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

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 118 115
Rank change year-on-year -114 -3 +132
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 100 230 370
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.52% 2.91% 2.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.29% 6.52% 10.45%
Number of salaries quoted 73 117 276
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,000 £27,875
25th Percentile £37,500 £40,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £98,350 £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 4,362 3,530 3,542
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 22.72% 44.69% 20.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,544 1,298 2,621
10th Percentile £28,250 £26,500 £26,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -13.45%
75th Percentile £65,640 £63,900 £63,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £79,600
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 20 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 20 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 -87 53 £75,000 +30.43% 17
North West -64 27 £40,000 -29.20% 18
North East -39 20 £62,500 +13.64% 9
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
1 3 (3.00%) CMS
1 3 (3.00%) WordPress
2 1 (1.00%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (8.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 60 (60.00%) Azure
2 38 (38.00%) AWS
3 19 (19.00%) Serverless
4 10 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
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
5 9 (9.00%) GCP
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 Automate
8 3 (3.00%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.00%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 12 (12.00%) 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%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.00%) 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
6 2 (2.00%) MySQL
7 1 (1.00%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
7 1 (1.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (2.00%) Git
General
1 40 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (12.00%) Finance
4 9 (9.00%) Retail
5 7 (7.00%) Marketing
6 6 (6.00%) Legal
7 4 (4.00%) Advertising
7 4 (4.00%) Banking
7 4 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.00%) Electronics
8 2 (2.00%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.00%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 22 (22.00%) Architect
2 19 (19.00%) Developer
3 16 (16.00%) Software Engineer
4 14 (14.00%) Graduate
4 14 (14.00%) Lead
5 13 (13.00%) Data Engineer
6 11 (11.00%) Senior
7 10 (10.00%) Lead Data Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Azure Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Graduate Developer
8 9 (9.00%) Graduate Software Developer
8 9 (9.00%) Network Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Platform Engineer
8 9 (9.00%) Software Developer
9 8 (8.00%) Senior Network Engineer
10 7 (7.00%) Azure Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Applications Architect
11 5 (5.00%) Software Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.00%) REST
2 12 (12.00%) .NET
3 11 (11.00%) PySpark
4 9 (9.00%) ARM Templates
5 6 (6.00%) CSS
5 6 (6.00%) React
6 5 (5.00%) RESTful
7 3 (3.00%) Celery
7 3 (3.00%) Django
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%) Kafka
9 1 (1.00%) Laravel
9 1 (1.00%) Sass
9 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (8.00%) Data Centre
3 6 (6.00%) Management Information System
4 4 (4.00%) Data Structures
4 4 (4.00%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.00%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.00%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.00%) CMDB
6 2 (2.00%) Driving Licence
6 2 (2.00%) Low-Code
6 2 (2.00%) Product Ownership
6 2 (2.00%) Robotics
6 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (2.00%) Taxonomies
6 2 (2.00%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.00%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.00%) Legacy Code
7 1 (1.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.00%) Linux
1 6 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (2.00%) Mac OS
2 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
4 23 (23.00%) AI
4 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (21.00%) Software Engineering
6 19 (19.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 18 (18.00%) Mentoring
8 16 (16.00%) Data Engineering
9 15 (15.00%) Agile
9 15 (15.00%) Observability
10 13 (13.00%) Data Governance
10 13 (13.00%) ETL
10 13 (13.00%) Platform Engineering
10 13 (13.00%) Root Cause Analysis
11 12 (12.00%) Application Security
11 12 (12.00%) Microservices
11 12 (12.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (45.00%) Python
2 28 (28.00%) C#
3 26 (26.00%) SQL
4 19 (19.00%) Java
5 13 (13.00%) TypeScript
6 12 (12.00%) JavaScript
7 11 (11.00%) PHP
8 9 (9.00%) C++
9 4 (4.00%) C
10 2 (2.00%) PL/SQL
10 2 (2.00%) Rust
10 2 (2.00%) Scala
11 1 (1.00%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 100 (100.00%) Degree
2 15 (15.00%) Azure Certification
3 14 (14.00%) AWS Certification
3 14 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (13.00%) Cisco Certification
5 12 (12.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 10 (10.00%) TOGAF Certification
7 8 (8.00%) CCIE
7 8 (8.00%) CCNP
7 8 (8.00%) Security Cleared
8 7 (7.00%) CISSP
8 7 (7.00%) SC Cleared
9 6 (6.00%) Master's Degree
10 4 (4.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (4.00%) CCSP
11 3 (3.00%) CISM
11 3 (3.00%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (2.00%) A+ Certification
12 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (11.00%) GDPR
2 8 (8.00%) PMO
3 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (7.00%) 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
Systems Management
1 9 (9.00%) Terraform
2 4 (4.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 15 (15.00%) 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 3 (3.00%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.00%) Aruba
6 1 (1.00%) Ekahau
6 1 (1.00%) Google
6 1 (1.00%) Palo Alto