Computer Science Jobs in the North of England

Computer Science
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 55 112
Rank change year-on-year -37 +57 -33
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 415 672 425
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.12% 3.58% 3.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 4.48% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 279 502 279
10th Percentile £32,250 £27,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £33,250 £35,313 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £48,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -20.00% +50.00%
75th Percentile £67,875 £65,000 £60,899
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and 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 11,545 14,997 13,479
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 86.90% 79.98% 96.59%
Number of salaries quoted 5,751 10,748 7,640
10th Percentile £25,087 £27,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,851 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +7.03%
75th Percentile £62,125 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year - -12.00% +4.17%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the North of England

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the North of England.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the North of England

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 16 July 2025.

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 16 July 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 -61 220 £51,763 +3.53% 207
Yorkshire -7 149 £42,000 -6.67% 131
North East +19 46 £48,000 +6.67% 43
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (1.45%) Apache Spark
2 5 (1.20%) Apache
2 5 (1.20%) WordPress
3 4 (0.96%) CMS
3 4 (0.96%) Confluence
3 4 (0.96%) SAS
4 3 (0.72%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.48%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.48%) Kinematics
5 2 (0.48%) Magnolia
6 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.24%) GemFire
6 1 (0.24%) Jupyter
Applications
1 57 (13.73%) Chatbot
2 15 (3.61%) Microsoft Project
2 15 (3.61%) Simulink
3 14 (3.37%) Trello
4 7 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.24%) Autodesk Inventor
6 1 (0.24%) CANalyzer
6 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
6 1 (0.24%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 15 (3.61%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.48%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.24%) Sage 200
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 50 (12.05%) Azure
2 38 (9.16%) AWS
3 15 (3.61%) Power Platform
4 14 (3.37%) GCP
5 10 (2.41%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
6 6 (1.45%) SaaS
7 5 (1.20%) Serverless
8 4 (0.96%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.96%) GitHub
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 3 (0.72%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.72%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (0.72%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.48%) Entra ID
10 2 (0.48%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.24%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.24%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (3.61%) Firewall
2 13 (3.13%) TCP/IP
3 11 (2.65%) Network Security
4 9 (2.17%) DNS
5 7 (1.69%) LAN
5 7 (1.69%) VPN
5 7 (1.69%) WAN
6 6 (1.45%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (1.45%) DWDM
6 6 (1.45%) Intrusion Detection
7 5 (1.20%) Broadband
8 4 (0.96%) BGP
8 4 (0.96%) EIGRP
8 4 (0.96%) OSPF
9 3 (0.72%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (0.72%) SAN
10 2 (0.48%) Internet
10 2 (0.48%) VoIP
11 1 (0.24%) DHCP
11 1 (0.24%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 19 (4.58%) MySQL
3 9 (2.17%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 8 (1.93%) Big Data
4 8 (1.93%) MongoDB
4 8 (1.93%) Power BI
4 8 (1.93%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.45%) Data Lake
6 5 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (0.96%) Oracle Database
8 3 (0.72%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (0.72%) Hadoop
8 3 (0.72%) Tableau
9 2 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.48%) Metadata
10 1 (0.24%) Apache Ignite
10 1 (0.24%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
10 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.24%) Looker
Development Applications
1 26 (6.27%) JIRA
2 15 (3.61%) Rational DOORS
3 10 (2.41%) Git
4 6 (1.45%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.96%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.48%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.48%) GitLab
7 2 (0.48%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (0.48%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.48%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.24%) CANoe
8 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
8 1 (0.24%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.24%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.24%) JUnit
8 1 (0.24%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.24%) MLflow
8 1 (0.24%) NetBeans
General
1 147 (35.42%) Social Skills
2 68 (16.39%) Finance
3 52 (12.53%) Esports
4 39 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (4.58%) Electronics
5 19 (4.58%) Manufacturing
6 18 (4.34%) Legal
7 16 (3.86%) Aerospace
8 14 (3.37%) Law
8 14 (3.37%) Retail
9 12 (2.89%) Advertising
