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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 14,199 18,936 25,956
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 14.34% 18.87% 16.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.82% 57.46% 60.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,810 7,877 10,145
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,093 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.19% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -

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 27,401 32,956 42,967
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.67% 32.84% 26.88%
Number of salaries quoted 17,264 14,877 18,994
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,277 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,250
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 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +4.00% +2.04%

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 14 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 14 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 12,639 £52,500 -12.50% 7,529
UK excluding London -5 9,856 £49,000 -2.00% 5,281
Work from Home +7 4,281 £55,000 -8.33% 2,868
London +2 3,792 £67,500 -0.74% 2,527
South East -1 2,911 £52,000 +0.97% 1,289
North of England -1 1,984 £47,500 -8.65% 1,251
Midlands -2 1,687 £47,500 -5.00% 942
South West -4 1,337 £48,750 +1.56% 690
North West +4 1,199 £47,757 -13.17% 742
West Midlands -1 1,134 £50,000 -4.76% 583
East of England -3 856 £47,500 -5.00% 716
Scotland -29 691 £45,543 -8.91% 352
Yorkshire +5 574 £45,000 -10.00% 374
East Midlands -3 541 £41,250 -13.16% 358
Wales -6 261 £44,886 -0.25% 146
North East -10 211 £48,367 +1.82% 152
Northern Ireland +9 108 £45,000 - 67
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 3
Channel Islands -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 5

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
1 406 (2.86%) SharePoint
2 367 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 260 (1.83%) Confluence
4 136 (0.96%) Apache Spark
5 130 (0.92%) SAS
6 111 (0.78%) CMS
7 84 (0.59%) Apache
8 80 (0.56%) IIS
9 66 (0.46%) WordPress
10 44 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
10 44 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 38 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 31 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
12 31 (0.22%) Skype for Business
13 30 (0.21%) FileNet
14 19 (0.13%) ArcGIS
15 17 (0.12%) OpenStack
16 12 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
17 11 (0.077%) nginx
18 9 (0.063%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,454 (10.24%) Microsoft Office
2 1,406 (9.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 606 (4.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 197 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 181 (1.27%) MS Visio
6 164 (1.16%) Simulink
7 86 (0.61%) AutoCAD
8 77 (0.54%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 61 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.35%) Adobe Illustrator
12 42 (0.30%) 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 23 (0.16%) Adobe XD
17 22 (0.15%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 185 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 71 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 56 (0.39%) Remedy ITSM
4 46 (0.32%) NEC Housing
5 42 (0.30%) NetSuite
6 35 (0.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 29 (0.20%) SAP ERP
8 26 (0.18%) SDL Web 8
8 26 (0.18%) Unit4 Business World
9 24 (0.17%) Primavera
10 18 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
10 18 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
10 18 (0.13%) SAP CO
10 18 (0.13%) SAP FI
10 18 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
11 16 (0.11%) Endur
11 16 (0.11%) SAP Business One
11 16 (0.11%) Shopify
12 15 (0.11%) SAP CX
13 10 (0.070%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,854 (13.06%) Azure
2 1,270 (8.94%) AWS
3 1,149 (8.09%) Microsoft 365
4 809 (5.70%) Power Platform
5 440 (3.10%) SaaS
6 359 (2.53%) GCP
7 263 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
8 247 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
9 186 (1.31%) GitHub
10 182 (1.28%) Entra ID
11 179 (1.26%) PowerApps
12 164 (1.16%) Serverless
13 161 (1.13%) Power Automate
14 159 (1.12%) Cloud Computing
15 123 (0.87%) Figma
16 120 (0.85%) IaaS
