Computer Science Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 112 147
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 -14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 1,021 1,662 1,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.36% 2.28% 2.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.36% 8.73% 6.46%
Number of salaries quoted 508 1,191 832
10th Percentile £27,350 £31,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £44,560
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -16.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £63,150 £57,500 £60,899
% change year-on-year +9.83% -5.58% +5.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,061 19,039 18,927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 44.04% 26.08% 37.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,996 11,195 7,975
10th Percentile £30,500 £27,500 £29,100
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £66,212 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,408 £60,000
% change year-on-year +1.09% -9.32% +9.09%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
South East +31 467 £73,000 +21.67% 169
North of England -82 155 £57,500 +15.00% 143
East of England +19 130 £50,000 +11.11% 95
Midlands -34 127 £41,434 -17.13% 99
North West -85 100 £58,000 +16.00% 87
West Midlands -9 91 £42,500 -15.00% 73
South West +12 75 £50,000 +5.26% 29
Yorkshire -55 34 £60,000 +33.33% 43
East Midlands -17 33 £35,000 -24.22% 26
Scotland +3 27 £51,914 -13.48% 55
Wales +36 26 £73,000 +114.71% 14
North East +37 21 £41,750 -7.22% 14
Northern Ireland +32 13 £110,000 +168.29% 16
Isle of Man +4 1 - -
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 23 (2.25%) Jupyter
2 15 (1.47%) Apache Spark
3 10 (0.98%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.69%) CMS
4 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
5 6 (0.59%) IIS
5 6 (0.59%) WordPress
6 5 (0.49%) Confluence
6 5 (0.49%) SAS
7 4 (0.39%) Apache
7 4 (0.39%) Apache Airflow
8 3 (0.29%) Umbraco
9 2 (0.20%) NServiceBus
9 2 (0.20%) SharePoint Server
9 2 (0.20%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 12 (1.18%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (0.69%) MS Visio
3 6 (0.59%) Revit
4 2 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (1.18%) Dynamics NAV
2 7 (0.69%) NetSuite
3 6 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 6 (0.59%) Remedy ITSM
4 5 (0.49%) SAP Business One
5 2 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.20%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (0.20%) Shopify
6 1 (0.098%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.098%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.098%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.098%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 199 (19.49%) Azure
2 121 (11.85%) AWS
3 46 (4.51%) GCP
4 31 (3.04%) Azure DevOps
5 29 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
5 29 (2.84%) Power Platform
6 22 (2.15%) Serverless
7 21 (2.06%) Dynamics 365
7 21 (2.06%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 18 (1.76%) AWS Lambda
9 17 (1.67%) PaaS
9 17 (1.67%) SaaS
10 16 (1.57%) Amazon ECS
11 14 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
11 14 (1.37%) Entra ID
12 13 (1.27%) Amazon S3
12 13 (1.27%) GitHub
13 10 (0.98%) Amazon EC2
13 10 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
14 9 (0.88%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 182 (17.83%) Broadband
2 37 (3.62%) Firewall
3 32 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 26 (2.55%) DNS
4 26 (2.55%) Network Security
5 17 (1.67%) DHCP
6 14 (1.37%) VLAN
7 12 (1.18%) Internet
7 12 (1.18%) SAN
7 12 (1.18%) VPN
8 11 (1.08%) WAN
9 10 (0.98%) BGP
9 10 (0.98%) LAN
9 10 (0.98%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (0.88%) NAS
10 9 (0.88%) OSPF
11 8 (0.78%) VoIP
12 7 (0.69%) DWDM
12 7 (0.69%) Wireshark
13 6 (0.59%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (8.52%) SQL Server
2 49 (4.80%) MySQL
3 38 (3.72%) Big Data
4 25 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
5 24 (2.35%) NoSQL