10 10 (2.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 9 (2.17%) Marketing
12 6 (1.45%) Automotive
12 6 (1.45%) Banking
12 6 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.96%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.72%) Games
14 3 (0.72%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 57 (13.73%) Trainer
2 53 (12.77%) Developer
3 31 (7.47%) Senior
4 27 (6.51%) Lead
5 20 (4.82%) Analyst
6 19 (4.58%) Junior
6 19 (4.58%) Systems Engineer
7 18 (4.34%) Graduate
7 18 (4.34%) Software Engineer
8 15 (3.61%) Junior Systems Engineer
8 15 (3.61%) Statistician
9 14 (3.37%) Graduate Developer
9 14 (3.37%) Head of Delivery
9 14 (3.37%) Head of IT
10 12 (2.89%) IT Graduate
10 12 (2.89%) Senior Developer
11 10 (2.41%) .NET Developer
11 10 (2.41%) Architect
11 10 (2.41%) Lead Software Engineer
11 10 (2.41%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (8.19%) .NET
2 22 (5.30%) CSS
2 22 (5.30%) HTML
3 15 (3.61%) React
4 12 (2.89%) ASP.NET
4 12 (2.89%) jQuery
5 9 (2.17%) RESTful
5 9 (2.17%) WinForms
6 8 (1.93%) .NET Core
6 8 (1.93%) Web Services
7 7 (1.69%) AngularJS
8 6 (1.45%) REST
9 5 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
9 5 (1.20%) Kafka
9 5 (1.20%) Middleware
9 5 (1.20%) Node.js
10 4 (0.96%) Plotly
10 4 (0.96%) RabbitMQ
10 4 (0.96%) React Native
10 4 (0.96%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 111 (26.75%) Social Media
2 13 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.89%) Algorithms
4 11 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
5 9 (2.17%) Security Posture
6 8 (1.93%) Robotics
6 8 (1.93%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 7 (1.69%) Manufacturing Execution System
8 6 (1.45%) Product Ownership
9 5 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 5 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
10 4 (0.96%) Client/Server
10 4 (0.96%) Hedge funds
11 3 (0.72%) Clustering
11 3 (0.72%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
11 3 (0.72%) Onboarding
11 3 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
12 2 (0.48%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 107 (25.78%) Windows
2 97 (23.37%) Windows Vista
3 25 (6.02%) Linux
4 2 (0.48%) Android
4 2 (0.48%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (0.48%) Unix
5 1 (0.24%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.24%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (35.18%) Problem-Solving
2 92 (22.17%) Mathematics
3 80 (19.28%) Artificial Intelligence
4 69 (16.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 65 (15.66%) Statistics
6 57 (13.73%) Agile
6 57 (13.73%) Conversational UI
6 57 (13.73%) Software Engineering
7 43 (10.36%) Project Management
8 42 (10.12%) Cybersecurity
9 30 (7.23%) OOP
9 30 (7.23%) Systems Engineering
10 28 (6.75%) DevOps
10 28 (6.75%) Mentoring
10 28 (6.75%) Project Delivery
11 27 (6.51%) Scrum
12 26 (6.27%) OO
13 24 (5.78%) Information Security
13 24 (5.78%) Machine Learning
14 23 (5.54%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 65 (15.66%) SQL
2 64 (15.42%) C#
3 62 (14.94%) Python
4 53 (12.77%) Java
5 40 (9.64%) JavaScript
6 33 (7.95%) PHP
7 31 (7.47%) C++
8 28 (6.75%) MATLAB
9 20 (4.82%) TypeScript
10 18 (4.34%) C
11 14 (3.37%) R
11 14 (3.37%) Ruby
12 13 (3.13%) Dart
12 13 (3.13%) Rust
13 10 (2.41%) Shell Script
14 7 (1.69%) C-shell
14 7 (1.69%) Korn
14 7 (1.69%) PL/SQL
14 7 (1.69%) PowerShell
15 5 (1.20%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 327 (78.80%) Degree
2 154 (37.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 119 (28.67%) DBS Check
4 86 (20.72%) Master's Degree
5 66 (15.90%) PhD
6 17 (4.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 14 (3.37%) PMI Certification
7 14 (3.37%) PMP
8 13 (3.13%) Security Cleared
9 12 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
10 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (2.17%) SC Cleared
11 8 (1.93%) CISSP
12 7 (1.69%) CEH
12 7 (1.69%) CISA
12 7 (1.69%) CISM
13 6 (1.45%) CCNA
13 6 (1.45%) CCNP
13 6 (1.45%) JNCIA
13 6 (1.45%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (2.89%) GDPR
1 12 (2.89%) NIST
2 10 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.69%) Data Quality
4 6 (1.45%) QA
5 3 (0.72%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
6 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.48%) GMP
7 1 (0.24%) AUTOSAR
7 1 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (2.41%) Docker
2 8 (1.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.96%) VMware NSX
4 2 (0.48%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.48%) vSphere
5 1 (0.24%) Firmware
5 1 (0.24%) RHEV
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (3.13%) Ansible
2 12 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 10 (2.41%) Terraform
4 7 (1.69%) Grafana
5 3 (0.72%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (0.72%) Kibana
6 2 (0.48%) Control-M
6 2 (0.48%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.24%) logstash
7 1 (0.24%) Nessus
7 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.24%) SCCM
Vendors
1 57 (13.73%) PayPal
2 33 (7.95%) Microsoft
3 18 (4.34%) IBM
4 13 (3.13%) Cisco
4 13 (3.13%) Oracle
5 9 (2.17%) Databricks
6 8 (1.93%) VMware
7 6 (1.45%) Arista
7 6 (1.45%) Google
8 5 (1.20%) SAP
9 3 (0.72%) AppDynamics
9 3 (0.72%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.72%) Moogsoft
9 3 (0.72%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.72%) Splunk
10 2 (0.48%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.48%) Salesforce
10 2 (0.48%) Talend
11 1 (0.24%) Qualys
11 1 (0.24%) Veeam