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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 106 130
Rank change year-on-year -144 +24 +57
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 433 831 1,500
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 2.93% 2.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.55% 6.86% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 349 414 1,190
10th Percentile £25,400 £30,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,625 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £53,844 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.07% +7.69% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £86,310 £82,850 £85,000
UK median annual salary £66,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -1.48%

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 16,969 12,117 18,094
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.63% 42.75% 26.57%
Number of salaries quoted 5,951 5,255 12,146
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% +4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £54,296
% change year-on-year +6.19% +4.06% -7.97%

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 May 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 6 May 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 -35 172 £65,000 +8.33% 99
North of England -128 92 £75,000 +36.36% 46
Yorkshire -85 52 £75,000 +27.66% 14
East of England -43 50 £38,750 -26.89% 27
Midlands -159 49 £43,000 +22.86% 32
South West -61 42 £52,249 -7.92% 23
West Midlands -128 26 £42,500 +21.43% 18
East Midlands -73 23 £55,000 +57.14% 14
North West -90 23 £52,500 -4.55% 21
North East -32 17 £67,500 +22.73% 12
Wales -25 13 £72,500 +8.61% 4
Northern Ireland -41 8 £40,000 -63.64% 1
Scotland -30 7 £75,000 +47.18% 12
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 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.08%) SAS
3 8 (1.85%) Confluence
4 6 (1.39%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.92%) Apache Spark
6 3 (0.69%) Apache
6 3 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.46%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (2.31%) MS Visio
2 6 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.46%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.46%) Weka
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 187 (43.19%) Azure
2 154 (35.57%) AWS
3 48 (11.09%) Serverless
4 42 (9.70%) GCP
5 23 (5.31%) Azure DevOps
6 21 (4.85%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (3.70%) SaaS
8 15 (3.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 14 (3.23%) AWS Lambda
9 14 (3.23%) Power Platform
10 13 (3.00%) Amazon S3
10 13 (3.00%) Azure Data Factory
11 12 (2.77%) Azure Functions
12 10 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
12 10 (2.31%) PaaS
13 9 (2.08%) GitHub
13 9 (2.08%) OneDrive
14 8 (1.85%) Entra ID
15 7 (1.62%) IaaS
16 6 (1.39%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.39%) WAN
2 29 (6.70%) Firewall
3 27 (6.24%) VPN
4 25 (5.77%) LAN
5 20 (4.62%) BGP
6 19 (4.39%) Network Security
7 15 (3.46%) Internet
8 14 (3.23%) VLAN
9 13 (3.00%) DHCP
9 13 (3.00%) DNS
10 12 (2.77%) MPLS
10 12 (2.77%) TCP/IP
11 11 (2.54%) OSPF
11 11 (2.54%) Wireless
12 10 (2.31%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (2.31%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.08%) SNMP
14 8 (1.85%) EIGRP
14 8 (1.85%) WAAS
14 8 (1.85%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (14.32%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.54%) MySQL
3 17 (3.93%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.00%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.77%) Data Warehouse
5 12 (2.77%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.54%) Big Data
6 11 (2.54%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.31%) Metadata
7 10 (2.31%) Power BI
7 10 (2.31%) Spark SQL
8 9 (2.08%) MongoDB
9 5 (1.15%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.92%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.69%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.69%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.69%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.46%) MariaDB
12 2 (0.46%) Redis
12 2 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 29 (6.70%) Git
2 28 (6.47%) JIRA
3 11 (2.54%) Jenkins
4 10 (2.31%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.62%) GitLab
6 5 (1.15%) Selenium
7 4 (0.92%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.92%) Gatling
7 4 (0.92%) JMeter
7 4 (0.92%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.92%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.69%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.69%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.69%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.69%) Polyspace
8 3 (0.69%) Postman
8 3 (0.69%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.69%) VectorCAST
8 3 (0.69%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.46%) Artifactory
General
1 154 (35.57%) Social Skills
2 68 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
3 67 (15.47%) Finance
4 26 (6.00%) Manufacturing
5 21 (4.85%) Public Sector
6 19 (4.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 18 (4.16%) Law
8 17 (3.93%) Retail
9 14 (3.23%) Electronics
9 14 (3.23%) Pharmaceutical
10 12 (2.77%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.08%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.62%) Legal
13 6 (1.39%) Marketing
13 6 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.15%) Advertising
14 5 (1.15%) Police
15 4 (0.92%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.92%) Banking
15 4 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 96 (22.17%) Developer
2 91 (21.02%) Software Engineer
3 63 (14.55%) Senior
4 54 (12.47%) Software Developer
5 52 (12.01%) Graduate
6 49 (11.32%) Architect
7 41 (9.47%) Python Engineer
8 38 (8.78%) Graduate Developer
9 37 (8.55%) Python Software Engineer
10 35 (8.08%) Graduate Software Developer
11 31 (7.16%) C++ Software Engineer
