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 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 14,368 18,504 27,818
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 13.91% 19.04% 16.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 51.68% 56.92% 61.47%
Number of salaries quoted 8,761 7,711 10,238
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,250 £42,000 £39,481
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,084 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.19% +9.09% +0.18%
75th Percentile £71,250 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £97,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,750 £50,500 £46,500
% change year-on-year -3.47% +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 27,804 32,509 45,255
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.92% 33.46% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17,251 14,583 19,146
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,763
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +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 29 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 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
England -4 12,836 £52,500 -12.50% 7,613
UK excluding London -6 10,062 £48,750 -3.47% 5,389
Work from Home +6 4,364 £55,000 -8.33% 3,080
London +2 3,779 £67,500 -3.57% 2,471
South East -1 3,006 £51,350 -2.19% 1,254
North of England -2 1,985 £47,500 -9.52% 1,280
Midlands -2 1,797 £47,500 -5.00% 1,003
South West -3 1,346 £50,000 - 713
North West +1 1,206 £47,500 -13.64% 741
West Midlands +1 1,194 £50,000 -4.76% 616
East of England -3 858 £47,500 -12.04% 721
Scotland -31 679 £44,100 -11.80% 409
East Midlands -3 590 £42,500 -10.53% 387
Yorkshire 0 570 £45,000 -10.00% 377
Wales -4 262 £44,886 +0.49% 135
North East -8 209 £48,000 +0.69% 179
Northern Ireland +8 109 £45,000 - 62
Isle of Man +5 24 £52,500 -27.59% 6
Channel Islands 0 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
1 395 (2.75%) SharePoint
2 351 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 249 (1.73%) Confluence
4 124 (0.86%) Apache Spark
5 121 (0.84%) CMS
6 108 (0.75%) 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 1,531 (10.66%) Microsoft Office
2 1,489 (10.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 619 (4.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 199 (1.39%) Microsoft Project
5 177 (1.23%) MS Visio
6 175 (1.22%) Simulink
7 85 (0.59%) AutoCAD
8 81 (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 (0.26%) InDesign
14 37 (0.26%) UserZoom
15 31 (0.22%) Stateflow
16 30 (0.21%) Revit
16 30 (0.21%) Trello
17 27 (0.19%) Adobe After Effects
18 24 (0.17%) Adobe XD
19 23 (0.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 181 (1.26%) Dynamics CRM
2 68 (0.47%) SAP S/4HANA
3 53 (0.37%) Remedy ITSM
4 49 (0.34%) NEC Housing
5 42 (0.29%) NetSuite
6 34 (0.24%) 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 (0.090%) SAP CX
17 10 (0.070%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 1,886 (13.13%) Azure
2 1,305 (9.08%) AWS
3 1,133 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
4 832 (5.79%) Power Platform
5 436 (3.03%) SaaS
6 354 (2.46%) GCP
7 271 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
8 246 (1.71%) Azure DevOps
9 187 (1.30%) PowerApps
10 180 (1.25%) GitHub
11 177 (1.23%) Entra ID
12 168 (1.17%) Cloud Computing
13 162 (1.13%) Power Automate
13 162 (1.13%) Serverless
14 124 (0.86%) Figma
15 122 (0.85%) PaaS
16 118 (0.82%) IaaS
17 114 (0.79%) Amazon S3
18 92 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
19 85 (0.59%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 520 (3.62%) Firewall
2 386 (2.69%) WAN
3 333 (2.32%) Wireless
4 275 (1.91%) DNS
5 263 (1.83%) TCP/IP
6 252 (1.75%) LAN
7 249 (1.73%) Network Security
8 221 (1.54%) Internet
9 194 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
