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 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 79 55
Rank change year-on-year -70 -24 +39
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 238 377 501
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 3.93% 3.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 4.42% 4.22%
Number of salaries quoted 170 254 350
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £37,574
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £111,250 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% -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 15,753 8,527 11,879
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 88.87% 78.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,782 4,264 7,670
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £47,683 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.35% -4.63% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +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 19 August 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 19 August 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
North West -63 100 £40,000 -21.57% 104
Yorkshire -61 73 £62,500 +48.81% 51
North East -30 65 £75,000 +100.00% 58
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 8 (3.36%) Confluence
2 6 (2.52%) WordPress
3 4 (1.68%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.68%) CMS
4 2 (0.84%) Apache
4 2 (0.84%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.84%) JBoss
4 2 (0.84%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.42%) IIS
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.42%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.84%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.52%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 88 (36.97%) Azure
2 58 (24.37%) AWS
3 21 (8.82%) GCP
4 18 (7.56%) Serverless
5 16 (6.72%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.72%) SaaS
6 12 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.20%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.78%) Amazon ECS
8 9 (3.78%) Amazon S3
8 9 (3.78%) Azure Functions
8 9 (3.78%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.78%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.78%) GitHub
9 8 (3.36%) IaaS
9 8 (3.36%) PaaS
10 7 (2.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 7 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (2.94%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.36%) Network Security
2 7 (2.94%) Firewall
3 5 (2.10%) Internet
3 5 (2.10%) Wireless
4 4 (1.68%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.26%) LAN
5 3 (1.26%) VLAN
5 3 (1.26%) VPN
5 3 (1.26%) WAN
5 3 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.84%) BGP
6 2 (0.84%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.84%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.84%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.84%) HTTP
6 2 (0.84%) OSPF
6 2 (0.84%) SNMP
6 2 (0.84%) WAAS
6 2 (0.84%) Wireless Security
6 2 (0.84%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.50%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.04%) Spark SQL
3 11 (4.62%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.94%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.52%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.68%) GIS
6 4 (1.68%) Metadata
7 3 (1.26%) Big Data
7 3 (1.26%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.26%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.26%) MySQL
7 3 (1.26%) Power BI
7 3 (1.26%) Redis
8 2 (0.84%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.84%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.84%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.84%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.84%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.72%) Git
2 11 (4.62%) JIRA
3 8 (3.36%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.10%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 5 (2.10%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.26%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.26%) Cypress.io
5 3 (1.26%) GitLab
5 3 (1.26%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.26%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.26%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 2 (0.84%) Maven
6 2 (0.84%) Selenium
7 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
General
1 75 (31.51%) Social Skills
2 68 (28.57%) Finance
3 36 (15.13%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.30%) Retail
5 12 (5.04%) Marketing
6 11 (4.62%) Manufacturing
7 10 (4.20%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.78%) Banking
8 9 (3.78%) Financial Institution
9 8 (3.36%) Games
9 8 (3.36%) Legal
10 7 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
11 6 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (2.10%) Electronics
12 5 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (1.68%) Advertising
14 3 (1.26%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.26%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.84%) Social Housing
16 1 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 53 (22.27%) Developer
2 40 (16.81%) Software Engineer
3 35 (14.71%) Graduate
