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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 164 110
Rank change year-on-year -76 -54 +42
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 547 683 1,619
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.76% 2.01% 2.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.09% 5.35% 9.22%
Number of salaries quoted 462 406 1,155
10th Percentile £26,813 £25,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,750 £34,500 £37,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,728 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% +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 £57,500
% change year-on-year +8.33% +4.35% -8.00%

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 13,380 12,756 17,563
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.49% 37.52% 25.27%
Number of salaries quoted 6,778 5,313 10,802
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £78,750 £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 20 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 20 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 -7 230 £65,000 +13.04% 78
North of England -44 122 £62,500 +8.70% 16
East of England -39 59 £46,250 -7.50% 20
South West -58 58 £42,500 -15.00% 21
Midlands -76 55 £40,000 -3.46% 29
North West -51 46 £40,000 -31.03% 7
Yorkshire -17 41 £75,000 +25.00% 7
North East -27 35 £98,750 +136.53% 2
East Midlands -19 28 £26,000 -25.71% 19
West Midlands -72 27 £41,500 -2.35% 10
Wales -48 14 £72,500 +20.83% 5
Northern Ireland -67 6 £40,000 -63.64% 13
Scotland -10 3 £74,250 +43.03% 5
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 (2.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (1.46%) SAS
3 7 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (0.91%) Confluence
5 4 (0.73%) CMS
5 4 (0.73%) Microsoft Exchange
5 4 (0.73%) WordPress
6 3 (0.55%) IIS
7 2 (0.37%) Apache
7 2 (0.37%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.37%) Luigi
8 1 (0.18%) Anypoint
8 1 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.18%) WebSphere
Applications
1 4 (0.73%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.18%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.18%) Infor M3
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 215 (39.31%) Azure
2 168 (30.71%) AWS
3 53 (9.69%) GCP
4 33 (6.03%) SaaS
5 28 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
6 27 (4.94%) Serverless
7 20 (3.66%) Microsoft 365
8 18 (3.29%) Power Platform
9 17 (3.11%) Azure Logic Apps
10 15 (2.74%) PaaS
11 14 (2.56%) IaaS
11 14 (2.56%) Snowflake
12 13 (2.38%) Azure Data Factory
12 13 (2.38%) Azure Functions
13 11 (2.01%) AWS CloudFormation
13 11 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
13 11 (2.01%) GitHub
13 11 (2.01%) Power Automate
14 6 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
14 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 28 (5.12%) VPN
2 27 (4.94%) WAN
3 25 (4.57%) Firewall
4 24 (4.39%) Internet
5 20 (3.66%) LAN
6 16 (2.93%) Network Security
6 16 (2.93%) Wireless
7 14 (2.56%) BGP
7 14 (2.56%) DHCP
7 14 (2.56%) DNS
8 10 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (1.65%) MPLS
9 9 (1.65%) VLAN
10 8 (1.46%) SD-WAN
10 8 (1.46%) TCP/IP
10 8 (1.46%) VoIP
11 6 (1.10%) MQTT
11 6 (1.10%) SNMP
11 6 (1.10%) ZigBee
12 4 (0.73%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (17.00%) SQL Server
2 24 (4.39%) MySQL
3 22 (4.02%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (3.29%) Relational Database
5 17 (3.11%) Redis
6 16 (2.93%) NoSQL
7 13 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (2.19%) Spark SQL
