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 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 40 66
Rank change year-on-year -50 +26 +56
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 224 470 278
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.12% 4.84% 4.12%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.54% 5.41% 4.38%
Number of salaries quoted 144 206 207
10th Percentile £25,225 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,217 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +21.05%
75th Percentile £74,063 £67,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,250 £80,100 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,520
% change year-on-year -4.00% -4.61% +4.83%

All Process and 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 8,835 8,681 6,349
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.58% 89.45% 94.17%
Number of salaries quoted 4,604 3,973 4,922
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,938 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -4.63% +2.86%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £83,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 20 December 2025.

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 20 December 2025. 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 -38 107 £43,750 -7.89% 38
North West -61 65 £60,000 +17.10% 49
North East +12 52 £47,500 -5.00% 16
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 5 (2.23%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.23%) CMS
1 5 (2.23%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.34%) Kinematics
2 3 (1.34%) Magnolia
2 3 (1.34%) WordPress
3 1 (0.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.45%) IIS
3 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.45%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (4.46%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (4.46%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (3.57%) Chatbot
2 8 (3.57%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.68%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.79%) Autodesk Inventor
5 3 (1.34%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Sage 200
2 3 (1.34%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.89%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 75 (33.48%) Azure
2 54 (24.11%) AWS
3 22 (9.82%) Serverless
4 15 (6.70%) GCP
5 14 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
6 13 (5.80%) Power Platform
6 13 (5.80%) SaaS
7 6 (2.68%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.79%) GitHub
8 4 (1.79%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon EC2
10 2 (0.89%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.89%) Figma
10 2 (0.89%) OCI
11 1 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.45%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.45%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.91%) Firewall
1 11 (4.91%) VPN
2 9 (4.02%) DNS
2 9 (4.02%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.57%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (3.13%) Network Security
5 6 (2.68%) Asterisk PBX
5 6 (2.68%) PSTN
5 6 (2.68%) VoIP
6 4 (1.79%) SAN
7 3 (1.34%) DMZ
7 3 (1.34%) Modbus
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (0.89%) VLAN
8 2 (0.89%) WAAS
8 2 (0.89%) WAN
8 2 (0.89%) Wireless
8 2 (0.89%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.02%) Power BI
3 6 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.68%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.23%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.23%) MySQL
4 5 (2.23%) NoSQL
5 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.79%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.79%) Looker
5 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.79%) Tableau
6 3 (1.34%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.89%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.89%) Big Data
7 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.89%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.45%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 37 (16.52%) JIRA
2 10 (4.46%) Bitbucket
2 10 (4.46%) Git
3 3 (1.34%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.34%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.34%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
General
1 128 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 52 (23.21%) Finance
3 35 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.48%) Retail
5 18 (8.04%) Marketing
6 13 (5.80%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (3.13%) Advertising
9 6 (2.68%) Legal
9 6 (2.68%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.23%) Law
11 3 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.34%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.89%) Agriculture
12 2 (0.89%) Back Office
12 2 (0.89%) Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Games
12 2 (0.89%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.89%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (22.32%) Developer
2 31 (13.84%) Senior
3 25 (11.16%) Architect
4 23 (10.27%) JIRA Developer
5 20 (8.93%) Graduate
6 18 (8.04%) Analyst
7 15 (6.70%) Technical Support
8 14 (6.25%) Software Engineer
