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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 85 136
Rank change year-on-year -129 +51 +71
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 371 1,102 791
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.88% 3.06% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.66% 7.94% 7.53%
Number of salaries quoted 248 453 587
10th Percentile £26,250 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +3.85% - +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 13,936 13,876 10,505
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.21% 38.58% 30.29%
Number of salaries quoted 5,056 5,285 6,893
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,965
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £55,000 £51,498
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +6.80% +3.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,499 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +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 12 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 12 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 -62 112 £59,000 -9.23% 243
North of England -72 104 £55,000 +8.91% 108
Yorkshire -52 59 £70,000 +40.00% 39
Midlands -126 52 £43,000 +22.86% 75
South West +2 40 £62,500 -13.79% 87
East of England -51 34 £30,000 -45.45% 125
West Midlands -101 34 £40,000 +14.29% 29
North West -36 26 £45,000 -12.17% 41
East Midlands -71 21 £55,000 +57.14% 44
North East +2 19 £51,500 -5.50% 28
Scotland -15 17 £80,350 +65.67% 29
Wales -14 8 £61,250 +12.03% 34
Northern Ireland -34 5 £47,750 -35.25% 18
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 13 (3.50%) 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
1 146 (39.35%) Azure
2 98 (26.42%) AWS
3 32 (8.63%) Serverless
4 29 (7.82%) Azure DevOps
5 23 (6.20%) GCP
6 22 (5.93%) Power Platform
6 22 (5.93%) SaaS
7 17 (4.58%) GitHub
7 17 (4.58%) Microsoft 365
8 9 (2.43%) Google Workspace
9 8 (2.16%) Amazon S3
9 8 (2.16%) PaaS
10 7 (1.89%) AWS Lambda
10 7 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
10 7 (1.89%) Entra ID
11 5 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.35%) OneDrive
12 4 (1.08%) Firebase
12 4 (1.08%) Power Automate
12 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 12 (3.23%) 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%) Cisco Nexus
10 4 (1.08%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (1.08%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.08%) WAAS
10 4 (1.08%) Wireless Security
10 4 (1.08%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (13.21%) SQL Server
2 26 (7.01%) MySQL
3 17 (4.58%) 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%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.16%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.89%) Amazon Redshift
10 6 (1.62%) Big Data
10 6 (1.62%) Data Lake
11 5 (1.35%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.35%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.35%) MongoDB
12 4 (1.08%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.08%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (1.08%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.08%) Tableau
13 3 (0.81%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 36 (9.70%) JIRA
2 23 (6.20%) Git
3 10 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.43%) Cypress.io
5 8 (2.16%) GitLab
6 7 (1.89%) Jenkins
7 6 (1.62%) 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%) PHPUnit
General
1 176 (47.44%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.95%) Finance
3 65 (17.52%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.55%) Manufacturing
5 15 (4.04%) Retail
6 14 (3.77%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (3.50%) Law
8 11 (2.96%) Electronics
8 11 (2.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (2.70%) Marketing
9 10 (2.70%) Public Sector
10 9 (2.43%) Advertising
10 9 (2.43%) Aerospace
10 9 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.89%) Banking
11 7 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.35%) Telecoms
14 4 (1.08%) Dutch Language
14 4 (1.08%) French Language
Job Titles
1 71 (19.14%) Developer
2 65 (17.52%) Architect
3 50 (13.48%) Software Engineer
4 41 (11.05%) Senior
5 33 (8.89%) Software Architect
5 33 (8.89%) 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%) Graduate Developer
10 17 (4.58%) Technical Support
11 16 (4.31%) Applications Architect
12 15 (4.04%) Full-Stack Developer
13 14 (3.77%) C# Developer
14 13 (3.50%) Lead
14 13 (3.50%) Senior Developer
