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 10 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 82 55
Rank change year-on-year -60 -27 +38
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 240 387 497
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.09% 4.02% 3.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.55% 4.51% 4.19%
Number of salaries quoted 172 262 356
10th Percentile £25,125 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £33,250 £37,574
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £67,188 £65,000
90th Percentile £109,625 £77,500 £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 15,526 8,576 11,861
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.32% 89.19% 78.61%
Number of salaries quoted 11,633 4,291 7,835
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,742
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -61 101 £40,000 -22.72% 128
Yorkshire -81 73 £62,500 +48.81% 73
North East -32 66 £75,000 +100.00% 69
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 (3.33%) Confluence
2 6 (2.50%) WordPress
3 4 (1.67%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.67%) CMS
4 3 (1.25%) JBoss
5 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.42%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (1.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.42%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.42%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 90 (37.50%) Azure
2 62 (25.83%) AWS
3 22 (9.17%) GCP
4 19 (7.92%) Serverless
5 16 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 14 (5.83%) SaaS
7 12 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon ECS
8 10 (4.17%) Amazon S3
8 10 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (3.75%) Azure Functions
9 9 (3.75%) Azure Logic Apps
9 9 (3.75%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.75%) GitHub
10 8 (3.33%) AWS CloudFormation
10 8 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (2.92%) Azure AI
11 7 (2.92%) Entra ID
11 7 (2.92%) IaaS
11 7 (2.92%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.75%) Network Security
2 8 (3.33%) Firewall
3 6 (2.50%) Wireless
4 5 (2.08%) Internet
5 4 (1.67%) LAN
5 4 (1.67%) VLAN
5 4 (1.67%) WAN
6 3 (1.25%) BGP
6 3 (1.25%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (1.25%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (1.25%) Cisco Wireless
6 3 (1.25%) EIGRP
6 3 (1.25%) OSPF
6 3 (1.25%) SNMP
6 3 (1.25%) TCP/IP
6 3 (1.25%) VPN
6 3 (1.25%) WAAS
6 3 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (1.25%) Wireless Security
7 2 (0.83%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.00%) Spark SQL
3 11 (4.58%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (3.33%) DynamoDB
5 7 (2.92%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.92%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.67%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.67%) GIS
6 4 (1.67%) Metadata
7 3 (1.25%) Big Data
7 3 (1.25%) ClickHouse
7 3 (1.25%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (1.25%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.25%) MySQL
7 3 (1.25%) Power BI
7 3 (1.25%) Redis
8 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.83%) Data Hub
8 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.67%) Git
2 11 (4.58%) JIRA
3 8 (3.33%) Bitbucket
4 6 (2.50%) SonarQube
5 5 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (1.67%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.67%) GitLab
6 4 (1.67%) Jenkins
7 3 (1.25%) Artifactory
7 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
7 3 (1.25%) Maven
7 3 (1.25%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (1.25%) Selenium
7 3 (1.25%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.42%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.42%) LabVIEW
General
1 74 (30.83%) Social Skills
2 66 (27.50%) Finance
3 36 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.67%) Retail
5 12 (5.00%) Manufacturing
5 12 (5.00%) Marketing
6 11 (4.58%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.75%) Legal
8 8 (3.33%) Banking
8 8 (3.33%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.33%) Games
9 7 (2.92%) Electronics
10 6 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.67%) Advertising
13 3 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.83%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.83%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.42%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 54 (22.50%) Developer
2 42 (17.50%) Software Engineer
3 35 (14.58%) Graduate
4 27 (11.25%) Software Developer
5 22 (9.17%) Architect
5 22 (9.17%) Lead
6 21 (8.75%) Data Engineer
6 21 (8.75%) Senior
7 16 (6.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 15 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
9 13 (5.42%) Graduate Developer
9 13 (5.42%) Graduate Software Developer
10 12 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 12 (5.00%) Principal Software Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Analyst
