Degree Jobs in the South East

Academic Degree
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 3 2 3
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +8
Permanent jobs citing Degree 2,990 3,491 4,441
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 17.17% 24.77% 21.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.81% 62.31% 63.36%
Number of salaries quoted 1,860 1,310 1,802
10th Percentile £29,500 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,425 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,885 5,603 7,009
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 33.80% 39.75% 34.13%
Number of salaries quoted 3,626 2,513 3,165
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £29,183
25th Percentile £38,125 £36,713 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £51,000 £52,106
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% -2.12% +4.21%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £78,750
England median annual salary £54,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.17% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Salary Trend in the South East

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

Salary trend for Degree in the South East

Degree
Salary Histogram in the South East

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

Salary histogram for Degree in the South East

Degree
Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South East 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
Thames Valley +1 1,497 £52,550 +4.06% 513
Berkshire -1 632 £59,000 +2.61% 220
Buckinghamshire 0 517 £43,500 -6.95% 129
Surrey -1 494 £49,000 -14.78% 146
Hampshire -8 469 £48,500 +7.78% 208
Oxfordshire -1 348 £47,500 +5.56% 166
West Sussex -1 168 £60,000 - 50
Kent -14 159 £53,750 +26.47% 100
East Sussex -3 125 £50,000 -1.96% 55
Sussex -7 23 £60,000 - 4
Middlesex -9 20 £51,750 -50.71% 2
Isle of Wight 0 5 £42,500 +25.93% 3
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 75 (2.51%) Microsoft Exchange
2 62 (2.07%) SharePoint
3 28 (0.94%) Confluence
4 21 (0.70%) CMS
5 20 (0.67%) SAS
6 14 (0.47%) Oracle Service Bus
6 14 (0.47%) WebLogic
7 12 (0.40%) WordPress
8 10 (0.33%) OpenStack
9 8 (0.27%) Apache
9 8 (0.27%) IIS
10 6 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2000
10 6 (0.20%) Kinematics
10 6 (0.20%) nginx
10 6 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
11 4 (0.13%) Apache Spark
12 3 (0.10%) Joomla!
12 3 (0.10%) Skype for Business
13 2 (0.067%) Drupal
13 2 (0.067%) JBoss
Applications
1 326 (10.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 276 (9.23%) Microsoft Office
3 153 (5.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 89 (2.98%) Simulink
5 61 (2.04%) MS Visio
6 52 (1.74%) Microsoft Project
7 25 (0.84%) Stateflow
8 24 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
9 13 (0.43%) AutoCAD
9 13 (0.43%) OrCAD
10 7 (0.23%) CANalyzer
10 7 (0.23%) InVision
10 7 (0.23%) Sketch
11 6 (0.20%) Chatbot
12 5 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
12 5 (0.17%) Photoshop
12 5 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
13 4 (0.13%) Maya
13 4 (0.13%) MotionBuilder
13 4 (0.13%) Solid Edge
Business Applications
1 40 (1.34%) Dynamics CRM
2 23 (0.77%) NetSuite
3 20 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
4 16 (0.54%) Remedy ITSM
5 12 (0.40%) SAP CO
5 12 (0.40%) SAP FI
5 12 (0.40%) SAP FI/CO
6 10 (0.33%) NEC Housing
7 6 (0.20%) Oracle Applications
8 5 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
8 5 (0.17%) Odoo
8 5 (0.17%) Salesforce CRM
9 4 (0.13%) SDL Web 8
9 4 (0.13%) Unit4 Business World
10 3 (0.10%) Shopify
11 2 (0.067%) Primavera
11 2 (0.067%) Sage 200
12 1 (0.033%) SAP ERP
12 1 (0.033%) SAP HR
12 1 (0.033%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 368 (12.31%) Azure
2 268 (8.96%) Microsoft 365
3 160 (5.35%) AWS
4 142 (4.75%) Power Platform
5 96 (3.21%) SaaS
6 56 (1.87%) Dynamics 365
7 48 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
8 43 (1.44%) PowerApps
9 37 (1.24%) Power Automate
10 36 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 34 (1.14%) Serverless
12 31 (1.04%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (0.90%) IaaS
14 26 (0.87%) GCP
15 25 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
16 24 (0.80%) GitHub
17 22 (0.74%) OneDrive
18 21 (0.70%) PaaS
19 20 (0.67%) Amazon S3
