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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 155 55 53
Rank change year-on-year -100 -2 +81
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 209 448 664
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.05% 5.71% 3.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 6.03% 4.61%
Number of salaries quoted 143 258 504
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,250 £34,000
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 £67,500
90th Percentile £89,750 £80,820 £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 14,098 7,426 14,388
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.73% 94.65% 81.15%
Number of salaries quoted 9,539 3,504 11,365
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,939 £36,565
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 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £59,400 £55,000
% change year-on-year +1.01% +8.00% -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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -80 92 £62,500 +48.81% 23
North West -70 80 £40,000 -22.72% 63
North East -42 37 £66,250 +17.26% 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 5 (2.39%) WordPress
2 4 (1.91%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.91%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) JBoss
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.96%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.96%) Confluence
5 1 (0.48%) Apache
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 8 (3.83%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.44%) Dynamics NAV
1 3 (1.44%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 83 (39.71%) Azure
2 60 (28.71%) AWS
3 23 (11.00%) Serverless
4 14 (6.70%) Azure DevOps
5 13 (6.22%) GCP
5 13 (6.22%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (4.78%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (4.31%) Azure Functions
7 9 (4.31%) Azure Logic Apps
7 9 (4.31%) Azure Monitor
8 8 (3.83%) Entra ID
9 7 (3.35%) SaaS
10 6 (2.87%) Amazon S3
10 6 (2.87%) AWS Lambda
10 6 (2.87%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (2.87%) Power Platform
11 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (2.39%) Azure AI
12 4 (1.91%) Power Automate
13 3 (1.44%) Amazon Cognito
Communications & Networking
1 15 (7.18%) Network Security
2 13 (6.22%) Firewall
3 9 (4.31%) LAN
3 9 (4.31%) VLAN
3 9 (4.31%) WAN
3 9 (4.31%) Wireless
4 8 (3.83%) BGP
4 8 (3.83%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (3.83%) Cisco Nexus
4 8 (3.83%) Cisco Wireless
4 8 (3.83%) EIGRP
4 8 (3.83%) OSPF
4 8 (3.83%) SNMP
4 8 (3.83%) VPN
4 8 (3.83%) WAAS
4 8 (3.83%) Wireless Security
5 5 (2.39%) Internet
6 1 (0.48%) DMZ
6 1 (0.48%) TCAP
6 1 (0.48%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 11 (5.26%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (5.26%) Spark SQL
3 6 (2.87%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.87%) Power BI
4 5 (2.39%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (2.39%) Big Data
4 5 (2.39%) DynamoDB
4 5 (2.39%) Electronic Patient Records
4 5 (2.39%) Metadata
4 5 (2.39%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.44%) ClickHouse
5 3 (1.44%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.44%) Hadoop
5 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.96%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.96%) GIS
6 2 (0.96%) MySQL
6 2 (0.96%) Redis
6 2 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (3.83%) JIRA
2 7 (3.35%) Git
3 5 (2.39%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.91%) Cypress.io
4 4 (1.91%) GitLab
4 4 (1.91%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.44%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.44%) Maven
5 3 (1.44%) Selenium
6 2 (0.96%) Artifactory
6 2 (0.96%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.96%) LabVIEW
6 2 (0.96%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (0.96%) TeamCity
General
1 75 (35.89%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.22%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (14.83%) Finance
4 16 (7.66%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (4.78%) Marketing
5 10 (4.78%) Retail
6 8 (3.83%) Esports
6 8 (3.83%) Legal
6 8 (3.83%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.87%) Electronics
8 5 (2.39%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.91%) Advertising
9 4 (1.91%) Banking
10 3 (1.44%) French Language
10 3 (1.44%) Games
10 3 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.44%) Italian Language
10 3 (1.44%) Portuguese Language
10 3 (1.44%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.44%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 37 (17.70%) Developer
2 30 (14.35%) Graduate
3 22 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 21 (10.05%) Senior
5 20 (9.57%) Architect
5 20 (9.57%) Lead
6 18 (8.61%) Software Developer
7 17 (8.13%) Data Engineer
8 15 (7.18%) Analyst
