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 20 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 183 93 116
Rank change year-on-year -90 +23 +39
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 464 1,203 824
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.26% 2.54% 2.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.84% 8.44% 8.04%
Number of salaries quoted 312 534 648
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £47,793
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -3.85% +14.54%

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 12,080 14,258 10,249
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.86% 30.15% 34.18%
Number of salaries quoted 5,209 5,504 6,778
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £41,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,520 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.60% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +1.64%

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 20 November 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 20 November 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 -44 151 £50,000 -23.08% 140
North of England -31 111 £55,000 +10.00% 66
Midlands -83 70 £41,434 +18.38% 67
West Midlands -66 54 £41,434 +18.38% 35
North West -41 46 £56,250 +12.50% 29
Yorkshire -5 45 £55,000 +19.18% 28
South West -8 45 £47,500 -24.00% 45
East of England -46 45 £47,500 -19.83% 59
Scotland -24 22 £60,000 +9.09% 47
North East +7 20 £51,500 +14.44% 10
East Midlands -51 19 £39,000 +11.43% 32
Wales -4 13 £56,250 +25.92% 9
Northern Ireland -20 7 £36,000 -31.43% 14
Isle of Man +10 1 - -
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 25 (5.39%) IIS
2 8 (1.72%) Confluence
3 6 (1.29%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.65%) CMS
4 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.65%) SAS
4 3 (0.65%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.43%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.43%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.22%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (3.88%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.94%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.72%) AutoCAD
4 8 (1.72%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.43%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.22%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.29%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.29%) NetSuite
2 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.22%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.22%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 174 (37.50%) Azure
2 107 (23.06%) AWS
3 39 (8.41%) GCP
4 31 (6.68%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (6.68%) Power Platform
5 29 (6.25%) SaaS
6 25 (5.39%) GitHub
7 24 (5.17%) Serverless
8 13 (2.80%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (2.37%) Dynamics 365
9 11 (2.37%) Google Workspace
9 11 (2.37%) Microsoft 365
10 9 (1.94%) Amazon S3
10 9 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
10 9 (1.94%) PaaS
11 7 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
12 6 (1.29%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.86%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (0.86%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 23 (4.96%) Firewall
2 16 (3.45%) VLAN
3 12 (2.59%) SAN
3 12 (2.59%) TCP/IP
4 10 (2.16%) Network Security
5 9 (1.94%) DNS
5 9 (1.94%) VPN
6 8 (1.72%) DHCP
7 7 (1.51%) Modbus
7 7 (1.51%) Wireshark
8 6 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (1.08%) Bluetooth
9 5 (1.08%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.08%) VoIP
10 4 (0.86%) Internet
10 4 (0.86%) WAN
10 4 (0.86%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
11 3 (0.65%) HTTP
11 3 (0.65%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (17.03%) SQL Server
2 39 (8.41%) MySQL
3 26 (5.60%) Power BI
4 18 (3.88%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (3.02%) NoSQL
5 14 (3.02%) Relational Database
5 14 (3.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 11 (2.37%) Data Lake
6 11 (2.37%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (1.94%) Big Data
7 9 (1.94%) Metadata
8 6 (1.29%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.29%) MongoDB
8 6 (1.29%) Oracle Database
9 5 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.08%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.08%) Tableau
10 4 (0.86%) Amazon Athena
10 4 (0.86%) Electronic Patient Records
10 4 (0.86%) Oracle BI Publisher
Development Applications
1 47 (10.13%) JIRA
2 35 (7.54%) Git
3 14 (3.02%) Bitbucket
4 9 (1.94%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.72%) Cypress.io
6 7 (1.51%) Octopus Deploy
7 6 (1.29%) GitLab
8 5 (1.08%) Visual Studio
9 4 (0.86%) Artifactory
9 4 (0.86%) Burp Suite
9 4 (0.86%) Maven
9 4 (0.86%) Metasploit
9 4 (0.86%) Selenium
9 4 (0.86%) SonarQube
9 4 (0.86%) TeamCity
10 3 (0.65%) ERwin
10 3 (0.65%) PowerDesigner
10 3 (0.65%) Visual Studio Code
10 3 (0.65%) Vite
10 3 (0.65%) WebDriver
General
1 247 (53.23%) Social Skills
2 115 (24.78%) Finance
3 72 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.54%) Law
5 31 (6.68%) Manufacturing
6 16 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 16 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.45%) Legal
7 15 (3.23%) Retail
8 14 (3.02%) Banking
9 13 (2.80%) Marketing
9 13 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.59%) Advertising
10 12 (2.59%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.37%) Aerospace
12 10 (2.16%) Electronics
12 10 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (1.94%) Back Office
14 8 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 119 (25.65%) Developer
2 62 (13.36%) Architect
3 51 (10.99%) Graduate
4 48 (10.34%) Senior
5 44 (9.48%) Software Engineer
6 40 (8.62%) Support Engineer
7 35 (7.54%) Graduate Developer
8 34 (7.33%) Analyst
9 33 (7.11%) Software Architect
