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

6 months to
19 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 85 141
Rank change year-on-year -131 +56 +63
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 371 1,079 857
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 3.03% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.63% 7.75% 7.70%
Number of salaries quoted 249 439 648
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,875 £42,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,865 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.04% -11.89% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £68,250 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +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 14,120 13,923 11,131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.74% 39.11% 29.61%
Number of salaries quoted 5,101 5,313 7,488
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.66%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,499 £55,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +7.21% -3.48%

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 19 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 19 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 -54 112 £58,000 -10.77% 274
North of England -73 105 £55,000 +8.91% 120
Yorkshire -58 60 £70,000 +51.69% 46
Midlands -130 52 £44,543 +27.27% 87
South West -3 41 £63,750 -12.07% 93
East of England -51 33 £30,000 -45.45% 137
West Midlands -104 33 £40,000 +14.29% 35
North West -55 26 £45,000 -12.17% 46
East Midlands -71 22 £55,000 +57.14% 51
North East +4 19 £51,500 -5.50% 28
Scotland -17 17 £80,350 +65.67% 36
Wales -10 7 £70,000 +28.04% 42
Northern Ireland -32 5 £47,750 -45.43% 24
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 (5.93%) IIS
2 11 (2.96%) Confluence
3 8 (2.16%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.35%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.54%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.54%) SAS
6 1 (0.27%) Apache
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (5.12%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.77%) MS Visio
3 12 (3.23%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.16%) AutoCAD
4 8 (2.16%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.54%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.54%) Weka
5 2 (0.54%) Windchill
6 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.54%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 149 (40.16%) Azure
2 102 (27.49%) AWS
3 34 (9.16%) Serverless
4 29 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
5 25 (6.74%) GCP
6 23 (6.20%) SaaS
7 21 (5.66%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.58%) GitHub
8 17 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
9 10 (2.70%) Amazon S3
10 9 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
10 9 (2.43%) Google Workspace
11 8 (2.16%) PaaS
12 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
12 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
13 5 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
13 5 (1.35%) OneDrive
13 5 (1.35%) Power Automate
14 4 (1.08%) Firebase
14 4 (1.08%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.20%) Firewall
2 16 (4.31%) Network Security
3 14 (3.77%) VLAN
4 13 (3.50%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.96%) VPN
6 8 (2.16%) LAN
6 8 (2.16%) WAN
7 7 (1.89%) BGP
7 7 (1.89%) OSPF
7 7 (1.89%) SAN
8 6 (1.62%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.62%) Modbus
9 5 (1.35%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.35%) Wireless
10 4 (1.08%) Bluetooth
10 4 (1.08%) DNS
10 4 (1.08%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.08%) SNMP
10 4 (1.08%) Wireshark
10 4 (1.08%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 25 (6.74%) MySQL
3 16 (4.31%) Power BI
4 12 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.96%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.70%) Metadata
6 10 (2.70%) NoSQL
7 9 (2.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.43%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.62%) Big Data
9 6 (1.62%) Data Lake
10 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
10 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
11 4 (1.08%) Oracle BI EE
11 4 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (1.08%) Tableau
12 3 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 36 (9.70%) JIRA
2 22 (5.93%) Git
3 10 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.43%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.89%) GitLab
6 6 (1.62%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.35%) Selenium
8 4 (1.08%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.08%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.08%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.81%) ERwin
9 3 (0.81%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.54%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.54%) JMeter
10 2 (0.54%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.54%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.54%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.54%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.54%) TestRail
11 1 (0.27%) MLflow
General
1 178 (47.98%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.14%) Finance
3 66 (17.79%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (7.28%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.31%) Retail
6 14 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (3.50%) Law
8 11 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.70%) Electronics
10 9 (2.43%) Advertising
10 9 (2.43%) Marketing
10 9 (2.43%) Public Sector
11 8 (2.16%) Aerospace
11 8 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.89%) Banking
12 7 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.08%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.08%) French Language
14 4 (1.08%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 74 (19.95%) Developer
2 65 (17.52%) Architect
