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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 78 55
Rank change year-on-year -70 -23 +34
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 234 374 502
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 3.91% 3.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.48% 4.42% 4.23%
Number of salaries quoted 166 254 344
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 £81,875 £65,000 £65,000
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 15,826 8,470 11,863
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.31% 88.58% 78.18%
Number of salaries quoted 11,848 4,259 7,577
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £38,500
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 £78,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -11.20%

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 22 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 22 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 -60 100 £40,000 -13.51% 44
Yorkshire -74 69 £62,500 +48.81% 23
North East -25 65 £75,000 +100.00% 30
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 (3.42%) Confluence
2 6 (2.56%) WordPress
3 4 (1.71%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.71%) CMS
4 2 (0.85%) Apache
4 2 (0.85%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.43%) Anypoint
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) JBoss
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.43%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.56%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.43%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.43%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.61%) Azure
2 58 (24.79%) AWS
3 21 (8.97%) GCP
4 17 (7.26%) Serverless
5 16 (6.84%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.84%) SaaS
6 12 (5.13%) Microsoft 365
7 10 (4.27%) Azure Data Factory
8 9 (3.85%) Azure Functions
8 9 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
8 9 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 9 (3.85%) GitHub
9 8 (3.42%) Amazon ECS
9 8 (3.42%) Amazon S3
9 8 (3.42%) IaaS
9 8 (3.42%) PaaS
10 7 (2.99%) Azure AI
11 6 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (2.56%) AWS Lambda
11 6 (2.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.42%) Network Security
2 7 (2.99%) Firewall
3 5 (2.14%) Internet
3 5 (2.14%) Wireless
4 4 (1.71%) TCP/IP
5 3 (1.28%) LAN
5 3 (1.28%) VLAN
5 3 (1.28%) VPN
5 3 (1.28%) WAN
5 3 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.85%) Bluetooth
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco ASA
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Nexus
6 2 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
6 2 (0.85%) HTTP
6 2 (0.85%) Profibus
6 2 (0.85%) SNMP
6 2 (0.85%) WAAS
6 2 (0.85%) Wireless Security
6 2 (0.85%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.68%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.13%) Spark SQL
3 11 (4.70%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (2.56%) DynamoDB
4 6 (2.56%) NoSQL
4 6 (2.56%) PostgreSQL
5 4 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.71%) GIS
5 4 (1.71%) Metadata
6 3 (1.28%) Big Data
6 3 (1.28%) ClickHouse
6 3 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.28%) MySQL
6 3 (1.28%) Power BI
6 3 (1.28%) Redis
7 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.85%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.85%) phpMyAdmin
7 2 (0.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (6.84%) Git
2 11 (4.70%) JIRA
3 8 (3.42%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.71%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.28%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.28%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.28%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.85%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.85%) GitLab
7 2 (0.85%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.43%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.43%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.43%) Maven
8 1 (0.43%) Selenium
General
1 74 (31.62%) Social Skills
2 68 (29.06%) Finance
3 35 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.98%) Retail
5 12 (5.13%) Marketing
6 10 (4.27%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.85%) Banking
7 9 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 8 (3.42%) Games
8 8 (3.42%) Legal
8 8 (3.42%) Organisational Skills
9 7 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 6 (2.56%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.14%) Electronics
11 5 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.71%) Advertising
13 3 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.28%) Public Sector
14 2 (0.85%) Social Housing
15 1 (0.43%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 51 (21.79%) Developer
2 40 (17.09%) Software Engineer
3 35 (14.96%) Graduate
4 27 (11.54%) Software Developer
5 23 (9.83%) Architect
6 22 (9.40%) Lead
7 21 (8.97%) Data Engineer
8 18 (7.69%) Senior
9 16 (6.84%) Graduate Software Engineer
10 15 (6.41%) Principal Engineer
