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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 71 54
Rank change year-on-year -76 -17 +71
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 218 388 692
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.09% 4.75% 3.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 5.08% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 157 260 509
10th Percentile £25,450 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.56% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £66,500
90th Percentile £90,550 £77,500 £81,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,673 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.87% -5.55% -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 13,723 7,642 15,654
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 68.88% 93.49% 79.20%
Number of salaries quoted 10,191 3,663 11,886
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,188 £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 £83,750 £79,425
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 16 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 16 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 -63 87 £57,500 +36.90% 97
North West -60 86 £40,000 -22.72% 159
North East -38 45 £70,000 +27.27% 70
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 (2.75%) WordPress
2 4 (1.83%) CMS
2 4 (1.83%) Confluence
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.38%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.38%) JBoss
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.46%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (2.75%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 83 (38.07%) Azure
2 59 (27.06%) AWS
3 21 (9.63%) Serverless
4 16 (7.34%) GCP
5 14 (6.42%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.42%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.59%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.13%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.13%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.13%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (4.13%) Entra ID
8 8 (3.67%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
8 8 (3.67%) SaaS
9 7 (3.21%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.75%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.29%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.29%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.83%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.50%) Network Security
2 11 (5.05%) Firewall
3 7 (3.21%) LAN
3 7 (3.21%) VLAN
3 7 (3.21%) WAN
3 7 (3.21%) Wireless
4 6 (2.75%) BGP
4 6 (2.75%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (2.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 6 (2.75%) Cisco Wireless
4 6 (2.75%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.75%) OSPF
4 6 (2.75%) SNMP
4 6 (2.75%) VPN
4 6 (2.75%) WAAS
4 6 (2.75%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.29%) Internet
6 1 (0.46%) HTTP
6 1 (0.46%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (9.17%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.05%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.05%) Spark SQL
3 7 (3.21%) DynamoDB
3 7 (3.21%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.75%) Metadata
4 6 (2.75%) Power BI
5 5 (2.29%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (2.29%) Big Data
5 5 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
5 5 (2.29%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.38%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.38%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
6 3 (1.38%) MySQL
7 2 (0.92%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.92%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.92%) phpMyAdmin
7 2 (0.92%) Redis
7 2 (0.92%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (4.59%) Git
2 7 (3.21%) JIRA
3 6 (2.75%) SonarQube
4 5 (2.29%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.83%) Cypress.io
5 4 (1.83%) GitLab
5 4 (1.83%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.38%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.38%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.38%) Maven
6 3 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.38%) Selenium
6 3 (1.38%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.92%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (0.92%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.46%) Claude Code
General
1 69 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.89%) Finance
3 33 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.80%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (5.05%) Marketing
6 10 (4.59%) Retail
7 8 (3.67%) Esports
7 8 (3.67%) Legal
8 7 (3.21%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.21%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.75%) Electronics
10 4 (1.83%) Advertising
10 4 (1.83%) Banking
10 4 (1.83%) Games
11 3 (1.38%) French Language
11 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.38%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.38%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 43 (19.72%) Developer
2 31 (14.22%) Graduate
3 28 (12.84%) Software Engineer
4 22 (10.09%) Senior