11 31 (7.16%) Lead
12 30 (6.93%) C# Software Engineer
13 25 (5.77%) C# Developer
14 23 (5.31%) C# Software Developer
14 23 (5.31%) Graduate C# Developer
14 23 (5.31%) Graduate C# Software Developer
14 23 (5.31%) SQL Developer
15 21 (4.85%) Data Engineer
15 21 (4.85%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 57 (13.16%) CSS
2 49 (11.32%) .NET
3 39 (9.01%) HTML
4 38 (8.78%) jQuery
5 35 (8.08%) REST
6 34 (7.85%) React
7 25 (5.77%) Middleware
8 22 (5.08%) SOAP
9 21 (4.85%) RESTful
10 20 (4.62%) Node.js
11 13 (3.00%) JSON
11 13 (3.00%) XML
12 12 (2.77%) ARM Templates
12 12 (2.77%) Playwright
13 10 (2.31%) .NET Core
13 10 (2.31%) PySpark
14 9 (2.08%) OAuth
15 8 (1.85%) Vue
16 7 (1.62%) Django
16 7 (1.62%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 26 (6.00%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (5.77%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.85%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.39%) Cloud Native
5 16 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (3.00%) Client/Server
7 12 (2.77%) Onboarding
7 12 (2.77%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.77%) Virtual Team
8 10 (2.31%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.31%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.08%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.62%) Algorithms
10 7 (1.62%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.39%) CMDB
11 6 (1.39%) Driving Licence
11 6 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
11 6 (1.39%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.15%) Robotics
12 5 (1.15%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 51 (11.78%) Linux
2 27 (6.24%) Windows
3 14 (3.23%) Android
4 10 (2.31%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.08%) Unix
6 3 (0.69%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.46%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.46%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.23%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (88.91%) Computer Science
2 130 (30.02%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (26.79%) Software Engineering
4 115 (26.56%) Agile
5 90 (20.79%) CI/CD
6 84 (19.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 80 (18.48%) DevOps
8 59 (13.63%) Mentoring
9 53 (12.24%) Test Automation
10 52 (12.01%) Data Modelling
11 51 (11.78%) AI
12 43 (9.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (9.01%) ITIL
14 35 (8.08%) Containerisation
15 33 (7.62%) Microservices
16 32 (7.39%) Stakeholder Management
17 31 (7.16%) Analytics
17 31 (7.16%) Enterprise Architecture
17 31 (7.16%) MVC
17 31 (7.16%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 170 (39.26%) Python
2 121 (27.94%) SQL
3 113 (26.10%) C#
4 81 (18.71%) Java
5 78 (18.01%) C++
6 70 (16.17%) JavaScript
7 55 (12.70%) PHP
8 40 (9.24%) TypeScript
9 29 (6.70%) PowerShell
10 23 (5.31%) C
11 16 (3.70%) Rust
12 15 (3.46%) Bash
13 7 (1.62%) Scala
14 6 (1.39%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.92%) Bicep
16 3 (0.69%) Go
16 3 (0.69%) VB
17 2 (0.46%) MATLAB
17 2 (0.46%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.46%) VB6
Qualifications
1 433 (100.00%) Degree
2 51 (11.78%) Master's Degree
3 35 (8.08%) Security Cleared
4 27 (6.24%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (5.77%) Microsoft Certification
5 25 (5.77%) SC Cleared
6 23 (5.31%) Azure Certification
7 22 (5.08%) AWS Certification
8 21 (4.85%) CCNP
9 18 (4.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 17 (3.93%) CISSP
11 15 (3.46%) TOGAF Certification
12 14 (3.23%) CCIE
12 14 (3.23%) PhD
13 12 (2.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (2.77%) DV Cleared
14 10 (2.31%) CISM
15 9 (2.08%) ISTQB
16 8 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
16 8 (1.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (12.24%) QA
2 24 (5.54%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.85%) Data Quality
3 21 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 19 (4.39%) NIST
5 17 (3.93%) GDPR
6 11 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (1.85%) PCI DSS
7 8 (1.85%) PMO
8 6 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 4 (0.92%) GxP
9 4 (0.92%) SLA
9 4 (0.92%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.69%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.69%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.69%) ISO 26262
11 2 (0.46%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.46%) Def Stans
12 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 38 (8.78%) Docker
2 31 (7.16%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (4.62%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.70%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.00%) KVM
6 9 (2.08%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.85%) ProxySG
7 8 (1.85%) vSphere
8 4 (0.92%) Firmware
8 4 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 3 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 46 (10.62%) Kubernetes
2 30 (6.93%) Terraform
3 18 (4.16%) Ansible
4 12 (2.77%) Grafana
5 9 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.15%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.92%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.69%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.69%) SCCM
9 2 (0.46%) Control-M
9 2 (0.46%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.46%) Plesk
10 1 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.23%) CASB
10 1 (0.23%) Docker Swarm
10 1 (0.23%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.23%) Packer
Vendors
1 87 (20.09%) Microsoft
2 32 (7.39%) VMware
3 27 (6.24%) Cisco
4 16 (3.70%) Databricks
4 16 (3.70%) Oracle
5 11 (2.54%) CheckPoint
5 11 (2.54%) ServiceNow
6 9 (2.08%) F5
7 8 (1.85%) Blue Coat
7 8 (1.85%) Infoblox
7 8 (1.85%) Motorola
7 8 (1.85%) SolarWinds
7 8 (1.85%) Splunk
8 7 (1.62%) Meraki
8 7 (1.62%) Palo Alto
9 6 (1.39%) Fortinet
9 6 (1.39%) SAP
10 4 (0.92%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.69%) Pega
11 3 (0.69%) Veracode