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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 149 76 53
Rank change year-on-year -73 -23 +25
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 247 354 505
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 3.76% 3.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 4.30% 4.55%
Number of salaries quoted 169 226 285
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,375 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,250 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £42,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -16.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £61,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,350 £72,750 £80,000
England median annual salary £58,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.45% -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 16,780 8,231 11,101
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 70.66% 87.43% 78.61%
Number of salaries quoted 12,470 4,100 6,081
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £39,390
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,750 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.82% -2.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £74,987 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -8.00%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -31 111 £42,454 -0.11% 148
Yorkshire -83 73 £60,000 +42.86% 55
North East -51 63 £75,000 +100.00% 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 8 (3.24%) Confluence
2 6 (2.43%) WordPress
3 5 (2.02%) CMS
4 4 (1.62%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.81%) Apache
5 2 (0.81%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.40%) IIS
6 1 (0.40%) JBoss
6 1 (0.40%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.40%) Kentico
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
6 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.40%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 86 (34.82%) Azure
2 59 (23.89%) AWS
3 22 (8.91%) GCP
4 18 (7.29%) SaaS
5 16 (6.48%) Azure DevOps
5 16 (6.48%) Serverless
6 13 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 9 (3.64%) Azure Data Factory
7 9 (3.64%) GitHub
7 9 (3.64%) IaaS
7 9 (3.64%) PaaS
8 8 (3.24%) Amazon ECS
8 8 (3.24%) Amazon S3
8 8 (3.24%) Azure Functions
8 8 (3.24%) Azure Logic Apps
8 8 (3.24%) Azure Monitor
9 7 (2.83%) Azure AI
9 7 (2.83%) Cloud Computing
9 7 (2.83%) Power Automate
9 7 (2.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) Network Security
2 4 (1.62%) Firewall
2 4 (1.62%) HTTP
3 3 (1.21%) 5G
3 3 (1.21%) Internet
3 3 (1.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (0.81%) Bluetooth
4 2 (0.81%) Profibus
4 2 (0.81%) VPN
4 2 (0.81%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (0.81%) Wireless
4 2 (0.81%) ZigBee
5 1 (0.40%) DNS
5 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (12.15%) SQL Server
2 12 (4.86%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (4.45%) Spark SQL
4 7 (2.83%) NoSQL
4 7 (2.83%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.43%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.02%) Metadata
6 5 (2.02%) Power BI
7 4 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.62%) Big Data
7 4 (1.62%) GIS
8 3 (1.21%) ClickHouse
8 3 (1.21%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (1.21%) MySQL
8 3 (1.21%) Redis
8 3 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 2 (0.81%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.81%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
9 2 (0.81%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 17 (6.88%) Git
2 14 (5.67%) JIRA
3 8 (3.24%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.02%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.62%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.21%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.21%) GitLab
6 3 (1.21%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.21%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.81%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.81%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) Cucumber
8 1 (0.40%) Maven
8 1 (0.40%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) Selenium
General
1 82 (33.20%) Social Skills
2 73 (29.55%) Finance
3 45 (18.22%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (5.67%) Manufacturing
5 12 (4.86%) Retail
6 11 (4.45%) Financial Institution
7 10 (4.05%) Banking
7 10 (4.05%) Legal
7 10 (4.05%) Marketing
8 9 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.24%) Games
9 8 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (2.02%) Electronics
13 4 (1.62%) Advertising
14 3 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.81%) Billing
15 2 (0.81%) General Ledger
15 2 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 56 (22.67%) Developer
2 39 (15.79%) Software Engineer
3 33 (13.36%) Graduate
4 27 (10.93%) Software Developer
5 25 (10.12%) Architect
