The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Degree in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Degree over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Degree
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank111111
Rank change year-on-year
No change0No change0
Matching permanent IT job ads168281753812084
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK13.89 %14.37 %12.69 %
As % of the Qualifications category50.05 %54.93 %52.37 %
Number of salaries quoted141211460610038
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£25,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500£36,500
% change year-on-year
-+2.73 %
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
336203192723074
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.74 %26.16 %24.23 %
Number of salaries quoted286142663719117
Average salary£42,500£41,000£41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %+1.31 %

Degree
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Degree within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Degree Demand Trend

Degree
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Degree within the UK.

Degree Salary Trend

Degree
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Degree over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 within the UK.

Degree Salary Histogram

Degree
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Degree within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-115829£40,000-1.23 %
LondonDown-17147£48,500-3.00 %
South EastUp+23478£40,000+6.66 %
East of EnglandDown-11693£40,000+3.89 %
City of LondonDown-21494£50,000-
SurreyNo change01090£43,500+8.75 %
North WestUp+2983£32,500-5.10 %
South WestUp+3972£37,500+7.14 %
CambridgeshireDown-1881£40,000+6.66 %
BerkshireUp+2763£42,500+6.25 %
CambridgeDown-1760£40,000+6.66 %
ScotlandDown-3575£35,000-6.66 %
YorkshireDown-1571£31,000-4.61 %
East MidlandsDown-2516£32,500-4.41 %
HampshireUp+1497£37,750+0.66 %
ManchesterDown-2483£32,500-7.14 %
West MidlandsDown-5451£35,000+0.71 %
HertfordshireNo change0397£40,000-
BristolUp+8378£32,000-11.11 %
West YorkshireDown-4345£31,500-4.54 %
ReadingUp+9296£37,500+7.14 %
EdinburghDown-2272£35,000-6.66 %
CheshireUp+13258£30,000-
LeedsUp+2247£32,750+0.76 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1245£35,000+2.94 %
OxfordshireUp+2242£40,000+21.63 %
West SussexUp+7219£35,000+16.66 %
GloucestershireDown-6217£40,000+6.66 %
East SussexUp+11204£35,000-
EssexDown-1196£37,500-

Degree
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Degree also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Degree.

19089 (27.38 %)Computer Science
28202 (24.71 %)SQL
38127 (24.48 %)Finance
47892 (23.77 %)Java
57151 (21.54 %)C#
66946 (20.92 %).NET
75790 (17.44 %)SQL Server
85407 (16.29 %)Windows
94904 (14.77 %)Microsoft
104772 (14.38 %)C++
114704 (14.17 %)JavaScript
124464 (13.45 %)Linux
134064 (12.24 %)Oracle
144000 (12.05 %)HTML
153921 (11.81 %)OO
163803 (11.46 %)CSS
173552 (10.70 %)XML
183464 (10.44 %)Agile Software Development
193443 (10.37 %)Mathematics
203358 (10.12 %)Project Management
213330 (10.03 %)ASP.NET
223030 (9.128 %)UNIX
232939 (8.854 %)MS Excel
242794 (8.417 %)C
252416 (7.278 %)Web Services
262248 (6.772 %)Software Engineering
272184 (6.579 %)Banking
282022 (6.091 %)PHP
291986 (5.983 %)Scrum
301946 (5.862 %)Marketing

