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

6 months to
5 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 161 111
Rank change year-on-year -75 -50 +37
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 531 672 1,728
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 2.06% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.00% 5.23% 9.08%
Number of salaries quoted 453 399 1,247
10th Percentile £26,800 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +5.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £94,700 £82,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £57,750
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.90% -5.17%

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 13,270 12,842 19,022
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.90% 39.36% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 6,648 5,250 11,960
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,725 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -4.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £66,274 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,200 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,795
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.24% -10.34%

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 5 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 5 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 -14 221 £65,000 +18.18% 86
North of England -51 119 £62,500 +8.70% 42
East of England -37 58 £46,250 -10.19% 32
Midlands -70 56 £41,500 +2.81% 40
South West -66 54 £42,500 -15.00% 28
North West -60 43 £40,000 -31.03% 26
Yorkshire -22 41 £75,000 +25.00% 9
North East -26 35 £81,250 +47.73% 7
East Midlands -23 28 £55,000 +57.14% 24
West Midlands -65 28 £40,000 -5.88% 16
Wales -46 13 £72,500 +16.00% 3
Northern Ireland -56 7 £40,000 -63.64% 15
Scotland -8 3 £39,250 -24.82% 13
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 8 (1.51%) SAS
1 8 (1.51%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.32%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (0.94%) Confluence
4 4 (0.75%) CMS
4 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.75%) WordPress
5 2 (0.38%) Apache
5 2 (0.38%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.38%) IIS
5 2 (0.38%) Luigi
6 1 (0.19%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.19%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.19%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.19%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.19%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.19%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 212 (39.92%) Azure
2 168 (31.64%) AWS
3 52 (9.79%) GCP
4 31 (5.84%) Serverless
5 30 (5.65%) SaaS
6 26 (4.90%) Azure DevOps
7 19 (3.58%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.39%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (2.82%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.64%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.64%) PaaS
11 13 (2.45%) Azure Functions
12 12 (2.26%) GitHub
12 12 (2.26%) IaaS
12 12 (2.26%) Power Automate
12 12 (2.26%) Snowflake
13 11 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
14 10 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
14 10 (1.88%) AWS Lambda
15 9 (1.69%) Amazon S3
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.46%) VPN
1 29 (5.46%) WAN
2 27 (5.08%) Firewall
3 24 (4.52%) Internet
4 22 (4.14%) LAN
5 18 (3.39%) Network Security
6 16 (3.01%) BGP
7 14 (2.64%) DHCP
7 14 (2.64%) DNS
8 13 (2.45%) Wireless
9 11 (2.07%) VLAN
10 9 (1.69%) MPLS
11 8 (1.51%) SD-WAN
11 8 (1.51%) SNMP
11 8 (1.51%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.51%) VoIP
11 8 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (1.13%) Cisco Nexus
12 6 (1.13%) Cisco Wireless
12 6 (1.13%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (16.57%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.52%) MySQL
3 22 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.20%) Relational Database
5 16 (3.01%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.82%) Redis
7 13 (2.45%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.26%) Power BI
8 12 (2.26%) Spark SQL
9 10 (1.88%) Metadata
9 10 (1.88%) MongoDB
10 9 (1.69%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.69%) Big Data
11 6 (1.13%) Apache Cassandra
12 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Analysis Services
12 5 (0.94%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.75%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.56%) ClickHouse
14 3 (0.56%) Data Lake
14 3 (0.56%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 61 (11.49%) Git
2 22 (4.14%) JIRA
3 19 (3.58%) Eclipse
4 17 (3.20%) Subversion
5 14 (2.64%) Jenkins
6 13 (2.45%) JUnit
7 11 (2.07%) GitLab
8 7 (1.32%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.13%) Cucumber
10 5 (0.94%) JMeter
11 4 (0.75%) GDB
11 4 (0.75%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.75%) Selenium
12 3 (0.56%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.56%) Gatling
12 3 (0.56%) Polyspace
12 3 (0.56%) Postman
12 3 (0.56%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.56%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.56%) VectorCAST
General
1 154 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.50%) Finance
3 67 (12.62%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (4.90%) Manufacturing
5 22 (4.14%) Public Sector
6 21 (3.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 21 (3.95%) Law
7 20 (3.77%) Retail
8 17 (3.20%) Legal
9 16 (3.01%) Electronics
10 15 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (2.07%) Marketing
12 10 (1.88%) Advertising
13 9 (1.69%) Banking
13 9 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (1.51%) Telecoms
15 7 (1.32%) Aerospace
16 5 (0.94%) Automotive
16 5 (0.94%) Police
16 5 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 164 (30.89%) Developer
2 127 (23.92%) Software Engineer
3 72 (13.56%) Software Developer
4 66 (12.43%) Senior
5 55 (10.36%) Graduate
6 48 (9.04%) Python Engineer
