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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 205 86 134
Rank change year-on-year -119 +48 +74
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 384 1,129 758
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.92% 3.08% 2.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.72% 8.18% 7.56%
Number of salaries quoted 260 469 569
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +13.04%

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 14,114 13,794 10,021
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.75% 37.59% 31.36%
Number of salaries quoted 5,103 5,318 6,676
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,415 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £51,732
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +6.32% +3.46%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -

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 4 January 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 4 January 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 -65 118 £59,000 -13.39% 210
North of England -65 105 £55,000 +10.00% 123
Yorkshire -49 59 £70,000 +40.00% 49
Midlands -128 55 £42,618 +21.76% 117
South West -6 39 £63,750 -12.07% 66
West Midlands -94 38 £42,500 +21.43% 58
East of England -55 36 £30,000 -45.45% 109
North West -44 28 £45,000 -11.54% 54
East Midlands -68 20 £52,000 +48.57% 53
Scotland -16 19 £75,000 +54.64% 33
North East +2 18 £51,500 +2.49% 20
Wales -6 9 £52,500 -3.97% 17
Northern Ireland -30 4 £40,500 -40.00% 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 22 (5.73%) IIS
2 12 (3.13%) Confluence
3 8 (2.08%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (3.13%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.08%) AutoCAD
4 8 (2.08%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.52%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 2 (0.52%) Weka
6 2 (0.52%) Windchill
7 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 150 (39.06%) Azure
2 98 (25.52%) AWS
3 32 (8.33%) Serverless
4 29 (7.55%) Azure DevOps
5 24 (6.25%) SaaS
6 23 (5.99%) GCP
7 22 (5.73%) Power Platform
8 18 (4.69%) GitHub
8 18 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
9 9 (2.34%) Google Workspace
10 8 (2.08%) Amazon S3
10 8 (2.08%) PaaS
11 7 (1.82%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.82%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.82%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.30%) OneDrive
13 4 (1.04%) Firebase
13 4 (1.04%) GitHub Actions
13 4 (1.04%) Power Automate
13 4 (1.04%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 23 (5.99%) Firewall
2 15 (3.91%) TCP/IP
3 14 (3.65%) Network Security
4 13 (3.39%) VLAN
5 11 (2.86%) VPN
6 8 (2.08%) SAN
7 6 (1.56%) LAN
7 6 (1.56%) Modbus
7 6 (1.56%) WAN
8 5 (1.30%) BGP
8 5 (1.30%) DNS
8 5 (1.30%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (1.30%) OSPF
8 5 (1.30%) Wireshark
9 4 (1.04%) Bluetooth
9 4 (1.04%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.04%) DHCP
9 4 (1.04%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.78%) MPLS
10 3 (0.78%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (13.80%) SQL Server
2 28 (7.29%) MySQL
3 17 (4.43%) Power BI
4 12 (3.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.86%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.60%) Data Warehouse
6 10 (2.60%) Metadata
7 9 (2.34%) Relational Database
8 7 (1.82%) Big Data
9 6 (1.56%) Amazon Redshift
9 6 (1.56%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.30%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.30%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.30%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.04%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (1.04%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (1.04%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.04%) Tableau
12 3 (0.78%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 36 (9.38%) JIRA
2 24 (6.25%) Git
3 10 (2.60%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.34%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.08%) GitLab
6 7 (1.82%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.56%) Selenium
8 4 (1.04%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.04%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.04%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.78%) ERwin
9 3 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.52%) JMeter
10 2 (0.52%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.52%) TestRail
11 1 (0.26%) Gatling
General
1 185 (48.18%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.27%) Finance
3 67 (17.45%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (7.55%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.17%) Retail
6 15 (3.91%) Pharmaceutical
7 14 (3.65%) Law
8 13 (3.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (3.13%) Electronics
9 12 (3.13%) Public Sector
10 10 (2.60%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.60%) Marketing
10 10 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
11 9 (2.34%) Advertising
12 7 (1.82%) Banking
13 6 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.56%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.04%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.04%) French Language
Job Titles
1 75 (19.53%) Developer
2 69 (17.97%) Architect
3 49 (12.76%) Software Engineer
4 40 (10.42%) Senior
5 35 (9.11%) Software Architect
6 34 (8.85%) Support Engineer
7 27 (7.03%) Graduate
8 25 (6.51%) Analyst
9 24 (6.25%) IT Engineer
10 20 (5.21%) IT Support
10 20 (5.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 20 (5.21%) Software Developer
11 19 (4.95%) Graduate Developer
12 18 (4.69%) Technical Support
