Computer Science Jobs in Tyne and Wear

Computer Science
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Computer Science skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Computer Science over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 44 71
Rank change year-on-year +25 +27 +3
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 42 53 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 9.15% 3.95% 2.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.63% 4.51% 2.36%
Number of salaries quoted 35 49 21
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £38,750
25th Percentile £40,500 £33,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £48,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.71% +12.94% -13.04%
75th Percentile £78,750 £73,250 £60,899
90th Percentile £95,250 - £67,500
North East median annual salary £56,500 £48,734 £42,500
% change year-on-year +15.94% +14.67% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 1,174 888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 94.99% 87.55% 96.84%
Number of salaries quoted 293 986 448
10th Percentile £25,087 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,250 £36,625 £38,644
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £82,500 £76,011 £75,000
North East median annual salary £45,000 £47,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -2.06% +14.12%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Computer Science as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in Tyne and Wear

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science in Tyne and Wear.

Salary trend for Computer Science in Tyne and Wear

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Tyne and Wear

Computer Science
Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 14 May 2025. 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +35 37 £57,500 +35.29% 62
Sunderland +17 3 £42,123 -41.09% 5
Gateshead +2 1 £52,500 +37.93% 1
Computer Science
North East

Computer Science
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 4 (9.52%) Jupyter
2 1 (2.38%) Apache
2 1 (2.38%) Apache Spark
2 1 (2.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (11.90%) Chatbot
2 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (9.52%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.38%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (38.10%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (4.76%) GCP
3 2 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (2.38%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (2.38%) Serverless
4 1 (2.38%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) SAN
2 2 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (4.76%) VoIP
3 1 (2.38%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 7 (16.67%) Data Lake
3 4 (9.52%) Dremio
3 4 (9.52%) MySQL
3 4 (9.52%) Tableau
4 3 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (2.38%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Postman
1 2 (4.76%) TeamCity
2 1 (2.38%) Artifactory
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Octopus Deploy
2 1 (2.38%) SonarQube
General
1 21 (50.00%) Finance
2 12 (28.57%) Advertising
2 12 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Marketing
4 4 (9.52%) Back Office
5 2 (4.76%) Electronics
5 2 (4.76%) Front Office
5 2 (4.76%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Games
6 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (30.95%) Developer
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) Graduate
4 5 (11.90%) C# Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Data Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
4 5 (11.90%) Trainer
5 4 (9.52%) DBA
5 4 (9.52%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
5 4 (9.52%) Graduate Developer
5 4 (9.52%) IT Graduate
5 4 (9.52%) Senior C# Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.52%) SQL DBA
6 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) C# Software Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Software Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (28.57%) .NET
2 6 (14.29%) React
3 4 (9.52%) ASP.NET
3 4 (9.52%) CSS
3 4 (9.52%) jQuery
3 4 (9.52%) WebSockets
4 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
5 2 (4.76%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (4.76%) SignalR
5 2 (4.76%) Web Services
6 1 (2.38%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Hedge funds
2 6 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 6 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 6 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 4 (9.52%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (9.52%) Equities
3 4 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (9.52%) Reference Data
4 2 (4.76%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.38%) Legacy Applications
5 1 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.90%) Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (54.76%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (26.19%) Software Engineering
3 10 (23.81%) OOP
4 7 (16.67%) Mathematics
4 7 (16.67%) SDLC
5 6 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
5 6 (14.29%) Design Patterns
6 5 (11.90%) Conversational UI
6 5 (11.90%) Data Analysis
6 5 (11.90%) Fintech
6 5 (11.90%) Front End Development
6 5 (11.90%) Statistics
7 4 (9.52%) Agile
7 4 (9.52%) Change Data Capture
7 4 (9.52%) DevOps
7 4 (9.52%) High Availability
7 4 (9.52%) Knowledge Management
7 4 (9.52%) Performance Optimisation
7 4 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (9.52%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 15 (35.71%) Python
3 14 (33.33%) C#
4 11 (26.19%) Java
5 6 (14.29%) PowerShell
5 6 (14.29%) TypeScript
6 5 (11.90%) C++
7 4 (9.52%) PHP
Qualifications
1 41 (97.62%) Degree
2 19 (45.24%) Computer Science Degree
3 6 (14.29%) Master's Degree
4 5 (11.90%) PhD
5 1 (2.38%) CISSP
5 1 (2.38%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (4.76%) Def Stans
2 2 (4.76%) QA
3 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (4.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.76%) Ansible
1 2 (4.76%) Docker Swarm
1 2 (4.76%) Grafana
1 2 (4.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (30.95%) Microsoft
2 5 (11.90%) Databricks
2 5 (11.90%) PayPal
3 4 (9.52%) Bloomberg
3 4 (9.52%) Nimble Storage
3 4 (9.52%) Reuters
4 2 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.38%) Oracle
5 1 (2.38%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) VMware