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 22 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 133 73 54
Rank change year-on-year -60 -19 +69
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 229 384 703
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.13% 4.57% 3.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.63% 4.91% 4.45%
Number of salaries quoted 164 257 517
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,313 £33,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -5.26% -17.39%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,963 £77,500 £80,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,283 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.53% -7.86% -7.69%

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 14,012 7,824 15,793
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.39% 93.02% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 10,437 3,729 11,966
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £79,800
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

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 22 June 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 22 June 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 -49 90 £57,500 +36.90% 15
North West -57 90 £40,000 -22.72% 47
North East -35 49 £70,000 +27.27% 25
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 6 (2.62%) Confluence
1 6 (2.62%) WordPress
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.75%) CMS
2 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.31%) JBoss
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.44%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (2.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.44%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 85 (37.12%) Azure
2 62 (27.07%) AWS
3 21 (9.17%) Serverless
4 16 (6.99%) GCP
5 14 (6.11%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.11%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (4.37%) Entra ID
7 9 (3.93%) Azure Functions
7 9 (3.93%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (3.93%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (3.93%) SaaS
8 8 (3.49%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.49%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.49%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (2.62%) AWS CloudFormation
9 6 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (2.62%) Power Platform
10 5 (2.18%) Azure AI
11 4 (1.75%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.24%) Network Security
2 11 (4.80%) Firewall
3 7 (3.06%) LAN
3 7 (3.06%) VLAN
3 7 (3.06%) WAN
3 7 (3.06%) Wireless
4 6 (2.62%) BGP
4 6 (2.62%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.62%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (2.62%) Cisco Wireless
4 6 (2.62%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.62%) OSPF
4 6 (2.62%) SNMP
4 6 (2.62%) VPN
4 6 (2.62%) WAAS
4 6 (2.62%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.18%) Internet
6 1 (0.44%) HTTP
6 1 (0.44%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.24%) Spark SQL
3 11 (4.80%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.49%) DynamoDB
5 7 (3.06%) NoSQL
6 6 (2.62%) Metadata
6 6 (2.62%) Power BI
7 5 (2.18%) Electronic Patient Records
7 5 (2.18%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.75%) Amazon RDS
8 4 (1.75%) Big Data
9 3 (1.31%) ClickHouse
9 3 (1.31%) Elasticsearch
9 3 (1.31%) MongoDB
9 3 (1.31%) MySQL
9 3 (1.31%) Redis
10 2 (0.87%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
10 2 (0.87%) GIS
10 2 (0.87%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 12 (5.24%) Git
2 9 (3.93%) JIRA
3 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.62%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.31%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.31%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.31%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.31%) Maven
5 3 (1.31%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.31%) Selenium
5 3 (1.31%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.87%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
General
1 75 (32.75%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.34%) Finance
3 35 (15.28%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.99%) Organisational Skills
5 13 (5.68%) Retail
6 12 (5.24%) Marketing
7 8 (3.49%) Esports
7 8 (3.49%) Legal
8 7 (3.06%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.62%) Electronics
10 5 (2.18%) Banking
10 5 (2.18%) Games
11 4 (1.75%) Advertising
11 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.31%) French Language
12 3 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.31%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.31%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 47 (20.52%) Developer
2 29 (12.66%) Graduate
2 29 (12.66%) Software Engineer
3 23 (10.04%) Software Developer
4 22 (9.61%) Senior
5 20 (8.73%) Architect
5 20 (8.73%) Data Engineer
6 19 (8.30%) Lead
7 15 (6.55%) Analyst
8 13 (5.68%) Graduate Developer
8 13 (5.68%) Graduate Software Developer
