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

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 68 52
Rank change year-on-year -73 -16 +79
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 210 381 686
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.07% 4.75% 3.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 5.07% 4.47%
Number of salaries quoted 150 259 508
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,250 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £68,750 £66,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £77,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,745 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.74% -5.43% -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 13,462 7,510 15,348
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.74% 93.64% 79.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,923 3,633 11,723
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £79,530
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 10 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 10 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 -65 88 £60,000 +42.86% 29
North West -63 82 £40,000 -22.72% 55
North East -38 40 £70,000 +27.27% 21
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 (2.86%) WordPress
2 4 (1.90%) CMS
3 3 (1.43%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.43%) Confluence
3 3 (1.43%) JBoss
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.43%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (3.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 80 (38.10%) Azure
2 58 (27.62%) AWS
3 22 (10.48%) Serverless
4 15 (7.14%) GCP
5 14 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 13 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (4.29%) Azure Functions
8 9 (4.29%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (4.29%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.81%) Entra ID
10 7 (3.33%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (3.33%) SaaS
11 6 (2.86%) Amazon ECS
11 6 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.86%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.38%) Azure AI
13 4 (1.90%) AWS CloudFormation
13 4 (1.90%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.19%) Network Security
2 12 (5.71%) Firewall
3 8 (3.81%) LAN
3 8 (3.81%) VLAN
3 8 (3.81%) WAN
3 8 (3.81%) Wireless
4 7 (3.33%) BGP
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco Wireless
4 7 (3.33%) EIGRP
4 7 (3.33%) OSPF
4 7 (3.33%) SNMP
4 7 (3.33%) VPN
4 7 (3.33%) WAAS
4 7 (3.33%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.38%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) HTTP
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.48%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.52%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.24%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.24%) Spark SQL
3 6 (2.86%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.86%) Metadata
3 6 (2.86%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.86%) Power BI
4 5 (2.38%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.38%) Big Data
4 5 (2.38%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (2.38%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.43%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.43%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.43%) MongoDB
5 3 (1.43%) MySQL
6 2 (0.95%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.95%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.95%) phpMyAdmin
6 2 (0.95%) Redis
6 2 (0.95%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.81%) Git
2 7 (3.33%) JIRA
3 6 (2.86%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.90%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.90%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.90%) GitLab
4 4 (1.90%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.43%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.43%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.43%) Maven
5 3 (1.43%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.43%) Selenium
5 3 (1.43%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.95%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.48%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 68 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 34 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.76%) Finance
4 17 (8.10%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (5.24%) Marketing
6 9 (4.29%) Retail
7 8 (3.81%) Esports
7 8 (3.81%) Legal
8 7 (3.33%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.86%) Electronics
9 6 (2.86%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.90%) Advertising
10 4 (1.90%) Banking
11 3 (1.43%) French Language
11 3 (1.43%) Games
11 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.43%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.43%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.43%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.43%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 39 (18.57%) Developer
2 29 (13.81%) Graduate
3 24 (11.43%) Software Engineer
4 21 (10.00%) Senior
5 20 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 19 (9.05%) Architect
6 19 (9.05%) Lead
7 17 (8.10%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.14%) Analyst
9 13 (6.19%) Graduate Developer
9 13 (6.19%) Graduate Software Developer
10 11 (5.24%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.29%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.81%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Graduate C# Developer
12 8 (3.81%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.48%) .NET
2 16 (7.62%) CSS
2 16 (7.62%) REST
3 11 (5.24%) PySpark
4 10 (4.76%) HTML
5 9 (4.29%) ARM Templates
6 7 (3.33%) Node.js
7 6 (2.86%) React
8 5 (2.38%) Ajax
8 5 (2.38%) Flask
8 5 (2.38%) RESTful
9 4 (1.90%) AngularJS
9 4 (1.90%) jQuery
9 4 (1.90%) Spring Boot
9 4 (1.90%) Vue
10 3 (1.43%) Celery
10 3 (1.43%) CSS3
10 3 (1.43%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (1.43%) Gherkin
10 3 (1.43%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.10%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.19%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.19%) Social Media
3 11 (5.24%) Data Structures
4 10 (4.76%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.29%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.81%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.33%) CMDB
7 7 (3.33%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.86%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.86%) Product Ownership
9 5 (2.38%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.38%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.38%) PACS
10 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (1.90%) Client/Server
10 4 (1.90%) Cybercrime
10 4 (1.90%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.43%) EPoS
11 3 (1.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.43%) Windows
2 18 (8.57%) Linux
3 4 (1.90%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.43%) Android
4 3 (1.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.19%) AI
2 53 (25.24%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (20.48%) Software Engineering
4 37 (17.62%) DevOps
5 35 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 33 (15.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 30 (14.29%) Agile
8 28 (13.33%) Mentoring
9 26 (12.38%) Analytics
9 26 (12.38%) Mathematics
10 25 (11.90%) Data Modelling
10 25 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 23 (10.95%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (10.95%) Cybersecurity
12 20 (9.52%) Data Engineering
12 20 (9.52%) Physics
12 20 (9.52%) Stakeholder Management
13 19 (9.05%) Data Governance
14 18 (8.57%) Test Automation
14 18 (8.57%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 73 (34.76%) Python
2 47 (22.38%) SQL
3 37 (17.62%) C#
4 27 (12.86%) Java
5 23 (10.95%) JavaScript
6 20 (9.52%) C++
7 16 (7.62%) PHP
8 15 (7.14%) TypeScript
9 12 (5.71%) Rust
10 11 (5.24%) PowerShell
11 4 (1.90%) C
12 3 (1.43%) Bash
12 3 (1.43%) Groovy
12 3 (1.43%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.95%) Delphi
13 2 (0.95%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.95%) Scala
13 2 (0.95%) VB
14 1 (0.48%) Ada
Qualifications
1 165 (78.57%) Degree
2 108 (51.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 23 (10.95%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.62%) DBS Check
5 15 (7.14%) Azure Certification
6 14 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (5.24%) Master's Degree
7 11 (5.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 10 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 9 (4.29%) CCNP
9 9 (4.29%) CISSP
9 9 (4.29%) Security Cleared
10 8 (3.81%) SC Cleared
11 7 (3.33%) CCIE
12 6 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
13 5 (2.38%) CISM
14 4 (1.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.90%) A+ Certification
14 4 (1.90%) CCSP
14 4 (1.90%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.24%) GDPR
2 9 (4.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.29%) NIST
3 7 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 7 (3.33%) PMO
4 6 (2.86%) QA
5 5 (2.38%) DICOM
6 3 (1.43%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.95%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (5.71%) Docker
2 7 (3.33%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.43%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.43%) vSphere
4 2 (0.95%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.95%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.52%) Terraform
2 9 (4.29%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.90%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.90%) SCCM
4 3 (1.43%) Ansible
4 3 (1.43%) Control-M
4 3 (1.43%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.43%) Grafana
4 3 (1.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 37 (17.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.14%) Databricks
3 8 (3.81%) CheckPoint
3 8 (3.81%) ServiceNow
4 7 (3.33%) Blue Coat
4 7 (3.33%) Cisco
4 7 (3.33%) F5
4 7 (3.33%) Infoblox
4 7 (3.33%) Motorola
4 7 (3.33%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.90%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.43%) IFS
6 3 (1.43%) Oracle
6 3 (1.43%) VMware
7 2 (0.95%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.95%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.48%) Aruba
8 1 (0.48%) Ekahau
8 1 (0.48%) Splunk