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

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 239 172 107
Rank change year-on-year -67 -65 +15
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 597 659 1,346
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.78% 1.91% 2.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.30% 5.23% 8.86%
Number of salaries quoted 478 382 908
10th Percentile £25,500 £25,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,750 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.62% - -12.50%
75th Percentile £73,750 £68,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £83,625 £85,000
UK median annual salary £62,500 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.17% - -4.00%

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 13,874 12,606 15,197
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.02% 36.44% 25.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,190 5,303 8,241
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,988 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -2.86%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,000 £66,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
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 12 August 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 12 August 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 -7 244 £65,000 +10.64% 177
North of England -55 124 £62,500 +13.64% 86
South West -43 73 £42,500 -5.56% 60
East of England -46 66 £45,000 - 94
Midlands -52 66 £40,000 -5.88% 80
North West -59 47 £40,000 -27.27% 48
Yorkshire -19 41 £75,000 +25.00% 23
East Midlands -12 37 £26,000 -25.71% 41
North East -34 36 £110,000 +311.21% 15
West Midlands -66 29 £43,000 +1.18% 39
Wales -47 16 £72,500 +20.83% 12
Northern Ireland -78 5 £40,000 -43.46% 18
Scotland -12 3 £74,250 +41.43% 60
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 (2.18%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.34%) SAS
3 7 (1.17%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (0.67%) CMS
4 4 (0.67%) Confluence
4 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.67%) WordPress
5 2 (0.34%) Apache
5 2 (0.34%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.34%) IIS
5 2 (0.34%) Luigi
6 1 (0.17%) Anypoint
6 1 (0.17%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.17%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.17%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 224 (37.52%) Azure
2 172 (28.81%) AWS
3 55 (9.21%) GCP
4 39 (6.53%) SaaS
5 30 (5.03%) Azure DevOps
6 28 (4.69%) Serverless
7 24 (4.02%) Microsoft 365
8 23 (3.85%) Power Platform
9 18 (3.02%) Snowflake
10 16 (2.68%) Azure Functions
11 15 (2.51%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (2.18%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (2.18%) IaaS
13 12 (2.01%) GitHub
14 11 (1.84%) Azure Monitor
14 11 (1.84%) PaaS
15 10 (1.68%) Entra ID
16 9 (1.51%) AWS CloudFormation
16 9 (1.51%) Power Automate
17 8 (1.34%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 28 (4.69%) Internet
2 27 (4.52%) Firewall
3 26 (4.36%) WAN
4 25 (4.19%) VPN
5 19 (3.18%) LAN
6 17 (2.85%) DHCP
6 17 (2.85%) DNS
7 15 (2.51%) Network Security
7 15 (2.51%) Wireless
8 13 (2.18%) BGP
9 11 (1.84%) TCP/IP
10 10 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
11 9 (1.51%) MPLS
12 8 (1.34%) SD-WAN
12 8 (1.34%) VLAN
12 8 (1.34%) VoIP
13 6 (1.01%) HTTP
13 6 (1.01%) MQTT
13 6 (1.01%) ZigBee
14 5 (0.84%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 107 (17.92%) SQL Server
2 25 (4.19%) Relational Database
3 24 (4.02%) MySQL
3 24 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (3.52%) Redis
5 17 (2.85%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (2.51%) NoSQL
7 12 (2.01%) Big Data