9 11 (2.01%) Power BI
10 10 (1.83%) Big Data
10 10 (1.83%) MongoDB
11 9 (1.65%) Metadata
12 6 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
13 5 (0.91%) Amazon Redshift
13 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Analysis Services
13 5 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.73%) ClickHouse
14 4 (0.73%) Elasticsearch
15 3 (0.55%) MariaDB
16 2 (0.37%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 68 (12.43%) Git
2 23 (4.20%) Eclipse
2 23 (4.20%) JIRA
3 19 (3.47%) Subversion
4 17 (3.11%) Jenkins
5 15 (2.74%) JUnit
6 14 (2.56%) GitLab
7 7 (1.28%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.10%) Cucumber
8 6 (1.10%) GDB
9 5 (0.91%) JMeter
10 4 (0.73%) Burp Suite
10 4 (0.73%) Eclipse RCP
10 4 (0.73%) Robot Framework
10 4 (0.73%) Selenium
11 3 (0.55%) Gatling
11 3 (0.55%) HP UFT
11 3 (0.55%) LoadRunner
11 3 (0.55%) SonarQube
11 3 (0.55%) VectorCAST
General
1 165 (30.16%) Social Skills
2 77 (14.08%) Finance
3 70 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (5.85%) Manufacturing
5 22 (4.02%) Law
5 22 (4.02%) Public Sector
6 20 (3.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 20 (3.66%) Retail
7 17 (3.11%) Electronics
8 16 (2.93%) Legal
9 15 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.19%) Marketing
10 12 (2.19%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (1.65%) Advertising
11 9 (1.65%) Banking
11 9 (1.65%) Telecoms
12 8 (1.46%) Aerospace
13 5 (0.91%) Automotive
13 5 (0.91%) Police
13 5 (0.91%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 170 (31.08%) Developer
2 130 (23.77%) Software Engineer
3 75 (13.71%) Software Developer
4 65 (11.88%) Senior
5 56 (10.24%) Graduate
6 50 (9.14%) Python Engineer
7 49 (8.96%) C++ Software Engineer
8 48 (8.78%) C# Software Engineer
9 45 (8.23%) Lead
10 44 (8.04%) Python Software Engineer
11 39 (7.13%) Graduate Developer
12 36 (6.58%) Graduate Software Developer
13 35 (6.40%) Architect
14 29 (5.30%) C# Developer
14 29 (5.30%) Java Developer
15 28 (5.12%) Web Developer
16 25 (4.57%) Full-Stack Developer
17 24 (4.39%) C# Software Developer
17 24 (4.39%) Graduate C# Developer
17 24 (4.39%) Graduate C# Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (15.36%) .NET
2 64 (11.70%) CSS
3 62 (11.33%) React
4 49 (8.96%) jQuery
5 48 (8.78%) RESTful
6 44 (8.04%) HTML
7 37 (6.76%) REST
8 27 (4.94%) Vue
9 26 (4.75%) Web Services
10 25 (4.57%) Node.js
11 20 (3.66%) Jakarta EE
12 19 (3.47%) Struts
13 18 (3.29%) .NET Core
13 18 (3.29%) ARM Templates
14 15 (2.74%) Kafka
15 13 (2.38%) PySpark
16 12 (2.19%) JSON
16 12 (2.19%) Middleware
16 12 (2.19%) SOAP
17 11 (2.01%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 32 (5.85%) Cloud Native
2 29 (5.30%) Management Information System
3 24 (4.39%) Distributed Systems
4 18 (3.29%) Algorithms
5 17 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 17 (3.11%) Distributed Computing
6 16 (2.93%) Embedded Systems
7 14 (2.56%) Product Ownership
7 14 (2.56%) Virtual Team
8 12 (2.19%) Data Structures
9 11 (2.01%) Client/Server
9 11 (2.01%) IoT
9 11 (2.01%) Onboarding
9 11 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
10 10 (1.83%) Device Driver
10 10 (1.83%) Robotics
11 7 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
11 7 (1.28%) Life Science
11 7 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
11 7 (1.28%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 85 (15.54%) Linux
2 30 (5.48%) Windows
3 16 (2.93%) Unix
4 11 (2.01%) Windows Server
5 7 (1.28%) Android
5 7 (1.28%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.55%) Debian
