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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 236 176 96
Rank change year-on-year -60 -80 +30
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 600 575 1,303
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.72% 1.67% 2.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.20% 4.63% 8.97%
Number of salaries quoted 464 326 780
10th Percentile £25,000 £25,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,938 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +13.00% -4.76% -12.50%
75th Percentile £72,500 £67,188 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -7.69%

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 14,271 12,413 14,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.14% 36.01% 26.23%
Number of salaries quoted 7,583 5,000 6,765
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,850
25th Percentile £42,000 £33,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,063 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -0.90% -4.31%

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 September 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 September 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 +5 251 £65,000 +13.04% 236
North of England -52 119 £62,500 +13.64% 130
South West -40 74 £42,500 -10.53% 115
Midlands -70 71 £40,000 -5.88% 101
East of England -40 58 £42,500 -1.73% 118
North West -30 48 £40,000 -27.27% 80
Yorkshire -30 38 £68,750 +19.57% 33
East Midlands -24 36 £25,000 -28.57% 42
West Midlands -69 35 £47,500 +11.76% 59
North East -40 33 £110,000 +285.96% 17
Wales -66 19 £65,000 +8.33% 15
Scotland -19 5 £82,500 +50.00% 104
Northern Ireland -92 3 £35,000 -50.53% 40
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 17 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.00%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.00%) Confluence
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) WordPress
5 3 (0.50%) SAS
6 2 (0.33%) IIS
6 2 (0.33%) Luigi
7 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
7 1 (0.17%) Apache
7 1 (0.17%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.17%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.33%) EPLAN
2 2 (0.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
2 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.33%) Integrated Workplace Management System
3 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
3 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
3 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 214 (35.67%) Azure
2 161 (26.83%) AWS
3 48 (8.00%) GCP
4 43 (7.17%) SaaS
5 32 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.50%) Microsoft 365
7 23 (3.83%) Power Platform
8 21 (3.50%) Serverless
9 20 (3.33%) GitHub
10 18 (3.00%) Snowflake
11 16 (2.67%) Azure Functions
12 15 (2.50%) Azure Logic Apps
12 15 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
13 13 (2.17%) Azure Data Factory
13 13 (2.17%) IaaS
14 11 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.83%) Entra ID
14 11 (1.83%) PaaS
15 9 (1.50%) Power Automate
15 9 (1.50%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 30 (5.00%) Internet
2 23 (3.83%) VPN
3 22 (3.67%) Firewall
4 20 (3.33%) WAN
5 18 (3.00%) DNS
6 17 (2.83%) DHCP
7 14 (2.33%) LAN
8 12 (2.00%) Network Security
8 12 (2.00%) Wireless
9 11 (1.83%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.67%) BGP
11 9 (1.50%) Wi-Fi
12 7 (1.17%) MPLS
13 6 (1.00%) HTTP
13 6 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
13 6 (1.00%) MQTT
13 6 (1.00%) SD-WAN
13 6 (1.00%) VoIP
13 6 (1.00%) ZigBee
14 5 (0.83%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (17.17%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 24 (4.00%) Relational Database
3 22 (3.67%) Redis
4 17 (2.83%) Data Warehouse
4 17 (2.83%) MySQL
5 15 (2.50%) NoSQL
6 12 (2.00%) Spark SQL
7 11 (1.83%) Power BI
8 10 (1.67%) Metadata
9 8 (1.33%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.00%) Big Data
10 6 (1.00%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.83%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.50%) Amazon RDS
13 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 85 (14.17%) Git
2 32 (5.33%) Eclipse
3 30 (5.00%) Subversion
4 27 (4.50%) JIRA
5 25 (4.17%) GitLab
6 23 (3.83%) JUnit
7 22 (3.67%) Jenkins
8 7 (1.17%) Burp Suite
8 7 (1.17%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.00%) GDB
9 6 (1.00%) JMeter
10 5 (0.83%) Cypress.io
10 5 (0.83%) Eclipse RCP
10 5 (0.83%) Postman
10 5 (0.83%) Selenium
11 4 (0.67%) Gatling
11 4 (0.67%) HP UFT
11 4 (0.67%) REST Assured
11 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.67%) SonarQube
General
1 214 (35.67%) Social Skills
2 86 (14.33%) Analytical Skills
3 80 (13.33%) Finance
4 40 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 31 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (4.83%) Aerospace
7 25 (4.17%) Law
7 25 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 24 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
9 23 (3.83%) Public Sector
10 21 (3.50%) Electronics
11 19 (3.17%) Retail
12 16 (2.67%) Legal
13 10 (1.67%) Banking
13 10 (1.67%) Telecoms
14 9 (1.50%) Marketing
14 9 (1.50%) Publishing
15 8 (1.33%) Advertising
16 7 (1.17%) Automotive
17 6 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 185 (30.83%) Developer
2 124 (20.67%) Software Engineer
3 77 (12.83%) Software Developer
4 63 (10.50%) Senior
5 55 (9.17%) Graduate
6 48 (8.00%) C# Software Engineer
7 47 (7.83%) Lead
8 45 (7.50%) C++ Software Engineer
9 44 (7.33%) Architect
10 42 (7.00%) Python Engineer
11 37 (6.17%) Python Software Engineer
12 36 (6.00%) Graduate Developer
12 36 (6.00%) Java Developer
13 32 (5.33%) Web Developer
14 31 (5.17%) Graduate Software Developer
14 31 (5.17%) Junior
