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 13 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 38 57
Rank change year-on-year -82 +19 +95
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 204 379 567
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.44% 5.51% 3.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.89% 5.79% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 126 190 440
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,217 £34,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.62% +11.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,625 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -

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 10,770 6,543 12,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.91% 95.16% 85.47%
Number of salaries quoted 6,258 3,564 10,047
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,325 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,973 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £66,033
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 13 March 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 13 March 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 -64 100 £50,000 -2.44% 44
North West -88 61 £57,500 -4.17% 60
North East -17 43 £51,500 -8.85% 16
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 4 (1.96%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.98%) CMS
3 2 (0.98%) Headless CMS
3 2 (0.98%) JBoss
4 1 (0.49%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.49%) IIS
4 1 (0.49%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.49%) Tomcat
Applications
1 7 (3.43%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.47%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.49%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.47%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (1.47%) Teamcenter
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (0.98%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (36.27%) Azure
2 65 (31.86%) AWS
3 26 (12.75%) Serverless
4 13 (6.37%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (5.88%) GCP
6 7 (3.43%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.45%) Amazon S3
7 5 (2.45%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.45%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.45%) SaaS
8 4 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.47%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.47%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECR
10 2 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
10 2 (0.98%) Apigee
10 2 (0.98%) AWS CloudFormation
10 2 (0.98%) AWS Step Functions
10 2 (0.98%) Figma
10 2 (0.98%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.37%) Firewall
2 12 (5.88%) VPN
3 11 (5.39%) Network Security
4 8 (3.92%) LAN
4 8 (3.92%) VLAN
4 8 (3.92%) WAN
4 8 (3.92%) Wireless
5 7 (3.43%) BGP
5 7 (3.43%) Cisco ASA
5 7 (3.43%) Cisco Nexus
5 7 (3.43%) Cisco Wireless
5 7 (3.43%) EIGRP
5 7 (3.43%) OSPF
5 7 (3.43%) SNMP
5 7 (3.43%) WAAS
5 7 (3.43%) Wireless Security
6 6 (2.94%) TCP/IP
7 5 (2.45%) DNS
7 5 (2.45%) Wi-Fi
8 3 (1.47%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.31%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.43%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.43%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.94%) Power BI
4 5 (2.45%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (2.45%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.96%) DynamoDB
6 3 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.47%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.47%) Relational Database
6 3 (1.47%) Tableau
7 2 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.98%) Big Data
7 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.98%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.98%) Data Warehouse
7 2 (0.98%) Metadata
8 1 (0.49%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.49%) Snowflake Schema
8 1 (0.49%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 36 (17.65%) JIRA
2 9 (4.41%) Bitbucket
3 8 (3.92%) Git
4 4 (1.96%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
5 2 (0.98%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.98%) Cypress.io
5 2 (0.98%) GitLab
5 2 (0.98%) Jenkins
5 2 (0.98%) LabVIEW
5 2 (0.98%) Maven
5 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (0.98%) Selenium
5 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
General
1 123 (60.29%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.10%) Finance
3 37 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.82%) Retail
5 17 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 11 (5.39%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.90%) Marketing
8 8 (3.92%) Esports
8 8 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
9 6 (2.94%) Advertising
10 3 (1.47%) Electronics
10 3 (1.47%) French Language
10 3 (1.47%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.47%) Legal
10 3 (1.47%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.47%) Spanish Language
10 3 (1.47%) Telecoms
11 2 (0.98%) Automotive
11 2 (0.98%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.98%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 37 (18.14%) Developer