6 23 (9.31%) Lead
7 22 (8.91%) Senior
8 21 (8.50%) Data Engineer
9 15 (6.07%) Analyst
9 15 (6.07%) Principal Engineer
10 14 (5.67%) Graduate Software Engineer
11 12 (4.86%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (4.45%) Azure Engineer
12 11 (4.45%) C++ Software Engineer
12 11 (4.45%) Graduate Developer
12 11 (4.45%) Graduate Software Developer
12 11 (4.45%) Rust Engineer
12 11 (4.45%) Rust Software Engineer
13 10 (4.05%) Junior
13 10 (4.05%) Lead Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (13.36%) .NET
2 21 (8.50%) REST
3 18 (7.29%) CSS
4 15 (6.07%) React
5 14 (5.67%) PySpark
6 12 (4.86%) HTML
6 12 (4.86%) Terraform
7 11 (4.45%) Node.js
8 10 (4.05%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.24%) ARM Templates
10 7 (2.83%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.83%) Ajax
10 7 (2.83%) Middleware
10 7 (2.83%) Spring
11 6 (2.43%) Flask
11 6 (2.43%) jQuery
11 6 (2.43%) RESTful
11 6 (2.43%) Spring Boot
12 5 (2.02%) CSS3
12 5 (2.02%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.48%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.86%) Product Ownership
4 9 (3.64%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.64%) Data Structures
4 9 (3.64%) Hedge funds
5 8 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.43%) EPoS
6 6 (2.43%) Life Science
6 6 (2.43%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.02%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.02%) Cybercrime
7 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.62%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.62%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.62%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.62%) Operational Technology
8 4 (1.62%) Robotics
8 4 (1.62%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.36%) Linux
2 13 (5.26%) Windows
3 5 (2.02%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.81%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.81%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (36.84%) AI
2 78 (31.58%) Software Engineering
3 68 (27.53%) Problem-Solving
4 59 (23.89%) Agile
5 48 (19.43%) CI/CD
6 47 (19.03%) DevOps
7 42 (17.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (15.79%) Analytics
9 38 (15.38%) Mathematics
10 35 (14.17%) Cybersecurity
11 29 (11.74%) Workflow
12 28 (11.34%) Mentoring
13 26 (10.53%) Data Science
13 26 (10.53%) Roadmaps
14 24 (9.72%) Physics
14 24 (9.72%) Test Automation
15 22 (8.91%) Fintech
15 22 (8.91%) Microservices
15 22 (8.91%) Technical Debt
16 21 (8.50%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 71 (28.74%) Python
2 59 (23.89%) SQL
3 41 (16.60%) C#
4 35 (14.17%) Java
5 34 (13.77%) C++
6 25 (10.12%) JavaScript
7 20 (8.10%) Rust
8 19 (7.69%) PHP
9 15 (6.07%) TypeScript
10 9 (3.64%) C
11 4 (1.62%) Delphi
11 4 (1.62%) PowerShell
12 3 (1.21%) Bash
12 3 (1.21%) PL/SQL
13 2 (0.81%) Ladder Logic
13 2 (0.81%) T-SQL
14 1 (0.40%) Ada
14 1 (0.40%) Embedded C
14 1 (0.40%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 218 (88.26%) Degree
2 121 (48.99%) Computer Science Degree
3 18 (7.29%) Master's Degree
4 14 (5.67%) Security Cleared
5 12 (4.86%) AWS Certification
6 9 (3.64%) DBS Check
7 8 (3.24%) CISSP
8 7 (2.83%) PhD
9 6 (2.43%) SC Cleared
10 5 (2.02%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
10 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 4 (1.62%) Azure Certification
11 4 (1.62%) CCSP
11 4 (1.62%) MBA
12 3 (1.21%) A+ Certification
12 3 (1.21%) CISM
12 3 (1.21%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Certification
12 3 (1.21%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.05%) GDPR
2 9 (3.64%) QA
3 8 (3.24%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (2.83%) NIST
5 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.81%) IEC 61131
7 1 (0.40%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
7 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 14 (5.67%) Docker
2 4 (1.62%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.21%) vSphere
4 1 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.67%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.21%) Ansible
2 3 (1.21%) Control-M
2 3 (1.21%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.21%) Grafana
2 3 (1.21%) SCCM
2 3 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.81%) Nessus
4 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
4 1 (0.40%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 42 (17.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.48%) Databricks
3 5 (2.02%) Atlassian
3 5 (2.02%) Google
3 5 (2.02%) Sage
3 5 (2.02%) Splunk
4 4 (1.62%) Adobe
4 4 (1.62%) OpenAI
4 4 (1.62%) Oracle
5 3 (1.21%) Foundry
5 3 (1.21%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.21%) VMware
6 2 (0.81%) Allen-Bradley
6 2 (0.81%) BMC
6 2 (0.81%) Infor
6 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.81%) Palo Alto
6 2 (0.81%) Remedy
6 2 (0.81%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.81%) Siemens