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

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 124 86
Rank change year-on-year -53 -38 +168
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 118 223 259
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.24% 1.80% 3.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.55% 6.60% 12.71%
Number of salaries quoted 85 121 201
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £42,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £39,500 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +14.29%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £61,250
90th Percentile £77,000 £76,250 £71,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +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 3,321 3,380 2,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 34.84% 27.23% 26.38%
Number of salaries quoted 1,109 1,157 1,316
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,500 £40,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,055 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.10% -8.99% +10.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £79,875
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%

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 4 November 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 4 November 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 -66 53 £57,500 +15.00% 24
Yorkshire -7 47 £55,000 +19.57% 16
North East +6 18 £51,500 +14.44% 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 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.85%) Confluence
1 1 (0.85%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.08%) AutoCAD
1 6 (5.08%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (5.08%) MS Visio
1 6 (5.08%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.69%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 47 (39.83%) Azure
2 30 (25.42%) AWS
3 12 (10.17%) Serverless
4 11 (9.32%) SaaS
5 10 (8.47%) GCP
6 5 (4.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.69%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (1.69%) GitHub
8 2 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 1 (0.85%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Fargate
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.85%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.54%) Firewall
1 3 (2.54%) SAN
2 2 (1.69%) Network Security
3 1 (0.85%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (17.80%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.32%) MySQL
3 7 (5.93%) NoSQL
4 6 (5.08%) MongoDB
5 5 (4.24%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (4.24%) Relational Database
6 4 (3.39%) Data Lake
6 4 (3.39%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (2.54%) Big Data
7 3 (2.54%) Power BI
8 1 (0.85%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.85%) GIS
8 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.85%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 12 (10.17%) Git
1 12 (10.17%) JIRA
2 9 (7.63%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.54%) Artifactory
3 3 (2.54%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (2.54%) SonarQube
3 3 (2.54%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.69%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.85%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.85%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (50.85%) Social Skills
2 39 (33.05%) Finance
3 18 (15.25%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.63%) Retail
5 8 (6.78%) Advertising
6 6 (5.08%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.39%) Banking
7 4 (3.39%) Marketing
8 3 (2.54%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.54%) Games
8 3 (2.54%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (1.69%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.69%) Back Office
9 2 (1.69%) Cantonese Language
9 2 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.69%) Mandarin Language
9 2 (1.69%) Public Sector
9 2 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.85%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.85%) Law
Job Titles
1 34 (28.81%) Developer
2 14 (11.86%) Architect
3 13 (11.02%) Graduate
4 11 (9.32%) Senior
5 10 (8.47%) Graduate Developer
6 9 (7.63%) IT Graduate
7 8 (6.78%) Analyst
8 7 (5.93%) Applications Architect
8 7 (5.93%) Software Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Support
9 6 (5.08%) Applications Support Analyst
9 6 (5.08%) Automation Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Delphi Developer
9 6 (5.08%) DevOps Engineer
9 6 (5.08%) Support Analyst
10 5 (4.24%) C# Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Junior
10 5 (4.24%) Senior Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Technical Support
11 4 (3.39%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.95%) CSS
2 18 (15.25%) HTML
3 12 (10.17%) .NET
4 10 (8.47%) ASP.NET
5 9 (7.63%) jQuery
5 9 (7.63%) RESTful
6 7 (5.93%) React
6 7 (5.93%) Web Services
7 4 (3.39%) Celery
7 4 (3.39%) Django
7 4 (3.39%) FastAPI
7 4 (3.39%) Flask
7 4 (3.39%) REST
7 4 (3.39%) Spring
7 4 (3.39%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.39%) Vue
8 3 (2.54%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.54%) Kafka
8 3 (2.54%) Micronaut
9 2 (1.69%) WinForms
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (8.47%) Onboarding
3 5 (4.24%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.54%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.54%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.54%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.69%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.69%) FMCG
5 2 (1.69%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.69%) NHS
5 2 (1.69%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.69%) Tandem
5 2 (1.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.85%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.41%) Linux
2 14 (11.86%) Windows
3 1 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.85%) Unix
3 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 114 (96.61%) Computer Science
2 33 (27.97%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (22.88%) DevOps
4 24 (20.34%) Agile
4 24 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (18.64%) Software Engineering
6 21 (17.80%) CI/CD
6 21 (17.80%) OOP
7 19 (16.10%) AI
7 19 (16.10%) OO
7 19 (16.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 18 (15.25%) Mentoring
9 15 (12.71%) Data Privacy
10 14 (11.86%) Containerisation
10 14 (11.86%) Machine Learning
11 13 (11.02%) Migration
12 12 (10.17%) Application Security
12 12 (10.17%) Microservices
12 12 (10.17%) Visualisation
13 11 (9.32%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 49 (41.53%) Java
2 47 (39.83%) C#
3 36 (30.51%) Python
4 33 (27.97%) SQL
5 29 (24.58%) JavaScript
6 26 (22.03%) C++
7 24 (20.34%) TypeScript
8 23 (19.49%) PHP
9 19 (16.10%) C
10 14 (11.86%) Ruby
11 13 (11.02%) Dart
11 13 (11.02%) MATLAB
11 13 (11.02%) R
11 13 (11.02%) Rust
12 6 (5.08%) Delphi
13 4 (3.39%) PowerShell
14 3 (2.54%) PL/SQL
14 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
15 1 (0.85%) Bash
15 1 (0.85%) Perl
Qualifications
1 118 (100.00%) Degree
2 14 (11.86%) Azure Certification
2 14 (11.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (11.02%) AWS Certification
3 13 (11.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 11 (9.32%) TOGAF Certification
5 8 (6.78%) Master's Degree
6 6 (5.08%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.69%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (1.69%) MBA
7 2 (1.69%) SC Cleared
7 2 (1.69%) Security Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.85%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.85%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (0.85%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.85%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.08%) IEC 61131
2 4 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.54%) GDPR
4 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.69%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.69%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
5 1 (0.85%) QA
5 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (6.78%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.54%) vSphere
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (14.41%) Kubernetes
2 9 (7.63%) Control-M
2 9 (7.63%) Grafana
3 6 (5.08%) Prometheus
4 4 (3.39%) Terraform
5 3 (2.54%) Ansible
5 3 (2.54%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 30 (25.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.24%) Google
3 4 (3.39%) AppDynamics
3 4 (3.39%) IBM
3 4 (3.39%) Moogsoft
3 4 (3.39%) Splunk
3 4 (3.39%) VMware
4 3 (2.54%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.54%) Bloomberg
5 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.69%) UiPath
6 1 (0.85%) Concur
6 1 (0.85%) Databricks
6 1 (0.85%) Dell
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle
6 1 (0.85%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.85%) SAP