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 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 14,325 18,521 27,843
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.96% 19.02% 16.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.71% 57.07% 61.41%
Number of salaries quoted 8,761 7,727 10,283
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,894 £39,544
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £88,750 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £50,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.97% +8.60% -2.11%

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 27,701 32,451 45,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.33% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17,227 14,614 19,248
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

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 28 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 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
England -4 12,795 £52,500 -12.50% 7,520
UK excluding London -6 10,020 £49,000 -2.97% 5,317
Work from Home +6 4,347 £55,000 -8.33% 3,016
London +2 3,778 £67,500 -3.57% 2,450
South East -1 2,990 £51,425 -2.05% 1,248
North of England -2 1,974 £47,500 -9.52% 1,238
Midlands -2 1,786 £47,500 -5.00% 997
South West -3 1,345 £50,000 - 711
North West +1 1,197 £47,500 -13.64% 732
West Midlands +1 1,192 £50,000 -4.76% 605
East of England -3 857 £47,500 -12.04% 708
Scotland -30 679 £44,100 -11.80% 400
East Midlands -4 581 £42,500 -10.53% 392
Yorkshire +1 567 £45,000 -10.00% 362
Wales -4 261 £44,886 -0.25% 133
North East -10 210 £48,000 +0.69% 161
Northern Ireland +6 109 £45,000 - 65
Isle of Man +5 23 £52,500 -27.59% 6
Channel Islands -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 1

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
1 397 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 353 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 249 (1.74%) Confluence
4 124 (0.87%) Apache Spark
5 121 (0.84%) CMS
6 112 (0.78%) SAS
7 83 (0.58%) Apache
8 82 (0.57%) IIS
9 62 (0.43%) WordPress
10 44 (0.31%) Oracle Service Bus
10 44 (0.31%) WebLogic
11 39 (0.27%) Tomcat
12 36 (0.25%) Apache Airflow
13 31 (0.22%) Skype for Business
14 30 (0.21%) FileNet
15 22 (0.15%) ArcGIS
16 18 (0.13%) OpenStack
17 12 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
18 11 (0.077%) nginx
19 9 (0.063%) Drupal
Applications
1 1,521 (10.62%) Microsoft Office
2 1,479 (10.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 617 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 199 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 179 (1.25%) MS Visio
6 176 (1.23%) Simulink
7 84 (0.59%) AutoCAD
8 80 (0.56%) Photoshop
9 63 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 62 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
11 49 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
12 40 (0.28%) SPSS
13 38 (0.27%) InDesign
14 37 (0.26%) UserZoom
15 31 (0.22%) Stateflow
16 30 (0.21%) Trello
17 29 (0.20%) Revit
18 27 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
19 25 (0.17%) Adobe XD
20 24 (0.17%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 184 (1.28%) Dynamics CRM
2 67 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 49 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 42 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 33 (0.23%) SDL Web 8
7 32 (0.22%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 27 (0.19%) Unit4 Business World
9 26 (0.18%) SAP ERP
10 22 (0.15%) 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 17 (0.12%) Endur
14 16 (0.11%) Shopify
15 15 (0.10%) SAP Business One
16 13 (0.091%) SAP CX
17 10 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,873 (13.08%) Azure
2 1,299 (9.07%) AWS
3 1,129 (7.88%) Microsoft 365
4 830 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 435 (3.04%) SaaS
6 354 (2.47%) GCP
7 269 (1.88%) Dynamics 365
8 246 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
9 185 (1.29%) PowerApps
10 180 (1.26%) GitHub
11 175 (1.22%) Entra ID
12 170 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
13 164 (1.14%) Power Automate
14 162 (1.13%) Serverless
15 125 (0.87%) Figma
16 120 (0.84%) PaaS
17 117 (0.82%) IaaS
18 115 (0.80%) Amazon S3
19 92 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
20 85 (0.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 514 (3.59%) Firewall
2 385 (2.69%) WAN
3 335 (2.34%) Wireless
4 272 (1.90%) DNS
5 260 (1.82%) TCP/IP
6 250 (1.75%) LAN
7 245 (1.71%) Network Security
8 220 (1.54%) Internet
