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

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 248 92 129
Rank change year-on-year -156 +37 +67
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 428 832 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 3.05% 2.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.53% 7.05% 8.28%
Number of salaries quoted 341 414 1,184
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,625 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% +10.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,850 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £61,307 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.10% +2.18% -4.00%

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 16,945 11,804 18,116
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.02% 43.25% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 5,884 5,196 12,163
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,728 £37,500 £35,913
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -0.79%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,350 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £54,296
% change year-on-year +4.35% +5.90% -6.39%

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 30 April 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 30 April 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 -44 166 £65,000 +8.33% 94
North of England -145 92 £60,000 +7.62% 35
East of England -51 51 £31,500 -40.57% 32
Yorkshire -96 51 £75,000 +27.66% 14
Midlands -158 48 £43,000 +22.86% 39
South West -61 42 £50,000 -11.89% 24
West Midlands -125 25 £42,500 +21.43% 19
North West -100 24 £52,500 -7.89% 13
East Midlands -78 23 £55,000 +57.14% 20
North East -35 17 £67,500 +22.73% 8
Wales -25 14 £72,500 +8.61% 3
Northern Ireland -50 8 £40,000 -63.64% 10
Scotland -31 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 (3.04%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.10%) Confluence
2 9 (2.10%) SAS
3 5 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.17%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.70%) Apache
4 3 (0.70%) IIS
4 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (2.34%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.70%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.47%) Weka
5 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
5 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 184 (42.99%) Azure
2 150 (35.05%) AWS
3 46 (10.75%) Serverless
4 42 (9.81%) GCP
5 23 (5.37%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (4.91%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.27%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (3.27%) Azure Logic Apps
7 14 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 14 (3.27%) SaaS
8 13 (3.04%) Amazon S3
9 11 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
10 10 (2.34%) Azure Functions
10 10 (2.34%) PaaS
11 9 (2.10%) GitHub
11 9 (2.10%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.87%) Azure Monitor
12 8 (1.87%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.64%) IaaS
14 6 (1.40%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.48%) WAN
2 29 (6.78%) Firewall
3 26 (6.07%) VPN
4 25 (5.84%) LAN
5 20 (4.67%) BGP
6 18 (4.21%) Network Security
7 15 (3.50%) Internet
8 14 (3.27%) VLAN
9 13 (3.04%) DHCP
9 13 (3.04%) DNS
9 13 (3.04%) TCP/IP
10 12 (2.80%) MPLS
11 11 (2.57%) OSPF
12 10 (2.34%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (2.34%) SD-WAN
12 10 (2.34%) Wireless
13 9 (2.10%) SNMP
14 8 (1.87%) EIGRP
14 8 (1.87%) WAAS
14 8 (1.87%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (14.25%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.07%) MySQL
3 15 (3.50%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.04%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.80%) Big Data
5 12 (2.80%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.57%) Metadata
6 11 (2.57%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
7 10 (2.34%) Power BI
8 9 (2.10%) MongoDB
8 9 (2.10%) Spark SQL
9 5 (1.17%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.93%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.70%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.70%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.70%) Hadoop
12 2 (0.47%) DynamoDB
12 2 (0.47%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (6.78%) JIRA
2 26 (6.07%) Git
3 11 (2.57%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.34%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.64%) GitLab
6 5 (1.17%) Selenium
7 4 (0.93%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.93%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.93%) Gatling
7 4 (0.93%) JMeter
7 4 (0.93%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.93%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.70%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.70%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.70%) Polyspace
8 3 (0.70%) Postman
8 3 (0.70%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.70%) VectorCAST
8 3 (0.70%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.47%) TestRail
General
1 151 (35.28%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.36%) Finance
3 68 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.07%) Manufacturing
5 22 (5.14%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 19 (4.44%) Law
7 18 (4.21%) Retail
8 15 (3.50%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (3.27%) Electronics
10 12 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.64%) Legal
11 7 (1.64%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.17%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.17%) Marketing
13 5 (1.17%) Police
14 4 (0.93%) Advertising
14 4 (0.93%) Documentation Skills
15 3 (0.70%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 98 (22.90%) Developer
2 86 (20.09%) Software Engineer
3 60 (14.02%) Senior
4 56 (13.08%) Graduate
4 56 (13.08%) Software Developer
5 47 (10.98%) Architect
6 41 (9.58%) Graduate Developer
6 41 (9.58%) Python Engineer
