Academic Degree
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered 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 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 14,269 18,865 26,465
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.28% 18.96% 16.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.89% 57.47% 60.69%
Number of salaries quoted 8,798 7,840 10,183
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,343 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,285 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.86% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £89,125 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -2.00% +6.38% -1.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,500 32,824 43,610
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.52% 32.98% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 14,805 19,037
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,500 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +1.01%

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK

Degree
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK

Degree
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK 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
England -4 12,723 £52,500 -12.50% 8,247
UK excluding London -5 9,931 £49,000 -2.00% 5,832
Work from Home +6 4,314 £55,000 -8.33% 3,247
London +2 3,803 £67,500 -2.80% 2,968
South East -1 2,932 £51,350 -2.19% 1,611
North of England -1 1,991 £47,500 -9.52% 1,304
Midlands -2 1,734 £47,500 -5.00% 1,012
South West -3 1,334 £49,000 -2.00% 709
North West +3 1,199 £47,500 -13.64% 752
West Midlands +1 1,168 £50,000 -4.76% 632
East of England -3 862 £47,500 -5.00% 790
Scotland -29 689 £45,272 -9.46% 383
Yorkshire +3 580 £45,000 -10.00% 412
East Midlands -2 553 £40,000 -15.79% 379
Wales -5 262 £44,886 +0.49% 154
North East -10 212 £48,367 +1.64% 159
Northern Ireland +7 108 £43,000 +1.18% 62
Isle of Man +4 23 £52,500 -27.59% 6
Channel Islands -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 2

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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
1 401 (2.81%) SharePoint
2 364 (2.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 258 (1.81%) Confluence
4 134 (0.94%) Apache Spark
5 126 (0.88%) SAS
6 117 (0.82%) CMS
7 87 (0.61%) Apache
8 83 (0.58%) IIS
9 66 (0.46%) WordPress
10 44 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
10 44 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 41 (0.29%) Tomcat
12 34 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
13 31 (0.22%) Skype for Business
14 30 (0.21%) FileNet
15 19 (0.13%) ArcGIS
16 17 (0.12%) OpenStack
17 12 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
18 11 (0.077%) nginx
19 9 (0.063%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,498 (10.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1,457 (10.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 609 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 199 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 180 (1.26%) MS Visio
6 169 (1.18%) Simulink
7 86 (0.60%) AutoCAD
8 79 (0.55%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 61 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
12 42 (0.29%) SPSS
13 38 (0.27%) InDesign
13 38 (0.27%) UserZoom
14 31 (0.22%) Revit
14 31 (0.22%) Stateflow
14 31 (0.22%) Trello
15 27 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
16 24 (0.17%) Adobe XD
17 23 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 185 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 70 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
3 54 (0.38%) Remedy ITSM
4 49 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 42 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 33 (0.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 30 (0.21%) SDL Web 8
8 28 (0.20%) SAP ERP
9 26 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
10 24 (0.17%) Primavera
11 19 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
12 18 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
12 18 (0.13%) SAP CO
12 18 (0.13%) SAP FI
12 18 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
13 16 (0.11%) Endur
13 16 (0.11%) Shopify
14 15 (0.11%) SAP Business One
14 15 (0.11%) SAP CX
15 10 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,869 (13.10%) Azure
2 1,296 (9.08%) AWS
3 1,148 (8.05%) Microsoft 365
4 817 (5.73%) Power Platform
5 438 (3.07%) SaaS
6 356 (2.49%) GCP
7 263 (1.84%) Dynamics 365
8 251 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
9 187 (1.31%) GitHub
10 182 (1.28%) PowerApps
11 178 (1.25%) Entra ID
12 166 (1.16%) Serverless
13 163 (1.14%) Power Automate
14 162 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
15 127 (0.89%) Figma
