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

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 125 123
Rank change year-on-year -114 -2 +46
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 496 818 1,628
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.74% 2.75% 2.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.59% 6.45% 8.60%
Number of salaries quoted 417 395 1,230
10th Percentile £25,500 £26,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £32,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,450 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% +5.00% -17.76%
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £90,000 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -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 13,806 12,689 18,922
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 20.73% 42.72% 24.84%
Number of salaries quoted 6,250 5,056 12,298
10th Percentile £28,250 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,555
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.70% -10.74%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 -29 196 £65,000 +18.18% 95
North of England -107 109 £66,250 +20.45% 47
East of England -45 61 £45,000 -13.46% 18
Midlands -115 57 £50,000 +42.86% 24
Yorkshire -83 49 £75,000 +25.00% 10
South West -55 47 £42,500 -19.05% 26
East Midlands -41 33 £55,000 +57.14% 11
North West -63 31 £40,000 -27.27% 28
North East -32 29 £90,000 +63.64% 9
West Midlands -125 24 £45,000 +11.48% 13
Wales -35 13 £72,500 +11.54% 3
Northern Ireland -42 7 £40,000 -63.64% 10
Scotland -10 6 £48,500 -6.58% 15
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 (2.42%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.61%) Confluence
2 8 (1.61%) SAS
3 7 (1.41%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.81%) Apache Spark
4 4 (0.81%) CMS
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.81%) WordPress
5 2 (0.40%) Apache
5 2 (0.40%) IIS
5 2 (0.40%) Luigi
Applications
1 8 (1.61%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.20%) Siemens NX
4 1 (0.20%) Weka
4 1 (0.20%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.20%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.20%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.20%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 209 (42.14%) Azure
2 165 (33.27%) AWS
3 43 (8.67%) GCP
4 41 (8.27%) Serverless
5 26 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
6 25 (5.04%) Microsoft 365
7 21 (4.23%) SaaS
8 19 (3.83%) Azure Logic Apps
9 15 (3.02%) Power Platform
10 14 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (2.82%) Azure Data Factory
10 14 (2.82%) Power Automate
11 13 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 13 (2.62%) Azure Functions
12 11 (2.22%) Azure Monitor
13 10 (2.02%) PaaS
14 9 (1.81%) OneDrive
15 8 (1.61%) GitHub
15 8 (1.61%) IaaS
16 7 (1.41%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 29 (5.85%) WAN
2 28 (5.65%) Firewall
3 25 (5.04%) VPN
4 22 (4.44%) LAN
5 20 (4.03%) Internet
5 20 (4.03%) Network Security
6 17 (3.43%) BGP
7 15 (3.02%) Wireless
8 14 (2.82%) DHCP
8 14 (2.82%) DNS
9 12 (2.42%) VLAN
10 9 (1.81%) MPLS
10 9 (1.81%) SNMP
10 9 (1.81%) TCP/IP
11 8 (1.61%) Cisco ASA
11 8 (1.61%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (1.61%) EIGRP
11 8 (1.61%) OSPF
11 8 (1.61%) WAAS
11 8 (1.61%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 74 (14.92%) SQL Server
2 25 (5.04%) MySQL
3 22 (4.44%) PostgreSQL
4 17 (3.43%) NoSQL
5 16 (3.23%) Relational Database
6 13 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
6 13 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (2.42%) Metadata
7 12 (2.42%) Power BI
8 11 (2.22%) Big Data
8 11 (2.22%) MongoDB
8 11 (2.22%) Spark SQL
9 6 (1.21%) Apache Cassandra
9 6 (1.21%) Redis