9 13 (6.22%) Graduate Developer
9 13 (6.22%) Graduate Software Developer
10 11 (5.26%) Lead Data Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Azure Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Azure Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Cloud Platform Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Network Engineer
11 9 (4.31%) Platform Engineer
12 8 (3.83%) C# Developer
12 8 (3.83%) C# Software Developer
12 8 (3.83%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (10.53%) .NET
2 16 (7.66%) REST
3 15 (7.18%) CSS
4 11 (5.26%) PySpark
5 9 (4.31%) ARM Templates
5 9 (4.31%) HTML
6 6 (2.87%) Node.js
6 6 (2.87%) React
7 5 (2.39%) Ajax
7 5 (2.39%) Flask
7 5 (2.39%) RESTful
8 4 (1.91%) jQuery
8 4 (1.91%) Vue
9 3 (1.44%) AngularJS
9 3 (1.44%) Celery
9 3 (1.44%) FastAPI
9 3 (1.44%) Jest
9 3 (1.44%) PyTorch
9 3 (1.44%) Spring Boot
9 3 (1.44%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.13%) Algorithms
2 13 (6.22%) Social Media
3 12 (5.74%) Onboarding
4 11 (5.26%) Data Centre
4 11 (5.26%) Data Structures
5 9 (4.31%) Driving Licence
6 8 (3.83%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.83%) Hedge funds
6 8 (3.83%) Management Information System
7 6 (2.87%) CMDB
7 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
8 5 (2.39%) Cloud Native
8 5 (2.39%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (2.39%) PACS
9 4 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (1.91%) Client/Server
9 4 (1.91%) Cybercrime
9 4 (1.91%) Operational Technology
9 4 (1.91%) Security Posture
10 3 (1.44%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 22 (10.53%) Windows
2 13 (6.22%) Linux
3 3 (1.44%) Android
3 3 (1.44%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.44%) Mac OS
3 3 (1.44%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (23.44%) AI
3 39 (18.66%) Software Engineering
4 38 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 35 (16.75%) DevOps
6 33 (15.79%) CI/CD
7 30 (14.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 29 (13.88%) Mentoring
9 28 (13.40%) Agile
9 28 (13.40%) Data Modelling
10 26 (12.44%) Analytics
10 26 (12.44%) Cybersecurity
11 24 (11.48%) Collaborative Working
12 23 (11.00%) Mathematics
13 20 (9.57%) Data Engineering
13 20 (9.57%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (9.09%) Data Governance
15 17 (8.13%) Data Science
15 17 (8.13%) Test Automation
16 16 (7.66%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 76 (36.36%) Python
2 48 (22.97%) SQL
3 39 (18.66%) C#
4 29 (13.88%) Java
5 26 (12.44%) JavaScript
6 17 (8.13%) TypeScript
7 16 (7.66%) C++
8 15 (7.18%) PHP
9 13 (6.22%) PowerShell
10 7 (3.35%) Rust
11 5 (2.39%) C
12 3 (1.44%) Bash
12 3 (1.44%) Groovy
12 3 (1.44%) Kotlin
13 2 (0.96%) Embedded C
13 2 (0.96%) Scala
13 2 (0.96%) VB
14 1 (0.48%) Ada
14 1 (0.48%) MATLAB
14 1 (0.48%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 164 (78.47%) Degree
2 103 (49.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 25 (11.96%) AWS Certification
4 18 (8.61%) Azure Certification
5 16 (7.66%) DBS Check
6 15 (7.18%) Cisco Certification
7 13 (6.22%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 13 (6.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 11 (5.26%) Master's Degree
9 10 (4.78%) CCNP
9 10 (4.78%) Security Cleared
10 9 (4.31%) CISSP
10 9 (4.31%) SC Cleared
11 8 (3.83%) CCIE
11 8 (3.83%) TOGAF Certification
12 6 (2.87%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 5 (2.39%) CISM
14 4 (1.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 4 (1.91%) CCSP
14 4 (1.91%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.26%) GDPR
2 10 (4.78%) NIST
3 9 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (3.83%) PMO
5 7 (3.35%) Data Quality
6 6 (2.87%) QA
7 5 (2.39%) DICOM
8 4 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.96%) Actionable Recommendations
10 2 (0.96%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (5.26%) Docker
2 8 (3.83%) ProxySG
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (1.44%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (0.96%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.96%) Firmware
4 2 (0.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (9.09%) Terraform
2 8 (3.83%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.44%) HP Fortify
3 3 (1.44%) Jamf Pro
3 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (1.44%) SCCM
4 2 (0.96%) Ansible
4 2 (0.96%) Control-M
4 2 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
4 2 (0.96%) Grafana
Vendors
1 38 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.18%) Databricks
3 9 (4.31%) CheckPoint
3 9 (4.31%) ServiceNow
4 8 (3.83%) Blue Coat
4 8 (3.83%) Cisco
4 8 (3.83%) F5
4 8 (3.83%) Infoblox
4 8 (3.83%) Motorola
4 8 (3.83%) SolarWinds
5 5 (2.39%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.91%) OpenAI
7 3 (1.44%) IFS
7 3 (1.44%) Oracle
8 2 (0.96%) Alteryx
8 2 (0.96%) VMware
9 1 (0.48%) Aruba
9 1 (0.48%) Capita
9 1 (0.48%) Google
9 1 (0.48%) Salesforce