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

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 225 89 127
Rank change year-on-year -136 +38 +79
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 382 1,067 1,042
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.86% 3.04% 2.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.69% 7.70% 8.15%
Number of salaries quoted 257 428 804
10th Percentile £27,000 £32,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -11.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £85,000 £85,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% - +8.33%

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 14,175 13,853 12,783
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 31.92% 39.42% 29.03%
Number of salaries quoted 5,165 5,215 8,879
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -2.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £81,250 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

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 26 January 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 26 January 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 -44 121 £60,000 -7.69% 237
North of England -66 104 £55,000 +7.34% 98
Yorkshire -55 60 £70,000 +53.60% 32
Midlands -130 51 £45,000 +28.57% 63
South West -6 41 £63,750 -12.07% 80
East of England -56 36 £45,000 -18.18% 110
West Midlands -106 32 £40,000 +14.29% 26
North West -44 25 £55,000 +7.34% 41
East Midlands -75 22 £55,000 +57.14% 36
North East -4 19 £51,500 -8.85% 25
Scotland -17 18 £75,000 +54.64% 33
Wales -7 7 £70,000 +28.04% 31
Northern Ireland -37 5 £47,750 -45.43% 20
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 22 (5.76%) IIS
2 12 (3.14%) Confluence
3 10 (2.62%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.31%) Apache Spark
5 2 (0.52%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.52%) SAS
6 1 (0.26%) Apache
6 1 (0.26%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.26%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.26%) WordPress
Applications
1 19 (4.97%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (3.66%) MS Visio
3 13 (3.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (2.09%) AutoCAD
4 8 (2.09%) SOLIDWORKS
5 2 (0.52%) EPLAN
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.52%) Weka
5 2 (0.52%) Windchill
6 1 (0.26%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 2 (0.52%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.26%) FIS Private Capital Suite
2 1 (0.26%) Pegasus Opera
2 1 (0.26%) SAP CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI
2 1 (0.26%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 155 (40.58%) Azure
2 106 (27.75%) AWS
3 35 (9.16%) Serverless
4 30 (7.85%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (7.33%) GCP
6 24 (6.28%) Power Platform
7 23 (6.02%) SaaS
8 19 (4.97%) Microsoft 365
9 17 (4.45%) GitHub
10 11 (2.88%) PaaS
11 10 (2.62%) Amazon S3
11 10 (2.62%) AWS Lambda
12 9 (2.36%) Google Workspace
13 7 (1.83%) Cloud Computing
13 7 (1.83%) Entra ID
13 7 (1.83%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.57%) OneDrive
15 5 (1.31%) Azure Logic Apps
15 5 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
16 4 (1.05%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 23 (6.02%) Firewall
2 16 (4.19%) Network Security
3 14 (3.66%) VLAN
4 13 (3.40%) TCP/IP
5 11 (2.88%) VPN
6 8 (2.09%) LAN
6 8 (2.09%) WAN
7 7 (1.83%) BGP
7 7 (1.83%) OSPF
7 7 (1.83%) SAN
8 6 (1.57%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (1.57%) Modbus
9 5 (1.31%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (1.31%) Wireless
10 4 (1.05%) Bluetooth
10 4 (1.05%) Cisco Wireless
10 4 (1.05%) DNS
10 4 (1.05%) EIGRP
10 4 (1.05%) SNMP
10 4 (1.05%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 51 (13.35%) SQL Server