10 28 (6.03%) IT Graduate
11 26 (5.60%) Software Developer
12 23 (4.96%) IT Support
13 22 (4.74%) Technical Support
14 21 (4.53%) IT Engineer
15 20 (4.31%) C# Developer
16 18 (3.88%) IT Support Engineer
16 18 (3.88%) Lead
17 17 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
17 17 (3.66%) Junior
18 16 (3.45%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 73 (15.73%) .NET
2 65 (14.01%) CSS
3 40 (8.62%) ASP.NET
4 35 (7.54%) jQuery
5 33 (7.11%) HTML
5 33 (7.11%) React
6 27 (5.82%) Middleware
7 24 (5.17%) .NET Framework
7 24 (5.17%) REST
8 22 (4.74%) WinForms
9 19 (4.09%) PyTorch
9 19 (4.09%) TensorFlow
10 14 (3.02%) Hugging Face
10 14 (3.02%) LangChain
10 14 (3.02%) RESTful
11 13 (2.80%) AngularJS
11 13 (2.80%) Vue
11 13 (2.80%) WPF
12 12 (2.59%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.59%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 41 (8.84%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.39%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (5.39%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (4.09%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.88%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.59%) Driving Licence
5 12 (2.59%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.37%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.16%) Security Posture
8 9 (1.94%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.94%) SCADA
9 7 (1.51%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.51%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.51%) IoT
9 7 (1.51%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.51%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 6 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.29%) NHS
11 5 (1.08%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.01%) Windows
2 61 (13.15%) Linux
3 8 (1.72%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.51%) Android
5 6 (1.29%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.08%) Mac OS X
7 4 (0.86%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.86%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 448 (96.55%) Computer Science
2 162 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
3 159 (34.27%) Agile
4 120 (25.86%) Continuous Improvement
5 115 (24.78%) DevOps
6 86 (18.53%) Mentoring
7 84 (18.10%) Software Engineering
8 76 (16.38%) CI/CD
9 63 (13.58%) AI
10 59 (12.72%) SDLC
11 56 (12.07%) ITIL
12 52 (11.21%) OOP
13 47 (10.13%) Business Intelligence
14 46 (9.91%) Cybersecurity
14 46 (9.91%) Machine Learning
15 44 (9.48%) Analytics
16 43 (9.27%) Test Automation
17 41 (8.84%) OO
17 41 (8.84%) Project Management
17 41 (8.84%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 118 (25.43%) C#
2 117 (25.22%) SQL
3 105 (22.63%) Java
4 86 (18.53%) Python
5 74 (15.95%) JavaScript
6 56 (12.07%) C++
7 44 (9.48%) PHP
8 25 (5.39%) TypeScript
9 22 (4.74%) C
10 21 (4.53%) PowerShell
11 17 (3.66%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.16%) Bash
12 10 (2.16%) PL/SQL
13 9 (1.94%) R
14 7 (1.51%) Delphi
15 5 (1.08%) Rust
16 4 (0.86%) Go
16 4 (0.86%) Julia
17 3 (0.65%) Perl
17 3 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 461 (99.35%) Degree
2 57 (12.28%) Master's Degree
3 42 (9.05%) Microsoft Certification
3 42 (9.05%) Security Cleared
4 39 (8.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 28 (6.03%) Azure Certification
6 26 (5.60%) SC Cleared
7 25 (5.39%) Chartered Engineer
8 22 (4.74%) AWS Certification
8 22 (4.74%) TOGAF Certification
9 18 (3.88%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 11 (2.37%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (1.94%) A+ Certification
11 9 (1.94%) CISSP
11 9 (1.94%) DV Cleared
11 9 (1.94%) MCP
11 9 (1.94%) MCSE
11 9 (1.94%) PMI Certification
11 9 (1.94%) PMP
12 7 (1.51%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 25 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.45%) NIST
2 16 (3.45%) QA
3 14 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 13 (2.80%) Data Quality
4 13 (2.80%) GDPR
5 10 (2.16%) IEC 61131
5 10 (2.16%) NCSC
6 6 (1.29%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.65%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.65%) HIPAA
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.43%) Def Stans
8 2 (0.43%) ECSS
8 2 (0.43%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
8 2 (0.43%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 28 (6.03%) Docker
2 17 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.59%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.16%) Firmware
5 8 (1.72%) vSphere
6 5 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.86%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.65%) GPFS
8 3 (0.65%) Lustre
8 3 (0.65%) NFS
9 2 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (6.03%) Kubernetes
2 25 (5.39%) Grafana
3 23 (4.96%) Prometheus
4 17 (3.66%) Terraform
5 12 (2.59%) Control-M
6 9 (1.94%) Ansible
7 4 (0.86%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.86%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.86%) Nessus
7 4 (0.86%) Nmap
7 4 (0.86%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.65%) Nagios
8 3 (0.65%) SCCM
8 3 (0.65%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.43%) Kibana
10 1 (0.22%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.22%) Podman
10 1 (0.22%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 113 (24.35%) Microsoft
2 24 (5.17%) Oracle
3 19 (4.09%) Google
4 18 (3.88%) VMware
5 13 (2.80%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.59%) Sage
6 12 (2.59%) Xamarin
7 10 (2.16%) Cisco
7 10 (2.16%) SAP
7 10 (2.16%) Splunk
8 9 (1.94%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.51%) Dell
10 6 (1.29%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.29%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.29%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.29%) Veeam
11 5 (1.08%) Remedy
11 5 (1.08%) Syncfusion
11 5 (1.08%) Telerik
11 5 (1.08%) Zoho