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

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 9 5 12
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +3
Permanent jobs citing Degree 12,836 16,749 22,977
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 14.35% 19.39% 16.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.82% 58.20% 61.71%
Number of salaries quoted 8,005 7,049 9,173
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 £77,715 £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% +0.18%

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 24,771 28,776 37,234
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.69% 33.31% 26.67%
Number of salaries quoted 15,756 13,083 16,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,399 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.34% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +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 29 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 29 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 3,779 £67,500 -3.57% 2,382
South East -1 3,006 £51,350 -2.19% 1,232
North of England -2 1,985 £47,500 -9.52% 1,250
Midlands -2 1,797 £47,500 -5.00% 978
South West -3 1,346 £50,000 - 702
North West +1 1,206 £47,500 -13.64% 726
West Midlands +1 1,194 £50,000 -4.76% 601
East of England -3 858 £47,500 -12.04% 705
East Midlands -3 590 £42,500 -10.53% 377
Yorkshire 0 570 £45,000 -10.00% 366
North East -8 209 £48,000 +0.69% 175
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
1 368 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 337 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 208 (1.62%) Confluence
4 116 (0.90%) CMS
5 105 (0.82%) Apache Spark
6 99 (0.77%) 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 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
16 10 (0.078%) nginx
17 9 (0.070%) Drupal
17 9 (0.070%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1,416 (11.03%) Microsoft Office
2 1,335 (10.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 576 (4.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 180 (1.40%) Microsoft Project
5 168 (1.31%) Simulink
6 131 (1.02%) MS Visio
7 80 (0.62%) Photoshop
8 77 (0.60%) AutoCAD
9 62 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 57 (0.44%) 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 25 (0.19%) Revit
18 21 (0.16%) Adobe XD
19 19 (0.15%) OrCAD
20 17 (0.13%) SOLIDWORKS
Business Applications
1 176 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 60 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 46 (0.36%) NEC Housing
4 42 (0.33%) NetSuite
5 34 (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 (0.12%) 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 (0.062%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1,714 (13.35%) Azure
2 1,209 (9.42%) AWS
3 1,079 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
4 756 (5.89%) Power Platform
5 379 (2.95%) SaaS
6 333 (2.59%) GCP
7 233 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
8 224 (1.75%) Azure DevOps
9 177 (1.38%) PowerApps
10 153 (1.19%) Power Automate
11 150 (1.17%) Entra ID
12 142 (1.11%) GitHub
13 136 (1.06%) Serverless
14 123 (0.96%) Cloud Computing
15 106 (0.83%) PaaS
16 101 (0.79%) IaaS
17 86 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
18 80 (0.62%) WhatsApp
19 78 (0.61%) Amazon S3
19 78 (0.61%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 467 (3.64%) Firewall
2 341 (2.66%) WAN
3 271 (2.11%) Wireless
4 254 (1.98%) DNS
5 219 (1.71%) TCP/IP
6 217 (1.69%) Network Security
7 213 (1.66%) LAN
8 203 (1.58%) Internet
9 175 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 172 (1.34%) DHCP
11 169 (1.32%) SD-WAN
12 150 (1.17%) VPN
13 101 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
14 96 (0.75%) VoIP
15 89 (0.69%) 5G
16 86 (0.67%) SAN
17 85 (0.66%) WebEx
18 83 (0.65%) Ethernet
19 72 (0.56%) VLAN
