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 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 167 111
Rank change year-on-year -62 -56 +17
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 594 663 1,349
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.93% 2.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.32% 5.27% 8.98%
Number of salaries quoted 481 387 926
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £51,869
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +1.22% -13.55%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £70,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £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 13,746 12,584 15,020
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.12% 36.59% 25.06%
Number of salaries quoted 7,057 5,323 8,391
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,988 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 6 August 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 6 August 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 -13 242 £65,000 +8.33% 103
North of England -46 126 £62,500 +13.64% 54
South West -42 72 £41,250 -8.33% 34
Midlands -72 65 £40,000 -5.88% 54
East of England -38 64 £45,000 -10.00% 48
North West -47 47 £40,000 -27.27% 31
Yorkshire -17 42 £68,750 +14.58% 13
North East -29 37 £98,750 +246.49% 10
East Midlands -8 36 £26,000 -25.71% 33
West Midlands -77 29 £43,000 +1.18% 21
Wales -45 16 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Northern Ireland -80 6 £40,000 -63.64% 7
Scotland +2 3 £74,250 +42.22% 22
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 12 (2.02%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.35%) SAS
3 7 (1.18%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) Confluence
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.67%) WordPress
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
5 2 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 228 (38.38%) Azure
2 176 (29.63%) AWS
3 59 (9.93%) GCP
4 36 (6.06%) SaaS
5 31 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
6 29 (4.88%) Serverless
7 23 (3.87%) Microsoft 365
8 22 (3.70%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.69%) Azure Functions
9 16 (2.69%) Snowflake
10 15 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
11 13 (2.19%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.19%) IaaS
12 12 (2.02%) GitHub
13 11 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.85%) PaaS
14 9 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
14 9 (1.52%) Entra ID
14 9 (1.52%) Power Automate
15 7 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.55%) Firewall
1 27 (4.55%) Internet
1 27 (4.55%) WAN
2 26 (4.38%) VPN
3 20 (3.37%) LAN
4 16 (2.69%) DHCP
4 16 (2.69%) DNS
4 16 (2.69%) Network Security
4 16 (2.69%) Wireless
5 14 (2.36%) BGP
6 10 (1.68%) TCP/IP
6 10 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.52%) MPLS
7 9 (1.52%) VLAN
8 8 (1.35%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.35%) VoIP
9 6 (1.01%) HTTP
9 6 (1.01%) MQTT
9 6 (1.01%) SNMP
9 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (17.51%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.21%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (4.21%) Relational Database
3 24 (4.04%) MySQL
4 19 (3.20%) Redis
5 17 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.53%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.02%) Big Data
7 12 (2.02%) Power BI
7 12 (2.02%) Spark SQL
8 11 (1.85%) Metadata
9 9 (1.52%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.01%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.51%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.51%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.51%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 78 (13.13%) Git
2 29 (4.88%) Eclipse
3 27 (4.55%) JIRA
4 26 (4.38%) Subversion
5 20 (3.37%) JUnit
6 18 (3.03%) Jenkins
7 17 (2.86%) GitLab
8 7 (1.18%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.01%) GDB
10 5 (0.84%) Burp Suite
10 5 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
10 5 (0.84%) JMeter
11 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.67%) Selenium
12 3 (0.51%) Gatling
12 3 (0.51%) HP UFT
12 3 (0.51%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.51%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.51%) VectorCAST
General
1 197 (33.16%) Social Skills
2 83 (13.97%) Finance
3 81 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 32 (5.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 26 (4.38%) Law
7 25 (4.21%) Public Sector
8 18 (3.03%) Electronics
9 17 (2.86%) Aerospace
9 17 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
9 17 (2.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 17 (2.86%) Retail
10 16 (2.69%) Legal
11 11 (1.85%) Marketing
12 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.35%) Advertising
13 8 (1.35%) Banking
14 6 (1.01%) Automotive
15 5 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 184 (30.98%) Developer
2 135 (22.73%) Software Engineer
3 81 (13.64%) Software Developer
4 62 (10.44%) Graduate
5 60 (10.10%) Senior
6 51 (8.59%) Lead
6 51 (8.59%) Python Engineer
7 49 (8.25%) C++ Software Engineer
8 48 (8.08%) C# Software Engineer
9 44 (7.41%) Python Software Engineer
10 41 (6.90%) Architect
11 40 (6.73%) Graduate Developer
12 36 (6.06%) Graduate Software Developer
13 34 (5.72%) Java Developer
14 31 (5.22%) Web Developer
15 29 (4.88%) C# Developer
16 28 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
17 26 (4.38%) Data Engineer
18 25 (4.21%) Junior
19 24 (4.04%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (16.16%) .NET
2 67 (11.28%) CSS