7 3 (0.55%) Gentoo
7 3 (0.55%) Kali Linux
8 2 (0.37%) Solaris
8 2 (0.37%) 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
1 489 (89.40%) Computer Science
2 182 (33.27%) Software Engineering
3 164 (29.98%) Problem-Solving
4 139 (25.41%) CI/CD
5 130 (23.77%) Agile
6 111 (20.29%) AI
7 107 (19.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 96 (17.55%) DevOps
9 71 (12.98%) Test Automation
10 65 (11.88%) Full-Stack Development
11 57 (10.42%) Mentoring
12 54 (9.87%) Containerisation
13 46 (8.41%) Microservices
14 42 (7.68%) Data Modelling
14 42 (7.68%) Scrum
15 41 (7.50%) Analytics
15 41 (7.50%) SDLC
16 40 (7.31%) Web Development
17 36 (6.58%) Clean Code
17 36 (6.58%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 185 (33.82%) Python
2 133 (24.31%) C#
3 132 (24.13%) C++
4 122 (22.30%) SQL
5 105 (19.20%) JavaScript
6 91 (16.64%) Java
7 68 (12.43%) PHP
8 52 (9.51%) TypeScript
9 37 (6.76%) Rust
10 35 (6.40%) PowerShell
11 30 (5.48%) C
12 17 (3.11%) Bash
12 17 (3.11%) Perl
13 13 (2.38%) Go
14 9 (1.65%) Bicep
15 6 (1.10%) Scala
16 5 (0.91%) Delphi
17 4 (0.73%) Embedded C
17 4 (0.73%) Embedded C++
18 3 (0.55%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 547 (100.00%) Degree
2 65 (11.88%) Master's Degree
3 41 (7.50%) Security Cleared
4 25 (4.57%) SC Cleared
5 24 (4.39%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (3.11%) PhD
7 16 (2.93%) CCNP
7 16 (2.93%) CISSP
8 15 (2.74%) DV Cleared
9 13 (2.38%) ISTQB
10 10 (1.83%) Azure Certification
11 9 (1.65%) CCIE
11 9 (1.65%) CCNA
11 9 (1.65%) CompTIA Security+
11 9 (1.65%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (1.46%) AWS Certification
12 8 (1.46%) DBS Check
13 6 (1.10%) CISM
14 5 (0.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 5 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (8.41%) QA
2 39 (7.13%) Accessibility
3 25 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.57%) NIST
4 21 (3.84%) GDPR
5 16 (2.93%) Data Quality
6 13 (2.38%) PCI DSS
7 9 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.28%) SOC 2
9 6 (1.10%) JTAG
10 5 (0.91%) SLA
11 4 (0.73%) PMO
12 3 (0.55%) IEC 61508
12 3 (0.55%) ISO 26262
12 3 (0.55%) Software Quality Assurance
13 2 (0.37%) Def Stans
13 2 (0.37%) HIPAA
14 1 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 65 (11.88%) Docker
2 27 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.47%) Active Directory
4 13 (2.38%) Hyper-V
5 10 (1.83%) KVM
6 9 (1.65%) VMware NSX
7 7 (1.28%) Firmware
8 5 (0.91%) vSphere
9 4 (0.73%) ProxySG
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
11 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (12.25%) Kubernetes
2 36 (6.58%) Terraform
3 15 (2.74%) Ansible
4 13 (2.38%) Grafana
5 6 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
6 5 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 4 (0.73%) vCenter Server
8 3 (0.55%) HP Fortify
8 3 (0.55%) Plesk
8 3 (0.55%) Podman
8 3 (0.55%) SCCM
9 2 (0.37%) FortiGate
9 2 (0.37%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.37%) Kibana
10 1 (0.18%) CASB
10 1 (0.18%) CloudHub
10 1 (0.18%) Functional Safety
10 1 (0.18%) Graylog
10 1 (0.18%) MaaS360
10 1 (0.18%) Packer
Vendors
1 83 (15.17%) Microsoft
2 28 (5.12%) VMware
3 23 (4.20%) Cisco
4 20 (3.66%) Databricks
4 20 (3.66%) Oracle
5 10 (1.83%) Splunk
6 9 (1.65%) Meraki
7 7 (1.28%) Google
8 5 (0.91%) CheckPoint
8 5 (0.91%) ServiceNow
9 4 (0.73%) Adobe
9 4 (0.73%) Blue Coat
9 4 (0.73%) F5
9 4 (0.73%) Infoblox
9 4 (0.73%) Motorola
9 4 (0.73%) OpenAI
9 4 (0.73%) SolarWinds
10 3 (0.55%) MuleSoft
10 3 (0.55%) Salesforce
10 3 (0.55%) Veracode