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

6 months to
30 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 166 109
Rank change year-on-year -66 -57 +29
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 570 676 1,405
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.77% 1.98% 2.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.16% 5.34% 8.96%
Number of salaries quoted 470 402 980
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,813 £34,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,625 £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 13,689 12,650 15,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.45% 37.03% 25.08%
Number of salaries quoted 6,899 5,299 9,153
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,500 £34,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £89,500 £80,000 £80,000
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 30 July 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 30 July 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 -14 238 £65,000 +13.04% 88
North of England -52 124 £62,500 +13.64% 42
South West -55 66 £41,250 -17.50% 27
East of England -47 59 £41,250 -17.50% 28
Midlands -79 58 £40,000 -5.88% 45
North West -50 47 £40,000 -30.43% 28
Yorkshire -22 41 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North East -30 36 £98,750 +269.16% 5
East Midlands -17 31 £26,000 -25.71% 27
West Midlands -78 27 £41,500 -2.35% 18
Wales -51 16 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Northern Ireland -74 6 £40,000 -63.64% 7
Scotland -9 3 £74,250 +42.22% 14
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 13 (2.28%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.40%) SAS
3 7 (1.23%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.70%) CMS
4 4 (0.70%) Confluence
4 4 (0.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.70%) WordPress
5 2 (0.35%) Apache
5 2 (0.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.35%) IIS
5 2 (0.35%) Luigi
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.70%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 222 (38.95%) Azure
2 173 (30.35%) AWS
3 57 (10.00%) GCP
4 35 (6.14%) SaaS
5 29 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.74%) Serverless
7 23 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (3.68%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.63%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (2.63%) Snowflake
10 14 (2.46%) Azure Functions
10 14 (2.46%) IaaS
11 13 (2.28%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.11%) PaaS
13 11 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.93%) GitHub
14 10 (1.75%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.58%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.23%) Entra ID
17 6 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.74%) VPN
1 27 (4.74%) WAN
2 26 (4.56%) Firewall
2 26 (4.56%) Internet
3 20 (3.51%) LAN
4 16 (2.81%) Network Security
4 16 (2.81%) Wireless
5 15 (2.63%) DHCP
5 15 (2.63%) DNS
6 14 (2.46%) BGP
7 10 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.58%) MPLS
8 9 (1.58%) TCP/IP
8 9 (1.58%) VLAN
9 8 (1.40%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.40%) VoIP
10 6 (1.05%) MQTT
10 6 (1.05%) SNMP
10 6 (1.05%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.70%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.21%) MySQL
2 24 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.68%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.16%) Redis
5 16 (2.81%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.63%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.11%) Power BI
7 12 (2.11%) Spark SQL
8 11 (1.93%) Big Data
9 10 (1.75%) Metadata
9 10 (1.75%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.05%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.88%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.88%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.70%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.70%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.35%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 72 (12.63%) Git
2 27 (4.74%) Eclipse
3 25 (4.39%) JIRA
4 24 (4.21%) Subversion
5 18 (3.16%) Jenkins
5 18 (3.16%) JUnit
6 17 (2.98%) GitLab
7 7 (1.23%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.05%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.05%) GDB
9 5 (0.88%) Eclipse RCP
9 5 (0.88%) JMeter
10 4 (0.70%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.70%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.70%) Selenium
11 3 (0.53%) Gatling
11 3 (0.53%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.53%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.53%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.53%) VectorCAST
General
1 182 (31.93%) Social Skills
2 79 (13.86%) Finance
3 78 (13.68%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.32%) Manufacturing
5 26 (4.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.39%) Public Sector
7 24 (4.21%) Law
8 17 (2.98%) Retail
9 16 (2.81%) Electronics
9 16 (2.81%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.63%) Legal
11 13 (2.28%) Aerospace
11 13 (2.28%) Pharmaceutical
12 11 (1.93%) Marketing
13 9 (1.58%) Advertising
13 9 (1.58%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.40%) Banking
15 6 (1.05%) Automotive
16 5 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
16 5 (0.88%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 178 (31.23%) Developer
2 132 (23.16%) Software Engineer
3 78 (13.68%) Software Developer
4 61 (10.70%) Senior
5 59 (10.35%) Graduate
6 52 (9.12%) Python Engineer
7 50 (8.77%) C++ Software Engineer
8 49 (8.60%) C# Software Engineer
9 48 (8.42%) Lead
10 45 (7.89%) Python Software Engineer
11 39 (6.84%) Graduate Developer
12 37 (6.49%) Architect
13 36 (6.32%) Graduate Software Developer
14 32 (5.61%) Java Developer
15 30 (5.26%) Web Developer
16 29 (5.09%) C# Developer
17 26 (4.56%) Full-Stack Developer
