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 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 150 63 52
Rank change year-on-year -87 -11 +87
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 198 421 639
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.06% 5.48% 3.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 5.77% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 135 262 500
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £33,250 £33,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £48,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +4.17% -8.57%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,886 £67,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 13,280 7,302 13,969
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.91% 95.03% 82.82%
Number of salaries quoted 8,740 3,704 11,129
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,750 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.89% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,148 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £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 15 May 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 15 May 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 -84 91 £57,500 +36.90% 29
North West -67 77 £40,000 -23.81% 51
North East -43 30 £62,500 +10.62% 31
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 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.52%) JBoss
2 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
3 2 (1.01%) WordPress
4 1 (0.51%) Apache
4 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (4.04%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.01%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 79 (39.90%) Azure
2 58 (29.29%) AWS
3 25 (12.63%) Serverless
4 13 (6.57%) GCP
5 11 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (5.05%) Azure Data Factory
6 10 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
7 9 (4.55%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
8 7 (3.54%) Entra ID
9 6 (3.03%) Amazon S3
9 6 (3.03%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (3.03%) Power Platform
9 6 (3.03%) SaaS
10 5 (2.53%) Azure AI
10 5 (2.53%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (2.02%) Amazon ECS
12 3 (1.52%) Amazon Cognito
12 3 (1.52%) AWS Step Functions
Communications & Networking
1 16 (8.08%) Network Security
2 12 (6.06%) Firewall
3 9 (4.55%) LAN
3 9 (4.55%) VLAN
3 9 (4.55%) WAN
3 9 (4.55%) Wireless
4 8 (4.04%) BGP
4 8 (4.04%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (4.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (4.04%) Cisco Wireless
4 8 (4.04%) EIGRP
4 8 (4.04%) OSPF
4 8 (4.04%) SNMP
4 8 (4.04%) VPN
4 8 (4.04%) WAAS
4 8 (4.04%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.53%) Internet
6 3 (1.52%) DMZ
6 3 (1.52%) Modbus
7 1 (0.51%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.08%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.56%) Spark SQL
3 6 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 6 (3.03%) Power BI
4 5 (2.53%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.53%) Electronic Patient Records
5 4 (2.02%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (2.02%) Big Data
5 4 (2.02%) Metadata
5 4 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.52%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.52%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.52%) Hadoop
6 3 (1.52%) MongoDB
7 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
7 2 (1.01%) Tableau
8 1 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.51%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.51%) GIS
Development Applications
1 6 (3.03%) JIRA
2 5 (2.53%) SonarQube
3 4 (2.02%) Git
4 3 (1.52%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.52%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.52%) GitLab
4 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.52%) Maven
4 3 (1.52%) Selenium
5 2 (1.01%) Artifactory
5 2 (1.01%) Bitbucket
5 2 (1.01%) LabVIEW
5 2 (1.01%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (1.01%) TeamCity
General
1 76 (38.38%) Social Skills
2 34 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.67%) Finance
4 15 (7.58%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (6.06%) Retail
6 11 (5.56%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.04%) Esports
8 7 (3.54%) Marketing
9 6 (3.03%) Electronics
10 5 (2.53%) Legal
11 4 (2.02%) Financial Institution
11 4 (2.02%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.52%) Advertising
12 3 (1.52%) Banking
12 3 (1.52%) French Language
12 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 3 (1.52%) Italian Language
12 3 (1.52%) Portuguese Language
12 3 (1.52%) Public Sector
12 3 (1.52%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 35 (17.68%) Graduate
2 31 (15.66%) Developer
3 22 (11.11%) Architect
4 21 (10.61%) Software Engineer
5 19 (9.60%) Lead
6 18 (9.09%) Senior
7 17 (8.59%) Software Developer
8 16 (8.08%) Data Engineer
9 15 (7.58%) Graduate Developer
