Degree Jobs in the Midlands

Academic Degree
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Degree qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 6 3 6
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +13
Permanent jobs citing Degree 1,625 2,421 1,911
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 13.86% 25.55% 17.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 56.27% 64.03% 56.56%
Number of salaries quoted 954 712 959
10th Percentile £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,750 £34,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,844 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +11.11% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,825 £57,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £71,250 £76,400
England median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 Midlands with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,888 3,781 3,379
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 24.63% 39.91% 30.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,863 1,279 1,697
10th Percentile £25,500 £27,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £35,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +8.70% +2.22%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £74,800 £75,000 £77,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,526 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.60% +8.23% -

Degree
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Degree in the Midlands over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Degree in the Midlands

Degree
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands -4 1,079 £50,000 -4.76% 600
East Midlands -6 534 £40,000 -15.79% 350
Degree
England

Degree
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 54 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 49 (3.02%) Microsoft Exchange
3 25 (1.54%) WordPress
4 18 (1.11%) CMS
5 10 (0.62%) Confluence
5 10 (0.62%) IIS
6 7 (0.43%) SAS
7 6 (0.37%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.25%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.12%) Alfresco
9 2 (0.12%) Appian
9 2 (0.12%) Captiva
9 2 (0.12%) Documentum
9 2 (0.12%) MTS
9 2 (0.12%) WinCC
10 1 (0.062%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.062%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.062%) Mule
10 1 (0.062%) Umbraco
Applications
1 348 (21.42%) Microsoft Office
2 215 (13.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 24 (1.48%) AutoCAD
6 17 (1.05%) Simulink
7 13 (0.80%) Adobe Illustrator
7 13 (0.80%) Photoshop
8 10 (0.62%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 9 (0.55%) InDesign
10 6 (0.37%) CANalyzer
10 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
11 5 (0.31%) Adobe After Effects
12 4 (0.25%) Adobe Premiere
12 4 (0.25%) Adobe XD
12 4 (0.25%) EPLAN
12 4 (0.25%) MS Visio
12 4 (0.25%) Sketch
12 4 (0.25%) SPSS
13 1 (0.062%) Autodesk Inventor
Business Applications
1 17 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (0.74%) Shopify
3 8 (0.49%) SAP ERP
4 7 (0.43%) NetSuite
5 4 (0.25%) Dynamics NAV
5 4 (0.25%) Magento
5 4 (0.25%) NEC Housing
5 4 (0.25%) Sage 300 ERP
5 4 (0.25%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.18%) Sage 200
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics AX
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.12%) Primavera
7 2 (0.12%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.12%) SAP S/4HANA
8 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.062%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 179 (11.02%) Azure
2 124 (7.63%) Power Platform
3 109 (6.71%) Microsoft 365
4 81 (4.98%) AWS
5 55 (3.38%) SaaS
6 40 (2.46%) Dynamics 365
7 28 (1.72%) PowerApps
8 23 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 21 (1.29%) Azure DevOps
10 19 (1.17%) Power Automate
11 18 (1.11%) GCP
12 15 (0.92%) OneDrive
13 14 (0.86%) Azure Synapse Analytics
14 13 (0.80%) GitHub
15 12 (0.74%) WhatsApp
16 9 (0.55%) Boomi
16 9 (0.55%) Google Analytics
16 9 (0.55%) Snowflake
17 8 (0.49%) Amazon S3
17 8 (0.49%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 61 (3.75%) WAN
2 49 (3.02%) Firewall
3 44 (2.71%) LAN
4 35 (2.15%) DNS