2 26 (6.81%) MySQL
3 17 (4.45%) Power BI
4 12 (3.14%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (3.14%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 11 (2.88%) Metadata
5 11 (2.88%) NoSQL
6 10 (2.62%) Amazon Redshift
7 9 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (2.09%) Relational Database
9 7 (1.83%) Data Lake
10 6 (1.57%) Big Data
10 6 (1.57%) MongoDB
11 5 (1.31%) Data Mining
11 5 (1.31%) Hadoop
11 5 (1.31%) Tableau
12 4 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (1.05%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (1.05%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 36 (9.42%) JIRA
2 24 (6.28%) Git
3 10 (2.62%) Bitbucket
4 9 (2.36%) Cypress.io
5 7 (1.83%) GitLab
6 6 (1.57%) Jenkins
7 5 (1.31%) Selenium
8 4 (1.05%) Burp Suite
8 4 (1.05%) Metasploit
8 4 (1.05%) WebDriver
9 3 (0.79%) ERwin
9 3 (0.79%) PowerDesigner
10 2 (0.52%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.52%) JMeter
10 2 (0.52%) LoadRunner
10 2 (0.52%) Octopus Deploy
10 2 (0.52%) SonarQube
10 2 (0.52%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.52%) TestRail
11 1 (0.26%) MLflow
General
1 180 (47.12%) Social Skills
2 74 (19.37%) Finance
3 67 (17.54%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.33%) Manufacturing
5 16 (4.19%) Retail
6 14 (3.66%) Law
6 14 (3.66%) Pharmaceutical
7 13 (3.40%) Electronics
8 10 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (2.36%) Advertising
9 9 (2.36%) Marketing
9 9 (2.36%) Public Sector
10 8 (2.09%) Aerospace
10 8 (2.09%) Banking
11 7 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.05%) Dutch Language
12 4 (1.05%) French Language
12 4 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.05%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 77 (20.16%) Developer
2 66 (17.28%) Architect
3 57 (14.92%) Software Engineer
4 39 (10.21%) Senior
5 32 (8.38%) Software Architect
6 31 (8.12%) Support Engineer
7 25 (6.54%) Graduate
8 24 (6.28%) Analyst
9 23 (6.02%) IT Engineer
10 21 (5.50%) Software Developer
11 20 (5.24%) IT Support
11 20 (5.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (4.71%) Applications Architect
12 18 (4.71%) Full-Stack Developer
13 17 (4.45%) Graduate Developer
14 15 (3.93%) Senior Developer
15 14 (3.66%) C# Developer
16 13 (3.40%) SQL Developer
16 13 (3.40%) Technical Support
17 12 (3.14%) PHP Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 56 (14.66%) .NET
1 56 (14.66%) CSS
2 35 (9.16%) React
3 32 (8.38%) Middleware
4 29 (7.59%) HTML
5 28 (7.33%) REST
6 26 (6.81%) ASP.NET
7 20 (5.24%) .NET Framework
8 19 (4.97%) jQuery
8 19 (4.97%) WinForms
9 15 (3.93%) Node.js
10 14 (3.66%) SOAP
11 13 (3.40%) Vue
12 12 (3.14%) Entity Framework
12 12 (3.14%) RESTful
12 12 (3.14%) WPF
13 11 (2.88%) Playwright
14 8 (2.09%) AngularJS
14 8 (2.09%) PyTorch
14 8 (2.09%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 35 (9.16%) Management Information System
2 34 (8.90%) Enterprise Software
3 23 (6.02%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.19%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (3.40%) Operational Technology
6 11 (2.88%) Data Centre
6 11 (2.88%) Driving Licence
7 10 (2.62%) Data Structures
8 9 (2.36%) Product Ownership
9 8 (2.09%) Low-Code
9 8 (2.09%) SCADA
10 7 (1.83%) Distributed Systems
10 7 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
11 6 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 5 (1.31%) Cyber Threat
12 5 (1.31%) Hybrid Cloud
12 5 (1.31%) IoT
12 5 (1.31%) Security Posture
12 5 (1.31%) Team-Oriented Environment
13 4 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 53 (13.87%) Windows
2 52 (13.61%) Linux
3 15 (3.93%) Android
4 9 (2.36%) Mac OS
5 7 (1.83%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.05%) Kali Linux
6 4 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.52%) Unix
