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

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 76 52
Rank change year-on-year -73 -24 +35
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 241 376 512
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 3.94% 3.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 4.47% 4.42%
Number of salaries quoted 168 253 328
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,250 £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 £65,000 £66,313
90th Percentile £111,250 £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 16,134 8,410 11,587
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.37% 88.10% 78.10%
Number of salaries quoted 12,096 4,298 7,051
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.58% -4.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
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 31 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 31 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 -57 103 £40,000 -22.15% 69
Yorkshire -75 73 £60,000 +42.86% 27
North East -33 65 £75,000 +100.00% 27
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 5 (2.07%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.66%) CMS
5 2 (0.83%) Apache
5 2 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.83%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.41%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.41%) IIS
6 1 (0.41%) JBoss
6 1 (0.41%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.41%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.41%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.41%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.49%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.41%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.41%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 88 (36.51%) Azure
2 59 (24.48%) AWS
3 21 (8.71%) GCP
4 17 (7.05%) Serverless
5 16 (6.64%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.64%) SaaS
6 12 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.15%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.73%) Azure Functions
8 9 (3.73%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.73%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.73%) GitHub
9 8 (3.32%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.32%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.32%) IaaS
9 8 (3.32%) PaaS
10 7 (2.90%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.49%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.49%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.32%) Network Security
2 7 (2.90%) Firewall
3 5 (2.07%) Wireless
4 4 (1.66%) HTTP
4 4 (1.66%) Internet
4 4 (1.66%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.24%) LAN
5 3 (1.24%) VLAN
5 3 (1.24%) VPN
5 3 (1.24%) WAN
5 3 (1.24%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.83%) BGP
6 2 (0.83%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.83%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.83%) EIGRP
6 2 (0.83%) OSPF
6 2 (0.83%) SNMP
6 2 (0.83%) WAAS
6 2 (0.83%) Wireless Security
6 2 (0.83%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.37%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.98%) Spark SQL
3 11 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.49%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.49%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.49%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.66%) GIS
5 4 (1.66%) Metadata
6 3 (1.24%) Big Data
6 3 (1.24%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.24%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.24%) MySQL
6 3 (1.24%) Power BI
6 3 (1.24%) Redis
7 2 (0.83%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.83%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.83%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.83%) phpMyAdmin
7 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.64%) Git
2 12 (4.98%) 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 75 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 71 (29.46%) Finance
3 37 (15.35%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.81%) Retail
5 12 (4.98%) Marketing
6 10 (4.15%) Financial Institution
6 10 (4.15%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.73%) Banking
8 8 (3.32%) Games
8 8 (3.32%) Legal
8 8 (3.32%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (2.07%) Electronics
12 4 (1.66%) Advertising
13 3 (1.24%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.24%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.83%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.41%) Law
Job Titles
1 53 (21.99%) Developer
2 39 (16.18%) Software Engineer
3 34 (14.11%) Graduate
4 27 (11.20%) Software Developer
5 23 (9.54%) Architect
6 22 (9.13%) 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 13 (5.39%) Analyst
10 13 (5.39%) Graduate Developer
10 13 (5.39%) Graduate Software Developer
11 12 (4.98%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (4.98%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (4.56%) C++ Software Engineer
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 29 (12.03%) .NET
2 18 (7.47%) REST
3 15 (6.22%) CSS
4 14 (5.81%) PySpark
5 13 (5.39%) Terraform
6 11 (4.56%) 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%) Spring
10 6 (2.49%) Flask
10 6 (2.49%) jQuery
10 6 (2.49%) Middleware
10 6 (2.49%) RESTful
10 6 (2.49%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.07%) HTML5
11 5 (2.07%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.47%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.39%) Onboarding
3 11 (4.56%) Hedge funds
4 9 (3.73%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.73%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.73%) Product Ownership
5 7 (2.90%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.49%) Cybercrime
6 6 (2.49%) EPoS
6 6 (2.49%) Life Science
6 6 (2.49%) Renewable Energy
6 6 (2.49%) Security Posture
7 5 (2.07%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.07%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.07%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.66%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.66%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.66%) Robotics
9 3 (1.24%) AI Agents
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 84 (34.85%) AI
2 72 (29.88%) Software Engineering
3 59 (24.48%) Problem-Solving
4 54 (22.41%) Agile
5 46 (19.09%) DevOps
6 45 (18.67%) CI/CD
7 41 (17.01%) Continuous Improvement
8 37 (15.35%) Mathematics
9 33 (13.69%) Analytics
9 33 (13.69%) Cybersecurity
10 28 (11.62%) Mentoring
10 28 (11.62%) Workflow
11 25 (10.37%) Physics
11 25 (10.37%) Roadmaps
12 24 (9.96%) Fintech
12 24 (9.96%) Test Automation
13 22 (9.13%) Data Science
14 21 (8.71%) Data Modelling
14 21 (8.71%) Technical Debt
15 20 (8.30%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 74 (30.71%) Python
2 57 (23.65%) SQL
3 40 (16.60%) C#
4 36 (14.94%) Java
5 35 (14.52%) C++
6 21 (8.71%) PHP
7 20 (8.30%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.30%) Rust
8 13 (5.39%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.73%) C
10 4 (1.66%) Delphi
10 4 (1.66%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.24%) Bash
11 3 (1.24%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.83%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.41%) Ada
13 1 (0.41%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.41%) Groovy
13 1 (0.41%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.41%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 208 (86.31%) Degree
2 120 (49.79%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.47%) Master's Degree
4 12 (4.98%) AWS Certification
5 11 (4.56%) Security Cleared
6 9 (3.73%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (3.32%) CISSP
8 7 (2.90%) DBS Check
9 6 (2.49%) PhD
9 6 (2.49%) SC Cleared
10 5 (2.07%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
11 4 (1.66%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.66%) CCNP
11 4 (1.66%) CCSP
11 4 (1.66%) MBA
12 3 (1.24%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.24%) CISM
12 3 (1.24%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.98%) GDPR
2 10 (4.15%) QA
3 7 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.90%) NIST
4 6 (2.49%) Data Quality
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
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.83%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) Accessibility
System Software
1 14 (5.81%) Docker
2 4 (1.66%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.24%) vSphere
4 2 (0.83%) ProxySG
5 1 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
5 1 (0.41%) Firmware
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%) Google
3 5 (2.07%) Sage
3 5 (2.07%) Splunk
4 4 (1.66%) Adobe
4 4 (1.66%) Atlassian
4 4 (1.66%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.66%) Oracle
5 3 (1.24%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.24%) Cisco
5 3 (1.24%) Foundry
5 3 (1.24%) Palo Alto
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%) Infoblox
6 2 (0.83%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.83%) SolarWinds