20 66 (0.51%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 757 (5.90%) SQL Server
2 640 (4.99%) Power BI
3 464 (3.61%) Tableau
4 249 (1.94%) Relational Database
5 246 (1.92%) NoSQL
6 237 (1.85%) MySQL
7 228 (1.78%) Data Warehouse
8 189 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
9 183 (1.43%) Big Data
10 143 (1.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 128 (1.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 125 (0.97%) Redis
13 87 (0.68%) Data Mining
14 82 (0.64%) Data Lake
15 81 (0.63%) MongoDB
16 78 (0.61%) GIS
17 74 (0.58%) Amazon RDS
17 74 (0.58%) Hadoop
18 67 (0.52%) Oracle Database
19 62 (0.48%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 908 (7.07%) Git
2 498 (3.88%) JIRA
3 241 (1.88%) Visual Studio
4 133 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 105 (0.82%) Selenium
6 104 (0.81%) Bitbucket
7 94 (0.73%) GitLab
8 84 (0.65%) Sourcetree
9 72 (0.56%) Subversion
10 69 (0.54%) LabVIEW
11 66 (0.51%) TeamCity
12 64 (0.50%) Cypress.io
13 56 (0.44%) Moq
14 50 (0.39%) NUnit
15 49 (0.38%) Rational DOORS
16 37 (0.29%) CMake
16 37 (0.29%) Postman
17 32 (0.25%) Burp Suite
18 31 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
19 30 (0.23%) Metasploit
General
1 5,381 (41.92%) Social Skills
2 2,642 (20.58%) Analytical Skills
3 2,370 (18.46%) Finance
4 1,218 (9.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 984 (7.67%) Retail
6 939 (7.32%) Marketing
7 904 (7.04%) Manufacturing
8 736 (5.73%) Presentation Skills
9 677 (5.27%) Legal
10 632 (4.92%) Electronics
11 470 (3.66%) Law
12 467 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
13 438 (3.41%) Public Sector
14 404 (3.15%) Telecoms
15 384 (2.99%) Pharmaceutical
16 342 (2.66%) Military
17 340 (2.65%) Influencing Skills
18 314 (2.45%) Games
19 301 (2.34%) Banking
20 292 (2.27%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,009 (15.65%) Senior
2 1,614 (12.57%) Analyst
3 1,532 (11.94%) Developer
4 1,023 (7.97%) Graduate
5 886 (6.90%) Lead
6 831 (6.47%) Software Engineer
7 695 (5.41%) Architect
8 693 (5.40%) Project Manager
9 426 (3.32%) Consultant
10 374 (2.91%) Junior
11 371 (2.89%) Senior Analyst
12 354 (2.76%) Systems Engineer
13 343 (2.67%) Software Developer
14 339 (2.64%) Senior Developer
15 328 (2.56%) Support Engineer
16 316 (2.46%) Data Scientist
17 297 (2.31%) IT Support
18 291 (2.27%) Data Analyst
19 267 (2.08%) Solutions Architect
20 260 (2.03%) Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 915 (7.13%) .NET
2 630 (4.91%) HTML
3 565 (4.40%) CSS
4 495 (3.86%) React
5 319 (2.49%) AngularJS
6 245 (1.91%) ASP.NET
7 220 (1.71%) Node.js
8 218 (1.70%) Web Services
9 216 (1.68%) .NET Framework
10 194 (1.51%) RESTful
11 190 (1.48%) HTML5
12 177 (1.38%) .NET Core
13 159 (1.24%) REST
14 149 (1.16%) XML
15 124 (0.97%) JSON
16 123 (0.96%) jQuery
17 119 (0.93%) Entity Framework
18 116 (0.90%) Vue
19 108 (0.84%) ASP.NET MVC
19 108 (0.84%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 862 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 811 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
3 715 (5.57%) Algorithms
4 523 (4.07%) Onboarding
5 461 (3.59%) Driving Licence
6 330 (2.57%) Data Centre
7 299 (2.33%) Product Ownership
8 239 (1.86%) Life Science
9 209 (1.63%) Data Structures
10 199 (1.55%) Social Media
11 187 (1.46%) IoT
12 155 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
13 146 (1.14%) Mobile App
14 136 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 131 (1.02%) FPGA
16 129 (1.00%) Embedded Systems
17 124 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
18 123 (0.96%) Client/Server
18 123 (0.96%) Robotics
19 120 (0.93%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1,378 (10.74%) Windows
2 904 (7.04%) Linux
3 387 (3.01%) Windows Server
4 351 (2.73%) Windows 10
5 227 (1.77%) Android
6 193 (1.50%) Unix
7 119 (0.93%) Windows Server 2019
8 115 (0.90%) Mac OS
9 106 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
10 101 (0.79%) Apple iOS
