Computer Science Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -81 +9 +27
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 953 1,622 3,295
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 1.51% 6.11% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.09% 6.69% 5.83%
Number of salaries quoted 664 839 2,192
10th Percentile £25,000 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £53,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +0.95% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Computer Science falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 45,657 24,242 56,556
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 72.49% 91.30% 84.24%
Number of salaries quoted 27,896 13,748 40,896
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £27,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,600 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +5.20% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% -10.57%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Computer Science job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the UK excluding London

Computer Science
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 April 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 -47 324 £55,000 - 222
North of England -95 192 £56,000 +1.82% 100
Midlands -91 165 £40,000 -11.11% 84
West Midlands -77 117 £41,133 -8.59% 50
East of England -42 115 £35,000 -34.58% 84
South West -79 100 £55,000 +61.76% 50
Yorkshire -81 89 £52,500 +23.53% 34
North West -81 77 £56,000 +1.82% 45
East Midlands -83 47 £28,750 -29.88% 34
Wales -38 26 £72,500 +11.54% 10
North East -43 26 £60,000 +6.19% 22
Northern Ireland -38 21 £40,000 -47.54% 9
Scotland -60 11 £50,000 -4.76% 42
Computer Science
UK

Computer Science
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 19 (1.99%) SharePoint
2 11 (1.15%) Confluence
2 11 (1.15%) IIS
3 10 (1.05%) SAS
4 9 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 5 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
6 4 (0.42%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.31%) Apache
7 3 (0.31%) JBoss
8 1 (0.10%) Camunda
8 1 (0.10%) CMS
8 1 (0.10%) Jupyter
8 1 (0.10%) OpenStack
8 1 (0.10%) WordPress
Applications
1 26 (2.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 20 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
3 15 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
4 14 (1.47%) MS Visio
5 10 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.31%) InDesign
6 3 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.21%) Weka
7 2 (0.21%) Windchill
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.10%) Adobe Illustrator
8 1 (0.10%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.10%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.10%) Siemens NX
Business Applications
1 10 (1.05%) SAP CO
2 4 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.42%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.31%) NetSuite
3 3 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (0.21%) Sage X3
4 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.10%) Cognos Business Intelligence
5 1 (0.10%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.10%) FIS Private Capital Suite
5 1 (0.10%) Odoo
5 1 (0.10%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.10%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 266 (27.91%) Azure
2 193 (20.25%) AWS
3 68 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 65 (6.82%) GCP
5 53 (5.56%) Serverless
6 37 (3.88%) Microsoft 365
7 35 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
8 24 (2.52%) SaaS
9 20 (2.10%) Amazon S3
9 20 (2.10%) AWS Lambda
10 15 (1.57%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.57%) GitHub
11 13 (1.36%) Azure Data Factory
12 12 (1.26%) PaaS
13 10 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (1.05%) IaaS
14 9 (0.94%) Azure Functions
14 9 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
15 7 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
15 7 (0.73%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 32 (3.36%) Firewall
2 29 (3.04%) WAN
3 25 (2.62%) VPN