20 19 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 169 (5.65%) Firewall
2 90 (3.01%) Wireless
3 55 (1.84%) Internet
4 52 (1.74%) DNS
5 49 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
6 45 (1.51%) Network Security
7 42 (1.40%) DHCP
8 40 (1.34%) 5G
8 40 (1.34%) VPN
9 36 (1.20%) WAN
10 33 (1.10%) SAN
11 30 (1.00%) Intrusion Detection
12 28 (0.94%) TCP/IP
13 26 (0.87%) LAN
14 25 (0.84%) Bluetooth
14 25 (0.84%) LTE
15 22 (0.74%) GSM
15 22 (0.74%) ISDN
15 22 (0.74%) PSTN
15 22 (0.74%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 163 (5.45%) SQL Server
2 123 (4.11%) NoSQL
3 121 (4.05%) Power BI
4 57 (1.91%) Relational Database
5 41 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
6 35 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
7 32 (1.07%) Tableau
8 31 (1.04%) MySQL
9 28 (0.94%) Big Data
10 24 (0.80%) GIS
11 23 (0.77%) MongoDB
12 16 (0.54%) Amazon RDS
13 15 (0.50%) Oracle Database
14 14 (0.47%) Oracle Database 10g
14 14 (0.47%) Oracle Database 11g
14 14 (0.47%) VLDB
15 13 (0.43%) Data Lake
16 12 (0.40%) Redis
16 12 (0.40%) SQL Server Reporting Services
17 11 (0.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 226 (7.56%) Git
2 95 (3.18%) JIRA
3 65 (2.17%) Selenium
4 55 (1.84%) Cypress.io
5 51 (1.71%) Subversion
6 42 (1.40%) Visual Studio
7 33 (1.10%) GitLab
8 24 (0.80%) Jenkins
9 23 (0.77%) CMake
9 23 (0.77%) LabVIEW
9 23 (0.77%) SoapUI
10 18 (0.60%) Vagrant
11 14 (0.47%) ClearCase
11 14 (0.47%) Plastic SCM
11 14 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
12 12 (0.40%) Team Foundation Server
13 9 (0.30%) Eclipse
14 8 (0.27%) TestRail
15 7 (0.23%) ClearQuest
15 7 (0.23%) Hudson
General
1 1,113 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 475 (15.89%) Analytical Skills
3 445 (14.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 432 (14.45%) Finance
5 260 (8.70%) Electronics
5 260 (8.70%) Manufacturing
6 203 (6.79%) Marketing
7 189 (6.32%) Retail
8 160 (5.35%) Legal
9 148 (4.95%) Telecoms
10 117 (3.91%) Presentation Skills
11 88 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
12 81 (2.71%) German Language
13 79 (2.64%) Military
14 77 (2.58%) Public Sector
15 72 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
16 61 (2.04%) Automotive
17 54 (1.81%) Law
18 53 (1.77%) Aviation
19 48 (1.61%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 441 (14.75%) Senior
2 333 (11.14%) Developer
3 320 (10.70%) Graduate
4 303 (10.13%) Software Engineer
5 234 (7.83%) Analyst
6 163 (5.45%) Junior
7 159 (5.32%) Lead
8 157 (5.25%) Architect
9 143 (4.78%) Software Developer
10 124 (4.15%) Data Scientist
11 120 (4.01%) Project Manager
12 114 (3.81%) Support Engineer
13 103 (3.44%) Electronics Engineer
14 98 (3.28%) Consultant
15 95 (3.18%) Systems Engineer
16 83 (2.78%) IT Support
17 81 (2.71%) Senior Developer
18 73 (2.44%) Development Engineer
19 72 (2.41%) Graduate Electronics Engineer
20 70 (2.34%) Junior Electronics Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 256 (8.56%) .NET
2 209 (6.99%) React
3 148 (4.95%) HTML
4 124 (4.15%) CSS
5 88 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 84 (2.81%) HTML5
7 63 (2.11%) CSS3
8 54 (1.81%) Jest
9 53 (1.77%) .NET Core
10 44 (1.47%) Qt
11 43 (1.44%) .NET Framework
12 37 (1.24%) ASP.NET
13 36 (1.20%) Web Services
14 35 (1.17%) Node.js
15 34 (1.14%) RESTful
15 34 (1.14%) XML
16 27 (0.90%) EDI
17 26 (0.87%) Middleware
18 24 (0.80%) jQuery
18 24 (0.80%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 321 (10.74%) Algorithms
2 236 (7.89%) Self-Motivation
3 214 (7.16%) Management Information System
4 141 (4.72%) Driving Licence
5 112 (3.75%) Data Centre
6 79 (2.64%) Product Ownership
7 65 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 62 (2.07%) Data Structures
9 60 (2.01%) Life Science
10 57 (1.91%) IoT
11 51 (1.71%) FPGA
12 49 (1.64%) Biopharmaceutical
13 43 (1.44%) Embedded Systems
14 35 (1.17%) Analogue Electronics
15 33 (1.10%) PKI
15 33 (1.10%) Social Media
16 30 (1.00%) CUDA
16 30 (1.00%) Onboarding
17 29 (0.97%) Virtual Team
18 28 (0.94%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 359 (12.01%) Windows
2 292 (9.77%) Linux
3 111 (3.71%) Windows Server
4 86 (2.88%) Windows 10
5 61 (2.04%) Unix
6 56 (1.87%) Windows Server 2019
7 49 (1.64%) Windows Server 2016
8 45 (1.51%) Windows Server 2012
9 41 (1.37%) Android
10 32 (1.07%) Embedded Linux
10 32 (1.07%) Ubuntu
