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

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 120 128
Rank change year-on-year -119 +8 +53
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 447 760 1,502
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.68% 2.67% 2.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.74% 6.16% 8.26%
Number of salaries quoted 360 412 1,190
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,875 £37,014
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £53,844 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% +7.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £82,950 £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 16,303 12,329 18,179
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.87% 43.24% 26.50%
Number of salaries quoted 5,964 5,248 12,139
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

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 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 9 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 -23 178 £65,000 +8.33% 102
North of England -133 94 £62,500 +12.11% 38
East of England -37 52 £45,000 -15.09% 24
Midlands -126 52 £44,000 +25.71% 29
Yorkshire -89 51 £75,000 +27.66% 15
South West -58 43 £50,000 -11.89% 19
East Midlands -39 26 £55,000 +57.14% 10
West Midlands -115 26 £42,500 +21.43% 19
North West -87 25 £40,000 -29.82% 16
North East -46 18 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Wales -25 13 £72,500 +8.61% 4
Northern Ireland -37 8 £40,000 -63.64% 2
Scotland -26 7 £75,000 +47.18% 10
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 (2.91%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.01%) SAS
3 8 (1.79%) Confluence
4 7 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.67%) Apache
7 2 (0.45%) CMS
7 2 (0.45%) IIS
7 2 (0.45%) Luigi
7 2 (0.45%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (2.24%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.45%) Weka
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.22%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.22%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.22%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.22%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.22%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.22%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 193 (43.18%) Azure
2 155 (34.68%) AWS
3 46 (10.29%) Serverless
4 43 (9.62%) GCP
5 25 (5.59%) Azure DevOps
6 23 (5.15%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.03%) SaaS
8 16 (3.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (3.36%) Power Platform
10 14 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.91%) Amazon S3
12 12 (2.68%) Azure Functions
13 10 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.24%) GitHub
13 10 (2.24%) OneDrive
13 10 (2.24%) PaaS
14 9 (2.01%) Power Automate
15 8 (1.79%) Entra ID
16 7 (1.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.16%) WAN
2 31 (6.94%) Firewall
3 28 (6.26%) VPN
4 25 (5.59%) LAN
5 20 (4.47%) BGP
6 19 (4.25%) Network Security
7 15 (3.36%) DHCP
7 15 (3.36%) DNS
7 15 (3.36%) Internet
8 14 (3.13%) VLAN
9 13 (2.91%) TCP/IP
9 13 (2.91%) Wireless
10 12 (2.68%) MPLS
11 11 (2.46%) OSPF
12 10 (2.24%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (2.24%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.01%) SNMP
14 8 (1.79%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (1.79%) EIGRP
14 8 (1.79%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (14.77%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.59%) MySQL
3 18 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.13%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.91%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.91%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.46%) Big Data
6 11 (2.46%) Metadata
6 11 (2.46%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.46%) Power BI
7 10 (2.24%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.24%) Spark SQL
8 5 (1.12%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
10 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.67%) MariaDB
10 3 (0.67%) Redis
11 2 (0.45%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (6.94%) Git
2 28 (6.26%) JIRA
3 13 (2.91%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.01%) Cypress.io
4 9 (2.01%) GitLab
5 5 (1.12%) Selenium
6 4 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.89%) Gatling
6 4 (0.89%) JMeter
6 4 (0.89%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.89%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.67%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.67%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.67%) HP UFT
7 3 (0.67%) Polyspace
7 3 (0.67%) Postman
7 3 (0.67%) REST Assured
7 3 (0.67%) VectorCAST
7 3 (0.67%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.45%) GDB
General
1 154 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.66%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (15.44%) Finance
4 26 (5.82%) Manufacturing
5 22 (4.92%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.47%) Law
7 17 (3.80%) Retail
8 15 (3.36%) Electronics
8 15 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.13%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.46%) Legal
11 9 (2.01%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.79%) Marketing
13 6 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.12%) Advertising
14 5 (1.12%) Police
15 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.89%) Banking
15 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 102 (22.82%) Developer
2 94 (21.03%) Software Engineer
3 64 (14.32%) Senior
4 55 (12.30%) Software Developer
5 52 (11.63%) Graduate
6 48 (10.74%) Architect
7 41 (9.17%) Python Engineer
8 38 (8.50%) Graduate Developer
9 37 (8.28%) Python Software Engineer
10 35 (7.83%) Graduate Software Developer
11 32 (7.16%) Lead
12 31 (6.94%) C++ Software Engineer
13 30 (6.71%) C# Software Engineer
14 25 (5.59%) C# Developer
15 24 (5.37%) Analyst
16 23 (5.15%) C# Software Developer
16 23 (5.15%) Graduate C# Developer
16 23 (5.15%) Graduate C# Software Developer
16 23 (5.15%) SQL Developer
