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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 125 118
Rank change year-on-year -113 -7 +52
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 482 785 1,572
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 2.75% 2.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.08% 6.29% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 402 372 1,223
10th Percentile £25,575 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,125 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% - -13.65%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £83,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.48%

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 15,646 12,480 18,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.19% 43.68% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 6,252 4,879 12,191
10th Percentile £28,250 £28,000 £27,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,106 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -38 193 £65,000 +18.18% 72
North of England -118 103 £62,500 +8.70% 32
East of England -36 58 £45,000 -13.46% 14
Midlands -113 57 £50,000 +42.86% 19
Yorkshire -94 52 £75,000 +25.00% 6
South West -59 45 £42,500 -22.73% 16
East Midlands -45 33 £55,000 +57.14% 8
North West -65 29 £40,000 -29.20% 17
West Midlands -125 24 £45,000 +28.57% 11
North East -31 22 £105,000 +85.84% 9
Wales -28 13 £72,500 +11.54% 3
Northern Ireland -46 7 £40,000 -63.64%
Scotland -17 6 £75,000 +44.47% 4
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 13 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 9 (1.87%) Confluence
3 8 (1.66%) SAS
4 7 (1.45%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.83%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.83%) CMS
5 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.83%) WordPress
6 2 (0.41%) Apache
6 2 (0.41%) IIS
6 2 (0.41%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (1.66%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.21%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.21%) Weka
4 1 (0.21%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.21%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 205 (42.53%) Azure
2 161 (33.40%) AWS
3 43 (8.92%) Serverless
4 42 (8.71%) GCP
5 26 (5.39%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.36%) SaaS
8 19 (3.94%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.90%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.90%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.70%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.70%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.28%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.07%) OneDrive
13 10 (2.07%) PaaS
14 8 (1.66%) GitHub
14 8 (1.66%) IaaS
14 8 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 29 (6.02%) Firewall
1 29 (6.02%) WAN
2 25 (5.19%) VPN
3 22 (4.56%) LAN
4 20 (4.15%) Network Security
5 19 (3.94%) Internet
6 17 (3.53%) BGP
7 15 (3.11%) DHCP
7 15 (3.11%) DNS
7 15 (3.11%) Wireless
8 12 (2.49%) VLAN
9 11 (2.28%) TCP/IP
10 9 (1.87%) MPLS
10 9 (1.87%) SNMP
11 8 (1.66%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (1.66%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (1.66%) EIGRP
11 8 (1.66%) OSPF
11 8 (1.66%) WAAS
11 8 (1.66%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (14.52%) SQL Server
2 22 (4.56%) MySQL
2 22 (4.56%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.32%) NoSQL
3 16 (3.32%) Relational Database
4 13 (2.70%) Amazon Redshift
4 13 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.49%) Metadata
5 12 (2.49%) Power BI
6 11 (2.28%) Big Data
6 11 (2.28%) MongoDB
6 11 (2.28%) Spark SQL
7 6 (1.24%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.24%) Redis
8 5 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
8 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 5 (1.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 3 (0.62%) ClickHouse
9 3 (0.62%) MariaDB
10 2 (0.41%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 44 (9.13%) Git
2 24 (4.98%) JIRA
3 13 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.28%) GitLab
5 8 (1.66%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.24%) Eclipse
6 6 (1.24%) JUnit
6 6 (1.24%) Subversion
7 5 (1.04%) Cucumber
7 5 (1.04%) JMeter
8 4 (0.83%) GDB
8 4 (0.83%) Robot Framework
8 4 (0.83%) Selenium
9 3 (0.62%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.62%) Gatling
9 3 (0.62%) Polyspace
9 3 (0.62%) Postman
9 3 (0.62%) REST Assured
9 3 (0.62%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.62%) VectorCAST
General
1 152 (31.54%) Social Skills
2 69 (14.32%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (13.90%) Finance
4 24 (4.98%) Law
4 24 (4.98%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.77%) Manufacturing
6 22 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (3.73%) Electronics
8 17 (3.53%) Legal
9 15 (3.11%) Organisational Skills
9 15 (3.11%) Retail
10 11 (2.28%) Advertising
10 11 (2.28%) Marketing
11 10 (2.07%) Telecoms
12 9 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.24%) Aerospace
13 6 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.04%) Automotive
14 5 (1.04%) Police
14 5 (1.04%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 129 (26.76%) Developer
2 111 (23.03%) Software Engineer
3 62 (12.86%) Senior
4 57 (11.83%) Software Developer
5 50 (10.37%) Graduate
6 46 (9.54%) Python Engineer
7 42 (8.71%) Architect
7 42 (8.71%) Python Software Engineer
8 40 (8.30%) C# Software Engineer
9 39 (8.09%) Graduate Developer
10 38 (7.88%) C++ Software Engineer
11 36 (7.47%) Graduate Software Developer
11 36 (7.47%) Lead
12 29 (6.02%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.98%) C# Software Developer
13 24 (4.98%) Graduate C# Developer
13 24 (4.98%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 24 (4.98%) SQL Developer
14 23 (4.77%) Data Engineer
15 22 (4.56%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (13.69%) .NET
2 63 (13.07%) CSS
3 52 (10.79%) React
4 47 (9.75%) HTML
5 41 (8.51%) jQuery
5 41 (8.51%) REST
6 33 (6.85%) RESTful
7 21 (4.36%) Middleware
8 20 (4.15%) Node.js
8 20 (4.15%) SOAP
9 15 (3.11%) Vue
10 14 (2.90%) .NET Core
10 14 (2.90%) JSON
10 14 (2.90%) Web Services
11 13 (2.70%) ARM Templates
11 13 (2.70%) XML
12 11 (2.28%) PySpark
13 10 (2.07%) Kafka
13 10 (2.07%) Spring
14 9 (1.87%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 29 (6.02%) Distributed Systems
2 21 (4.36%) Cloud Native
2 21 (4.36%) Data Centre
2 21 (4.36%) Management Information System
3 15 (3.11%) Client/Server
3 15 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
4 14 (2.90%) Algorithms
5 13 (2.70%) Data Structures
5 13 (2.70%) Virtual Team
6 12 (2.49%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
7 11 (2.28%) Embedded Systems
7 11 (2.28%) Product Ownership
8 10 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
9 8 (1.66%) Robotics
10 6 (1.24%) CMDB
10 6 (1.24%) Device Driver
10 6 (1.24%) IoT
10 6 (1.24%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.04%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 62 (12.86%) Linux
2 30 (6.22%) Windows
3 13 (2.70%) Android
4 12 (2.49%) Unix
5 11 (2.28%) Windows Server
6 3 (0.62%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.62%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.41%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.41%) Solaris
7 2 (0.41%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.21%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 425 (88.17%) Computer Science
2 145 (30.08%) Problem-Solving
3 142 (29.46%) Software Engineering
4 125 (25.93%) Agile
5 108 (22.41%) CI/CD
6 91 (18.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 83 (17.22%) DevOps
8 64 (13.28%) Test Automation
9 61 (12.66%) AI
10 51 (10.58%) Data Modelling
10 51 (10.58%) Mentoring
11 47 (9.75%) Containerisation
12 46 (9.54%) Full-Stack Development
13 41 (8.51%) Scrum
14 38 (7.88%) ITIL
14 38 (7.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 37 (7.68%) Microservices
16 34 (7.05%) Machine Learning
16 34 (7.05%) SDLC
17 33 (6.85%) Data Engineering
Programming Languages
1 183 (37.97%) Python
2 128 (26.56%) C#
3 126 (26.14%) SQL
4 97 (20.12%) C++
5 88 (18.26%) JavaScript
6 82 (17.01%) Java
7 60 (12.45%) PHP
8 44 (9.13%) TypeScript
9 28 (5.81%) PowerShell
10 27 (5.60%) C
11 26 (5.39%) Rust
12 15 (3.11%) Bash
13 11 (2.28%) Go
14 8 (1.66%) Scala
15 7 (1.45%) Perl
16 4 (0.83%) Bicep
16 4 (0.83%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.41%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.41%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.41%) Julia
Qualifications
1 482 (100.00%) Degree
2 57 (11.83%) Master's Degree
3 47 (9.75%) Security Cleared
4 30 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 28 (5.81%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (4.15%) CCNP
6 20 (4.15%) Microsoft Certification
7 19 (3.94%) Azure Certification
8 18 (3.73%) CISSP
9 17 (3.53%) AWS Certification
9 17 (3.53%) PhD
10 16 (3.32%) DV Cleared
11 14 (2.90%) CCIE
12 12 (2.49%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.87%) CCNA
13 9 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
13 9 (1.87%) ISTQB
13 9 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
14 8 (1.66%) CISM
14 8 (1.66%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.79%) QA
2 29 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.36%) GDPR
5 20 (4.15%) NIST
6 19 (3.94%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.66%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.66%) PMO
9 5 (1.04%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.83%) JTAG
10 4 (0.83%) SLA
11 3 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.62%) GxP
11 3 (0.62%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.62%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.62%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.41%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.41%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 50 (10.37%) Docker
2 33 (6.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.36%) Active Directory
4 18 (3.73%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.90%) KVM
6 9 (1.87%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.66%) ProxySG
8 6 (1.24%) vSphere
9 5 (1.04%) Firmware
10 4 (0.83%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.41%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.21%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (11.83%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.02%) Terraform
3 13 (2.70%) Ansible
3 13 (2.70%) Grafana
4 9 (1.87%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.83%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.62%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.62%) Plesk
7 3 (0.62%) SCCM
8 2 (0.41%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.41%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.41%) Kibana
9 1 (0.21%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.21%) Argo
9 1 (0.21%) CASB
9 1 (0.21%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.21%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.21%) Graylog
9 1 (0.21%) Packer
Vendors
1 84 (17.43%) Microsoft
2 34 (7.05%) VMware
3 24 (4.98%) Cisco
4 19 (3.94%) Databricks
5 18 (3.73%) Oracle
6 11 (2.28%) CheckPoint
6 11 (2.28%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.07%) Splunk
8 9 (1.87%) F5
9 8 (1.66%) Blue Coat
9 8 (1.66%) Infoblox
9 8 (1.66%) Motorola
9 8 (1.66%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.45%) Meraki
11 5 (1.04%) OpenAI
12 4 (0.83%) Palo Alto
12 4 (0.83%) SAP
13 3 (0.62%) Dell
13 3 (0.62%) Google
13 3 (0.62%) Salesforce