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

6 months to
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 68 53
Rank change year-on-year -73 -15 +70
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 228 379 689
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.12% 4.32% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 4.69% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 169 251 512
10th Percentile £25,750 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,250 £34,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £44,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +26.97% -6.32% -20.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £68,750 £65,313
90th Percentile £95,000 £77,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,283 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.53% -7.86% -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 14,185 8,078 15,279
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.76% 92.13% 79.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10,591 3,863 11,484
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,000 £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 £82,500 £80,000
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 28 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 28 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
North West -63 90 £40,000 -22.72% 48
Yorkshire -63 84 £57,500 +36.90% 15
North East -31 54 £70,000 +39.30% 27
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 (2.63%) Confluence
1 6 (2.63%) WordPress
2 4 (1.75%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (1.75%) CMS
2 4 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.32%) JBoss
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.88%) Apache
4 2 (0.88%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.44%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.63%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (1.32%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.44%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.44%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 84 (36.84%) Azure
2 58 (25.44%) AWS
3 18 (7.89%) Serverless
4 15 (6.58%) GCP
5 14 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
5 14 (6.14%) Microsoft 365
6 11 (4.82%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.39%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.95%) Azure Functions
8 9 (3.95%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.95%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.95%) SaaS
9 8 (3.51%) Amazon ECS
10 7 (3.07%) Amazon S3
10 7 (3.07%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.63%) Cloud Computing
11 6 (2.63%) Power Platform
12 5 (2.19%) Azure AI
13 4 (1.75%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (5.26%) Network Security
2 11 (4.82%) Firewall
3 8 (3.51%) Wireless
4 7 (3.07%) LAN
4 7 (3.07%) VLAN
4 7 (3.07%) WAN
5 6 (2.63%) BGP
5 6 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (2.63%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (2.63%) Cisco Wireless
5 6 (2.63%) EIGRP
5 6 (2.63%) OSPF
5 6 (2.63%) SNMP
5 6 (2.63%) VPN
5 6 (2.63%) WAAS
5 6 (2.63%) Wireless Security
6 5 (2.19%) Internet
7 2 (0.88%) TCP/IP
7 2 (0.88%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (0.44%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (9.65%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.26%) Spark SQL
3 11 (4.82%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (3.07%) DynamoDB
5 6 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.63%) Power BI
6 5 (2.19%) Electronic Patient Records
6 5 (2.19%) Metadata
6 5 (2.19%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (1.32%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.32%) Big Data
7 3 (1.32%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.32%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.32%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.32%) MySQL
7 3 (1.32%) Redis
8 2 (0.88%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.88%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.88%) phpMyAdmin
8 2 (0.88%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 12 (5.26%) Git
2 9 (3.95%) JIRA
3 6 (2.63%) Bitbucket
3 6 (2.63%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.75%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.75%) GitLab
4 4 (1.75%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.32%) Artifactory
5 3 (1.32%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 3 (1.32%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.32%) Maven
5 3 (1.32%) Octopus Deploy
5 3 (1.32%) Selenium
5 3 (1.32%) TeamCity
6 2 (0.88%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.44%) Claude Code
General
1 71 (31.14%) Social Skills
2 42 (18.42%) Finance
3 34 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (6.58%) Organisational Skills
5 14 (6.14%) Retail
6 12 (5.26%) Marketing
7 8 (3.51%) Legal
8 7 (3.07%) Electronics
8 7 (3.07%) Financial Institution
8 7 (3.07%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.63%) Banking
9 6 (2.63%) Esports
9 6 (2.63%) Games
10 4 (1.75%) Advertising
10 4 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.32%) French Language
11 3 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.32%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.32%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 49 (21.49%) Developer