10 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.81%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.60%) ClickHouse
12 3 (0.60%) MariaDB
13 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 49 (9.88%) Git
2 24 (4.84%) JIRA
3 13 (2.62%) Jenkins
4 11 (2.22%) GitLab
5 8 (1.61%) Cypress.io
5 8 (1.61%) Eclipse
5 8 (1.61%) Subversion
6 7 (1.41%) JUnit
7 6 (1.21%) Cucumber
8 5 (1.01%) JMeter
8 5 (1.01%) Selenium
9 4 (0.81%) GDB
9 4 (0.81%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.60%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.60%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.60%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.60%) Postman
10 3 (0.60%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.60%) SonarQube
10 3 (0.60%) VectorCAST
General
1 154 (31.05%) Social Skills
2 70 (14.11%) Analytical Skills
3 69 (13.91%) Finance
4 24 (4.84%) Public Sector
5 23 (4.64%) Law
6 22 (4.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 22 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 18 (3.63%) Electronics
8 17 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
9 16 (3.23%) Legal
10 15 (3.02%) Retail
11 11 (2.22%) Advertising
11 11 (2.22%) Marketing
12 10 (2.02%) Telecoms
13 8 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 6 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.01%) Banking
15 5 (1.01%) Police
15 5 (1.01%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 136 (27.42%) Developer
2 119 (23.99%) Software Engineer
3 65 (13.10%) Senior
4 61 (12.30%) Software Developer
5 53 (10.69%) Graduate
6 46 (9.27%) Python Engineer
7 45 (9.07%) C# Software Engineer
8 42 (8.47%) Python Software Engineer
9 41 (8.27%) C++ Software Engineer
10 39 (7.86%) Architect
10 39 (7.86%) Graduate Developer
11 36 (7.26%) Graduate Software Developer
11 36 (7.26%) Lead
12 29 (5.85%) C# Developer
13 24 (4.84%) C# Software Developer
13 24 (4.84%) Graduate C# Developer
13 24 (4.84%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 24 (4.84%) SQL Developer
14 23 (4.64%) Data Engineer
14 23 (4.64%) Web Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (14.11%) .NET
2 67 (13.51%) CSS
3 57 (11.49%) React
4 48 (9.68%) HTML
5 45 (9.07%) jQuery
6 41 (8.27%) REST
7 35 (7.06%) RESTful
8 20 (4.03%) Node.js
9 19 (3.83%) Middleware
9 19 (3.83%) SOAP
10 16 (3.23%) Web Services
11 15 (3.02%) .NET Core
11 15 (3.02%) Vue
12 14 (2.82%) JSON
13 13 (2.62%) ARM Templates
13 13 (2.62%) XML
14 11 (2.22%) PySpark
15 10 (2.02%) Kafka
15 10 (2.02%) Playwright
15 10 (2.02%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 28 (5.65%) Distributed Systems
2 23 (4.64%) Management Information System
3 21 (4.23%) Cloud Native
3 21 (4.23%) Data Centre
4 17 (3.43%) Algorithms
5 15 (3.02%) Client/Server
5 15 (3.02%) Data Structures
5 15 (3.02%) Distributed Computing
6 14 (2.82%) Onboarding
7 13 (2.62%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.42%) Product Ownership
9 11 (2.22%) Embedded Systems
9 11 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
10 8 (1.61%) CMDB
10 8 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
10 8 (1.61%) Robotics
11 6 (1.21%) Device Driver
11 6 (1.21%) IoT
11 6 (1.21%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 69 (13.91%) Linux
2 31 (6.25%) Windows
3 13 (2.62%) Unix
4 10 (2.02%) Android
4 10 (2.02%) Windows Server
5 4 (0.81%) Mac OS
5 4 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.60%) Embedded Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Kali Linux
7 2 (0.40%) Solaris
8 1 (0.20%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.20%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.20%) Robot Operating System
8 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 438 (88.31%) Computer Science
2 155 (31.25%) Software Engineering
