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

6 months to
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 232 168 110
Rank change year-on-year -64 -58 +41
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 553 678 1,541
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 2.00% 2.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.12% 5.38% 9.16%
Number of salaries quoted 463 402 1,092
10th Percentile £27,000 £25,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,500 £38,691
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,750 £82,500
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% +3.45% -7.20%

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 13,408 12,612 16,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.44% 37.23% 25.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,754 5,294 10,187
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,825 £27,750
25th Percentile £40,000 £34,988 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,268 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,750 £80,000 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 July 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 July 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 -10 230 £65,000 +13.04% 95
North of England -50 123 £62,500 +8.70% 31
South West -51 63 £42,500 -15.00% 24
East of England -27 58 £45,000 -10.00% 30
Midlands -77 56 £40,000 -3.46% 37
North West -49 46 £40,000 -31.62% 20
Yorkshire -22 42 £68,750 +14.58% 8
North East -34 35 £98,750 +246.49% 3
East Midlands -26 28 £26,000 -25.71% 20
West Midlands -78 28 £41,500 -2.35% 17
Wales -45 14 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Northern Ireland -75 6 £40,000 -63.64% 22
Scotland -4 3 £74,250 +43.03% 18
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 11 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.45%) SAS
3 7 (1.27%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.72%) CMS
4 4 (0.72%) Confluence
4 4 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.72%) WordPress
5 2 (0.36%) Apache
5 2 (0.36%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.36%) IIS
5 2 (0.36%) Luigi
6 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 213 (38.52%) Azure
2 171 (30.92%) AWS
3 54 (9.76%) GCP
4 35 (6.33%) SaaS
5 27 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
6 26 (4.70%) Serverless
7 21 (3.80%) Microsoft 365
8 17 (3.07%) Power Platform
9 16 (2.89%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (2.71%) Snowflake
11 13 (2.35%) Azure Data Factory
11 13 (2.35%) Azure Functions
11 13 (2.35%) IaaS
12 12 (2.17%) PaaS
13 11 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (1.99%) GitHub
13 11 (1.99%) Power Automate
14 10 (1.81%) AWS CloudFormation
15 6 (1.08%) Microsoft Copilot
15 6 (1.08%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 27 (4.88%) VPN
1 27 (4.88%) WAN
2 26 (4.70%) Internet
3 25 (4.52%) Firewall
4 20 (3.62%) LAN
5 16 (2.89%) Network Security
5 16 (2.89%) Wireless
6 14 (2.53%) BGP
6 14 (2.53%) DHCP
6 14 (2.53%) DNS
7 10 (1.81%) Wi-Fi
8 9 (1.63%) MPLS
8 9 (1.63%) VLAN
9 8 (1.45%) SD-WAN
9 8 (1.45%) TCP/IP
9 8 (1.45%) VoIP
10 6 (1.08%) MQTT
10 6 (1.08%) SNMP
10 6 (1.08%) ZigBee
11 4 (0.72%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (17.54%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.34%) MySQL
3 23 (4.16%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.25%) Redis
4 18 (3.25%) Relational Database
5 16 (2.89%) NoSQL
6 14 (2.53%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.17%) Spark SQL
8 11 (1.99%) Big Data
8 11 (1.99%) Power BI
9 10 (1.81%) Metadata
9 10 (1.81%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.08%) Apache Cassandra
11 5 (0.90%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.90%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.72%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.72%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.72%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.36%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 69 (12.48%) Git
2 24 (4.34%) Eclipse
3 23 (4.16%) JIRA
4 21 (3.80%) Subversion
5 18 (3.25%) Jenkins
6 16 (2.89%) JUnit
7 15 (2.71%) GitLab
8 7 (1.27%) Cypress.io
9 6 (1.08%) Cucumber
9 6 (1.08%) GDB
10 5 (0.90%) JMeter
11 4 (0.72%) Burp Suite
11 4 (0.72%) Eclipse RCP
11 4 (0.72%) Robot Framework
11 4 (0.72%) Selenium
12 3 (0.54%) Gatling
12 3 (0.54%) Polyspace
12 3 (0.54%) Postman
12 3 (0.54%) REST Assured
12 3 (0.54%) SonarQube
General
1 173 (31.28%) Social Skills
2 75 (13.56%) Finance
3 72 (13.02%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (5.97%) Manufacturing
5 23 (4.16%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 23 (4.16%) Law
6 22 (3.98%) Public Sector
7 19 (3.44%) Retail
8 17 (3.07%) Legal
9 16 (2.89%) Electronics
9 16 (2.89%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.17%) Marketing
10 12 (2.17%) Pharmaceutical
11 11 (1.99%) Aerospace
12 9 (1.63%) Advertising
12 9 (1.63%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.45%) Banking
14 6 (1.08%) Automotive
15 5 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (0.90%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 172 (31.10%) Developer
2 131 (23.69%) Software Engineer
3 75 (13.56%) Software Developer
4 64 (11.57%) Senior
5 56 (10.13%) Graduate
6 51 (9.22%) Python Engineer
7 50 (9.04%) C++ Software Engineer
8 49 (8.86%) C# Software Engineer
9 47 (8.50%) Lead
10 45 (8.14%) Python Software Engineer
11 39 (7.05%) Graduate Developer
12 36 (6.51%) Architect
12 36 (6.51%) Graduate Software Developer
13 30 (5.42%) Java Developer
13 30 (5.42%) Web Developer
14 29 (5.24%) C# Developer
15 25 (4.52%) Data Engineer
15 25 (4.52%) Full-Stack Developer
16 24 (4.34%) Graduate C# Developer
16 24 (4.34%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (15.73%) .NET
2 65 (11.75%) CSS
