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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 83 134
Rank change year-on-year -126 +51 +74
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 387 1,123 764
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.91% 3.07% 2.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.74% 8.13% 7.52%
Number of salaries quoted 263 467 573
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £46,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +17.07%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +8.33%

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 14,138 13,820 10,163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.39% 37.79% 30.92%
Number of salaries quoted 5,124 5,317 6,677
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,475 £55,000 £51,716
Median % change year-on-year -11.86% +6.35% +3.43%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -56 118 £59,000 -12.59% 134
North of England -73 105 £55,000 +10.00% 56
Yorkshire -51 59 £70,000 +40.00% 15
Midlands -129 57 £42,868 +22.48% 39
South West -4 40 £62,500 -13.79% 33
West Midlands -101 38 £42,500 +21.43% 20
East of England -50 36 £30,000 -45.45% 57
North West -47 28 £45,000 -12.17% 22
East Midlands -64 22 £55,000 +57.14% 18
Scotland -17 19 £75,000 +54.64% 13
North East 0 18 £51,500 +2.49% 19
Wales -7 9 £52,500 -3.97% 14
Northern Ireland -29 4 £40,500 -40.00% 8
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 22 (5.68%) IIS
2 12 (3.10%) Confluence
3 8 (2.07%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.29%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.91%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.10%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.07%) AutoCAD
4 8 (2.07%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.52%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.52%) Weka
6 2 (0.52%) Windchill
7 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (38.76%) Azure
2 100 (25.84%) AWS
3 34 (8.79%) Serverless
4 29 (7.49%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.20%) SaaS
6 23 (5.94%) GCP
7 22 (5.68%) Power Platform
8 18 (4.65%) GitHub
8 18 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.58%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.33%) Google Workspace
11 8 (2.07%) PaaS
12 7 (1.81%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.81%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.29%) OneDrive
14 4 (1.03%) Firebase
14 4 (1.03%) GitHub Actions
14 4 (1.03%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.03%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.94%) Firewall
2 15 (3.88%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.62%) Network Security
4 13 (3.36%) VLAN
5 11 (2.84%) VPN
6 8 (2.07%) SAN
7 6 (1.55%) LAN
7 6 (1.55%) Modbus
7 6 (1.55%) WAN
8 5 (1.29%) BGP
8 5 (1.29%) DNS
8 5 (1.29%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (1.29%) OSPF
8 5 (1.29%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.03%) Bluetooth
9 4 (1.03%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.03%) DHCP
9 4 (1.03%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.78%) MPLS
10 3 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (13.70%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.24%) MySQL
3 17 (4.39%) Power BI
4 12 (3.10%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.84%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.84%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.58%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.58%) Metadata
7 9 (2.33%) Relational Database
8 8 (2.07%) Amazon Redshift
9 7 (1.81%) Big Data
10 6 (1.55%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.29%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.29%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.29%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.03%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.03%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (1.03%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.03%) Tableau
13 3 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (9.30%) JIRA
2 24 (6.20%) Git
3 10 (2.58%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.33%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.07%) GitLab
6 7 (1.81%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.55%) Selenium
8 4 (1.03%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.03%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.03%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.78%) ERwin
9 3 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.52%) JMeter
10 2 (0.52%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.52%) TestRail
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 185 (47.80%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.12%) Finance
3 69 (17.83%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.49%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.13%) Retail
6 15 (3.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (3.62%) Law
8 13 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.10%) Electronics
9 12 (3.10%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.58%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.58%) Marketing
10 10 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.33%) Advertising
12 7 (1.81%) Banking
13 6 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.55%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.03%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.03%) French Language
Job Titles
1 77 (19.90%) Developer
2 69 (17.83%) Architect
3 49 (12.66%) Software Engineer
4 41 (10.59%) Senior
5 35 (9.04%) Software Architect
6 34 (8.79%) Support Engineer
7 27 (6.98%) Graduate
8 25 (6.46%) Analyst
9 24 (6.20%) IT Engineer
10 20 (5.17%) IT Support