9 15 (7.58%) Graduate Software Developer
10 14 (7.07%) Analyst
11 11 (5.56%) Lead Data Engineer
12 10 (5.05%) C# Developer
12 10 (5.05%) C# Software Developer
12 10 (5.05%) Graduate C# Developer
12 10 (5.05%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 9 (4.55%) Azure Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Graduate Software Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Network Engineer
13 9 (4.55%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.60%) .NET
2 13 (6.57%) REST
3 11 (5.56%) CSS
3 11 (5.56%) PySpark
4 9 (4.55%) ARM Templates
5 7 (3.54%) HTML
5 7 (3.54%) React
6 5 (2.53%) Node.js
7 4 (2.02%) Ajax
7 4 (2.02%) Django
7 4 (2.02%) Flask
8 3 (1.52%) AngularJS
8 3 (1.52%) CSS3
8 3 (1.52%) Drools
8 3 (1.52%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.52%) HTML5
8 3 (1.52%) jQuery
8 3 (1.52%) JSON
8 3 (1.52%) RESTful
8 3 (1.52%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.08%) Algorithms
2 14 (7.07%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.57%) Social Media
4 11 (5.56%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.56%) Data Structures
4 11 (5.56%) Onboarding
5 10 (5.05%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (4.04%) Hedge funds
7 7 (3.54%) Management Information System
8 6 (3.03%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (3.03%) Operational Technology
9 5 (2.53%) Cloud Native
9 5 (2.53%) CMDB
9 5 (2.53%) PACS
9 5 (2.53%) Product Ownership
10 4 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
10 4 (2.02%) Client/Server
10 4 (2.02%) Cybercrime
10 4 (2.02%) Security Posture
11 3 (1.52%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 21 (10.61%) Windows
2 10 (5.05%) Linux
3 3 (1.52%) Android
3 3 (1.52%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.01%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (25.76%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (19.19%) AI
3 35 (17.68%) Software Engineering
4 34 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 31 (15.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 30 (15.15%) DevOps
7 29 (14.65%) CI/CD
8 28 (14.14%) Data Modelling
8 28 (14.14%) Mentoring
9 26 (13.13%) Agile
10 25 (12.63%) Cybersecurity
11 23 (11.62%) Analytics
11 23 (11.62%) Collaborative Working
12 19 (9.60%) Data Engineering
12 19 (9.60%) Data Governance
12 19 (9.60%) Mathematics
12 19 (9.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 15 (7.58%) Machine Learning
13 15 (7.58%) Migration
13 15 (7.58%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 78 (39.39%) Python
2 52 (26.26%) SQL
3 40 (20.20%) C#
4 35 (17.68%) Java
5 25 (12.63%) JavaScript
6 18 (9.09%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.08%) PHP
8 13 (6.57%) C++
8 13 (6.57%) PowerShell
9 8 (4.04%) C
10 4 (2.02%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.52%) Bash
11 3 (1.52%) Groovy
11 3 (1.52%) Kotlin
12 2 (1.01%) Embedded C
12 2 (1.01%) Scala
12 2 (1.01%) VB
13 1 (0.51%) Go
13 1 (0.51%) MATLAB
13 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 151 (76.26%) Degree
2 92 (46.46%) Computer Science Degree
3 26 (13.13%) AWS Certification
4 20 (10.10%) Azure Certification
5 15 (7.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 15 (7.58%) DBS Check
6 14 (7.07%) Cisco Certification
6 14 (7.07%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (6.06%) Security Cleared
8 11 (5.56%) Master's Degree
8 11 (5.56%) SC Cleared
9 10 (5.05%) CCNP
9 10 (5.05%) TOGAF Certification
10 8 (4.04%) CCIE
10 8 (4.04%) CISSP
11 6 (3.03%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 5 (2.53%) CISM
13 4 (2.02%) HND
13 4 (2.02%) PhD
14 3 (1.52%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.56%) GDPR
1 11 (5.56%) NIST
2 8 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (4.04%) PMO
3 7 (3.54%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.53%) DICOM
5 4 (2.02%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 4 (2.02%) QA
6 3 (1.52%) Accessibility
7 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.55%) Docker
2 8 (4.04%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.52%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.01%) Firmware
4 2 (1.01%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (9.60%) Terraform
2 6 (3.03%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.52%) HP Fortify
4 2 (1.01%) Ansible
4 2 (1.01%) Control-M
4 2 (1.01%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (1.01%) Grafana
4 2 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (1.01%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 14 (7.07%) Databricks
3 9 (4.55%) CheckPoint
3 9 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.04%) Blue Coat
4 8 (4.04%) Cisco
4 8 (4.04%) F5
4 8 (4.04%) Infoblox
4 8 (4.04%) Motorola
4 8 (4.04%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.53%) Atlassian
6 3 (1.52%) IFS
6 3 (1.52%) Oracle
7 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
7 2 (1.01%) OpenAI
7 2 (1.01%) VMware
8 1 (0.51%) Aruba
8 1 (0.51%) Ekahau
8 1 (0.51%) Google
8 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto