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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 127 125
Rank change year-on-year -118 -2 +53
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 450 753 1,515
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 2.62% 2.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.87% 6.09% 8.31%
Number of salaries quoted 363 412 1,197
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £54,250 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.25% +3.33% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,140 £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 15,659 12,358 18,237
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 23.93% 43.00% 26.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5,987 5,259 12,170
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.88% +4.00% -2.63%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,775
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -8.79%

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 12 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 12 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 -13 176 £65,000 +8.33% 113
North of England -112 97 £62,500 +12.11% 38
East of England -42 53 £45,000 -15.09% 33
Midlands -121 53 £45,000 +28.57% 35
Yorkshire -88 52 £75,000 +27.66% 11
South West -56 43 £50,000 -11.89% 22
West Midlands -109 27 £42,750 +22.14% 21
East Midlands -46 26 £55,000 +57.14% 14
North West -72 26 £40,000 -29.82% 17
North East -36 19 £62,500 +13.64% 11
Wales -19 13 £72,500 +8.61% 4
Northern Ireland -36 8 £40,000 -63.64% 3
Scotland -15 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 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.00%) SAS
3 8 (1.78%) Confluence
4 7 (1.56%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.89%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.67%) Apache
7 2 (0.44%) CMS
7 2 (0.44%) IIS
7 2 (0.44%) Luigi
7 2 (0.44%) WordPress
8 1 (0.22%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (2.22%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.44%) 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 (42.89%) Azure
2 156 (34.67%) AWS
3 46 (10.22%) Serverless
4 43 (9.56%) GCP
5 25 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
6 24 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
7 19 (4.22%) SaaS
8 16 (3.56%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (3.11%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.11%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (3.11%) Power Platform
10 13 (2.89%) Amazon S3
11 12 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.22%) GitHub
12 10 (2.22%) OneDrive
12 10 (2.22%) PaaS
13 9 (2.00%) Power Automate
14 8 (1.78%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.56%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.11%) WAN
2 31 (6.89%) Firewall
3 28 (6.22%) VPN
4 25 (5.56%) LAN
5 21 (4.67%) Network Security
6 20 (4.44%) BGP
7 15 (3.33%) DHCP
7 15 (3.33%) DNS
7 15 (3.33%) Internet
8 14 (3.11%) VLAN
9 13 (2.89%) TCP/IP
9 13 (2.89%) Wireless
10 12 (2.67%) MPLS
11 11 (2.44%) OSPF
12 10 (2.22%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (2.22%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.00%) SNMP
14 8 (1.78%) Cisco Nexus
14 8 (1.78%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (1.78%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (14.89%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.56%) MySQL
3 18 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.11%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.89%) Amazon Redshift
5 13 (2.89%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (2.44%) Big Data
6 11 (2.44%) Metadata
6 11 (2.44%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.22%) MongoDB
7 10 (2.22%) Power BI
7 10 (2.22%) Spark SQL
8 5 (1.11%) Elasticsearch
9 4 (0.89%) Apache Cassandra
9 4 (0.89%) Redis
10 3 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
10 3 (0.67%) ClickHouse
10 3 (0.67%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.67%) MariaDB
11 2 (0.44%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 31 (6.89%) Git
2 28 (6.22%) JIRA
3 13 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.00%) Cypress.io
4 9 (2.00%) GitLab
5 5 (1.11%) 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 (0.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 153 (34.00%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.56%) Finance
3 69 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 22 (4.89%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.44%) Law
7 16 (3.56%) Electronics
7 16 (3.56%) Retail
8 15 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.44%) Legal
11 9 (2.00%) Marketing
11 9 (2.00%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.33%) Advertising
12 6 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.11%) Banking
13 5 (1.11%) Police
14 4 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 4 (0.89%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 107 (23.78%) Developer
2 93 (20.67%) Software Engineer
3 63 (14.00%) Senior
4 57 (12.67%) Software Developer
5 51 (11.33%) Graduate
6 47 (10.44%) Architect
7 41 (9.11%) Python Engineer
8 38 (8.44%) Graduate Developer
9 37 (8.22%) Python Software Engineer
10 35 (7.78%) Graduate Software Developer
11 34 (7.56%) Lead
12 31 (6.89%) C++ Software Engineer
13 30 (6.67%) C# Software Engineer
14 25 (5.56%) C# Developer
15 24 (5.33%) Analyst
16 23 (5.11%) C# Software Developer
