Computer Science Jobs in the North West

Computer Science
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Computer Science skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Computer Science over the 6 months to 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 118 83
Rank change year-on-year +63 -35 +10
Permanent jobs citing Computer Science 366 224 356
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 3.67% 2.90% 3.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.45% 3.03% 3.95%
Number of salaries quoted 292 143 100
10th Percentile £29,050 £33,250 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £41,875 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £60,000 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.07% +7.89%
75th Percentile £72,500 £63,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £77,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% +4.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Computer Science is in the Processes and Methodologies 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 process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,218 7,384 9,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 82.39% 95.54% 95.43%
Number of salaries quoted 6,229 3,886 5,253
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,188 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,500 £81,250
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Computer Science
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Computer Science in the North West over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Computer Science in the North West

Computer Science
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 within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 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 +79 219 £55,000 -8.33% 67
Cheshire +39 60 £50,000 -17.83% 23
Lancashire -2 48 £45,000 -2.70% 11
Merseyside -3 33 £41,235 -31.28% 10
Cumbria -9 4 £57,500 -5.43% 1
Computer Science
England

Computer Science
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 5 (1.37%) SAS
2 4 (1.09%) Apache Spark
2 4 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.27%) Confluence
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.82%) Trello
4 1 (0.27%) GNU Octave
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 13 (3.55%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (2.46%) SAP CX
3 4 (1.09%) SAP CO
3 4 (1.09%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.09%) SAP FI
3 4 (1.09%) SAP FI/CO
4 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.27%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 71 (19.40%) AWS
2 48 (13.11%) Azure
3 23 (6.28%) Amazon Kinesis
3 23 (6.28%) GCP
4 14 (3.83%) Amazon S3
5 13 (3.55%) Amazon EC2
5 13 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
6 10 (2.73%) GitHub
6 10 (2.73%) Google Play
7 9 (2.46%) Power Platform
7 9 (2.46%) SaaS
8 8 (2.19%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.09%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.82%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
11 2 (0.55%) Azure Data Factory
11 2 (0.55%) Cloud Computing
11 2 (0.55%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.55%) Facebook Ads
11 2 (0.55%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.64%) Firewall
2 15 (4.10%) VPN
3 14 (3.83%) DNS
4 12 (3.28%) TCP/IP
5 10 (2.73%) Ethernet
5 10 (2.73%) Network Security
5 10 (2.73%) RS-232
6 7 (1.91%) DHCP
6 7 (1.91%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (1.64%) VLAN
8 5 (1.37%) IPsec
8 5 (1.37%) SSL
8 5 (1.37%) VoIP
9 4 (1.09%) Internet
9 4 (1.09%) ZigBee
10 3 (0.82%) Wireless
11 2 (0.55%) BGP
11 2 (0.55%) Bluetooth
11 2 (0.55%) OSPF
11 2 (0.55%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.10%) Data Warehouse
2 25 (6.83%) MySQL
3 20 (5.46%) Relational Database
4 18 (4.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 17 (4.64%) NoSQL
5 17 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (4.64%) SQL Server
6 16 (4.37%) MS Access
7 14 (3.83%) RDBMS
8 13 (3.55%) Amazon RDS
9 10 (2.73%) DynamoDB
9 10 (2.73%) Redis
10 9 (2.46%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (1.64%) Power BI
12 4 (1.09%) ActiveReports
12 4 (1.09%) Big Data
12 4 (1.09%) BigQuery
12 4 (1.09%) Cognos Framework Manager
12 4 (1.09%) Data Lake
12 4 (1.09%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 43 (11.75%) Git
2 15 (4.10%) JIRA
3 13 (3.55%) Postman
4 10 (2.73%) Appium
5 9 (2.46%) Gatling
6 7 (1.91%) Subversion
7 5 (1.37%) InstallShield
8 4 (1.09%) CMake
8 4 (1.09%) GCC
8 4 (1.09%) GDB
8 4 (1.09%) IntelliJ
8 4 (1.09%) JUnit
8 4 (1.09%) Mockito
9 3 (0.82%) Cypress.io
9 3 (0.82%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
10 2 (0.55%) Selenium
10 2 (0.55%) webpack
11 1 (0.27%) GitLab
11 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 142 (38.80%) Social Skills
2 48 (13.11%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (8.47%) Manufacturing
4 28 (7.65%) Games
5 24 (6.56%) Finance
6 21 (5.74%) Electronics
7 11 (3.01%) Retail
8 10 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (2.46%) Billing
10 7 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (1.91%) Legal
10 7 (1.91%) Marketing
11 6 (1.64%) Health Technology
11 6 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
