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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 252 82 129
Rank change year-on-year -170 +47 +72
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 384 891 1,372
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 3.39% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.50% 7.94% 8.22%
Number of salaries quoted 283 409 1,061
10th Percentile £27,700 £31,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.43% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,250 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £68,750 £64,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.59% +7.50% -1.48%

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 15,335 11,228 16,687
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.84% 42.77% 27.20%
Number of salaries quoted 5,559 5,154 11,545
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,500 £35,529
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £56,500 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.64% +5.51% -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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -52 146 £65,000 +8.33% 109
North of England -124 87 £55,000 - 41
Midlands -166 49 £45,000 +28.57% 27
Yorkshire -85 46 £70,000 +51.69% 13
East of England -48 42 £57,500 +8.49% 43
South West -39 39 £62,500 -7.41% 15
West Midlands -133 26 £43,000 +22.86% 11
East Midlands -90 24 £55,000 +57.14% 16
North West -87 21 £55,000 - 24
North East -21 20 £51,500 -8.85% 4
Northern Ireland -41 9 £40,000 -48.39% 2
Scotland -30 8 £80,350 +98.40% 5
Wales -25 5 £70,000 +7.69% 9
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 (3.39%) IIS
2 11 (2.86%) Confluence
3 10 (2.60%) SAS
3 10 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.30%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) Apache
5 2 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.60%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.82%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.52%) Weka
4 2 (0.52%) Windchill
5 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 164 (42.71%) Azure
2 132 (34.38%) AWS
3 44 (11.46%) Serverless
4 42 (10.94%) GCP
5 31 (8.07%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (5.21%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (4.17%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.65%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.39%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.13%) PaaS
11 11 (2.86%) SaaS
12 10 (2.60%) GitHub
13 7 (1.82%) Azure Logic Apps
14 6 (1.56%) Entra ID
14 6 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
14 6 (1.56%) Google Workspace
14 6 (1.56%) OneDrive
14 6 (1.56%) Power Automate
15 5 (1.30%) AWS CloudFormation
16 4 (1.04%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 25 (6.51%) Firewall
2 18 (4.69%) VPN
2 18 (4.69%) WAN
3 16 (4.17%) LAN
4 15 (3.91%) Network Security
4 15 (3.91%) VLAN
5 14 (3.65%) BGP
6 11 (2.86%) OSPF
7 10 (2.60%) Cisco ASA
7 10 (2.60%) Internet
7 10 (2.60%) TCP/IP
7 10 (2.60%) Wireless
8 9 (2.34%) SNMP
9 8 (2.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (2.08%) Cisco Wireless
9 8 (2.08%) EIGRP
9 8 (2.08%) WAAS
9 8 (2.08%) Wireless Security
10 7 (1.82%) MPLS
11 6 (1.56%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 49 (12.76%) SQL Server
2 23 (5.99%) MySQL
3 15 (3.91%) PostgreSQL
4 14 (3.65%) Big Data
5 13 (3.39%) Amazon Redshift
6 11 (2.86%) Power BI
7 10 (2.60%) Metadata
7 10 (2.60%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.08%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.08%) Relational Database
9 6 (1.56%) Data Mining
10 4 (1.04%) Hadoop
10 4 (1.04%) Tableau
11 3 (0.78%) Data Lake
11 3 (0.78%) SAP BW
11 3 (0.78%) SAP HANA
12 2 (0.52%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.52%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 38 (9.90%) JIRA
2 25 (6.51%) Git
3 10 (2.60%) Cypress.io
4 8 (2.08%) Bitbucket
5 7 (1.82%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.30%) GitLab
7 3 (0.78%) ERwin
7 3 (0.78%) PowerDesigner
7 3 (0.78%) Selenium
8 2 (0.52%) JMeter
8 2 (0.52%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.52%) TestRail
8 2 (0.52%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.52%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.26%) Browser DevTools
9 1 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 1 (0.26%) MLflow
9 1 (0.26%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.26%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.26%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 159 (41.41%) Social Skills
2 70 (18.23%) Finance
3 57 (14.84%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.29%) Manufacturing
5 17 (4.43%) Retail
6 16 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
7 15 (3.91%) Law
8 13 (3.39%) Public Sector
9 12 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 11 (2.86%) Electronics
11 7 (1.82%) Advertising
11 7 (1.82%) Marketing
11 7 (1.82%) Telecoms
12 6 (1.56%) Banking
12 6 (1.56%) Legal
12 6 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.04%) Dutch Language
13 4 (1.04%) Police
13 4 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 77 (20.05%) Software Engineer
2 73 (19.01%) Developer
3 51 (13.28%) Senior
4 50 (13.02%) Architect
5 33 (8.59%) Graduate
6 29 (7.55%) Software Developer
7 27 (7.03%) Python Engineer
8 25 (6.51%) Lead
8 25 (6.51%) Support Engineer
9 24 (6.25%) IT Support
9 24 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
10 23 (5.99%) Software Architect
11 21 (5.47%) C# Developer
12 20 (5.21%) Analyst
12 20 (5.21%) SQL Developer
13 19 (4.95%) IT Engineer