Degree
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Degree also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled that cited Degree. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
16946 (20.92 %).NET
24000 (12.05 %)HTML
33803 (11.46 %)CSS
43552 (10.70 %)XML
53330 (10.03 %)ASP.NET
62416 (7.278 %)Web Services
71873 (5.642 %)J2EE
81791 (5.395 %)Spring
91761 (5.305 %)Ajax
101571 (4.733 %)jQuery
111242 (3.742 %)Hibernate
121227 (3.696 %)WPF
131077 (3.244 %).NET Framework
14959 (2.889 %)HTML5
15950 (2.862 %)WCF
16809 (2.437 %)WinForms
17790 (2.380 %)XSLT
18785 (2.365 %)JSP
19755 (2.274 %)XHTML
20667 (2.009 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11189 (3.582 %)Apache
21170 (3.525 %)SharePoint
3739 (2.226 %)IIS
4701 (2.112 %)Tomcat
5602 (1.814 %)MS Exchange
6476 (1.434 %)SAS
7418 (1.259 %)CMS
8379 (1.142 %)WebLogic
9307 (0.925 %)ESB
10240 (0.723 %)Exchange Server 2010
11220 (0.663 %)SharePoint 2010
12185 (0.557 %)SharePoint Server
13158 (0.476 %)Exchange Server 2007
14153 (0.461 %)Exchange Server 2003
15142 (0.428 %)Jetty
16126 (0.380 %)Drupal
17116 (0.349 %)BizTalk Server
17116 (0.349 %)WordPress
18106 (0.319 %)Umbraco
18106 (0.319 %)WebSphere Application Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12939 (8.854 %)MS Excel
21350 (4.067 %)MS Office
3874 (2.633 %)MS Visio
4437 (1.316 %)Photoshop
5435 (1.310 %)MATLAB
6371 (1.118 %)MS Project
7368 (1.109 %)MS PowerPoint
8185 (0.557 %)Adobe Illustrator
9132 (0.398 %)SPSS
10119 (0.358 %)Simulink
1196 (0.289 %)Google Apps
1278 (0.235 %)Spreadsheet
1364 (0.193 %)Fireworks
1448 (0.145 %)Pro/ENGINEER
1533 (0.099 %)Office 365
1631 (0.093 %)Acrobat
1729 (0.087 %)InfoPath
1729 (0.087 %)DOC1
1828 (0.084 %)RoboHelp
1927 (0.081 %)FrameMaker
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
1249 (0.750 %)Oracle EBS
2227 (0.684 %)Dynamics CRM
3155 (0.467 %)Google Analytics
4141 (0.425 %)Dynamics AX
5134 (0.404 %)SAP FI
6129 (0.389 %)SAP CO
7128 (0.386 %)Oracle Applications
8126 (0.380 %)SAP FI/CO
999 (0.298 %)Summit
1094 (0.283 %)Oracle EBS R12
1193 (0.280 %)Oracle ERP
1278 (0.235 %)Dynamics NAV
1372 (0.217 %)Oracle Financials
1469 (0.208 %)Oracle BPM
1567 (0.202 %)SiteCatalyst
1656 (0.169 %)SAP Oil and Gas
1754 (0.163 %)SAP HR
1853 (0.160 %)Oracle 11i
1950 (0.151 %)SAP SD
2047 (0.142 %)Oracle CRM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11347 (4.058 %)Internet
21135 (3.419 %)TCP/IP
3807 (2.431 %)Firewall
4515 (1.551 %)WAN
5511 (1.539 %)HTTP
6505 (1.521 %)SAN
7483 (1.455 %)LAN
8474 (1.428 %)DNS
9470 (1.416 %)Wireless
10350 (1.054 %)VPN
11342 (1.030 %)VoIP
12285 (0.859 %)DHCP
13276 (0.831 %)Network Security
14273 (0.822 %)Intranet
15264 (0.795 %)LTE
16261 (0.786 %)Ethernet
17245 (0.738 %)GSM
18214 (0.645 %)UMTS
19186 (0.560 %)3G
20178 (0.536 %)LDAP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
15790 (17.44 %)SQL Server
21826 (5.501 %)MySQL
31355 (4.082 %)SQL Server 2008
41164 (3.507 %)SQL Server 2005
5843 (2.540 %)Data Warehouse
6665 (2.003 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
7611 (1.841 %)SQL Server Integration Services
8545 (1.642 %)ETL
9524 (1.579 %)RDBMS
10311 (0.937 %)Data Mining
11309 (0.931 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
12303 (0.913 %)Oracle 8/8i
13281 (0.847 %)Oracle 10g
14260 (0.783 %)Crystal Reports
15259 (0.780 %)GIS
16251 (0.756 %)DB2
17238 (0.717 %)NoSQL
18232 (0.699 %)SQL Server 2000
