Computer Science Job Trends in Yorkshire

Computer Science
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Computer Science skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 53 50
Rank change year-on-year -65 -3 +61
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 75 137 223
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 1.09% 4.00% 3.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 4.43% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56 75 154
10th Percentile £24,500 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,500 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £42,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +48.81% -6.67% -14.29%
75th Percentile £78,125 £53,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,750 £75,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -8.33% -7.69%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,688 3,095 4,812
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 68.17% 90.47% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 3,352 1,479 3,530
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -8.90%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £79,025
England median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -12.00%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Computer Science job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Computer Science
Salary Trend in Yorkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Computer Science.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Computer Science

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in Yorkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in Yorkshire

Computer Science
Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Computer Science within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 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
West Yorkshire -66 44 £52,500 +25.00% 9
South Yorkshire -39 18 £78,750 +69.35% 7
North Yorkshire +17 10 £50,000 +11.11%
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 3 (4.00%) JBoss
1 3 (4.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (2.67%) WordPress
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 27 (36.00%) Azure
2 14 (18.67%) AWS
3 13 (17.33%) Serverless
4 12 (16.00%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Functions
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 9 (12.00%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (6.67%) SaaS
7 4 (5.33%) Amazon S3
7 4 (5.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (5.33%) GCP
7 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECR
8 3 (4.00%) Amazon ECS
8 3 (4.00%) Apigee
8 3 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (4.00%) AWS Step Functions
8 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.67%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Network Security
2 1 (1.33%) HTTP
2 1 (1.33%) Profibus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (14.67%) Data Warehouse
1 11 (14.67%) Spark SQL
2 4 (5.33%) Metadata
3 3 (4.00%) Big Data
3 3 (4.00%) ClickHouse
3 3 (4.00%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.00%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (4.00%) MySQL
3 3 (4.00%) Power BI
3 3 (4.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.67%) BigQuery
4 2 (2.67%) phpMyAdmin
5 1 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.33%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.33%) Redis
5 1 (1.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Cypress.io
1 4 (5.33%) Git
1 4 (5.33%) GitLab
1 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (4.00%) Maven
2 3 (4.00%) Selenium
2 3 (4.00%) SonarQube
3 2 (2.67%) JIRA
General
1 22 (29.33%) Social Skills
2 16 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (14.67%) Finance
4 6 (8.00%) Retail
5 5 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 5 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.33%) Advertising
6 4 (5.33%) Banking
6 4 (5.33%) Marketing
7 3 (4.00%) Legal
8 2 (2.67%) Electronics
8 2 (2.67%) Esports
9 1 (1.33%) Automotive
9 1 (1.33%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Lead
2 15 (20.00%) Data Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Azure Engineer
3 11 (14.67%) Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Lead Data Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Azure Platform Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Cloud Platform Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Platform Engineer
5 7 (9.33%) Graduate
6 6 (8.00%) Software Engineer
7 5 (6.67%) Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) C# Developer
7 5 (6.67%) C# Software Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Graduate C# Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Graduate C# Software Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Graduate Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Graduate Software Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Graduate SQL Developer
7 5 (6.67%) Software Developer
7 5 (6.67%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (16.00%) REST
2 11 (14.67%) PySpark
3 9 (12.00%) ARM Templates
4 6 (8.00%) .NET
5 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.00%) CSS
5 3 (4.00%) Drools
5 3 (4.00%) Gherkin
5 3 (4.00%) Jest
5 3 (4.00%) Node.js
5 3 (4.00%) Spring Boot
5 3 (4.00%) XML
6 2 (2.67%) HTML
6 2 (2.67%) RESTful
7 1 (1.33%) jQuery
7 1 (1.33%) Kafka
7 1 (1.33%) OpenAPI
7 1 (1.33%) Playwright
7 1 (1.33%) React
7 1 (1.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.33%) Driving Licence
1 4 (5.33%) Product Ownership
1 4 (5.33%) Social Media
2 3 (4.00%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (2.67%) CMDB
3 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.67%) Life Science
3 2 (2.67%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.33%) Credit Risk
4 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.33%) IoT
4 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) Robotics
4 1 (1.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 23 (30.67%) Agile
3 18 (24.00%) AI
3 18 (24.00%) DevOps
4 17 (22.67%) CI/CD
4 17 (22.67%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (20.00%) Data Engineering
6 14 (18.67%) Data Governance
7 13 (17.33%) Analytics
7 13 (17.33%) ETL
7 13 (17.33%) Observability
8 12 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
8 12 (16.00%) Platform Engineering
9 11 (14.67%) Dashboard Development
9 11 (14.67%) Data Modelling
9 11 (14.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (14.67%) Test Automation
10 10 (13.33%) Software Engineering
11 9 (12.00%) Data Integration
11 9 (12.00%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.00%) SQL
2 18 (24.00%) Python
3 14 (18.67%) C#
4 10 (13.33%) PHP
5 8 (10.67%) JavaScript
6 6 (8.00%) TypeScript
7 5 (6.67%) Java
8 3 (4.00%) Bash
8 3 (4.00%) C++
8 3 (4.00%) Groovy
8 3 (4.00%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.67%) C
9 2 (2.67%) Embedded C
9 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.33%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 55 (73.33%) Degree
2 39 (52.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 7 (9.33%) CISSP
4 5 (6.67%) DBS Check
5 4 (5.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 4 (5.33%) AWS Certification
5 4 (5.33%) CCSP
5 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Developer
6 3 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 3 (4.00%) CISM
6 3 (4.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (2.67%) Master's Degree
7 2 (2.67%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.33%) IIBA
8 1 (1.33%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (1.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) GDPR
2 7 (9.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (9.33%) NIST
3 5 (6.67%) QA
4 4 (5.33%) Data Quality
5 3 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (2.67%) Accessibility
6 2 (2.67%) PCI DSS
7 1 (1.33%) IEC 61131
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.67%) Embedded Firmware
2 2 (2.67%) Firmware
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 2 (2.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 12 (16.00%) Terraform
2 3 (4.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (14.67%) Databricks
2 6 (8.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.67%) IFS
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle
3 2 (2.67%) WooCommerce
4 1 (1.33%) Allen-Bradley
4 1 (1.33%) Alteryx
4 1 (1.33%) Google
4 1 (1.33%) Siemens