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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 167 110
Rank change year-on-year -62 -57 +23
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 582 670 1,367
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.95% 2.22%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.24% 5.32% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 476 397 950
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £34,500 £39,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £70,938
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,000 £82,750
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 13,739 12,584 15,433
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.37% 36.70% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 6,989 5,333 8,833
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £34,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £66,181
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £80,000
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 1 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 1 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 -9 241 £65,000 +13.04% 99
North of England -50 125 £62,500 +13.64% 46
South West -56 69 £41,250 -17.50% 34
Midlands -73 62 £40,000 -5.88% 50
East of England -35 60 £45,000 -10.00% 37
North West -49 47 £40,000 -27.27% 27
Yorkshire -22 42 £68,750 +14.58% 13
North East -31 36 £98,750 +269.16% 6
East Midlands -24 33 £26,000 -25.71% 33
West Midlands -78 29 £43,000 +1.18% 17
Wales -53 16 £72,500 +20.83% 16
Northern Ireland -80 6 £40,000 -63.64% 9
Scotland -10 3 £74,250 +42.22% 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 13 (2.23%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.37%) SAS
3 7 (1.20%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.69%) CMS
4 4 (0.69%) Confluence
4 4 (0.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.69%) 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 (0.69%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.52%) 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
1 224 (38.49%) Azure
2 174 (29.90%) AWS
3 58 (9.97%) GCP
4 35 (6.01%) SaaS
5 29 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.64%) Serverless
7 23 (3.95%) Microsoft 365
8 21 (3.61%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.58%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (2.58%) Snowflake
10 14 (2.41%) Azure Functions
10 14 (2.41%) IaaS
11 13 (2.23%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (2.06%) PaaS
13 11 (1.89%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.89%) GitHub
14 10 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
15 9 (1.55%) Power Automate
16 7 (1.20%) Entra ID
17 6 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.64%) Firewall
1 27 (4.64%) Internet
1 27 (4.64%) VPN
1 27 (4.64%) WAN
2 20 (3.44%) LAN
3 16 (2.75%) Network Security
3 16 (2.75%) Wireless
4 15 (2.58%) DHCP
4 15 (2.58%) DNS
5 14 (2.41%) BGP
6 10 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (1.55%) MPLS
7 9 (1.55%) TCP/IP
7 9 (1.55%) VLAN
8 8 (1.37%) SD-WAN
8 8 (1.37%) VoIP
9 6 (1.03%) MQTT
9 6 (1.03%) SNMP
9 6 (1.03%) ZigBee
10 5 (0.86%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (17.53%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.12%) MySQL
2 24 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (3.61%) Relational Database
4 18 (3.09%) Redis
5 16 (2.75%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.58%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.06%) Big Data
7 12 (2.06%) Power BI
7 12 (2.06%) Spark SQL
8 11 (1.89%) Metadata
9 10 (1.72%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.03%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.03%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.69%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.69%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.34%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 74 (12.71%) Git
2 28 (4.81%) Eclipse
3 26 (4.47%) JIRA
4 25 (4.30%) Subversion
5 19 (3.26%) JUnit
6 18 (3.09%) Jenkins
7 17 (2.92%) GitLab
8 7 (1.20%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.03%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.03%) GDB
10 5 (0.86%) Eclipse RCP
10 5 (0.86%) JMeter
11 4 (0.69%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.69%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.69%) Selenium
12 3 (0.52%) Gatling
12 3 (0.52%) Polyspace
12 3 (0.52%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.52%) SonarQube
12 3 (0.52%) VectorCAST
General
1 189 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 80 (13.75%) Finance
3 79 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (6.19%) Manufacturing
5 27 (4.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 25 (4.30%) Law
6 25 (4.30%) Public Sector
7 17 (2.92%) Electronics
7 17 (2.92%) Organisational Skills
7 17 (2.92%) Retail
8 16 (2.75%) Legal
9 15 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
10 14 (2.41%) Aerospace
11 11 (1.89%) Marketing
12 9 (1.55%) Advertising
12 9 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.37%) Banking
14 6 (1.03%) Automotive
15 5 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.86%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 180 (30.93%) Developer
2 134 (23.02%) Software Engineer
3 78 (13.40%) Software Developer
4 61 (10.48%) Senior
5 59 (10.14%) Graduate
6 52 (8.93%) Python Engineer
7 50 (8.59%) C++ Software Engineer
8 49 (8.42%) C# Software Engineer
9 48 (8.25%) Lead
10 45 (7.73%) Python Software Engineer
11 40 (6.87%) Architect
12 39 (6.70%) Graduate Developer
13 36 (6.19%) Graduate Software Developer
14 33 (5.67%) Java Developer
15 31 (5.33%) Web Developer
16 29 (4.98%) C# Developer
17 27 (4.64%) Full-Stack Developer
18 26 (4.47%) Data Engineer
19 24 (4.12%) Graduate C# Software Developer