19231 (0.696 %)Oracle 11g
20220 (0.663 %)PostgreSQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11335 (4.022 %)Visual Studio
21158 (3.488 %)Subversion
3669 (2.015 %)JUnit
4599 (1.804 %)Eclipse
5550 (1.657 %)Selenium
6506 (1.524 %)Maven
7419 (1.262 %)Ant
8402 (1.211 %)Team Foundation Server
9385 (1.160 %)NUnit
10379 (1.142 %)Git (software)
11308 (0.928 %)JIRA
12235 (0.708 %)ClearCase
13207 (0.624 %)QuickTest Pro
14184 (0.554 %)Bugzilla
15146 (0.440 %)Hudson
16137 (0.413 %)Dreamweaver
16137 (0.413 %)Mercurial
17126 (0.380 %)VSS/SourceSafe
18124 (0.374 %)Rhino Mocks
19114 (0.343 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
18127 (24.48 %)Finance
22184 (6.579 %)Banking
31946 (5.862 %)Marketing
41837 (5.534 %)Telecoms
51119 (3.371 %)Retail
6981 (2.955 %)Electronics
7976 (2.940 %)Games
8802 (2.416 %)Investment Banking
9679 (2.045 %)Manufacturing
10629 (1.895 %)Front Office
11488 (1.470 %)Advertising
12447 (1.347 %)Legal
13399 (1.202 %)Back Office
14397 (1.196 %)German Language
15394 (1.187 %)Financial Institution
16351 (1.057 %)Aerospace
17325 (0.979 %)French Language
18311 (0.937 %)Pharmaceutical
19285 (0.859 %)Publishing
20235 (0.708 %)Law
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
111733 (35.35 %)Developer
24190 (12.62 %)Analyst
32601 (7.836 %)Software Engineer
42557 (7.703 %)Java Developer
52489 (7.498 %)Consultant
62244 (6.760 %)Graduate
72088 (6.290 %).NET Developer
82073 (6.245 %)C# Developer
91866 (5.621 %)Software Developer
101631 (4.913 %)Senior Developer
111559 (4.696 %)Junior
121470 (4.428 %)Architect
131214 (3.657 %)Project Manager
141196 (3.603 %)C# .NET Developer
151115 (3.359 %)Web Developer
161111 (3.347 %)Business Analyst
171033 (3.112 %)Graduate Developer
18990 (2.982 %)Junior Developer
19818 (2.464 %)C++ Developer
20762 (2.296 %)Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
19089 (27.38 %)Computer Science
23443 (10.37 %)Mathematics
31257 (3.787 %)Physics
4977 (2.943 %)Management Information System
5959 (2.889 %)Open Source
6668 (2.012 %)Hedge funds
7627 (1.889 %)Statistics
8596 (1.795 %)Derivative
9566 (1.705 %)Social Media
10461 (1.389 %)iPhone
11420 (1.265 %)Blackberry
12405 (1.220 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
13378 (1.139 %)N-Tier
14354 (1.066 %)Online Games
15345 (1.039 %)SaaS
16336 (1.012 %)Digital Media
16336 (1.012 %)Embedded Systems
17332 (1.000 %)Client/Server
18327 (0.985 %)Clustering
19318 (0.958 %)Cloud Computing
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15407 (16.29 %)Windows
24464 (13.45 %)Linux
33030 (9.128 %)UNIX
4917 (2.762 %)Android
5786 (2.368 %)Windows Server 2008
6768 (2.314 %)Windows Server 2003
7545 (1.642 %)Apple iOS
8477 (1.437 %)Windows XP
9465 (1.401 %)Solaris
10368 (1.109 %)Windows 7
11216 (0.651 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12176 (0.530 %)Windows Vista
13149 (0.449 %)Mac OS X
14124 (0.374 %)AIX
15121 (0.365 %)Windows Mobile
16118 (0.355 %)CentOS
17115 (0.346 %)Debian
18102 (0.307 %)HPUX
1994 (0.283 %)Embedded Linux
2091 (0.274 %)VxWorks
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
13921 (11.81 %)OO
23464 (10.44 %)Agile Software Development
33358 (10.12 %)Project Management
42248 (6.772 %)Software Engineering
51986 (5.983 %)Scrum
61661 (5.004 %)E-Commerce
71660 (5.001 %)TDD
81481 (4.462 %)ITIL
91453 (4.377 %)UML
101450 (4.368 %)MVC
111300 (3.916 %)Business Intelligence
121271 (3.829 %)Web Development
