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

6 months to
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 234 179 101
Rank change year-on-year -55 -78 +7
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 616 538 1,178
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 1.55% 2.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.37% 4.19% 8.12%
Number of salaries quoted 443 311 639
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,700 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 14,111 12,833 14,512
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.32% 36.94% 28.02%
Number of salaries quoted 8,047 4,940 6,040
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +18.95% -9.52% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £69,575
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 7 October 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 7 October 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 +21 254 £65,000 +18.18% 209
North of England -47 127 £62,500 +13.64% 135
Midlands -45 79 £45,000 +5.88% 75
South West -29 77 £42,500 -10.53% 81
North West -21 56 £57,500 +4.55% 68
East of England -47 53 £47,500 +7.95% 88
East Midlands -17 43 £25,000 -28.57% 22
Yorkshire -40 38 £62,500 +13.64% 43
West Midlands -69 36 £55,000 +29.41% 53
North East -54 33 £110,000 +113.59% 25
Wales -63 16 £35,000 -41.67% 16
Scotland -16 5 £82,500 +46.67% 82
Northern Ireland -89 5 £47,500 -32.86% 62
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 21 (3.41%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (0.97%) Confluence
5 4 (0.65%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.65%) CMS
5 4 (0.65%) WordPress
6 3 (0.49%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.32%) IIS
7 2 (0.32%) Luigi
7 2 (0.32%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.16%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.16%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.14%) EPLAN
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.32%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 17 (2.76%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.32%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.32%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.16%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.16%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 197 (31.98%) Azure
2 155 (25.16%) AWS
3 46 (7.47%) SaaS
4 44 (7.14%) GCP
5 33 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 31 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
7 27 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
8 24 (3.90%) GitHub
9 23 (3.73%) Power Platform
10 18 (2.92%) Snowflake
11 14 (2.27%) IaaS
11 14 (2.27%) Serverless
12 12 (1.95%) Azure Functions
12 12 (1.95%) PaaS
13 11 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
13 11 (1.79%) OneDrive
14 10 (1.62%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.62%) Entra ID
15 9 (1.46%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.46%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 29 (4.71%) Internet
2 18 (2.92%) VPN
3 16 (2.60%) Firewall
4 13 (2.11%) DNS
5 12 (1.95%) DHCP
6 11 (1.79%) Wireless
7 10 (1.62%) TCP/IP
7 10 (1.62%) WAN
8 9 (1.46%) Network Security
8 9 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
9 8 (1.30%) LAN
10 7 (1.14%) Profibus
11 6 (0.97%) HTTP
11 6 (0.97%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (0.97%) MQTT
11 6 (0.97%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.65%) BGP
12 4 (0.65%) Bluetooth
12 4 (0.65%) VoIP
13 3 (0.49%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (15.75%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (3.57%) Redis
3 22 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 19 (3.08%) NoSQL
5 16 (2.60%) MySQL
6 15 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.95%) Metadata
8 11 (1.79%) Power BI
8 11 (1.79%) Spark SQL
9 7 (1.14%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.97%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
