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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 164 108
Rank change year-on-year -75 -56 +43
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 549 681 1,656
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 2.02% 2.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.10% 5.36% 9.26%
Number of salaries quoted 464 404 1,185
10th Percentile £26,888 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £33,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +5.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 13,400 12,710 17,891
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.64% 37.62% 25.29%
Number of salaries quoted 6,783 5,280 11,077
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,783
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,955 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,700
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.55% -8.83%

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 18 July 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 18 July 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 -14 230 £65,000 +15.56% 79
North of England -65 123 £62,500 +8.70% 17
East of England -31 60 £46,250 -7.50% 20
South West -55 57 £41,250 -17.50% 22
Midlands -78 55 £40,000 -3.46% 27
North West -47 47 £40,000 -31.03% 8
Yorkshire -26 41 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North East -35 35 £98,750 +136.53% 2
East Midlands -14 28 £26,000 -25.71% 19
West Midlands -74 27 £41,500 -2.35% 8
Wales -46 14 £72,500 +18.37% 4
Northern Ireland -68 6 £40,000 -63.64% 14
Scotland -10 4 £48,500 -6.58% 7
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 (2.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.46%) SAS
3 7 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.91%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.73%) WordPress
6 3 (0.55%) IIS
7 2 (0.36%) Apache
7 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.36%) Luigi
8 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 218 (39.71%) Azure
2 171 (31.15%) AWS
3 56 (10.20%) GCP
4 33 (6.01%) SaaS
5 28 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.92%) Serverless
7 21 (3.83%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.28%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
10 14 (2.55%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.55%) PaaS
10 14 (2.55%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.37%) Azure Functions
11 13 (2.37%) IaaS
12 11 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
12 11 (2.00%) GitHub
12 11 (2.00%) Power Automate
13 10 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
14 6 (1.09%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.92%) VPN
1 27 (4.92%) WAN
2 25 (4.55%) Firewall
2 25 (4.55%) Internet
3 20 (3.64%) LAN
4 16 (2.91%) Network Security
4 16 (2.91%) Wireless
5 14 (2.55%) BGP
5 14 (2.55%) DHCP
5 14 (2.55%) DNS
6 10 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.64%) MPLS
7 9 (1.64%) VLAN
8 8 (1.46%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.46%) TCP/IP
8 8 (1.46%) VoIP
9 6 (1.09%) MQTT
9 6 (1.09%) SNMP
9 6 (1.09%) ZigBee
10 4 (0.73%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (17.12%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.37%) MySQL
3 23 (4.19%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.28%) Relational Database
5 17 (3.10%) NoSQL
5 17 (3.10%) Redis
6 13 (2.37%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.19%) Power BI
7 12 (2.19%) Spark SQL
8 11 (2.00%) MongoDB
9 10 (1.82%) Big Data
9 10 (1.82%) Metadata
10 6 (1.09%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
11 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.73%) ClickHouse
12 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.55%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.55%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 67 (12.20%) Git
2 23 (4.19%) Eclipse
2 23 (4.19%) JIRA
3 19 (3.46%) Subversion
4 16 (2.91%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.73%) JUnit
6 14 (2.55%) GitLab
7 7 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.09%) GDB
9 5 (0.91%) JMeter
10 4 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.73%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.73%) Selenium
11 3 (0.55%) Gatling
11 3 (0.55%) Polyspace
11 3 (0.55%) REST Assured
11 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.55%) VectorCAST
General
1 166 (30.24%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.03%) Finance
3 70 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.83%) Manufacturing
5 22 (4.01%) Law
5 22 (4.01%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.64%) Retail
7 17 (3.10%) Electronics
8 16 (2.91%) Legal
9 15 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Marketing
11 11 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 9 (1.64%) Advertising
12 9 (1.64%) Banking
12 9 (1.64%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.46%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.91%) Automotive
14 5 (0.91%) Police
14 5 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 170 (30.97%) Developer
2 131 (23.86%) Software Engineer
3 75 (13.66%) Software Developer
4 66 (12.02%) Senior
5 56 (10.20%) Graduate
6 51 (9.29%) Python Engineer
