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 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 92 121
Rank change year-on-year -93 +29 +125
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 118 305 240
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 1.25% 2.16% 2.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.32% 8.99% 9.87%
Number of salaries quoted 80 193 191
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £42,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £49,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £60,800
90th Percentile £89,125 £80,000 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%

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 3,550 3,393 2,432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.73% 24.08% 27.45%
Number of salaries quoted 1,052 1,393 1,387
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £31,125
25th Percentile £33,250 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.63% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £79,920 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% -6.37% +9.09%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree 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 September 2025.

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 September 2025. 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 -88 65 £55,000 +7.34% 47
Yorkshire -25 39 £56,250 +15.38% 39
North East +13 14 £55,000 +22.22% 16
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.39%) SAS
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (6.78%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (6.78%) MS Visio
2 6 (5.08%) AutoCAD
2 6 (5.08%) SOLIDWORKS
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.51%) Azure
2 22 (18.64%) AWS
3 11 (9.32%) SaaS
4 7 (5.93%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (5.93%) Power Platform
4 7 (5.93%) Serverless
5 6 (5.08%) GCP
6 4 (3.39%) Amazon EC2
7 3 (2.54%) AWS Fargate
7 3 (2.54%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.69%) GitHub
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.39%) Network Security
2 3 (2.54%) Firewall
2 3 (2.54%) SAN
2 3 (2.54%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.69%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (1.69%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (1.69%) DNS
3 2 (1.69%) DWDM
3 2 (1.69%) LAN
3 2 (1.69%) VoIP
3 2 (1.69%) VPN
3 2 (1.69%) WAN
4 1 (0.85%) BGP
4 1 (0.85%) EIGRP
4 1 (0.85%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (15.25%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.17%) MySQL
3 8 (6.78%) Data Warehouse
4 5 (4.24%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
5 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
5 4 (3.39%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.39%) Oracle Database
6 3 (2.54%) Big Data
6 3 (2.54%) Power BI
7 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.85%) GIS
7 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (6.78%) JIRA
2 6 (5.08%) Git
3 3 (2.54%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.54%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.54%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.85%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
General
1 61 (51.69%) Social Skills
2 40 (33.90%) Finance
3 24 (20.34%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.47%) Retail
5 6 (5.08%) Manufacturing
6 4 (3.39%) Banking
6 4 (3.39%) Law
6 4 (3.39%) Legal
6 4 (3.39%) Marketing
7 3 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.54%) Games
7 3 (2.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.69%) Advertising
8 2 (1.69%) Agriculture
8 2 (1.69%) Back Office
8 2 (1.69%) Cantonese Language
8 2 (1.69%) Electronics
8 2 (1.69%) Mandarin Language
8 2 (1.69%) Military
8 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (32.20%) Developer
2 12 (10.17%) Graduate
2 12 (10.17%) Graduate Developer
2 12 (10.17%) Senior
3 11 (9.32%) IT Graduate
4 10 (8.47%) Lead
5 7 (5.93%) Automation Engineer
5 7 (5.93%) DevOps Engineer
6 6 (5.08%) Architect
6 6 (5.08%) C# Developer
6 6 (5.08%) PHP Developer
6 6 (5.08%) Senior Developer
6 6 (5.08%) SQL Developer
7 5 (4.24%) .NET Developer
7 5 (4.24%) Graduate C# Developer
7 5 (4.24%) Technical Support
8 4 (3.39%) Data Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Data Warehouse Manager
8 4 (3.39%) Graduate PHP Developer
8 4 (3.39%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (18.64%) CSS
2 19 (16.10%) .NET
3 18 (15.25%) HTML
4 12 (10.17%) ASP.NET
5 11 (9.32%) jQuery
6 7 (5.93%) Web Services
7 6 (5.08%) RESTful
8 5 (4.24%) React
8 5 (4.24%) WinForms
9 4 (3.39%) Kafka
9 4 (3.39%) REST
9 4 (3.39%) Spring
9 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
10 3 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (2.54%) RabbitMQ
11 2 (1.69%) AngularJS
11 2 (1.69%) Blazor
11 2 (1.69%) Vue
11 2 (1.69%) XML
12 1 (0.85%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.63%) Onboarding
2 5 (4.24%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (3.39%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Manufacturing Execution System
4 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.69%) FMCG
5 2 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (1.69%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) NHS
5 2 (1.69%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.69%) Tandem
5 2 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.85%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.85%) Online Games
6 1 (0.85%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.85%) PropTech
Operating Systems
1 16 (13.56%) Linux
2 8 (6.78%) Windows
3 3 (2.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (99.15%) Computer Science
2 47 (39.83%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (24.58%) Agile
4 27 (22.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (20.34%) DevOps
6 22 (18.64%) Software Engineering
7 21 (17.80%) OOP
8 19 (16.10%) OO
9 17 (14.41%) Artificial Intelligence
9 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
9 17 (14.41%) Mentoring
10 15 (12.71%) Data Privacy
11 14 (11.86%) Machine Learning
12 12 (10.17%) MVC
12 12 (10.17%) Visualisation
13 11 (9.32%) Project Management
14 10 (8.47%) Mathematics
14 10 (8.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 10 (8.47%) Technical Leadership
15 9 (7.63%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 48 (40.68%) C#
2 42 (35.59%) Java
3 38 (32.20%) SQL
4 35 (29.66%) Python
5 27 (22.88%) JavaScript
5 27 (22.88%) PHP
6 25 (21.19%) C++
7 17 (14.41%) TypeScript
8 16 (13.56%) C
9 14 (11.86%) Ruby
10 13 (11.02%) Dart
10 13 (11.02%) MATLAB
10 13 (11.02%) R
10 13 (11.02%) Rust
11 7 (5.93%) Shell Script
12 3 (2.54%) C-shell
12 3 (2.54%) Delphi
12 3 (2.54%) Korn
12 3 (2.54%) PL/SQL
12 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 118 (100.00%) Degree
2 9 (7.63%) Master's Degree
2 9 (7.63%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (5.93%) Azure Certification
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Certification
4 6 (5.08%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 5 (4.24%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.24%) Security Cleared
6 4 (3.39%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (2.54%) PhD
8 2 (1.69%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.69%) CCNA
8 2 (1.69%) CCNP
8 2 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (1.69%) JNCIA
8 2 (1.69%) JNCIS
8 2 (1.69%) MBA
9 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) IEC 61131
2 3 (2.54%) GDPR
2 3 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.54%) NIST
3 2 (1.69%) Def Stans
3 2 (1.69%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.69%) QA
4 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.85%) NCSC
4 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (5.08%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) vSphere
4 1 (0.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (7.63%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.08%) Ansible
2 6 (5.08%) Terraform
3 3 (2.54%) Control-M
3 3 (2.54%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (2.54%) Grafana
Vendors
1 26 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.93%) Oracle
3 5 (4.24%) Cisco
3 5 (4.24%) Google
4 4 (3.39%) AppDynamics
4 4 (3.39%) IBM
4 4 (3.39%) Moogsoft
4 4 (3.39%) Splunk
4 4 (3.39%) VMware
5 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
5 3 (2.54%) Bloomberg
5 3 (2.54%) Databricks
6 2 (1.69%) Arista
6 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.69%) UiPath
7 1 (0.85%) Concur
7 1 (0.85%) Dell
7 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.85%) SAP