Degree Jobs in the UK excluding London

Academic Degree
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 10,062 12,436 13,050
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.49% 21.44% 17.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.81% 57.51% 54.85%
Number of salaries quoted 6,137 4,009 5,366
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,187 £36,750 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £50,500 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.47% +8.60% -2.11%
75th Percentile £64,000 £65,000 £61,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £75,000
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
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,804 21,625 23,792
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 26.56% 37.27% 32.38%
Number of salaries quoted 12,268 8,007 10,491
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,750 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £79,600 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Degree as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the UK excluding London

Degree
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland -31 679 £44,100 -11.80% 398
East Midlands -3 590 £42,500 -10.53% 377
Yorkshire 0 570 £45,000 -10.00% 366
Wales -4 262 £44,886 +0.49% 132
North East -8 209 £48,000 +0.69% 175
Northern Ireland +8 109 £45,000 - 61
Isle of Man +5 24 £52,500 -27.59% 6
Channel Islands 0 6 £67,500 +8.00% 1
Degree
UK

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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
1 245 (2.43%) SharePoint
2 205 (2.04%) Microsoft Exchange
3 203 (2.02%) Confluence
4 66 (0.66%) CMS
5 54 (0.54%) SAS
6 48 (0.48%) WordPress
7 46 (0.46%) IIS
8 44 (0.44%) Oracle Service Bus
8 44 (0.44%) WebLogic
9 41 (0.41%) Apache
10 38 (0.38%) Apache Spark
11 30 (0.30%) FileNet
12 24 (0.24%) Tomcat
13 19 (0.19%) ArcGIS
14 18 (0.18%) OpenStack
15 7 (0.070%) MS Project Server
15 7 (0.070%) WebSphere
16 6 (0.060%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
16 6 (0.060%) Kinematics
16 6 (0.060%) nginx
Applications
1 1,191 (11.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1,057 (10.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 389 (3.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 174 (1.73%) Simulink
5 170 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
6 158 (1.57%) MS Visio
7 72 (0.72%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.49%) Photoshop
9 45 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 44 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 44 (0.44%) Adobe Illustrator
11 37 (0.37%) UserZoom
12 31 (0.31%) InDesign
12 31 (0.31%) Stateflow
13 19 (0.19%) OrCAD
13 19 (0.19%) Trello
14 17 (0.17%) Sketch
14 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
16 14 (0.14%) Revit
Business Applications
1 112 (1.11%) Dynamics CRM
2 47 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 47 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 40 (0.40%) NetSuite
4 30 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 26 (0.26%) NEC Housing
6 22 (0.22%) SAP ERP
7 21 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
8 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
8 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 16 (0.16%) Shopify
9 15 (0.15%) Primavera
9 15 (0.15%) Salesforce CRM
10 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
11 12 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
12 9 (0.089%) SAP CX
13 8 (0.080%) Dynamics GP
13 8 (0.080%) Maximo
14 7 (0.070%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 1,153 (11.46%) Azure
2 773 (7.68%) Microsoft 365
3 658 (6.54%) AWS
4 496 (4.93%) Power Platform
5 261 (2.59%) SaaS
6 187 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
7 175 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
8 142 (1.41%) GCP
9 129 (1.28%) GitHub
10 115 (1.14%) Entra ID
11 96 (0.95%) Serverless
12 93 (0.92%) PowerApps
13 91 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
13 91 (0.90%) Figma
14 89 (0.88%) Amazon S3
15 83 (0.82%) Power Automate
16 74 (0.74%) SurveyMonkey
17 63 (0.63%) AWS Lambda
18 62 (0.62%) OneDrive
19 55 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 402 (4.00%) Firewall
2 244 (2.42%) WAN
3 209 (2.08%) Wireless
4 196 (1.95%) DNS
5 189 (1.88%) LAN
6 181 (1.80%) TCP/IP
7 169 (1.68%) Network Security
8 158 (1.57%) Internet
