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 4 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 204 93 119
Rank change year-on-year -111 +26 +41
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 399 1,193 790
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.05% 2.72% 2.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.29% 8.29% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 280 553 617
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 12,138 14,394 9,745
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.80% 32.79% 33.89%
Number of salaries quoted 5,220 5,709 6,606
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,750 £41,263 £37,906
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,191 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.48% +1.20% +0.88%

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 4 December 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 4 December 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 -68 119 £55,000 -15.38% 107
North of England -38 101 £55,000 +10.00% 58
Midlands -102 60 £40,367 +15.33% 34
Yorkshire -5 48 £55,000 +20.68% 19
West Midlands -72 46 £41,434 +18.38% 17
South West -13 45 £50,000 -23.08% 37
East of England -52 39 £25,000 -57.26% 47
North West -40 35 £60,000 +20.00% 33
Scotland +3 22 £65,000 +22.95% 15
North East +10 18 £51,500 +14.44% 7
East Midlands -63 17 £35,000 - 14
Wales -3 10 £51,250 +14.73% 7
Northern Ireland -28 4 £40,500 -22.86% 3
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 (5.51%) IIS
2 7 (1.75%) Confluence
3 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.50%) SAS
4 2 (0.50%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.76%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.01%) AutoCAD
4 8 (2.01%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.50%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Weka
7 1 (0.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 151 (37.84%) Azure
2 86 (21.55%) AWS
3 30 (7.52%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (7.02%) Power Platform
4 28 (7.02%) SaaS
5 25 (6.27%) GCP
6 22 (5.51%) GitHub
6 22 (5.51%) Serverless
7 10 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
7 10 (2.51%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.26%) Google Workspace
9 8 (2.01%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.75%) PaaS
11 6 (1.50%) Amazon S3
12 5 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
12 5 (1.25%) Entra ID
13 4 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (1.00%) Firebase
13 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.00%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.76%) Firewall
2 15 (3.76%) TCP/IP
3 13 (3.26%) VLAN
4 11 (2.76%) Network Security
5 10 (2.51%) VPN
6 9 (2.26%) SAN
7 7 (1.75%) DNS
7 7 (1.75%) Modbus
7 7 (1.75%) Wireshark
8 6 (1.50%) DHCP
9 5 (1.25%) Bluetooth
9 5 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.25%) VoIP
10 4 (1.00%) BGP
10 4 (1.00%) Internet
10 4 (1.00%) OSPF
10 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.00%) WAN
10 4 (1.00%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.75%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.05%) SQL Server
2 36 (9.02%) MySQL
3 23 (5.76%) Power BI
4 12 (3.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.76%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.51%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.51%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.01%) Metadata
8 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Big Data
9 5 (1.25%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.00%) Tableau
11 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 35 (8.77%) JIRA
2 26 (6.52%) Git
3 10 (2.51%) Bitbucket
3 10 (2.51%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.01%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.01%) GitLab
5 5 (1.25%) Selenium
6 4 (1.00%) Burp Suite
6 4 (1.00%) Metasploit
7 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.75%) ERwin
7 3 (0.75%) Maven
7 3 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
7 3 (0.75%) WebDriver
8 2 (0.50%) JMeter
8 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 200 (50.13%) Social Skills
2 87 (21.80%) Finance
3 64 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.52%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.01%) Documentation Skills
5 16 (4.01%) Law
6 14 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (3.51%) Retail
7 12 (3.01%) Pharmaceutical
8 11 (2.76%) Aerospace
8 11 (2.76%) Banking
8 11 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
8 11 (2.76%) Public Sector
9 10 (2.51%) Electronics
9 10 (2.51%) Marketing
10 8 (2.01%) Advertising
11 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.50%) Back Office
12 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.00%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 91 (22.81%) Developer
2 59 (14.79%) Architect
3 47 (11.78%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.28%) Graduate
5 35 (8.77%) Senior
6 34 (8.52%) Support Engineer
7 33 (8.27%) Analyst
7 33 (8.27%) Software Architect
8 30 (7.52%) Graduate Developer
9 26 (6.52%) IT Graduate
10 22 (5.51%) Software Developer
11 21 (5.26%) IT Support
