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 6 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 205 92 115
Rank change year-on-year -113 +23 +46
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 400 1,186 794
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.02% 2.73% 2.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.06% 8.25% 8.11%
Number of salaries quoted 280 550 622
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% -10.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +13.04%

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 13,059 14,369 9,796
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.41% 33.12% 33.82%
Number of salaries quoted 5,189 5,693 6,669
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,290
25th Percentile £31,750 £41,500 £37,733
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £65,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% +0.20%

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 6 December 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 6 December 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 -67 119 £55,000 -15.38% 104
North of England -42 102 £55,000 +10.00% 43
Midlands -119 60 £40,367 +15.33% 30
Yorkshire -7 50 £55,000 +20.68% 15
West Midlands -83 46 £41,434 +18.38% 13
South West -7 45 £50,000 -23.08% 33
East of England -46 40 £27,500 -52.99% 47
North West -41 34 £60,000 +20.00% 25
Scotland -15 21 £65,000 +22.95% 11
North East +4 18 £51,500 +14.44% 4
East Midlands -60 17 £35,000 - 14
Wales -6 10 £51,250 +14.73% 5
Northern Ireland -30 4 £40,500 -22.86% 3
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 (5.50%) IIS
2 8 (2.00%) Confluence
3 3 (0.75%) Apache Spark
3 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.50%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.50%) SAS
5 1 (0.25%) Apache
5 1 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.25%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.75%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (2.75%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.00%) AutoCAD
4 8 (2.00%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.50%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.25%) Weka
7 1 (0.25%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.50%) Dynamics NAV
2 5 (1.25%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.25%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.25%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.25%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.25%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.25%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 152 (38.00%) Azure
2 86 (21.50%) AWS
3 30 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
4 28 (7.00%) Power Platform
4 28 (7.00%) SaaS
5 25 (6.25%) GCP
6 23 (5.75%) Serverless
7 22 (5.50%) GitHub
8 11 (2.75%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.25%) Google Workspace
11 8 (2.00%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.75%) PaaS
13 6 (1.50%) Entra ID
14 5 (1.25%) Amazon S3
15 4 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
15 4 (1.00%) Firebase
15 4 (1.00%) GitHub Actions
15 4 (1.00%) SurveyMonkey
16 3 (0.75%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.75%) Firewall
2 15 (3.75%) TCP/IP
3 13 (3.25%) VLAN
4 11 (2.75%) Network Security
5 10 (2.50%) VPN
6 9 (2.25%) SAN
7 7 (1.75%) DNS
7 7 (1.75%) Modbus
7 7 (1.75%) Wireshark
8 6 (1.50%) DHCP
9 5 (1.25%) Bluetooth
9 5 (1.25%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.25%) VoIP
10 4 (1.00%) BGP
10 4 (1.00%) Internet
10 4 (1.00%) OSPF
10 4 (1.00%) SD-WAN
10 4 (1.00%) WAN
10 4 (1.00%) ZigBee
11 3 (0.75%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 72 (18.00%) SQL Server
2 36 (9.00%) MySQL
3 23 (5.75%) Power BI
4 12 (3.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.75%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.50%) Relational Database
7 8 (2.00%) Metadata
8 6 (1.50%) Data Lake
9 5 (1.25%) Big Data
9 5 (1.25%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.25%) MongoDB
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle BI EE
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Database
10 4 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (1.00%) Tableau
11 3 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.75%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (9.00%) JIRA
2 25 (6.25%) Git
3 10 (2.50%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 8 (2.00%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.00%) GitLab
6 5 (1.25%) Selenium
7 4 (1.00%) Burp Suite
7 4 (1.00%) Metasploit
8 3 (0.75%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.75%) ERwin
8 3 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.75%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.75%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.75%) WebDriver
9 2 (0.50%) JMeter
9 2 (0.50%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.50%) Maven
9 2 (0.50%) TestRail
General
1 201 (50.25%) Social Skills
2 86 (21.50%) Finance
3 63 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (7.50%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 15 (3.75%) Law
7 14 (3.50%) Retail
8 13 (3.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 11 (2.75%) Aerospace
10 11 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (2.75%) Public Sector
11 10 (2.50%) Banking
11 10 (2.50%) Electronics
11 10 (2.50%) Marketing
12 8 (2.00%) Advertising
13 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.50%) Back Office
14 6 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (1.00%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 90 (22.50%) Developer
2 60 (15.00%) Architect
