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 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 97 39 63
Rank change year-on-year -58 +24 +80
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 223 440 458
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.90% 5.13% 3.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 5.60% 4.57%
Number of salaries quoted 131 176 356
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,100 £77,450
England median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -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 9,186 7,864 10,019
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 78.17% 91.77% 86.96%
Number of salaries quoted 5,043 3,556 8,180
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -6.38%
75th Percentile £66,250 £68,750 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £80,070
England median annual salary £55,000 £61,425 £57,500
% change year-on-year -10.46% +6.83% -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 1 February 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 1 February 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 -40 115 £50,000 - 29
North West -61 65 £57,500 +9.52% 58
North East -2 43 £47,500 -17.39% 18
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 (2.24%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.35%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.90%) Headless CMS
4 1 (0.45%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.45%) IIS
4 1 (0.45%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.45%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.45%) Tomcat
4 1 (0.45%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.14%) SOLIDWORKS
3 6 (2.69%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.35%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.35%) Siemens NX
5 2 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.45%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (1.35%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.45%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.45%) Sage 200
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 80 (35.87%) Azure
2 67 (30.04%) AWS
3 28 (12.56%) Serverless
4 19 (8.52%) Microsoft 365
5 16 (7.17%) GCP
6 12 (5.38%) Power Platform
7 9 (4.04%) SaaS
8 4 (1.79%) Cloud Computing
8 4 (1.79%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon Cognito
9 3 (1.35%) Amazon S3
9 3 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (1.35%) Entra ID
9 3 (1.35%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.90%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.90%) Figma
10 2 (0.90%) GitHub
10 2 (0.90%) OCI
11 1 (0.45%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 13 (5.83%) Firewall
1 13 (5.83%) VPN
2 9 (4.04%) DNS
2 9 (4.04%) Network Security
2 9 (4.04%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.59%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (2.69%) Asterisk PBX
4 6 (2.69%) PSTN
4 6 (2.69%) VoIP
5 4 (1.79%) BGP
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (1.79%) Cisco Wireless
5 4 (1.79%) EIGRP
5 4 (1.79%) LAN
5 4 (1.79%) OSPF
5 4 (1.79%) SNMP
5 4 (1.79%) WAAS
5 4 (1.79%) WAN
5 4 (1.79%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.56%) SQL Server
2 10 (4.48%) Power BI
3 8 (3.59%) NoSQL
4 7 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
5 5 (2.24%) BigQuery
5 5 (2.24%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.79%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.79%) Hadoop
6 4 (1.79%) Looker
6 4 (1.79%) MySQL
6 4 (1.79%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.79%) Tableau
7 3 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.35%) Big Data
7 3 (1.35%) Electronic Patient Records
8 2 (0.90%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.90%) Data Mining
8 2 (0.90%) DynamoDB
8 2 (0.90%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 36 (16.14%) JIRA
2 9 (4.04%) Bitbucket
2 9 (4.04%) Git
3 2 (0.90%) Artifactory
3 2 (0.90%) Octopus Deploy
3 2 (0.90%) SonarQube
3 2 (0.90%) TeamCity
General
1 138 (61.88%) Social Skills
2 49 (21.97%) Finance
3 46 (20.63%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (7.62%) Retail
5 16 (7.17%) Marketing
6 10 (4.48%) Manufacturing
6 10 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (3.59%) Esports
7 8 (3.59%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (2.69%) Advertising
8 6 (2.69%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.35%) Financial Institution
9 3 (1.35%) French Language
9 3 (1.35%) Italian Language
9 3 (1.35%) Portuguese Language
9 3 (1.35%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.35%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.90%) Agriculture
10 2 (0.90%) Banking
10 2 (0.90%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 40 (17.94%) Developer
2 31 (13.90%) Architect
3 26 (11.66%) Senior
4 25 (11.21%) Analyst
5 24 (10.76%) Graduate
6 23 (10.31%) JIRA Developer
7 16 (7.17%) Software Engineer
8 14 (6.28%) Applications Architect
9 12 (5.38%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (4.93%) Software Architect
