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 16 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 143 79 52
Rank change year-on-year -64 -27 +15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 250 322 447
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 1.04% 3.53% 3.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 4.04% 4.32%
Number of salaries quoted 151 198 220
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £33,000 £38,719
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 £63,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £59,511 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.20% -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 17,127 7,968 10,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 71.24% 87.34% 80.21%
Number of salaries quoted 12,705 4,097 5,008
10th Percentile £30,000 £26,250 £30,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £48,720 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.89% -4.47% -7.27%
75th Percentile £74,985 £65,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -1.32%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -30 118 £40,000 -5.88% 114
Yorkshire -79 67 £60,000 +42.86% 72
North East -55 65 £75,000 +100.00% 49
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 (3.20%) Confluence
2 6 (2.40%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (2.40%) WordPress
3 5 (2.00%) CMS
4 4 (1.60%) Apache Spark
5 3 (1.20%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.80%) Apache
6 2 (0.80%) Palantir Foundry
6 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.40%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.40%) IIS
7 1 (0.40%) Kentico
7 1 (0.40%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.40%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.40%) Umbraco
7 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.40%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.40%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.80%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.40%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.40%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.40%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.00%) Azure
2 56 (22.40%) AWS
3 22 (8.80%) GCP
4 17 (6.80%) SaaS
5 13 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
6 12 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
6 12 (4.80%) Serverless
7 9 (3.60%) Cloud Computing
7 9 (3.60%) GitHub
7 9 (3.60%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.20%) IaaS
8 8 (3.20%) PaaS
9 7 (2.80%) Amazon ECS
9 7 (2.80%) Amazon S3
9 7 (2.80%) Power Automate
10 6 (2.40%) Azure AI
10 6 (2.40%) Entra ID
11 5 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
11 5 (2.00%) Azure Logic Apps
11 5 (2.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.60%) HTTP
1 4 (1.60%) Network Security
2 3 (1.20%) 5G
2 3 (1.20%) Firewall
2 3 (1.20%) Internet
2 3 (1.20%) TCP/IP
3 2 (0.80%) Bluetooth
3 2 (0.80%) Profibus
3 2 (0.80%) VPN
3 2 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.80%) Wireless
3 2 (0.80%) ZigBee
4 1 (0.40%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (0.40%) DNS
4 1 (0.40%) Intrusion Detection
4 1 (0.40%) Software-Defined Networking
4 1 (0.40%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (11.20%) SQL Server
2 9 (3.60%) Spark SQL
3 8 (3.20%) Data Warehouse
4 7 (2.80%) Metadata
4 7 (2.80%) PostgreSQL
5 6 (2.40%) NoSQL
5 6 (2.40%) Power BI
6 5 (2.00%) DynamoDB
6 5 (2.00%) Relational Database
7 4 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
7 4 (1.60%) Big Data
7 4 (1.60%) GIS
8 3 (1.20%) Data Mining
8 3 (1.20%) MySQL
8 3 (1.20%) Oracle Database
8 3 (1.20%) Redis
9 2 (0.80%) Data Hub
9 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 2 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.80%) phpMyAdmin
Development Applications
1 19 (7.60%) Git
2 14 (5.60%) JIRA
3 8 (3.20%) Bitbucket
4 5 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 4 (1.60%) GitLab
6 3 (1.20%) Artifactory
6 3 (1.20%) Octopus Deploy
6 3 (1.20%) SonarQube
6 3 (1.20%) TeamCity
7 2 (0.80%) Postman
8 1 (0.40%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
8 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 94 (37.60%) Social Skills
2 77 (30.80%) Finance
3 48 (19.20%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.80%) Manufacturing
5 13 (5.20%) Financial Institution
5 13 (5.20%) Retail
6 12 (4.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (4.40%) Legal
8 10 (4.00%) Banking
8 10 (4.00%) Marketing
9 8 (3.20%) Games
9 8 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.60%) Advertising
13 3 (1.20%) Billing
13 3 (1.20%) Electronics
13 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
13 3 (1.20%) Law
13 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 52 (20.80%) Developer
2 38 (15.20%) Software Engineer
3 31 (12.40%) Graduate
4 30 (12.00%) Senior
