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

6 months to
31 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 40 53
Rank change year-on-year -90 +13 +103
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 199 347 598
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.29% 5.43% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.74% 5.75% 4.54%
Number of salaries quoted 119 197 467
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,750 £42,000 £33,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,500 £48,734
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +15.94% +2.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £86,290 £81,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -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 11,425 6,032 13,162
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 74.28% 94.38% 84.20%
Number of salaries quoted 6,851 3,674 10,531
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,750
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,500 £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 £68,750 £70,000 £65,598
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,163 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.06% +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 31 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 31 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 -63 100 £47,500 +2.15% 35
North West -87 67 £57,500 -5.74% 59
North East -23 32 £51,500 -10.43% 21
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 (2.01%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.51%) JBoss
2 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.51%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.01%) CMS
3 2 (1.01%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.50%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.50%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (4.02%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.50%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.50%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 3 (1.51%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.01%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 69 (34.67%) Azure
2 60 (30.15%) AWS
3 26 (13.07%) Serverless
4 11 (5.53%) GCP
5 10 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (3.02%) Amazon S3
6 6 (3.02%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (2.51%) Entra ID
8 4 (2.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 4 (2.01%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon ECR
9 3 (1.51%) Amazon ECS
9 3 (1.51%) AWS Step Functions
9 3 (1.51%) Azure Functions
9 3 (1.51%) Azure Logic Apps
9 3 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.51%) Power Platform
9 3 (1.51%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 13 (6.53%) Network Security
2 12 (6.03%) Firewall
3 10 (5.03%) VPN
4 9 (4.52%) LAN
4 9 (4.52%) VLAN
4 9 (4.52%) WAN
4 9 (4.52%) Wireless
5 8 (4.02%) BGP
5 8 (4.02%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (4.02%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (4.02%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (4.02%) EIGRP
5 8 (4.02%) OSPF
5 8 (4.02%) SNMP
5 8 (4.02%) WAAS
5 8 (4.02%) Wireless Security
6 3 (1.51%) DMZ
6 3 (1.51%) Modbus
6 3 (1.51%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.52%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.52%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.51%) DynamoDB
3 5 (2.51%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (2.51%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.01%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (2.01%) Spark SQL
5 3 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.51%) Big Data
5 3 (1.51%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.51%) Power BI
5 3 (1.51%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.01%) BigQuery
6 2 (1.01%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.01%) Metadata
6 2 (1.01%) Tableau
7 1 (0.50%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.50%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 31 (15.58%) JIRA
2 5 (2.51%) Bitbucket
2 5 (2.51%) Git
3 4 (2.01%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.51%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.51%) Cypress.io
4 3 (1.51%) GitLab
4 3 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.51%) Maven
4 3 (1.51%) Selenium
5 2 (1.01%) LabVIEW
6 1 (0.50%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.50%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (0.50%) TeamCity
General
1 111 (55.78%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.59%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (16.58%) Finance
4 17 (8.54%) Organisational Skills
5 16 (8.04%) Retail
6 11 (5.53%) Manufacturing
7 8 (4.02%) Esports
8 7 (3.52%) Marketing
8 7 (3.52%) Pharmaceutical
9 5 (2.51%) Electronics
10 4 (2.01%) Public Sector
11 3 (1.51%) Advertising
11 3 (1.51%) French Language
11 3 (1.51%) Italian Language
11 3 (1.51%) Legal
11 3 (1.51%) Portuguese Language
11 3 (1.51%) Spanish Language
12 2 (1.01%) Automotive
12 2 (1.01%) General Ledger
12 2 (1.01%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 40 (20.10%) Developer
2 27 (13.57%) Graduate
3 23 (11.56%) JIRA Developer
4 21 (10.55%) Architect
4 21 (10.55%) Senior
4 21 (10.55%) Software Engineer
5 17 (8.54%) Analyst
6 10 (5.03%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 9 (4.52%) Applications Architect