11 10 (4.48%) Applications Support
12 8 (3.59%) Consultant
12 8 (3.59%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.59%) Graduate Software Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) IT Graduate
12 8 (3.59%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Logistics Engineer
12 8 (3.59%) Software Engineering Graduate
12 8 (3.59%) Support Analyst
13 7 (3.14%) Applications Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.97%) CSS
2 10 (4.48%) .NET
3 9 (4.04%) React
4 6 (2.69%) Django
4 6 (2.69%) FreeSWITCH
4 6 (2.69%) RESTful
5 5 (2.24%) ASP.NET
5 5 (2.24%) Celery
5 5 (2.24%) FastAPI
5 5 (2.24%) Flask
5 5 (2.24%) Vue
6 4 (1.79%) HTML
6 4 (1.79%) jQuery
7 3 (1.35%) Itk
7 3 (1.35%) Micronaut
7 3 (1.35%) OpenAPI
7 3 (1.35%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.35%) Swagger
8 2 (0.90%) Elastic Stack
8 2 (0.90%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 27 (12.11%) Onboarding
2 25 (11.21%) Enterprise Software
3 14 (6.28%) Driving Licence
3 14 (6.28%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.59%) LIMS
4 8 (3.59%) Social Media
5 7 (3.14%) Data Centre
6 6 (2.69%) Data Structures
6 6 (2.69%) Operational Technology
7 5 (2.24%) CMDB
8 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
8 4 (1.79%) SCADA
8 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.35%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.35%) NHS
9 3 (1.35%) PACS
10 2 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.90%) FMCG
10 2 (0.90%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 39 (17.49%) Windows
2 35 (15.70%) Linux
3 13 (5.83%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 3 (1.35%) Android
5 3 (1.35%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.90%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.70%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (28.70%) Continuous Improvement
3 47 (21.08%) ITIL
4 46 (20.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 42 (18.83%) Change Management
6 31 (13.90%) Agile
7 30 (13.45%) ITSM
7 30 (13.45%) Mentoring
8 29 (13.00%) DevOps
8 29 (13.00%) Incident Management
8 29 (13.00%) Migration
8 29 (13.00%) Software Engineering
9 28 (12.56%) Application Security
9 28 (12.56%) Data Modelling
9 28 (12.56%) Service Management
10 27 (12.11%) Microservices
11 25 (11.21%) Architectural Patterns
11 25 (11.21%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (11.21%) Enterprise Architecture
12 24 (10.76%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 72 (32.29%) Python
2 59 (26.46%) SQL
3 55 (24.66%) Java
4 54 (24.22%) JavaScript
5 37 (16.59%) PowerShell
6 36 (16.14%) C#
7 28 (12.56%) TypeScript
8 14 (6.28%) C
9 12 (5.38%) C++
10 8 (3.59%) Bash
10 8 (3.59%) PL/SQL
11 6 (2.69%) Perl
11 6 (2.69%) PHP
12 4 (1.79%) Delphi
13 3 (1.35%) Tcl
14 2 (0.90%) Scala
15 1 (0.45%) Go
15 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
15 1 (0.45%) R
Qualifications
1 196 (87.89%) Degree
2 98 (43.95%) Computer Science Degree
3 36 (16.14%) AWS Certification
4 31 (13.90%) Azure Certification
5 30 (13.45%) Microsoft Certification
6 28 (12.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 28 (12.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 26 (11.66%) Master's Degree
8 24 (10.76%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (8.97%) HND
10 11 (4.93%) DBS Check
10 11 (4.93%) HNC
11 10 (4.48%) CCNP
11 10 (4.48%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (4.04%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (3.59%) ITIL Certification
14 7 (3.14%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (3.14%) SC Cleared
14 7 (3.14%) Security Cleared
15 4 (1.79%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (2.69%) IEC 61131
2 5 (2.24%) NIST
3 4 (1.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 4 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.79%) PMO
4 3 (1.35%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.35%) DICOM
5 2 (0.90%) NCSC
6 1 (0.45%) GDPR
6 1 (0.45%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.45%) QA
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (4.04%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.59%) Docker
3 4 (1.79%) ProxySG
3 4 (1.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.90%) vSphere
6 1 (0.45%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.04%) Control-M
2 9 (4.04%) Grafana
3 7 (3.14%) Prometheus
4 5 (2.24%) Terraform
5 3 (1.35%) SCCM
6 2 (0.90%) Ansible
6 2 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
6 2 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.45%) AssetCenter
7 1 (0.45%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 58 (26.01%) Microsoft
2 25 (11.21%) Atlassian
3 11 (4.93%) Cisco
4 10 (4.48%) Siemens
5 8 (3.59%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.69%) Allen-Bradley
6 6 (2.69%) Google
6 6 (2.69%) HubSpot
6 6 (2.69%) Oracle
6 6 (2.69%) Toshiba
6 6 (2.69%) VMware
7 4 (1.79%) Blue Coat
7 4 (1.79%) CheckPoint
7 4 (1.79%) F5
7 4 (1.79%) Infoblox
7 4 (1.79%) Motorola
7 4 (1.79%) SolarWinds
8 3 (1.35%) IFS
8 3 (1.35%) PayPal
8 3 (1.35%) UiPath