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 13 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 106 147
Rank change year-on-year -61 +41 +3
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 40 53 148
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 0.52% 1.99% 1.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.93% 4.82% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 35 28 120
10th Percentile £37,500 £37,900 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £43,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,873 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.51% +24.16% -25.00%
75th Percentile £63,125 £69,063 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,250 £77,875 £71,375
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.48%

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 2,074 1,099 3,053
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 27.19% 41.19% 34.17%
Number of salaries quoted 985 691 2,141
10th Percentile £31,000 £27,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £31,750 £39,759
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £77,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,750 £81,250
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 13 May 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 13 May 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 -14 13 £42,500 -29.17% 3
Devon -17 8 £55,000 -47.62% 2
Bristol -25 8 £62,500 +13.64% 4
Gloucestershire -41 6 £50,000 -1.48% 2
Wiltshire -13 3 £65,000 +14.55% 5
Dorset -18 1 - - 5
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.50%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Siemens NX
1 1 (2.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (2.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (10.00%) GCP
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) GitHub
4 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.50%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.50%) Firewall
1 3 (7.50%) LAN
1 3 (7.50%) WAN
2 2 (5.00%) Network Security
2 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.00%) VLAN
2 2 (5.00%) VPN
3 1 (2.50%) BGP
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.50%) DHCP
3 1 (2.50%) DNS
3 1 (2.50%) MPLS
3 1 (2.50%) NAS
3 1 (2.50%) NGFW
3 1 (2.50%) OSPF
3 1 (2.50%) SAN
3 1 (2.50%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.50%) VXLAN
3 1 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (17.50%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (10.00%) Relational Database
3 3 (7.50%) MariaDB
3 3 (7.50%) MySQL
3 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.50%) GIS
4 1 (2.50%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (10.00%) Cypress.io
1 4 (10.00%) Git
2 1 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 1 (2.50%) Gatling
2 1 (2.50%) GitLab
2 1 (2.50%) JMeter
2 1 (2.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (15.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Billing
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Electronics
6 1 (2.50%) Fire and Rescue
6 1 (2.50%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.50%) Marketing
6 1 (2.50%) Police
6 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (35.00%) Developer
2 11 (27.50%) Software Developer
3 10 (25.00%) .NET Developer
4 8 (20.00%) .NET Software Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Backend Developer
4 8 (20.00%) Mid-Level .NET Developer
5 6 (15.00%) Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Senior
6 4 (10.00%) Software Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Software Engineer
6 4 (10.00%) Software Test Analyst
6 4 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
7 3 (7.50%) Python Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) QA Automation Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) QA Engineer
7 3 (7.50%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (5.00%) Application Security Analyst
8 2 (5.00%) C# .NET Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (35.00%) RESTful
2 10 (25.00%) .NET
2 10 (25.00%) .NET Core
3 4 (10.00%) AngularJS
3 4 (10.00%) CSS
3 4 (10.00%) HTML
3 4 (10.00%) Playwright
3 4 (10.00%) React
4 3 (7.50%) CSS3
4 3 (7.50%) FastAPI
4 3 (7.50%) HTML5
4 3 (7.50%) jQuery
4 3 (7.50%) REST
4 3 (7.50%) SQLAlchemy
4 3 (7.50%) Vue
5 2 (5.00%) Django
5 2 (5.00%) Flask
5 2 (5.00%) Spring
5 2 (5.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.50%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Cloud Native
2 3 (7.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (7.50%) CUDA
3 2 (5.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (5.00%) PMI
3 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Algorithms
4 1 (2.50%) Distributed Architecture
4 1 (2.50%) e-Learning
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (95.00%) Computer Science
2 19 (47.50%) CI/CD
3 14 (35.00%) Software Engineering
4 12 (30.00%) Containerisation
4 12 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (27.50%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (25.00%) API Design
6 10 (25.00%) API Integration
7 8 (20.00%) Test Strategy
8 7 (17.50%) Agile
8 7 (17.50%) DevOps
8 7 (17.50%) SDLC
8 7 (17.50%) Software Testing
9 5 (12.50%) API Testing
9 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (12.50%) Mentoring
9 5 (12.50%) Test Automation
9 5 (12.50%) Test Scripting
9 5 (12.50%) Validation
10 4 (10.00%) Ticket Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) C#
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 8 (20.00%) JavaScript
4 6 (15.00%) Java
5 5 (12.50%) PHP
6 4 (10.00%) TypeScript
7 2 (5.00%) Bash
7 2 (5.00%) SQL
8 1 (2.50%) Perl
8 1 (2.50%) PL/SQL
8 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 1 (2.50%) R
8 1 (2.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 40 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (5.00%) CCNP
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (5.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (5.00%) PMI Certification
7 1 (2.50%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) OCA
7 1 (2.50%) OCP
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Certification
7 1 (2.50%) VCAP
7 1 (2.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 1 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Docker
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (35.00%) Kubernetes
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Plesk
4 2 (5.00%) Ansible
5 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.50%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.50%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (7.50%) Cisco
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.00%) Citrix
3 2 (5.00%) VMware
4 1 (2.50%) Dell
4 1 (2.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (2.50%) HP
4 1 (2.50%) Juniper
4 1 (2.50%) NetApp
4 1 (2.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (2.50%) SAP
4 1 (2.50%) Siemens
4 1 (2.50%) Veeam