17 118 (0.83%) PaaS
18 115 (0.81%) Amazon S3
19 94 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
20 93 (0.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 506 (3.56%) Firewall
2 398 (2.80%) WAN
3 355 (2.50%) Wireless
4 275 (1.94%) DNS
5 256 (1.80%) TCP/IP
6 254 (1.79%) LAN
7 231 (1.63%) Network Security
8 214 (1.51%) Internet
9 189 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 186 (1.31%) DHCP
11 183 (1.29%) SD-WAN
12 168 (1.18%) VPN
13 128 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
14 105 (0.74%) WebEx
15 102 (0.72%) VoIP
16 95 (0.67%) 5G
16 95 (0.67%) SAN
17 92 (0.65%) Ethernet
18 82 (0.58%) VLAN
19 68 (0.48%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 850 (5.99%) SQL Server
2 680 (4.79%) Power BI
3 476 (3.35%) Tableau
4 288 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 275 (1.94%) MySQL
6 263 (1.85%) NoSQL
7 254 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
8 208 (1.46%) Big Data
9 187 (1.32%) PostgreSQL
10 157 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 143 (1.01%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 109 (0.77%) Oracle Database
13 107 (0.75%) Redis
14 99 (0.70%) Data Mining
15 96 (0.68%) Elasticsearch
16 89 (0.63%) Data Lake
17 85 (0.60%) MongoDB
18 84 (0.59%) Hadoop
19 78 (0.55%) GIS
20 77 (0.54%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 936 (6.59%) Git
2 582 (4.10%) JIRA
3 261 (1.84%) Visual Studio
4 215 (1.51%) Jenkins
5 124 (0.87%) Bitbucket
6 111 (0.78%) Selenium
7 89 (0.63%) GitLab
8 85 (0.60%) LabVIEW
9 80 (0.56%) Sourcetree
10 79 (0.56%) Subversion
11 72 (0.51%) Cypress.io
12 61 (0.43%) TeamCity
13 48 (0.34%) Rational DOORS
14 47 (0.33%) Moq
15 46 (0.32%) JUnit
16 43 (0.30%) Postman
17 42 (0.30%) NUnit
18 38 (0.27%) Mockito
19 37 (0.26%) CMake
20 36 (0.25%) Jasmine
General
1 6,088 (42.88%) Social Skills
2 2,920 (20.56%) Analytical Skills
3 2,844 (20.03%) Finance
4 1,565 (11.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,184 (8.34%) Marketing
6 1,124 (7.92%) Manufacturing
7 1,012 (7.13%) Retail
8 855 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
9 786 (5.54%) Law
10 739 (5.20%) Legal
11 676 (4.76%) Electronics
12 515 (3.63%) Public Sector
13 511 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
14 472 (3.32%) Influencing Skills
15 467 (3.29%) Telecoms
16 398 (2.80%) Pharmaceutical
17 376 (2.65%) Banking
18 343 (2.42%) Games
19 307 (2.16%) Automotive
20 304 (2.14%) Military
Job Titles
1 2,167 (15.26%) Senior
2 1,817 (12.80%) Analyst
3 1,681 (11.84%) Developer
4 1,149 (8.09%) Graduate
5 980 (6.90%) Lead
6 919 (6.47%) Software Engineer
7 769 (5.42%) Architect
8 741 (5.22%) Project Manager
9 490 (3.45%) Consultant
10 425 (2.99%) Junior
11 403 (2.84%) Senior Analyst
12 377 (2.66%) Software Developer
13 374 (2.63%) Senior Developer
14 365 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
15 346 (2.44%) Support Engineer
16 334 (2.35%) IT Support
17 318 (2.24%) Data Scientist
18 295 (2.08%) Data Analyst
19 277 (1.95%) IT Engineer
19 277 (1.95%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 971 (6.84%) .NET
2 684 (4.82%) HTML
3 601 (4.23%) CSS
4 575 (4.05%) React
5 419 (2.95%) AngularJS
6 262 (1.85%) Node.js
7 252 (1.77%) ASP.NET
8 226 (1.59%) Web Services
9 218 (1.54%) RESTful
10 213 (1.50%) .NET Framework
11 198 (1.39%) HTML5
12 185 (1.30%) .NET Core
13 168 (1.18%) Kafka
14 167 (1.18%) REST
15 154 (1.08%) Spring
16 152 (1.07%) XML
17 142 (1.00%) JSON
18 132 (0.93%) Vue
19 115 (0.81%) Entity Framework
20 111 (0.78%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 960 (6.76%) Management Information System
2 845 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 747 (5.26%) Algorithms
4 516 (3.63%) Driving Licence
5 492 (3.47%) Onboarding
6 363 (2.56%) Data Centre
7 358 (2.52%) Product Ownership
8 236 (1.66%) Data Structures
9 219 (1.54%) IoT
10 217 (1.53%) Social Media
11 211 (1.49%) Life Science
12 180 (1.27%) FMCG
13 171 (1.20%) Analytical Mindset
14 156 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 153 (1.08%) Video Conferencing
16 150 (1.06%) Mobile App
17 147 (1.04%) Cloud Native
18 140 (0.99%) Embedded Systems
19 134 (0.94%) FPGA
20 133 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1,526 (10.75%) Windows
2 1,020 (7.18%) Linux
3 433 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 379 (2.67%) Windows 10
5 265 (1.87%) Unix
6 253 (1.78%) Android
7 129 (0.91%) Mac OS
8 117 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
