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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 245 86 129
Rank change year-on-year -159 +43 +63
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 380 916 1,327
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.71% 3.32% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.50% 7.74% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 277 410 1,033
10th Percentile £29,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.49% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

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 15,173 11,839 16,318
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.35% 42.93% 27.58%
Number of salaries quoted 5,494 5,212 11,344
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,750 £35,623
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,117 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.03% +5.51% -4.35%

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 17 March 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 17 March 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 -41 146 £65,000 +8.33% 87
North of England -118 88 £57,500 +4.55% 42
Yorkshire -79 48 £70,000 +51.69% 17
Midlands -154 48 £45,000 +28.57% 36
South West -39 40 £62,500 -7.41% 22
East of England -49 38 £56,250 +6.13% 30
West Midlands -124 27 £42,750 +22.14% 17
North East -19 23 £51,500 -8.85% 2
East Midlands -86 22 £55,000 +57.14% 19
North West -86 17 £60,000 +5.26% 23
Scotland -30 9 £75,000 +85.19% 11
Northern Ireland -39 9 £40,000 -48.39% 3
Wales -28 3 £56,250 +2.89% 9
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 16 (4.21%) IIS
2 12 (3.16%) Confluence
3 10 (2.63%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.11%) SAS
5 5 (1.32%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.63%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) Weka
3 2 (0.53%) Windchill
4 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 161 (42.37%) Azure
2 124 (32.63%) AWS
3 43 (11.32%) Serverless
4 40 (10.53%) GCP
5 32 (8.42%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 18 (4.74%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.68%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.42%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.16%) PaaS
10 12 (3.16%) SaaS
11 10 (2.63%) GitHub
12 6 (1.58%) Azure Logic Apps
12 6 (1.58%) Entra ID
12 6 (1.58%) GitHub Actions
12 6 (1.58%) Google Workspace
12 6 (1.58%) OneDrive
12 6 (1.58%) Power Automate
13 5 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
13 5 (1.32%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.32%) Firewall
2 16 (4.21%) VPN
2 16 (4.21%) WAN
3 15 (3.95%) LAN
3 15 (3.95%) Network Security
3 15 (3.95%) VLAN
4 12 (3.16%) BGP
5 11 (2.89%) OSPF
5 11 (2.89%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.63%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (2.63%) Wireless
7 9 (2.37%) Internet
7 9 (2.37%) SNMP
8 8 (2.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (2.11%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (2.11%) EIGRP
8 8 (2.11%) WAAS
8 8 (2.11%) Wireless Security
9 5 (1.32%) MPLS
9 5 (1.32%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (12.37%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.05%) MySQL
3 13 (3.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 13 (3.42%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (3.42%) Power BI
4 12 (3.16%) Big Data
4 12 (3.16%) Metadata
4 12 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 10 (2.63%) NoSQL
6 8 (2.11%) MongoDB
7 7 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
7 7 (1.84%) Relational Database
8 6 (1.58%) Data Mining
9 5 (1.32%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (1.05%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.05%) Tableau
11 3 (0.79%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.79%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.53%) GIS
Development Applications
1 40 (10.53%) JIRA
2 26 (6.84%) Git
3 11 (2.89%) Bitbucket
4 10 (2.63%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.84%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.32%) GitLab
7 3 (0.79%) ERwin
7 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.79%) Selenium
8 2 (0.53%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.53%) JMeter
8 2 (0.53%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.53%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (0.53%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.53%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.53%) TestRail
8 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.53%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 159 (41.84%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.16%) Finance
3 56 (14.74%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.37%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.74%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (4.74%) Retail
6 14 (3.68%) Law
7 12 (3.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.16%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.89%) Electronics
9 9 (2.37%) Advertising
10 7 (1.84%) Marketing
11 6 (1.58%) Banking
11 6 (1.58%) Legal
11 6 (1.58%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.05%) Dutch Language
13 4 (1.05%) French Language
13 4 (1.05%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (19.47%) Software Engineer
2 68 (17.89%) Developer
3 55 (14.47%) Architect
4 50 (13.16%) Senior
5 28 (7.37%) Graduate
5 28 (7.37%) Support Engineer
6 25 (6.58%) Software Architect
7 24 (6.32%) Analyst
7 24 (6.32%) IT Support
8 23 (6.05%) Software Developer
9 22 (5.79%) Lead
10 21 (5.53%) IT Engineer
