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

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 90 126
Rank change year-on-year -160 +36 +75
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 409 834 1,510
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 3.16% 2.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.44% 7.40% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 315 420 1,183
10th Percentile £25,800 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,875 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £55,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.78% +6.80% -1.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £74,063 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,075 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +12.00% +4.17% -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 16,744 11,277 17,961
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.86% 42.72% 26.79%
Number of salaries quoted 5,900 5,187 12,200
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £34,500 £38,750 £35,636
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,901 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £79,400 £78,750
UK median annual salary £58,000 £57,500 £54,196
% change year-on-year +0.87% +6.10% -5.75%

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 17 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 17 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 -59 156 £65,000 +8.33% 105
North of England -138 86 £60,000 +6.19% 36
Midlands -164 48 £44,000 +25.71% 29
East of England -51 47 £32,500 -38.68% 35
Yorkshire -96 47 £75,000 +27.66% 14
South West -56 45 £55,000 -3.08% 15
East Midlands -81 24 £55,000 +57.14% 11
West Midlands -132 24 £42,750 +22.14% 18
North West -89 22 £60,000 +1.69% 18
North East -40 17 £51,500 -6.36% 5
Wales -24 13 £72,500 +5.84% 3
Northern Ireland -46 8 £40,000 -60.98% 2
Scotland -37 7 £75,000 +50.00% 11
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 11 (2.69%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.44%) SAS
3 9 (2.20%) Confluence
4 6 (1.47%) Apache Spark
5 5 (1.22%) IIS
6 3 (0.73%) Apache
6 3 (0.73%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (2.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.49%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.49%) Weka
3 2 (0.49%) Windchill
4 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.49%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.24%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 171 (41.81%) Azure
2 143 (34.96%) AWS
3 46 (11.25%) Serverless
4 42 (10.27%) GCP
5 23 (5.62%) Azure DevOps
6 19 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (3.42%) AWS Lambda
7 14 (3.42%) Power Platform
8 13 (3.18%) Amazon S3
9 12 (2.93%) SaaS
10 11 (2.69%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (2.69%) GitHub
10 11 (2.69%) PaaS
11 8 (1.96%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.96%) Azure Functions
11 8 (1.96%) Entra ID
12 7 (1.71%) IaaS
12 7 (1.71%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 6 (1.47%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 29 (7.09%) Firewall
1 29 (7.09%) WAN
2 25 (6.11%) VPN
3 23 (5.62%) LAN
4 19 (4.65%) BGP
5 16 (3.91%) Network Security
6 13 (3.18%) Internet
6 13 (3.18%) TCP/IP
6 13 (3.18%) VLAN
7 12 (2.93%) DHCP
7 12 (2.93%) DNS
7 12 (2.93%) MPLS
8 11 (2.69%) OSPF
9 10 (2.44%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (2.44%) SD-WAN
9 10 (2.44%) Wireless
10 9 (2.20%) SNMP
11 8 (1.96%) EIGRP
11 8 (1.96%) WAAS
11 8 (1.96%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (12.71%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.36%) MySQL
3 18 (4.40%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.18%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.93%) Big Data
6 11 (2.69%) Metadata
6 11 (2.69%) NoSQL
6 11 (2.69%) Relational Database
7 10 (2.44%) Power BI
8 9 (2.20%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (1.71%) Spark SQL
11 4 (0.98%) Hadoop
12 3 (0.73%) Apache Cassandra
12 3 (0.73%) Data Lake
12 3 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.49%) Ataccama
13 2 (0.49%) BigQuery
13 2 (0.49%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.49%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (7.58%) JIRA
2 27 (6.60%) Git
3 10 (2.44%) Cypress.io
3 10 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.47%) GitLab
5 5 (1.22%) Bitbucket
6 3 (0.73%) JMeter
6 3 (0.73%) LoadRunner
6 3 (0.73%) Polyspace
6 3 (0.73%) Selenium
6 3 (0.73%) VectorCAST
6 3 (0.73%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.49%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.49%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.49%) Gatling
7 2 (0.49%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.49%) TestRail
8 1 (0.24%) Octopus Deploy
8 1 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (0.24%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 154 (37.65%) Social Skills
2 74 (18.09%) Finance
3 64 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.09%) Manufacturing
5 19 (4.65%) Public Sector
5 19 (4.65%) Retail
6 16 (3.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 16 (3.91%) Law
6 16 (3.91%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (3.42%) Electronics
8 10 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.96%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.47%) Legal
10 6 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.22%) Marketing
11 5 (1.22%) Police
12 4 (0.98%) Advertising
12 4 (0.98%) Automotive
13 3 (0.73%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 83 (20.29%) Software Engineer
2 82 (20.05%) Developer
3 64 (15.65%) Senior
4 48 (11.74%) Architect
5 46 (11.25%) Graduate
6 42 (10.27%) Software Developer
7 37 (9.05%) Python Engineer
8 33 (8.07%) Python Software Engineer
9 30 (7.33%) Graduate Developer
10 27 (6.60%) Graduate Software Developer
11 25 (6.11%) C# Developer