5 22 (8.80%) Architect
6 21 (8.40%) Software Developer
7 18 (7.20%) Data Engineer
8 16 (6.40%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 16 (6.40%) Lead
9 15 (6.00%) Analyst
10 14 (5.60%) Principal Engineer
11 12 (4.80%) Principal Software Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) C++ Software Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Rust Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Rust Software Engineer
12 11 (4.40%) Senior Developer
13 10 (4.00%) Junior
14 9 (3.60%) C++ Developer
14 9 (3.60%) C++ Software Developer
14 9 (3.60%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.00%) .NET
2 19 (7.60%) REST
3 18 (7.20%) React
4 16 (6.40%) CSS
5 14 (5.60%) PySpark
6 12 (4.80%) HTML
7 10 (4.00%) Node.js
8 9 (3.60%) AngularJS
9 8 (3.20%) Terraform
10 7 (2.80%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.80%) Ajax
10 7 (2.80%) Middleware
10 7 (2.80%) Spring
11 6 (2.40%) JSON
12 5 (2.00%) CSS3
12 5 (2.00%) Flask
12 5 (2.00%) HTML5
12 5 (2.00%) Kafka
12 5 (2.00%) RESTful
12 5 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.00%) Algorithms
2 13 (5.20%) Onboarding
3 12 (4.80%) Product Ownership
4 8 (3.20%) Cloud Native
4 8 (3.20%) Data Structures
4 8 (3.20%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.80%) Hedge funds
6 6 (2.40%) EPoS
6 6 (2.40%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (2.00%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.00%) Cybercrime
7 5 (2.00%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.60%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.60%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.60%) Industrial Internet of Things
8 4 (1.60%) Industry 4.0
8 4 (1.60%) Marketing Technology
8 4 (1.60%) Robotics
8 4 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.20%) Linux
2 12 (4.80%) Windows
3 5 (2.00%) macOS
4 2 (0.80%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (0.80%) FreeRTOS
4 2 (0.80%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (42.40%) AI
2 90 (36.00%) Software Engineering
3 77 (30.80%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (22.40%) Agile
5 48 (19.20%) Analytics
6 44 (17.60%) CI/CD
6 44 (17.60%) Mathematics
7 41 (16.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 38 (15.20%) DevOps
9 37 (14.80%) Data Science
10 34 (13.60%) Cybersecurity
10 34 (13.60%) Workflow
11 28 (11.20%) Roadmaps
12 26 (10.40%) Machine Learning
13 25 (10.00%) Mentoring
13 25 (10.00%) Technical Debt
14 24 (9.60%) Full-Stack Development
14 24 (9.60%) Physics
14 24 (9.60%) SDLC
15 23 (9.20%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 72 (28.80%) Python
2 56 (22.40%) SQL
3 38 (15.20%) Java
4 33 (13.20%) C#
5 30 (12.00%) JavaScript
6 29 (11.60%) C++
7 21 (8.40%) Rust
7 21 (8.40%) TypeScript
8 13 (5.20%) PHP
9 6 (2.40%) C
10 4 (1.60%) Delphi
10 4 (1.60%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.20%) PL/SQL
11 3 (1.20%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.80%) Bash
12 2 (0.80%) Ladder Logic
12 2 (0.80%) R
13 1 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 1 (0.40%) Go
13 1 (0.40%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 218 (87.20%) Degree
2 122 (48.80%) Computer Science Degree
3 19 (7.60%) Master's Degree
4 13 (5.20%) Security Cleared
5 11 (4.40%) AWS Certification
6 7 (2.80%) CISSP
6 7 (2.80%) DBS Check
6 7 (2.80%) PhD
7 5 (2.00%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
8 4 (1.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 4 (1.60%) Azure Certification
8 4 (1.60%) CCSP
8 4 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.60%) MBA
8 4 (1.60%) Microsoft Certification
8 4 (1.60%) Numerate Degree
9 3 (1.20%) A+ Certification
9 3 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 3 (1.20%) SC Cleared
10 2 (0.80%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.00%) Data Quality
2 8 (3.20%) QA
3 6 (2.40%) GDPR
3 6 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.40%) NIST
4 5 (2.00%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
5 2 (0.80%) IEC 61131
6 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.40%) NCSC
System Software
1 12 (4.80%) Docker
2 4 (1.60%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (5.20%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.20%) Ansible
2 3 (1.20%) Control-M
2 3 (1.20%) Docker Swarm
2 3 (1.20%) Grafana
2 3 (1.20%) SCCM
2 3 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.80%) Nessus
4 1 (0.40%) CloudHub
Vendors
1 40 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.60%) Databricks
3 6 (2.40%) Oracle
4 5 (2.00%) Atlassian
4 5 (2.00%) Foundry
4 5 (2.00%) Google
4 5 (2.00%) Sage
4 5 (2.00%) Splunk
5 4 (1.60%) Adobe
5 4 (1.60%) OpenAI
6 3 (1.20%) Aderant
6 3 (1.20%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.20%) VMware
7 2 (0.80%) BMC
7 2 (0.80%) Cisco
7 2 (0.80%) Infor
7 2 (0.80%) Palantir
7 2 (0.80%) Remedy
7 2 (0.80%) SAP
7 2 (0.80%) Siemens