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 12 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 147 82 56
Rank change year-on-year -65 -26 +24
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 241 356 490
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.03% 3.79% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 4.33% 4.41%
Number of salaries quoted 165 226 291
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,500 £33,250 £37,912
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £82,500 £61,250 £66,500
90th Percentile £111,250 £73,250 £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 16,498 8,213 11,111
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.41% 87.47% 78.16%
Number of salaries quoted 12,339 4,122 6,263
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,001 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,235
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.40% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £79,130
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 -44 107 £40,000 -5.88% 89
Yorkshire -87 70 £60,000 +42.86% 40
North East -42 64 £75,000 +100.00% 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 8 (3.32%) Confluence
2 6 (2.49%) WordPress
3 4 (1.66%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.66%) CMS
4 2 (0.83%) Apache
4 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.41%) IIS
5 1 (0.41%) JBoss
5 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.41%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 86 (35.68%) Azure
2 57 (23.65%) AWS
3 21 (8.71%) GCP
4 17 (7.05%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (7.05%) SaaS
4 17 (7.05%) Serverless
5 12 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.73%) Azure Functions
7 9 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
7 9 (3.73%) GitHub
7 9 (3.73%) IaaS
7 9 (3.73%) PaaS
8 8 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.32%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.90%) Azure AI
10 6 (2.49%) Entra ID
10 6 (2.49%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.49%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.90%) Network Security
2 6 (2.49%) Firewall
3 4 (1.66%) HTTP
4 3 (1.24%) 5G
4 3 (1.24%) Internet
4 3 (1.24%) TCP/IP
4 3 (1.24%) VPN
4 3 (1.24%) Wireless
5 2 (0.83%) Bluetooth
5 2 (0.83%) Profibus
5 2 (0.83%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (0.83%) ZigBee
6 1 (0.41%) BGP
6 1 (0.41%) DNS
6 1 (0.41%) Intrusion Detection
6 1 (0.41%) LAN
6 1 (0.41%) OSPF
6 1 (0.41%) SNMP
6 1 (0.41%) VLAN
6 1 (0.41%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (10.79%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.98%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (4.98%) Spark SQL
3 6 (2.49%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.49%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
4 4 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.66%) Big Data
4 4 (1.66%) GIS
4 4 (1.66%) Metadata
4 4 (1.66%) Power BI
5 3 (1.24%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.24%) MySQL
5 3 (1.24%) Redis
6 2 (0.83%) Data Hub
6 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.83%) phpMyAdmin
6 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 15 (6.22%) Git
2 14 (5.81%) JIRA
3 8 (3.32%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.07%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.66%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.24%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.24%) GitLab
6 3 (1.24%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.24%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.83%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.83%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.41%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.41%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.41%) Maven
8 1 (0.41%) Selenium
General
1 77 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 71 (29.46%) Finance
3 41 (17.01%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (4.98%) Manufacturing
4 12 (4.98%) Retail
5 10 (4.15%) Financial Institution
5 10 (4.15%) Marketing
6 9 (3.73%) Banking
6 9 (3.73%) Legal
7 8 (3.32%) Games
7 8 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
10 5 (2.07%) Electronics
11 4 (1.66%) Advertising
12 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (1.24%) Public Sector
13 2 (0.83%) Social Housing
14 1 (0.41%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 53 (21.99%) Developer
2 39 (16.18%) Software Engineer
3 33 (13.69%) Graduate
4 26 (10.79%) Software Developer
5 25 (10.37%) Architect
6 24 (9.96%) Lead
7 21 (8.71%) Data Engineer
8 19 (7.88%) Senior
9 15 (6.22%) Graduate Software Engineer
9 15 (6.22%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (5.81%) Analyst
11 12 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) C++ Software Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Graduate Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Graduate Software Developer
12 11 (4.56%) Lead Data Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Rust Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) Rust Software Engineer
13 10 (4.15%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.45%) .NET
2 18 (7.47%) REST
3 15 (6.22%) CSS
4 14 (5.81%) PySpark
5 13 (5.39%) Terraform
6 12 (4.98%) React
7 10 (4.15%) AngularJS
7 10 (4.15%) Node.js
8 9 (3.73%) ARM Templates
8 9 (3.73%) HTML
9 7 (2.90%) .NET Core
9 7 (2.90%) Ajax
9 7 (2.90%) Middleware
9 7 (2.90%) Spring
10 6 (2.49%) Flask
10 6 (2.49%) jQuery
10 6 (2.49%) RESTful
10 6 (2.49%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.07%) HTML5
11 5 (2.07%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.05%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.15%) Hedge funds
3 10 (4.15%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.73%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.32%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.49%) EPoS
6 6 (2.49%) Life Science
6 6 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.07%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.07%) Cybercrime
7 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.66%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.66%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.66%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.69%) Linux
2 13 (5.39%) Windows
3 5 (2.07%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.68%) AI
2 74 (30.71%) Software Engineering
3 62 (25.73%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (22.82%) Agile
5 47 (19.50%) DevOps
6 46 (19.09%) CI/CD
7 41 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (15.77%) Mathematics
9 36 (14.94%) Analytics
10 35 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (12.03%) Mentoring
11 29 (12.03%) Workflow
12 25 (10.37%) Physics
12 25 (10.37%) Roadmaps
13 24 (9.96%) Data Science
13 24 (9.96%) Test Automation
14 23 (9.54%) Fintech
15 21 (8.71%) Data Modelling
15 21 (8.71%) Microservices
15 21 (8.71%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 70 (29.05%) Python
2 55 (22.82%) SQL
3 39 (16.18%) C#
4 36 (14.94%) Java
5 35 (14.52%) C++
6 21 (8.71%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.30%) Rust
8 19 (7.88%) PHP
9 13 (5.39%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.73%) C
11 4 (1.66%) Delphi
11 4 (1.66%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.24%) Bash
12 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Ladder Logic
14 1 (0.41%) Go
14 1 (0.41%) Kotlin
14 1 (0.41%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 213 (88.38%) Degree
2 117 (48.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.88%) Master's Degree
4 13 (5.39%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.98%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.73%) CISSP
6 9 (3.73%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.90%) Cisco Certification
7 7 (2.90%) PhD
8 6 (2.49%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.66%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.66%) CCSP
10 4 (1.66%) CISM
10 4 (1.66%) MBA
11 3 (1.24%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.24%) CCNP
11 3 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.56%) GDPR
2 8 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (3.32%) NIST
2 8 (3.32%) QA
3 7 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.24%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.83%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.41%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.41%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.41%) NCSC
6 1 (0.41%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (5.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) vSphere
4 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) Firmware
4 1 (0.41%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 14 (5.81%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.24%) Ansible
2 3 (1.24%) Control-M
2 3 (1.24%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.24%) Grafana
2 3 (1.24%) SCCM
2 3 (1.24%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.83%) Nessus
4 1 (0.41%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.41%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 41 (17.01%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.05%) Databricks
3 5 (2.07%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.07%) Google
3 5 (2.07%) Sage
3 5 (2.07%) Splunk
4 4 (1.66%) Adobe
4 4 (1.66%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.66%) Oracle
5 3 (1.24%) Foundry
5 3 (1.24%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.24%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.24%) VMware
6 2 (0.83%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.83%) BMC
6 2 (0.83%) Cisco
6 2 (0.83%) Infor
6 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.83%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.83%) Siemens