14 18 (4.69%) C# Software Developer
14 18 (4.69%) Graduate C# Developer
14 18 (4.69%) Graduate C# Software Developer
14 18 (4.69%) Graduate Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (13.80%) CSS
2 41 (10.68%) .NET
3 37 (9.64%) React
4 36 (9.38%) HTML
5 30 (7.81%) REST
6 26 (6.77%) jQuery
7 25 (6.51%) Middleware
8 21 (5.47%) Node.js
9 17 (4.43%) .NET Framework
10 15 (3.91%) SOAP
10 15 (3.91%) WinForms
11 13 (3.39%) ASP.NET
12 12 (3.13%) Playwright
13 11 (2.86%) Entity Framework
13 11 (2.86%) Vue
14 10 (2.60%) RESTful
15 9 (2.34%) JSON
15 9 (2.34%) XML
16 8 (2.08%) Django
16 8 (2.08%) FastAPI
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 24 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 18 (4.69%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.39%) Client/Server
4 13 (3.39%) Cloud Native
4 13 (3.39%) Data Centre
5 12 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
7 9 (2.34%) Driving Licence
7 9 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 7 (1.82%) Algorithms
8 7 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 7 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
8 7 (1.82%) Low-Code
8 7 (1.82%) Operational Technology
9 6 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 5 (1.30%) Hybrid Cloud
10 5 (1.30%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.04%) SCADA
11 4 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.80%) Linux
2 42 (10.94%) Windows
3 15 (3.91%) Android
4 9 (2.34%) Mac OS
5 6 (1.56%) Unix
6 4 (1.04%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.26%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 358 (93.23%) Computer Science
2 123 (32.03%) Problem-Solving
3 111 (28.91%) Agile
4 100 (26.04%) Software Engineering
5 92 (23.96%) DevOps
6 84 (21.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 69 (17.97%) CI/CD
8 62 (16.15%) Mentoring
9 46 (11.98%) Data Modelling
10 43 (11.20%) Test Automation
11 41 (10.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 40 (10.42%) AI
13 38 (9.90%) SDLC
14 37 (9.64%) ITIL
15 36 (9.38%) Microservices
16 34 (8.85%) Analytics
16 34 (8.85%) Collaborative Culture
16 34 (8.85%) Stakeholder Management
17 32 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
17 32 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 128 (33.33%) Python
2 103 (26.82%) SQL
3 84 (21.88%) C#
4 72 (18.75%) JavaScript
5 69 (17.97%) Java
6 59 (15.36%) C++
7 38 (9.90%) TypeScript
8 34 (8.85%) PHP
9 26 (6.77%) PowerShell
10 24 (6.25%) C
11 15 (3.91%) Rust
12 12 (3.13%) T-SQL
13 8 (2.08%) Bash
13 8 (2.08%) PL/SQL
14 5 (1.30%) Delphi
15 4 (1.04%) Bicep
15 4 (1.04%) R
16 3 (0.78%) Julia
16 3 (0.78%) Scala
17 2 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 384 (100.00%) Degree
2 50 (13.02%) Master's Degree
3 31 (8.07%) Microsoft Certification
4 29 (7.55%) AWS Certification
5 27 (7.03%) Azure Certification
6 25 (6.51%) Security Cleared
7 24 (6.25%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 23 (5.99%) TOGAF Certification
9 20 (5.21%) BPSS Clearance
10 19 (4.95%) SC Cleared
11 17 (4.43%) Cisco Certification
12 15 (3.91%) CCNP
13 12 (3.13%) CCIE
13 12 (3.13%) Chartered Engineer
13 12 (3.13%) CISSP
14 11 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
15 10 (2.60%) DBS Check
15 10 (2.60%) ISTQB
16 9 (2.34%) CISM
16 9 (2.34%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.64%) QA
2 21 (5.47%) Accessibility
2 21 (5.47%) Data Quality
2 21 (5.47%) NIST
3 20 (5.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 12 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 10 (2.60%) GDPR
6 9 (2.34%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (2.08%) PMO
8 7 (1.82%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.56%) NCSC
10 4 (1.04%) GxP
11 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.78%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.52%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 2 (0.52%) ECSS
12 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.52%) SLA
13 1 (0.26%) ISO 9001
13 1 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 34 (8.85%) Docker
2 20 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (3.91%) Hyper-V
4 13 (3.39%) KVM
5 12 (3.13%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.08%) ProxySG
7 4 (1.04%) vSphere
8 3 (0.78%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.52%) Firmware
9 2 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.26%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 36 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 22 (5.73%) Terraform
3 12 (3.13%) Grafana
4 11 (2.86%) Ansible
5 10 (2.60%) Prometheus
6 8 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (1.82%) Control-M
8 5 (1.30%) SCCM
9 4 (1.04%) Nagios
9 4 (1.04%) vCenter Server
10 3 (0.78%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.52%) Kibana
12 1 (0.26%) CASB
12 1 (0.26%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.26%) FortiGate
12 1 (0.26%) Graylog
12 1 (0.26%) Nessus
12 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 83 (21.61%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.73%) Cisco
3 21 (5.47%) VMware
4 14 (3.65%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.39%) Oracle
6 11 (2.86%) CheckPoint
7 10 (2.60%) Sage
7 10 (2.60%) SAP
7 10 (2.60%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.34%) F5
9 8 (2.08%) Blue Coat
9 8 (2.08%) Infoblox
9 8 (2.08%) Motorola
9 8 (2.08%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.82%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.82%) Splunk
11 6 (1.56%) Google
11 6 (1.56%) Meraki
11 6 (1.56%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.30%) Databricks