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 7 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 173 97 107
Rank change year-on-year -76 +10 +44
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 522 1,154 899
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.48% 2.40% 2.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.56% 8.26% 8.63%
Number of salaries quoted 316 545 716
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% -11.67% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £81,875
UK median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +17.12%

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 11,457 13,973 10,419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.57% 29.08% 34.09%
Number of salaries quoted 5,155 5,544 6,906
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,683 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.30% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £66,250 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +3.60%

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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 2025. 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 -34 174 £50,000 -21.57% 614
North of England -50 120 £55,000 +10.00% 113
Midlands -60 89 £41,434 +18.38% 64
West Midlands -43 61 £41,434 +18.38% 34
North West -51 53 £57,500 +15.00% 47
East of England -21 52 £47,500 -20.83% 80
Yorkshire +5 49 £55,000 +19.57% 36
South West -6 42 £48,750 -22.00% 50
East Midlands -32 31 £39,000 +11.43% 26
Scotland -29 22 £60,000 +9.09% 66
North East +6 18 £51,500 +14.44% 32
Wales +1 13 £56,250 +26.85% 19
Northern Ireland -18 10 £36,000 -26.15% 23
Isle of Man +9 1 - -
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 24 (4.60%) IIS
2 10 (1.92%) Apache Spark
3 7 (1.34%) Confluence
4 6 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.57%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.57%) CMS
5 3 (0.57%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.38%) ArcGIS
6 2 (0.38%) SAS
6 2 (0.38%) SharePoint
7 1 (0.19%) Apache
7 1 (0.19%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.72%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.53%) AutoCAD
4 8 (1.53%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.38%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.19%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
1 6 (1.15%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.15%) NetSuite
1 6 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.19%) Pegasus Opera
3 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 173 (33.14%) Azure
2 104 (19.92%) AWS
3 42 (8.05%) GCP
4 30 (5.75%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (5.75%) Power Platform
5 29 (5.56%) SaaS
6 23 (4.41%) GitHub
7 22 (4.21%) Serverless
8 14 (2.68%) Microsoft 365
9 13 (2.49%) Azure Monitor
9 13 (2.49%) Google Workspace
10 11 (2.11%) Dynamics 365
11 9 (1.72%) Amazon S3
11 9 (1.72%) AWS Lambda
11 9 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (1.72%) PaaS
12 7 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
12 7 (1.34%) Entra ID
13 4 (0.77%) Amazon EMR
13 4 (0.77%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 21 (4.02%) Firewall
2 17 (3.26%) VLAN
3 12 (2.30%) SAN
4 10 (1.92%) TCP/IP
5 9 (1.72%) DNS
6 8 (1.53%) DHCP
6 8 (1.53%) Network Security
6 8 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (1.34%) Modbus
7 7 (1.34%) VPN
7 7 (1.34%) Wireshark
8 5 (0.96%) Bluetooth
8 5 (0.96%) Intrusion Detection
8 5 (0.96%) NAS
8 5 (0.96%) VoIP
9 4 (0.77%) HTTP
9 4 (0.77%) Internet
9 4 (0.77%) IP Telephony
9 4 (0.77%) SNMP
9 4 (0.77%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 75 (14.37%) SQL Server
