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 26 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 39 57
Rank change year-on-year -68 +18 +87
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 218 410 496
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.66% 5.40% 3.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.16% 5.76% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 132 167 387
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £27,650
25th Percentile £37,313 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,250 £83,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,250 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -0.40% -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 10,080 7,118 10,900
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 76.85% 93.69% 86.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5,735 3,426 8,848
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £84,000 £80,180
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +13.64% -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 26 February 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 26 February 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 -58 108 £52,500 +5.00% 24
North West -75 66 £57,500 +4.55% 40
North East -9 44 £47,500 -15.93% 15
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 (2.29%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.38%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.92%) CMS
3 2 (0.92%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.92%) JBoss
4 1 (0.46%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.46%) IIS
4 1 (0.46%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.46%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.46%) WinCC
Applications
1 9 (4.13%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.38%) AutoCAD
3 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.38%) Siemens NX
3 3 (1.38%) SOLIDWORKS
4 1 (0.46%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.83%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.38%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.92%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 78 (35.78%) Azure
2 73 (33.49%) AWS
3 30 (13.76%) Serverless
4 16 (7.34%) GCP
5 15 (6.88%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (5.50%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.75%) SaaS
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (2.29%) Entra ID
9 4 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
9 4 (1.83%) Snowflake
10 3 (1.38%) Amazon Cognito
10 3 (1.38%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon ECS
11 2 (0.92%) Apigee
11 2 (0.92%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.92%) AWS Step Functions
11 2 (0.92%) Figma
11 2 (0.92%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 15 (6.88%) Firewall
2 12 (5.50%) VPN
3 11 (5.05%) Network Security
4 6 (2.75%) Asterisk PBX
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%) DNS
4 6 (2.75%) EIGRP
4 6 (2.75%) LAN
4 6 (2.75%) OSPF
4 6 (2.75%) PSTN
4 6 (2.75%) SNMP
4 6 (2.75%) TCP/IP
4 6 (2.75%) VoIP
4 6 (2.75%) WAAS
4 6 (2.75%) WAN
4 6 (2.75%) Wireless
4 6 (2.75%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.63%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.05%) Power BI
3 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.75%) Tableau
6 5 (2.29%) BigQuery
6 5 (2.29%) Electronic Patient Records
6 5 (2.29%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.83%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.83%) Hadoop
7 4 (1.83%) Looker
8 3 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.38%) Big Data
8 3 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.38%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.92%) Azure SQL Database
9 2 (0.92%) Data Mining
9 2 (0.92%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (16.51%) JIRA
2 9 (4.13%) Bitbucket
3 8 (3.67%) Git
4 4 (1.83%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.92%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.92%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.92%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.92%) GitLab
5 2 (0.92%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.92%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.92%) Maven
5 2 (0.92%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.92%) Selenium
5 2 (0.92%) TeamCity
General
1 131 (60.09%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.02%) Analytical Skills
3 44 (20.18%) Finance
4 17 (7.80%) Retail
5 15 (6.88%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.50%) Manufacturing
7 11 (5.05%) Marketing
8 8 (3.67%) Esports
8 8 (3.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.75%) Advertising
9 6 (2.75%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.38%) Electronics
10 3 (1.38%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.38%) French Language
10 3 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.38%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.38%) Legal
10 3 (1.38%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.38%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 38 (17.43%) Developer
2 31 (14.22%) Architect
3 28 (12.84%) Analyst
3 28 (12.84%) Senior
4 23 (10.55%) JIRA Developer
5 20 (9.17%) Graduate
6 18 (8.26%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.42%) Applications Architect
8 12 (5.50%) Applications Support
9 11 (5.05%) Software Architect
