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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 213 166 118
Rank change year-on-year -47 -48 +82
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 120 153 408
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.60% 1.85% 2.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.64% 4.16% 10.53%
Number of salaries quoted 91 113 283
10th Percentile £28,500 £25,350 £28,600
25th Percentile £43,125 £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 3,297 3,680 3,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 16.40% 44.39% 19.40%
Number of salaries quoted 1,639 1,208 2,665
10th Percentile £28,250 £25,480 £26,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -12.43%
75th Percentile £70,000 £62,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £74,258 £79,840
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 20 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 20 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 -26 48 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North West -51 38 £40,000 -27.27% 20
North East -34 34 £75,000 +34.53% 5
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 2 (1.67%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.83%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.83%) Apache
4 1 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 1 (0.83%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (5.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.83%) Infor CloudSuite
1 1 (0.83%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 58 (48.33%) Azure
2 32 (26.67%) AWS
3 13 (10.83%) Serverless
4 12 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 11 (9.17%) GCP
6 10 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (7.50%) Azure Functions
7 9 (7.50%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (7.50%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (5.83%) SaaS
9 6 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (4.17%) Azure AI
11 4 (3.33%) Power Automate
12 3 (2.50%) IaaS
12 3 (2.50%) PaaS
12 3 (2.50%) Power Platform
13 1 (0.83%) Anthropic Claude
13 1 (0.83%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 1 (0.83%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.33%) Network Security
2 7 (5.83%) Firewall
2 7 (5.83%) LAN
2 7 (5.83%) VLAN
2 7 (5.83%) WAN
2 7 (5.83%) Wireless
3 6 (5.00%) BGP
3 6 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
3 6 (5.00%) EIGRP
3 6 (5.00%) OSPF
3 6 (5.00%) SNMP
3 6 (5.00%) VPN
3 6 (5.00%) WAAS
3 6 (5.00%) Wireless Security
4 1 (0.83%) HTTP
4 1 (0.83%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (10.00%) Spark SQL
3 11 (9.17%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (5.83%) NoSQL
5 4 (3.33%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (3.33%) Metadata
6 3 (2.50%) ClickHouse
6 3 (2.50%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (2.50%) Power BI
7 2 (1.67%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.67%) Data Lake
7 2 (1.67%) DynamoDB
7 2 (1.67%) MySQL
7 2 (1.67%) Redis
8 1 (0.83%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.83%) Big Data
8 1 (0.83%) Pinecone
8 1 (0.83%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.83%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Git
2 3 (2.50%) JIRA
3 1 (0.83%) Claude Code
3 1 (0.83%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.83%) GitLab
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 37 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.83%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (10.00%) Finance
4 9 (7.50%) Marketing
5 7 (5.83%) Legal
5 7 (5.83%) Retail
6 6 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.17%) Banking
8 4 (3.33%) Advertising
9 3 (2.50%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.67%) Electronics
10 2 (1.67%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 35 (29.17%) Developer
2 21 (17.50%) Software Engineer
3 19 (15.83%) Architect
4 17 (14.17%) Software Developer
5 15 (12.50%) Senior
6 14 (11.67%) Data Engineer
6 14 (11.67%) Lead
7 12 (10.00%) Graduate
8 10 (8.33%) Lead Data Engineer
8 10 (8.33%) Principal Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Azure Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Azure Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) C++ Software Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Cloud Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Graduate Developer
9 9 (7.50%) Graduate Software Developer
9 9 (7.50%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Rust Engineer
9 9 (7.50%) Rust Software Engineer
10 8 (6.67%) C++ Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.33%) REST
2 15 (12.50%) .NET
3 12 (10.00%) PySpark
4 9 (7.50%) ARM Templates
5 7 (5.83%) CSS
5 7 (5.83%) React
6 6 (5.00%) RESTful
7 4 (3.33%) Vue
8 3 (2.50%) Celery
8 3 (2.50%) Django
8 3 (2.50%) FastAPI
8 3 (2.50%) Flask
8 3 (2.50%) Kafka
8 3 (2.50%) SignalR
8 3 (2.50%) WebSockets
9 2 (1.67%) jQuery
10 1 (0.83%) JSON
10 1 (0.83%) Laravel
10 1 (0.83%) Node.js
10 1 (0.83%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.00%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (3.33%) CMDB
4 4 (3.33%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.50%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.50%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
6 2 (1.67%) AI Agents
6 2 (1.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
6 2 (1.67%) Robotics
6 2 (1.67%) Taxonomies
6 2 (1.67%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.83%) FMCG
7 1 (0.83%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (15.83%) Linux
2 8 (6.67%) Windows
3 4 (3.33%) Mac OS
3 4 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 117 (97.50%) Computer Science
2 44 (36.67%) AI
3 37 (30.83%) Software Engineering
4 32 (26.67%) DevOps
5 31 (25.83%) Problem-Solving
6 27 (22.50%) CI/CD
7 23 (19.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 22 (18.33%) Data Modelling
9 21 (17.50%) Agile
10 18 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 17 (14.17%) Mathematics
11 17 (14.17%) Physics
11 17 (14.17%) Requirements Management
12 16 (13.33%) Mentoring
12 16 (13.33%) Technical Debt
12 16 (13.33%) Workflow
13 15 (12.50%) Data Engineering
14 14 (11.67%) ETL
14 14 (11.67%) Observability
15 13 (10.83%) Data Integration
Programming Languages
1 38 (31.67%) Python
2 26 (21.67%) SQL
3 23 (19.17%) C#
4 22 (18.33%) C++
5 17 (14.17%) Rust
6 12 (10.00%) Java
7 11 (9.17%) PHP
7 11 (9.17%) TypeScript
8 10 (8.33%) JavaScript
9 3 (2.50%) Delphi
10 2 (1.67%) C
11 1 (0.83%) Scala
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Degree
2 11 (9.17%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (6.67%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.83%) AWS Certification
5 7 (5.83%) Azure Certification
5 7 (5.83%) CISSP
5 7 (5.83%) SC Cleared
6 6 (5.00%) CCIE
6 6 (5.00%) CCNP
6 6 (5.00%) Master's Degree
7 5 (4.17%) TOGAF Certification
8 4 (3.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (3.33%) A+ Certification
8 4 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.33%) CCSP
8 4 (3.33%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (2.50%) CISM
9 3 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (1.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.17%) GDPR
2 7 (5.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (5.83%) NIST
3 6 (5.00%) PMO
3 6 (5.00%) QA
4 4 (3.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (5.00%) ProxySG
2 5 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (7.50%) Terraform
2 5 (4.17%) Kubernetes
3 4 (3.33%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.33%) SCCM
4 1 (0.83%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 22 (18.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (13.33%) Databricks
3 7 (5.83%) CheckPoint
4 6 (5.00%) Blue Coat
4 6 (5.00%) Cisco
4 6 (5.00%) F5
4 6 (5.00%) Infoblox
4 6 (5.00%) Motorola
4 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.00%) SolarWinds
5 4 (3.33%) OpenAI
6 2 (1.67%) Adobe
6 2 (1.67%) Infor
6 2 (1.67%) MuleSoft
6 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.83%) Aruba
7 1 (0.83%) Google
7 1 (0.83%) IBM
7 1 (0.83%) ION Trading
7 1 (0.83%) Oracle