Degree Jobs in England

Academic Degree
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for 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 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,795 16,763 23,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.40% 19.36% 16.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.82% 58.37% 61.66%
Number of salaries quoted 8,004 7,065 9,212
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £42,500 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.09%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 24,690 28,718 37,313
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.79% 33.17% 26.66%
Number of salaries quoted 15,746 13,110 16,945
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,898
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,973
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Degree in England

Degree
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in England over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in England

Degree
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the England 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
London +2 3,778 £67,500 -3.57% 2,479
South East -1 2,990 £51,425 -2.05% 1,260
North of England -2 1,974 £47,500 -9.52% 1,259
Midlands -2 1,786 £47,500 -5.00% 1,000
South West -3 1,345 £50,000 - 724
North West +1 1,197 £47,500 -13.64% 747
West Midlands +1 1,192 £50,000 -4.76% 609
East of England -3 857 £47,500 -12.04% 718
East Midlands -4 581 £42,500 -10.53% 391
Yorkshire +1 567 £45,000 -10.00% 367
North East -10 210 £48,000 +0.69% 162
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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
1 370 (2.89%) SharePoint
2 339 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 208 (1.63%) Confluence
4 115 (0.90%) CMS
5 105 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 102 (0.80%) SAS
7 79 (0.62%) Apache
8 71 (0.55%) IIS
9 58 (0.45%) WordPress
10 36 (0.28%) Apache Airflow
10 36 (0.28%) Tomcat
11 31 (0.24%) Skype for Business
12 22 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 14 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
13 14 (0.11%) WebLogic
14 13 (0.10%) OpenStack
15 12 (0.094%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.078%) nginx
17 9 (0.070%) Drupal
17 9 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,407 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1,325 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 573 (4.48%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 180 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 169 (1.32%) Simulink
6 133 (1.04%) MS Visio
7 79 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 76 (0.59%) AutoCAD
9 62 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 57 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.38%) Adobe Illustrator
12 38 (0.30%) InDesign
13 37 (0.29%) SPSS
14 31 (0.24%) Stateflow
15 27 (0.21%) Adobe After Effects
16 26 (0.20%) Trello
17 24 (0.19%) Revit
18 22 (0.17%) Adobe XD
19 19 (0.15%) OrCAD
20 18 (0.14%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 179 (1.40%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 46 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 42 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.26%) SDL Web 8
6 32 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 26 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 23 (0.18%) Remedy ITSM
9 18 (0.14%) Dynamics NAV
10 17 (0.13%) Endur
10 17 (0.13%) Primavera
10 17 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 17 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 16 (0.13%) Shopify
12 15 (0.12%) Salesforce CRM
12 15 (0.12%) SAP Business One
12 15 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
13 13 (0.10%) SAP CX
14 8 (0.063%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 1,700 (13.29%) Azure
2 1,202 (9.39%) AWS
3 1,075 (8.40%) Microsoft 365
4 755 (5.90%) Power Platform
5 376 (2.94%) SaaS
6 332 (2.59%) GCP
7 232 (1.81%) Dynamics 365
8 223 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 176 (1.38%) PowerApps
10 155 (1.21%) Power Automate
11 148 (1.16%) Entra ID
12 142 (1.11%) GitHub
13 136 (1.06%) Serverless
14 124 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
15 104 (0.81%) PaaS
16 100 (0.78%) IaaS
17 86 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
18 80 (0.63%) WhatsApp
19 79 (0.62%) Amazon S3
20 78 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 461 (3.60%) Firewall
2 340 (2.66%) WAN
3 273 (2.13%) Wireless
4 251 (1.96%) DNS
