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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 8 3 7
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +6
Permanent jobs citing Degree 9,810 12,799 11,950
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.83% 21.24% 16.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 50.30% 58.42% 53.22%
Number of salaries quoted 6,111 4,000 5,206
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £63,875 £65,000 £61,333
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,715 £75,000
UK median annual salary £52,101 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.39% +4.55% -

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 19,504 21,909 22,453
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 27.49% 36.36% 31.58%
Number of salaries quoted 12,209 8,086 10,279
10th Percentile £27,000 £28,000 £27,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £37,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £63,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £76,250
UK median annual salary £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -

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 8 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 8 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 2,906 £51,500 +0.98% 1,247
North of England -1 1,971 £47,500 -5.00% 1,155
Midlands -2 1,659 £47,500 -5.00% 912
South West -3 1,339 £48,750 +2.63% 690
North West +3 1,185 £48,000 -8.57% 667
West Midlands -1 1,115 £50,000 -4.76% 576
East of England -3 855 £47,500 -5.00% 717
Scotland -27 691 £46,000 -8.00% 330
Yorkshire +5 572 £45,000 -10.00% 360
East Midlands -5 532 £40,000 -15.79% 335
Wales -6 262 £44,886 +0.12% 134
North East -9 214 £48,367 +1.82% 150
Northern Ireland +9 106 £45,000 - 73
Isle of Man - 23 £52,500 - 5
Channel Islands -1 6 £67,500 +8.00% 4
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
1 252 (2.57%) SharePoint
2 218 (2.22%) Confluence
3 204 (2.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 70 (0.71%) SAS
5 66 (0.67%) CMS
6 52 (0.53%) Apache Spark
7 49 (0.50%) WordPress
8 47 (0.48%) Apache
9 45 (0.46%) Oracle Service Bus
9 45 (0.46%) WebLogic
10 42 (0.43%) IIS
11 31 (0.32%) FileNet
12 20 (0.20%) Tomcat
13 17 (0.17%) ArcGIS
13 17 (0.17%) OpenStack
14 7 (0.071%) MS Project Server
14 7 (0.071%) nginx
14 7 (0.071%) WebSphere
15 6 (0.061%) Oracle Workflow
15 6 (0.061%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1,106 (11.27%) Microsoft Office
2 967 (9.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 373 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 166 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 158 (1.61%) Simulink
6 157 (1.60%) MS Visio
7 71 (0.72%) AutoCAD
8 49 (0.50%) Photoshop
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 44 (0.45%) Adobe Illustrator
9 44 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
10 38 (0.39%) UserZoom
11 31 (0.32%) Chatbot
11 31 (0.32%) InDesign
11 31 (0.32%) Stateflow
12 20 (0.20%) Trello
13 18 (0.18%) OrCAD
14 17 (0.17%) Sketch
14 17 (0.17%) SOLIDWORKS
15 15 (0.15%) Adobe After Effects
Business Applications
1 110 (1.12%) Dynamics CRM
2 51 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
3 50 (0.51%) Remedy ITSM
