Degree Jobs in the South West

Academic Degree
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 6 13
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,346 1,365 1,322
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 13.78% 20.32% 15.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 40.42% 47.36% 40.35%
Number of salaries quoted 858 482 637
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,550 £28,900
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,000 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £70,600 £60,000
90th Percentile £73,750 £82,500 £65,950
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,330 2,882 3,276
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 34.09% 42.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,177 1,264 1,655
10th Percentile £29,820 £30,932 £30,245
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,294 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,882 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +9.76% +3.09%
75th Percentile £67,500 £70,600 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,786 £82,500 £76,250
England median annual salary £54,399 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.34% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Degree in the South West

Degree
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the South West over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the South West

Degree
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the South West 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
Bristol +3 416 £55,000 +4.76% 255
Dorset -6 238 £45,000 -10.00% 63
Gloucestershire -2 221 £48,750 -11.36% 74
Devon -2 174 £40,000 -9.69% 87
Wiltshire -10 143 £55,000 +10.00% 88
Somerset -2 104 £49,500 +15.12% 107
Cornwall 0 35 £39,005 +18.20% 9
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 96 (7.13%) Confluence
2 39 (2.90%) SharePoint
3 28 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.74%) ArcGIS
5 9 (0.67%) Apache Spark
6 8 (0.59%) Apache
7 6 (0.45%) Apache Airflow
7 6 (0.45%) Luigi
7 6 (0.45%) SAS
8 4 (0.30%) Site Server
9 3 (0.22%) IIS
9 3 (0.22%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.22%) Tomcat
9 3 (0.22%) WildFly
10 2 (0.15%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.15%) WordPress
Applications
1 142 (10.55%) Microsoft Office
2 97 (7.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 72 (5.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 36 (2.67%) Simulink
5 21 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.56%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.82%) Trello
7 9 (0.67%) Spreadsheet
8 8 (0.59%) AutoCAD
9 6 (0.45%) SOLIDWORKS
10 5 (0.37%) OrCAD
11 4 (0.30%) Stateflow
12 2 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.15%) Adobe Illustrator
12 2 (0.15%) Gliffy
12 2 (0.15%) GNU Octave
12 2 (0.15%) InDesign
12 2 (0.15%) LaTeX
12 2 (0.15%) Photoshop
13 1 (0.074%) Revit
Business Applications
1 30 (2.23%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 10 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 7 (0.52%) SAP QM
4 4 (0.30%) Primavera
4 4 (0.30%) Unit4 Business World
5 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 2 (0.15%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
7 1 (0.074%) HiPortfolio
7 1 (0.074%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 156 (11.59%) Azure
2 118 (8.77%) Microsoft 365
3 91 (6.76%) AWS
4 57 (4.23%) Power Platform
5 51 (3.79%) Azure DevOps
6 35 (2.60%) SaaS
7 30 (2.23%) GCP
8 24 (1.78%) GitHub
9 22 (1.63%) Entra ID
10 15 (1.11%) npm
11 12 (0.89%) Dynamics 365
11 12 (0.89%) IaaS
11 12 (0.89%) PaaS
12 11 (0.82%) Firebase
12 11 (0.82%) WhatsApp
13 8 (0.59%) Azure Functions
13 8 (0.59%) Serverless
14 7 (0.52%) OneDrive
14 7 (0.52%) Snowflake
15 6 (0.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 43 (3.19%) WAN
2 33 (2.45%) Firewall
3 31 (2.30%) SD-WAN
4 29 (2.15%) 5G
4 29 (2.15%) DNS
5 25 (1.86%) Network Security
6 23 (1.71%) Internet
7 22 (1.63%) TCP/IP
8 19 (1.41%) LAN
9 18 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (1.11%) Ethernet
