Graduate Jobs in England

Graduate
UK > England

The median Graduate salary in England is £28,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 214 262 314
Rank change year-on-year +48 +52 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Graduate 1,185 1,253 1,628
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 1.40% 1.35% 1.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.48% 1.48% 1.29%
Number of salaries quoted 549 418 681
10th Percentile £22,370 £23,000 £22,750
25th Percentile £25,000 £24,000 £26,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £28,000 £27,500 £30,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -9.09% +3.49%
75th Percentile £36,000 £34,324 £38,000
90th Percentile £43,750 £44,125 £48,750
UK median annual salary £28,500 £27,500 £31,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% -11.29% +6.05%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,172 84,782 125,764
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.46% 91.52% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 60,024 53,688 75,723
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.67% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,991 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%

Graduate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Graduate in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Graduate in England

Graduate
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Graduate in England.

Salary trend for Graduate in England

Graduate
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Graduate in England over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Graduate in England

Graduate
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Graduate within the England region over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +39 359 £30,000 +5.26% 60
London +114 275 £35,000 - 79
Midlands +57 207 £25,000 +4.17% 44
North of England -3 170 £25,250 +5.21% 64
West Midlands +99 144 £24,000 - 28
North West -1 117 £25,500 +6.25% 41
South West -47 100 £25,000 - 57
East of England -60 65 £29,000 -7.20% 30
East Midlands -17 63 £26,000 +8.33% 16
Yorkshire +78 41 £25,000 +4.17% 17
North East -24 12 £27,500 +14.58% 9
Graduate
UK

Graduate Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, Graduate job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Graduate in the job title.

1 967 (81.60%) Degree
2 426 (35.95%) Social Skills
3 329 (27.76%) Analytical Skills
4 293 (24.73%) Microsoft Excel
5 281 (23.71%) Self-Motivation
6 273 (23.04%) Retail
7 266 (22.45%) Driving Licence
8 246 (20.76%) German Language
9 242 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
10 239 (20.17%) DBS Check
11 190 (16.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
12 187 (15.78%) Customer Insight
13 168 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 144 (12.15%) Customer Service
15 142 (11.98%) Manufacturing
16 134 (11.31%) Computer Science
17 124 (10.46%) Electronics
18 123 (10.38%) Microsoft Office
19 117 (9.87%) Data Analysis
20 111 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
21 97 (8.19%) Onboarding
22 96 (8.10%) Customer Experience
23 95 (8.02%) Firmware
23 95 (8.02%) Mathematics
24 92 (7.76%) Finance
24 92 (7.76%) Master's Degree
25 91 (7.68%) Logistics
26 90 (7.59%) Performance Metrics
26 90 (7.59%) Creative Thinking
27 89 (7.51%) Process Improvement