4 39 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 33 (0.34%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 26 (0.27%) SAP ERP
7 22 (0.22%) NEC Housing
8 20 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
9 17 (0.17%) Primavera
10 16 (0.16%) SAP CO
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI
10 16 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
10 16 (0.16%) Shopify
11 14 (0.14%) SAP Business One
12 13 (0.13%) Salesforce CRM
13 11 (0.11%) Dynamics NAV
14 10 (0.10%) SAP QM
15 9 (0.092%) SAP CX
16 8 (0.082%) Dynamics GP
17 7 (0.071%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 1,133 (11.55%) Azure
2 774 (7.89%) Microsoft 365
3 621 (6.33%) AWS
4 472 (4.81%) Power Platform
5 261 (2.66%) SaaS
6 182 (1.86%) Dynamics 365
7 179 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 135 (1.38%) GCP
9 128 (1.30%) GitHub
10 118 (1.20%) Entra ID
11 96 (0.98%) Serverless
12 92 (0.94%) Figma
13 89 (0.91%) Amazon S3
14 87 (0.89%) PowerApps
15 83 (0.85%) Power Automate
16 82 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
17 75 (0.76%) SurveyMonkey
18 63 (0.64%) AWS Lambda
19 62 (0.63%) OneDrive
20 54 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 390 (3.98%) Firewall
2 235 (2.40%) WAN
3 210 (2.14%) Wireless
4 190 (1.94%) DNS
5 188 (1.92%) LAN
6 173 (1.76%) TCP/IP
7 160 (1.63%) Network Security
8 154 (1.57%) Internet
9 151 (1.54%) Wi-Fi
10 140 (1.43%) DHCP
11 127 (1.29%) VPN
12 87 (0.89%) 5G
12 87 (0.89%) Ethernet
13 83 (0.85%) VoIP
14 77 (0.78%) SAN
15 73 (0.74%) SD-WAN
16 66 (0.67%) VLAN
17 54 (0.55%) HTTP
18 51 (0.52%) Bluetooth
19 49 (0.50%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 524 (5.34%) SQL Server
2 406 (4.14%) Power BI
3 204 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 198 (2.02%) Relational Database
5 193 (1.97%) MySQL
6 174 (1.77%) Tableau
7 157 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
8 97 (0.99%) PostgreSQL
9 96 (0.98%) Big Data
10 84 (0.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 79 (0.81%) Oracle Database
12 73 (0.74%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 67 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
14 63 (0.64%) RDBMS
15 57 (0.58%) GIS
16 52 (0.53%) Elasticsearch
17 45 (0.46%) Amazon Redshift
17 45 (0.46%) Oracle Database 11g
17 45 (0.46%) Redis
17 45 (0.46%) VLDB
Development Applications
1 610 (6.22%) Git
2 446 (4.55%) JIRA
3 207 (2.11%) Visual Studio
4 147 (1.50%) Jenkins
5 106 (1.08%) Bitbucket
6 93 (0.95%) Selenium
7 84 (0.86%) LabVIEW
8 75 (0.76%) Subversion
9 72 (0.73%) Cypress.io
10 64 (0.65%) Sourcetree
11 46 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
12 39 (0.40%) JUnit
13 38 (0.39%) GitLab
14 34 (0.35%) Mockito
15 31 (0.32%) Jasmine
15 31 (0.32%) TeamCity
16 30 (0.31%) CMake
16 30 (0.31%) Postman
17 24 (0.24%) SoapUI
18 20 (0.20%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 3,899 (39.75%) Social Skills
2 1,735 (17.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1,641 (16.73%) Finance
4 1,248 (12.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 953 (9.71%) Manufacturing
6 701 (7.15%) Marketing
7 611 (6.23%) Electronics
8 585 (5.96%) Law
9 534 (5.44%) Retail
10 524 (5.34%) Presentation Skills
11 455 (4.64%) Legal
12 404 (4.12%) Organisational Skills
