Computer Science Degree Jobs 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 26 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 123 137 194
Rank change year-on-year +14 +57 -28
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 858 1,499 1,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.36% 2.14% 1.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.35% 7.73% 4.95%
Number of salaries quoted 442 1,184 650
10th Percentile £31,025 £30,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £36,250 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £73,000 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% -4.00% +4.17%

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 19,726 19,392 22,667
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 54.37% 27.67% 36.53%
Number of salaries quoted 8,659 12,236 8,323
10th Percentile £31,250 £27,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,181 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,850 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £63,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,750 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £54,000 £57,825
% change year-on-year +1.85% -6.61% +5.14%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the UK excluding London

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 26 April 2025.

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 26 April 2025. 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
Midlands +86 243 £35,000 -30.00% 161
North of England -9 218 £55,750 +11.50% 214
South East -17 214 £65,000 +8.33% 304
West Midlands +85 181 £35,000 -33.33% 102
Yorkshire +26 100 £58,750 +30.56% 68
North West -42 98 £57,000 +14.00% 124
East of England +31 77 £53,000 +32.50% 128
East Midlands +54 60 £35,000 -24.22% 57
South West +38 54 £56,745 +26.10% 58
North East +51 20 £55,000 +4.76% 24
Scotland +29 20 £50,957 -11.38% 80
Northern Ireland +39 19 £110,000 +175.00% 41
Wales +28 13 £68,500 +101.47% 38
Computer Science Degree
UK

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 23 (2.68%) Jupyter
2 18 (2.10%) WordPress
3 16 (1.86%) CMS
4 9 (1.05%) SharePoint
5 8 (0.93%) Apache Spark
6 7 (0.82%) Confluence
7 5 (0.58%) Microsoft Exchange
7 5 (0.58%) SAS
8 4 (0.47%) IIS
9 3 (0.35%) Apache
9 3 (0.35%) Apache Airflow
9 3 (0.35%) OpenStack
10 2 (0.23%) NServiceBus
10 2 (0.23%) SharePoint Server
10 2 (0.23%) ThingWorx
11 1 (0.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.12%) nginx
Applications
1 23 (2.68%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (0.93%) Revit
4 6 (0.70%) Adobe XD
4 6 (0.70%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.47%) Sketch
6 2 (0.23%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.12%) Simulink
7 1 (0.12%) TargetLink
Business Applications
1 14 (1.63%) Shopify
2 6 (0.70%) Dynamics NAV
3 5 (0.58%) SAP Business One
4 3 (0.35%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.23%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.23%) SAP ERP
5 2 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.12%) Sage 200
6 1 (0.12%) SAP EWM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.12%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.12%) SAP WM
6 1 (0.12%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 160 (18.65%) Azure
2 90 (10.49%) AWS
3 33 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
4 26 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
5 21 (2.45%) GCP
5 21 (2.45%) GitHub
5 21 (2.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 21 (2.45%) Serverless
6 20 (2.33%) SaaS
7 17 (1.98%) Power Platform
8 16 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
8 16 (1.86%) Google Workspace
8 16 (1.86%) PaaS
9 15 (1.75%) Slack
10 14 (1.63%) Zapier
11 12 (1.40%) Amazon ECS
11 12 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
11 12 (1.40%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (1.40%) Entra ID
12 8 (0.93%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 128 (14.92%) Network Security
2 111 (12.94%) WLAN
3 106 (12.35%) Internet
4 66 (7.69%) Firewall
