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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 55 83
Rank change year-on-year -24 +28 +6
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 348 497 344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 3.72% 3.54% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.26% 4.52% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 220 283 261
10th Percentile £28,475 £31,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £33,250 £38,019 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% -16.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £66,375 £62,500
90th Percentile £72,750 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% -7.69% +8.33%

All Process and 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 8,175 11,007 8,700
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 87.46% 78.34% 95.42%
Number of salaries quoted 4,051 6,056 6,290
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £32,750 £39,372 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £62,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% -7.26% +3.33%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 -58 164 £42,500 -15.00% 130
Yorkshire -4 141 £42,000 -15.14% 82
North East +17 43 £37,500 -8.54% 33
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (1.15%) SAS
2 3 (0.86%) CMS
2 3 (0.86%) Headless CMS
2 3 (0.86%) Kinematics
2 3 (0.86%) Magnolia
2 3 (0.86%) WordPress
3 2 (0.57%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.29%) Apache
4 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.29%) Confluence
4 1 (0.29%) FactoryTalk
4 1 (0.29%) WinCC
Applications
1 54 (15.52%) Chatbot
2 12 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.87%) SOLIDWORKS
4 8 (2.30%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.72%) AutoCAD
5 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
6 4 (1.15%) Autodesk Inventor
7 2 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.29%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Sage 200
2 3 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.57%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.29%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 50 (14.37%) Azure
2 29 (8.33%) AWS
3 16 (4.60%) Power Platform
4 11 (3.16%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (3.16%) GCP
5 10 (2.87%) SaaS
6 7 (2.01%) Microsoft 365
6 7 (2.01%) Serverless
7 6 (1.72%) Microsoft Copilot
8 5 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (0.86%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.86%) GitHub
9 3 (0.86%) Snowflake
10 2 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.29%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.29%) dbt
11 1 (0.29%) GitHub Actions
11 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.01%) Firewall
1 7 (2.01%) TCP/IP
2 6 (1.72%) DNS
2 6 (1.72%) VoIP
2 6 (1.72%) VPN
3 4 (1.15%) Asterisk PBX
3 4 (1.15%) Network Security
3 4 (1.15%) PSTN
3 4 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.57%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (0.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (0.57%) DWDM
4 2 (0.57%) Ethernet
4 2 (0.57%) LAN
4 2 (0.57%) SAN
4 2 (0.57%) WAN
5 1 (0.29%) BGP
5 1 (0.29%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.29%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (6.61%) SQL Server
2 12 (3.45%) MySQL
3 11 (3.16%) Data Warehouse
4 9 (2.59%) Power BI
5 5 (1.44%) Data Lake
5 5 (1.44%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.44%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.15%) MongoDB
6 4 (1.15%) Oracle Database
6 4 (1.15%) Tableau
7 3 (0.86%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (0.86%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 3 (0.86%) Big Data
7 3 (0.86%) BigQuery
7 3 (0.86%) Looker
8 2 (0.57%) PostgreSQL
9 1 (0.29%) Azure SQL Database
9 1 (0.29%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.29%) GIS
9 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 9 (2.59%) JIRA
2 8 (2.30%) Git
3 3 (0.86%) Jenkins
4 2 (0.57%) Artifactory
4 2 (0.57%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.57%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (0.57%) SonarQube
4 2 (0.57%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.57%) TeamCity
4 2 (0.57%) Visual Studio
5 1 (0.29%) CANoe
5 1 (0.29%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.29%) Cypress.io
5 1 (0.29%) GitLab
5 1 (0.29%) MLflow
General
1 93 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 52 (14.94%) Esports
3 51 (14.66%) Finance
4 39 (11.21%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (4.89%) Legal
6 15 (4.31%) Law
6 15 (4.31%) Retail
7 13 (3.74%) Marketing
8 12 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.72%) Telecoms
10 5 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.15%) Banking
11 4 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Advertising
12 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Electronics
12 3 (0.86%) Games
13 2 (0.57%) Cantonese Language
13 2 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (0.57%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 54 (15.52%) Trainer
2 44 (12.64%) Developer