9 191 (1.33%) Wi-Fi
10 188 (1.31%) DHCP
11 173 (1.21%) SD-WAN
12 167 (1.17%) VPN
13 112 (0.78%) Cisco IOS
14 99 (0.69%) SAN
14 99 (0.69%) VoIP
15 94 (0.66%) Ethernet
16 91 (0.64%) 5G
17 87 (0.61%) WebEx
18 84 (0.59%) VLAN
19 67 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 853 (5.95%) SQL Server
2 703 (4.91%) Power BI
3 480 (3.35%) Tableau
4 290 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 285 (1.99%) NoSQL
6 264 (1.84%) MySQL
7 263 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 208 (1.45%) Big Data
9 200 (1.40%) PostgreSQL
10 164 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 148 (1.03%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 124 (0.87%) Redis
13 114 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 92 (0.64%) Data Mining
14 92 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
15 87 (0.61%) Data Lake
16 85 (0.59%) MongoDB
17 82 (0.57%) GIS
17 82 (0.57%) Hadoop
18 81 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 958 (6.69%) Git
2 573 (4.00%) JIRA
3 259 (1.81%) Visual Studio
4 214 (1.49%) Jenkins
5 112 (0.78%) Selenium
6 111 (0.77%) Bitbucket
7 99 (0.69%) GitLab
8 85 (0.59%) LabVIEW
9 83 (0.58%) Sourcetree
10 78 (0.54%) Subversion
11 70 (0.49%) Cypress.io
12 66 (0.46%) TeamCity
13 57 (0.40%) Moq
14 50 (0.35%) JUnit
14 50 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
15 49 (0.34%) NUnit
16 42 (0.29%) Postman
17 38 (0.27%) Mockito
18 37 (0.26%) CMake
19 36 (0.25%) Jasmine
General
1 6,121 (42.73%) Social Skills
2 2,899 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
3 2,823 (19.71%) Finance
4 1,580 (11.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,187 (8.29%) Marketing
6 1,123 (7.84%) Manufacturing
7 1,029 (7.18%) Retail
8 864 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
9 803 (5.61%) Law
10 746 (5.21%) Legal
11 700 (4.89%) Electronics
12 519 (3.62%) Public Sector
13 507 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
14 468 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
15 461 (3.22%) Telecoms
16 417 (2.91%) Pharmaceutical
17 363 (2.53%) Military
18 360 (2.51%) Banking
19 330 (2.30%) Games
20 310 (2.16%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,208 (15.41%) Senior
2 1,798 (12.55%) Analyst
3 1,698 (11.85%) Developer
4 1,197 (8.36%) Graduate
5 982 (6.86%) Lead
6 952 (6.65%) Software Engineer
7 778 (5.43%) Architect
8 743 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 496 (3.46%) Consultant
10 422 (2.95%) Junior
11 403 (2.81%) Senior Analyst
12 383 (2.67%) Senior Developer
13 380 (2.65%) Software Developer
14 368 (2.57%) Systems Engineer
15 345 (2.41%) Support Engineer
16 322 (2.25%) Data Scientist
17 317 (2.21%) IT Support
18 312 (2.18%) Data Analyst
19 282 (1.97%) Business Analyst
20 275 (1.92%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 987 (6.89%) .NET
2 703 (4.91%) HTML
3 622 (4.34%) CSS
4 572 (3.99%) React
5 421 (2.94%) AngularJS
6 270 (1.88%) Node.js
7 264 (1.84%) ASP.NET
8 252 (1.76%) Web Services
9 225 (1.57%) .NET Framework
9 225 (1.57%) RESTful
10 201 (1.40%) HTML5
11 193 (1.35%) .NET Core
12 177 (1.24%) REST
13 159 (1.11%) XML
14 158 (1.10%) Kafka
15 150 (1.05%) Spring
16 138 (0.96%) JSON
17 135 (0.94%) Vue
18 125 (0.87%) jQuery
19 124 (0.87%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 963 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 856 (5.98%) Self-Motivation
3 761 (5.31%) Algorithms
4 551 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 509 (3.55%) Driving Licence
6 370 (2.58%) Data Centre
7 352 (2.46%) Product Ownership
8 244 (1.70%) Life Science
9 236 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 226 (1.58%) IoT
11 218 (1.52%) Social Media
12 180 (1.26%) FMCG
13 175 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 157 (1.10%) Virtual Team
15 151 (1.05%) Mobile App
16 148 (1.03%) Cloud Native
17 141 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
18 137 (0.96%) FPGA
19 135 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
20 132 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1,513 (10.56%) Windows
2 1,044 (7.29%) Linux
3 437 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 360 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 269 (1.88%) Unix
6 238 (1.66%) Android
7 126 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 122 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
9 111 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 106 (0.74%) Apple iOS
11 88 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 74 (0.52%) Windows 7
13 72 (0.50%) Solaris