5 44 (5.13%) TCP/IP
6 39 (4.55%) DNS
7 27 (3.15%) DHCP
8 22 (2.56%) BGP
9 20 (2.33%) OSPF
10 19 (2.21%) VLAN
11 15 (1.75%) Intrusion Detection
12 10 (1.17%) VPN
13 8 (0.93%) LAN
13 8 (0.93%) SAN
13 8 (0.93%) WAN
14 7 (0.82%) DWDM
15 6 (0.70%) Cisco Nexus
16 5 (0.58%) VoIP
17 4 (0.47%) EIGRP
17 4 (0.47%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (9.21%) SQL Server
2 49 (5.71%) MySQL
3 32 (3.73%) Big Data
4 27 (3.15%) NoSQL
5 17 (1.98%) Relational Database
6 11 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (1.28%) Power BI
7 10 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
8 8 (0.93%) Oracle Database
9 7 (0.82%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.82%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.70%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
11 5 (0.58%) FileMaker
11 5 (0.58%) Hadoop
12 4 (0.47%) BigQuery
12 4 (0.47%) Cloud Spanner
13 3 (0.35%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 56 (6.53%) Git
2 17 (1.98%) JIRA
3 8 (0.93%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.70%) Burp Suite
4 6 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
5 5 (0.58%) Metasploit
5 5 (0.58%) Visual Studio
6 4 (0.47%) Moq
6 4 (0.47%) SpecFlow
6 4 (0.47%) TestRail
7 3 (0.35%) AppScan
7 3 (0.35%) Babel
7 3 (0.35%) CMake
7 3 (0.35%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.35%) GitLab
7 3 (0.35%) JUnit
7 3 (0.35%) Oracle Forms
7 3 (0.35%) webpack
8 2 (0.23%) Subversion
8 2 (0.23%) TestNG
General
1 286 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 130 (15.15%) Finance
3 116 (13.52%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (5.71%) Retail
5 48 (5.59%) Law
6 47 (5.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 38 (4.43%) Manufacturing
8 30 (3.50%) Marketing
9 24 (2.80%) Automotive
10 17 (1.98%) Electronics
11 16 (1.86%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.75%) Advertising
13 11 (1.28%) Documentation Skills
13 11 (1.28%) Pharmaceutical
14 9 (1.05%) Legal
14 9 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
14 9 (1.05%) Telecoms
15 8 (0.93%) Military
16 6 (0.70%) Aviation
16 6 (0.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 162 (18.88%) Developer
2 140 (16.32%) IT Manager
3 113 (13.17%) IT Engineer
4 103 (12.00%) IT Support
5 101 (11.77%) Support Engineer
6 96 (11.19%) IT Support Engineer
7 94 (10.96%) Senior
8 76 (8.86%) Architect
9 75 (8.74%) Software Engineer
10 69 (8.04%) Lead
11 55 (6.41%) Graduate
12 42 (4.90%) Software Developer
13 40 (4.66%) Graduate Developer
14 39 (4.55%) Analyst
15 30 (3.50%) IT Graduate
16 24 (2.80%) Data Scientist
17 23 (2.68%) .NET Developer
17 23 (2.68%) Security Engineer
17 23 (2.68%) Senior Data Scientist
17 23 (2.68%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 120 (13.99%) .NET
2 75 (8.74%) CSS
3 58 (6.76%) React
4 56 (6.53%) HTML
5 47 (5.48%) REST
6 41 (4.78%) ASP.NET
7 36 (4.20%) Middleware
8 30 (3.50%) jQuery
9 24 (2.80%) AngularJS
9 24 (2.80%) Node.js
9 24 (2.80%) RESTful
10 23 (2.68%) SOAP
11 22 (2.56%) .NET Framework
12 21 (2.45%) Laravel
12 21 (2.45%) Lightning Web Components
13 18 (2.10%) WinForms
14 17 (1.98%) .NET Core
15 14 (1.63%) HTML5
16 13 (1.52%) Loki
17 12 (1.40%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 95 (11.07%) Driving Licence
2 70 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 45 (5.24%) Algorithms
4 35 (4.08%) Security Posture
5 32 (3.73%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.91%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.68%) Cyberattack
7 23 (2.68%) Mobile App
8 18 (2.10%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.86%) Smartphone
10 15 (1.75%) Social Media
10 15 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 13 (1.52%) Cloud Native
12 9 (1.05%) Data Structures
12 9 (1.05%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.05%) Manufacturing Execution System
12 9 (1.05%) Robotics
12 9 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
12 9 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.93%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 170 (19.81%) Windows