10 20 (5.17%) IT Support Engineer
10 20 (5.17%) Software Developer
11 19 (4.91%) Graduate Developer
12 18 (4.65%) Technical Support
13 16 (4.13%) Applications Architect
14 15 (3.88%) Full-Stack Developer
15 14 (3.62%) C# Developer
16 13 (3.36%) Lead
16 13 (3.36%) Senior Developer
16 13 (3.36%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.47%) .NET
2 53 (13.70%) CSS
3 31 (8.01%) React
4 29 (7.49%) Middleware
5 27 (6.98%) ASP.NET
6 26 (6.72%) REST
7 25 (6.46%) HTML
8 20 (5.17%) .NET Framework
9 19 (4.91%) jQuery
9 19 (4.91%) WinForms
10 13 (3.36%) Node.js
11 12 (3.10%) Entity Framework
11 12 (3.10%) Vue
11 12 (3.10%) WPF
12 11 (2.84%) Playwright
13 10 (2.58%) RESTful
13 10 (2.58%) SOAP
14 9 (2.33%) Blazor
15 8 (2.07%) AngularJS
16 7 (1.81%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.30%) Management Information System
2 35 (9.04%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (5.94%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.62%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.36%) Operational Technology
7 10 (2.58%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.33%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.07%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.07%) SCADA
10 7 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.81%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.55%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.55%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.29%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.29%) IoT
12 5 (1.29%) Life Science
12 5 (1.29%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.29%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.25%) Windows
2 57 (14.73%) Linux
3 11 (2.84%) Android
4 9 (2.33%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.81%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.03%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.03%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.03%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.78%) Unix
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (96.12%) Computer Science
2 137 (35.40%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (32.30%) Agile
4 100 (25.84%) DevOps
5 97 (25.06%) Continuous Improvement
6 75 (19.38%) Mentoring
7 68 (17.57%) Software Engineering
8 67 (17.31%) CI/CD
9 53 (13.70%) AI
10 49 (12.66%) SDLC
11 46 (11.89%) Data Modelling
11 46 (11.89%) ITIL
12 44 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (10.08%) Analytics
13 39 (10.08%) Microservices
14 38 (9.82%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.04%) Application Security
15 35 (9.04%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (9.04%) Machine Learning
15 35 (9.04%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 100 (25.84%) Python
2 99 (25.58%) C#
3 96 (24.81%) Java
3 96 (24.81%) SQL
4 65 (16.80%) JavaScript
5 47 (12.14%) C++
6 35 (9.04%) TypeScript
7 32 (8.27%) PHP
8 17 (4.39%) C
9 16 (4.13%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.88%) T-SQL
11 11 (2.84%) R
12 10 (2.58%) PL/SQL
13 9 (2.33%) Bash
14 6 (1.55%) Rust
15 5 (1.29%) Delphi
16 4 (1.03%) Go
16 4 (1.03%) Julia
17 3 (0.78%) VBA
18 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 384 (99.22%) Degree
2 47 (12.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (11.63%) Master's Degree
4 42 (10.85%) Security Cleared
5 36 (9.30%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (9.04%) AWS Certification
6 35 (9.04%) Azure Certification
7 30 (7.75%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (7.49%) TOGAF Certification
9 27 (6.98%) SC Cleared
10 22 (5.68%) Chartered Engineer
11 12 (3.10%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (2.84%) A+ Certification
12 11 (2.84%) DV Cleared
13 9 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (2.33%) CISSP
14 8 (2.07%) CISM
14 8 (2.07%) MCP
15 7 (1.81%) CCNP
16 6 (1.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 22 (5.68%) QA
2 19 (4.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.88%) NIST
4 14 (3.62%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.58%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.58%) IEC 61131
6 8 (2.07%) NCSC
7 7 (1.81%) GDPR
8 5 (1.29%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.29%) GxP
9 4 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.52%) ECSS
11 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.27%) Docker
2 14 (3.62%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.36%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.07%) vSphere
5 6 (1.55%) Firmware
5 6 (1.55%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (8.01%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.39%) Terraform
3 11 (2.84%) Grafana
3 11 (2.84%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.58%) Control-M
5 9 (2.33%) Ansible
6 7 (1.81%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.29%) SCCM
8 4 (1.03%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.03%) Nessus
8 4 (1.03%) Nmap
8 4 (1.03%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.78%) Nagios
9 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.52%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 112 (28.94%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.91%) Oracle
3 15 (3.88%) VMware
4 13 (3.36%) Google
5 12 (3.10%) Cisco
5 12 (3.10%) Sage
5 12 (3.10%) SAP
5 12 (3.10%) Xamarin
6 10 (2.58%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.33%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.07%) Dell
8 8 (2.07%) Splunk
9 7 (1.81%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.55%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.29%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.29%) Syncfusion
11 5 (1.29%) Telerik
11 5 (1.29%) Veeam
11 5 (1.29%) Zoho
12 4 (1.03%) CheckPoint