7 9 (4.52%) Applications Support
7 9 (4.52%) Network Engineer
8 8 (4.02%) C# Developer
8 8 (4.02%) C# Software Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Graduate C# Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Graduate C# Software Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Graduate Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Graduate Software Developer
8 8 (4.02%) Senior Network Engineer
8 8 (4.02%) Software Architect
8 8 (4.02%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.02%) React
2 7 (3.52%) .NET
3 6 (3.02%) Django
4 5 (2.51%) Celery
4 5 (2.51%) CSS
4 5 (2.51%) FastAPI
4 5 (2.51%) Flask
4 5 (2.51%) REST
4 5 (2.51%) RESTful
4 5 (2.51%) Vue
5 4 (2.01%) Node.js
6 3 (1.51%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.51%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.51%) Drools
6 3 (1.51%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.51%) HTML
6 3 (1.51%) OpenAPI
6 3 (1.51%) Spring Boot
6 3 (1.51%) Swagger
6 3 (1.51%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.54%) Driving Licence
1 17 (8.54%) Enterprise Software
2 13 (6.53%) Onboarding
2 13 (6.53%) Social Media
3 12 (6.03%) Management Information System
4 11 (5.53%) Data Centre
5 9 (4.52%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.52%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.51%) CMDB
7 5 (2.51%) PACS
7 5 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 4 (2.01%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.01%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.51%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.51%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.51%) NHS
9 3 (1.51%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.51%) SCADA
9 3 (1.51%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.06%) Windows
2 16 (8.04%) Linux
3 4 (2.01%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.51%) Android
4 3 (1.51%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.01%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (39.20%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (27.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 39 (19.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 38 (19.10%) ITIL
5 33 (16.58%) Software Engineering
6 30 (15.08%) Change Management
6 30 (15.08%) Mentoring
7 28 (14.07%) Incident Management
7 28 (14.07%) Service Management
8 26 (13.07%) ITSM
9 25 (12.56%) Cybersecurity
10 24 (12.06%) AI
10 24 (12.06%) Data Modelling
11 23 (11.56%) Asset Management
12 22 (11.06%) Collaborative Working
13 21 (10.55%) Agile
13 21 (10.55%) Migration
14 20 (10.05%) Application Security
14 20 (10.05%) Architectural Patterns
14 20 (10.05%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 69 (34.67%) Python
2 48 (24.12%) JavaScript
3 43 (21.61%) SQL
4 38 (19.10%) Java
5 34 (17.09%) PowerShell
6 30 (15.08%) C#
7 23 (11.56%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.53%) C++
9 10 (5.03%) C
10 8 (4.02%) PHP
11 7 (3.52%) PL/SQL
12 3 (1.51%) Bash
12 3 (1.51%) Delphi
12 3 (1.51%) Groovy
12 3 (1.51%) Kotlin
13 2 (1.01%) Embedded C
13 2 (1.01%) Scala
13 2 (1.01%) VB
14 1 (0.50%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.50%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 162 (81.41%) Degree
2 78 (39.20%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (16.58%) AWS Certification
4 27 (13.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 25 (12.56%) Azure Certification
6 23 (11.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (11.06%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (8.54%) TOGAF Certification
9 14 (7.04%) DBS Check
9 14 (7.04%) Master's Degree
10 11 (5.53%) Cisco Certification
11 10 (5.03%) CCNP
12 8 (4.02%) CCIE
13 7 (3.52%) SC Cleared
13 7 (3.52%) Security Cleared
14 6 (3.02%) CISSP
14 6 (3.02%) HND
15 5 (2.51%) CISM
15 5 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
15 5 (2.51%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 8 (4.02%) NIST
2 8 (4.02%) PMO
3 5 (2.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 5 (2.51%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.51%) DICOM
3 5 (2.51%) GDPR
3 5 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.51%) QA
5 2 (1.01%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 9 (4.52%) Docker
2 8 (4.02%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.51%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (1.01%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (1.01%) Firmware
5 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (6.03%) Terraform
2 10 (5.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (2.51%) Control-M
3 5 (2.51%) Grafana
4 4 (2.01%) Prometheus
5 3 (1.51%) HP Fortify
6 2 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.01%) SCCM
7 1 (0.50%) Ansible
7 1 (0.50%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 35 (17.59%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.06%) Atlassian
3 9 (4.52%) CheckPoint
3 9 (4.52%) ServiceNow
4 8 (4.02%) Blue Coat
4 8 (4.02%) Cisco
4 8 (4.02%) F5
4 8 (4.02%) Infoblox
4 8 (4.02%) Motorola
4 8 (4.02%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.51%) Oracle
6 4 (2.01%) Databricks
7 3 (1.51%) IFS
8 2 (1.01%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.01%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.01%) VMware
9 1 (0.50%) Aruba
9 1 (0.50%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.50%) PayPal
9 1 (0.50%) Siemens