3 35 (10.06%) Senior
4 17 (4.89%) Graduate
5 15 (4.31%) Statistician
6 14 (4.02%) Technical Support
7 13 (3.74%) Automation Engineer
7 13 (3.74%) Support Engineer
8 12 (3.45%) Analyst
8 12 (3.45%) Graduate Developer
8 12 (3.45%) Lead
9 11 (3.16%) IT Graduate
9 11 (3.16%) Senior Developer
10 9 (2.59%) C# Developer
10 9 (2.59%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (2.59%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (2.30%) .NET Developer
12 7 (2.01%) Architect
12 7 (2.01%) Coordinator
12 7 (2.01%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (8.33%) CSS
2 23 (6.61%) .NET
3 19 (5.46%) HTML
4 13 (3.74%) ASP.NET
5 11 (3.16%) jQuery
6 7 (2.01%) Web Services
7 6 (1.72%) Middleware
7 6 (1.72%) React
7 6 (1.72%) RESTful
8 5 (1.44%) WinForms
9 4 (1.15%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.15%) FreeSWITCH
9 4 (1.15%) Kafka
9 4 (1.15%) REST
9 4 (1.15%) Spring
9 4 (1.15%) Spring Boot
10 3 (0.86%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.86%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
10 3 (0.86%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 91 (26.15%) Social Media
2 16 (4.60%) Onboarding
3 8 (2.30%) Robotics
4 7 (2.01%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.44%) Algorithms
5 5 (1.44%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.15%) LIMS
6 4 (1.15%) Product Ownership
7 3 (0.86%) Augmented Reality
7 3 (0.86%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (0.86%) Hedge funds
7 3 (0.86%) Manufacturing Execution System
7 3 (0.86%) Virtual Reality
7 3 (0.86%) Virtual Team
8 2 (0.57%) FMCG
8 2 (0.57%) NHS
8 2 (0.57%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 105 (30.17%) Windows
2 27 (7.76%) Linux
3 6 (1.72%) Mac OS
4 3 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.57%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.29%) Android
6 1 (0.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (24.43%) Problem-Solving
2 75 (21.55%) Artificial Intelligence
3 66 (18.97%) Mathematics
4 60 (17.24%) Statistics
5 54 (15.52%) Conversational UI
6 42 (12.07%) Agile
7 36 (10.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 33 (9.48%) Software Engineering
9 26 (7.47%) DevOps
10 24 (6.90%) OOP
11 22 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
11 22 (6.32%) Project Management
12 20 (5.75%) CI/CD
13 19 (5.46%) Mentoring
13 19 (5.46%) OO
13 19 (5.46%) Project Delivery
14 18 (5.17%) Visualisation
15 17 (4.89%) Information Security
15 17 (4.89%) Machine Learning
16 16 (4.60%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 65 (18.68%) SQL
2 60 (17.24%) Python
3 55 (15.80%) C#
4 47 (13.51%) Java
5 28 (8.05%) JavaScript
6 27 (7.76%) C++
6 27 (7.76%) PHP
7 23 (6.61%) C
8 17 (4.89%) TypeScript
9 14 (4.02%) R
9 14 (4.02%) Ruby
10 13 (3.74%) Dart
10 13 (3.74%) MATLAB
10 13 (3.74%) Rust
11 8 (2.30%) Bash
12 7 (2.01%) Delphi
12 7 (2.01%) Perl
12 7 (2.01%) Shell Script
13 5 (1.44%) PowerShell
14 3 (0.86%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 261 (75.00%) Degree
2 113 (32.47%) Computer Science Degree
3 99 (28.45%) DBS Check
4 79 (22.70%) Master's Degree
5 59 (16.95%) PhD
6 11 (3.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (2.87%) HND
7 10 (2.87%) Security Cleared
8 9 (2.59%) SC Cleared
9 8 (2.30%) Azure Certification
10 6 (1.72%) AWS Certification
10 6 (1.72%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 6 (1.72%) CCNP
10 6 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (1.44%) TOGAF Certification
12 4 (1.15%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.15%) HNC
12 4 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.57%) JNCIA
13 2 (0.57%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.72%) IEC 61131
1 6 (1.72%) ISO 9001
2 5 (1.44%) Data Quality
2 5 (1.44%) NIST
3 4 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.15%) GDPR
3 4 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.15%) QA
4 2 (0.57%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.29%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.29%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.29%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (1.72%) Docker
2 5 (1.44%) Active Directory
3 3 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (0.57%) vSphere
5 1 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.29%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (2.59%) Kubernetes
2 6 (1.72%) Terraform
3 5 (1.44%) Ansible
4 3 (0.86%) Functional Safety
4 3 (0.86%) Grafana
5 2 (0.57%) Control-M
5 2 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
6 1 (0.29%) AssetCenter
6 1 (0.29%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 54 (15.52%) PayPal
2 46 (13.22%) Microsoft
3 10 (2.87%) Cisco
4 9 (2.59%) Oracle
5 7 (2.01%) Databricks
5 7 (2.01%) Google
5 7 (2.01%) Siemens
6 6 (1.72%) Allen-Bradley
6 6 (1.72%) Toshiba
7 5 (1.44%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.15%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.15%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.15%) IBM
8 4 (1.15%) Moogsoft
8 4 (1.15%) Sage
8 4 (1.15%) Splunk
8 4 (1.15%) VMware
9 3 (0.86%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.86%) HubSpot
9 3 (0.86%) UiPath