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 9 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 220 85 136
Rank change year-on-year -135 +51 +65
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 381 1,113 765
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.90% 3.08% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.71% 8.07% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 258 459 574
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £45,469
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 14,079 13,785 10,236
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.26% 38.11% 30.53%
Number of salaries quoted 5,124 5,269 6,677
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £51,528
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +6.74% +3.06%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

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 9 January 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 9 January 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 -61 115 £60,000 -11.11% 295
North of England -66 104 £55,000 +10.00% 151
Yorkshire -52 59 £70,000 +40.00% 72
Midlands -123 56 £43,000 +22.86% 126
South West -9 40 £62,500 -13.79% 126
West Midlands -103 37 £41,250 +17.86% 35
East of England -56 36 £30,000 -45.45% 168
North West -48 27 £42,500 -17.05% 43
East Midlands -67 22 £55,000 +57.14% 89
North East +2 18 £51,500 +2.49% 36
Scotland -9 18 £75,000 +54.64% 32
Wales -10 9 £52,500 -3.97% 50
Northern Ireland -31 4 £40,500 -45.08% 28
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 22 (5.77%) IIS
2 11 (2.89%) Confluence
3 8 (2.10%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.99%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (3.41%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.10%) AutoCAD
3 8 (2.10%) SOLIDWORKS
4 2 (0.52%) EPLAN
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.52%) Weka
4 2 (0.52%) Windchill
5 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (39.37%) Azure
2 100 (26.25%) AWS
3 34 (8.92%) Serverless
4 29 (7.61%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (6.04%) GCP
6 22 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 22 (5.77%) SaaS
7 18 (4.72%) Microsoft 365
8 16 (4.20%) GitHub
9 10 (2.62%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.36%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.36%) Google Workspace
11 8 (2.10%) PaaS
12 7 (1.84%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.84%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.31%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.05%) Firebase
14 4 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.05%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.05%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.04%) Firewall
2 15 (3.94%) Network Security
3 14 (3.67%) TCP/IP
4 13 (3.41%) VLAN
5 12 (3.15%) VPN
6 8 (2.10%) SAN
7 7 (1.84%) LAN
7 7 (1.84%) WAN
8 6 (1.57%) BGP
8 6 (1.57%) Modbus
8 6 (1.57%) OSPF
9 5 (1.31%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
10 4 (1.05%) Bluetooth
10 4 (1.05%) DNS
10 4 (1.05%) Wireless
10 4 (1.05%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.05%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.79%) DHCP
11 3 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.39%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.35%) MySQL
3 17 (4.46%) Power BI
4 12 (3.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.89%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.89%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.62%) Metadata
7 9 (2.36%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.84%) Big Data
10 6 (1.57%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.31%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.31%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.31%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.05%) Tableau
13 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (9.19%) JIRA
2 24 (6.30%) Git
3 10 (2.62%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.10%) GitLab
6 7 (1.84%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.57%) Selenium
8 4 (1.05%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.05%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.05%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.79%) ERwin
9 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.52%) JMeter
10 2 (0.52%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.52%) TestRail
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 183 (48.03%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.42%) Finance
3 69 (18.11%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.61%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.20%) Retail
6 15 (3.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (3.67%) Law
8 13 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.15%) Electronics
9 12 (3.15%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.62%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.62%) Marketing
10 10 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (2.10%) Advertising
11 8 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.84%) Banking
13 6 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.31%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.05%) Dutch Language
15 4 (1.05%) French Language
Job Titles
1 74 (19.42%) Developer
2 69 (18.11%) Architect
3 49 (12.86%) Software Engineer
4 42 (11.02%) Senior
5 35 (9.19%) Software Architect
6 34 (8.92%) Support Engineer
7 27 (7.09%) Graduate
8 24 (6.30%) Analyst
8 24 (6.30%) IT Engineer
9 20 (5.25%) IT Support
9 20 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
9 20 (5.25%) Software Developer
