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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 59 56
Rank change year-on-year -100 -3 +76
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 205 446 670
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.03% 5.56% 3.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 5.90% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 143 256 502
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +24.44% -5.26% -13.64%
75th Percentile £77,500 £70,000 £67,250
90th Percentile £89,750 £80,100 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -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 13,845 7,564 14,869
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 69.68% 94.31% 80.44%
Number of salaries quoted 9,713 3,579 11,500
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £33,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,280 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -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 5 June 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 5 June 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 -82 89 £62,500 +48.81% 30
North West -77 79 £40,000 -22.72% 78
North East -46 37 £66,250 +17.26% 32
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 (2.44%) WordPress
2 4 (1.95%) CMS
3 3 (1.46%) Apache Spark
3 3 (1.46%) Confluence
3 3 (1.46%) JBoss
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.46%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.98%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.49%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (3.90%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.46%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.46%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 80 (39.02%) Azure
2 58 (28.29%) AWS
3 22 (10.73%) Serverless
4 14 (6.83%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.34%) GCP
5 13 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.88%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.39%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.39%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.39%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.90%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.41%) Amazon S3
9 7 (3.41%) AWS Lambda
9 7 (3.41%) SaaS
10 6 (2.93%) Amazon ECS
10 6 (2.93%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.93%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.44%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.95%) AWS CloudFormation
12 4 (1.95%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 14 (6.83%) Network Security
2 13 (6.34%) Firewall
3 9 (4.39%) LAN
3 9 (4.39%) VLAN
3 9 (4.39%) WAN
3 9 (4.39%) Wireless
4 8 (3.90%) BGP
4 8 (3.90%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (3.90%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (3.90%) Cisco Wireless
4 8 (3.90%) EIGRP
4 8 (3.90%) OSPF
4 8 (3.90%) SNMP
4 8 (3.90%) VPN
4 8 (3.90%) WAAS
4 8 (3.90%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.44%) Internet
6 1 (0.49%) HTTP
6 1 (0.49%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.49%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.27%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.37%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.37%) Spark SQL
3 6 (2.93%) DynamoDB
3 6 (2.93%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.93%) Power BI
4 5 (2.44%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.44%) Big Data
4 5 (2.44%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (2.44%) Metadata
4 5 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.46%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.46%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.98%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.98%) GIS
6 2 (0.98%) Hadoop
6 2 (0.98%) MySQL
6 2 (0.98%) Redis
6 2 (0.98%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.90%) JIRA
2 7 (3.41%) Git
3 5 (2.44%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.95%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.95%) GitLab
4 4 (1.95%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.46%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.46%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.46%) Maven
5 3 (1.46%) Selenium
6 2 (0.98%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.98%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.98%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.98%) TeamCity
7 1 (0.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 69 (33.66%) Social Skills
2 35 (17.07%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.63%) Finance
4 16 (7.80%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.88%) Marketing
5 10 (4.88%) Retail
6 8 (3.90%) Esports
6 8 (3.90%) Legal
6 8 (3.90%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.93%) Electronics
8 5 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.95%) Advertising
9 4 (1.95%) Banking
10 3 (1.46%) French Language
10 3 (1.46%) Games
10 3 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.46%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.46%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.46%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.46%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 36 (17.56%) Developer