10 15 (1.11%) Remote Desktop
11 12 (0.89%) RS-232
11 12 (0.89%) Wireless
12 11 (0.82%) DHCP
13 10 (0.74%) HTTP
13 10 (0.74%) VoIP
14 9 (0.67%) VLAN
15 8 (0.59%) SAN
15 8 (0.59%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 50 (3.71%) Power BI
1 50 (3.71%) SQL Server
2 38 (2.82%) Relational Database
3 35 (2.60%) Tableau
4 22 (1.63%) Big Data
5 18 (1.34%) MySQL
6 16 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
7 13 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.89%) Redis
8 12 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 10 (0.74%) NoSQL
10 9 (0.67%) Amazon RDS
11 8 (0.59%) Elasticsearch
11 8 (0.59%) RDBMS
12 7 (0.52%) Hadoop
13 6 (0.45%) CouchDB
13 6 (0.45%) GIS
13 6 (0.45%) Snowflake Schema
13 6 (0.45%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 152 (11.29%) Git
2 132 (9.81%) JIRA
3 103 (7.65%) Visual Studio
4 76 (5.65%) Bitbucket
5 59 (4.38%) Sourcetree
6 33 (2.45%) LabVIEW
7 25 (1.86%) Rational DOORS
8 23 (1.71%) Jenkins
9 15 (1.11%) Selenium
10 14 (1.04%) Cucumber
11 13 (0.97%) Storybook
12 9 (0.67%) Subversion
13 8 (0.59%) NetBeans
13 8 (0.59%) TeamCity
14 6 (0.45%) Rational Rhapsody
15 3 (0.22%) Eclipse
15 3 (0.22%) Oracle Forms
15 3 (0.22%) SonarQube
16 2 (0.15%) Burp Suite
16 2 (0.15%) JUnit
General
1 465 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 268 (19.91%) Finance
3 251 (18.65%) Analytical Skills
4 187 (13.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 148 (11.00%) Presentation Skills
6 142 (10.55%) Law
7 124 (9.21%) Games
8 97 (7.21%) Banking
9 96 (7.13%) Manufacturing
10 89 (6.61%) Investment Banking
11 73 (5.42%) Marketing
12 63 (4.68%) Retail
13 61 (4.53%) Legal
14 58 (4.31%) Aerospace
15 54 (4.01%) Electronics
16 44 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
17 42 (3.12%) Public Sector
18 41 (3.05%) Pharmaceutical
19 38 (2.82%) Military
20 33 (2.45%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (19.02%) Senior
2 210 (15.60%) Developer
3 129 (9.58%) Project Manager
4 119 (8.84%) Analyst
5 110 (8.17%) Lead
6 102 (7.58%) Software Engineer
7 74 (5.50%) Architect
8 73 (5.42%) 3D Developer
8 73 (5.42%) Games Developer
8 73 (5.42%) Systems Engineer
8 73 (5.42%) Unity 3D Developer
9 57 (4.23%) Senior Developer
10 54 (4.01%) Senior Manager
11 45 (3.34%) Graduate
12 43 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
13 42 (3.12%) Senior Software Engineer
13 42 (3.12%) Support Engineer
14 39 (2.90%) Consultant
15 35 (2.60%) Business Analyst
16 34 (2.53%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (6.17%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 76 (5.65%) .NET
3 63 (4.68%) AngularJS
4 47 (3.49%) HTML
5 46 (3.42%) CSS
6 44 (3.27%) React
7 35 (2.60%) Node.js
8 23 (1.71%) .NET Framework
9 19 (1.41%) ASP.NET
10 15 (1.11%) REST
10 15 (1.11%) Sass
11 13 (0.97%) Spring
12 12 (0.89%) ASP.NET Web API
12 12 (0.89%) Entity Framework
12 12 (0.89%) Gherkin
12 12 (0.89%) HTML5
12 12 (0.89%) PyTorch
12 12 (0.89%) XML
13 11 (0.82%) .NET Core
14 10 (0.74%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 85 (6.32%) Self-Motivation
2 82 (6.09%) Virtual Reality
3 73 (5.42%) Algorithms
4 71 (5.27%) Management Information System
5 51 (3.79%) Driving Licence
6 36 (2.67%) GNSS
6 36 (2.67%) Onboarding
7 33 (2.45%) Product Ownership
8 28 (2.08%) Cloud Native
9 25 (1.86%) FPGA
10 24 (1.78%) Robotics
11 23 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
12 17 (1.26%) Public Cloud
12 17 (1.26%) VHDL
13 16 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
13 16 (1.19%) Data Centre
14 15 (1.11%) Embedded Systems
15 14 (1.04%) Derivative
16 13 (0.97%) Credit Risk
16 13 (0.97%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 136 (10.10%) Windows
2 132 (9.81%) Linux
3 35 (2.60%) Unix
4 28 (2.08%) Windows Server
5 27 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 23 (1.71%) Android
7 17 (1.26%) Mac OS
8 14 (1.04%) Windows 10
9 10 (0.74%) Debian
9 10 (0.74%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
11 7 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
