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 9 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 150 122
Rank change year-on-year -77 -28 +51
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 498 668 1,622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.75% 2.27% 2.12%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.83% 5.37% 8.53%
Number of salaries quoted 422 396 1,223
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,089 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.55% +5.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £72,500 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%

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 12,989 12,431 19,010
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.66% 42.19% 24.87%
Number of salaries quoted 6,274 4,994 12,261
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,577 £35,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.80% +3.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,253 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 9 June 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 9 June 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 -23 198 £65,000 +18.18% 91
North of England -64 110 £62,500 +12.11% 48
East of England -24 61 £45,000 -13.46% 19
Midlands -68 58 £47,500 +35.71% 23
Yorkshire -29 49 £75,000 +25.00% 12
South West -46 46 £42,500 -19.05% 24
East Midlands -21 33 £55,000 +57.14% 11
North West -56 33 £40,000 -27.27% 27
North East -35 28 £90,000 +63.64% 9
West Midlands -73 25 £44,000 +9.00% 12
Wales -32 13 £72,500 +11.54% 3
Northern Ireland -45 7 £40,000 -63.64% 12
Scotland -8 5 £48,500 -6.58% 15
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 12 (2.41%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.61%) Confluence
2 8 (1.61%) SAS
3 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.80%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.80%) CMS
4 4 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.80%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 208 (41.77%) Azure
2 163 (32.73%) AWS
3 43 (8.63%) GCP
4 41 (8.23%) Serverless
5 26 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
5 26 (5.22%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (4.22%) SaaS
7 19 (3.82%) Azure Logic Apps
8 15 (3.01%) Power Platform
9 14 (2.81%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (2.81%) Azure Data Factory
9 14 (2.81%) Power Automate
10 13 (2.61%) Amazon S3
10 13 (2.61%) Azure Functions
11 11 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.01%) PaaS
13 9 (1.81%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.61%) GitHub
14 8 (1.61%) IaaS
15 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.82%) WAN
2 27 (5.42%) Firewall
3 24 (4.82%) VPN
4 22 (4.42%) LAN
5 20 (4.02%) Internet
6 19 (3.82%) Network Security
7 16 (3.21%) BGP
8 14 (2.81%) Wireless
9 13 (2.61%) DHCP
9 13 (2.61%) DNS
10 11 (2.21%) VLAN
11 9 (1.81%) MPLS
12 8 (1.61%) SNMP
12 8 (1.61%) TCP/IP
13 7 (1.41%) Cisco ASA
13 7 (1.41%) EIGRP
13 7 (1.41%) OSPF
13 7 (1.41%) VoIP
13 7 (1.41%) WAAS
13 7 (1.41%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (14.86%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.02%) MySQL
3 22 (4.42%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.41%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.21%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.61%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.61%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.41%) Metadata
7 12 (2.41%) Power BI
8 11 (2.21%) Big Data
8 11 (2.21%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.21%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.20%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.20%) Redis
10 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.80%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.60%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.40%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 48 (9.64%) Git
2 24 (4.82%) JIRA
3 13 (2.61%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.01%) GitLab
5 8 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.61%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.61%) Subversion
6 7 (1.41%) JUnit
7 6 (1.20%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.00%) JMeter
8 5 (1.00%) Selenium
9 4 (0.80%) GDB
9 4 (0.80%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.60%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.60%) Gatling
10 3 (0.60%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.60%) Postman
10 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.60%) VectorCAST
General
1 155 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.86%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (13.65%) Finance
4 23 (4.62%) Law
4 23 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 22 (4.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (4.22%) Manufacturing
7 17 (3.41%) Electronics
7 17 (3.41%) Legal
7 17 (3.41%) Organisational Skills
8 15 (3.01%) Retail
9 11 (2.21%) Advertising
10 10 (2.01%) Marketing
11 9 (1.81%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.41%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 6 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.00%) Automotive
14 5 (1.00%) Police
14 5 (1.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 138 (27.71%) Developer
2 119 (23.90%) Software Engineer
3 64 (12.85%) Senior
4 61 (12.25%) Software Developer
5 53 (10.64%) Graduate
6 46 (9.24%) Python Engineer
7 45 (9.04%) C# Software Engineer
8 42 (8.43%) Python Software Engineer
9 41 (8.23%) C++ Software Engineer
10 39 (7.83%) Architect
10 39 (7.83%) Graduate Developer
11 36 (7.23%) Graduate Software Developer
11 36 (7.23%) Lead
12 29 (5.82%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.82%) C# Software Developer
13 24 (4.82%) Graduate C# Developer
