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 25 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 89 42 67
Rank change year-on-year -47 +25 +64
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 230 466 268
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.15% 4.84% 3.74%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.61% 5.41% 4.08%
Number of salaries quoted 145 202 190
10th Percentile £25,300 £32,500 £27,975
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,217 £42,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £73,750 £67,313 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £80,100 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £67,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% -7.41% +3.85%

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 8,826 8,621 6,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 82.61% 89.61% 91.65%
Number of salaries quoted 4,665 3,930 5,093
10th Percentile £27,750 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,875 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% -1.19% -
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 25 December 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 25 December 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
Yorkshire -36 112 £45,000 -9.08% 195
North West -65 67 £60,000 +17.65% 220
North East +16 51 £47,500 -5.00% 48
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 (2.17%) Apache Spark
1 5 (2.17%) CMS
1 5 (2.17%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.30%) Kinematics
2 3 (1.30%) Magnolia
2 3 (1.30%) WordPress
3 1 (0.43%) Apache
3 1 (0.43%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.43%) IIS
3 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.43%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.43%) WinCC
Applications
1 10 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (4.35%) SOLIDWORKS
2 8 (3.48%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.61%) AutoCAD
3 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Excel
4 5 (2.17%) Chatbot
5 4 (1.74%) Autodesk Inventor
6 3 (1.30%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.74%) Sage 200
2 3 (1.30%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.87%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.87%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.43%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 77 (33.48%) Azure
2 58 (25.22%) AWS
3 25 (10.87%) Serverless
4 15 (6.52%) GCP
4 15 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (5.65%) Power Platform
5 13 (5.65%) SaaS
6 6 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.74%) GitHub
7 4 (1.74%) Snowflake
8 3 (1.30%) Amazon S3
8 3 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon Cognito
9 2 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (0.87%) Figma
9 2 (0.87%) OCI
10 1 (0.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.43%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.43%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 11 (4.78%) Firewall
1 11 (4.78%) VPN
2 9 (3.91%) DNS
2 9 (3.91%) TCP/IP
3 8 (3.48%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (3.04%) Network Security
5 6 (2.61%) Asterisk PBX
5 6 (2.61%) PSTN
5 6 (2.61%) VoIP
6 4 (1.74%) SAN
7 3 (1.30%) DMZ
7 3 (1.30%) Modbus
8 2 (0.87%) BGP
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (0.87%) EIGRP
8 2 (0.87%) OSPF
8 2 (0.87%) WAAS
8 2 (0.87%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.91%) Power BI
3 6 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (2.61%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.61%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.17%) BigQuery
4 5 (2.17%) MySQL
5 4 (1.74%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.74%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.74%) Looker
5 4 (1.74%) MongoDB
5 4 (1.74%) Relational Database
5 4 (1.74%) Tableau
6 3 (1.30%) Hadoop
7 2 (0.87%) Amazon RDS
7 2 (0.87%) Azure SQL Database
7 2 (0.87%) Big Data
7 2 (0.87%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.87%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.43%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 37 (16.09%) JIRA
2 10 (4.35%) Bitbucket
2 10 (4.35%) Git
3 3 (1.30%) Artifactory
3 3 (1.30%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (1.30%) SonarQube
3 3 (1.30%) TeamCity
General
1 133 (57.83%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.04%) Finance
3 36 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.26%) Retail
5 18 (7.83%) Marketing
6 13 (5.65%) Manufacturing
7 9 (3.91%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.48%) Pharmaceutical
9 7 (3.04%) Advertising
10 6 (2.61%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.17%) Law
11 5 (2.17%) Legal
12 3 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (1.30%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.87%) Agriculture
13 2 (0.87%) Back Office
13 2 (0.87%) Banking
13 2 (0.87%) Esports
13 2 (0.87%) Games
13 2 (0.87%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 50 (21.74%) Developer
2 31 (13.48%) Senior
3 28 (12.17%) Architect
4 23 (10.00%) JIRA Developer
5 22 (9.57%) Graduate
6 18 (7.83%) Analyst
7 14 (6.09%) Software Engineer
7 14 (6.09%) Technical Support