11 21 (5.26%) Technical Support
12 19 (4.76%) IT Engineer
13 17 (4.26%) C# Developer
14 16 (4.01%) IT Support Engineer
14 16 (4.01%) SQL Developer
15 14 (3.51%) PHP Developer
15 14 (3.51%) Software Support Engineer
16 13 (3.26%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.04%) .NET
2 55 (13.78%) CSS
3 36 (9.02%) ASP.NET
4 30 (7.52%) jQuery
5 28 (7.02%) React
6 27 (6.77%) Middleware
7 23 (5.76%) REST
8 21 (5.26%) HTML
9 20 (5.01%) .NET Framework
9 20 (5.01%) WinForms
10 12 (3.01%) Entity Framework
10 12 (3.01%) Vue
10 12 (3.01%) WPF
11 10 (2.51%) AngularJS
11 10 (2.51%) Node.js
11 10 (2.51%) Playwright
12 9 (2.26%) Blazor
12 9 (2.26%) RESTful
12 9 (2.26%) XML
13 8 (2.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.02%) Management Information System
2 27 (6.77%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.51%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.26%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.01%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.01%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.26%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.01%) SCADA
9 7 (1.75%) NHS
9 7 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.50%) IoT
11 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.04%) Linux
1 60 (15.04%) Windows
2 8 (2.01%) Android
3 7 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.25%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.00%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (95.99%) Computer Science
2 147 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 139 (34.84%) Agile
4 107 (26.82%) DevOps
5 99 (24.81%) Continuous Improvement
6 76 (19.05%) Mentoring
7 75 (18.80%) Software Engineering
8 68 (17.04%) CI/CD
9 52 (13.03%) SDLC
10 49 (12.28%) AI
10 49 (12.28%) OOP
11 42 (10.53%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (10.28%) ITIL
13 40 (10.03%) Cybersecurity
14 38 (9.52%) Analytics
15 37 (9.27%) OO
16 36 (9.02%) MVC
16 36 (9.02%) Test Automation
17 35 (8.77%) Design Patterns
18 33 (8.27%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 105 (26.32%) C#
2 99 (24.81%) SQL
3 98 (24.56%) Java
4 83 (20.80%) Python
5 60 (15.04%) JavaScript
6 55 (13.78%) C++
7 41 (10.28%) PHP
8 27 (6.77%) TypeScript
9 21 (5.26%) C
10 15 (3.76%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.76%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.76%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.51%) Bash
12 10 (2.51%) R
13 7 (1.75%) Delphi
14 5 (1.25%) Rust
15 4 (1.00%) Go
15 4 (1.00%) Julia
16 3 (0.75%) VBA
17 2 (0.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 396 (99.25%) Degree
2 41 (10.28%) Master's Degree
2 41 (10.28%) Microsoft Certification
3 38 (9.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 38 (9.52%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.02%) Azure Certification
5 25 (6.27%) SC Cleared
6 24 (6.02%) Chartered Engineer
7 23 (5.76%) TOGAF Certification
8 22 (5.51%) AWS Certification
9 20 (5.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (2.51%) A+ Certification
10 10 (2.51%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (2.26%) CISSP
11 9 (2.26%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.26%) MCP
12 8 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (2.01%) MCSE
13 7 (1.75%) CCNP
13 7 (1.75%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.02%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 22 (5.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (4.76%) QA
4 14 (3.51%) NIST
5 12 (3.01%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.51%) IEC 61131
7 9 (2.26%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.01%) GDPR
8 8 (2.01%) NCSC
9 6 (1.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.75%) GxP
11 2 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.25%) GRC
12 1 (0.25%) SLA
12 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 31 (7.77%) Docker
2 15 (3.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (2.76%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.51%) Firmware
5 8 (2.01%) vSphere
6 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) GPFS
8 1 (0.25%) Lustre
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (7.77%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.76%) Terraform
3 12 (3.01%) Grafana
4 11 (2.76%) Ansible
4 11 (2.76%) Control-M
4 11 (2.76%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.00%) Nessus
5 4 (1.00%) Nmap
5 4 (1.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.75%) Nagios
6 3 (0.75%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.25%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 106 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.51%) Oracle
3 16 (4.01%) Google
3 16 (4.01%) VMware
4 12 (3.01%) Sage
4 12 (3.01%) Xamarin
5 11 (2.76%) SAP
6 10 (2.51%) Cisco
6 10 (2.51%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.01%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.01%) Splunk
8 7 (1.75%) Dell
8 7 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.25%) Syncfusion
9 5 (1.25%) Telerik
9 5 (1.25%) Zoho
10 4 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.00%) Qualtrics
10 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.00%) Veeam