2 30 (14.63%) Graduate
3 23 (11.22%) Software Engineer
4 20 (9.76%) Senior
5 19 (9.27%) Lead
6 18 (8.78%) Architect
6 18 (8.78%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.29%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.32%) Analyst
9 13 (6.34%) Graduate Developer
9 13 (6.34%) Graduate Software Developer
10 11 (5.37%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.39%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.90%) Graduate C# Developer
12 8 (3.90%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 8 (3.90%) Principal Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (10.24%) .NET
2 15 (7.32%) CSS
2 15 (7.32%) REST
3 11 (5.37%) PySpark
4 9 (4.39%) ARM Templates
4 9 (4.39%) HTML
5 7 (3.41%) Node.js
6 6 (2.93%) React
7 5 (2.44%) Ajax
7 5 (2.44%) Flask
7 5 (2.44%) RESTful
8 4 (1.95%) AngularJS
8 4 (1.95%) jQuery
8 4 (1.95%) Spring Boot
8 4 (1.95%) Vue
9 3 (1.46%) Celery
9 3 (1.46%) CSS3
9 3 (1.46%) Gherkin
9 3 (1.46%) HTML5
9 3 (1.46%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.29%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.34%) Social Media
3 12 (5.85%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.37%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.37%) Data Structures
5 8 (3.90%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.90%) Hedge funds
5 8 (3.90%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.93%) CMDB
6 6 (2.93%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 5 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 5 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.44%) PACS
8 4 (1.95%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.95%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.95%) Cybercrime
8 4 (1.95%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.46%) EPoS
9 3 (1.46%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.73%) Windows
2 14 (6.83%) Linux
3 3 (1.46%) Android
3 3 (1.46%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.46%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.46%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (26.34%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (23.90%) AI
3 39 (19.02%) Software Engineering
4 36 (17.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (17.07%) DevOps
6 34 (16.59%) CI/CD
7 29 (14.15%) Agile
8 28 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 27 (13.17%) Mentoring
10 25 (12.20%) Analytics
10 25 (12.20%) Cybersecurity
10 25 (12.20%) Data Modelling
11 24 (11.71%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (11.22%) Mathematics
13 20 (9.76%) Data Engineering
13 20 (9.76%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.27%) Data Governance
15 18 (8.78%) Test Automation
16 16 (7.80%) Physics
16 16 (7.80%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 73 (35.61%) Python
2 47 (22.93%) SQL
3 36 (17.56%) C#
4 26 (12.68%) Java
5 23 (11.22%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.29%) C++
7 15 (7.32%) PHP
7 15 (7.32%) TypeScript
8 12 (5.85%) PowerShell
9 8 (3.90%) Rust
10 5 (2.44%) C
11 3 (1.46%) Bash
11 3 (1.46%) Groovy
11 3 (1.46%) Kotlin
12 2 (0.98%) Embedded C
12 2 (0.98%) Scala
12 2 (0.98%) VB
13 1 (0.49%) Ada
13 1 (0.49%) Delphi
13 1 (0.49%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 160 (78.05%) Degree
2 102 (49.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 24 (11.71%) AWS Certification
4 16 (7.80%) Azure Certification
4 16 (7.80%) DBS Check
5 15 (7.32%) Cisco Certification
6 11 (5.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 11 (5.37%) Master's Degree
6 11 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (4.88%) CCNP
8 9 (4.39%) CISSP
8 9 (4.39%) Security Cleared
9 8 (3.90%) CCIE
9 8 (3.90%) SC Cleared
10 6 (2.93%) TOGAF Certification
11 5 (2.44%) CISM
11 5 (2.44%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 4 (1.95%) CCSP
13 3 (1.46%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.37%) GDPR
2 9 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 9 (4.39%) NIST
3 8 (3.90%) Cyber Essentials
3 8 (3.90%) PMO
4 7 (3.41%) Data Quality
5 6 (2.93%) QA
6 5 (2.44%) DICOM
7 4 (1.95%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 3 (1.46%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.98%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (5.37%) Docker
2 8 (3.90%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.46%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.98%) Firmware
4 2 (0.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (9.27%) Terraform
2 8 (3.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.46%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.46%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.46%) SCCM
4 2 (0.98%) Ansible
4 2 (0.98%) Control-M
4 2 (0.98%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.98%) Grafana
Vendors
1 36 (17.56%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.32%) Databricks
3 9 (4.39%) CheckPoint
3 9 (4.39%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.90%) Blue Coat
4 8 (3.90%) Cisco
4 8 (3.90%) F5
4 8 (3.90%) Infoblox
4 8 (3.90%) Motorola
4 8 (3.90%) SolarWinds
5 4 (1.95%) Atlassian
5 4 (1.95%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.46%) IFS
6 3 (1.46%) Oracle
7 2 (0.98%) Alteryx
7 2 (0.98%) VMware
8 1 (0.49%) Aruba
8 1 (0.49%) Capita
8 1 (0.49%) Google
8 1 (0.49%) Salesforce