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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 184 97
Rank change year-on-year -60 -87 +9
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 602 520 1,205
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.69% 1.51% 2.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.25% 4.16% 8.44%
Number of salaries quoted 418 309 600
10th Percentile £28,500 £26,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £32,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £68,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £95,000 £85,700 £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 14,162 12,508 14,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 16.29% 36.35% 28.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8,177 4,928 5,757
10th Percentile £30,375 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £32,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £47,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.89% -12.04% +2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 14 October 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 14 October 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 +13 244 £65,000 +18.18% 180
North of England -46 126 £62,500 +13.64% 111
Midlands -57 78 £46,250 +8.82% 54
South West -22 76 £40,000 -15.79% 67
North West -23 56 £55,000 - 57
East of England -37 52 £47,500 +5.56% 77
East Midlands -27 42 £25,000 -28.57% 13
West Midlands -57 36 £55,000 +29.41% 41
Yorkshire -45 35 £62,500 +13.64% 31
North East -54 35 £110,000 +113.59% 24
Wales -71 13 £30,000 -50.00% 15
Scotland -9 7 £82,500 +37.50% 69
Northern Ireland -82 6 £47,500 +50.79% 48
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 20 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
4 6 (1.00%) Confluence
5 4 (0.66%) Apache Spark
5 4 (0.66%) CMS
5 4 (0.66%) WordPress
6 3 (0.50%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.33%) IIS
7 2 (0.33%) Luigi
7 2 (0.33%) Palantir Foundry
8 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.17%) Apache
8 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (1.99%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.33%) EPLAN
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 20 (3.32%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
2 2 (0.33%) SAP CRM
2 2 (0.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
Cloud Services
1 196 (32.56%) Azure
2 153 (25.42%) AWS
3 45 (7.48%) GCP
3 45 (7.48%) SaaS
4 34 (5.65%) Azure DevOps
5 30 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
5 30 (4.98%) Microsoft 365
6 26 (4.32%) Power Platform
7 25 (4.15%) GitHub
8 19 (3.16%) Snowflake
9 13 (2.16%) IaaS
9 13 (2.16%) Serverless
10 11 (1.83%) Azure Functions
10 11 (1.83%) PaaS
11 10 (1.66%) Azure Logic Apps
11 10 (1.66%) Entra ID
11 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Copilot
11 10 (1.66%) OneDrive
12 9 (1.50%) AWS CloudFormation
12 9 (1.50%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.65%) Internet
2 16 (2.66%) VPN
3 14 (2.33%) Firewall
4 12 (1.99%) DNS
5 11 (1.83%) Wireless
6 10 (1.66%) DHCP
6 10 (1.66%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.50%) Network Security
7 9 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
8 8 (1.33%) Profibus
9 7 (1.16%) WAN
10 6 (1.00%) HTTP
10 6 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
10 6 (1.00%) LAN
10 6 (1.00%) MQTT
10 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.66%) Bluetooth
12 3 (0.50%) VLAN
12 3 (0.50%) VoIP
13 2 (0.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (15.78%) SQL Server
2 23 (3.82%) PostgreSQL
2 23 (3.82%) Redis
3 22 (3.65%) Relational Database
4 18 (2.99%) NoSQL
5 15 (2.49%) MySQL
6 14 (2.33%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (1.99%) Metadata
