Computer Science Degree Jobs in the North West

Computer Science Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Computer Science Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 168 238
Rank change year-on-year +53 +70 -53
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science Degree 200 138 102
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 1.95% 1.82% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.30% 5.14% 3.52%
Number of salaries quoted 157 93 27
10th Percentile £27,300 £37,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £46,250 £44,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £56,700
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.82% +13.40%
75th Percentile £72,500 £60,899 £73,750
90th Percentile £80,000 £74,500 £87,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.00% +8.70% -1.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

Computer Science Degree is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,410 2,686 2,899
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 23.46% 35.44% 30.20%
Number of salaries quoted 1,646 909 1,308
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,400 £26,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £70,000 £63,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £85,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Computer Science Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Computer Science Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the North West.

Salary trend for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science Degree in the North West over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science Degree in the North West

Computer Science Degree
Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 28 May 2024. 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
Manchester +77 130 £56,250 -7.48% 32
Lancashire -10 35 £41,250 -13.16% 8
Cheshire +6 29 £35,000 -42.43% 16
Merseyside -19 5 £48,500 -19.17% 3
Cumbria -15 1 £29,500 -51.48%
Computer Science Degree
England

Computer Science Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.50%) Apache Spark
2 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.50%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.50%) SAS
2 1 (0.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 59 (29.50%) AWS
2 31 (15.50%) Amazon Kinesis
3 23 (11.50%) Azure
4 14 (7.00%) Amazon S3
4 14 (7.00%) GCP
5 13 (6.50%) Amazon EC2
6 10 (5.00%) Google Play
7 8 (4.00%) GitHub
7 8 (4.00%) SaaS
8 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
9 2 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (1.00%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.00%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (1.00%) Entra ID
9 2 (1.00%) Serverless
10 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.50%) IaaS
10 1 (0.50%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.50%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (7.00%) Firewall
2 7 (3.50%) DHCP
2 7 (3.50%) DNS
2 7 (3.50%) TCP/IP
3 6 (3.00%) Network Security
3 6 (3.00%) VPN
4 3 (1.50%) VLAN
5 2 (1.00%) BGP
5 2 (1.00%) OSPF
6 1 (0.50%) Bluetooth
6 1 (0.50%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (0.50%) WebEx
6 1 (0.50%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.50%) Wireless
6 1 (0.50%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (12.00%) MySQL
1 24 (12.00%) NoSQL
2 21 (10.50%) Data Warehouse
3 20 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
4 18 (9.00%) DynamoDB
5 17 (8.50%) Amazon Aurora
5 17 (8.50%) Redis
6 16 (8.00%) MS Access
7 15 (7.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 15 (7.50%) Relational Database
8 14 (7.00%) RDBMS
8 14 (7.00%) SQL Server
9 13 (6.50%) Amazon RDS
10 4 (2.00%) ActiveReports
10 4 (2.00%) Cognos Framework Manager
10 4 (2.00%) Power BI
11 3 (1.50%) Big Data
11 3 (1.50%) Hadoop
12 2 (1.00%) Cognos Report Studio
12 2 (1.00%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 33 (16.50%) Git
2 17 (8.50%) Gatling
3 13 (6.50%) Postman
4 10 (5.00%) Appium
5 7 (3.50%) JIRA
6 5 (2.50%) InstallShield
7 2 (1.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 92 (46.00%) Social Skills
2 25 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (9.50%) Electronics
4 18 (9.00%) Games
5 17 (8.50%) Billing
5 17 (8.50%) Finance
5 17 (8.50%) Manufacturing
6 7 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (3.00%) Health Technology
7 6 (3.00%) Legal
8 5 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.50%) Aerospace
9 3 (1.50%) Esports
9 3 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.00%) Law
10 2 (1.00%) Marketing
11 1 (0.50%) Advertising
11 1 (0.50%) Banking