10 192 (1.34%) DHCP
11 172 (1.20%) SD-WAN
12 171 (1.19%) VPN
13 110 (0.77%) Cisco IOS
14 100 (0.70%) VoIP
15 99 (0.69%) SAN
16 92 (0.64%) Ethernet
17 90 (0.63%) 5G
18 86 (0.60%) VLAN
19 85 (0.59%) WebEx
20 67 (0.47%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 854 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 705 (4.91%) Power BI
3 479 (3.33%) Tableau
4 291 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 289 (2.01%) NoSQL
6 267 (1.86%) MySQL
7 264 (1.84%) Data Warehouse
8 210 (1.46%) Big Data
9 203 (1.41%) PostgreSQL
10 163 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 146 (1.02%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 125 (0.87%) Redis
13 115 (0.80%) Oracle Database
14 92 (0.64%) Elasticsearch
15 91 (0.63%) Data Mining
16 89 (0.62%) MongoDB
17 87 (0.61%) Data Lake
18 83 (0.58%) GIS
18 83 (0.58%) Hadoop
19 82 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 959 (6.67%) Git
2 573 (3.99%) JIRA
3 259 (1.80%) Visual Studio
4 212 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 111 (0.77%) Bitbucket
5 111 (0.77%) Selenium
6 99 (0.69%) GitLab
7 84 (0.58%) LabVIEW
7 84 (0.58%) Sourcetree
8 77 (0.54%) Subversion
9 70 (0.49%) Cypress.io
10 67 (0.47%) TeamCity
11 58 (0.40%) Moq
12 50 (0.35%) JUnit
12 50 (0.35%) NUnit
12 50 (0.35%) Rational DOORS
13 41 (0.29%) Postman
14 38 (0.26%) Mockito
15 37 (0.26%) CMake
16 35 (0.24%) Jasmine
General
1 6,146 (42.78%) Social Skills
2 2,911 (20.26%) Analytical Skills
3 2,824 (19.65%) Finance
4 1,581 (11.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1,191 (8.29%) Marketing
6 1,125 (7.83%) Manufacturing
7 1,033 (7.19%) Retail
8 867 (6.03%) Presentation Skills
9 803 (5.59%) Law
10 755 (5.25%) Legal
11 701 (4.88%) Electronics
12 525 (3.65%) Public Sector
13 509 (3.54%) Organisational Skills
14 469 (3.26%) Influencing Skills
15 460 (3.20%) Telecoms
16 419 (2.92%) Pharmaceutical
17 363 (2.53%) Military
18 358 (2.49%) Banking
19 329 (2.29%) Games
20 309 (2.15%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2,215 (15.42%) Senior
2 1,806 (12.57%) Analyst
3 1,699 (11.82%) Developer
4 1,198 (8.34%) Graduate
5 988 (6.88%) Lead
6 958 (6.67%) Software Engineer
7 784 (5.46%) Architect
8 745 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 498 (3.47%) Consultant
10 423 (2.94%) Junior
11 400 (2.78%) Senior Analyst
12 384 (2.67%) Senior Developer
13 379 (2.64%) Software Developer
14 372 (2.59%) Systems Engineer
15 346 (2.41%) Support Engineer
16 323 (2.25%) Data Scientist
17 319 (2.22%) IT Support
18 311 (2.16%) Data Analyst
19 288 (2.00%) Business Analyst
20 276 (1.92%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 989 (6.88%) .NET
2 705 (4.91%) HTML
3 624 (4.34%) CSS
4 573 (3.99%) React
5 420 (2.92%) AngularJS
6 271 (1.89%) Node.js
7 266 (1.85%) ASP.NET
8 255 (1.77%) Web Services
9 227 (1.58%) .NET Framework
10 226 (1.57%) RESTful
11 201 (1.40%) HTML5
12 192 (1.34%) .NET Core
13 177 (1.23%) REST
14 161 (1.12%) XML
15 158 (1.10%) Kafka
16 150 (1.04%) Spring
17 139 (0.97%) JSON
18 135 (0.94%) Vue
19 126 (0.88%) jQuery
20 125 (0.87%) Entity Framework
Miscellaneous
1 965 (6.72%) Management Information System
2 855 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
3 762 (5.30%) Algorithms
4 554 (3.86%) Onboarding
5 510 (3.55%) Driving Licence
6 372 (2.59%) Data Centre
7 351 (2.44%) Product Ownership
8 249 (1.73%) Life Science
9 237 (1.65%) Data Structures
10 226 (1.57%) IoT
11 220 (1.53%) Social Media
12 181 (1.26%) FMCG
13 175 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
14 157 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 153 (1.06%) Mobile App
16 148 (1.03%) Cloud Native
17 141 (0.98%) Embedded Systems
18 137 (0.95%) FPGA
19 134 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
20 132 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1,515 (10.54%) Windows
2 1,048 (7.29%) Linux
3 439 (3.06%) Windows Server