131179 (3.552 %)Multithreading
141169 (3.522 %)PRINCE2
151091 (3.287 %)CRM
161048 (3.157 %)Business Analysis
17872 (2.627 %)OOP
18858 (2.585 %)Risk Management
19821 (2.473 %)Software Testing
20786 (2.368 %)Unit Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
18202 (24.71 %)SQL
27892 (23.77 %)Java
37151 (21.54 %)C#
44772 (14.38 %)C++
54704 (14.17 %)JavaScript
62794 (8.417 %)C
72022 (6.091 %)PHP
81720 (5.182 %)Python
91528 (4.603 %)Perl
101206 (3.633 %)VB.NET
111149 (3.461 %)T-SQL
12848 (2.555 %)VB
13773 (2.329 %)PL/SQL
14639 (1.925 %)Ruby
15536 (1.615 %)Shell Script
16490 (1.476 %)VBA
17361 (1.088 %)Bash shell
18350 (1.054 %)Objective-C
19335 (1.009 %)PHP5
20319 (0.961 %)Embedded C
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11290 (3.886 %)Microsoft Certification
21173 (3.534 %)Security Cleared
3922 (2.778 %)ISEB
4608 (1.832 %)PhD
5540 (1.627 %)Cisco Certification
6530 (1.597 %)HND
7494 (1.488 %)SC Cleared
8449 (1.353 %)MCSE
9416 (1.253 %)MCP
10369 (1.112 %)CCNA
11359 (1.081 %)PMI Certification
12357 (1.075 %)CISSP
13283 (0.853 %)ISTQB
14274 (0.825 %)CCNP
15265 (0.798 %)MBA
16254 (0.765 %)DV Cleared
17248 (0.747 %)MCITP
18241 (0.726 %)PMP
19234 (0.705 %)ITIL Certification
20227 (0.684 %)MCTS
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
11918 (5.778 %)QA
2363 (1.094 %)SLA
3255 (0.768 %)ISO/IEC 27001
4182 (0.548 %)ISO 9001
5154 (0.464 %)PCI DSS
6134 (0.404 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
7102 (0.307 %)DO-178B
885 (0.256 %)Data Quality
961 (0.184 %)ISO 9000
1048 (0.145 %)COBIT
1147 (0.142 %)HL7
1241 (0.124 %)TickIT
1339 (0.117 %)Solvency II
1437 (0.111 %)WCAG
1531 (0.093 %)Basel II
1625 (0.075 %)IEC 61508
1721 (0.063 %)21 CFR Part 11
1818 (0.054 %)DO-254
1914 (0.042 %)ISO 14001
2013 (0.039 %)JSP 440
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11118 (3.368 %)Active Directory
2527 (1.588 %)VMware Infrastructure
3153 (0.461 %)vSphere
4110 (0.331 %)Hyper-V
591 (0.274 %)VMware ESX
680 (0.241 %)NFS
771 (0.214 %)Xen
860 (0.181 %)XenServer
860 (0.181 %)Oracle RAC
950 (0.151 %)Oracle RMAN
1049 (0.148 %)VMware ESXi
1144 (0.133 %)Varnish
1241 (0.124 %)XenApp
1340 (0.121 %)ISA Server
1434 (0.102 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1533 (0.099 %)Postfix
1632 (0.096 %)Terminal Services
1728 (0.084 %)Samba
1818 (0.054 %)UAG
1917 (0.051 %)Squid
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1223 (0.672 %)HP Quality Center
2134 (0.404 %)Nagios
3133 (0.401 %)SCCM
473 (0.220 %)Backup Exec
569 (0.208 %)Tivoli
664 (0.193 %)NetBackup
756 (0.169 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
853 (0.160 %)Puppet
951 (0.154 %)WMI
1048 (0.145 %)Cacti
1146 (0.139 %)Ganglia
1245 (0.136 %)SCOM
1343 (0.130 %)EMC NetWorker
1436 (0.108 %)Data Guard
1532 (0.096 %)BladeLogic
1629 (0.087 %)Tivoli Identity Manager
1728 (0.084 %)Foglight
1728 (0.084 %)Novell Identity Manager
1827 (0.081 %)Cisco IPCC
1924 (0.072 %)Netcool
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
14904 (14.77 %)Microsoft
24064 (12.24 %)Oracle
31065 (3.208 %)SAP
4991 (2.985 %)Cisco
5876 (2.639 %)VMware
6851 (2.564 %)JBoss
7492 (1.482 %)HP
8487 (1.467 %)Google
9440 (1.326 %)IBM
10415 (1.250 %)Adobe
11399 (1.202 %)Citrix
12375 (1.130 %)Red Hat
13342 (1.030 %)Business Objects
14310 (0.934 %)Zend
15284 (0.856 %)Sybase
16280 (0.844 %)Sun
17236 (0.711 %)Juniper
18220 (0.663 %)Salesforce.com
19198 (0.596 %)EMC
20191 (0.575 %)Cognos