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 8 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 111 128
Rank change year-on-year -133 +17 +59
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 442 829 1,498
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.67% 2.92% 2.19%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.66% 6.70% 8.27%
Number of salaries quoted 356 411 1,187
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,750 £37,028
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% +6.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,350 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -1.48%

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 16,639 12,382 18,121
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 25.38% 43.60% 26.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5,919 5,222 12,137
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,750 £37,500 £36,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,679 £52,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.30% +4.00% -1.96%
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,790 £54,296
% change year-on-year +7.55% +2.75% -7.19%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 -37 177 £65,000 +13.04% 100
North of England -124 93 £62,500 +13.64% 36
East of England -46 51 £38,750 -26.89% 25
Yorkshire -86 51 £75,000 +27.66% 15
Midlands -151 51 £44,000 +25.71% 28
South West -62 42 £50,000 -11.89% 19
West Midlands -136 26 £42,500 +21.43% 18
East Midlands -60 25 £55,000 +57.14% 10
North West -86 24 £46,250 -15.91% 14
North East -35 18 £62,500 +13.64% 8
Wales -26 13 £72,500 +8.61% 4
Northern Ireland -39 8 £40,000 -63.64% 2
Scotland -20 7 £75,000 +47.18% 10
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 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.04%) SAS
3 8 (1.81%) Confluence
4 6 (1.36%) Apache Airflow
5 4 (0.90%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
6 3 (0.68%) Apache
7 2 (0.45%) IIS
8 1 (0.23%) CMS
8 1 (0.23%) Luigi
8 1 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.26%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 2 (0.45%) Weka
4 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.23%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (0.23%) FIS Private Capital Suite
1 1 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (0.23%) SAP CO
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI
1 1 (0.23%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 190 (42.99%) Azure
2 154 (34.84%) AWS
3 46 (10.41%) Serverless
4 43 (9.73%) GCP
5 23 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (5.20%) Microsoft 365
6 17 (3.85%) SaaS
7 16 (3.62%) Azure Logic Apps
8 14 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.17%) Power Platform
9 13 (2.94%) Amazon S3
9 13 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
10 12 (2.71%) Azure Functions
11 10 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
11 10 (2.26%) OneDrive
11 10 (2.26%) PaaS
12 9 (2.04%) GitHub
13 8 (1.81%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.81%) Power Automate
14 7 (1.58%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (7.24%) WAN
2 31 (7.01%) Firewall
3 28 (6.33%) VPN
4 25 (5.66%) LAN
5 20 (4.52%) BGP
6 19 (4.30%) Network Security
7 15 (3.39%) DHCP
7 15 (3.39%) DNS
7 15 (3.39%) Internet
8 14 (3.17%) VLAN
9 13 (2.94%) TCP/IP
10 12 (2.71%) MPLS
10 12 (2.71%) Wireless
11 11 (2.49%) OSPF
12 10 (2.26%) Cisco ASA
12 10 (2.26%) SD-WAN
13 9 (2.04%) SNMP
14 8 (1.81%) Cisco Wireless
14 8 (1.81%) EIGRP
14 8 (1.81%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 64 (14.48%) SQL Server
2 24 (5.43%) MySQL
3 17 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.17%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
6 12 (2.71%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (2.49%) Big Data
7 11 (2.49%) Metadata
7 11 (2.49%) NoSQL
8 10 (2.26%) MongoDB
8 10 (2.26%) Power BI
8 10 (2.26%) Spark SQL
9 5 (1.13%) Elasticsearch
10 4 (0.90%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.68%) ClickHouse
11 3 (0.68%) Data Lake
12 2 (0.45%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.45%) Redis
12 2 (0.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (6.79%) Git
2 28 (6.33%) JIRA
3 12 (2.71%) Jenkins
4 9 (2.04%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.81%) GitLab
6 5 (1.13%) Selenium
7 4 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.90%) Gatling
7 4 (0.90%) JMeter
7 4 (0.90%) LoadRunner
7 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
8 3 (0.68%) Burp Suite
8 3 (0.68%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.68%) HP UFT
8 3 (0.68%) Polyspace
8 3 (0.68%) Postman
8 3 (0.68%) REST Assured
8 3 (0.68%) VectorCAST
8 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.45%) Artifactory
General
1 154 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 70 (15.84%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (15.61%) Finance
4 26 (5.88%) Manufacturing
5 22 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 20 (4.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (4.52%) Law
7 17 (3.85%) Retail
8 15 (3.39%) Electronics
8 15 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
9 14 (3.17%) Pharmaceutical
10 10 (2.26%) Legal
11 9 (2.04%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.58%) Marketing
13 6 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.13%) Advertising
14 5 (1.13%) Police
15 4 (0.90%) Aerospace
15 4 (0.90%) Banking
15 4 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 100 (22.62%) Developer
2 92 (20.81%) Software Engineer
3 63 (14.25%) Senior
4 54 (12.22%) Software Developer
5 52 (11.76%) Graduate
6 48 (10.86%) Architect
7 41 (9.28%) Python Engineer
8 38 (8.60%) Graduate Developer
9 37 (8.37%) Python Software Engineer
10 35 (7.92%) Graduate Software Developer
11 31 (7.01%) C++ Software Engineer
11 31 (7.01%) Lead
12 30 (6.79%) C# Software Engineer
13 25 (5.66%) C# Developer
