Computer Science Jobs in the North West

Computer Science
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 1 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 84 160 127
Rank change year-on-year +76 -33 -27
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 141 189 220
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.41% 2.10% 2.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.59% 2.19% 2.68%
Number of salaries quoted 85 132 139
10th Percentile £32,750 £26,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £30,000 £37,475
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -14.29% +5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,750
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,923 8,641 8,198
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 94.96% 96.06% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 2,665 5,041 5,887
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,831 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,439 £40,500 £37,909
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £84,056 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in the North West.

Salary trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North West over the 6 months to 1 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 December 2023. 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
Manchester +73 79 £55,000 +15.79% 67
Cheshire +44 23 £48,000 +37.14% 35
Merseyside +38 19 £52,500 +20.00% 15
Cumbria +10 10 £60,000 - 2
Lancashire +40 7 £60,000 +48.15% 17
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.13%) nginx
1 3 (2.13%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.71%) Apache
2 1 (0.71%) Apache Pulsar
2 1 (0.71%) IIS
2 1 (0.71%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.71%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.71%) SPSS
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.71%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.71%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 43 (30.50%) Azure
2 42 (29.79%) AWS
3 24 (17.02%) GCP
4 7 (4.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 7 (4.96%) Power Platform
4 7 (4.96%) SaaS
5 6 (4.26%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (4.26%) Amazon S3
5 6 (4.26%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (4.26%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (4.26%) GitHub
5 6 (4.26%) Serverless
6 4 (2.84%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.13%) Amazon EKS
7 3 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.13%) CloudFront
7 3 (2.13%) IBM Cloud
7 3 (2.13%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (2.13%) Route 53
7 3 (2.13%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 13 (9.22%) Firewall
2 10 (7.09%) VoIP
3 8 (5.67%) NAS
3 8 (5.67%) SAN
4 4 (2.84%) IP Telephony
5 3 (2.13%) VPN
5 3 (2.13%) WAN
6 2 (1.42%) DNS
6 2 (1.42%) Internet
6 2 (1.42%) LAN
7 1 (0.71%) DHCP
7 1 (0.71%) DVB
7 1 (0.71%) Junos
7 1 (0.71%) MPLS
7 1 (0.71%) Network Security
7 1 (0.71%) OSPF
7 1 (0.71%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (0.71%) RSVP
7 1 (0.71%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.71%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (13.48%) MySQL
2 12 (8.51%) PostgreSQL
3 9 (6.38%) SQL Server
4 7 (4.96%) MongoDB
5 5 (3.55%) Power BI
6 4 (2.84%) Big Data
6 4 (2.84%) NoSQL
6 4 (2.84%) Relational Database
7 3 (2.13%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (2.13%) Data Lake
7 3 (2.13%) DynamoDB
8 2 (1.42%) Geospatial Data
8 2 (1.42%) Tableau
9 1 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.71%) Looker
9 1 (0.71%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (17.02%) Git
2 5 (3.55%) Jenkins
3 3 (2.13%) Android Studio
3 3 (2.13%) Bitbucket
3 3 (2.13%) Cucumber
3 3 (2.13%) JSUnit
3 3 (2.13%) JUnit
3 3 (2.13%) Mocha
3 3 (2.13%) Selenium
4 1 (0.71%) ERwin
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
General
1 60 (42.55%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.35%) Analytical Skills
2 16 (11.35%) Telecoms
3 14 (9.93%) Finance
4 12 (8.51%) Marketing
5 8 (5.67%) Manufacturing
6 6 (4.26%) Public Sector
7 5 (3.55%) Games
8 3 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (2.13%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.42%) Advertising
9 2 (1.42%) Automotive
9 2 (1.42%) Banking
9 2 (1.42%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.71%) Electronics
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.71%) Retail
10 1 (0.71%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 38 (26.95%) Developer
2 31 (21.99%) Senior
3 19 (13.48%) Project Manager
4 18 (12.77%) Senior Manager
4 18 (12.77%) Senior Project Manager
5 17 (12.06%) Architect
5 17 (12.06%) Solutions Architect
