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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 94 112
Rank change year-on-year -93 +18 +45
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 444 1,239 818
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.20% 2.56% 2.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.71% 8.44% 8.00%
Number of salaries quoted 304 564 642
10th Percentile £25,000 £32,500 £35,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £40,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,933 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.54% -11.78% +20.00%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £85,700 £85,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £62,500 £61,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +2.46% -6.15% +13.04%

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 11,967 14,676 10,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 32.48% 30.36% 34.02%
Number of salaries quoted 5,189 5,842 6,806
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,750 £41,263 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £78,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,033 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.23% +0.93% +0.88%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025. 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 -47 143 £55,000 -15.38% 122
North of England -44 107 £55,000 +10.00% 36
Midlands -90 69 £40,367 +15.33% 37
West Midlands -58 54 £41,434 +18.38% 22
Yorkshire -2 44 £55,000 +19.18% 13
South West -9 44 £47,500 -28.30% 39
East of England -46 44 £45,000 -22.75% 39
North West -39 43 £56,250 +12.50% 21
Scotland -5 21 £60,000 +9.09% 25
North East +12 20 £51,500 +14.44% 3
East Midlands -51 18 £35,000 - 15
Wales -2 12 £56,250 +25.92% 7
Northern Ireland -21 4 £36,000 -31.43% 3
Isle of Man +11 1 - -
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 23 (5.18%) IIS
2 8 (1.80%) Confluence
3 6 (1.35%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (0.68%) SAS
5 2 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.45%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.45%) SharePoint
6 1 (0.23%) CMS
6 1 (0.23%) Umbraco
6 1 (0.23%) WordPress
Applications
1 18 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (2.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (2.03%) MS Visio
4 8 (1.80%) AutoCAD
4 8 (1.80%) SOLIDWORKS
5 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.45%) EPLAN
6 2 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
7 1 (0.23%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 6 (1.35%) Dynamics NAV
1 6 (1.35%) NetSuite
2 4 (0.90%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.23%) Pegasus Opera
3 1 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 166 (37.39%) Azure
2 99 (22.30%) AWS
3 34 (7.66%) GCP
4 30 (6.76%) Azure DevOps
4 30 (6.76%) Power Platform
5 29 (6.53%) SaaS
6 22 (4.95%) GitHub
6 22 (4.95%) Serverless
7 11 (2.48%) Microsoft 365
8 10 (2.25%) Dynamics 365
9 9 (2.03%) Cloud Computing
9 9 (2.03%) Google Workspace
9 9 (2.03%) PaaS
10 8 (1.80%) Amazon S3
11 7 (1.58%) AWS Lambda
11 7 (1.58%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (1.58%) Entra ID
12 5 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
13 4 (0.90%) Firebase
13 4 (0.90%) SurveyMonkey
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.41%) Firewall
2 14 (3.15%) VLAN
3 13 (2.93%) TCP/IP
4 12 (2.70%) SAN
5 11 (2.48%) Network Security
6 10 (2.25%) VPN
7 8 (1.80%) DNS
8 7 (1.58%) DHCP
8 7 (1.58%) Modbus
8 7 (1.58%) Wireshark
9 5 (1.13%) Bluetooth
9 5 (1.13%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.13%) VoIP
9 5 (1.13%) WAN
10 4 (0.90%) BGP
10 4 (0.90%) Internet
10 4 (0.90%) LAN
10 4 (0.90%) OSPF
10 4 (0.90%) SD-WAN
10 4 (0.90%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (17.79%) SQL Server