18 25 (4.39%) Data Engineer
19 24 (4.21%) Graduate C# Software Developer
19 24 (4.21%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (15.96%) .NET
2 66 (11.58%) CSS
3 65 (11.40%) React
4 51 (8.95%) jQuery
5 50 (8.77%) RESTful
6 46 (8.07%) HTML
7 35 (6.14%) REST
8 29 (5.09%) Vue
9 27 (4.74%) Web Services
10 25 (4.39%) Node.js
11 23 (4.04%) Jakarta EE
12 22 (3.86%) Struts
13 18 (3.16%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.98%) ARM Templates
15 15 (2.63%) Kafka
15 15 (2.63%) PySpark
16 13 (2.28%) JSON
17 12 (2.11%) AngularJS
18 11 (1.93%) XML
19 10 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 35 (6.14%) Management Information System
2 34 (5.96%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.21%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.33%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
6 17 (2.98%) Embedded Systems
7 16 (2.81%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.81%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.63%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.28%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.11%) Data Structures
10 12 (2.11%) IoT
10 12 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.93%) Client/Server
12 10 (1.75%) Device Driver
12 10 (1.75%) Robotics
13 8 (1.40%) Legacy Systems
13 8 (1.40%) Life Science
13 8 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
13 8 (1.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (15.26%) Linux
2 32 (5.61%) Windows
3 16 (2.81%) Unix
4 11 (1.93%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.23%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.88%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.53%) Android
7 3 (0.53%) Debian
7 3 (0.53%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.53%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.35%) Solaris
8 2 (0.35%) VMS
8 2 (0.35%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 191 (33.51%) Software Engineering
3 177 (31.05%) Problem-Solving
4 145 (25.44%) CI/CD
5 143 (25.09%) Agile
6 121 (21.23%) AI
7 113 (19.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 104 (18.25%) DevOps
9 75 (13.16%) Test Automation
10 69 (12.11%) Full-Stack Development
11 66 (11.58%) Mentoring
12 55 (9.65%) Containerisation
13 50 (8.77%) Microservices
14 47 (8.25%) Scrum
15 46 (8.07%) Data Modelling
16 45 (7.89%) SDLC
16 45 (7.89%) Web Development
17 44 (7.72%) Analytics
18 41 (7.19%) Machine Learning
19 40 (7.02%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 194 (34.04%) Python
2 142 (24.91%) C#
3 139 (24.39%) C++
4 127 (22.28%) SQL
5 114 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 98 (17.19%) Java
7 69 (12.11%) PHP
8 53 (9.30%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.49%) Rust
10 36 (6.32%) PowerShell
11 32 (5.61%) C
12 20 (3.51%) Perl
13 17 (2.98%) Bash
14 15 (2.63%) Go
15 8 (1.40%) Bicep
16 6 (1.05%) Scala
17 4 (0.70%) Delphi
17 4 (0.70%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.70%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.70%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 570 (100.00%) Degree
2 69 (12.11%) Master's Degree
3 47 (8.25%) Security Cleared
4 32 (5.61%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (3.33%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.16%) PhD
8 16 (2.81%) CCNP
9 15 (2.63%) CISSP
10 13 (2.28%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.93%) Azure Certification
12 9 (1.58%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.58%) CCIE
12 9 (1.58%) CCNA
12 9 (1.58%) DBS Check
13 8 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (1.40%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.23%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.70%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.77%) QA
2 45 (7.89%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (4.04%) NIST
5 21 (3.68%) GDPR
6 16 (2.81%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.11%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.40%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.05%) JTAG
10 5 (0.88%) SLA
11 4 (0.70%) PMO
11 4 (0.70%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.53%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.53%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.35%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.18%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.18%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 64 (11.23%) Docker
2 26 (4.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.68%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.75%) KVM
6 9 (1.58%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.23%) Firmware
8 5 (0.88%) vSphere
9 4 (0.70%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.70%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.53%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (12.11%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.32%) Terraform
3 14 (2.46%) Ansible
4 12 (2.11%) Grafana
5 7 (1.23%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.88%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.70%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.53%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.53%) Plesk
8 3 (0.53%) Podman
8 3 (0.53%) SCCM
9 2 (0.35%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.35%) Kibana
9 2 (0.35%) MaaS360
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) CASB
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 93 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.74%) VMware
3 24 (4.21%) Cisco
4 21 (3.68%) Databricks
5 18 (3.16%) Oracle
6 10 (1.75%) Meraki
6 10 (1.75%) Splunk
7 7 (1.23%) Google
8 5 (0.88%) CheckPoint
9 4 (0.70%) Adobe
9 4 (0.70%) Blue Coat
9 4 (0.70%) F5
9 4 (0.70%) Infoblox
9 4 (0.70%) Motorola
9 4 (0.70%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.70%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.53%) Apple
10 3 (0.53%) Fortinet
10 3 (0.53%) Veracode