13 16 (4.17%) Applications Architect
14 14 (3.65%) C# Developer
15 13 (3.39%) Full-Stack Developer
15 13 (3.39%) SQL Developer
16 12 (3.13%) Senior Developer
16 12 (3.13%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.58%) .NET
2 51 (13.28%) CSS
3 29 (7.55%) Middleware
3 29 (7.55%) React
4 27 (7.03%) ASP.NET
5 26 (6.77%) REST
6 23 (5.99%) HTML
7 20 (5.21%) .NET Framework
8 19 (4.95%) jQuery
8 19 (4.95%) WinForms
9 12 (3.13%) Entity Framework
9 12 (3.13%) Vue
9 12 (3.13%) WPF
10 11 (2.86%) Node.js
10 11 (2.86%) Playwright
11 10 (2.60%) RESTful
11 10 (2.60%) SOAP
12 9 (2.34%) Blazor
13 8 (2.08%) AngularJS
14 7 (1.82%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 36 (9.38%) Management Information System
2 35 (9.11%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (5.99%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.69%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (3.65%) Driving Licence
6 13 (3.39%) Operational Technology
7 10 (2.60%) Product Ownership
8 9 (2.34%) Data Structures
9 8 (2.08%) Data Centre
9 8 (2.08%) SCADA
10 7 (1.82%) Analytical Mindset
10 7 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.56%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.30%) Algorithms
12 5 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.30%) IoT
12 5 (1.30%) Life Science
12 5 (1.30%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.30%) Mobile App
12 5 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 59 (15.36%) Windows
2 57 (14.84%) Linux
3 11 (2.86%) Android
4 9 (2.34%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.82%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.04%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.04%) Mac OS X
6 4 (1.04%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.78%) Unix
8 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 369 (96.09%) Computer Science
2 135 (35.16%) Problem-Solving
3 125 (32.55%) Agile
4 100 (26.04%) DevOps
5 97 (25.26%) Continuous Improvement
6 75 (19.53%) Mentoring
7 68 (17.71%) Software Engineering
8 67 (17.45%) CI/CD
9 52 (13.54%) AI
10 49 (12.76%) SDLC
11 46 (11.98%) Data Modelling
11 46 (11.98%) ITIL
12 44 (11.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 39 (10.16%) Analytics
13 39 (10.16%) Microservices
14 38 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.11%) Application Security
15 35 (9.11%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (9.11%) Migration
16 34 (8.85%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 99 (25.78%) C#
2 97 (25.26%) Python
3 96 (25.00%) Java
4 94 (24.48%) SQL
5 63 (16.41%) JavaScript
6 47 (12.24%) C++
7 35 (9.11%) TypeScript
8 32 (8.33%) PHP
9 17 (4.43%) C
10 16 (4.17%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.91%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.60%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.60%) R
13 9 (2.34%) Bash
14 6 (1.56%) Rust
15 5 (1.30%) Delphi
16 4 (1.04%) Go
16 4 (1.04%) Julia
17 3 (0.78%) VBA
18 2 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 381 (99.22%) Degree
2 47 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (11.72%) Master's Degree
4 41 (10.68%) Security Cleared
5 36 (9.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 35 (9.11%) AWS Certification
6 35 (9.11%) Azure Certification
7 30 (7.81%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (7.55%) TOGAF Certification
9 27 (7.03%) SC Cleared
10 22 (5.73%) Chartered Engineer
11 12 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (2.86%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.60%) DV Cleared
14 9 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
14 9 (2.34%) CISSP
15 8 (2.08%) CISM
15 8 (2.08%) MCP
16 7 (1.82%) CCNP
17 6 (1.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.73%) ISO/IEC 12207
1 22 (5.73%) QA
2 19 (4.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 15 (3.91%) NIST
4 14 (3.65%) Data Quality
5 10 (2.60%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.60%) IEC 61131
6 8 (2.08%) NCSC
7 7 (1.82%) GDPR
8 5 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.30%) GxP
9 4 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.78%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 3 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.52%) ECSS
11 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.52%) PCI DSS
11 2 (0.52%) PMO
System Software
1 32 (8.33%) Docker
2 14 (3.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.39%) Active Directory
4 8 (2.08%) vSphere
5 6 (1.56%) Firmware
5 6 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
6 2 (0.52%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (8.07%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.43%) Terraform
3 11 (2.86%) Grafana
3 11 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.60%) Control-M
5 9 (2.34%) Ansible
6 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.30%) SCCM
8 4 (1.04%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.04%) Nessus
8 4 (1.04%) Nmap
8 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.78%) Nagios
9 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.52%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.26%) Puppet
11 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 112 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.95%) Oracle
3 15 (3.91%) VMware
4 13 (3.39%) Google
5 12 (3.13%) Cisco
5 12 (3.13%) Sage
5 12 (3.13%) SAP
5 12 (3.13%) Xamarin
6 10 (2.60%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.34%) Palo Alto
8 8 (2.08%) Dell
8 8 (2.08%) Splunk
9 7 (1.82%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.56%) ServiceNow
11 5 (1.30%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.30%) Syncfusion
11 5 (1.30%) Telerik
11 5 (1.30%) Veeam
11 5 (1.30%) Zoho
12 4 (1.04%) CheckPoint