5 216 (1.69%) TCP/IP
6 213 (1.66%) Network Security
7 211 (1.65%) LAN
8 202 (1.58%) Internet
9 172 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
10 170 (1.33%) SD-WAN
11 168 (1.31%) DHCP
12 146 (1.14%) VPN
13 103 (0.81%) Cisco IOS
14 95 (0.74%) VoIP
15 90 (0.70%) 5G
16 87 (0.68%) WebEx
17 86 (0.67%) SAN
18 85 (0.66%) Ethernet
19 70 (0.55%) VLAN
20 66 (0.52%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 754 (5.89%) SQL Server
2 639 (4.99%) Power BI
3 465 (3.63%) Tableau
4 248 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 242 (1.89%) NoSQL
6 234 (1.83%) MySQL
7 227 (1.77%) Data Warehouse
8 186 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
9 181 (1.41%) Big Data
10 145 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 130 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 124 (0.97%) Redis
13 88 (0.69%) Data Mining
14 82 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 77 (0.60%) GIS
15 77 (0.60%) MongoDB
16 73 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
16 73 (0.57%) Hadoop
17 67 (0.52%) Oracle Database
18 62 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 907 (7.09%) Git
2 498 (3.89%) JIRA
3 241 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 135 (1.06%) Jenkins
5 105 (0.82%) Selenium
6 104 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 94 (0.73%) GitLab
8 83 (0.65%) Sourcetree
9 73 (0.57%) Subversion
10 70 (0.55%) LabVIEW
11 65 (0.51%) TeamCity
12 64 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 55 (0.43%) Moq
14 49 (0.38%) NUnit
14 49 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
15 38 (0.30%) Postman
16 37 (0.29%) CMake
17 32 (0.25%) Burp Suite
18 31 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
19 30 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 5,359 (41.88%) Social Skills
2 2,632 (20.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2,369 (18.52%) Finance
4 1,216 (9.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 980 (7.66%) Retail
6 934 (7.30%) Marketing
7 902 (7.05%) Manufacturing
8 733 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
9 668 (5.22%) Legal
10 631 (4.93%) Electronics
11 470 (3.67%) Law
12 465 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
13 433 (3.38%) Public Sector
14 404 (3.16%) Telecoms
15 382 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 342 (2.67%) Military
17 340 (2.66%) Influencing Skills
18 315 (2.46%) Games
19 302 (2.36%) Banking
20 294 (2.30%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,003 (15.65%) Senior
2 1,606 (12.55%) Analyst
3 1,533 (11.98%) Developer
4 1,022 (7.99%) Graduate
5 881 (6.89%) Lead
6 824 (6.44%) Software Engineer
7 691 (5.40%) Project Manager
8 690 (5.39%) Architect
9 426 (3.33%) Consultant
10 374 (2.92%) Senior Analyst
11 372 (2.91%) Junior
12 351 (2.74%) Systems Engineer
13 344 (2.69%) Software Developer
14 339 (2.65%) Senior Developer
15 327 (2.56%) Support Engineer
16 315 (2.46%) Data Scientist
17 295 (2.31%) IT Support
18 292 (2.28%) Data Analyst
19 264 (2.06%) Solutions Architect
20 254 (1.99%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 913 (7.14%) .NET
2 628 (4.91%) HTML
3 563 (4.40%) CSS
4 493 (3.85%) React
5 320 (2.50%) AngularJS
6 243 (1.90%) ASP.NET
7 218 (1.70%) Node.js
8 216 (1.69%) Web Services
9 214 (1.67%) .NET Framework
10 194 (1.52%) RESTful
11 190 (1.48%) HTML5
12 178 (1.39%) .NET Core
13 159 (1.24%) REST
14 148 (1.16%) XML
15 124 (0.97%) JSON
16 122 (0.95%) jQuery
17 118 (0.92%) Entity Framework
18 116 (0.91%) Vue
19 108 (0.84%) Kafka
20 107 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
Miscellaneous
1 860 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 811 (6.34%) Self-Motivation
3 714 (5.58%) Algorithms
4 521 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 460 (3.60%) Driving Licence
6 328 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 299 (2.34%) Product Ownership
8 234 (1.83%) Life Science
9 209 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 197 (1.54%) Social Media
11 187 (1.46%) IoT
12 155 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 144 (1.13%) Mobile App
14 136 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 131 (1.02%) FPGA
16 129 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
17 125 (0.98%) Video Conferencing
18 122 (0.95%) Client/Server
19 121 (0.95%) Robotics
20 120 (0.94%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,376 (10.75%) Windows
2 900 (7.03%) Linux
3 385 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 351 (2.74%) Windows 10
5 225 (1.76%) Android
6 195 (1.52%) Unix
7 118 (0.92%) Windows Server 2019