13 341 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
14 321 (3.27%) Telecoms
15 285 (2.91%) Military
15 285 (2.91%) Public Sector
16 274 (2.79%) Games
17 240 (2.45%) Automotive
18 227 (2.31%) Pharmaceutical
19 225 (2.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1,313 (13.38%) Senior
2 1,178 (12.01%) Developer
3 1,141 (11.63%) Analyst
4 854 (8.71%) Graduate
5 755 (7.70%) Software Engineer
6 684 (6.97%) Lead
7 578 (5.89%) Project Manager
8 453 (4.62%) Architect
9 355 (3.62%) Junior
10 320 (3.26%) Systems Engineer
11 312 (3.18%) Software Developer
12 295 (3.01%) Consultant
13 248 (2.53%) Support Engineer
14 246 (2.51%) Senior Developer
15 204 (2.08%) IT Engineer
16 199 (2.03%) Embedded Engineer
17 195 (1.99%) Data Scientist
17 195 (1.99%) Senior Analyst
18 194 (1.98%) IT Manager
19 186 (1.90%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 654 (6.67%) .NET
2 443 (4.52%) HTML
3 429 (4.37%) React
4 376 (3.83%) CSS
5 323 (3.29%) AngularJS
6 204 (2.08%) Node.js
7 152 (1.55%) RESTful
8 147 (1.50%) HTML5
9 145 (1.48%) ASP.NET
10 142 (1.45%) .NET Core
11 139 (1.42%) .NET Framework
12 111 (1.13%) Unity (Game Engine)
13 110 (1.12%) Web Services
14 106 (1.08%) JSON
15 102 (1.04%) Spring
16 100 (1.02%) Vue
17 88 (0.90%) XML
18 86 (0.88%) REST
19 78 (0.80%) CSS3
20 77 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 635 (6.47%) Management Information System
2 559 (5.70%) Algorithms
3 549 (5.60%) Self-Motivation
4 357 (3.64%) Driving Licence
5 301 (3.07%) Onboarding
6 270 (2.75%) Data Centre
7 227 (2.31%) Product Ownership
8 158 (1.61%) IoT
9 142 (1.45%) Data Structures
10 131 (1.34%) Embedded Systems
11 126 (1.28%) FPGA
12 118 (1.20%) Cloud Native
13 116 (1.18%) FMCG
14 115 (1.17%) Mobile App
15 114 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
16 109 (1.11%) Virtual Reality
17 106 (1.08%) Robotics
18 99 (1.01%) Social Media
19 98 (1.00%) Life Science
20 84 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1,057 (10.77%) Windows
2 772 (7.87%) Linux
3 331 (3.37%) Windows Server
4 217 (2.21%) Unix
5 189 (1.93%) Windows 10
6 132 (1.35%) Android
7 106 (1.08%) Windows Server 2019
8 97 (0.99%) Mac OS
9 90 (0.92%) Windows Server 2016
10 73 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
11 72 (0.73%) Apple iOS
12 58 (0.59%) Solaris
13 50 (0.51%) Windows 7
14 47 (0.48%) Embedded Linux
15 43 (0.44%) Ubuntu
16 31 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 23 (0.23%) Mac OS X
17 23 (0.23%) VMS
18 22 (0.22%) CentOS
19 20 (0.20%) FreeRTOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2,927 (29.84%) Problem-Solving
2 2,756 (28.09%) Computer Science
3 1,918 (19.55%) Agile
4 1,397 (14.24%) Software Engineering
5 1,392 (14.19%) Project Management
6 1,103 (11.24%) Continuous Improvement
7 1,050 (10.70%) Mathematics
8 977 (9.96%) Mentoring
9 878 (8.95%) Customer Service
10 839 (8.55%) Cybersecurity
11 808 (8.24%) DevOps
12 781 (7.96%) Decision-Making
13 700 (7.14%) Analytics
14 698 (7.12%) Artificial Intelligence
15 694 (7.07%) Data Analysis
16 659 (6.72%) Coaching
17 656 (6.69%) ITIL
18 599 (6.11%) Project Delivery
19 537 (5.47%) Roadmaps
20 522 (5.32%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1,182 (12.05%) SQL
2 1,108 (11.29%) Python
3 1,009 (10.29%) C#