9 12 (5.24%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Lead Data Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Principal Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) C++ Software Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) Rust Engineer
11 9 (3.93%) Rust Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.04%) .NET
2 18 (7.86%) REST
3 16 (6.99%) CSS
4 12 (5.24%) PySpark
5 10 (4.37%) HTML
5 10 (4.37%) Node.js
6 9 (3.93%) ARM Templates
7 7 (3.06%) React
8 6 (2.62%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.62%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.18%) Ajax
9 5 (2.18%) Flask
9 5 (2.18%) RESTful
9 5 (2.18%) Vue
10 4 (1.75%) jQuery
10 4 (1.75%) JSON
10 4 (1.75%) XML
11 3 (1.31%) Drools
11 3 (1.31%) Gherkin
11 3 (1.31%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.42%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.68%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.68%) Social Media
3 10 (4.37%) Data Structures
3 10 (4.37%) Hedge funds
4 9 (3.93%) Data Centre
4 9 (3.93%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.93%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.06%) Cloud Native
5 7 (3.06%) CMDB
5 7 (3.06%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.18%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.18%) EPoS
6 5 (2.18%) PACS
7 4 (1.75%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.75%) Cybercrime
7 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.31%) Life Science
8 3 (1.31%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.04%) Windows
2 22 (9.61%) Linux
3 4 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.31%) Android
4 3 (1.31%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.26%) AI
2 60 (26.20%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (23.14%) Software Engineering
4 40 (17.47%) Agile
5 38 (16.59%) CI/CD
5 38 (16.59%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (16.59%) DevOps
6 31 (13.54%) Mathematics
7 28 (12.23%) Analytics
7 28 (12.23%) Cybersecurity
8 26 (11.35%) Mentoring
9 25 (10.92%) Data Modelling
9 25 (10.92%) Physics
10 24 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
10 24 (10.48%) Workflow
11 22 (9.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 21 (9.17%) Test Automation
13 20 (8.73%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (8.30%) Data Governance
14 19 (8.30%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 76 (33.19%) Python
2 55 (24.02%) SQL
3 38 (16.59%) C#
4 27 (11.79%) Java
5 25 (10.92%) C++
6 23 (10.04%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.30%) PHP
8 17 (7.42%) Rust
9 16 (6.99%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.80%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.75%) C
12 3 (1.31%) Bash
12 3 (1.31%) Delphi
12 3 (1.31%) Groovy
12 3 (1.31%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.87%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.87%) VB
14 1 (0.44%) Ada
14 1 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.44%) Scala
Qualifications
1 184 (80.35%) Degree
2 118 (51.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (9.61%) AWS Certification
4 16 (6.99%) DBS Check
5 15 (6.55%) Master's Degree
6 13 (5.68%) Cisco Certification
7 12 (5.24%) Azure Certification
8 10 (4.37%) CISSP
9 9 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
9 9 (3.93%) Security Cleared
10 8 (3.49%) CCNP
10 8 (3.49%) SC Cleared
11 7 (3.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 6 (2.62%) CCIE
12 6 (2.62%) CISM
13 5 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
14 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.75%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.75%) CCSP
14 4 (1.75%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.24%) GDPR
2 10 (4.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.37%) NIST
3 7 (3.06%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.06%) QA
4 6 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.62%) PMO
5 5 (2.18%) DICOM
6 3 (1.31%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.87%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.87%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 13 (5.68%) Docker
2 6 (2.62%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.31%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.31%) vSphere
4 2 (0.87%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.87%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (8.73%) Terraform
2 10 (4.37%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.75%) SCCM
4 3 (1.31%) Ansible
4 3 (1.31%) Control-M
4 3 (1.31%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.31%) Grafana
4 3 (1.31%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 41 (17.90%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.99%) Databricks
3 7 (3.06%) CheckPoint
4 6 (2.62%) Blue Coat
4 6 (2.62%) Cisco
4 6 (2.62%) F5
4 6 (2.62%) Infoblox
4 6 (2.62%) Motorola
4 6 (2.62%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.62%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle
6 3 (1.31%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.31%) IFS
6 3 (1.31%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.31%) Splunk
6 3 (1.31%) VMware
7 2 (0.87%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.87%) Infor
7 2 (0.87%) MuleSoft