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

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 124 121
Rank change year-on-year -96 -3 +122
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 100 215 358
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.54% 2.81% 2.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.30% 6.39% 10.12%
Number of salaries quoted 70 116 271
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £33,956 £40,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £56,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% +13.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £98,625 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.48%

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 4,351 3,365 3,537
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 23.58% 44.03% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 1,294 2,598
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.45%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 13 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 13 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 -95 53 £75,000 +27.66% 11
North West -65 26 £40,000 -32.20% 15
North East -36 21 £62,500 +13.64% 10
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 (3.00%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.00%) CMS
2 2 (2.00%) WordPress
3 1 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 61 (61.00%) Azure
2 39 (39.00%) AWS
3 20 (20.00%) Serverless
4 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 10 (10.00%) GCP
5 9 (9.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (9.00%) Azure Functions
5 9 (9.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (9.00%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (6.00%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (6.00%) SaaS
7 5 (5.00%) Azure AI
8 3 (3.00%) IaaS
8 3 (3.00%) PaaS
8 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.00%) Power Automate
10 1 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
10 1 (1.00%) Firebase
10 1 (1.00%) Google App Engine
10 1 (1.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 11 (11.00%) Network Security
2 9 (9.00%) Firewall
2 9 (9.00%) LAN
2 9 (9.00%) VLAN
2 9 (9.00%) WAN
2 9 (9.00%) Wireless
3 8 (8.00%) BGP
3 8 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
3 8 (8.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (8.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 8 (8.00%) EIGRP
3 8 (8.00%) OSPF
3 8 (8.00%) SNMP
3 8 (8.00%) VPN
3 8 (8.00%) WAAS
3 8 (8.00%) Wireless Security
4 1 (1.00%) SAN
4 1 (1.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.00%) SQL Server
2 11 (11.00%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (11.00%) Spark SQL
3 6 (6.00%) NoSQL
4 4 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
4 4 (4.00%) Metadata
5 3 (3.00%) ClickHouse
5 3 (3.00%) MongoDB
5 3 (3.00%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (3.00%) Power BI
6 2 (2.00%) Big Data
6 2 (2.00%) BigQuery
6 2 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 2 (2.00%) Hadoop
7 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) MySQL
7 1 (1.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.00%) JIRA
3 1 (1.00%) Artifactory
3 1 (1.00%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (1.00%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.00%) TeamCity
General
1 44 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (14.00%) Finance
4 11 (11.00%) Retail
5 7 (7.00%) Marketing
6 5 (5.00%) Legal
7 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (3.00%) Advertising
8 3 (3.00%) Banking
9 2 (2.00%) Electronics
9 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 23 (23.00%) Architect
2 17 (17.00%) Developer
2 17 (17.00%) Software Engineer
3 16 (16.00%) Graduate
4 13 (13.00%) Lead
5 12 (12.00%) Data Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
6 10 (10.00%) Senior
7 9 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Graduate Developer
7 9 (9.00%) Graduate Software Developer
7 9 (9.00%) Network Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (9.00%) Software Developer
8 8 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
9 7 (7.00%) Azure Architect
9 7 (7.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) REST
2 11 (11.00%) .NET
2 11 (11.00%) PySpark
3 9 (9.00%) ARM Templates
4 7 (7.00%) React
5 5 (5.00%) CSS
6 4 (4.00%) Django
6 4 (4.00%) RESTful
7 3 (3.00%) Celery
7 3 (3.00%) FastAPI
7 3 (3.00%) Flask
7 3 (3.00%) Vue
8 2 (2.00%) jQuery
8 2 (2.00%) SignalR
8 2 (2.00%) WebSockets
9 1 (1.00%) HTML
9 1 (1.00%) Laravel
9 1 (1.00%) Node.js
9 1 (1.00%) Sass
9 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
4 5 (5.00%) Data Structures
5 4 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (4.00%) Driving Licence
5 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
6 3 (3.00%) Hedge funds
7 2 (2.00%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.00%) CMDB
7 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
7 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (2.00%) Robotics
7 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
7 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
8 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Linux
2 8 (8.00%) Windows
3 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (95.00%) Computer Science
2 27 (27.00%) Data Modelling
2 27 (27.00%) DevOps
2 27 (27.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 25 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 25 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 22 (22.00%) Software Engineering
5 20 (20.00%) AI
6 19 (19.00%) Mentoring
7 18 (18.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (15.00%) Data Engineering
9 14 (14.00%) Agile
9 14 (14.00%) Observability
10 13 (13.00%) Application Security
10 13 (13.00%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.00%) Migration
10 13 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
11 12 (12.00%) ETL
11 12 (12.00%) Microservices
11 12 (12.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 48 (48.00%) Python
2 28 (28.00%) C#
2 28 (28.00%) SQL
3 24 (24.00%) Java
4 15 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 13 (13.00%) JavaScript
6 11 (11.00%) PHP
7 10 (10.00%) C++
8 6 (6.00%) C
9 4 (4.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.00%) Scala
11 1 (1.00%) Go
11 1 (1.00%) PowerShell
11 1 (1.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 100 (100.00%) Degree
2 16 (16.00%) Azure Certification
3 15 (15.00%) AWS Certification
3 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (13.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 12 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (11.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (8.00%) CCIE
7 8 (8.00%) CCNP
7 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
8 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (6.00%) CISSP
9 6 (6.00%) Master's Degree
10 3 (3.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 3 (3.00%) CCSP
10 3 (3.00%) CISM
10 3 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.00%) A+ Certification
11 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) GDPR
2 8 (8.00%) PMO
3 6 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (6.00%) NIST
4 5 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (4.00%) Data Quality
5 4 (4.00%) QA
6 2 (2.00%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (8.00%) ProxySG
2 4 (4.00%) Docker
3 1 (1.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.00%) Control-M
3 2 (2.00%) Grafana
3 2 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.00%) SCCM
4 1 (1.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.00%) Docker Swarm
4 1 (1.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (14.00%) Databricks
3 9 (9.00%) CheckPoint
4 8 (8.00%) Blue Coat
4 8 (8.00%) Cisco
4 8 (8.00%) F5
4 8 (8.00%) Infoblox
4 8 (8.00%) Motorola
4 8 (8.00%) ServiceNow
4 8 (8.00%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Aruba
6 1 (1.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.00%) Ekahau
6 1 (1.00%) Google
6 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.00%) VMware