3 63 (11.39%) React
4 51 (9.22%) jQuery
5 49 (8.86%) RESTful
6 45 (8.14%) HTML
7 36 (6.51%) REST
8 29 (5.24%) Vue
9 26 (4.70%) Web Services
10 25 (4.52%) Node.js
11 21 (3.80%) Jakarta EE
12 20 (3.62%) Struts
13 18 (3.25%) .NET Core
14 17 (3.07%) ARM Templates
15 16 (2.89%) Kafka
16 14 (2.53%) PySpark
17 13 (2.35%) JSON
18 12 (2.17%) AngularJS
19 11 (1.99%) SOAP
19 11 (1.99%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.79%) Cloud Native
2 31 (5.61%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.34%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.44%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.25%) Distributed Computing
6 17 (3.07%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.89%) Embedded Systems
8 14 (2.53%) Product Ownership
8 14 (2.53%) Virtual Team
9 12 (2.17%) Data Structures
9 12 (2.17%) IoT
10 11 (1.99%) Client/Server
10 11 (1.99%) Onboarding
10 11 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (1.81%) Device Driver
11 10 (1.81%) Robotics
12 7 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
12 7 (1.27%) Life Science
12 7 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
12 7 (1.27%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 87 (15.73%) Linux
2 31 (5.61%) Windows
3 16 (2.89%) Unix
4 11 (1.99%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.27%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.90%) Android
6 5 (0.90%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.54%) Debian
7 3 (0.54%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.54%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.36%) Solaris
8 2 (0.36%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.18%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.18%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.18%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.18%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.18%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 495 (89.51%) Computer Science
2 186 (33.63%) Software Engineering
3 167 (30.20%) Problem-Solving
4 141 (25.50%) CI/CD
5 133 (24.05%) Agile
6 113 (20.43%) AI
7 108 (19.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 96 (17.36%) DevOps
9 73 (13.20%) Test Automation
10 66 (11.93%) Full-Stack Development
11 60 (10.85%) Mentoring
12 53 (9.58%) Containerisation
13 48 (8.68%) Microservices
14 44 (7.96%) Data Modelling
15 42 (7.59%) Scrum
15 42 (7.59%) Web Development
16 40 (7.23%) Analytics
16 40 (7.23%) SDLC
17 39 (7.05%) Design Patterns
18 38 (6.87%) Clean Code
Programming Languages
1 188 (34.00%) Python
2 137 (24.77%) C#
3 135 (24.41%) C++
4 124 (22.42%) SQL
5 111 (20.07%) JavaScript
6 92 (16.64%) Java
7 70 (12.66%) PHP
8 54 (9.76%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.69%) Rust
10 33 (5.97%) PowerShell
11 30 (5.42%) C
12 18 (3.25%) Perl
13 17 (3.07%) Bash
14 14 (2.53%) Go
15 8 (1.45%) Bicep
16 6 (1.08%) Scala
17 4 (0.72%) Delphi
17 4 (0.72%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.72%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.54%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 553 (100.00%) Degree
2 66 (11.93%) Master's Degree
3 43 (7.78%) Security Cleared
4 27 (4.88%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.34%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (3.25%) PhD
7 17 (3.07%) DV Cleared
8 16 (2.89%) CCNP
8 16 (2.89%) CISSP
9 13 (2.35%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.81%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.63%) AWS Certification
11 9 (1.63%) CCIE
11 9 (1.63%) CCNA
11 9 (1.63%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (1.63%) DBS Check
11 9 (1.63%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
12 6 (1.08%) CISM
13 5 (0.90%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (8.68%) QA
2 43 (7.78%) Accessibility
3 26 (4.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 24 (4.34%) NIST
5 21 (3.80%) GDPR
6 16 (2.89%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.17%) PCI DSS
8 9 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials
9 8 (1.45%) SOC 2
10 6 (1.08%) JTAG
11 5 (0.90%) SLA
12 4 (0.72%) PMO
13 3 (0.54%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.54%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.54%) Software Quality Assurance
14 2 (0.36%) Def Stans
14 2 (0.36%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 64 (11.57%) Docker
2 27 (4.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.44%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.35%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.81%) KVM
6 9 (1.63%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.27%) Firmware
8 5 (0.90%) vSphere
9 4 (0.72%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.54%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (12.30%) Kubernetes
2 35 (6.33%) Terraform
3 15 (2.71%) Ansible
4 13 (2.35%) Grafana
5 7 (1.27%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.72%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.54%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.54%) Plesk
8 3 (0.54%) Podman
8 3 (0.54%) SCCM
9 2 (0.36%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.36%) Kibana
10 1 (0.18%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.18%) Argo
10 1 (0.18%) CASB
10 1 (0.18%) Failover Clustering
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) MaaS360
Vendors
1 83 (15.01%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.06%) VMware
3 23 (4.16%) Cisco
4 21 (3.80%) Databricks
5 19 (3.44%) Oracle
6 10 (1.81%) Splunk
7 9 (1.63%) Meraki
8 7 (1.27%) Google
9 5 (0.90%) CheckPoint
9 5 (0.90%) ServiceNow
10 4 (0.72%) Adobe
10 4 (0.72%) Blue Coat
10 4 (0.72%) F5
10 4 (0.72%) Infoblox
10 4 (0.72%) Motorola
10 4 (0.72%) OpenAI
10 4 (0.72%) SolarWinds
11 3 (0.54%) MuleSoft
11 3 (0.54%) Salesforce
11 3 (0.54%) Veracode