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 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 57 66
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 289 422 322
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 2.96% 3.40% 4.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.49% 4.19% 4.44%
Number of salaries quoted 165 197 238
10th Percentile £25,500 £32,500 £32,125
25th Percentile £31,750 £38,750 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70,000 £63,750 £63,125
90th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% -7.69% +7.44%

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 8,287 10,064 7,247
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 84.88% 81.06% 94.63%
Number of salaries quoted 4,612 4,726 5,439
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £40,000 £40,917
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,720 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% -5.45% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,625 £68,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £80,000 £82,548
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -0.83%

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 15 November 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 15 November 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 +3 133 £42,000 -11.58% 40
North West -35 99 £57,500 +15.00% 88
North East +18 57 £37,500 -16.67% 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 5 (1.73%) CMS
1 5 (1.73%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.04%) Apache Spark
2 3 (1.04%) Kinematics
2 3 (1.04%) Magnolia
2 3 (1.04%) WordPress
3 1 (0.35%) Apache
3 1 (0.35%) Confluence
3 1 (0.35%) FactoryTalk
3 1 (0.35%) IIS
3 1 (0.35%) SAS
3 1 (0.35%) Tomcat
3 1 (0.35%) WinCC
Applications
1 34 (11.76%) Chatbot
2 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.46%) SOLIDWORKS
3 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (2.08%) AutoCAD
4 6 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.38%) Autodesk Inventor
6 3 (1.04%) Siemens NX
7 2 (0.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.35%) CANalyzer
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.38%) Sage 200
2 3 (1.04%) Teamcenter
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.69%) Dynamics NAV
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (0.69%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.35%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 73 (25.26%) Azure
2 48 (16.61%) AWS
3 16 (5.54%) Serverless
4 15 (5.19%) GCP
4 15 (5.19%) Power Platform
5 13 (4.50%) SaaS
6 12 (4.15%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.42%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (1.38%) GitHub
8 4 (1.38%) Snowflake
9 3 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.69%) Figma
10 2 (0.69%) OCI
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.35%) AWS Fargate
11 1 (0.35%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.35%) Collibra
11 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.11%) DNS
1 9 (3.11%) Firewall
1 9 (3.11%) TCP/IP
1 9 (3.11%) VPN
2 8 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (2.08%) Asterisk PBX
3 6 (2.08%) PSTN
3 6 (2.08%) VoIP
4 5 (1.73%) SAN
5 2 (0.69%) Ethernet
5 2 (0.69%) Network Security
6 1 (0.35%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (12.11%) SQL Server
2 11 (3.81%) MySQL
2 11 (3.81%) Power BI
3 10 (3.46%) Data Warehouse
4 8 (2.77%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.42%) NoSQL
5 7 (2.42%) PostgreSQL
6 6 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 6 (2.08%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
7 4 (1.38%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.38%) BigQuery
7 4 (1.38%) Looker
7 4 (1.38%) Tableau
8 3 (1.04%) Azure SQL Database
8 3 (1.04%) Big Data
9 1 (0.35%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.35%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.35%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 39 (13.49%) JIRA
2 15 (5.19%) Git
3 11 (3.81%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.38%) Artifactory
4 4 (1.38%) Octopus Deploy
4 4 (1.38%) SonarQube
4 4 (1.38%) TeamCity
5 2 (0.69%) Visual Studio
6 1 (0.35%) CANoe
6 1 (0.35%) Cypress.io
General
1 126 (43.60%) Social Skills
2 64 (22.15%) Finance
3 40 (13.84%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.92%) Esports
5 19 (6.57%) Marketing
6 18 (6.23%) Retail
7 13 (4.50%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.46%) Legal
9 9 (3.11%) Advertising
10 8 (2.77%) Telecoms
11 7 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Law
13 4 (1.38%) Banking
13 4 (1.38%) Pharmaceutical
14 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
14 3 (1.04%) Games
14 3 (1.04%) Public Sector
15 2 (0.69%) Agriculture
15 2 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.69%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 59 (20.42%) Developer
2 34 (11.76%) Trainer
3 33 (11.42%) Senior
4 20 (6.92%) Analyst
4 20 (6.92%) Architect
4 20 (6.92%) JIRA Developer
5 19 (6.57%) Graduate