13 24 (4.82%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 24 (4.82%) SQL Developer
14 23 (4.62%) Data Engineer
14 23 (4.62%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.06%) .NET
2 67 (13.45%) CSS
3 57 (11.45%) React
4 48 (9.64%) HTML
5 45 (9.04%) jQuery
6 41 (8.23%) REST
7 35 (7.03%) RESTful
8 20 (4.02%) Node.js
9 19 (3.82%) Middleware
9 19 (3.82%) SOAP
10 16 (3.21%) Web Services
11 15 (3.01%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.01%) Vue
12 14 (2.81%) JSON
13 13 (2.61%) ARM Templates
13 13 (2.61%) XML
14 11 (2.21%) PySpark
15 10 (2.01%) Kafka
15 10 (2.01%) Playwright
15 10 (2.01%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.62%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (5.02%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.22%) Cloud Native
4 20 (4.02%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.41%) Algorithms
6 15 (3.01%) Client/Server
6 15 (3.01%) Data Structures
6 15 (3.01%) Distributed Computing
6 15 (3.01%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.61%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.41%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.21%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.61%) CMDB
10 8 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.61%) Robotics
11 6 (1.20%) Device Driver
11 6 (1.20%) IoT
11 6 (1.20%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 67 (13.45%) Linux
2 29 (5.82%) Windows
3 13 (2.61%) Unix
4 10 (2.01%) Android
4 10 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.80%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.80%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (88.35%) Computer Science
2 156 (31.33%) Software Engineering
3 146 (29.32%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (26.10%) Agile
5 112 (22.49%) CI/CD
6 93 (18.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (17.07%) DevOps
8 67 (13.45%) Test Automation
9 65 (13.05%) AI
10 49 (9.84%) Data Modelling
10 49 (9.84%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (9.84%) Mentoring
11 48 (9.64%) Containerisation
12 43 (8.63%) Scrum
13 38 (7.63%) ITIL
14 36 (7.23%) SDLC
15 35 (7.03%) Microservices
15 35 (7.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 34 (6.83%) OOP
17 33 (6.63%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 180 (36.14%) Python
2 132 (26.51%) C#
3 129 (25.90%) SQL
4 108 (21.69%) C++
5 91 (18.27%) JavaScript
6 87 (17.47%) Java
7 64 (12.85%) PHP
8 46 (9.24%) TypeScript
9 33 (6.63%) Rust
10 27 (5.42%) C
10 27 (5.42%) PowerShell
11 14 (2.81%) Bash
12 13 (2.61%) Go
13 9 (1.81%) Perl
14 8 (1.61%) Scala
15 4 (0.80%) Bicep
15 4 (0.80%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.60%) Delphi
17 2 (0.40%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 498 (100.00%) Degree
2 55 (11.04%) Master's Degree
3 46 (9.24%) Security Cleared
4 28 (5.62%) SC Cleared
5 27 (5.42%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.82%) CCNP
6 19 (3.82%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (3.41%) Azure Certification
7 17 (3.41%) CISSP
7 17 (3.41%) PhD
8 15 (3.01%) AWS Certification
8 15 (3.01%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.61%) CCIE
10 11 (2.21%) ISTQB
11 10 (2.01%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 9 (1.81%) CCNA
12 9 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
13 8 (1.61%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
14 7 (1.41%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.44%) QA
2 30 (6.02%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.22%) GDPR
5 20 (4.02%) NIST
6 19 (3.82%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.41%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.61%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.41%) PMO
10 5 (1.00%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.80%) JTAG
11 4 (0.80%) SLA
12 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.60%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.60%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.40%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
14 1 (0.20%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.20%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (10.44%) Docker
2 31 (6.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.02%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.41%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.81%) KVM
6 9 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.41%) ProxySG
8 5 (1.00%) Firmware
8 5 (1.00%) vSphere
9 4 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.80%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
12 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.82%) Terraform
3 13 (2.61%) Grafana
4 12 (2.41%) Ansible
5 10 (2.01%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.00%) Prometheus
6 5 (1.00%) SCCM
7 4 (0.80%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (0.80%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.60%) Plesk
9 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.40%) Kibana
10 1 (0.20%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.20%) Argo
10 1 (0.20%) CASB
10 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.20%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.20%) Graylog
10 1 (0.20%) Packer
Vendors
1 82 (16.47%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.43%) VMware
3 22 (4.42%) Cisco
4 19 (3.82%) Databricks
4 19 (3.82%) Oracle
5 10 (2.01%) ServiceNow
5 10 (2.01%) Splunk
6 9 (1.81%) CheckPoint
7 8 (1.61%) F5
8 7 (1.41%) Blue Coat
8 7 (1.41%) Infoblox
8 7 (1.41%) Meraki
8 7 (1.41%) Motorola
8 7 (1.41%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.80%) OpenAI
10 3 (0.60%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.60%) Palo Alto
10 3 (0.60%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.60%) SAP
10 3 (0.60%) Veracode