5 33 (2.03%) DHCP
6 24 (1.48%) Network Security
6 24 (1.48%) SAN
7 23 (1.42%) TCP/IP
7 23 (1.42%) VPN
8 21 (1.29%) Ethernet
8 21 (1.29%) VoIP
9 20 (1.23%) Internet
10 16 (0.98%) SD-WAN
11 13 (0.80%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (0.74%) VLAN
13 9 (0.55%) Wireless
14 8 (0.49%) WLAN
15 6 (0.37%) Cisco Firepower
15 6 (0.37%) NAS
16 4 (0.25%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (6.95%) Power BI
2 102 (6.28%) SQL Server
3 60 (3.69%) Tableau
4 36 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 25 (1.54%) MySQL
6 23 (1.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 22 (1.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 17 (1.05%) Relational Database
9 13 (0.80%) Amazon Redshift
9 13 (0.80%) Data Lake
9 13 (0.80%) Data Mining
10 11 (0.68%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 10 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
12 9 (0.55%) Power Query
13 8 (0.49%) GIS
14 7 (0.43%) BigQuery
15 6 (0.37%) Looker
15 6 (0.37%) RDBMS
16 5 (0.31%) Crystal Reports
16 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 45 (2.77%) Git
2 32 (1.97%) JIRA
3 26 (1.60%) Visual Studio
4 8 (0.49%) CANoe
5 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 5 (0.31%) Rational DOORS
7 4 (0.25%) Jenkins
7 4 (0.25%) Moq
7 4 (0.25%) Postman
7 4 (0.25%) Xcode
8 3 (0.18%) CMake
9 2 (0.12%) Android Studio
9 2 (0.12%) GitLab
9 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
10 1 (0.062%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.062%) LabVIEW
10 1 (0.062%) NUnit
10 1 (0.062%) Team Foundation Server
10 1 (0.062%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 663 (40.80%) Social Skills
2 352 (21.66%) Analytical Skills
3 217 (13.35%) Finance
4 177 (10.89%) Manufacturing
5 170 (10.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 168 (10.34%) Influencing Skills
7 147 (9.05%) Organisational Skills
8 115 (7.08%) Retail
9 97 (5.97%) Marketing
10 84 (5.17%) Military
11 73 (4.49%) Automotive
12 72 (4.43%) Electronics
13 70 (4.31%) Legal
14 60 (3.69%) Presentation Skills
15 48 (2.95%) Local Government
16 42 (2.58%) Pharmaceutical
16 42 (2.58%) Telecoms
17 39 (2.40%) Public Sector
18 30 (1.85%) Law
19 24 (1.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 324 (19.94%) Analyst
2 165 (10.15%) Senior
3 155 (9.54%) Graduate
4 150 (9.23%) Developer
5 129 (7.94%) Lead
6 118 (7.26%) Product Analyst
7 117 (7.20%) Project Manager
8 116 (7.14%) Sales Analyst
9 65 (4.00%) Software Engineer
10 64 (3.94%) Architect
11 63 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
12 51 (3.14%) Consultant
12 51 (3.14%) Software Developer
13 50 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
14 46 (2.83%) Data Analyst
15 41 (2.52%) Junior
16 38 (2.34%) Technical Leader
17 33 (2.03%) Data Scientist
18 30 (1.85%) Support Engineer
19 27 (1.66%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (4.86%) .NET
2 74 (4.55%) HTML
3 68 (4.18%) CSS
4 37 (2.28%) AngularJS
5 34 (2.09%) React
6 32 (1.97%) RESTful
7 30 (1.85%) XML
8 27 (1.66%) Node.js
9 24 (1.48%) ASP.NET
10 22 (1.35%) .NET Core
10 22 (1.35%) HTML5
11 19 (1.17%) Express.js
12 14 (0.86%) EDI
13 13 (0.80%) GraphQL
14 11 (0.68%) jQuery
14 11 (0.68%) JSON
15 10 (0.62%) .NET Framework
15 10 (0.62%) SOAP
15 10 (0.62%) Vue
16 8 (0.49%) PyTorch
Miscellaneous
1 107 (6.58%) Onboarding
2 100 (6.15%) Management Information System
3 61 (3.75%) Data Centre
4 60 (3.69%) Self-Motivation
5 44 (2.71%) Driving Licence
6 42 (2.58%) Mobile App
7 41 (2.52%) Algorithms
8 29 (1.78%) Product Ownership
9 27 (1.66%) SCADA
10 25 (1.54%) Social Media
11 22 (1.35%) Life Science
12 20 (1.23%) CCTV
13 18 (1.11%) Public Cloud
14 17 (1.05%) Virtual Team
15 16 (0.98%) Robotics
16 15 (0.92%) Embedded Systems
16 15 (0.92%) Industry 4.0
17 14 (0.86%) Data Structures
18 12 (0.74%) Graphic Design
18 12 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 145 (8.92%) Windows
2 76 (4.68%) Linux
3 48 (2.95%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.34%) Windows 10
5 16 (0.98%) Mac OS
5 16 (0.98%) Unix
5 16 (0.98%) Windows 7
6 14 (0.86%) Android
7 9 (0.55%) Apple iOS
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2016