7 12 (2.01%) Power BI
7 12 (2.01%) Spark SQL
8 11 (1.84%) Metadata
9 9 (1.51%) MongoDB
10 6 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
10 6 (1.01%) ClickHouse
11 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 5 (0.84%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.67%) MariaDB
13 3 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
13 3 (0.50%) Elasticsearch
14 2 (0.34%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 79 (13.23%) Git
2 30 (5.03%) Eclipse
3 27 (4.52%) JIRA
3 27 (4.52%) Subversion
4 21 (3.52%) JUnit
5 18 (3.02%) Jenkins
6 17 (2.85%) GitLab
7 6 (1.01%) Burp Suite
7 6 (1.01%) Cucumber
7 6 (1.01%) Cypress.io
7 6 (1.01%) GDB
8 5 (0.84%) Eclipse RCP
8 5 (0.84%) JMeter
9 4 (0.67%) Robot Framework
9 4 (0.67%) Selenium
10 3 (0.50%) HP UFT
10 3 (0.50%) LoadRunner
10 3 (0.50%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.50%) Polyspace
10 3 (0.50%) SonarQube
General
1 202 (33.84%) Social Skills
2 84 (14.07%) Finance
3 82 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (6.20%) Manufacturing
5 33 (5.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 27 (4.52%) Law
7 24 (4.02%) Public Sector
8 20 (3.35%) Aerospace
8 20 (3.35%) Electronics
8 20 (3.35%) Pharmaceutical
9 18 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
10 15 (2.51%) Retail
11 14 (2.35%) Legal
12 11 (1.84%) Marketing
13 10 (1.68%) Telecoms
14 8 (1.34%) Advertising
14 8 (1.34%) Banking
15 6 (1.01%) Automotive
16 5 (0.84%) Military
16 5 (0.84%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 189 (31.66%) Developer
2 132 (22.11%) Software Engineer
3 83 (13.90%) Software Developer
4 63 (10.55%) Graduate
5 56 (9.38%) Senior
6 53 (8.88%) Lead
7 47 (7.87%) C# Software Engineer
7 47 (7.87%) C++ Software Engineer
8 46 (7.71%) Python Engineer
9 42 (7.04%) Architect
10 41 (6.87%) Graduate Developer
11 40 (6.70%) Python Software Engineer
12 36 (6.03%) Graduate Software Developer
13 35 (5.86%) Java Developer
14 32 (5.36%) Web Developer
15 30 (5.03%) Full-Stack Developer
16 29 (4.86%) C# Developer
17 26 (4.36%) Data Engineer
18 25 (4.19%) Junior
19 24 (4.02%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 97 (16.25%) .NET
2 67 (11.22%) CSS
3 64 (10.72%) React
4 54 (9.05%) RESTful
5 53 (8.88%) jQuery
6 46 (7.71%) HTML
7 36 (6.03%) REST
8 32 (5.36%) Vue
9 30 (5.03%) Web Services
10 26 (4.36%) Jakarta EE
10 26 (4.36%) Node.js
11 25 (4.19%) Struts
12 19 (3.18%) .NET Core
13 16 (2.68%) ARM Templates
13 16 (2.68%) Kafka
13 16 (2.68%) PySpark
14 13 (2.18%) JSON
15 11 (1.84%) AngularJS
15 11 (1.84%) ASP.NET
15 11 (1.84%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 40 (6.70%) Management Information System
2 39 (6.53%) Cloud Native
3 21 (3.52%) Distributed Systems
4 19 (3.18%) Algorithms
5 18 (3.02%) Distributed Computing
6 17 (2.85%) Embedded Systems
7 16 (2.68%) Data Centre
7 16 (2.68%) Product Ownership
8 15 (2.51%) Onboarding
8 15 (2.51%) Virtual Team
9 14 (2.35%) Data Structures
10 13 (2.18%) IoT
11 12 (2.01%) Life Science
11 12 (2.01%) Security Posture
11 12 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
12 10 (1.68%) Device Driver
12 10 (1.68%) Robotics
13 9 (1.51%) Client/Server
14 8 (1.34%) Legacy Systems
14 8 (1.34%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 84 (14.07%) Linux
2 34 (5.70%) Windows
3 15 (2.51%) Unix
4 11 (1.84%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.17%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (0.84%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.50%) Android
7 3 (0.50%) Debian
7 3 (0.50%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.50%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Solaris
8 2 (0.34%) VMS
8 2 (0.34%) Windows 10
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 543 (90.95%) Computer Science
