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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 243 91 133
Rank change year-on-year -152 +42 +66
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 420 837 1,489
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.66% 3.13% 2.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.46% 7.34% 8.29%
Number of salaries quoted 330 424 1,178
10th Percentile £25,000 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £39,063 £33,563 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,614 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.57% +10.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,700 £83,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £67,500 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.00% +4.17% -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 17,070 11,408 17,957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.72% 42.65% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 5,954 5,230 12,148
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,750 £27,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £38,600 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £66,700 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £78,750
UK median annual salary £58,497 £57,500 £54,151
% change year-on-year +1.73% +6.19% -6.33%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -50 160 £65,000 +8.33% 94
North of England -138 90 £60,000 +7.62% 36
East of England -62 50 £38,750 -26.89% 27
Yorkshire -94 48 £75,000 +27.66% 13
South West -57 46 £52,249 -7.92% 16
Midlands -154 46 £44,000 +25.71% 34
North West -90 25 £52,500 -7.89% 18
East Midlands -85 24 £55,000 +57.14% 13
West Midlands -136 22 £42,750 +22.14% 21
North East -47 17 £67,500 +22.73% 5
Wales -19 13 £72,500 +8.61%
Northern Ireland -49 8 £40,000 -60.98% 11
Scotland -35 7 £75,000 +50.00% 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 12 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 9 (2.14%) Confluence
2 9 (2.14%) SAS
3 5 (1.19%) Apache Spark
3 5 (1.19%) IIS
4 4 (0.95%) Apache Airflow
5 3 (0.71%) Apache
6 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.24%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (2.38%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.48%) Microsoft Project
4 2 (0.48%) Weka
4 2 (0.48%) Windchill
5 1 (0.24%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.48%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.24%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.24%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.24%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.24%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 179 (42.62%) Azure
2 146 (34.76%) AWS
3 46 (10.95%) Serverless
4 42 (10.00%) GCP
5 24 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
6 20 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
7 16 (3.81%) Power Platform
8 14 (3.33%) AWS Lambda
8 14 (3.33%) SaaS
9 13 (3.10%) Amazon S3
9 13 (3.10%) Azure Logic Apps
10 11 (2.62%) GitHub
11 10 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
11 10 (2.38%) PaaS
12 9 (2.14%) Azure Functions
13 8 (1.90%) Entra ID
13 8 (1.90%) OneDrive
14 7 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
14 7 (1.67%) GitHub Actions
14 7 (1.67%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (7.38%) WAN
2 28 (6.67%) Firewall
3 26 (6.19%) VPN
4 24 (5.71%) LAN
5 20 (4.76%) BGP
6 16 (3.81%) Network Security
7 14 (3.33%) Internet
7 14 (3.33%) VLAN
8 13 (3.10%) TCP/IP
9 12 (2.86%) DHCP
9 12 (2.86%) DNS
9 12 (2.86%) MPLS
10 11 (2.62%) OSPF
11 10 (2.38%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (2.38%) SD-WAN
11 10 (2.38%) Wireless
12 9 (2.14%) SNMP
13 8 (1.90%) EIGRP
13 8 (1.90%) WAAS
13 8 (1.90%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (13.81%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.19%) MySQL
3 16 (3.81%) PostgreSQL
4 13 (3.10%) Amazon Redshift
5 12 (2.86%) Big Data
5 12 (2.86%) Power BI
5 12 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 11 (2.62%) Metadata
7 10 (2.38%) NoSQL
8 9 (2.14%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (2.14%) MongoDB
9 8 (1.90%) Spark SQL
10 4 (0.95%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.71%) Apache Cassandra
11 3 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
11 3 (0.71%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.71%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.48%) BusinessObjects
12 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 29 (6.90%) JIRA
2 27 (6.43%) Git
3 11 (2.62%) Cypress.io
4 10 (2.38%) Jenkins
5 8 (1.90%) GitLab
6 4 (0.95%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.95%) LoadRunner
6 4 (0.95%) Selenium
7 3 (0.71%) Burp Suite
7 3 (0.71%) Gatling
7 3 (0.71%) JMeter
7 3 (0.71%) Polyspace
7 3 (0.71%) SonarQube
7 3 (0.71%) VectorCAST
7 3 (0.71%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.48%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.48%) HP UFT
8 2 (0.48%) Postman
8 2 (0.48%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.48%) TestRail
General
1 148 (35.24%) Social Skills
2 70 (16.67%) Finance
3 65 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (6.19%) Manufacturing
5 20 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 18 (4.29%) Law
6 18 (4.29%) Retail
7 17 (4.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 15 (3.57%) Pharmaceutical
9 14 (3.33%) Electronics
10 11 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.90%) Telecoms
12 7 (1.67%) Legal
13 6 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.19%) Aerospace
14 5 (1.19%) Marketing
14 5 (1.19%) Police
15 4 (0.95%) Automotive
16 3 (0.71%) Advertising
16 3 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 92 (21.90%) Developer
2 86 (20.48%) Software Engineer
3 62 (14.76%) Senior
4 52 (12.38%) Graduate
5 50 (11.90%) Software Developer
6 47 (11.19%) Architect
7 41 (9.76%) Python Engineer
8 37 (8.81%) Graduate Developer
8 37 (8.81%) Python Software Engineer
9 34 (8.10%) Graduate Software Developer