14 13 (3.50%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (14.56%) .NET
2 50 (13.48%) CSS
3 31 (8.36%) React
4 27 (7.28%) Middleware
5 25 (6.74%) ASP.NET
5 25 (6.74%) REST
6 23 (6.20%) HTML
7 20 (5.39%) .NET Framework
8 19 (5.12%) WinForms
9 17 (4.58%) jQuery
10 12 (3.23%) Entity Framework
10 12 (3.23%) Node.js
10 12 (3.23%) Vue
10 12 (3.23%) WPF
11 11 (2.96%) Playwright
12 10 (2.70%) RESTful
12 10 (2.70%) SOAP
13 8 (2.16%) AngularJS
13 8 (2.16%) Blazor
14 7 (1.89%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.43%) Enterprise Software
2 33 (8.89%) Management Information System
3 23 (6.20%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.31%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.50%) Driving Licence
5 13 (3.50%) Operational Technology
6 10 (2.70%) Data Centre
7 9 (2.43%) Data Structures
7 9 (2.43%) Product Ownership
8 8 (2.16%) SCADA
9 7 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
10 6 (1.62%) Algorithms
11 5 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (1.35%) IoT
11 5 (1.35%) Low-Code
11 5 (1.35%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
12 4 (1.08%) Distributed Systems
12 4 (1.08%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.36%) Windows
2 54 (14.56%) Linux
3 11 (2.96%) 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%) Mac OS X
7 3 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.81%) Unix
8 2 (0.54%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (96.50%) Computer Science
2 129 (34.77%) Problem-Solving
3 117 (31.54%) Agile
4 94 (25.34%) DevOps
5 92 (24.80%) Continuous Improvement
6 70 (18.87%) Mentoring
7 69 (18.60%) Software Engineering
8 66 (17.79%) CI/CD
9 54 (14.56%) AI
10 46 (12.40%) SDLC
10 46 (12.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 45 (12.13%) Data Modelling
12 44 (11.86%) ITIL
13 39 (10.51%) Microservices
14 38 (10.24%) Analytics
15 35 (9.43%) Application Security
15 35 (9.43%) Cybersecurity
15 35 (9.43%) Enterprise Architecture
15 35 (9.43%) Machine Learning
15 35 (9.43%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 101 (27.22%) Python
2 94 (25.34%) C#
3 93 (25.07%) SQL
4 91 (24.53%) Java
5 64 (17.25%) JavaScript
6 45 (12.13%) C++
7 36 (9.70%) TypeScript
8 30 (8.09%) PHP
9 15 (4.04%) C
9 15 (4.04%) PowerShell
9 15 (4.04%) T-SQL
10 10 (2.70%) R
11 9 (2.43%) PL/SQL
12 7 (1.89%) Bash
12 7 (1.89%) Rust
13 4 (1.08%) Delphi
13 4 (1.08%) Go
13 4 (1.08%) Julia
14 3 (0.81%) VBA
15 2 (0.54%) Scala
Qualifications
1 368 (99.19%) Degree
2 44 (11.86%) Master's Degree
3 43 (11.59%) Microsoft Certification
4 40 (10.78%) Security Cleared
5 34 (9.16%) AWS Certification
5 34 (9.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 33 (8.89%) Azure Certification
7 29 (7.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 29 (7.82%) TOGAF Certification
8 26 (7.01%) SC Cleared
9 20 (5.39%) Chartered Engineer
10 12 (3.23%) ITIL Certification
11 11 (2.96%) A+ Certification
12 10 (2.70%) DV Cleared
13 9 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
14 8 (2.16%) CCNP
15 7 (1.89%) CISSP
15 7 (1.89%) MCP
16 6 (1.62%) CISM
16 6 (1.62%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.66%) QA
2 20 (5.39%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 15 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (3.50%) Data Quality
4 13 (3.50%) NIST
5 10 (2.70%) Accessibility
5 10 (2.70%) IEC 61131
6 8 (2.16%) NCSC
7 6 (1.62%) GDPR
8 5 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (1.35%) GxP
9 4 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.08%) PMO
10 3 (0.81%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.54%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.54%) ECSS
11 2 (0.54%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
12 1 (0.27%) GRC
12 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
System Software
1 31 (8.36%) Docker
2 13 (3.50%) Active Directory
2 13 (3.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (2.16%) vSphere
4 7 (1.89%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.08%) ProxySG
6 3 (0.81%) Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) Embedded Firmware
7 1 (0.27%) KVM
7 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 14 (3.77%) Cisco
3 14 (3.77%) VMware
4 12 (3.23%) Google
4 12 (3.23%) Sage
4 12 (3.23%) SAP
4 12 (3.23%) Xamarin
5 10 (2.70%) Fortinet
6 9 (2.43%) Palo Alto
7 8 (2.16%) Dell
7 8 (2.16%) ServiceNow
8 7 (1.89%) Splunk
9 6 (1.62%) CheckPoint
9 6 (1.62%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.35%) Salesforce
10 5 (1.35%) Syncfusion
10 5 (1.35%) Telerik
10 5 (1.35%) Veeam
10 5 (1.35%) Zoho