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 19 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 185 96 106
Rank change year-on-year -89 +10 +38
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 512 1,191 944
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.50% 2.43% 2.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.24% 8.48% 8.72%
Number of salaries quoted 305 584 772
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £37,625
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,933 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -11.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £73,750 £71,063
90th Percentile £83,750 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +13.64%

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 12,083 14,040 10,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.45% 28.62% 33.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4,890 5,683 7,069
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,750
25th Percentile £32,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,070
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%

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 19 October 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 19 October 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
South East -52 172 £50,000 -16.67% 232
North of England -70 109 £51,500 +3.00% 89
Midlands -77 90 £42,500 +21.43% 49
East of England -39 60 £45,000 -18.18% 60
West Midlands -43 60 £42,500 +21.43% 29
North West -74 47 £55,000 +10.00% 46
Yorkshire -5 44 £55,000 +19.57% 24
South West -18 33 £47,500 -15.93% 34
East Midlands -41 31 £35,000 - 19
Scotland -26 24 £60,000 +2.56% 53
North East +3 18 £51,500 +14.44% 20
Wales +6 12 £56,250 +26.85% 9
Northern Ireland -2 11 £36,000 -20.00% 17
Isle of Man +9 1 - -
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 21 (4.10%) IIS
2 8 (1.56%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 6 (1.17%) Confluence
5 4 (0.78%) Apache Airflow
6 3 (0.59%) CMS
6 3 (0.59%) SharePoint
6 3 (0.59%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.39%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.20%) Apache
8 1 (0.20%) SAS
8 1 (0.20%) WordPress
Applications
1 17 (3.32%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (2.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.76%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.56%) AutoCAD
4 8 (1.56%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.39%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (1.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.17%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.17%) NetSuite
1 6 (1.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.20%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.20%) Pegasus Opera
Cloud Services
1 162 (31.64%) Azure
2 96 (18.75%) AWS
3 42 (8.20%) GCP
4 31 (6.05%) Power Platform
5 30 (5.86%) SaaS
6 26 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
7 20 (3.91%) Serverless
8 19 (3.71%) GitHub
8 19 (3.71%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
10 12 (2.34%) Dynamics 365
11 11 (2.15%) AWS Lambda
12 10 (1.95%) Amazon S3
12 10 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
12 10 (1.95%) Google Workspace
13 9 (1.76%) PaaS
14 7 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
14 7 (1.37%) Entra ID
15 5 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
15 5 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.91%) Firewall
2 16 (3.13%) VLAN
3 13 (2.54%) SAN
4 11 (2.15%) TCP/IP
5 10 (1.95%) DNS
6 8 (1.56%) DHCP
6 8 (1.56%) Network Security
6 8 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.37%) VPN
7 7 (1.37%) Wireshark
8 6 (1.17%) NAS
9 5 (0.98%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.98%) IP Telephony
9 5 (0.98%) Modbus
9 5 (0.98%) SNMP
9 5 (0.98%) VoIP
10 4 (0.78%) HTTP
10 4 (0.78%) Internet
11 3 (0.59%) STUN
11 3 (0.59%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 73 (14.26%) SQL Server
2 32 (6.25%) MySQL
3 27 (5.27%) Power BI
4 25 (4.88%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 15 (2.93%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.93%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.73%) Data Lake
8 13 (2.54%) Big Data
9 8 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
9 8 (1.56%) Hadoop
10 7 (1.37%) Metadata
10 7 (1.37%) Oracle Database
10 7 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
11 6 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 5 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
12 5 (0.98%) Data Mining
12 5 (0.98%) Tableau
13 4 (0.78%) Elasticsearch
13 4 (0.78%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 42 (8.20%) JIRA
2 34 (6.64%) Git
3 12 (2.34%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.37%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.17%) Octopus Deploy
6 5 (0.98%) Visual Studio
7 4 (0.78%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.78%) Cypress.io
7 4 (0.78%) GitLab
7 4 (0.78%) Maven
7 4 (0.78%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.78%) Selenium
8 3 (0.59%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.59%) ERwin
8 3 (0.59%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.59%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.59%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.59%) Visual Studio Code
8 3 (0.59%) Vite
8 3 (0.59%) WebDriver
General
1 257 (50.20%) Social Skills
2 111 (21.68%) Finance
3 82 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
4 41 (8.01%) Law
5 27 (5.27%) Manufacturing
6 20 (3.91%) Legal
7 19 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
8 17 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (3.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 15 (2.93%) Advertising
9 15 (2.93%) Electronics
10 14 (2.73%) Marketing
11 12 (2.34%) Banking
11 12 (2.34%) Public Sector
11 12 (2.34%) Retail
12 10 (1.95%) Aerospace