11 1 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (34.00%) Developer
2 45 (22.50%) Senior
3 38 (19.00%) Software Engineer
4 28 (14.00%) Lead
5 16 (8.00%) .NET Developer
5 16 (8.00%) Network Engineer
6 14 (7.00%) Senior Developer
6 14 (7.00%) Technical Leader
7 10 (5.00%) Android Developer
7 10 (5.00%) PHP Developer
7 10 (5.00%) Senior Android Developer
8 9 (4.50%) Senior Software Engineer
9 8 (4.00%) Senior Network Engineer
9 8 (4.00%) WinForms Developer
10 7 (3.50%) C Software Engineer
10 7 (3.50%) Data Engineer
10 7 (3.50%) ERP Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Lead .NET Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Lead Developer
10 7 (3.50%) Python Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (18.50%) .NET
2 33 (16.50%) JSON
3 27 (13.50%) REST
4 25 (12.50%) HTML
5 24 (12.00%) Web Services
6 19 (9.50%) GraphQL
7 17 (8.50%) http4s
7 17 (8.50%) Scalaz
8 15 (7.50%) CSS
9 14 (7.00%) Spring
10 13 (6.50%) Node.js
10 13 (6.50%) Spring Boot
11 12 (6.00%) .NET Framework
12 11 (5.50%) Lambda Expressions
13 10 (5.00%) Android SDK
13 10 (5.00%) Electron
14 8 (4.00%) WinForms
15 5 (2.50%) RabbitMQ
16 4 (2.00%) React
17 3 (1.50%) .NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 20 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 17 (8.50%) Blog
2 17 (8.50%) Media Streaming
3 13 (6.50%) Cloud Native
4 10 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
4 10 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (3.50%) Embedded Systems
5 7 (3.50%) Video\Live Streaming
6 6 (3.00%) Life Science
7 5 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.50%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (2.50%) Social Media
8 4 (2.00%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.50%) Algorithms
10 2 (1.00%) Data Structures
10 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
10 2 (1.00%) Onboarding
10 2 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
11 1 (0.50%) IoT
11 1 (0.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 20 (10.00%) Linux
2 11 (5.50%) Windows
3 10 (5.00%) Android
4 4 (2.00%) Windows Vista
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 199 (99.50%) Computer Science
2 94 (47.00%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (34.50%) Agile
4 61 (30.50%) Software Engineering
5 44 (22.00%) Open Source
6 42 (21.00%) Design Patterns
7 40 (20.00%) Mentoring
8 38 (19.00%) SDLC
9 36 (18.00%) DevOps
10 35 (17.50%) Analytics
11 33 (16.50%) Project Management
12 32 (16.00%) CI/CD
13 31 (15.50%) Data Modelling
14 23 (11.50%) Code Quality
15 22 (11.00%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (11.00%) OOP
16 21 (10.50%) User Experience
17 18 (9.00%) A/B Testing
17 18 (9.00%) Technical Leadership
17 18 (9.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 49 (24.50%) Java
1 49 (24.50%) SQL
2 45 (22.50%) C#
3 33 (16.50%) JavaScript
4 31 (15.50%) Python
5 24 (12.00%) PHP
6 20 (10.00%) Scala
7 10 (5.00%) Kotlin
7 10 (5.00%) TypeScript
8 9 (4.50%) C
9 8 (4.00%) Embedded C
10 7 (3.50%) Rust
10 7 (3.50%) VB
11 4 (2.00%) C++
12 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
12 1 (0.50%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.50%) R
12 1 (0.50%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 200 (100.00%) Degree
2 24 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
3 22 (11.00%) CCNP
4 18 (9.00%) Master's Degree
5 14 (7.00%) CCNA
6 10 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 9 (4.50%) Azure Certification
7 9 (4.50%) CCIE
8 5 (2.50%) CCNA CyberOps
8 5 (2.50%) CISSP
9 4 (2.00%) CEH
9 4 (2.00%) CISM
10 3 (1.50%) HNC
11 2 (1.00%) DBS Check
11 2 (1.00%) JNCIA
12 1 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 1 (0.50%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
12 1 (0.50%) CCA
12 1 (0.50%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (9.50%) QA
2 5 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (2.00%) GDPR
3 4 (2.00%) NIST
4 3 (1.50%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.00%) PMO
6 1 (0.50%) CDISC
6 1 (0.50%) Good Clinical Practice
6 1 (0.50%) NCSC
6 1 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.50%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.50%) Docker
2 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (6.50%) Terraform
2 3 (1.50%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.50%) Ansible
3 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 20 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 16 (8.00%) Cisco
3 11 (5.50%) Google
4 7 (3.50%) Juniper
5 6 (3.00%) F5
6 4 (2.00%) Cognos
6 4 (2.00%) IBM
7 2 (1.00%) Informatica
7 2 (1.00%) Twitter
8 1 (0.50%) Databricks
8 1 (0.50%) SAP
8 1 (0.50%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.50%) VMware