15 29 (4.83%) Full-Stack Developer
16 28 (4.67%) Analyst
17 26 (4.33%) Junior Developer
18 24 (4.00%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 96 (16.00%) .NET
2 67 (11.17%) React
3 60 (10.00%) CSS
4 54 (9.00%) RESTful
5 48 (8.00%) jQuery
6 44 (7.33%) HTML
7 35 (5.83%) REST
8 33 (5.50%) Vue
9 32 (5.33%) Web Services
10 31 (5.17%) Terraform
11 28 (4.67%) Jakarta EE
12 27 (4.50%) Node.js
12 27 (4.50%) Struts
13 17 (2.83%) .NET Core
13 17 (2.83%) Kafka
13 17 (2.83%) PySpark
14 16 (2.67%) ARM Templates
15 13 (2.17%) JSON
16 11 (1.83%) AngularJS
16 11 (1.83%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 56 (9.33%) Management Information System
2 36 (6.00%) Cloud Native
3 22 (3.67%) Distributed Computing
4 19 (3.17%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.00%) Embedded Systems
5 18 (3.00%) Life Science
6 17 (2.83%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (2.83%) Product Ownership
6 17 (2.83%) Robotics
7 16 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 16 (2.67%) Virtual Team
8 15 (2.50%) Data Structures
8 15 (2.50%) IoT
9 14 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
10 13 (2.17%) Data Centre
10 13 (2.17%) Security Posture
11 10 (1.67%) AI Agents
11 10 (1.67%) Device Driver
12 8 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
13 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.00%) Linux
2 32 (5.33%) Windows
3 12 (2.00%) Unix
3 12 (2.00%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
5 6 (1.00%) Debian
6 5 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 4 (0.67%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.67%) Robot Operating System
7 4 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) Gentoo
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 2 (0.33%) Solaris
9 2 (0.33%) VMS
9 2 (0.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 547 (91.17%) Computer Science
2 196 (32.67%) Problem-Solving
3 195 (32.50%) Software Engineering
4 154 (25.67%) AI
4 154 (25.67%) CI/CD
5 145 (24.17%) Agile
6 125 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 103 (17.17%) DevOps
8 85 (14.17%) Mentoring
9 73 (12.17%) Full-Stack Development
10 67 (11.17%) Test Automation
11 56 (9.33%) Containerisation
12 52 (8.67%) Data Modelling
13 51 (8.50%) SDLC
14 49 (8.17%) Microservices
14 49 (8.17%) Scrum
14 49 (8.17%) Stakeholder Management
14 49 (8.17%) Web Development
15 48 (8.00%) Design Patterns
15 48 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 193 (32.17%) Python
2 140 (23.33%) C#
3 128 (21.33%) C++
4 124 (20.67%) JavaScript
5 120 (20.00%) SQL
6 104 (17.33%) Java
7 66 (11.00%) PHP
8 52 (8.67%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.17%) PowerShell
10 31 (5.17%) Rust
11 25 (4.17%) C
11 25 (4.17%) Perl
12 19 (3.17%) Bash
13 17 (2.83%) Go
14 7 (1.17%) Bicep
15 5 (0.83%) Scala
16 4 (0.67%) Delphi
16 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
16 4 (0.67%) Embedded C++
16 4 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 600 (100.00%) Degree
2 65 (10.83%) Master's Degree
3 58 (9.67%) Security Cleared
4 38 (6.33%) SC Cleared
5 26 (4.33%) DV Cleared
6 17 (2.83%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (2.83%) CISSP
7 16 (2.67%) PhD
8 12 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 11 (1.83%) Azure Certification
9 11 (1.83%) CCNP
10 9 (1.50%) ISTQB
11 8 (1.33%) AWS Certification
11 8 (1.33%) DBS Check
11 8 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (1.17%) CEH
13 6 (1.00%) CCNA
14 5 (0.83%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.83%) CompTIA Security+
15 4 (0.67%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.67%) QA
2 49 (8.17%) Accessibility
3 29 (4.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.00%) NIST
5 23 (3.83%) GDPR
6 12 (2.00%) Data Quality
7 9 (1.50%) GxP
7 9 (1.50%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.17%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.00%) JTAG
10 5 (0.83%) Def Stans
10 5 (0.83%) Software Quality Assurance
11 4 (0.67%) IEC 61508
11 4 (0.67%) SLA
12 3 (0.50%) GRC
12 3 (0.50%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.50%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.33%) IEC 61131
13 2 (0.33%) NCSC
System Software
1 67 (11.17%) Docker
2 23 (3.83%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.17%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (1.50%) Firmware
5 8 (1.33%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 7 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.83%) vSphere
8 4 (0.67%) Embedded Firmware
8 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.50%) KVM
10 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.17%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 66 (11.00%) Kubernetes
2 13 (2.17%) Ansible
3 10 (1.67%) Grafana
4 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.67%) HP Fortify
5 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
5 4 (0.67%) SCCM
5 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
6 3 (0.50%) Kibana
6 3 (0.50%) Nmap
6 3 (0.50%) Plesk
6 3 (0.50%) Podman
7 2 (0.33%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.33%) MaaS360
8 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 1 (0.17%) Argo
8 1 (0.17%) CloudHub
8 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
8 1 (0.17%) Packer
Vendors
1 116 (19.33%) Microsoft
2 22 (3.67%) Databricks
3 20 (3.33%) VMware
4 18 (3.00%) Cisco
5 17 (2.83%) Oracle
6 10 (1.67%) Meraki
7 9 (1.50%) Splunk
8 7 (1.17%) Google
9 4 (0.67%) Adobe
9 4 (0.67%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.67%) Salesforce
9 4 (0.67%) Veracode
10 3 (0.50%) Apple
10 3 (0.50%) NVIDIA
10 3 (0.50%) Sage
10 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.33%) Freshdesk
11 2 (0.33%) IFS
11 2 (0.33%) MuleSoft
11 2 (0.33%) Siemens