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

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 131 40 58
Rank change year-on-year -91 +18 +92
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 196 364 573
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.35% 5.47% 3.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.79% 5.76% 4.51%
Number of salaries quoted 117 194 441
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £42,217 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £57,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.43% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £83,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £62,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -0.80% - -1.19%

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 10,976 6,316 12,696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 75.50% 94.99% 85.12%
Number of salaries quoted 6,393 3,624 10,169
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,500 £27,848
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,603
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -62 97 £46,250 -9.76% 41
North West -99 62 £57,500 -4.17% 63
North East -24 37 £47,500 -17.39% 24
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 4 (2.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.02%) CMS
3 2 (1.02%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.02%) JBoss
4 1 (0.51%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.51%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (4.08%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.02%) Siemens NX
3 1 (0.51%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (1.53%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
2 2 (1.02%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 68 (34.69%) Azure
2 61 (31.12%) AWS
3 25 (12.76%) Serverless
4 11 (5.61%) Microsoft 365
5 10 (5.10%) GCP
6 5 (2.55%) Amazon S3
6 5 (2.55%) AWS Lambda
6 5 (2.55%) Entra ID
7 4 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.53%) Amazon Cognito
8 3 (1.53%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.53%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.53%) SaaS
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (1.02%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (1.02%) Apigee
9 2 (1.02%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (1.02%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.02%) Figma
9 2 (1.02%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.14%) Firewall
2 13 (6.63%) Network Security
3 11 (5.61%) VPN
4 9 (4.59%) LAN
4 9 (4.59%) VLAN
4 9 (4.59%) WAN
4 9 (4.59%) Wireless
5 8 (4.08%) BGP
5 8 (4.08%) Cisco ASA
5 8 (4.08%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (4.08%) Cisco Wireless
5 8 (4.08%) EIGRP
5 8 (4.08%) OSPF
5 8 (4.08%) SNMP
5 8 (4.08%) WAAS
5 8 (4.08%) Wireless Security
6 4 (2.04%) TCP/IP
6 4 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (1.53%) DMZ
7 3 (1.53%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (8.16%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 7 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (2.55%) Electronic Patient Records
3 5 (2.55%) MongoDB
4 4 (2.04%) DynamoDB
5 3 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 3 (1.53%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.53%) Power BI
5 3 (1.53%) Relational Database
6 2 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (1.02%) Big Data
6 2 (1.02%) Data Mining
6 2 (1.02%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (1.02%) Metadata
6 2 (1.02%) Spark SQL
6 2 (1.02%) Tableau
7 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.51%) Snowflake Schema
7 1 (0.51%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 32 (16.33%) JIRA
2 6 (3.06%) Bitbucket
2 6 (3.06%) Git
3 3 (1.53%) SonarQube
4 2 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.02%) Cypress.io
4 2 (1.02%) GitLab
4 2 (1.02%) Jenkins
4 2 (1.02%) LabVIEW
4 2 (1.02%) Maven
4 2 (1.02%) Selenium
5 1 (0.51%) Artifactory
5 1 (0.51%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (0.51%) TeamCity
General
1 117 (59.69%) Social Skills
2 36 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
2 36 (18.37%) Finance
3 17 (8.67%) Organisational Skills
3 17 (8.67%) Retail
4 11 (5.61%) Manufacturing
5 8 (4.08%) Esports
5 8 (4.08%) Marketing
5 8 (4.08%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (2.04%) Advertising
6 4 (2.04%) Electronics
7 3 (1.53%) French Language
7 3 (1.53%) Italian Language
7 3 (1.53%) Legal
7 3 (1.53%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (1.53%) Public Sector
7 3 (1.53%) Spanish Language
8 2 (1.02%) General Ledger
8 2 (1.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.02%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (19.39%) Developer
2 26 (13.27%) Graduate
3 24 (12.24%) Architect
4 23 (11.73%) JIRA Developer
5 21 (10.71%) Senior
5 21 (10.71%) Software Engineer
6 18 (9.18%) Analyst
7 11 (5.61%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 10 (5.10%) Applications Architect
8 10 (5.10%) Applications Support
9 9 (4.59%) Network Engineer
