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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 98 124
Rank change year-on-year -83 +26 +14
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 568 1,295 911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.66% 2.34% 2.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.60% 8.89% 7.47%
Number of salaries quoted 322 763 755
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £38,450
25th Percentile £33,938 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,625 £85,000 £84,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - -7.69% +18.18%

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 12,353 14,564 12,188
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.01% 26.35% 34.62%
Number of salaries quoted 4,939 6,630 7,257
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £29,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £39,555 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,125 £67,594 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,500 £58,000
% change year-on-year -0.90% -4.31% +5.45%

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

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 -48 190 £58,750 +1.29% 200
North of England -82 114 £55,000 +10.00% 103
Midlands -30 96 £42,500 -5.56% 67
East of England -36 72 £43,250 -20.24% 62
West Midlands -14 66 £42,500 -2.86% 39
North West -91 64 £55,000 +7.34% 50
South West -11 37 £47,500 -13.64% 44
Yorkshire -31 37 £52,500 +10.53% 38
Scotland +4 31 £55,000 -8.33% 26
East Midlands -31 29 £35,000 -22.22% 26
Northern Ireland 0 14 £70,750 +57.22% 8
Wales +17 13 £60,000 +33.33% 7
North East +10 13 £41,750 -7.22% 16
Isle of Man +2 1 - -
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 10 (1.76%) IIS
2 9 (1.58%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (1.23%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.70%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.70%) SAS
5 3 (0.53%) CMS
5 3 (0.53%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.35%) Apache
6 2 (0.35%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.35%) Confluence
6 2 (0.35%) NServiceBus
6 2 (0.35%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.18%) ThingWorx
Applications
1 14 (2.46%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (1.94%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.41%) AutoCAD
3 8 (1.41%) SOLIDWORKS
4 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.35%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 11 (1.94%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.06%) NetSuite
2 6 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.18%) Pegasus Opera
4 1 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 164 (28.87%) Azure
2 102 (17.96%) AWS
3 37 (6.51%) GCP
4 31 (5.46%) Power Platform
5 27 (4.75%) SaaS
6 22 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
7 20 (3.52%) GitHub
8 19 (3.35%) Dynamics 365
8 19 (3.35%) Serverless
9 18 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
9 18 (3.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 14 (2.46%) Entra ID
11 13 (2.29%) AWS Lambda
11 13 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
12 12 (2.11%) Cloud Computing
13 10 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
13 10 (1.76%) Amazon S3
14 9 (1.58%) Amazon EC2
15 8 (1.41%) Google Workspace
16 7 (1.23%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (4.23%) Firewall
2 19 (3.35%) TCP/IP
3 17 (2.99%) DNS
3 17 (2.99%) Network Security
4 15 (2.64%) SAN
5 13 (2.29%) DHCP
6 12 (2.11%) VLAN
7 9 (1.58%) NAS
7 9 (1.58%) VPN
7 9 (1.58%) Wireshark
8 7 (1.23%) VoIP
8 7 (1.23%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (0.88%) Bluetooth
9 5 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (0.88%) Internet
9 5 (0.88%) IP Telephony
9 5 (0.88%) Modbus
9 5 (0.88%) SNMP
9 5 (0.88%) WAN
10 4 (0.70%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.81%) MySQL
3 25 (4.40%) Power BI
4 23 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.17%) NoSQL
6 13 (2.29%) Relational Database
7 12 (2.11%) Data Lake
8 11 (1.94%) Big Data
9 10 (1.76%) Oracle Database
9 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (1.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 9 (1.58%) Hadoop
11 8 (1.41%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.06%) FileMaker
13 5 (0.88%) MongoDB
14 4 (0.70%) Amazon Athena
14 4 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.70%) Azure SQL Database
14 4 (0.70%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.70%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 28 (4.93%) Git
1 28 (4.93%) JIRA
2 8 (1.41%) Jenkins
2 8 (1.41%) Visual Studio
3 7 (1.23%) Burp Suite
3 7 (1.23%) Metasploit
4 5 (0.88%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.88%) GitLab
4 5 (0.88%) Octopus Deploy
5 4 (0.70%) Maven
6 3 (0.53%) AppScan
6 3 (0.53%) Cypress.io
6 3 (0.53%) Selenium
6 3 (0.53%) Visual Studio Code
6 3 (0.53%) Vite
7 2 (0.35%) Artifactory
7 2 (0.35%) CircleCI
7 2 (0.35%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.35%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.35%) WebDriver
General
1 289 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 119 (20.95%) Finance
3 104 (18.31%) Analytical Skills
4 70 (12.32%) Law
5 37 (6.51%) Manufacturing
6 31 (5.46%) Marketing
7 26 (4.58%) Legal
8 24 (4.23%) Electronics
9 21 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (3.52%) Retail
11 18 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
12 12 (2.11%) Aerospace
12 12 (2.11%) Public Sector
12 12 (2.11%) Telecoms
13 11 (1.94%) Aviation
14 10 (1.76%) Advertising
14 10 (1.76%) Back Office
14 10 (1.76%) Presentation Skills
15 9 (1.58%) Banking
Job Titles
1 128 (22.54%) Developer
2 74 (13.03%) Architect
3 57 (10.04%) Senior
4 54 (9.51%) Graduate
5 39 (6.87%) Lead
6 38 (6.69%) Graduate Developer
6 38 (6.69%) IT Graduate
7 30 (5.28%) Analyst
8 27 (4.75%) Technical Support
9 26 (4.58%) Support Engineer
10 23 (4.05%) Software Engineer
11 20 (3.52%) Enterprise Architect
12 19 (3.35%) Software Architect
12 19 (3.35%) Software Developer
13 18 (3.17%) C# Developer
13 18 (3.17%) Salesforce Architect
13 18 (3.17%) Senior Manager
14 17 (2.99%) Junior
15 16 (2.82%) SQL Developer
16 15 (2.64%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (13.91%) HTML
2 73 (12.85%) .NET
3 62 (10.92%) CSS
4 40 (7.04%) ASP.NET
5 37 (6.51%) jQuery
5 37 (6.51%) Middleware
6 36 (6.34%) REST
7 25 (4.40%) React
8 20 (3.52%) PyTorch
8 20 (3.52%) TensorFlow
9 19 (3.35%) SOAP
10 18 (3.17%) Lightning Web Components
11 16 (2.82%) Kafka
12 15 (2.64%) AngularJS
12 15 (2.64%) RESTful
13 14 (2.46%) Hugging Face
13 14 (2.46%) LangChain
14 12 (2.11%) Spring
15 11 (1.94%) XML
16 10 (1.76%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 43 (7.57%) Management Information System
2 32 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
3 27 (4.75%) Self-Motivation
4 19 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 18 (3.17%) Product Ownership
6 15 (2.64%) Security Posture
6 15 (2.64%) Virtual Team
7 14 (2.46%) Algorithms
8 13 (2.29%) Cloud Native
9 11 (1.94%) Robotics
10 9 (1.58%) Data Structures
10 9 (1.58%) IoT
11 8 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
11 8 (1.41%) Data Centre
11 8 (1.41%) Operational Technology
12 7 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (1.23%) SCADA
13 6 (1.06%) Driving Licence
13 6 (1.06%) Fibre Optics
13 6 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.21%) Linux
1 58 (10.21%) Windows
2 11 (1.94%) Windows Server
3 10 (1.76%) Android
4 6 (1.06%) Apple iOS
4 6 (1.06%) Kali Linux
5 5 (0.88%) Mac OS X
5 5 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (0.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (0.70%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.53%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.35%) Unix
8 2 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (97.71%) Computer Science
2 203 (35.74%) Problem-Solving
3 183 (32.22%) Agile
4 136 (23.94%) Continuous Improvement
5 120 (21.13%) Artificial Intelligence
6 114 (20.07%) DevOps
7 95 (16.73%) Machine Learning
8 87 (15.32%) Data Privacy
9 86 (15.14%) CI/CD
10 81 (14.26%) Software Engineering
11 75 (13.20%) Mentoring
12 58 (10.21%) Cybersecurity
13 52 (9.15%) Design Patterns
14 49 (8.63%) OOP
15 48 (8.45%) Stakeholder Management
16 47 (8.27%) Business Intelligence
17 46 (8.10%) Project Management
18 45 (7.92%) OO
18 45 (7.92%) SDLC
19 43 (7.57%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 162 (28.52%) SQL
2 149 (26.23%) C#
3 148 (26.06%) Java
4 136 (23.94%) Python
5 110 (19.37%) JavaScript
6 107 (18.84%) C++
7 89 (15.67%) PHP
8 69 (12.15%) C
9 66 (11.62%) TypeScript
10 56 (9.86%) R
11 53 (9.33%) Rust
12 50 (8.80%) Ruby
13 48 (8.45%) Dart
13 48 (8.45%) MATLAB
14 26 (4.58%) PowerShell
15 18 (3.17%) Apex Code
16 13 (2.29%) Bash
17 12 (2.11%) T-SQL
18 7 (1.23%) Shell Script
19 6 (1.06%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 565 (99.47%) Degree
2 81 (14.26%) Master's Degree
3 55 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 40 (7.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 38 (6.69%) SC Cleared
6 32 (5.63%) BPSS Clearance
7 27 (4.75%) Azure Certification
8 20 (3.52%) Chartered Engineer
9 19 (3.35%) AWS Certification
10 14 (2.46%) CISSP
11 11 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
11 11 (1.94%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.58%) MCSE
12 9 (1.58%) PMI Certification
12 9 (1.58%) PMP
12 9 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
13 8 (1.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 8 (1.41%) DV Cleared
13 8 (1.41%) MBA
14 7 (1.23%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 31 (5.46%) Data Quality
3 22 (3.87%) GDPR
4 18 (3.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 16 (2.82%) NIST
6 15 (2.64%) QA
7 10 (1.76%) IEC 61131
8 9 (1.58%) NCSC
9 7 (1.23%) Accessibility
9 7 (1.23%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 7 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 6 (1.06%) ISO 9001
11 5 (0.88%) Def Stans
11 5 (0.88%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.53%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
12 3 (0.53%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.35%) JTAG
14 1 (0.18%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (3.17%) Active Directory
2 18 (3.17%) Docker
3 12 (2.11%) Firmware
4 9 (1.58%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.06%) vSphere
6 5 (0.88%) Embedded Firmware
7 3 (0.53%) GPFS
7 3 (0.53%) Lustre
7 3 (0.53%) NFS
7 3 (0.53%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.18%) HDFS
8 1 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 23 (4.05%) Grafana
2 21 (3.70%) Prometheus
3 20 (3.52%) Kubernetes
4 19 (3.35%) Terraform
5 8 (1.41%) Ansible
6 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (1.06%) ArcSight ESM
7 6 (1.06%) Nessus
7 6 (1.06%) QRadar
8 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.70%) Nmap
9 2 (0.35%) CASB
9 2 (0.35%) Control-M
9 2 (0.35%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.18%) Kubeflow
10 1 (0.18%) Podman
10 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Satellite
10 1 (0.18%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 115 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 28 (4.93%) Oracle
3 25 (4.40%) Salesforce
4 22 (3.87%) Google
4 22 (3.87%) VMware
5 18 (3.17%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 14 (2.46%) OpenAI
6 14 (2.46%) Splunk
7 13 (2.29%) Cisco
8 12 (2.11%) Veeam
9 11 (1.94%) McAfee
10 7 (1.23%) Remedy
10 7 (1.23%) SAP
11 6 (1.06%) ArcSight
11 6 (1.06%) BMC
11 6 (1.06%) Dell
11 6 (1.06%) Informatica
11 6 (1.06%) LogLogic
12 5 (0.88%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.70%) Fortinet