8 11 (1.83%) Power BI
9 10 (1.66%) Spark SQL
10 6 (1.00%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.83%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.83%) Oracle Database
11 5 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.66%) Apache Cassandra
12 4 (0.66%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.50%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 94 (15.61%) Git
2 34 (5.65%) GitLab
3 32 (5.32%) Eclipse
4 31 (5.15%) Subversion
5 26 (4.32%) Jenkins
6 24 (3.99%) JIRA
7 23 (3.82%) JUnit
8 8 (1.33%) Postman
9 6 (1.00%) Burp Suite
9 6 (1.00%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.00%) GDB
10 5 (0.83%) Eclipse RCP
10 5 (0.83%) JMeter
10 5 (0.83%) Selenium
10 5 (0.83%) Zephyr
11 4 (0.66%) Cypress.io
11 4 (0.66%) Robot Framework
12 3 (0.50%) HP UFT
12 3 (0.50%) LoadRunner
12 3 (0.50%) Metasploit
General
1 227 (37.71%) Social Skills
2 90 (14.95%) Analytical Skills
3 76 (12.62%) Finance
4 54 (8.97%) Manufacturing
5 32 (5.32%) Retail
6 31 (5.15%) Aerospace
7 30 (4.98%) Organisational Skills
8 28 (4.65%) Electronics
8 28 (4.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 24 (3.99%) Pharmaceutical
10 21 (3.49%) Law
11 16 (2.66%) Legal
11 16 (2.66%) Public Sector
12 11 (1.83%) Banking
13 9 (1.50%) Marketing
13 9 (1.50%) Publishing
13 9 (1.50%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.33%) Advertising
15 6 (1.00%) Automotive
15 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 177 (29.40%) Developer
2 114 (18.94%) Software Engineer
3 77 (12.79%) Senior
4 64 (10.63%) Software Developer
5 46 (7.64%) Lead
6 45 (7.48%) Architect
6 45 (7.48%) C# Software Engineer
7 42 (6.98%) Graduate
8 41 (6.81%) C++ Software Engineer
9 34 (5.65%) Java Developer
10 33 (5.48%) Full-Stack Developer
11 32 (5.32%) Junior
11 32 (5.32%) Python Engineer
12 30 (4.98%) Web Developer
13 29 (4.82%) Analyst
13 29 (4.82%) Python Software Engineer
14 26 (4.32%) Consultant
15 25 (4.15%) AWS Engineer
15 25 (4.15%) Junior Developer
16 24 (3.99%) AWS Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (16.11%) .NET
2 71 (11.79%) React
3 56 (9.30%) RESTful
4 53 (8.80%) CSS
5 47 (7.81%) HTML
6 35 (5.81%) jQuery
6 35 (5.81%) REST
7 34 (5.65%) Web Services
8 32 (5.32%) Vue
9 31 (5.15%) Node.js
10 28 (4.65%) Jakarta EE
11 27 (4.49%) Struts
12 24 (3.99%) Terraform
13 17 (2.82%) Kafka
13 17 (2.82%) PySpark
14 16 (2.66%) .NET Core
15 13 (2.16%) ARM Templates
16 12 (1.99%) Yocto
17 11 (1.83%) ASP.NET
18 10 (1.66%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.30%) Management Information System
2 35 (5.81%) Cloud Native
3 25 (4.15%) Algorithms
4 24 (3.99%) Distributed Computing
5 20 (3.32%) Onboarding
5 20 (3.32%) Product Ownership
6 18 (2.99%) Robotics
7 17 (2.82%) Data Structures
7 17 (2.82%) Distributed Systems
7 17 (2.82%) Embedded Systems
7 17 (2.82%) IoT
7 17 (2.82%) Life Science
8 15 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
9 12 (1.99%) Device Driver
10 10 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 10 (1.66%) SCADA
11 9 (1.50%) Cyber Threat
11 9 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 9 (1.50%) Security Posture
12 7 (1.16%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 85 (14.12%) Linux
2 28 (4.65%) Windows
3 9 (1.50%) Unix
4 8 (1.33%) Embedded Linux
5 7 (1.16%) Debian
6 6 (1.00%) macOS
6 6 (1.00%) Windows Server
7 5 (0.83%) Android
8 4 (0.66%) Robot Operating System
8 4 (0.66%) Windows 10
9 3 (0.50%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.50%) Gentoo
9 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.50%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.33%) Solaris
10 2 (0.33%) VMS
11 1 (0.17%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (92.19%) Computer Science
2 208 (34.55%) Problem-Solving
3 199 (33.06%) Software Engineering