9 9 (4.59%) Software Architect
10 8 (4.08%) Linux Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Logistics Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (4.08%) Software Engineering Graduate
11 7 (3.57%) Consultant
12 6 (3.06%) C# Software Developer
12 6 (3.06%) IT Manager
12 6 (3.06%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.08%) React
2 7 (3.57%) .NET
3 6 (3.06%) Django
4 5 (2.55%) Celery
4 5 (2.55%) CSS
4 5 (2.55%) FastAPI
4 5 (2.55%) Flask
4 5 (2.55%) RESTful
4 5 (2.55%) Vue
5 3 (1.53%) HTML
5 3 (1.53%) Node.js
5 3 (1.53%) OpenAPI
5 3 (1.53%) REST
5 3 (1.53%) Swagger
6 2 (1.02%) AngularJS
6 2 (1.02%) Gherkin
6 2 (1.02%) Itk
6 2 (1.02%) jQuery
6 2 (1.02%) Spring Boot
6 2 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (9.69%) Enterprise Software
2 18 (9.18%) Driving Licence
3 13 (6.63%) Onboarding
3 13 (6.63%) Social Media
4 12 (6.12%) Management Information System
5 11 (5.61%) Data Centre
6 7 (3.57%) Algorithms
6 7 (3.57%) Data Structures
7 5 (2.55%) CMDB
7 5 (2.55%) PACS
8 4 (2.04%) Hedge funds
8 4 (2.04%) Operational Technology
8 4 (2.04%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.53%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.53%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.53%) LIMS
9 3 (1.53%) NHS
9 3 (1.53%) SCADA
9 3 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.53%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 27 (13.78%) Windows
2 19 (9.69%) Linux
3 5 (2.55%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.53%) Android
4 3 (1.53%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.02%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (40.31%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (27.55%) Continuous Improvement
3 41 (20.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 39 (19.90%) ITIL
5 33 (16.84%) Software Engineering
6 32 (16.33%) Change Management
7 30 (15.31%) Mentoring
8 28 (14.29%) Service Management
9 27 (13.78%) Incident Management
10 26 (13.27%) ITSM
11 24 (12.24%) AI
11 24 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (12.24%) Data Modelling
12 23 (11.73%) Asset Management
12 23 (11.73%) Migration
13 22 (11.22%) Agile
13 22 (11.22%) Application Security
13 22 (11.22%) Collaborative Working
14 21 (10.71%) Architectural Patterns
14 21 (10.71%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 69 (35.20%) Python
2 49 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 44 (22.45%) SQL
4 40 (20.41%) Java
5 35 (17.86%) PowerShell
6 29 (14.80%) C#
7 24 (12.24%) TypeScript
8 13 (6.63%) C++
9 10 (5.10%) C
10 8 (4.08%) PL/SQL
11 6 (3.06%) PHP
12 4 (2.04%) Bash
13 3 (1.53%) Delphi
14 2 (1.02%) Groovy
14 2 (1.02%) Kotlin
14 2 (1.02%) Scala
14 2 (1.02%) Tcl
14 2 (1.02%) VB
15 1 (0.51%) Go
15 1 (0.51%) R
Qualifications
1 161 (82.14%) Degree
2 78 (39.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 34 (17.35%) AWS Certification
4 27 (13.78%) Azure Certification
4 27 (13.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 24 (12.24%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
6 19 (9.69%) TOGAF Certification
7 13 (6.63%) DBS Check
8 12 (6.12%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (6.12%) Master's Degree
9 11 (5.61%) CCNP
10 8 (4.08%) CCIE
10 8 (4.08%) HND
11 6 (3.06%) CompTIA Security+
11 6 (3.06%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (3.06%) SC Cleared
11 6 (3.06%) Security Cleared
12 5 (2.55%) CISSP
12 5 (2.55%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.08%) Cyber Essentials
1 8 (4.08%) PMO
2 7 (3.57%) NIST
3 5 (2.55%) DICOM
3 5 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (2.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (2.04%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.53%) GDPR
5 3 (1.53%) QA
6 2 (1.02%) Accessibility
6 2 (1.02%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.51%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.51%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (4.08%) Docker
1 8 (4.08%) ProxySG
2 3 (1.53%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.53%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (1.53%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (1.02%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) Firmware
4 1 (0.51%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (5.61%) Kubernetes
2 9 (4.59%) Terraform
3 6 (3.06%) Control-M
3 6 (3.06%) Grafana
4 5 (2.55%) Prometheus
5 2 (1.02%) HP Fortify
5 2 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (1.02%) SCCM
6 1 (0.51%) Ansible
6 1 (0.51%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 38 (19.39%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.24%) Atlassian
3 10 (5.10%) Cisco
4 9 (4.59%) CheckPoint
4 9 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 8 (4.08%) Blue Coat
5 8 (4.08%) F5
5 8 (4.08%) Infoblox
5 8 (4.08%) Motorola
5 8 (4.08%) SolarWinds
6 5 (2.55%) Oracle
7 3 (1.53%) IFS
7 3 (1.53%) VMware
8 2 (1.02%) Alteryx
8 2 (1.02%) HubSpot
8 2 (1.02%) Siemens
9 1 (0.51%) Aruba
9 1 (0.51%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (0.51%) Palo Alto
9 1 (0.51%) PayPal