4 789 (8.04%) JavaScript
5 646 (6.59%) C
6 500 (5.10%) Java
7 484 (4.93%) C++
8 321 (3.27%) TypeScript
9 238 (2.43%) PowerShell
10 221 (2.25%) MATLAB
11 194 (1.98%) PHP
12 157 (1.60%) R
13 153 (1.56%) Embedded C
14 115 (1.17%) Bash
15 99 (1.01%) Fortran
16 95 (0.97%) VB
17 90 (0.92%) T-SQL
18 67 (0.68%) PL/SQL
19 62 (0.63%) Perl
20 55 (0.56%) Go
Qualifications
1 1,503 (15.32%) Computer Science Degree
2 1,065 (10.86%) Security Cleared
3 845 (8.61%) Master's Degree
4 647 (6.60%) SC Cleared
5 374 (3.81%) PhD
6 272 (2.77%) DBS Check
7 261 (2.66%) BPSS Clearance
8 250 (2.55%) HND
9 241 (2.46%) HNC
10 238 (2.43%) Cisco Certification
11 237 (2.42%) Microsoft Certification
12 181 (1.85%) CCNA
13 175 (1.78%) CISSP
14 148 (1.51%) DV Cleared
15 145 (1.48%) PMI Certification
16 122 (1.24%) PMP
17 110 (1.12%) CCNP
18 105 (1.07%) CISM
19 101 (1.03%) MCP
20 97 (0.99%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 453 (4.62%) QA
2 192 (1.96%) SLA
3 163 (1.66%) GDPR
4 160 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 160 (1.63%) Data Quality
5 156 (1.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 155 (1.58%) PMO
7 101 (1.03%) ISO 9001
8 94 (0.96%) NIST
9 70 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
10 68 (0.69%) GMP
11 65 (0.66%) Actionable Recommendations
12 49 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 45 (0.46%) ISO 13485
14 43 (0.44%) WCAG
15 39 (0.40%) ISO 26262
15 39 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 15288
16 38 (0.39%) NEBOSH
17 28 (0.29%) Automotive SPICE
17 28 (0.29%) IFRS
System Software
1 515 (5.25%) Active Directory
2 371 (3.78%) Docker
3 333 (3.39%) Firmware
4 259 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
5 170 (1.73%) Embedded Firmware
6 144 (1.47%) Hyper-V
7 50 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
8 46 (0.47%) Oracle RAC
9 45 (0.46%) vSphere
10 42 (0.43%) VMware ESXi
11 25 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
12 23 (0.23%) Terminal Services
13 17 (0.17%) XenApp
14 11 (0.11%) Virtual Servers
15 10 (0.10%) OpenSSH
16 7 (0.071%) KVM
17 5 (0.051%) Microsoft Virtual Server
17 5 (0.051%) pfSense
18 4 (0.041%) Microsoft App-V
19 2 (0.020%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 336 (3.43%) Kubernetes
2 141 (1.44%) Terraform
3 106 (1.08%) SCCM
4 96 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
5 73 (0.74%) Ansible
6 47 (0.48%) SCOM
7 46 (0.47%) Data Guard
7 46 (0.47%) Oracle RMAN
7 46 (0.47%) WSUS
8 28 (0.29%) CASB
8 28 (0.29%) Functional Safety
9 25 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 25 (0.25%) Progress Chef
9 25 (0.25%) vCenter Server
10 20 (0.20%) Jamf Pro
10 20 (0.20%) Puppet
11 18 (0.18%) Stealthwatch
12 16 (0.16%) Autotask
13 15 (0.15%) EnCase
13 15 (0.15%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 1,977 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 340 (3.47%) VMware
3 310 (3.16%) SAP
4 259 (2.64%) Oracle
5 245 (2.50%) Cisco
6 215 (2.19%) Google
7 189 (1.93%) EMC
8 170 (1.73%) Adobe
9 154 (1.57%) Apple
10 125 (1.27%) Salesforce
11 90 (0.92%) HP
12 89 (0.91%) Dell
13 80 (0.82%) ServiceNow
14 77 (0.78%) IBM
15 76 (0.77%) Meraki
16 70 (0.71%) Qualtrics
17 67 (0.68%) Veeam
18 65 (0.66%) Databricks
18 65 (0.66%) Sage
19 64 (0.65%) Citrix