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

6 months to
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 178 101
Rank change year-on-year -66 -77 +11
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 613 555 1,278
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.61% 2.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.22% 4.45% 8.58%
Number of salaries quoted 461 323 724
10th Percentile £25,875 £25,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,125 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £51,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.71% -1.90% -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,310 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +3.33% - -7.69%

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 14,535 12,466 14,902
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.93% 36.21% 27.33%
Number of salaries quoted 7,936 4,958 6,452
10th Percentile £30,173 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,250 £68,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,517
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.68% -3.39%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +10 254 £65,000 +18.18% 181
North of England -62 120 £62,500 +13.64% 125
South West -35 80 £42,500 -12.82% 89
Midlands -57 73 £42,500 - 90
East of England -32 57 £37,500 -14.77% 75
North West -39 49 £56,250 +2.27% 75
East Midlands -24 38 £25,000 -28.57% 29
Yorkshire -41 38 £62,500 +8.70% 35
West Midlands -71 35 £48,750 +14.71% 61
North East -53 33 £110,000 +113.59% 15
Wales -62 20 £65,000 +8.33% 13
Scotland -16 5 £82,500 +50.00% 72
Northern Ireland -100 4 £41,250 -41.70% 51
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 20 (3.26%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.14%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.98%) Confluence
5 4 (0.65%) CMS
5 4 (0.65%) WordPress
6 2 (0.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.16%) Apache
7 1 (0.16%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.49%) EPLAN
2 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (1.47%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.33%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 207 (33.77%) Azure
2 154 (25.12%) AWS
3 46 (7.50%) SaaS
4 45 (7.34%) GCP
5 34 (5.55%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (5.06%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.75%) GitHub
7 23 (3.75%) Power Platform
8 19 (3.10%) Dynamics 365
9 18 (2.94%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.61%) Serverless
11 14 (2.28%) Azure Functions
12 13 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.12%) IaaS
13 12 (1.96%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
14 11 (1.79%) PaaS
15 10 (1.63%) OneDrive
16 9 (1.47%) Power Automate
16 9 (1.47%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 30 (4.89%) Internet
2 20 (3.26%) VPN
3 19 (3.10%) Firewall
4 17 (2.77%) DNS
4 17 (2.77%) WAN
5 16 (2.61%) DHCP
6 12 (1.96%) LAN
7 11 (1.79%) Network Security
7 11 (1.79%) TCP/IP
7 11 (1.79%) Wireless
8 10 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (1.14%) BGP
10 6 (0.98%) HTTP
10 6 (0.98%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (0.98%) MQTT
10 6 (0.98%) VoIP
10 6 (0.98%) ZigBee
11 5 (0.82%) MPLS
11 5 (0.82%) SD-WAN
12 4 (0.65%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (16.64%) SQL Server
2 26 (4.24%) Relational Database
3 25 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.59%) Redis
5 19 (3.10%) NoSQL
6 17 (2.77%) MySQL
7 16 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (1.79%) Metadata
8 11 (1.79%) Power BI
9 10 (1.63%) Spark SQL
10 8 (1.31%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.98%) ClickHouse
12 5 (0.82%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.82%) Semantic Layer
12 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.65%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
14 3 (0.49%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 91 (14.85%) Git
2 32 (5.22%) Eclipse
3 31 (5.06%) Subversion
4 30 (4.89%) GitLab
5 26 (4.24%) Jenkins
6 24 (3.92%) JIRA
7 23 (3.75%) JUnit
8 7 (1.14%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.14%) Cucumber
8 7 (1.14%) Postman
9 6 (0.98%) GDB
9 6 (0.98%) JMeter
10 5 (0.82%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.82%) Eclipse RCP
10 5 (0.82%) Selenium
11 4 (0.65%) Gatling
11 4 (0.65%) HP UFT
11 4 (0.65%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.65%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.65%) SonarQube
General
1 225 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 93 (15.17%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (12.40%) Finance
4 45 (7.34%) Manufacturing
5 32 (5.22%) Organisational Skills
6 31 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 29 (4.73%) Aerospace
8 25 (4.08%) Retail
9 24 (3.92%) Electronics
9 24 (3.92%) Pharmaceutical
10 23 (3.75%) Law
11 22 (3.59%) Public Sector
12 16 (2.61%) Legal
13 11 (1.79%) Banking
14 9 (1.47%) Marketing
14 9 (1.47%) Publishing
14 9 (1.47%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.31%) Advertising
16 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.98%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 186 (30.34%) Developer
2 123 (20.07%) Software Engineer
3 74 (12.07%) Software Developer
4 68 (11.09%) Senior
5 53 (8.65%) Graduate
6 49 (7.99%) C# Software Engineer
7 46 (7.50%) C++ Software Engineer
8 44 (7.18%) Architect
8 44 (7.18%) Lead
9 39 (6.36%) Python Engineer
10 36 (5.87%) Java Developer
11 35 (5.71%) Python Software Engineer
12 34 (5.55%) Analyst
13 33 (5.38%) Junior
14 32 (5.22%) Web Developer
15 31 (5.06%) Full-Stack Developer
16 30 (4.89%) Graduate Developer
17 26 (4.24%) Junior Developer
18 25 (4.08%) AWS Engineer
18 25 (4.08%) Graduate Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (16.64%) .NET
2 71 (11.58%) React
3 60 (9.79%) CSS