9 111 (0.78%) Apple iOS
10 107 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
11 81 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.52%) Windows 7
13 69 (0.49%) Solaris
14 63 (0.44%) Ubuntu
15 52 (0.37%) Embedded Linux
16 35 (0.25%) Kali Linux
16 35 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 29 (0.20%) Debian
18 28 (0.20%) CentOS
19 25 (0.18%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,285 (30.18%) Computer Science
2 4,217 (29.70%) Problem-Solving
3 2,717 (19.14%) Agile
4 2,032 (14.31%) Project Management
5 1,850 (13.03%) Software Engineering
6 1,580 (11.13%) Mathematics
7 1,432 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,358 (9.56%) Mentoring
9 1,280 (9.01%) Analytics
10 1,172 (8.25%) Cybersecurity
11 1,149 (8.09%) Decision-Making
12 1,104 (7.78%) Customer Service
13 1,098 (7.73%) DevOps
14 1,084 (7.63%) Data Analysis
15 1,024 (7.21%) Artificial Intelligence
16 968 (6.82%) ITIL
17 923 (6.50%) Business Intelligence
18 863 (6.08%) Roadmaps
19 855 (6.02%) Project Delivery
20 820 (5.78%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 2,203 (15.52%) SQL
2 1,964 (13.83%) Python
3 1,427 (10.05%) C#
4 1,160 (8.17%) JavaScript
5 779 (5.49%) Java
6 710 (5.00%) C
7 602 (4.24%) C++
8 399 (2.81%) TypeScript
9 396 (2.79%) PowerShell
10 290 (2.04%) R
11 242 (1.70%) PHP
12 236 (1.66%) MATLAB
13 216 (1.52%) T-SQL
14 180 (1.27%) Bash
15 154 (1.08%) Embedded C
16 106 (0.75%) VB
17 102 (0.72%) PL/SQL
18 99 (0.70%) Fortran
19 82 (0.58%) Go
20 79 (0.56%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2,458 (17.31%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,565 (11.02%) Master's Degree
3 1,254 (8.83%) Security Cleared
4 747 (5.26%) SC Cleared
5 652 (4.59%) DBS Check
6 530 (3.73%) PhD
7 397 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
8 320 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
9 318 (2.24%) CISSP
10 282 (1.99%) HNC
11 278 (1.96%) HND
12 264 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
13 228 (1.61%) PMI Certification
14 218 (1.54%) CCNA
15 211 (1.49%) CISM
16 198 (1.39%) PMP
17 189 (1.33%) DV Cleared
18 171 (1.20%) Azure Certification
18 171 (1.20%) MBA
19 153 (1.08%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 733 (5.16%) QA
2 275 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 253 (1.78%) GDPR
4 236 (1.66%) SLA
5 235 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 231 (1.63%) Accessibility
7 193 (1.36%) PMO
8 144 (1.01%) NIST
9 114 (0.80%) GMP
10 111 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 89 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 77 (0.54%) Actionable Recommendations
13 71 (0.50%) PCI DSS
14 60 (0.42%) WCAG
15 48 (0.34%) ISO 13485
16 46 (0.32%) NCSC
17 45 (0.32%) NEBOSH
18 40 (0.28%) ISO 26262
19 37 (0.26%) GRC
20 35 (0.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 784 (5.52%) Active Directory
2 526 (3.70%) Docker
3 352 (2.48%) Firmware
4 314 (2.21%) VMware Infrastructure
5 180 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 154 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 149 (1.05%) VMware ESXi
8 107 (0.75%) XenApp
9 92 (0.65%) Microsoft App-V
10 90 (0.63%) XenDesktop
11 76 (0.54%) Virtual Machines
12 61 (0.43%) vSphere
13 45 (0.32%) Oracle RAC
14 38 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
15 23 (0.16%) Terminal Services
16 19 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
17 10 (0.070%) OpenSSH
18 8 (0.056%) KVM
19 5 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
19 5 (0.035%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 463 (3.26%) Kubernetes
2 233 (1.64%) Terraform
3 219 (1.54%) SCCM
4 152 (1.07%) Microsoft Intune
5 117 (0.82%) Ansible
6 98 (0.69%) AirWatch
7 50 (0.35%) WSUS
8 48 (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
14 30 (0.21%) Progress Chef
15 27 (0.19%) vCenter Server
16 25 (0.18%) Puppet
17 21 (0.15%) Single Sign-On
17 21 (0.15%) Stealthwatch
18 20 (0.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2,909 (20.49%) Microsoft
2 442 (3.11%) VMware
3 431 (3.04%) Cisco
4 400 (2.82%) SAP
5 396 (2.79%) Google
6 387 (2.73%) Oracle
7 263 (1.85%) Adobe
8 243 (1.71%) Databricks
9 224 (1.58%) Apple
10 217 (1.53%) Salesforce
11 191 (1.35%) EMC
12 176 (1.24%) Citrix
13 137 (0.96%) Dell
14 122 (0.86%) IBM
15 119 (0.84%) HP
16 118 (0.83%) ServiceNow
17 99 (0.70%) Meraki
18 84 (0.59%) Sage
19 80 (0.56%) Veeam
20 77 (0.54%) Qualtrics