Computer Science Job Trends in the North West

Computer Science
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 154 88 54
Rank change year-on-year -66 -34 +67
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 86 215 398
As % of all permanent jobs in the North West 0.80% 4.57% 3.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 4.82% 4.56%
Number of salaries quoted 58 159 300
10th Percentile £24,000 £33,150 £28,000
25th Percentile £30,250 £33,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £51,763 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.72% +3.53% -17.22%
75th Percentile £58,875 £76,250 £71,563
90th Percentile £88,750 £78,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £56,673 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.87% -5.55% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,489 4,461 8,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 69.36% 94.77% 78.81%
Number of salaries quoted 5,732 2,030 6,597
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £84,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the North West

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the North West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North West over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

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 15 June 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
Manchester -77 56 £37,500 -31.82% 24
Cheshire -2 14 £52,500 +50.00% 9
Merseyside -21 10 £40,000 -20.00% 7
Lancashire +15 5 £40,000 -22.72% 17
Cumbria -21 1 - - 1
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (4.65%) CMS
1 4 (4.65%) WordPress
2 2 (2.33%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (4.65%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 34 (39.53%) Azure
2 20 (23.26%) AWS
3 9 (10.47%) Entra ID
4 7 (8.14%) GCP
5 6 (6.98%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (4.65%) Azure AI
6 4 (4.65%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (4.65%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (2.33%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Fargate
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.33%) GitHub
7 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.33%) Serverless
8 1 (1.16%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (1.16%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) Internet
2 3 (3.49%) Firewall
3 2 (2.33%) Network Security
4 1 (1.16%) LAN
4 1 (1.16%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.16%) VLAN
4 1 (1.16%) WAN
4 1 (1.16%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (15.12%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.81%) Electronic Patient Records
3 4 (4.65%) NoSQL
4 3 (3.49%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.49%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (2.33%) Big Data
5 2 (2.33%) DynamoDB
5 2 (2.33%) Hadoop
5 2 (2.33%) Power BI
6 1 (1.16%) Pinecone
6 1 (1.16%) Redis
6 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
6 1 (1.16%) Star Schema
6 1 (1.16%) Tableau
6 1 (1.16%) Weaviate
Development Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
1 2 (2.33%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Claude Code
2 1 (1.16%) Git
General
1 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
2 9 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
4 7 (8.14%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Marketing
5 5 (5.81%) Legal
6 4 (4.65%) Games
6 4 (4.65%) Retail
7 3 (3.49%) French Language
7 3 (3.49%) Italian Language
7 3 (3.49%) Portuguese Language
7 3 (3.49%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.49%) Spanish Language
8 2 (2.33%) Electronics
8 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.33%) Social Housing
9 1 (1.16%) Automotive
9 1 (1.16%) Law
9 1 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 18 (20.93%) Developer
1 18 (20.93%) Graduate
2 10 (11.63%) Analyst
2 10 (11.63%) Software Engineer
3 8 (9.30%) Graduate Developer
3 8 (9.30%) Graduate Software Developer
3 8 (9.30%) Software Developer
4 5 (5.81%) Applications Support
4 5 (5.81%) Architect
5 4 (4.65%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (4.65%) Azure Architect
5 4 (4.65%) Azure Consultant
5 4 (4.65%) Consultant
5 4 (4.65%) Full-Stack Developer
5 4 (4.65%) Help Desk Analyst
5 4 (4.65%) IT Analyst
5 4 (4.65%) Service Analyst
5 4 (4.65%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (4.65%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (3.49%) Machine Learning Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (12.79%) CSS
2 10 (11.63%) .NET
3 6 (6.98%) HTML
4 5 (5.81%) REST
5 4 (4.65%) Vue
6 3 (3.49%) Ajax
6 3 (3.49%) Celery
6 3 (3.49%) CSS3
6 3 (3.49%) Django
6 3 (3.49%) FastAPI
6 3 (3.49%) Flask
6 3 (3.49%) HTML5
6 3 (3.49%) JSON
6 3 (3.49%) Node.js
6 3 (3.49%) PyTorch
6 3 (3.49%) React
6 3 (3.49%) RESTful
7 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
7 2 (2.33%) Spring
7 2 (2.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (11.63%) Algorithms
1 10 (11.63%) Onboarding
2 5 (5.81%) PACS
3 4 (4.65%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.65%) Cybercrime
3 4 (4.65%) EPoS
4 3 (3.49%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.49%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.49%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.49%) Social Media
5 2 (2.33%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.33%) CMDB
5 2 (2.33%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.33%) Housing Association
5 2 (2.33%) Robotics
5 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.16%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.49%) Android
1 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.33%) Mac OS
2 2 (2.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (34.88%) AI
2 18 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (19.77%) Software Engineering
4 14 (16.28%) Cybersecurity
5 12 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 11 (12.79%) DevOps
7 10 (11.63%) Machine Learning
7 10 (11.63%) Mathematics
8 9 (10.47%) Agile
8 9 (10.47%) Collaborative Working
8 9 (10.47%) Data Science
8 9 (10.47%) Mentoring
9 8 (9.30%) Collaborative Culture
9 8 (9.30%) Workflow
10 7 (8.14%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (8.14%) Customer Service
10 7 (8.14%) Full-Stack Development
10 7 (8.14%) Physics
10 7 (8.14%) Visualisation
11 6 (6.98%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.05%) Python
2 16 (18.60%) SQL
3 13 (15.12%) C#
4 10 (11.63%) Java
5 9 (10.47%) PHP
6 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
7 5 (5.81%) PowerShell
8 3 (3.49%) C++
9 2 (2.33%) C
9 2 (2.33%) Delphi
9 2 (2.33%) Scala
9 2 (2.33%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.16%) Ada
Qualifications
1 68 (79.07%) Degree
2 34 (39.53%) Computer Science Degree
3 8 (9.30%) Master's Degree
4 7 (8.14%) AWS Certification
5 5 (5.81%) Azure Certification
5 5 (5.81%) DBS Check
5 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
6 3 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (3.49%) CISM
6 3 (3.49%) CISSP
6 3 (3.49%) PhD
7 2 (2.33%) A+ Certification
7 2 (2.33%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 2 (2.33%) CCNP
7 2 (2.33%) CEH
7 2 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
7 2 (2.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
7 2 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) DICOM
2 3 (3.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (3.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.49%) NIST
3 2 (2.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.16%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) GDPR
4 1 (1.16%) QA
System Software
1 4 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) Terraform
2 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.33%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (12.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.65%) Databricks
2 4 (4.65%) OpenAI
3 2 (2.33%) Splunk
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe
4 1 (1.16%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.16%) Aruba
4 1 (1.16%) Capita
4 1 (1.16%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.16%) Ekahau
4 1 (1.16%) Palo Alto
4 1 (1.16%) Salesforce