Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the South West

Computer Science Degree
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 121 118
Rank change year-on-year -52 -3 -7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 72 54 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.80% 1.54% 1.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.14% 4.13% 5.77%
Number of salaries quoted 67 32 102
10th Percentile £28,750 £26,325 £28,500
25th Percentile £30,250 £34,500 £38,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -21.88%
75th Percentile £55,000 £56,934 £66,750
90th Percentile £64,750 £73,125 £76,125
England median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

Computer Science Degree falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the South West.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,291 1,307 2,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 25.56% 37.27% 29.95%
Number of salaries quoted 1,159 831 1,533
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,750 £31,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.85%
75th Percentile £81,250 £68,525 £70,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £82,500 £86,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the South West

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the South West

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science Degree within the South West region over the 6 months to 11 August 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
Somerset -2 40 £30,500 -12.86% 2
Bristol -24 17 £47,500 -19.15% 14
Devon -9 7 £55,000 +4.76% 3
Gloucestershire -56 7 £50,000 +72.41% 10
Dorset -9 1 £45,000 +33.33% 6
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 28 (38.89%) Azure
2 13 (18.06%) AWS
3 12 (16.67%) GCP
4 4 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.17%) GitHub
6 2 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.78%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) Firewall
1 2 (2.78%) LAN
1 2 (2.78%) VPN
1 2 (2.78%) WAN
1 2 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.39%) NAS
2 1 (1.39%) Network Security
2 1 (1.39%) SAN
2 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.39%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.39%) VLAN
2 1 (1.39%) VXLAN
2 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.72%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (5.56%) MariaDB
2 4 (5.56%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.17%) Big Data
3 3 (4.17%) ClickHouse
3 3 (4.17%) MySQL
4 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.39%) GIS
4 1 (1.39%) RDBMS
4 1 (1.39%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 31 (43.06%) Git
2 26 (36.11%) Subversion
3 25 (34.72%) Eclipse
4 19 (26.39%) JUnit
5 3 (4.17%) Burp Suite
5 3 (4.17%) Metasploit
6 2 (2.78%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
6 2 (2.78%) JIRA
7 1 (1.39%) GitLab
7 1 (1.39%) Valgrind
General
1 20 (27.78%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (19.44%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.67%) Finance
4 6 (8.33%) Retail
5 4 (5.56%) Aerospace
6 3 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.17%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.39%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.39%) Military
7 1 (1.39%) Police
7 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 40 (55.56%) Developer
2 26 (36.11%) Java Developer
3 21 (29.17%) Junior
3 21 (29.17%) Junior Developer
3 21 (29.17%) Junior Java Developer
4 12 (16.67%) .NET Developer
5 10 (13.89%) Software Developer
6 8 (11.11%) .NET Software Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Backend Developer
6 8 (11.11%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
7 6 (8.33%) Analyst
7 6 (8.33%) Software Engineer
8 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (6.94%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 4 (5.56%) C# .NET Developer
9 4 (5.56%) C# Developer
9 4 (5.56%) Software Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Software Test Analyst
9 4 (5.56%) Test Analyst
10 3 (4.17%) Senior Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (55.56%) RESTful
2 28 (38.89%) React
3 25 (34.72%) Jakarta EE
3 25 (34.72%) Struts
3 25 (34.72%) Web Services
4 13 (18.06%) .NET
5 12 (16.67%) .NET Core
6 5 (6.94%) AngularJS
7 4 (5.56%) CSS
7 4 (5.56%) HTML
8 3 (4.17%) CSS3
8 3 (4.17%) FastAPI
8 3 (4.17%) HTML5
8 3 (4.17%) jQuery
8 3 (4.17%) Kafka
8 3 (4.17%) PySpark
8 3 (4.17%) REST
8 3 (4.17%) SQLAlchemy
8 3 (4.17%) Vue
9 2 (2.78%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.72%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.94%) Security Posture
3 4 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.17%) CUDA
4 3 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.17%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (4.17%) IoT
5 2 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.39%) Apple TV
6 1 (1.39%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.39%) Distributed Architecture
6 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.39%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.39%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 14 (19.44%) Linux
2 6 (8.33%) Unix
3 3 (4.17%) Mac OS
3 3 (4.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.39%) Android
4 1 (1.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 72 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 44 (61.11%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (36.11%) Full-Stack Development
4 25 (34.72%) CI/CD
5 23 (31.94%) Software Engineering
6 18 (25.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 17 (23.61%) Technical Architecture
8 16 (22.22%) Containerisation
9 15 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (19.44%) API Integration
10 14 (19.44%) SDLC
11 12 (16.67%) API Design
12 9 (12.50%) Mentoring
13 8 (11.11%) Regression Testing
14 7 (9.72%) Information Security
14 7 (9.72%) Infrastructure as Code
15 6 (8.33%) Data Science
15 6 (8.33%) DevOps
15 6 (8.33%) Requirements Gathering
15 6 (8.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (48.61%) Python
2 31 (43.06%) JavaScript
3 29 (40.28%) Java
4 25 (34.72%) C++
5 23 (31.94%) Perl
6 20 (27.78%) C#
7 7 (9.72%) SQL
8 5 (6.94%) PHP
9 2 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 1 (1.39%) Go
10 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.39%) PL/SQL
10 1 (1.39%) Rust
10 1 (1.39%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 72 (100.00%) Degree
2 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 6 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 6 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (6.94%) DV Cleared
5 3 (4.17%) CHECK Team Member
5 3 (4.17%) CREST Certified
6 2 (2.78%) CEH
6 2 (2.78%) CISSP
7 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.39%) CCNP
7 1 (1.39%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.39%) VCAP
7 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 4 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.39%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (31.94%) Docker
2 2 (2.78%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.39%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 24 (33.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.17%) Nmap
2 3 (4.17%) Plesk
2 3 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.39%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (1.39%) Grafana
4 1 (1.39%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (1.39%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.17%) Databricks
2 3 (4.17%) Oracle
3 2 (2.78%) Cisco
3 2 (2.78%) Freshdesk
4 1 (1.39%) Apple
4 1 (1.39%) Meraki
4 1 (1.39%) NetApp
4 1 (1.39%) VMware