2 36 (6.90%) MySQL
3 26 (4.98%) Power BI
4 24 (4.60%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (3.45%) NoSQL
6 15 (2.87%) Data Lake
7 14 (2.68%) Big Data
7 14 (2.68%) Relational Database
7 14 (2.68%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 11 (2.11%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.92%) Hadoop
10 9 (1.72%) Metadata
11 7 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
12 6 (1.15%) MongoDB
12 6 (1.15%) Oracle Database
13 5 (0.96%) Data Mining
13 5 (0.96%) Tableau
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.77%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 44 (8.43%) JIRA
2 36 (6.90%) Git
3 12 (2.30%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 7 (1.34%) Cypress.io
6 6 (1.15%) GitLab
6 6 (1.15%) Octopus Deploy
7 5 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.77%) Burp Suite
8 4 (0.77%) Maven
8 4 (0.77%) Metasploit
8 4 (0.77%) Selenium
9 3 (0.57%) Artifactory
9 3 (0.57%) ERwin
9 3 (0.57%) PowerDesigner
9 3 (0.57%) SonarQube
9 3 (0.57%) TeamCity
9 3 (0.57%) Visual Studio Code
9 3 (0.57%) Vite
9 3 (0.57%) WebDriver
General
1 256 (49.04%) Social Skills
2 115 (22.03%) Finance
3 77 (14.75%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (7.47%) Law
5 31 (5.94%) Manufacturing
6 18 (3.45%) Legal
7 17 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (3.07%) Documentation Skills
9 15 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.49%) Advertising
10 13 (2.49%) Banking
10 13 (2.49%) Marketing
10 13 (2.49%) Retail
11 12 (2.30%) Public Sector
12 11 (2.11%) Aerospace
12 11 (2.11%) Electronics
13 10 (1.92%) Back Office
14 9 (1.72%) Telecoms
15 8 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 117 (22.41%) Developer
2 61 (11.69%) Architect
3 48 (9.20%) Senior
4 47 (9.00%) Graduate
5 44 (8.43%) Support Engineer
6 39 (7.47%) Software Engineer
7 34 (6.51%) Analyst
8 33 (6.32%) Graduate Developer
9 30 (5.75%) IT Graduate
9 30 (5.75%) Software Architect
10 25 (4.79%) IT Support
11 24 (4.60%) Technical Support
12 23 (4.41%) IT Engineer
13 20 (3.83%) IT Support Engineer
13 20 (3.83%) Software Developer
14 19 (3.64%) Lead
15 18 (3.45%) Junior
16 17 (3.26%) C# Developer
16 17 (3.26%) Full-Stack Developer
17 16 (3.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (15.52%) HTML
2 72 (13.79%) .NET
3 63 (12.07%) CSS
4 41 (7.85%) ASP.NET
5 33 (6.32%) jQuery
5 33 (6.32%) React
6 25 (4.79%) Middleware
7 23 (4.41%) .NET Framework
7 23 (4.41%) REST
8 22 (4.21%) WinForms
9 20 (3.83%) PyTorch
9 20 (3.83%) TensorFlow
10 15 (2.87%) RESTful
11 14 (2.68%) Hugging Face
11 14 (2.68%) LangChain
12 13 (2.49%) AngularJS
12 13 (2.49%) Spring
12 13 (2.49%) Vue
13 12 (2.30%) Entity Framework
13 12 (2.30%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.20%) Management Information System
2 25 (4.79%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (4.79%) Self-Motivation
3 21 (4.02%) Onboarding
4 19 (3.64%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.30%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.11%) Security Posture
6 11 (2.11%) Virtual Team
7 10 (1.92%) Algorithms
8 9 (1.72%) Cloud Native
8 9 (1.72%) Driving Licence
8 9 (1.72%) IoT
8 9 (1.72%) SCADA
9 8 (1.53%) Data Centre
10 7 (1.34%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.34%) Mobile App
10 7 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
10 7 (1.34%) Team-Oriented Environment
11 6 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.15%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 67 (12.84%) Windows
2 60 (11.49%) Linux
3 10 (1.92%) Mac OS
4 6 (1.15%) Windows Server
5 5 (0.96%) Android
5 5 (0.96%) Mac OS X
6 4 (0.77%) Kali Linux