3 65 (10.94%) React
4 53 (8.92%) RESTful
5 52 (8.75%) jQuery
6 46 (7.74%) HTML
7 36 (6.06%) REST
8 30 (5.05%) Vue
9 29 (4.88%) Web Services
10 25 (4.21%) Jakarta EE
10 25 (4.21%) Node.js
11 24 (4.04%) Struts
12 19 (3.20%) .NET Core
13 16 (2.69%) ARM Templates
13 16 (2.69%) Kafka
13 16 (2.69%) PySpark
14 13 (2.19%) JSON
15 12 (2.02%) AngularJS
16 11 (1.85%) ASP.NET
16 11 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (6.57%) Management Information System
2 38 (6.40%) Cloud Native
3 24 (4.04%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.37%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
6 17 (2.86%) Embedded Systems
7 16 (2.69%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.69%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.53%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.36%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.19%) IoT
11 12 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
12 11 (1.85%) Client/Server
13 10 (1.68%) Device Driver
13 10 (1.68%) Life Science
13 10 (1.68%) Robotics
13 10 (1.68%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.35%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 87 (14.65%) Linux
2 33 (5.56%) Windows
3 16 (2.69%) Unix
4 11 (1.85%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.18%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.51%) Android
7 3 (0.51%) Debian
7 3 (0.51%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.51%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Solaris
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 538 (90.57%) Computer Science
2 199 (33.50%) Software Engineering
3 186 (31.31%) Problem-Solving
4 151 (25.42%) CI/CD
5 149 (25.08%) Agile
6 130 (21.89%) AI
7 118 (19.87%) Continuous Improvement
8 109 (18.35%) DevOps
9 75 (12.63%) Test Automation
10 71 (11.95%) Mentoring
11 70 (11.78%) Full-Stack Development
12 58 (9.76%) Containerisation
13 51 (8.59%) Microservices
14 49 (8.25%) Data Modelling
14 49 (8.25%) Scrum
14 49 (8.25%) SDLC
15 48 (8.08%) Web Development
16 44 (7.41%) Analytics
16 44 (7.41%) Machine Learning
17 43 (7.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 199 (33.50%) Python
2 147 (24.75%) C#
3 140 (23.57%) C++
4 131 (22.05%) SQL
5 119 (20.03%) JavaScript
6 101 (17.00%) Java
7 70 (11.78%) PHP
8 53 (8.92%) TypeScript
9 38 (6.40%) PowerShell
9 38 (6.40%) Rust
10 32 (5.39%) C
11 22 (3.70%) Perl
12 17 (2.86%) Bash
12 17 (2.86%) Go
13 7 (1.18%) Bicep
14 6 (1.01%) Scala
15 4 (0.67%) Delphi
15 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
15 4 (0.67%) Embedded C++
15 4 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 594 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (11.78%) Master's Degree
3 53 (8.92%) Security Cleared
4 36 (6.06%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.04%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (3.70%) DV Cleared
7 17 (2.86%) PhD
8 16 (2.69%) CCNP
8 16 (2.69%) CISSP
9 13 (2.19%) ISTQB
10 11 (1.85%) Azure Certification
11 10 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
11 10 (1.68%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.52%) AWS Certification
12 9 (1.52%) CCIE
12 9 (1.52%) CCNA
13 8 (1.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 7 (1.18%) CompTIA Security+
15 5 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 4 (0.67%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (8.59%) QA
2 49 (8.25%) Accessibility
3 27 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 23 (3.87%) NIST
5 22 (3.70%) GDPR
6 17 (2.86%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.85%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.35%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.35%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.01%) JTAG
10 5 (0.84%) SLA
11 4 (0.67%) PMO
11 4 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.51%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.51%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.34%) GxP
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 67 (11.28%) Docker
2 26 (4.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.87%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.19%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.68%) KVM
6 9 (1.52%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.35%) Firmware
8 5 (0.84%) vSphere
9 4 (0.67%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.51%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 69 (11.62%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.72%) Terraform
3 14 (2.36%) Ansible
4 12 (2.02%) Grafana
5 7 (1.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.84%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.51%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.51%) Plesk
8 3 (0.51%) Podman
8 3 (0.51%) SCCM
9 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.34%) Kibana
9 2 (0.34%) MaaS360
9 2 (0.34%) Nmap
10 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.17%) CASB
10 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 99 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.55%) VMware
3 26 (4.38%) Cisco
4 22 (3.70%) Databricks
5 17 (2.86%) Oracle
6 12 (2.02%) Meraki
7 10 (1.68%) Splunk
8 7 (1.18%) Google
9 5 (0.84%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.67%) Adobe
10 4 (0.67%) Blue Coat
10 4 (0.67%) F5
10 4 (0.67%) Infoblox
10 4 (0.67%) Motorola
10 4 (0.67%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.67%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.67%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.51%) Apple
11 3 (0.51%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.51%) Veracode