10 30 (7.14%) C++ Software Engineer
11 25 (5.95%) C# Developer
12 24 (5.71%) C# Software Developer
12 24 (5.71%) Graduate C# Developer
12 24 (5.71%) Graduate C# Software Developer
12 24 (5.71%) Lead
12 24 (5.71%) SQL Developer
13 22 (5.24%) C# Software Engineer
13 22 (5.24%) Graduate SQL Developer
14 21 (5.00%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 58 (13.81%) CSS
2 43 (10.24%) .NET
3 39 (9.29%) HTML
4 37 (8.81%) jQuery
5 34 (8.10%) React
6 31 (7.38%) REST
7 25 (5.95%) Middleware
8 19 (4.52%) Node.js
8 19 (4.52%) SOAP
9 17 (4.05%) RESTful
10 13 (3.10%) Playwright
11 11 (2.62%) JSON
11 11 (2.62%) XML
12 10 (2.38%) ARM Templates
13 9 (2.14%) PySpark
14 8 (1.90%) .NET Core
14 8 (1.90%) .NET Framework
14 8 (1.90%) Django
14 8 (1.90%) FastAPI
14 8 (1.90%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.43%) Management Information System
2 22 (5.24%) Distributed Systems
3 21 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 18 (4.29%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (4.05%) Cloud Native
6 13 (3.10%) Client/Server
7 10 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 10 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (2.14%) Distributed Computing
8 9 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.67%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.67%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.67%) Low-Code
9 7 (1.67%) Product Ownership
10 6 (1.43%) Algorithms
10 6 (1.43%) CMDB
10 6 (1.43%) Legacy Systems
11 5 (1.19%) Embedded Systems
11 5 (1.19%) Robotics
11 5 (1.19%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 52 (12.38%) Linux
2 34 (8.10%) Windows
3 15 (3.57%) Android
4 11 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 9 (2.14%) Unix
6 4 (0.95%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.71%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.48%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.48%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.24%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 378 (90.00%) Computer Science
2 124 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
3 110 (26.19%) Agile
3 110 (26.19%) Software Engineering
4 82 (19.52%) CI/CD
5 81 (19.29%) DevOps
6 80 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
7 58 (13.81%) Mentoring
8 48 (11.43%) Data Modelling
9 46 (10.95%) AI
9 46 (10.95%) Test Automation
10 42 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 40 (9.52%) ITIL
12 33 (7.86%) OOP
13 31 (7.38%) Analytics
13 31 (7.38%) Containerisation
13 31 (7.38%) Machine Learning
13 31 (7.38%) Microservices
13 31 (7.38%) SDLC
14 30 (7.14%) Collaborative Culture
Programming Languages
1 166 (39.52%) Python
2 118 (28.10%) SQL
3 106 (25.24%) C#
4 82 (19.52%) C++
4 82 (19.52%) Java
5 67 (15.95%) JavaScript
6 52 (12.38%) PHP
7 37 (8.81%) TypeScript
8 29 (6.90%) PowerShell
9 24 (5.71%) C
10 15 (3.57%) Rust
11 13 (3.10%) Bash
12 7 (1.67%) PL/SQL
13 5 (1.19%) Delphi
13 5 (1.19%) Scala
14 4 (0.95%) Bicep
15 3 (0.71%) R
15 3 (0.71%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.48%) Perl
16 2 (0.48%) VB
Qualifications
1 420 (100.00%) Degree
2 49 (11.67%) Master's Degree
3 29 (6.90%) Security Cleared
4 26 (6.19%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (5.71%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (5.48%) AWS Certification
6 23 (5.48%) Azure Certification
6 23 (5.48%) SC Cleared
7 20 (4.76%) CCNP
8 19 (4.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 16 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
9 16 (3.81%) CISSP
9 16 (3.81%) TOGAF Certification
10 14 (3.33%) CCIE
11 13 (3.10%) PhD
12 11 (2.62%) DV Cleared
12 11 (2.62%) ISTQB
13 10 (2.38%) CISM
14 9 (2.14%) Chartered Engineer
14 9 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (11.67%) QA
2 21 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 21 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 19 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 17 (4.05%) NIST
5 15 (3.57%) GDPR
6 11 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 8 (1.90%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.90%) PMO
9 4 (0.95%) GxP
9 4 (0.95%) SLA
10 3 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.71%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.71%) IEC 61508
10 3 (0.71%) ISO 26262
10 3 (0.71%) SOC 2
11 2 (0.48%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 2 (0.48%) Def Stans
11 2 (0.48%) ECSS
System Software
1 35 (8.33%) Docker
2 30 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (4.29%) Active Directory
4 16 (3.81%) Hyper-V
5 13 (3.10%) KVM
6 9 (2.14%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.90%) ProxySG
7 8 (1.90%) vSphere
8 4 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.71%) Firmware
10 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.24%) Embedded Firmware
Systems Management
1 42 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 27 (6.43%) Terraform
3 17 (4.05%) Ansible
4 10 (2.38%) Grafana
5 9 (2.14%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.95%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.95%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.71%) Control-M
7 3 (0.71%) SCCM
8 2 (0.48%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.48%) HP Fortify
8 2 (0.48%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.24%) CASB
9 1 (0.24%) Docker Swarm
9 1 (0.24%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.24%) Graylog
9 1 (0.24%) Kibana
9 1 (0.24%) Packer
9 1 (0.24%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 81 (19.29%) Microsoft
2 31 (7.38%) VMware
3 27 (6.43%) Cisco
4 14 (3.33%) Oracle
5 12 (2.86%) Databricks
6 11 (2.62%) CheckPoint
6 11 (2.62%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.38%) Splunk
8 9 (2.14%) F5
9 8 (1.90%) Blue Coat
9 8 (1.90%) Infoblox
9 8 (1.90%) Motorola
9 8 (1.90%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.67%) Meraki
10 7 (1.67%) SAP
11 6 (1.43%) Palo Alto
12 5 (1.19%) Fortinet
13 4 (0.95%) MuleSoft
14 3 (0.71%) Google
14 3 (0.71%) Pega