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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 28 56
Rank change year-on-year -34 +28 +60
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 117 208 143
As % of all permanent jobs in Yorkshire 3.46% 6.68% 4.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.43% 7.37% 4.85%
Number of salaries quoted 66 39 108
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £28,275
25th Percentile £31,438 £40,625 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,750 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £57,500 £65,313
90th Percentile - £72,000 £73,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £69,000
% change year-on-year -4.00% -9.42% +6.15%

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 2,643 2,821 2,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Yorkshire 78.26% 90.62% 89.04%
Number of salaries quoted 1,534 1,086 2,314
10th Percentile £27,575 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £30,500 £41,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £52,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £83,750 £84,056
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

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 14 January 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 14 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
West Yorkshire -23 92 £47,500 -5.00% 24
East Yorkshire 0 12 - - 10
South Yorkshire -19 6 £25,000 -65.19% 18
North Yorkshire -8 3 £47,500 +5.56% 13
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 2 (1.71%) CMS
1 2 (1.71%) Headless CMS
2 1 (0.85%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.85%) IIS
2 1 (0.85%) Kinematics
2 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.85%) Tomcat
Applications
1 10 (8.55%) Microsoft Office
1 10 (8.55%) SOLIDWORKS
2 6 (5.13%) AutoCAD
2 6 (5.13%) MS Visio
3 4 (3.42%) Autodesk Inventor
4 1 (0.85%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.42%) Sage 200
2 1 (0.85%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 36 (30.77%) Azure
2 33 (28.21%) AWS
3 27 (23.08%) Serverless
4 5 (4.27%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (3.42%) SaaS
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon Cognito
6 2 (1.71%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.71%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.71%) Figma
6 2 (1.71%) GCP
6 2 (1.71%) GitHub
7 1 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.85%) Mimecast
7 1 (0.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Firewall
1 2 (1.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.85%) DNS
2 1 (0.85%) TCP/IP
2 1 (0.85%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.13%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.56%) MySQL
2 3 (2.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (1.71%) DynamoDB
3 2 (1.71%) Metadata
3 2 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.71%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.85%) Big Data
4 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 26 (22.22%) JIRA
2 1 (0.85%) Git
General
1 82 (70.09%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.26%) Finance
2 12 (10.26%) Manufacturing
3 11 (9.40%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (9.40%) Retail
4 8 (6.84%) Esports
4 8 (6.84%) Pharmaceutical
5 4 (3.42%) Marketing
6 3 (2.56%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.56%) Legal
7 2 (1.71%) Agriculture
7 2 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 33 (28.21%) Developer
2 29 (24.79%) Architect
3 23 (19.66%) JIRA Developer
4 19 (16.24%) Graduate
5 14 (11.97%) Applications Architect
6 12 (10.26%) Automation Engineer
7 11 (9.40%) Software Architect
8 8 (6.84%) Graduate Software Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Linux Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Logistics Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Software Engineer
8 8 (6.84%) Software Engineering Graduate
9 6 (5.13%) Senior
9 6 (5.13%) Senior Automation Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Analyst
10 5 (4.27%) Graduate Developer
10 5 (4.27%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.27%) Technical Support
11 4 (3.42%) Software Support Engineer
11 4 (3.42%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (13.68%) CSS
2 4 (3.42%) .NET
2 4 (3.42%) ASP.NET
3 3 (2.56%) jQuery
3 3 (2.56%) Micronaut
3 3 (2.56%) React
4 2 (1.71%) Next.js
4 2 (1.71%) OpenAPI
4 2 (1.71%) Swagger
5 1 (0.85%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.85%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET Core
5 1 (0.85%) ASP.NET Web API
5 1 (0.85%) Entity Framework
5 1 (0.85%) GraphQL
5 1 (0.85%) HTML
5 1 (0.85%) JSON
5 1 (0.85%) Kafka
5 1 (0.85%) REST
5 1 (0.85%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 25 (21.37%) Enterprise Software
2 16 (13.68%) Onboarding
3 9 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 8 (6.84%) Social Media
5 6 (5.13%) Management Information System
6 4 (3.42%) Data Structures
6 4 (3.42%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (2.56%) CMDB
8 2 (1.71%) FMCG
8 2 (1.71%) Low-Code
8 2 (1.71%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.71%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.85%) Augmented Reality
9 1 (0.85%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
9 1 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
9 1 (0.85%) Robotics
9 1 (0.85%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 17 (14.53%) Linux
2 15 (12.82%) Windows
3 5 (4.27%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.71%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (47.01%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (39.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 32 (27.35%) Change Management
3 32 (27.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 30 (25.64%) ITIL
5 29 (24.79%) ITSM
6 28 (23.93%) Mentoring
7 26 (22.22%) Data Modelling
8 25 (21.37%) Architectural Patterns
8 25 (21.37%) Enterprise Architecture
8 25 (21.37%) Incident Management
8 25 (21.37%) Microservices
8 25 (21.37%) Migration
9 24 (20.51%) Application Security
9 24 (20.51%) EAI
9 24 (20.51%) Service Management
9 24 (20.51%) TOGAF
10 23 (19.66%) Asset Management
11 18 (15.38%) Software Engineering
12 16 (13.68%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 51 (43.59%) JavaScript
2 46 (39.32%) Java
3 36 (30.77%) Python
4 35 (29.91%) C#
5 27 (23.08%) TypeScript
6 26 (22.22%) PowerShell
7 22 (18.80%) SQL
8 14 (11.97%) C
9 11 (9.40%) C++
10 8 (6.84%) PL/SQL
11 6 (5.13%) Perl
12 5 (4.27%) PHP
13 4 (3.42%) Delphi
14 2 (1.71%) Bash
15 1 (0.85%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (89.74%) Degree
2 58 (49.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 28 (23.93%) AWS Certification
4 26 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
5 24 (20.51%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 24 (20.51%) Azure Certification
5 24 (20.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 24 (20.51%) TOGAF Certification
6 11 (9.40%) Master's Degree
7 8 (6.84%) DBS Check
8 6 (5.13%) HND
9 3 (2.56%) A+ Certification
10 2 (1.71%) IIBA
10 2 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.71%) MBA
10 2 (1.71%) SC Cleared
10 2 (1.71%) Security Cleared
11 1 (0.85%) CISM
11 1 (0.85%) CISSP
11 1 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.13%) IEC 61131
2 4 (3.42%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.71%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.71%) NCSC
5 1 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.85%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Docker
1 1 (0.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 1 (0.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (1.71%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (1.71%) SCCM
2 1 (0.85%) Functional Safety
2 1 (0.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (35.04%) Microsoft
2 23 (19.66%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.13%) Allen-Bradley
3 6 (5.13%) Siemens
3 6 (5.13%) Toshiba
4 4 (3.42%) Autodesk
4 4 (3.42%) Sage
5 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.71%) HubSpot
6 2 (1.71%) Nexthink
6 2 (1.71%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.85%) Google
7 1 (0.85%) IFS
7 1 (0.85%) Oracle
7 1 (0.85%) PayPal