11 25 (6.11%) C++ Software Engineer
11 25 (6.11%) Lead
12 24 (5.87%) C# Software Developer
12 24 (5.87%) Graduate C# Developer
12 24 (5.87%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 24 (5.87%) SQL Developer
13 22 (5.38%) Graduate SQL Developer
14 20 (4.89%) Analyst
15 19 (4.65%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (14.18%) CSS
2 38 (9.29%) .NET
2 38 (9.29%) HTML
3 36 (8.80%) jQuery
4 35 (8.56%) React
5 29 (7.09%) REST
6 24 (5.87%) Middleware
7 20 (4.89%) Node.js
8 18 (4.40%) SOAP
9 16 (3.91%) RESTful
10 12 (2.93%) Playwright
11 10 (2.44%) ARM Templates
11 10 (2.44%) JSON
11 10 (2.44%) Vue
11 10 (2.44%) XML
12 9 (2.20%) Django
12 9 (2.20%) FastAPI
13 8 (1.96%) .NET Framework
13 8 (1.96%) Flask
13 8 (1.96%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 28 (6.85%) Management Information System
2 21 (5.13%) Distributed Systems
3 20 (4.89%) Data Centre
3 20 (4.89%) Enterprise Software
4 17 (4.16%) Cloud Native
5 13 (3.18%) Client/Server
6 10 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.20%) Onboarding
7 9 (2.20%) Virtual Team
8 8 (1.96%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.71%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.71%) Distributed Computing
9 7 (1.71%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.71%) SCADA
10 6 (1.47%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.47%) CMDB
10 6 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
10 6 (1.47%) Operational Technology
10 6 (1.47%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (13.20%) Linux
2 36 (8.80%) Windows
3 15 (3.67%) Android
4 11 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.20%) Unix
6 5 (1.22%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.49%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.49%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.49%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (91.44%) Computer Science
2 126 (30.81%) Problem-Solving
3 108 (26.41%) Agile
4 107 (26.16%) Software Engineering
5 81 (19.80%) DevOps
6 79 (19.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 78 (19.07%) CI/CD
8 60 (14.67%) Mentoring
9 46 (11.25%) AI
9 46 (11.25%) Data Modelling
10 44 (10.76%) Test Automation
11 40 (9.78%) ITIL
11 40 (9.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 32 (7.82%) Containerisation
12 32 (7.82%) Microservices
12 32 (7.82%) Stakeholder Management
13 31 (7.58%) Collaborative Culture
13 31 (7.58%) OOP
13 31 (7.58%) SDLC
14 30 (7.33%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 160 (39.12%) Python
2 112 (27.38%) SQL
3 94 (22.98%) C#
4 80 (19.56%) Java
5 78 (19.07%) C++
6 67 (16.38%) JavaScript
7 45 (11.00%) PHP
8 38 (9.29%) TypeScript
9 31 (7.58%) PowerShell
10 25 (6.11%) C
11 15 (3.67%) Rust
12 12 (2.93%) Bash
13 8 (1.96%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.22%) Bicep
14 5 (1.22%) Delphi
15 4 (0.98%) Scala
16 3 (0.73%) R
16 3 (0.73%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.49%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 2 (0.49%) Julia
Qualifications
1 409 (100.00%) Degree
2 46 (11.25%) Master's Degree
3 31 (7.58%) Security Cleared
4 28 (6.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 26 (6.36%) Azure Certification
6 25 (6.11%) AWS Certification
6 25 (6.11%) SC Cleared
7 22 (5.38%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (4.89%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 20 (4.89%) TOGAF Certification
9 19 (4.65%) CCNP
10 16 (3.91%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (3.67%) CISSP
12 14 (3.42%) CCIE
13 11 (2.69%) DV Cleared
13 11 (2.69%) ISTQB
13 11 (2.69%) PhD
14 9 (2.20%) Chartered Engineer
14 9 (2.20%) CISM
15 8 (1.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (11.25%) QA
2 21 (5.13%) Data Quality
3 20 (4.89%) Accessibility
3 20 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (4.89%) NIST
4 13 (3.18%) GDPR
5 11 (2.69%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 8 (1.96%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.96%) PMO
8 4 (0.98%) GxP
9 3 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 3 (0.73%) HIPAA
9 3 (0.73%) IEC 61508
9 3 (0.73%) ISO 26262
9 3 (0.73%) SLA
10 2 (0.49%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.49%) ECSS
10 2 (0.49%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.49%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (8.80%) Docker
2 29 (7.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.40%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.91%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.18%) KVM
6 8 (1.96%) ProxySG
6 8 (1.96%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.71%) vSphere
8 4 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.73%) Firmware
9 3 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.24%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 42 (10.27%) Kubernetes
2 25 (6.11%) Terraform
3 17 (4.16%) Ansible
4 11 (2.69%) Grafana
5 9 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.22%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.98%) Control-M
7 4 (0.98%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.73%) SCCM
9 2 (0.49%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.49%) Kibana
10 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.24%) CASB
10 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.24%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.24%) Graylog
10 1 (0.24%) HP Fortify
10 1 (0.24%) Plesk
10 1 (0.24%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (19.80%) Microsoft
2 30 (7.33%) VMware
3 26 (6.36%) Cisco
4 15 (3.67%) Oracle
5 11 (2.69%) CheckPoint
5 11 (2.69%) Databricks
5 11 (2.69%) ServiceNow
5 11 (2.69%) Splunk
6 9 (2.20%) F5
7 8 (1.96%) Blue Coat
7 8 (1.96%) Infoblox
7 8 (1.96%) Motorola
7 8 (1.96%) SolarWinds
8 7 (1.71%) Meraki
8 7 (1.71%) SAP
9 6 (1.47%) Palo Alto
10 5 (1.22%) Fortinet
11 4 (0.98%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.73%) Pega
12 3 (0.73%) Salesforce