11 11 (4.58%) C++ Software Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Lead Data Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Rust Engineer
11 11 (4.58%) Rust Software Engineer
12 9 (3.75%) Rust Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (11.67%) .NET
2 18 (7.50%) REST
3 15 (6.25%) CSS
4 13 (5.42%) PySpark
5 12 (5.00%) AngularJS
5 12 (5.00%) Node.js
5 12 (5.00%) React
6 9 (3.75%) ARM Templates
6 9 (3.75%) HTML
7 8 (3.33%) Spring Boot
8 7 (2.92%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.92%) Ajax
8 7 (2.92%) Flask
8 7 (2.92%) RESTful
8 7 (2.92%) Spring
9 6 (2.50%) jQuery
10 5 (2.08%) CSS3
10 5 (2.08%) HTML5
10 5 (2.08%) Kafka
10 5 (2.08%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 17 (7.08%) Algorithms
2 12 (5.00%) Hedge funds
3 10 (4.17%) Onboarding
3 10 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.75%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.92%) Data Structures
5 7 (2.92%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.50%) Cybercrime
6 6 (2.50%) EPoS
6 6 (2.50%) Life Science
6 6 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.08%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.08%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.08%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.08%) Social Media
8 4 (1.67%) Marketing Technology
9 3 (1.25%) AI Agents
9 3 (1.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (13.33%) Linux
2 12 (5.00%) Windows
3 4 (1.67%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.83%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.83%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (35.00%) AI
2 72 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 57 (23.75%) Problem-Solving
4 55 (22.92%) Agile
5 46 (19.17%) CI/CD
5 46 (19.17%) DevOps
6 39 (16.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 36 (15.00%) Mathematics
8 31 (12.92%) Analytics
8 31 (12.92%) Cybersecurity
9 28 (11.67%) Mentoring
10 27 (11.25%) Workflow
11 25 (10.42%) Physics
11 25 (10.42%) Roadmaps
11 25 (10.42%) Test Automation
12 23 (9.58%) Fintech
13 22 (9.17%) Data Science
14 21 (8.75%) Technical Debt
15 20 (8.33%) Microservices
15 20 (8.33%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.83%) Python
2 54 (22.50%) SQL
3 40 (16.67%) C#
4 34 (14.17%) C++
5 33 (13.75%) Java
6 22 (9.17%) JavaScript
7 21 (8.75%) PHP
8 20 (8.33%) Rust
9 15 (6.25%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.75%) C
11 4 (1.67%) Delphi
11 4 (1.67%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.25%) Bash
12 3 (1.25%) Groovy
12 3 (1.25%) Kotlin
12 3 (1.25%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.83%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.42%) Ada
14 1 (0.42%) VB
14 1 (0.42%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 204 (85.00%) Degree
2 124 (51.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.92%) Master's Degree
4 15 (6.25%) AWS Certification
5 10 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
6 9 (3.75%) CISSP
7 8 (3.33%) DBS Check
8 7 (2.92%) Security Cleared
9 6 (2.50%) SC Cleared
10 5 (2.08%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (2.08%) Azure Certification
10 5 (2.08%) CCNP
11 4 (1.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 4 (1.67%) CCSP
11 4 (1.67%) CISM
11 4 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
11 4 (1.67%) MBA
12 3 (1.25%) CCIE
12 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.00%) GDPR
2 10 (4.17%) QA
3 8 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (3.33%) NIST
4 5 (2.08%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.25%) Accessibility
6 3 (1.25%) PMO
7 2 (0.83%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.42%) DICOM
8 1 (0.42%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 17 (7.08%) Docker
2 3 (1.25%) ProxySG
2 3 (1.25%) vSphere
3 2 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.83%) Firmware
4 1 (0.42%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 16 (6.67%) Terraform
2 15 (6.25%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.25%) Ansible
3 3 (1.25%) Control-M
3 3 (1.25%) Docker Swarm
3 3 (1.25%) Grafana
3 3 (1.25%) HP Fortify
4 2 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
4 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.83%) Nessus
4 2 (0.83%) SCCM
5 1 (0.42%) CloudHub
5 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 42 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.08%) Databricks
3 5 (2.08%) Google
3 5 (2.08%) Sage
3 5 (2.08%) Splunk
4 4 (1.67%) Adobe
4 4 (1.67%) CheckPoint
4 4 (1.67%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.25%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.25%) Blue Coat
5 3 (1.25%) Cisco
5 3 (1.25%) F5
5 3 (1.25%) Foundry
5 3 (1.25%) Infoblox
5 3 (1.25%) Motorola
5 3 (1.25%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.25%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.25%) SolarWinds
5 3 (1.25%) VMware