4 23 (2.41%) LAN
5 22 (2.31%) Network Security
6 21 (2.20%) DNS
7 19 (1.99%) BGP
8 17 (1.78%) Internet
9 16 (1.68%) DHCP
10 14 (1.47%) VLAN
11 13 (1.36%) TCP/IP
12 12 (1.26%) MPLS
13 11 (1.15%) OSPF
13 11 (1.15%) Wireless
14 10 (1.05%) Cisco ASA
14 10 (1.05%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.94%) SNMP
16 8 (0.84%) EIGRP
16 8 (0.84%) WAAS
16 8 (0.84%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 82 (8.60%) SQL Server
2 63 (6.61%) Power BI
3 31 (3.25%) MySQL
4 28 (2.94%) PostgreSQL
5 19 (1.99%) Big Data
6 17 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.78%) NoSQL
7 14 (1.47%) Tableau
8 13 (1.36%) Amazon Redshift
8 13 (1.36%) Metadata
8 13 (1.36%) Relational Database
9 11 (1.15%) Data Lake
10 10 (1.05%) Hadoop
10 10 (1.05%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.84%) Data Mining
11 8 (0.84%) Spark SQL
12 7 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.63%) Electronic Patient Records
14 5 (0.52%) Elasticsearch
14 5 (0.52%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 57 (5.98%) JIRA
2 48 (5.04%) Git
3 22 (2.31%) GitLab
4 16 (1.68%) Selenium
5 15 (1.57%) Jenkins
6 14 (1.47%) Cypress.io
7 13 (1.36%) Visual Studio Code
8 10 (1.05%) LabVIEW
9 8 (0.84%) Maven
9 8 (0.84%) Visual Studio
10 7 (0.73%) SonarQube
11 6 (0.63%) Bitbucket
11 6 (0.63%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.52%) TestRail
13 4 (0.42%) JMeter
13 4 (0.42%) JUnit
13 4 (0.42%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.42%) MLflow
13 4 (0.42%) Mockito
13 4 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 329 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 187 (19.62%) Finance
3 163 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 73 (7.66%) Manufacturing
5 62 (6.51%) Organisational Skills
6 42 (4.41%) Pharmaceutical
7 38 (3.99%) Public Sector
7 38 (3.99%) Retail
8 36 (3.78%) Electronics
9 34 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 34 (3.57%) Law
10 17 (1.78%) Marketing
11 11 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 9 (0.94%) Automotive
12 9 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (0.84%) Esports
13 8 (0.84%) Military
14 7 (0.73%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.73%) Banking
14 7 (0.73%) Legal
Job Titles
1 144 (15.11%) Developer
2 125 (13.12%) Senior
3 109 (11.44%) Graduate
4 105 (11.02%) Software Engineer
5 91 (9.55%) Analyst
6 74 (7.76%) Software Developer
7 65 (6.82%) Lead
8 61 (6.40%) Architect
9 59 (6.19%) Graduate Developer
10 55 (5.77%) Graduate Software Developer
11 50 (5.25%) C# Developer
12 49 (5.14%) C# Software Developer
12 49 (5.14%) Graduate C# Developer
12 49 (5.14%) Graduate C# Software Developer
13 47 (4.93%) SQL Developer
14 46 (4.83%) Lecturer
15 45 (4.72%) Graduate SQL Developer
16 43 (4.51%) PHP Developer
17 42 (4.41%) Graduate PHP Developer
18 30 (3.15%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (6.93%) CSS
2 56 (5.88%) .NET
3 51 (5.35%) HTML
4 39 (4.09%) React
5 36 (3.78%) jQuery
6 34 (3.57%) REST
7 26 (2.73%) Middleware
7 26 (2.73%) Node.js
8 24 (2.52%) PyTorch
9 19 (1.99%) RESTful
9 19 (1.99%) TensorFlow
10 17 (1.78%) SOAP
10 17 (1.78%) XML
11 16 (1.68%) Playwright
12 13 (1.36%) JSON
12 13 (1.36%) Vue
13 12 (1.26%) scikit-learn
14 11 (1.15%) AngularJS
14 11 (1.15%) Django
15 10 (1.05%) Flask
Miscellaneous
1 92 (9.65%) Management Information System
2 48 (5.04%) Algorithms
3 43 (4.51%) Life Science
3 43 (4.51%) Onboarding
4 33 (3.46%) Driving Licence
5 32 (3.36%) Distributed Systems
6 30 (3.15%) Low-Code
7 26 (2.73%) Cloud Native
8 24 (2.52%) Data Centre
8 24 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.89%) Client/Server
9 18 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.78%) Social Media
11 14 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.47%) Data Structures
11 14 (1.47%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.36%) CUDA
12 13 (1.36%) Embedded Systems
12 13 (1.36%) Hackathon
13 12 (1.26%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 79 (8.29%) Linux
2 62 (6.51%) Windows
3 18 (1.89%) Android
4 13 (1.36%) Windows Server
5 11 (1.15%) Unix
6 7 (0.73%) Mac OS