16 23 (5.11%) Graduate C# Developer
16 23 (5.11%) Graduate C# Software Developer
16 23 (5.11%) SQL Developer
17 22 (4.89%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 60 (13.33%) CSS
2 51 (11.33%) .NET
3 41 (9.11%) HTML
4 39 (8.67%) jQuery
5 38 (8.44%) React
6 37 (8.22%) REST
7 24 (5.33%) Middleware
8 22 (4.89%) Node.js
8 22 (4.89%) RESTful
8 22 (4.89%) SOAP
9 13 (2.89%) JSON
9 13 (2.89%) XML
10 12 (2.67%) ARM Templates
11 11 (2.44%) Playwright
11 11 (2.44%) Vue
12 10 (2.22%) .NET Core
12 10 (2.22%) PySpark
13 9 (2.00%) OAuth
14 7 (1.56%) Django
14 7 (1.56%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 24 (5.33%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.67%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.22%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.11%) Enterprise Software
5 14 (3.11%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.89%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.89%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.67%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.22%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.22%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.00%) Algorithms
9 9 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
10 8 (1.78%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.56%) Low-Code
11 7 (1.56%) Robotics
12 6 (1.33%) CMDB
12 6 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.33%) Security Posture
13 5 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 58 (12.89%) Linux
2 31 (6.89%) Windows
3 14 (3.11%) Android
4 10 (2.22%) Unix
4 10 (2.22%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.67%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (0.67%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.44%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.44%) 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
1 402 (89.33%) Computer Science
2 139 (30.89%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (26.89%) Software Engineering
4 116 (25.78%) Agile
5 95 (21.11%) CI/CD
6 90 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 82 (18.22%) DevOps
8 57 (12.67%) Mentoring
9 56 (12.44%) AI
10 54 (12.00%) Test Automation
11 53 (11.78%) Data Modelling
12 42 (9.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 40 (8.89%) ITIL
14 38 (8.44%) Containerisation
15 34 (7.56%) Scrum
16 33 (7.33%) Microservices
17 32 (7.11%) Analytics
17 32 (7.11%) Data Engineering
17 32 (7.11%) Stakeholder Management
18 31 (6.89%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 174 (38.67%) Python
2 121 (26.89%) SQL
3 114 (25.33%) C#
4 81 (18.00%) C++
5 78 (17.33%) Java
6 71 (15.78%) JavaScript
7 56 (12.44%) PHP
8 41 (9.11%) TypeScript
9 30 (6.67%) PowerShell
10 26 (5.78%) C
11 18 (4.00%) Bash
12 17 (3.78%) Rust
13 8 (1.78%) Scala
14 5 (1.11%) 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 (0.44%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.44%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 450 (100.00%) Degree
2 55 (12.22%) Master's Degree
3 39 (8.67%) Security Cleared
4 29 (6.44%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (6.22%) SC Cleared
6 24 (5.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 22 (4.89%) CCNP
8 21 (4.67%) Azure Certification
9 20 (4.44%) AWS Certification
10 18 (4.00%) CISSP
11 16 (3.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 15 (3.33%) DV Cleared
13 14 (3.11%) CCIE
13 14 (3.11%) PhD
14 13 (2.89%) TOGAF Certification
15 10 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (2.22%) CISM
15 10 (2.22%) ISTQB
16 8 (1.78%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (1.78%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.78%) QA
2 25 (5.56%) Accessibility
3 22 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.67%) Data Quality
5 20 (4.44%) NIST
6 18 (4.00%) GDPR
7 11 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.78%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.78%) PMO
9 5 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 5 (1.11%) 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 (0.44%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.44%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.44%) JTAG
System Software
1 39 (8.67%) Docker
2 32 (7.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.67%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.78%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.89%) KVM
6 9 (2.00%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.78%) ProxySG
7 8 (1.78%) 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 (10.44%) Kubernetes
2 31 (6.89%) Terraform
3 19 (4.22%) Ansible
4 13 (2.89%) Grafana
5 9 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.33%) 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 (0.44%) Control-M
9 2 (0.44%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.44%) 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 (19.78%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.33%) VMware
3 27 (6.00%) Cisco
4 17 (3.78%) Databricks
4 17 (3.78%) Oracle
5 11 (2.44%) CheckPoint
5 11 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.00%) F5
7 8 (1.78%) Blue Coat
7 8 (1.78%) Infoblox
7 8 (1.78%) Motorola
7 8 (1.78%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.78%) Splunk
8 7 (1.56%) Meraki
8 7 (1.56%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.33%) Fortinet
10 5 (1.11%) SAP
11 4 (0.89%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.67%) Pega
12 3 (0.67%) Veracode