2 40 (9.01%) MySQL
3 25 (5.63%) Power BI
4 18 (4.05%) Data Warehouse
5 13 (2.93%) NoSQL
5 13 (2.93%) Relational Database
5 13 (2.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 12 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
7 10 (2.25%) Data Lake
8 9 (2.03%) Metadata
9 8 (1.80%) Big Data
10 6 (1.35%) Hadoop
10 6 (1.35%) Oracle Database
11 5 (1.13%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.13%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.13%) Tableau
12 4 (0.90%) Amazon RDS
12 4 (0.90%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (0.90%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.90%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 40 (9.01%) JIRA
2 31 (6.98%) Git
3 12 (2.70%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.80%) Cypress.io
4 8 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.35%) GitLab
6 5 (1.13%) Octopus Deploy
7 4 (0.90%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.90%) Burp Suite
7 4 (0.90%) Metasploit
7 4 (0.90%) Selenium
7 4 (0.90%) SonarQube
7 4 (0.90%) TeamCity
8 3 (0.68%) ERwin
8 3 (0.68%) Maven
8 3 (0.68%) PowerDesigner
8 3 (0.68%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.68%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.23%) JMeter
9 1 (0.23%) LoadRunner
General
1 232 (52.25%) Social Skills
2 103 (23.20%) Finance
3 70 (15.77%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (6.98%) Manufacturing
5 27 (6.08%) Law
6 16 (3.60%) Documentation Skills
7 15 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 14 (3.15%) Retail
9 13 (2.93%) Banking
9 13 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.70%) Public Sector
11 11 (2.48%) Aerospace
11 11 (2.48%) Marketing
12 10 (2.25%) Electronics
12 10 (2.25%) Pharmaceutical
13 9 (2.03%) Advertising
13 9 (2.03%) Legal
14 8 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (1.58%) Back Office
15 7 (1.58%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 114 (25.68%) Developer
2 61 (13.74%) Architect
3 50 (11.26%) Graduate
4 43 (9.68%) Software Engineer
5 41 (9.23%) Senior
6 38 (8.56%) Support Engineer
7 35 (7.88%) Graduate Developer
8 33 (7.43%) Analyst
9 32 (7.21%) Software Architect
10 28 (6.31%) IT Graduate
11 24 (5.41%) Software Developer
12 23 (5.18%) IT Support
13 21 (4.73%) IT Engineer
13 21 (4.73%) Technical Support
14 20 (4.50%) C# Developer
15 18 (4.05%) IT Support Engineer
16 17 (3.83%) Lead
17 16 (3.60%) SQL Developer
18 15 (3.38%) Junior
18 15 (3.38%) Software Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 70 (15.77%) .NET
2 62 (13.96%) CSS
3 39 (8.78%) ASP.NET
4 33 (7.43%) jQuery
5 31 (6.98%) React
6 28 (6.31%) HTML
7 26 (5.86%) Middleware
8 24 (5.41%) REST
9 22 (4.95%) .NET Framework
9 22 (4.95%) WinForms
10 13 (2.93%) PyTorch
10 13 (2.93%) RESTful
10 13 (2.93%) TensorFlow
10 13 (2.93%) Vue
10 13 (2.93%) WPF
11 12 (2.70%) AngularJS
11 12 (2.70%) Entity Framework
11 12 (2.70%) Node.js
12 10 (2.25%) Spring
13 9 (2.03%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 39 (8.78%) Management Information System
2 25 (5.63%) Enterprise Software
2 25 (5.63%) Self-Motivation
3 19 (4.28%) Onboarding
4 17 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 12 (2.70%) Driving Licence
5 12 (2.70%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 10 (2.25%) Security Posture
8 9 (2.03%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.03%) SCADA
9 7 (1.58%) Algorithms
9 7 (1.58%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.58%) IoT
9 7 (1.58%) Mobile App
9 7 (1.58%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (1.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 6 (1.35%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.35%) NHS
11 5 (1.13%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 65 (14.64%) Windows
2 59 (13.29%) Linux