8 13 (5.65%) Applications Architect
9 12 (5.22%) Automation Engineer
10 10 (4.35%) Software Architect
11 9 (3.91%) Consultant
11 9 (3.91%) Support Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Administrator
12 8 (3.48%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.48%) Linux Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Logistics Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Support Analyst
12 8 (3.48%) Technical Engineer
12 8 (3.48%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.13%) CSS
2 11 (4.78%) React
3 10 (4.35%) .NET
4 7 (3.04%) ASP.NET
5 6 (2.61%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (2.17%) Django
6 5 (2.17%) jQuery
6 5 (2.17%) RESTful
6 5 (2.17%) Vue
7 4 (1.74%) Celery
7 4 (1.74%) FastAPI
7 4 (1.74%) Flask
7 4 (1.74%) HTML
7 4 (1.74%) Middleware
7 4 (1.74%) REST
8 3 (1.30%) Itk
8 3 (1.30%) Micronaut
8 3 (1.30%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.30%) Web Services
8 3 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 20 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 15 (6.52%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.78%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.48%) LIMS
6 7 (3.04%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (2.61%) Data Structures
7 6 (2.61%) Operational Technology
8 5 (2.17%) NHS
9 4 (1.74%) SCADA
10 3 (1.30%) Augmented Reality
10 3 (1.30%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.30%) Robotics
10 3 (1.30%) Virtual Reality
11 2 (0.87%) Data Centre
11 2 (0.87%) FMCG
11 2 (0.87%) iPad
11 2 (0.87%) iPhone
11 2 (0.87%) Social Media
11 2 (0.87%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.09%) Linux
2 30 (13.04%) Windows
3 12 (5.22%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.74%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.87%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.43%) Android
6 1 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.43%) Unix
6 1 (0.43%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.52%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (27.83%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (18.70%) Change Management
3 43 (18.70%) ITIL
4 41 (17.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 35 (15.22%) Agile
6 30 (13.04%) Migration
6 30 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 29 (12.61%) DevOps
7 29 (12.61%) Incident Management
7 29 (12.61%) ITSM
8 28 (12.17%) Service Management
9 27 (11.74%) Cybersecurity
9 27 (11.74%) Mentoring
10 26 (11.30%) Application Security
11 25 (10.87%) Microservices
12 24 (10.43%) Data Modelling
13 23 (10.00%) Asset Management
13 23 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 23 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 64 (27.83%) Python
2 56 (24.35%) Java
3 55 (23.91%) SQL
4 52 (22.61%) JavaScript
5 44 (19.13%) C#
6 32 (13.91%) PowerShell
7 26 (11.30%) TypeScript
8 16 (6.96%) C
9 14 (6.09%) C++
10 10 (4.35%) Delphi
11 9 (3.91%) Bash
12 8 (3.48%) PL/SQL
13 7 (3.04%) PHP
14 6 (2.61%) Perl
15 3 (1.30%) Tcl
16 2 (0.87%) Swift
17 1 (0.43%) Go
17 1 (0.43%) Kotlin
17 1 (0.43%) R
17 1 (0.43%) Scala
Qualifications
1 200 (86.96%) Degree
2 101 (43.91%) Computer Science Degree
3 29 (12.61%) AWS Certification
4 28 (12.17%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 28 (12.17%) Master's Degree
4 28 (12.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 27 (11.74%) Azure Certification
6 26 (11.30%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 22 (9.57%) TOGAF Certification
8 20 (8.70%) HND
9 11 (4.78%) HNC
10 9 (3.91%) SC Cleared
10 9 (3.91%) Security Cleared
11 8 (3.48%) CCNP
11 8 (3.48%) Cisco Certification
12 7 (3.04%) CompTIA Security+
12 7 (3.04%) ITIL Certification
12 7 (3.04%) Network+ Certification
13 6 (2.61%) PhD
14 3 (1.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.61%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.61%) IEC 61131
1 6 (2.61%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 4 (1.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.30%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.30%) NIST
4 2 (0.87%) NCSC
4 2 (0.87%) PMO
5 1 (0.43%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) QA
5 1 (0.43%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.91%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.48%) Docker
3 5 (2.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (1.30%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.30%) vSphere
5 2 (0.87%) ProxySG
6 1 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 16 (6.96%) Kubernetes
2 10 (4.35%) Control-M
2 10 (4.35%) Grafana
3 7 (3.04%) Prometheus
4 4 (1.74%) Terraform
5 3 (1.30%) Ansible
5 3 (1.30%) Docker Swarm
5 3 (1.30%) Functional Safety
6 2 (0.87%) SCCM
7 1 (0.43%) AssetCenter
7 1 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 62 (26.96%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.30%) Atlassian
3 10 (4.35%) Siemens
4 9 (3.91%) Cisco
5 7 (3.04%) Google
5 7 (3.04%) VMware
6 6 (2.61%) Allen-Bradley
6 6 (2.61%) HubSpot
6 6 (2.61%) ServiceNow
6 6 (2.61%) Toshiba
7 5 (2.17%) PayPal
8 4 (1.74%) Autodesk
8 4 (1.74%) Sage
9 3 (1.30%) Oracle
9 3 (1.30%) UiPath
10 2 (0.87%) Blue Coat
10 2 (0.87%) CheckPoint
10 2 (0.87%) Motorola
10 2 (0.87%) Nexthink
10 2 (0.87%) Salesforce