3 46 (11.50%) Software Engineer
4 45 (11.25%) Graduate
5 35 (8.75%) Senior
5 35 (8.75%) Support Engineer
6 34 (8.50%) Software Architect
7 33 (8.25%) Analyst
8 30 (7.50%) Graduate Developer
9 26 (6.50%) IT Graduate
10 22 (5.50%) IT Support
11 21 (5.25%) Software Developer
11 21 (5.25%) Technical Support
12 20 (5.00%) IT Engineer
13 17 (4.25%) C# Developer
13 17 (4.25%) IT Support Engineer
14 16 (4.00%) SQL Developer
15 14 (3.50%) PHP Developer
15 14 (3.50%) Software Support Engineer
16 13 (3.25%) Graduate C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 64 (16.00%) .NET
2 55 (13.75%) CSS
3 36 (9.00%) ASP.NET
4 29 (7.25%) jQuery
5 27 (6.75%) Middleware
5 27 (6.75%) React
6 23 (5.75%) REST
7 20 (5.00%) .NET Framework
7 20 (5.00%) HTML
7 20 (5.00%) WinForms
8 12 (3.00%) Entity Framework
8 12 (3.00%) Vue
8 12 (3.00%) WPF
9 10 (2.50%) Node.js
9 10 (2.50%) Playwright
10 9 (2.25%) AngularJS
10 9 (2.25%) Blazor
10 9 (2.25%) RESTful
10 9 (2.25%) XML
11 7 (1.75%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.00%) Management Information System
2 28 (7.00%) Enterprise Software
3 24 (6.00%) Self-Motivation
4 18 (4.50%) Onboarding
5 13 (3.25%) Driving Licence
6 12 (3.00%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.00%) Product Ownership
7 9 (2.25%) Data Structures
8 8 (2.00%) SCADA
9 7 (1.75%) NHS
9 7 (1.75%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.75%) Security Posture
9 7 (1.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 7 (1.75%) Virtual Team
10 6 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.50%) Data Centre
10 6 (1.50%) IoT
11 5 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
11 5 (1.25%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 60 (15.00%) Linux
1 60 (15.00%) Windows
2 8 (2.00%) Android
3 7 (1.75%) Mac OS
3 7 (1.75%) Windows Server
4 5 (1.25%) Mac OS X
5 4 (1.00%) Kali Linux
5 4 (1.00%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.75%) Unix
7 1 (0.25%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 384 (96.00%) Computer Science
2 145 (36.25%) Problem-Solving
3 138 (34.50%) Agile
4 107 (26.75%) DevOps
5 99 (24.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 78 (19.50%) Mentoring
7 74 (18.50%) Software Engineering
8 68 (17.00%) CI/CD
9 52 (13.00%) SDLC
10 49 (12.25%) AI
10 49 (12.25%) OOP
11 42 (10.50%) Business Intelligence
12 41 (10.25%) ITIL
13 39 (9.75%) Cybersecurity
14 38 (9.50%) Analytics
15 37 (9.25%) OO
16 36 (9.00%) MVC
17 35 (8.75%) Data Modelling
17 35 (8.75%) Design Patterns
17 35 (8.75%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 107 (26.75%) C#
2 99 (24.75%) Java
2 99 (24.75%) SQL
3 85 (21.25%) Python
4 61 (15.25%) JavaScript
5 55 (13.75%) C++
6 41 (10.25%) PHP
7 29 (7.25%) TypeScript
8 21 (5.25%) C
9 15 (3.75%) PowerShell
9 15 (3.75%) T-SQL
10 11 (2.75%) PL/SQL
11 10 (2.50%) Bash
11 10 (2.50%) R
12 7 (1.75%) Delphi
13 5 (1.25%) Rust
14 4 (1.00%) Go
14 4 (1.00%) Julia
15 3 (0.75%) VBA
16 2 (0.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 397 (99.25%) Degree
2 42 (10.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 40 (10.00%) Master's Degree
4 38 (9.50%) BPSS Clearance
4 38 (9.50%) Security Cleared
5 29 (7.25%) Azure Certification
6 25 (6.25%) SC Cleared
7 24 (6.00%) Chartered Engineer
7 24 (6.00%) TOGAF Certification
8 23 (5.75%) AWS Certification
9 21 (5.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 10 (2.50%) A+ Certification
10 10 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
11 9 (2.25%) CISSP
11 9 (2.25%) DV Cleared
11 9 (2.25%) MCP
12 8 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
12 8 (2.00%) MCSE
13 7 (1.75%) CCNP
13 7 (1.75%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.00%) ISO/IEC 12207
2 22 (5.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 19 (4.75%) QA
4 14 (3.50%) NIST
5 12 (3.00%) Data Quality
6 10 (2.50%) IEC 61131
7 9 (2.25%) Accessibility
8 8 (2.00%) GDPR
8 8 (2.00%) NCSC
9 6 (1.50%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.75%) GxP
11 2 (0.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 2 (0.50%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.50%) ECSS
11 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.25%) GRC
12 1 (0.25%) SLA
12 1 (0.25%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 31 (7.75%) Docker
2 15 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (3.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.50%) Firmware
5 8 (2.00%) vSphere
6 5 (1.25%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.00%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.25%) GPFS
8 1 (0.25%) Lustre
8 1 (0.25%) NFS
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (7.75%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.75%) Terraform
3 12 (3.00%) Grafana
4 11 (2.75%) Ansible
4 11 (2.75%) Control-M
4 11 (2.75%) Prometheus
5 4 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (1.00%) Nessus
5 4 (1.00%) Nmap
5 4 (1.00%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.75%) Docker Swarm
6 3 (0.75%) Nagios
6 3 (0.75%) SCCM
6 3 (0.75%) ZABBIX
7 2 (0.50%) Kibana
8 1 (0.25%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.25%) Podman
8 1 (0.25%) Puppet
8 1 (0.25%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 108 (27.00%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.25%) Oracle
3 16 (4.00%) Google
3 16 (4.00%) VMware
4 12 (3.00%) Sage
4 12 (3.00%) Xamarin
5 11 (2.75%) SAP
6 10 (2.50%) Cisco
6 10 (2.50%) Fortinet
7 8 (2.00%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.00%) Splunk
8 7 (1.75%) Dell
8 7 (1.75%) Red Hat
9 5 (1.25%) Syncfusion
9 5 (1.25%) Telerik
9 5 (1.25%) Zoho
10 4 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
10 4 (1.00%) Qualtrics
10 4 (1.00%) Salesforce
10 4 (1.00%) Veeam