6 14 (4.84%) Technical Support
7 12 (4.15%) Automation Engineer
7 12 (4.15%) Support Engineer
8 11 (3.81%) Coordinator
9 10 (3.46%) Graduate Developer
10 9 (3.11%) Applications Architect
10 9 (3.11%) Consultant
10 9 (3.11%) IT Graduate
10 9 (3.11%) Statistician
10 9 (3.11%) Technical Engineer
10 9 (3.11%) Technical Support Engineer
11 8 (2.77%) Administrator
11 8 (2.77%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (9.34%) CSS
2 19 (6.57%) HTML
3 13 (4.50%) .NET
4 11 (3.81%) ASP.NET
5 10 (3.46%) React
6 9 (3.11%) jQuery
6 9 (3.11%) RESTful
7 7 (2.42%) Web Services
8 6 (2.08%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (1.73%) Middleware
9 5 (1.73%) Vue
10 4 (1.38%) Celery
10 4 (1.38%) Django
10 4 (1.38%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (1.38%) FastAPI
10 4 (1.38%) Flask
10 4 (1.38%) REST
10 4 (1.38%) Spring
10 4 (1.38%) Spring Boot
11 3 (1.04%) Micronaut
Miscellaneous
1 20 (6.92%) Social Media
2 17 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 16 (5.54%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (4.15%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.77%) LIMS
6 7 (2.42%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.73%) NHS
8 4 (1.38%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.04%) Augmented Reality
9 3 (1.04%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 3 (1.04%) Robotics
9 3 (1.04%) Virtual Reality
9 3 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 2 (0.69%) FMCG
10 2 (0.69%) iPad
10 2 (0.69%) iPhone
10 2 (0.69%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.69%) Tandem
10 2 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 50 (17.30%) Windows
2 36 (12.46%) Linux
3 11 (3.81%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.38%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.69%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.35%) Android
6 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (32.87%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (21.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 57 (19.72%) AI
4 45 (15.57%) Mathematics
5 42 (14.53%) Change Management
6 39 (13.49%) Statistics
7 38 (13.15%) Agile
8 37 (12.80%) ITIL
9 36 (12.46%) DevOps
10 34 (11.76%) Conversational UI
11 32 (11.07%) Software Engineering
12 29 (10.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 28 (9.69%) CI/CD
14 26 (9.00%) Cybersecurity
15 25 (8.65%) Incident Management
15 25 (8.65%) Project Management
16 24 (8.30%) ITSM
17 23 (7.96%) Mentoring
18 22 (7.61%) Service Management
19 21 (7.27%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 69 (23.88%) SQL
2 66 (22.84%) Python
3 62 (21.45%) Java
4 57 (19.72%) C#
5 56 (19.38%) JavaScript
6 30 (10.38%) PowerShell
6 30 (10.38%) TypeScript
7 29 (10.03%) C++
8 27 (9.34%) C
9 23 (7.96%) PHP
10 13 (4.50%) Dart
10 13 (4.50%) MATLAB
10 13 (4.50%) R
10 13 (4.50%) Ruby
10 13 (4.50%) Rust
11 10 (3.46%) Delphi
12 9 (3.11%) Bash
13 6 (2.08%) Perl
14 4 (1.38%) PL/SQL
15 3 (1.04%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 243 (84.08%) Degree
2 120 (41.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 57 (19.72%) Master's Degree
4 34 (11.76%) PhD
5 22 (7.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 20 (6.92%) DBS Check
7 19 (6.57%) Azure Certification
7 19 (6.57%) Microsoft Certification
8 17 (5.88%) AWS Certification
8 17 (5.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 17 (5.88%) HND
9 15 (5.19%) TOGAF Certification
10 11 (3.81%) HNC
11 7 (2.42%) CompTIA Security+
11 7 (2.42%) Network+ Certification
12 6 (2.08%) CCNP
12 6 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
12 6 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.73%) SC Cleared
13 5 (1.73%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.08%) Data Quality
1 6 (2.08%) IEC 61131
1 6 (2.08%) ISO 9001
2 4 (1.38%) Accessibility
2 4 (1.38%) GDPR
2 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (1.04%) QA
4 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (0.69%) NCSC
4 2 (0.69%) NIST
5 1 (0.35%) AUTOSAR
5 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (3.11%) Active Directory
1 9 (3.11%) Docker
2 6 (2.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.38%) vSphere
4 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.35%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 19 (6.57%) Kubernetes
2 11 (3.81%) Control-M
2 11 (3.81%) Grafana
3 7 (2.42%) Prometheus
4 5 (1.73%) Terraform
5 4 (1.38%) Ansible
5 4 (1.38%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (1.04%) Functional Safety
7 1 (0.35%) AssetCenter
7 1 (0.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 56 (19.38%) Microsoft
2 34 (11.76%) PayPal
3 24 (8.30%) Atlassian
4 10 (3.46%) Siemens
5 8 (2.77%) Google
5 8 (2.77%) VMware
6 7 (2.42%) Cisco
7 6 (2.08%) Allen-Bradley
7 6 (2.08%) HubSpot
7 6 (2.08%) Toshiba
8 5 (1.73%) Databricks
8 5 (1.73%) Oracle
8 5 (1.73%) ServiceNow
9 4 (1.38%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.38%) Autodesk
9 4 (1.38%) IBM
9 4 (1.38%) Moogsoft
9 4 (1.38%) Sage
9 4 (1.38%) Splunk
10 3 (1.04%) UiPath