Computer Science Degree Job Trends 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 11 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 230 180 98
Rank change year-on-year -50 -82 +28
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 605 573 1,302
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.73% 1.66% 2.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.22% 4.62% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 470 328 784
10th Percentile £25,450 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,875 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -7.69%

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 14,347 12,393 14,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.25% 35.83% 26.04%
Number of salaries quoted 7,712 5,070 6,836
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £33,250 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,302 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +14.60% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -5.17%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Science Degree

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 11 September 2026.

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 11 September 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
South East +1 249 £65,000 +13.04% 120
North of England -38 120 £62,500 +13.64% 57
South West -33 75 £42,500 +6.25% 76
Midlands -70 71 £40,000 -5.88% 48
East of England -38 63 £42,500 -1.73% 39
North West -42 48 £40,000 -27.27% 36
Yorkshire -45 39 £75,000 +30.43% 15
East Midlands -26 36 £25,000 -28.57% 20
West Midlands -65 35 £47,500 +11.76% 28
North East -36 33 £110,000 +163.47% 6
Wales -59 20 £65,000 +8.33% 5
Scotland -17 5 £82,500 +50.00% 29
Northern Ireland -88 2 £35,000 -50.53% 16
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.16%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (0.99%) Confluence
4 4 (0.66%) CMS
4 4 (0.66%) SAS
4 4 (0.66%) WordPress
5 2 (0.33%) Apache
5 2 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.33%) IIS
5 2 (0.33%) Luigi
6 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) EPLAN
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 215 (35.54%) Azure
2 162 (26.78%) AWS
3 48 (7.93%) GCP
4 44 (7.27%) SaaS
5 32 (5.29%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.46%) Microsoft 365
7 24 (3.97%) Power Platform
8 23 (3.80%) Serverless
9 21 (3.47%) GitHub
10 18 (2.98%) Snowflake
11 16 (2.64%) Azure Functions
12 15 (2.48%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (2.48%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.15%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.15%) IaaS
14 11 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.82%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.82%) PaaS
15 9 (1.49%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.49%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.96%) Internet
2 24 (3.97%) Firewall
3 23 (3.80%) VPN
4 22 (3.64%) WAN
5 18 (2.98%) DHCP
5 18 (2.98%) DNS
6 15 (2.48%) LAN
7 13 (2.15%) Network Security
8 12 (1.98%) Wireless
9 11 (1.82%) BGP
10 10 (1.65%) TCP/IP
11 9 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
12 8 (1.32%) MPLS
12 8 (1.32%) SD-WAN
13 7 (1.16%) VoIP
14 6 (0.99%) HTTP
14 6 (0.99%) Intrusion Detection
14 6 (0.99%) MQTT
14 6 (0.99%) ZigBee
15 5 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (16.86%) SQL Server
2 24 (3.97%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.80%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.64%) Redis
5 17 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (2.64%) MySQL
7 15 (2.48%) NoSQL
8 12 (1.98%) Power BI
8 12 (1.98%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.65%) Metadata
10 8 (1.32%) Big Data
10 8 (1.32%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.99%) ClickHouse
12 5 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.66%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.50%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 84 (13.88%) Git
2 32 (5.29%) Eclipse
3 30 (4.96%) Subversion
4 29 (4.79%) JIRA
5 25 (4.13%) GitLab
6 23 (3.80%) Jenkins
6 23 (3.80%) JUnit
7 7 (1.16%) Burp Suite
7 7 (1.16%) Cucumber
8 6 (0.99%) GDB
8 6 (0.99%) JMeter
9 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
9 5 (0.83%) Eclipse RCP
9 5 (0.83%) Selenium
10 4 (0.66%) Gatling
10 4 (0.66%) HP UFT
10 4 (0.66%) Postman
10 4 (0.66%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.66%) SonarQube
General
1 217 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.21%) Analytical Skills
3 82 (13.55%) Finance
4 41 (6.78%) Manufacturing
5 31 (5.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (4.79%) Aerospace
7 26 (4.30%) Organisational Skills
8 25 (4.13%) Law
9 23 (3.80%) Pharmaceutical
9 23 (3.80%) Public Sector
10 22 (3.64%) Electronics
11 20 (3.31%) Retail
12 16 (2.64%) Legal
13 10 (1.65%) Banking
13 10 (1.65%) Marketing
13 10 (1.65%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.32%) Advertising
14 8 (1.32%) Automotive
14 8 (1.32%) Publishing
15 7 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 186 (30.74%) Developer
2 123 (20.33%) Software Engineer
3 78 (12.89%) Software Developer
4 63 (10.41%) Senior
5 56 (9.26%) Graduate
6 48 (7.93%) Lead
7 47 (7.77%) C# Software Engineer
8 45 (7.44%) C++ Software Engineer
9 44 (7.27%) Architect
10 41 (6.78%) Python Engineer
11 36 (5.95%) Graduate Developer
11 36 (5.95%) Java Developer
11 36 (5.95%) Python Software Engineer
12 32 (5.29%) Web Developer
13 31 (5.12%) Graduate Software Developer
13 31 (5.12%) Junior
14 29 (4.79%) Analyst
14 29 (4.79%) Full-Stack Developer
15 26 (4.30%) Junior Developer
16 24 (3.97%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (16.03%) .NET