11 5 (0.81%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.81%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.81%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.65%) Apache Cassandra
13 3 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.49%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 92 (14.94%) Git
2 33 (5.36%) GitLab
3 32 (5.19%) Eclipse
4 31 (5.03%) Subversion
5 25 (4.06%) Jenkins
6 23 (3.73%) JIRA
6 23 (3.73%) JUnit
7 6 (0.97%) Burp Suite
7 6 (0.97%) Cucumber
7 6 (0.97%) GDB
7 6 (0.97%) Postman
8 5 (0.81%) Eclipse RCP
8 5 (0.81%) JMeter
9 4 (0.65%) Cypress.io
9 4 (0.65%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.65%) Selenium
9 4 (0.65%) Zephyr
10 3 (0.49%) Claude Code
10 3 (0.49%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.49%) SonarQube
General
1 229 (37.18%) Social Skills
2 97 (15.75%) Analytical Skills
3 77 (12.50%) Finance
4 52 (8.44%) Manufacturing
5 33 (5.36%) Organisational Skills
5 33 (5.36%) Retail
6 29 (4.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 28 (4.55%) Aerospace
8 26 (4.22%) Electronics
9 24 (3.90%) Pharmaceutical
10 21 (3.41%) Law
11 17 (2.76%) Public Sector
12 16 (2.60%) Legal
13 11 (1.79%) Banking
14 9 (1.46%) Marketing
14 9 (1.46%) Publishing
14 9 (1.46%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.30%) Advertising
16 7 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
17 6 (0.97%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 182 (29.55%) Developer
2 118 (19.16%) Software Engineer
3 77 (12.50%) Senior
4 67 (10.88%) Software Developer
5 48 (7.79%) C# Software Engineer
6 47 (7.63%) Graduate
7 46 (7.47%) Lead
8 43 (6.98%) Architect
8 43 (6.98%) C++ Software Engineer
9 35 (5.68%) Analyst
9 35 (5.68%) Java Developer
9 35 (5.68%) Python Engineer
10 33 (5.36%) Junior
11 32 (5.19%) Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (5.19%) Python Software Engineer
12 31 (5.03%) Web Developer
13 26 (4.22%) AWS Engineer
13 26 (4.22%) Consultant
13 26 (4.22%) Junior Developer
14 25 (4.06%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (16.56%) .NET
2 73 (11.85%) React
3 59 (9.58%) RESTful
4 57 (9.25%) CSS
5 48 (7.79%) HTML
6 39 (6.33%) jQuery
7 36 (5.84%) REST
8 33 (5.36%) Web Services
9 32 (5.19%) Vue
10 30 (4.87%) Node.js
11 28 (4.55%) Jakarta EE
12 27 (4.38%) Struts
13 26 (4.22%) Terraform
14 18 (2.92%) Kafka
14 18 (2.92%) PySpark
15 17 (2.76%) .NET Core
16 15 (2.44%) ARM Templates
17 12 (1.95%) Yocto
18 11 (1.79%) ASP.NET
19 10 (1.62%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 61 (9.90%) Management Information System
2 37 (6.01%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.06%) Algorithms
3 25 (4.06%) Distributed Computing
4 20 (3.25%) Onboarding
5 19 (3.08%) Distributed Systems
6 18 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
7 17 (2.76%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.76%) IoT
7 17 (2.76%) Life Science
7 17 (2.76%) Robotics
8 16 (2.60%) Product Ownership
9 15 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
10 12 (1.95%) Device Driver
10 12 (1.95%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.62%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.62%) SCADA
12 8 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
12 8 (1.30%) Data Centre
12 8 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 85 (13.80%) Linux
2 30 (4.87%) Windows
3 10 (1.62%) Unix
4 8 (1.30%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (1.14%) Debian
5 7 (1.14%) Windows Server
6 5 (0.81%) Android
6 5 (0.81%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.65%) Robot Operating System
7 4 (0.65%) Windows 10
8 3 (0.49%) Apple iOS
8 3 (0.49%) Gentoo
8 3 (0.49%) Kali Linux
8 3 (0.49%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.32%) Solaris
9 2 (0.32%) VMS
10 1 (0.16%) CentOS
10 1 (0.16%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 565 (91.72%) Computer Science
2 214 (34.74%) Problem-Solving