7 38 (8.88%) Graduate Software Developer
8 37 (8.64%) Python Software Engineer
9 31 (7.24%) C++ Software Engineer
10 27 (6.31%) C# Developer
10 27 (6.31%) Lead
11 26 (6.07%) C# Software Developer
11 26 (6.07%) C# Software Engineer
11 26 (6.07%) Graduate C# Developer
11 26 (6.07%) Graduate C# Software Developer
11 26 (6.07%) SQL Developer
12 24 (5.61%) Graduate SQL Developer
13 21 (4.91%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 59 (13.79%) CSS
2 47 (10.98%) .NET
3 40 (9.35%) jQuery
4 38 (8.88%) HTML
5 35 (8.18%) REST
6 32 (7.48%) React
7 24 (5.61%) Middleware
8 21 (4.91%) SOAP
9 18 (4.21%) Node.js
9 18 (4.21%) RESTful
10 12 (2.80%) JSON
10 12 (2.80%) Playwright
10 12 (2.80%) XML
11 11 (2.57%) ARM Templates
12 10 (2.34%) PySpark
13 9 (2.10%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.87%) OAuth
15 7 (1.64%) Django
15 7 (1.64%) FastAPI
16 6 (1.40%) Vulkan
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.31%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.84%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (4.91%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.21%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.74%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.04%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.80%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.80%) Virtual Team
8 11 (2.57%) Onboarding
9 10 (2.34%) Distributed Computing
10 8 (1.87%) Product Ownership
11 7 (1.64%) Data Structures
11 7 (1.64%) Driving Licence
11 7 (1.64%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.40%) Algorithms
12 6 (1.40%) CMDB
12 6 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.40%) SCADA
13 5 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
13 5 (1.17%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 53 (12.38%) Linux
2 31 (7.24%) Windows
3 15 (3.50%) Android
4 10 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.10%) Unix
6 4 (0.93%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.70%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.47%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.47%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (89.49%) Computer Science
2 130 (30.37%) Problem-Solving
3 114 (26.64%) Agile
4 110 (25.70%) Software Engineering
5 83 (19.39%) CI/CD
6 80 (18.69%) Continuous Improvement
7 79 (18.46%) DevOps
8 56 (13.08%) Mentoring
9 49 (11.45%) Data Modelling
9 49 (11.45%) Test Automation
10 48 (11.21%) AI
11 42 (9.81%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 41 (9.58%) ITIL
13 34 (7.94%) MVC
14 32 (7.48%) OOP
15 31 (7.24%) Containerisation
15 31 (7.24%) Machine Learning
15 31 (7.24%) Microservices
15 31 (7.24%) Scrum
16 30 (7.01%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 169 (39.49%) Python
2 123 (28.74%) SQL
3 112 (26.17%) C#
4 84 (19.63%) Java
5 83 (19.39%) C++
6 64 (14.95%) JavaScript
7 57 (13.32%) PHP
8 35 (8.18%) TypeScript
9 29 (6.78%) PowerShell
10 24 (5.61%) C
11 16 (3.74%) Rust
12 14 (3.27%) Bash
13 7 (1.64%) PL/SQL
14 6 (1.40%) Scala
15 4 (0.93%) Bicep
15 4 (0.93%) Delphi
16 3 (0.70%) R
17 2 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.47%) Julia
17 2 (0.47%) Perl
Qualifications
1 428 (100.00%) Degree
2 50 (11.68%) Master's Degree
3 32 (7.48%) Security Cleared
4 25 (5.84%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 24 (5.61%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (5.14%) AWS Certification
6 22 (5.14%) Azure Certification
7 20 (4.67%) CCNP
8 18 (4.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 17 (3.97%) CISSP
10 15 (3.50%) TOGAF Certification
11 14 (3.27%) CCIE
12 13 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 13 (3.04%) PhD
13 12 (2.80%) DV Cleared
14 10 (2.34%) CISM
15 9 (2.10%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (2.10%) ISTQB
16 8 (1.87%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (11.92%) QA
2 23 (5.37%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.67%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 18 (4.21%) NIST
5 16 (3.74%) GDPR
6 11 (2.57%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.87%) PMO
8 6 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 4 (0.93%) GxP
9 4 (0.93%) SLA
9 4 (0.93%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.70%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.70%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.70%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.47%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.47%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 35 (8.18%) Docker
2 31 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.67%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.74%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.04%) KVM
6 9 (2.10%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.87%) ProxySG
7 8 (1.87%) vSphere
8 4 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.70%) Firmware
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (9.81%) Kubernetes
2 29 (6.78%) Terraform
3 18 (4.21%) Ansible
4 12 (2.80%) Grafana
5 9 (2.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.17%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.93%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.70%) Control-M
8 3 (0.70%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.70%) SCCM
9 2 (0.47%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.23%) CASB
10 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.23%) Graylog
10 1 (0.23%) Kibana
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 85 (19.86%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.48%) VMware
3 27 (6.31%) Cisco
4 15 (3.50%) Oracle
5 13 (3.04%) Databricks
6 11 (2.57%) CheckPoint
6 11 (2.57%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.10%) F5
7 9 (2.10%) Splunk
8 8 (1.87%) Blue Coat
8 8 (1.87%) Infoblox
8 8 (1.87%) Motorola
8 8 (1.87%) SolarWinds
9 7 (1.64%) Meraki
10 6 (1.40%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.40%) SAP
11 5 (1.17%) Fortinet
12 4 (0.93%) Google
12 4 (0.93%) MuleSoft
13 3 (0.70%) Veracode