9 152 (1.51%) Wi-Fi
10 151 (1.50%) DHCP
11 130 (1.29%) VPN
12 86 (0.85%) 5G
12 86 (0.85%) Ethernet
13 82 (0.81%) SD-WAN
14 79 (0.79%) VoIP
15 78 (0.78%) SAN
16 72 (0.72%) VLAN
17 55 (0.55%) HTTP
18 50 (0.50%) Bluetooth
19 49 (0.49%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 520 (5.17%) SQL Server
2 434 (4.31%) Power BI
3 234 (2.33%) NoSQL
4 198 (1.97%) Relational Database
5 185 (1.84%) MySQL
6 170 (1.69%) Data Warehouse
7 159 (1.58%) Tableau
8 118 (1.17%) PostgreSQL
9 99 (0.98%) Big Data
10 86 (0.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 84 (0.83%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 82 (0.81%) Oracle Database
13 71 (0.71%) Amazon RDS
14 68 (0.68%) Redis
15 63 (0.63%) RDBMS
16 60 (0.60%) GIS
17 55 (0.55%) Elasticsearch
18 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 10g
18 44 (0.44%) Oracle Database 11g
18 44 (0.44%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 614 (6.10%) Git
2 428 (4.25%) JIRA
3 200 (1.99%) Visual Studio
4 145 (1.44%) Jenkins
5 92 (0.91%) Bitbucket
6 90 (0.89%) Selenium
7 83 (0.82%) LabVIEW
8 73 (0.73%) Subversion
9 70 (0.70%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.64%) Sourcetree
11 49 (0.49%) Rational DOORS
12 43 (0.43%) GitLab
13 40 (0.40%) JUnit
14 34 (0.34%) Mockito
15 31 (0.31%) TeamCity
16 30 (0.30%) Jasmine
16 30 (0.30%) Postman
17 29 (0.29%) CMake
18 24 (0.24%) SoapUI
19 23 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,999 (39.74%) Social Skills
2 1,731 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
3 1,658 (16.48%) Finance
4 1,249 (12.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 974 (9.68%) Manufacturing
6 710 (7.06%) Marketing
7 641 (6.37%) Electronics
8 585 (5.81%) Law
9 561 (5.58%) Retail
10 537 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
11 497 (4.94%) Legal
12 401 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
13 345 (3.43%) Military
14 342 (3.40%) Influencing Skills
15 318 (3.16%) Telecoms
16 296 (2.94%) Public Sector
17 267 (2.65%) Pharmaceutical
18 260 (2.58%) Games
19 246 (2.44%) Automotive
20 227 (2.26%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1,387 (13.78%) Senior
2 1,183 (11.76%) Developer
3 1,144 (11.37%) Analyst
4 892 (8.87%) Graduate
5 798 (7.93%) Software Engineer
6 693 (6.89%) Lead
7 583 (5.79%) Project Manager
8 481 (4.78%) Architect
9 355 (3.53%) Junior
10 332 (3.30%) Systems Engineer
11 317 (3.15%) Software Developer
12 301 (2.99%) Consultant
13 254 (2.52%) Support Engineer
14 244 (2.42%) Senior Developer
15 212 (2.11%) Embedded Engineer
16 200 (1.99%) IT Engineer
17 197 (1.96%) Data Scientist
18 195 (1.94%) Business Analyst
18 195 (1.94%) IT Manager
19 186 (1.85%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 668 (6.64%) .NET
2 445 (4.42%) HTML
3 420 (4.17%) React
4 380 (3.78%) CSS
5 328 (3.26%) AngularJS
6 212 (2.11%) Node.js
7 155 (1.54%) RESTful
8 150 (1.49%) ASP.NET
9 149 (1.48%) .NET Core
9 149 (1.48%) HTML5
10 145 (1.44%) .NET Framework
11 138 (1.37%) Web Services
12 105 (1.04%) JSON
13 104 (1.03%) Vue
14 102 (1.01%) Spring
15 101 (1.00%) REST
16 98 (0.97%) Unity (Game Engine)
17 87 (0.86%) XML
18 79 (0.79%) CSS3
19 77 (0.77%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 638 (6.34%) Management Information System
2 563 (5.60%) Algorithms
3 557 (5.54%) Self-Motivation
4 371 (3.69%) Onboarding
5 341 (3.39%) Driving Licence
6 284 (2.82%) Data Centre
7 225 (2.24%) Product Ownership
8 164 (1.63%) IoT
9 142 (1.41%) Data Structures
10 133 (1.32%) Embedded Systems
11 130 (1.29%) FPGA
12 123 (1.22%) Life Science
13 118 (1.17%) Cloud Native
13 118 (1.17%) FMCG
14 117 (1.16%) Mobile App
15 115 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
16 111 (1.10%) Robotics
17 98 (0.97%) Social Media
18 94 (0.93%) Virtual Reality
19 87 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,079 (10.72%) Windows
2 813 (8.08%) Linux
3 345 (3.43%) Windows Server
4 218 (2.17%) Unix
5 193 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 138 (1.37%) Android
7 110 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
8 97 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
9 96 (0.95%) Mac OS
10 78 (0.78%) Windows Server 2012
11 75 (0.75%) Apple iOS
12 61 (0.61%) Solaris
13 56 (0.56%) Embedded Linux
14 50 (0.50%) Ubuntu
14 50 (0.50%) Windows 7
15 37 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 26 (0.26%) CentOS
17 24 (0.24%) Mac OS X