11 82 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
12 75 (0.58%) Windows 7
13 65 (0.51%) 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 3,904 (30.41%) Computer Science
2 3,820 (29.76%) Problem-Solving
3 2,401 (18.71%) Agile
4 1,805 (14.06%) Project Management
5 1,632 (12.71%) Software Engineering
6 1,484 (11.56%) Mathematics
7 1,236 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,196 (9.32%) Mentoring
9 1,181 (9.20%) Analytics
10 1,110 (8.65%) Data Analysis
11 1,074 (8.37%) Customer Service
12 1,068 (8.32%) Cybersecurity
13 1,023 (7.97%) Decision-Making
14 972 (7.57%) DevOps
15 882 (6.87%) ITIL
16 868 (6.76%) Artificial Intelligence
17 839 (6.54%) Business Intelligence
18 828 (6.45%) Project Delivery
19 759 (5.91%) Data Science
20 755 (5.88%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 1,986 (15.47%) SQL
2 1,881 (14.65%) Python
3 1,339 (10.43%) C#
4 1,098 (8.55%) JavaScript
5 687 (5.35%) Java
6 603 (4.70%) C
7 560 (4.36%) C++
8 372 (2.90%) PowerShell
9 369 (2.87%) TypeScript
10 230 (1.79%) MATLAB
11 224 (1.75%) PHP
12 220 (1.71%) R
13 189 (1.47%) T-SQL
14 164 (1.28%) Bash
15 113 (0.88%) Fortran
16 107 (0.83%) Embedded C
17 105 (0.82%) VB
18 82 (0.64%) Scala
19 73 (0.57%) Go
20 71 (0.55%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 2,230 (17.37%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,361 (10.60%) Master's Degree
3 1,163 (9.06%) Security Cleared
4 657 (5.12%) SC Cleared
5 649 (5.06%) DBS Check
6 452 (3.52%) PhD
7 379 (2.95%) Microsoft Certification
8 290 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
9 288 (2.24%) CISSP
10 261 (2.03%) HNC
11 250 (1.95%) HND
12 248 (1.93%) BPSS Clearance
13 221 (1.72%) PMI Certification
14 197 (1.53%) CCNA
15 194 (1.51%) DV Cleared
16 183 (1.43%) PMP
17 181 (1.41%) CISM
18 162 (1.26%) Azure Certification
19 153 (1.19%) MBA
20 136 (1.06%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 658 (5.13%) QA
2 272 (2.12%) Data Quality
3 233 (1.82%) GDPR
4 216 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 196 (1.53%) SLA
6 193 (1.50%) Accessibility
7 171 (1.33%) PMO
8 130 (1.01%) NIST
9 105 (0.82%) GMP
10 104 (0.81%) ISO 9001
11 72 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
12 68 (0.53%) Good Clinical Practice
13 66 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 50 (0.39%) WCAG
15 42 (0.33%) NEBOSH
16 40 (0.31%) ISO 13485
17 38 (0.30%) ISO 26262
18 36 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
18 36 (0.28%) NCSC
19 32 (0.25%) GRC
System Software
1 728 (5.67%) Active Directory
2 464 (3.61%) Docker
3 307 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 290 (2.26%) Firmware
5 163 (1.27%) Embedded Firmware
6 146 (1.14%) Hyper-V
7 130 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
8 92 (0.72%) XenApp
9 82 (0.64%) Virtual Machines
10 77 (0.60%) Microsoft App-V
11 74 (0.58%) XenDesktop
12 64 (0.50%) 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%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 390 (3.04%) Kubernetes
2 228 (1.78%) Terraform
3 203 (1.58%) SCCM
4 142 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
5 104 (0.81%) Ansible
6 80 (0.62%) AirWatch
7 57 (0.44%) WSUS
8 54 (0.42%) SCOM
9 41 (0.32%) CASB
10 39 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 34 (0.26%) 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 (0.19%) Puppet
16 24 (0.19%) Grafana
17 20 (0.16%) Single Sign-On
18 17 (0.13%) ZABBIX
19 16 (0.12%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2,651 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 399 (3.11%) VMware
3 397 (3.09%) Cisco
4 344 (2.68%) Google
5 325 (2.53%) SAP
6 282 (2.20%) Oracle
7 270 (2.10%) Adobe
8 266 (2.07%) Databricks
9 218 (1.70%) Apple
10 199 (1.55%) Salesforce
11 188 (1.46%) EMC
12 157 (1.22%) Citrix
13 119 (0.93%) HP
14 110 (0.86%) ServiceNow
15 101 (0.79%) Meraki
16 96 (0.75%) Dell
17 95 (0.74%) IBM
18 77 (0.60%) Veeam
19 72 (0.56%) NEC
20 70 (0.55%) Juniper