Degree Jobs in the North West

Academic Degree
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 10 15
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +7
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,197 1,215 1,149
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 11.65% 16.03% 11.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 49.67% 45.23% 39.63%
Number of salaries quoted 826 442 467
10th Percentile £25,750 £29,500 £25,294
25th Percentile £32,500 £38,759 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +18.28% -2.11%
75th Percentile £60,938 £67,500 £57,977
90th Percentile £80,000 £75,000 £75,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Degree in the North West

Degree
Salary Histogram in the North West

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

Salary histogram for Degree in the North West

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 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 +2 576 £50,000 -13.04% 360
Cheshire +3 230 £47,500 -20.83% 168
Lancashire 0 220 £50,000 -9.09% 96
Merseyside -20 89 £32,500 -29.73% 67
Cumbria +6 79 £29,500 -51.48% 51
Degree
England

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 18 (1.50%) SharePoint
2 17 (1.42%) CMS
3 11 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 11 (0.92%) SAS
4 10 (0.84%) IIS
5 8 (0.67%) Apache
5 8 (0.67%) Tomcat
6 7 (0.58%) Confluence
7 6 (0.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 4 (0.33%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.33%) ArcGIS
8 4 (0.33%) Umbraco
8 4 (0.33%) WordPress
9 2 (0.17%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.084%) Kentico
10 1 (0.084%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 85 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 80 (6.68%) Microsoft Office
3 50 (4.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (1.09%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 11 (0.92%) Adobe Illustrator
5 11 (0.92%) Photoshop
6 9 (0.75%) Adobe Captivate
6 9 (0.75%) Microsoft Project
7 8 (0.67%) MS Visio
8 7 (0.58%) InDesign
9 6 (0.50%) AutoCAD
10 5 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
11 3 (0.25%) Adobe After Effects
11 3 (0.25%) Trello
12 2 (0.17%) SPSS
12 2 (0.17%) Stata
13 1 (0.084%) Acrobat
13 1 (0.084%) Adobe Premiere
13 1 (0.084%) CorelDRAW
13 1 (0.084%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 19 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
2 13 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.75%) SAP CX
4 8 (0.67%) NEC Housing
5 7 (0.58%) SAP Business One
6 5 (0.42%) Maximo
7 4 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
7 4 (0.33%) NetSuite
7 4 (0.33%) SAP CO
7 4 (0.33%) SAP ERP
7 4 (0.33%) SAP FI
7 4 (0.33%) SAP FI/CO
8 3 (0.25%) Primavera
8 3 (0.25%) SAP APO
8 3 (0.25%) SAP MM
8 3 (0.25%) SAP PP
8 3 (0.25%) SAP SD
8 3 (0.25%) SAP WM
9 2 (0.17%) Dynamics AX
9 2 (0.17%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 129 (10.78%) Azure
2 112 (9.36%) AWS
3 75 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
4 41 (3.43%) Power Platform
5 31 (2.59%) Amazon Kinesis
6 30 (2.51%) GCP
7 17 (1.42%) Dynamics 365
8 16 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
9 14 (1.17%) Amazon S3
9 14 (1.17%) GitHub
10 13 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
11 11 (0.92%) SaaS
12 10 (0.84%) Google Play
12 10 (0.84%) Serverless
13 9 (0.75%) Power Automate
14 8 (0.67%) Entra ID
15 7 (0.58%) Google Workspace
16 6 (0.50%) Google Analytics
17 5 (0.42%) Adobe Creative Cloud
18 4 (0.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 42 (3.51%) Firewall
2 39 (3.26%) PPP
3 32 (2.67%) WAN
4 27 (2.26%) LAN
5 26 (2.17%) TCP/IP
6 22 (1.84%) DNS
7 20 (1.67%) Network Security
8 17 (1.42%) Internet
9 15 (1.25%) SD-WAN
9 15 (1.25%) VPN
9 15 (1.25%) Wi-Fi
10 14 (1.17%) DHCP
10 14 (1.17%) RS-232
11 11 (0.92%) Broadband
11 11 (0.92%) Remote Desktop
11 11 (0.92%) VoIP
12 10 (0.84%) Ethernet