3 52 (14.02%) Software Engineer
4 36 (9.70%) Senior
5 32 (8.63%) Software Architect
5 32 (8.63%) Support Engineer
6 25 (6.74%) Graduate
7 24 (6.47%) Analyst
8 23 (6.20%) IT Engineer
9 20 (5.39%) IT Support
9 20 (5.39%) IT Support Engineer
9 20 (5.39%) Software Developer
10 17 (4.58%) Applications Architect
10 17 (4.58%) Full-Stack Developer
10 17 (4.58%) Graduate Developer
11 16 (4.31%) Technical Support
12 14 (3.77%) C# Developer
12 14 (3.77%) Senior Developer
13 13 (3.50%) Lead
13 13 (3.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 55 (14.82%) .NET
2 53 (14.29%) CSS
3 33 (8.89%) React
4 28 (7.55%) Middleware
5 26 (7.01%) HTML
5 26 (7.01%) REST
6 25 (6.74%) ASP.NET
7 20 (5.39%) .NET Framework
8 19 (5.12%) WinForms
9 18 (4.85%) jQuery
10 14 (3.77%) Node.js
11 12 (3.23%) Entity Framework
11 12 (3.23%) Vue
11 12 (3.23%) WPF
12 11 (2.96%) Playwright
12 11 (2.96%) SOAP
13 10 (2.70%) RESTful
14 8 (2.16%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.16%) Blazor
15 7 (1.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 34 (9.16%) Enterprise Software
2 33 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.50%) Operational Technology
6 12 (3.23%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.70%) Data Centre
8 9 (2.43%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.43%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.16%) SCADA
10 7 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (1.62%) Distributed Systems
11 6 (1.62%) Low-Code
12 5 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.35%) IoT
12 5 (1.35%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (1.08%) Algorithms
13 4 (1.08%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (14.82%) Windows
2 54 (14.56%) Linux
3 12 (3.23%) Android
4 9 (2.43%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.89%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.08%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.08%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.81%) Unix
8 2 (0.54%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (96.50%) Computer Science
2 132 (35.58%) Problem-Solving
3 113 (30.46%) Agile
4 93 (25.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 92 (24.80%) DevOps
6 70 (18.87%) Software Engineering
7 68 (18.33%) Mentoring
8 65 (17.52%) CI/CD
9 53 (14.29%) AI
10 46 (12.40%) Data Modelling
10 46 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 44 (11.86%) ITIL
11 44 (11.86%) SDLC
12 39 (10.51%) Microservices
13 37 (9.97%) Analytics
14 36 (9.70%) Application Security
15 35 (9.43%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (9.43%) Migration
16 34 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
17 32 (8.63%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 103 (27.76%) Python
2 95 (25.61%) SQL
3 93 (25.07%) C#
4 92 (24.80%) Java
5 68 (18.33%) JavaScript
6 44 (11.86%) C++
7 36 (9.70%) TypeScript
8 31 (8.36%) PHP
9 15 (4.04%) PowerShell
9 15 (4.04%) T-SQL
10 14 (3.77%) C
11 9 (2.43%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.43%) R
12 8 (2.16%) Rust
13 7 (1.89%) Bash
14 4 (1.08%) Delphi
14 4 (1.08%) Go
15 3 (0.81%) Julia
15 3 (0.81%) VBA
16 2 (0.54%) VB
Qualifications
1 368 (99.19%) Degree
2 43 (11.59%) Master's Degree
3 42 (11.32%) Microsoft Certification
4 39 (10.51%) Security Cleared
5 34 (9.16%) AWS Certification
6 33 (8.89%) Azure Certification
7 30 (8.09%) BPSS Clearance
8 29 (7.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 29 (7.82%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (6.74%) SC Cleared
10 19 (5.12%) Chartered Engineer
11 13 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
12 11 (2.96%) A+ Certification
13 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
14 9 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (2.16%) CCNP
15 8 (2.16%) CISSP
16 7 (1.89%) CISM
16 7 (1.89%) PMI Certification
17 6 (1.62%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.47%) QA
2 19 (5.12%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 16 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.77%) NIST
5 13 (3.50%) Data Quality
6 11 (2.96%) Accessibility
7 10 (2.70%) IEC 61131
8 8 (2.16%) NCSC
9 6 (1.62%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.62%) GDPR
10 5 (1.35%) GxP
11 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.08%) PMO
12 3 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.54%) ECSS
13 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
14 1 (0.27%) GRC
14 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 31 (8.36%) Docker
2 14 (3.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.50%) Active Directory
4 9 (2.43%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.16%) vSphere
6 4 (1.08%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.81%) KVM
8 1 (0.27%) Firmware
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 31 (8.36%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.58%) Terraform
3 11 (2.96%) Grafana
3 11 (2.96%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.70%) Control-M
5 8 (2.16%) Ansible
6 7 (1.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.35%) SCCM
8 4 (1.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.08%) Nessus
8 4 (1.08%) Nmap
9 3 (0.81%) Nagios
9 3 (0.81%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.81%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.54%) Docker Swarm
10 2 (0.54%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.54%) Kibana
11 1 (0.27%) CSIRT
11 1 (0.27%) NetBackup
11 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 106 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 18 (4.85%) Oracle
3 15 (4.04%) VMware
4 14 (3.77%) Cisco
5 12 (3.23%) Google
5 12 (3.23%) Sage
5 12 (3.23%) SAP
5 12 (3.23%) Xamarin
6 10 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 9 (2.43%) Palo Alto
7 9 (2.43%) ServiceNow
8 8 (2.16%) Dell
9 7 (1.89%) Splunk
10 6 (1.62%) CheckPoint
10 6 (1.62%) Red Hat
11 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.35%) Syncfusion
11 5 (1.35%) Telerik
11 5 (1.35%) Veeam
11 5 (1.35%) Zoho