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

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 241 83 133
Rank change year-on-year -158 +50 +66
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 375 911 1,330
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.70% 3.35% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.47% 7.79% 8.13%
Number of salaries quoted 272 411 1,036
10th Percentile £28,550 £31,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,364 £54,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +8.08% +2.86% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,500 £83,750 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -

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 15,157 11,692 16,358
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.19% 42.98% 27.55%
Number of salaries quoted 5,486 5,174 11,372
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,325 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £40,749 £35,529
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £54,793 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.59% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,500 £59,063 £55,000
% change year-on-year -6.03% +7.39% -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 19 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 19 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 -49 144 £65,000 +8.33% 96
North of England -126 86 £57,500 +4.55% 40
Midlands -156 48 £45,000 +28.57% 29
Yorkshire -81 47 £72,500 +57.10% 13
South West -41 40 £62,500 -7.41% 21
East of England -50 38 £56,250 +6.13% 35
West Midlands -129 26 £43,000 +22.86% 11
East Midlands -95 23 £55,000 +57.14% 18
North East -18 22 £51,500 -8.85% 4
North West -81 17 £60,000 +5.26% 23
Northern Ireland -38 9 £40,000 -48.39% 2
Scotland -31 8 £80,350 +98.40% 9
Wales -27 3 £56,250 +2.89% 8
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 (3.47%) IIS
2 12 (3.20%) Confluence
3 10 (2.67%) SharePoint
4 8 (2.13%) SAS
5 5 (1.33%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.53%) Apache
6 2 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.27%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (2.67%) MS Visio
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.53%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.53%) Weka
3 2 (0.53%) Windchill
4 1 (0.27%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.53%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.27%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.27%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.27%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.27%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 158 (42.13%) Azure
2 123 (32.80%) AWS
3 43 (11.47%) Serverless
4 39 (10.40%) GCP
5 30 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
7 17 (4.53%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.73%) AWS Lambda
9 13 (3.47%) Amazon S3
10 12 (3.20%) PaaS
11 11 (2.93%) SaaS
12 10 (2.67%) GitHub
13 6 (1.60%) Azure Logic Apps
13 6 (1.60%) Entra ID
13 6 (1.60%) GitHub Actions
13 6 (1.60%) Google Workspace
13 6 (1.60%) OneDrive
13 6 (1.60%) Power Automate
14 5 (1.33%) AWS CloudFormation
15 4 (1.07%) iPaaS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (6.40%) Firewall
2 16 (4.27%) VPN
2 16 (4.27%) WAN
3 15 (4.00%) LAN
3 15 (4.00%) Network Security
3 15 (4.00%) VLAN
4 12 (3.20%) BGP
5 11 (2.93%) OSPF
5 11 (2.93%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.67%) Cisco ASA
6 10 (2.67%) Wireless
7 9 (2.40%) Internet
7 9 (2.40%) SNMP
8 8 (2.13%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (2.13%) Cisco Wireless
8 8 (2.13%) EIGRP
8 8 (2.13%) WAAS
8 8 (2.13%) Wireless Security
9 5 (1.33%) MPLS
9 5 (1.33%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (11.73%) SQL Server
2 23 (6.13%) MySQL
3 14 (3.73%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.47%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (3.20%) Big Data
5 12 (3.20%) Power BI
6 11 (2.93%) Metadata
7 10 (2.67%) NoSQL
7 10 (2.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 8 (2.13%) MongoDB
8 8 (2.13%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.87%) Data Warehouse
10 6 (1.60%) Data Mining
11 4 (1.07%) Data Lake
11 4 (1.07%) Hadoop
11 4 (1.07%) Tableau
12 3 (0.80%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.80%) SAP BW
12 3 (0.80%) SAP HANA
13 2 (0.53%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 40 (10.67%) JIRA
2 27 (7.20%) Git
3 10 (2.67%) Bitbucket
3 10 (2.67%) Cypress.io
4 7 (1.87%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.33%) GitLab
6 3 (0.80%) ERwin
6 3 (0.80%) PowerDesigner
6 3 (0.80%) Selenium
7 2 (0.53%) JMeter
7 2 (0.53%) LoadRunner
7 2 (0.53%) TestRail
7 2 (0.53%) Visual Studio
7 2 (0.53%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.27%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.27%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.27%) Gatling
8 1 (0.27%) MLflow
8 1 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 157 (41.87%) Social Skills
2 68 (18.13%) Finance
3 55 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.47%) Manufacturing
5 18 (4.80%) Pharmaceutical
5 18 (4.80%) Retail
6 15 (4.00%) Law
7 12 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (3.20%) Public Sector
8 11 (2.93%) Electronics
9 9 (2.40%) Advertising
10 7 (1.87%) Marketing
11 6 (1.60%) Banking
11 6 (1.60%) Legal
11 6 (1.60%) Telecoms
12 5 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.07%) Dutch Language
13 4 (1.07%) Police
13 4 (1.07%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 72 (19.20%) Software Engineer
2 67 (17.87%) Developer
3 54 (14.40%) Architect
4 49 (13.07%) Senior