4 58 (9.46%) RESTful
5 48 (7.83%) HTML
6 44 (7.18%) jQuery
7 36 (5.87%) REST
8 32 (5.22%) Vue
8 32 (5.22%) Web Services
9 29 (4.73%) Node.js
10 28 (4.57%) Jakarta EE
11 27 (4.40%) Struts
12 26 (4.24%) Terraform
13 18 (2.94%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.77%) Kafka
15 15 (2.45%) PySpark
16 14 (2.28%) ARM Templates
17 12 (1.96%) Yocto
18 11 (1.79%) AngularJS
18 11 (1.79%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.11%) Management Information System
2 36 (5.87%) Cloud Native
3 24 (3.92%) Distributed Computing
4 22 (3.59%) Algorithms
5 20 (3.26%) Embedded Systems
6 19 (3.10%) Robotics
7 17 (2.77%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.77%) IoT
7 17 (2.77%) Life Science
7 17 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 17 (2.77%) Product Ownership
8 16 (2.61%) Data Structures
9 14 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.12%) Security Posture
11 12 (1.96%) Device Driver
12 11 (1.79%) Data Centre
12 11 (1.79%) Virtual Team
13 10 (1.63%) AI Agents
14 8 (1.31%) CMDB
15 7 (1.14%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 88 (14.36%) Linux
2 34 (5.55%) Windows
3 12 (1.96%) Unix
4 11 (1.79%) Windows Server
5 9 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
6 7 (1.14%) Debian
7 5 (0.82%) Mac OS
8 4 (0.65%) Android
8 4 (0.65%) Kali Linux
8 4 (0.65%) Robot Operating System
8 4 (0.65%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.49%) Gentoo
10 2 (0.33%) Solaris
10 2 (0.33%) VMS
11 1 (0.16%) CentOS
11 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (91.35%) Computer Science
2 209 (34.09%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (32.63%) Software Engineering
4 159 (25.94%) AI
4 159 (25.94%) CI/CD
5 145 (23.65%) Agile
6 129 (21.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 102 (16.64%) DevOps
8 89 (14.52%) Mentoring
9 77 (12.56%) Full-Stack Development
10 62 (10.11%) Test Automation
11 59 (9.62%) Containerisation
12 56 (9.14%) SDLC
13 54 (8.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 53 (8.65%) Microservices
15 52 (8.48%) Cybersecurity
15 52 (8.48%) Data Modelling
15 52 (8.48%) Roadmaps
16 51 (8.32%) Design Patterns
17 50 (8.16%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 189 (30.83%) Python
2 139 (22.68%) C#
3 128 (20.88%) JavaScript
4 125 (20.39%) C++
5 120 (19.58%) SQL
6 105 (17.13%) Java
7 60 (9.79%) PHP
8 51 (8.32%) TypeScript
9 33 (5.38%) PowerShell
10 29 (4.73%) Rust
11 25 (4.08%) C
11 25 (4.08%) Perl
12 18 (2.94%) Bash
12 18 (2.94%) Go
13 7 (1.14%) Bicep
14 6 (0.98%) Embedded C
14 6 (0.98%) Embedded C++
15 5 (0.82%) Scala
16 4 (0.65%) T-SQL
16 4 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 613 (100.00%) Degree
2 62 (10.11%) Master's Degree
3 61 (9.95%) Security Cleared
4 41 (6.69%) SC Cleared
5 24 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.77%) CISSP
7 15 (2.45%) Cisco Certification
8 13 (2.12%) PhD
9 12 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 11 (1.79%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.47%) CCNP
11 9 (1.47%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.31%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.31%) CEH
12 8 (1.31%) DBS Check
12 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
13 6 (0.98%) CCNA
14 5 (0.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.82%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.82%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.16%) QA
2 49 (7.99%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (4.08%) GDPR
5 23 (3.75%) NIST
6 10 (1.63%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.47%) GxP
7 9 (1.47%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.31%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (0.98%) Def Stans
9 6 (0.98%) JTAG
9 6 (0.98%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.82%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.65%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.49%) GRC
12 3 (0.49%) IEC 61131
12 3 (0.49%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.49%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (11.26%) Docker
2 23 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 14 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.47%) Firmware
4 9 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 6 (0.98%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.65%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
6 4 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (0.65%) vSphere
7 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.16%) Ceph
8 1 (0.16%) KVM
8 1 (0.16%) Lustre
8 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.16%) NFS
8 1 (0.16%) Samba
8 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (10.11%) Kubernetes
2 10 (1.63%) Ansible
3 9 (1.47%) Grafana
4 8 (1.31%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.65%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.65%) SCCM
6 3 (0.49%) Kibana
6 3 (0.49%) Nmap
6 3 (0.49%) Plesk
6 3 (0.49%) Podman
6 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
6 3 (0.49%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.33%) MaaS360
8 1 (0.16%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.16%) Argo
8 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.16%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.16%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 122 (19.90%) Microsoft
2 19 (3.10%) Databricks
3 18 (2.94%) Oracle
4 16 (2.61%) Cisco
4 16 (2.61%) VMware
5 9 (1.47%) Meraki
6 8 (1.31%) Google
7 7 (1.14%) Splunk
8 4 (0.65%) Adobe
8 4 (0.65%) Apple
8 4 (0.65%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.65%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.65%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.65%) Veracode
9 3 (0.49%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.49%) Sage
9 3 (0.49%) SAP
9 3 (0.49%) Siemens
9 3 (0.49%) Thales
10 2 (0.33%) IFS