13 9 (0.75%) Cisco Firepower
13 9 (0.75%) VLAN
13 9 (0.75%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (5.18%) SQL Server
2 35 (2.92%) MySQL
2 35 (2.92%) NoSQL
3 27 (2.26%) Data Warehouse
4 25 (2.09%) Relational Database
5 24 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
5 24 (2.01%) Power BI
6 21 (1.75%) Tableau
7 18 (1.50%) Amazon Redshift
7 18 (1.50%) DynamoDB
7 18 (1.50%) MS Access
7 18 (1.50%) Redis
8 17 (1.42%) Amazon Aurora
8 17 (1.42%) RDBMS
9 13 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
10 10 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 9 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 8 (0.67%) Big Data
12 8 (0.67%) Oracle Database
13 7 (0.58%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 64 (5.35%) Git
2 45 (3.76%) JIRA
3 17 (1.42%) Gatling
4 14 (1.17%) Postman
5 12 (1.00%) Visual Studio
6 11 (0.92%) Subversion
7 10 (0.84%) Appium
8 9 (0.75%) Jenkins
9 6 (0.50%) Dreamweaver
10 5 (0.42%) Clang
10 5 (0.42%) InstallShield
10 5 (0.42%) IntelliJ
10 5 (0.42%) JUnit
10 5 (0.42%) Mockito
11 4 (0.33%) CMake
11 4 (0.33%) GCC
11 4 (0.33%) GDB
11 4 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
11 4 (0.33%) TeamCity
12 3 (0.25%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 471 (39.35%) Social Skills
2 153 (12.78%) Finance
3 127 (10.61%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (9.86%) Manufacturing
5 53 (4.43%) Legal
6 49 (4.09%) Electronics
7 47 (3.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 44 (3.68%) Retail
9 41 (3.43%) Marketing
10 40 (3.34%) Public Sector
11 38 (3.17%) Games
12 36 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
13 34 (2.84%) Presentation Skills
14 30 (2.51%) Law
15 29 (2.42%) Military
16 26 (2.17%) Telecoms
17 24 (2.01%) Aerospace
18 22 (1.84%) Automotive
19 17 (1.42%) Billing
19 17 (1.42%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 188 (15.71%) Senior
2 175 (14.62%) Developer
3 112 (9.36%) Software Engineer
4 97 (8.10%) Analyst
5 79 (6.60%) Graduate
6 68 (5.68%) Lead
7 65 (5.43%) Project Manager
8 43 (3.59%) Architect
9 33 (2.76%) .NET Developer
9 33 (2.76%) Senior Developer
10 30 (2.51%) IT Manager
10 30 (2.51%) Lead Developer
11 28 (2.34%) Junior
11 28 (2.34%) Software Developer
12 27 (2.26%) Consultant
12 27 (2.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 26 (2.17%) Senior Software Engineer
14 23 (1.92%) Incident Manager
14 23 (1.92%) Vulnerability Manager
15 22 (1.84%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (9.11%) .NET
2 68 (5.68%) HTML
3 44 (3.68%) Node.js
4 41 (3.43%) CSS
5 40 (3.34%) Web Services
6 38 (3.17%) REST
7 35 (2.92%) JSON
8 29 (2.42%) React
9 23 (1.92%) .NET Framework
10 21 (1.75%) ASP.NET
11 20 (1.67%) HTML5
12 19 (1.59%) GraphQL
13 17 (1.42%) http4s
13 17 (1.42%) Scalaz
14 15 (1.25%) AngularJS
14 15 (1.25%) Spring
15 14 (1.17%) Redux
16 13 (1.09%) MobX
16 13 (1.09%) React Native
16 13 (1.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 97 (8.10%) Management Information System
2 52 (4.34%) Self-Motivation
3 43 (3.59%) Data Centre
4 36 (3.01%) Operational Technology
5 33 (2.76%) Industrial Internet of Things
6 29 (2.42%) Onboarding
7 25 (2.09%) Driving Licence
8 21 (1.75%) Blog
9 19 (1.59%) Embedded Systems
10 17 (1.42%) Media Streaming
11 15 (1.25%) e-Learning
11 15 (1.25%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.25%) Social Media
12 14 (1.17%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
12 14 (1.17%) Renewable Energy
13 13 (1.09%) Algorithms
13 13 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
14 12 (1.00%) Animation
14 12 (1.00%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 113 (9.44%) Windows
2 76 (6.35%) Linux
3 21 (1.75%) Unix
4 20 (1.67%) Windows Vista
5 18 (1.50%) Windows Server
6 16 (1.34%) Android
7 15 (1.25%) Windows 10
8 9 (0.75%) Windows Phone
9 8 (0.67%) Mac OS
9 8 (0.67%) Solaris
10 5 (0.42%) FreeRTOS
10 5 (0.42%) VMS
10 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.25%) Apple iOS