4 22 (10.09%) Software Developer
5 19 (8.72%) Lead
6 18 (8.26%) Architect
6 18 (8.26%) Data Engineer
7 16 (7.34%) Analyst
8 13 (5.96%) Graduate Developer
8 13 (5.96%) Graduate Software Developer
9 12 (5.50%) Azure Engineer
10 11 (5.05%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Principal Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.67%) C++ Software Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.09%) .NET
2 17 (7.80%) REST
3 16 (7.34%) CSS
4 11 (5.05%) PySpark
5 10 (4.59%) HTML
6 9 (4.13%) ARM Templates
7 8 (3.67%) Node.js
8 7 (3.21%) React
9 5 (2.29%) Ajax
9 5 (2.29%) AngularJS
9 5 (2.29%) Flask
9 5 (2.29%) RESTful
9 5 (2.29%) Spring Boot
10 4 (1.83%) jQuery
10 4 (1.83%) Vue
11 3 (1.38%) Celery
11 3 (1.38%) Drools
11 3 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (1.38%) HTML5
11 3 (1.38%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.80%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.96%) Onboarding
2 13 (5.96%) Social Media
3 11 (5.05%) Data Structures
4 9 (4.13%) Data Centre
4 9 (4.13%) Hedge funds
4 9 (4.13%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.67%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.21%) CMDB
6 7 (3.21%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.75%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.29%) PACS
9 4 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.83%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.83%) Cybercrime
9 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.83%) EPoS
9 4 (1.83%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.38%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.55%) Windows
2 20 (9.17%) Linux
3 4 (1.83%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.83%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.38%) Android
4 3 (1.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (27.52%) AI
2 55 (25.23%) Problem-Solving
3 50 (22.94%) Software Engineering
4 38 (17.43%) DevOps
5 37 (16.97%) CI/CD
6 36 (16.51%) Agile
7 33 (15.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 29 (13.30%) Mathematics
9 28 (12.84%) Analytics
10 26 (11.93%) Mentoring
11 25 (11.47%) Cybersecurity
12 24 (11.01%) Data Modelling
13 23 (10.55%) Collaborative Working
13 23 (10.55%) Physics
14 22 (10.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 21 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (9.63%) Workflow
16 20 (9.17%) Data Engineering
17 19 (8.72%) Data Governance
17 19 (8.72%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 73 (33.49%) Python
2 53 (24.31%) SQL
3 38 (17.43%) C#
4 26 (11.93%) Java
5 23 (10.55%) C++
6 22 (10.09%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.72%) PHP
8 15 (6.88%) Rust
8 15 (6.88%) TypeScript
9 11 (5.05%) PowerShell
10 4 (1.83%) C
11 3 (1.38%) Bash
11 3 (1.38%) Groovy
11 3 (1.38%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.92%) Delphi
12 2 (0.92%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.92%) VB
13 1 (0.46%) Ada
Qualifications
1 171 (78.44%) Degree
2 110 (50.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 22 (10.09%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.34%) DBS Check
5 13 (5.96%) Azure Certification
5 13 (5.96%) Cisco Certification
5 13 (5.96%) Master's Degree
6 10 (4.59%) CISSP
7 9 (4.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (4.13%) Security Cleared
8 8 (3.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 8 (3.67%) CCNP
8 8 (3.67%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.75%) CCIE
9 6 (2.75%) CISM
10 4 (1.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.83%) A+ Certification
10 4 (1.83%) CCSP
10 4 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.83%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.50%) GDPR
2 10 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.59%) NIST
3 7 (3.21%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (3.21%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.75%) PMO
4 6 (2.75%) QA
5 5 (2.29%) DICOM
6 3 (1.38%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.92%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.92%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 13 (5.96%) Docker
2 6 (2.75%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.38%) vSphere
4 2 (0.92%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.92%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (9.17%) Terraform
2 10 (4.59%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (1.83%) SCCM
4 3 (1.38%) Ansible
4 3 (1.38%) Control-M
4 3 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
4 3 (1.38%) Grafana
4 3 (1.38%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 38 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.88%) Databricks
3 7 (3.21%) CheckPoint
4 6 (2.75%) Blue Coat
4 6 (2.75%) Cisco
4 6 (2.75%) F5
4 6 (2.75%) Infoblox
4 6 (2.75%) Motorola
4 6 (2.75%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.75%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.83%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.38%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.38%) IFS
6 3 (1.38%) Oracle
6 3 (1.38%) VMware
7 2 (0.92%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.92%) Splunk
7 2 (0.92%) WooCommerce
8 1 (0.46%) Aruba
8 1 (0.46%) Ekahau