17 24 (0.24%) VMS
18 21 (0.21%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 3,004 (29.85%) Problem-Solving
2 2,872 (28.54%) Computer Science
3 1,947 (19.35%) Agile
4 1,448 (14.39%) Software Engineering
5 1,421 (14.12%) Project Management
6 1,198 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,066 (10.59%) Mathematics
8 1,035 (10.29%) Mentoring
9 955 (9.49%) Customer Service
10 867 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
11 839 (8.34%) DevOps
12 789 (7.84%) Data Analysis
13 786 (7.81%) Decision-Making
14 739 (7.34%) Analytics
15 735 (7.30%) Coaching
16 692 (6.88%) Artificial Intelligence
16 692 (6.88%) ITIL
17 631 (6.27%) Project Delivery
18 542 (5.39%) Business Intelligence
19 540 (5.37%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1,226 (12.18%) SQL
2 1,146 (11.39%) Python
3 1,017 (10.11%) C#
4 805 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 660 (6.56%) C
6 527 (5.24%) Java
7 520 (5.17%) C++
8 315 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 246 (2.44%) PowerShell
10 223 (2.22%) MATLAB
11 192 (1.91%) PHP
12 155 (1.54%) Embedded C
13 143 (1.42%) R
14 128 (1.27%) Bash
15 113 (1.12%) Fortran
16 103 (1.02%) VB
17 83 (0.82%) T-SQL
18 68 (0.68%) PL/SQL
19 62 (0.62%) Perl
20 54 (0.54%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,582 (15.72%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,098 (10.91%) Security Cleared
3 852 (8.47%) Master's Degree
4 651 (6.47%) SC Cleared
5 382 (3.80%) PhD
6 282 (2.80%) DBS Check
7 251 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 247 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 246 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
10 244 (2.42%) HNC
11 242 (2.41%) HND
12 194 (1.93%) CCNA
13 178 (1.77%) CISSP
14 165 (1.64%) DV Cleared
15 152 (1.51%) PMI Certification
16 129 (1.28%) PMP
17 122 (1.21%) CCNP
18 108 (1.07%) CISM
19 104 (1.03%) MCP
20 103 (1.02%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 526 (5.23%) QA
2 192 (1.91%) SLA
3 168 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 165 (1.64%) GDPR
5 158 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 156 (1.55%) PMO
7 152 (1.51%) Accessibility
8 103 (1.02%) ISO 9001
9 101 (1.00%) GMP
10 99 (0.98%) NIST
11 65 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 62 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 51 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 46 (0.46%) ISO 13485
15 41 (0.41%) WCAG
16 40 (0.40%) ISO 26262
17 35 (0.35%) NEBOSH
18 29 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
19 28 (0.28%) Good Clinical Practice
20 26 (0.26%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 527 (5.24%) Active Directory
2 360 (3.58%) Docker
3 345 (3.43%) Firmware
4 268 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
5 175 (1.74%) Embedded Firmware
6 152 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 55 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
8 50 (0.50%) vSphere
9 47 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
10 44 (0.44%) Oracle RAC
11 31 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 21 (0.21%) XenApp
14 13 (0.13%) OpenSSH
15 12 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
16 7 (0.070%) KVM
16 7 (0.070%) Microsoft App-V
17 5 (0.050%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.050%) pfSense
18 4 (0.040%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 335 (3.33%) Kubernetes
2 150 (1.49%) Terraform
3 113 (1.12%) SCCM
4 98 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
5 80 (0.80%) Ansible
6 55 (0.55%) WSUS
7 52 (0.52%) SCOM
8 44 (0.44%) Data Guard
8 44 (0.44%) Oracle RMAN
9 29 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 29 (0.29%) Functional Safety
10 28 (0.28%) vCenter Server
11 27 (0.27%) CASB
11 27 (0.27%) Stealthwatch
12 26 (0.26%) Progress Chef
13 21 (0.21%) Puppet
14 19 (0.19%) Jamf Pro
15 16 (0.16%) Autotask
16 15 (0.15%) EnCase
17 13 (0.13%) IBM BigFix
Vendors
1 2,051 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 348 (3.46%) VMware
3 299 (2.97%) SAP
4 264 (2.62%) Oracle
5 260 (2.58%) Cisco
6 219 (2.18%) Google
7 188 (1.87%) EMC
8 177 (1.76%) Adobe
9 160 (1.59%) Apple
10 124 (1.23%) Salesforce
11 92 (0.91%) HP
12 85 (0.84%) Meraki
13 81 (0.81%) Dell
14 80 (0.80%) ServiceNow
15 76 (0.76%) IBM
16 72 (0.72%) Databricks
17 69 (0.69%) Qualtrics
18 68 (0.68%) Citrix
18 68 (0.68%) Veeam
19 64 (0.64%) Sage