16 117 (0.82%) IaaS
17 116 (0.81%) Amazon S3
17 116 (0.81%) PaaS
18 95 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
19 88 (0.62%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 509 (3.57%) Firewall
2 395 (2.77%) WAN
3 353 (2.47%) Wireless
4 273 (1.91%) DNS
5 259 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 252 (1.77%) LAN
7 235 (1.65%) Network Security
8 218 (1.53%) Internet
9 191 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
10 186 (1.30%) DHCP
11 182 (1.28%) SD-WAN
12 168 (1.18%) VPN
13 126 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
14 102 (0.71%) WebEx
15 100 (0.70%) VoIP
16 97 (0.68%) SAN
17 93 (0.65%) Ethernet
18 92 (0.64%) 5G
19 85 (0.60%) VLAN
20 67 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 857 (6.01%) SQL Server
2 688 (4.82%) Power BI
3 488 (3.42%) Tableau
4 289 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 275 (1.93%) MySQL
6 270 (1.89%) NoSQL
7 261 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
8 207 (1.45%) Big Data
9 193 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
10 160 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 145 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 113 (0.79%) Redis
13 112 (0.78%) Oracle Database
14 97 (0.68%) Data Mining
15 93 (0.65%) Elasticsearch
16 88 (0.62%) Data Lake
17 84 (0.59%) MongoDB
18 81 (0.57%) Hadoop
19 79 (0.55%) GIS
20 77 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 948 (6.64%) Git
2 583 (4.09%) JIRA
3 260 (1.82%) Visual Studio
4 219 (1.53%) Jenkins
5 119 (0.83%) Bitbucket
6 109 (0.76%) Selenium
7 96 (0.67%) GitLab
8 85 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 82 (0.57%) Sourcetree
10 80 (0.56%) Subversion
11 69 (0.48%) Cypress.io
12 66 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 51 (0.36%) Moq
14 48 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
15 47 (0.33%) JUnit
16 46 (0.32%) NUnit
17 43 (0.30%) Postman
18 38 (0.27%) Mockito
19 37 (0.26%) CMake
20 36 (0.25%) Jasmine
General
1 6,113 (42.84%) Social Skills
2 2,920 (20.46%) Analytical Skills
3 2,844 (19.93%) Finance
4 1,572 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,188 (8.33%) Marketing
6 1,120 (7.85%) Manufacturing
7 1,021 (7.16%) Retail
8 863 (6.05%) Presentation Skills
9 788 (5.52%) Law
10 729 (5.11%) Legal
11 684 (4.79%) Electronics
12 517 (3.62%) Public Sector
13 509 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
14 467 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
15 459 (3.22%) Telecoms
16 404 (2.83%) Pharmaceutical
17 375 (2.63%) Banking
18 345 (2.42%) Military
19 337 (2.36%) Games
20 305 (2.14%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,183 (15.30%) Senior
2 1,820 (12.75%) Analyst
3 1,678 (11.76%) Developer
4 1,190 (8.34%) Graduate
5 980 (6.87%) Lead
6 931 (6.52%) Software Engineer
7 771 (5.40%) Architect
8 736 (5.16%) Project Manager
9 490 (3.43%) Consultant
10 426 (2.99%) Junior
11 410 (2.87%) Senior Analyst
12 378 (2.65%) Software Developer
13 375 (2.63%) Senior Developer
14 365 (2.56%) Systems Engineer
15 346 (2.42%) Support Engineer
16 331 (2.32%) IT Support
17 324 (2.27%) Data Scientist
18 306 (2.14%) Data Analyst
19 276 (1.93%) IT Engineer
20 272 (1.91%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 972 (6.81%) .NET
2 690 (4.84%) HTML
3 607 (4.25%) CSS
4 570 (3.99%) React
5 419 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 264 (1.85%) Node.js
7 254 (1.78%) ASP.NET
8 238 (1.67%) Web Services
9 219 (1.53%) RESTful
10 217 (1.52%) .NET Framework
11 197 (1.38%) HTML5
12 186 (1.30%) .NET Core
13 172 (1.21%) REST
14 165 (1.16%) Kafka
15 153 (1.07%) Spring
15 153 (1.07%) XML
16 141 (0.99%) JSON
17 132 (0.93%) Vue
18 119 (0.83%) Entity Framework
19 114 (0.80%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 961 (6.73%) Management Information System
2 845 (5.92%) Self-Motivation
3 755 (5.29%) Algorithms
4 533 (3.74%) Onboarding
5 516 (3.62%) Driving Licence
6 364 (2.55%) Data Centre
7 358 (2.51%) Product Ownership
8 237 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 222 (1.56%) IoT
10 221 (1.55%) Life Science
11 218 (1.53%) Social Media
12 180 (1.26%) FMCG
13 171 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 157 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 150 (1.05%) Mobile App
15 150 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
16 146 (1.02%) Cloud Native
17 141 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
18 134 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
19 133 (0.93%) FPGA
Operating Systems
1 1,534 (10.75%) Windows
2 1,031 (7.23%) Linux
3 439 (3.08%) Windows Server
4 377 (2.64%) Windows 10
5 266 (1.86%) Unix
6 250 (1.75%) Android
7 130 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 120 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