10 21 (5.53%) Python Engineer
11 20 (5.26%) IT Support Engineer
12 19 (5.00%) Python Software Engineer
13 16 (4.21%) Full-Stack Developer
13 16 (4.21%) SQL Developer
14 15 (3.95%) Applications Architect
14 15 (3.95%) C# Developer
15 14 (3.68%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.63%) CSS
2 42 (11.05%) .NET
3 37 (9.74%) React
4 35 (9.21%) HTML
5 28 (7.37%) REST
6 27 (7.11%) Middleware
7 21 (5.53%) jQuery
7 21 (5.53%) Node.js
8 19 (5.00%) .NET Framework
9 17 (4.47%) WinForms
10 15 (3.95%) SOAP
11 14 (3.68%) ASP.NET
12 13 (3.42%) Entity Framework
13 12 (3.16%) Playwright
14 10 (2.63%) RESTful
14 10 (2.63%) Vue
15 8 (2.11%) JSON
15 8 (2.11%) XML
16 7 (1.84%) .NET Core
16 7 (1.84%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 33 (8.68%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.84%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (4.47%) Distributed Systems
4 12 (3.16%) Client/Server
4 12 (3.16%) Cloud Native
4 12 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 12 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 10 (2.63%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (2.37%) Product Ownership
7 8 (2.11%) Data Structures
7 8 (2.11%) Operational Technology
8 7 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.84%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.84%) Renewable Energy
9 6 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 6 (1.58%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
11 4 (1.05%) SCADA
12 3 (0.79%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.47%) Linux
2 46 (12.11%) Windows
3 15 (3.95%) Android
4 9 (2.37%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.32%) Unix
6 3 (0.79%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (94.21%) Computer Science
2 124 (32.63%) Problem-Solving
3 106 (27.89%) Agile
4 97 (25.53%) Software Engineering
5 95 (25.00%) DevOps
6 84 (22.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (17.89%) CI/CD
8 61 (16.05%) Mentoring
9 49 (12.89%) Data Modelling
10 43 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 41 (10.79%) SDLC
11 41 (10.79%) Test Automation
12 39 (10.26%) AI
13 38 (10.00%) Microservices
14 37 (9.74%) ITIL
15 34 (8.95%) Analytics
15 34 (8.95%) Collaborative Culture
15 34 (8.95%) Enterprise Architecture
15 34 (8.95%) Roadmaps
16 33 (8.68%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 119 (31.32%) Python
2 103 (27.11%) SQL
3 80 (21.05%) C#
4 72 (18.95%) JavaScript
5 71 (18.68%) Java
6 50 (13.16%) C++
7 38 (10.00%) TypeScript
8 28 (7.37%) PHP
9 24 (6.32%) PowerShell
10 23 (6.05%) C
11 14 (3.68%) Rust
11 14 (3.68%) T-SQL
12 9 (2.37%) PL/SQL
13 8 (2.11%) Bash
14 5 (1.32%) Delphi
15 4 (1.05%) Bicep
15 4 (1.05%) R
16 3 (0.79%) Scala
17 2 (0.53%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.53%) VB6
Qualifications
1 380 (100.00%) Degree
2 47 (12.37%) Master's Degree
3 33 (8.68%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (8.16%) AWS Certification
5 29 (7.63%) Azure Certification
6 26 (6.84%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (6.58%) TOGAF Certification
8 23 (6.05%) Security Cleared
9 21 (5.53%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (4.47%) SC Cleared
11 16 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (3.68%) CCNP
13 13 (3.42%) Chartered Engineer
13 13 (3.42%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (3.16%) CISSP
15 11 (2.89%) CCIE
16 10 (2.63%) ISTQB
17 9 (2.37%) CISM
17 9 (2.37%) PMI Certification
18 8 (2.11%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.74%) QA
2 22 (5.79%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.26%) NIST
4 19 (5.00%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (3.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 9 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.37%) GDPR
7 8 (2.11%) PMO
8 7 (1.84%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.58%) NCSC
10 5 (1.32%) GxP
11 3 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.79%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.53%) ECSS
12 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.26%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.26%) SLA
13 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 35 (9.21%) Docker
2 18 (4.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.68%) Hyper-V
4 12 (3.16%) KVM
5 11 (2.89%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.11%) ProxySG
7 4 (1.05%) vSphere
8 2 (0.53%) Firmware
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.26%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (9.74%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.26%) Terraform
3 15 (3.95%) Grafana
4 12 (3.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (2.63%) Ansible
5 10 (2.63%) Control-M
6 8 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.32%) SCCM
8 4 (1.05%) Nagios
9 3 (0.79%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.79%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.53%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.26%) Graylog
11 1 (0.26%) Nessus
11 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.26%) Nmap
11 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 84 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 21 (5.53%) Cisco
3 19 (5.00%) VMware
4 15 (3.95%) Oracle
5 14 (3.68%) ServiceNow
6 12 (3.16%) Sage
6 12 (3.16%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.89%) CheckPoint
8 10 (2.63%) SAP
9 9 (2.37%) F5
10 8 (2.11%) Blue Coat
10 8 (2.11%) Google
10 8 (2.11%) Infoblox
10 8 (2.11%) Motorola
10 8 (2.11%) SolarWinds
11 7 (1.84%) Fortinet
12 6 (1.58%) Palo Alto
13 5 (1.32%) Meraki
13 5 (1.32%) Splunk
13 5 (1.32%) Zoho