6 23 (2.25%) Power BI
7 20 (1.96%) Relational Database
8 14 (1.37%) Data Lake
9 12 (1.18%) Hadoop
10 11 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
10 11 (1.08%) Oracle Database
11 10 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 9 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 8 (0.78%) MongoDB
14 6 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
14 6 (0.59%) FileMaker
15 5 (0.49%) Amazon Redshift
15 5 (0.49%) BigQuery
15 5 (0.49%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 39 (3.82%) Git
2 27 (2.64%) JIRA
3 10 (0.98%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.88%) Visual Studio
5 6 (0.59%) Burp Suite
5 6 (0.59%) Sonatype Nexus
6 5 (0.49%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.49%) Metasploit
6 5 (0.49%) Moq
6 5 (0.49%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.49%) SpecFlow
7 4 (0.39%) GitLab
7 4 (0.39%) Maven
7 4 (0.39%) Vite
8 3 (0.29%) AppScan
8 3 (0.29%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.29%) Visual Studio Code
9 2 (0.20%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.20%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.20%) SonarQube
General
1 521 (51.03%) Social Skills
2 161 (15.77%) Finance
3 113 (11.07%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (6.86%) Law
5 45 (4.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 45 (4.41%) Manufacturing
6 35 (3.43%) Marketing
7 29 (2.84%) Retail
8 27 (2.64%) Games
9 25 (2.45%) Legal
9 25 (2.45%) Multimedia
10 24 (2.35%) Electronics
11 19 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
12 16 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.37%) Telecoms
14 13 (1.27%) Advertising
15 11 (1.08%) Pharmaceutical
16 10 (0.98%) Aviation
16 10 (0.98%) Back Office
17 9 (0.88%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 197 (19.29%) Architect
2 157 (15.38%) Developer
3 142 (13.91%) Lead
4 137 (13.42%) Software Architect
5 128 (12.54%) Senior
6 73 (7.15%) Graduate
7 52 (5.09%) Graduate Developer
7 52 (5.09%) Systems Engineer
8 50 (4.90%) Engineering Manager
9 47 (4.60%) Software Engineer
10 46 (4.51%) IT Graduate
11 38 (3.72%) Senior Manager
12 36 (3.53%) Analyst
13 35 (3.43%) Team Leader
14 28 (2.74%) Senior Software Test Engineer
14 28 (2.74%) Senior Test Engineer
14 28 (2.74%) Software Test Engineer
14 28 (2.74%) Test Engineer
15 27 (2.64%) Software Developer
16 26 (2.55%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (15.57%) Middleware
2 103 (10.09%) .NET
3 91 (8.91%) HTML
4 71 (6.95%) CSS
5 49 (4.80%) ASP.NET
6 46 (4.51%) jQuery
7 45 (4.41%) REST
8 35 (3.43%) React
9 22 (2.15%) SOAP
10 21 (2.06%) Lightning Web Components
10 21 (2.06%) Node.js
11 20 (1.96%) Kafka
12 19 (1.86%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.86%) RESTful
13 18 (1.76%) .NET Core
13 18 (1.76%) .NET Framework
13 18 (1.76%) PyTorch
13 18 (1.76%) TensorFlow
14 16 (1.57%) WinForms
14 16 (1.57%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 78 (7.64%) Management Information System
2 42 (4.11%) Product Ownership
3 36 (3.53%) Algorithms
4 35 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 35 (3.43%) Self-Motivation
5 28 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.45%) Cyberattack
7 22 (2.15%) Video\Live Streaming
8 16 (1.57%) Cloud Native
8 16 (1.57%) Virtual Team
9 14 (1.37%) Mobile App
10 11 (1.08%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.08%) Robotics
11 9 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
11 9 (0.88%) Life Science
11 9 (0.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 8 (0.78%) IoT
13 7 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
13 7 (0.69%) Data Structures
13 7 (0.69%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (6.46%) Windows
2 62 (6.07%) Linux
3 15 (1.47%) Windows Server
4 10 (0.98%) Android
5 9 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 8 (0.78%) Apple iOS
7 7 (0.69%) Mac OS
8 6 (0.59%) Mac OS X
8 6 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
8 6 (0.59%) Windows Vista
9 4 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
9 4 (0.39%) Windows 10