12 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
13 5 (0.37%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2008
14 4 (0.30%) Windows XP
15 3 (0.22%) Embedded Linux
16 2 (0.15%) CentOS
16 2 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.15%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (30.01%) Problem-Solving
2 326 (24.22%) Computer Science
3 247 (18.35%) Agile
4 240 (17.83%) Software Engineering
5 232 (17.24%) Project Management
6 159 (11.81%) DevOps
7 136 (10.10%) Scrum
8 134 (9.96%) UML
9 122 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
9 122 (9.06%) Mentoring
10 111 (8.25%) Analytics
10 111 (8.25%) Decision-Making
11 110 (8.17%) ITIL
11 110 (8.17%) Mathematics
12 106 (7.88%) Project Delivery
12 106 (7.88%) Validation
13 104 (7.73%) Test Automation
14 94 (6.98%) Coaching
15 92 (6.84%) B2B
16 87 (6.46%) Design Patterns
Programming Languages
1 170 (12.63%) Python
2 150 (11.14%) C#
3 146 (10.85%) SQL
4 94 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 85 (6.32%) C
6 82 (6.09%) Java
7 67 (4.98%) C++
8 65 (4.83%) MATLAB
9 44 (3.27%) TypeScript
10 23 (1.71%) Bash
10 23 (1.71%) PowerShell
10 23 (1.71%) R
11 21 (1.56%) Perl
11 21 (1.56%) PHP
12 17 (1.26%) VB
13 16 (1.19%) Scala
14 12 (0.89%) Swift
15 10 (0.74%) Objective-C
15 10 (0.74%) T-SQL
16 8 (0.59%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 366 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 232 (17.24%) SC Cleared
3 162 (12.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 155 (11.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 89 (6.61%) Master's Degree
6 57 (4.23%) DV Cleared
7 39 (2.90%) HND
8 38 (2.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 32 (2.38%) TOGAF Certification
10 27 (2.01%) DBS Check
11 25 (1.86%) PMI Certification
12 23 (1.71%) CISSP
13 21 (1.56%) PMP
14 20 (1.49%) HNC
14 20 (1.49%) MCP
15 19 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
16 16 (1.19%) ISTQB
16 16 (1.19%) PhD
17 12 (0.89%) CISM
18 11 (0.82%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (6.24%) QA
2 38 (2.82%) PMO
3 28 (2.08%) GMP
4 27 (2.01%) GDPR
5 24 (1.78%) Data Quality
6 23 (1.71%) SLA
7 20 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 15288
8 16 (1.19%) NIST
9 15 (1.11%) IEC 61508
10 14 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
11 13 (0.97%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.89%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.89%) ISO 13485
12 12 (0.89%) ISO 9001
13 9 (0.67%) PCI DSS
14 8 (0.59%) Def Stans
15 7 (0.52%) TickIT
16 6 (0.45%) JSP 440
16 6 (0.45%) NCSC
16 6 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 57 (4.23%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.75%) Firmware
3 33 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (2.01%) Docker
5 19 (1.41%) Embedded Firmware
6 18 (1.34%) Hyper-V
7 14 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 6 (0.45%) vSphere
9 3 (0.22%) KVM
9 3 (0.22%) XenApp
10 2 (0.15%) Kamailio
11 1 (0.074%) DFS Replication
11 1 (0.074%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 15 (1.11%) Kubernetes
2 11 (0.82%) CASB
2 11 (0.82%) Terraform
3 9 (0.67%) SCCM
4 7 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (0.45%) Nagios
6 5 (0.37%) Ansible
6 5 (0.37%) Rancher
6 5 (0.37%) WSUS
7 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
8 3 (0.22%) EMC VPLEX
8 3 (0.22%) OfficeScan
8 3 (0.22%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.15%) Grafana
9 2 (0.15%) Nmap
9 2 (0.15%) SCOM
10 1 (0.074%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 1 (0.074%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 327 (24.29%) Microsoft
2 38 (2.82%) VMware
3 30 (2.23%) Sparx
4 29 (2.15%) Cisco
5 28 (2.08%) Google
6 21 (1.56%) Oracle
7 19 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 16 (1.19%) IBM
9 13 (0.97%) Atlassian
9 13 (0.97%) Databricks
10 12 (0.89%) Apple
10 12 (0.89%) SAP
11 11 (0.82%) Citrix
11 11 (0.82%) HP
11 11 (0.82%) Veeam
11 11 (0.82%) Xilinx
12 9 (0.67%) Alteryx
12 9 (0.67%) ServiceNow
13 8 (0.59%) Altera
13 8 (0.59%) Green Hills