Graduate Skill Set
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 7 (0.59%) Skype for Business
2 6 (0.51%) CMS
3 4 (0.34%) WordPress
4 2 (0.17%) Drupal
4 2 (0.17%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.084%) Confluence
5 1 (0.084%) Hyperledger
5 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 293 (24.73%) Microsoft Excel
2 190 (16.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 123 (10.38%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (0.34%) Adobe Illustrator
4 4 (0.34%) Photoshop
4 4 (0.34%) Simulink
5 3 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
6 2 (0.17%) OrCAD
6 2 (0.17%) Trello
7 1 (0.084%) AutoCAD
7 1 (0.084%) Blender
7 1 (0.084%) InDesign
7 1 (0.084%) Revit
Business Applications
1 11 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 23 (1.94%) Azure
2 19 (1.60%) AWS
3 16 (1.35%) Power Platform
4 12 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (0.68%) SaaS
6 7 (0.59%) Dynamics 365
7 5 (0.42%) PowerApps
8 4 (0.34%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.34%) Power Automate
9 3 (0.25%) Adobe Creative Cloud
10 2 (0.17%) AWS Fargate
10 2 (0.17%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.17%) ClickUp
10 2 (0.17%) CloudFront
10 2 (0.17%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.084%) Asana
11 1 (0.084%) GitHub
11 1 (0.084%) Google Analytics
11 1 (0.084%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 1 (0.084%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 13 (1.10%) HTTP
2 7 (0.59%) Cisco IOS
2 7 (0.59%) Skype
2 7 (0.59%) Telepresence
3 6 (0.51%) WAN
4 5 (0.42%) 5G
4 5 (0.42%) Ethernet
4 5 (0.42%) PPP
4 5 (0.42%) SD-WAN
4 5 (0.42%) WebEx
5 3 (0.25%) Internet
5 3 (0.25%) Modbus
5 3 (0.25%) Software-Defined Radio
5 3 (0.25%) Wireless
6 1 (0.084%) 3G
6 1 (0.084%) 4G
6 1 (0.084%) DHCP
6 1 (0.084%) LTE
6 1 (0.084%) MQTT
6 1 (0.084%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 14 (1.18%) Power BI
3 7 (0.59%) Relational Database
4 5 (0.42%) Tableau
5 4 (0.34%) Elasticsearch
5 4 (0.34%) MongoDB
6 3 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
6 3 (0.25%) Data Hub
7 1 (0.084%) Amazon QuickSight
7 1 (0.084%) Big Data
7 1 (0.084%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.084%) PostgreSQL
7 1 (0.084%) Power Query
7 1 (0.084%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 10 (0.84%) Git
1 10 (0.84%) JIRA
2 9 (0.76%) LabVIEW
3 7 (0.59%) Visual Studio
4 4 (0.34%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.25%) CMake
5 3 (0.25%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.25%) JUnit
5 3 (0.25%) Mockito
5 3 (0.25%) NetBeans
5 3 (0.25%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (0.25%) TestRail
6 2 (0.17%) GDB
6 2 (0.17%) Hudson
6 2 (0.17%) Subversion
7 1 (0.084%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.084%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.084%) TeamCity
General
1 426 (35.95%) Social Skills
2 329 (27.76%) Analytical Skills
3 273 (23.04%) Retail
4 246 (20.76%) German Language
5 168 (14.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 142 (11.98%) Manufacturing
7 124 (10.46%) Electronics
8 92 (7.76%) Finance
9 89 (7.51%) Military
10 79 (6.67%) Marketing
11 53 (4.47%) Advertising
12 37 (3.12%) Legal
13 33 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
14 32 (2.70%) Public Sector
15 28 (2.36%) Aviation
16 18 (1.52%) Presentation Skills
17 16 (1.35%) Games
18 15 (1.27%) Law
18 15 (1.27%) Telecoms
19 13 (1.10%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 43 (3.63%) .NET
2 24 (2.03%) HTML
3 22 (1.86%) .NET Core
4 21 (1.77%) AngularJS
5 20 (1.69%) ASP.NET
6 19 (1.60%) ASP.NET MVC
7 18 (1.52%) CSS
7 18 (1.52%) React
8 12 (1.01%) .NET Framework
9 9 (0.76%) HTML5
9 9 (0.76%) WPF
10 7 (0.59%) ASP.NET Web API
10 7 (0.59%) Entity Framework
11 6 (0.51%) Node.js
11 6 (0.51%) WinForms
12 5 (0.42%) OpenCL
12 5 (0.42%) Vulkan