4 167 (27.74%) AI
5 159 (26.41%) CI/CD
6 141 (23.42%) Agile
6 141 (23.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 100 (16.61%) DevOps
8 93 (15.45%) Mentoring
9 81 (13.46%) Full-Stack Development
10 67 (11.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 62 (10.30%) Test Automation
12 60 (9.97%) Containerisation
13 57 (9.47%) SDLC
14 55 (9.14%) Cybersecurity
15 54 (8.97%) Design Patterns
15 54 (8.97%) Microservices
15 54 (8.97%) Roadmaps
16 53 (8.80%) Data Modelling
17 51 (8.47%) Mathematics
Programming Languages
1 178 (29.57%) Python
2 135 (22.43%) JavaScript
3 120 (19.93%) C#
4 114 (18.94%) C++
5 109 (18.11%) SQL
6 104 (17.28%) Java
7 56 (9.30%) TypeScript
8 49 (8.14%) PHP
9 30 (4.98%) Rust
10 28 (4.65%) PowerShell
11 25 (4.15%) C
11 25 (4.15%) Perl
12 20 (3.32%) Go
13 16 (2.66%) Bash
14 8 (1.33%) Bicep
14 8 (1.33%) Ladder Logic
15 6 (1.00%) Embedded C
15 6 (1.00%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.66%) Delphi
16 4 (0.66%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 602 (100.00%) Degree
2 65 (10.80%) Master's Degree
3 62 (10.30%) Security Cleared
4 40 (6.64%) SC Cleared
5 21 (3.49%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.82%) Azure Certification
6 17 (2.82%) CISSP
7 12 (1.99%) BPSS Clearance
8 11 (1.83%) Cisco Certification
8 11 (1.83%) DBS Check
8 11 (1.83%) PhD
9 10 (1.66%) AWS Certification
9 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
10 8 (1.33%) CEH
10 8 (1.33%) ISTQB
11 6 (1.00%) CCNP
12 5 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 5 (0.83%) CREST Certified
12 5 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.66%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (7.81%) Accessibility
2 46 (7.64%) QA
3 26 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (3.99%) GDPR
5 22 (3.65%) NIST
6 13 (2.16%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.83%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.50%) GxP
9 8 (1.33%) IEC 61131
10 7 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (1.00%) JTAG
11 6 (1.00%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
13 4 (0.66%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 3 (0.50%) GRC
14 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
15 2 (0.33%) HIPAA
15 2 (0.33%) NCSC
15 2 (0.33%) SLA
System Software
1 67 (11.13%) Docker
2 16 (2.66%) Active Directory
3 12 (1.99%) Firmware
4 9 (1.50%) Virtual Desktop
5 8 (1.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (0.83%) Embedded Firmware
6 5 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.17%) Ceph
8 1 (0.17%) KVM
8 1 (0.17%) Lustre
8 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.17%) NFS
8 1 (0.17%) Samba
8 1 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.17%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (9.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (1.33%) Grafana
2 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (0.83%) Ansible
4 4 (0.66%) Kibana
5 3 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
5 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
5 3 (0.50%) Nmap
5 3 (0.50%) Podman
5 3 (0.50%) Prometheus
5 3 (0.50%) SCCM
6 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.33%) MaaS360
6 2 (0.33%) Plesk
7 1 (0.17%) Argo
7 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle ZFS
7 1 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 131 (21.76%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.65%) Oracle
3 15 (2.49%) Databricks
4 12 (1.99%) Cisco
5 10 (1.66%) VMware
6 8 (1.33%) Google
6 8 (1.33%) Meraki
6 8 (1.33%) Siemens
7 5 (0.83%) ServiceNow
8 4 (0.66%) Adobe
8 4 (0.66%) Apple
8 4 (0.66%) OpenAI
8 4 (0.66%) Salesforce
8 4 (0.66%) Splunk
8 4 (0.66%) Thales
9 3 (0.50%) Foundry
9 3 (0.50%) NVIDIA
9 3 (0.50%) Sage
9 3 (0.50%) SAP
9 3 (0.50%) Veracode