12 10 (1.95%) Back Office
13 9 (1.76%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 115 (22.46%) Developer
2 57 (11.13%) Architect
3 46 (8.98%) Graduate
4 43 (8.40%) Senior
5 42 (8.20%) Support Engineer
6 36 (7.03%) Software Engineer
7 35 (6.84%) Analyst
8 31 (6.05%) Graduate Developer
9 30 (5.86%) IT Graduate
10 26 (5.08%) Software Architect
10 26 (5.08%) Technical Support
11 24 (4.69%) IT Support
12 21 (4.10%) IT Engineer
13 20 (3.91%) Junior
13 20 (3.91%) Lead
14 18 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
15 17 (3.32%) Full-Stack Developer
16 16 (3.13%) Senior Manager
16 16 (3.13%) Software Developer
17 14 (2.73%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (15.43%) HTML
2 70 (13.67%) .NET
3 58 (11.33%) CSS
4 40 (7.81%) ASP.NET
5 30 (5.86%) jQuery
6 29 (5.66%) React
7 25 (4.88%) REST
8 23 (4.49%) Middleware
9 19 (3.71%) .NET Framework
9 19 (3.71%) PyTorch
9 19 (3.71%) TensorFlow
9 19 (3.71%) WinForms
10 14 (2.73%) Hugging Face
10 14 (2.73%) Kafka
10 14 (2.73%) LangChain
11 13 (2.54%) RESTful
12 12 (2.34%) .NET Core
12 12 (2.34%) AngularJS
12 12 (2.34%) Spring
12 12 (2.34%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.98%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.88%) Self-Motivation
3 24 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.71%) Enterprise Software
4 19 (3.71%) Product Ownership
5 14 (2.73%) Security Posture
6 13 (2.54%) Algorithms
7 11 (2.15%) Virtual Team
8 9 (1.76%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.76%) Data Structures
8 9 (1.76%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.76%) IoT
8 9 (1.76%) Operational Technology
9 7 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.37%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.37%) Hybrid Cloud
10 6 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.17%) Fibre Optics
10 6 (1.17%) Mobile App
10 6 (1.17%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 65 (12.70%) Windows
2 59 (11.52%) Linux
3 9 (1.76%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.17%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.98%) Android
5 5 (0.98%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.78%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.59%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.39%) Unix
9 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 497 (97.07%) Computer Science
2 175 (34.18%) Problem-Solving
3 152 (29.69%) Agile
4 122 (23.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 112 (21.88%) AI
6 107 (20.90%) DevOps
7 100 (19.53%) Machine Learning
8 80 (15.63%) Software Engineering
9 77 (15.04%) Mentoring
10 72 (14.06%) Data Privacy
11 69 (13.48%) CI/CD
12 57 (11.13%) SDLC
13 52 (10.16%) Business Intelligence
13 52 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (10.16%) ITIL
14 47 (9.18%) Analytics
15 45 (8.79%) Data Science
16 44 (8.59%) Roadmaps
17 41 (8.01%) OOP
17 41 (8.01%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 157 (30.66%) SQL
2 150 (29.30%) C#
3 142 (27.73%) Java
4 130 (25.39%) Python
5 111 (21.68%) JavaScript
6 94 (18.36%) C++
7 85 (16.60%) PHP
8 68 (13.28%) C
9 64 (12.50%) TypeScript
10 56 (10.94%) R
11 52 (10.16%) Rust
12 50 (9.77%) Ruby
13 48 (9.38%) Dart
13 48 (9.38%) MATLAB
14 24 (4.69%) PowerShell
15 19 (3.71%) T-SQL
16 12 (2.34%) Bash
17 6 (1.17%) PL/SQL
18 4 (0.78%) Julia
18 4 (0.78%) Perl
Qualifications
1 509 (99.41%) Degree
2 63 (12.30%) Master's Degree
3 46 (8.98%) Security Cleared
4 42 (8.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 33 (6.45%) BPSS Clearance
6 29 (5.66%) SC Cleared
7 26 (5.08%) Azure Certification
8 21 (4.10%) Chartered Engineer
9 20 (3.91%) AWS Certification
10 14 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
11 13 (2.54%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 13 (2.54%) DBS Check
12 10 (1.95%) CISSP
13 9 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.76%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.76%) MCSE
14 8 (1.56%) MCP
14 8 (1.56%) PMI Certification
14 8 (1.56%) PMP
15 7 (1.37%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (5.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.10%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 19 (3.71%) GDPR
4 16 (3.13%) NIST
5 14 (2.73%) Accessibility
6 12 (2.34%) NCSC
6 12 (2.34%) QA
7 11 (2.15%) Data Quality
8 10 (1.95%) IEC 61131
9 7 (1.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.17%) ISO 9001
11 4 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.59%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.39%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.39%) JTAG
13 2 (0.39%) SLA
14 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 1 (0.20%) GxP
System Software
1 22 (4.30%) Docker
2 19 (3.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.13%) Active Directory
4 12 (2.34%) Firmware
5 7 (1.37%) vSphere
6 5 (0.98%) Embedded Firmware
7 4 (0.78%) Hyper-V
8 3 (0.59%) GPFS
8 3 (0.59%) Lustre
8 3 (0.59%) NFS
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.69%) Grafana
1 24 (4.69%) Prometheus
2 22 (4.30%) Kubernetes
3 14 (2.73%) Terraform
4 9 (1.76%) Control-M
5 6 (1.17%) Ansible
6 5 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.78%) Nessus
7 4 (0.78%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.59%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.59%) Nagios
8 3 (0.59%) Nmap
8 3 (0.59%) SCCM
8 3 (0.59%) ZABBIX
9 1 (0.20%) ArcSight ESM
9 1 (0.20%) CSIRT
9 1 (0.20%) Podman
9 1 (0.20%) QRadar
9 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 116 (22.66%) Microsoft
2 26 (5.08%) Google
3 24 (4.69%) Oracle
4 19 (3.71%) VMware
5 13 (2.54%) OpenAI
6 10 (1.95%) Sage
6 10 (1.95%) SAP
6 10 (1.95%) Xamarin
7 9 (1.76%) Splunk
7 9 (1.76%) Veeam
8 8 (1.56%) Cisco
9 7 (1.37%) Fortinet
9 7 (1.37%) Remedy
9 7 (1.37%) Salesforce
10 6 (1.17%) BMC
10 6 (1.17%) Dell
10 6 (1.17%) McAfee
11 5 (0.98%) Red Hat
11 5 (0.98%) Zoho
12 4 (0.78%) ServiceNow