11 3 (0.25%) Windows Server 2019
12 2 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.084%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.084%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 351 (29.32%) Computer Science
2 339 (28.32%) Problem-Solving
3 228 (19.05%) Agile
4 189 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
5 181 (15.12%) Project Management
6 167 (13.95%) Software Engineering
7 146 (12.20%) Mentoring
8 102 (8.52%) Analytics
9 95 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (7.69%) DevOps
11 83 (6.93%) Project Delivery
12 80 (6.68%) Coaching
12 80 (6.68%) Customer Service
13 77 (6.43%) Mathematics
13 77 (6.43%) Risk Management
14 70 (5.85%) ITIL
15 69 (5.76%) Incident Response
16 65 (5.43%) ERP
17 60 (5.01%) Open Source
18 59 (4.93%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 139 (11.61%) SQL
2 126 (10.53%) C#
3 91 (7.60%) JavaScript
4 90 (7.52%) Java
5 87 (7.27%) Python
6 42 (3.51%) C
7 33 (2.76%) TypeScript
8 30 (2.51%) PHP
9 22 (1.84%) C++
10 20 (1.67%) Scala
10 20 (1.67%) VB
11 15 (1.25%) Embedded C
11 15 (1.25%) PowerShell
12 12 (1.00%) Kotlin
12 12 (1.00%) R
13 11 (0.92%) T-SQL
13 11 (0.92%) VBScript
14 8 (0.67%) Perl
14 8 (0.67%) Ruby
14 8 (0.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 200 (16.71%) Computer Science Degree
2 70 (5.85%) Security Cleared
3 68 (5.68%) Master's Degree
4 58 (4.85%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (4.18%) HNC
6 44 (3.68%) CCNA
7 42 (3.51%) CISSP
8 41 (3.43%) Microsoft Certification
8 41 (3.43%) SC Cleared
9 39 (3.26%) HND
10 36 (3.01%) CCNP
11 34 (2.84%) CISM
12 19 (1.59%) AWS Certification
12 19 (1.59%) PhD
13 16 (1.34%) PMP
14 15 (1.25%) MCP
14 15 (1.25%) PMI Certification
15 13 (1.09%) Azure Certification
16 12 (1.00%) APMP
16 12 (1.00%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (3.68%) QA
2 34 (2.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (2.09%) Accessibility
3 25 (2.09%) NIST
4 22 (1.84%) GDPR
5 21 (1.75%) PCI DSS
6 14 (1.17%) Cyber Essentials
6 14 (1.17%) Data Quality
7 13 (1.09%) SLA
8 10 (0.84%) PMO
9 9 (0.75%) GMP
10 7 (0.58%) NCSC
10 7 (0.58%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 6 (0.50%) IEC 62304
12 5 (0.42%) ISO 9001
12 5 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 17025
13 4 (0.33%) TickIT
14 3 (0.25%) WCAG
15 2 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 54 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 20 (1.67%) Docker
3 15 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (1.00%) Hyper-V
5 9 (0.75%) Firmware
5 9 (0.75%) Terminal Services
6 6 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.17%) Embedded Firmware
8 1 (0.084%) Lustre
8 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
8 1 (0.084%) Snort
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.084%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (1.42%) Terraform
2 16 (1.34%) Kubernetes
3 10 (0.84%) Ansible
4 9 (0.75%) AirWatch
4 9 (0.75%) Stealthwatch
5 8 (0.67%) Progress Chef
6 6 (0.50%) CASB
6 6 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.33%) Autotask
7 4 (0.33%) SCCM
8 2 (0.17%) Grafana
8 2 (0.17%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.17%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
8 2 (0.17%) vRealize
9 1 (0.084%) EnCase
9 1 (0.084%) FortiGate
9 1 (0.084%) FTK
9 1 (0.084%) Functional Safety
9 1 (0.084%) Icinga
9 1 (0.084%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 243 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 57 (4.76%) Adobe
3 52 (4.34%) SAP
4 45 (3.76%) Cisco
5 38 (3.17%) Apple
6 34 (2.84%) Google
7 24 (2.01%) VMware
8 18 (1.50%) HP
9 17 (1.42%) Meraki
10 15 (1.25%) Oracle
10 15 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 11 (0.92%) Dell
11 11 (0.92%) Samsung
11 11 (0.92%) Virgin Media
12 9 (0.75%) Facebook
13 8 (0.67%) F5
13 8 (0.67%) NEC
13 8 (0.67%) Salesforce
14 7 (0.58%) Juniper
14 7 (0.58%) Sage