11 27 (0.90%) Windows 7
12 25 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (0.64%) CentOS
14 17 (0.57%) Apple iOS
15 15 (0.50%) Solaris
16 14 (0.47%) Mac OS
17 12 (0.40%) Windows XP
18 7 (0.23%) VMS
19 5 (0.17%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,001 (33.48%) Computer Science
2 871 (29.13%) Problem-Solving
3 678 (22.68%) Agile
4 468 (15.65%) Software Engineering
5 404 (13.51%) Mathematics
6 375 (12.54%) Project Management
7 340 (11.37%) Mentoring
8 332 (11.10%) Artificial Intelligence
9 326 (10.90%) Cybersecurity
10 315 (10.54%) Coaching
11 304 (10.17%) Decision-Making
12 283 (9.46%) DevOps
13 250 (8.36%) Data Analysis
14 222 (7.42%) Data Science
15 214 (7.16%) Continuous Improvement
16 213 (7.12%) Physics
17 212 (7.09%) Analytics
18 210 (7.02%) Machine Learning
19 196 (6.56%) Project Delivery
20 194 (6.49%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 486 (16.25%) Python
2 405 (13.55%) C#
3 335 (11.20%) JavaScript
4 317 (10.60%) SQL
5 280 (9.36%) C++
6 263 (8.80%) C
7 158 (5.28%) Java
8 151 (5.05%) TypeScript
9 107 (3.58%) PowerShell
10 102 (3.41%) Fortran
11 66 (2.21%) MATLAB
12 63 (2.11%) PHP
13 62 (2.07%) Bash
14 40 (1.34%) VB
15 37 (1.24%) Embedded C
16 33 (1.10%) Go
17 32 (1.07%) R
18 26 (0.87%) Perl
19 20 (0.67%) Kotlin
20 17 (0.57%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 536 (17.93%) Computer Science Degree
2 350 (11.71%) Security Cleared
3 298 (9.97%) Master's Degree
4 188 (6.29%) SC Cleared
5 173 (5.79%) PhD
6 122 (4.08%) DBS Check
7 84 (2.81%) DV Cleared
8 78 (2.61%) HNC
9 72 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
10 66 (2.21%) HND
11 58 (1.94%) CISSP
12 53 (1.77%) CCNA
13 45 (1.51%) MBA
14 44 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 37 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
16 34 (1.14%) AWS Certification
17 33 (1.10%) PMI Certification
18 31 (1.04%) CCNP
19 29 (0.97%) Numerate Degree
20 26 (0.87%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 153 (5.12%) QA
2 87 (2.91%) SLA
3 78 (2.61%) Data Quality
4 77 (2.58%) GDPR
5 47 (1.57%) Accessibility
6 45 (1.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 32 (1.07%) WCAG
8 31 (1.04%) ISO 9001
9 28 (0.94%) NIST
10 27 (0.90%) PMO
11 26 (0.87%) ISO 26262
12 25 (0.84%) Automotive SPICE
13 23 (0.77%) Good Clinical Practice
14 22 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
15 20 (0.67%) ISO 13485
16 19 (0.64%) NEBOSH
17 16 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
18 15 (0.50%) HIPAA
18 15 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
19 14 (0.47%) MISRA
System Software
1 209 (6.99%) Docker
2 169 (5.65%) Active Directory
3 144 (4.82%) Firmware
4 103 (3.44%) Embedded Firmware
5 91 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
6 31 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 28 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
7 28 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 22 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 19 (0.64%) vSphere
10 14 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
11 13 (0.43%) OpenSSH
11 13 (0.43%) XenApp
12 6 (0.20%) Microsoft App-V
12 6 (0.20%) Virtual Servers
13 5 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 4 (0.13%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.067%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 198 (6.62%) Kubernetes
2 59 (1.97%) SCCM
3 55 (1.84%) Terraform
4 44 (1.47%) Ansible
5 40 (1.34%) WSUS
6 39 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 33 (1.10%) SCOM
8 25 (0.84%) vCenter Server
9 21 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 15 (0.50%) Functional Safety
11 14 (0.47%) Data Guard
11 14 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
12 13 (0.43%) Cisco CUCM
12 13 (0.43%) IBM BigFix
12 13 (0.43%) NetBackup
12 13 (0.43%) PowerCLI
12 13 (0.43%) Puppet
12 13 (0.43%) ServiceCenter
12 13 (0.43%) ZABBIX
13 12 (0.40%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 605 (20.23%) Microsoft
2 118 (3.95%) EMC
3 112 (3.75%) SAP
4 109 (3.65%) VMware
5 80 (2.68%) Cisco
6 67 (2.24%) Oracle
7 51 (1.71%) Adobe
7 51 (1.71%) Apple
8 50 (1.67%) Google
9 47 (1.57%) HP
10 42 (1.40%) Salesforce
11 41 (1.37%) Xilinx
12 35 (1.17%) Meraki
13 34 (1.14%) Dell
14 33 (1.10%) Palo Alto
15 31 (1.04%) IBM
15 31 (1.04%) Veeam
16 30 (1.00%) Citrix
17 26 (0.87%) NEC
18 23 (0.77%) Juniper