7 48 (8.74%) C# Software Engineer
7 48 (8.74%) C++ Software Engineer
8 45 (8.20%) Python Software Engineer
9 44 (8.01%) Lead
10 39 (7.10%) Graduate Developer
11 36 (6.56%) Graduate Software Developer
12 35 (6.38%) Architect
13 29 (5.28%) C# Developer
13 29 (5.28%) Java Developer
13 29 (5.28%) Web Developer
14 25 (4.55%) Data Engineer
14 25 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
15 24 (4.37%) Analyst
15 24 (4.37%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 85 (15.48%) .NET
2 65 (11.84%) CSS
3 63 (11.48%) React
4 50 (9.11%) jQuery
5 49 (8.93%) RESTful
6 45 (8.20%) HTML
7 38 (6.92%) REST
8 28 (5.10%) Vue
9 26 (4.74%) Web Services
10 25 (4.55%) Node.js
11 19 (3.46%) J2EE
11 19 (3.46%) Struts
12 18 (3.28%) .NET Core
13 17 (3.10%) ARM Templates
14 15 (2.73%) Kafka
15 13 (2.37%) JSON
15 13 (2.37%) Middleware
15 13 (2.37%) PySpark
15 13 (2.37%) SOAP
16 11 (2.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.28%) Management Information System
3 25 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.28%) Algorithms
4 18 (3.28%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.10%) Distributed Computing
6 16 (2.91%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (2.55%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.55%) Virtual Team
8 13 (2.37%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.19%) Client/Server
9 12 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (2.00%) IoT
10 11 (2.00%) Onboarding
11 10 (1.82%) Device Driver
11 10 (1.82%) Robotics
12 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.28%) Life Science
12 7 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.48%) Linux
2 30 (5.46%) Windows
3 16 (2.91%) Unix
4 11 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.28%) Android
5 7 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.55%) Debian
7 3 (0.55%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.36%) Solaris
8 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 491 (89.44%) Computer Science
2 183 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 165 (30.05%) Problem-Solving
4 138 (25.14%) CI/CD
5 130 (23.68%) Agile
6 112 (20.40%) AI
7 105 (19.13%) Continuous Improvement
8 96 (17.49%) DevOps
9 72 (13.11%) Test Automation
10 65 (11.84%) Full-Stack Development
11 56 (10.20%) Mentoring
12 53 (9.65%) Containerisation
13 46 (8.38%) Microservices
14 43 (7.83%) Data Modelling
15 42 (7.65%) Scrum
16 41 (7.47%) Web Development
17 40 (7.29%) Analytics
17 40 (7.29%) SDLC
18 36 (6.56%) Machine Learning
18 36 (6.56%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 187 (34.06%) Python
2 133 (24.23%) C#
3 132 (24.04%) C++
4 126 (22.95%) SQL
5 105 (19.13%) JavaScript
6 92 (16.76%) Java
7 69 (12.57%) PHP
8 52 (9.47%) TypeScript
9 38 (6.92%) Rust
10 34 (6.19%) PowerShell
11 31 (5.65%) C
12 17 (3.10%) Bash
12 17 (3.10%) Perl
13 13 (2.37%) Go
14 8 (1.46%) Bicep
15 6 (1.09%) Scala
16 5 (0.91%) Delphi
17 4 (0.73%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.73%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 549 (100.00%) Degree
2 65 (11.84%) Master's Degree
3 40 (7.29%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.55%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (3.10%) PhD
7 16 (2.91%) CCNP
7 16 (2.91%) CISSP
8 14 (2.55%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.37%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.82%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.64%) CCIE
11 9 (1.64%) CCNA
11 9 (1.64%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.46%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.09%) CISM
14 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.74%) QA
2 39 (7.10%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.37%) NIST
5 21 (3.83%) GDPR
6 17 (3.10%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.19%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.64%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.28%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.09%) JTAG
11 5 (0.91%) SLA
12 4 (0.73%) PMO
13 3 (0.55%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.55%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (11.66%) Docker
2 28 (5.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.46%) Active Directory
4 14 (2.55%) Hyper-V
5 11 (2.00%) KVM
6 9 (1.64%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.28%) Firmware
8 5 (0.91%) vSphere
9 4 (0.73%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (12.20%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.38%) Terraform
3 15 (2.73%) Ansible
4 13 (2.37%) Grafana
5 6 (1.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.55%) Plesk
8 3 (0.55%) Podman
8 3 (0.55%) SCCM
9 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 82 (14.94%) Microsoft
2 29 (5.28%) VMware
3 23 (4.19%) Cisco
4 21 (3.83%) Databricks
5 20 (3.64%) Oracle
6 10 (1.82%) Splunk
7 9 (1.64%) Meraki
8 7 (1.28%) Google
9 5 (0.91%) CheckPoint
9 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.73%) Adobe
10 4 (0.73%) Blue Coat
10 4 (0.73%) F5
10 4 (0.73%) Infoblox
10 4 (0.73%) Motorola
10 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.73%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.55%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.55%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.55%) Salesforce