10 9 (4.13%) Data Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Logistics Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Software Engineering Graduate
11 8 (3.67%) Support Analyst
12 7 (3.21%) Applications Support Analyst
12 7 (3.21%) Consultant
12 7 (3.21%) IT Manager
13 6 (2.75%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.59%) CSS
2 9 (4.13%) React
3 6 (2.75%) .NET
3 6 (2.75%) Django
3 6 (2.75%) FreeSWITCH
4 5 (2.29%) Celery
4 5 (2.29%) FastAPI
4 5 (2.29%) Flask
4 5 (2.29%) RESTful
4 5 (2.29%) Vue
5 4 (1.83%) HTML
6 3 (1.38%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.38%) Itk
6 3 (1.38%) Micronaut
6 3 (1.38%) Node.js
6 3 (1.38%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.38%) Swagger
6 3 (1.38%) XML
7 2 (0.92%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 25 (11.47%) Enterprise Software
2 21 (9.63%) Onboarding
3 16 (7.34%) Driving Licence
4 15 (6.88%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.05%) Social Media
6 9 (4.13%) Data Centre
7 6 (2.75%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.75%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.29%) CMDB
8 5 (2.29%) LIMS
8 5 (2.29%) PACS
9 4 (1.83%) Algorithms
9 4 (1.83%) Product Ownership
9 4 (1.83%) SCADA
9 4 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.38%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.38%) NHS
11 2 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.92%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 36 (16.51%) Windows
2 28 (12.84%) Linux
3 9 (4.13%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.83%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.38%) Android
5 3 (1.38%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.92%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (42.20%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (26.61%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (21.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 46 (21.10%) ITIL
5 38 (17.43%) Change Management
6 33 (15.14%) Software Engineering
7 32 (14.68%) Mentoring
8 30 (13.76%) Migration
9 29 (13.30%) ITSM
9 29 (13.30%) Service Management
10 28 (12.84%) Agile
10 28 (12.84%) Application Security
10 28 (12.84%) Data Modelling
10 28 (12.84%) DevOps
10 28 (12.84%) Incident Management
10 28 (12.84%) Microservices
11 27 (12.39%) Architectural Patterns
12 25 (11.47%) Cybersecurity
12 25 (11.47%) Enterprise Architecture
13 24 (11.01%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 77 (35.32%) Python
2 56 (25.69%) JavaScript
3 53 (24.31%) SQL
4 50 (22.94%) Java
5 38 (17.43%) PowerShell
6 32 (14.68%) C#
7 30 (13.76%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.50%) C
9 9 (4.13%) Bash
9 9 (4.13%) C++
10 8 (3.67%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.38%) Delphi
11 3 (1.38%) Perl
11 3 (1.38%) Tcl
12 2 (0.92%) Groovy
12 2 (0.92%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.92%) PHP
12 2 (0.92%) Scala
12 2 (0.92%) VB
13 1 (0.46%) Go
Qualifications
1 186 (85.32%) Degree
2 89 (40.83%) Computer Science Degree
3 40 (18.35%) AWS Certification
4 33 (15.14%) Azure Certification
5 30 (13.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 30 (13.76%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (12.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 24 (11.01%) TOGAF Certification
8 19 (8.72%) Master's Degree
9 14 (6.42%) HND
10 12 (5.50%) CCNP
10 12 (5.50%) Cisco Certification
10 12 (5.50%) DBS Check
11 10 (4.59%) CompTIA Security+
12 8 (3.67%) HNC
12 8 (3.67%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (3.21%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (2.75%) CCIE
14 6 (2.75%) SC Cleared
14 6 (2.75%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.67%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (2.75%) NIST
2 6 (2.75%) PMO
3 5 (2.29%) DICOM
3 5 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (1.83%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.38%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.92%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.92%) NCSC
7 1 (0.46%) GDPR
7 1 (0.46%) QA
7 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (4.59%) Docker
2 6 (2.75%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.75%) ProxySG
3 4 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.38%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.38%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (1.38%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.92%) vSphere
6 1 (0.46%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.46%) Firmware
6 1 (0.46%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (6.88%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.13%) Control-M
2 9 (4.13%) Grafana
2 9 (4.13%) Terraform
3 7 (3.21%) Prometheus
4 3 (1.38%) SCCM
5 2 (0.92%) Ansible
5 2 (0.92%) Docker Swarm
5 2 (0.92%) HP Fortify
5 2 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.46%) AssetCenter
Vendors
1 49 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.47%) Atlassian
3 13 (5.96%) Cisco
4 9 (4.13%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.21%) Siemens
6 6 (2.75%) Blue Coat
6 6 (2.75%) CheckPoint
6 6 (2.75%) F5
6 6 (2.75%) Google
6 6 (2.75%) HubSpot
6 6 (2.75%) Infoblox
6 6 (2.75%) Motorola
6 6 (2.75%) Oracle
6 6 (2.75%) SolarWinds
6 6 (2.75%) VMware
7 3 (1.38%) Allen-Bradley
7 3 (1.38%) IFS
7 3 (1.38%) Toshiba
8 2 (0.92%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.92%) UiPath