14 69 (0.48%) Ubuntu
15 58 (0.40%) Embedded Linux
16 40 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 35 (0.24%) Kali Linux
18 31 (0.22%) Debian
19 30 (0.21%) CentOS
20 29 (0.20%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4,365 (30.47%) Computer Science
2 4,272 (29.82%) Problem-Solving
3 2,736 (19.10%) Agile
4 2,023 (14.12%) Project Management
5 1,887 (13.17%) Software Engineering
6 1,591 (11.11%) Mathematics
7 1,508 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,369 (9.56%) Mentoring
9 1,318 (9.20%) Analytics
10 1,174 (8.20%) Data Analysis
11 1,164 (8.13%) Cybersecurity
12 1,161 (8.10%) Customer Service
12 1,161 (8.10%) Decision-Making
13 1,120 (7.82%) DevOps
14 1,025 (7.16%) Artificial Intelligence
15 958 (6.69%) ITIL
16 938 (6.55%) Business Intelligence
17 867 (6.05%) Project Delivery
18 865 (6.04%) Roadmaps
19 830 (5.79%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 2,252 (15.72%) SQL
2 2,018 (14.09%) Python
3 1,447 (10.10%) C#
4 1,190 (8.31%) JavaScript
5 796 (5.56%) Java
6 723 (5.05%) C
7 626 (4.37%) C++
8 403 (2.81%) PowerShell
9 398 (2.78%) TypeScript
10 275 (1.92%) R
11 239 (1.67%) MATLAB
12 237 (1.65%) PHP
13 215 (1.50%) T-SQL
14 183 (1.28%) Bash
15 155 (1.08%) Embedded C
16 112 (0.78%) Fortran
16 112 (0.78%) VB
17 100 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 84 (0.59%) Scala
19 81 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,501 (17.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,551 (10.83%) Master's Degree
3 1,293 (9.03%) Security Cleared
4 759 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 676 (4.72%) DBS Check
6 546 (3.81%) PhD
7 403 (2.81%) Microsoft Certification
8 328 (2.29%) Cisco Certification
9 321 (2.24%) CISSP
10 276 (1.93%) HNC
11 270 (1.88%) HND
12 254 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 233 (1.63%) PMI Certification
14 222 (1.55%) CCNA
15 210 (1.47%) CISM
16 203 (1.42%) DV Cleared
17 198 (1.38%) PMP
18 170 (1.19%) Azure Certification
19 164 (1.14%) MBA
20 152 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 757 (5.28%) QA
2 288 (2.01%) Data Quality
3 252 (1.76%) GDPR
4 236 (1.65%) SLA
5 235 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 227 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 191 (1.33%) PMO
8 143 (1.00%) NIST
9 118 (0.82%) GMP
10 112 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 82 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 70 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 69 (0.48%) PCI DSS
14 65 (0.45%) Good Clinical Practice
15 58 (0.40%) WCAG
16 48 (0.34%) ISO 13485
17 45 (0.31%) NCSC
18 43 (0.30%) NEBOSH
19 42 (0.29%) ISO 26262
20 35 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 763 (5.33%) Active Directory
2 512 (3.57%) Docker
3 363 (2.53%) Firmware
4 320 (2.23%) VMware Infrastructure
5 185 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 155 (1.08%) Hyper-V
7 134 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
8 92 (0.64%) XenApp
9 86 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
10 79 (0.55%) Microsoft App-V
11 74 (0.52%) XenDesktop
12 62 (0.43%) vSphere
13 44 (0.31%) Oracle RAC
13 44 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
14 23 (0.16%) Terminal Services
15 19 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
16 13 (0.091%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.063%) KVM
18 5 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.035%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 459 (3.20%) Kubernetes
2 245 (1.71%) Terraform
3 210 (1.47%) SCCM
4 154 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 121 (0.84%) Ansible
6 82 (0.57%) AirWatch
7 56 (0.39%) WSUS
8 54 (0.38%) SCOM
9 44 (0.31%) Data Guard
9 44 (0.31%) Oracle RMAN
10 41 (0.29%) CASB
11 39 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
12 35 (0.24%) Jamf Pro
13 32 (0.22%) Progress Chef
14 31 (0.22%) Functional Safety
15 29 (0.20%) vCenter Server
16 27 (0.19%) Puppet
16 27 (0.19%) Stealthwatch
17 24 (0.17%) Grafana
18 20 (0.14%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2,934 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 439 (3.06%) VMware
3 427 (2.98%) Cisco
4 398 (2.78%) Google
5 391 (2.73%) Oracle
6 382 (2.67%) SAP
7 272 (1.90%) Adobe
8 269 (1.88%) Databricks
9 227 (1.58%) Apple
10 222 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 191 (1.33%) EMC
12 161 (1.12%) Citrix
13 125 (0.87%) Dell
14 123 (0.86%) IBM
15 119 (0.83%) HP
16 112 (0.78%) ServiceNow
17 107 (0.75%) Meraki
18 84 (0.59%) Sage
19 83 (0.58%) Veeam
20 79 (0.55%) NEC