Computer Science Job Trends in the North of England

Computer Science
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 91 41 69
Rank change year-on-year -50 +28 +71
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 223 450 346
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.02% 4.96% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 5.45% 4.25%
Number of salaries quoted 134 187 258
10th Percentile £25,225 £32,500 £27,925
25th Percentile £31,750 £40,625 £39,720
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £51,238 £54,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.51% -5.55% +14.21%
75th Percentile £73,438 £70,000 £65,938
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,560 £75,000
England median annual salary £61,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -2.40% -7.41% +3.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,770 8,264 8,132
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 79.29% 91.12% 87.83%
Number of salaries quoted 4,723 3,681 6,433
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £40,000 £38,591
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,556
% change year-on-year -8.33% +0.75% -4.71%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the North of England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
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 within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 January 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 -38 116 £45,000 -10.00% 102
North West -68 63 £57,500 +12.22% 106
North East +6 44 £47,500 -15.93% 51
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 5 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.90%) CMS
2 2 (0.90%) Headless CMS
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.45%) IIS
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.45%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 9 (4.04%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.04%) SOLIDWORKS
3 6 (2.69%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.35%) Autodesk Inventor
4 3 (1.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.35%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.35%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.35%) Sage 200
1 3 (1.35%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.53%) Azure
2 64 (28.70%) AWS
3 27 (12.11%) Serverless
4 18 (8.07%) Microsoft 365
5 15 (6.73%) GCP
6 12 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 11 (4.93%) SaaS
8 4 (1.79%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon Cognito
10 2 (0.90%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.90%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.90%) Figma
10 2 (0.90%) GitHub
10 2 (0.90%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.90%) OCI
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.83%) Firewall
1 13 (5.83%) VPN
2 9 (4.04%) DNS
2 9 (4.04%) Network Security
2 9 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.69%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (2.69%) PSTN
4 6 (2.69%) VoIP
5 4 (1.79%) BGP
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (1.79%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.79%) LAN
5 4 (1.79%) OSPF
5 4 (1.79%) SNMP
5 4 (1.79%) WAAS
5 4 (1.79%) WAN
5 4 (1.79%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.48%) Power BI
3 7 (3.14%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.69%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.24%) BigQuery
6 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.79%) Looker
6 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.79%) MySQL
6 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.79%) Tableau
7 3 (1.35%) Big Data
8 2 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 36 (16.14%) JIRA
2 10 (4.48%) Git
3 9 (4.04%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 136 (60.99%) Social Skills
2 50 (22.42%) Finance
3 42 (18.83%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.62%) Retail
5 16 (7.17%) Marketing
6 12 (5.38%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.04%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.59%) Esports
8 8 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.69%) Advertising
9 6 (2.69%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.35%) Public Sector
11 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
11 2 (0.90%) Banking
11 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
11 2 (0.90%) Law
11 2 (0.90%) Legal
12 1 (0.45%) Games
12 1 (0.45%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 42 (18.83%) Developer
2 31 (13.90%) Architect
3 26 (11.66%) Senior
4 23 (10.31%) Graduate
4 23 (10.31%) JIRA Developer
5 22 (9.87%) Analyst
6 15 (6.73%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.28%) Applications Architect
8 12 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
9 11 (4.93%) Software Architect
10 10 (4.48%) Technical Support
