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

6 months to
25 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 123 101
Rank change year-on-year -38 -22 +150
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 107 220 225
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 1.80% 3.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.98% 6.17% 11.62%
Number of salaries quoted 84 130 170
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £37,250
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £58,750
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.89% +11.90%
75th Percentile £72,500 £57,500 £64,063
90th Percentile £76,750 £77,500 £71,250
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +13.04%

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 3,593 3,564 1,937
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 37.96% 29.19% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 1,191 1,243 1,222
10th Percentile £26,750 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,500 £40,000 £39,505
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £77,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +2.68%

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 25 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 25 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
Yorkshire +3 44 £55,000 +19.18% 16
North West -34 43 £56,250 +12.50% 25
North East +15 20 £51,500 +14.44% 3
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 (0.93%) Apache Spark
1 1 (0.93%) Confluence
1 1 (0.93%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (5.61%) AutoCAD
1 6 (5.61%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (5.61%) MS Visio
1 6 (5.61%) SOLIDWORKS
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 52 (48.60%) Azure
2 33 (30.84%) AWS
3 15 (14.02%) Serverless
4 11 (10.28%) GCP
4 11 (10.28%) SaaS
5 5 (4.67%) Power Platform
6 4 (3.74%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.87%) GitHub
7 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.93%) Firebase
8 1 (0.93%) Google App Engine
8 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.67%) SAN
2 3 (2.80%) Firewall
3 2 (1.87%) Network Security
4 1 (0.93%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (22.43%) SQL Server
2 11 (10.28%) MySQL
3 6 (5.61%) NoSQL
4 5 (4.67%) MongoDB
5 4 (3.74%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (3.74%) Relational Database
6 3 (2.80%) Data Lake
6 3 (2.80%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (2.80%) Power BI
7 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
7 1 (0.93%) Big Data
7 1 (0.93%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.93%) GIS
7 1 (0.93%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.93%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 13 (12.15%) JIRA
2 11 (10.28%) Bitbucket
2 11 (10.28%) Git
3 4 (3.74%) Artifactory
3 4 (3.74%) Octopus Deploy
3 4 (3.74%) SonarQube
3 4 (3.74%) TeamCity
4 2 (1.87%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.93%) Cypress.io
General
1 66 (61.68%) Social Skills
2 37 (34.58%) Finance
3 16 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (9.35%) Retail
5 8 (7.48%) Manufacturing
6 6 (5.61%) Advertising
6 6 (5.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (3.74%) Banking
8 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
8 3 (2.80%) Games
8 3 (2.80%) Marketing
9 2 (1.87%) Agriculture
9 2 (1.87%) Back Office
9 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Public Sector
10 1 (0.93%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (29.91%) Developer
2 18 (16.82%) Architect
3 16 (14.95%) Graduate
4 11 (10.28%) Software Engineer
5 10 (9.35%) Graduate Developer
6 9 (8.41%) Analyst
6 9 (8.41%) Applications Architect
6 9 (8.41%) IT Graduate
7 7 (6.54%) Applications Support
7 7 (6.54%) Applications Support Analyst
7 7 (6.54%) Senior
7 7 (6.54%) Support Analyst
8 6 (5.61%) Automation Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Delphi Developer
8 6 (5.61%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Linux Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Logistics Engineer
8 6 (5.61%) Software Architect
8 6 (5.61%) Software Engineering Graduate
9 5 (4.67%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (18.69%) CSS
2 13 (12.15%) .NET
3 10 (9.35%) ASP.NET
4 9 (8.41%) jQuery
5 8 (7.48%) React
6 7 (6.54%) RESTful
7 5 (4.67%) Django
7 5 (4.67%) HTML
7 5 (4.67%) Web Services
8 4 (3.74%) Celery
8 4 (3.74%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.74%) FastAPI
8 4 (3.74%) Flask
8 4 (3.74%) REST
8 4 (3.74%) Vue
9 3 (2.80%) Micronaut
10 2 (1.87%) Blazor
10 2 (1.87%) Kafka
10 2 (1.87%) Spring Boot
10 2 (1.87%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (14.95%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (9.35%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.61%) Driving Licence
3 6 (5.61%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.80%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.87%) FMCG
5 2 (1.87%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.87%) NHS
5 2 (1.87%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.87%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.87%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.93%) Data Structures
6 1 (0.93%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.93%) Learning Management System
6 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.93%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.69%) Linux
2 16 (14.95%) Windows
3 1 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.93%) Unix
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (96.26%) Computer Science
2 32 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (24.30%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (21.50%) Agile
4 23 (21.50%) DevOps
4 23 (21.50%) Software Engineering
4 23 (21.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 21 (19.63%) OOP
6 20 (18.69%) Mentoring
7 19 (17.76%) OO
8 17 (15.89%) CI/CD
8 17 (15.89%) Migration
9 16 (14.95%) Application Security
9 16 (14.95%) Containerisation
9 16 (14.95%) Microservices
10 15 (14.02%) Architectural Patterns
10 15 (14.02%) Enterprise Architecture
10 15 (14.02%) TOGAF
11 14 (13.08%) Data Modelling
11 14 (13.08%) EAI
Programming Languages
1 43 (40.19%) Java
2 38 (35.51%) C#
3 27 (25.23%) Python
4 21 (19.63%) SQL
5 20 (18.69%) JavaScript
6 16 (14.95%) C++
6 16 (14.95%) TypeScript
7 10 (9.35%) PHP
8 9 (8.41%) C
9 6 (5.61%) Delphi
9 6 (5.61%) PL/SQL
9 6 (5.61%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.93%) Bash
10 1 (0.93%) Go
10 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 107 (100.00%) Degree
2 18 (16.82%) Azure Certification
2 18 (16.82%) Microsoft Certification
3 17 (15.89%) AWS Certification
3 17 (15.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 15 (14.02%) TOGAF Certification
5 6 (5.61%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (5.61%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.87%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (1.87%) MBA
6 2 (1.87%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.87%) Security Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (0.93%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.93%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) IEC 61131
2 4 (3.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.80%) GDPR
4 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (1.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (1.87%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.87%) NCSC
4 2 (1.87%) QA
5 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.93%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (8.41%) Docker
2 4 (3.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (3.74%) vSphere
3 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 17 (15.89%) Kubernetes
2 11 (10.28%) Control-M
2 11 (10.28%) Grafana
3 7 (6.54%) Prometheus
4 5 (4.67%) Terraform
5 4 (3.74%) Ansible
5 4 (3.74%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 36 (33.64%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.67%) VMware
3 4 (3.74%) Atlassian
3 4 (3.74%) Google
4 2 (1.87%) AppDynamics
4 2 (1.87%) IBM
4 2 (1.87%) Moogsoft
4 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.87%) Splunk
4 2 (1.87%) UiPath
5 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
5 1 (0.93%) Concur
5 1 (0.93%) Dell
5 1 (0.93%) Nimble Storage
5 1 (0.93%) Oracle
5 1 (0.93%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.93%) SAP