4 360 (2.51%) Windows 10
5 267 (1.86%) Unix
6 240 (1.67%) Android
7 127 (0.88%) Mac OS
8 123 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
9 111 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
10 109 (0.76%) Apple iOS
11 88 (0.61%) Windows Server 2012
12 75 (0.52%) Windows 7
13 72 (0.50%) Solaris
14 70 (0.49%) 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 4,376 (30.46%) Computer Science
2 4,296 (29.90%) Problem-Solving
3 2,739 (19.06%) Agile
4 2,031 (14.14%) Project Management
5 1,900 (13.22%) Software Engineering
6 1,598 (11.12%) Mathematics
7 1,516 (10.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 1,371 (9.54%) Mentoring
9 1,317 (9.17%) Analytics
10 1,178 (8.20%) Data Analysis
11 1,170 (8.14%) Cybersecurity
12 1,164 (8.10%) Customer Service
13 1,163 (8.09%) Decision-Making
14 1,122 (7.81%) DevOps
15 1,021 (7.11%) Artificial Intelligence
16 963 (6.70%) ITIL
17 938 (6.53%) Business Intelligence
18 870 (6.06%) Project Delivery
19 866 (6.03%) Roadmaps
20 839 (5.84%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 2,260 (15.73%) SQL
2 2,017 (14.04%) Python
3 1,446 (10.06%) C#
4 1,193 (8.30%) JavaScript
5 796 (5.54%) Java
6 723 (5.03%) C
7 626 (4.36%) C++
8 403 (2.80%) PowerShell
9 398 (2.77%) TypeScript
10 274 (1.91%) R
11 237 (1.65%) MATLAB
11 237 (1.65%) PHP
12 215 (1.50%) T-SQL
13 184 (1.28%) Bash
14 156 (1.09%) Embedded C
15 113 (0.79%) Fortran
16 112 (0.78%) VB
17 101 (0.70%) PL/SQL
18 85 (0.59%) Scala
19 82 (0.57%) Go
Qualifications
1 2,508 (17.46%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,556 (10.83%) Master's Degree
3 1,299 (9.04%) Security Cleared
4 762 (5.30%) SC Cleared
5 676 (4.70%) DBS Check
6 546 (3.80%) PhD
7 409 (2.85%) Microsoft Certification
8 328 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
9 322 (2.24%) CISSP
10 279 (1.94%) HNC
11 269 (1.87%) HND
12 254 (1.77%) BPSS Clearance
13 234 (1.63%) PMI Certification
14 222 (1.55%) CCNA
15 211 (1.47%) CISM
16 206 (1.43%) DV Cleared
17 200 (1.39%) PMP
18 170 (1.18%) Azure Certification
19 165 (1.15%) MBA
20 151 (1.05%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 764 (5.32%) QA
2 288 (2.00%) Data Quality
3 253 (1.76%) GDPR
4 237 (1.65%) SLA
5 236 (1.64%) Accessibility
6 229 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 188 (1.31%) PMO
8 144 (1.00%) NIST
9 119 (0.83%) GMP
10 112 (0.78%) ISO 9001
11 82 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
12 69 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
12 69 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 68 (0.47%) Good Clinical Practice
14 59 (0.41%) WCAG
15 48 (0.33%) ISO 13485
16 45 (0.31%) NCSC
17 43 (0.30%) NEBOSH
18 40 (0.28%) ISO 26262
19 34 (0.24%) GRC
System Software
1 767 (5.34%) Active Directory
2 510 (3.55%) Docker
3 364 (2.53%) Firmware
4 324 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
5 186 (1.29%) Embedded Firmware
6 159 (1.11%) Hyper-V
7 132 (0.92%) VMware ESXi
8 92 (0.64%) XenApp
9 87 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
10 77 (0.54%) Microsoft App-V
11 74 (0.52%) XenDesktop
12 64 (0.45%) 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 (0.090%) OpenSSH
17 9 (0.063%) KVM
18 5 (0.035%) Microsoft Virtual Server
18 5 (0.035%) pfSense
Systems Management
1 459 (3.19%) Kubernetes
2 246 (1.71%) Terraform
3 209 (1.45%) SCCM
4 155 (1.08%) Microsoft Intune
5 121 (0.84%) Ansible
6 80 (0.56%) AirWatch
7 57 (0.40%) 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 2,943 (20.48%) Microsoft
2 444 (3.09%) VMware
3 427 (2.97%) Cisco
4 398 (2.77%) Google
5 394 (2.74%) Oracle
6 382 (2.66%) SAP
7 274 (1.91%) Adobe
8 270 (1.88%) Databricks
9 228 (1.59%) Apple
10 226 (1.57%) Salesforce
11 191 (1.33%) EMC
12 162 (1.13%) Citrix
13 124 (0.86%) Dell
14 123 (0.86%) IBM
15 119 (0.83%) HP
16 113 (0.79%) ServiceNow
17 108 (0.75%) Meraki
18 84 (0.58%) Sage
19 83 (0.58%) Veeam
20 79 (0.55%) NEC