2 26 (12.75%) Architect
3 24 (11.76%) Graduate
4 23 (11.27%) Analyst
4 23 (11.27%) JIRA Developer
5 22 (10.78%) Senior
6 20 (9.80%) Software Engineer
7 12 (5.88%) Applications Support
8 11 (5.39%) Applications Architect
8 11 (5.39%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 10 (4.90%) Software Architect
10 8 (3.92%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Logistics Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Network Engineer
10 8 (3.92%) Software Engineering Graduate
10 8 (3.92%) Support Analyst
11 7 (3.43%) Applications Support Analyst
11 7 (3.43%) Consultant
11 7 (3.43%) IT Manager
11 7 (3.43%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.92%) React
2 6 (2.94%) .NET
2 6 (2.94%) Django
3 5 (2.45%) Celery
3 5 (2.45%) FastAPI
3 5 (2.45%) Flask
3 5 (2.45%) RESTful
3 5 (2.45%) Vue
4 3 (1.47%) CSS
4 3 (1.47%) FreeSWITCH
4 3 (1.47%) HTML
4 3 (1.47%) Itk
4 3 (1.47%) Node.js
4 3 (1.47%) OpenAPI
4 3 (1.47%) Swagger
4 3 (1.47%) XML
5 2 (0.98%) AngularJS
5 2 (0.98%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.98%) REST
5 2 (0.98%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.29%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (8.82%) Driving Licence
3 15 (7.35%) Onboarding
4 14 (6.86%) Management Information System
5 13 (6.37%) Social Media
6 10 (4.90%) Data Centre
7 7 (3.43%) Data Structures
8 6 (2.94%) Algorithms
9 5 (2.45%) CMDB
9 5 (2.45%) PACS
10 4 (1.96%) Hedge funds
10 4 (1.96%) LIMS
10 4 (1.96%) Operational Technology
10 4 (1.96%) Product Ownership
11 3 (1.47%) Cloud Native
11 3 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.47%) NHS
11 3 (1.47%) SCADA
11 3 (1.47%) Taxonomies
12 2 (0.98%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.18%) Windows
2 23 (11.27%) Linux
3 7 (3.43%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.96%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.47%) Android
5 3 (1.47%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.98%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (40.69%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 44 (21.57%) ITIL
3 44 (21.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 35 (17.16%) Change Management
4 35 (17.16%) Software Engineering
5 29 (14.22%) Mentoring
5 29 (14.22%) Service Management
6 27 (13.24%) Incident Management
6 27 (13.24%) ITSM
7 26 (12.75%) Migration
8 25 (12.25%) Application Security
8 25 (12.25%) Cybersecurity
8 25 (12.25%) Data Modelling
9 24 (11.76%) AI
10 23 (11.27%) Agile
10 23 (11.27%) Architectural Patterns
10 23 (11.27%) Asset Management
10 23 (11.27%) DevOps
10 23 (11.27%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 69 (33.82%) Python
2 51 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 45 (22.06%) SQL
4 43 (21.08%) Java
5 37 (18.14%) PowerShell
6 30 (14.71%) C#
7 26 (12.75%) TypeScript
8 10 (4.90%) C++
9 9 (4.41%) C
10 8 (3.92%) PL/SQL
11 5 (2.45%) Bash
12 4 (1.96%) PHP
13 3 (1.47%) Delphi
13 3 (1.47%) Tcl
14 2 (0.98%) Groovy
14 2 (0.98%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.98%) Scala
14 2 (0.98%) VB
15 1 (0.49%) Go
15 1 (0.49%) R
Qualifications
1 168 (82.35%) Degree
2 83 (40.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 37 (18.14%) AWS Certification
4 30 (14.71%) Azure Certification
5 28 (13.73%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 27 (13.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 27 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 21 (10.29%) TOGAF Certification
8 13 (6.37%) Master's Degree
9 12 (5.88%) DBS Check
10 11 (5.39%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (4.90%) CCNP
11 10 (4.90%) HND
12 8 (3.92%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (3.43%) CCIE
13 7 (3.43%) CompTIA Security+
13 7 (3.43%) HNC
14 6 (2.94%) SC Cleared
14 6 (2.94%) Security Cleared
15 4 (1.96%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 7 (3.43%) PMO
3 6 (2.94%) NIST
4 5 (2.45%) DICOM
5 4 (1.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (1.96%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (1.47%) GDPR
6 3 (1.47%) QA
7 2 (0.98%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.49%) NCSC
8 1 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.41%) Docker
2 7 (3.43%) ProxySG
3 4 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.98%) vSphere
6 1 (0.49%) Embedded Firmware
6 1 (0.49%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (6.86%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.41%) Control-M
2 9 (4.41%) Grafana
2 9 (4.41%) Terraform
3 7 (3.43%) Prometheus
4 2 (0.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.98%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.98%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.98%) SCCM
Vendors
1 42 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 25 (12.25%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.90%) Cisco
4 8 (3.92%) CheckPoint
4 8 (3.92%) ServiceNow
5 7 (3.43%) Blue Coat
5 7 (3.43%) F5
5 7 (3.43%) Infoblox
5 7 (3.43%) Motorola
5 7 (3.43%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.45%) Oracle
6 5 (2.45%) VMware
7 3 (1.47%) HubSpot
7 3 (1.47%) IFS
7 3 (1.47%) Siemens
8 2 (0.98%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.98%) Google
9 1 (0.49%) Aruba
9 1 (0.49%) Concur
9 1 (0.49%) SAP