10 19 (4.99%) Graduate Developer
11 18 (4.72%) Technical Support
12 16 (4.20%) Applications Architect
13 15 (3.94%) Full-Stack Developer
14 14 (3.67%) C# Developer
15 13 (3.41%) Lead
15 13 (3.41%) Senior Developer
15 13 (3.41%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.70%) .NET
2 53 (13.91%) CSS
3 31 (8.14%) React
4 29 (7.61%) Middleware
5 27 (7.09%) ASP.NET
6 26 (6.82%) REST
7 25 (6.56%) HTML
8 20 (5.25%) .NET Framework
9 19 (4.99%) jQuery
9 19 (4.99%) WinForms
10 12 (3.15%) Entity Framework
10 12 (3.15%) Node.js
10 12 (3.15%) Vue
10 12 (3.15%) WPF
11 11 (2.89%) Playwright
12 10 (2.62%) RESTful
12 10 (2.62%) SOAP
13 9 (2.36%) Blazor
14 8 (2.10%) AngularJS
15 7 (1.84%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.19%) Enterprise Software
2 34 (8.92%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.04%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.46%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.67%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.41%) Operational Technology
7 9 (2.36%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.36%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.36%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.10%) SCADA
9 7 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.57%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.57%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.31%) IoT
11 5 (1.31%) Life Science
11 5 (1.31%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.22%) Windows
2 55 (14.44%) Linux
3 11 (2.89%) Android
4 9 (2.36%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.84%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.05%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.05%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.79%) Unix
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (96.33%) Computer Science
2 136 (35.70%) Problem-Solving
3 123 (32.28%) Agile
4 98 (25.72%) DevOps
5 95 (24.93%) Continuous Improvement
6 73 (19.16%) Mentoring
7 68 (17.85%) Software Engineering
8 67 (17.59%) CI/CD
9 53 (13.91%) AI
10 48 (12.60%) SDLC
11 46 (12.07%) Data Modelling
12 45 (11.81%) ITIL
12 45 (11.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (10.24%) Microservices
14 38 (9.97%) Analytics
14 38 (9.97%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.19%) Application Security
15 35 (9.19%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (9.19%) Machine Learning
15 35 (9.19%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 101 (26.51%) Python
2 97 (25.46%) C#
3 95 (24.93%) SQL
4 94 (24.67%) Java
5 65 (17.06%) JavaScript
6 47 (12.34%) C++
7 35 (9.19%) TypeScript
8 32 (8.40%) PHP
9 16 (4.20%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.94%) C
10 15 (3.94%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.89%) R
12 9 (2.36%) Bash
12 9 (2.36%) PL/SQL
13 6 (1.57%) Rust
14 4 (1.05%) Delphi
14 4 (1.05%) Go
14 4 (1.05%) Julia
15 3 (0.79%) VBA
16 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 378 (99.21%) Degree
2 46 (12.07%) Microsoft Certification
3 44 (11.55%) Master's Degree
4 42 (11.02%) Security Cleared
5 36 (9.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (9.19%) AWS Certification
7 34 (8.92%) Azure Certification
8 30 (7.87%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 29 (7.61%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (7.09%) SC Cleared
11 22 (5.77%) Chartered Engineer
12 12 (3.15%) ITIL Certification
13 11 (2.89%) A+ Certification
13 11 (2.89%) DV Cleared
14 9 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (2.36%) CISSP
15 8 (2.10%) CISM
15 8 (2.10%) MCP
16 7 (1.84%) CCNP
17 6 (1.57%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.77%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 21 (5.51%) QA
3 17 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 15 (3.94%) NIST
5 14 (3.67%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.62%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.62%) IEC 61131
7 8 (2.10%) NCSC
8 7 (1.84%) GDPR
9 5 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 5 (1.31%) GxP
10 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.79%) PMO
12 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.52%) ECSS
12 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
13 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (8.40%) Docker
2 14 (3.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.41%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.10%) vSphere
5 6 (1.57%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.31%) Firmware
7 3 (0.79%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (8.14%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.46%) Terraform
3 11 (2.89%) Grafana
3 11 (2.89%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.62%) Control-M
5 9 (2.36%) Ansible
6 7 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.31%) SCCM
8 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.05%) Nessus
8 4 (1.05%) Nmap
8 4 (1.05%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.79%) Nagios
9 3 (0.79%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.52%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 109 (28.61%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.72%) Oracle
3 15 (3.94%) VMware
4 13 (3.41%) Cisco
4 13 (3.41%) Google
5 12 (3.15%) Sage
5 12 (3.15%) SAP
5 12 (3.15%) Xamarin
6 10 (2.62%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.36%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.10%) Dell
8 8 (2.10%) Splunk
9 7 (1.84%) Red Hat
9 7 (1.84%) ServiceNow
10 5 (1.31%) CheckPoint
10 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.31%) Syncfusion
10 5 (1.31%) Telerik
10 5 (1.31%) Veeam
10 5 (1.31%) Zoho