6 15 (10.64%) Enterprise Architect
6 15 (10.64%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
7 12 (8.51%) Software Engineer
8 9 (6.38%) Analyst
8 9 (6.38%) Java Developer
8 9 (6.38%) Lead
8 9 (6.38%) Senior Developer
9 7 (4.96%) Angular Developer
10 6 (4.26%) DevOps Engineer
10 6 (4.26%) Salesforce Developer
10 6 (4.26%) Senior Salesforce Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Full Stack Developer
11 5 (3.55%) Graphics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (17.02%) RESTful
2 18 (12.77%) HTML
3 16 (11.35%) CSS
4 13 (9.22%) REST
5 12 (8.51%) AngularJS
5 12 (8.51%) HTML5
6 9 (6.38%) CSS3
6 9 (6.38%) Spring
7 8 (5.67%) React
8 7 (4.96%) Angular 2
8 7 (4.96%) SOAP
9 6 (4.26%) Lightning Web Components
9 6 (4.26%) Node.js
9 6 (4.26%) Spring Boot
9 6 (4.26%) Visualforce
10 5 (3.55%) OpenGL ES
10 5 (3.55%) Unity (Game Engine)
10 5 (3.55%) Unreal Engine
10 5 (3.55%) Vulkan
10 5 (3.55%) WebAssembly
Miscellaneous
1 41 (29.08%) Management Information System
2 19 (13.48%) Virtual Team
3 8 (5.67%) Onboarding
4 6 (4.26%) IoT
5 5 (3.55%) Handset
5 5 (3.55%) Life Science
5 5 (3.55%) Mali
5 5 (3.55%) Ray Tracing
5 5 (3.55%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (3.55%) SIMD
5 5 (3.55%) Smartphone
6 4 (2.84%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.42%) Algorithms
8 2 (1.42%) Distributed Applications
8 2 (1.42%) iPhone
9 1 (0.71%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.71%) Media Streaming
9 1 (0.71%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.71%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 18 (12.77%) Windows
2 13 (9.22%) Windows Server
3 11 (7.80%) Linux
4 9 (6.38%) Windows Server 2012
5 8 (5.67%) Android
6 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (3.55%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (2.13%) Unix
8 1 (0.71%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (42.55%) Agile
2 56 (39.72%) Problem-Solving
3 34 (24.11%) Mathematics
4 32 (22.70%) Scrum
5 29 (20.57%) Migration
5 29 (20.57%) SDLC
6 28 (19.86%) DevOps
6 28 (19.86%) Software Engineering
7 25 (17.73%) Project Management
8 24 (17.02%) Actionable Insight
9 21 (14.89%) ERP
10 20 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (14.18%) Project Delivery
11 19 (13.48%) Physics
11 19 (13.48%) Software Architecture
12 18 (12.77%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (12.77%) PRINCE2
13 16 (11.35%) Model Validation
13 16 (11.35%) User Experience
14 15 (10.64%) Technical Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (19.15%) SQL
2 24 (17.02%) JavaScript
3 22 (15.60%) Python
4 20 (14.18%) Java
5 12 (8.51%) TypeScript
6 9 (6.38%) C#
7 6 (4.26%) Apex Code
7 6 (4.26%) C++
7 6 (4.26%) PowerShell
8 5 (3.55%) C
8 5 (3.55%) Ruby
8 5 (3.55%) Rust
9 4 (2.84%) PHP
10 3 (2.13%) Kotlin
11 2 (1.42%) Bash
11 2 (1.42%) Go
11 2 (1.42%) Perl
11 2 (1.42%) R
11 2 (1.42%) VB
11 2 (1.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 138 (97.87%) Degree
2 112 (79.43%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (10.64%) TOGAF Certification
4 13 (9.22%) Master's Degree
5 11 (7.80%) SC Cleared
5 11 (7.80%) Security Cleared
6 5 (3.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.13%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
7 3 (2.13%) Postgraduate
8 2 (1.42%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.42%) DBS Check
8 2 (1.42%) JNCIA
9 1 (0.71%) CEH
9 1 (0.71%) JNCIE
9 1 (0.71%) JNCIP
9 1 (0.71%) JNCIS
9 1 (0.71%) MCSA
9 1 (0.71%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) SLA
2 3 (2.13%) QA
3 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.42%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.42%) IEC 61508
3 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.71%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.71%) NIST
4 1 (0.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.71%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (9.22%) Active Directory
2 10 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (4.26%) Docker
4 2 (1.42%) vSphere
5 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (4.96%) Terraform
2 6 (4.26%) Ansible
3 5 (3.55%) Kubernetes
4 3 (2.13%) Progress Chef
5 2 (1.42%) SCCM
5 2 (1.42%) SCOM
5 2 (1.42%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (0.71%) CASB
6 1 (0.71%) WSUS
Vendors
1 25 (17.73%) Salesforce
2 18 (12.77%) NEC
3 13 (9.22%) Microsoft
3 13 (9.22%) VMware
4 5 (3.55%) IBM
5 4 (2.84%) Google
5 4 (2.84%) Verint
6 2 (1.42%) ESRI
6 2 (1.42%) Oracle
6 2 (1.42%) Sitecore
6 2 (1.42%) Splunk
7 1 (0.71%) Adobe
7 1 (0.71%) Facebook
7 1 (0.71%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.71%) Juniper
7 1 (0.71%) NetWitness
7 1 (0.71%) RapidMiner
7 1 (0.71%) Sage
7 1 (0.71%) SAP
7 1 (0.71%) Twitter