7 2 (0.52%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.26%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.26%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (96.07%) Computer Science
2 137 (35.86%) Problem-Solving
3 116 (30.37%) Agile
4 97 (25.39%) Continuous Improvement
5 95 (24.87%) DevOps
6 73 (19.11%) Software Engineering
7 69 (18.06%) CI/CD
8 68 (17.80%) Mentoring
9 58 (15.18%) AI
10 48 (12.57%) Data Modelling
11 47 (12.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 45 (11.78%) SDLC
13 43 (11.26%) ITIL
14 39 (10.21%) Microservices
15 38 (9.95%) Analytics
16 37 (9.69%) Application Security
16 37 (9.69%) Enterprise Architecture
17 36 (9.42%) Migration
18 33 (8.64%) Stakeholder Management
19 32 (8.38%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 108 (28.27%) Python
2 99 (25.92%) SQL
3 93 (24.35%) Java
4 92 (24.08%) C#
5 71 (18.59%) JavaScript
6 45 (11.78%) C++
7 36 (9.42%) TypeScript
8 33 (8.64%) PHP
9 17 (4.45%) PowerShell
10 15 (3.93%) C
10 15 (3.93%) T-SQL
11 9 (2.36%) PL/SQL
11 9 (2.36%) Rust
12 8 (2.09%) R
13 6 (1.57%) Bash
14 5 (1.31%) Delphi
15 4 (1.05%) Go
16 3 (0.79%) Bicep
16 3 (0.79%) Julia
16 3 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 379 (99.21%) Degree
2 44 (11.52%) Master's Degree
3 42 (10.99%) Microsoft Certification
4 37 (9.69%) Security Cleared
5 34 (8.90%) AWS Certification
6 33 (8.64%) Azure Certification
7 31 (8.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 30 (7.85%) TOGAF Certification
9 29 (7.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 23 (6.02%) SC Cleared
11 19 (4.97%) Chartered Engineer
12 13 (3.40%) ITIL Certification
13 10 (2.62%) A+ Certification
14 9 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
15 8 (2.09%) CCNP
15 8 (2.09%) DV Cleared
15 8 (2.09%) PMI Certification
16 7 (1.83%) CISSP
17 6 (1.57%) CISM
17 6 (1.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (7.07%) QA
2 19 (4.97%) ISO/IEC 12207
3 16 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 14 (3.66%) NIST
5 13 (3.40%) Accessibility
6 10 (2.62%) IEC 61131
7 8 (2.09%) NCSC
8 7 (1.83%) GDPR
9 6 (1.57%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (1.31%) GxP
11 4 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.05%) PMO
12 3 (0.79%) 21 CFR Part 11
12 3 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 2 (0.52%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.52%) ECSS
13 2 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 2 (0.52%) NIST 800
14 1 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 33 (8.64%) Docker
2 14 (3.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (3.40%) Active Directory
4 10 (2.62%) Hyper-V
5 8 (2.09%) vSphere
6 4 (1.05%) KVM
6 4 (1.05%) ProxySG
7 1 (0.26%) Firmware
7 1 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 17 (4.45%) Terraform
3 11 (2.88%) Grafana
3 11 (2.88%) Prometheus
4 10 (2.62%) Control-M
5 8 (2.09%) Ansible
5 8 (2.09%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (1.31%) SCCM
7 4 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.05%) Nessus
7 4 (1.05%) Nmap
8 3 (0.79%) Nagios
8 3 (0.79%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.79%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.52%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.52%) Kibana
10 1 (0.26%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.26%) NetBackup
10 1 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 109 (28.53%) Microsoft
2 20 (5.24%) Oracle
3 15 (3.93%) VMware
4 14 (3.66%) Cisco
5 13 (3.40%) SAP
6 12 (3.14%) Google
6 12 (3.14%) Sage
6 12 (3.14%) Xamarin
7 10 (2.62%) Fortinet
7 10 (2.62%) ServiceNow
8 9 (2.36%) Palo Alto
9 8 (2.09%) Dell
10 7 (1.83%) Splunk
11 6 (1.57%) CheckPoint
12 5 (1.31%) Red Hat
12 5 (1.31%) Salesforce
12 5 (1.31%) Syncfusion
12 5 (1.31%) Telerik
12 5 (1.31%) Veeam
12 5 (1.31%) Zoho