2 162 (18.88%) Linux
3 34 (3.96%) Windows Server
4 21 (2.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 18 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 17 (1.98%) Ubuntu
7 16 (1.86%) Mac OS X
7 16 (1.86%) Windows 10
8 14 (1.63%) Windows Vista
9 13 (1.52%) Android
10 9 (1.05%) Apple iOS
11 6 (0.70%) Unix
12 4 (0.47%) Mac OS
12 4 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.35%) Kali Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 853 (99.42%) Computer Science
2 370 (43.12%) Problem-Solving
3 200 (23.31%) Mentoring
4 193 (22.49%) Agile
5 155 (18.07%) Software Engineering
6 150 (17.48%) DevOps
7 125 (14.57%) Customer-Centricity
8 121 (14.10%) ITIL
9 119 (13.87%) Continuous Improvement
10 100 (11.66%) Network Management
11 99 (11.54%) Asset Management
11 99 (11.54%) IT Asset Management
12 85 (9.91%) CI/CD
13 84 (9.79%) Cybersecurity
14 83 (9.67%) Artificial Intelligence
15 78 (9.09%) Microservices
16 72 (8.39%) Information Security
17 61 (7.11%) Project Management
18 58 (6.76%) E-Commerce
18 58 (6.76%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 147 (17.13%) C#
2 145 (16.90%) Python
3 132 (15.38%) Java
4 127 (14.80%) SQL
5 107 (12.47%) JavaScript
6 73 (8.51%) C++
7 61 (7.11%) PHP
8 57 (6.64%) TypeScript
9 56 (6.53%) PowerShell
10 25 (2.91%) Apex Code
11 21 (2.45%) C
12 17 (1.98%) Kotlin
13 16 (1.86%) Bash
14 13 (1.52%) PL/SQL
14 13 (1.52%) Shell Script
15 11 (1.28%) C-shell
16 9 (1.05%) Korn
17 8 (0.93%) T-SQL
18 7 (0.82%) R
19 6 (0.70%) Go
Qualifications
1 858 (100.00%) Degree
2 129 (15.03%) Microsoft Certification
3 125 (14.57%) Cisco Certification
4 115 (13.40%) MCSE
5 107 (12.47%) CCNA
5 107 (12.47%) CCNP
6 95 (11.07%) LPIC
6 95 (11.07%) MCP
7 93 (10.84%) Master's Degree
8 54 (6.29%) Security Cleared
9 37 (4.31%) CISSP
10 30 (3.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 28 (3.26%) Chartered Engineer
11 28 (3.26%) DV Cleared
12 26 (3.03%) SC Cleared
13 21 (2.45%) Azure Certification
14 20 (2.33%) CISM
15 18 (2.10%) DBS Check
16 17 (1.98%) CEH
16 17 (1.98%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 37 (4.31%) GDPR
3 36 (4.20%) NIST
4 35 (4.08%) QA
5 30 (3.50%) Data Quality
6 14 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 13 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
7 13 (1.52%) NCSC
8 8 (0.93%) Accessibility
8 8 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (0.82%) PCI DSS
10 6 (0.70%) HIPAA
11 5 (0.58%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 5 (0.58%) Def Stans
12 3 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.35%) California Consumer Privacy Act
12 3 (0.35%) COBIT
12 3 (0.35%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.35%) SLA
13 2 (0.23%) CDISC
System Software
1 67 (7.81%) Docker
2 36 (4.20%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 6 (0.70%) VMware NSX
6 4 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.47%) vSphere
7 3 (0.35%) HDFS
8 1 (0.12%) Firmware
8 1 (0.12%) KVM
8 1 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 78 (9.09%) Kubernetes
2 24 (2.80%) Terraform
3 20 (2.33%) Grafana
4 16 (1.86%) Ansible
5 14 (1.63%) Prometheus
6 9 (1.05%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (0.58%) ArcSight ESM
7 5 (0.58%) QRadar
8 4 (0.47%) Kibana
9 3 (0.35%) Nessus
9 3 (0.35%) Puppet
9 3 (0.35%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.23%) CASB
10 2 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.23%) Kubeflow
10 2 (0.23%) Nmap
11 1 (0.12%) Argo
11 1 (0.12%) Functional Safety
11 1 (0.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.12%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 200 (23.31%) Microsoft
2 129 (15.03%) Cisco
3 32 (3.73%) Salesforce
4 31 (3.61%) Google
5 21 (2.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 18 (2.10%) Dell
6 18 (2.10%) Oracle
7 16 (1.86%) Apple
7 16 (1.86%) Fortinet
7 16 (1.86%) Ubiquiti
8 15 (1.75%) WooCommerce
9 14 (1.63%) VMware
10 11 (1.28%) SAP
11 8 (0.93%) Splunk
12 7 (0.82%) Adobe
12 7 (0.82%) Informatica
13 6 (0.70%) Arista
13 6 (0.70%) Nimble Storage
13 6 (0.70%) Veeam
14 5 (0.58%) Databricks