2 67 (11.07%) React
3 60 (9.92%) CSS
4 55 (9.09%) RESTful
5 48 (7.93%) jQuery
6 44 (7.27%) HTML
7 35 (5.79%) REST
8 33 (5.45%) Vue
9 32 (5.29%) Terraform
9 32 (5.29%) Web Services
10 28 (4.63%) Jakarta EE
11 27 (4.46%) Node.js
11 27 (4.46%) Struts
12 18 (2.98%) .NET Core
13 17 (2.81%) Kafka
13 17 (2.81%) PySpark
14 16 (2.64%) ARM Templates
15 13 (2.15%) JSON
16 11 (1.82%) ASP.NET
16 11 (1.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.26%) Management Information System
2 37 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.47%) Distributed Computing
4 19 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 18 (2.98%) Embedded Systems
6 17 (2.81%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.81%) Life Science
6 17 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 17 (2.81%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.81%) Robotics
7 16 (2.64%) Virtual Team
8 15 (2.48%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.48%) IoT
9 14 (2.31%) Data Centre
9 14 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.15%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.65%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.65%) Device Driver
12 8 (1.32%) CMDB
12 8 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 83 (13.72%) Linux
2 33 (5.45%) Windows
3 12 (1.98%) Unix
4 11 (1.82%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.16%) Embedded Linux
6 6 (0.99%) Debian
7 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.66%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
8 4 (0.66%) Ubuntu
9 3 (0.50%) Android
9 3 (0.50%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.33%) Solaris
10 2 (0.33%) VMS
10 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 553 (91.40%) Computer Science
2 201 (33.22%) Problem-Solving
3 196 (32.40%) Software Engineering
4 156 (25.79%) CI/CD
5 154 (25.45%) AI
6 149 (24.63%) Agile
7 126 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
8 105 (17.36%) DevOps
9 84 (13.88%) Mentoring
10 73 (12.07%) Full-Stack Development
11 68 (11.24%) Test Automation
12 58 (9.59%) Containerisation
13 53 (8.76%) Data Modelling
13 53 (8.76%) SDLC
14 50 (8.26%) Scrum
14 50 (8.26%) Stakeholder Management
15 49 (8.10%) Microservices
15 49 (8.10%) Web Development
16 48 (7.93%) Design Patterns
16 48 (7.93%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 193 (31.90%) Python
2 140 (23.14%) C#
3 128 (21.16%) C++
4 124 (20.50%) JavaScript
5 120 (19.83%) SQL
6 104 (17.19%) Java
7 66 (10.91%) PHP
8 52 (8.60%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.12%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.12%) Rust
11 25 (4.13%) C
11 25 (4.13%) Perl
12 18 (2.98%) Bash
13 17 (2.81%) Go
14 7 (1.16%) Bicep
15 5 (0.83%) Scala
16 4 (0.66%) Delphi
16 4 (0.66%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.66%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 605 (100.00%) Degree
2 67 (11.07%) Master's Degree
3 59 (9.75%) Security Cleared
4 39 (6.45%) SC Cleared
5 27 (4.46%) DV Cleared
6 19 (3.14%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (2.98%) CISSP
8 16 (2.64%) PhD
9 12 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 12 (1.98%) CCNP
10 11 (1.82%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.65%) ISTQB
12 9 (1.49%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.49%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.16%) CCNA
14 7 (1.16%) CEH
15 5 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.83%) CCIE
15 5 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.60%) QA
2 49 (8.10%) Accessibility
3 30 (4.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.13%) NIST
5 23 (3.80%) GDPR
6 13 (2.15%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.49%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.32%) GxP
9 7 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.99%) JTAG
11 5 (0.83%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.83%) SLA
11 5 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.66%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.50%) GRC
13 3 (0.50%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.33%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 69 (11.40%) Docker
2 23 (3.80%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.14%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (1.65%) Firmware
5 9 (1.49%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (0.99%) Hyper-V
8 5 (0.83%) vSphere
9 4 (0.66%) Embedded Firmware
9 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.50%) KVM
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.17%) ProxySG
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (11.24%) Kubernetes
2 14 (2.31%) Ansible
3 11 (1.82%) Grafana
4 7 (1.16%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.66%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.66%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.66%) SCCM
5 4 (0.66%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.50%) Nmap
6 3 (0.50%) Plesk
6 3 (0.50%) Podman
7 2 (0.33%) FortiGate
7 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.33%) Kibana
7 2 (0.33%) MaaS360
8 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 116 (19.17%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.64%) Databricks
3 20 (3.31%) Cisco
3 20 (3.31%) VMware
4 16 (2.64%) Oracle
5 10 (1.65%) Meraki
6 9 (1.49%) Splunk
7 7 (1.16%) Google
8 4 (0.66%) Adobe
8 4 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.66%) Veracode
9 3 (0.50%) Apple
9 3 (0.50%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.50%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.50%) Sage
9 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.33%) Infor
10 2 (0.33%) Siemens
10 2 (0.33%) Sybase