11 13 (5.56%) Graduate Developer
11 13 (5.56%) Graduate Software Developer
12 12 (5.13%) Analyst
12 12 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
12 12 (5.13%) Principal Software Engineer
13 11 (4.70%) C++ Software Engineer
13 11 (4.70%) Lead Data Engineer
13 11 (4.70%) Rust Engineer
13 11 (4.70%) Rust Software Engineer
14 10 (4.27%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (12.39%) .NET
2 18 (7.69%) REST
3 15 (6.41%) CSS
4 13 (5.56%) PySpark
4 13 (5.56%) Terraform
5 11 (4.70%) React
6 10 (4.27%) AngularJS
6 10 (4.27%) Node.js
7 9 (3.85%) ARM Templates
7 9 (3.85%) HTML
8 7 (2.99%) .NET Core
8 7 (2.99%) Ajax
8 7 (2.99%) Spring
9 6 (2.56%) Flask
9 6 (2.56%) jQuery
9 6 (2.56%) Middleware
9 6 (2.56%) RESTful
9 6 (2.56%) Spring Boot
10 5 (2.14%) HTML5
10 5 (2.14%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 18 (7.69%) Algorithms
2 12 (5.13%) Hedge funds
2 12 (5.13%) Onboarding
3 9 (3.85%) Cloud Native
3 9 (3.85%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.42%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.56%) Cybercrime
5 6 (2.56%) EPoS
5 6 (2.56%) Life Science
5 6 (2.56%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.56%) Renewable Energy
5 6 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.14%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.14%) Distributed Systems
6 5 (2.14%) Driving Licence
6 5 (2.14%) Security Posture
7 4 (1.71%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.71%) Robotics
8 3 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.28%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 33 (14.10%) Linux
2 13 (5.56%) Windows
3 5 (2.14%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.85%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.85%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.85%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (34.62%) AI
2 68 (29.06%) Software Engineering
3 55 (23.50%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (22.65%) Agile
5 46 (19.66%) DevOps
6 45 (19.23%) CI/CD
7 39 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (15.38%) Mathematics
9 33 (14.10%) Analytics
10 32 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
11 28 (11.97%) Mentoring
12 27 (11.54%) Workflow
13 25 (10.68%) Physics
13 25 (10.68%) Roadmaps
14 24 (10.26%) Fintech
14 24 (10.26%) Test Automation
15 21 (8.97%) Data Science
15 21 (8.97%) Technical Debt
16 20 (8.55%) Microservices
16 20 (8.55%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 71 (30.34%) Python
2 55 (23.50%) SQL
3 40 (17.09%) C#
4 35 (14.96%) C++
5 33 (14.10%) Java
6 21 (8.97%) PHP
7 20 (8.55%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.55%) Rust
8 13 (5.56%) TypeScript
9 9 (3.85%) C
10 4 (1.71%) Delphi
11 3 (1.28%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.28%) PowerShell
12 2 (0.85%) Ladder Logic
13 1 (0.43%) Ada
13 1 (0.43%) Bash
13 1 (0.43%) Embedded C
13 1 (0.43%) Go
13 1 (0.43%) Groovy
13 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 202 (86.32%) Degree
2 119 (50.85%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (8.12%) Master's Degree
4 12 (5.13%) AWS Certification
5 9 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
6 8 (3.42%) CISSP
6 8 (3.42%) DBS Check
7 7 (2.99%) Security Cleared
8 6 (2.56%) SC Cleared
9 5 (2.14%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 4 (1.71%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 4 (1.71%) Azure Certification
10 4 (1.71%) CCNP
10 4 (1.71%) CCSP
10 4 (1.71%) MBA
11 3 (1.28%) A+ Certification
11 3 (1.28%) CISM
11 3 (1.28%) CompTIA Security+
11 3 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.28%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.13%) GDPR
2 10 (4.27%) QA
3 7 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.99%) NIST
4 5 (2.14%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.85%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.85%) IEC 61131
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.85%) PMO
System Software
1 14 (5.98%) Docker
2 3 (1.28%) vSphere
3 2 (0.85%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.85%) ProxySG
4 1 (0.43%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.98%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.28%) Ansible
2 3 (1.28%) Control-M
2 3 (1.28%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.28%) Grafana
3 2 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.85%) Nessus
3 2 (0.85%) SCCM
3 2 (0.85%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.43%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.43%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 41 (17.52%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.26%) Databricks
3 5 (2.14%) Google
3 5 (2.14%) Sage
3 5 (2.14%) Splunk
4 4 (1.71%) Adobe
4 4 (1.71%) OpenAI
5 3 (1.28%) Atlassian
5 3 (1.28%) CheckPoint
5 3 (1.28%) Cisco
5 3 (1.28%) Foundry
5 3 (1.28%) Oracle
5 3 (1.28%) Palo Alto
5 3 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.28%) VMware
6 2 (0.85%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.85%) Blue Coat
6 2 (0.85%) Infoblox
6 2 (0.85%) Infor
6 2 (0.85%) SolarWinds