3 203 (32.95%) Software Engineering
4 166 (26.95%) AI
5 162 (26.30%) CI/CD
6 146 (23.70%) Agile
7 142 (23.05%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (16.72%) DevOps
9 97 (15.75%) Mentoring
10 80 (12.99%) Full-Stack Development
11 66 (10.71%) Stakeholder Management
12 63 (10.23%) Containerisation
13 62 (10.06%) Test Automation
14 59 (9.58%) SDLC
15 56 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
16 55 (8.93%) Data Modelling
16 55 (8.93%) Microservices
17 54 (8.77%) Roadmaps
18 53 (8.60%) Design Patterns
19 49 (7.95%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 184 (29.87%) Python
2 134 (21.75%) JavaScript
3 130 (21.10%) C#
4 119 (19.32%) C++
5 115 (18.67%) SQL
6 108 (17.53%) Java
7 55 (8.93%) TypeScript
8 53 (8.60%) PHP
9 30 (4.87%) PowerShell
10 29 (4.71%) Rust
11 25 (4.06%) Perl
12 24 (3.90%) C
13 20 (3.25%) Go
14 16 (2.60%) Bash
15 9 (1.46%) Bicep
16 7 (1.14%) Ladder Logic
17 6 (0.97%) Embedded C
17 6 (0.97%) Embedded C++
18 4 (0.65%) Scala
18 4 (0.65%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 616 (100.00%) Degree
2 62 (10.06%) Master's Degree
3 61 (9.90%) Security Cleared
4 40 (6.49%) SC Cleared
5 22 (3.57%) DV Cleared
6 16 (2.60%) CISSP
7 13 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
8 12 (1.95%) PhD
9 11 (1.79%) DBS Check
10 10 (1.62%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.46%) ISTQB
12 8 (1.30%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.30%) CCNP
12 8 (1.30%) CEH
13 7 (1.14%) Microsoft Certification
14 5 (0.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.81%) CCNA
14 5 (0.81%) CompTIA Security+
14 5 (0.81%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (7.79%) Accessibility
2 47 (7.63%) QA
3 28 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.90%) GDPR
4 24 (3.90%) NIST
5 13 (2.11%) Data Quality
6 11 (1.79%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.46%) GxP
8 8 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (1.14%) IEC 61131
10 6 (0.97%) JTAG
10 6 (0.97%) SOC 2
11 5 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
12 4 (0.65%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 3 (0.49%) GRC
13 3 (0.49%) NIST 800
14 2 (0.32%) IEC 61508
14 2 (0.32%) NCSC
14 2 (0.32%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (11.53%) Docker
2 18 (2.92%) Active Directory
3 11 (1.79%) Firmware
4 10 (1.62%) Virtual Desktop
4 10 (1.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (0.81%) Embedded Firmware
6 4 (0.65%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.49%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.32%) vSphere
9 1 (0.16%) Ceph
9 1 (0.16%) KVM
9 1 (0.16%) Lustre
9 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.16%) NFS
9 1 (0.16%) Samba
9 1 (0.16%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 1 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.16%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 61 (9.90%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.30%) Grafana
2 8 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
3 7 (1.14%) Ansible
4 3 (0.49%) HP Fortify
4 3 (0.49%) Kibana
4 3 (0.49%) Nmap
4 3 (0.49%) Podman
4 3 (0.49%) Prometheus
4 3 (0.49%) SCCM
5 2 (0.32%) Failover Clustering
5 2 (0.32%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.32%) MaaS360
5 2 (0.32%) Plesk
6 1 (0.16%) Argo
6 1 (0.16%) CloudHub
6 1 (0.16%) Oracle ZFS
6 1 (0.16%) Packer
6 1 (0.16%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 130 (21.10%) Microsoft
2 21 (3.41%) Oracle
3 17 (2.76%) Databricks
4 13 (2.11%) Cisco
5 12 (1.95%) VMware
6 8 (1.30%) Google
6 8 (1.30%) Meraki
7 7 (1.14%) Siemens
8 5 (0.81%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.65%) Adobe
9 4 (0.65%) Apple
9 4 (0.65%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.65%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.65%) Splunk
10 3 (0.49%) Foundry
10 3 (0.49%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.49%) Sage
10 3 (0.49%) SAP
10 3 (0.49%) Thales
10 3 (0.49%) Veracode