8 114 (0.89%) Mac OS
9 106 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 98 (0.77%) Apple iOS
11 82 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.58%) Windows 7
13 64 (0.50%) Ubuntu
14 47 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
15 39 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 39 (0.30%) Solaris
16 35 (0.27%) Kali Linux
17 29 (0.23%) Windows Server 2008
18 28 (0.22%) CentOS
19 27 (0.21%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,894 (30.43%) Computer Science
2 3,801 (29.71%) Problem-Solving
3 2,399 (18.75%) Agile
4 1,798 (14.05%) Project Management
5 1,618 (12.65%) Software Engineering
6 1,478 (11.55%) Mathematics
7 1,228 (9.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,194 (9.33%) Mentoring
9 1,180 (9.22%) Analytics
10 1,107 (8.65%) Data Analysis
11 1,071 (8.37%) Customer Service
12 1,062 (8.30%) Cybersecurity
13 1,021 (7.98%) Decision-Making
14 969 (7.57%) DevOps
15 877 (6.85%) ITIL
16 871 (6.81%) Artificial Intelligence
17 840 (6.57%) Business Intelligence
18 825 (6.45%) Project Delivery
19 761 (5.95%) Data Science
20 747 (5.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,979 (15.47%) SQL
2 1,881 (14.70%) Python
3 1,339 (10.47%) C#
4 1,096 (8.57%) JavaScript
5 686 (5.36%) Java
6 603 (4.71%) C
7 560 (4.38%) C++
8 372 (2.91%) PowerShell
9 369 (2.88%) TypeScript
10 232 (1.81%) MATLAB
11 224 (1.75%) PHP
12 221 (1.73%) R
13 189 (1.48%) T-SQL
14 163 (1.27%) Bash
15 112 (0.88%) Fortran
16 106 (0.83%) Embedded C
17 105 (0.82%) VB
18 81 (0.63%) Scala
19 72 (0.56%) Go
20 71 (0.55%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,224 (17.38%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,357 (10.61%) Master's Degree
3 1,158 (9.05%) Security Cleared
4 654 (5.11%) SC Cleared
5 649 (5.07%) DBS Check
6 452 (3.53%) PhD
7 374 (2.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 290 (2.27%) Cisco Certification
9 287 (2.24%) CISSP
10 258 (2.02%) HNC
11 251 (1.96%) HND
12 249 (1.95%) BPSS Clearance
13 220 (1.72%) PMI Certification
14 197 (1.54%) CCNA
15 191 (1.49%) DV Cleared
16 181 (1.41%) PMP
17 180 (1.41%) CISM
18 162 (1.27%) Azure Certification
19 152 (1.19%) MBA
20 137 (1.07%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 650 (5.08%) QA
2 272 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 232 (1.81%) GDPR
4 214 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 195 (1.52%) SLA
6 192 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 173 (1.35%) PMO
8 129 (1.01%) NIST
9 104 (0.81%) GMP
9 104 (0.81%) ISO 9001
10 72 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
11 66 (0.52%) PCI DSS
12 65 (0.51%) Good Clinical Practice
13 49 (0.38%) WCAG
14 42 (0.33%) NEBOSH
15 40 (0.31%) ISO 13485
15 40 (0.31%) ISO 26262
16 37 (0.29%) Actionable Recommendations
17 36 (0.28%) NCSC
18 33 (0.26%) GRC
System Software
1 724 (5.66%) Active Directory
2 466 (3.64%) Docker
3 303 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 289 (2.26%) Firmware
5 162 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 142 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 132 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
8 92 (0.72%) XenApp
9 81 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
10 79 (0.62%) Microsoft App-V
11 74 (0.58%) XenDesktop
12 62 (0.48%) vSphere
13 44 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.18%) Terminal Services
15 18 (0.14%) Virtual Servers
16 14 (0.11%) Oracle RAC
17 13 (0.10%) OpenSSH
18 9 (0.070%) KVM
19 5 (0.039%) Microsoft Virtual Server
20 4 (0.031%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 390 (3.05%) Kubernetes
2 227 (1.77%) Terraform
3 204 (1.59%) SCCM
4 141 (1.10%) Microsoft Intune
5 104 (0.81%) Ansible
6 82 (0.64%) AirWatch
7 56 (0.44%) WSUS
8 54 (0.42%) SCOM
9 41 (0.32%) CASB
10 39 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 34 (0.27%) Jamf Pro
12 31 (0.24%) Functional Safety
13 28 (0.22%) vCenter Server
14 27 (0.21%) Progress Chef
14 27 (0.21%) Stealthwatch
15 25 (0.20%) Puppet
16 24 (0.19%) Grafana
17 20 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
18 17 (0.13%) ZABBIX
19 16 (0.13%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,643 (20.66%) Microsoft
2 397 (3.10%) Cisco
3 394 (3.08%) VMware
4 343 (2.68%) Google
5 325 (2.54%) SAP
6 280 (2.19%) Oracle
7 268 (2.09%) Adobe
8 265 (2.07%) Databricks
9 217 (1.70%) Apple
10 195 (1.52%) Salesforce
11 188 (1.47%) EMC
12 156 (1.22%) Citrix
13 119 (0.93%) HP
14 109 (0.85%) ServiceNow
15 100 (0.78%) Meraki
16 97 (0.76%) Dell
17 95 (0.74%) IBM
18 77 (0.60%) Veeam
19 72 (0.56%) NEC
20 70 (0.55%) Juniper