2 32 (14.04%) Software Engineer
3 29 (12.72%) Graduate
4 24 (10.53%) Software Developer
5 22 (9.65%) Senior
6 21 (9.21%) Data Engineer
7 19 (8.33%) Lead
8 17 (7.46%) Architect
9 16 (7.02%) Analyst
10 13 (5.70%) Graduate Developer
10 13 (5.70%) Graduate Software Developer
10 13 (5.70%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.82%) Lead Data Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) C++ Software Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Principal Software Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Rust Engineer
13 10 (4.39%) Rust Software Engineer
14 9 (3.95%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (10.09%) .NET
2 18 (7.89%) REST
3 16 (7.02%) CSS
4 13 (5.70%) PySpark
5 10 (4.39%) HTML
5 10 (4.39%) Node.js
6 9 (3.95%) ARM Templates
7 8 (3.51%) React
8 6 (2.63%) AngularJS
8 6 (2.63%) Spring Boot
9 5 (2.19%) Ajax
9 5 (2.19%) Flask
9 5 (2.19%) RESTful
9 5 (2.19%) Vue
10 4 (1.75%) jQuery
10 4 (1.75%) JSON
10 4 (1.75%) XML
11 3 (1.32%) Django
11 3 (1.32%) Drools
11 3 (1.32%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.46%) Algorithms
2 12 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.82%) Hedge funds
3 11 (4.82%) Social Media
4 9 (3.95%) Data Centre
5 8 (3.51%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.51%) Management Information System
5 8 (3.51%) Product Ownership
6 7 (3.07%) Cloud Native
6 7 (3.07%) Driving Licence
7 6 (2.63%) CMDB
7 6 (2.63%) EPoS
8 5 (2.19%) Client/Server
8 5 (2.19%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.19%) PACS
9 4 (1.75%) Cybercrime
9 4 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.32%) AI Agents
10 3 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
10 3 (1.32%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 24 (10.53%) Linux
2 20 (8.77%) Windows
3 3 (1.32%) Android
3 3 (1.32%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.32%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.32%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.44%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (0.44%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (30.26%) AI
2 57 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 56 (24.56%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (17.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 38 (16.67%) Agile
5 38 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 38 (16.67%) DevOps
6 32 (14.04%) Mathematics
7 30 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
8 27 (11.84%) Analytics
9 26 (11.40%) Physics
10 25 (10.96%) Workflow
11 23 (10.09%) Collaborative Working
11 23 (10.09%) Data Modelling
11 23 (10.09%) Mentoring
12 21 (9.21%) Fintech
12 21 (9.21%) Test Automation
13 19 (8.33%) Requirements Management
13 19 (8.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 18 (7.89%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 75 (32.89%) Python
2 54 (23.68%) SQL
3 36 (15.79%) C#
4 27 (11.84%) C++
5 24 (10.53%) Java
6 21 (9.21%) JavaScript
7 19 (8.33%) PHP
8 18 (7.89%) Rust
9 15 (6.58%) TypeScript
10 11 (4.82%) PowerShell
11 5 (2.19%) C
12 4 (1.75%) Delphi
13 3 (1.32%) Bash
13 3 (1.32%) Groovy
13 3 (1.32%) Kotlin
14 2 (0.88%) Embedded C
14 2 (0.88%) VB
15 1 (0.44%) Ada
15 1 (0.44%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 185 (81.14%) Degree
2 116 (50.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.89%) AWS Certification
4 14 (6.14%) DBS Check
4 14 (6.14%) Master's Degree
5 13 (5.70%) Cisco Certification
6 10 (4.39%) Azure Certification
6 10 (4.39%) CISSP
7 8 (3.51%) CCNP
7 8 (3.51%) Security Cleared
8 7 (3.07%) SC Cleared
9 6 (2.63%) CCIE
9 6 (2.63%) CISM
9 6 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (2.19%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.75%) CCSP
12 3 (1.32%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (1.32%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.26%) GDPR
2 10 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (4.39%) NIST
3 7 (3.07%) QA
4 6 (2.63%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (2.63%) Data Quality
4 6 (2.63%) PMO
5 5 (2.19%) DICOM
6 3 (1.32%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.88%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.44%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 13 (5.70%) Docker
2 6 (2.63%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.32%) Virtual Servers
3 3 (1.32%) vSphere
4 2 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (8.77%) Terraform
2 10 (4.39%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.32%) Ansible
3 3 (1.32%) Control-M
3 3 (1.32%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.32%) Grafana
3 3 (1.32%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.32%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.32%) SCCM
4 1 (0.44%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 39 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.46%) Databricks
3 7 (3.07%) CheckPoint
4 6 (2.63%) Blue Coat
4 6 (2.63%) Cisco
4 6 (2.63%) F5
4 6 (2.63%) Infoblox
4 6 (2.63%) Motorola
4 6 (2.63%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.63%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
5 4 (1.75%) Oracle
6 3 (1.32%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.32%) IFS
6 3 (1.32%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.32%) Splunk
6 3 (1.32%) VMware
7 2 (0.88%) Infor
7 2 (0.88%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.88%) WooCommerce