11 8 (3.59%) Applications Support
11 8 (3.59%) Consultant
11 8 (3.59%) Coordinator
11 8 (3.59%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) IT Graduate
11 8 (3.59%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Logistics Engineer
11 8 (3.59%) Software Engineering Graduate
11 8 (3.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (8.52%) CSS
2 10 (4.48%) React
3 9 (4.04%) .NET
4 6 (2.69%) ASP.NET
4 6 (2.69%) FreeSWITCH
5 5 (2.24%) Django
5 5 (2.24%) RESTful
5 5 (2.24%) Vue
6 4 (1.79%) Celery
6 4 (1.79%) FastAPI
6 4 (1.79%) Flask
6 4 (1.79%) jQuery
7 3 (1.35%) HTML
7 3 (1.35%) Itk
7 3 (1.35%) Micronaut
7 3 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.35%) REST
8 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.90%) ASP.NET Web API
8 2 (0.90%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.21%) Enterprise Software
2 23 (10.31%) Onboarding
3 14 (6.28%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.83%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.59%) LIMS
5 8 (3.59%) Social Media
6 6 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.69%) Operational Technology
6 6 (2.69%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.79%) CMDB
7 4 (1.79%) Data Centre
7 4 (1.79%) SCADA
8 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.35%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.90%) FMCG
9 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
9 2 (0.90%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.45%) iPhone
10 1 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 38 (17.04%) Windows
2 36 (16.14%) Linux
3 13 (5.83%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (40.81%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (29.60%) Continuous Improvement
3 46 (20.63%) ITIL
3 46 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 42 (18.83%) Change Management
5 31 (13.90%) Agile
6 30 (13.45%) ITSM
7 29 (13.00%) Incident Management
7 29 (13.00%) Migration
8 28 (12.56%) Application Security
8 28 (12.56%) Data Modelling
8 28 (12.56%) Mentoring
8 28 (12.56%) Service Management
9 27 (12.11%) DevOps
9 27 (12.11%) Microservices
9 27 (12.11%) Software Engineering
10 25 (11.21%) Architectural Patterns
10 25 (11.21%) Enterprise Architecture
11 24 (10.76%) EAI
11 24 (10.76%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 66 (29.60%) Python
2 55 (24.66%) Java
3 54 (24.22%) SQL
4 53 (23.77%) JavaScript
5 40 (17.94%) C#
6 34 (15.25%) PowerShell
7 28 (12.56%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.28%) C
9 12 (5.38%) C++
10 9 (4.04%) Bash
11 8 (3.59%) PL/SQL
12 6 (2.69%) Delphi
12 6 (2.69%) Perl
12 6 (2.69%) PHP
13 3 (1.35%) Tcl
14 2 (0.90%) Scala
15 1 (0.45%) Go
15 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.45%) R
15 1 (0.45%) Swift
Qualifications
1 194 (87.00%) Degree
2 100 (44.84%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (14.80%) AWS Certification
4 30 (13.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 29 (13.00%) Azure Certification
6 28 (12.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (12.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 26 (11.66%) Master's Degree
8 24 (10.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (8.97%) HND
10 11 (4.93%) HNC
11 10 (4.48%) CCNP
11 10 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
12 8 (3.59%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (3.59%) DBS Check
12 8 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (3.59%) SC Cleared
12 8 (3.59%) Security Cleared
13 7 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
14 4 (1.79%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.69%) IEC 61131
2 5 (2.24%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.79%) NIST
3 4 (1.79%) PMO
4 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.35%) ISO 9001
4 3 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.90%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) DICOM
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) QA
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.14%) Docker
3 4 (1.79%) ProxySG
3 4 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 2 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.04%) Control-M
2 9 (4.04%) Grafana
3 7 (3.14%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.79%) Terraform
5 3 (1.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) AssetCenter
7 1 (0.45%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 60 (26.91%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.21%) Atlassian
3 11 (4.93%) Cisco
4 10 (4.48%) Siemens
5 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.69%) Allen-Bradley
6 6 (2.69%) Google
6 6 (2.69%) HubSpot
6 6 (2.69%) Toshiba
6 6 (2.69%) VMware
7 5 (2.24%) Oracle
8 4 (1.79%) Blue Coat
8 4 (1.79%) CheckPoint
8 4 (1.79%) F5
8 4 (1.79%) Infoblox
8 4 (1.79%) Motorola
8 4 (1.79%) SolarWinds
9 3 (1.35%) Autodesk
9 3 (1.35%) PayPal
9 3 (1.35%) Sage