14 24 (5.43%) Analyst
15 23 (5.20%) C# Software Developer
15 23 (5.20%) Graduate C# Developer
15 23 (5.20%) Graduate C# Software Developer
15 23 (5.20%) SQL Developer
16 21 (4.75%) Graduate SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (13.12%) CSS
2 50 (11.31%) .NET
3 40 (9.05%) HTML
4 38 (8.60%) jQuery
5 36 (8.14%) React
5 36 (8.14%) REST
6 25 (5.66%) Middleware
7 22 (4.98%) SOAP
8 21 (4.75%) RESTful
9 20 (4.52%) Node.js
10 13 (2.94%) JSON
10 13 (2.94%) XML
11 12 (2.71%) ARM Templates
12 11 (2.49%) Playwright
13 10 (2.26%) .NET Core
13 10 (2.26%) PySpark
14 9 (2.04%) OAuth
15 8 (1.81%) Vue
16 7 (1.58%) Django
16 7 (1.58%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.11%) Distributed Systems
2 25 (5.66%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.75%) Data Centre
4 19 (4.30%) Cloud Native
5 14 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 13 (2.94%) Client/Server
6 13 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
6 13 (2.94%) Virtual Team
7 12 (2.71%) Onboarding
8 10 (2.26%) Distributed Computing
8 10 (2.26%) Product Ownership
9 9 (2.04%) Data Structures
10 8 (1.81%) Algorithms
11 7 (1.58%) Embedded Systems
11 7 (1.58%) Low-Code
12 6 (1.36%) CMDB
12 6 (1.36%) Driving Licence
12 6 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
12 6 (1.36%) Robotics
12 6 (1.36%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 55 (12.44%) Linux
2 30 (6.79%) Windows
3 14 (3.17%) Android
4 10 (2.26%) Unix
4 10 (2.26%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.68%) Kali Linux
6 2 (0.45%) Embedded Linux
6 2 (0.45%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.45%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.23%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.23%) Solaris
7 1 (0.23%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 394 (89.14%) Computer Science
2 137 (31.00%) Problem-Solving
3 118 (26.70%) Agile
3 118 (26.70%) Software Engineering
4 91 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 87 (19.68%) Continuous Improvement
6 81 (18.33%) DevOps
7 57 (12.90%) Mentoring
8 54 (12.22%) Test Automation
9 52 (11.76%) AI
10 51 (11.54%) Data Modelling
11 41 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (9.05%) ITIL
13 37 (8.37%) Containerisation
14 34 (7.69%) Scrum
15 32 (7.24%) SDLC
15 32 (7.24%) Stakeholder Management
16 31 (7.01%) Data Engineering
16 31 (7.01%) Microservices
16 31 (7.01%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 171 (38.69%) Python
2 122 (27.60%) SQL
3 112 (25.34%) C#
4 80 (18.10%) C++
5 79 (17.87%) Java
6 68 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 55 (12.44%) PHP
8 38 (8.60%) TypeScript
9 30 (6.79%) PowerShell
10 25 (5.66%) C
11 17 (3.85%) Bash
12 16 (3.62%) Rust
13 7 (1.58%) Scala
14 6 (1.36%) PL/SQL
15 4 (0.90%) Bicep
16 3 (0.68%) Go
16 3 (0.68%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.68%) VB
17 2 (0.45%) Delphi
17 2 (0.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 442 (100.00%) Degree
2 53 (11.99%) Master's Degree
3 38 (8.60%) Security Cleared
4 28 (6.33%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 23 (5.20%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (4.98%) CCNP
7 21 (4.75%) Azure Certification
8 20 (4.52%) AWS Certification
9 17 (3.85%) CISSP
10 16 (3.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 14 (3.17%) CCIE
11 14 (3.17%) DV Cleared
11 14 (3.17%) PhD
12 13 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
13 12 (2.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (2.26%) CISM
14 10 (2.26%) ISTQB
15 8 (1.81%) CCNA
15 8 (1.81%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (11.99%) QA
2 24 (5.43%) Accessibility
3 21 (4.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 20 (4.52%) Data Quality
5 19 (4.30%) NIST
6 18 (4.07%) GDPR
7 11 (2.49%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.81%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.81%) PMO
9 6 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 12207
10 5 (1.13%) SOC 2
11 4 (0.90%) GxP
11 4 (0.90%) SLA
12 3 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.68%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.68%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.45%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.23%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 39 (8.82%) Docker
2 32 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (4.75%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.85%) Hyper-V
5 13 (2.94%) KVM
6 9 (2.04%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.81%) ProxySG
7 8 (1.81%) vSphere
8 4 (0.90%) Firmware
8 4 (0.90%) Virtual Desktop
8 4 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.23%) Embedded Firmware
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.23%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 47 (10.63%) Kubernetes
2 31 (7.01%) Terraform
3 19 (4.30%) Ansible
4 13 (2.94%) Grafana
5 9 (2.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.36%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.90%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.68%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.68%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) Control-M
9 2 (0.45%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.45%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.45%) Plesk
10 1 (0.23%) EMC NetWorker
10 1 (0.23%) Graylog
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.23%) Oracle RMAN
10 1 (0.23%) Packer
10 1 (0.23%) Puppet
Vendors
1 88 (19.91%) Microsoft
2 33 (7.47%) VMware
3 27 (6.11%) Cisco
4 17 (3.85%) Oracle
5 16 (3.62%) Databricks
6 11 (2.49%) CheckPoint
6 11 (2.49%) ServiceNow
7 9 (2.04%) F5
8 8 (1.81%) Blue Coat
8 8 (1.81%) Infoblox
8 8 (1.81%) Motorola
8 8 (1.81%) SolarWinds
8 8 (1.81%) Splunk
9 7 (1.58%) Meraki
9 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.36%) Fortinet
10 6 (1.36%) SAP
11 4 (0.90%) MuleSoft
12 3 (0.68%) Pega
12 3 (0.68%) Veracode