9 110 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 109 (0.76%) Apple iOS
11 84 (0.59%) Windows Server 2012
12 72 (0.50%) Solaris
12 72 (0.50%) Windows 7
13 65 (0.46%) Ubuntu
14 54 (0.38%) Embedded Linux
15 37 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 35 (0.25%) Kali Linux
17 30 (0.21%) CentOS
17 30 (0.21%) Debian
18 27 (0.19%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,320 (30.28%) Computer Science
2 4,241 (29.72%) Problem-Solving
3 2,727 (19.11%) Agile
4 2,028 (14.21%) Project Management
5 1,862 (13.05%) Software Engineering
6 1,599 (11.21%) Mathematics
7 1,474 (10.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,364 (9.56%) Mentoring
9 1,308 (9.17%) Analytics
10 1,166 (8.17%) Cybersecurity
11 1,156 (8.10%) Decision-Making
12 1,145 (8.02%) Customer Service
13 1,140 (7.99%) Data Analysis
14 1,116 (7.82%) DevOps
15 1,028 (7.20%) Artificial Intelligence
16 962 (6.74%) ITIL
17 930 (6.52%) Business Intelligence
18 866 (6.07%) Roadmaps
19 861 (6.03%) Project Delivery
20 830 (5.82%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,238 (15.68%) SQL
2 1,995 (13.98%) Python
3 1,426 (9.99%) C#
4 1,163 (8.15%) JavaScript
5 790 (5.54%) Java
6 714 (5.00%) C
7 614 (4.30%) C++
8 395 (2.77%) PowerShell
9 392 (2.75%) TypeScript
10 288 (2.02%) R
11 239 (1.67%) PHP
12 238 (1.67%) MATLAB
13 220 (1.54%) T-SQL
14 182 (1.28%) Bash
15 155 (1.09%) Embedded C
16 107 (0.75%) VB
17 102 (0.71%) PL/SQL
18 100 (0.70%) Fortran
19 83 (0.58%) Go
20 79 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,477 (17.36%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,562 (10.95%) Master's Degree
3 1,265 (8.87%) Security Cleared
4 751 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 673 (4.72%) DBS Check
6 534 (3.74%) PhD
7 399 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 327 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 317 (2.22%) CISSP
10 278 (1.95%) HNC
11 273 (1.91%) HND
12 258 (1.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 233 (1.63%) PMI Certification
14 223 (1.56%) CCNA
15 209 (1.46%) CISM
16 201 (1.41%) PMP
17 194 (1.36%) DV Cleared
18 168 (1.18%) Azure Certification
19 165 (1.16%) MBA
20 150 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 738 (5.17%) QA
2 277 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 256 (1.79%) GDPR
4 236 (1.65%) SLA
5 232 (1.63%) Accessibility
5 232 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 195 (1.37%) PMO
7 144 (1.01%) NIST
8 115 (0.81%) GMP
9 111 (0.78%) ISO 9001
10 88 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
11 77 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
12 71 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 58 (0.41%) WCAG
14 48 (0.34%) ISO 13485
15 46 (0.32%) NCSC
16 44 (0.31%) NEBOSH
17 40 (0.28%) ISO 26262
18 39 (0.27%) Good Clinical Practice
19 37 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 779 (5.46%) Active Directory
2 521 (3.65%) Docker
3 356 (2.49%) Firmware
4 311 (2.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 183 (1.28%) Embedded Firmware
6 153 (1.07%) Hyper-V
7 149 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
8 104 (0.73%) XenApp
9 90 (0.63%) Microsoft App-V
10 88 (0.62%) XenDesktop
11 80 (0.56%) Virtual Machines
12 62 (0.43%) vSphere
13 45 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
14 39 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
15 23 (0.16%) Terminal Services
16 19 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
17 11 (0.077%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.056%) KVM
19 5 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 5 (0.035%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 460 (3.22%) Kubernetes
2 243 (1.70%) Terraform
3 219 (1.53%) SCCM
4 151 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
5 119 (0.83%) Ansible
6 96 (0.67%) AirWatch
7 51 (0.36%) WSUS
8 49 (0.34%) SCOM
9 45 (0.32%) Data Guard
9 45 (0.32%) Oracle RMAN
10 41 (0.29%) CASB
11 37 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 34 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 31 (0.22%) Functional Safety
13 31 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 28 (0.20%) vCenter Server
15 26 (0.18%) Puppet
16 24 (0.17%) Stealthwatch
17 21 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
18 20 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2,928 (20.52%) Microsoft
2 439 (3.08%) VMware
3 433 (3.03%) Cisco
4 399 (2.80%) Google
5 393 (2.75%) SAP
6 391 (2.74%) Oracle
7 271 (1.90%) Adobe
8 265 (1.86%) Databricks
9 225 (1.58%) Apple
10 220 (1.54%) Salesforce
11 191 (1.34%) EMC
12 173 (1.21%) Citrix
13 133 (0.93%) Dell
14 123 (0.86%) IBM
15 117 (0.82%) HP
16 113 (0.79%) ServiceNow
17 102 (0.71%) Meraki
18 84 (0.59%) Sage
19 80 (0.56%) NEC
20 79 (0.55%) Veeam