8 8 (0.49%) Windows Server 2019
9 6 (0.37%) SUSE
9 6 (0.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
9 6 (0.37%) VMS
10 5 (0.31%) Mac OS X
11 4 (0.25%) Embedded Linux
11 4 (0.25%) Solaris
11 4 (0.25%) Ubuntu
11 4 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
12 3 (0.18%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 520 (32.00%) Problem-Solving
2 346 (21.29%) Computer Science
3 329 (20.25%) Customer Service
4 319 (19.63%) Continuous Improvement
5 249 (15.32%) Mathematics
6 245 (15.08%) Project Management
7 233 (14.34%) Agile
8 198 (12.18%) Data Analysis
9 177 (10.89%) Customer Requirements
10 168 (10.34%) Mentoring
11 145 (8.92%) Software Engineering
12 135 (8.31%) Cybersecurity
13 125 (7.69%) Logistics
14 118 (7.26%) Process Improvement
15 115 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
15 115 (7.08%) Project Delivery
16 113 (6.95%) Analytics
17 109 (6.71%) Decision-Making
18 99 (6.09%) Validation
19 98 (6.03%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 226 (13.91%) SQL
2 138 (8.49%) Python
3 104 (6.40%) JavaScript
4 101 (6.22%) C#
5 58 (3.57%) C
6 51 (3.14%) C++
7 44 (2.71%) Java
8 32 (1.97%) PHP
9 30 (1.85%) MATLAB
9 30 (1.85%) VB
10 28 (1.72%) PowerShell
11 27 (1.66%) TypeScript
12 21 (1.29%) Embedded C
13 15 (0.92%) T-SQL
14 12 (0.74%) R
15 11 (0.68%) Embedded C++
15 11 (0.68%) JSX
16 7 (0.43%) Assembly Language
16 7 (0.43%) Ladder Logic
17 5 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 183 (11.26%) Computer Science Degree
2 101 (6.22%) Security Cleared
3 100 (6.15%) Master's Degree
4 69 (4.25%) DBS Check
5 65 (4.00%) SC Cleared
6 60 (3.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 43 (2.65%) CCNA
7 43 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.28%) HND
9 34 (2.09%) MCP
10 31 (1.91%) HNC
11 27 (1.66%) PMI Certification
12 26 (1.60%) CCNP
13 25 (1.54%) Azure Certification
14 23 (1.42%) PMP
15 21 (1.29%) CISM
15 21 (1.29%) CISSP
16 20 (1.23%) MCSE
17 19 (1.17%) Chartered Engineer
17 19 (1.17%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.43%) QA
2 35 (2.15%) PMO
3 30 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 22 (1.35%) GMP
5 21 (1.29%) Accessibility
5 21 (1.29%) ISO 9001
6 20 (1.23%) Data Quality
7 18 (1.11%) GLP
7 18 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 17025
8 17 (1.05%) NIST
9 13 (0.80%) ISO 26262
10 12 (0.74%) GDPR
11 11 (0.68%) SLA
12 10 (0.62%) Actionable Recommendations
13 9 (0.55%) AUTOSAR
14 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials
15 6 (0.37%) MISRA
15 6 (0.37%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.31%) NCSC
17 4 (0.25%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 91 (5.60%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 43 (2.65%) Firmware
4 32 (1.97%) Hyper-V
5 24 (1.48%) Embedded Firmware
6 23 (1.42%) Docker
7 7 (0.43%) vSphere
8 4 (0.25%) pfSense
8 4 (0.25%) Terminal Services
9 3 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
10 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.12%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.062%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (0.062%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 18 (1.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (1.11%) SCCM
2 16 (0.98%) Terraform
3 14 (0.86%) EnCase
3 14 (0.86%) Kubernetes
4 10 (0.62%) Functional Safety
5 8 (0.49%) SCOM
6 7 (0.43%) Failover Clustering
7 6 (0.37%) Stealthwatch
7 6 (0.37%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 5 (0.31%) Autotask
8 5 (0.31%) CASB
8 5 (0.31%) FortiGate
8 5 (0.31%) HP ALM
9 4 (0.25%) Jamf Pro
9 4 (0.25%) SmoothWall
10 2 (0.12%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 1 (0.062%) Data Guard
11 1 (0.062%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.062%) VxRail
Vendors
1 346 (21.29%) Microsoft
2 62 (3.82%) VMware
3 43 (2.65%) Cisco
4 37 (2.28%) Adobe
4 37 (2.28%) Apple
4 37 (2.28%) EMC
5 36 (2.22%) Databricks
6 33 (2.03%) SAP
7 26 (1.60%) ServiceNow
8 22 (1.35%) Google
8 22 (1.35%) Salesforce
9 21 (1.29%) IFS
10 18 (1.11%) Workday
11 17 (1.05%) Meraki
12 15 (0.92%) Oracle
13 14 (0.86%) Dell
14 13 (0.80%) Alteryx
15 12 (0.74%) Veeam
16 11 (0.68%) Fortinet
16 11 (0.68%) Xamarin