13 4 (0.34%) J2EE
13 4 (0.34%) RESTful
13 4 (0.34%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 281 (23.71%) Self-Motivation
2 266 (22.45%) Driving Licence
3 97 (8.19%) Onboarding
4 58 (4.89%) Analytical Mindset
5 56 (4.73%) Social Media
6 52 (4.39%) Photography
7 40 (3.38%) Algorithms
8 23 (1.94%) FPGA
9 17 (1.43%) Client/Server
10 13 (1.10%) Analogue Electronics
10 13 (1.10%) IoT
11 11 (0.93%) Management Information System
11 11 (0.93%) VHDL
12 10 (0.84%) Robotics
13 8 (0.68%) FMCG
14 7 (0.59%) Data Structures
14 7 (0.59%) Greenfield Project
14 7 (0.59%) Video Conferencing
15 6 (0.51%) GNSS
16 5 (0.42%) Ray Tracing
Operating Systems
1 31 (2.62%) Linux
2 22 (1.86%) Windows
3 8 (0.68%) Apple iOS
4 7 (0.59%) Android
4 7 (0.59%) Windows 10
4 7 (0.59%) Windows 7
5 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
6 5 (0.42%) CentOS
6 5 (0.42%) Unix
7 4 (0.34%) SUSE
8 2 (0.17%) Debian
9 1 (0.084%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.084%) Robot Operating System
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (20.42%) Problem-Solving
2 187 (15.78%) Customer Insight
3 144 (12.15%) Customer Service
4 134 (11.31%) Computer Science
5 117 (9.87%) Data Analysis
6 111 (9.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 96 (8.10%) Customer Experience
8 95 (8.02%) Mathematics
9 91 (7.68%) Logistics
10 90 (7.59%) Creative Thinking
10 90 (7.59%) Performance Metrics
11 89 (7.51%) Process Improvement
12 87 (7.34%) Contingency Planning
13 85 (7.17%) Software Engineering
14 81 (6.84%) Schematic Capture
15 71 (5.99%) Project Planning
16 70 (5.91%) Agile
17 52 (4.39%) Strategic Planning
18 48 (4.05%) Physics
19 39 (3.29%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 79 (6.67%) Python
2 77 (6.50%) C#
3 63 (5.32%) JavaScript
4 59 (4.98%) SQL
5 48 (4.05%) Java
6 41 (3.46%) C
7 25 (2.11%) C++
8 15 (1.27%) MATLAB
9 7 (0.59%) Bash
10 6 (0.51%) PowerShell
10 6 (0.51%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.42%) PHP
12 4 (0.34%) Ruby
13 3 (0.25%) Ada
13 3 (0.25%) C-shell
13 3 (0.25%) Embedded C
13 3 (0.25%) Fortran
13 3 (0.25%) Haskell
14 1 (0.084%) R
14 1 (0.084%) Rust
Qualifications
1 967 (81.60%) Degree
2 239 (20.17%) DBS Check
3 92 (7.76%) Master's Degree
4 65 (5.49%) Security Cleared
5 57 (4.81%) Computer Science Degree
6 36 (3.04%) PhD
7 16 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
8 14 (1.18%) SC Cleared
9 9 (0.76%) HND
10 8 (0.68%) ACCA
10 8 (0.68%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
11 7 (0.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 7 (0.59%) MBA
12 5 (0.42%) Numerate Degree
13 4 (0.34%) CIMA
13 4 (0.34%) DV Cleared
13 4 (0.34%) HNC
13 4 (0.34%) ISTQB
14 3 (0.25%) Microsoft Certification
15 2 (0.17%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (0.84%) QA
2 4 (0.34%) IFRS
2 4 (0.34%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.17%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.17%) GRC
3 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 2 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.17%) PMO
3 2 (0.17%) SLA
4 1 (0.084%) IEC 61131
4 1 (0.084%) JTAG
System Software
1 95 (8.02%) Firmware
2 84 (7.09%) Embedded Firmware
3 2 (0.17%) Active Directory
3 2 (0.17%) Docker
3 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (0.084%) Ansible
2 1 (0.084%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.084%) Progress Chef
2 1 (0.084%) Puppet
2 1 (0.084%) SCCM
Vendors
1 76 (6.41%) Microsoft
2 72 (6.08%) EMC
3 18 (1.52%) Google
4 15 (1.27%) Apple
5 13 (1.10%) SAP
6 10 (0.84%) Logitech
7 8 (0.68%) Adobe
8 7 (0.59%) Cisco
8 7 (0.59%) Polycom
9 6 (0.51%) Peregrine
10 5 (0.42%) Oracle
10 5 (0.42%) Red Hat
11 4 (0.34%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.34%) Rockwell
12 2 (0.17%) ANSYS
12 2 (0.17%) Databricks
12 2 (0.17%) Dell
12 2 (0.17%) F5
12 2 (0.17%) Facebook
12 2 (0.17%) Twitter