1.71%) Scala
Qualifications
1 117 (100.00%) Degree
2 11 (9.40%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (6.84%) Microsoft Certification
3 8 (6.84%) Security Cleared
4 7 (5.98%) AWS Certification
4 7 (5.98%) Azure Certification
4 7 (5.98%) CISSP
4 7 (5.98%) SC Cleared
5 6 (5.13%) CCIE
5 6 (5.13%) CCNP
6 5 (4.27%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 4 (3.42%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 4 (3.42%) A+ Certification
7 4 (3.42%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 4 (3.42%) CCSP
7 4 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.56%) CISM
8 3 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (0.85%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.40%) GDPR
2 7 (5.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.98%) NIST
3 6 (5.13%) PMO
3 6 (5.13%) QA
4 4 (3.42%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.56%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.71%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.71%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.13%) ProxySG
2 5 (4.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.69%) Terraform
2 5 (4.27%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.42%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (3.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.42%) SCCM
4 1 (0.85%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 21 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 15 (12.82%) Databricks
3 7 (5.98%) CheckPoint
4 6 (5.13%) Blue Coat
4 6 (5.13%) Cisco
4 6 (5.13%) F5
4 6 (5.13%) Infoblox
4 6 (5.13%) Motorola
4 6 (5.13%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.13%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.42%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.71%) Infor
6 2 (1.71%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) Adobe
7 1 (0.85%) Aruba
7 1 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.85%) IBM
7 1 (0.85%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle