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

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 233 171 102
Rank change year-on-year -62 -69 +20
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 594 630 1,358
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 1.82% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.28% 4.97% 8.94%
Number of salaries quoted 474 376 904
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -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 13,867 12,680 15,191
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.73% 36.53% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7,226 5,290 8,107
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,400 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 August 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 19 August 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 -3 238 £65,000 +8.33% 123
North of England -44 122 £62,500 +13.64% 64
South West -23 74 £42,500 -10.53% 41
Midlands -67 69 £40,000 -5.88% 50
East of England -40 65 £46,250 +2.78% 58
North West -51 46 £40,000 -27.27% 36
Yorkshire -15 41 £75,000 +25.00% 13
East Midlands -11 38 £26,000 -25.71% 30
North East -35 35 £110,000 +285.96% 16
West Midlands -66 31 £47,500 +11.76% 20
Wales -50 16 £72,500 +20.83% 9
Scotland -26 6 £82,500 +57.14% 53
Northern Ireland -94 4 £40,000 -43.46% 11
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 14 (2.36%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.35%) SAS
3 6 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) Confluence
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.67%) WordPress
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
5 2 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.34%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 217 (36.53%) Azure
2 167 (28.11%) AWS
3 52 (8.75%) GCP
4 39 (6.57%) SaaS
5 30 (5.05%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.71%) Serverless
7 25 (4.21%) Microsoft 365
8 24 (4.04%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.03%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.69%) Azure Functions
11 15 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (2.19%) GitHub
12 13 (2.19%) IaaS
13 11 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.85%) PaaS
14 10 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (1.68%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.52%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.05%) Internet
2 26 (4.38%) Firewall
3 25 (4.21%) WAN
4 24 (4.04%) VPN
5 18 (3.03%) LAN
6 17 (2.86%) DHCP
6 17 (2.86%) DNS
7 14 (2.36%) Network Security
7 14 (2.36%) Wireless
8 12 (2.02%) BGP
9 11 (1.85%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.52%) MPLS
12 8 (1.35%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.35%) VoIP
13 7 (1.18%) VLAN
14 6 (1.01%) HTTP
14 6 (1.01%) MQTT
14 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
15 4 (0.67%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (17.68%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 23 (3.87%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (3.70%) Redis
5 20 (3.37%) MySQL
6 17 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (2.36%) NoSQL
8 12 (2.02%) Big Data
8 12 (2.02%) Power BI
8 12 (2.02%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.68%) Metadata
10 8 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 6 (1.01%) ClickHouse
12 5 (0.84%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
14 3 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
14 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.51%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 81 (13.64%) Git
2 31 (5.22%) Eclipse
3 30 (5.05%) JIRA
4 29 (4.88%) Subversion
5 22 (3.70%) JUnit
6 20 (3.37%) GitLab
6 20 (3.37%) Jenkins
7 7 (1.18%) Burp Suite
7 7 (1.18%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.01%) GDB
8 6 (1.01%) JMeter
9 5 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
9 5 (0.84%) Selenium
10 4 (0.67%) Gatling
10 4 (0.67%) HP UFT
10 4 (0.67%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.67%) REST Assured
10 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 207 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 82 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (13.47%) Finance
4 36 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 32 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.71%) Law
7 24 (4.04%) Public Sector
8 21 (3.54%) Aerospace
9 20 (3.37%) Electronics
9 20 (3.37%) Pharmaceutical
10 18 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
11 15 (2.53%) Retail
12 14 (2.36%) Legal
13 11 (1.85%) Marketing
14 9 (1.52%) Banking
14 9 (1.52%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.35%) Advertising
16 7 (1.18%) Automotive
17 5 (0.84%) Military
17 5 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 188 (31.65%) Developer
2 130 (21.89%) Software Engineer
3 80 (13.47%) Software Developer
4 59 (9.93%) Graduate
5 55 (9.26%) Senior
6 53 (8.92%) Lead
7 48 (8.08%) C# Software Engineer
7 48 (8.08%) C++ Software Engineer
8 46 (7.74%) Python Engineer
9 42 (7.07%) Architect
10 40 (6.73%) Python Software Engineer
11 38 (6.40%) Graduate Developer
12 36 (6.06%) Java Developer
13 33 (5.56%) Graduate Software Developer
14 32 (5.39%) Web Developer
15 30 (5.05%) Full-Stack Developer
16 26 (4.38%) C# Developer
16 26 (4.38%) Junior
17 25 (4.21%) Junior Developer
18 24 (4.04%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (16.33%) .NET
2 66 (11.11%) React
3 64 (10.77%) CSS
4 54 (9.09%) RESTful
5 50 (8.42%) jQuery
6 46 (7.74%) HTML
7 36 (6.06%) REST
8 32 (5.39%) Vue
9 31 (5.22%) Web Services
10 28 (4.71%) Node.js
11 27 (4.55%) Jakarta EE
12 26 (4.38%) Struts
13 19 (3.20%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.86%) Kafka
15 16 (2.69%) ARM Templates
15 16 (2.69%) PySpark
16 13 (2.19%) JSON
17 11 (1.85%) AngularJS
17 11 (1.85%) ASP.NET
17 11 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 42 (7.07%) Management Information System
2 39 (6.57%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.70%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.37%) Distributed Computing
5 19 (3.20%) Algorithms
6 17 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
7 15 (2.53%) Data Centre
7 15 (2.53%) IoT
7 15 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 15 (2.53%) Product Ownership
7 15 (2.53%) Virtual Team
8 14 (2.36%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.19%) Life Science
10 12 (2.02%) Security Posture
10 12 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.85%) Robotics
12 10 (1.68%) AI Agents
12 10 (1.68%) Device Driver
13 8 (1.35%) Client/Server
13 8 (1.35%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.31%) Linux
2 33 (5.56%) Windows
3 14 (2.36%) Unix
4 11 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.67%) Debian
7 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.51%) Gentoo
9 2 (0.34%) Android
9 2 (0.34%) Robot Operating System
9 2 (0.34%) Solaris
9 2 (0.34%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 540 (90.91%) Computer Science
2 196 (33.00%) Software Engineering
3 193 (32.49%) Problem-Solving
4 154 (25.93%) CI/CD
5 149 (25.08%) Agile
6 139 (23.40%) AI
7 122 (20.54%) Continuous Improvement
8 110 (18.52%) DevOps
9 77 (12.96%) Mentoring
10 74 (12.46%) Test Automation
11 72 (12.12%) Full-Stack Development
12 55 (9.26%) Containerisation
13 54 (9.09%) SDLC
14 52 (8.75%) Microservices
15 50 (8.42%) Data Modelling
15 50 (8.42%) Web Development
16 49 (8.25%) Scrum
17 47 (7.91%) Clean Code
18 46 (7.74%) Machine Learning
19 45 (7.58%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 196 (33.00%) Python
2 144 (24.24%) C#
3 135 (22.73%) C++
4 125 (21.04%) JavaScript
4 125 (21.04%) SQL
5 102 (17.17%) Java
6 68 (11.45%) PHP
7 54 (9.09%) TypeScript
8 38 (6.40%) PowerShell
9 35 (5.89%) Rust
10 29 (4.88%) C
11 24 (4.04%) Perl
12 17 (2.86%) Go
13 16 (2.69%) Bash
14 7 (1.18%) Bicep
15 5 (0.84%) Scala
16 4 (0.67%) Delphi
16 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.67%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 594 (100.00%) Degree
2 72 (12.12%) Master's Degree
3 56 (9.43%) Security Cleared
4 36 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 22 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (2.86%) PhD
8 14 (2.36%) CCNP
9 13 (2.19%) CISSP
10 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 11 (1.85%) ISTQB
11 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.68%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.52%) CCNA
13 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.18%) CCIE
15 5 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.67%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.75%) QA
2 51 (8.59%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (3.54%) GDPR
4 21 (3.54%) NIST
5 16 (2.69%) Data Quality
6 10 (1.68%) PCI DSS
7 7 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 7 (1.18%) SOC 2
8 6 (1.01%) JTAG
9 5 (0.84%) SLA
10 4 (0.67%) GxP
10 4 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.51%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.34%) NCSC
12 2 (0.34%) PMO
13 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 66 (11.11%) Docker
2 23 (3.87%) Active Directory
2 23 (3.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (1.68%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.52%) Firmware
4 9 (1.52%) VMware NSX
5 7 (1.18%) KVM
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
9 2 (0.34%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (11.45%) Kubernetes
2 33 (5.56%) Terraform
3 14 (2.36%) Ansible
4 11 (1.85%) Grafana
5 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
6 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.51%) Nmap
7 3 (0.51%) Plesk
7 3 (0.51%) Podman
7 3 (0.51%) SCCM
8 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) MaaS360
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 104 (17.51%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.21%) Cisco
3 24 (4.04%) VMware
4 22 (3.70%) Databricks
5 15 (2.53%) Oracle
6 13 (2.19%) Meraki
7 9 (1.52%) Splunk
8 7 (1.18%) Google
9 4 (0.67%) Adobe
9 4 (0.67%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.67%) Veracode
10 3 (0.51%) Apple
10 3 (0.51%) CheckPoint
10 3 (0.51%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.51%) Sage
11 2 (0.34%) Blue Coat
11 2 (0.34%) Infor
11 2 (0.34%) SolarWinds