19 24 (4.12%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (15.98%) .NET
2 67 (11.51%) CSS
3 66 (11.34%) React
4 52 (8.93%) jQuery
5 51 (8.76%) RESTful
6 47 (8.08%) HTML
7 35 (6.01%) REST
8 29 (4.98%) Vue
9 28 (4.81%) Web Services
10 25 (4.30%) Node.js
11 24 (4.12%) Jakarta EE
12 23 (3.95%) Struts
13 18 (3.09%) .NET Core
14 17 (2.92%) ARM Templates
15 16 (2.75%) Kafka
15 16 (2.75%) PySpark
16 13 (2.23%) JSON
17 12 (2.06%) AngularJS
18 11 (1.89%) XML
19 10 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 37 (6.36%) Cloud Native
2 36 (6.19%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.12%) Distributed Systems
4 20 (3.44%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.09%) Distributed Computing
6 17 (2.92%) Embedded Systems
7 16 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.75%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.58%) Virtual Team
9 13 (2.23%) Data Structures
9 13 (2.23%) IoT
9 13 (2.23%) Onboarding
10 12 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
11 11 (1.89%) Client/Server
12 10 (1.72%) Device Driver
12 10 (1.72%) Robotics
13 9 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
13 9 (1.55%) Life Science
13 9 (1.55%) Security Posture
14 8 (1.37%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 87 (14.95%) Linux
2 32 (5.50%) Windows
3 16 (2.75%) Unix
4 11 (1.89%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.20%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.86%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.69%) Android
8 3 (0.52%) Debian
8 3 (0.52%) Gentoo
8 3 (0.52%) Kali Linux
9 2 (0.34%) Solaris
9 2 (0.34%) VMS
9 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
10 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (90.21%) Computer Science
2 194 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 180 (30.93%) Problem-Solving
4 148 (25.43%) CI/CD
5 145 (24.91%) Agile
6 123 (21.13%) AI
7 115 (19.76%) Continuous Improvement
8 106 (18.21%) DevOps
9 75 (12.89%) Test Automation
10 70 (12.03%) Full-Stack Development
11 68 (11.68%) Mentoring
12 56 (9.62%) Containerisation
13 51 (8.76%) Microservices
14 49 (8.42%) Data Modelling
15 48 (8.25%) Scrum
15 48 (8.25%) SDLC
16 46 (7.90%) Web Development
17 44 (7.56%) Analytics
18 43 (7.39%) Infrastructure as Code
19 42 (7.22%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 198 (34.02%) Python
2 144 (24.74%) C#
3 140 (24.05%) C++
4 129 (22.16%) SQL
5 117 (20.10%) JavaScript
6 100 (17.18%) Java
7 70 (12.03%) PHP
8 53 (9.11%) TypeScript
9 38 (6.53%) Rust
10 37 (6.36%) PowerShell
11 32 (5.50%) C
12 21 (3.61%) Perl
13 17 (2.92%) Bash
13 17 (2.92%) Go
14 8 (1.37%) Bicep
15 6 (1.03%) Scala
16 5 (0.86%) VB.NET
17 4 (0.69%) Delphi
17 4 (0.69%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.69%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 582 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (12.03%) Master's Degree
3 50 (8.59%) Security Cleared
4 34 (5.84%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.12%) Cisco Certification
6 20 (3.44%) DV Cleared
7 18 (3.09%) PhD
8 16 (2.75%) CCNP
9 15 (2.58%) CISSP
10 13 (2.23%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.89%) Azure Certification
12 10 (1.72%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.55%) AWS Certification
13 9 (1.55%) CCIE
13 9 (1.55%) CCNA
14 8 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 7 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (0.86%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 4 (0.69%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (8.59%) QA
2 47 (8.08%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.12%) NIST
5 21 (3.61%) GDPR
6 16 (2.75%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.06%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.37%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.03%) JTAG
10 5 (0.86%) SLA
11 4 (0.69%) PMO
11 4 (0.69%) Software Quality Assurance
12 3 (0.52%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.52%) ISO 26262
13 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
14 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.17%) ISO 9001
14 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 65 (11.17%) Docker
2 26 (4.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (3.61%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.23%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.72%) KVM
6 9 (1.55%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.37%) Firmware
8 5 (0.86%) vSphere
9 4 (0.69%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.69%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.52%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (12.03%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.19%) Terraform
3 14 (2.41%) Ansible
4 12 (2.06%) Grafana
5 7 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.86%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.69%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.52%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.52%) Plesk
8 3 (0.52%) Podman
8 3 (0.52%) SCCM
9 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.34%) Kibana
9 2 (0.34%) MaaS360
10 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.17%) Argo
10 1 (0.17%) CASB
10 1 (0.17%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 95 (16.32%) Microsoft
2 27 (4.64%) VMware
3 25 (4.30%) Cisco
4 22 (3.78%) Databricks
5 17 (2.92%) Oracle
6 11 (1.89%) Meraki
7 10 (1.72%) Splunk
8 7 (1.20%) Google
9 5 (0.86%) CheckPoint
10 4 (0.69%) Adobe
10 4 (0.69%) Blue Coat
10 4 (0.69%) F5
10 4 (0.69%) Infoblox
10 4 (0.69%) Motorola
10 4 (0.69%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.69%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.69%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.52%) Apple
11 3 (0.52%) Fortinet
11 3 (0.52%) Veracode