Computer Science Degree Job Trends in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 7 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 177 59 135
Rank change year-on-year -118 +76 +22
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 24 137 139
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.31% 4.45% 1.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.52% 10.65% 6.61%
Number of salaries quoted 21 53 100
10th Percentile £26,250 £25,000 £32,375
25th Percentile £34,750 £32,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £40,367 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year +11.48% -21.24% -18.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £70,750
90th Percentile £103,750 £68,250 £80,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -4.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,584 1,286 2,104
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 20.20% 41.78% 25.68%
Number of salaries quoted 677 571 1,297
10th Percentile £27,694 £27,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,925 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -4.76%
75th Percentile £65,640 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Computer Science Degree relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Computer Science Degree job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Computer Science Degree.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing Computer Science Degree

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the West Midlands

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 June 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
Birmingham -28 11 £40,750 +16.43% 7
Worcestershire -23 4 £97,500 - 2
Shropshire - 4 £35,000 - 1
Warwickshire -49 3 £60,000 - 5
Staffordshire -34 1 £65,000 +85.71%
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (8.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (33.33%) AWS
1 8 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (12.50%) Tricentis Tosca
3 2 (8.33%) Copilot Studio
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
3 2 (8.33%) OneDrive
3 2 (8.33%) Power Automate
3 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (8.33%) PowerApps
4 1 (4.17%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) NGFW
2 1 (4.17%) VLAN
2 1 (4.17%) VPN
2 1 (4.17%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) MongoDB
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Burp Suite
1 3 (12.50%) Cucumber
1 3 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 3 (12.50%) Gatling
1 3 (12.50%) GitLab
1 3 (12.50%) HP UFT
1 3 (12.50%) Jenkins
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
1 3 (12.50%) JMeter
1 3 (12.50%) LoadRunner
1 3 (12.50%) Postman
1 3 (12.50%) REST Assured
1 3 (12.50%) Selenium
1 3 (12.50%) SonarQube
2 2 (8.33%) TestRail
3 1 (4.17%) Appium
3 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (4.17%) Bugzilla
3 1 (4.17%) Git
General
1 11 (45.83%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Advertising
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
4 1 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Electronics
4 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Developer
1 5 (20.83%) Software Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Automation Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Graduate
2 3 (12.50%) Rust Developer
2 3 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (8.33%) Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Azure Developer
3 2 (8.33%) C# Software Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Data Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Digital Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Graduate C# Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Graduate C# Software Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Graduate PHP Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Graduate SQL Developer
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Consultant
3 2 (8.33%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (8.33%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Playwright
2 3 (12.50%) React
3 2 (8.33%) CSS
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) jQuery
3 2 (8.33%) REST
3 2 (8.33%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) Spring Boot
4 1 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (4.17%) JSON
4 1 (4.17%) XML
4 1 (4.17%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Mobile App
1 3 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
2 3 (12.50%) Kali Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Android
3 1 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (100.00%) Computer Science
2 13 (54.17%) Agile
3 10 (41.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (29.17%) Test Automation
6 6 (25.00%) AI
6 6 (25.00%) Mentoring
6 6 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (20.83%) Project Management
7 5 (20.83%) SDLC
8 4 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
8 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
8 4 (16.67%) DevOps
8 4 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (16.67%) Scrum
8 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (16.67%) Test Planning
8 4 (16.67%) Validation
9 3 (12.50%) Containerisation
9 3 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 8 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 5 (20.83%) Python
4 3 (12.50%) Rust
5 2 (8.33%) C#
5 2 (8.33%) C++
5 2 (8.33%) PHP
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Degree
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Master's Degree
4 2 (8.33%) CISM
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) CCNP
5 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 5 (20.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (12.50%) GDPR
3 3 (12.50%) NIST
4 2 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (8.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Grafana
2 3 (12.50%) HP Fortify
3 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.50%) Veracode
3 2 (8.33%) IFS
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
4 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.17%) Splunk