7 6 (0.63%) Ubuntu
8 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 3 (0.31%) CentOS
9 3 (0.31%) Kali Linux
9 3 (0.31%) SUSE
9 3 (0.31%) Windows 10
10 2 (0.21%) Embedded Linux
10 2 (0.21%) FreeRTOS
10 2 (0.21%) Robot Operating System
10 2 (0.21%) ThreadX
11 1 (0.10%) Debian
11 1 (0.10%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 285 (29.91%) Problem-Solving
2 244 (25.60%) Agile
3 164 (17.21%) Software Engineering
4 160 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
5 149 (15.63%) AI
6 131 (13.75%) Analytics
7 120 (12.59%) DevOps
8 116 (12.17%) Machine Learning
9 101 (10.60%) CI/CD
10 97 (10.18%) Mentoring
11 94 (9.86%) Data Science
12 93 (9.76%) Decision-Making
13 82 (8.60%) ITIL
14 81 (8.50%) Cybersecurity
14 81 (8.50%) Mathematics
15 68 (7.14%) Business Intelligence
16 67 (7.03%) Test Automation
17 63 (6.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 61 (6.40%) Data Modelling
18 61 (6.40%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 260 (27.28%) Python
2 225 (23.61%) SQL
3 143 (15.01%) C#
4 119 (12.49%) Java
5 92 (9.65%) C++
6 89 (9.34%) JavaScript
7 71 (7.45%) PHP
8 45 (4.72%) C
9 44 (4.62%) PowerShell
10 41 (4.30%) TypeScript
11 21 (2.20%) Bash
12 18 (1.89%) R
13 16 (1.68%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 16 (1.68%) Rust
14 11 (1.15%) PL/SQL
15 10 (1.05%) Scala
16 8 (0.84%) Ada
17 7 (0.73%) T-SQL
18 6 (0.63%) Ada 95
18 6 (0.63%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 727 (76.29%) Degree
2 376 (39.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 113 (11.86%) Master's Degree
4 59 (6.19%) Security Cleared
5 47 (4.93%) DBS Check
5 47 (4.93%) SC Cleared
6 38 (3.99%) AWS Certification
6 38 (3.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (3.57%) Azure Certification
8 31 (3.25%) PhD
9 29 (3.04%) BPSS Clearance
10 26 (2.73%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 26 (2.73%) Cisco Certification
11 22 (2.31%) CISSP
11 22 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
12 21 (2.20%) CCNP
13 20 (2.10%) PMI Certification
14 19 (1.99%) PMP
15 17 (1.78%) ITIL Certification
16 16 (1.68%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (7.35%) QA
2 41 (4.30%) Accessibility
2 41 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 37 (3.88%) Data Quality
4 36 (3.78%) GDPR
5 33 (3.46%) NIST
6 19 (1.99%) GxP
7 15 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 14 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
9 11 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
10 10 (1.05%) ISO 9001
10 10 (1.05%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.84%) PMO
11 8 (0.84%) SLA
12 7 (0.73%) ISO 26262
13 6 (0.63%) SOC 2
14 5 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.52%) DICOM
15 4 (0.42%) Automotive SPICE
15 4 (0.42%) COBIT
System Software
1 59 (6.19%) Docker
2 31 (3.25%) Active Directory
3 28 (2.94%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 14 (1.47%) Firmware
6 13 (1.36%) KVM
7 8 (0.84%) ProxySG
7 8 (0.84%) VMware NSX
8 7 (0.73%) Embedded Firmware
8 7 (0.73%) vSphere
9 4 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.31%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 48 (5.04%) Kubernetes
2 33 (3.46%) Terraform
3 17 (1.78%) Ansible
4 12 (1.26%) Grafana
4 12 (1.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.52%) FTK
5 5 (0.52%) HP Fortify
5 5 (0.52%) Prometheus
5 5 (0.52%) vCenter Server
6 4 (0.42%) SCCM
7 3 (0.31%) Control-M
7 3 (0.31%) HP ALM
8 2 (0.21%) FortiGate
8 2 (0.21%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.21%) Kibana
8 2 (0.21%) Nagios
9 1 (0.10%) EMC NetWorker
9 1 (0.10%) Graylog
9 1 (0.10%) Plesk
9 1 (0.10%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (13.12%) Microsoft
2 38 (3.99%) Oracle
3 36 (3.78%) VMware
4 29 (3.04%) Cisco
5 25 (2.62%) SAP
6 23 (2.41%) Databricks
7 18 (1.89%) Google
7 18 (1.89%) ServiceNow
8 12 (1.26%) Splunk
9 11 (1.15%) CheckPoint
9 11 (1.15%) Salesforce
10 9 (0.94%) F5
11 8 (0.84%) Atlassian
11 8 (0.84%) Blue Coat
11 8 (0.84%) Infoblox
11 8 (0.84%) Motorola
11 8 (0.84%) SolarWinds
12 7 (0.73%) Meraki
12 7 (0.73%) Planon
13 6 (0.63%) Palo Alto