6 4 (0.77%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 507 (97.13%) Computer Science
2 170 (32.57%) Problem-Solving
3 158 (30.27%) Agile
4 122 (23.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 118 (22.61%) DevOps
6 116 (22.22%) AI
7 103 (19.73%) Machine Learning
8 83 (15.90%) Mentoring
8 83 (15.90%) Software Engineering
9 77 (14.75%) CI/CD
10 72 (13.79%) Data Privacy
11 58 (11.11%) SDLC
12 56 (10.73%) ITIL
13 50 (9.58%) Business Intelligence
14 49 (9.39%) Analytics
14 49 (9.39%) OOP
15 48 (9.20%) Cybersecurity
16 43 (8.24%) Data Science
16 43 (8.24%) OO
16 43 (8.24%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 166 (31.80%) SQL
2 161 (30.84%) C#
3 149 (28.54%) Java
4 138 (26.44%) Python
5 120 (22.99%) JavaScript
6 99 (18.97%) C++
7 89 (17.05%) PHP
8 70 (13.41%) TypeScript
9 67 (12.84%) C
10 57 (10.92%) R
11 53 (10.15%) Rust
12 50 (9.58%) Ruby
13 48 (9.20%) Dart
13 48 (9.20%) MATLAB
14 23 (4.41%) PowerShell
15 17 (3.26%) T-SQL
16 10 (1.92%) Bash
17 7 (1.34%) PL/SQL
18 6 (1.15%) Delphi
19 4 (0.77%) Perl
Qualifications
1 519 (99.43%) Degree
2 62 (11.88%) Master's Degree
3 45 (8.62%) Security Cleared
4 42 (8.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 36 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
6 30 (5.75%) Azure Certification
7 29 (5.56%) SC Cleared
8 24 (4.60%) AWS Certification
9 23 (4.41%) Chartered Engineer
10 21 (4.02%) TOGAF Certification
11 16 (3.07%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 11 (2.11%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.72%) A+ Certification
13 9 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
13 9 (1.72%) CISSP
13 9 (1.72%) DV Cleared
13 9 (1.72%) MCP
13 9 (1.72%) MCSE
13 9 (1.72%) PMI Certification
13 9 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 18 (3.45%) GDPR
4 17 (3.26%) NIST
5 15 (2.87%) QA
6 14 (2.68%) Accessibility
6 14 (2.68%) Data Quality
7 11 (2.11%) NCSC
8 10 (1.92%) IEC 61131
9 7 (1.34%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 6 (1.15%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.57%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.38%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.38%) ECSS
12 2 (0.38%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.38%) SLA
12 2 (0.38%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.19%) GxP
System Software
1 26 (4.98%) Docker
2 19 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (2.68%) Active Directory
4 10 (1.92%) Firmware
5 7 (1.34%) vSphere
6 5 (0.96%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.77%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.57%) GPFS
8 3 (0.57%) Lustre
8 3 (0.57%) NFS
9 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 26 (4.98%) Kubernetes
2 23 (4.41%) Grafana
3 22 (4.21%) Prometheus
4 15 (2.87%) Terraform
5 10 (1.92%) Control-M
6 6 (1.15%) Ansible
7 4 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.77%) Nessus
7 4 (0.77%) Nmap
7 4 (0.77%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.57%) Docker Swarm
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
8 3 (0.57%) Nagios
8 3 (0.57%) SCCM
8 3 (0.57%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.38%) Kibana
10 1 (0.19%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.19%) Podman
10 1 (0.19%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 115 (22.03%) Microsoft
2 26 (4.98%) Google
3 24 (4.60%) Oracle
4 19 (3.64%) VMware
5 13 (2.49%) OpenAI
6 12 (2.30%) Sage
6 12 (2.30%) Xamarin
7 11 (2.11%) Splunk
8 10 (1.92%) SAP
9 8 (1.53%) Cisco
9 8 (1.53%) Veeam
10 7 (1.34%) Dell
10 7 (1.34%) Fortinet
10 7 (1.34%) Remedy
10 7 (1.34%) Salesforce
11 6 (1.15%) BMC
11 6 (1.15%) Red Hat
12 5 (0.96%) IBM
12 5 (0.96%) Zoho
13 4 (0.77%) ServiceNow