9 12 (5.36%) Applications Architect
9 12 (5.36%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (4.46%) Support Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Consultant
11 9 (4.02%) Coordinator
11 9 (4.02%) Software Architect
11 9 (4.02%) Technical Engineer
11 9 (4.02%) Technical Support Engineer
12 8 (3.57%) Administrator
12 8 (3.57%) Software Engineering Graduate
12 8 (3.57%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.57%) Trainer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.38%) CSS
2 11 (4.91%) React
3 10 (4.46%) .NET
4 7 (3.13%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.68%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.23%) Django
6 5 (2.23%) jQuery
6 5 (2.23%) RESTful
6 5 (2.23%) Vue
7 4 (1.79%) Celery
7 4 (1.79%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.79%) Flask
7 4 (1.79%) HTML
7 4 (1.79%) Middleware
7 4 (1.79%) REST
8 3 (1.34%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (1.34%) Itk
8 3 (1.34%) Micronaut
8 3 (1.34%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.34%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (9.38%) Enterprise Software
2 19 (8.48%) Onboarding
3 13 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.91%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.57%) LIMS
6 7 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.68%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.23%) NHS
9 4 (1.79%) Data Structures
9 4 (1.79%) SCADA
10 3 (1.34%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.34%) Robotics
10 3 (1.34%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.89%) FMCG
11 2 (0.89%) iPad
11 2 (0.89%) iPhone
11 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
12 1 (0.45%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.52%) Linux
2 27 (12.05%) Windows
3 11 (4.91%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.45%) Android
6 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (19.20%) Change Management
4 42 (18.75%) ITIL
5 38 (16.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 33 (14.73%) Agile
7 30 (13.39%) Software Engineering
8 29 (12.95%) DevOps
8 29 (12.95%) Incident Management
9 28 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (12.50%) ITSM
9 28 (12.50%) Migration
9 28 (12.50%) Service Management
10 24 (10.71%) Application Security
10 24 (10.71%) Mentoring
11 23 (10.27%) Asset Management
11 23 (10.27%) Microservices
11 23 (10.27%) Project Management
12 22 (9.82%) CI/CD
13 21 (9.38%) Architectural Patterns
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.68%) Python
2 54 (24.11%) Java
2 54 (24.11%) SQL
3 50 (22.32%) JavaScript
4 42 (18.75%) C#
5 32 (14.29%) PowerShell
6 24 (10.71%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.14%) C
8 14 (6.25%) C++
9 10 (4.46%) Delphi
10 9 (4.02%) Bash
11 8 (3.57%) PL/SQL
12 7 (3.13%) PHP
13 6 (2.68%) Perl
14 3 (1.34%) Tcl
15 2 (0.89%) Swift
16 1 (0.45%) Go
16 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
16 1 (0.45%) R
16 1 (0.45%) Scala
Qualifications
1 197 (87.95%) Degree
2 97 (43.30%) Computer Science Degree
3 30 (13.39%) Master's Degree
4 28 (12.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 25 (11.16%) AWS Certification
5 25 (11.16%) Azure Certification
5 25 (11.16%) Microsoft Certification
6 24 (10.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 20 (8.93%) HND
7 20 (8.93%) TOGAF Certification
8 11 (4.91%) HNC
9 9 (4.02%) PhD
10 8 (3.57%) CCNP
10 8 (3.57%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (3.57%) SC Cleared
10 8 (3.57%) Security Cleared
11 7 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.68%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (1.34%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.68%) IEC 61131
1 6 (2.68%) ISO 9001
2 5 (2.23%) Data Quality
3 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.34%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.34%) NIST
5 2 (0.89%) NCSC
5 2 (0.89%) PMO
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) QA
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.57%) Docker
3 5 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.34%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.34%) vSphere
5 2 (0.89%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (7.14%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.46%) Control-M
2 10 (4.46%) Grafana
3 7 (3.13%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.79%) Terraform
5 3 (1.34%) Ansible
5 3 (1.34%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.34%) Functional Safety
6 1 (0.45%) AssetCenter
6 1 (0.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 59 (26.34%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.61%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.46%) Siemens
4 9 (4.02%) Cisco
5 8 (3.57%) PayPal
6 7 (3.13%) Google
6 7 (3.13%) VMware
7 6 (2.68%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (2.68%) HubSpot
7 6 (2.68%) ServiceNow
7 6 (2.68%) Toshiba
8 4 (1.79%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.79%) Sage
9 3 (1.34%) Oracle
9 3 (1.34%) UiPath
10 2 (0.89%) Blue Coat
10 2 (0.89%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.89%) Motorola
10 2 (0.89%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.89%) Salesforce