5 28 (7.47%) Graduate
6 25 (6.67%) Software Architect
6 25 (6.67%) Support Engineer
7 23 (6.13%) Analyst
7 23 (6.13%) IT Support
7 23 (6.13%) Software Developer
8 22 (5.87%) Lead
8 22 (5.87%) Python Engineer
9 19 (5.07%) IT Engineer
9 19 (5.07%) Python Software Engineer
10 18 (4.80%) IT Support Engineer
11 16 (4.27%) Full-Stack Developer
11 16 (4.27%) SQL Developer
12 15 (4.00%) Applications Architect
12 15 (4.00%) C# Developer
13 14 (3.73%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 48 (12.80%) CSS
2 39 (10.40%) .NET
3 37 (9.87%) React
4 35 (9.33%) HTML
5 29 (7.73%) REST
6 27 (7.20%) Middleware
7 21 (5.60%) jQuery
7 21 (5.60%) Node.js
8 17 (4.53%) .NET Framework
9 15 (4.00%) SOAP
9 15 (4.00%) WinForms
10 13 (3.47%) ASP.NET
11 12 (3.20%) Playwright
12 11 (2.93%) Entity Framework
13 10 (2.67%) RESTful
13 10 (2.67%) Vue
14 8 (2.13%) FastAPI
14 8 (2.13%) JSON
14 8 (2.13%) XML
15 7 (1.87%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 32 (8.53%) Management Information System
2 26 (6.93%) Enterprise Software
3 17 (4.53%) Distributed Systems
4 13 (3.47%) Cloud Native
5 12 (3.20%) Client/Server
5 12 (3.20%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.93%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.67%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.40%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.13%) Operational Technology
10 7 (1.87%) Data Structures
10 7 (1.87%) Legacy Systems
10 7 (1.87%) Low-Code
11 6 (1.60%) Algorithms
11 6 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.60%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.33%) Hybrid Cloud
13 4 (1.07%) SCADA
14 3 (0.80%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.40%) Linux
2 43 (11.47%) Windows
3 15 (4.00%) Android
4 9 (2.40%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.33%) Unix
6 3 (0.80%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.53%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.27%) Kali Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 353 (94.13%) Computer Science
2 120 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
3 105 (28.00%) Agile
4 96 (25.60%) Software Engineering
5 91 (24.27%) DevOps
6 84 (22.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 68 (18.13%) CI/CD
8 61 (16.27%) Mentoring
9 48 (12.80%) Data Modelling
10 43 (11.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 41 (10.93%) Test Automation
12 40 (10.67%) SDLC
13 38 (10.13%) AI
13 38 (10.13%) Microservices
14 37 (9.87%) ITIL
15 34 (9.07%) Analytics
15 34 (9.07%) Collaborative Culture
15 34 (9.07%) Enterprise Architecture
16 33 (8.80%) Application Security
16 33 (8.80%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 118 (31.47%) Python
2 100 (26.67%) SQL
3 76 (20.27%) C#
4 71 (18.93%) JavaScript
5 69 (18.40%) Java
6 50 (13.33%) C++
7 38 (10.13%) TypeScript
8 27 (7.20%) PHP
9 24 (6.40%) PowerShell
10 23 (6.13%) C
11 14 (3.73%) Rust
12 12 (3.20%) T-SQL
13 9 (2.40%) PL/SQL
14 8 (2.13%) Bash
15 5 (1.33%) Delphi
16 4 (1.07%) Bicep
16 4 (1.07%) R
17 3 (0.80%) Scala
18 2 (0.53%) Perl
18 2 (0.53%) VB6
Qualifications
1 375 (100.00%) Degree
2 46 (12.27%) Master's Degree
3 33 (8.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (8.27%) AWS Certification
5 29 (7.73%) Azure Certification
6 26 (6.93%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 25 (6.67%) TOGAF Certification
8 23 (6.13%) Security Cleared
9 21 (5.60%) BPSS Clearance
10 17 (4.53%) SC Cleared
11 16 (4.27%) Cisco Certification
12 14 (3.73%) CCNP
13 13 (3.47%) Chartered Engineer
13 13 (3.47%) ITIL Certification
14 12 (3.20%) CISSP
15 11 (2.93%) CCIE
16 10 (2.67%) ISTQB
17 9 (2.40%) CISM
17 9 (2.40%) PMI Certification
18 8 (2.13%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (9.87%) QA
2 21 (5.60%) Accessibility
3 20 (5.33%) NIST
4 19 (5.07%) Data Quality
4 19 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 9 (2.40%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (2.40%) GDPR
7 8 (2.13%) PMO
8 7 (1.87%) PCI DSS
9 6 (1.60%) NCSC
10 5 (1.33%) GxP
11 3 (0.80%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.80%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.53%) ECSS
12 2 (0.53%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.27%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.27%) GRC
13 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 34 (9.07%) Docker
2 17 (4.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (3.73%) Hyper-V
4 12 (3.20%) KVM
5 11 (2.93%) Active Directory
6 8 (2.13%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.80%) vSphere
8 2 (0.53%) Firmware
8 2 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 37 (9.87%) Kubernetes
2 20 (5.33%) Terraform
3 14 (3.73%) Grafana
4 12 (3.20%) Prometheus
5 9 (2.40%) Ansible
5 9 (2.40%) Control-M
6 8 (2.13%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.33%) SCCM
8 4 (1.07%) Nagios
9 3 (0.80%) vCenter Server
9 3 (0.80%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.53%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.53%) Kibana
11 1 (0.27%) CASB
11 1 (0.27%) Docker Swarm
11 1 (0.27%) EMC NetWorker
11 1 (0.27%) FortiGate
11 1 (0.27%) Graylog
11 1 (0.27%) Nmap
11 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 22 (5.87%) Cisco
3 18 (4.80%) VMware
4 14 (3.73%) ServiceNow
5 13 (3.47%) Oracle
6 11 (2.93%) CheckPoint
7 10 (2.67%) Sage
7 10 (2.67%) SAP
7 10 (2.67%) Xamarin
8 9 (2.40%) F5
9 8 (2.13%) Blue Coat
9 8 (2.13%) Infoblox
9 8 (2.13%) Motorola
9 8 (2.13%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.87%) Fortinet
11 6 (1.60%) Google
11 6 (1.60%) Meraki
11 6 (1.60%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.33%) Splunk
13 4 (1.07%) Zoho