2 196 (32.83%) Software Engineering
3 191 (31.99%) Problem-Solving
4 152 (25.46%) CI/CD
5 151 (25.29%) Agile
6 134 (22.45%) AI
7 120 (20.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 107 (17.92%) DevOps
9 75 (12.56%) Mentoring
10 73 (12.23%) Test Automation
11 71 (11.89%) Full-Stack Development
12 56 (9.38%) Containerisation
13 53 (8.88%) SDLC
14 52 (8.71%) Microservices
15 50 (8.38%) Data Modelling
15 50 (8.38%) Web Development
16 49 (8.21%) Scrum
17 45 (7.54%) Analytics
17 45 (7.54%) Clean Code
17 45 (7.54%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 195 (32.66%) Python
2 146 (24.46%) C#
3 137 (22.95%) C++
4 130 (21.78%) SQL
5 123 (20.60%) JavaScript
6 103 (17.25%) Java
7 71 (11.89%) PHP
8 54 (9.05%) TypeScript
9 38 (6.37%) PowerShell
10 36 (6.03%) Rust
11 30 (5.03%) C
12 23 (3.85%) Perl
13 17 (2.85%) Go
14 16 (2.68%) Bash
15 7 (1.17%) Bicep
16 6 (1.01%) Scala
17 4 (0.67%) Delphi
17 4 (0.67%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.67%) Embedded C++
17 4 (0.67%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 597 (100.00%) Degree
2 70 (11.73%) Master's Degree
3 56 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 38 (6.37%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.02%) DV Cleared
6 23 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (2.68%) PhD
8 15 (2.51%) CCNP
9 14 (2.35%) CISSP
10 12 (2.01%) ISTQB
11 11 (1.84%) Azure Certification
11 11 (1.84%) BPSS Clearance
12 10 (1.68%) DBS Check
13 9 (1.51%) AWS Certification
13 9 (1.51%) CCNA
14 8 (1.34%) CCIE
14 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 5 (0.84%) CompTIA Security+
16 4 (0.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (8.71%) Accessibility
2 50 (8.38%) QA
3 26 (4.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (3.69%) GDPR
5 21 (3.52%) NIST
6 17 (2.85%) Data Quality
7 11 (1.84%) PCI DSS
8 8 (1.34%) SOC 2
9 7 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (1.01%) JTAG
11 5 (0.84%) SLA
12 4 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
13 3 (0.50%) GxP
13 3 (0.50%) IEC 61508
13 3 (0.50%) ISO 26262
13 3 (0.50%) PMO
14 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.34%) Def Stans
15 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
15 1 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 66 (11.06%) Docker
2 24 (4.02%) Active Directory
2 24 (4.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (1.84%) Hyper-V
4 9 (1.51%) Firmware
4 9 (1.51%) VMware NSX
5 8 (1.34%) KVM
6 5 (0.84%) vSphere
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Desktop
7 4 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.50%) Embedded Firmware
8 3 (0.50%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 68 (11.39%) Kubernetes
2 34 (5.70%) Terraform
3 14 (2.35%) Ansible
4 10 (1.68%) Grafana
5 7 (1.17%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.67%) Prometheus
6 4 (0.67%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.50%) HP Fortify
7 3 (0.50%) Nmap
7 3 (0.50%) Plesk
7 3 (0.50%) Podman
7 3 (0.50%) SCCM
8 2 (0.34%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.34%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.34%) Kibana
8 2 (0.34%) MaaS360
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) Argo
9 1 (0.17%) CASB
9 1 (0.17%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 103 (17.25%) Microsoft
2 25 (4.19%) Cisco
2 25 (4.19%) VMware
3 22 (3.69%) Databricks
4 15 (2.51%) Oracle
5 12 (2.01%) Meraki
6 9 (1.51%) Splunk
7 7 (1.17%) Google
8 4 (0.67%) Adobe
8 4 (0.67%) CheckPoint
8 4 (0.67%) OpenAI
9 3 (0.50%) Apple
9 3 (0.50%) Blue Coat
9 3 (0.50%) F5
9 3 (0.50%) Fortinet
9 3 (0.50%) Motorola
9 3 (0.50%) Sage
9 3 (0.50%) ServiceNow
9 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds
9 3 (0.50%) Veracode