3 8 (1.80%) Mac OS
4 7 (1.58%) Android
5 6 (1.35%) Windows Server
6 5 (1.13%) Mac OS X
7 4 (0.90%) Kali Linux
7 4 (0.90%) Ubuntu
8 3 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (96.40%) Computer Science
2 156 (35.14%) Agile
3 155 (34.91%) Problem-Solving
4 110 (24.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 110 (24.77%) DevOps
5 82 (18.47%) Mentoring
6 81 (18.24%) Software Engineering
7 73 (16.44%) CI/CD
8 58 (13.06%) AI
9 57 (12.84%) SDLC
10 52 (11.71%) OOP
11 47 (10.59%) Cybersecurity
11 47 (10.59%) ITIL
12 46 (10.36%) Business Intelligence
13 44 (9.91%) Analytics
14 41 (9.23%) OO
15 40 (9.01%) Machine Learning
15 40 (9.01%) Test Automation
16 39 (8.78%) Project Management
17 38 (8.56%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 114 (25.68%) C#
2 111 (25.00%) SQL
3 102 (22.97%) Java
4 84 (18.92%) Python
5 69 (15.54%) JavaScript
6 56 (12.61%) C++
7 44 (9.91%) PHP
8 25 (5.63%) TypeScript
9 22 (4.95%) C
10 21 (4.73%) PowerShell
11 16 (3.60%) T-SQL
12 10 (2.25%) Bash
12 10 (2.25%) PL/SQL
12 10 (2.25%) R
13 7 (1.58%) Delphi
14 5 (1.13%) Rust
15 4 (0.90%) Go
15 4 (0.90%) Julia
16 3 (0.68%) VBA
17 2 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 441 (99.32%) Degree
2 51 (11.49%) Master's Degree
3 42 (9.46%) Security Cleared
4 41 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
5 38 (8.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 28 (6.31%) Azure Certification
7 26 (5.86%) SC Cleared
8 24 (5.41%) Chartered Engineer
9 22 (4.95%) AWS Certification
9 22 (4.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 18 (4.05%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 12 (2.70%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (2.25%) CISSP
13 9 (2.03%) A+ Certification
13 9 (2.03%) DV Cleared
13 9 (2.03%) MCP
13 9 (2.03%) PMI Certification
13 9 (2.03%) PMP
14 8 (1.80%) CCNP
14 8 (1.80%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 24 (5.41%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 16 (3.60%) NIST
3 16 (3.60%) QA
4 14 (3.15%) Data Quality
5 13 (2.93%) GDPR
6 12 (2.70%) Accessibility
7 10 (2.25%) IEC 61131
7 10 (2.25%) NCSC
8 6 (1.35%) ISO 9001
9 3 (0.68%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 3 (0.68%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
10 2 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 2 (0.45%) Def Stans
10 2 (0.45%) ECSS
10 2 (0.45%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.45%) SLA
10 2 (0.45%) SOC 2
11 1 (0.23%) GRC
System Software
1 28 (6.31%) Docker
2 17 (3.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.25%) Firmware
5 8 (1.80%) vSphere
6 5 (1.13%) Hyper-V
7 4 (0.90%) Embedded Firmware
8 2 (0.45%) GPFS
8 2 (0.45%) Lustre
8 2 (0.45%) NFS
8 2 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 27 (6.08%) Kubernetes
2 19 (4.28%) Grafana
3 18 (4.05%) Terraform
4 17 (3.83%) Prometheus
5 12 (2.70%) Control-M
6 10 (2.25%) Ansible
7 4 (0.90%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.90%) Docker Swarm
7 4 (0.90%) Nessus
7 4 (0.90%) Nmap
7 4 (0.90%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.68%) Nagios
8 3 (0.68%) SCCM
8 3 (0.68%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.45%) Kibana
10 1 (0.23%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.23%) Microsoft Intune
10 1 (0.23%) Podman
10 1 (0.23%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 113 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 23 (5.18%) Oracle
3 19 (4.28%) Google
4 18 (4.05%) VMware
5 12 (2.70%) Sage
5 12 (2.70%) Xamarin
6 11 (2.48%) Cisco
7 10 (2.25%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.25%) SAP
8 9 (2.03%) Splunk
9 7 (1.58%) Dell
9 7 (1.58%) OpenAI
9 7 (1.58%) Palo Alto
10 6 (1.35%) Red Hat
10 6 (1.35%) Veeam
11 5 (1.13%) Salesforce
11 5 (1.13%) Syncfusion
11 5 (1.13%) Telerik
11 5 (1.13%) Zoho
12 4 (0.90%) Qualtrics