17 22 (4.92%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.42%) CSS
2 51 (11.41%) .NET
3 41 (9.17%) HTML
4 39 (8.72%) jQuery
5 37 (8.28%) React
5 37 (8.28%) REST
6 25 (5.59%) Middleware
7 22 (4.92%) RESTful
7 22 (4.92%) SOAP
8 21 (4.70%) Node.js
9 13 (2.91%) JSON
9 13 (2.91%) XML
10 12 (2.68%) ARM Templates
11 11 (2.46%) Playwright
12 10 (2.24%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.24%) PySpark
12 10 (2.24%) Vue
13 9 (2.01%) OAuth
14 7 (1.57%) Django
14 7 (1.57%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.04%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (5.59%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.70%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.25%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.91%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.91%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.91%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.68%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.24%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.24%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.01%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.79%) Algorithms
10 8 (1.79%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.57%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.34%) CMDB
12 6 (1.34%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.34%) Robotics
12 6 (1.34%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 57 (12.75%) Linux
2 30 (6.71%) Windows
3 14 (3.13%) Android
4 10 (2.24%) Unix
4 10 (2.24%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.67%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.22%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.22%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.22%) Solaris
7 1 (0.22%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 399 (89.26%) Computer Science
2 137 (30.65%) Problem-Solving
3 120 (26.85%) Software Engineering
4 118 (26.40%) Agile
5 94 (21.03%) CI/CD
6 89 (19.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 83 (18.57%) DevOps
8 58 (12.98%) Mentoring
9 55 (12.30%) Test Automation
10 54 (12.08%) AI
11 53 (11.86%) Data Modelling
12 41 (9.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (8.95%) ITIL
14 37 (8.28%) Containerisation
15 34 (7.61%) Scrum
16 32 (7.16%) Analytics
16 32 (7.16%) Data Engineering
16 32 (7.16%) Microservices
16 32 (7.16%) SDLC
16 32 (7.16%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 173 (38.70%) Python
2 123 (27.52%) SQL
3 113 (25.28%) C#
4 81 (18.12%) C++
5 79 (17.67%) Java
6 70 (15.66%) JavaScript
7 56 (12.53%) PHP
8 39 (8.72%) TypeScript
9 30 (6.71%) PowerShell
10 26 (5.82%) C
11 18 (4.03%) Bash
12 16 (3.58%) Rust
13 8 (1.79%) Scala
14 6 (1.34%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.89%) Bicep
16 3 (0.67%) Go
16 3 (0.67%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.67%) VB
17 2 (0.45%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.45%) VB6
Qualifications
1 447 (100.00%) Degree
2 54 (12.08%) Master's Degree
3 38 (8.50%) Security Cleared
4 28 (6.26%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (6.26%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.37%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (4.92%) CCNP
7 21 (4.70%) Azure Certification
8 20 (4.47%) AWS Certification
9 17 (3.80%) CISSP
10 16 (3.58%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.13%) CCIE
11 14 (3.13%) DV Cleared
11 14 (3.13%) PhD
12 13 (2.91%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (2.68%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (2.24%) CISM
14 10 (2.24%) ISTQB
15 8 (1.79%) CCNA
15 8 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.86%) QA
2 25 (5.59%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.70%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (4.25%) NIST
5 18 (4.03%) GDPR
6 11 (2.46%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.79%) PMO
8 6 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 5 (1.12%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.89%) GxP
10 4 (0.89%) SLA
11 3 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.67%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.67%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.67%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.45%) JTAG
System Software
1 39 (8.72%) Docker
2 32 (7.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.70%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.80%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.91%) KVM
6 9 (2.01%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.79%) ProxySG
7 8 (1.79%) vSphere
8 4 (0.89%) Firmware
8 4 (0.89%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.89%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.22%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.22%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (10.51%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.94%) Terraform
3 19 (4.25%) Ansible
4 13 (2.91%) Grafana
5 9 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.89%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.67%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.67%) Plesk
8 3 (0.67%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) Control-M
9 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.22%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.22%) Graylog
10 1 (0.22%) Nagios
10 1 (0.22%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.22%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.22%) Packer
10 1 (0.22%) Puppet
Vendors
1 89 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.38%) VMware
3 27 (6.04%) Cisco
4 17 (3.80%) Databricks
4 17 (3.80%) Oracle
5 11 (2.46%) CheckPoint
5 11 (2.46%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.01%) F5
7 8 (1.79%) Blue Coat
7 8 (1.79%) Infoblox
7 8 (1.79%) Motorola
7 8 (1.79%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.79%) Splunk
8 7 (1.57%) Meraki
8 7 (1.57%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.34%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.34%) SAP
10 4 (0.89%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.67%) Pega
11 3 (0.67%) Veracode