4 27 (11.34%) Software Developer
5 23 (9.66%) Architect
6 22 (9.24%) Lead
7 21 (8.82%) Data Engineer
8 18 (7.56%) Senior
9 16 (6.72%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 15 (6.30%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.46%) Graduate Developer
11 13 (5.46%) Graduate Software Developer
12 12 (5.04%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (5.04%) Principal Software Engineer
13 11 (4.62%) Analyst
13 11 (4.62%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (4.62%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (4.62%) Rust Engineer
13 11 (4.62%) Rust Software Engineer
14 10 (4.20%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.18%) .NET
2 18 (7.56%) REST
3 15 (6.30%) CSS
4 13 (5.46%) PySpark
5 11 (4.62%) AngularJS
5 11 (4.62%) Node.js
5 11 (4.62%) React
6 9 (3.78%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.78%) HTML
7 7 (2.94%) .NET Core
7 7 (2.94%) Ajax
7 7 (2.94%) Spring
7 7 (2.94%) Spring Boot
8 6 (2.52%) Flask
8 6 (2.52%) jQuery
8 6 (2.52%) Middleware
8 6 (2.52%) RESTful
9 5 (2.10%) CSS3
9 5 (2.10%) HTML5
9 5 (2.10%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.56%) Algorithms
2 12 (5.04%) Hedge funds
3 11 (4.62%) Onboarding
4 10 (4.20%) Product Ownership
5 9 (3.78%) Cloud Native
6 8 (3.36%) Data Structures
7 7 (2.94%) Driving Licence
8 6 (2.52%) Cybercrime
8 6 (2.52%) EPoS
8 6 (2.52%) Life Science
8 6 (2.52%) Management Information System
8 6 (2.52%) Renewable Energy
8 6 (2.52%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.10%) Client/Server
9 5 (2.10%) Distributed Systems
9 5 (2.10%) Security Posture
9 5 (2.10%) Social Media
10 4 (1.68%) Marketing Technology
10 4 (1.68%) Robotics
11 3 (1.26%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.87%) Linux
2 13 (5.46%) Windows
3 5 (2.10%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.84%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (34.87%) AI
2 69 (28.99%) Software Engineering
3 56 (23.53%) Agile
3 56 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
4 46 (19.33%) DevOps
5 45 (18.91%) CI/CD
6 40 (16.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (15.13%) Mathematics
8 34 (14.29%) Analytics
9 32 (13.45%) Cybersecurity
10 29 (12.18%) Mentoring
11 27 (11.34%) Workflow
12 26 (10.92%) Roadmaps
13 25 (10.50%) Physics
14 24 (10.08%) Fintech
14 24 (10.08%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.82%) Data Science
15 21 (8.82%) Microservices
15 21 (8.82%) Technical Debt
16 20 (8.40%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 73 (30.67%) Python
2 55 (23.11%) SQL
3 40 (16.81%) C#
4 35 (14.71%) C++
4 35 (14.71%) Java
5 21 (8.82%) JavaScript
5 21 (8.82%) PHP
6 20 (8.40%) Rust
7 14 (5.88%) TypeScript
8 9 (3.78%) C
9 4 (1.68%) Delphi
10 3 (1.26%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.26%) PowerShell
11 2 (0.84%) Bash
11 2 (0.84%) Groovy
11 2 (0.84%) Kotlin
11 2 (0.84%) Ladder Logic
12 1 (0.42%) Ada
12 1 (0.42%) Go
12 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 203 (85.29%) Degree
2 120 (50.42%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.98%) Master's Degree
4 13 (5.46%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.78%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.36%) CISSP
6 8 (3.36%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.94%) Security Cleared
8 6 (2.52%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.10%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.68%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.68%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.68%) CCNP
10 4 (1.68%) CCSP
10 4 (1.68%) MBA
11 3 (1.26%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.26%) CISM
11 3 (1.26%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.26%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.04%) GDPR
2 10 (4.20%) QA
3 7 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.94%) NIST
4 5 (2.10%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.26%) Accessibility
5 3 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.84%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.84%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.84%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.84%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (6.30%) Docker
2 3 (1.26%) vSphere
3 2 (0.84%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.88%) Kubernetes
1 14 (5.88%) Terraform
2 3 (1.26%) Ansible
2 3 (1.26%) Control-M
2 3 (1.26%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.26%) Grafana
3 2 (0.84%) HP Fortify
3 2 (0.84%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.84%) Nessus
3 2 (0.84%) SCCM
4 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (17.65%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.14%) Databricks
3 5 (2.10%) Google
3 5 (2.10%) Sage
3 5 (2.10%) Splunk
4 4 (1.68%) Adobe
4 4 (1.68%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.26%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.26%) Cisco
5 3 (1.26%) Foundry
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle
5 3 (1.26%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.26%) VMware
6 2 (0.84%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.84%) Infor
6 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.84%) SolarWinds