3 146 (29.44%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (26.21%) Agile
5 112 (22.58%) CI/CD
6 94 (18.95%) Continuous Improvement
7 85 (17.14%) DevOps
8 67 (13.51%) Test Automation
9 66 (13.31%) AI
10 49 (9.88%) Data Modelling
10 49 (9.88%) Full-Stack Development
10 49 (9.88%) Mentoring
11 48 (9.68%) Containerisation
12 43 (8.67%) Scrum
13 39 (7.86%) ITIL
14 36 (7.26%) SDLC
14 36 (7.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 35 (7.06%) Microservices
16 33 (6.65%) OOP
16 33 (6.65%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 182 (36.69%) Python
2 132 (26.61%) C#
3 129 (26.01%) SQL
4 108 (21.77%) C++
5 91 (18.35%) JavaScript
6 87 (17.54%) Java
7 64 (12.90%) PHP
8 46 (9.27%) TypeScript
9 33 (6.65%) Rust
10 28 (5.65%) PowerShell
11 27 (5.44%) C
12 15 (3.02%) Bash
13 13 (2.62%) Go
14 9 (1.81%) Perl
15 8 (1.61%) Scala
16 4 (0.81%) Bicep
16 4 (0.81%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.40%) Embedded C
17 2 (0.40%) Embedded C++
17 2 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 496 (100.00%) Degree
2 55 (11.09%) Master's Degree
3 47 (9.48%) Security Cleared
4 28 (5.65%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (5.65%) SC Cleared
5 20 (4.03%) CCNP
6 19 (3.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (3.63%) Azure Certification
7 18 (3.63%) CISSP
8 17 (3.43%) PhD
9 16 (3.23%) AWS Certification
9 16 (3.23%) DV Cleared
10 14 (2.82%) CCIE
11 11 (2.22%) ISTQB
12 10 (2.02%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 9 (1.81%) CCNA
13 9 (1.81%) CompTIA Security+
14 8 (1.61%) CISM
14 8 (1.61%) DBS Check
15 7 (1.41%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (10.48%) QA
2 30 (6.05%) Accessibility
3 23 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 21 (4.23%) GDPR
5 20 (4.03%) NIST
6 19 (3.83%) Data Quality
7 12 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
8 8 (1.61%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.61%) PMO
9 5 (1.01%) SOC 2
10 4 (0.81%) JTAG
10 4 (0.81%) SLA
11 3 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.60%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.60%) IEC 61508
11 3 (0.60%) ISO 26262
12 2 (0.40%) Def Stans
12 2 (0.40%) GxP
13 1 (0.20%) 21 CFR Part 11
13 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 12207
System Software
1 53 (10.69%) Docker
2 32 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.83%) Active Directory
4 18 (3.63%) Hyper-V
5 14 (2.82%) KVM
6 9 (1.81%) VMware NSX
7 8 (1.61%) ProxySG
8 6 (1.21%) vSphere
9 5 (1.01%) Firmware
10 4 (0.81%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.40%) Embedded Firmware
13 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (11.69%) Kubernetes
2 29 (5.85%) Terraform
3 13 (2.62%) Ansible
3 13 (2.62%) Grafana
4 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (1.01%) Prometheus
5 5 (1.01%) SCCM
6 4 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (0.81%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.60%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.60%) Plesk
8 2 (0.40%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.40%) Kibana
9 1 (0.20%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.20%) Graylog
9 1 (0.20%) Nagios
9 1 (0.20%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.20%) OpenView
9 1 (0.20%) Oracle RMAN
9 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 81 (16.33%) Microsoft
2 33 (6.65%) VMware
3 24 (4.84%) Cisco
4 19 (3.83%) Databricks
5 18 (3.63%) Oracle
6 11 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 10 (2.02%) CheckPoint
7 10 (2.02%) Splunk
8 9 (1.81%) F5
9 8 (1.61%) Blue Coat
9 8 (1.61%) Infoblox
9 8 (1.61%) Motorola
9 8 (1.61%) SolarWinds
10 7 (1.41%) Meraki
11 4 (0.81%) OpenAI
11 4 (0.81%) SAP
12 3 (0.60%) Dell
12 3 (0.60%) Fortinet
12 3 (0.60%) Pega
12 3 (0.60%) Salesforce