7 47 (8.85%) C# Software Engineer
7 47 (8.85%) C++ Software Engineer
8 44 (8.29%) Lead
8 44 (8.29%) Python Software Engineer
9 39 (7.34%) Graduate Developer
10 36 (6.78%) Graduate Software Developer
11 34 (6.40%) Architect
12 29 (5.46%) C# Developer
13 27 (5.08%) Full-Stack Developer
13 27 (5.08%) Java Developer
13 27 (5.08%) Web Developer
14 24 (4.52%) Analyst
14 24 (4.52%) Data Engineer
14 24 (4.52%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (14.69%) .NET
2 66 (12.43%) CSS
3 62 (11.68%) React
4 49 (9.23%) jQuery
5 46 (8.66%) HTML
6 43 (8.10%) RESTful
7 39 (7.34%) REST
8 25 (4.71%) Node.js
9 24 (4.52%) Vue
9 24 (4.52%) Web Services
10 17 (3.20%) ARM Templates
10 17 (3.20%) J2EE
10 17 (3.20%) Struts
11 15 (2.82%) .NET Core
11 15 (2.82%) Middleware
11 15 (2.82%) SOAP
12 13 (2.45%) JSON
12 13 (2.45%) Kafka
13 12 (2.26%) PySpark
13 12 (2.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 29 (5.46%) Cloud Native
2 28 (5.27%) Distributed Systems
3 23 (4.33%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.77%) Data Centre
5 19 (3.58%) Algorithms
6 17 (3.20%) Distributed Computing
7 15 (2.82%) Client/Server
8 14 (2.64%) Embedded Systems
9 13 (2.45%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.45%) Virtual Team
10 12 (2.26%) Product Ownership
11 11 (2.07%) Onboarding
11 11 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.88%) Robotics
13 8 (1.51%) Device Driver
13 8 (1.51%) IoT
14 6 (1.13%) CMDB
14 6 (1.13%) Legacy Systems
14 6 (1.13%) Security Posture
15 5 (0.94%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 82 (15.44%) Linux
2 29 (5.46%) Windows
3 16 (3.01%) Unix
4 11 (2.07%) Windows Server
5 8 (1.51%) Android
6 5 (0.94%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (0.56%) Debian
7 3 (0.56%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.56%) Kali Linux
7 3 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 2 (0.38%) Solaris
8 2 (0.38%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.19%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.19%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 472 (88.89%) Computer Science
2 174 (32.77%) Software Engineering
3 157 (29.57%) Problem-Solving
4 128 (24.11%) CI/CD
5 123 (23.16%) Agile
6 99 (18.64%) AI
6 99 (18.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 89 (16.76%) DevOps
8 70 (13.18%) Test Automation
9 64 (12.05%) Full-Stack Development
10 53 (9.98%) Containerisation
11 49 (9.23%) Mentoring
12 42 (7.91%) Data Modelling
12 42 (7.91%) Microservices
13 38 (7.16%) Scrum
14 37 (6.97%) Analytics
15 36 (6.78%) OOP
15 36 (6.78%) SDLC
15 36 (6.78%) Web Development
16 35 (6.59%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 189 (35.59%) Python
2 128 (24.11%) C#
3 126 (23.73%) C++
3 126 (23.73%) SQL
4 102 (19.21%) JavaScript
5 88 (16.57%) Java
6 68 (12.81%) PHP
7 51 (9.60%) TypeScript
8 39 (7.34%) Rust
9 31 (5.84%) PowerShell
10 30 (5.65%) C
11 17 (3.20%) Bash
12 15 (2.82%) Perl
13 13 (2.45%) Go
14 8 (1.51%) Bicep
15 6 (1.13%) Scala
16 5 (0.94%) Delphi
17 4 (0.75%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.75%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.56%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 531 (100.00%) Degree
2 60 (11.30%) Master's Degree
3 42 (7.91%) Security Cleared
4 26 (4.90%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (4.71%) SC Cleared
6 18 (3.39%) CCNP
7 17 (3.20%) CISSP
7 17 (3.20%) PhD
8 15 (2.82%) DV Cleared
9 12 (2.26%) ISTQB
10 11 (2.07%) CCIE
11 10 (1.88%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 9 (1.69%) CCNA
12 9 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (1.51%) DBS Check
14 7 (1.32%) AWS Certification
14 7 (1.32%) CISM
15 5 (0.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.94%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (9.42%) QA
2 37 (6.97%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.71%) NIST
4 24 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 20 (3.77%) GDPR
6 17 (3.20%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.26%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
9 6 (1.13%) PMO
9 6 (1.13%) SOC 2
10 5 (0.94%) SLA
11 4 (0.75%) JTAG
12 3 (0.56%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.56%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.38%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.38%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
14 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (12.05%) Docker
2 31 (5.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.58%) Active Directory
4 17 (3.20%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.64%) KVM
6 9 (1.69%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.13%) ProxySG
8 5 (0.94%) Firmware
8 5 (0.94%) vSphere
9 4 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.56%) Embedded Firmware
10 3 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (12.62%) Kubernetes
2 33 (6.21%) Terraform
3 15 (2.82%) Ansible
4 13 (2.45%) Grafana
5 5 (0.94%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.75%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.75%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.56%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.56%) Plesk
7 3 (0.56%) Podman
7 3 (0.56%) SCCM
8 2 (0.38%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.38%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.38%) Kibana
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) CloudHub
9 1 (0.19%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.19%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.19%) Graylog
9 1 (0.19%) Packer
Vendors
1 77 (14.50%) Microsoft
2 32 (6.03%) VMware
3 23 (4.33%) Cisco
4 20 (3.77%) Databricks
4 20 (3.77%) Oracle
5 10 (1.88%) Splunk
6 8 (1.51%) ServiceNow
7 7 (1.32%) CheckPoint
7 7 (1.32%) Meraki
8 6 (1.13%) Blue Coat
8 6 (1.13%) F5
8 6 (1.13%) Infoblox
8 6 (1.13%) Motorola
8 6 (1.13%) SolarWinds
9 4 (0.75%) Google
9 4 (0.75%) MuleSoft
9 4 (0.75%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.75%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.56%) Adobe
10 3 (0.56%) Veracode