10 3 (0.29%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.098%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,008 (98.73%) Computer Science
2 434 (42.51%) Problem-Solving
3 401 (39.28%) Mentoring
4 360 (35.26%) Agile
5 289 (28.31%) DevOps
6 271 (26.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 217 (21.25%) Roadmaps
8 195 (19.10%) High Availability
9 186 (18.22%) Product Management
10 182 (17.83%) Configuration Management
11 175 (17.14%) Design Patterns
12 172 (16.85%) SDLC
13 171 (16.75%) Software Engineering
14 166 (16.26%) Waterfall
15 165 (16.16%) UML
16 159 (15.57%) Broadcast Engineering
17 144 (14.10%) Open Source
18 126 (12.34%) Artificial Intelligence
19 110 (10.77%) Machine Learning
20 96 (9.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 185 (18.12%) Java
2 181 (17.73%) C#
3 178 (17.43%) SQL
4 174 (17.04%) Python
5 152 (14.89%) JavaScript
6 120 (11.75%) C++
7 103 (10.09%) PHP
8 77 (7.54%) TypeScript
9 71 (6.95%) C
10 51 (5.00%) R
11 50 (4.90%) Rust
12 49 (4.80%) Ruby
13 48 (4.70%) Dart
13 48 (4.70%) MATLAB
14 44 (4.31%) PowerShell
15 22 (2.15%) Apex Code
16 15 (1.47%) Bash
17 12 (1.18%) PL/SQL
17 12 (1.18%) T-SQL
18 10 (0.98%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1,021 (100.00%) Degree
2 169 (16.55%) BPSS Clearance
3 151 (14.79%) Chartered Engineer
4 104 (10.19%) Master's Degree
5 63 (6.17%) Security Cleared
6 40 (3.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 30 (2.94%) Numerate Degree
7 30 (2.94%) SC Cleared
8 29 (2.84%) Azure Certification
9 26 (2.55%) DV Cleared
10 23 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
11 20 (1.96%) AWS Certification
12 18 (1.76%) CISSP
13 17 (1.67%) DBS Check
14 14 (1.37%) MCSE
15 13 (1.27%) CCNP
16 10 (0.98%) CCNA
16 10 (0.98%) PhD
16 10 (0.98%) PMI Certification
16 10 (0.98%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (13.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 45 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 35 (3.43%) Data Quality
4 31 (3.04%) GDPR
5 29 (2.84%) NIST
6 24 (2.35%) QA
7 16 (1.57%) NCSC
8 10 (0.98%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 9 (0.88%) Accessibility
10 7 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
10 7 (0.69%) ISO 9001
11 6 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 5 (0.49%) Def Stans
12 5 (0.49%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.29%) CDISC
13 3 (0.29%) Good Clinical Practice
13 3 (0.29%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.20%) JTAG
System Software
1 50 (4.90%) Docker
2 22 (2.15%) Active Directory
3 18 (1.76%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.08%) Firmware
5 5 (0.49%) Hyper-V
5 5 (0.49%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.39%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.29%) GPFS
7 3 (0.29%) HDFS
7 3 (0.29%) Lustre
7 3 (0.29%) NFS
7 3 (0.29%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.20%) vSphere
9 1 (0.098%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 57 (5.58%) Kubernetes
2 34 (3.33%) Grafana
3 28 (2.74%) Prometheus
4 27 (2.64%) Terraform
5 16 (1.57%) Ansible
6 10 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (0.59%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (0.59%) QRadar
8 3 (0.29%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.29%) Kibana
8 3 (0.29%) Nessus
9 2 (0.20%) CASB
9 2 (0.20%) Control-M
9 2 (0.20%) Kubeflow
9 2 (0.20%) Nmap
10 1 (0.098%) Argo
10 1 (0.098%) logstash
10 1 (0.098%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.098%) Podman
10 1 (0.098%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 124 (12.14%) Microsoft
2 30 (2.94%) Google
3 27 (2.64%) Salesforce
4 23 (2.25%) Cisco
4 23 (2.25%) Oracle
4 23 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 21 (2.06%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 18 (1.76%) VMware
7 14 (1.37%) OpenAI
7 14 (1.37%) SAP
8 11 (1.08%) McAfee
9 10 (0.98%) Splunk
10 8 (0.78%) Veeam
11 7 (0.69%) Informatica
11 7 (0.69%) Remedy
12 6 (0.59%) ArcSight
12 6 (0.59%) Arista
12 6 (0.59%) BMC
12 6 (0.59%) Databricks
12 6 (0.59%) LogLogic