12 5 (1.37%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.09%) Advertising
13 4 (1.09%) Banking
14 3 (0.82%) Aerospace
14 3 (0.82%) Automotive
14 3 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 88 (24.04%) Developer
2 71 (19.40%) Software Engineer
3 68 (18.58%) Senior
4 28 (7.65%) Lead
5 25 (6.83%) Analyst
6 19 (5.19%) .NET Developer
6 19 (5.19%) Senior Software Engineer
7 16 (4.37%) Senior Developer
8 15 (4.10%) Network Engineer
8 15 (4.10%) Software Developer
9 14 (3.83%) Technical Leader
10 13 (3.55%) Graduate
11 11 (3.01%) Architect
11 11 (3.01%) Data Engineer
11 11 (3.01%) IT Manager
11 11 (3.01%) Software Manager
12 10 (2.73%) Android Developer
12 10 (2.73%) Games Developer
12 10 (2.73%) PHP Developer
12 10 (2.73%) Senior Android Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (18.03%) .NET
2 33 (9.02%) JSON
3 31 (8.47%) HTML
4 27 (7.38%) REST
5 22 (6.01%) Node.js
5 22 (6.01%) Web Services
6 21 (5.74%) CSS
7 14 (3.83%) Spring
8 13 (3.55%) .NET Framework
8 13 (3.55%) Spring Boot
9 11 (3.01%) GraphQL
9 11 (3.01%) WinForms
10 10 (2.73%) Android SDK
10 10 (2.73%) Electron
11 9 (2.46%) http4s
11 9 (2.46%) RESTful
11 9 (2.46%) Scalaz
12 8 (2.19%) React
13 7 (1.91%) Lambda Expressions
13 7 (1.91%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 38 (10.38%) Management Information System
2 13 (3.55%) Cloud Native
3 10 (2.73%) Algorithms
3 10 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
3 10 (2.73%) Self-Motivation
4 9 (2.46%) Blog
4 9 (2.46%) Media Streaming
5 8 (2.19%) Animation
5 8 (2.19%) Data Structures
5 8 (2.19%) Embedded Systems
5 8 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.91%) Life Science
6 7 (1.91%) Video\Live Streaming
7 6 (1.64%) Data Centre
7 6 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.37%) AS400
8 5 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
8 5 (1.37%) Driving Licence
8 5 (1.37%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 31 (8.47%) Linux
2 24 (6.56%) Windows
3 10 (2.73%) Android
4 7 (1.91%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.09%) Windows Vista
6 3 (0.82%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.27%) FreeRTOS
7 1 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.27%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 141 (38.52%) Problem-Solving
2 120 (32.79%) Software Engineering
3 93 (25.41%) Agile
4 51 (13.93%) Analytics
5 50 (13.66%) Project Management
6 47 (12.84%) Mathematics
7 46 (12.57%) Design Patterns
7 46 (12.57%) Mentoring
7 46 (12.57%) SDLC
8 44 (12.02%) DevOps
9 37 (10.11%) CI/CD
9 37 (10.11%) Open Source
10 35 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (9.29%) Cybersecurity
12 33 (9.02%) Data Modelling
13 30 (8.20%) Software Testing
13 30 (8.20%) User Experience
14 29 (7.92%) OOP
15 27 (7.38%) Roadmaps
16 25 (6.83%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 77 (21.04%) C#
2 74 (20.22%) SQL
3 61 (16.67%) Java
4 46 (12.57%) JavaScript
5 45 (12.30%) Python
6 24 (6.56%) PHP
7 20 (5.46%) C
8 14 (3.83%) TypeScript
9 13 (3.55%) C++
10 12 (3.28%) Scala
11 10 (2.73%) Embedded C
11 10 (2.73%) Kotlin
12 9 (2.46%) VB
13 7 (1.91%) Rust
14 5 (1.37%) R
15 4 (1.09%) T-SQL
16 3 (0.82%) PowerShell
17 1 (0.27%) Data Analysis Expressions
17 1 (0.27%) MATLAB
17 1 (0.27%) VBA
Qualifications
1 342 (93.44%) Degree
2 188 (51.37%) Computer Science Degree
3 33 (9.02%) Master's Degree
4 26 (7.10%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (5.74%) CCNP
6 16 (4.37%) CCNA
7 14 (3.83%) CISSP
7 14 (3.83%) PhD
8 11 (3.01%) PMP
9 10 (2.73%) AWS Certification
9 10 (2.73%) CISM
9 10 (2.73%) PMI Certification
10 9 (2.46%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.46%) CCIE
11 8 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (1.64%) CISA
12 6 (1.64%) PCI QSA
12 6 (1.64%) Security Cleared
13 5 (1.37%) CCNA CyberOps
14 4 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.56%) QA
2 18 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (2.73%) NIST
4 9 (2.46%) Data Quality
5 7 (1.91%) PCI DSS
6 6 (1.64%) PMO
7 5 (1.37%) GDPR
8 4 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
9 3 (0.82%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.27%) CDISC
10 1 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
10 1 (0.27%) ISO 13485
10 1 (0.27%) NCSC
10 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (2.46%) Active Directory
2 8 (2.19%) Firmware
3 7 (1.91%) Docker
4 5 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.55%) Embedded Firmware
5 2 (0.55%) vSphere
6 1 (0.27%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (4.10%) Terraform
2 6 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 3 (0.82%) Ansible
4 2 (0.55%) CASB
5 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.27%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.27%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (9.56%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.19%) Google
3 18 (4.92%) SAP
4 16 (4.37%) Cisco
5 7 (1.91%) Juniper
5 7 (1.91%) VMware
6 6 (1.64%) F5
6 6 (1.64%) IBM
7 4 (1.09%) Cognos
8 3 (0.82%) Twitter
9 2 (0.55%) Autodesk
9 2 (0.55%) Facebook
9 2 (0.55%) Informatica
9 2 (0.55%) Oracle
9 2 (0.55%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.55%) SYSPRO
10 1 (0.27%) EMC
10 1 (0.27%) Peregrine
10 1 (0.27%) Salesforce
10 1 (0.27%) TIBCO